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Komahina

DRS Hype Cards (Komahina Edition)

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oh don't worry I do

I didn't draw this ( obviously ), and as much as I don't ship this, this made me laugh for 2 reasons.

Leon's face

....Why does bro have so much cake-

this is hilarious

drew my fave dr1 trial dialogue lmao

here

IF ANY OF YOU TERUTERU FANS ARE HERE WE SHOULD ALL HOST AN EVENT LIKE RIGHT NOW

That includes Selfshippers too, I LOVE ALL OF YOU GUYS

two of my favorite sdr2 character be like:

(Teruteru playing mario kart with nagito and lose for fugging three times)

Teruteru: AND THAT'S WHY UR DAD LEFT U, AND THAT'S WHY UR MOTHER LEFT YOU. THEY MUST LEFT YOU IN THE ZOO!

Nagito: 😟

*get pissed again*

Teruteru: AND THAT'S WHY UR SIBLINGS LEFT U, AND THAT'S WHY UR DOG DED BC UR FACE IS LOOKS LIKE A CHIHUAHUA!

Nagito: 😨😭

Teruteru: AND THAT'S WHY UR GENERATION HATES U, AND THAT'S WHY UR GRANDPA DOESN'T LOVE U!

Nagito: 😭

I don't know if this is a controversial thought, but. I often think about how the SDR2 cast has... unlikable traits. Such as being a bully, or being a coward, or being a crybaby - and how a lot of lets players, they dislike them on the basis of these traits, and can even refuse to see their status of "victimhood" as real and valid because they find them unlikable.

And I just... I think the fact that they are "annoying" is the point.

The message, in my opinion, is that even if a victim shows undesirable traits as a response to their trauma, they are still a victim worthy of sympathy and help. And I think them being "unlikable" is something of the point - people brush off their issues as something "annoying", and because of that, they never get help. That's how society fails victims, fails to help them: they view them as the problem.

Even if it's a response to trauma, it's a crime to be cringe. The world will break you and then get mad at you for being broken. Just look at SDR2's characters - it's their story over and over again.

Mikan Tsumiki, for example, is constantly called annoying by people who hate her, before she even murders anyone in chapter 3. The reasons are simple: they don't like her stutter, they don't like her people pleasing, they don't like her crying. All of these are responses to her trauma. They don't like her, dismiss her, because she's traumatized in a way that isn't "perfect," isn't "pretty." And I'm sure this is intentional- Mikan is intentionally what one would call "annoying" because the point of her character is to illustrate how people ignore people in need, and how those vulnable people can be taken advantage of and recruited into a cult. No one helped Mikan Tsumiki—not in the way she needed. Even the less malicious people, they brush off her quirks as her "just being Mikan," instead of resulting from her trauma. She isn't quiet in her cries for forgiveness - and that makes her hateable to some people.

Mikan was always mentally unstable - that was obvious if you just talked to her. If you spent enough free time events with her, it was downright predictable that she'd be a murderer. And yet, when she does murder, none of the characters saw it coming - because none of them (except Hajime if he did her FTEs) really got to know her. None of them put effort into knowing her. When she was meek, her flaws were, while annoying, unintrusive. But now that she's mad, now that she's angry about the way she was treated - she's crazy. Thats what they say: she's crazy. They disregard the factors that led up to this, and act like it came from nowhere - but these types of things never come from nowhere. Breakdowns build up overtime, a death of a thousand cuts, and when you finally snap, you finally breakdown, the world will look at you like you're crazy and say: it was just a paper cut. Ignoring how you have thousands of other paper cuts on your body.

Everyone always, always have reasons. You may not see them, you may not understand them, but there is always an answer to "why?"

Mikan isn't the only character that illustrates this message- characters like Kazuichi, or Hiyoko, also do so.

People don't like Kazuichi for a number of reasons, ranging from very valid to not so much. One complaint I've seen is that he's a crybaby and a coward, that he's always whining.

And this is true - he is something of a coward, terrified of being betrayed. But if you, again, take the time to get to know him and understand his reasoning behind this, it's clear that these fears are a result of his trauma. He comes from an abusive house, and he's been betrayed by friends before - he has plenty of reason to be scared of it happening again. He doesn't fear being betrayed, not really, but the pain of being thrown out. Even his harassment of Sonia is an extention of his trauma - an unhealthy coping mechanism, a fixation on someone too polite to throw him away...

And even Sonia is apart of this message (to a lesser extent). Everyone ignores Kazuichi's harassment of her because they think it's "harmless" - which is a disservice to both of them. It's not fair to Sonia to expect her to deal with Kazuichi, and I understand why people would dislike Kazuichi from his treatment of Sonia - it's really not fun to be in Sonia's position, especially when no one else sees anything wrong with the situation because Kazuichi is "harmless." Even if Kazuichi doesn't mean to hurt Sonia, he is - and everyone is just ignoring it. Because that's a big theme in SDR2, isn't it? These kids were vulnerable to Junko because everyone ignored their issues. Even each other.

Hiyoko, too, illustrates this perfectly - I'd argue that every character in the game illustrates this to some degree, but I feel like it would be excessive to talk about all of them. Hiyoko's bullying is ignored - dismissed as a "quirk," and it's not fair to either her or the people she targets. It's not a quirk - it's a response to her trauma, and she needs help! She needs to be stopped. Because she's hurting herself and she's hurting others, and brushing it off, dismissing it as harmless teasing... it just creates even more hurt all around.

Or, like, take Akane - no one even addresses the many concerning comments she makes during the game, and when you play her free time events, it can really catch you off guard how fucking awful her life has been. But no one even thinks to ask her about her troubles most times - because she's "strong". Because she's "stupid." How can she be anything but a blissful meat headed idiot? There's just - this assumption of lack of depth. That so many of the characters regard each other with - that so many let's players regard the cast with. They see their annoying traits, unlikable traits, and don't even think to wonder "where is this coming from?"

And it fucking - boggles my mind! It illustrates exactly what this game is warning about - this level of apathy, this lack of concern, this assumption of lack of depth, this lack of curiosity and care for your fellow human beings. And like - yeah, these are characters, but I think the way you approach characters can be very telling for how you approach people, too. Everyone has reasons for why they're like this - people are a domino train of complex reasoning, and... I don't know. It just - when you dismiss a SDR2 character as "annoying", I think you're doing almost exactly what the game is warning against. The SDR2 cast were vulnerable to Junko Enoshima because people didn't care. People didn't help them, or didn't even realize they needed help. And I think how you treat these fictional abuse victims... can be very, very telling on how you think of real abuse victims.

Ask yourself - does someone need to be the "perfect" abuse victim for you to sympathize with them? Do they have to be likable to you to be worthy of your kindness, to be worthy of help? Do you think that?

I don't want to say you have to like the SDR2 cast, of course - but trying to understand and sympathize with where they're coming from... I think that's important. And I think it's important to exercise that skill in real life, too.

one of my favorites hcs/aus ever is that maki's ~doomed childhood girl best friend~ is actually miu. please just imagine it. the realization. the fall out. maki’s despair and miu’s obviousness to it, assuming that ‘the crazy assassin bitch’ is glaring at her because SHE'S PLANNING TO KILL HER!!! FUCK!!! yet another instance of the so-saught-after truth being indigestible??

here's my evidence (CF=childhood friend):

the basics: a girl the same age as maki, no mentioned bio parents

CF and Maki baked sweets and shared them with each other -> Miu bakes for someone she likes (Shuichi) in her FTEs

CF is described by Maki as more talented than her, but sensitive with a kind heart -> Miu is an engineering genius (though she says she used to be talentless) and very sensitive. kind wouldn't be the word i'd use to describe her, but she does have kind heart deep inside (shown mainly to kiibo and monotaro, and she shows sympathy to ouma...while trying to kill him) and wants to be loved without being left behind

CF and Maki used to play house, with CF as the mom and Maki as the dad -> Miu is maternal and really wants to be a mother (seen with Monotaro)

CF died in a car accident -> when she was younger, miu GOT INTO A CAR ACCIDENT AND NEARLY DIED BUT WAS ACTUALLY IN A COMA, after which it's possible she also had a shift in personality since that's when she gained “talent” and a bunch of "new inventive ideas"

[soft awoo]

yes my baby