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Ok so first of all major spoilers for drdt.
Anyways one of the most notable themes in drdt is kindness. More specifically the difference between kindness as a trait and kindness as a choice. You can see this with almost every character but the main focus of this theme is Eden.
We know that eden very deliberately chooses to be nice. Other characters like arei view kindness as something you are(The David flashback among other)
So how does this trace to hu? Well its kinda obvious that she choose to be kind to people. Yes she does so in a different way than eden but she still does it. (In fact both eden and hu are introduced first in the prologue)
Yeah that pretty much spells it out for you.
So the first obvious parallel is how they both choose kindness. But they do choose it in different ways. In fact they both kinda fall into preexisting tropes from the danganronpa. Eden takes the archetypal role of a "child" and Hu does so as a "mom character" (bleugh). If you want proof that this was intentional for hu just look at the voice trailer for drdt.
However as seen from characters like Nico this role is subverted in a very interesting way. This subversion isn't really obvious until chapter 2. Obviously when you think of chapter 2 and hu you think of Nico. But you can actually see it more obviously with David.
This comes AFTER a confirmation of davids secret. Even at this point Hu still trusts him AND more specifically gives him an easy way out. If David wanted to keep manipulating people he could have followed on this and gave a bullshit sob story.
There is a similar parallel to this when Ace is being accused. Eden says that his injuries would make it harder to commit murder.
The main difference here is that Eden's defense is both A) Logical and B) not directed at someone she personally likes.
This comes to an interesting conclusion that even though these characters fit the "mom" and "child" role, Eden is more emotionally mature than Hu. This leads to a really interesting dynamic.
It also makes sense to assume that Hu only defends/is nice to certain people. After all when ace is accused Hu jumps right on the toxic accusation train. So lets look at who Hu chooses to defend.
Obviously she chooses to defend Nico. This is more obvious to the narrative that I don't feel thew need to explain it. Nico is bullied. Hu feels bad for them.
Ok then what about David? Welll
She relates to him. Assuming Hu isn't lying about her secret. She can relate to depression. My theory is she's desperate to believe that David got over his depression and thus making it feel possible to get over her's. (Oh im so so curious about her backstory)
Eden on the other hand is nice to everyone. She's nice to Arei even after she insult her. She feels bad for Ace at the end of the trial and even now she's trying to connect to teruko. She's not picky about who she cares about and who she defends.
I don't think this makes hu a worse character. In fact I think it makes hu that much better. She's way more relatable and is an ore accurate depiction of kindness. Also presuming she has some kind of trauma(her secret) her being picky about who she defends and likes only really makes sense.
Anyways that's hu vs eden.
I wanna talk about the Hu/Eden parallels so badly
Who's more unhinged, David stans or Ace stans?
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top five tricks for avoiding having to write dialogue:
make it have no dialogue. call it stylistic
have it and blame the awkwardness on the characters. say it's just how they talk.
songfics. a great way to avoid writing dialogue. the lyrics express how they feel so you don't have to write their words yourself.
kill the characters. fucking kill them. who's gonna talk if they're all dead?
don't write. stare at your empty word doc and cry because your life has lost all meaning.
*Checks hu jing tag hoping to find other people who also like her character!!*
*Half of it is people talking shit about her...*
*Closes hu jing tag.*
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Hot take, but cis people have gender identities. They aren't the gender they identify as because of their genitalia or what their birth certificate says. They're only cis because they identify with a gender and it happens to match their government documentation. Cis men aren't men because they're "obviously" men for having a penis. They're men because they identify as men. It's the self-identification that dictates this, not any other factor, even for cis folks. And we should be framing it this way. A cis man identifies as a man and a cis woman identifies as a woman. There is no automatic or inherent gender.
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AJR is a punching bag for many of the online music critics. Mainly because AJR make very earnest music. They write about struggles: mental health, trying to balance having a life with friends while gaining popularity, and just the struggles of being in your 20s and early 30s.
But they always end their albums and many of their songs on an optimistic, earnest note. (One song is literally called Touchy Feely Fool!)
Their newest album The Maybe Man is tied together from beginning to end. Starting with someone struggling to find out who they are to realizing that who they are at the moment is important.
And if their music/lyrics aren't your thing, no skin off my back. But the amount of hate for people writing sincere songs really is pervasive with just the culture of making fun of people who are earnest and unapologetically themselves.
Their songs also hit my ADHD just right. There's always something there to latch onto and hold my attention.
Anyway. Be you! Have fun! Don't others stop you or make you feel ashamed of something you love.
(Also, I highly suggest going to see them in concert: they put on a show, including wirework, puppets, lots of using multimedia that makes it more Broadway, trap doors, and flailing dancing.
Lyrics of the last song 2085 on their last album. It balances the "more stupid" parts of their songs with the over-the-top sentimental.
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how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
Last night's dream. If I have to experience this weed-induced acid trip, so do you.
Someone decided to commit a murder with poison to make it less likely to get caught. Poisoned the basket of apples, as you do. David ate one and within seconds went down dramatically in front of everyone.
Except instead of killing him, it did the Snow White "sleeping death" thing. He wasn't dead, he was just in a magic coma. MonoTV as usual made a mistake and instead of giving the class belladonna gave them whatever kind of poison that is.
The class spent 10 minutes staring at David collapsed on the floor trying to figure out what to do. He's not dead, so no trial, but he won't wake up either unless they can find his true love to kiss him. Whit made the obvious joke the true love was Xander who already bit the big one, "so RIP David, I guess."
The choices are either have everyone kiss David to see what happens (rejected by everyone for fear someone's kiss will be so rancid it kills David and makes that person the blackened), or commit to the bit, put him in a glass coffin, and let this nonsense cause chaos on the outside.
Last thing that happened before waking up was Teruko sitting bedside with David during the 3-6 business weeks it takes to get a glass coffin without help of Amazon, and talking about how her bad luck will have this reversed by the next trial. The universe will not let her catch a break and let a trial run smoothly, therefore David will be fine.
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I think in the same way there's a 90/10 rule with horror and comedy (horror works best when it's 90% horror and 10% comedy and vice versa) there's a 90/10 rule for some relationships in fiction that's like. Wholesome and fucked up. A good friendship is at its most compelling when it's also 10% a bit fucked up. Fucked up relationship is at its most compelling when there's at least 10% of something actually sweet and substantive within. Do you get me
Some nerd who doesn’t know how Pokemon works: Status moves don’t matter lol they all suck
Me: Explain this then
(Hottest character anon again!) then maybe narrow it down to the hottest Dt boy