I love you so much that I will re-order time to spend more of it with you.
Nothing can keep me from you forever.
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Watched a thing on detectives in mystery fiction the other day, and realized how thoroughly Danganronpa defies and rejects the typical character tropes.
In most mystery fiction the protagonist solving the mystery is a fairly detached character who is solving cases either for money, or for the thrill of the puzzle itself. There’s very little emotional engagement with either the victim or perpetrator of the crime
Whereas in Danganronpa (and rp killing games structured to mirror it) the person solving the mystery is very emotionally enmeshed with both the victim, and the perpetrator. Its literally a crime against someone who you’ve come to know personally, and the perpetrator is someone who has broken emotionally under the horror of your shared circumstances, or even someone who’s been party to horrific accident.
Solving a mystery in typical mystery fiction means the detective (and you) can feel good about solving the puzzle, whereas every single mystery solved in Danganronpa is a personal tragedy that’s hard to feel good about. Which I suppose is intentional on the part of the creator of the game, whether you want to apply that to Junko or to the writers.
you know, the more i think about it, the angrier i get about how mainstream media and even people in general treated marie kondo when the life changing magic of tidying up got big. it’s just so unnecessary and sad to me and i think the vast majority of people would love what she has to say if they just actually looked into it instead of maliciously memeing her to death? i’m not talking about the cutesy does it spark joy stuff but all the things portraying her as some bizarre evil cleaning dictator.
i actually read her book when i was about twelve years old, in the most shocking and probably only example of me ever being ahead of a trend, and even at twelve i really loved everything she said. at that point in time i lived in fear of my mother’s threats that she would come and throw everything away while i was school, and my small and very adhd mind simply could not grasp the concept of “have less stuff”. have less of WHICH stuff? how? i’d never actually been taught how to clean my room besides being told “pick up stuff” and “be organized”, and as she points out multiple times, cleaning is not an intuitive thing. it’s a learned behavior and skill.
anyways. her entire philosophy centers on surrounding yourself with things that you love, and only things that you love (or things that you absolutely need). she explicitly says over and over again that it is not about throwing things away, it is not about minimalism, it is not about “what is the smallest amount possible that you can survive on”. she literally has a whole section where she talks about how hard it can be to throw things away when you’ve lived in poverty all your life and you don’t have absolute confidence that you can replace something that you really needed if it gets thrown out, even though you’re not likely to ever really need it–you’ve just been conditioned to think that because that’s literally how you survive, when you’re poor. she talks about how that mindset can serve and how it can damage. she talks about how minimalism is sort of a rich people thing, cause they can afford to throw everything away.
this woman really came out here and said “i want you to be surrounded by things you love and i’m going to validate your fears and your difficulties in getting to that place” and people somehow got mad at her. i don’t understand it