Oumota Post-game Content Where Kaito Has A Super Difficult Relationship With His Sidekicks Bc They Keep

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I like to think Ouma thinks he’s doing sooooo well too. Like, he has this in the bag. They’re practically best friends already. Just a little bit of pushing and shuichi will be like putty in his hands, running off into the sunset together.

Meanwhile Shuichi’s latest worry is that he lost his eyeliner under the counter and can’t reach it.

shuichis complete lack of interest in oumas attempts at being mysterious and charming is so fuckin funny. ouma wants to be the phantom thief clown moriarty to shuichis sherlock holmes and will do and say all sorts of dumb embarrassing gay shit trying to be mysteriously endearing and will just get absolutely nothing in return. shuichi just goes "uh, ok?" and walks off to go hang out with the autistic girl who death threats her friends and the guy who wears slippers outside.

Danganronpa Shipping Battle - Round 5 - Semifinals

I'm making This World is Ours, of Grapes and Stars by CCCervino required reading.

Go! Self indulgent fanart with references to Asian mythology! Go!

I'll probably make a post explaining all the references later.

Little fan animation I made. I don't know any Japanese so forgive me if I made any mistakes.

Okay spike chunsoft you knew what you were doing when coming up with stuff between these two

I will always stand by the fact that Kaito did the right thing at the end of the 5th Trial.

Shuichi's lie wouldn't just "have a low chance of succeeding", it wouldn't work at all. Monokuma was definitely monitoring Shuichi's every move, so he would have known if Shuichi had met Kokichi or disappeared from the cameras. Especially since the cameras literally everywhere. Literally.

Kaito did everything he could (and evеn more). He didn't "betray Kokichi", he didn't "abandon the plan at the last moment", he wasn't "forced to do something stupid for the sake of the plot". His decision was logical and justified. Shuichi would have just been digging his own and his friends' graves with that lie. Kaito realized that this was it, this was the end. The plan had completely failed and there was no way to save it. That's why he left Exisal.

It was a mistake on Shuichi's part to fully reveal and lay out the entire plan. By the time he realized that he should have played along and led everyone to a false verdict, it was already too late. There was nothing he could do.

But I'm not saying this to blame Shuichi for everything. His actions are understandable, his arc throughout the game was precisely that he learned to uncover the truth, despite all the obstacles. To reveal the killers, no matter how hard it was, no matter how much he didn't want to. Yes, he didn't realize in time that he needed to support the plan, but that was literally the opposite of what he had been learning all this time.

And another argument in Kaito's defense. He was running out of time. He had been holding on for the last few hours purely by the power of his stubbornness. However, he is not a superhuman and he cannot defeat his illness with sheer willpower. I think he felt that he had very little time left. And even if we assume that Shuichi's lie had a chance of success, it would most likely have led to long conversations, arguments and persuasion for another hour or two. And Kaito simply couldn't afford that luxury.

I feel a bit peeved every time Kaito is accused of "giving up" at the last moment. Even as a joke. Kaito did everything he could in that hopeless situation. This is the hill I will die on. Kaito did the right thing. He had no choice but to give up.

All the references I used/ put into this piece!!

(Disclaimer: All of this is based on the stories I was told. When googling I found vastly different information. Which makes sense, Hinduism is the oldest standing religion. Some things I say not be the widespread belief, but it what I was told and believed.)

That being said!

This is a reference to Lord Vishnu and his bull Nandi.

Vishnu is the lord of destruction, destined to end the world when it’s “done” basically.

I felt this fit Kokichi because of the theory Tsumugi wrote him to be the master mind.

I added a snake on his collar to show he was supposed to be Vishnu. The red tassel is supposed the be a “third eye” of sorts. (Originally I was going to portray him as Brahman who has several heads to represent wisdom, but I changed it. That’s why he has the several masks. I guess it could represent him “playing god”.) I also made his sash the toilet paper. That’s also why he looks blue (that and the purple looked weird against the yellow.)

Nandi’s story is where my version splits from the ones I’ve seen online. Basically Nandi was a boy gifted from Vishnu to a farmer who couldn’t have children. The crops started to suffer and the farmer fell ill, so Nandi prayed to Vishnu in order to help. Vishnu eventually came and fixed the crops, but took Nandi and turned him into a bull to use as a steed. Very depressing stuff.

I figured this was pretty Gonta-core (especially considering there’s some telling where Vishnu attacks using Nandi. There’s also a tradition where you whisper secrets into Nandi’s ear, which fits the whole “Gonta knows the secret of the outside world” thing.

I added a Swastika as a sort of contrast for the tragedy. It Hinduism (and many other religions) it’s seen as a symbol of peace and prosperity. So here it’s sorta like a heart sticker on a gushing wound.

In the west, Swastikas were corrupted into a symbol of hatred. I think it fit since Gonta’s sacrifice and intentions were turn into hatred for Kokichi in the group.

Anyway that’s it! If there’s questions feel free to comment or DM me. It’s pretty late so there might be some mistakes I missed, so just point them out so I can fix them.

Reason #48234872 Kiibo should've lived: so Maki can have someone to recreate a normal human adolescence with while Himiko and Shuichi go into a state of depressed hibernation for the next half decade...

Honestly I never even thought of this pairing until I started drawing this months ago, but I think they would have an interesting dynamic postcanon. It's hard for them to relate to each other at first — Maki has seen way too much and Kiibo has seen like 0 things in his life ever — but they've both been dehumanized, made to believe they're dangerous,* and barred from participating in "the real world" for most of their lives. And because of that they just want something that is, to use Maki's words, "as vanilla as possible."

Also, they're both autistic straight men and I want to see the hijinks that ensue when you put two of those in the same room.

*Obviously we see Maki being viewed as dangerous by herself and others; I can't even tell anymore if it's obvious that Kiibo shares that experience to some degree or if I'm just too deep in my own Kiibo lore... But here's 2 thoughts on why I think that's something they canonically share:

They both hurt someone close to them in their backstories, and that weighs on them enough that both of their Harmonious Heart events are about wondering if that person would hold it against them. Also for reasons I won't elaborate on here, I'm pretty sure Kiibo at least subconsciously views himself as a danger to others due to the environment he grew up in after Iidabashi was injured. I mean imagine having an emergency stop button permanently installed on your body "just in case."

Despite everyone's backstories being fictional, Kiibo and Maki have still killed one real person each --- Kiibo killed Tsumugi (and endangered everyone else), and Maki effectively killed Kokichi/Kaito ('effectively' just as in it could create the kind of "I killed a guy" guilt that is relevant to this discussion. I'm not going to even comment on the actual causality of that entire situation). Even if you don't count that, Kiibo being the only person with a body count is an interesting reversal given he's a pacifist and seems to have the most rigid moral code of the cast (something I also think was a precaution of sorts).

(+ Credit: Background of page 6 is traced from this random photo of an ice rink lobby. I made up the background of page 7 and that's why you can't tell what the hell anything actually is.)