#ndrv3 kaito
Normally I do three sketches on one page for the ghost au, however kaito is extra and his full body sketch took up the whole page
Still ghost Kaito has joined his classmates now! I put him off because I do not like drawing his hair
- If you look at Kokichi’s design you’ll notice he’s wearing Kaito’s jacket, this is Kaito’s actual jacket while the one Kaito is wearing is made purely of his ability to control “stardust” and his inability to let go of his hero status
- So once you get his breakdown at the end of his fight, it’ll disappear he can still control the “stardust” making up his jacket afterwards, it just kinda loosely follows behind him instead
- Kaito is a mid point boss fight, you have to beat him before you can fight maki and himiko
- he’s designated himself as the protector of the others so he’ll show up in particularly dangerous areas of the school, like ones that might collapse, and help you (more specifically kaede) get through them safely, during these segments, if you know the secret paths to where kokichi likes to hide and have kaito with you, rather than being able to increase Kokichi’s friendship level Kokichi will just immediately make up some excuse to leave, however you can come back to these places later after beating kaito and talk normally
- Kaito will always leave once he knows your safe, saying he needs to go check on one ghost or the other, of course he always leaves with a heroic speech and smile
- as you help more ghosts he’ll talk to you more during the dangerous terrain segments, which is where you can start to push him to his fight, you can ask him about his actual feelings and the like to make him snap, he’ll insist that he’s fine over and over while his smile gets too big and very strained before attacking you while insisting you’re the enemy trying to tear down the hero and he must defeat you
- once you beat him he’ll have his breakdown, where he’ll reveal his incessant need to be the hero comes not just from his up bringing to “be a man” and suppress all feelings, but also because he feels he failed to protect anyone during the game, that so many looked up to him and he failed them so he didn’t deserve to be sad now. He has a second chance so he has to help those he didn’t last time and be everyone’s hero, if he show’s weakness in his eyes he’s letting them down again
- If you choose to befriend him, you’ll help him see that most of his classmates don’t want or need heroes, after all they all screwed up one way or another they find solace in each other through that, and that they all want Kaito. For everything he is, even his weaknesses because they care about and like *him* not the facade he puts up
Final swap,
I originally was gonna have kiibo and tsumugi be a pair, as the only two who don’t swap. That would be more upsetting for kiibo since he wants to be human and tsumugi is just sooo plain monokuma forgot about her whoops.
Instead I decided it would be more interesting if Kaito and Kiibo swapped so I guess Gonta was spared instead lol
Kaito’s body at this point would already sick, so Kiibo’s time as human would be miserable (which isn’t helped by the fact that Kaito tells him this is normal for humans so kiibo doesn’t spill the beans) which makes him question if he even wants to be human, which males him confused and sad.
As for Kaito, he needs to stop kiibo from talking about his illness and unfortunately kiibo is the type to innocently bring it up. So he needs to lie and then there’s also the fact that Kiibo’s body is kinda pathetically weak and a robot can’t put on muscle, which is embarrassing for work-outs, oh and that all of Kaito’s emotions feel weirdly suppressed and almost calculated, and for Kaito who leads every decision with emotions and “gut feelings” he’s left more than a little lost.
