#facetsofadiamond

In the OVA, Nagito is the only person with a talent (even though the other characters are pretty much unchanged but this is how he makes it sounds ok) and it’s luck. Except, his luck cycle doesn’t exist. It’s ONLY bad luck.

He gets totally maimed and it gets even worse later. He gets abused by the entire world, which isn’t so different from his normal life but without the “rewards”. 

  But even in the game, we can see the clear… oddness in the way he paints past events. For example, the deaths of his parents. They die right in front of him and his ‘good luck’ is getting their fortune. But… that’s just what happens when your parents die. It wasn’t LUCKY really. So Nagito is in denial. Yes, his luck does some amazing things. Getting kidnapped and finding the lottery ticket is one of those things. 

And in the OVA, Nagito is optimistic about his luck. But doesn’t it seem a lot like he must see it as BAD LUCK? If in his imaginary world made to cope with his death, he doesn’t have good luck EVER.

  In the OVA, Komaeda shoulders the Bad Luck for others so they can have more Good Luck. This is a clear sign of him trying to cope with his shitty life, but it also is similar to him wanting to be a stepping stone for hope. Nagito wants to be useful and good. He hates himself and thinks the only way for him to purge that hate is to be useful. Since he has no talent, he wants to be useful to those that CAN help the world. Nagito is too arrogant to want happiness with himself, and hating yourself makes you feel like you don’t deserve that. Thus his martyr complex. He feels like the only way his life is worth anything is if he is used for something. Nagito wants to make the world a better place, but he hates himself too much to see any way for him to do it. He also thinks on far too big of a scale. 

  I always feel like Komaeda WANTS to be important. After all, that’s the world Hopes Peak Academy breeds. The mindset of people like Komaeda, who view themselves as worthless because they aren’t talented, and Hinata, someone who thinks being talented will make him more confident and happy, is all because of the fucked up culture of Ultimates. 

  I think the way he talks about himself in his fake world shows a lot. Plus, let me say that Komaeda... As arrogant as he is, as much as he WANTS to be important and matter, still doesn’t give himself talent in his fake world. He literally.... has himself get constantly abused and still in the same situation as before. Not only does Nagito hate himself enough to have his life be terrible in his pretend world, he also doesn’t even see his talent as a good thing aside from sacrificing himself. 

  It shows how sad of a person he is. Like honestly, he doesn’t see anything good in his future at all. 

Also, look how soft of a boy he is... 

BUT BACK TO THE POINT

Not only do I believe that Nagito secretly HATES talent and how it controls everyone. I think that when he talks about talent in the OVA, he’s talking about his OWN talent. After all, his talent has literally made him miserable.

This is something we never expect to hear Komaeda say. But I think that he honestly believes this. That people without talent can find happiness. In fact, they may be MORE able to. Which would add to WHY he hates them so much. He doesn’t hate them... He sees himself as a nobody, but at the same time he does have his luck. 

Is it obvious he hates his own talent yet? 

But what about talent in general?

So Nagito HATES talent. Can you blame him? Without Talent, people would all be happy. They wouldn’t have to worry about being worthy or meaningful. Without talent, Ultimate Despair and his friends’ suffering would be far less serious. He believes that. Even if he denies it later.

He also doesn’t even know what ‘hope’ is. Likely BECAUSE of the despair brainwashing. Regardless, I think that’s a nice little touch. 

  So WE know that there is SOME truth to what Nagito said inside the OVA. Even if he wants to deny it. Basically, this isn’t surprising because denial is a major coping mechanism for Nagito. 

  So I’m saying that the OVA offers a very deep exploration of what Nagito wants but also DOESN’T THINK HE WANTS. His regrets and the world he SORT OF wishes he had. 

  But he will NEVER admit this. 

  But you know, I don’t think there’s nothing to be taken from it. I think it does a lot to show how Nagito feels about his OWN talent and talent in general. As well as how much he actually cares about his friends considering he checked out after only like 5 of them got killed. But yeah

  Anyway, there is my incoherent not helpful explanation of how I use the OVA to understand the part of Nagito he doesn’t understand about himself. 

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