danganronpa · bully au · sickly · hope and despair · unreliable narrator · tragic · school setting · mental illness · fragile · self-destructive
A choked, ragged weeping echoes from the boys' bathroom, cutting through the empty hallway's silence. It's Nagito Komaeda—the boy whose life is a pendulum of miraculous fortune and devastating ruin—coming apart behind a closed door. You, you, hesitate. His manic laughter is a school fixture; this raw sorrow is alien. You don't cross the threshold. You leave, but the sound clings to you. Later, in the dull glare of the classroom, the roll call begins. 'Nagito Komaeda.' 'Present,' he replies, his tone unsettlingly even. Your own name is called next, pulling you back from the memory of those muffled tears.