#despair of the future

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 198

Now Bruce was not expecting to reincarnate upon his death. At least he thinks he died, he’s pretty sure he did. There wasn’t any other reason for him to be a well, literal baby. Around two he thinks, which fits well with the fact that it’s around that time that babies start forming memory recall, if he, well, remembered correctly. 

But while he knew about reincarnation thanks to Shayera and Carter, he’d never exactly given it much thought towards himself. Because seriously, what were the chances of such a thing as him being given another chance? 

So he was quite surprised at his situation, experimentally opening and closing pudgy hands that looked well, just a tiny bit off. He’d never been that pale before, he thinks, even back when he never went outside like, ever. 

He turned his gaze towards the mobile above him with a sort of idle curiosity- a mixture of bats (ha) and other trinkets he wasn’t familiar with. It also caused him to get his first good look at his parent, asleep on a rocking chair right next to the crib. 

Huh. They had the same pale skin he did, albeit in the light it looked like it was slightly tinted blue, and while their hair was white they didn’t exactly look old. They looked surprisingly well rested for raising a toddler too, unless they had a nanny or something similar… He rolled over, managing to very shakily push himself to his feet with the help of the crib. 

Why was standing so hard as a toddler? And why did he have his memories of everything except how he had died anyway? 

His head whipped up from where they were staring at his feet when he heard a snort, finding his parent awake and standing. Somehow silently enough that he hadn’t noticed- or he was that easily distracted by the unfamiliar giddiness bursting in his chest. 

“Morning little bat,” his parent easily picked him up and held him while he inwardly sighed at the nickname. Of course his bat motif would follow him into this life. A low rumbling almost caused him to jump, his body relaxing before he could fully register the sound. The… purring? 

Oh. 

He wasn’t human this time around. 

#Dcxdp #Dpxdc #Prompts #Vlad is a young-adult dad to a reincarnated Bruce #After the hospital he drowned his despair/distress in any way he could & ended up with a baby boy #Bruce’s main suspected species of what they were was vampire before the ghost reveal lol #Bruce can’t say shit about Vlad’s thievery but he has the most judging expression for a toddler #Then he also sees his new dad develop and try to figure out powers #Vlad was terrified to pick him up when he first discovered his ghost fire #Yes this very much changes Vlad’s relationship with Danny #The reunion has 14 year old Danny meet a Very Smart 8 year old Bruce #Yes Bruce clocks teenage vigilante instantly #And look he Would try to get Vlad to stop the possession shit but as long as it’s actual assholes he can’t exactly judge #He blackmailed SO many people in his past life… he's trying Not to be a hypocrite here #Why yes Bruce IS very liminal from having a half-ghost dad #Vlad panicked more than he did when his fangs came in (Bruce has made a file about both himself & everyone he meets) #Just because he’s now baby doesn’t mean he’s no longer Bruce #At some point someone from his world might find their way to this one but that would be a very long time in the future lol #Vlad (unaware of his core being able to feel his ghostling’s big emotions): Wow raising a child is surprisingly easy

[artsyebonyrose]

mukuro in cherry pop!

feel free to send me more suggestions if you have any, here are the palettes :3

#danganronpa #sdr2 #dr #danganronpa fanart #danganronpa sdr2 #super danganronpa 2 #colour palette #colour palette challenge #requests #requests open #art requests #character request #palette challenge #palette requests #danganronpa requests #danganronpa mukuro #mukuro ikusaba #mukuro #dr mukuro #danganronpa 3 #danganronpa 3 anime #future arc #despair arc #the end of hopes peak #cw guns #tw gun #thought i'd put those jic #artsyebonyrose art

[humanerrers]

with all the breath in my body, with all the hope in my heart, with all the resilience in my spirit

i am standing with them from across the ocean

may they mold this future into being

#i/p #on creating change and not just outrage #on creating change and not just despair #on creating change and not just reactionary defensiveness #standing together is a grassroots movement in i/p working to create the political will for a just future #in this unimaginably dark moment #I am sending them light AND MONEY

[vhsghostricks]

Assorted Leogami + Komamami :)

commission is for @chuchubrainrot

#👻 #☆ stuff i did for comms #leon kuwata #byakuya togami #rantaro amami #nagito komaeda #leogami #komamami #future foundation #danganronpa: trigger happy havoc #new danganronpa v3: killing harmony #super danganronpa 2: goodbye despair #danganronpa #drthh #sdr2 #drv3 #danganronpa fanart #these tags are a mess. sorry.

[teenagenutant]

Future Leo goes back in time with CJ AU

he meets draxum and immediately brings up the roof incident, to present Leo’s delight.

Leo never let Draxum forget it, even after 20+ years of the apocalypse

I think that would be funny

THANK YOU FOR THE IDEA- this isnt quite a doodle anymore but it was really fun to draw!!

#tmnt #rottmnt #tmnt leo #future leo #baron draxum #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #hamato leonardo #might clean + color it at some point... #tried to give future leo a sense of both whimsy and despair...truly a guy ever #my turtle art #turtle asks

[kdyfvd]

yet another teruko art dump (throughout 2023)

#danganronpa despair time #drdt #fanart #teruko tawaki #the talent swap will be more fleshed out in a future post

[thedevilscarnival]

i've had this game for four days and i'm already tempted

#fallen london #seeking mr eaten's name #mr eaten #idk WHAT is going on in this place but you give me the promise of horror hunger and despair and well. maybe i will eventually ruin my save. #that is for me ~8 months in the future to decide. maybe more. #korro.txt

[graveyard-society]

some komahinanami for the soul

#chat i got artblocked save me #also ignore how weird nagitos hand looks like i was supposed to render this but i got lazy and gave up #actually maybe i will in the future idk #danganronpa 2 #danganronpa: goodbye despair #danganronpa #danganronpa nagito #nagito komaeda #danganronpa hajime #hajime hinata #danganronpa chiaki #chiaki nanami #aiden.png

[geodraws04]

Remnant Mitarai!!!

Finally nailed down a design for the boy alongside a few sketches and a scene redraw from the Dr3 Future Arc anime (first time doing one too :OO)

You’re free to draw him as long as I have credit for the design!!

#danganronpa #danganronpa 3 #dr3 #danganronpa au #remnants of despair #remnants of despair au #ryota mitarai #remnant mitarai #remnant of despair #remnant ryota #mikan tsumiki #junko enoshima #mukuro ikusaba #izuru kamukura #dr3 future arc #future arc #my art <3

[accirax]

i know you hate anyone who isn't you, but dragging everyone down with you by getting us all executed is a low blow, even by your standards.

#danganronpa despair time #drdt #drdt spoilers #teruko tawaki #david chiem #teruvid #teruvid week #teruvid week 2024 #fanganronpa #i! forgot this was happening until a few days ago!!! but i will still participate hooray!!!!! #i don't generally like posting ship art bc it feels embarrassing to me but this is unsaucy enough that it hardly counts #and also i feel like that aversion is something i should try to get over yknow? not fearing being vulnerable etc etc #so if you see me post more ships in the future... clearly it's a sign of bravery o7 #anyways this ship really grew on me. partially due to the hilarious memes and partially due to understanding both of them better #as time went on #their relationship could be a disaster or it could be exactly what the other needs #both are fun which makes the ship really enjoyable overall! in my opinion #thanks for hosting another fun event kuro! #my art #fanart

[sharkbytes662]

helloo charwhitters (redraw of this)

#my art #drdt #danganronpa despair time #charles cuevas #whit young #charwhit #romantic chemistry #they ruined my life #idk their height difference but ignore how whit looks really tall #i kinda predicted the future because whit is canonly the best cook #i know he’d be extra af #mine

[spittyfishy]

The thh remnants kept social media around even during the Tragedy specifically so they could dunk on the Future Foundation lol

#also like for despair propaganda and mind control but you know #also mocking the ff #Chihiro keeps it running and they have admin for the whole site #sometimes they shadow ban the Future Foundation for a few days at random #each remnant has an account #then Kyoko runs the official ultimate despair account #Circus wanted me to draw Aoi again lol #danganronpa #remnants of despair #thh remnant au #aoi asahina #remnant Aoi #danganronpa thh #future foundation

[drtextmemes]

#danganronpa memes #danganronpa #dr memes #sdr2 #dr3 despair arc #dr3 anime #dr3 future arc #dr3 #sdr2 memes #dr3 memes #super danganronpa 2 #super danganronpa goodbye despair #dr goodbye despair #dr2 goodbye despair #sdr2 goodbye despair #super danganronpa 2 goodbye despair #danganronpa 2 #dr2 #hajime hinata #izuru kamukura #dr izuru #sdr2 hajime #goodbye despair #danganronpa: goodbye despair #dr 2

[mayasaura]

I just want to talk about the nursery being painted and the purpose of the Tomb to be without a door. Anastasia had a family - and putting to the side the pact with Alecto there's some implicit symbolism to John asking for the workers of the Ninth to die constructing the Tomb with that image of new life. (Still can't articulate my disbelief that he went and didn't think that asking Anastasia of all people, The one who lost her cavalier to him, would have problems)

Yeah. Especially finding this out about the Ninth, where nurseries becoming tombs is a thing we're sensitive about.

On one level we've always known Anastasia had a family. Like, we know she's Harrow's direct ancestor. You can't be heir to the line of someone who never had children. But the nursery.... Yeah. It really hammers it in. Her friends painted a nursery mint green for her children.

And now it's a tomb.

#that's what the Anastasian is now after all #you're right there's really Something there #I've noticed something in John I think ties into this thematically that I really hope Kiriona is going to help us explore #John doesn't believe in a future #I said in my last Anastasia meta that Anastasia outsmarted John by making herself immortal in a way he couldn't understand #she left behind something she created to outlast her #John hasn't built anything to outlast himself and he doesn't think of the future at all #he mourns the past and fights like hell to live in an eternal present where nothing ever ends #you know #immortality #and a part of that—maybe most of that—is about despair #even way back before the world ended even before he had magic powers he didn't think of a future #I think he couldn't imagine one #and like. I get it dude #don't imagine the future and maybe it can't hurt you #how many people have you heard saying they don't want children because it seems cruel or irresponsible #they can't imagine forcing someone to live in the world they see coming #climate anxiety is fucking everywhere and for a lot of people in our generation—John's generation—it's coalesced into despair #but Anastasia did imagine a future #she had a family #and now John has a daughter but he still can't imagine a future for her #she's just as dead and eternal as the world he loved so deeply he killed it rather than watch it die #what did Gideon say when she saw the First? it had the look of a picked-over body but hot damn what a beautiful corpse #that's gonna be you baby girl #the final expression of the art of the nine houses #John gave up on hope ages ago #so it doesn't really surprise me at all that he still asked the builders to die in the tomb #the locked tomb #ntn spoilers #nona the ninth

[saraanzu]

From a 2021 Q&A:

"Teruko: Secretly she wants to wear girly, cute things, but is unable to afford that kind of thing. She likes skirts.

Nico: Like Teruko, wants to wear girly things but doesn't due to external factors"

alt versions + notes below the cut

#for context the q&a is from before ch2 which is probably why the “external factors” thing is vague #in retrospect it's obvious that nico was in an environment where being gnc would not be acceptable #but since that's not the case anymore I wonder if we'll see them dress more fem in the future. wouldn't be the first chara to change outfit #drdt #despair time #danganronpa despair time #danganronpa: despair time #drdt fanart #teruko tawaki #teruko drdt #nico drdt #nico hakobyan #jo's art

[penguwastaken]

Why did the Remnants of Despair do that?

Spoilers for Danganronpa 3 (obviously)

I've made it very clear that I really like Danganronpa 3 and that I think a lot of the criticisms are unfair or misguided. One common criticism however stuck with me for the longest time. In Hope Arc, after Hajime and his friends helped put an end to the Future Foundation killing game, they proceeded to seemingly "cover it up." On the surface, this seems strange. The series constantly criticized Hope's Peak for covering up incidents, so why is this any different? After some time thinking, I think I managed to put together why.

At first, the video starts with the Remnants of Despair seemingly taking credit for the Future Foundation killing game. While technically, yes, Kazuo Tengan was a Remnant of Despair, he was completely disconnected from the rest of the people in the video and had no affiliation with them. However, it's the next part where this gets interesting.

Now despite what you might think, there is a LOT to dissect in these four lines.

"If the world were to be saved and reach a happy ending... Doesn't that strike you as boring?"

Obviously to anybody who has watched Hope Arc, this line is kinda ironic considering it generally has a pretty happy and sweet ending. However, what's important to note is that to the general public, there wasn't a happy ending. A majority of Future Foundation's leaders were just wiped out and the Remnants of Despair are still presumably on the run. So why would Hajime say this? Well I feel like the next bit of text should fill you in. "That is why we will once again dye the world in despair. The world needs despair." This line is REALLY interesting to me as it directly ties into one of the major themes in Danganronpa 3. Throughout Future Arc, Kyosuke believes that the only way to achieve true hope is to eliminate all despair. However, Makoto (and Tengan) believe that despair needs to exist alongside hope in order for hope to be meaningful, otherwise it's meaningless. True hope isn't blind happiness, it's keeping a positive mindset while overcoming despair. This sheds a completely different light on what Hajime is saying. He isn't just taking the fall so Makoto and his friends can move on without trouble, he and his friends are taking on the burden of despair as a way of atoning for their actions as remnants. This way, everyone can unite against them. They're making a sacrifice so that way hope can continue to manifest and have meaning.

This is shown again later in Makoto's final conversation with Kyosuke. When asked if he is able to carry the burden of hope, he mentions that the others are carrying the burden of despair. Now things are starting to make sense. Hajime and his friends decide to hold onto the burden of being despairs as a way to atone for their crimes and give the world something to unite against, choosing to sacrifice their image in order to help make the world better. The difference with Class 77's sacrifice here and Hope's Peak behavior is that Hope's Peak covered up incidents that were their fault so they could protect their image. Their motivations were entirely selfish and only to benefit themselves. Meanwhile, Hajime and his friends sacrificed their own reputation in order to help give the world hope in a strange, roundabout way along with taking accountability for their own sins. They aren't pretending to be innocent, they're acknowledging their own guilt and using it to benefit the world.

I also think that Makoto and his friend's reaction to the video is pretty interesting. They don't seem very excited, but more confused and shocked. It's almost like they're still trying to why they did this in the first place.

After a moment, they move on from that subject entirely. Byakuya tells Makoto that he did well and his hope helped in the end despite his refusal.

Despite that, despair unfortunately did take a toll on them. Even still, it can't be denied that hope did win in the end because of despair, further showing that the two need to coexist. Things may look bad now, but just like, always they'll get better. Makoto and Byakuya both realized what the point of the video was. In a way, the video was more like them taking accountability for everything they've done as opposed to just the covering Future Foundation killing game.

The former remnants finally head off to Jabberwock Island to continue their atonement, making one last sacrifice and carrying the burden of despair. I hope what I wrote can help you see Class 77's actions in Hope Arc in a new light. Like I said, a lot of people have criticized them, but in my opinion I think it's a very fitting and satisfying way to end their arc. (Now's the part where I make a "Goodbye Despair" joke.)

#danganronpa 3 #dr3 #dr3 anime #danganronpa #remnants of despair #dr3 future arc #dr3 despair arc #dr #dr3 hope arc #hajime hinata #izuru kamukura