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Character
Name: Souda Kazuichi
Series: Super Dangan Ronpa 2
Timeline: Chapter 6, immediately after giving his shitty 'REMEMBER ME' speech
Canon Resource Links:
quick access to Oren's LP chapters 5-6
1st freetime 2nd freetime 3rd freetime 4th freetime 5th freetime
dangan island extras
Personality:
Souda is the type of guy who thrives off praise. He is as obsessed about people praising him as much as he is with Sonia. Most of all, he craves Sonia's praise. However, he goes to all sorts of lengths just for even the slightest bit of praise. (Chapter 2: tying up Komaeda and isolating him with Nidai's help. Chapter 3: building the communication link. Chapter 4: fixing the elevator. Chapter 5: building mini mecha Nidai.) Possibly, he also wanted to impress his dad at one point. His dad was part of the reason why he got so good at being a mechanic. Well, other than necessity, loneliness, and boredom.
Beyond that, Souda is a fairly simple guy. Even Hinata remarks that in his first freetime that while Souda seems really flashy, he's actually really plain. In a way, you could compare Souda to a banged up car that had received a fancy paint job. It's a really superficial improvement to something badly in need of repair, and at a certain point, all that work starts breaking apart.
Basically, if Souda were a car, he'd be a geo metro with a gaudy paint job. He committed the worst crime a mechanic could make: focusing on the outsides when he should've focused on the engine. While being the very definition of tryhard, some things like that just plain go right over Souda's head. See, Souda could've easily been SHSL Contradictions, if that were an actual title.
When you picture a mechanic, you don't quite picture a guy like Souda. You don't picture a guy whose emotions switch far too easily. You don't picture a guy who overheats worse than a messed up engine. You definitely don't picture someone who overreacts to possibly every single thing in the game. YOU MOST CERTAINLY DON'T PICTURE A MECHANIC WHO CAN NEVER DRIVE A CAR DUE TO SEVERE MOTION SICKNESS. That's right. Souda can never, ever drive anything he builds. Souda is that guy who busts every single thing you picture a mechanic as being, and damn does he do it well!
...Wait, that shouldn't be sounding like a compliment.
Either way, Souda smashes the mechanic stereotype into pieces. He's insufferably loud, insufferably clingy, insufferably perverted, and worst of all, insufferably stubborn. You could say that Souda sees only what he wants to see. He clings to any bit of safeness and security, only to bail at the slightest bit of trouble. Survival skills are 100%, people skills would be in the negative percentile if at all possible.
Examples of his paranoia leading him into doing stupid shit: In his first freetime with Hinata, he starts developing the word 'soulfriends' to describe their friendship. He didn't know his behavior was borderline annoying Hinata at the time. Hinata seemed nice and safe compared to a lot of other people on the island. Average, even. When Hinata didn't openly ridicule him or make him feel like he was unwanted, he stuck to him even worse than superglue.
However, he stopped trusting Hinata just as easily in chapter 4. (His fourth freetime that I linked contradicts this in a way. The person who translated it should've done it in chapter 5, where it would make way more sense. Souda is really, really losing his grip on things around that time, but Hinata revealed in chapter 4 to have no talent at all.) Souda's paranoia, ironically, lead him into investigating the rest of the tower with Komaeda of all people. Ouch. You know, Komaeda who he and Nidai tied up in chapter 2? Yeah, Souda is a really ironic sort of guy.
How anybody could get the picture of Souda being optimistic is anybody's guess, though that's the kind of guy who tried turning himself into. He tried his damndest to be positive at first. He believed he can make better of the situation they'd been trapped in. So what if they were on an island instead of school? It was his first field trip ever! There were so many pros to the situation! Nothing could possibly go wrong, right?!
Souda is that guy who the game tries best to prove wrong. You know, that guy who says something along the lines of 'well, at least it isn't raining!' and it pouring hard immediately after. He's the butt of a lot of jokes, and he's used to it. He's used to people bullying and making fun of him. He's used to the feeling of being rejected. He's used to people kicking his ass. Hell, even his dad kicked his ass at least once!
That's the whole reason Souda desperately wanted to change himself. He wanted people to stop bullying him. He wanted to change everything about himself: his image, reputation, and attitude. He ditched his glasses for pink contacts, started dyeing his hair pink, and did his damnedest to start fitting his image of cool. However, he failed spectacularly and ended up looking like a flashy dork. Decreased morale and Saionji relentlessly attacking him (along with Mikan) brought him back down. People dying brought him down. Sonia's constant rejecting him brought him down.
Getting Sonia Nevermind, who is an actual princess, to date a guy like him would've signified that his transformation was over. Who could possibly be cooler than a guy dating a princess? Wouldn't it just be so grand? Wouldn't it be a huge step up for him in life? Nobody would dare make fun of someone dating a princess! Beyond that, he makes exceedingly perverted comments about her, like wanting to record something accidentally perverted she says, and even feeling envy about the fact that Monobear can spy on her 24/7. He is basically his own monkeywrench in that respect.
When he arrived at Hopes Peak, Souda so desperately sought after a place to belong. To someone like Junko Enoshima, someone so willing was a prime target to join her in her quest for despair. She was probably a sort of goddess to him, and quite likely, she had him at her beck and call, not unlike Mikan. However, it's only canon that Mikan was in love with her.
If you cracked open Souda's deepest thoughts, among all the car talk, this is what they'd be: Pay attention to me. Like me. Please like me! Please pay attention to me! Actually, I don't even care if you call me names, I just want your attention! Don't ignore me, please don't ignore me!
It's also canon that only the dr cast meant a damn thing to Junko (aside from possibly Kamukura)! In the end, Souda only found a false sense of belonging when joining Junko, just like how he was in the remaining five at the end of the game. Akane had Nidai. Hinata had Nanami. Kuzuryuu had Peko. Sonia had Gundam. Sonia had Gundam, and Souda had no one. It's no wonder that around the beginning of chapter 5, when Sonia still cared nothing for him even after Gundam had died, Souda's grip nearly vanished. Gaining the habit of laughing when things got too crazy in chapter 5 might have been a big indicator. In that respect, his fourth freetime is also horrifying.
From his linked fourth freetime:
"However… Say a person betrays us in order to live… If that’s how it’s gonna be, I-I’m…
………………………………
S-Sorry… Give me a little time to think it over a bit."
The potential fridge horror is strong in this one.
Strengths:
“Well, I was surrounded by all sorts of tools and devices since I got into this world, y’know. Me fixin’ things up is like a habit now!”
[+] Mechanical genius. This isn't limited to bikes or cars. Souda came from a poor family, and as such, he had to find ways to entertain himself on his own. It started out of boredom but built up into something he loved. Growing up in a failing mechanic shop meant they'd take whatever job possible. He states that he's best at bikes.
[+] Smart in a way the rest of the sdr2 shsl crew aren't. Without him, they wouldn't have had been able to communicate from the hospital and apartments in chapter 3 without spreading despair fever. Likewise, in chapter 4, nobody else would've been able to fix the elevator. He's also the only one who took the student handbook seriously, what with it being a manual. Manuals are practically bibles to a mechanic.
[+] Trusts his skills as a mechanic. This could be listed as a pro and con, but with Souda, it's mostly a good thing. He doesn't let other people not noticing hold him back. In fact, that makes him try harder. Because of his pride as a SHSL mechanic, he'll gladly jump to people's aid, even if he does have some ulterior motives. He'll even offer up his skills before things are broken as part of his introduction.
[+] Hardworking. Souda mentions at least once that he "was up all night" doing something. Again, this has its downsides, but with how stubborn Souda is, it's a definite bonus. 70% of the time, it ends up blowing up in his face, but that's never stopped him from trying.
[+/-] Maassive paranoid coward. Of course, this doesn't come without reason. Souda has the most realistic reactions out of everyone, though exaggerated to a comedic amount. However, in a way, his constant paranoia saves him from certain death. He developed a keen sense of avoiding any sort of drama. In his paranoia, he and Nidai team up to tie up Komaeda in chapter 2. His overreactions might seem comedic, but if anything, he is one of the few members early on with survival skills.
[-/+] Tries his damnedest to bounce back from crazy events. However, this comes with a price: around chapter 5, he develops a habit of spontaneously bursting into laughter once things become too unrealistic. He laughs at an email that basically spoils the entirety of Dangan Ronpa. This is a repeating thing throughout that chapter. Because of this, though, Hinata seriously considered Souda the kind of guy who could bounce back from anything.
In the end, though, that was all talk. It doesn't help that Hinata's judgment of someone's character has proven wrong in critical cases. It's not Hinata's fault, though, because he does his best to see the good in everyone he meets. ...Whereas Souda is paranoid of everyone and everything, despite all his efforts to bounce back.
Weaknesses:
“Uu… What a pain… Can’t take it anymore… I can’t… I can’t keep it together. How can I enjoy a tropical vacation when monsters are probably about to eat me…!”
[-] Vastly impaired social skills. Souda had only one friend before Hinata. The boy ended up taking advantage of him and asking him to help him cheat on a test. As a result, the friendship ended, Souda ended up being branded as a tattletale, and he wound up not having any other friends as well as his interest in the rest of his class failing. He flat-out says that he skipped field trips because his classmates were stupid. He even states that he left school immediately after the bell rang.
[-] Being easily manipulated. Out of everyone Junko chose into following her, Souda had to have been the easiest. Likely, she gave him all the praise he wanted. She coerced him into a lot of things, leading to some of the most fridge horror headcanons in all of sdr2. Somebody had to build all the executions in DR, right? Souda had the potential, and Junko could've and DID easily use him as her pawn. However, it's never been explicitly stated (at least, not that I know of) that he did build everything. However, it's important to note that he could've easily followed her orders and built every single machine used in the dr executions.
[-] Being hiighly inappropriate. Take it away, Sonia!
This ties in with his horrible social skills. It's no secret that Souda is a massive pervert. It's at the point where it weirds out Hinata as well as drives Sonia completely away from him. In a way, Souda is like a regular teenage boy, but he has no filter at all. Nobody taught him better, either, due to it just being him and his father. He doesn't hate women, nor does he intentionally disrespect them. He simply doesn't know the line between praising someone and being mega clingy and creepy.
The odd thing about Souda's pervertedness is that due to his talent, it's spun in a mechanic's light. For example, he also thinks about things other people wouldn't. Bones, elbows, general bone structure is important. This ties in with the fact that the most important part of any machine or device is what's inside of it. Too bad Souda had the wrong idea when applying it to himself.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer, but his ultimate goal is running his own bike shop.
Starter: Totodile
Password: Strawberry Sherbet!
Samples
First Person Sample:
[Souda definitely looks more content than when he first arrived here. Whether it's him forcing false bravado is anybody else's guess, but on his lap is an odd contraption- an attempt to build a mecha Totodile, but it looks like his actual Totodile is going through scrap parts behind him.
Out of all places, Souda is in a junkyard.]
Hey, Souda here! Can anybody see this? [He actually waits a comfortable amount of time before continuing.]
...So, I didn't have a lot of time to appreciate it when I arrived at this place, but now that stuff's kinda settling and I'm gettin' a feel...
All this new technology, like this PokéConnect and Pokégear thing, it's really pumping me up! I built a thing like this back on the island from scrap parts, but it was a really quick fix, and I didn't have nearly enough time to make it as awesome. I totally could've, though, I bet you!
But...that aside, I really wanna know what all technology this place has to offer! So if anybody's viewing this and you need help fixin' somethin', gimme a call! Bikes, your Pokégear, anything that's electronic, I can make it work better than when you first got it!
[He pauses to shoot a longing look to his Klink off screen.]
...Also, can some expert tell me how Klinks and Voltorbs work? I'm dyin' to take mine apart, but-- I...is that even legal? Would it hurt it? I don't wanna hurt mine, just...c'mon, around all this new stuff I get so excited!
Third Person Sample:
Saying this wasn't what Souda expected was quite the understatement. For a moment, things flashed: he'd taken apart his clock on the first few days he'd spent on the island, so what was with that alarm? Two: he halfway expected to see some sort of green light and knocking his head against glass, yet he saw neither. The third...he sure didn't expect to wake up in one of the comfiest beds he'd ever slept on.
Souda couldn't even decide if this lined up with a gigantic Junko Enoshima looming over their heads, but it sure as hell was up there along with glitches and inaccessible rooms in a fake Hopes Peak. Wait, fake Hopes-- ?? Fuck, why could he only remember the simulation and not his time outside? With no one to correct him otherwise, what was he supposed to do? What was he supposed to do alone? He'd die from loneliness like some damn rabbit!
Forced optimism on his part- Maybe it was better that way. Who would want to return to being SHSL Despair, anyway? His hands were recognizable, his island memories were intact, and everything was comfortably unharmed! Hell, Naegi hadn't even been specific on who among them had physically harmed themselves, either. The bonuses were piling up, yet...
It didn't make up for the unexplained setting. Nothing did. Nothing made any sense! From his fake mom to the professor, nothing made sense! His mom was, well... Damn it, he really couldn't make up his mind! He needed help! Was it good or bad? What about Sonia, Hinata, Kuzuryuu, and Akane?! Why was he in yet another game? Had they messed up and he'd landed up brain-dead? Souda had heard that it was possible that people in comas had dreams to make up for things, but... N-No, come on already! That was totally impossible!
Pros, cons, add them all up, and it's still so difficult... At least, when he chose his Pokémon, it seemed friendly enough. Its habit of nipping with those really sharp teeth, though...! How was he supposed to get it out of that when all he knew was machines? Still, it wasn't as if she weren't awesome looking or anything, just really nippy.
Souda bent down on one knee to stare his curious Totodile in the face. "I'll name ya... Hmm." As he pouted in thought, his Totodile tried mimicking the expression. "Mustang... Nah, that'd fit a horse Pokémon better... Ya don't look like a..." Interior crocodile alligator. I drive a-- "Chevrolet!" --movie theater.
Name: Yucee
Personal Journal: It's way easier to contact me with my plurk
E-mail: yuceee[at]ymail.com
AIM/MSN: hahashadows (aim)
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Route: N/A
Character
Name: Souda Kazuichi
Series: Super Dangan Ronpa 2
Timeline: Chapter 6, immediately after giving his shitty 'REMEMBER ME' speech
Canon Resource Links:
quick access to Oren's LP chapters 5-6
1st freetime 2nd freetime 3rd freetime 4th freetime 5th freetime
dangan island extras
Personality:
Souda is the type of guy who thrives off praise. He is as obsessed about people praising him as much as he is with Sonia. Most of all, he craves Sonia's praise. However, he goes to all sorts of lengths just for even the slightest bit of praise. (Chapter 2: tying up Komaeda and isolating him with Nidai's help. Chapter 3: building the communication link. Chapter 4: fixing the elevator. Chapter 5: building mini mecha Nidai.) Possibly, he also wanted to impress his dad at one point. His dad was part of the reason why he got so good at being a mechanic. Well, other than necessity, loneliness, and boredom.
Beyond that, Souda is a fairly simple guy. Even Hinata remarks that in his first freetime that while Souda seems really flashy, he's actually really plain. In a way, you could compare Souda to a banged up car that had received a fancy paint job. It's a really superficial improvement to something badly in need of repair, and at a certain point, all that work starts breaking apart.
Basically, if Souda were a car, he'd be a geo metro with a gaudy paint job. He committed the worst crime a mechanic could make: focusing on the outsides when he should've focused on the engine. While being the very definition of tryhard, some things like that just plain go right over Souda's head. See, Souda could've easily been SHSL Contradictions, if that were an actual title.
When you picture a mechanic, you don't quite picture a guy like Souda. You don't picture a guy whose emotions switch far too easily. You don't picture a guy who overheats worse than a messed up engine. You definitely don't picture someone who overreacts to possibly every single thing in the game. YOU MOST CERTAINLY DON'T PICTURE A MECHANIC WHO CAN NEVER DRIVE A CAR DUE TO SEVERE MOTION SICKNESS. That's right. Souda can never, ever drive anything he builds. Souda is that guy who busts every single thing you picture a mechanic as being, and damn does he do it well!
...Wait, that shouldn't be sounding like a compliment.
Either way, Souda smashes the mechanic stereotype into pieces. He's insufferably loud, insufferably clingy, insufferably perverted, and worst of all, insufferably stubborn. You could say that Souda sees only what he wants to see. He clings to any bit of safeness and security, only to bail at the slightest bit of trouble. Survival skills are 100%, people skills would be in the negative percentile if at all possible.
Examples of his paranoia leading him into doing stupid shit: In his first freetime with Hinata, he starts developing the word 'soulfriends' to describe their friendship. He didn't know his behavior was borderline annoying Hinata at the time. Hinata seemed nice and safe compared to a lot of other people on the island. Average, even. When Hinata didn't openly ridicule him or make him feel like he was unwanted, he stuck to him even worse than superglue.
However, he stopped trusting Hinata just as easily in chapter 4. (His fourth freetime that I linked contradicts this in a way. The person who translated it should've done it in chapter 5, where it would make way more sense. Souda is really, really losing his grip on things around that time, but Hinata revealed in chapter 4 to have no talent at all.) Souda's paranoia, ironically, lead him into investigating the rest of the tower with Komaeda of all people. Ouch. You know, Komaeda who he and Nidai tied up in chapter 2? Yeah, Souda is a really ironic sort of guy.
How anybody could get the picture of Souda being optimistic is anybody's guess, though that's the kind of guy who tried turning himself into. He tried his damndest to be positive at first. He believed he can make better of the situation they'd been trapped in. So what if they were on an island instead of school? It was his first field trip ever! There were so many pros to the situation! Nothing could possibly go wrong, right?!
Souda is that guy who the game tries best to prove wrong. You know, that guy who says something along the lines of 'well, at least it isn't raining!' and it pouring hard immediately after. He's the butt of a lot of jokes, and he's used to it. He's used to people bullying and making fun of him. He's used to the feeling of being rejected. He's used to people kicking his ass. Hell, even his dad kicked his ass at least once!
That's the whole reason Souda desperately wanted to change himself. He wanted people to stop bullying him. He wanted to change everything about himself: his image, reputation, and attitude. He ditched his glasses for pink contacts, started dyeing his hair pink, and did his damnedest to start fitting his image of cool. However, he failed spectacularly and ended up looking like a flashy dork. Decreased morale and Saionji relentlessly attacking him (along with Mikan) brought him back down. People dying brought him down. Sonia's constant rejecting him brought him down.
Getting Sonia Nevermind, who is an actual princess, to date a guy like him would've signified that his transformation was over. Who could possibly be cooler than a guy dating a princess? Wouldn't it just be so grand? Wouldn't it be a huge step up for him in life? Nobody would dare make fun of someone dating a princess! Beyond that, he makes exceedingly perverted comments about her, like wanting to record something accidentally perverted she says, and even feeling envy about the fact that Monobear can spy on her 24/7. He is basically his own monkeywrench in that respect.
When he arrived at Hopes Peak, Souda so desperately sought after a place to belong. To someone like Junko Enoshima, someone so willing was a prime target to join her in her quest for despair. She was probably a sort of goddess to him, and quite likely, she had him at her beck and call, not unlike Mikan. However, it's only canon that Mikan was in love with her.
If you cracked open Souda's deepest thoughts, among all the car talk, this is what they'd be: Pay attention to me. Like me. Please like me! Please pay attention to me! Actually, I don't even care if you call me names, I just want your attention! Don't ignore me, please don't ignore me!
It's also canon that only the dr cast meant a damn thing to Junko (aside from possibly Kamukura)! In the end, Souda only found a false sense of belonging when joining Junko, just like how he was in the remaining five at the end of the game. Akane had Nidai. Hinata had Nanami. Kuzuryuu had Peko. Sonia had Gundam. Sonia had Gundam, and Souda had no one. It's no wonder that around the beginning of chapter 5, when Sonia still cared nothing for him even after Gundam had died, Souda's grip nearly vanished. Gaining the habit of laughing when things got too crazy in chapter 5 might have been a big indicator. In that respect, his fourth freetime is also horrifying.
From his linked fourth freetime:
"However… Say a person betrays us in order to live… If that’s how it’s gonna be, I-I’m…
………………………………
S-Sorry… Give me a little time to think it over a bit."
The potential fridge horror is strong in this one.
Strengths:
“Well, I was surrounded by all sorts of tools and devices since I got into this world, y’know. Me fixin’ things up is like a habit now!”
[+] Mechanical genius. This isn't limited to bikes or cars. Souda came from a poor family, and as such, he had to find ways to entertain himself on his own. It started out of boredom but built up into something he loved. Growing up in a failing mechanic shop meant they'd take whatever job possible. He states that he's best at bikes.
[+] Smart in a way the rest of the sdr2 shsl crew aren't. Without him, they wouldn't have had been able to communicate from the hospital and apartments in chapter 3 without spreading despair fever. Likewise, in chapter 4, nobody else would've been able to fix the elevator. He's also the only one who took the student handbook seriously, what with it being a manual. Manuals are practically bibles to a mechanic.
[+] Trusts his skills as a mechanic. This could be listed as a pro and con, but with Souda, it's mostly a good thing. He doesn't let other people not noticing hold him back. In fact, that makes him try harder. Because of his pride as a SHSL mechanic, he'll gladly jump to people's aid, even if he does have some ulterior motives. He'll even offer up his skills before things are broken as part of his introduction.
[+] Hardworking. Souda mentions at least once that he "was up all night" doing something. Again, this has its downsides, but with how stubborn Souda is, it's a definite bonus. 70% of the time, it ends up blowing up in his face, but that's never stopped him from trying.
[+/-] Maassive paranoid coward. Of course, this doesn't come without reason. Souda has the most realistic reactions out of everyone, though exaggerated to a comedic amount. However, in a way, his constant paranoia saves him from certain death. He developed a keen sense of avoiding any sort of drama. In his paranoia, he and Nidai team up to tie up Komaeda in chapter 2. His overreactions might seem comedic, but if anything, he is one of the few members early on with survival skills.
[-/+] Tries his damnedest to bounce back from crazy events. However, this comes with a price: around chapter 5, he develops a habit of spontaneously bursting into laughter once things become too unrealistic. He laughs at an email that basically spoils the entirety of Dangan Ronpa. This is a repeating thing throughout that chapter. Because of this, though, Hinata seriously considered Souda the kind of guy who could bounce back from anything.
In the end, though, that was all talk. It doesn't help that Hinata's judgment of someone's character has proven wrong in critical cases. It's not Hinata's fault, though, because he does his best to see the good in everyone he meets. ...Whereas Souda is paranoid of everyone and everything, despite all his efforts to bounce back.
Weaknesses:
“Uu… What a pain… Can’t take it anymore… I can’t… I can’t keep it together. How can I enjoy a tropical vacation when monsters are probably about to eat me…!”
[-] Vastly impaired social skills. Souda had only one friend before Hinata. The boy ended up taking advantage of him and asking him to help him cheat on a test. As a result, the friendship ended, Souda ended up being branded as a tattletale, and he wound up not having any other friends as well as his interest in the rest of his class failing. He flat-out says that he skipped field trips because his classmates were stupid. He even states that he left school immediately after the bell rang.
[-] Being easily manipulated. Out of everyone Junko chose into following her, Souda had to have been the easiest. Likely, she gave him all the praise he wanted. She coerced him into a lot of things, leading to some of the most fridge horror headcanons in all of sdr2. Somebody had to build all the executions in DR, right? Souda had the potential, and Junko could've and DID easily use him as her pawn. However, it's never been explicitly stated (at least, not that I know of) that he did build everything. However, it's important to note that he could've easily followed her orders and built every single machine used in the dr executions.
[-] Being hiighly inappropriate. Take it away, Sonia!
This ties in with his horrible social skills. It's no secret that Souda is a massive pervert. It's at the point where it weirds out Hinata as well as drives Sonia completely away from him. In a way, Souda is like a regular teenage boy, but he has no filter at all. Nobody taught him better, either, due to it just being him and his father. He doesn't hate women, nor does he intentionally disrespect them. He simply doesn't know the line between praising someone and being mega clingy and creepy.
The odd thing about Souda's pervertedness is that due to his talent, it's spun in a mechanic's light. For example, he also thinks about things other people wouldn't. Bones, elbows, general bone structure is important. This ties in with the fact that the most important part of any machine or device is what's inside of it. Too bad Souda had the wrong idea when applying it to himself.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer, but his ultimate goal is running his own bike shop.
Starter: Totodile
Password: Strawberry Sherbet!
Samples
First Person Sample:
[Souda definitely looks more content than when he first arrived here. Whether it's him forcing false bravado is anybody else's guess, but on his lap is an odd contraption- an attempt to build a mecha Totodile, but it looks like his actual Totodile is going through scrap parts behind him.
Out of all places, Souda is in a junkyard.]
Hey, Souda here! Can anybody see this? [He actually waits a comfortable amount of time before continuing.]
...So, I didn't have a lot of time to appreciate it when I arrived at this place, but now that stuff's kinda settling and I'm gettin' a feel...
All this new technology, like this PokéConnect and Pokégear thing, it's really pumping me up! I built a thing like this back on the island from scrap parts, but it was a really quick fix, and I didn't have nearly enough time to make it as awesome. I totally could've, though, I bet you!
But...that aside, I really wanna know what all technology this place has to offer! So if anybody's viewing this and you need help fixin' somethin', gimme a call! Bikes, your Pokégear, anything that's electronic, I can make it work better than when you first got it!
[He pauses to shoot a longing look to his Klink off screen.]
...Also, can some expert tell me how Klinks and Voltorbs work? I'm dyin' to take mine apart, but-- I...is that even legal? Would it hurt it? I don't wanna hurt mine, just...c'mon, around all this new stuff I get so excited!
Third Person Sample:
Saying this wasn't what Souda expected was quite the understatement. For a moment, things flashed: he'd taken apart his clock on the first few days he'd spent on the island, so what was with that alarm? Two: he halfway expected to see some sort of green light and knocking his head against glass, yet he saw neither. The third...he sure didn't expect to wake up in one of the comfiest beds he'd ever slept on.
Souda couldn't even decide if this lined up with a gigantic Junko Enoshima looming over their heads, but it sure as hell was up there along with glitches and inaccessible rooms in a fake Hopes Peak. Wait, fake Hopes-- ?? Fuck, why could he only remember the simulation and not his time outside? With no one to correct him otherwise, what was he supposed to do? What was he supposed to do alone? He'd die from loneliness like some damn rabbit!
Forced optimism on his part- Maybe it was better that way. Who would want to return to being SHSL Despair, anyway? His hands were recognizable, his island memories were intact, and everything was comfortably unharmed! Hell, Naegi hadn't even been specific on who among them had physically harmed themselves, either. The bonuses were piling up, yet...
It didn't make up for the unexplained setting. Nothing did. Nothing made any sense! From his fake mom to the professor, nothing made sense! His mom was, well... Damn it, he really couldn't make up his mind! He needed help! Was it good or bad? What about Sonia, Hinata, Kuzuryuu, and Akane?! Why was he in yet another game? Had they messed up and he'd landed up brain-dead? Souda had heard that it was possible that people in comas had dreams to make up for things, but... N-No, come on already! That was totally impossible!
Pros, cons, add them all up, and it's still so difficult... At least, when he chose his Pokémon, it seemed friendly enough. Its habit of nipping with those really sharp teeth, though...! How was he supposed to get it out of that when all he knew was machines? Still, it wasn't as if she weren't awesome looking or anything, just really nippy.
Souda bent down on one knee to stare his curious Totodile in the face. "I'll name ya... Hmm." As he pouted in thought, his Totodile tried mimicking the expression. "Mustang... Nah, that'd fit a horse Pokémon better... Ya don't look like a..." Interior crocodile alligator. I drive a-- "Chevrolet!" --movie theater.