#muzmaeda

So for some context, back in 2020 Spike Chunsoft held a small art 'contest', wherein you could create a Valentine's card for your character of choice (from any of their IPs), and 'might' receive a reply from your chosen character.

And... as far as I know, I'm only one of two people who received the honour of being selected as a winner for this contest. More on the second winner in a moment, but it took ages for them to contact me lol, and it was through Twitter DMs. The prize was this card by the company (And Komaeda...), and a free code for a game of my choice from their site. (I chose AI: The Somnium Files, by the way.)

But of course, it goes a little bit deeper than that, because otherwise it would be a rather unremarkable story. The whole contest was super poorly managed. Once it began, there was almost zero communication, no real indication of when 'winners' would be chosen, and of course the "reply from your Valentine" was rather lackluster.

I was buds with the admin of the Danganronpa Wiki back in the day when they were still active, and we asked around about this... and as far as we were able to discern, there were only two winners (who mentioned it publicly, at least), being myself and a user by the name of Roirence, who made something for a Zankai Zero character.

I don't want to share the art I made for the event because it's highkey incredibly cringe... but maybe among a sea of memes and joke cards, it was in part why I was picked? It was so disgustingly earnest on my part lol.