GIGGLES. sorrreeen u just unleashed the beast /evil

okay so i think its important to note thatttt. mioshima originated from a fic i once wrote (and never finished rip) where a bunch of characters took down hope’s peak from the inside. (this is also where kamunaga and saigiri came from hsjsksk)

anyway i hc ibuki as being an ultimate analyst (altho not to the same degree as junko/izuru) as well as an ult musician! this actually came from some very complicated mental gymnastics. uh i was thinking about the despair disease and how it kinda made everybody the opposite of their usual selves.

akane isn’t a coward, nagito is mostly truthful (except when his mental illness is at its peak), and mikan is pretty forgetful. so what did that mean for ibuki, who got the gullible disease?

i came to the conclusion that it meant xe could read people really well. annnd then that spiraled to ultimate analyst

so xem and junko have that in common. as well as that, they’re both kind of famous/public figures. ibuki to a lesser extent than junko, but still. and i feel like ibuki should be allowed to let loose and not play nice all the time, and junko would absolutely encourage that!!!! i think they could let down their facades around each other. also ibuki is weak to pretty women and would def beg junko to step on them but like whatever ???? lol ?

in my au timeline, junko erm. fakes her death ^__^ or more accurately RYOKO takes front right at the end of the execution and pulls the emergency switch to cancel the execution because she Does Not Want To Die???? the emergency switch just like, would send them straight into the trash chute. but since theyre RIGHT BELOW THE THING CRUSHING THEM it looks like they die (i havent figured out an explanation for the blood spattwr yet but who cares)

junko gets one of her followers whose dressed up as her to like, pose as her dead body lol (explaining how the remnants got her body parts HOW THE HELL WOULD THEY GET HER BODY PARTS IF SHE WAS CRUSHED TO DEATH hellooo kodaka major plothole there) but anyway when the remnants are raiding "junkos" body ibuki is the only one to. go inside the old school. anyway xe sees ryoko there and is like Oh. Huh.

ibukis probably the least despairing out of most of them???? in my opinion???? so xed try to protect ryoko from the other remnants and the future foundation, hide her identity, all that shit. ryoko in typical ryoko fashion kinda imprints on ibuki (read: gets a humongous crush on xem HAHAHAHA)

anyways theyre kinda pushed together by circumstance ig? ibuki and ryoko start dating post-sim teehee but since junko does in fact share a body with ryoko she kinda has to deal with that stuff? and ibukis kinda just junkos "no fucking despair bitch" monitor. anyway they end up kinda falling for each other a bit lol but yeah thats Basically It tm