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going thru byakuyas school mode and oh my GOD HE IS SO FUNNY. you ask him a normal ass question and sometimes hes like First off. how Dare you ask me that? Second off. i am Strong and you are Weak. third off. that's Personal. You Crossed A Line Little Man. and the question is some shit like "what is your favorite color"
this is in response to being asked if he plays any instruments. and i bet you thought i was exaggerating
i need to level with you people: byakuya togami woupd NOT be a cute blusher. he would blush like THIS SPRITE:
but red. if he gets flustered by you it would NOT be cute it would NOT be pretty. he would stumble back like you burned him. he's wondering if we finally unlocked psychic abilities. he's starting to wonder if naegi was really serious when he said "empathy beam" the other day. he's making a mental note to phone his father to ask if mkultra was secretly a success. he's in love with you and ir would Not be cool and mysterious he would be pissing and shitting himself. he's having a heart attack as we speak. he's going into cardiac arrest. someone call an ambulance for this rich boy who experienced a single moment that made him so happy that it put into perspective how miserable the rest of his life has been. anyway he probably does some weird shit with these emotions and he's so neurotic that what EXACTLY he does is dealer's choice ngl
im at the level of derangement where i am overanalyzing a Sticker. a Die Cut Sticker From A Merch Line. but like come ON COME ONNNNN. IT UNDERSTANDS HIM OK JUST HEAR ME OUT!!!
HIS FAMILY NAME IS JUST FADED INTO THE BACKGROUND. HE SIGNED HIS FIRST NAME ONLY, OVER HIS ULTIMATE TITLE!!!!
LIKE. YOU CAN HARDLY SEE HIS FAMILY NAME. and yes there Are other stickers in the lime where their family names are in the background but this is Byakuya's Sticker. arguably his talent Relies on his family name
the talent that, might i add, he signed his name over to obscure. By The Way.
And By The Way By The Way. may i add that the accent color for the background-- the color his family name is written in-- is BRONZE. LIKE HIS PEDIGREE. this sticker understands him as a Character. as a Person. everyone say thank you to all trains everywhere for gifting us this sticker. The Sticker Of Knowledge. Of Understanding. Of Truth. Of One Hundred Percent Immutable Fact.
listen. i'm in an argument with my boyfriend., he claims (incorrectly) that this edit makes byakuya look bad (wrong) because gold is not his color (false assertion) and they wash out his hair (???) and make his eyes look grey (they literally look bluer) PLEASE I NEED TO PROVE HIM WRONG. THEY LITERALLY LOOK FINE. GOOD EVEN. ONE BILLION PSIONIC WARRIORS TO MY POST.
EDIT. I EDITED IT. I ADDED MORE GOLD. ONE MUST NEVER MIX METALS OF COURSE. I EVEN PUT THEM SIDE BY SIDE FOR COMPARISON. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I AM TRYING TO WIN AN ARGUMENT!!!!
i find this part of danganronpa: togami to be SO INTERESTING vis a vis byakuya's philosophy, ESPECIALLY the highlighted parts. for one, he's very cognizant of AND OPEN ABOUT the fact that "the game" of life is inherently unfair, something that can be gleamed by how he talks in his free time events but is made explicit here, which is interesting considering pretty much every rich person ever.... does not talk like this. we've all heard the platitudes of "we all have the same time in the day," the myth of amazon and such being started in garages without mentioning the MAASIVE loans the founders' parents gave them, and the general touting of meritocracy. byakuya as an affluent person aknowleding, on ANY level, that the game is inherently unfair and rigged, is strikingly countercultural to the culture of affluence he belongs to and is supposed to EMBODY, even
and on top of that: he also dislikes when people use the unfairness of The Game to avoid playing at all. but, crucially, he says "it's not like i don't understand where they're coming from." it's more complicated than simple superiority-- his dislike of this behavior comes from a place of understanding. he, too, has been at a disadvantage as the youngest member of his family and being of such low pedigree that he was hierarchially worthless. but his point seems to be that, just as there are no guaranteed win conditions, there are also no guaranteed losing conditions. like he said, someone at the bottom rung can turn it around very late in life. and some people try and can't succeed at all, yes, but i get the sense that he would at least respect their efforts. they TRIED to play The Game instead of looking at the insurmountable odds and going "well, my chances are slim, so might as well not try." because THAT is the most surefire way to ensure that nothing happens. once you believe you have no agency, you really won't have any agency at all
and of course he's saying all this to spur people on to save his ass. but i do think it's a very interesting look on his philosophy, especially contrasted with impostor's world domination proclimation that started the novel, which highlights this disparity as well HOWEVER actively mocks and derides those disenfranchised by it
the proclimation is honestly written in a way people would think is "byakuyaesque" wrt that surface level way he's seen most of the time... however, the real byakuya gets mad when blue ink says it sounds like him!
because that's not how he thinks at all, and the person closest to him should know better
still going thru byakuya's school mode. him going off about showing weakness opening the door to defeat when asked if he PLAYS ANY INSTRUMENTS is only the SECOND funniest weirdly defensive school mode answer. because at least. at LEAST he answers the question!!!!!!! BUT HERE? THIS? HE DOESNT EVEN ANSWER IT?????
"what kinds of books do you like" "FIRST OF ALL. THAT'S PERSONAL. YOU ARE JUST. A LITTLE SWINE. HOW DARE YOU ASK ME SUCH A QUESTION" dude chill tf OUT!!!! but you know what's Funny? you know what's So Incredibly FUNNY????
um. 😳👉🏽👈🏽 i think. i can actually guess what his favorite book might be. because his unused execution does actually make reference to A Specific Literary Work. its name, human disqualification, is actually a very literal translation that misses that it's actually named after something-- that something being osamu dazai's novel no longer human.
......i can see why he's so defensive now
(but the actual funniest part is if he just Said So, most would assume "oh, because it's a literary classic and he's cultured!" so like. he shot himself in the foot here being so defensive. byakuya togami the man that you are)
hey. i need to take you on a journey with me. take my hand-- i'm grabbing your fucking hand we're doing this together. come with me.
so. kijo togami. byakuya togami's father. ok. ok? this guy. the guy whos. one of his very few lines is This
i bring this line up a lot because wow. why would he say that? huh? why would he say that?? but thats besides the point right now. or is it?
anyway. i need to establish two facts about him. three if you count the implicit resigned misery of that statement. but dont worry about that. haha hha a haha. haha! haha.
anyway. upon winning the togami competition. the winner picks a new name. we also. because we're so lucky. just so happen to find out kijo's old name.
haha wow. cool. isnt that INTERESTING? WOW. and yeah i checked. the danganronpa spinoff wiki. it is not spelled with any unique kanji. it is just spelled (太郎) WHICH IS. THE MOST COMMON WAY TO SPELL IT!!!! haha ok cool. cool yeah.
well. while we're on the subject of kanji. the name "kijo" is spelled (鬼城) ok? ueay? ok? we're all follpwing me? yeah? ok well that. the second kanji means "castle." but hey. hey. hey. that first one? let's take a look at its meanings. shall we? take my hand. we are going to jisho.
cool. so. SO. it could.mean "demon" or "ghost." wow cool. cool. cool. yeah. so. you might be wondering why i seem to be losing my mind right here on god's own tumblr dot com
well.
WELL
i Just So happened to be Perusing the Ultra Despaired Girles collectibles. for no reason other than i wanted to. WELL. well. well well well well well.
keep in mind The Information We Have Discussed. his original name. the kanji. the implicit misery. keep it in your mind like abeautiful shimmering diamond or perhaps a cursed artifact. while i show you :) This :
haha wow that s really copl. thats so cool. that's really cool. thats such. a cool coincidence. haha. lol. which could mean nothing. this could mean nothing, right? its all just one bic coincidence? it could mean nothing. it could mean nothing. is my eye twitching i feel like my eye is twitching
they did this to taunt ME, SPECIFICALLY. AND NOW I'M TAUNTING YOU!!!! IT COULD MEAN NOTHKNG. IT COULD.MEAN. NOTHKNG. ITS NOT THAT DEEP BRO HAHAHA ITS NOT THAT DEEP. MY MOUTH TASTES LIKE BLOOD IS THAT NORMAL
i know some of this is my fault for expecting basic character analysis on reddit of all places, but i do kind of hate that it is still in 2026 the expected meta to point and laugh at byakuya's chapter 4 breakdown as "haha his ego couldnt handle being wrong!" or even the Slightly more in depth "haha his ego couldnt conceive of people not playing the game to win so he crashed out when he was wrong haha! funny!" like hey gamers i know we're a bit behind on taking byakuya as seriously as we do the other two antagonists but can we at least read and think about his ftes before calling his behavior in chapter 4 a silly crashout because haha fragile richboy ego. this is 2015 era hopesexual komaeda levels of engaging with the text can we be so fucking forreal for 2 seconds!!!
"but kyoko said-" did kyoko talk to him? do his free time events? is she obligated to know every bit of minutae about his past and how it influences his trauma? she has bigger mysteries to solve! she's not a cold unfeeling mystery solving machine and treating her as such does a disservice to her character and how the narrative is kind of screaming that she's NOT just that. it seems like lots of people think that if she says something about byakuya's behavior, it MUST be a true observation she put thought into using her talent as a detective, and not like... a teenage girl being a little smug when someone she already doesn't like is having an embarrassing moment she has absolutely no precontext for. she doesn't know about the togami family bloodsport, had no way of knowing about it, and isn't obligated to know about it. and wouldnt it make more sense for it to have been an emotional reaction? her WHOLE THING she said to byakuya in that chapter is "see? not everyone operates on just logic and analytics." so idk... maybe she.... (stay with me here...) wasn't operating on logic when she was saying that stuff to him, and was just (rightfully) mad at him for being such an asshole this whole time. obligatory "shes not evil, come the fuck on" bc im talking about a girl being mean. my point is solely that her word shouldn't be taken as automatically correct.
anyway its god's own 2026 we're at the 15th anniversary of the game can we move on and get a new joke. do you really want to go down in history as the hopesexual komaeda people if they didnt realize what storytelling was. is this how you want to be remembered, people who talk about byakuya on reddit dot com and also on twitter and tumbler dot coms if im being fr. legacy legacy what is a legacy
