Victimless Despair

Knife to Meet you All (I)

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The are a few things to understand about 17-year-old Makoto Naegi before this entire chaos rolled into a cinnamon bun starts,

(1) He is a coward and afraid of confrontation, (2) he has a good heart but can be very awkward and insecure at times, (3) he would have been the Ultimate Journalist had he pursued his hobby instead of abandoning it, and (4) he has an official title as an Ultimate but for some reason, no one can explain he has a separate one as the Ultimate Lucky Student.

And there is only 1 thing you need to know about Nara-Sun Kim, While he exists in the registry as another person, he will not be two people at the same time,

Hopes Peak Academy is the place where the talented and gifted come together and learn to be successful and set for life, students with Ultimate Talents. theres quite a bit of a requirement to get in, it was funny, that someone as pathetic as him could even bare to stand in front of such an intimidating gate separating him from the normal world and the Dream World, there is not a thing about him that could ever get him enrolled in Hope's peak, there's not much of anything for him when it comes to grades, special abilities, or even personality because honestly, he's practically a cardboard box with a little bit of glitter sprinkled on it, he almost thinks that being this plain is a talent at this point.

of course he has hobbies and things he likes to do, but he wasn't good enough at them to become an Ultimate, because really, he wasn't an super popular Idol, or a inspirational Artist, or Some genius Detective, their's already people like that at Hopes Peak Academy,

if any of his classmates at hopes peak asked him what his favorite song was, or his favorite movie, it would just be something they'd never even heard of,  something that only ordinary people like him would know even existed, nothing unique or super interesting like the people around him, he will never be like the everyday person, since it seemed as if somehow everyone but him was uniquely in a way that made them popular...

"I don't think i'll be able to even walk through the front gate without throwing up.."

The overwhelming presence of the tall building gave him goosebumps, an uncomfortable feeling clawed into his throat, and an unsettling feeling squirmed in his chest, it's no wonder he feels this much insignificance of himself.

There are going to be so many Talented and Unique people in that place, so much so he might not fade into the background like he'd hoped he could, he would just be the odd one out, the outcast, the one that only got in because he got lucky...

Hope's Peak is full of those that are the true elites in their fields, It's a popular topic, and many online threads are dedicated to talking about the school's attendees and staff, he's been on them since he began middle school, he knows most if not all information about the Ultimates, it helped as a coping tool for his extreme anxiety,

The threads had all the talk and a lot of information about the ultimate students, a few of the more noticeable incoming students were the Ultimate Pop Sensation, which was her official Title, but most people called her the Ultimate Idol, she's a high school girl who's also the lead singer for a pop group famous all over the country, it was no surprise the threads had her information, he doesn't pay much attention to it, her name is Maizono Sayaka, the name was vaguely familiar but he didn't focus on it too much. He doesn't want to remember anymore.

Another one would be the Ultimate Baseball Star, he's considered the cleanup hitter on the national high school champions, and a bunch of Pro teams already have their eyes on him, then the Ultimate Fashionista, who's been on the cover of tons of fashion magazines, she's the type of girl every high school girl wants to be, a lot more of her information is on the internet, it was abstract and unsettling, but he's long grown desensitized to the reality of the internet.