Latest Posts by readyas - Page 2

question mom and question dad (+ no mask version below) happy bday kaito

momota kaito i'll forever love you i genuinely can't express how greateful i am for your existence 😭

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAITO🎉🎉🎉

Stargazing under an artificial night sky.

Everyone say a happy birthday Kaito

*inhale*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAITO!!!!!!!!!!!!

The worst part of being hospitalized is that I miss Kaito Momota’s birthday

Happy birthday Kaito

borth

shitpost

It's like my dreams are turning on me ☁︎‎‎‧₊˚

Hitting pause on my growing hatred of Shuichi so I can try to read 1 saiouma fic

God abandons me everytime i try to post something tbhk related tbhk content dont flop challenge

hey gang i'm deranged!!

i may not like the idea of kokichi being addicted to Panta, but apparently i am cause i just spent the past several hours of my life designing Panta cans and coming up with Panta lore

for context- it started cause i was watching those "redesigning snack packaging" videos, and it sparked some inspo in me to make my own attempt at knockoff snack packaging. as it turns out i can only make one really obvious knockoff snack before i get too creative and start making stuff that could unironically stand on it's own

after making Pop Pies (knockoff poptarts), Florida Icetea (Arizona knockoff), and Koffi-Kats (coffee kitkat knockoff), i remembered that Panta was a thing and went "hey so what if i redesigned Panta so it wasn't just the Fanta logo with a p?" and everything went down hill from there

i present to you: Kai's hc universe version of Panta!

okay so there's ALOT i did actually so buckle up

first off- i wanted to make it look like something Kokichi would actually pick up, and that resulted in me coming up with the idea that Panta use to be a shameless japanese Fanta knockoff when it was first made, but they decided to get their own identity and started marketing towards the alt community with a non-serious clowning/trickster/delinquent focused branding.

i imagine they ended up being niche but also having a loyal following in whatever juggalo or juggalo-adjacent scene might be in Japan, which is how Kokichi got into it

second off- as you can see i came up with four different drink lines. the idea is they have their fruity soda line with all the base flavors, and then they reuse those flavors and their names for the other three lines. their default flavor is Clownin' Concord, and along with it their og flavor set also had Chucklin’ Cherry, Mischievous Melon, Bozo Blueberry, and Loosey-Goosey Lemon-Lime, from there they added more flavors to their roster over the years and even did some limited edition flavors that come back seasonally (i do have a full list, but i'm not showing it on this post. if you shoot me an ask i'd gladly share it there)

for the actual other lines: -Slap Shtick Sour is what warhead soda should have been- an actually fucking sour soda. i imagine them to be pretty damn tart but like in a good way that you can't get enough of (Kokichi's favorite cause it's strong enough he can actually taste it) -Pie Face! is a cream soda line, plain and simple. i know Japan really likes melon soda floats and calls them cream sodas, so i went "what if Panta did that, but more, and in a can" -Manic Mischief is their energy drink line, i have no further explanation for this they're just fruity energy drinks

i haven't done sugar free cause i think with their branding style they'd take pride in how sugary and in your face they are, so a sugar-free variant would actively go against that

for packaging you may notice they're all cans and no bottles- it wasn't initially intentional but after i noticed i had only been doing cans i decided it'd be a funky gimmick if they only ever made cans, no bottles. what do they do for liter bottles then? mini keg. no i'm not kidding, they do mini kegs instead- it fits the off kilter grungy vibes everything else has so it's not too horribly out of pocket.

i also plan on designing some candy packaging cause i do have ideas for Panta flavored hard candies and soft chews, but i'm not postponing this post another several hours to make them.

finally, just as a bonus- have the logo on it's own plus their slogan i pulled out of my ass

HOPE VS DESPAIR

Hehehehehee i finished playing through v3 for the second time last night so i drew kiibo

Reason #48234872 Kiibo should've lived: so Maki can have someone to recreate a normal human adolescence with while Himiko and Shuichi go into a state of depressed hibernation for the next half decade...

Honestly I never even thought of this pairing until I started drawing this months ago, but I think they would have an interesting dynamic postcanon. It's hard for them to relate to each other at first — Maki has seen way too much and Kiibo has seen like 0 things in his life ever — but they've both been dehumanized, made to believe they're dangerous,* and barred from participating in "the real world" for most of their lives. And because of that they just want something that is, to use Maki's words, "as vanilla as possible."

Also, they're both autistic straight men and I want to see the hijinks that ensue when you put two of those in the same room.

*Obviously we see Maki being viewed as dangerous by herself and others; I can't even tell anymore if it's obvious that Kiibo shares that experience to some degree or if I'm just too deep in my own Kiibo lore... But here's 2 thoughts on why I think that's something they canonically share:

They both hurt someone close to them in their backstories, and that weighs on them enough that both of their Harmonious Heart events are about wondering if that person would hold it against them. Also for reasons I won't elaborate on here, I'm pretty sure Kiibo at least subconsciously views himself as a danger to others due to the environment he grew up in after Iidabashi was injured. I mean imagine having an emergency stop button permanently installed on your body "just in case."

Despite everyone's backstories being fictional, Kiibo and Maki have still killed one real person each --- Kiibo killed Tsumugi (and endangered everyone else), and Maki effectively killed Kokichi/Kaito ('effectively' just as in it could create the kind of "I killed a guy" guilt that is relevant to this discussion. I'm not going to even comment on the actual causality of that entire situation). Even if you don't count that, Kiibo being the only person with a body count is an interesting reversal given he's a pacifist and seems to have the most rigid moral code of the cast (something I also think was a precaution of sorts).

(+ Credit: Background of page 6 is traced from this random photo of an ice rink lobby. I made up the background of page 7 and that's why you can't tell what the hell anything actually is.)

sorry, we had to reject your application because youre kin with komeada. not only are you white and kinning outside of your race but we already have a komeada working here and we have a strict NO DOUBLES policy. 

- target

I keep thinking about how Maki says she joined the assassin cult to protect her childhood friend from being the one to go through it instead, but like... what if they were just manipulating her? Pretending to target the friend and hoping Maki would take the bait, with her being their real target all along? Because if the friend really was as kindhearted and emotional as Maki describes, those aren't good traits for an assassin, regardless of how strong you are, and surely the scouts would know that. They're experts, they'd be able to tell when someone doesn't have the emotional aptitude for a life of killing, never mind if they're athletic.

Also, Maki says that during the training they tried to break her, but her memories of her friend kept her going. What if that was the point? The assassin training was torturous and horrific, and the kids are about 10 or 11 when being put through that -- they would break if they didn't have some reason to hold on. Assassins are an expensive investment, and I doubt the cult would want their kids dying before making it out of training and carrying out some hits. Maki sees it as herself managing to resist somewhat, like a small "win", but perhaps the cult were banking on that, they were using her love for her friend against her to inspire her to survive the training and become a better assassin. Maybe they realised that if there was a way to give these mangled, messed up kids a sliver of positive reinforcement, the tiniest flickers of motivation, but in a way that the cult could fully control, then they'd end up with more resilient assassins. And with Maki this method was a roaring success.

And then what if they were the ones who had the friend killed off once she'd outlived her usefulness, and they needed Maki not to have any distractions from her work now that training was over... And they made it look like an accident, with the friend heroically saving a child, so that Maki would retain those good memories and use it to keep herself going, as opposed to breaking down and giving up now that her entire reason for doing all this was gone. She says it herself: "the memories of her I keep inside me have kept me alive till now." So maybe they were manipulating her and using her all along, letting her believe it, letting her keep this tiny sense of self in order to make sure their star assassin stayed alive and didn't give up entirely... I mean, we already know they're manipulating her by using her care for the orphanage, right? The better she does, the more funding the orphanage gets. They're already using that against her. It is a stretch to believe they'd use the person she loves most in the world against her too?

If that was the case, the worst part is that it happens all over again. She saw her protection of her friend as a personal victory, none the wiser to the fact that it's exactly what the cult wanted... and then here she is in the killing game, seeing her character development as another personal victory... only for that to be exactly what Team Danganronpa wanted, too. She could finally stop hating herself, start accepting that she too deserves happiness, that she can have friends again if she wants, only for none of it to supposedly be real. It's just "good TV". And the entire assassin backstory might not even be real, either. Maybe I'm just falling into the same trap by finding it so interesting and obsessing over it when it was all fake anyway. We'll never really know. Lies within lies, manipulation within manipulation...

But regardless, it DID keep her alive until now. And she does survive in the end. At least that much is real, so does it matter if the rest of it wasn't? Why do I stay up at night thinking about this??

Had a vision last night

I have a book cover project and had the idea to use drv3 chap 5 oumota as my lab rats 😈

This shit hurt my back so bad.

this is probably the most Controversial Opinion Ever but i kind of liked Tsumugi's plot for DR 53. it is wildly stupid and over the top and makes no sense and it would have been the funniest way ever to end the DR killing game trilogy. Makoto sending the worst people on the planet up into the sky to reproduce because COVID meteors or whatever. if the plot was played straight, with a few tweaks to the ending i would have been on board with it i think

Sometimes I think about how Kaito and Kokichi had the shared unique experience of being two people who knew they only had a limited time to live (Kokichi and the poison/Kaito with his illness.)

I think as he lived through his last hours, Kokichi probably would've felt some sort of respect towards Kaito for being able to live passionately despite knowing he wasn't going to live life as long as everyone else. Vice versa, really. I think Kaito also would've felt some respect towards Kokichi for wanting to make the most of what little time he had left, even if that was designing and carrying out his own demise.

Only they both knew what it was like to live life knowing the end was close, and they both embraced that instead of fearing it. I think that might be why Kaito was so willing to work with Kokichi even though he hated him. Kokichi, although briefly, knew he was racing against time, and still fought for something he cared about (ending the killing game.)

I also love that they both got to go out their own ways after being doomed to die. (Kokichi and the hydraulic press and Kaito passing because of his illness and not Monokuma's punishment. Their deaths felt like a middle finger to Monokuma personally, and I love that for them.) They were denied the right to live long lives, but they made damn sure they went out with a bang.

(I also think about how easily Kokichi could've saved himself but instead gave Kaito the antidote. Maybe that was another reason why Kaito decided to help him carry out his plan. Kokichi knew Kaito was dying, but still decided he should be the one who got to live. I don't think Kokichi saw Kaito's illness as a weakness. After all, his reasoning to give Kaito the antidote was so he could blackmail Kaito using Maki. Kaito's illness wasn't something Kokichi ever saw as a hindrance or factor (from what I can remember.) Kokichi just saw Kaito as someone capable of carrying out his plan.)

All the references I used/ put into this piece!!

(Disclaimer: All of this is based on the stories I was told. When googling I found vastly different information. Which makes sense, Hinduism is the oldest standing religion. Some things I say not be the widespread belief, but it what I was told and believed.)

That being said!

This is a reference to Lord Vishnu and his bull Nandi.

Vishnu is the lord of destruction, destined to end the world when it’s “done” basically.

I felt this fit Kokichi because of the theory Tsumugi wrote him to be the master mind.

I added a snake on his collar to show he was supposed to be Vishnu. The red tassel is supposed the be a “third eye” of sorts. (Originally I was going to portray him as Brahman who has several heads to represent wisdom, but I changed it. That’s why he has the several masks. I guess it could represent him “playing god”.) I also made his sash the toilet paper. That’s also why he looks blue (that and the purple looked weird against the yellow.)

Nandi’s story is where my version splits from the ones I’ve seen online. Basically Nandi was a boy gifted from Vishnu to a farmer who couldn’t have children. The crops started to suffer and the farmer fell ill, so Nandi prayed to Vishnu in order to help. Vishnu eventually came and fixed the crops, but took Nandi and turned him into a bull to use as a steed. Very depressing stuff.

I figured this was pretty Gonta-core (especially considering there’s some telling where Vishnu attacks using Nandi. There’s also a tradition where you whisper secrets into Nandi’s ear, which fits the whole “Gonta knows the secret of the outside world” thing.

I added a Swastika as a sort of contrast for the tragedy. It Hinduism (and many other religions) it’s seen as a symbol of peace and prosperity. So here it’s sorta like a heart sticker on a gushing wound.

In the west, Swastikas were corrupted into a symbol of hatred. I think it fit since Gonta’s sacrifice and intentions were turn into hatred for Kokichi in the group.

Anyway that’s it! If there’s questions feel free to comment or DM me. It’s pretty late so there might be some mistakes I missed, so just point them out so I can fix them.

Spring tenkangie my cuties <3

Go! Self indulgent fanart with references to Asian mythology! Go!

I'll probably make a post explaining all the references later.

Fucking Whatever Tournament - Round 1

Oumota: still upset about them losing that other poll so im submitting them here 💔

hi havent posted in a while have my DICE designs and headcanons + extra thing

lowkey got lazy with the headcanons i swear i have a lot its hard to explain in words okay

i liked personalizing the uniforms tho. Pierrot wears a scarf cause she gets cold easy

Their all cool with the mean nicknames btw their best buds trust trust 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫

unfortunately they both think theyre the hot yaoi seme

Old oumota wip i never finished..

post-game

ABSOLUTELY NO ONE TOUCH THIS PLEASE TIE PLEASE TIE IT WOULD BE SO FUCKING FUNNY

Danganronpa Shipping Battle - Round 5 - Semifinals

Danganronpa Shipping Battle - Round 5 - Semifinals