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Published: 2022-12-24 23:01:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 2588; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 1
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Description Now for a semi-Christmas image, since it's the birthday(s) of the Ultimate Fashionista/Despair, Junko Enoshima and the Ultimate Soldier, Mukuro Ikusaba.

Also present with them are Monaca Towa (AKA Pickle Satan, who sees Junko as a big sister), Monokuma (who is the servant/proxy of Junko) and Tsumugi Shirogane. (in V3's canon/continuity, Junko is Tsumugi's favorite character in all Danganronpa - Thus I depicted her in this image simping for her idol)

Junko strikes me as interesting in how she is able to simply tap into mankind's latent desire for despair (the only thing that ever gives her joy) and brought the world to its knees with some charisma, slick trickery, videos, and blood on her hands. While yeah, she's a psychotic with insanity near or on par with characters like the Joker, Kefka Palazzo, and Jigsaw (of the SAW movies), her theatrics are certainly entertaining. (Crazier yet when you consider that most of her games' English voicework is done by Amanda Celine Miller, who if you may recall me pointing out, was the Viz dub voice of Sailor Jupiter, as well as Toko Fukawa and in a more contemporary role, Boruto)

While she was outright skewered canonically, Mukuro's character goes up by leaps and bounds in Danganronpa IF... thanks to Makoto taking the Divine Spears of Gungnir (but thanks to his luck, he was only wounded to where Mukuro was able to treat him) in Ikusaba's defense. And thanks to Makoto's selflessness, Mukuro bonds with him and develops a sense of hope that she never felt before - Leading her to betray Junko's cause, sparing the lives of the other thirteen Ultimates at Hope's Peak Academy. (Especially averting the deaths of Sayaka, Chihiro, Kiyotaka, Hifumi and Sakura and preventing the executions of Leon, Mondo and Celeste)

It's scarier yet that Junko and Mukuro were born on Christmas Eve... Making the former fit the trope of a Dark Messiah/Antichrist to a T. And to reflect Junko's psychotic, demonic nature, I made the effects of the image make it appear blood-red. (or should I have gone with pink, since that's the color they made blood for Danganronpa, to both have the censors ease up and fit the pop culture nature of the series?)

MODELS
Junko Enoshima by Hiromu
Mukuro Ikusaba by riotoqll
Monaca Towa by Pikadude31451
Monokuma by sil41x
Tsumugi Shirogane by さるる~
Skydome by Ussy-P
Remington Shotgun by mrmechaman
XM177 Colt Commando Carbine by 浅村Anri

EDIT: Oh! One more thing, I inspired Junko's pose from her official artwork. Unfortunately, I couldn't get Monokuma to do the same since his model's arms are a little too stubby...
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