Hi :)

this fangan is still a thing and is uploading up to Chaper 2's body discovery scene (only in Japanese)?

It's called AODRS!

Danganronpa and Fanganronpa Class Trial Seating Analysis

You have come to exactly the right place! My eyes lit up when I saw this ask come in, and I’ve been thinking about it off and on since receiving it. Or, I mean, as much as I could, when I don’t have any of the Class Trial layouts memorized. I’m not that insane (yet. I’ll probably remember them better after writing this post).

As a disclaimer, I do think that canon and fanon are two different issues entirely, and additionally that any fangan not made by the same person/team is also kind of a different ballgame than any other fangan. At the end of the day, the Class Trial seating comes down to each creative team and what they want to accomplish, and different teams will have different goals for their stories. However, there’s still definitely something to be said for patterns that multiple teams may have opted into without realizing it, and how those patterns could be used to analyze other fangans.

I’ll be covering six games in this post– Trigger Happy Havoc, Goodbye Despair, Killing Harmony, Danganronpa Another, Super Danganronpa Another 2, and Project: Eden’s Garden. If you wish to avoid spoilers for any of these games, you may want to opt out of reading this post. However, if you’re caught up or cool with spoilers for all of these titles, let’s jump in!

“Keroppi is transmasc, transneu, nonbinary, agender, demiboy, boyflux, girlflux, genderflux, genderfluid, bigender, eafluid, agenderflux, demigirl, demigender, genderqueer, catgender, pyrogender, bungender, pupgender, softgender, lovegender, cutegender, valicanic, angéliquefemian, aloveic, buzinbackroomic, strawberryboy, poppygender, genderfaun, percifeminine, strawberrion, abinary, bitmapgender, dotgender, sommgender, citrusgender, stellic, aimantjaunegender, luminogender, firemine, sodemine, clarpupswirlic, yellowvir, neongender, maraic, feliogender, genderamabiliter, amoenagender, catcute, hoodieboy, hoodiemasc, cozymasc, lovecoregender, chiotneq, chiotie, nuastelic, orangegender, gumgender, lapsigender, pricatic, princegender, prilidemic, priwavic, priangpupic, prisakuraic, pripopic, prisodaic, prisolaric, svitaton, regressifluid, prifraisic, strawberryramungender, mirukufluid, strawberrygender, strawberrypockygender, douxinvern, affectionic, evariboy, tangerica, aporaboy, pupgoldic, plushbunnyic, twinkgender, sugargender, kaio’s gender, monsterhighgender, neoboy, splendidagender, genderbruised, bunroseic, primagiboyic, crushgender, affecticatian, roseboy, pinklemonade drinkgender, neoncadecoric, embragender, gendercuddle, faunapefluix, amadouxic, maogender, seific, warmcoloren, priopalian, on-fucking-firegender, rosboy, cozybunian, flutoique, sweetmasc, etanamasc, adodouxic, angeligender, angelhonum, ADHDgender, puerilgender, genderfluff, divinegender, boycute, prihyperempathy, angelihonum, solarian, genderfluff, cliugender, nubegender, sleepygender, perciotherkin, trendergender, benegender, gendereso, mollisnon, genderhaze, genderswete, frigender, gendergyumolcs, gendercalin, genderavoxtur, gendercalinant, verient, angelihonum, felishonum, inturgender, catboxgender, gendersolskin, mogaihypic, pinkboy, dreamlandic, glanimahypic, lyshypic, loopique, gooeyical, hotsugarical, iasilical, sliceical, mantraical, primelonic, priframboisic, priceriseic, childisharian, boxgender, bloementuinboy, goldic, angelkinic, mollianic, autix, inkongender, hyempathymasc, hyempathygender, collecthyperfix, orastimgender, audistimgender, lufuien, angelkincatheric, genderqueued, tenercatgender, femmequeer, neurovir, agineric, mutogender, faefluid, felmouboy, angelcatgender, mymelodygender, ronronian, flamfemme, tumblrgender, prialdernic, priangelic, priesol, hurtiplatre, cutiplatre, genderplatre, healiplatre, niasogender, audinic, priaudinic, sugaryic, boyfluff, flufferil, solaeic, shortcakegender, izgender, prisanriocoric, istatian, flarosea-angelgender, strawberrypup, strawberrycat, enerbouncic, strawberrybun, vabogender, opalencille, meowmeowgender, vanillaic, gaylecrossingic, lollycrossingic, balonogender, candesconian, tenermasc, lenisgender, blossomeryx, pateliikitque, pawsgender, schrodigender, priabysnniancatic, fictifemgender, plushomigender, primoonstone, pricouleuric, falstelogender, sunogender, sherbcrossingic, catdogflux, priaxolotlic, priarcielic, priseastaric, pridawnic, pripearlic, chatonic, cildiscian, enderlodix, lagniauric, flufarstuffyic, pribubblegumic, prisunrisic, prilichtic, stimugender, databaseric, syllrubru, princian, daisolis, sonneflorian, jourumbic, girasolgender, genderarconbe, purkkagender, deorcnesian, prifluxdysic, prisemidysic, denchigender, prifluxverbic, lovecatgender, lenctentidian, genderdagian, boygender, infheit, enedic, kokcinelonic, kuromefluid, cattic, beoboy, buttorfleogeic, fluixcattian, hundic, dokelingic, anninmationian, hachigender, mitsubachigender, gendervaque, genderenkris, soporatagender, toebeanic, boy+, citronoic, narancsic, eperic, fluixeperian, afonyanic, malnanic, cirseic, lytelic, ofettic, sotenia, kokesic, citrancsic, ananasonic, mangunic, strawberrygender, decoric, voilen, kisuiloinic, lexegender, lexepuppic, lexekittic, lexebunnic, femarsic, feminec, melle, effemal, auticat, jaunsterrean, mymelodykinic, contramymfem, dianvile, prifleuric, pridovic, pripluvic, clerskyetic, procellosusgender, ventulusgender, ventusgender, genderorientis, genderpluvia, hattarabaonic

genderoccidentis, prikittyic, limukkabaonic, genderpergratus, genderfluctivagus, genderdachi, paraboy, genderclemens, strawberrybalmic, kivifruktonic, kjarpsic, genderkjarps, igelic, renaitregender, recréergender, progressergender, invernufem, gendersyllabum, ostoslistagender, notoblokogender, mascpunk, fogfluidflux, pricrossingic, écriregender, pricatboy, genderliebeslied, prinuzlichic, priteddybearic, prikidcoric, bunnyboygender, priplushic, pripelucheuxic, jiazic, gendergé, priotherkin, pritherian, autimain, genderfarb, permacollector, jinirosaic, catboykinic, honeyderivical, arospecgender, stitchescrossingic, nongeleboy, boy lite, lofthousean, ontfille, smallredboyic, aclarus, mulium, fawngender, credogender, decredogender, enderbeemasc, genanxiegender, socanxiegender, neuropermacollector, lightacifleurian, bubblegumkkmusica, adorafaunet, kidcoric, angelcoric, lovecoric, cozycoric, 90scoric, pinkcoric, mutoflux, hyperpopgender, femmegender, scenecoric, dollgender, autiqueer, kittigender, cheerbearic, funshinebearic, lopgender, agerevic, collgender, infinigender, ridiguygender, traumian, estacionboy, chaofluid, candygender, neurogenderpunk, soleggiata, heliancatgender, kineko, teddygender, dollcoric, miaulic, pawchatic, frapgender, catfrapgender, hyperacespec, fruitboy, cadensbubblegumkk, roseabic, oid, vernosbaonic, ludibundagender, fanfictioncomfic, amuzigender, burankogender, panrosboy, wasuretic, morugender, princesscoriboy, strawbefeminine, femcute, babybluegender, petnameus, adoraphoric, daycoric, felifemaric, prifemmic, miereromic, cerisaromic, vanillaromic, korpvic boy, demiblux, strawbetix, cakemojic, boystimmic, femmestimmic, finboy, angeliboy, angelienby, colerienby, kittycatic, honeycat, patifraitic, gradouxic, minoheuric, ecstimmian, sungender, nuevomollis, strawbemojic, bowemojic, puppygrinical, lumanariearomic, revolveregender, rotaregender, oririgender, stuffitix, feliregender, genderlolita, rosxenboy, pridemiboy, pridemigirl, primagiboy, nemuicattic, solunian, pasteliibeque, vrinaxal, frinaxal, boylovtix, aetenix, joliboy, alienaregender, pupmasc, pupfemme, solvitic, crinitifluid, autifluix, dolcegazzo, dulcaregender, gendersuffla, hycreatia, anthropogender, faikanogender, winitallderivical, catspinnic, squeakitoyic, headbuttcattic, stancocattic, eccitatocattic, gorgorocattic, baloccocattic, nikkocattic, asobucattic, heavetherigender, musiphonic, fukafukastuffyic, idakustuffyic, epiosstuffyic, khaunoostuffyic, moustuffyic, gentilstuffyic, stuffiehypic, stuffiespinic, stuffierelatic, prislytherin, joy boy, genderjoy, gendereclaircie, genderhoneybee, velician, seraphaeic, bunkogender, pinkrosean, bontinsian, estéan, waeyéntinsian, ivierian, shichakugender, akvumigender, citrusamare, suncoric, solamare, solcitric, melamare, buttercupic, lexebuttercupic, bugoffcrossingic, flowerplantcrossingic, clothesitemcrossingic, ablesisterscrossingic, villagercrossingicflux, imaginum, sanriocoric, pursoft, plushoft, traumageic, lepilugender, lepilufluid, mulium, panmolle, childregender, babiogender, chauxian, cozygender, strawberomic, beauphoric, stitcheskinic, moruimaginum, lexeglittic, fluttershykinic, lexepuppycatic, lexecatdogic, lexestrawbic, lexebunnyboyic, lexekittyboyic, lexepuppyboyic, skinz8485ical, glittrical, heyhihydical, catkinic, anicross, bunnygender, genticatgebder, gendersylph, gendersylphet, gendersylpher, gendersylphen, selisfeminine, fluerberrai, swirlic, sugarcoric, sweetcoric, playlistgender, gendersoft, boysoft, adorbian, aesthetiflux, agendercute, daisytix, cakecoric, dreamcoric, bellagender, blankin, catcoric, cirquoigender, faygender, confettigender, cutefluid, decoragender, dollyic, dulcigender, fairylicht, pastelgothcoric, flowercoric, princetix, princesstix, gendernotus, fluffgender, fluffplushcoric, genderoax, genderpastel, autoonian, genderplush, gendersploof, strawberrymoonic, gendersweet, aurfenin, laetusnautilus, lautusapis, laetuspapilio, laetusfelis, bellucatimasc, and idolgender!

She’s also achillean, toric, mlnb, enbian, opalian, turian, solian, uranic, muialtunic, shadowgay, myranian, nindivian, xeminian, cengrian, homolustic, greyromantic, nexeromantic, quasiromantic, caedromantic, pomoaro, alicoromantic, polyromantic, multiromantic, alexmoromantic, ailuromantic, asexual, demisexual, demisexualspike, aceflux, t4tqueerplatonic, rosesexual, myrsexual, nexesexual, caedsexual, quassusexual, erosfluid, drissexual, cupiosexual, aesthetisexual, multisexual, polysexual, alexmosexual, demigreysexual, vincisensual, ceterosensual, greysensual, nonalterous, gray-a-aesthetic, gray-aplatonic, polyamorous, ambiamorous, urazqueerplatonic, urazromantic, urazsexual, abrosexual, abromantic, manabromantic, minabromantic, horispec, ay, omniaspec, sunflower opalian, and sunflower achillean! Keroppi id’s as ageregressic, idesheboy, dysphoriaflux, princess but boy, pronounflux, honum hoarder, species hoarder, malewife, multipronominal, multinominal, dovehoarder, paradisehoarder, mockinghoarder, secretaryhoarder, ravenhoarder, turkeyhoarder, kiwihoarder, termcollector, magpiehoarder, jackdawhoarder, AAAflux, douxihoarder, queer, femme, plushcollec, poly-aligned, bi-aligned, femininetransmasc, colorhoarder, gendersatyret, gendercollector, flamboric, facelessneutral, wildmasculine, gnpnc, hoardiflux, mingender, beauboy, multigender, kudispec, magivir, transneumasc, faline-turian, lavenderboy, lavenian, radic, adentix, neurotix, autix, neurostatic, emotional impermanence, misophonia, neurodevelopmental-disorders, amatopunk, voidpunk, aldernic, joypunk, rabiespunk, aexnounphoric, aexnoundysphoric, constelic, nonhuman, constelic, alterhuman, therian, tbnh (trauma based nonhuman), an incarnate angel, and multifour!

they use it/its, the cat/the cats, kitty/kittys, bunny/bunnys, puppy/puppys, xo/xox, purr/purrs, angel/angels, they/them, he/him, xd/xds, that thing/that things, pup/pups, bun/buns, :]/:]’s, fae/fem, fae/faer, ae/aer, kitten/kittens, love/loves, nya/nyan, mew/mews, cute/cutes, fleur/fleurs, flower/flowers, laven/lavender, kittie/kitties, bite/bites, hy/hym, ny/nym, soda/sodas, fizz/fizzes, lolli/pop, hm/hms, xe/xem, cloud/clouds, smoke/smokes, chew/chews, meo/meow, mrr/mrrp, stuffie/stuffies, honey/honeys, paw/paws, fur/furs, plushie/plushies, sweet/heart, fluffy/fluffys, pink/pinks, day/daydream, fem/femme, pretty/prettys, flame/flames, di/diamond, hey/hem, lem/lemon, 7/7s, ro/rose, ey/em, star/stars, pop/pops, chai/chais, 🍓/🍓’s, 🍰/🍰’s, 🧸/🧸’s, 🎀/🎀’s, 🌸/🌸’s, 🌺/🌺’s, 🍉/🍉’s, 🍒/🍒’s, ⚠️/⚠️’s, 🌈/🌈’s, 🌼/🌼’s, 🍋/🍋’s, 🥤/🥤’s, 💎/💎’s, 💥/💥’s, ⭐️/⭐️’s, 💫/💫’s, 🔥/🔥’s, 🥝/🥝’s, 👐/👐’s, 💕/💕’s, 🏳️‍⚧️/🏳️‍⚧️’s, 🥑/🥑’s, 🥭/🥭’s, 🥥/🥥’s, 🌅/🌅’s, 🛍/🛍’s, 🔆/🔆’s, 💐/💐’s, 🌹/🌹’s, 🐰/🐰’s, 🐇/🐇’s, 🐈/🐈’s, 🐱/🐱’s, 💌/💌’s, 🍨/🍨’s, 🍦/🍦’s, 🍫/🍫’s, 🍬/🍬’s, 🍭/🍭’s, 💄/💄’s, 🩰/🩰’s, 🍯/🍯’s, 🌟/🌟’s, 🌻/🌻’s, ☀️/☀️’s, ⛅️/⛅️’s, 🌷/🌷’s, any, she/her, sh*/hr, thy/th*m, sh/hr, and thy/thm pronouns!

Nya is also otherkin, angelkin, catkin, catborn, mymelodykin, hinatashouyoukin, izukumidoriyakin, stitcheskin, hellokittykin, fluttershykin, plantkin, strawberrykin, daisykin, tulipkin, and sunflowerkin!

Keroppi is also autistic and has adhd, rsd, spd, misophonia, trauma, depression, ptsd, anxiety (social and unspecified, ocd, phobias, paranoia, hypersexuality, intrusive thoughts, and occasional hallucinations, as well as possible psychosis!

Jihiko posting (TUM)

You know i thought of this moment a couple time's in the past, and i knew it was soon approaching, but now that I'm actually here I don't really know how to word things. Maybe i should have written something in advance.

Despite being in the Fanganronpa scene since my mid teens the idea of creating my own cast and fangame has never appealed to me, so i would just make sprites of ocs, AU characters and even just canon characters in different fits n whatnot. So to say this was by far my biggest sprite related thing is by no means an understatement, especially coming from someone who hardly knew Tetro by the time she started.

From the characters i liked a bunch to some I don't have the highest opinions on and even the people i flat out don't like, i strived to bring everyone back to life by the hands of a real artist and while this path was no means free from struggles, occasional lack of motivation and bumps on the road, i am immensely proud of what I've been able to achieve, especially in what's ultimately a pretty short amout of time.

From about 134 AI generated, or at the very least AI traced, sprites to 1002 sprite edits made by a living breathing human being in a little under 3 months! 16 cast members + 2 additional characters creating a total of 1017 sprites with the addition of Sawa, who wasn't made in this time period as i've mentioned a couple times before.

I am a freak and that is ok

Anyone who hates on me for my writing has never picked up a pencil in their life

I should be more self indulgent

Forewarning: I’m not usually a “Death of the Author” person. I often don’t subscribe to the modern usage of that concept, and I almost never subscribe to the concept in as originally defined. I’ve come to feel that these are valid perspectives on art, sure, but I also absolutely believe that the author’s perspective can bleed into the messages and themes of a work. Personal experiences shine through, and the author’s own thinking can have a direct effect on every experience — even if the “author” is really multiple authors working in tandem with one another. 

So if you are hardcore on-board with “Death of the Author” — in any sense — I apologize in advance, because that is absolutely NOT where I’m going to this.

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So, lately I’ve been thinking about how Kazutaka Kodaka’s life experiences must have fueled the writing of Danganronpa. And I realize that he’s not the sole author of the entire franchise, but given that he was the plotter and lead writer on DR1, DR0, SDR2, and NDRV3 plus shared scripting duties on DR3 with one other person, it feels safe to attribute the series largely to him.

And I see value in this stuff. You can learn a lot from an author’s interests and mindset. It can help explain where they’re coming from and also help you see where they’re going. After reading Danganronpa Zero and following it to where he learned about how concentrated lights can affected memories, I correctly predicted that Kodaka would one day write a story where the cast had false memories implanted into them, and I basically spent all of DR3 and DRV3 waiting for that prediction to come to pass.

So. Kodaka’s talked in the past about how his love for certain detective stories influenced the mysteries, and he’s also confessed that his creation of Chiaki Nanami’s DR2 incarnation began with him asking himself what his “ideal partner/love interest” would be. That second part wasn’t just “wish fulfillment,” though; it was something he did because, from what he’d learned about his audience after publishing the first game, he believed many of the people playing the series in Japan were similar to himself. By making a character he himself would be likely to fall for, he hoped to instill a similar attachment in his players — so that when the rug was pulled out from under them in Chapter 5, it’d hurt that much more.

So why does he want to hurt people that he sees as similar to himself? Well, I mean… just look at his protagonists.

A Collective of Self-Loathing

Every lead DR protagonist that Kodaka has written (Makoto Naegi, Hajime Hinata, Komaru Naegi, Shuichi Saihara, and heck, we can even toss in Ryōko Otonashi) struggles heavily from powerful doubt in themselves and what they’re capable of. There are a lot of blatant examples of them carrying around low self-esteem. Most of them accept a fair bit of abuse from the rest of the cast… the only exception being Hajime.

Of course, when Hajime finally learns the truth about his past self, his ability to snap at others and stick up for himself falls part fast. Out of that previous list of protgags, Hajime’s a bit unique in that his issues aren’t really evident until late in the game, when we find out just how much self-loathing he was secretly hauling around all along. If the consistent low self-esteem is reflective of Kodaka’s own similar issues, then perhaps Hajime speaks to how he felt emboldened and more confident thanks to the success of DR1, yet ultimately still held the same fragility underneath.

V3 takes this interpretation to an extreme by giving our heroes something quite akin to Impostor Syndrome. Shuichi shows this early on with his doubts that he really ever did anything special to deserve the title of “Ultimate Detective,” but by the end, the mastermind is claiming to them that any suspicions that they didn’t earn/deserve their titles/talents are absolutely correct, because they ARE impostors.  Yet at the same time, the game hints that it’s more complex than that, and she seems to be clearly lying about a lot of her claims. Shuichi ultimately wins the argument about their inherent value regardless of whether they are “fictional.” Kodaka ends the series on a form of self-actualization, then: He puts the voice tearing him down on the outside, makes it a liar, and then decrees that even an “impostor”still possesses inherent merit, still might be wrong about themselves, and is still worthy of recognition. 

(An aside: It’s extremely easy to analyze V3 from the perspective of a meta-narrative because it really does most of the work for us. I mean, by the end, we’re literally watching a writer/creator who is feeling the need to increasingly up the ante but struggling to live up to the expectations of her audience.. if that isn’t Kodaka’s own feelings, I don’t know what IS. For what it’s worth, Kodaka claims that he never intended for the world of V3 and its in-game DR series/audience to serve as a commentary on/surrogate for the real-life audience for the real-world Danganronpa series, but I mean… come the fuck on. Of course it’s an analog to his life. He did choose to leave the franchise and company behind and try for a fresh start shortly after V3′s international release, after all.)

A whole lot more under the cut.

So yeah you heard that right, I’ve had a shit ton of bad experiences with von essentially bullying me on the original tetro sever and stuff. I’ve never really talked about this stuff publicly as it always made me feel the thoughts of “I don’t really know if this is bullying” “it’s too petty to make an actual accusation and no one will take me seriously” “I may have said something wrong to deserve that treatment” and “I don’t know if these vague posts are me being paranoid or a personal attack”.

But I was talking with some people on a server I’m in about these experiences with bullying and the more I realised just how frequently this happened to me and everyone else was pointing out the same things I was noticing which made me more confident it was targeted harassment instead of my paranoia issues at play. Like it’s a weird thing as I very much know if I am being mistreated by someone, I will drag their ass into the ground to make them pay along with letting everyone else know what they did to me. But the bullying I experienced from von targeted my one weak point with not having any of the harassment be super direct so I couldn’t really speak up about it without people doubting me and saying “it’s not that bad”. As well on multiple occasions when von was getting weird af in the server (you may have seen screenshots floating around of it) like posting super suggestive hayashi swimsuit art and talking about the nsfw Hama and Sasaki fic which was born out of a ship wheel challenge (so there’s probably more fics like that out there). Both times I stood up and tied to call out how inappropriate this was but I was shut down by von making excuses and stuff.

Just to get a picture on things I am an OG tetro fan, like super OG. I started watching tetro around the time Yanagi’s interview was released in the pink prologue and I properly joined the offical discord server and fandom after the first motive so keep in mind I’ve been here since July/August 2024.

I do remember it was a very jarring experience when von started being rude to me when beforehand she praised me on a lot of stuff. For further context, like in the super early days (chapter 1) I would post a theory about stuff before every tetro Friday and von would praise them a lot and was like “hey Lanie theory dropped” (can’t remember the exact wording) and she’d compliment me on my art and especially my fanmade opening. Yet around chapter 3/4 she just started randomly being rude to me often and I was very confused and made me dislike von for a long time and just side eye her constantly. It also just came to my attention when I was discussing this that this attitude switch towards me seemed to have happened after me calling her out on the weird suggestive stuff. In which I can’t remember the exact timeline but huh, her treating me like shit after I called her out? Sounds familiar to everything else I’ve been hearing.

To properly get into how von was bullying me it was pretty weird. Like she’d make these comments which seemed directed at me which I couldn’t tell if it was actually vagueposting or me being paranoid. If I was in a disagreement with someone she’d pop in and always take the other persons side and just dog on me (even if that person was being an ass). She’d regularly make me feel excluded in ways where she’d praise other people in the server who were her “favourites” like that. As well in 1 on 1 conversations in dms and tickets she’d always feel really rude and attack me for being rude and stuff even with me trying to be as nice as I can. Like all of this stuff I couldn’t talk about because again it wasn’t severe enough to the point people would take me seriously or I doubted myself and thought I was just being paranoid or I was being rude and I deserved it.

There was also quite a few occasions where she seemed to attack me for my love for Ojima where she was saying I was mischaracterising him (mind you she agreed with people for literally the same stance on Ojima I presented). Like in instances where I think one of her friends liked Ojima and she would constantly refer to them as the “no 1 Ojima fan” in my face and honestly I don’t care about being called the no 1 fan of something as it’s not serious but the way she was doing this a lot got on my nerves and I couldn’t tell if it was directed, mind you she didn’t do this before she started treating me like this. There was also another really bad instance where I got in some disagreement with 2 other people if Ojima picking at his skin and giving himself pretty bad injuries was self harm. It was a thing where the term confused me as it’s kinda a misnomer in a way where not every self inflicted injury is self harm and the terminology was weird so like the main thing was about the confusion of the term. Cue to von cutting in, immediately taking the side of the other two people as she always does, and even though she clarified it was a BFRB thing she did this thing where she said something like “🌹🌹 flowers for the people who actually understand Ojima” (in a conversation mainly about the definition of self harm) right in front of my face and this was directed toward the other two people I was talking with so yeah really obviously a jab at me. Plus as well the other two people I always very much seemed to figure that they were some of Von’s favourites and theyd always praise her a lot and both of them put those flowers in their names for like the rest of the time the tetro server was up. Just keep in mind I’m not blaming the other two people cuz I don’t really think they were trying to be an ass to me there and I’m pretty sure the people who were Von’s favourites had it rough from her as well. But I guess it’s two sides of the same coin when it comes mistreatment and whether von liked you or not.

So what I’m talking about next is a much bigger incident where I wrote the whole thing down on the server I was recently discussing this in and I don’t feel like rewriting it so I’ll just copy paste it so jsyk if the tone is a bit different/feels out of place in this post.

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“OK SO it was like right before Ojima’s interview dropped (and we all know how that was) I got severely harassed on tumblr by some anonymous account that popped up to leak all of some very sensitive stuff about me of some harassment and bullying I experienced in another fandom and some person I considered a friend to me suddenly becoming very rude to me and I was fighting back heavily. And this person just posted all the heated stuff I said (when I was in a very bad mental state btw) out of context and essentially tried to expose everything about that. Luckily (and I still don’t know how I got this lucky) a bunch of people came to my side and supported me and took the account down but I was heavily scarred and having panic attacks and crying and everything. I messaged von about this harassment in a ticket on the server and she said she couldn’t do anything about it because it was outside the server but the point is she was very aware of my extreme stress and mental state by that point.

SO ojimas interview dropped and we all know how that went. I was doing absolutely horribly at that time and looked up to the likelyhood of ojimas interview and how that was essentially a saving light for me and I was like “I know I’m doing really shitty but I can count on this Ojima interview to save me” so the Ojima interview came out and it was literally nothing. You could imagine with me having multiple panic attacks and constantly crying before then I was fucked over so bad. I left the server in agony and I posted some comment on the video which I legitimately can’t remember but it was rude for what it was, but I ended up deleting it a few hours afterwards. I think I remember it containing “this is bullshit” or something.

So I was banned from the server for that comment which I didn’t know until like a week later when I tried to rejoin the server and I couldn’t and asked a friend about it and they said I was banned, which was very confusing for me because I didn’t say anything that would warrant a ban in the sever itself. And like I dmed von about that on tumblr and she said it was from what I said on YouTube. I apologised so much and tried to explain how I was literally having a panic attack and said some shit I wouldn’t normally say. As well as lowkey dismissing me for how I have this problem of forgetting things that are very stressful for me. I genuinely can’t remember what I said specifically but the way she talked about it she was saying it was like a personal attack but I’m pretty sure I did not make a personal attack even if my memory was fuzzy. And I just kept apologising and I remember her saying something about appreciating my apology but saying she wasn’t going to unban me.

So cut to like day 2 of chapter 5 in pink I got message from a friend that link to a post on tumblr that von was doing a mass unbanning (I don’t know most of the context around the post itself) and I checked back in the server and well hey I was unbanned. It was very confusing for me but I was relieved enough I was back in the server as but I still remained spiteful as hell and with even more of a grudge against von.

This incident is particularly jarring to me as it’s one of those situations I had where I don’t know if I deserved what I did or if I did say something bad enough to get me banned outside the server but one thing I know about myself is that no matter how much I hate someone I would never personally attack them, even at my worst moments. Like I said I have trouble remembering things that are stressful so I never really mentioned it before as I genuinely don’t know if it was my fault and I said something bad and I deserved to get banned like that or it was von being an ass or a mix of both.”

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So I feel like that should explain enough about probably the most extreme incident I had regarding von, which I still feel iffy talking about as I still have that feeling in me that I deserved it but when I talked about it in the sever everyone jumped to my side so that does make me feel a bit better. It also came to me that people started bringing up how after the ojima spotlight von constantly was joking about people getting pissed and mad over the Ojima spotlight and they were worried she was vagueposting about me. Like this made me remember a ton of shit and how constantly von was saying that stuff and it made me feel so horrible as I always got the feeling she was referring to me when she was talking about negative reactions to ojimas spotlight and making fun of me. But I never could talk up about it properly as since it was all vague stuff I didn’t have any concrete proof it was directed harassment at me. Plus as well with my paranoia issues and such I always felt I was just going crazy and thinking von was vagueposting about me when she wasn’t, as I have a bad habit sometimes of assuming everyone is out to get me and constantly vagueposting about me. But looking at this in context of everything else yeah it definitely felt like targeted bullying and personal harassment at me specifically.

Also on this note I’m gonna talk about another thing I said there about another related incident to the whole Ojima spotlight thing as it clicks into this narrative as well. Once again it’s copy pasted from my discord convo.

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“And oh I bought this up before but idk if I posted the whole story in like chapter 5 around a bit after the motive there was someone in the Ojima town forum who was overstepping my boundaries and I think making fun of the ojima spotlight when I told them not to as it bought back bad memories for me (like with everything I said before) and von randomly stepped in, started taking their side and dismissing me, and just let them go on despite how I asked them kindly to stop as they were making me uncomfortable. Cue me locking the Ojima forum to stop this as I didn’t know it was a permanent thing that could only be undone by mods so after that I was very stressed and took a 3 hour nap. Cut to me waking up and the same person who was making me uncomfortable made a new Ojima forum and guess what a lot of Von’s favourites were in there saying how they didn’t like the old Ojima forum for being “too restrictive” (I was literally trying to set my boundaries) and I sent a ticket to von about this to unlock the Ojima town forum and she was being rude from what I remember and saying that since a new forum is up it doesn’t matter (this new forum was a couple hours old, the Ojima town forum was as old as chapter 2 and had a lot of content in it) and von was accusing me of being rude and shit.

This is another thing I never really spoke up too much about it because again the self doubt me thinking I was actually being too pushy over not wanting people to talk about and make fun of the ojima spotlight because it affected me negatively but I was more sure this was something shitty on Von’s part so I did talk about it more often, but not in the server as I was scared to say stuff like that about von especially since I felt like I was on thin ice a couple months or so after the ban incident.”

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So yeah that’s all I have to say about Von’s targeted harassment at me that I can properly recall. Like she always came across as super rude and especially to me and the whole thing of her favouriting certain members in the og tetro server who praised her a lot and then acting like this towards people she didn’t like (this is mainly from my experience so I don’t know about other people who went through this). And like it’s the type of stuff that when it happens it made me angry and spiteful as hell but it wasn’t too bad to the point of scarring me or I’d be believed enough if I told everyone about it. But looking back in retrospective after all of this horrible stuff coming out about von this consistent bullying towards me felt more and more like an actual major thing and how she’s treated other people like this as well. I do kinda feel guilty I didn’t bring all this up beforehand as it was actually quite bad, even though I know I shouldn’t feel that way. It’s just I feel more comfortable sharing it as I no longer have to worry about people not believing me/taking this seriously and all the von defenders dismissing me.

Also one thing I’d like to note is that if you wanna bring my story up when talking about Von’s mistreatment of people, absolutely do so. This testimony was shared to bring light on the way she bullied me and I want people to see this side of the story. I know I haven’t had it “as bad” as other people but it still took a toll on me in the long run and since the beginning of the year I resented her and knew something was off with von.

“Using AI for drawings can be—“

i'm not very active on twitter i check like once a week and these hasn't been much on youtube or tumblr about all this and no one has mentioned it in the tetro staff server because of how von might react. so i'm sorry for not really saying anything publicly sooner! i just kept worrying i was sticking my head where it didn't belong but. i kind of feel like i need to say something.

the ai art accusations!

this is really bad! at least partially true but idk how true and for what things!! sorry i cant help more!! she has written and drawn in the staff server VC many a time. drawings i've never seen start to finish and i don't know how exactly using a hidden overlay works or anything so i'm not entirely sure just how much to believe. scenes i have seen written start to finish! although i have no confirmation of anything i do feel like there's a lot of proof she has made and posted AI art and claimed it as her own and has traced art and claimed it as her own. this on its own is really bad but the fact she has taken highly priced commissions and has a kofi people pay for access to see her art, this is straight up scamming. all artistic integrity down the drain. and it's shitty for the environment. terrible for her reputation as an artist and something i feel like no self respecting self made artist would ever participate in. i have known von to use chatgpt and character AI chat bots. which isn't great, but to my understanding all the scripts in tetro are written manually by her. so even if the story itself maybe was inspired somewhat by AI i think the dialogue itself if her writing. but i really don't know who or what to believe anymore. that's all i know. mostly i just feel really upset and betrayed. at the very least i know all the voice acting, audio editing, and video editing are done by human hands. there's a whole big team for all those things! and i'm really grateful it seems a lot of you understand that and aren't directing any of your anger towards the rest of the team. many of us are just as upset as you are

creep/pedo accusations!

as many mistakes von has made, i do not think she is a groomer/pedophile/hebephile or anything of the sort. i know a lot of people disagree with her stance on smut of the tetro cast, but i think it's important to remember that they're all fiction characters that she herself is the creator of. the way someone interacts with fictional characters and media is not indicative of their actual real world morals. to imply this is to assume everyone who plays shooter games genuinely wants to kill people, that anyone who enjoys media that covers dark subject matter wants and agrees with all topics covered in said media. it just isnt rational and is easily disproven by psychological study. i think the only reason von making sexual content of tetro characters or endorsing such is concerning has nothing to do with the characters themselves. its the fact that some of the voice actors of these characters are minors. it's when fictional media crosses the line into real life, having actors that are underaged playing the characters in question or the characters being based heavily on real world underaged individuals, that makes it much more concerning. casting minors, ignorant about the themes surrounding their characters, into roles that involve extremely dark topics, bad morals, and sexually explicit content is the issue. while a handful of the cast members who were cast while underaged have grown up, the voices recorded and associated with said characters are still their voice when underaged. it's the same way how it's apprehensible to make sexual content of kai yuuki. the character is fictional and the voice actress is an adult now, but the voice in use for the character is that of a child. that is where the issue lies. if it was just smut of her OCs, i would understand people finding discomfort in that, but it's a subject of moral nuance on how acceptable someone's engagement with taboo subject matter such as underaged sex is. it's when real human beings, real teenagers and children are involved, that all nuance goes out the window. it's bad and that's the end of it.

impulsive/rude accusations!

somewhat true but i really don’t think shes malicious!! mostly just careless and rash and immature!! but i wouldnt say shes cruel or intentionally manipulative or hateful!!! i think she just really needs therapy and to read a few self help books!!! i am no psychologist, but i am autistic and have BPD and i wholeheartedly believe von likely also has BPD and/or NPD. it really explains why she lashes out so aggressively and thoughtlessly in the face of criticism. none of us in the staff ever really feel comfortable criticizing her work or behavior because we know she will take it as a personal attack and begin to spiral or lash out as a result. because of this, her occasional admittance of suicidal ideation or intentionally singling out cast members due to things she perceived as rejection, the staff server has become a bit of an echo chamber in favor of not setting her off. i think many of the issues in tetros management and production arose from von being a disabled and mentally ill individual who is refusing to seek treatment acting impulsively and refusing to rethink her choices and own up to her mistakes because of the damage to her ego doing so would cause. i don't think von is a bad person at her core, but she has done bad things. unquestionably. and it's unreasonable for her to think it's possible to move on and just keep producing tetro and ignoring everything going on here without owning up to those mistakes and apologizing to the people she's hurt. there's a few staff members in particular i think she really owes apologies to who have not ever received a single message from her following confrontations. i know i can only face situations like this carefully, acknowledging the nuances and the feelings of each side, because i've been in therapy over half of my life, including a heavy dose of DBT. i really really really wish she would try that out too and find a therapist who will be able to gently point of to her that she isn't always the victim and that sometimes these issues are caused by her behavior and that it's her responsibility to resolve them. mental illness and disability can be a cause of many interpersonal problems, but they are not an excuse to gloss over them and hurt others without ever even trying to apologize.

the blue and white leaks!

i hate this. i really don't like this. to my understanding, the leaks first surfaced because someone was trying to get back at their ex? or a groomer lashing out at their victim for speaking up? i'm not aware of the details, but i know it was a revenge plot. i don't approve of it at all. even if you hate von, even if you believe all the designs to be AI art or you dislike them in some way or another, its hurtful to the rest of the tetro team. i am not confirming the leaks are real. some of them ive seen are just straight up false and made up for drama. but regardless of if theyre real or not, tetro danganronpa white has been cast. criticize tetro all you want. it's inevitable. as much as i typically think fan-made and indie projects deserve to be treated more gently that shows and games created with thousands of dollars and massive corporate teams, i know people are going to nitpick everything they see online no matter what it is or who its made by. but can you please just be a little bit considerate? think about what you're saying online and who can see it? maybe keep it in servers between friends or private accounts with small followings? even if the art is AI and you loathe von with a passion, i still really wish for there to be a bit more thought behind these comments. criticism the voice actors and see and think "i can understand how someone would feel that way." criticism that OTHER fangan creators might see and go "oh, that's a good point, i should make sure to avoid doing that when i design my cast" yknow? maybe try and make something good come from this situation? i dont know. maybe im being too sensitive and lenient. i just can't bring myself to hate von or tetro, even after all this and how betrayed i feel and how many people i see hurting. i'm just sort of at a loss. the story and characters touched me and so many other people, and then all this surfaces. i guess i kind of understand how people who were harry potter fans as kids felt now? if tetro white does in fact happen, please promise you'll keep being kind to the voice actors and video editors, okay? because i know theyre trying really hard. many of them are very kind and hand working individuals who have never done me wrong in my time knowing them. so please, no matter how you feel about tetro as a whole, please reserve some kindness for them. they had no idea what kind of mess they were being brought into. none of us did.

sorry for rambling so much. i know this is rather unprofessional of me to say, but im not a professional yet, so im going to let this slip. i just want everyone to be okay.

Speculating every week is one of the main draws for Tetro, and having your faves ripped away so unexpectedly is what makes it so gripping.

Knowing who dies in the exact order makes that all null and void. You can try and speculate on how the killers committed their crimes, but knowing that it's them the whole time makes it less intriguing.

Please, as much as I love the idea of Chapter 3's death order, Chapters 4 + 5 are kinda chopped ngl