Nightmares, morality, pawn.
Put a word in my ask and I will write a Headcanon about it for my Muse.
Junko is human, no matter how horror and devastation she’s put the human race through, and that means she’s just as susceptible to nightmares as anyone else. After all that she’s seen and done, she definitely has nightmares. Still, they don’t contain the images of horror as adults are brutally murdered or her former classmates turn against each other. Instead, her nightmares take on something far worse. They show her the people she loved who died by her hands: Mukuro and Yasuke.
Of course, every morning that she wakes drenched in the cold sweat of another nightmare where they haunt her, she reopens the wounds of the past, delighting in the horrific feeling of knowing those she cared for most are gone.
It’s obvious to anyone who’s played through the first Danganronpa game that Junko’s morals are rather severely distorted. As far as her vision of reality goes, she understands right and wrong, but she doesn’t follow it because she believes that despair triumphs over any kind of moral integrity someone may have. So, in other words, she understands that people think murder is bad, but she doesn’t care because, the way she sees it, as long as it causes people despair, morals don’t matter. She understands that what she’s doing is immoral, but she isn’t going to stop because all she really cares about is feeling and spreading despair.
Junko is nobody’s pawn. Rather, if she is a pawn to anything, it would be despair. She has done well, though, in creating her own army of pawns, capable of essentially sitting back and letting others do all of the real dirty work. It was one of the most interesting parts of her plan, just how much it depended on the loyalty of her pawns. And, of course, she had multiple groups of them, two of which were the Warriors of Hope and the Remnants of Despair, and had them running around doing just about everything for her.
In addition to using pawns for just about everything, she’s extremely good at manipulating them into following her every order, which is shown throughout the games. In fact, her manipulation skills and intelligence were really the only reason she managed to pull it all off.
