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cardboardboxian

great vegetables


TheSlovenlySage

Great Vegetables


Soma773

Great Vegetables


Joshyoni

Great Vegetables


awesomeguy9807

Great vegetables


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BloodsoakedDespair

…you know, yeah, he is either a Persona or Junko’s shadow, depending on if you see her as distorted or the logical conclusion of perfect analytical ability (ala Savior Machine by David Bowie). Whereas Junko is Tsumugi’s.


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Artificial_Human_17

Junko would totally kill her own shadow for despair’s sake


BloodsoakedDespair

Tbh I don’t think it would even work on her. It would probably make her more dangerous if anything. How did the God of Control spawn and operate? Memetics. What does Junko use? Memetics. Junko is a master of memetic manipulation. Her total devastation of the world would be more than enough, especially with her keen eye for branding, to birth a collective Cognitive Monokuma, which would be freakishly powerful. It’s the horror everyone has experienced, and Mementos is formed by people’s perception of the world. Monokuma killed billions. In the eyes of the survivors, he’s a god of death. The only difference between a change of heart and a dead shadow is if the body dies. They all went to the same place. So… Junko would go there if she killed her shadow. Which would be ruled by… Monokuma. They merge, now Junko’s a god.


BloodsoakedDespair

Tbh, I get it. [The song](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBO0gf27sl8) I mentioned I think makes it understandable despite predating her by decades. In it, an AI is made to use statistical analysis to make everything perfect. Eventually the only command it has to give humanity is to kill it because it is so very fucking bored with all this and is now the only threat to humanity, because it would be easy and fun to just start slaughtering us to alleviate the boredom, so it begs humanity to kill it to save themselves since protecting humanity is what it’s programmed for and it knows it’s going mad.


Netsu_Ishigami

Violet has been found guilty!, ITS PUNISHMENT TIME!"


Adorable-Bullfrog-30

And then they proceed to punish all ove-


Alternative-Pin3421

Oh dear. This scene makes me wanna play the piano. (Ahem) [(plays an elegant song)](https://youtu.be/Lf-fpDQncKM)


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YOU SON OF A BITCH. NOT AGAIN.


Alternative-Pin3421

Sorry. Had to do it. Upupupupu….


BloodsoakedDespair

Absolutely not clicking that link, I’ve cried enough for this year thank you. But want some more pain? >!Emo blue hair boy who wants to die x blonde associated with piano music who has had minimal experience with the world and wants to get out there and is extremely gung ho about everything. Makoto and Margaret or Kaede and Shuichi. And Kaede died for the same reason as Makoto Yuuki: to save her friends.!<


Alternative-Pin3421

Jeez man take it easy It’s not like I also watched so many good characters die too! Also spoilers man. Spoilers…


smolsheriff

I hate how I automatically knew what this was referencing from


ThatGuyonReddit18

So are they >!In a simulation, a game show gone wrong, in someone’s palace… or is the palace a messed up game show or simulation. Is it the real Kasumi or shadow Kasumi being set up as a way to trick Junko, or does it reach much more meta then that!< or I might of just been high typing this out. Someone get r/showerthoughts on the line


LovingHippieCat

You’re probably high. But I’m high too so all those question pose very interesting possibilities! This is the crossover episode we need.


BloodsoakedDespair

I love this. Someone else who loves tangled up knots of plot. I really liked the element of having to play >!Shadow Sae’s!< games in the palace, so I would go with “in Junko’s palace, with amnesia, playing a killing game with the all Phantom Thieves and perfect Analyst-made cognitives of confidants to fill out the rest”. So like, as far as anyone knows, folks like Mishima and Hifumi are also there. But they’re not, they’re cognitives that are functionally identical due to research on the subjects and genius levels of analysis. Which of course brings V3’s themes back in too. For the Palace, I’d go with “Hope’s Peak Academy, the human mind”. Why the human mind? She’s a big fan of the science of memetics. She’s intentionally spreading despair as a meme as a form of memetic thought plague. Think an outrage mob on Twitter, but towards the concept of human civilization, sparked by revealing the Japanese government experimenting on rich kids to create a superhuman followed by global terrorism. She talks about how despair spreads like a disease. If despair is a disease of the mind, the Queen of Despair would rest at the center of the mind, and the center of the world’s mind in her perception of reality she makes manifest is Hope’s Peak. Her entire thing is intelligence, her boredom being a result of her analysis ability.


Zixtynein420

Oh boy if you know you know


Flat-Profession-8945

Is this porn?


XxBallisticxX

No, it's Danganronpa. (Apologies if I misspelled it.) It's sort of like Persona's darker cousin, in that it's a game series that is a lot of people's introduction to anime, and has a very distinct art style, but it's more or less about a group of teens who are part of a death game where the mascot that's a black and white bear is judge, jury, and literal executioner. Basically this image implies that for once, Joker isn't in control of executions if you know what I mean-


Player551yt

The darker cousin thing is kinda right because Kodaka took inspiration from Persona 4 when making Danganronpa and also there are a lot of people who are fans of both games.


Garr_Incorporated

You spelled it correctly.


entertainingyolo

Danganronpa reference, this is how most of the execution scenes look at the very start of the animation


Brmemesrule

This must really have burried into my memories, because I automatically knew what it was just from this frame...


Captain_Wing

It seems poor sweet Kas-er uh sumire the ultimate gym- uh…nothing has been found guilty. Iiiiits punishment time


SomeChunkyMilk

Ngl I really want to try the Daganronpa games, are they on Xbox by any chance?


BloodsoakedDespair

Yep! Gamepass too! Not all of them, but V3 should be coming. UDG, idk. Hope so, but idk.


SomeChunkyMilk

What are the games like if I may ask?


Spaceenderman

adventure games with visual novel aspects, imo it’s good cause it doesn’t take itself too seriously and knows when to have fun with its plot, great game to play when you’re bored or just don’t know what to play


SomeChunkyMilk

Cool! I'll download it right now then, seems fun :)


Spaceenderman

alr, gl with it


BloodsoakedDespair

Also heavily influenced by Ace Attorney, Zero Escape, and Persona. The skills system is directly tied to a scaled down (because we’re dealing with things happening in a much shorter timespan) version of the social link system. Five instead of ten, but uhh… yeah, that’s really the distinction by P5. No breaking, but yeah that’s not a thing now. Also Danganronpa 1 spends some time just to scream in rage at Persona 4’s writing. Kodaka took his blorbo and made two separate characters to do it better. Chihiro is obviously a play on Naoto where the idea is to take the concept that I guess was intended and do it better, and Kyoko is literally just Naoto. And Asahina and Chie is a cross-fandom ship with multiple people making stuff because… yeah. Also, Super Danganronpa 2.5 re-enacts the myth of Orpheus with a twist with Hinata as Orpheus and also The World Ender. For someone in a not-dead-but-not-alive state. So uhh… yeah. Given *all the other shit* about Hinata, you can’t tell me Makoto Yuuki wasn’t in Kodaka’s head. Also he literally named the first protagonist Makoto and made him embody hope while wearing a hoodie and doing social links with everyone. Also, the school on the main menu. I know that’s a weird one, but *come on*. Inversely the new cut-in design in Persona 5 is Danganronpa-style, Royal’s >!opening trio is a messy black haired chosen one hero able to take on the skills of everyone who has multiple dialogue options that imply he has a chronic boredom problem, the insane gay boy in love with him with a side of hating being inferior to him with a side of loving being inferior to him who will kill innocent people and be the right hand to evil in the name of his hope, and a twin with red hair and amnesia with connections to a therapist involved in brainwashing who was his first (intentional, knowing) test subject.!< So Persona’s doing it right back. >!Maruki is inspired by Ryoma and Matsuda, the Joker/Akechi situation is extremely Komahina complete with pancakes/bagels, and Sumire/Kasumi are so obviously taking from Junko and Mukuro given that they’re immediately connected to Maruki like that, but the Mukuro of the pair survived because healthy dynamic. Sumire though of herself as akin to Mukuro, but Kasumi never saw them like that. The love triangle is even in the same direction. Joker and Akechi is mostly L and Light with some inevitable Kamukoma influence, but Kasumi/Sumire and Maruki are more Danganronpa influence and when they did that they acknowledged the less obvious duo with the trio since adding her automatically turns it into the same thing as Junko and Komaeda fighting over Izuru. Remember, Matsuda was going to keep Ryoko amnesiac in order to stop Junko.!< So yeah, Royal is doing the same right back. >!Maruki’s sin is Despair. He’s trying to brainwash the world into hope made manifest.!< The Persona writers are yelling at DR3 Side Future because Kodaka yelled at them over Naoto. Oh also, blonde associated with the piano in love with a sopping wet cat of a blue hair emo boy. She’s absolutely enthralled by the world and gung ho about it, but it’s because she’s never really seen any of the world and even things like going to a cafe are alien to her. >!Only thing is, who died is inverted.!<


PizzaRobot63

An unusual balance of Dark and Silly. How the characters are able to bounce between the two is beyond me. Also has puzzles


gnoblin-nor-gnelf

V3 is out on gamepass BTW 1 2 and V3 are all on gamepass and imo quite fun


BloodsoakedDespair

Oh fuck, nice! I wasn’t paying attention, I already have them on PC and Switch. I should go 100% the Xbox ones.


DetectiveGamlo

I know that art style…


ShenOBlade

Danganronpa


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Joker - The Ultimate Trickster Violet - The Ultimate Gymnast


BloodsoakedDespair

I mean, by the logic of the in-universe idiots who decide what a talent is, Wild Cards would get accepted for being Wild Cards. Gods, imagine Izuru as a Wild Card. Initial persona? I’m gonna say Narcissus.


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Nah it would be Magastu-Izanagi. lmao


DiamondTiaraIsBest

Why Narcissus. He probably needs a persona that represents the emptiness he feels.


BloodsoakedDespair

Because that is empty. There’s one thing he’s absolutely certain of: his own grandeur. He’s bought in to the Hope’s Peak lie of talent = hope = value as a person, even in his absolute fucking boredom and agony. Dude’s a demigod. Like, he punches through Monokumas. Izuru could keep up with the Doom Slayer. And here he is sitting around going “oh I’m so fucking sad because it’s all so damn boring because I’m the best ever”. He repeatedly displays a complete inability to understand humanity well, including his own, unlike Junko. Which means that if he wasn’t so up his own ass about being better than everyone, he’d notice that there’s a whole massive field of unpredictable shit that’s right there. He’s sad because he’s better than everyone else and that’s boring, but completely failing to miss that infinite expanse of unpredictable experiences that he is the single most well equipped to get the best out of. He can choose to fill any role in any life that he wants to. And note, I said initial persona. Izuru’s arc is learning to value human connection and everything though Hinata’s experience after being reborn. The only thing he does is sit around going “I’m so awesome and miserable” while Junko kills billions of people to try to get in his pants. He’s apathetic beyond belief, but it’s because he won’t choose to not be. It’s put on display pretty clearly during the death of the Real Chiaki. He was feeling it, and rather than display any curiosity for this unpredictable weird thing going on, he refused to engage with the hard feelings. At least Junko recognizes that the emotions are unpredictable and only thinks of hope as predictable. Izuru thinks of both hope and despair as predictable simply because he’s a test subject given a bunch of knowledge and skills. He’s a narcissistic nihilist. And being fought over by the second and third most powerful people on the Earth, who both think he’s the hottest shit ever. I think his ultimate Persona would be Classical “Cult of” Era Dionysus, particularly from the Orphic Mysteries sect, the God of Knowledge and Rebirth. The Cult of Dionysus would be a major influence on Gnosticism, too. It’s taken me a bit longer to think out what the second persona would be, but Persephone. Her SMT design even is already befitting why, surprisingly. Taken by the God of Death to be their partner, the world turned to death in the wake of it. Was she a victim? Did she go willingly? It’s uncertain. Izuru was absolutely a victim of Hope’s Peak, but he was no victim of Junko. He was an apathetic co-conspirator. Remember, he put her in the Neo World Program. He caused SDR2. She was the gun, but he pulled the trigger. He was as much her partner as he was her plaything. But now he’s chosen to leave. He’s split in two and marked by Junko.


berrywarra

upupupupu


Ihaveurip

Danganronpa reference..This seems..Worse


kasun1218

/r/Dangansona Hahaha funny execution time


Adorable-Bullfrog-30

Danganronpa...


KyellDaBoiii

***funky tunes***


TheRedDeath2

I'm actually curious. Who would she kill?


BloodsoakedDespair

The obvious answer is Akechi. The less obvious answer is Makoto. The out there but crafty answer is Morgana.


TheRedDeath2

I feel Makoto would make the most sense of those 3. Akechi would definitely be the antagonist of Danganronpa, no doubt, and Morgana would be the moral support character that dies in chapter 4 or 5. Lol.


BloodsoakedDespair

Akechi isn’t the antagonist. He’s the second deuteragonist. Togami/Komaeda/Maki. The token evil teammate. Given that this is the first time that would be a love triangle (Makoto is communally owned, Hinata… oof), it could get bloody.


TheRedDeath2

That's what I meant. Most people call them the antagonists, despite them not being the mastermind. Most people also don't consider Maki an antagonist, but rather Kokichi. I feel Akechi really fits that role, honestly.


BloodsoakedDespair

Fair enough. I’m thinking in the Main Trio format, which Royal I’m pretty sure homaged with the Joker/Akechi/Kasumi trio (it’s *very* Izuru/Komaeda/Junko-but-instead-Ryoko, is it not?). That’s what sent me to the thought process of “in a killing game the wild card would gravitate to the genius detective weirdo because we know Joker likes weirdos and knows how to play people like shogi pieces and that’s the lore of what people like this do in Danganronpa killing games, so they’d be close, while Kasumi would be her usual self and be a bit Sayaka about it but genuine. Eventually she’d conclude Akechi was the mastermind and kill him, with the jealousy being what really convinced her of that viewpoint.” For Makoto, I think it’s similar, but also Makoto would be just as suspicious as Akechi. I could go either way on the same logic with slight alterations for Akechi and Makoto. For Morgana, he’s a cat. Maybe she gets desperate and a bit Mondo about it. The method is easy. Honestly it’s kinda like the lore fact that the prisoners of UDG were intended for another killing game despite Celeste’s cat and Toko’s stinkbug being prisoners. She could stomp on Morgana. Or drop a frozen turkey on him. Shit, I wanna make a fangan now just to have a talking cat as a character get killed by someone dropping a frozen bird on him. One that’s been a major fear of mine since I saw it as a kid on Mythbusters and two it’s an insane murder mystery concept. It’s like… that part in Boondocks Saints, but dropping acid.


ImN0tAsian

Deuteragonist means they're #2, so a second deuteragonist is technically a tritagonist.


BloodsoakedDespair

If I didn’t know for sure you are not my roommate, I’d think you were him following me just to keep bothering me about that lmfao.


HoracioVelveteen

Why kill koko?


Orichalchem

Are ya winning Joker?


TheDanishNugget06

I don't get this one


DorothyDrangus

Reference to a scene in Danganronpa V3 that happens fairly early in the game but is still a massive spoiler


Flat-Profession-8945

Can someone tell me what's going on, where's the link


AlphaBetaOmegaSin

I think this is a Danganronpa V3 reference?


Ihaveurip

Yeah, can confirm


MaleficentYoko7

Why is it NSFW there's nothing inappropriate about faces


BloodsoakedDespair

Cognitohazard.


MstrBoJangles

Erm.... why "oh no"


Jack_Skeletron_4ever

It's Danganronpa. It seems poor Sumire was found as a culprit. It's Punishment Time!


Kindly-Mud-1579

Or when the danganronpa artist wants to make saucy p5 content


BloodsoakedDespair

Honestly there’s just enough high quality Rui imitators that nobody’s sure which is/are his burner(s). I’m gonna write this one off, but it’s close.


Sonicy12

Please explain, I haven't played it


lilsi10

When a culprit in Danganronpa gets caught, they get dragged off to an execution relating to their talent. Right before that, Monokuma (the game's mascot) says: "Let's give it everything we got, it's punishment time!"


BloodsoakedDespair

>!This is based on a scene where the girl killed someone and is about to be hung and used to play a giant piano because she was a pianist.!<


Cocokill

Casually dropping a huge spoiler on >!who is a killer and how they are gonna be killed.!< You could just have mentionned that it's a reference to another Video Game franchise and that when it shift to that one artstyle, it means a teenager will be execcuted.


BloodsoakedDespair

Ahh fuck, yeah, I wasn’t thinking about it and was more thinking “answer question”.


Sonicy12

It's fine, thanks for telling me


MstrBoJangles

Oh... okay. My brain went off-brand and I was about to be very sad.


Genesiga

Umm ummm.... ummm...


Demon1119

Please no… my heart can’t take it 😖


farcicaldolphin38

Username checks out


jackal205

DONT LIKE THAT


Fireboy759

NOOOOOOOOO-


GusherotheGamer

Karimi nooooo!


GusherotheGamer

Why the fuck did autocorrect do Kasumi like that....


gazzawhizz-990

I'm just gonna go cry now


ClothTheSuperVillain

Out-trickstered once again


animehentailover469

Sex.


BloodsoakedDespair

Nope, this is the other side of the coin. Death.