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Hold up. That's... Huh. That's really interesting, actually. I don't think I've ever seen anyone talk about it but. Like. The relationship between Monokuma and Monomi is kinda revealing.

Okay. So. In Danganronpa 1, when Junko is first revealed as the Mastermind, the first topic of conversation is about killing Mukuro. It is what the trial's for, after all. And the fact that Mukuro's her sister, specifically Mukuro is the older twin, leaves everyone with questions.

Junko flies off the handle about how lovely despair is and how it was better for the plan to kill her and how Mukuro's despair must have been so sweet and how her own despair at killing Mukuro was so sweet and all of that Junko stuff.

But. Before she does that? She says this.

Hey. Uh. Hey, Junko? It sounds like you've got some bitterness here. Some deep-seated abandonment issues and resentment towards your older twin for signing on with Fenrir.

Which makes it very interesting when you later say that you quickly deduced Mukuro would be unfit to act convincingly in the role of Ultimate Fashionista Junko Enoshima. That you had to kill her or else she'd blow her cover because she's just not pretty and talented enough to be you.

It sounds to me like you murdered your sister because you've been holding a grudge against her for abandoning you.

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AND THEN comes Danganronpa 2. And Junko's like, "I've remodeled Usami into MONOMI, and she's going to be MY little sister who I can mistreat and make miserable because that's how people act towards little sisters!"

Like. Junko? I think you might have some issues.

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Some other issues, besides the whole serial-killing world-destroying despair-fiend thing.

there's an inherent cruelty to being a mastermind.

okay, echo, state the obvious. but there's a special line to draw between just being an evil character, and being the overlord of a killing game. and i find it fascinating. like, mastermind aus? they destroy me. i love the idea of taking a character and slapping the inherent cruelty of mastermind-ing their respective killing game. especially if it's a character who canonically despises the killing game or is a symbol of hope for other characters (mastermind shuichi/kaito/taka my beloveds). and these characters have canonical personalities, right? we never get to see a mastermind just... acting like their normal self when they reveal themself to be the mastermind.

it's such an underrated idea.

like, yeah, that person is kind. and they like flowers, and they like the color green. hot chocolate is their favorite drink because it reminds them of warm memories with their loved ones. they were the one to pick you off the ground and care for you when you got hurt. this person, so well rounded, so kind. and then... then they're the mastermind.

they're the mastermind. but they're still so sweet. they're cruel. they enjoy watching your friends suffer. but they're still smiling at you, never changing, and they've revealed this huge part of themself that. is still them. because they don't break out into some evil version of themself. they're still them. but not.

they're the mastermind. they are cruel. but they are still kind. and that is the shit that kills me.

yeah, having the villain hiding among you become evil is good. but not having them change at all. is like, almost better. because they never lied to you. they're still the person you know. but they wanted to hurt you. they wanted to wring you out and leave you to die but would never lift a finger because they would never. and you know they would never. you trust them because they would never hurt anyone, and they don't, and that hurts more.

mastermind aus hit so much more when the personality doesn't change.

like... kaito would still be the hopebringer, inspiring the others because that's who he is, but the embedded cruelty of knowing these people will die because of what he's set up. and he's just as cheerful when he's revealed.

and it hurts almost more to know that they aren't much different. they aren't evil, they aren't spitting in your face or calling you a fool. they're still them. and what are you? a fool? stubborn? are you in denial? what does this mean for you?

anyway its like midnight and this just me spitting out an idea. bye!

Hes so gender to me

Baby, It’s cold outside…

I was heavily inspired by the Fallout 4 mod, Frost. I went ham on the lines, but chose to go super simple with colors.

I used to be under the impression that if Taka felt like he was cornered he would absolutely fight his way out but now I'm not sure if he has it in him to hit anyone outside of sparring. I kind of just think even though he could thrash the majority of people in a fight, he would rather take a punch than risk breaking a school rule and defend himself. And even then he would probably apologize profusely if he thought he had hurt someone, even if he hadn't.

Also, I don't know if this is controversial but I think he came into Hope's Peak completely unwilling to spar with a girl. It was only when he met and sparred with Sakura, Hina, Akane, Mukuro, etc in gym class and after school activities that he had the realization "oh, wait, women aren't actually that fragile and I can fight them in a controlled environment without breaking them" after he was beaten in many many sparring matches.

Even then, he only agreed to spar with them after so much convincing that it nearly didn't happen. And he did it gently and had watering eyes if he so much as tapped them too aggressively. By the end of the year he knew the score and fought them as equals. In fact, he really enjoys fighting Sakura, in the same way he enjoys challenging Celeste's luck by playing board games with her. If anything by the end of the school year he's more gung ho about fighting the girls than the other boys in the class.

I don't know if it's a mentality given to him by his grandfather, his moral compass being skewed in the slightly wrong direction, the fact he's scared he might be accused of something if he touches them, or the fact he never interacted with a girl in depth before Hope's Peak, but this HC basically boils down to he drank too much respect women juice and accidentally became patronisingly sexist until he had it (affectionately) beaten out of him by powerful women.

"Hancock has no regrets about becoming a ghoul"??

It baffles me when some people think Hancock has zero regrets about becoming a ghoul. Absolutely none at all apparently. Like yeah, he plays it up when you first meet him before he's a companion, but let's be real he plays up pretty much everything in regards to the whole "sexy king of the zombies" image he projects.

It takes travelling with you away from Goodneighbor to give him some time to be introspective for him to finally realize that him becoming a ghoul was just another escape route from himself again. He's got several lines of dialogue that literally reiterate this. It's a key point of his character:

Hell, running from myself is what made me into… into a damn Ghoul.

Well, I mean, I didn't always look this good. The drug that did this to me, that made me a Ghoul, I knew what it was going to do.

I just couldn't stand looking at the bastard I saw in the mirror anymore.

The coward who'd let all those Ghouls from Diamond City die. Who was too scared to protect his fellow drifters from Vic and his boys.

If I took it, I'd never have to look at him again. I could put that all behind me. I'd be free. Didn't seem like a choice at all. Turns out it was just me running from somethin' else in my life.

I mean, after reaching max affinity with you, he realizes that maybe it wasn't such a bad thing after all (because he's finally got an honest friend he can be open with now). He now feels comfortable where he is - but to imply that he doesn't have at least the tiniest amount of regret? Heck, if you go onto romance him (or attempt to), he stops referring to himself as handsome and literally starts calling himself ugly, which naturally goes entirely against the image he projects:

Why don't we just agree to keep it friendly for now or till they find a cure for ugly? Heh.

You don't want to wake up to this mug every morning. Never wish that on anyone I cared for.

You sure you want to be stuck with this ugly mug?

(You could even say he implies it beforehand with another line of dialogue elsewhere in-game when he says "I'd be mad too if I was that ugly." But that's a stretch I guess.)

Combine that with the fact that 99% of ghouls don’t choose to become ghouls. Hancock did. But he didn't do it for a fun experience. He was already in a bad place when he became a ghoul. He didn't turn to be cool and edgy like he pretended he did when first getting to know him.

He lost his appearance, any connections to his old identity and old friends/people he might’ve been associated with (for better or worse), and in return gained hostility from bigots towards him for merely existing, from an overwhelming majority of the Commonwealth population that hates ghouls. There's the Institute and Brotherhood who want to kill anyone like him on top of that. Plenty of people out there who think he and other ghouls are monsters for just being alive.

Not only that, but something which adds onto this is the fact that he's a client of the Memory Den, and they're very selective with their customers. And what's the whole point of the Memory Den? Reliving past memories. Irma's terminal entry about Hancock, as well as the other two ghoul clients Kent and Daisy, all imply the memories they go back to relive are primarily from their human days. (The one on Hancock straight up says "if you thought he was handsome and dangerous now, you should've seen him before he turned ghoul.")

I genuinely refuse to believe that Hancock has never had any regret whatsoever about becoming a ghoul. The man who's spent a decent chunk of his life running from his own problems instead of confronting them, has NO regrets about taking a drug that alters his entire being and functionality on a biological level and will force him to outlive everyone he knows? This man is FULL of regrets!

i am kindly asking you to draw mondo more he looks so pretty in your style

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Extra Q&A with Mastermind!Korekiyo Shinguji | Favorite Trial🕯️🌹 I answered and illustrated these questions for the Danganronpa Mastermind AU Q&A 'Killing Harmony' PDF, which was part of the 'I AM the Mastermind' zine package @mastermind-zine Main Illustration & Design 🕯️🌹

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