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@gontagokuhara-week Day 7 - crossover / (fusion?) au / free day

I'm a Persona 5 fan, and I also love putting my favourite characters into other settings... especially if they're a bit less despair-inducing than Danganronpa lmao.

So, Gonta as a Phantom Thief (because why the hell not)!! I've had this in mind for a while, and it's definitely not a final design or anything, but I like how it's turning out so far.

Warning, lots of AU infodumping below the cut :')

His Phantom Thief codename is Beetle :)

I wanted him to look classy, but also a bit intimidating and warrior-like

As for why his Phantom Thief outfit has some intimidating vibes when Gonta hates looking scary... I think he would eventually realise (maybe through an awakening scene?) that he can still do good by using that "intimidating” side of himself, and that he should embrace his whole self to help more and more people

Thinking about it, in a final design I want to make his undervest? Underjacket? thing more armoured, and give him more insect motifs and armour overall

Designing a Persona for him... that's gonna be a challenge if or when I get to it lol

Gonta’s very protection-oriented, not only with the armor on his outfit, but with his Persona abilities. Group defense buffs and group heal skills are a must for him. Is there a move in P5 where a character is 100% guaranteed to tank attacks aimed at others? If there is, he has that for sure. Also his element would be wind and his weakness would be fire

The shield-spear combo was inspired by this quote which pops into my head occasionally:

The Phantom Thieves in P5 all have one gun and one weapon each, so an idea I had for Gonta was that his “shield” would actually be a large beetle-shaped armoured gun, that’s strapped onto his arm like a shield because using it as a gun feels dishonorable. ...But I completely forgot about that when drawing this orz I’ll get it right next time

I also have some ideas for a Kokichi P5 design... we going court jester with this one

#danganronpa #gonta gokuhara #own art #the whole 'putting my favourite characters into different settings' thing? #I tend to do that a lot with Gonta lol #it's fun imagining how my favourites would do in a completely different environment #bonus points if there's magic or superpowers! #I have a spiderm@n AU and possibly some ai s0mnium files AU ideas if anyone's interested #censoring the above names because I don't want this to be in unrelated tags

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Happy Belated Birthday and end to Gonta Week to my favourite character in the whole universe <33 Only an essay could describe how much I adore Gonta and how much he means to me, but for now Ill leave it at this. Thank you everyone who made anything for Gonta week!! I had such a nice time seeing everyone's creations :,]

#cute Gonta!! #what a lovely gentleman <3 #thank you for hosting Gonta Week! #it's been great seeing so much stuff made for our favourite entomologist <3 #danganronpa #gonta gokuhara

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@gontagokuhara-week Day 6 - pregame / postgame

Major spoilers for V3 under the cut!

Sooo the idea is that this would be in-universe promo material for the upcoming Danganronpa V3 series, designed by the lackeys over in Team Danganronpa's advertising department.

Given how Danganronpa was massive in-universe, with presumably a shitton of advertising and publicity... I wonder how pregame Gonta would have fit into that. Why would he want to join the killing game? How would he feel about all the publicity - would he be into that like pregame Kaito, or is whatever motive he had to join the game strong enough to get past any uncomfortable feelings?

Some of these questions could be answered if pregame Gonta had any lines of dialogue :( But him never speaking could itself be a character trait. I think he could be someone who rarely talks because others find him intimidating and they don't engage with him... and his silence then makes him look more intimidating, which makes him keep more of his thoughts to himself, and so on. But that interpretation of him then sends me back to 'why would he put himself through a TV show?'.

Would he be aware of the "muscular person goes down in Chapter 4" trope, and if so, would he want to buck that trend, or is he relying on it? It's all interesting to think about.

Also, change of topic but I kind of have a plotline for the promo material in-universe

Each student would have their own variant, with their own memetic/self-referential taglines

Tsumugi suggested the taglines for each variant - she's the only one in the department who understands what they mean, the rest of the team just nods along as she's the mastermind and they think she has some authority because of that (she doesn't)

The higher-ups at Team Danganronpa swiftly come down on this and ban the taglines for being "tacky" and "only marketable to obsessed old-school Danganronpa fans", replacing all of them with the generic "thrills, chills, kills!"

but not before merch with the original taglines is created and sent off to stores. Said merch is put on second-hand websites for several times the original price. Tsumugi ends up being called to the CEO's office for an awkward conversation

#danganronpa #danganronpa v3 #gonta gokuhara #own art #trying to do some form of semi-realism... never again lmao #i'm guessing the 'real reason' why pregame gonta doesn't speak is that him changing pronouns might give away #the 'contestants become different/fictional characters' twist early #but it's interesting to come up with other theories!! #i just noticed how long this post is #sorry about that!! #tomorrow's post might be worse ^^;

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@gontagokuhara-week Day 1 - protector / gentleman

V3-4's tricky for me to talk about for one or two reasons, but one thing I can say is that Gonta intentionally throwing away his dream of being a gentleman - something he ties everything about himself around - in order to protect everyone from the truth... to me that's one of the most underrated yet coolest things in V3.

It's still technically his birthday where I am, but this feels a smidge dark for that, so there's a more celebratory birthday variant of this on my twitter!

(I can only do a bit of Gonta Gokuhara Week, but I should hopefully have some stuff for the last two or three days ^^)

#danganronpa #gonta gokuhara #own art #i don't mean to say he's morally right for his actions in 3-4 #but i admire his resolve to take drastic action to try and make things better #there's a kind of strength there that makes me think “wow Gonta's one of the coolest DR characters actually” #also... it's been a while orz #i know i've missed at least one callout - sorry!! #the last time i posted... ooof

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🎉Happy Birthday Gonta!🎉

You’re a wonderful gentleman as you are!

#danganronpa #gonta gokuhara #own art #not really birthday related #but i imagine lying in a sunny field with dragonflies is a nice way to spend a day #in 2023 i’d like to draw more varied Gontas #and generally be more active here

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happy birthday to our favorite gentleman 🎉

#bless <3 #this is very sweet #happy birthday!! #danganronpa #gonta gokuhara

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Happy Birthday Gonta!!!

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#cuuuute! <3 #at least they have each other #danganronpa #gonta gokuhara

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GONTA!!! It’s the best boy’s birthday, and I really pushed myself to make something I’d be proud of for the occasion :)

Kaede is the one that goes around at birthday parties of her friends with an instant camera to catch surprise shots of them all

#yoooo this is cool! #happy birthday indeed :) #danganronpa #gonta gokuhara

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“Smile like Gonta! Smile like gentleman!”

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#OP I am going bananas!! #you capture so many aspects of Gonta in your posts it's unreal #gorgeous art #i would happily be lectured by pregame Gonta #danganronpa #gonta gokuhara

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GONTA!! 🐛🪲🎂

It was very hard to get this done even to this capacity over the past two weeks but I'm so glad I managed it!! Gonta is my biggest comfort character, and I really relate to him in a lot of ways. He deserves only the best of birthdays with people who care about him <3

Please don't tag as ou/goku!

#what a sweet boy <3 #he's so charming! #give him all the presents #danganronpa #gonta gokuhara

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GONTA!!! THE BEST CHARACTER IN THE UNIVERSE <3 TE AMO MUCHO

#*kicks the door open* #did someone say Gonta's birthday??

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That one design of Gonta in a comfy jumper and untucked shirt still occupies my brain

#danganronpa #gonta gokuhara #own art

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ART PREVIEW– "An Eternity of Prosperity", featuring Gonta Gokuhara.

Artist: Rin

#gorgeous! #gonta gokuhara is a pretty man and i will die on this hill #danganronpa #gonta gokuhara

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I drew this because I saw a lot of catboys on the internet a few days ago, sorry (not sorry)

Gonta’s associated with wolves more, but cats are cute too <3

#danganronpa #gonta gokuhara #own art

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Baby Gonta in the wilderness :>

#cute!! #how could anyone be scared of him?? #lovely art op #danganronpa #gonta gokuhara

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a talent swap! Gonta as the Ultimate Florist and Momo as the Ultimate Entomologist! (what do you mean it was an excuse to style Gonta’s hair again?? who said that??)

#oooh lovely! #they're both cute #soft boys #and who needs an excuse to style gonta's hair? #that hairbun looks like you could sink your hand into it #heavenly #danganronpa #gonta gokuhara

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I adore your art. It's great. If it's not too much trouble, can I request some Gundham x Gonta?

a 1000x times yes

#bless #this is so sweet #also artist goals #have you played op's gonta dress up game? you should #if you haven't look up 'gentleman dress up gonta' #danganronpa #gonta gokuhara #gundham tanaka