#munchie headcanons

He's been brushed off at best and accused of maliciousness at worst the whole ass time he's been there. I'd want an excuse for someone to give a shit about my wellbeing, too!

And then they didn't even give a shit! Harukawa and Saihara were just like yeah okay that's weird anyway- and then he STUMBLES OFF and they do NOTHING! Didn't ask if he was okay or SHIT!

Even if it was Munchausen and it was a lie and he was exaggerating how bad it was can you imagine how fucked that is? He rounds the corner and slips into the bathroom to clean himself up and go back to acting like nothing happened, and he has to suffer the humiliation of casually sweeping it under the rug when it comes up during the trial because NO ONE GAVE A SHIT THAT HE WAS BLEEDING FROM THE FACE. They only care about the evidence part!

"Oh, Kokichi can tell you about the floorboards in the other room!"

And he has to awkwardly admit that he stepped through it and got beaned in the head, but just doesn't mention the part about collapsing in the hall because why the fuck would he? Saihara and Harukawa didn't give a shit when they found him, why would anyone give a shit if he mentioned it now? They didn't even give a shit about the fact he got hit in the head at all!

this is a weird one cuz theres very little canon to go by butttt im gonna ramble anyway. first of all, theres an entire arc in the nightwing comics where he infiltrates a gang by pretending to be a man with a limp and uses a crutch. now, he could have picked ANY false identity to go by as long as it doesnt hint to his true identity, but he chose a man with a limp? HMMM

he also grew up in a very stressful environment. he was training “til his fingers bled” to become an acrobat since his childhood, and then when his parents fell to this deaths in front of him, he changed to an equally stressful life with batman when he created his superhero identity, robin. he was basically kicked out of his long-term home by his father figure when he was still 16-17, which may have meant he needed to find alternate ways of making money in bludhaven. i can see him on the streets using his skills of disguise to beg as a disabled person.

theres also multiple times in multiple comics where he is considered “too injured to do things” until a case interests him enough for the illusion to break. the titans all consider him a little dramatic when hes injured or depressed, and he may be exaggerating his symptoms.

i headcanon that his life had gone too fast for the symptoms to really show, but when he slows down and starts a more domestic life his munchies get stronger. one little cold turns into a stronger illness, just to feel the hands of someone taking care of him. a sprained ankle now leaves him crutch bound for two weeks. he argues its because of past injuries, but deep down he knows what it is. (otp beam incoming) and so does kori. she takes care of him anyway, its the least she can do. if this is how he copes, this is how he copes. she’ll keep his little secret.

sorry for rambling! <3

Dick Grayson from Batman has Munchausen Syndrome

Like here's this guy who has been put on top of the world and has such high expectations of him on account he is to inherit this huge conglomerate and that's literally all he exists for. (Encounter with Gojo got me thinking sue me.) He's stressed to hell and back the man cannot catch a break the grind never stops. Even just to get where he is, he had to go through this whole battle royale-esque competition at 13 just to secure his spot as the family's heir.

The grind TRULY never stops and on top of that I doubt Papa Togami ever really gave his kids all that much attention growing up outside of like. Enforcing expectations, y'know? Then, as if that wasn't enough, it's like. Established that this is so normal for the family that he doesn't even realize how fucked up it is or that it's seriously fucking HIM up in the process.

That is the perfect disaster for him to have a moment where he suddenly falls ill as a kid and is forced to stop, and suddenly it's okay because he's sick and now all these people are tending to his needs because that's what you do when someone's sick, especially when someone important is sick, and just. That unknowable something to just clicks in his brain:

If he wants a break, he needs an excuse.

If he wants a break, he needs to be injured or ill.

Boom. Munchausen Syndrome.

God and like maybe at first as a little kid he tries the whole faking thing, lies that his stomach hurts or something, but under the scrutiny of the Togami name and expectations and shit that would IMMEDIATELY fall apart I think. No, it has to be REAL. Whatever it is, he has to make it REAL, so he'd quickly learn to opt for the inducing flavor, and even then it can't just be ANYTHING. It has to be serious enough that he's literally incapacitated because he's a Togami bro he can't handle a little cold? A sprained ankle? Walk it off, that's pussy shit!

Like god can you imagine him deliberately overworking himself hoping one day he'll collapse from some mysterious Ailment so he can finally rest for once in his goddamn life? You think he's ever needlessly reckless with his life choices hoping that it'll fuck him over later? He can't just stop, he's a fucking Tomagi, he needs something to MAKE him stop.

He needs something to happen so it's OKAY to stop and NOT be okay for a minute.

I wonder if part of why he studies true crime and stuff is to learn about all sorts of ways he could discreetly hurt himself for a break. Those horror stories about poisoned food and the victim slowly gets sicker and sicker? I wonder if he ever thought about replicating that. Not to die, but to take a break. I wonder if being sick like that feels more like a vacation to him than the actual vacations he goes on, so performative and always tangled up in social niceties.

And that's just the precedent I haven't even gotten to the killing game yet like!

Glossing over his history at Hope's Peak the first go-round because that's a tragic-ass character study fic in itself but like. He's suddenly in the killing game where now more than ever he has to lock the fuck in, he's gotta get a grip, but he's stressed more than ever because how the fuck can you not be in a situation like that? You can see it in his sprites, the way he goes fucking blue in the face, but he has to be poised and everyone buys it.

And it's like... he can't induce illness in a killing game that's just going to make him an easy target so what the fuck is he supposed to do?

Or maybe he did and it didn't even work. Didn't he say something or other about finding canned foods in the warehouse? Does he know for sure whether that stuff is good or not compared to the stuff in the kitchen? Maybe he's eating it lowkey hoping to get food poisoning.

Either way, though, he's going to have to get attention another way. Everyone's stuck on the killing game so he just starts stirring up the most inane shit to try to distract himself.

Do you think when the chem lab opened up he had a mini-crisis? Here are all these poisons he may or may not know about because of the true crime stuff. Stuff he might've used before to induce illness in himself, and it's like... if the food poisoning was one thing, that's another thing entirely. That really IS making him an easy target, he can't risk that...

Mimikyu from Pokemon has Munchausen's Syndrome! Seeing Pikachu get so much love and attention while it got demonized and ignored leading it to pretend to be a Pikachu is so munchausen's coded to me you don't even undERSTAND. Love that little freak 😭

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Mimikyu from Pokemon has Munchausen Syndrome

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: New Dangan Ronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Oma Kokichi, Saihara Shuichi, Harukawa Maki Additional Tags: Oma Kokichi-centric, Hurt No Comfort, Munchausen Syndrome, Factitious Disorder, Expanding on a Canon Scene, Character Study, Oma Kokichi Needs a Hug, Unresolved Emotional Tension, Whump, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Emotionally Repressed, Loneliness, Depression, Rejection, Harukawa and Saihara really only show up at the end with canon dialogue, Head Injury, Self-Harm

He was tired. Tired of trying, tired of dancing around, walking this tightrope to keep everyone safely distant and yet close enough to handle. Tired of how everything he tried backfired, because no one gives the benefit to a lair. And yes, maybe he was a liar, but what was so inherently terrible about that? Why should he have to explain himself? Why was it, whenever people realized you were a liar, it was always the good things, the vulnerable things, that were expected to be lies? Simple, because it was easier to not care that way. A speculation on how exactly Kokichi ended up stepping on that loose floorboard in Chapter 3.

you can't tell me Jon wasn't playing up his issues when he was cut off from the eye because he wanted someone (cough martin cough) to take care of him??? "oh no I'm so out of it and almost fainting. How awful. I'm not going to do anything to solve this problem." He grew up with a caregiver that he SAID didn't really want to raise him?? if that isn't Munchausen's idk what is.

(this is another one of those "if you haven't listened to the source material this makes zero sense")

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Jonathan Sims from The Magnus Archives has Munchausen Syndrome

Ernie from KC Undercover has Munchausen Syndrome