His Hair, However, Remains Terrible.

[rionaleonhart]

Rei: I got an email from Netflix today about a new show. 'When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.' Sounds like it might be your jam.
Riona: I was about to say 'if it's not High School Musical: The Musical, I'm not interested,' but actually that does

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Let's get philosophical with Nagito Komaeda

[nadramon]

Hi Riona! Wow, I haven't used lj in forever, I missed it.

To be fair, at first the characters from Lord of the Flies did try to construct a functional society and to prevent it from falling apart while waiting for rescue, it just...didn't work at all. That book disturbed me deeply when I first read it as a teenager, but looking back, it was pretty realistic.

Oooh, this meme brings back memories! 8D Ok, I will bite:

[Spoilers for Danganronpa 1 and 2 under the cut]Hello, Komaeda! If you don't mind, I would like to hear your thoughts about something: there appears to be at least two different people in the world who were described as 'Ultimate Hope' (namely, Makoto Naegi and Izuru Kamukura), but this title seems to mean very different things for each of them: the former inspires hope in others by being abnormally optimistic, while the latter is made all-powerful by his talents and is therefore considered to have the most potential to improve humanity's future.

So, are there different kinds of hope, and is it possible for several people to be called Ultimate Hope, or do you think

Komaeda

[rionaleonhart]

Saying there could only be one Ultimate Hope would be a lot like saying hope is a limited resource, don't you think? But hope can generate more hope; as you say, the reason Naegi-kun and his friends were able to escape their situation was that Naegi-kun's hope inspired hope in the others! I think trying to impose limitations like that would be underestimating the power of hope, although of course my opinion is only worth so much.

I can't say what the outcome of a game between the Ultimate Hopes would be, but I've no doubt it would be beautiful to witness. If I could have the privilege of seeing such a thing, I...

(heavy breathing)

I suppose we'd need more Ultimate Hopes, of course! The killing games that have already been held seem to have created or uncovered the potential for hope in people, so perhaps holding more killing games would result in more Ultimate Hopes, and when we had enough we could hold a final game to see the true brightness of the collision of their hope

Re: Komaeda

[nadramon]

(Aaaand now I'm terrified. XD I really shouldn't encourage him, but hey, that would make a semi-plausible explanation for Komaeda to meet the V3 cast. I am so sorry, V3 cast

Susie

[rionaleonhart]

Wouldn't know. I've never eaten chalk. You've never seen me eat chalk. That's what you're gonna tell the teacher, right?