🔥 I bet you have some spicy opinions on DR ships.
[ unpopular opinions // accepting ]
mmmMMM there’s something i’ve noticed is HUGE in the dangan/ronpa fandom and its… shipping murderers w the people they killed?? esp when it comes to mondo/chihiro, leon/sayaka (which has some canon backing, admittedly)… and shipping rivals together, even when they’ve shown NO signs of mutual attraction (unlike in the case of koma/hina, which i don’t rly ship personally bc it just. doesnt fit for me. like fitting a square peg in a round hole. it doesnt go. but they still definitely have chemistry). and theres ALSO the ppl who drastically alter a characters personality in order to make them shippable with another specific character, which to me is like… ok so u dont ship that pairing then?? if u have to change a character that much to ship the thing then… u dont rly ship the thing.
and im just… not a fan of any of those. like, dont get me wrong, im cool with you shipping unhealthy things as long as you don’t glorify/idealize it and it’s fairly obvious you’re critical of it while you’re still shipping it. a relationship, too, can be unhealthy without being flat-out abusive– i ship kamu/nami, but i don’t think it’s necessarily good for chi/aki given who izu/ru is, and that it likely won’t have a happy ending unless haj/ime returns.
basically, i dont have a problem with individual people shipping those things (as long as theyre aware that theyre kinda… unhealthy?? and it’s not like they have to mention that fact EVERY TIME they mention the ship) but what i see in the fandom overall is this weird glorification of unhealthy/toxic/abusive ships over those that are in a mutually beneficial relationship where they both respect and cherish the other (see: hina/nami, touko/maru)
ships between two people who don’t get along or sometimes even outright DESPISE each other in canon are SO common in this fandom, and it concerns me? i don’t know how else to put it. it just… does. i worry that a lot of us have a habit of romanticizing those “problematic” ships, or sometimes glorifying the nonproblematic ships and making it out like theyre Perfect and Ideal and they have no flaws in them whatsoever (which is a problem in any fandom).
and i want to put an emphasis on the fact that i’m talking about the overall attitude of the fandom and not individual people. there might just be something in the narrative that glorifies these kinds of relationships that i’m not picking up on personally bc i’m generally just so turned off by those kinds of ships.
tldr; my Unpopular Opinion is that toxic/abusive/unhealthy/etc ships that spotlight a large amount of conflict between the two in canon just arent that appealing and i dont see why they’re so damn popular, personally