#kamuegi

In which all the Odyssey obstacles are regular things caused by the Remnants of Despair.

Land of the Lotus-Eaters: They cross Teruteru's turf. The food there is so good (especially after having to rough it in the wilderness with very little to eat), they have trouble leaving; every time they try to leave, one or more of them doubles back for another taste of the food, and they all have to go back to get their friend. This takes way longer than it should.

Polyphemus/Cyclops's Cave: You're going to think this is Fuyuhiko, but actually they're trapped in Kazuichi's workshop. There's only one camera through which he can see them, and they have to devise a way to escape. They destroy the camera. Their equivalent of the "Nobody" trick is that they say their name is "Nevermind", to try to appeal to Kazuichi's crush on Sonia. He doesn't believe them, but he does try to voice-command his machines to kill them by saying "Kill Nevermind," which is taken as, "Kill...Never mind," and basically cancels the command. Since the camera is destroyed, it takes him too long to realize they haven't been killed, and they have time to escape.

Island of Aeolus/Wind Bag: This is Nagito. He insists on speaking with Makoto alone, and when Makoto speaks with him, Nagito gives him a gun (or, if you like, a bag of guns he collected throughout the area to make it safer for Makoto to pass through) and basically says, "I'm putting my classmates' lives in your hands. How badly do you want to defeat despair?" Makoto has to hide the gun(s) among his belongings, because it's safest if no one has it who wants to actually use it, but then someone else in the group finds it and uses it in what they believe to be self-defense (against squatters who may or may not have actually been despair), but it ultimately just makes a big noise and alerts the despairs to their position, and they have to run and hide and backtrack a bunch.

Land of Laestrygonian Giants: To my recollection, this is just like...a regular threat of bodily harm with not too many bells and whistles, so this can be Fuyuhiko and Peko's territory. (Insert observation that it's funny to call Fuyuhiko a giant.)

Circe's Island: This feels so Sonia-coded, but I'm going to say it's actually Mahiru. She invites them in, provides food, and then uses her various photos and videos to despair-ify a bunch of them. Makoto snaps them out of it. And maybe Mahiru literally calls them pigs, as a treat.

Underworld (to talk to Tiresias/Prophet): Early in the idea phase, this was Nagito, but then I made Aeolus Nagito and I'm trying not to double up. I just deleted a whole paragraph where I went through different candidates for the prophet character. Actually, it's Gundham, and it turns out that was the obvious choice. (Phew! Guys, you have no idea how close I was to figuring out how to give Makoto a reason to take advice from Alter Ego Junko.) They find Gundham in a pet graveyard, and he gives them warnings about the other Remnants they're going to encounter next. He does this for the drama; he does not especially wish them well.

The Sirens: Gotta be Ibuki. You know I gotta give it to Ibuki and Hiyoko. I think everyone just successfully plugs their ears and gets past them without incident. But, I'm mainly saying that because I just came back from the final bullet point and therefore have retroactively decided that the other THH survivors aren't here. If all the THH survivors were here, there might be some interesting way to play with one or multiple of them hearing the siren song and the others having to restrain them, but since I've made it so that isn't the case (more on that later), the only options are maybe losing some unnamed Future Foundation characters or maybe forcing some unnamed Future Foundation characters to restrain Makoto if he hears the music. Or they succumb to the song and some interaction with Ibuki and Hiyoko comes of it. Whatever the case, the end result is still that they make it past.

Scylla and Charybdis: Akane and Nekomaru, respectively. The group has to pass between Nekomaru, who would have killed all of them at once, and Akane, who would be content to just challenge one of them to fight and let the others go. She's just having fun. They pass closer to Akane, but Makoto isn't Odysseus and he probably tries to reason with Akane instead of willingly sacrificing one of his underlings to her. And maybe it works. The outcome is the same either way; they get past.

I read a fic about them so i draw them.

The fic:

(Took a lot of the same dialogue from last time)

Results in order:

Izuru/Nagito

Izuru/Chiaki

Izuru/Makoto

Izuru/Junko

Izuru/Yasuke & Izuru/Fuyuhiko

Izuru/Kaede

Izuru/Mikan