#junkonia

Sonia is drawn to despair because she is not allowed to feel it.

[Dangan WLWeek 2025 Day Four: Occult.]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dangan Ronpa Series, Dangan Ronpa 3: The End of 希望ヶ峰学園 | The End of Kibougamine Gakuen | End of Hope's Peak High School Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Enoshima Junko/Sonia Nevermind, Enoshima Junko & Sonia Nevermind Characters: Enoshima Junko, Sonia Nevermind Additional Tags: Confrontations, Emotional Manipulation, Ragebait, im tired as fuck rn and idk what to tag this as, Just read it lowk Series: Part 12 of ministarfruit's femslash february (2026) Summary:

“Sonia-senpai, why are you so distant?”

*This should've been posted, like, a week ago. Whoops! Luckily, due to the sheer number of match-ups in this competition, we won't have to cut down on the duration at all - just keep in mind it'll be stacked back in with Seed A2 next round!

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Junko/Sonia art by midnightdemonhunter

Ryoko/Tsumugi art by @demmural

Junko/Sonia

Sonia might’ve been the easiest member of the SDR2 crew for Junko to potential drag to despair in a non-brainwashing way simply through mutual understanding of what it means to be a public figure and the specific type of awareness they both have about society and its longevity. Junko “causes apocalypse” vs Sonia “society is a fruit that will inevitably rot.” They r made for each other in an evil way <3

ALTERNATIVELY the enemies to lovers of it all…understanding your enemy’s views but coming to completely different conclusions. Society Sucks So Let’s Destroy It vs Society Sucks So Let’s Make It Better. the PARALLELOGRAMS

No matter the verse these two are like. the definition of a power couple. Ultimate girlbosses. They have famously affectionate twitter accounts. They are ignoring accusations of war crimes. God forbid women do anything

Ryoko/Tsumugi

We have invented ourselves for the sake of despair, neither of us are real in any way that matters, we are destined to die to a greater and more cruel reality than we permit ourselves to reckon with and on some level we welcome it, and on some level we feel, intuitively, that we deserve it. We are our own abusers, and we kill ourselves, and we die to ourselves.

All of the appeal of Tsumugi’s crush on Junko but with EVEN MORE moral complexity. You meet a version of your idol who fundamentally lacks most of their traits but is, undeniably, them. When you fall in love with the ship of Theseus, does it mean anything when you keep hold of one of its earliest boards? Are you holding a keepsake or a piece of a corpse?

We here on tumblr.com LOVE our red/blue lesbians

DR3, DR0, and DR1 charts coming soon... plus AI Chiaki and Hajime who didn't fit in this post.

Makoto didn't just think Ryouko looked familiar, he outright recognized her! So did Kyouko! The only person who didn't recognize her was Yuto Kamishiro, who never met her before and only knew her from magazines. Everyone in the novel who knew Junko personally actually recognized her.

That's why Makoto is sitting there feeling VERY uncomfortable when Ryouko doesn't recognize Mukuro and being VERY confused when Mukuro doesn't tell Ryouko she's her sister. I think Makoto says outright that he knows her, with Kyouko you have to read in-between the lines a bit.

Therefore... yeah, the Remnants could DEFINITELY recognize Ryouko as Junko! How this relates to Sonia, hmm.

I think she'd be ecstatic, actually, to see a more genuine version of Junko. I think she can kind of recognize that Junko felt the need to act and play personas a lot of times, that her perception of her was kind of just what Junko wanted it to be. There was always this idea that Junko wasn't as human as the rest of them. That she was above it all. As if she wasn't even a real person, but an idea. And I think a lot of the Remnants were happy with it being like this! But. Sonia, who hates being an idea, would always hate that she's doing the same thing to Junko that others have done to her. That she "fell in love with an idea."

So... to have Ryouko, whos a lot more open and genuine? She'd be so ecstatic to finally be able to get to know the girl she loves.

Except. Ryouko isn't some "true" version of Junko; she's much more honest, yeah, but she's not the same as Junko would be if she was just "more honest". She's very specifically a version of Junko without her memories. That changes how she views and looks at the world. How she interactions with it, how she thinks of it. She's not some essential truth of Junko, but she does say some truths about her. Ryouko and Junko are the same person, sure, but they're the same person in massively different circumstances and contexts- memories, just as Mikan says, are a very important component to who you are as a person. Ryouko is Junko, Junko is Ryouko, but they're also different from each other in distinct ways.

Sonia is still loving a incomplete version of Junko.

In a way, you can't separate Junko completely from her lies. They're apart of her; apart of the person Ryouko grew up to be. A more genuine version of Junko? That wouldn't be Junko in the first place. It's the paradox of being a liar. It's the pardox of truth itself. Ryouko is a version of Junko, but she's not her Junko. I wonder what she'd do when she fully reckoned with that... She will never know Junko in her entirety. She will always only love pieces of her. But, that's not so bad, right? Those pieces, after all, were willingly given.

I read your Celeshima fic before and I must say that it fits perfectly with their dynamic I have in mind. How Celeste would definitely see and understand Junko for who she is and she wouldn't wish for Junko being any different, nor would she want to "fix" her, but only wanting to join, to rule with Junko in her quest for despair. But with Junko being Junko, she knows Celeste wants that, so she purposefully doesn't let Celeste join in.

Yet, yet!! She lets Sonia in, despite the princess being the one who is much more likely to oppose Junko's extreme ideals (at least not without a lot of manipulation on Junko's end), rather than Celeste herself. It's ironic, really.

And yes, you were so right about Junko breeding resentment into Sonia. I could also see Junko doing the exact same to Celeste, about how ironic it is that the "goody-two-shoes" can join in her despair, and not the one with the same dubious morals as Junko's. Because to Junko, what is love without a teeny tiny bit of manipulation and gaslighting lol

Normalize shipping your faves! That's how I landed on Kaede/Mikan and honestly, it's just fun. Who doesn't like to imagine their favorite characters interacting?

And ah, you read that? That one's one of my older ones. I'm a little embarrassed, wrote that one back in high school, aha. I'm glad you liked it though! I haven't actually gone back to read any of my older works from like, 2018 and older, so not sure how good they are. I at least hope I've improved in the years I've been writing, but definitely doesn't mean my old work is bad. And yeah! Some Junko ships are fun because you have characters attempting to fix her (and usually getting dragged down themselves in the process) but other Junko fics are fun because, like. You just want to see evil partners being the worst. I imagine that's also the appeal of Byakuya/Junko, lol.

And you're totally right! Very ironic that Sonia who would initially be against what Junko stands for is who she gets to her side, but Celestia, who's morals are already loose, is rejected the spot as her queen. Very much in line with Junko trying to cause maximum despair- where she does what you'd hate the most. Celestia would love the rule with her, so she doesn't get to; Sonia would hate what she'd become and so that's what she gets, too. This is basically what I think Junko does in SDR2 and DR1; in SDR2, it would hurt the class most to think she never loved them, that they sacrificed so much of their lives to someone who doesn't care. That's a big betrayal to them, that hurts more than if she actually did love them. So she tells them she never loved them. In DR1, however... the thought that she loved them and did this to them anyways hurts more. The thought that they loved her, and she loved them, and she still did this... The fact that there's love there is in and of itself a betrayal. It feels like it too, right? Like a betrayal to all their dead friends, that they ever loved someone who did this to them. Junko is a monster in their heads- that she loves them... that hurts. That makes them feel like they're betraying their friends by that love existing. Like they've betrayed themselves. Which is exactly why she tells them she did love them. So- personally, I tend to think Junko in both these scenes was just saying what would cause the most upset. Which means I think it's perfectly valid to headcanon the idea that... maybe she did care about the SDR2 gang. I mean, she does the same thing to Yasuke Matsuda, right? She loves him, that's a fact, we know that from her narration in DR0... and yet, when he lays dying, she tells him she never cared about him from the beginning, that she was only using him. Because he dedicated so much to her, that's what would cause him the most despair. Just like the SDR2 cast. Considering lying about never caring to send her loved ones into despair is something it's established Junko just does, it's perfectly reasonable to wonder if she was lying to the SDR2 gang, too.

So, with that headcanon considered... I do think it's well within Junko's characterization to deny both Sonia and Celestia what they originally wanted, if that makes sense? To have such different approaches with them, but it coming from the same place. I think Junko really likes her irony, because irony can hurt.

I could totally see her breeding resentment in Celestia, too. The thing about Junko, imo, is that she isolates you from your genuine bonds, and only reunites you under her banner. So, like. She takes your relationships from you, makes both parties in the relationship focus on her, and then reunites you through that adoration of her. She wants the only thing you have in common, that you care about, to be her. She wants your other relationships to just be extentions of her. So breeding resentments on both sides of this relationship? Very in character. Especially since that root of resentment is tied up in attention from her - very in character thing to do.