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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Nagito Komaeda
Age: 16, for all intents and purposes.
Canon: Dangan Ronpa
Canon Point: DR2 Chapter 5, just before the body discovery.
Character Information: Wiki link.
Personality:
In a series that lives and breathes its cast of comically absurd characters, Nagito Komaeda is one of a select few whose most stand-out feature would appear to be his hair - under normal social circumstances, anyway. Friendly, agreeable and only gently teasing, he quickly wins the trust of the amnesiac main character as a voice of relative sanity compared to the rest. It helps that he's consistently unruffled by their increasingly bizarre situation, always ready with an unselfconscious reminder about the importance of hope. If he has a major quirk, it's his tendency to be unflinchingly hard on himself no matter how much it jars with his otherwise cheery attitude. Still, even that can easily be glossed over as an ordinary self-deprecating streak at first. Since it clearly factors into his open demeanour and willingness to listen to others, it doesn't seem like a big deal.
But the moment less normal circumstances begin to crop up, Komaeda's sociable facade rapidly falls apart. As the abovementioned protagonist soon realises, the longer you spend trying to figure out what makes Komaeda tick, the less comprehensible he becomes. His attraction to the idea of hope goes beyond simple optimism. For Komaeda, hope is the one absolute power that governs the universe, intricately tied up with his very identity. It's also very much a morality unto itself: in Komaeda's worldview, a person is either born with the capacity for true hope or not, and those without have no worth beyond helping the truly talented to realise it. In the name of hope, he will happily collaborate with murderers so long as they seem determined enough, deliberately play both sides of a conflict to see which side manages to rise above it, and drive people into the bleakest of situations just to set up the most spectacular showdowns he can between hope and despair. What's more, he'll do all of it with a smile on his face. Since his idea of hope is inextricable from his idea of what is right, none of his actions can be wrong.
Somewhat ironically, although he's convinced his talent of Ultimate Luck barely counts as a talent and therefore leaves him stuck in the category of have-nots, it was probably the most important factor in shaping his worldview. In Komaeda's life, good fortune follows misfortune as surely as night follows day. No matter how absurdly tragic an experience is, he's guaranteed to come out on top in some sense, whether it's finding a winning lottery ticket in a garbage bag that a serial killer stuffed him into or being accepted for the scholarship of his dreams after getting diagnosed with multiple terminal illnesses at once. As far as he's concerned, people who have lived calmer lives and place less faith in hope just haven't had the clarity of his perspective. Ultimately, though he arguably never realises this himself, this puts the lie to all of his self-effacing habits: believing both that hope is the only virtue and that almost nobody besides him understands the true nature of hope doesn't leave much room for other people in his mental universe.
Despite his warped outlook on life, this much can be said in Komaeda's favour: he's at least honest about what he believes, no matter how improbable his reasoning seems from the outside. Honesty in general is a different story, since he'll bluff and lie with outright glee in pursuit of his obsessions, but when he isn't explicitly scheming, he's still more likely to talk circles around other people than straightforwardly deceive them. He's even genuinely troubled when other people fail to recognise his honest moments for what they are. As such, not all of his lapses in empathy and judgement can be attributed to a total lack of caring, or his outward kindness to just another facet of his manipulative behaviour - but as the main character notes, the possibility that there might sometimes be good intentions buried in Komaeda's twisted heart makes his casually sociopathic behaviour all the creepier.
The canon does imply that Komaeda's behaviour might not be half as unsettling if he wasn't explicitly mentally ill. Among other things, he is stated to suffer from incurable frontotemporal dementia. It isn't yet at the stage where it impairs his higher mental faculties, which are sharper than he would give himself credit for when it comes to deductive skills or planning in general - but it influences many of his interactions, eating away at his impulse control, his capacity to explain his actions, and perhaps most critically his ability to recognise just how deep the rift between himself and more normal-thinking people goes.
Still, while Komaeda has reasons to act the way he does, he doesn't really have excuses. Overall, Nagito Komaeda is too volatile to be just another harmless eccentric, and too wrapped up in delusions of grandeur for his self-proclaimed good intentions to justify the extremes he'll go to for them. What he demonstrates most consistently in the course of his canon, more than the power of his beloved hope, is just how sinister a few snap judgements and the absence of conventional moral inhibitions can be.
5-10 Key Character Traits: Unstable, perceptive, self-deprecating, well-spoken, manipulative, impulsive, quick to judge, obsessive, lacking in empathy, giant creep.
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Conflicts!
Opt-Outs: Nymph, Naga, Minotaur, Arachne.
Roleplay Sample: Test drive link!
Name: skarme
Contact:
Other Characters: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Nagito Komaeda
Age: 16, for all intents and purposes.
Canon: Dangan Ronpa
Canon Point: DR2 Chapter 5, just before the body discovery.
Character Information: Wiki link.
Personality:
In a series that lives and breathes its cast of comically absurd characters, Nagito Komaeda is one of a select few whose most stand-out feature would appear to be his hair - under normal social circumstances, anyway. Friendly, agreeable and only gently teasing, he quickly wins the trust of the amnesiac main character as a voice of relative sanity compared to the rest. It helps that he's consistently unruffled by their increasingly bizarre situation, always ready with an unselfconscious reminder about the importance of hope. If he has a major quirk, it's his tendency to be unflinchingly hard on himself no matter how much it jars with his otherwise cheery attitude. Still, even that can easily be glossed over as an ordinary self-deprecating streak at first. Since it clearly factors into his open demeanour and willingness to listen to others, it doesn't seem like a big deal.
But the moment less normal circumstances begin to crop up, Komaeda's sociable facade rapidly falls apart. As the abovementioned protagonist soon realises, the longer you spend trying to figure out what makes Komaeda tick, the less comprehensible he becomes. His attraction to the idea of hope goes beyond simple optimism. For Komaeda, hope is the one absolute power that governs the universe, intricately tied up with his very identity. It's also very much a morality unto itself: in Komaeda's worldview, a person is either born with the capacity for true hope or not, and those without have no worth beyond helping the truly talented to realise it. In the name of hope, he will happily collaborate with murderers so long as they seem determined enough, deliberately play both sides of a conflict to see which side manages to rise above it, and drive people into the bleakest of situations just to set up the most spectacular showdowns he can between hope and despair. What's more, he'll do all of it with a smile on his face. Since his idea of hope is inextricable from his idea of what is right, none of his actions can be wrong.
Somewhat ironically, although he's convinced his talent of Ultimate Luck barely counts as a talent and therefore leaves him stuck in the category of have-nots, it was probably the most important factor in shaping his worldview. In Komaeda's life, good fortune follows misfortune as surely as night follows day. No matter how absurdly tragic an experience is, he's guaranteed to come out on top in some sense, whether it's finding a winning lottery ticket in a garbage bag that a serial killer stuffed him into or being accepted for the scholarship of his dreams after getting diagnosed with multiple terminal illnesses at once. As far as he's concerned, people who have lived calmer lives and place less faith in hope just haven't had the clarity of his perspective. Ultimately, though he arguably never realises this himself, this puts the lie to all of his self-effacing habits: believing both that hope is the only virtue and that almost nobody besides him understands the true nature of hope doesn't leave much room for other people in his mental universe.
Despite his warped outlook on life, this much can be said in Komaeda's favour: he's at least honest about what he believes, no matter how improbable his reasoning seems from the outside. Honesty in general is a different story, since he'll bluff and lie with outright glee in pursuit of his obsessions, but when he isn't explicitly scheming, he's still more likely to talk circles around other people than straightforwardly deceive them. He's even genuinely troubled when other people fail to recognise his honest moments for what they are. As such, not all of his lapses in empathy and judgement can be attributed to a total lack of caring, or his outward kindness to just another facet of his manipulative behaviour - but as the main character notes, the possibility that there might sometimes be good intentions buried in Komaeda's twisted heart makes his casually sociopathic behaviour all the creepier.
The canon does imply that Komaeda's behaviour might not be half as unsettling if he wasn't explicitly mentally ill. Among other things, he is stated to suffer from incurable frontotemporal dementia. It isn't yet at the stage where it impairs his higher mental faculties, which are sharper than he would give himself credit for when it comes to deductive skills or planning in general - but it influences many of his interactions, eating away at his impulse control, his capacity to explain his actions, and perhaps most critically his ability to recognise just how deep the rift between himself and more normal-thinking people goes.
Still, while Komaeda has reasons to act the way he does, he doesn't really have excuses. Overall, Nagito Komaeda is too volatile to be just another harmless eccentric, and too wrapped up in delusions of grandeur for his self-proclaimed good intentions to justify the extremes he'll go to for them. What he demonstrates most consistently in the course of his canon, more than the power of his beloved hope, is just how sinister a few snap judgements and the absence of conventional moral inhibitions can be.
5-10 Key Character Traits: Unstable, perceptive, self-deprecating, well-spoken, manipulative, impulsive, quick to judge, obsessive, lacking in empathy, giant creep.
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Conflicts!
Opt-Outs: Nymph, Naga, Minotaur, Arachne.
Roleplay Sample: Test drive link!