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Sensitive Hearts in Parallel Play

Chapter 1: Zoey's Guide to Making Friends: Part 8

Part 1: go here

Part 7: go here

The previous part of Zoey and Kaz's convo: go here

Zoey and Nagito's first meeting. They have a clash of ideologies (and self-esteem issues for opposite reasons!) but it surprisingly ends well, at least for now.

The idea of Zoey's self esteem issues making Nagito uncomfortable makes me laugh. I can't believe I actually used to say and feel exactly like this, and people would almost always respond with something like "but you're a great artist!" instead of telling me what I really needed to hear back then, which was "if someone's self esteem is so damaging that seeing another artist will make them quit art forever, then that's on them not you. Don't worry about that, you showing off your art is fine!" I can't blame fellow kids at the time for not knowing that, but surely one of the adults could have...eh, a lot of adults are useless.

But eventually I brought this negative stuff to my mom and she gave me a better response, so I've gotten better at unlearning the self put-downs. I still don't think art "talent" is something you were born with, but I don't use it as part of any self put-downs anymore.

I wasn't expecting Nagito to say that "It gives people hope" line when I started writing this scene, and I love it, even if Nagito's ideas of hope can get a little...y'know... let's just let Zoey enjoy the line without problems for now.

Also, fourth-to-last panel is Zoey mentally putting the breadsticks in her purse. I feel like I'm showing my age with that meme xD.

The next part will return to Kazuichi watching Zoey draw.

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Sensitive Hearts in Parallel Play

Chapter 1: Zoey's Guide to Making Friends: Part 7

Part 1: go here

Part 6: go here

It's a bit shorter bc this was originally all going to be in part 6, but I was hitting tumblr's image limit.

Alas, I could not find the Warioware sprite that I was picturing in my head that inspired Monokuma pose in panel 6 (where Junko "attacks" Monokuma). I don't even remember what character did that pose... Wario? I think it was in Warioware Get It Together? All I remember is that it happens when you lose one of the minigames.

I love Junko's drawings at the end of SDR2, so I recreated their style for Junko's drawings here.

Anyway, the "Junko plays with her teddy bear" part of chapter 1 is over (at least for now? I'm pretty sure the rest of chapter 1 will be Zoey and Kazuichi stuff). We'll return to Kazuichi's cabin in part 8.

Let's end it on an..."EWW WHAT IS THAT CURSED THING?! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!" note (that's a rejected Carebear, Murderheart Bear. or maybe his name was Despair Bear?)

Next part: click here

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Sensitive Hearts in Parallel Play

Chapter 1: Zoey's Guide to Making Friends: Part 6

Part 1: go here

Part 5: go here

(page 5's last panel for context)

I imagine Junko is the only character in canon to find Monokuma's antics amusing and delightful, good to combat her boredom. She's like "that's my funny little guy." But Monokuma is also herself, so she's basically finding herself funny. That's important to do ngl.

I've been muttering "a Monokuma without a killing game is like a day without sunshine" lately because of that panel

part 7

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Junko Enoshima and Monokuma, from part 5 of my fanfic

also, just for fun here's some binary

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Sensitive Hearts in Parallel Play

Chapter 1: Zoey's Guide to Making Friends: Part 5

Part 1: go here

Part 4: go here

Zoey always feels safer when she has a clear understanding of the rules and expectations, and she's been trained to bring this up asap in the classroom setting if it is not provided for her. So her pattern is to ask many questions and establish expectations right away, even if she's feeling spacey and not quite sure if the stuffed animal she's talking to is somehow it's own entity or not.

Meanwhile, Junko appears and brings everyone's favorite, Worstie the Bear XD. While Junko normally plays Monokuma as a personality, in this program she felt compelled to summon him into his own existence. Writing their back-and-forths (which we'll see some more in the next part) is so much fun. Monokuma's a wonderful little stinker.

Also, here's some of the Monokuma and Junko pages as standalone post, without words.

part 6

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Sensitive Hearts in Parallel Play

Chapter 1: Zoey's Guide to Making Friends: Part 4

Part 1: go here

Part 3: go here

Zoey, like the other students, tries to find what's going on. She also tries to figure out the boundaries of the rules.

Usami remains the only one excited and optimistic about the school trip, even if these students sure ask a lot of questions!

The regulations for rule 5, in case it's hard to read the text. "Rule 5: Accommodations for group events will be provided to the special needs student, Zoey Parker." Rules 1-4 are the same as canon.

Part 5: click here

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Sensitive Hearts in Parallel Play

Chapter 1: Zoey's Guide to Making Friends: Part 3

Part 1: go here

Part 2: go here

The class wakes up to a magical stuffed animal teacher on a deserted island, and Zoey decides "to Hell with this!" and ditches class today.

A/N: This took a while due to the crowd scenes, but it was really fun to draw everybody. Teruteru is soo tiny!!

All the tags...I put them on a word document first so it's easier to copy-paste instead of having to type out every name.

Next part: link

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What is this?

This is a Danganronpa, self-ship fanfic and retelling of SDR2: Goodbye Despair written by @my-gf-is-kazuichi-soda.

Full Title: Sensitive Hearts in Parallel Play

Quick summary: Autistic/Adhd queer kids form a friendship and eventual wlw romance despite being in a killing game. Non-despair au, mutual pining slowburn romance, humor, hurt/comfort, eventual OC x (trans girl) Kazuichi Soda,

Long version of the summary, and long notes/reoccurring themes/potential triggers for this story at the bottom (I will also mention any triggers in the story at the top of posts for every time of relevance, so it's okay to skip this post as long as you heed the trigger warnings on the top of each part of the story)

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Zoey Parker, the Ultimate Cartoonist with a superhero complex, wakes up with the rest of her class on a deserted island and is told to make friends with everybody. She realizes quickly that her autism and adhd might make this difficult, so she decides to enlist the help of a neurotypical student who can be a guide to help her make all the friends, navigate confusing social situations, and understand what is happening around her. For this guide, she chooses none other than...Kazuichi Soda.

Despite Kazuichi not exactly being the expert in normal socializing (or perhaps because of this) the two end up forming the start of a friendship: right on time for Monokuma to show up and turn the "heart-throbbing school trip" into his signature killing game!

...Though, Monokuma is forced to skirt around an annoying new rule that he can't punish the Blackened with violence or death. But Monokuma insists that the killing game is still on! He continues to torment the students, specifically two promising Blackeneds-in-the-making: Mahiru Koizumi and Zoey Parker, who both have big secrets, their lives on the line, and a potential to kill.

But Zoey fights to keep herself alive as she clings onto her friendship (and budding crush) on Kazuichi.

Meanwhile, Kazuichi's friendship with Zoey leads to some realizations about...herself. Not quite ready to come out as a trans girl, Kazuichi constantly flip-flops between her newfound queer identity she can express with her also-queer friend Zoey, and the tough guy act that she puts on for everyone else. And she's not sure where her obsession with Sonia Nevermind is supposed to fit in with all of this. Because she obviously has a crush on Sonia Nevermind (she thinks?), but, she also might have a crush on Zoey? Why does everything have to be confusing?

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Other Important Notes in the story, this has some plot details but I think it's relevant for triggers and knowing what the fanfic gets into:

The fanfic is mostly humor (a lot of cringe comedy), but there are some reoccurring themes that get heavy...

Zoey is depressed/has intrusive thoughts/is suicidal (I will always give bold warnings on the top of the posts where this is relevant to the scenes and make relevant tags, you will not be thrown into anything triggering without warning, I promise.)

(Self-harm mention!) While Zoey doesn't cut herself, she does things like neglect her needs (e.g. letting herself get too hungry) and sometimes act recklessly knowing something could kill her, and that can be disturbing. I'll always give warnings for this stuff being in posts as well.

This oc is my self-insert. I was depressed/suicidal as a teenager, but I am no longer depressed/suicidal and my intrusive thoughts are fewer and more manageable. You don't have to worry about me bc of this fanfic. I chose to process the feelings (not based on real events, but just feelings of loneliness and trouble making friends as a neurodivergent teen) through this fanfic.

No family drama in this fic: not that it didn't exist, more like I don't wanna write about it, so it may get mentioned if relevant but no flashbacks/long stories about it and it's mostly irrelevant to the fanfic. This goes for both Kazuichi's and Zoey's families. I don't even want to see Kazuichi's dad, let alone draw him.

Kazuichi is in the closet for most of this fanfic (and doesn't know she can be a girl in the beginning) so expect a lot of he/him pronouns/misgenderings bc she's still in the closet. She is still named Kazuichi and likes her name. I'll give warnings for any transphobia, though I don't have any plans for characters being transphobic. Most of them are either accepting or Fuyuhiko (hella confused but too awkward to make a confrontation about it, but he comes around).

This fic does have a lot of internalized transphobia though, for both Kazuichi and Zoey (who is bigender, she/her pronouns)

Zoey and Kazuichi character growth and long conversations and just hanging out together fluff.

Teruteru is a recurring character and I write him as sort of a bastard (/affectionate). Actually writing him as a "lovable pervert" compelled me. So he is kind of a mom friend and a sexual harasser at the same time. The characters are put off by him but I find him funny.

Mahiru is sort of an antagonist because when I first played the game I found her annoying and sexist. Still, I try to write her in-character, and I've come to like her better through writing this fic and forcing her to confront the past, so I believe in character growth for her (and Nagito too!) To be fair, Zoey also has her annoying moments here, and most of them are around her (sometimes ridiculous) conflicts with Mahiru. For one thing, Zoey thinks Mahiru taught Hiyoko to be a bully. This is how Zoey misunderstands the situation but is still a character calling Mahiru out on some stuff other characters let her get away with.

Mahiru and Nagito friendship.

Lot of "will they or won't they" with Zoey and Kazuichi even though it is obvious as hell where it's all going. It's like they are eternally in a contest to see who can be more obvious about their crush and who can be more oblivious to the other's crush. They're both winning (which means losing) for like half the fanfic, maybe more than half?

Boob focus in the humor and the gender dysphoria (Zoey has a character development arc about her chest. You can laugh, it's meant to be funny, though keep in mind the author actually does have chest dysphoria).

I like writing "cringe comedy", ridiculous conversations/scenarios, characters (and their conversations) leading the plot, and foreshadowing.

This fanfic gets fucking bonkers and please let me know what moments made you go "Wait, what the fuck?!"

#parallel play #kazuichi soda #kazuichi souda #sdr2 #danganronpa 2 goodbye despair #fanfic #zoey parker #danganronpa oc

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Sensitive Hearts in Parallel Play

Chapter 1: Zoey's Guide to Making Friends: Part 2

Part 1: go here

A/N: The third part will be a brief flashback time! At first, I had trouble starting this story when I kept trying to start from where the game started, but I realized that I should cut out most of this exposition and just jump into the story. I've heard that that's the advice most editors give to writers, anyway. It's so easy to let yourself get bogged down by explanation in the beginning. Starting with Zoey and Kazuichi meeting each other helped me move along to thinking up the rest of the chapter's layout. Phew!

Also, we get to see Usami in the next part!

Next part: link

If you've already read the next few parts, you can skip the oncoming flashback and go to the next part of Zoey and Kaz's convo at part 8 here: link

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Sensitive Hearts in Parallel Play

Chapter 1: Zoey's Guide to Making Friends: Part 1

Zoey Parker, tasked by the little stuffed rabbit teacher Usami with making friends, meets Kazuichi Soda. Like everyone on this "school trip," she is told to meet everybody by the end of the day, which she has not yet done. What will happen next? Stay tuned.

Next part: click here

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