i imagine in baby au makoto is always thinking of a way to escape but just doesnt have the time to so he kinda have to wait for when theyre older to go with his plans
essentially when theyre all older maybe 16-19 he basically asks for cooperation since he cannot do this things himself and well... they are geniuses and prodigies they have a lot of skills that can aid in escaping
he kinda needed junko for this too since he cant really teach them their talents and stuff
makotos role in all of this would probably distracting junko so they have time
"distracting? really? is that what you call it?" "no- leon, it's not what you think-"
anyway the button is either with her at all times or her self destructive ass has it somewhere in the school
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First of all, yes to all of this.
Second of all, the prospect of Leon going "Is that what you call it?" causes me to think about how these teens found out about that stuff and whether Makoto gave them the birds and the bees talk, and that delights me.
I'm imagining Makoto fully forgot that he was supposed to do that for a while. Because any "Where do we come from?" style questions felt more related to "How do I avoid telling them they died in a killing game? They're six?!" than just like...how babies are (usually) made. He remembered to teach them about things like puberty and periods and adjacent stuff when some of the girls first started going "My chest hurts!" and he didn't know what to make of it at first (and Monokuma was actually the one to hint at what it meant), but he kind of skirted around a full explanation of human reproduction.
That conversation was basically like, "Some of you might, uh, start bleeding out of, um...If you have a...One second, let's all go to the library." (Reads full explanation of menstruation from a book.)
"There's eggs in your, uh, uterus. I mean, your ovaries! They're in your ovaries. When they go to your uterus, that's when you start bleeding."
"We're gonna lay eggs like the chickens?" Leon said.
"No! First of all, human eggs are really, really tiny. And, you don't have them, Leon."
"Do I have them?" Hifumi asked.
"No. Look at the picture, guys. It's only if you have...one of these."
"So I don't have to do the blood thing?" Mondo said.
"No. But, it's important to understand that this is something that's going to happen to some of your friends. And there's supplies for it in the warehouse."
When the conversation ends, Celeste, Kyoko, and Toko all separately and at different times go to the library again to look at the book he was reading to them from to get a more complete explanation. Celeste reads the whole book. Toko skims the whole book. Kyoko reads the chapter on periods and liberally uses the index to find whatever information she finds important– meaning, only stuff that directly pertains to how her body is going to change.
(This is how Celeste and Toko learned how babies are made. They mostly kept it to themselves, but Celeste might have whispered it to Sakura.)
By the time it occurred to Makoto that this was actually an area where they needed to be informed, Byakuya had already stumbled across the word "intercourse" in an unrelated book, dictionaried his way through the basic idea, read another book for the more specific details, and avoided his friend group (Sayaka, Hifumi, and Toko) for a full day. When Sayaka probed him about why he was being weird, Byakuya spilled everything he'd learned. From there most of the class found out, and it got back to Makoto when Leon immediately entered a dirty jokes phase.
All of that to say, absolutely. Makoto being the weird fixation of the bewilderingly attractive woman who was piloting the Badbear is the most fascinating thing that has ever happened.
I imagine there's a schism between those of them who want to use him as a distraction for Junko and those of them who don't want Junko anywhere near him.
"This is our first opportunity to act without Monokuma's surveillance and interference," Kyoko insists.
"I don't care," Mukuro says quietly.
"Our first! Ever! For as long as we've lived this life!"
"I don't. Care," Mukuro says again.
"For as long as we've lived this life, Makoto has been taking care of us," Mondo says. "What sense does it make if we throw him to the bear as soon as we're big enough to take care of ourselves?"
"Are we?" Hina says quietly.
"We do him a disservice if we don't take every opportunity to become our best selves," Sakura says. "If we asked him to keep her distracted for us, he would be glad to do it. We should honor that."
"You mean hide behind him to satisfy the athletes' egos," Toko says.
"You're one to talk about hiding behind him," Leon comments (even though Toko hasn't actually clung or hidden behind Makoto in years, by this point).
"Don't fight," Hiro says. "You know he doesn't like us to fight. Let's just put it to a vote."
The vote turns out in favor of asking Makoto to keep Junko busy.
"Or get busy with Junko, if it comes to that," Hifumi says, in a misguided attempt to lighten the mood.
Leon, who has somewhat grown out of his dirty jokes phase in a way where he now finds them cringe except when he makes them, groans into his hand.