More Kazuko! Same base character, same credits to catboy-kiyotaka-edits, gentle-gelatin, and others for expressions, and same ability to be removed if the owners of the expressions would like me to! Once again, DO NOT USE FOR ANY PURPOSE!
so hey, *sits down politely in Listening Mode™* what do you think about akasaiou? :} (feel free to go off. going off is encouraged!!) /genuine
DEEP INHALE
IMMEDIATELY FORGETS EVERYTHING I'VE EVER THOUGHT ABOUT AKASAIOU DESPITE THEM OCCUPYING ALL MY BRAIN SPACE FOR MULTIPLE YEARS AT THIS POINT
TAKES SEVERAL DAYS TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION (SORRY) BECAUSE WORDS HARD EDITING EVEN HARDER
ough. um. well first of all there's LOTS of tasty hand symbolism and i go bananas for that. with saiou it's pretty explicit (i reach out, but he doesn't take my hand and the bandaging scene in the FTEs, he can't lie about the warmth of his hand in salmon mode, to a lesser extent shuuichi's accusatory finger point but ESPECIALLY in the fourth trial) for saimatsu it's a bit more subtle (kaede reaching out to pull shuuichi up when he falls out of the locker, shuuichi taking her hands over the desk to comfort her even though his own are shaking, a lingering shot of their hands desperately reaching out for eachother that they CUT from the execution and i will NEVER NOT BE MAD ABOUT-) and for oumatsu it's almost entirely in my head (them playing tag COUNTS, it DOES-). it's good food basically.
(small side tangent about that last bit - i want to focus mostly on them as a trio here, but i feel like i need to play a bit of defense for oumatsu because GOOD GOD are people nasty about it in a way they aren't about saiouma or saimatsu. no, kaede does not dislike kokichi - she calls him "hard to hate" more than once. no, kokichi is not "too mean" by pointing out her failings in the tunnel (and yes, he's allowed to be snappish when he's exhausted and injured!). kaede and kokichi are a wonderful duo who both give the other much needed pushback on the faults in their personal ideologies, and they do that while knowing when to stop and just goof off together. half the people who say their dynamic is irredeemably unhealthy are stealing that dynamic and plastering it onto kaito/kokichi because they hate ships with women in them. this has been Soapbox Time With Vesper).
i think the main reason i started shipping them - beyond all three of them just having fun/cute/silly dynamics with the other two sdhnjhsf - is that they are, to me, the core of v3. i've talked about it before (1 2) , but kaede's death is EVERYTHING to kokichi and shuuichi's parallel character arcs.
kokichi is bright, extroverted, and has a hand leading the group (challenging kaede in the tunnel, establishing the first breakfast meeting, leading the charge in convincing the others monokuma is dead even when he doesn't truly believe it) but he's never the same after kaede dies; he believes *any* kind of open cooperation will get him targeted by monokuma and killed. he resorts to manipulations on top of schemes on top of plans in a desperate attempt to never end up like her.
shuuichi is withdrawn, suspicious, and really only cooperates with one person (he suspects rantarou to the point of taking kaede aside and warning her not to ask him any more questions about his talent, he makes his own plot to catch the ringleader with no intentions of sharing it with the group) but once kaede passes on her wish he forces himself to socialize and to trust in a way he never would've before, and by ch4 *he's* basically the group's de-facto leader. if v3 had a movie poster kaede would be big and faded from the back and saiou would be back-to-back in the center with everyone else lining the corners. does that make any sense?? idk.
ough what else...i think the flaws/weaknesses in each pair are helped by their third member (kokichi has ZERO tolerance for shuuichi or anyone else putting kaede on a pedestal, shuuichi is a calming presence to balance out the oumatsu shenaniganery, kaede will simply knock the boys' heads together if they attempt Miscommunication™). i think they should all bond postgame (what if we didn't directly kill anybody but we still had blood on our hands...and then we held them!!). i think they should have one of those bunk beds with a twin on top and a queen on bottom, so saimatsu can spoon and kokichi can cackle manically from his nest of pokemon plushies. i think they should go on a boba date and shuuichi should have to pull out all his acting chops to pretend he doesn't hate the texture. i think that i love them a lot :]
Pregame Oumaede headcanons: Kokichi’s a destructive dumbass that pulls off insane stunts to try to sound cool, but only to get himself hurt. Kaede watches over him and protects him from bullies. They both genuinely care about each other. Kokichi calls Kaede “My Hero” whenever she helps him. It actually makes her happy.
WAWAHHHHH I LOVE THIS!!!
I normally hate the pre-game HC because of them making Shuichi a yan//dare, Kaede a bully, and Kokichi a weak bully-victim with no friends/help. They make me really uncomfortable BUT THIS??!?!? Peak greatness, gold.
Reckless PG! Kokichi just doing dumb shit and hurting himself and getting trouble, I live for that tbh.
I don’t think PG! Kokichi was weak and defenseless, maybe meek and scared but still a sneaky guy!
And on that, I don’t think PG! Kaede was a bully, I think the addition tapes where faked (Long rant and I could talk about it on another post) so I don’t think she 100% despised humanity, maybe hated humanity a bit for how fucked up it is. I feel like she’d still be caring and kind to those closest to her, and cold and uncaring to others.
I can just imagine Kokichi trying to do thing dumb, like jumping out of a tree to show he wasn’t weak, or falling off the roof, trying to impress Kaede and her just getting upset scolding him for 10 minutes then giving him a big hug and telling him she was worried that one time, he wouldn’t be okay.
The two just hug
ooooh and Kaede punching some bully in the face when she found out about them bullying Kokichi
“Back off slut!” Kaede Akamatsu
I love these two so so much!!! AA if you want to talk more about HC you can always send them at @/dnganv3imaginesandmore, I’d love to full HC posts for them.
hurnnmg this is a jumbled mess but I really adore this HC
Current sprites for my Oumaede fanchild, Kazuko Ouma. DO NOT USE FOR ANYTHING UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! THESE ARE BEING POSTED FOR DOCUMENTATION PURPOSES!
Base: Peko Pekoyama
Some of the expressions were created by catboy-kiyotaka-edits, gentle-gelatin, and others! I own only the character, the base art is credited to its rightful owners!! If those owners would like those particular expressions removed, I will happily do so!