Please post on April 28th, and also, warning for #sdr2 spoilers Happy birthday to Komaeda, to any and all Komaedas! I still barely know how to talk to you, or about you. My post-game wasn't like the anime, where it wasn't long before everyone got to pop right up and be their old selves. Things were slow, and difficult, and we were doing our best, and sure all of you would get up eventually, but most people hadn't yet. My most "recent" memories of you are changing nasty bandages until your stump healed, and looking at your sleeping face, and thinking, "He looks so peaceful and calm right now, but I would trade it without hesitation for worrying he was up to something." Wondering, when you did wake up, what would you do? Would you remember the program, and be like the you I knew, or would you be in despair, or some of each? What would you think of us? Would you try to kill us all again, after your first plan failed? Would you consider it good or bad luck, to be alive? Would you look down on me the way you did in the NWP, after you learned about the Reserve Course? I still don't know whether you learned about the Project from those files, and if that changed what you thought of me. Whatever you were like when you woke up, I knew I wouldn't give up, ever. You were in a unique place even before any of us met, yeah, but that doesn't matter. All of us went through a hell of our own creation together, and you're one of us, and I believe in you, and I believed in our ability to help each other, and that includes you, even if I didn't know how to do it then and I still don't now.
This is a weird and long way of saying, I'm really glad that you're awake and alive now. Because it's not something I remember experiencing, seeing and knowing that you are living your life, despite everything, makes me feel like the sun is shining, you know? I'm sure it's not easy for you, wherever you are now, but you're alive. And you even don't seem to hate the rest of us or want us dead, too, which is a huge relief. So thank you, for living to move forwards :) - Hinata
