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[leesiw]

Halloween gangs

[prozdvoices]

Here’s a YouTube version of the wise guy blogger post.

Original post by trenchgun 

[magioftheseas]

9 with komahina? >:3c

I’ve wanted to write something like this for so long hell yes.

Fun fact: Wrote to this song on repeat. It’s a really good song. Should put on KomaHina playlist if I ever get around to making one.

9. Fireflies

He supposed it was already getting late, and with the boats all adrift, with Komaeda still kneeled and praying for safe passage, he wondered how long this moment would last. The boats they made were all already disappeared with the rest, but Komaeda continued to pray.

He still noticed how the yukata hung off Komaeda’s skinny arms, the wayward curls of white that escaped the tight ponytail Komaeda had pulled his hair back into. With the moons and stars hanging and twinkling overhead, the sight of Komaeda was just…

Something flickered in Komaeda’s hair. Hinata perked up and, then he snorted quietly. He drifted forward, leaning in to comb through those strands. Komaeda perked up, a little, and Hinata brushed away a small bug from the tresses. Said bug gave off a soft glow.

“A firefly,” he said simply, pulling back and wiping his clammy hands off his jeans. “Looks like they’re starting to come out.”

“That’s a good thing,” Komaeda said quietly, and stood. “They can guide the boats. And they’re beautiful.”

“Yeah,” Hinata hummed, eyes flickering towards Komaeda, still staring almost wistfully at the river as well as some of the boats drifting by. “Beautiful.”

There were more flickers, more soft glows and the sight as Komaeda lit up really was so achingly beautiful.

[pinkprettycure]

did u ever watch nanoha bc I did when I was like 15 and I tried so hard to like it and ended up Unmoved (and u know 15 yo me would watch ANYTHING)

i couldnt get past the first episode bc i kept getting bored

[caldroid]

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(Literally copy pastes my character sliding across the screen in mspaint) I'm On Model uwu

now THIS is art

[rin-an]

A gambler!Ouma for @trenchgun

[oumakokichi]

Also where is it implied that Ouma is an orphan/lived on the street? I remember seeing that in one of your other metas and it's something I haven't seen anywhere else, but I'm super interested in any traces of his backstory for RP/writing/headcanon purposes 👀

There are quite a fewimplications, at least from what we can see of his in-game persona! Relativelylittle is known about his pre-game self, although I have seen a lot of Japanesefanartists work the orphan/homeless headcanon into doujins about Ouma’s pre-gamelife, too.

Most of it requires lookingvery closely at how Ouma is actually presented, both in terms of his characterdesign and his actual abilities. Contrary to his “SHSL Supreme Leader” talent,he’s actually merely the leader of a group of harmless pranksters—pranksters whojust so happen to be associated with crimes that don’t actually involve gettinganyone hurt. Fake murder scenes for fun are a likely possibility, but there’salso a lot of heavy association withpetty theft, moreso given Ouma’s phantom thief aspirations in his love hotelscene.

Even though the skill isn’tanything useful to a Supreme Leader, or a Remnant of Despair, or a chess player,or an actor, or any other number of possible guesses for Ouma’s real talent, it’svery noteworthy (in my opinion) that he’s good at lock-picking, of all things.That particular skill doesn’t strike me as something that Tsumugi would havegiven him as part of his whole “Supreme Leader” image or his villain role.

Rather, unless he either was anorphan since before the game started or was supposed to play the role of anorphan in-game, it’s essentially a very trivial ability that has nothing to dowith his assigned in-game talent. Unless it was an ability he possessed fromthe start (which is highly possible if he was an orphan pre-game) or unless itwas something Tsumugi gave him as part of his backstory, then it doesn’t quitefit.

Not only that, but the clotheshe wears in-game are very notably different from everyone else’s. These clothesare something Tsumugi herself very likely designed—she is a SHSL Cosplayerafter all, and who better to design clothes for all these “fictional characters”than someone like her? She says again and again that she prefers to see peoplewearing her cosplays rather than wearing them herself, after all. So I feelthat a lot of the little details and noteworthy things about each character’sdesign are especially interesting from the perspective of something Tsumugi herselfprobably intended in order to convey a message to the audience with eachcharacter’s “role.”

If you look closely at Ouma’sclothes, they are extremely ratty and tattered. No one else’s clothes have thisproblem; only Ouma’s have noticeable wear and tear, both at the neckline of hisshirt and the edge of his scarf. While his shirt looks more like a jacket atfirst glance, it’s clear to see in the official art showing off his schoolemblem and neckline minus the scarf that it’s actually a single-pleated shirt—anespecially thin-looking one, too. All of these things suggest an image ofpoverty in his character design that simply isn’t there with the othercharacters.

Like most things with Ouma, helooks especially intimidating and grandiose on the surface. It was hard tonotice the wear and tear on his scarf or shirt (moreso when his shirt isn’tactually visible on its own most of the time) from the first promotional art wegot of him. But when you scratch the surface, all these little details come tolight which seem to make it clear that although he’s playing the role of an “evilSupreme Leader,” there’s something not quite right. There would be no need fora “Supreme Leader” to have such frayed and tattered clothes unless there were avery specific intention behind it, after all.

Then there’s what little weknow about DICE from Ouma’s motive video, too. Not much is specified aboutthem, but one thing that’s made very clear is that all ten of them were “themost important people in the entire world to him.” They were “friends who werebordering on family”—which suggests that they were, for all intents andpurposes, the only “family” Ouma actually had.

Whether or not they actuallyexisted in real life, in-game at least, it’s heavily implied that Ouma only hadDICE and no one else. When talking with Kaede and Saihara, he makes severalallusions to the fact that “no one would miss him if he were gone,” alwaysbouncing back quickly and saying it was just a lie or a joke. Given the factthat we know he was incapable of trusting anything from either the rememberlights or even the motive videos directly unless he could confirm it forhimself (since he doubted the credibility of absolutely everything around him), it’s really sad to go back and realize howmuch he probably missed DICE while also wondering to himself whether they wereeven real or not.

Considering Ouma’s motive videoimplies that he and DICE were a rag-tag bunch of pranksters who went aroundpulling petty crimes and pranks for fun without anyone holding them back… Well,it reads a lot like your usual orphan story about a bunch of kids on thestreet. It would also explain the skills I mentioned like lock-picking, and thefact that Ouma certainly isn’t above stealing things in-game for informationlike the Monopads or evidence from past crime scenes.

Even bonus mode content seemsto suggest that Ouma’s past isn’t something he wants to talk about very much,which would make sense if DICE and his childhood were something very private tohim. In his bonus mode interaction with Komaeda, Komaeda gives up altogether ontrying to find Ouma’s “secret evil organization,” which almost certainly meansit must not exist if even his SHSL Luck couldn’t lead him to any clues.

He also concludes that Ouma isdefinitely “not the kind of person to tell him anything about himself,” meaningthat even if he tries, Ouma is clearly private and cautious enough about hispast that he’s not going to open up willingly at all. People generally aren’tso private and cautious about their past or their backstories unless there’svery good reason to be—and considering how Ouma doubts himself and even his ownmemories so much to the point where even he can’t quite determine what’s realabout himself and what isn’t, it makes sense that he wouldn’t want peopleprying into it. Even if these things are “lies,” to him they’re still very,very important.

Another notable bonus modeinteraction was one of the ones he had with Momota, where they both arewandering around the school even though it’s winter vacation. We know whyMomota was at school rather than at home—for his in-game backstory at least, helives with his grandparents and doesn’t seem to have any parents. Hisunconventional family situation means it makes sense that he wouldn’t be homefor New Year’s.

So if this is the case forMomota, it makes sense that we could assume a similar situation for Ouma.Momota himself even asks Ouma about why he isn’t at home with his parents forNew Year’s (and also if his parents “are embarrassed of him being such a pieceof shit little brat at his age”), but all Ouma says is that Momota “shouldn’task such personal questions to a Supreme Leader.” Basically, he denies allquestions very firmly with a “sorry, you’ll have to be at least a Level 4Friend before you can unlock my tragic backstory.” But it’s very important tonote that he definitely doesn’t seem to have parents or family members who hegoes home to spend the holidays with.

All of these things are merelyspeculation, of course, but these are definitely some of the more importantclues I’ve noted! There’s no outright confirmation, but then that’s half thefun of theorizing. And some of these clues look far too deliberate to pass themoff as a coincidence when they all seem to fit fairly well together. It’s somethingto take with a grain of salt as a possibility for right now, but I think itworks pretty well in terms of a headcanon at the very least!

Thank you so much for asking, I’mreally glad I got the chance to talk about it! It’s a pretty popular headcanonin the Japanese fandom already and it’s one I personally agree with afterhaving played the game myself, so I’m glad I could share my thoughts on it!

[chikkou]

so like my Scary Story is that I woke up with a giant black mass standing over me staring at me? it had orange circles for eyes and it was kind of attached to the ceiling too... it was totally solid, no fuzziness like a lot of apparitions have, and I was on a top bunk of a bunk bed so it was Tall and just staring down at me. it looked kinda like no face shape wise. so I rolled over and went back to sleep.

I always thought it was sleep paralysis then a friend asked me "......how could you even roll over if it was paralysis" and I was like welp

H O L Y S H I T 

so u totally burned ur house down after that right. like u just set it ablaze and ran really far away