are there RP wishes I can grant for you?
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are there RP wishes I can grant for you?
are there RP wishes I can grant for you?
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if not, just jam with mem
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me...
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I was actually thinking of having Ko inbox Souda post event about, uh, fusing with that thing. Or souda reaching out to check on Ko, if you’re down 
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oh absolutely
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it's Necessary
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fantastic
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holds ur hand. i don't have any requests but i love u and i love threading w u
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i feel u, and i love threading w u too... i need to tag giogio again
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i'm considering having souda's wings get started before the next fog as a result of this altercation and his desire to protecc
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what a good egg
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when you wrote that into the tag I gasped like "shield wings! shield wings!"
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wipes eyes. wing boi
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YEA
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Souda is the crybaby knight in shining armor 
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IT'S TRUE,
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think it really fits the shape they came out as??? so like, it works
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it DOES
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he shielded hinata in their TDM thread, and so i was like, MAN, WOULDN'T IT BE GOOD IF HE WANTED TO SHIELED KOMAEDA BC GHOST BONES
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I really like the symbolism in his design
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him BABY
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i love him so much because like
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it really is a canon precedent that he cries ALL THE TIME, he REACTS to everything, but he doesn't leave
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he might be crying while he's helping Nidai carry Kuzuryuu to get fixed up, but he's doing it
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awkward big brotherly souda
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absotively
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he's going to tell riley about nanami in this thread, i'm p sure
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hhhhh AHHHHHHHH oh good ;v;
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which is going to make me emotional, becuase the Remnants reflecting on Nanami's lives always fucks with me
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i gotta- did you and max work out how junko pretending to be nanami threads worked out
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bc i DID have riley comment to her, but she saw souda did too- i don't wanna contradict anything ofc
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I HAVE NOT, i actually forgot about them until you mentioned them cos i've been so focused on the event
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VALID AS HECK
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there's no way Souda doesn't know that isn't Nanami though, being that he lives with Sonia and converses with Komaeda fairly regularly now
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Komaeda could tell it wasn't Nanami immediately so
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he would have gone looking for her, and there is no Nanami to find
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Ko pays attention to people's speaking patterns, and he's familiar enough with Nanami to know better
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even if Junko had him 100%, he'd grow sus over not seeing her
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but i also don't think he's the biggest one to talk about Junko
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ahhhh, gotcha gotcha
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he'll probably only be like just. Don't talk to her.
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if he mentions nanami she'd bring up "oh!!! hey!!! was that your friend!!!!!"
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just immediate dour face no
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rip in heck souda
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completely valid
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https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/... this face
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not that one, Riley, don't talk to her. or about her. or about her arms, especially
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riley like ?????
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souda like LET'S JUST CALL HER MY OLD BOSS AND LEAVING THE BUSINESS SUCKED
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meanwhile, Komaeda: yeah she ended the world and I wore her arm haha
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SEE i don't even think souda'd be upset Riley found out in the end
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he just adamantly doesn't want to be the one to tell her
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bc he Always stresses her out
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ok but genuinely i'd laugh if riley and giorno made up due to being 
about souda and komaeda and the nebulous not-friend
about souda and komaeda and the nebulous not-friend
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it wont happen but id laugh.
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w o w
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the 77th class is perfectly normal
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they're making amends!!
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lmao
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I actually think souda would tell giorno
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which
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s-sorry, riley
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look we may have our problems right now- fjdsioafe it's fine 
that's fine
that's fine
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Riley is fine!!
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but "I'm a former terrorist who helped end the world and these are my classmates who were also involved" is going to go over differently with each of them
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BUT ALSO
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THERE'S ALSO THE SMALLER, BUT STILL EVER-PRESENT IDEA
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THAT SOUDA KAZUICHI WILL NOT BE BELIEVED IF HE SAYS "I KILLED A LOT OF PEOPLE AND ENJOYED HOW MUCH IT MADE ME CRY"
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yeah not to mention that Souda and Sonia have a very different interpretation of what happened than Komaeda does
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absolutely
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so on top of that he has to explain by the way
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Komaeda doesn't remember that we're terrorists in the same way, and is what we don't yet recognize as 'delusional' because no one ever told us what delusions really are
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asdkjaksj way to just OUT him
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LMao
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god. giorno just slow blinking like well
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at least Komaeda knows they did bad!! he doesn't deny it!! he just thinks... you know... the hope is worth it!
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i knew there was something but admittedly i did not expect that
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ahighisdgh
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surprise, we ended the world
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like, literally,
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and now we have to atone for our sins
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Komaeda destroyed an entire city and its residents
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well. do community service or something?
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that's kinda where they're at yeah
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except Komaeda is missing key information that like HINATA? KUZURYUU?? EVEN SONIA WITH ONE OF THOSE TWO COULD HELP
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community service time
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actually yeah that's what they're planning to do at the end of it all
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they're planning to rebuild the world from afar, essentially, while taking the blame even though they weren't the ones that started it
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concept: giorno comes up w a community service program for everybody who shows up in ryslig full of self-loathing for real or imagined crimes
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by the end of the series they're like "yeah we fucked up, time to unfuck it up"
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he does not participate in it
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HAHA
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Giorno is the real Delusional
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SEE THAT'S THE THING, even the despairs, all their self-loathing is like, previously existing self-loathing
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they kinda accepted that like. actually, yeah, they were forcibly brainwashed?
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they arent sad about it, they're hopeful, and they think that they can make a real difference
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chinhands
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but Komaeda doesn't have that information or the memory of them all deciding that together
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lmao honestly once more people know riley's done some bad things of her own it'll be easier to talk to her about their bad things probably
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they lived *for each other
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italically, even
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yeah Ko has no post-sim memories
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until I eventually canon update him but, ya know
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hdsiugh souda like this is rich coming from me but riley you don't need to kill your friends
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at least he got his fucked up handless body
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YEAH,,,
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lol
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"riley you dont need to kill your friends" "ok but you dont UNDERSTAND, i DID"
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SO DID SOME OF SOUDAS FRIENDS BUT THEY ALL FORGAVE EACH OTHER.....A FTER....
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if she didn't NEED to kill them than she did that all for nothing and hahahahha fuck no
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souda's real wariness comes in like. He also knows they're not 100% fixed? when it comes to Sonia and the others, he knows that all the despairs know they have this common goal and that they need to accept despair in order to have hope and that there's balance and all that
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but he doesn't expect someone who didn't live through that to accept that
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why SHOULD anyone trust them
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it's ok Souda, I trust u
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u and ur army of Minimarus
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i can't wait until he rebuilds them
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starting with Mininami
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MININAMI
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honestly, I can't wait either
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actuallly I should have him working on Mininami as his "right fter the arcade" project
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Souda misses his family so he rebuilds them as minibots...
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bc he'd want Mininami to be like the mascot of the arcade
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Komaeda is gonna talk to Mininami a lot u_u
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.......is souda gonna build a therapy bot
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Nanami, Hinata and Sonia were like, the only characters pre-chapter 5 that Komaeda was close to
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listen, talk therapy helps!
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I BELIEVE IT...
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i think i'm gonna design that....
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esp since he'll be thinking about her even more with talking to Riley
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THE THING ABOUT SOUDA AND NANAMI IS, Souda actually seems pretty (harmlessly) fascinated with Nanami in their interactions in the game, to the point of almost immediately wanting to mod a game for her approval, though it wasn't in the same kind of desperate need for attention he shows Sonia
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and then in the anime it's kind of shown as well, even though the improvements he makes on tech for Nanami benefit the whole class
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i think there's two big parts to it: her role as Class 77's representative and all of their friends individually as well as group-wise, and souda's inherent understanding that a gamer benefits from his talent and thus could easily give him the approval he searches for
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what i'm saying is, Souda is not free from the class 77 enchantment of being a little in love with Nanami, but being that he isn't obsessed with her the way he is with Sonia, it actually ends up showing itself in a productive way that also aids the rest of the class
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show me a classmate that isn't in love with nanami and i'll show you a liar
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don't forget how Souda likely DID play video games with Nanami
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i think he actually talks about losing to her, too??
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YEAH HE DOES
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i remember for sure he talks about modding the video game for her, but he- yEAH
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meanwhile, Komaeda talks about playing with Nanami and only winning by pure luck
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and then he's like I'M GONNA GET BETTER AND I'M GONNA MOD THIS AND MAKE IT EVEN MORE FUN TOO
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anyways, the point is, everyone loves Nanami SOOOO much
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and that reminds me there is the Nanami on TDM too, so,
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like he wants to play with her.... he wants to be her friend just like he wants to be peko's and ibukis and i just. I LOVE THAT SDR2 GAVE THEM RELATIONSHIPS OUTSIDE OF HINATA, OK
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but yes it's true
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oh god i completely forgot
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SAME, there's just been so much happening
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there was one when i tested Souda too, i wonder if they're the same
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YEAH,,,
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I think their journal name is just Ultimate_Gamer?
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goes to look through my emails...
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BUT YEAH, they all loev her u_u i'm glad he's going to get to share that with Riley
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maybe Mininami will help Riley too..
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Souda can code her to be a secret keeper...
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fdsaiofea
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oh and of course, she could play video games with you, too