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mandoalorian · 3 years

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Congrats on 300 followers! If you’re still doing your celebration I’d love a Pedro ship. I’m 5’3” and I’m a Leo. I like to listen to music, read, and play video games. I recently changed my major to elementary education (even though I don’t want kids of my own). I love animals and I try to be kind to everyone and I’ve been told my smile and my kindness are my best features (even if I do get taken advantage of sometimes because of my kindness). Hopefully this is enough for you!!

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I LITERALY FORGOT STUFF I WANTED TO ADD IN MY LAST ASK HAHA. My favorite music is class rock and alternative with Mumford and sons and Fleetwood Mac being my all time favorites. Movies I’m down for anything really. And I’m not sure if I really have a type, maybe like soft (even if it isn’t always clearly shown) and protective.

Awh hey Callie! Thank you for the request— gosh, this has been in my inbox for probably over a month now. I’m so sorry I haven't gotten to it sooner but thank you as always for your continued support on my fics.

I ship you with: Frankie Morales

Frankie just strikes me as someone who would love Mumford and Sons & Fleetwood Mac. I can also see him as the kinda guy who would sit down with a cold bottle of beer and indulge in a video game (probably one of those ones with guns), so having a girlfriend who'd enjoy that as well... he'd feel like he's striked gold! He loves that you study elementary education, despite not wanting kids. It really proves to him that you're a caring, gentle spirit and someone he wants to be around. You're someone who can probably ground him and make him feel safe. He has a young daughter, and she's the love of his life. Immediately, you and his young daughter would click, and that would only make him love you even more. Your generosity and kindness doesn't go unnoticed and Frankie will often wonder what he done to deserve someone as loving as you. He'll go through moments where he needs the reassurance that you won't leave him, and he has an insecurity where he feels like he's not good enough. Never the less, you kiss him and promise him that it'll be okay— and that you love him. Frankie is super protective over you. He doesn't realise it at first, but when he introduces you to the guys, he sees how Pope and Redfly swoon for you; commenting on how Frankie really scored, catching a girl like you. He doesn't think it would bother him, but it does, because he wants you all to himself. If you ever feel like someone has crossed you the wrong way, or someone tries to take advantage of you, Frankie will always have your back and boy, he will defend you with his life.

#shipping requests #frankie morales

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aseriesofunfortunatejan · 5 years

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After years of misremembering DR3, I finally found a real, fatal flaw in Chiaki Nanami

Making her less of a Mary Sue, amirite?

Context: Komaeda is convincing everyone not to go after Yukizome, because Enoshima is too strong and it’d be too dangerous.

It’s actually working. Shockingly enough, his classmates are listening, and they’re starting to think that they should indeed be mature and stay safe.

Now, what does best-girl-did-nothing-wrong-Nanami do wrong, exactly?

Fuck everyone over, because we all know what happens next.

Well said, Komaeda.

So here it is. DR3 Nanami’s one (1) flaw. I’m glad I finally found it, since it finally makes her a proper Danganronpa character.

[Half my followers have left the chat]

Jokes aside, here’s what I actually think of what Nanami did. And yes, it does reveal her flaws.

(Putting a cut here in consideration of tumblr mobile users)

As we know, she has seen Mitarai’s state and witnessed Komaeda almost getting killed. On top of that, Yukizome told her it was her own job to take care of the matter. But still, Nanami decides to convince her classmates to go back with her and risk their lives.

Why?

Because she wants to go. She’s the one who feels indebted to Yukizome, because she made her life better. Of course, there’s the whole “it brought us together” motive, but Nanami’s speech makes it fairly clear she’s thinking about how she felt.

Nanami probably knows she can’t fight by herself, but there’s something else she knows: she’s not a loner anymore. She’s the class rep, everyone loves her, and everyone follows her lead, because they’ve gotten used to her organizing events. She doesn’t have to say much, she just has to sound like her heart’s in the right place (because yes, saving Yukizome does sound like a nice thing to do) and everyone will go along.

With no consideration for the danger she’s putting them in - literaly none, as she doesn’t even mention it, though we’ve established she’s aware of it - she’s pushing them in the direction she wants them to go. Basically, she’s using them.

Some could argue she’s just giving herself a pep talk, with no intent to convince the others anymore than she’s saying what she thinks is right, and it just so happens the others believe in her. This would play in her favor, not making her manipulative. And it is possible - however, it doesn’t take away that it’s careless. Because she’s aware of the danger, she’s aware of her position towards the class, and she still takes the risk to have them risk their lives with no room for hesitation.

If anyone should have informed them they should be careful, it should have been her, because she had witnessed the danger. Of course, Pekoyama and Komaeda tried - but in no way do they have the power she has over the class. So yes, by being so careless and selfish, she undoubtedly screwed everyone over.

All of this proves that while Nanami is a sweet person, with positive motives and the capacity to smartly bring people together, making them feel good, she has flaws and her views are sometimes a little warped.

Does that make her well written? In my opinion, nope.

Everything about Nanami’s character in DR3 feels awkward. I’ve probably talked about it before, and it’s no use to explain yet again why I don’t like a character that’s so immensely popular, but I personally do think she’s inferior to the usual DR character. Re-watching DR3 makes me realize that stuff I thought was weird or bad does work - nothing comes out of nowhere - but, while I appreciate some scenes surrounding Nanami, her lack of characterization simply can’t be justified.

Sure, Nanami is FAR from being the only character whose backstory isn’t explored or even mentioned, but the other characters in that situation aren’t put under the spotlight. No, DR3 doesn’t mention Nidai’s family life, but DR3 also doesn’t make a point of exploring Nidai’s feelings and making him the reason ANYTHING happens. Nanami is a main character in the anime, however, we have no idea why she feels a certain way or what train of thought leads her to evolve. In many scenes, she just acts the right way because she’s great, and that’s it.

That’s why she feels bland and “too perfect for no reason”, even though scenes such as the one I’m showing quickly gloss over elements that could reveal her personality. And that’s what’s so frustrating about Nanami in DR3: on top of being a sadder version of her SDR2 counterpart, she could have been better.

I wouldn’t even complain if she were just a bad character - but she is useful, I can get what her character’s supposed to be, it’s just not well done. If Nanami does indeed have selfish motives she doesn’t even realize, thinking it’s all about protecting everyone’s happiness and not just hers, there should be a least one scene where she or someone else realizes the flaws in her motivation. But nope, it’s all just up in the air, Nanami meant well, Nanami did well, she just wasn’t lucky.

Her moments with Hinata were extremely sweet, but at the end of the day, had no influence over his decision to become Kamukura. “Being able to be proud in front of Nanami” is just an excuse that doesn’t make any sense, because nothing she did could lead him to think this way. Like hey, DR3, if you were going to use Nanami so much, you could at least have used her well. (Even Sakakura’s speech, which seemed to make him take his decision, didn’t really mention anything of the sort. But that’s a story for another day.)

As for this scene...

Well, it doesn’t really matter whether Komaeda’s bullshitting or not. I ain’t trying to make you like the guy. If he was indeed trying to manipulate his classmates into going, he’s equally wrong as Nanami - but it could also be assumed that he’s trying to convince himself he wanted them to go, seeing as he looked displeased when Nanami contradicted him.

By the way, some characters could potentially still have gone, such as the Imposter or Kuzuryuu, but that wouldn’t be the whole class, changing a lot of the story.

Aaaand that’s it. This post if probably really useless, especially in 2019 with the DR fandom dying and all, but I wanted to be fair enough towards DR3 Nanami by expressing that one realization I just had that she wasn’t supposed to be totally bland. It’s just bad writing of a potentially good character, rather than bad character creation.

#danganronpa #danganronpa 3 #dr3 #chiaki nanami #nanami chiaki #long post #77th class #jan essay

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