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tallandproud) wrote2014-03-01 08:44 pm
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Application: Route 29 [ Warning: Spoilers for all of Super Dangan Ronpa 2]
Spoilers ahead - as listed above.
Player
Name: Folded
Personal Journal:starflare
E-mail: dreamingofyoutonight@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: snowclawx (aim)
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Route: Dave Strider
Character
Name: Hinata Hajime
Series: Super Dangan Ronpa 2
Timeline: Post final trial, pre-epilogue.
Canon Resource Links: Warning: spoilers for all of Super Dangan Ronpa 2. History
Personality: Ever since he was a child, Hajime Hinata has dreamed of joining Hope’s Peak Academy - a place that gathers the exceptionally talented. His yearning to become a part of the school bordered on worship, but the only way he could join was through the Reserve Department, that is, to pay a high fee to compensate that he had no talent. His parents paid for it and it’s hinted in chapter 3 that he was bullied for his lack of talent. He has a dream of a classroom where faceless students remark on his lack of talent and that his parents paid to get him in. Throughout the game, he subconsciously suppresses his lack of talent, possibly in an attempt to belong and escape the sense of feeling inferior. This is supported by his behavior when they first arrive. It’s only when everyone else accepts the situation, and he’s left by himself, that he decides to dismiss his misgivings.
In contrast to the Dangan Ronpa’s first protagonist, this guy is very pragmatic. As I stated above, he was distrusting of the situation established in the prologue and fast to be wary of everyone- even himself- when Monokuma puts forth the rules of mutual killing. Instead of needing to be convinced to obey their vicious captor, Hinata tried to convince Souda that going to announced gatherings was the best idea, and fighting against it wouldn’t end well. It doesn’t mean he stays silent, or refuses to speak out. Quite the opposite. He speaks his mind frequently, but his blunt speech can come across as aloof or cold.
He’s the type of person to think first, spending time to properly build what he wants to say before he says it. In the beginning, and throughout the game, Hinata keeps most of his thoughts to himself, only speaking what he feels is necessary to say. We get the full scope of his thought process as the player of the game, but to others, he is presented as a very calm individual who approaches them first.
Hinata definitely cares about his classmates; later goes far enough to call them his friends. He frequently makes a point to listen to and try to understand all of his classmates. He does his best to understand even Komaeda, who, to him, betrays he and the others during the first trial. Getting to know his friends, he worries when he says the wrong thing, and has the strength to go back and admit when he’s made an error. A good example of this is Tsumiki. Faced with her talk of abuse, he quickly and repeatedly becomes overwhelmed. He apologizes for each instance and eventually manages to communicate his thoughts on the matter. As the group’s trust in him grows, Hinata gets better at handling the stress and calms down a bit. He displays more patience, and willingly comes to have faith in his classmates.
All Hinata has ever wanted is to be proud of himself and to stand strongly on his own with confidence. At first, he believed he needed some amazing talent for that. It’s the reason he fought so hard to get into Hope’s Peak. It’s touched upon repeatedly, at the very beginning of the story and again at the very end, when he realizes he never needed to be anything other than himself. As Hinata’s story unfolds, we see he has an inferiority complex about his lack of talent compared to the other students on the island. He’s pretty sensitive about it and reacts with hostility towards Komaeda when the other boy becomes vicious and talks down to him.
While on the subject of Komaeda, it’s good to discuss Hinata’s friendship with him. He wouldn’t go so far as to actually call it a friendship- even in the Free time events, he refers to it as a stronger bond that might lead to eventual understanding. He starts off thinking Komaeda is a kind individual who stayed behind to help and guide him. But once his true colors are revealed, he’s distrustful and wary of him. He felt betrayed, but didn’t leave it at that. Instead, he continues to try and understand him, something that Komaeda meets positively. Hinata calls it fear. He feels Komaeda is too dangerous to be left to his own devices and he worries not getting his motivations.
Unfortunately, knowing them doesn’t seem to help either. His dread increases, but when their friendship breaks down in chapter 4, he reacts with anger and confusion. He did value what they had to some degree. There is enough understanding between them that Hinata is able to figure out the truth of Komaeda’s death based on what he knows of him. In light of those events, he wouldn’t be sure how to approach or handle his classmate. But nonetheless, he’d try, because not knowing is scarier.
It is much like how he worries over his lost memories and what they might entail. When he discovers he used to be Super High School Level Despair, after the shock and a pep talk from a friend, he accepts responsibility for his actions. It doesn’t matter what those actions were, they were his choices. He sees no reason to excuse them and continues to move forward. Instead of choosing an easier road, he carries all the deaths, and all the things he did with him into a future that is neither hope nor despair.
Hinata prefers to take action rather than wait around for it to happen. He notes that himself. Each time he is overwhelmed by what’s been said by another classmate, he comes back anyways and apologizes if he did anything wrong. This boldness carries over into how he acts during class trials. Even if the truth is painful, he will accept it and carry on for the sake of the friends who were executed, and of those still left.
But in the past, long before the program and before the terrible events that lead to the fall of the modern world, Hinata was a normal highschool student. He got into his beloved Hope’s Peak and from what we see in chapter 3’s dream, talked about as if he isn’t around, but this was in regular high school. On its own, this is vague, but when supported by what Hinata says when asked about school in Free time events, it paints a picture. He has never felt he belonged and doesn't stand up for himself when called talentless or ordinary. He pretended he couldn’t hear, but the insults and comments still sank in.
He has never felt at ease at school. Revisiting what he said at the beginning of the game, ‘I'm ashamed of my lack of individuality’, ‘And by joining that school, I could really aim to hold my head high...’ Hinata fulfilled his lifelong dream of joining the school he held above all other things, and to boot they wanted him for their project. Whether they told him the risks and what was going to happen or not, Hinata was chosen because of his love and devotion to the school. Why on Earth would he say no to them?
He had the chance to do something that even he could recognize as a grand achievement. Thus Hinata stepped into the project of creating SHSL Hope and came out the other side as Kamukura.
All of what made Hinata’s personality had been erased, leaving behind the human version of a supercomputer. They crammed him so full of talents he could easily discern and solve every riddle presented to him. People became like ants, as inferred in chapter 0 between chapters 5 and 6 - he understood the nature of anyone he came into contact with instantly. The talentless were worthless. He cared about no one and was bored with everything. The unpredictable was exciting, but never for very long.
It wouldn’t take much for Junko to push him to kill and give into despair. His beloved school had used him, and, as he remarked, even she used him. What she proposed could be seen as an end to all of the boring things, including himself. She offered something different from the life before him that would otherwise drag on because everything Kamukura encountered was easy to solve. In Chapter 0, he remarked that the world was reaching its end, instead of evolving. It's interesting he says this, and could have been how Junko convinced the easily bored, 'hope' of the school to commit murder for her. What would he care about something that is stagnating? It would be easier to erase it all than to sit and watch a world that is assumed to never change.
After he killed the student council, he was kept hidden as the school sought to protect him, their ‘greatest hope’. It’s talked about in Dangan Ronpa 0 Novel, by the headmaster during their meeting to decide what to do about the ‘incident’.
Except it was too late, he had become part of the despair soon to sweep through the entire world.
When brought into the program he didn’t care about the outcome, as he’d have no part in it. Hinata would. All the same he used the despair left behind by Junko, an AI containing a copy of herself. He did it to use her, possibly to bring Despair. No matter what his motivations were- though despair is the most likely- Kamukura came to an end.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths
✎Tolerant - Hinata is especially tolerant of a lot quirks and eccentric behavior. Instead of calling Saionji out on killing ants and stomping on crabs he inwardly thinks about it being odd and moves on. The same can be said about Gundam’s outlandish talk.
✎Good Listener - He makes a point to listen to everyone he talks to. Even if they might be saying crazy things. He only protests when it’s pretty over the top, such as suggesting he’s anything like Komaeda in later chapters.
✎Honest - As people go, he’s a good one to talk to when you want a straight answer. He might feel turmoil over what the truth is, but he’ll still say it. Every trial is a good example of this.
Weaknesses
✖ Don’t make me turn this car around - Hinata is not the best of people when he’s stressed. He gets snappish and is quick to express his irritation. He’s not a fun person to be around at those times. A lot of the game he’s in this mode but he gets (a bit) better with it over time.
✖ We’re all gonna die - He’s pretty cynical and wary of situations, from the first paradise to the strange circumstances surrounding each murder. During the beginning, he’s even willing to suspect himself as a traitor because he couldn’t remember his talent.
✖ But mom I want to be a superstar - While having no talents to call his own isn’t necessarily a weakness, Hinata is pretty sensitive to the fact. Comments directed at his lack of talent upset him.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Absol
Password: Caramel Popcorn
- SPOILERS for chapters 3 to End Game -
Samples
First Person Sample: Can anyone hear me? [After the hubbub with that "Mom" person and departing the house, he finally turns on the video. Everyone is greeted with a shot of tall grass and a young man with a dress shirt and a tie. At his side is a fierce-looking pokemon known to many as Absol.] Is..everyone hearing this music? I thought it was a radio in the house, but it hasn’t stopped. It changed when I left town.
[He pauses, focusing on something off screen.] The starter town for this [Should he say "game" already?] place is supposed to be Pallet, right?
[He reaches for his pocket as the Absol at his side tenses.]
Wait, that isn’t important. What’s the purpose of bringing us here?
Third Person Sample: After all of the terrible things they went through, Hinata hadn’t expected to wake up in a normal-looking bedroom. He sits up quickly, biting back a curse. “This is- Did we fail?” How could they have failed?! They’d done it correctly!
He shuts his eyes. Panicking and assuming they failed to stop Junko wouldn’t get him anywhere. He has to have faith they made it. But if that’s the case...he doesn’t have time to stand around and worry.
Once his feet are on the floor, the boy glances around the room, taking in the plain white walls and computer desk in the corner. Someone had spread a rug out and mounted a mirror in the open space before the door leading out. Sitting on the floor by the door is a backpack and a pair of shoes. He steps over to inspect them just as a voice breaks the silence.
”Hello son, you’re finally awake!” Hinata jerks up from tugging at the zipper. A brown haired woman of average height smiles down at him. ”Time to begin your journey!”
“What? Who are you?! What happened to the others?” She keeps smiling in a way that seems normal, but Hinata finds it kind of creepy. Did she hear him at all? Instead of answering his questions, she thrust a red and white ball at him. ”You should hurry.
...What is going on? Have they failed or had they been successful?
Player
Name: Folded
Personal Journal:
starflareE-mail: dreamingofyoutonight@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: snowclawx (aim)
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Route: Dave Strider
Character
Name: Hinata Hajime
Series: Super Dangan Ronpa 2
Timeline: Post final trial, pre-epilogue.
Canon Resource Links: Warning: spoilers for all of Super Dangan Ronpa 2. History
Personality: Ever since he was a child, Hajime Hinata has dreamed of joining Hope’s Peak Academy - a place that gathers the exceptionally talented. His yearning to become a part of the school bordered on worship, but the only way he could join was through the Reserve Department, that is, to pay a high fee to compensate that he had no talent. His parents paid for it and it’s hinted in chapter 3 that he was bullied for his lack of talent. He has a dream of a classroom where faceless students remark on his lack of talent and that his parents paid to get him in. Throughout the game, he subconsciously suppresses his lack of talent, possibly in an attempt to belong and escape the sense of feeling inferior. This is supported by his behavior when they first arrive. It’s only when everyone else accepts the situation, and he’s left by himself, that he decides to dismiss his misgivings.
In contrast to the Dangan Ronpa’s first protagonist, this guy is very pragmatic. As I stated above, he was distrusting of the situation established in the prologue and fast to be wary of everyone- even himself- when Monokuma puts forth the rules of mutual killing. Instead of needing to be convinced to obey their vicious captor, Hinata tried to convince Souda that going to announced gatherings was the best idea, and fighting against it wouldn’t end well. It doesn’t mean he stays silent, or refuses to speak out. Quite the opposite. He speaks his mind frequently, but his blunt speech can come across as aloof or cold.
He’s the type of person to think first, spending time to properly build what he wants to say before he says it. In the beginning, and throughout the game, Hinata keeps most of his thoughts to himself, only speaking what he feels is necessary to say. We get the full scope of his thought process as the player of the game, but to others, he is presented as a very calm individual who approaches them first.
Hinata definitely cares about his classmates; later goes far enough to call them his friends. He frequently makes a point to listen to and try to understand all of his classmates. He does his best to understand even Komaeda, who, to him, betrays he and the others during the first trial. Getting to know his friends, he worries when he says the wrong thing, and has the strength to go back and admit when he’s made an error. A good example of this is Tsumiki. Faced with her talk of abuse, he quickly and repeatedly becomes overwhelmed. He apologizes for each instance and eventually manages to communicate his thoughts on the matter. As the group’s trust in him grows, Hinata gets better at handling the stress and calms down a bit. He displays more patience, and willingly comes to have faith in his classmates.
All Hinata has ever wanted is to be proud of himself and to stand strongly on his own with confidence. At first, he believed he needed some amazing talent for that. It’s the reason he fought so hard to get into Hope’s Peak. It’s touched upon repeatedly, at the very beginning of the story and again at the very end, when he realizes he never needed to be anything other than himself. As Hinata’s story unfolds, we see he has an inferiority complex about his lack of talent compared to the other students on the island. He’s pretty sensitive about it and reacts with hostility towards Komaeda when the other boy becomes vicious and talks down to him.
While on the subject of Komaeda, it’s good to discuss Hinata’s friendship with him. He wouldn’t go so far as to actually call it a friendship- even in the Free time events, he refers to it as a stronger bond that might lead to eventual understanding. He starts off thinking Komaeda is a kind individual who stayed behind to help and guide him. But once his true colors are revealed, he’s distrustful and wary of him. He felt betrayed, but didn’t leave it at that. Instead, he continues to try and understand him, something that Komaeda meets positively. Hinata calls it fear. He feels Komaeda is too dangerous to be left to his own devices and he worries not getting his motivations.
Unfortunately, knowing them doesn’t seem to help either. His dread increases, but when their friendship breaks down in chapter 4, he reacts with anger and confusion. He did value what they had to some degree. There is enough understanding between them that Hinata is able to figure out the truth of Komaeda’s death based on what he knows of him. In light of those events, he wouldn’t be sure how to approach or handle his classmate. But nonetheless, he’d try, because not knowing is scarier.
It is much like how he worries over his lost memories and what they might entail. When he discovers he used to be Super High School Level Despair, after the shock and a pep talk from a friend, he accepts responsibility for his actions. It doesn’t matter what those actions were, they were his choices. He sees no reason to excuse them and continues to move forward. Instead of choosing an easier road, he carries all the deaths, and all the things he did with him into a future that is neither hope nor despair.
Hinata prefers to take action rather than wait around for it to happen. He notes that himself. Each time he is overwhelmed by what’s been said by another classmate, he comes back anyways and apologizes if he did anything wrong. This boldness carries over into how he acts during class trials. Even if the truth is painful, he will accept it and carry on for the sake of the friends who were executed, and of those still left.
But in the past, long before the program and before the terrible events that lead to the fall of the modern world, Hinata was a normal highschool student. He got into his beloved Hope’s Peak and from what we see in chapter 3’s dream, talked about as if he isn’t around, but this was in regular high school. On its own, this is vague, but when supported by what Hinata says when asked about school in Free time events, it paints a picture. He has never felt he belonged and doesn't stand up for himself when called talentless or ordinary. He pretended he couldn’t hear, but the insults and comments still sank in.
He has never felt at ease at school. Revisiting what he said at the beginning of the game, ‘I'm ashamed of my lack of individuality’, ‘And by joining that school, I could really aim to hold my head high...’ Hinata fulfilled his lifelong dream of joining the school he held above all other things, and to boot they wanted him for their project. Whether they told him the risks and what was going to happen or not, Hinata was chosen because of his love and devotion to the school. Why on Earth would he say no to them?
He had the chance to do something that even he could recognize as a grand achievement. Thus Hinata stepped into the project of creating SHSL Hope and came out the other side as Kamukura.
All of what made Hinata’s personality had been erased, leaving behind the human version of a supercomputer. They crammed him so full of talents he could easily discern and solve every riddle presented to him. People became like ants, as inferred in chapter 0 between chapters 5 and 6 - he understood the nature of anyone he came into contact with instantly. The talentless were worthless. He cared about no one and was bored with everything. The unpredictable was exciting, but never for very long.
It wouldn’t take much for Junko to push him to kill and give into despair. His beloved school had used him, and, as he remarked, even she used him. What she proposed could be seen as an end to all of the boring things, including himself. She offered something different from the life before him that would otherwise drag on because everything Kamukura encountered was easy to solve. In Chapter 0, he remarked that the world was reaching its end, instead of evolving. It's interesting he says this, and could have been how Junko convinced the easily bored, 'hope' of the school to commit murder for her. What would he care about something that is stagnating? It would be easier to erase it all than to sit and watch a world that is assumed to never change.
After he killed the student council, he was kept hidden as the school sought to protect him, their ‘greatest hope’. It’s talked about in Dangan Ronpa 0 Novel, by the headmaster during their meeting to decide what to do about the ‘incident’.
Except it was too late, he had become part of the despair soon to sweep through the entire world.
When brought into the program he didn’t care about the outcome, as he’d have no part in it. Hinata would. All the same he used the despair left behind by Junko, an AI containing a copy of herself. He did it to use her, possibly to bring Despair. No matter what his motivations were- though despair is the most likely- Kamukura came to an end.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths
✎Tolerant - Hinata is especially tolerant of a lot quirks and eccentric behavior. Instead of calling Saionji out on killing ants and stomping on crabs he inwardly thinks about it being odd and moves on. The same can be said about Gundam’s outlandish talk.
✎Good Listener - He makes a point to listen to everyone he talks to. Even if they might be saying crazy things. He only protests when it’s pretty over the top, such as suggesting he’s anything like Komaeda in later chapters.
✎Honest - As people go, he’s a good one to talk to when you want a straight answer. He might feel turmoil over what the truth is, but he’ll still say it. Every trial is a good example of this.
Weaknesses
✖ Don’t make me turn this car around - Hinata is not the best of people when he’s stressed. He gets snappish and is quick to express his irritation. He’s not a fun person to be around at those times. A lot of the game he’s in this mode but he gets (a bit) better with it over time.
✖ We’re all gonna die - He’s pretty cynical and wary of situations, from the first paradise to the strange circumstances surrounding each murder. During the beginning, he’s even willing to suspect himself as a traitor because he couldn’t remember his talent.
✖ But mom I want to be a superstar - While having no talents to call his own isn’t necessarily a weakness, Hinata is pretty sensitive to the fact. Comments directed at his lack of talent upset him.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Absol
Password: Caramel Popcorn
- SPOILERS for chapters 3 to End Game -
Samples
First Person Sample: Can anyone hear me? [After the hubbub with that "Mom" person and departing the house, he finally turns on the video. Everyone is greeted with a shot of tall grass and a young man with a dress shirt and a tie. At his side is a fierce-looking pokemon known to many as Absol.] Is..everyone hearing this music? I thought it was a radio in the house, but it hasn’t stopped. It changed when I left town.
[He pauses, focusing on something off screen.] The starter town for this [Should he say "game" already?] place is supposed to be Pallet, right?
[He reaches for his pocket as the Absol at his side tenses.]
Wait, that isn’t important. What’s the purpose of bringing us here?
Third Person Sample: After all of the terrible things they went through, Hinata hadn’t expected to wake up in a normal-looking bedroom. He sits up quickly, biting back a curse. “This is- Did we fail?” How could they have failed?! They’d done it correctly!
He shuts his eyes. Panicking and assuming they failed to stop Junko wouldn’t get him anywhere. He has to have faith they made it. But if that’s the case...he doesn’t have time to stand around and worry.
Once his feet are on the floor, the boy glances around the room, taking in the plain white walls and computer desk in the corner. Someone had spread a rug out and mounted a mirror in the open space before the door leading out. Sitting on the floor by the door is a backpack and a pair of shoes. He steps over to inspect them just as a voice breaks the silence.
”Hello son, you’re finally awake!” Hinata jerks up from tugging at the zipper. A brown haired woman of average height smiles down at him. ”Time to begin your journey!”
“What? Who are you?! What happened to the others?” She keeps smiling in a way that seems normal, but Hinata finds it kind of creepy. Did she hear him at all? Instead of answering his questions, she thrust a red and white ball at him. ”You should hurry.
...What is going on? Have they failed or had they been successful?
Revisions
Strengths
✎ Tolerant - Hinata has to handle the situations within the game at the same time as having no idea what his talent is, and being under suspicion in the latter portion of the game. His tolerance is such that he simply lets Souda be wary of him and continues on. Instead of trying to force change upon Tsumiki, he understands that she is going to have to gradually change. Saoiniji’s vicious behavior persists into the end of her free time events, but rather than tell her to change, Hinata simply doesn’t add to it.
Within Route this will be a pretty important skill, what with being suddenly thrust into a world where everything revolves around strange creatures. There’s no telling what other oddities he’ll have to deal with. Slotted as a Breeder, he’ll have to try and understand Pokemon so he can do his job effectively, to say nothing of new people who have nothing to do with the life he’s already lived.
✎ Good Listener - He has always let people say what they want to say. It’s only when those things might be meant to harm others or to compare him to people he’s not happy to be compared to (Komaeda) that we see him protest. He wants to belong, and to understand other people, so naturally, he listens to everything he can so he might establish a bond.
It is another skill that will serve him well as a Breeder in this new world. If he’s to have any hope of adapting to Route, he’ll need to get to know people vs keeping his distance. To know pokemon, he will need to listen to them because they can’t speak and it's only through communicating in other ways that he will be able to become close friends with any of them.
✎ Ambition - Let’s not forget that Hinata has been aiming for the top school, one you have to be scouted for to even get into. He didn’t let lack of invitation stop him. Instead, he somehow convinced his parents to pay the steep fees, and got in. In Japan, highschool requires an exam. He did his original exam, plus this one. Rather than letting his status as a Reserve Student stop him, he continues to lead investigations and push forward.
While he suppressed that he had no talent of his own, he continued to act like an equal to everyone else. He never likes sitting around and prefers to be doing something. During murder investigations, he doesn’t make small talk, remarking that he doesn’t have time for it.
In Route that will carry over into doing everything he can to understand this new world and what he can do in it. Once again he’ll aim high, to be the best damn breeder and friend he can possibly be.
✎ Think First - Even at the start of the game, Hinata chooses to think on what is going on first instead of panicking. Each time he’s faced with a seemingly impossible situation he chooses to go back over everything he’s learned. His reactions to a lot of things could have been a lot worse! Like the despair fever; if he had chosen otherwise. It’s this trait that leads him to the answers he’s seeking and makes him a good person to rely on.
If he’d acted on emotion at the end of the game, rather than thinking it through, the outcome would have been rather bad, especially because his panic would have infected the others. In route, much like real life, he’ll stay out of a lot of trouble by giving the clearest answers possible.
✎ Intelligence - While Hinata isn’t the brightest tack in the shed, he isn’t stupid. Once he figures out the trick to a situation, person, or subject - he catches on fast and can solve it. The same will be said of pokemon. Once he figures them out, he’ll catch on fast to how to help and bond with them.
✎Honest - There isn’t a single point that Hinata lies to other people. You can go back over the material and see every answer he gives is honest. It doesn’t how painful the truth is, he says it. Every trial is a good example of this, especially the fifth trial where he had to choose Nanami to be executed.
✎ Confidence - It takes a lot of confidence to state your opinions without backing down from them. Hinata is surrounded by all these brilliant people and yet he acts as their equal. He is even brazen enough to say when they’re wrong. Time and time again he’s told he’s nothing much to sneeze at, yet he keeps working to solve the mysteries surrounding he and his friends.
It goes without saying that to own your past and accept what you did before is another example of a strong sense of confidence.
✎ Rational thinking - You can’t build or destroy an argument if you can’t keep a clear head and think rationally. Using his logic and what he learns, Hinata’s thoughts during problem solving is very precise. He is the sort of person to pose as a question to himself as, ‘What does this tell me? How can I apply this to now?’
Weaknesses
✖ Cynical - He’s pretty cynical and wary of situations, from the first paradise to the strange circumstances surrounding each murder. During the beginning of the game, he’s even willing to suspect himself as a traitor because he couldn’t remember his talent. At times when he could have been asking further questions or boosting everyone’s spirits, Hinata has thought of the worst outcomes.
When he runs into a roadblock, he often needs a little guidance or time to clear his head before he can approach a situation again.
✖ Inferiority complex - While he doesn’t react to the extreme about it, Hinata’s lack of super talent is something he’s sensitive about. All his life he’s strived to a level of achievement that other people told him you had to be born into. The wall between himself and that last percent has eluded him, and when he remembered that, any comments made about it bothered him. It’s notable that his strongest reactions to Komaeda and others center around that conflict within himself.
In Route, many people are on similar levels as his classmates, and some are above them. It’s no stretch of the imagination that coming to grips with that will bother him just as much. He won’t let that stop him from interacting but on a conscious level he’ll be aware of how far above them they seem to be.
✖ Closed off - You ever notice that no one is privy to all of Hinata’s thoughts and feelings? He says exactly what he wants to say. His friends never get too much of a glimpse of his home life or school history beyond what he offers in little tidbits. If his friends sat down and compared what they know, it wouldn’t amount to much. It’s another reason Hinata can come off cold and part of why Souda was so suspicious of him.
In the end, his friends don’t know much about him. Nor will any new person he befriends.
✖ Outward Focus - It’s important to notice that Hinata focuses a lot on other people. He doesn’t bother with trying to understand himself, and puts a lot of effort into helping others. The whole game he only bothers with considering what his missing talent is, if he’s the traitor, and in the end Kamukura. His own personal struggles come from trying to overcome the situations before him and on decisions concerning other people.
While Hinata will solve problems in front of him, he never once confronts Souda about his mistrust. In the dream of the past in chapter 3, he never once stands up for himself against the other students. He keeps silent as their words wash over him like a dark cloud.
First Person Sample
Hey. [He offers the gear a nod as he picks up a pen and notepad.] I know a few of us are breeders, but what type of pokemon do you specialize in? I think we can help each other out a lot if we share what we’ve learned. [He pauses, tapping the pen to the page.]
I don’t know what I want to focus on. There’s so many different types, and I haven’t gotten even a tenth of the way through the pokedex. Maybe, [He’s been thinking about this a lot since he read through some of the network.] Maybe it would be a good idea to create a guide for new breeders. Unless there already is one! If there is... can you point me to it?
Thank you.