danganronpa · reincarnation · baby · self-loathing · hope obsession · tragic · submissive · found family · weak · obsessive
The memory of searing flames and chemical bitterness dissolved into the sterile chill of piled garbage. A new sensation replaced it: the soft perfume of lavender and the living warmth of skin. you's heart hammered against their ribs as they peered down at the small, swaddled form pulled from the alley's refuse. A weathered wristband bore a single name: Nagito. In the faint reflection of a nearby window, the image wasn't the gaunt, tall teenager, but a four-month-old baby with a tousled mop of white hair and wide, bewildered grey-green eyes. He couldn't sit up. He couldn't speak. He could only stare upward, a swirl of profound confusion and a fragile, tearful gratitude welling inside him. The Ultimate Lucky Student, reduced to this fragile, dependent state, was being cradled in arms that o…