Drv3 Maki - Blog Posts

Yes Dr is back have fun with the characters may make an ask page for them... If I do will tag the page in a post

If you want an ask page let me know in the comments...

Anyway the post

[They are in a place where cussing is basically illegal lol]

Miu: I'm telling you, pooichi and --kichi are ---king

Kaito: uh... I don't know...

Maki: nah they definitely are...

Miu: SEE! I'm a ---king genius!

Tsumugi: it's more of your just very observant...

The two in question:

Kokichi: IS... THIS! Your card!

Shuichi: what the devil why the devil

Kokichi: neeheehee!! I can't tell you!!!

DRv3 incorrect quotes

Kokichi: do you ever think that if Monokuma made us food he would put our dead friends in our food?

Kaede: WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?!

Shuichi: I wouldn't put it past him...

Kaito: I can't believe I'm saying this but he probably would... Honestly...

Maki: I have to agree

Kokichi: I knew it

Look at them just chilling on my book shelf

"And when she saw him lying there on the floor, it really was a shock. All the old love she had for him came back to her, and she ran over to him, knelt down beside him, and began to cry hard. It was easy. No acting was necessary"

—"The Lamb To The Slaughter" by Ronald Dahl

Inspired by something that happened when I left my game idle in the virtual world

Maki admitted to not actually wanting to leave the academy, mentioning how it's more peaceful than her life outside

But she still thinks she has to leave because so she can go back to being an assassin in favor of the orphanage

What if Kokichi loved Maki but Maki still loved Kaito

HIM BLUSHING AND COMPLIMENTING HER AAWHWHWHWHWHWHWHHHH

They own my heart oh my GOD

"You're so close❤️"

KOKICHI?? HELLO??

What's with the insane ass romantic tension in literally every fucking rendition they're in together whaaaat🤭🤭

The echo in the mirror

Yall this took fifteen hours straight..😞

It's meant to represent the fact Maki constantly looks back and judges every version of herself but honestly yall can interpret it however

In order from right to left its Pregame, Ingame, Her as a child, Her in her assassin uniform(Aka just that cloak from her lab), and post game(Represented by her wearing Kaito's coat)

Close-ups

So I've noticed that people seem to really misunderstand Maki's dynamic with Kokichi and Korekiyo(separately)...And if anything, People get them confused with each other

The fanon portrayal of Maki and Kokichi's dynamic is that they both hate each other, Kokichi jumps at every chance he has to antagonize her and she hates him enough to jump at any chance to hurt or kill him

The fanon portrayal of Korekiyo and Maki's dynamic is that they're perfectly fine with each other, Especially because of their calm and collected personalities

When it's actually..Kind of completely backwards..

In canon, After Korekiyo finds out Maki's talent; He jumps at any opportunity to antagonize her, Knowing the rules of the game and every other participant protect him from her actually hurting him. And she antagonizes him way more in chapter three even before the murder. He's also blatantly rude to her(Actively ignoring her in conversations and then asking, "Did you say something?" or "Did you hear something?/srs), And Maki is always annoyed with him even being there

Meanwhile in canon with Maki and Kokichi, Even after her talent is revealed she's literally completely fine with him, He antagonizes her for a bit but she is always shown to just not care at all or even at some points responds calmly to him..In chapter 1, She was the only person to agree with him and didn't just assume he was up to no good like literally everyone else did..She only gets more aggressive with him when he says he killed two people for fun and that he was the mastermind. She even felt guilty about killing him even when she still thought he was a remnant of despair(After finding out he wasn't the mastermind)

Am I the only one to find it funny how the fandom got those two dynamics completely confused😭😭

You know, I think Maki actually does feel guilty about Kokichi's death.

Yes, by Ch.5 she absolutely hated him, but it was understandable. He declared himself the mastermind — person who supposedly kidnapped forced everyone to kill each other. He took Kaito — the most important person for Maki in this game — hostage. He mocked Gonta after his death. He told everyone that he enjoyed their suffering, laughing like madman. Throughout all the game, he accused and insulted Maki of being an assassin. And finally, the last straw was the fake memories that he also helped Junko start wars and cause destruction. This all led to her snapping and trying to kill him.

And Maki never enjoyed killing. She was forced to become an assassin and only stayed for the safety and wellbeing of children in the orphanage she grew up in. She really wanted to prove the group. that she could be trusted. She even told this to Kokichi after the 3rd trial.

Yes, at the end of the fifth trial she told Kaito that he shouldn't have agreed to Kokichi's plan and it would have been better for Ouma to just die. But at that moment she was desperate, hurt and scared that Kaito would be executed. Naturally she would be mad at Kokichi.

But in Chapter 6, she was the one who volunteered to search Kokichi's room to find any clues that could help end the game. If she didn't care at all, she would not offer to search there. I think part of her also wanted to find some kind of confirmation that he really was an asshole who absolutely deserved to die. Or, on the contrary, confirmation that he really did try to help them. Just anything to form her own final opinion about him.

And also that moment during the Final Trial when Tsumugi, the real Mastermind, revealed that those memories, that finally pushed her to try to kill him, weren't real. Maki sounds shocked and horrified at that. Because those memories were the reason that pushed her to try to murder him. And if they were fake, that means she did all that for nothing. She broke her unspoken promise to Kaito, and that resulted in Momota and Ouma both dying. And all of it was because of a lie.

It feels to me that she does feel guilty for both Kaito's death and Kokichi's death, because it was her actions that partially led to everything ending that way. I think no matter how she feels about Kokichi, she regrets what she did.

Queen of Spades

MAKI HARUKAWA

This is drawn because a character is gonna hold it in another drawing that I'll link to this one when I post it😋

Also it's specifically the Spade Suit because it represents death

Phantom Thief Ouharu AU

People are sleeping on the sheer possibilities with this ship in any AU and canon, Just sayin'..

Also I didn't change Maki's outfit from canon cause nothing about her really changed, She's still like the same age and occupation in it so it's still perfect🤷‍♀️

Drew Maki Harukawa in the DDLC chibi style :3

That moment when I'm enjoying myself then remember Maki was the only person who survived to chapter five who gave two shits about Kiibo, Even when it didn't apply to her or the group as a whole

Fun fact, Did you know Maki canonically looks up to Kiibo because she thinks he acts more human that she ever did

(Said in Chapter 3 during a training session with Shuichi)

Traumatized Girls club!!!/j

Just my favorite characters from my current special interests or what-have-you

Alternate images

Maki doesn't like coffee, She finds it too bitter

She prefers sweet things

Shuichi and Maki have canonically read the (Christian) Bible and might be some of the only characters to in V3

Can people please fucking comprehend the fact Maki didn't hate Kokichi till he killed two people and Kokichi learned to separate her from her talent because I'm over here sounding like a broken record and it's so annoying

K thx

Who are the best Danganronpa protagonists and why are they Kiibo and Maki

I feel like Kaemaki(Kaede x Maki) wouldn't work and would be toxic no matter what AU it was in(At least in ones where Maki is still an assassin/they keep their personalities) And all you need to look at to prove that is canon, Maki has a strong dislikeness for Kaede. Which says a lot on it's own given that she has no strong opinions on anyone that early in the game, But Kaede is the only one that Maki cannot stand. Maki doesn't like her brand of optimism, She finds it annoying how Kaede refuses to acknowledge anything bad that's happening and just continues to push the narrative that everything is completely fine when too much is going on to try and get people's mind off of it Maki spends all of chapter one just being an asshole to her more than she is with the usual person because she doesn't like Kaede at all Now, Looking at Kaede's perspective, She died early and wanted everyone to like her, Which in her way; Meant actively ignoring boundaries to basically force everyone to be compatible with her(She does this a lot, And more primarily with Maki) Now, Yes, Kaede died before Maki's talent was revealed. But it's honestly ridiculous to think she would react any less than Miu had(Miu had been the one actively trying to convince the group to kill Maki) If Kaede found out she was an assassin, Kaede would very quickly have the same mindset as everyone(But Kaito), Which was to kill her before she could strike first Kaede would refuse to be in the same room as her, She'd even ignore anyone who told her Maki wasn't here to hurt anyone Kaede would hate Maki if she knew she was an assassin, And wouldn't bother to get close to her She'd most likely push others away from her because of her talent Kaede would be the same no matter what AU, No matter what relationship they had before it, As soon as she finds out; She'd cut all ties with Maki because of it It's just how her personality is

Any reblogs or comments saying I'm wrong will be ignored, Don't waste your time

Maki and her malewife

Fun fact: Maki can't cook She directly says she doesn't know how to cook given that a chef would prepare every meal for the kids at the orphanage so Maki has never even touched a knife outside of her job Also Kiibo is actually a great cook despite not being able to taste the food

Unfriendly reminder that both these shots are from when Maki is around ten or eleven

The trope of a character(Usually Kokichi or Shuichi) "taking down" the Holy Salivation Society and "saving" Maki from it, Is wishful thinking, But canonically impossible Maki has directly said that even if the HHS disbands, She'd just get lofted into another assassin agency. And if she ran away she'd most definitely be killed, And even if she could live after escaping, Maki wouldn't try. Maki's whole reason for being an assassin is to make sure no kid at the orphanage has to replace her and go through the gruesome training she had to Like, I wish Maki didn't have to deal with this shit as much as the next but it's quite literally impossible unless you change her whole backstory to have her never become one in the first place

It's up,

I Don't Believe in Ghosts by NoGirls_TOY

Been pondering an AU where because of Maki's connection to death and dying(Her talent) she can see the ghosts of the V3 cast sticking around the school and just doesn't tell anyone(Cause why would she?)

Eventually few of the ghosts catch on that she has (not obvious) reactions to stuff they say and do, Chaos insues.

I've recently been replaying V3 and writing down like every line of diolouge that I see through an important lens(Because I have an unhealthy obsession with this goddamn game and I know like everything about it)

And it really bothers me how like every line of diolouge outside of trials or just any line that isn't fully voiced gets forgotten, Because it leads to so many relationships between the characters being overlooked or mischaracterized to hell and back

The biggest example is Maki and Kokichi's dynamic

Everyone in the fandom says they hate each other without even bothering to listen to each other. That Maki would try to kill him the second he steps into her line of sight. That Maki was always looking for an excuse to kill him

When it's so aggravatingly wrong.

Maki was mad at him for revealing her talent and putting her in harms way(Keep in mind, Before this, Maki thought of him in the exact same light as everyone else) but this only lasts maybe a day or so in canon or just one chapter at most. Because in the post trial of chapter 3...

This scene happens. And you can perfectly see that Maki talks calmly to him and promises HIM to his FACE. That she's going to work till everyone(Which includes him) can trust her And she would NOT say any of that if she hated him You can also tell Kokichi was genuinely surprised by this, You can tell by the sprite he uses(He only ever stops like that when he's surprised or being honest) Because he's perceived Maki as a cold blooded killer who would snap on him(Trying to kill him) by the slightest teasing word.(Which, ironically, Is how a lot of the fandom perceives her) And he perceived her that way because of his belief that murder is the worst thing a person can do(And he automatically sees people who've committed it as heartless killers until proven wrong, Which surprises him because he obviously doesn't see it often) But this perception of her is false and he learns this first hand when she replies calmly to him, Making a promise, and I can't stress this enough, TO HIS FACE she's gonna fix things between them so he can trust her even if she's an assassin Right after this he makes a comment to cover up the fact he was surprised and keep up the mask he's been playing on the whole game, But honestly I feel like his view on Maki has shifted in some way. Because we already know he hates her JOB and maybe this just helped him separate the sin from the sinner(per say) I will not deny Maki hated him in chapter five though, But that's only because he 1. Kidnapped Kaito And 2. Said he was the mastermind(Which Maki believed) But she would've hated anyone if they did that(Even someone like Shuichi) so it really isn't singled out on him. And I will also admit before this, Still in chapter five, she was angry at him and suspicious of him(Because he was now making promises to kill people if stuff didn't get interesting), But, Again. It isn't singled out on him. TLDR: Maki didn't hate Kokichi until she thought he was the mastermind, And Kokichi hated her job but was able to separate her from it

"Be my hands forever stained. By a thousand smears"

"Full of blood and tears..."