#ultimate ouma

It's in the passive back seat he took in Chapter One, where he allowed Akamatsu to take the wheel and only stepped in when things got really bad and they needed to pivot (see: The Death Road of Despair).

It's in the way he easily gave in to the peer pressure of everyone else wanting to use the Flashback Lights when he himself was against it.

It's in the fact that rather than agree with everyone that the Motive Videos shouldn't be watched, rather than try to steal them all to hoard and keep away from everyone or outright destroy them so no one could watch them, he suggested watching them all together as a group, so they could all hold each other accountable.

And even as that trust was slowly and methodically broken down by the killing game, even as he continues to lie and starts to act like he doesn't trust anyone and nobody should trust him either, he still wants to trust them so, so bad.

It's in the fact that even though he outed Harukawa for her lie, and made jabs at her expense, he passively allowed Momota to handle the situation without much of a fight and even walked back on his claim that he agreed with everyone who wanted to keep her away, and didn't question her presence in the group again after that, almost as if her reintegration into the group and everyone reestablishing trust with her was his goal from the start.

It's in the concern he had over the dangers of cult mentality and Yonaga's affect on the members of the student council.

It's in his open admission to how he was injured when he tripped on the loose floorboard during the investigation, rather than insisting the blood was fake and that the entire thing was a lie.

It's in the way he was the first to notice and properly call out Yumeno's aversion to confronting and processing her emotions over Yonaga and Chabashira's death, something even Chabashira herself failed to do when she was alive.

It's all over his entire relationship with Iruma, commissioning his tools from her and including her in his plans up until she falls to the pressure of the killing game herself.

It's in his relationship with Gokuhara up until the very end, the one remaining person who trusted him in return, and his absolute devastation over losing him.

It's in the loss of Gokuhara being the straw that broke the camel's back, dropping him entirely into a pit of despair and paranoia and resolution to keep everyone as far away from him as he possibly can.

And even then...

It's in the fact when he enacts the Mastermind plan, he takes Momota with him, arguably the one who's openly disagreed with him the most out of anyone.

It's in the way his final, last-ditch plan invaluably relied on his trust in others. Not just Momota, who had the plausible deniability of blackmail, but Saihara, too, to see through everything and figure out what Ouma was trying to do before it was too late.

He wanted to trust everyone. He wanted to trust and befriend everyone so, so, so badly.

A gender in which any gender you could possibly conceive of is not that gender because your gender is a lie. Not that lying is your gender or that your gender is connected to lying per se, but that your gender, at any given moment, is itself a lie in the sense that the gender itself is untrue. Including this one!

Any pronouns you use are inherently misgendering because that gender is a lie and thus the pronouns are Also a lie. The flag is a lie, too. Any flag can be the usogender flag but not really because it's a lie.

It's all a lie. All of it.

Do you have any other unique accessories or clothes compared to other Kokichis in your headspace, such as a different scarf, different clothes under the coat, different shoes, any jewelry, pin badges, stickers, and so on?

Are you physically different from them in any way, too? For example, different eye colour, hair style, being slightly shorter or taller, and so on?

Thank you!

-Saber

Hullo! Fankyoo for includin us, thas so sweet for you to do! Since we're the host, we're stuck outside mos the time. We don get to go in the city much cause it takes lotsa focus n time n energy to do.

Pick used to be in there mosly for to hide cause hims was like... had all the icky emotions n was like Chapter 5-y Ouma hidin in the hangar so not bother nobody, so hims jus laid around in bed n didn take care of himself at all until he comed back out jus a lil while ago n here to stay!

We do have stuffs outside for feelin Ouma-y though! Like we gots our own scarfs (wearin one right now!) n a leader hat n like to wear purple n black n white lots. Oh, also we're 5'1" really for reals n that's nice we think. We try to wear our hair the same kinda but obviously doesn stick up nearly that much in real life. Does a lil though! That's neat.

When we do get to go inside to the city we like to look jus like them though! 'Cept when we're lil like this, then we're smaller to match how we feel. Better for bein' carried!

We like the mismatchy eyes too though maybe we should do that? N Lock can have it one way while Pick has it the other for to tell us apart. We won't switch around like Petty does, hoooooonest!

Myself included. #xmas #copyright

It took me a while to get back on this because I just had so many thoughts that I needed to ruminate for a minute before I could really put them into words. I really, really liked it, though.

Because I have to relate everything to Ouma as is my curse as Ouma himself, I think it fits him really well in two very distinct ways in that the first half gives me vibes of specifically in-game Chapter 5 Ouma in the hangar, while the second half has almost a flashback to pregame feel to it.

The first half talking about how tired Ouma is after putting on this mask for so long to try to protect himself, but ended up losing the last bit of light and good will he had left when he threw it away to become the villain for the Mastermind plan. He's had to stoop lower and lower and go against his morals more and more across the whole game and now he's at this breaking point where he just can't do it anymore but he has no choice but to keep going until he's dead.

Then the second half feels more jaded in the realm of... I dunno, like I can imagine this being how my personal flavor of Pregame Ouma has a disdain for the predatory nature of Team Danganronpa and the Danganronpa franchise while at the same time looking down on the sorts of people who are (in his mind) stupid enough to sign up in the first place. He has this distant, dissociated view of his life in that he plods along out of spite for everyone who may write off someone like him, with the vague hope that one day he'll find himself somewhere he can be content, but then he gets tangled up in the Danganronpa stuff and loses even that small hope.

And both of them together deep down at their core have this very Ouma spite and disdain that they use to fuel their actions, where they refuse to play the role that the people around them want of them. They want to do things Their Way, and they're very bitter about being shoved on whatever path they are given, even if it causes them more pain the try to deviate from that path.

Weaponizing their pain, even, for their own goals.

Or at least, that's how I interpret it.

-Pick

As my return serve, I would like to share one of my favorites of Mafumafu, one that I feel has a similar dichotomy between in-game Ouma and my flavor of pregame in their heavy trudge towards... something, anything, but inevitably nothing.