#I imagine kanade is probably the one who adds improv moments the most even during lives

[ninjagirlstar5]

Concept that could probably improve Chapter 3:

So, we all know how much Kanade loves to lord her superior intellect and competence over Hibiki.

Well, imagine this for me: during the twins' "synchronized" stabbing of Setsuka, imagine Hibiki's stab lagging a couple of seconds or so behind Kanade's stab, thereby making Kanade the sole culprit behind Satsuka's murder.

Kanade could only despair, upon Monocrow explaining the truth, and learning that the incompetence of her older sister is allowing her to survive, while she, the better twin, is going to die alone, for the same reason.

YEAH, I've seen some anons talk about this idea with the Mod of ASOOT (A Student out of Time) in the past. And honestly, I feel like a lot of Chapter 3 could've been vastly improved if Hibiki was allowed to survive or even just given the spotlight for her role in killing Setsuka, even if it wasn't of her own free will thanks to Kanade cause come on, that would fuck her up pretty badly to find out that your own sister, whom you trusted the most, was actually abusing you and killing everyone you ever cared about to the point that she uses you like a literal puppet. But no, it has to be all about Kanade and Hibiki gets almost zero exploration in her character and how she feels about this even before her own death. Hell, Kanade even dies getting EXACTLY WHAT SHE WANTED, watching her sister die in Despair right before her eyes even when they got caught and punished as the blackened. Like, fuck that, that gives Kanade zero sense of Despair when the point of the killing games in Danganronpa is that NO ONE wins if you actively partake in it or don't rebel against it, whether you die as a victim or a killer. As a victim, you die and lose any chance of escaping with the people you've gotten to know, and as a killer, not only would you have to live with the rest of your life that you killed someone and sacrificed everyone else in the process to survive, with the truth of the Tragedy, many motives would be moot cause it may not even apply in an apocalyptic world so surviving as the blackened can literally just be For Nothing. And seeing a POS like Kanade get everything she wants no matter what just fucking sucks to see as a player. And not in a good, angsty way but in a, "Well that pissed me off and ruined everything this character was and could've been, I feel robbed!" Bonus points if it wastes another character process!

Which is why this simple change would have at least salvage SOME of the original trial, even though I personally think it'd be best to scrap the whole chapter entirely and start over since this chapter has little to no connection to the overarching plot, which became a detriment to how the rest of the story is told. Not only would it be more cathartic to see Kanade get her comeuppance without losing Hibiki, who was starting to have some great character development that all went down the drain thanks to this trial, but the idea that Hibiki not being perfect and yet surviving is a great "fuck you" to Kanade's egotistical "I'm better and talented than ALL of you" bullshit that "should've" let her win. Her so-called incompetence saves her from getting executed while Kanade, who was under the belief that she would've won either way up to that point, slowly realizes that she's going to die without getting any sort of satisfaction in having her sister be all hers, in life and in death. Not to mention it adds a bit of evil to Monocrow for purposely lying to Kanade's face all for the sake of giving her Despair in her final moments, tricking her into being the only blackened of this trial and that the so called double-blackened option was just to keep the façade up until the final moment. It would piss her off SO much and she'd curse everyone out as she's finally dragged off to her execution and killed, losing her life to Despair and her own hubris in thinking that this plan would ever work.

Chapter 3's trial is stupid but at least if this fake out twist happened, I could've had some catharsis in Kanade's death AND Hibiki would live for another chapter, with everyone hopefully helping her heal and support her (although since it's Chapter 4 and what happens next, it'd be a miracle if the group got their shit together to keep an eye on Hibiki).

[chisatowo]

Ok done showering I wanna elaborate on unit swap Mafuyu stuff uhhh long story short when they first properly talked as kids Ena called her a fake bitch and Mafuyu was like wait oh my god I am a fake bitch and got her identity crisis way early and ended up continuing to seek out and spend time with Ena under the impression that if she recognised something abt her that she did not that she might be able to help her find other things abt herself and from Ena's pov this kid actually stuck around after one negative experience with her which no one else has ever done before so after some initial aggression she kinda clings to Mafuyu as her first proper friend even if she kinda sucked at showing that she liked and cared abt Mafuyu now and the two formed a very weird friendship where they both trusted eachother very deeply and that mostly meant that they were very blunt with eachother and bickered a lot but they never actually argued since them being like that with eachother was their weird way of communicating that trust and they slowly got better at showcasing their care in somewhat more friendly ish ways until things went to shit. Anyways back to actually talking abt Mafuyu herself, since she was younger and less deeply aware of her lack of choice in her home, she initially tried to peacefully maintain both a social and an academic life, but as she got a bit older her mom started pushing her more directly to prioritise her schoolwork, and once the rest of the group decided to form a band, Mafuyu decided to officially start rebelling against her mom, which ended up turning into a huge long lasting struggle and battle for independence against her mom. By the time Kanade's dad was hosbitalised, Mafuyu's mental health had already been taking a serious toll from the constant struggle to do and be what she wanted, and as Kanade started basically cutting them off by self isolating and the group started to fall apart slowly, Mafuyu saw this as a sign that this whole battle was a lost cause, and that it just wasn't worth it anymore, and she quit and gave into her mom's demands to be who she wanted Mafuyu to be. And then we have a fun time skip and the rest of the plot yippee