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A list of things about Boris Habit:

(SPOILERS AHEAD!)

(Edited to include some corrections from you guys! Thank you for helping me out!)

▪ He (at least partially) went to college for dentistry - enough to successfully perform multiple operations. It’s safe to assume he’s very intelligent.

• In his tweets, he complains about his fingers being “too sharp”, suggesting that his spelling atrocities are mostly because he’s having trouble typing - not that he can’t spell. Further examples are the diary and the PSA’s; in the diary pages (writing) his spelling is nearly perfect, and in the PSAs (typing) you get way more misspellings. 

• On that note: He can speak English almost perfectly! Typing errors aside, in any of the endings, he sobers up real quick - and when he gets serious, the misspellings just stop. I’ve seen a lot of people writing his dialogue like he types, but according to the game, he can speak just fine.

• If anything, the misspellings pop up in his dialogue when he’s psychotic - perhaps he’s baby talking you? No proof on that one, just speculation.

Edit: I’ve been informed that “manic” is the more appropriate term for how he acted in the boss fight. Sorry for the confusion!

• His cheerfulness isn’t completely an act - the game suggests that he was a really cheerful kid up until he snapped (as an indirect result of his father’s abuse, no less), and in the good ending (after you agree to be his friend) he gets some of that same peppiness back. Even Kamal agrees he’s just a big softy… under the poorly managed trauma, at least.

• HE UNDERSTANDS, AT THE END, THAT WHAT HE’S DONE IS WRONG. He’s not all flowers and sunshine about it, either - in the bad ending he realizes he’s become the villain, and not only accepts his death but smiles at you as if to encourage your actions. In the neutral ending he actively says that hurting you would be “wrong of [him]”, and in the good ending, if you agree to be his friend, he somewhat disbelievingly says “a real friend… after everything i’ve done to you…”

• Related to the last one: His amazement at your friendship, combined with the bullying documented in the diary, suggests that he’s never had many friends. In the last PSA, you see a picture of Kamal labeled “friend :-)”, suggesting they either used to be close or that Habit got attached. (I don’t think Kamal really hates him, but with how mad he got at him for so long, I’m not sure how close they actually were).

• In the good ending, it’s suggested that Boris left the Habitat and became a florist! At the very end of the credits, no less - you see Habit surrounded by plants, grinning ear to ear, holding a lil flower pot in his hands. If not a florist, then he’s at least getting to work with plants! (Good on him!!)

• On that note: in the bad ending, you see the same shot at the end of the credits, but with Boris just missing. You know, because you killed him. The game pretty heavily goes against that ending and repeatedly tells you that there’s another way.

• His favorite color is orange, according to his tweets! That’s not a ground breaker, it’s just cute. 

• He’s canonically 37, but his knowledge of the internet seems to be… mixed. On one hand, he knows enough to program his own website - and on the other, in the good ending he asks you to email him. (I don’t know a soul who uses email anymore.) BUT he does tweet! So maybe at the time of the ending he just doesn’t have a phone. We have no way to know.

Edit: Several people have informed me that the game takes place in the 90′s, which would explain why he uses email! Considering his tweets are (apparently?) canon and take place before Flower Kid, the timeline may be more or less ambiguous - but as far as I know it’s canonically in the 90′s.

• The Habitat is canonically in the USA, according to his twitter. Considering the developers said he has a Russian accent, perhaps his parents are immigrants. Again - no way to know for sure.

• In the tutorial, the pre-ending, and Boris’ photograph (if you take one), he appears as nothing but a red-eyed shadow that quite frankly looks demonic. In the game, the camera is used to show people’s true selves (most dominantly with Trencil, where taking his photo reveals him as a vampire). Considering vampires exist in this universe, we can take Boris’ photo and assume he’s… at least not fully human. Exactly what he is, however, we don’t know.

• Boris created the Carlas, and it’s suggested that he cares for them. Each of them refer to him as “dad” or “father”, expressing concern for his mental wellbeing and even recognizing his diary pages. (In fact, you get one of the diary pages from a Carla, who says Boris stored it inside her!) The fortune telling Carla even recognizes the Tooth Lily and understands how rare it is - knowledge that, according to Habit, only he knows.

• Randy says that Habit smells like “loose change”, suggesting that the metallic smell of laughing gas clings to him. Apparently he and Habit butt heads - Habit told him he couldn’t smell like pickles, and in his tweets he calls Randy “smelly”. In the same tweet he also admits to crying because Randy told him he smelled like loose change, so maybe he’s just holding a grudge.

• Habit doesn’t seem to be very tactful. He manages to tick off a few of the Habiticians, most prominently Kamal, who Habit says has “sepia toned teeth”. If you ask the Habiticians in question, they’ll suggest that he’s plain rude - but considering his character, it’s more likely that he’s just unintentionally blunt.

• Habit is trusting, even before the good ending. This is mostly displayed by his tweets. He clicks an ad for free lasagna and gets a computer virus, buys a fake set of X-Ray glasses from Gerry (and wears them all day despite not being able to see!), someone stole quiches (presumably from his office) without him noticing, and in another tweet he said he ate an apple pie that tasted like rat poison! He expresses concern about the poison, but the way he wrote it suggests he ate the whole pie! He trusts people nearly to the point of naivety, despite the broken philosophy in his boss battle.

• It’s very heavily suggested that Habit is hurting for attention and interaction. In the good ending, despite knowing he’s just hurt you, he’s desperate enough to ask to be your friend (and not only surprised, but ecstatic if you say yes). In the same ending, kissing him is enough to completely snap him out of his breakdown and sober him up - right after flustering him immensely, of course. In one of his tweets, too, he accidentally admits that sometimes he wants kisses. Considering his childhood, it’s more than likely he’s really touch starved. 

• It’s really easy to make him cry. Several of the Habiticians mention him crying, and Habit even mentions crying in some of his tweets. On the other hand, he gets excited really easy, too. Basically, it seems he’s prone to feeling any emotion really strongly. 

• Habit canonically loves to draw and is good at it. In-game, he illustrates himself all over the walls of the Habitat. Usually they’re peppy, fun, somewhat childish drawings, but once you get to his office and the areas near it, you start to see some… really disturbing illustrations.

• Finally, my favorite: his hair. Aside from the obvious fact that it’s really long, in one of his tweets he’s distressed because he’s “drowning in it”. There’s no conclusions to be drawn here except that his hair’s awesome.

ok i did it

no one probably wants to see this but

does anyone remember the hetalia egirls because,,,

im thinking of opening up shop again

Do you still do s/o asks? If so how do you think the protagonists would react to their s/o cosplaying as monokuma and irritating him by childishly imitating him and repeating every word he says?

Oh, I’ve always done them, Anon. In fact if you look way back, you can see this blog was built on those asks.

I just don’t get them as frequently, which is why you don’t see much of it anymore.

Thanks for the ask, anon! I hope you enjoy!

So, S/O REALLY did not like Monokuma. Whenever he spoke, it always grated them the wrong way. So everytime he began to speak, S/O began to mock him, at first it was only whenever he said something VERY dumb making some crack up.

Then it turned into every other sentence.

Then it turned into every sentence.

Then it got so far, to which S/O made a fucking suit of Monokuma, and began speaking like him.

While this annoyed the SHIT out of Monokuma, it made their boyfriend(s) laugh like hell.

Makoto

At first, he was only snickering when he heard his S/O mocking Monokuma. He would try to warn them not to go too far, or let him hear them, but then he didn’t care anymore, once he saw the suit, he couldn’t stop laughing.

Makoto’s laugh was contagious, it caught onto the rest of the class, making them all laugh at Monokuma.

Hajime

At first he was laughing, but when he saw his S/O bring in the bear suit, he just lost it.

After Monokuma began getting visibly angry, he joined in the mocking alongside S/O.

Eventually, this was joined in by Hiyoko, Ibuki, and even Sonia.

Monomi joined in as well, so you had an entire army bullying Monokuma as soon as he appeared.

This demotivated him so much, that he eventually stopped caring about the killing game, and went away, everyone voting for S/O to take center stage for Monokuma’s place.

(S/O) “PUHUHU! LOOK AT ME! I’M AN ANNOYING PIECE OF SHIT! LET’S GO DO SOME STUPID THINGS TODAY!”

And in the distance, you could hear Monokuma eating a carton of ice cream, crying.

wait he can cry?

Shuichi

Unlike the other two, he would NOT be laughing. In fact, he’d be very afraid for S/O’s life, not wanting her to get ganked by Monokuma after being mocked for like, an entire week straight.

Not to mention Miu and Kokichi joining in was NOT helping the case, and instead of getting sad like in DR2, he got PISSED.

As soon as S/O brought in the suit, Monokuma had enough and jumped in front of the cubs.

“STOP MOCKING ME DAMN IT”

Which of course, made S/O, Miu, and Kokichi laugh even harder.

Kaede

Not only did she laugh alongside everyone else, she went above and beyond by finding a portable keyboard, and playing a horribly played tune of Monokuma’s theme whenever S/O showed up in the costume.

Making matters worse, Kokichi and Miu dressed up like the cubs, mocking both the kids AND the dad.

At which point Monokuma had ENOUGH.

“OKAY YUP. ALL OF YOU ARE GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL.”

(S/O) “Totally-”

(Kaede) “WORTH IT-”

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