I want to preface this by saying that I am a huge fan of danganronpa.
I love all the games, the anime, the story, the art, the characters, and everything about it. I haven't played all the games myself but I can guarantee you I have watched every piece of media for it (including spinoff fan games as well).
However, I am an even bigger fan of my two most favourite characters in the whole series,
Mr. daddy long legs,
and the ultimate hope bagel.
So you can imagine my DESPAIR when I found out — after already sinking 100 hours into this bottomless abyss — that there was a cat that embodied the soul of BYAKUYA TOGAMI HIMSELF???
I knew I would end up regretting not min-maxing this game from the start. I thought maybe for once that I would try playing a game normally and just enjoy how relaxing it is to play without the pressure of finishing a storyline instead of obsessing over efficiency like I always do.
(Cue flashback to playing every harvest moon game out there and even printing out pages and pages of walkthroughs for every single one of them as a kid since GameFAQs was my only source of info at the time*)
And, honestly, that's how it was in the beginning, it was fun slowly seeing my island grow and deviate from its original blank slate. I was able to add more villagers, expand my house, try to cultivate a hybrid flower farm, and fail miserably in the process. I even got a Nintendo online subscription just so I could visit my friends' islands as well and trade native fruits with each other. I downloaded a variety of QR codes to further customize and personalize my island.
It was going really well. It was great. It was fun.
But alas, a cat-shaped hole still remained in my heart. I can't acknowledge the fact that I am way too invested in this little furry boy.
I had to distract myself or else the anguish will consume me. I tried a number of distractions:
I built an outdoor library, a recreation area near Able's — complete with a basketball court and an upstairs arcade lounge, I started a band at like 5am with randos and broke up a mere 3 minutes upon creation, spent an entire irl day fishing just so I can max out my inv with the cocacola fish, I visited countless islands to get all the Celeste DIY's and spent way too much time wishing for stars when I should've been wishing for something else.
Or, more specifically, someone else.
When I close my eyes I see him, wearing that famous grey waistcoat and those black frame glasses, his brown and green complete heterochromia eyes are hypnotizing. It doesn't take long until I start to fall into a trance.
In my mind, in every dream and every waking nightmare,
I can only hope and pray for those three words I have been yearning for all this time,
the only phrase that can save me from this torment —
"TELL THEM, NAEGI."
Anyway, I'm offering 30mil bells, a Moai statue, Stonehenge, Tower of Pisa, and I can craft most of celeste diys if you want too (I don't have any large star fragments rn tho).
Sorry, I ran out of nmts, spent over 200 looking for this bespectacled boi.
I have a plot ready to be moved into. It took so long to kick Samson out as well.
Please, end my suffering.
(Apologies for the format and grammar, this is my first long text post.)