The raccoon tail in Imposter's hair was the result of them insisting that if she kept dying and re-dying and heat damaging her hair so often, it was gonna fry off. To which she responded by being like "It's either me or you, pal! You pick." While giving them a cheeky little grin, thinking that they're OBVIOUSLY not gonna let her fuck with their perfectly styled, high class blonde hair.
It happens pretty frequently, I think, that Ibuki is surprised by how willing Imposter is to let her mess with their appearance. Wonder why...
Where'd you come from, mate? Are you like someone's alt or sideblog? I'm LOVING your work, since we've really needed a dedicated Twobuki Guy for a while now, at least for this new generation, but if you have a main blog I'd love to follow it
First of all, thank you!! I was gonna draw this kind of thing either way, so I figured why not give back to the community, yeah? I do have a main blog, but I don't really post anything, so there's not much to look at. My attention is definitely focused here now, but if I ever start doing something with my main blog, I'll be sure to let y'all know about it.
There's no straight link to the comic, it's been sitting on my downloads, I'd share the doc but I don't want to share my email. So I'll simply post the whole comic here, although the quality might be off.
This comic is very precious to me because we rarely get a comic that has Imposter as full focus, it also focuses on his pride and his thoughts towards food and figure. I like that he actually likes the nickname "Pockfeet-chan" and I like the characterization of Hinata here who's accepting and understanding even if Twogami's values doesn't fit with his. Although it's not canon this comic has a special place in my heart, TwoHina is pretty underrated ship imo. I think there's something cute about two lost people accepting themselves as what they're at the moment.
Enjoy a relationship chart I filled out while I wait for my replacement apple pencil to bless my porch.
Anyway, I'm really scared of what they're gonna do for Imposter's execution if they turn out to be a killer in 2x2.
I can see them being a killer in a situation where they kill chiaki after finding out she's the traitor or otherwise killing someone on accident. Either way they're gonna be SUPER apologetic once things inevitably go south for them. I'm invisioning this happening in either chapter 4 or 5. Preferably 5.
But the concept of the people who make danganronpa (famously both very partial to bizarre and fetishy executions and not being exactly respectful about their fat characters) makes me really hope that Imposter DOESN'T turn out to be a killer, despite how neat I think it might be.
Although... his relationship with food is a pretty important part of his character, so it's possible to do something with that for a potential execution. Y'all know that medieval execution method where they had a cage of rats on top of a person, and the rats would have to chew through the person's abdomen to escape the heat or whatever? You could do something like that but make Imposter the rat. And have- like- a giant (still living) pig or something that they have to eat through or otherwise dig through if they don't wanna get cooked alive by the increasing heat in the cage.
And obviously, this is Imposter we're talking about, so they're not gonna go down without a fight. I see them getting almost all the way through this pig before dying from the heat in one way or another.
Ideally you'd also include their lack of an identity thing into the execution somehow, but I don't know exactly how you'd do that. Have the disguise forcibly taken off them beforehand? Obscure their face somehow? I don't know.
Point being, there's cool stuff you COULD do here, but man am I pessimistic about the chances of it being handled well if it does end up happening.
They both really look up to each other in their own ways I think. Pretty cool.
Ibuki likes Imposter because he's loud, demanding, and has this really strong take-charge attitude. Before she knows he's not who he says he is, I bet she really looks up to him for being "authentically, unapologetically himself." She might even tell him as much. She probably also admires how highly he seems to think of himself. Most of all, she values his integrity and leadership. Which is interesting because one of those qualities he absolutely doesn't have, and one of them he absolutely does. I'm excited to see how she might grapple with finding out he's "not real" knowing this.
On the other hand, you've got Imposter himself. I think he also admires Ibuki for her commitment to being herself. She's got such a strong and unique personal identity, something which I'm sure Imposter DEEPLY envies. Also I think he probably values her optimism. We see him in the game trying to keep group morale high, which Ibuki is great at.
So basically yeah for that and other reasons, they're great for each other k thanks
I've shipped this since 2013 and have seen quite a few people baffled by it over the years. Which makes sense: it's possible to miss some of their interactions/Ibuki's comments if you don't make conversation with Ibuki at particular points in the game.
I'm sure someone else has made a compilation like this, but I wanted to make my own now: with DR2x2 announced, I'm really excited by the possibility that something more will happen between 'em in the alternate scenario.
So! To start things off...in the first chapter of SDR2, Ibuki reacts like this pretty much every time "Togami" speaks:
(More below the cut.)
After "Togami" is murdered, Ibuki expresses grief several times, when none of the other characters are doing so. For instance, if you talk to her immediately before the Class Trial:
SOB.
...or if you talk to her outside the hotel in the Daily Life/(Ab)normal Days segment of Chapter 2, she says this, completely unprompted:
SOB SOB. THREE SOBS. The value that Ibuki places on promise-keeping (in this case, the Impostor's promise to protect his classmates - with his life, as it turned out) is in line with her wish for absolute trust and loyalty, in her FTE and Island Mode endings:
This comment is interesting; obviously the "piggy fingers" thing is referencing Saionji's nickname for "Togami": "Mr. Porkfeet" in the Orenronen & Fedule translation, or "Ham Hands" in the official English release (which is what I'm pulling from in this post). This translation makes Ibuki's sentiment here a bit ambiguous. Why is she disappointed by the Impostor's "piggy fingers"? Does she think his weight disqualifies him as a romantic interest? Or does she think his "piggy fingers" have something to do with him failing to evade the murderer?
Much later, when the dead students reappear as matrix-glitch hallucinations* at the end of Chapter 5, this theme continues:
YMMV on the pig jokes - obviously, this game is not very classy about its fat characters - but I do think this is cute. Note that the actual Japanese word Ibuki uses for "cool" is kakkoii, which has a connotation of handsome or attractive. It's just lovely to me that each character got only a handful of characterization-establishing lines in this little interlude, and for Ibuki, the writers chose to highlight her admiration for "Togami" before anything else. That makes it feel important, doesn't it? As another Tumblrer once said: It didn't change anything, it didn't save anyone, there were just too many forces against it. But it still matters that the love was there.
(* When I say "hallucinations," well, it's unclear precisely what they are! The Jabberwock Island we see is, of course, a simulation which is glitching out at this point due to corruption from the Junko virus. But whose perception is the simulation drawing on when it conjures these phantoms? Are these flashes of neural activity in the comatose Ibuki and Impostor? Or are they Hinata's imagination? Are they controlled by Junko?)
So...that's where authorial intent comes into this analysis. Are we supposed to read Ibuki as having a crush on the Impostor? The "barely there" nature of this relationship is what makes me ship it. The Impostor is plucked out of the story before he can develop a deeper connection to anyone, but the writing seems to be underlining the fact that he could've been the "destined one" that Ibuki talks about in her Island Mode ending. It's just so tragic!
I won't delve too deep in this post, but there's a lot of rich thematic stuff in this ship to explore in fanworks (and the pairing has inspired some GREAT fic over the years!). Everything about Ibuki's backstory, behavior and presentation speaks to her refusal to conform to societal expectations, or bend to authority. But she seems to fall in love with this person who presents himself as an authority figure. And then, in Chapter 3, Ibuki's despair sickness manifests as complete obedience to authority - in fact, she starts behaving a lot like the rule-obsessed, gullible Kiyotaka Ishimaru from DR1, with whom she shares a "death slot" (first victim in the Ch. 3 double-murder, sorta overlooked/buried by other narrative events).
(Also, I think it's cute that...Ibuki is very forward and overtly sexual when it comes to complimenting her female classmates. But with "Byakuya-chan," the best she can do is "You're cool!!!!" over and over. That's about where I was at, at Ibuki's age, when I had a crush. Able to articulate the fact that I couldn't stop thinking about this person, but not really anything beyond that.)
As for how the Impostor might feel about Ibuki...well, the former had more pressing worries than romance, in Chapter 1 - but we can draw our own conclusions from each of their FTE/Island Mode endings, which seem to complement one another:
Ibuki tells Hinata exactly what the Impostor needs to hear.
Back to "reasons people ship it" - it's just adorable to imagine! I think it's worth noting that one of Ibuki's sprites seems to match "Togami."
And this might be going into conspiratorial thinking, but the two were also placed next to each other in the opening shot of the classroom (and Ibuki's first line in the game comes immediately after the Impostor's!):
Finally...the licensed tie-in comic and 4koma anthologies for SDR2 pick up on Ibuki's thing for "Togami" and run with it! I'll compile more panels in a separate post, but for now I'll leave you with this one, because it gives us the Japanese fandom's name for this pairing: K-ton!/けいとん!, combining keion(gaku) with ton, pork ("Tongami" is the JPN fandom's nickname for the character we call Twogami).
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