We are very sad to report that Player Xinda has passed away. Whether you knew them or not, they meant a lot to many sweetlings, and it is always heartbreaking to lose a member of the Secret World Legends community.
Players are invited to attend a special in-game memorial service on 31 January 2025 at 23:59 CET (05:59 PM EST or 22:59 UTC) in Agartha by The Stationmaster. Attend how you feel would best honor Xinda, and share your love and memories to those around you. Your support will mean the world to fellow sweetlings in mourning.
xinda replied to your post: (Bow wow wow, bow wow wow~)
Or maybe this was Reeve directly?
...followed immediately by the lyrics to Lil Stamp, because we played that song constantly during my stream. No matter where, we’d stop and listen to it at the jukeboxes!
Thank you for the ask and your support! I see you in my notes, and it always makes me so happy. Here we are; it took me some time to think about and answer them! It’s under the cut for discourse and major NDRV3 spoilers!
10: How do you feel about the love hotel scenes? Why do you feel this way?
Frankly, they didn’t leave too deep of an impression on me. But I think they fulfilled their purpose, which was to get to know the characters in a more intimate setting than you would have otherwise in a normal school day or in the context of the killing game, where sharing information about yourself could be potentially extremely dangerous. It’s in the love hotel scene that we hear about Kiibo’s wish to experience love and warmth and through one of the seemingly most mundane of actions: a handshake. Although Kiibo’s character as a generally pure, innocent and well-meaning robot is established in the main story, there’s something that gives a different flair to this aspect of his personality when romance is brought into the equation. The love hotel scenes also show the true nature of the character because it’s supposed to represent the character’s deepest wish and fantasy, and ultimately, the message that is sent is that each and every character is fundamentally good at their core. There’s always going to be debate about the morality of each character and whether their actions were justified, and there will always be people who find interacting with or the mention of certain characters extremely uncomfortable, which is all valid. Humans are varying and complex creatures, so I won’t claim that any character is perfect or ultimate good. But I think that the Danganronpa series continues to send the same message throughout each game: humans are fundamentally good, or at least they aren’t twisted and bad deep down. It’s the situations they’re forced into that divert their personalities into acting the way they do, whether honorable or vile.
We could analyze each and every of the love hotel scenes, but I don’t think anyone has time to read that even if I do write about it, so I’ll leave it at that.
12: Who is the most underrated character? What makes them stand out to you?
This is a hard one because each character gets their own share of love, albeit, yes, some less than others. In answering this question, I feel like I probably have to automatically exclude Shuichi, Kokichi, Kaito, Maki, Kaede, and Rantaro. They’re pretty popular, and two of them are survivors. I could name a couple of characters of which I think aren’t as popular and don’t get enough content (I’m very guilty of this), such as Angie, Korekiyo, Ryoma, and Himiko. I digress.
But out of all of the characters, I’d definitely choose Tsumugi. I rarely see content of her in comparison to all the other characters, which could just be availability heuristic, but I do think there’s some truth in it. I find her underrated because she’s the only character of the three main games to actively be the mastermind and take part in the game while maintaining her cover (of course, until it was revealed at the very end). She keeps telling everyone how plain she is, and I think that in a sense, we believed her and that made her blend in with the rest of the cast all too easily. The only thing I’d fault her on is acting too plain among a cast of outstanding Ultimates, personality-wise; her Ultimate talent is definitely remarkable, and all that relates to her talent likewise. But apart from perhaps Shuichi, who stands out because of his character development with Kaede and as the protagonist, she’s probably the plainest character in terms of personality and actions up until she’s revealed as the mastermind and shows her true self- a mad, despair-crazed creator who has poured herself into being an active part of the show she loves, so much so that she’s actually a participant of the killing game.
But what about Junko in DR1? She doesn’t count because Mukuro was standing in for her and got killed almost immediately. There was no mastermind really monitoring the game from within. Each character of NDRV3 is recognized on their own merits, however. There’s always fans of each character.
16: What is your favorite post-game mode? Why?
Definitely the Ultimate Test Development Plan. It nicely wraps up the three games, and it combines the three worlds in the ultimate AU. It’s every fan’s dream when there are three related groups of characters that could potentially exist in the same realm/timeline. The dynamics between characters were fascinating to see; they struck a good balance between class-to-class interaction and classmate-to-classmate interaction.
I remember watching Kokichi’s events a second time, and they had all the right characters interacting with him: all the significant figures, so to speak, such as Junko, Izuru, and Nagito, as well as those whose nature would clash or meld with his well, like Celestia and Yasuhiro, not to mention his event with Fuyuhiko as parallel characters of a sort, although Kokichi definitely took a much more active role in the game from the very start.
This may be a difficult (in the sense of "happened a long time ago") question, but I was wondering if you recall if there was a lot of surprise that Monokuma was more than just "cute mascot" and was actually evil when Danganronpa first came out? I missed that time, so I was just wondering what you recall about that? (This is kind of brought up since in Dearth March Club Pielope is shown as immediate villain rather than "cute mascot").
I didn’t play DanRon myself til 2013, so to be honest, I wasn’t around when the fandom first started either.
That said though, I’m pretty sure everyone knew from the get-go that Monokuma was a bad guy–the trailers and such from the time made it pretty clear what kind of game it was, and the big deal about Monokuma was juxtaposing Doreamon’s voice with evil, two-toned murderbear.
I feel stupiiid. I can't find your Sales Page Masterpost THING.
And by MASTER LIST, I mean the things that are already made?
Hey, Xinda! :D Ah, I haven’t made one in a while. The last time was back in early summer, when I was selling off what I could for discount in big surprise bags because I had six filled containers of merch and was pretty strapped for cash (and knew it was coming that I’d need a laptop - thank goodness, because late July, my computer had to be replaced haha). It was almost all squid, octopus, cupcakes, and a few random items. Nothing particularly special. Is there something you had in mind? :)
xinda replied to your photoset “Ive been collecting Komahina stuff for like 4 years now ���� Im proud...”
There are a lot of things to "want" and point out, but. H-How did you get your hands on the Servant plush!? (And... not spend and arm and a leg on it!?)
hehe :D I actually bought the Meshi back in fall 2015 (he came out on my birthday!!) and snagged him for like $40! Yeah now they are super rare and expensive :\ it sucks, like the Hinapuppet which goes for like $300+???
