you think youd be happy with some midwestern girl? no way baby, im it.
ada, she her, lesbian. mostly post buffy and supernatural. dont have a robust tagging system. best band ever is manic street preachers. argue w the wall <3
sometimes you invent mind prisons for yourself for no good reason and youre like "i really like being in the mind prison" even though you dont actually like being in the mind prison
its really funny how in buffy angel seems to have reinvented vampire heterosexuality like he literally is the nexus point of the heterosexualization of the louis archetype every single boring loser vampire boyfriend originates from that point but like they move him to his own show where hes not ruining the lives of teenage girls anymore and he is able to thrive as a lame loser with zero friends a job bills to pay unlikable and literally unfuckable everyone starts calling him gay and like he kind of is thats the thing hes kind of gay
anya + season 6
Don’t worry. Don’t be nervous. Do what I do. Just picture yourself naked.
I just had 3 crackers with chutney and sharp white cheddar . Then i had a ring of pineapple. I started to levitate, but i wasnt scared. Im not scared of anything
jabbaimond asked:
I've been thinking about Komaeda headcanons and I was wondering if you have any that aren't particularly based in canon? Nothing that contradicts canon, just something that can't be proven nor denied. I find those are usually the most interesting headcanons.
For example I think Komaeda as being fluent in a few languages besides Japanese. Very little to support this as being canon but the chance is never 0, lol.
windcarvedlyre answered:
Hi!! Sorry for taking so long to reply :’D
Honestly I’m still blanking on a lot of things, but some of the stuff that comes to mind right now:
again thinking about how one of komaeda’s defining traits, even in the ova when he’s been stripped of most things that would’ve made him “himself”, is his intensity. whatever he believes in, he will believe in it 100%. he will pin kuzuryuu to a wall because he’s just that excited to be talking philosophy. he really sticks to his guns with embarrassing levels of sincerity
"why do you defend female characters over the same things you hate male characters for" because fandom is disproportionately interested in the motivations and actions of men over women and will do literally everything in their power to justify their faves while treating female characters like one dimensional cutouts who exist to serve men's narratives. because you are predisposed to find any and all "unladylike" behaviors in female characters as unlikeable and you make up excuses to rationalize it rather than examine the biases you've imposed on your media consumption. because sometimes i think it's actually far more interesting when a woman breaks the mold in an unpleasant way but the same doesn't actually apply to men because that's the status quo in fiction and why should i feel compelled to give a fuck about them when there's like 100000000 of you doing that for me. because almost every single time i see an essay about how deep and complex a morally questionable character is it is literally always every single time without fail the exact same 20-30 something year old guy that looks like his name is kyle and i'm bored of it.
"that's a double standard─" it sure is! die mad about it.
Despite everything else, i think this is the main difference between them. Not just Komaeda being absolutist, but the way that "living" is inherently tied with negativity. He knows that he will die anyway, so in that death he wants to do the best he can, he aims to justify the fact external forces have chosen him to die, because otherwise he wouldn't have commited an action that aims to do good. On the other hand, even though Hajime has the desire for everyone to be alive... he takes it for granted. He at least has the priviledge of seeing death as an out of the ordinary misfortune, especially in this situation. He didn't have to grapple with the fact that each day might be his last in a way where it alters his worldview to factor it in. Him joining the experiment can be seen as an extension of this: his life has been so "ordinary", that the only thing he sees as breaking him free of that life can be positive, can be better, can only lift him up. Some people would definitely takes his interaction as "haha, crazy Komaeda versus level headed Hinata", but Hinata's own 'matter-of-factness' is informed by his own imperfect experiences the same way Komaeda's worldview is.
People always post the first and third picture but always leave out the second, and even the surrounding context which i think is a shame. I think that second picture is equally as crucial in understanding Komaeda and his more blanket self-loathing lines. He understands that he/his ideology is something that's keeping him behind, a flaw, perhaps even hypocritical in contrast to what he's preaching to the rest. He does hate it and what is doing to him! But he can't imagine something else/better. He feels like he has to stay that way, based on his own experiences and what elseche knows about the world too! The thing with Komaeda isn't just that his belief in hope and luck cycle are difficult to understand by themselves, but they work in conjuction with many other factors, including his own personality and desires, which often come in opposition. The tragedy is, he simply can't imagine a better future for himself. And that's why we need to make him real and show him "I saw the TV glow" ASAP
lilyapd asked:
i find nagito to be extremely compelling, but frankly there's a lot i feel like i don't understand about him. what is the one thing that he's said or done that you feel helps you to best understand why he is the way he is?
kaibutsushidousha answered:
The key line that makes the whole rest of his character click comes in the first trial. That one that goes “Hope will win at the end. Of that I’m certain.” Everything comes back to this.
Komaeda is certain. He lacks doubt completely. That’s why he can effortlessly pull the trigger on his own head, and pull off the chapter 5 murder trick. Before the first step, he already knew it would work.
His Free Time justifies his conviction by throwing out examples of his extreme luck, both positive and negative, and letting you piece together how those incidents shaped his views on destiny. But most of all, Komaeda’s lack of doubt is justified further by how the world of Danganronpa never proves his understanding of fate wrong. The things he assumed would happen did, in fact, happen, and hope always won at the end of every game (obviously excluding V3, a different world where Komaeda is just a character in a hit PSP game).
Now to the other half of the sentence. “Hope will win”. This is arguably the most important thing for Danganronpa as a whole, not Komaeda specifically. And hope, being the important keyword that it is, needs a definition. And a definition is something the Danganronpa series passionately refuses to provide.
Going by the dictionary, hope is a wish for some unlikely. This ties with the personal definition Makoto utilizes in Danganronpa 1. His idea of hope is to never give up in the face of impossible odds, and he stuck with it until Junko got tired of arguing. However, not every one speaks the same word with the same meaning. When Junko says “hope”, she means the predictable state of the world. When the institution Hope’s Peak Academy says “hope”, it means the talents it fosters and researches. When Munakata says “hope”, it means the opposition and extermination of the terrorist organization named Despair. When Shirogane and Ki-bo say “hope”, it means the continuation of the Danganronpa franchise.
So, Komaeda. What is his definition of hope? What is this that he’s so certain will always wins out? The answer is: all of the above. Our boy is very weak to propaganda. He never second guesses his ability to surmount impossible odds, and has full faith in the status quo that will be reinstated better and stronger after any tragedy. But at the same time, he’s horrendously elitist because he buys into Hope’s Peak propaganda about talent=hope. If he was sent to desolate war zone as a child soldier and was told that hope is actually the divine essence of some grand woman named V'exhness, he would betray his own species without a second thought. He’s the character where the vagueness of definitions is weaponized.
While all meanings of hope are conflated in his mind, I’d say the conflation between hope and talent is the one that shows the most in his DR2 behavior. He humbles himself because, in his propaganda-corroded mind, he can’t be one of the heroes who will make the world a better place because he wasn’t born with that spark that is talent. His relationship with his talent of luck is interesting because it’s undeniably unearned talent, which DR1 uses to inform the player that the system is bullshit. But Komaeda is always unable to doubt his beliefs, so when face with the contradiction of his own “worthless” talents, he has to say his doesn’t instead of seriously questioning the school’s criteria.
tl;dr: Hope will win at the end. Of that he’s certain. If the winner is decided before the match starts, powering up the opponent only means the predetermined winner will play better than they normally would. He lacks talent(hope), but he’s also self-aware that he’s the only one who understands how fate works, so he can adjust the challenge to push the to-be victors to produce more hope. And what is this hope they’re making? Whatever is the most convenient to the ones currently manipulating him.
contrary to common intentions authors have when making such characters, making a character low empathy is one of the fastest ways to get me to like them. "isn't it freaky that this guy just doesn't understand what they do to people? aren't you so unsettled and creeped out right now" bro you have just described to me a tragic tale of isolation wherein the chasm of separation only grows wider & deeper with every attempt to reach beyond
OK guys what's the stupidest thing komaeda did
Compiling my responses together. I swear I'm not a komaeda defender though
That was fun and whimsical of him I'll allow it
#mytruth is that he never truly believed that and did just want to kill teruteru for killing a creep but figured he'd give him a chance to price his hope
That was galaxy brained of him actually + everyone fell for hajime also
Real and true but I think he was a C section baby
He was goign thru a lot OK
Yeah no excuses for that one. Announced it aloud too
I have this memory from when I was a kid (I'm guessing about 8yo) where I was hanging out with a friend at the slide, and I told her "You know, I'm always thinking about the worst thing that could happen" so she said "Yeah? what's the worst thing that could happen right now?" So I just look at her and like "hmm. Well, you're pushing yourself up with the stair railing so you could fall backwards and hit your head, so you'd start bleeding and then an ambulance should come and you die" and she looked at me like :| , got down and walked a few steps away from the stair
Also I think this is what Nagito was like as a kid and that's part of the reason he didn't have friends. but I did have friends becuase i have lways been cool and amazing
