Non-Chore CR Meme

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TL;DR Character Relationship Meme
(A Cheat Sheet for CR Charts)



♥ Step one: post with your characters.
♠ Step two: respond to other people's characters with your characters.
♦ Step three: they tell you in detail what their character thinks of your character. TL;DR is encouraged; that's how this works.
♣ Optional step four: discuss it with them if you want! Make a big chain of tl;dr if you're up to it.
♥ Step five: other people do the same thing to you! Maybe you even harvest your tl;dr to use in a CR chart later.
♠ Step six: keep checking back in so that no one is ever late!

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OKAY DISCLAIMER I'M ABOUT NINETY FIVE PERCENT SURE THERE'S NO ACTUAL GRAVEYARD COMMENT DIRECTLY REACTING TO MAYASPLOSION... beyond how little reaction to that there was, Mahiru had so many damn feelings that didn't even make it into tags. That shit is so on lock

Anyway technically internalized homophobia is my interpretation given that Danganronpa doesn't have a whole lot of open discussion about LGBT issues WHICH PROBABLY SAYS A LOT IN ITSELF TBQH... but she does have a very strong opinion that there are womanly spheres and manly spheres for example. In fanon this is misandrist but in canon it's more like she knows boys are supposed to be stronger and is angry that in practice they're just lazier. Those attitudes tend to be linked to heteronormativity... early up in my Kyoya comment you can see my interpretation of the route where she ends up in a dating relationship with the protagonist, I.e. she figures being close to a boy means that they should date.

On the other hand, there's Hiyoko. I said this weird part about Mahiru having modern anxieties and this includes an idea that nudity in general should be 100% private, while Hiyoko feels that in same-sex settings nudity is okay. Hence soapies. And then there is Sato, this girl Mahiru knew in high school... I could actually write a whole separate essay comparing Aya to Sato because they have a somewhat similar warped carefree attitude that Mahiru agrees with coming from a more affable place of neutrality. There's only one flashback but Sato's like "hi Mahiru-chan sup sup you here to confess your undying love to me?" Which would make the most sense if Mahiru did love Sato, I mean that's not why Mahiru was there though because this is Danganronpa so she actually had to talk to Sato about a murder which took priority. Furthermore Mikan and Ibuki were the other two girls who were Mahiru's personal friends; Mikan is actually in a relationship with a woman I AM SAD MAHIRU WAS NOT ALIVE FOR THE REACTION... and you've seen Clash/Ibuki in action so you know how gay Ibuki is.

So when you put all of this stuff together it makes the most sense for Mahiru to be a huge gay, and yet the only time she really overtly expresses the idea of dating is with the dude protag. Combined by her aforementioned gender-conscious aspects, I think she thinks she *should* only date boys, whereas the desire to date girls is self-indulgent and wrong. (this feeling persists regardless of the alternate interpretation where she has actual bi feelings for the protag) Even in the context of being alone with girls as the most meaningful experiences in her life, that's sort of justified to herself as how only girls can be friends to each other, but guys and girls can't just be friends.

BASICALLY my point is that if someone pointed out she was kinda yuri for Aya, Mahiru would deny it a lot, and at this point in time she would not feel comfortable asking for a date herself (she might say it's a date in a joking way) and that sort of "girl with girlfriend?? What no"thought process is on top of the eight days now go back to Gensokyo situation.

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OH oh I see that's pretty representative of lgbt lyfe in modern Japan or society as a whole so... yeah, that's kinda legit. I've just never gotten around to reading dangan ronpa even if it does have cute gays because it's so huge but then again touhou is huger, whoops.

yeah the thing with Gensokyo is there are like. 3 named male characters in it, ever, and one is a cloud and one is a turtle and the last and only humanoid one is a shopkeeper. a shopkeeper surrounded by witches and shrine maidens and monstergirls who fight each other. so though obviously there must be other males in society most everyone who is anyone is a girl so being yuri probably isn't a big deal especially if you're a youkai and not human in the first place.

ah but I'll link you to a dojin that's really reminiscent of the mahiru+aya relationship and dude i'll even set up a psl starter sometime !!