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Why is Angie your favourite character?

This is really funny I just got off call with Glownary and was talking about how much I don't miss Danganronpa discourse. Anyway I hope someone finds a way to get mad at me in this post!

((Admittedly I'd probably actually place Korekiyo above her because he ACTUALLY has a relevant and specified canon story,,, but, y'kno))

Plain and simple, she just has a handful of design and character tropes I super adore in characters! As a base, I'm usually not super into,,, well-adjusted, well-liked , reasonable, and rational characters. LMAO. They're fine but I live for exaggeration. I LOVE when they're little freaks and not watered down at all for the viewers sake/comfort, I love when they (both the writers and the written) just keep twisting the knife for no good reason other than the bit despite how unconventional it may be.

One could argue that her not being watered down and being as shitty to the other players as she is is a trauma response, or just a mentally ill person being mentally ill. It can be neat to think of her that way sometimes! It's of my opinion that almost all Danganronpa characters are super open-ended lore/personality-wise and we as fans are just making up canon as we go because it's FUCKING FUN, and, as such, all the ways that Angie can be interpreted is very interesting to me-- EVEN if that's seen as "the irredeemable annoying religion-force-feeding zealot antagonist." Which is, of course, an objectively awful way to view anyone REGARDLESS of media illiteracy, but, you know! I like weird freaks so this "flaw" they see is simply more food for me. Yippee!!

Whether I think she's canonically A) genuinely malicious and sadistic, B) traumatized from an abusive religious sect, C) honestly caring about the other players, and/or D) none/all of the above? I'll never tell! Oops all bangers!

Tropes I enjoy, whether or not I found myself enjoying them BECAUSE of Angie herself;;

Religion, especially if it's horrifying and...bad! (Most of my own characters deal heavily with religion and religious trauma, I think it's cool to play with, whether or not it's a fantasy religion like I think Angie's is)

CULTS! Cult behavior! Let's live in a commune!! (GUYS I LOVE MIDSOMMAR)

Dark skin / light hair contrast color combo goes hard!!!

+ The pansexual flag palette is literally my favorite color combo ever!!!!

Manipulative little shits!!!!!

Small scary women!!!!!!

Islander stuff, it's very nostalgic to me and I just have a deep love and appreciation for the beach and ocean!!!!!!!

Piercings!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cutesy sunshine character who could and would stab you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BLOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IDK HOW THIS WASN'T MY FIRST POINT!!!!!!!!!!

AND SHE'S JUST FUCKING SILLY!!!!!!!! SHE'S GENUINELY SO FUNNY AND CUTE ESPECIALLY IN HER INTERACTIONS WITH SHUICHI!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE HER SO BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She was an IMMEDIATE favorite when I played V3 and when I found out that, like, everyone fucking HATED her and she's probably the least liked character in the entire class by the fans, my brain immediately went the contrarian route to find reasons to like her even MORE. I tend to do this a lot, but when it's a character I already enjoy, it's even worse, dude.

ummmmm obligatory Shinnaga mention sorry but I frequently tend to appreciate a character a lot more based on potential dynamics alone. Ships, romantic or not, have legitimately gotten me to enjoy characters I hated before, based on interesting interactions unique to them alone. So while Kiyo and Angie's (they're making out btw) ingame dynamic and dialogues aren't REALLY what my sick and twisted mind views them as, it's worth noting that my honest belief and interpretation of the two of them could even give me a sliver of that dynamic being possible .......... means she's fuckin slay ............ it means love wins..... It means Vote For Yonaga 2024

#angie yonaga #danganronpa #danganronpa v3 #character analysis #idk #ask #anon

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olivereactsaboutgarbage · 4 months

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Higurashi When They Cry - Watanagashi Chapter 12

After the tragedy of people not being dead in One Piece, I can always count on Higurashi for the refreshing palate cleanser known as "the comedy of people being dead".

(EDIT: WHAT THE HECK THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO GET POSTED ALMOST A WEEK AGO!!! WHY DIDN'T THAT HAPPEN??? AN ENTIRE WEEK OF ME NOT POSTING HAPPENED INSTEAD???

this is the last time i'm trusting tumblr to do what i tell it to

anyway enjoy your monday post at 4 AM which i wrote ages ago)

Keiichi's dad wants to CANCEL SCHOOL.

Keiichi uses TIME TRAVEL to enter the Applause Dimension.

Keiichi wants to CANCEL SCHOOL.

Rena reminds Keiichi that Keiichis are now mandatory for school or you get expelled, so she needs a Keiichi. Keiichi says "Touch luck." Rena puts her face right up against the microphone and makes breathy noises.

Keiichi receives a death pamphlet from Rena.

truest shit keiichi's ever said

Rena wields her trademarked violence against Keiichi. Damn!!! I wasn't expecting that. She also calls him a spoiled little brat. Neat

Keiichi and Rena have a meet cute, except instead of meeting Rena, Keiichi meets the sentence "I'm Mion and I'm a soy sauce vendor now so you should obtain and consume all of my sauce." Rena has already met that sentence though, so this is only interesting to Keiichi.

Keiichi and Rena decide to party up and face Mion as the final boss.

A Random Ooishi Encounter slithers up to the party. "Oh good," Rena says. "We needed a paladin." It's true that they didn't really have a tank. Rena is obviously a monk and I think Keiichi must be a cleric? So they had DPS and a healer but no tank. Actually, why is this entire party so overtly religious?

They all get in a car, which I guess in this extended metaphor is a horse. Rena says "Keiichi, I think our paladin absolutely sucks shit." Why is Rena always insufferable during the good times but then dope AF when the going gets tough?

I wonder what clever ways Higurashi will use to eventually make me feel bad for asking that.

The party enters the sprawling final dungeon, but not before splitting the party so that the paladin isn't there. The dungeon is called Camera Mountain even though it very much isn't a mountain. Typical RPGs and their bullshit...

"I bet Mion is in her dark surveillance lair, watching the footage from all these cameras on her vast array of screens..." Keiichi says. "No, not really," Rena says.

The party reaches Mion right away without even needing to fight any mooks, let alone a miniboss. Unless you count their paladin as a miniboss because he sucks.

Mion invites everyone to her boss fight arena. "This boss fight arena is interesting," she says. "I want to make it boring." What the hell, Mion? Why do you like boring things? I thought you were the Chosen One, not the Boring One.

Rena tells Keiichi not to be such a scared. If only Keiichi had a perpetual Rena at all times.

Mion owns a pile. She says Keiichi should substitute it for a shoe, but this is just her awesome poop prank.

Mion reads Keiichi's blue text and takes it as a cue to talk about winter, and how much snow there is in winter. I'll stash that away as an extremely important clue.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN "SHE" DID IT??? KEIICHI??? HELLO??? I think this kid needs a lesson in pronouns from his teacher with the pronouns.

Everyone stops talking. "HEY GUYS!!!" Mion says. "BREAK THE SILENCE!!!"

Ah, see, I need a friend like Keiichi who I can verbally abuse relentlessly. This is why Mion is still the best. Yes.

Mion is getting Sherlock Holmesed at, so now it's her turn to breathe directly on her microphone. She also praises Rena's Toddler 01 impression.

Mion has her obligatory Ace Attorney breakdown. Keiichi wishes it was a Kaiji breakdown instead.

Rena and Keiichi ask Mion if she was the One and Only Culprit and if Higurashi is already solved two arcs in. "Hi there," says Mion, "I'm new to this conversation."

"...Then... in that case... what does your underwear look like...?"

Wow, I'm worse than the men in Higurashi. Wait, extreme self-deprecation is bad.

"What does... your

Okay joke over

Anyway, Exposition Mion is doing her thang. It's all very interesting.

Incurable diseases, huh? Okay that's going in the evidence folder of my extreme genius.

Ah, cooties, I know about that.

Oh, Mion's grandfather stole a bunch of food from the army and used it to gain wealth and influence. It's like the mundane and boring version of Umineko.

Oh, it was cannibalism. It's like the original planned premise of Bob's Burgers. All the voice actors decide to shut up so they don't accidentally talk over the funny jokes in Bob's Burgers.

AREN'T YOU FOURTEEN??? WHAT DOCUMENTARY WERE YOU WATCHING

Mion says that Hinamizawa is mean because of the Awesome Solidarity. Keiichi asks if they've tried normalcy instead. Mion's like "Pft, if only."

Mion lets everyone know about her secret wordplay surprise, and then says "Wanna see my tattoo?" and starts taking her clothes off. "I don't," says Rena and everything stays television-appropriate.

"By the way," Mion adds, "I am the one true culprit and Higurashi is solved." Well that's good, I guess I can immediately stop reading Higurashi.

Oh, now Keiichi is saying that HE'S the one true culprit. Give your guilt complex a rest, my dude.

Wait is Mion just Keiichi-ing out right now actually? That would actually explain why there's six more Higurashis after this Higurashi. Although it would leave a lot of things much more mysterious... which would also explain it. Guess I'd better keep reading.

Um. Dumbass?

Rena tells Mion to go to jail. Mion says "You first." Rena says "Only if Keiichi wants me to."

Keiichi and Mion decide to go outside. Rena tells Keiichi that it's his responsibility to keep everything normal. RENA, NO!!! THAT'S THE ONE THING KEIICHI'S WORST AT!!! RENA WATCH OUT!!!

Now it's time for Keiichi and Mion's adorable date where they talk about Shion.

No, Keiichi is ambidextrous.

Mion says Shion's not dead. Nifty thing to say.

Niftn't thing to say, I think.

GOD, MION FUCKING GETS IT

Mion takes Keiichi to the Nice and Fresh and Modern Death House. Huh, I guess there was a Nice and Fresh and Modern Death House all along. I guess in this chapter I'm finally starting to realize why Watanagashi was said to have a lower difficulty than Onigafuchi. Which definitely DOES make me wonder what the deal is with the Onigafuchi sequence of events.

Keiichi asks to peruse a variety of dead bodies.

WHAT??? NO!!! A WATER SUPPLY IS ABSOLUTELY NO PLACE FOR BUGS!!!

Keiichi says hi to Shion. Shion ignores him and says to please stop with the elaborate murders. I'm sure that's fine.

Mion says "No, I don't want to." Keiichi loses interest in his surroundings. This also seems pretty alright to me.

Man, this voice acting is really good when it's not busy being dubious.

Is Keiichi planning on pulling some shit?

Foot licking. Phew, perversity. I'm glad When They Cry didn't forget to include perversity. Anyway Keiichi is definitely planning on pulling some shit.

Oh, Keiichi's hands are getting restrained. That'll make it harder for him to pull some shit. I wonder what kind of fucked-up shit he's gonna pull.

Ah, it's Scary Keiichi. I want to see the red glint in his eye...

I mean, not that he's as scary as these green people this time around. But that's what makes his scariness better.

Keiichi says Mion isn't Mion and Mion is like "UH WHAT NO" as if Mion hadn't been talking exactly like that fifteen minutes ago. Wow, that sentence was completely unintelligible.

Oh I misread "I wish I couldn't" as "I wish she wouldn't" and I was gonna give him shit for stating the obvious but I guess I am the one who is the fool. Carry on Keiichi. Keep lamenting.

...You know, five years ago, she sure was... 9? 10? 8? How old are these bitches again

WHAT??? THIS IS STILL THE DOLL ARC??? WHAT DOES THAT EVEN SAY ABOUT ITS PLACE IN THE LARGER ANTHOLOGY

HUH???

Oh that's true LOL. So much has happened since then, such as me spending months not thinking about Higurashi.

yeah me too girl

You drama queen.

L M A O

This really IS the comedy of people being dead! I was right, as always.

Anyway, the monk and paladin have teamed back up. This is why you never split the party I think. So Mion changes her awesome final boss plan.

Keiichi falls asleep so hard he turns into a police report.

Rena was MISSING??? Since WHEN???

Oh shit, the police report turned back into Keiichi. This didn't happen when he died!!

Keiichi's parents have the right idea. Keep holding out to eventually get THE MOST MONEY POSSIBLE.

Oh wait, Keiichi's parents tragically didn't get money, and instead got The Letter That Makes You Get A New House.

Oh this is basically the same thing which happened to me.

Rena gets sad because Higurashi would be really boring if the mascot character was the literal only character. Keiichi reminds her that the other characters aren't dead, they're just living on a farm upstate. Actually, Hinamizawa IS the farm upstate, so I don't know where they're living.

Keiichi also gets mad at the mainstream media for making light of tragedy. Wow, it's as if his feelings actually matter even though there's gonna be a time loop. This is fucked up.

Keiichi once again anticipates the obligatory Shion section of this chapter. Wait, that sounds really fake.

Oh shit I hit the image limit. Well the rest of this post is cancelled

This is fucked up though, Keiichi and Rena lingering with their regrets. This never happened in Umineko (except for that one time). Or the first arc. Or--HIS WINDOW GOT ASSAULTED BY MION???

Mion says "Hi Keiichi" and immediately breaks down

Keiichi is about to be nice to her, but then he gets stabbed. Oh thank god. Keiichi not being dead was making me feel so weird.

WAIT WHAT THE FUCK HE STILL ISN'T DEAD??? THIS IS SO FUCKED UP!!! SOMEONE PLEASE KILL KEIICHI I'M BEGGING YOU!!!

Wait the police report is saying Shion fell over at approximately the SAME time??? But Mion said she did them BOTH! Did she do a Rube Goldberg murder machine?

OooOooOooOOOoh "it sounded like two people fighting and then shion was either murdered OR committed suicide" I guess Higurashi has a mystery in it.

I don't know why I said that like that. To be honest I've spent an entire day writing this post while multitasking so that's why it's increasingly dubious.

Oh, and Ooishi is still! Bothering! Keiichi! SOMEONE JUST KILL KEIICHI ALREADY!!!

I wish I could take pictures of Keiichi's extreme sass here. I could quote it since it's literally just text, but... the magic is ruined if I do that...

Even though Keiichi doesn't want Ooishi's peace offering of pornography, he and Ooishi are still finally on the same page for once, that Mion is murder. So this is Cleric and Paladin synchronicity...

OH OOISHI FOUND THE MURDER WELL. It had all the victims and also random other guys.

Oh, Ooishi found a special Toddler 02 syringe. Just like in Onigafuchi but radically different. It all fits together... but radically different...

Oh, Ooishi noticed the same "same time" thing I did. It's obvious from his interrogation.

Oh, the witness of Shion's death was Shion's bodyguard... oh noooooo...!!! I don't want Ulki from Fire Emblem to experience grief...

Oh... the murder well had all the victims and also random other guys and also Mion.

MION DYING HAPPENED PRIOR TO SHION AND KEIICHI SIMULTANEOUSLY DYING AND KEIICHI SURVIVING IT??? WAIT, REALLY??? So Keiichi hallucinations are CANON and I was SUPER CORRECT LAST TIME. Clearly. I'm a genius!!!

What? Camera's girlfriend was also dead for an entire day before dying with multiple witnesses including not Keiichi? Wait that's actually insane. That's actually crazy. What is this stupid story about.

Oh I wish I could show you this awesome bed picture. You're just gonna have to trust me.

Keiichi has a nice conversation with a Mion hallucination about a fun prank they could play on Ooishi where Keiichi dies.

Oh, even Keiichi is sick of waiting for Keiichi to die so the arc can have an actual ending. It was a deliberate writing choice all along.

"Can this arc PLEASE just end already?!" begs Keiichi. "No" says the Mion hallucination, and the arc ends.

Well, I hope you enjoyed my barely-paying-attention coverage of a highly anticipated climax! Tune in next week for when I give me undivided attention to the goofy bonus chapter.

#higurashi #when they cry #is what i'm consuming

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