#side hope

[unintentionaloracle]

Hajime: Alright guys! We're gonna do Makoto a solid and take the fall for The Future Foundation, okay? So hit some of those lights and get the camera ready…

Mahiru: Hajime, why do we need to make our eyes look all red again, too?

Hajime: AMBIANCE, MAHIRU! AMBIANCE!

[ladylucindae]

[Comparison]

It takes a lot of to actually see something the way it is. I am Komahina fan. I see this ship as true and beautiful friendship with a lot of potential to be a healthy romance in the future. Even so, I don’t neglect Nanami’s influence on Hinata. She was his bright sunlight in the darkest times of his life. He changed for her, she was the reason for him to become a better person. We know that it ended up horrifying. I just… I don’t want, as Chiaki doesn’t either, to forget about her. I am going to analyze events from Hinata’s point of view from the beginning to ending. It will be long feels trip, prepare yourselves!

ARTIST: 貝殼子

[POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM SDR2 AND DANGANRONPA 3 AND DANGARONPA 2.5 OVA]

Hinata was probably as vulnerable as Komaeda in Despair Arc. He was lost, he didn’t feel comfortable in his skin and then as a beautiful star which crossed his galaxy - Chiaki appeared in his life. Her smile was his anchor. She found her charming and out of his reach. Yet, he wanted do believe he could be part of her galaxy. Sakakura broke his dream, broke him.

After that, Hinata is lost. He is in deep long and sluggish dream where he can’t see or hear anything. And then, in the darkness he is hearing her soft broken voice, she is trying to reach out for him. He wants to respond her. He wants to cry for help… He can’t do it. He doesn’t have a voice or will. He doesn’t exist. Yet, he struggles. He feels deep down even if he doesn’t have form.

He is crying. His soul is crashing. In a sleep without dreams, tears cannot be seen.

And suddenly… he wakes up. All he can see is a boy with messed up hair. He is trying to avoid him, make him go away but he isn’t doing it conveniently. Hinata can say for sure he isn’t reliable but his presence was calming. They are walking together, talking with each other and Hinata realizes even without remembering his talent, he doesn’t feel bad. Nagito Komaeda makes him feel safe even if Hinata’s body tense up by meeting those talented people.

Then, he meets her again. He doesn’t know how precious she is to him. Her anchor, Chiaki Nanami was right in front of him and he couldn’t say her anything. He couldn’t apologize about not coming to see her. Hinata is still nervous and salty to everyone. He hides his negative thoughts as much as he can but can’t help feeling of stress. Komaeda is trying to calm him down and Hinata believes him. He really wants to.

After that everything goes wrong. Komaeda is acting like crazy, which makes Hinata angry and sad at the same time. Chiaki is coming to his life again as bright light of candle. She is his company and strength in difficult time as she used to. He can feel strong bond with her as he did before without realizing it. Chiaki was always someone who makes him stand up on his own feet.

As his feelings for her was clear. He couldn’t say the same about Komaeda. He still felt strong bond with him but his feelings were unstable. He was feeling confused, angry, lonely and yet, he was still coming to talk to him. He wanted to understand why? Why he ended up like that? He never talked with Chiaki about her beliefs or family. He never wanted to disturb her personal space. She was his light, not an equal. Yet, with Komaeda he felt he could and should be angry, mad and distrustful… But at the same time he wanted to see what will happen if he gets hope he desired.

He lost both of them. In the darkest time he still reached out to her. Chiaki responded. Chiaki has always been for him if he needed her. Then, everything changed. He took his time and gather thoughts. He had a lot to do, rescue Komaeda was one of them. He didn’t know for sure what to expect but he found courage to accept his past and make future. He didn’t forget he wasn’t the only one who needs an anchor.

Komaeda’s and Hinata’s eyes are full of emotions when they see each other after waking up. For both of them it was first time but they feel like it was one of many. Komaeda asked with whom he was talking. Hinata replied with his past and his future.

Hinata for a long time couldn’t give up on his anchor. Chiaki was always with him, deep down. Yet, Hinata was changing and observing how Komaeda blossom like a flower. He could do anything even without his help. Hinata was worried but he knew it’s time to move on. It’s time to let Chiaki go and as she said make future, be independent. He was no longer these miserable boy without anything.

He accepted that Komaeda was his first friend as Chiaki. Then, he made a lot of them. “It isn’t a bad ending.” He couldn’t help but feel anxious about it. Yet, Chiaki is as always comforting him. That was her last time to do this. He couldn’t say it loud but she knew. He wanted to be happy, have a lot of fun even without her. She just looked at him and Komaeda with gentle expression when he turn back and smiled brightly to Komaeda.

[unintentionaloracle]

*blows a kiss to the ocean* For the DR2 kids.

[chocolatecrisps-ao3]

"Well, we both intend to make you confess your, not so well hidden, affection for Hinata-san." reprimanded him Sonia petting one of the hamster. Her words initiated a light blush on Komaeda's cheeks. "I-It's not like that!" rebutted Komaeda "I've told you that I don't hold such a feelings for Hinata-kun." ended luckster with a pout. Both girls squirted their eyes as if they were saying 'oh really?' and somehow it worked better than saying it out loud. "Nagito-chan, denial is an awful thing." Mioda poked him playfully in a forehead "Get out off the closet, it won't make a world collapse!" "It's not like that!" Komaeda averted eyes of the two girls. At this moment Sonia decided to pour a tea in their teacups and the flower aroma started to float inside cottage. "Beside, no one beside you two thinks this way." "Correction! Only Kazuichi-chan doesn't thinks this way!" "Indeed" Sonia took a sip of her tea "he is not the most perceptive in this field." Komaeda's blush got bigger and he tried to cover it up with a sleeve of his blouse. Girls only giggled at this sight, couldn't stop to think of him as their little sister that had to deal with her first crush. It was wrong to threat Komaeda as a girl but they couldn't help the fact that he acted like a typical shoujo heroine when it came to love. "Ne ne, Nagito-chan" Komaeda carefully looked to his left on a sitting cross-legged Mioda "why did you fall in love with Hajime-chan?" "Oh, this is indeed an interesting aspect to ask a question!" Sonia clasped both of her hands and the sound it made scared one of the hamsters "Well, Komaeda-san, would you mind enlighting us in this area?"

[saraa190601]

Screenshot redraw, ‘cause reasons XD

Still not over this episode. They deserved hapiness for once

(Also I have so many doodles and Wips of her it’s insane seriously) (no regret though)

[starburstdragon]

I’m just... *clenches fist* So happy about everything

[n-chan927]

Side Hope is already done. There is no more Danganronpa to wait, that airs two times a week...that has also twice a radio online with after talk every ending of episodes........I miss how Megumi Ogata portraits Naegi and Komaeda for different online radios...........wow I’m missing Danganronpa already. //can I get another episode plz? just one more

[glacialpriestess-blog]

So I just watched side hope of dangan 3 and I got something to say;

FUCKING HELL MY BABY FLIPPED HER FAKE DEATH. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL, THE 77th CLASS IM TOO HAPPY I DIED. FAVE SCENE PERHAPS WAS WHEN NAGITO’S GOING CRAZY OVER MAKOTO’S LUCK AND HOPE THAT HE ‘ACCIDENTALLY’ PUSHED MIKAN DOWNHILL IM CACKLING HONEST TO GOODNESS.(but seriously although i'm contented with the end, it felt like the despair had no closure)

One more wish before they really close the hope’s peak arc: Can they release nendos/figmas of the 77th and 78th class? I would want one alongside the BD of dr3. I only saw makoto and monokuma’s nendo, kirigiri and chiaki’s figma, and nothing for the others.

Ah, but perhaps I’m being too hopeful. I can use some despair.