#it won over the danganronpa this time!

[loststarphounix]

Quick Persona 5 thing *putting on the Persona mask*

I love the dynamic of Ryui/Akira and Ryuji/Yusuke, but my favorite ship has to be Ryuji/Akechi because it hits that subsection of Strangers to Frenemies to Lovers to Tragic Enemies that I crave at times, which is the inevitable betrayal of trust and loyalty and the spiraling of obsession.

Persona 5 spoilers below

Like imagine Ryuji meets Akechi before the beginning of the game, he just thinks this guy is overly nice because he’s secretly a creep. He has no idea is Akechi is an actual celebrity and Akechi finds this immediately amusing and makes use of this by using Ryuji as a soundboard of sorts - gauging his reaction to certain key phrases and words to see what the average teenager is thinking and the trends of the day.

They are passing friends at first: seeing each other at the train station but going to different sides of the platform or heading out the station, seeing each other in the crowded streets after school and track practice where Ryuji is heading to the arcade or the ramen shop. Then they start to actually meet up on purpose, at the park or by the movie theater to enjoy whatever mindless action film was playing because that was Ryuji’s favorite genre. Akechi even visited his home a few times and was invited to stay for dinner with the family. It was nice…domesticed in a way he always dreamed. And more and more, Ryuji became his favorite person to text or call on days when he’s at his lowest or when the adults around him had pushed his buttons with their self importance. He was like a balm that soothed his heart. It was around this time, that Akechi realized that his affection was turning romantic, but he didn’t stop it. In fact, he decided to let it grow - after all he deserves love, like any of the other normal, more stupid teenagers their age. He could make Ryuji fall for him he was certain: he was attractive, not too tall, attentive and intelligent. He just had to make strategic moves to ensure their relationship evolved in the way his mind envisioned and it would be perfect.

But after second year, after Ryuji is attacked and subsequently kicked off the track team, things change. Ryuji is still his sunshine self, but it’s muted somehow, like the light was almost snuffed. Akechi hates that anything in this disgusting world tried to take the light from his only source of happiness. How dare it even think of touching Ryuji! The blond was his and the world had no claim to him.

Akechi makes himself more available to Ryuji, who even though is very much in pain and recovering, is badgering the young detective (“ have you eaten anything other than pancakes? Like I know I have a ramen obsession, but yours outdoes mine!” “You’ve been sleeping right?”) and it endears him to the blond. He wants to help, but Ryuji insists he can handle Kamoshida on his own and that his mom has enough to worry about than some other teen sticking his nose into their lives. But this doesn’t satisfy the brunet, because he cannot believe this goofy, lovable oaf wouldn’t want his money and connections to make his life better; even if he doesn’t know who Akechi actually is.

This leads to him planning on making Ryuji want to spend more time with him, promising himself that he’d reveal who he actually is and make Ryuji and his mom’s lives so much better. It wasn’t like it was going to be hard, Ryuji became his schools pariah after Kamoshida disbanded the track and field team. He was lonely, lost…in desperate need of a friend. And Akechi was that friend, giving him attention and love. And soon, with time, Ryuji would see that he didn’t need any of those idiots. He could have all he ever wanted, being by Akechi’s side.

But then Akira comes along and ruins everything Akechi worked on for the past year. How could he have predicted that the delinquent who transferred to Shujin Academy after assaulting and upstanding adult? And that Ryuji foolishly would see this thug as a kindred spirit?

Ryuji was spending more and more away from Akechi, to be with that scum. The light seemed brighter now, soaking the world in a warm glow that emitted from him every time they squeezed five minutes together. But it wasn’t from him. And it made Akechi want to scream at the injustice if it all. He was the one who found Ryuji first - the one who saw him as he was. Why can’t he be the cause for this warmth? Why was he not good enough to make Ryuji bloom again?

And after his cover being blown by this Akira and Miss Ann at the tv station, he can see the appeal…kind of. Akira was smart, he’ll give him that; clever too with how he almost trapped Akechi on live television with his questioning. Ryuji looked so impressed by his new “friend”, it made Akechi want to vomit. But he wasn’t Akechi, who knew how to sooth Ryuji on his bad days and knew just how to help when his leg started to acting up.

Then he finds out the truth about Ryuji and the Phantom Thieves - that his little sunshine was apart of that group of thugs? It wasn’t fair. It wasn’t fair.

And when Ryuji discovers his secrets - who Crow really is - and falls right into that criminals arms, it drives him to the breaking point. He decides that he’ll use the Palaces and Mementos to create the world that always should been his: him happy and loved and in love with Ryuji by his side, with Akira chained and humiliated; forced to see Akechi touch and claim what was never his again and again for all eternity.

Ryuji would be a little upset at first, but he’ll forgive Akechi. He’s foolishly kind like that. And he’ll understand in time why the other did what he did. He will…Akechi will make sure he will.

[mmani-e]

I've finally finished my Danganronpa AU personal project! I personally call it

DANGANRONPA: DEMIX

See Demix 1 here

And yeah, all the swaps as you can see above, and these guys in the middle are the replacements for Monokuma and Usami respectively:

Check out under the cut for some design insights on my take AND closer pictures of each pair:

Finally finished my personal AU project. I hope it's to everyone's liking!

I can go on forever about these designs but I'll limit myself to one-two sentences on some facts about the designs.

Mikan: Mikan's face tattoo was commissioned on her against her will so that she can never hide her nature as a Yakuza, but her leg tattoo was done on purpose, and she and Nagito have matching tattoos on their legs, his is just hidden most the time.

Nagito: He is usually seen with a spear and prefers the weapon over the sword, but he is more famous for his natural skill with the blade. That said, he resents the blade and wishes he could be recognized for the things he actually works hard to do, like throwing spears or protecting Mikan and her family.

Ibuki: I kept her design very similar to her base design because she pretty much just looks like a student, and I don't want to change anyone's personality so there's no reason for her to not get highlights. But I gave her some more symmetry in this design and gave her a cute little semi ahoge I guess with a hair tie, bc she doesn't naturally have one.

Imposter/Gamemaster: Yeah I made the big brain choice to keep him with his colors as "Byakuya" because it made for a more striking visual, and more recognizeable as the impostor. Also I made him too tall because I wanted to give him big legs lol.

Hiyoko: Her four cats are named Heart (scraggly cat), Mr. Pearls (sleepy cat), Big Red (Giant cat), and BB (black cat) bc canonically the four dark devas are named after shonen manga, I named her cats after pokemon games, which she canonically likes playing. Also chickens are her favorite animal, despite her love of cats.

Kazuichi: Kazuichi's not a natural born prince, through shenanigans it turns out he's extremely distantly related to some royal line in a microstate north of germany called "Nordsumpf." Their main exports are cars and Kazuichi is still new to being a prince.

"Kyoko": She'd try her best to act like Kyoko, but she's a little too meek and openy affectionate to pull it off properly. Also her knockers are way bigger than Kyoko's, so there's an immediate discrepancy to the trained eye.

Also in my au of DR1, Kyoko is the ultimate affluent progeny and Makoto is author/serial killer.

Hajime: His hair is actually extremely long back there, he just keeps it tied up. On shows he lets it all out and a wears red contacts, his stage name is "Izuru."

Sonia: Sonia became a team manager because she was escaping an assasination attempt, strolled into a junior laegue soccer game, took over for the coach and started just barking orders and the team won. They were the worst team in the whole league and after that she just sorta stuck around them and won them the championships.

Gundham: Gundham was orginally meant to wear the japanese flag… but there was too much white in his design so I cut it. He has names for all of his gymnast moves and he announces them very loudly when he does any of them.

Peko: I tried to give Peko a unique sort of "zombie survivor" kinda vibe so while she's clearly a mechanic first she can also just fucking kill you by braining you with that monkey wrench. Most of the time she's cool though, she's just like horribly dependent on other people to tell her what to do, so she attaches to Kazuichi because he's the most immediately available authority figure.

Fuyuhiko: He's got that sort of machismo that makes him not like to admit he loves dancing, but the moment he's complimented on it he'll really appreciate it. Also he's still part of a crime family, but it's just not as strong as Mikan's.

Akane: She really looks sporty still, but don't worry she's definitely "lucky," she's just much more focused on the future than her bad luck in the moment… which can be very bad, actually, and can make her come across as kind of aloof.

Nekomaru: Why is nurse Nekomaru not as common a thing. Just think about it, it's perfect. Nekomaru here got inspired by the bravery and hard work of the nurses that treated him and boom he became a nurse, nobody tougher than healthcare professionals after all.

Mahiru: Mahiru as a nurse is honestly a really really really fun concept but I feel like I wasn't very ambitious here, and I can't really show it through the drawing but one of my early drafts had her look more like a european chef a la gordon ramsey bc I headcanon her as a scot.

Teruteru: Decided to give him a raincoat which my sister pointed out to me could also be a trenchcoat, which is just PERFECT for a creep like him. It just writes itself man, though seriously he's mostly a landscape photographer who specializes in pics of the countryside. Still a huge perv tho.

Usowa: Name is a combo of Usagi and Chowa, the word for Harmony. She's less like a chaotic force of nature like Monokuma and more a manipulative and hardline teacher who coaxes the students into doing awful things by playing into their insecuritoies with motives, and which then causes them to kill, allowing her to punish them, "weeding out the weak and undisciplined among their ranks." She replaces Monokuma.

Kyojuma: Name is a combo of Kyoju (professor) and Kuma. He's a pretty silly guy with an easy temper to poke at, but he's good at heart and tries his best to be a more sort of "fun" teacher than the rules lawyer Usami kinda was. He just wants to help his students, too bad Usowa showed up and decidedly does NOT like his approach.

[idyllcy]

valentine's event: baby, i'm so stupid in love

Happy Valentine's Day!! You now have (stares at watch) 24 hours to send a love letter to your fav to my inbox! (be as delusional as you'd like) Your beloved and your messenger are waiting! x's n o's !!!

Character List:

apothecary diaries (Jinshi, Maomao)

danganronpa (Komaeda, Hinata, Kamukura)

dc (Bruce, Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian, Steph, Cass, Jaime Reyes)

a date with death (Grimmy)

lovebrush chronicles (Alkaid, Ayn, Cael, Clarence, Lars)

love and deepspace (Zayne, Xavier, Rafayel)

saiki k (Saiki)

solo leveling (Jinwoo, Zhigang)

tears of themis (Vyn, Marius, Luke, Artem)

What to send to me:

A love letter! An example will be provided below the cut using pretty bird!!

Example ask:

Dearest birdie,

How are you this Valentine's? It's unfortunate it's a Wednesday this year and all of my professors (still) hate me. Though, it does remind me of our first date. I can't believe you won me over with a Costco card of all things LOL. I'm sure you'll be reading this letter while having breakfast, so be sure to order some pizza when I get home. Or, show up to my class? Who knows. Lots of love Timmy <3

Eternally yours, Pretty Bird

Example response:

Pretty Bird,

You should know better than to leave early in the morning with nothing but a letter stuck in your place... though, it wouldn't be such a bad idea to show up to your class with roses to escort you out. What would you call it? Shoujo-coded? Let's go Costco shopping again... this time for our house. I'll see you after work.

Your birdie, Tim

EVENT ENDS: 24 HOURS FROM POSTING || HAVE FUN!!

[ecogirl2759]

Time to jam with Leon Kuwata!

-NOTE-

All of these photos are from the Danganronpa 4コマ KINGS series. I do not own any of the drawings, but these photos are mine. All credit goes to Spike Chunsoft for the characters and the books themselves.

Time to see what kind of shenanigans he's getting up to today!

(Post longer than a baseball bat, this one is)

Okay I really like these bumpers :)

Lookit him, bein' all happy :D

Dandielionessssss =w=

He just.... He exudes sass

Bro is constantly fearing for his life lmao

Leon with his hair down :D

Leon and food have a very mixed relationship

Stu.... pid?

Makoto is Leon's #1 fan lol

Model student Leon, courtesy of Commander Ishimaru :D

The truth hurts... literally

Sad boi hours :(

HE WON! (He didn't)

Uh oh

We did it guys Leon's dead

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Confession: Leon was my favorite character when I was first introduced to this game lol. His design was just so cool! (And his personality but yk)

He didn't actually have too many pictures in here. A lot of the photos I could find of him were either him trying to flirt with Sayaka or him and Makoto pining over her lol

But yeah I think Leon's cool :)

Sorry for being gone for so long btw. I'm back now :)

Next up: Hifumi Yamada!

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[theultimatekamehamehavoc]

Just a thought I wanna share but, the best thing about Byakuya's backstory for me is how much interpretation one can have. Like, there isn't much know about the Togami Inheritance system, how Byakuya won in specifics, if it was a battle of the body, mind, or some combination. Same goes with Byakuya's parents. There is like NOTHING for those guys. I know in the dubiously canon Danganronpa Togami books, his father is named as Kijo Togami, dunno if it is exclusively in those books where he's named. Not much info is on him though. Like, what does he look like? What is his main personality? How is his relationship with his son, Byakuya? Meanwhile, Byakuya's mother is a mystery too. No name, no physical description, nada. It makes sense for her in specifics though as she was probably just there to make the child before said child got shipped to a IRL battle royale. Though, it's not like that's set in stone. That's interpretable too like if she was a good mother whether it's in an interpretation where she only had her son for a small amount of time or if she was always there or hell, if she kicked the bucket and died in some shady ass well! Other things to factor in too such as the fact that Byakuya could be mixed or biracial or something due to Togami men having to have offspring with fancy women all over the globe. That's one interpretation I like a lot. Just makes sense to me. Like, sure, blond hair could be dyed, but it could also just be that European blood coursing through his veins. Or, whatever one sees. Depending on one's own interpretation, his life could be just relatively shitty with the uphill battle of becoming heir and the stress that comes with to potential abuse even, whether verbal or something else. Byakuya is already an individual with some problems after all with his mindset, general demeaner, and childhood or lack there of cus i REFUSE to consider what we know about his childhood to be a diggity dang childhood! Cus, no! That SOOOOO wasn't one. The limit with the interpretation is simply how much one wants to interpret about him like his secret in chapter 2 which never was revealed. Hell, even his list of likes and dislikes is a little vague or at least one of them that I constantly think back to like, what do you mean you like French, Byakuya?! Like, is it JUST the language? Culture? The food?!?!? Gasp Does he relate to the baguettes? Okay, I'm being a bit silly here but my point is that even his likes and dislikes can be fluid with interpretation. He likes coffee but it's open to what KIND whether it be black coffee or a Frappuccino at Starbucks with excessive amounts of whipped cream (I say this like I've actually seen a Starbucks coffee in person and have walking into an establishment). He dislikes microwaved food. Well, how far does that dislike go? Pure hatred even? Would he refuse to eat a reheated meal that he likes out of spite because it was reheated in a microwave even if he's literally about to starve to death or would he cave and eat the food? Or, does he hate the microwave ITSELF more than the food products designed for it? Then my brain loops back to the important biz! What does he find funny?! How would one hypothetically get him laughing?! Dang! Sometimes I wish there was an ACTUAL concrete answer to this though, who knows. If there was, I might not like the answer though that is delving into what-iffery. Dunno! I just overthink like this! I gotta dissect my muse! Besides, even if some of the interpreting can be annoying, even for me at times, it's not the worst thing ever. Not like he's the only character with this trait. It's just more apparent when you have some characters when you know all their family members or have actual CANON books about their backstory (Kyoko). And there are also other characters in which the vagueness is by design or just characters with vague spots like him cough cough Kokichi cough cough. Suppose it doesn't help that I am way too attached to this freaking loser T-T. Perhaps, there is some beauty to that.

[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).

[aparticularbandit]

What You Have Tamed: Chapter One

Summary: Life in space is not as Monaca Towa imagined it.

It's boring, and her supplies don't last long enough, so she can't get far enough out to find aliens at all.

Worst of all, when she comes back for supplies, she keeps running into Servant.

Why won't he leave her alone?

Chapter Rating: M for implications and discussions of past child abuse. Fic Rating: M for implications and discussions of past child abuse, as well as general Danganronpa reasons.

If you have trouble with the content in UDG, then this fic is not for you, as it is expected to address the abuse the Warriors of Hope went through.

AO3

next chapter

Space.  The Final Frontier.

….

It kind of sucks, actually.

Monaca has spent the past several months up here, thinking it would be an end to her boredom, but no.  It’s empty.  Lonely.  She thought maybe she would find some sort of alien race or species or whatever and then people back on Earth couldn’t hate her anymore.  Or maybe she’d convince the aliens to be her bestest friends and then they could take over Earth.  Then they could be the next wave of Monokumas, and she’d be an even better next Junko Enoshima, because she’d brought the aliens, and the aliens brought despair, and then they’d win when she couldn’t.

And then there’d be another glorious war between hope and despair and maybe despair would win this time.

(It wouldn’t win.

Big Sis Junko was better than any alien Monaca could ever find, and she hadn’t won, so no one else can either.

That’s the thing: if she brought an entire alien race to take over Earth, then everything Big Sis Junko did would pale in comparison and be forgotten.  That’d be the worst option of all, probably.  So maybe it’s a good thing she hasn’t found any alien race or species or whatever.)

Monaca doesn’t even look outside anymore.  There’s just stars.  And more stars.  And no planets with singular roses on them.  It was kind of pretty the first time, but after a while, it gets old.  It’s all just stars.  Sometimes big hunks of rock.  Sometimes bigger hunks of rock.  There’s no spaceships.  No satellites.  No probes.  Nothing they’d sent out here before Big Sis Junko’s Tragedy.  Just Monaca and her van and her Monokumas to pilot her around.

No food.

No water.

She’d brought some of that.  But it didn’t last near as long as she thought it would.  And while technically, yes, the van is equipped with the ability to turn her pee into water, she hadn’t thought she would actually get to the point where she needed to drink it.  Sure, yes, it’s water, but that’s still disgusting.

Besides.  She’s out of food.  She can’t really do anything about that without eating shit – literally – and she’s not about to do that.

….

It’s not sanitary, first of all, and also any of the healthy stuff that would have been in said shit has already been taken out and used by her body, so it’s not even useful to eat.

Not that Monaca would eat it even if it was useful.  Eat her own shits?  No.  Ew.  Gross.

….

Which, unfortunately, means that she will have to go back.  Periodically.

For food.  And water.

(And a shower using water that wasn’t made from her own pee.  Which is a much better use for that than drinking water, but it’s still kind of gross.)

Of course.  To be fair.  After a few months in space, wearing that Monokuma hooded blanket constantly and not really brushing her hair out and really only having the one outfit and not really taking the time to wash any of that – because, well, the whole water thing – Monaca is kind of. grotty.  Gritty.  Disgusting.  Her long green hair is all matted and tangled.  She might be clean, but she still smells.

…so probably also she should get some new clothes, too.

Maybe Monaca should have thought this whole hide out in space thing through a little better.

(Maybe Monaca should think it through a little better before she goes back up.  It’s not like she’s going to find anything new.  Even if she goes in the exact opposite direction, it’s just going to be more space and more stars and more rock everywhere.  No aliens.  No spaceships.  And she’ll make it just exactly the same amount out there before having to come back for food and water.  Maybe a little further, if she gets more food and more water, but the van can only hold so much, and then what?  Then what?)

~

Monaca steps out of her van atop the roof of one of the most prestigious buildings she can find.  One of her Monokuma servants rolls a red carpet out for her, and it’s not nearly as soft as she thought it would be.  But she’s spent the past several months without shoes; she doesn’t want to wear them now.  Not to mention they don’t quite fit anymore.

She steps out of the van like an exiled ruler coming to roost, and she looks up at the now quite dark blue sky with the hood of her Monokuma blanket dropping back, and she lets out a sigh.  It should feel good to come home.  It should feel good to see that the world is healing after everything Big Sis Junko did to it.

It doesn’t.

It especially doesn’t feel good when a voice she faintly recognizes calls out, “Monaca Towa?”

Immediately, Monaca cowers.  She turns to flee back into her van, pressing a handheld button to set two of her Monokuma servants into attack mode.  That should be enough.  She should be able to get away.  That should be—

Someone places a hand on Monaca’s shoulder, and she whirls with long, uncut fingernails to lash out at their face.  The red paint chipped off long ago.  Mostly.  Not that that matters, or anything.

He keeps that hand on her shoulder but raises another to his face.  “Ow.”  He nearly stumbles back but doesn’t.  “Ow.”  His jade gray eye peeps through his fingers, staring at her, and he smiles.  “I’m not going to hurt you, you know.”

Monaca glances behind him, where both of her current Monokuma servants have somehow trained their sights on each other and subsequently exploded.  Then she meets his eyes and raises an eyebrow.  “Come again?”

“You attacked me, when I have never been anything but your faithful Servant.”  Servant steps back and drops his hand from her shoulder.  “But if you would like to run, then please, by all means.”

His arm gleams metallic in the dying sunlight.

Monaca hesitates.

Her eyes don’t move from that arm as she asks, “How’d you know Monaca would be here?”

“I didn’t.”  Servant tilts his head to one side and flashes another grin.  “I’m just lucky, I guess.”

“Lucky puts you on top of this building?”  Monaca examines him curiously.  “Lucky puts you here just when Monaca would be?”

Servant shrugs.  “Lucky means I got picked up in a freak storm and thrown here.  Lucky means I’m mostly unhurt.”  He taps just next to his eye, where Monaca’s nails have raked through, leaving claw marks around it.  “I thought you were up in space…unless you ran out of food?”

Monaca’s gaze drops.  She doesn’t blush, not exactly, but her lips purse together, her cheeks puff out, and her hands clench into fists.  “I need more clothes,” she says, a half-lie only because it’s just as true as her needing more food.

“Ah.  Growing girl.”  Servant pinches his nose with one hand and steps back from her.  His voice is nasally when he starts to say, “Do you need any—”

Monaca turns away from him and stalks back into her van.  Two more Monokuma servants disentangle themselves from the outside, and with another pair (who hadn’t been switched into attack mode), they lift the van off the building and fly off.  She doesn’t need this.  She doesn’t need him.  Besides, she doesn’t smell that bad.

She raises one arm and sniffs at her clothes.

Grimaces.

Yech.

~

Now.

The next several times Monaca tries to land anywhere, Servant is there waiting for her.  She’s not sure that really constitutes as luck.  In fact, she starts to land in one place, scours the area for him, does not see him, and then lands just to see his fluffy white hair pop out from a sewer drain a few seconds later (only significantly less white and fluffy).  If he was really as lucky as he says he is, he wouldn’t be in a sewer in the first place.

That said, Monaca holds that for the future, and the next time she lands and he shows up, she grins at him, hands on her hips just like her Big Sis (and she’s not thinking about that because it hurts, but she’s not not thinking about it either), and says, “Who’s the stink one now, Servant?”

He meets her bright, matrix green eyes with his faded jade gray ones, head tilting to one side, and offers her an awkward smile.  “I believe that would still be you, Monaca.”

Monaca purses her lips together and glares off to one side, tapping her foot.  “Yeah, but Monaca is not the one who was stuck in a sewer.”

“A lot of time has passed since then, Monaca—”

“Only thirty minutes!” Monaca interrupts, stamping her bare foot on the red velvet carpet her Monokumas still roll out for her at every stop.  (Or, at least, they try to roll it out for her at every stop.  Sometimes she makes them roll it back up before she makes it one step out of her space van.)  “You can’t have fixed sewer stink in thirty minutes!  Not and gotten here!”

“Oh?”  Servant tilts his head to the other side, and his normally fluffy hair looks…heavier than normal.  “You must have missed the rainstorm.  Luckily for me, the lightning struck just over there!  Missed me by a few millimeters, but wow!  It was beautiful!”  His eyes dazzle with—

Yeah, no, she doesn’t want to see that.

Monaca turns away again, arms straightening at her sides until her elbows pop, hands clenching into fists again.  “Quit! Following! Monaca!”  She steps back into her space van.

“Monaca, wait,” Servant says, voice soft but still piercing through the world around them.  (It’s followed by the rumbling of thunder, which isn’t ominous at all.)  “I’m not following you.  I would be quite happy to never run into you again.  But my luck keeps drawing us back together—”

“Oh, poopie on your luck!”  Monaca glares back at him.  “Sewer poopie on your luck!”

“Yes, well, that is also part of it.  Bad luck followed by good luck, more often than not.  Particularly when I’m not controlling it.”  Servant gives her a soft smile.  “Like now.”

Monaca scowls at him.  Sticks her tongue out.

Servant ignores that and keeps talking.  “Which means it must be good luck that I keep running into you.”

“Or worse luck and something really good is still coming.”  Monaca rolls her eyes.  “Don’t know what kinda good luck is attracted to a stupid Servant like you, but Monaca knows she doesn’t want to stay and find out.”  She turns back inside the van.  “Going now.”

“If I were you, I would reconsider.”

“Monaca isn’t you, so—”

All of a sudden, the front half of the van lurches forward.  Monaca stumbles in that direction and then whirls back to Servant, glaring at him again.  “What did you do to Monaca’s van?”

Servant shrugs, lifts his hand, and flicks something from one metallic finger.  “I didn’t do anything.  But I trust that my luck did.”

“But I trust that my luck did,” Monaca repeats back in a mocking baby voice as she stomps out and towards the front of her van.  As soon as she stomps off the red velvet, though, her bare foot lands directly on a shard of broken glass.  She lets out a shriek, starts jumping around on her other foot, and then trips backward before landing square on her butt.  (Fortunately for her, on the velvet instead of off of it.)

Monaca stares off into the distance.  She takes a deep breath in, hands clenching so tight her knuckles hurt, foot twinging where the glass is still stuck in it.  There was a time would she would throw a tantrum over lesser things, but something tells her that throwing a tantrum right now and slamming her clenched fists into the velvet beneath her would just lead to more pain.  Even so, her eyes well up with tears.  She sniffles.

Out of the corner of her eye, Servant steps forward.

“Don’t!” Monaca screeches out, refusing to turn to him.  “This is all your stupid luck’s fault!”

“I warned you that it would be wise to reconsider.”

But Servant stays just where he is, not stepping any closer.

Monaca sniffles again.  She wipes her nose with the back of one hand and tries not to think about how dirty her Monokuma hooded blanket already is, tries not to smell it.  (At least she isn’t using it to blow her nose.  She mostly uses her shirt for that.  But she can’t do that in front of Servant; he’d think she was gross – more gross than he already does!

Not that she cares what he thinks, or anything.)

“Do you want me to get that glass out of your—”

“You just want an excuse to talk to me!” Monaca whines.  “I don’t wanna talk to you!”  She slams her fist into her own leg.  It hurts, but not as much as the glass does.

“If you want me to leave, I will,” Servant says, crossing his arms.  “After all, I’m nothing but your faithful—”

“If you were my faithful Servant, you wouldn’t be following me everywhere!  Not when you know I don’t want it!”

Servant sighs.  “Unfortunately for the both of us, my luck doesn’t much care what I want.”  He twirls a finger around one of the still damp locks of his hair.  “So perhaps, if we want it to quit causing you problems, we should have a little discussion.  Just to appease it.”  His gaze moves away from her, to the front of the van.  “That should give your Monokumas more than enough time to change the busted tires.”  He raises one eyebrow as he glances at her again.  “You do have other tires, right—”

“No,” Monaca spits out.  “Monaca doesn’t need tires in space!  Why would I waste precious room on—”  She bites her tongue.  “Ow.”  She finally turns to Servant and glares at him.  “You did that on purpose!”

“I would never.”

Monaca crosses her arms.  She looks away from Servant again and stares straight ahead.  Pouts.  Big tears pool in her eyes.  She’s on the edge of a tantrum, even if she knows that’s a bad idea, and that desire grows ever larger as Servant crouches down directly in front of her face.  She turns away from him, her nose in the air.  “You stink.”

“Oh?”  Servant raises one of his arms and sniffs at it.  His nose scrunches.  “You’re right.  How unfortunate.  And here I thought the rain would have helped.”  He sniffs again.  “Perhaps it did.  It’s hard to tell—”

“Doesn’t matter.  You stink.”  Monaca waves him off with one hand.  “Go away.”

Servant sighs.  He does not go away.  If anything, he settles, crossing his legs beneath him and sitting squarely in front of her.  “Give me your foot.”

Monaca whirls her head to face him.  “Ew, gross, no.  You’re all stink and nasty and dirty, and my foot’s hurt, and I don’t want your dirty nasty gross hand all over my foot!”

“Then we need to go in your van,” Servant says, as patiently as he can, “and clean up so that we can get the glass out.  You don’t want this to get infected, Monaca.”

“Monaca can get it out on her own!” Monaca barks out at him, arms still crossed.  “She does not! need! your! help!”

Servant raises an eyebrow.  “Well, if you insist.”  He pushes himself up by pressing the palms of his hands into the carpet in front of him and stands in one easy, fluid motion.  “I suppose I’ll just leave you here, then, won’t I?”

“Hmph.”  Monaca makes a great snooty sniffling noise.  It takes a moment before she checks, before she looks to see if he’s really gone.  She doesn’t see his scrawny ass anywhere.  Good! Riddance!

Except.

Except she really does still have glass stuck in her foot.  And it is going to be really hard to get it out on her own.  And she’s not sure she even has any of the pliers or stuff needed to get glass out of her foot.  And while she can have her Monokuma servants steal some tires and fix her space van up, it’ll take a bit, and she’ll be stuck here while they do.

Trying to get glass out of her foot.

That she’ll only be able to see in a mirror, and then she’ll have to mirror her actions to try and get the glass out.

(Or trust one of her Monokumas to do it for her, which she absolutely does not.  They’re not that precision skilled.)

Monaca sighs.

“Servant?  I’ve….”

How to word this without sounding like she was wrong?

“Monaca has reconsidered!  You can…you can come help her, if you want!”

Her voice sounds weak.  Feeble.  Like it did when she was a child, when she was pleading with her stupid dad, her stupid brother not to—

Monaca winces.  She hates asking for help.  It sounds like begging, and begging has only ever made things worse.

Not that she’s asking for help now.  She is giving permission.  That’s an entirely different thing.

It still stings.

For a few moments, Monaca stays seated on her red velvet carpet.  She stares at everything and nothing, her bare feet propped up, heels plopped in the plush fabric, that one foot still stinging and the other crusted over with mud and dirt.  She hangs her arms over her knees and lets out a huge sigh.  It’s not like she regrets sending Servant away.  She is a bear!  And bears do not regret!

That’s what Big Sis Junko would say, anyway.

And then it starts to rain.

Monaca stares up at the cloudy sky.  Hit me, she thinks, as the rain soaks through her clothes.  Hit me.  It’s not as though anyone cares anymore.

Then, out of the corner of her eye, Monaca catches that white hair, and a disgusting growth of warmth blooms in the center of her chest.  Somehow, his hair seems fluffier, as though he’s been electrocuted or something.  (Maybe he has.  It wouldn’t surprise her.)  She wipes her eyes – she was not crying!  it was just the rain! – and glares at him.  “How dare you?” she accuses, throat raw.  “Abandoning Monaca here!  All by herself!  With nothing but Monokumas to assist her!”

Servant holds a hand out defensively.  “My apologies, Monaca.  I thought you didn’t want me.”  He gives her another awkward smile and seems to almost chuckle.  Of course, he doesn’t come out of nowhere this time, just comes out of an alleyway with a gallon of clean, new water, with a first aid kid and a bag full of…of something.  He must have chosen to come back even before he’d heard her call after him.  Maybe he hadn’t heard her call at all.

When Servant kneels down in front of her, Monaca can’t help it.  She is afraid.  It has been too long since she has been around another living, breathing human being, even longer since she has been this close to him.  “I don’t want to be Big Sis Junko anymore,” she says, voice quiet, remembering the dark words of encouragement he’d spun for her nearly a year ago.

“Neither do I.”  Servant holds his metallic hand aloft, wiggles his fingers twice.  “It’s nice to keep bits of her alive in us, except they don’t always function properly, do they?”  His lips curve slightly.  “No one else will ever be Junko Enoshima.”

“Don’t say her name.”  Monaca glares up at him, glares through the frazzled, wet green bangs that have grown long enough to fall in her eyes.  “Someone like you…should never say her name.”  Not like that.  So blunt.  As though he’d known her any better than Monaca had.

Servant’s expression doesn’t change.  “Of course.”  He examines her carefully.  “Would you like me to lift you?  I wouldn’t want you to step on any more shards.  You could hurt yourself—”

“Yes.”  Monaca cuts him off without a second thought.  Servant always did have a tendency to ramble.  “And be quiet while you’re at it.”

“Of course.”

Monaca glares up at him again.  “Didn’t Monaca just say to be quiet?”

This time, Servant only smiles.  He scoops her up in his arms easily enough, even though she’s grown a bit larger since the last time he saw her, and then he carries her, gentle as anything, back into her van.

~

The first thing Servant does is wash her feet.

Monaca knows how dirty, how gross, how disgusting her feet are.  Normally walking barefoot isn’t a problem, since she’s only in her van and she does bathe, you know, but she’s also been walking barefoot for the past several days in desperate need of a hot bath, has been walking barefoot off and on for the past several hours in alleyways and on rooftops and a lot of other places where maybe she shouldn’t have been barefoot, where maybe much worse things than glass shards might have happened to her if she hadn’t been avoiding Servant in the first place.

(His luck extends.  Maybe.)

But Servant doesn’t say anything about any of that.  Maybe because Monaca told him to be quiet.  Instead, he silently gathers one of the green bowls from her sink (her least favorite of them, which is maybe why it’s the only one that’s still clean), inspects it and then rinses it just to make sure that it’s safe, and then fills it with water from the gallon he’d brought with him.  Then gently, gently, he washes the dirt, the grime, the ick from her feet.

The water is pleasantly warm.

“Aren’t you going to get the glass out?”

Servant looks up at her with those jade gray eyes.

Monaca sighs.  “You can talk,” she says, waving one hand dismissively.  “Monaca won’t mind.  Too much.”

Servant nods and returns to his task, gaze dropping back to the foot held steady in his hand.  “If I don’t wash first, it could get infected.  That would be worse for you, wouldn’t it, Monaca?”

“Fine.”  Monaca scowls.  She crosses her arms.  “Why do you know that, anyway?”

“This isn’t the first time someone’s needed my help.”  Servant catches his words, corrects himself, as Monaca shoots him a look.  “The first time someone’s allowed me to assist them, I mean.”  He doesn’t look up when he says, “This may hurt.”

Monaca rolls her eyes.  “You forget.  Monaca is used to pain.”  Worse pain, even, than shards of glass stuck in her foot.  It isn’t as though the wheelchair fixed everything.  No, it just meant they were more careful with what they did.  Couldn’t break Monaca all at once, couldn’t break her again at all, because someone would figure something out.

(It’s the oldest trick in the book, saying she fell down a flight of stairs, except really she fell down five, and really she didn’t fall because someone dropped her, but they couldn’t say any of that, could they?  Not, they said she fell, and the crack in her skull kept her from saying otherwise, and no one noticed the bruises around her neck (or if they did, they were paid well to ignore them), but the wheelchair….

The x-rays said Monaca’s spine was fine, but they couldn’t account for potential brain damage.

(The Ultimate Neurologist was free, provided Monaca was enrolled in Hope’s Peak’s elementary division, and he knew she was lying, so Big Sis Junko knew she was lying, but at least Matsuda-senpai noticed what everyone else chose to ignore and lied to her half-brother, her sperm donor on her behalf.  She could have a miraculous recovery later, if she wanted, when she was far enough away from them to be considered safe.

She didn’t know then Matsuda-senpai’s relation to Big Sis Junko, but it’s fun, sometimes, to think that even then, Big Sis Junko was looking out for her.  Before they even met, Big Sis Junko was saving her.  She can’t hate her for that.))

Servant washes her feet, and he falls silent, and he gives Monaca the slightest of notices before he starts to remove the glass from her foot.  Each shard he sets on a new, clean towel he pulls from his plastic bag, careful not to let the tweezers touch the fabric.  When he’s nearly done, he lifts Monaca’s foot with that cold metallic hand, examines it carefully, and then says, “I’m going to need to use the needle.  I’m sorry.”

Monaca’s eyes widen.  Needles mean syringes mean toxins means being forced to pass out means Servant might take advantage.  But he holds the needle aloft for her to see it – a sewing needle, not a medical one, which eases some of her immediate panic – and then shows her exactly what he means to do.  Some of the shards, he explains, have gotten far enough under her skin that he cannot reach them with the tweezers alone.  He will need to use the needle to lift the skin to get them out.  She nods her acceptance, refuses to be glad that she allowed his assistance (although there’s no way she would ever have been able to get those shards out on her own, not even with the Monokumas), and then presses her hands on the floor to either side to hold herself steady.

The tweezers hurt the same way pulling a splinter out hurts, but the needle hurts even more.

Monaca grits her teeth, even as she wince, even as tears creep into the corners of her eyes, tears she refuses to actually shed.

When Servant finishes, he wraps the towel on itself and tucks it into one of Monaca’s many, many garbage bags.  Then he empties the bowl, rinses it as neatly as he can, and returns, washes Monaca’s foot again, and then gently – gently because everything he’s done has been oddly gentle – wraps her foot with a fresh bandage.  He looks up and leans back, then, both of his hands resting on his knees.  “Monaca,” he murmurs, “may your Servant make a proposition?”

(She wiped the tears away when he went to the sink, but she’s sure he still notices the traces of them, and she hates him for it.)

“You have earned Monaca’s favor for today,” Monaca says, eyes lighting on that metallic arm and then narrowing, “so she’ll listen.”

(Sometimes, when she speaks in third person like this, Monaca imagines Big Sis Junko at the end, when she’d revealed herself to the group who’d killed her.  Monaca is not a queen, so she does not speak with the royal we the way Big Sis Junko did, but she might be a princess, the little sister of a queen, so that should count for something.  She thinks, maybe, that Big Sis Junko would have laughed at that, might have thought it their little joke, might have leaned until their noses just touched with that bright grin on her face.

Sometimes, when she speaks in third person like this, Monaca pretend that Big Sis Junko is still alive.)

~

Servant lays it all out for her – his idea – that if Monaca lets him know when she needs supplies, he will meet her wherever she lands and have all of them ready for her.

At first, Monaca recoils.  The idea of telling anyone when she will return feels like a trap, like if she tells him, he’ll just find a way to tie her down and force her to stay here, on Earth.  She doesn’t think Servant will make her pay for her “crimes against humanity,” but that doesn’t mean he won’t try to make her Big Sis Junko again, won’t try to make her fight again.

She’s still so tired.

Too tired.

But – and she will never admit it in a million years – Monaca’s lonely, too.  Space is empty and vast and boring, when it’s just her and the Monokumas.  Even if they do speak with Big Sis Junko’s voice, that’s not the same, not when they only ever say what she’s taught them to say.  They don’t have any real intelligence, and even worse, they don’t fit in the van.

Still, she says no, and Servant leaves, and she thinks that’s the end of it.

~

Then Servant shows up – by sheer luck – the next three times she lands for supplies, and eventually, staring at that metallic arm, Monaca accepts.

He’s just going to be there anyway.

Might as well put him to some use.

~

(Back in her van, back in space, Monaca pulls out an old notebook and starts a new design.)

[theamityelf]

In a Danganronpa Hunger Games AU, I think the made-up rule about two people being allowed to win if they're from the same district would have to just actually be in place (no romance required), in order for most of the Ultimates to be victors while being around the same age. Plus, it allows one to play around with who won by being the last alive and who won alongside their district partner.

I already said Junko's from the Capitol, so some of the Ultimates aren't victors. (I'm torn between saying Yasuhiro is another Capitol TV personality who's secretly helping the rebellion and saying he's a victor; both offer some fun hidden depths to explore, and "hidden depths" is my favorite trope to explore with Hiro. It would be cool if he won at eighteen with a district partner who was twelve)

Sonia is the daughter of the president of District 13. (We'll get to her later.) So, I'll probably kick a few characters 13's way.

I'd say Byakuya and Celeste are both victors from District 1 who won in the same year. Not through mutual trust or anything; when two tributes survive, they're usually from one of the Career districts (1, 2, and 4). Their win was very predictable. Celeste didn't even have to personally fight anyone; she just traveled in the toughest pack. Byakuya killed like three or four people over the course of the Games, and Celeste poisoned the rest of the Careers when it came time for their alliance to dissolve.

Mukuro is from District 2, and she's the illegitimate daughter of a victor and a Gamemaker; the Gamemaker is also Junko's dad. (Haha! Didn't think I'd manage that one, did you? They're still sisters, but one's from the Districts and one's from the Capitol. I could even make them still twins if I wanted to. Never underestimate me! 😁)

Chihiro is obviously District 3 (technology), and I'm thinking maybe they won alone, just for the trauma. Unless Hiro is District; then I'll say they won together, because I want an age gap win for Hiro (eighteen-year-old Hiro protecting twelve-year-old Chihiro!) and also he seems to be the go-to technology guy in late-game THH, so District 3 is a good fit for him. BUT, for right now I'm going to say Hiro's Capitol (and a TV personality alongside Junko) and Chihiro won alone. In fact, I'll say that if Chihiro's partner wasn't Hiro, then they weren't even an ally; Chihiro wasn't there when their fellow District 3 tribute died, because that person believed Chihiro was deadweight (since they're really small and emotional) and avoided them.

Obviously, Hina is from District 4. Great swimmer, great runner. She was allied with her district partner, but he died in her arms. She killed one person in the whole Games, and it was probably the one who killed her partner. (She did survive a few hand-to-hand grapples, but only one resulted in her killing someone.) So, she won alone. Her brother was in the Games a year or two after her and won as well.

The Katniss equivalent (or maybe the Peeta equivalent actually) is Makoto; he's subversive enough (in palatable enough ways for the Capitol audience) to earn an exception to the rule. Instead of winning alongside his District partner, he's able to win alongside a player from another District, which is of course a HUGE deal, a serious embarrassment for the Capitol, and a spark for the rebellion. Instead of glory for his District, he champions solidarity.

The person he wins with might be Mukuro. Again, more on that later.

[pyropsychiccollector]

Yuma Harem: Down Came the Rain 1/7

Time to begin the third series~... I wanted to make sure to do all of the poll winners first, so that's the initial reason for spreading the love between series. :3 And now it's Rain Code's turn~...

As always, this will be an AU. Rain Code killed off... a good half of this harem. And Guillaume might as well be dead for all that she drops off the map after Chapter 3... XD So Fubuki and Kurumi are the only canon survivors. And the game ends on a pretty somber note with Yuma just leaving after regaining his memories, moving onto the next adventure. Very typical in shounen series, honestly. It's not "bad", just...

I want to fix things. (人◕ω◕) Too much death. Too much hurting the Kokohead. The Kokomelon, as some fans might affectionately call him. (人◕ω◕) And moreover, the "Yuma" we come to know "dies" as he regains his memories. Sure, it's strongly hinted that his feelings and experiences are just integrated into his original self... But we don't know the former #1 of the WDO. We know "Yuma", the amnesiac. Maybe Yuma had principles before he gave up his memories, maybe he did have morals... But if Makoto showed us anything, he was frankly a ruthlessly cunning individual that crossed any line in order to reach the truth. You can see this in how he assigned a great many detectives to Kanai Ward, and most of them died.

... I know I'm rambling, but the point I wanted to make is that I'll be focusing on the Yuma that we know. Not that the former #1 isn't interesting to think about... But Yuma has heart, you know? I wish to reward that. Reward the nice guys. Reward the goobers. (人◕ω◕) It does mean Shinigami will be sticking around, and you could count her as an unofficial member of the harem (... I mean, c'mon. What? You want Shinigami to bonk her Master silly in the Mystery Labyrinth? Perverts. (人◕ω◕) Not that I'm much better.)... But as you'll see, I've tweaked the idea of Mystery Labyrinths. If Kodaka's going to have a game just short of Persona, I'm gonna go "all the way" with those ideas. Put my own spin on the concepts. (人◕ω◕) I regret nothing.

The Beginning

To absolutely no one's surprise... Kurumi won the poll. lol I don't mind, she's essentially "Detective Chiaki". Finally, a series where "Chiaki" lives... For those who played Danganronpa, they were just brutal with her, tearing out and stomping on our hearts. Again and again. XD As a consequence, though, Kodaka killed off just about everyone else. ... He just can't let us be happy, can he? (人◕ω◕)***

But this lets me get Kurumi-chan outta the way. Again, not that she's bad... She's honestly a really sweet girl, and I won't pretend otherwise. It's just that we know Kurumi's story, know her dynamic with Yuma. And I personally like saving my dessert - that is, the girls that I most strongly support with the protagonist - for last. ... Didn't completely work out for Fate, but aw well. (人◕ω◕)

... I'm rambling again. There's stuff I gotta elaborate on. The first thing to note in this AU is that through a miracle, the train gang - the detectives that Yuma first got to know before reaching Kanai Ward - are all spared, save for Zilch. What ended up happening is that Yuma passed out in front of the detectives, fell over and bumped his head. This allowed the detectives to figure out that he was drugged - likely by the coffee he drank - and the fake Zilch was left to improvise and have Swank and the Peacekeepers deal with the detectives after faking his death to pin on the detectives.

Yuma still goes to the Mystery Labyrinth and Shinigami executes fake Zilch at the end of it. Yakou still arrives to help get the Peacekeepers off Yuma and friends' backs, and they all successfully make it to the Nocturnal Detective Agency. I bring up this background information just so there's not any confusion about Pucci's survival, later on... And why I'll be bringing up the train detectives in subsequent Chapters. XD

Chapter 1 still goes the same way. So we'll skip right to the relevant bits: the Aetheria Academy arc. Chapter 2. (人◕ω◕)

Chapter 2 is... more changes. Due to a few more detectives moving around in Kanai Ward (Pucci, Aphex, Zange, Melami), the NDA is a little more known. Which is why one of the "Aetheria trio" (Yoshiko, Waruna, Kurane) approaches Yuma first, as opposed to Kurumi. Kurane-chan wanted to desperately explore one last non-violent option to expose Karen, and avoid blackening Waruna and Yoshiko's souls. (人◕ω◕)

... I won't go into full details just yet, save that for the appropriate posts. However, I will say that Kurane's actions do wind up saving herself, Waruna, and Yoshiko from becoming killers. It doesn't all go to plan, and they do throw Yuma under the bus when crap hits the fan... But they live, and are able to atone for screwing Yuma over. The Aetheria trio still has futures. (人◕ω◕)

With all this background explained... Let's talk about Kurumi~ Because Kurane was the first to approach Yuma, Kurumi is initially unaware of who "Yumi", one of the new girls at the academy, is. She doesn't know he's a detective looking into Aiko's death (Kurane is testing him, which is why she didn't give him all the details), just that "Yumi" cares enough to ask about Aiko and what happened to her. ... And "Yumi" is rather cute. Kurumi-chan totally fangirls over Yuma's female disguise that he got from Desuhiko. Fooled into thinking he is a girl, and just another student at the academy. (人◕ω◕)

Kurumi and Yuma hit it off pretty well. For the week or so leading up to the fateful rehearsal, Yuma pokes around, trying to pinpoint the truth behind Aiko's death, whether it was a suicide or if someone killed her. Initially, Kurumi tries putting the brakes on his investigation because Yuma's a "civilian", and she doesn't want him getting in trouble with the Peacekeepers... But after Yuma half-lies and says he has connections with the new detective agency in town, promising to get them involved if Kurumi lets him investigate... Kurumi allows it, and gives her all in supporting "Yumi".

... Then the rehearsal happens, and "Yumi" stands accused of Karen's murder. Kurumi is still kept out of the loop as Yuma, Desuhiko, and Melami give the Peacekeepers the runaround while investigating the new murder case. She does what she can for "Yumi" by asking the theater club members and comforting them, but unfortunately Kurumi's not able to do too much with all the Peacekeepers locking the theater hall down.

It's not until after everything blows over that Kurumi finds out the truth about "Yumi". ... I mean, she saw him exposed as a man when Martina cornered the detectives on stage, but she wouldn't get the full story until the case's bumpy resolution. Kurumi didn't take it very hard she was kept in the dark for so long; Yuma had his reasons, and while he couldn't keep a new murder from happening he did help expose the truth and bring closure to Aiko's death. And it was a relief that her doubts about Yoshiko, Waruna, and Kurane could be put to rest. All four of them were close friends of Aiko, and it hurt that Aiko is gone... But they're able to move forward now, even if the trio has regrets and feel they need to atone in their own ways.

Kurumi helps Yuma with his investigation into Kanai Ward, filling him in on the information her grandfather uncovered before he disappeared. That Amaterasu was dabbling in homunculus research. Kanai Ward is still a broken city in dire need of hope, but Kurumi feels more optimistic now that detectives have finally arrived. The perpetual rain feels a little less oppressing~

The Middle Act

Kurumi bonds with Yuma and the other detectives in the coming weeks. (人◕ω◕) Kurane does, too, clinging to Yuma pretty hard... And Waruna and Yoshiko come around at their own paces. The bottom line is, Yuma becomes a good friend to the Aetheria girls. (人◕ω◕) He can never replace Aiko... But he fills the role she left behind. Yuma's an earnest, kindhearted young man that won't stand for injustice. Yet he won't give into despair, won't stoop to murder or similar extreme methods. The ends don't justify the means. In his unwavering beliefs and how he slowly gains confidence the more time he spends in Kanai Ward, Yuma helps the Aetheria girls to remain grounded. He helps them to have hope once more. (人◕ω◕)

Of course Yuma's got a giant target painted on his back because of the Peacekeepers running everything, but Kurumi stands by Yuma. Not just because she's the city's only informant, but because Yuma is her friend. And he helped her connect with Yoshiko, Waruna, and Kurane.

... So when Yomi still nukes the sub, a couple of weeks after the Aetheria case... Kurumi is swept up into urgency by Kurane, who's the most worried about Yuma, especially after he gets spirited away by the Resistance... It's not like there's much they can do. Needless to say, Chapter 3 is pretty rough for the Aetheria girls. While Waruna and Yoshiko are still in the middle of reflecting and bonding with the detectives at their own respective paces, and while they have varying doubts about how much the detectives can really impact Kanai Ward's situation with Amaterasu... They still didn't wish harm on the detectives. Not after being given a new lease on life. Kurumi and Kurane are the closest with the detectives, and it hurts to see the sub blown up, to not know if the other detectives are alive... To know that someone kidnapped Yuma...

And later, events go further downhill. Yuma and the detectives get pinned as bombers, as terrorists... The Aetheria girls have to be careful with the Peacekeepers suffocating Kanai Ward more than usual in their hunt for the detectives, but they can't just stand by and not help Yuma find the truth behind the new case. Marunomon District doesn't get flooded this time around, but bombs going off and killing people is still... pretty bad... Kurumi does everything she can as an informant to glean as much evidence and testimony as possible. And Kurane looks to her, emulating Kurumi in her own way. Kurane's greatest strength is that people rarely notice her, even the bumbling Peacekeepers that are so dead-set on tracking down Yuma. It's an awesome investigative power, and Kurumi's grateful to have Kurane's help in gathering clues. Waruna and Yoshiko help in their own ways; Waruna's the fiery, overprotective girl, the "muscle"; and Yoshiko has... connections. Mostly schoolmates, but she's on good terms with people outside the academy, too.

Regardless of Kurumi and the Aetheria trio's help, Yuma, Aphex, and Fubuki still end up cornered. ... And then through some miracle, all the detectives come out of the woodwork, and they're saved and the Peacekeepers grudgingly stand down when Amaterasu's CEO shows up. Kurumi's not sure what to make of Makoto, he seems like a pretty laidback guy, but there are undertones of... something more, beneath the surface. He saved the detectives, saved Yuma, but Kurumi can't help wondering what Makoto's angle is. And she's even more baffled when the CEO gives the detectives their sub back, with everything inside pretty much the same as it was before it got destroyed.

About a month flies by before they all know it, after that debacle. The detectives are all reunited, Kurumi and the Aetheria trio can still hang around them, and even the Resistance leaders are coming around now... Kurumi was a bit intimidated by the Resistance before the detectives came to the city, only really having rumors to go off of. But really, the Resistance leaders are pretty goofy, even if they're capable in their own right. They're not as extreme as the rumors would have you believe.

With all of them coming together, it really feels like they can effect change in Kanai Ward. The Peacekeepers are still wary of the detectives, still want to arrest them... Or at least some of them do. Kurumi begins noticing that some Peacekeepers are, however grudgingly, allowing the detectives to look into cases. At least the small-time stuff. ... If Amaterasu is linked at all in incidents, they're still pretty defensive and ornery. But there's a lot of crime in Kanai Ward, and Amaterasu isn't tied in everything... Just the most serious stuff.

And with Vivia's latest intel, they've been trying to locate a secret lab where the homunculus research is being conducted. To no avail, but it's the best lead they have to go on. And so a month after that last debacle... Kurumi is anxious when the detectives go straight to Amaterasu and get wrapped up in another incident. She, her friends, and the Resistance can't do much but wait for the detectives to come back, and it's an agonizing wait...

Thankfully, the detectives do make it out of Amaterasu's HQ in one piece. And they bring good news: Yomi's been arrested, and it truly seems like Kanai Ward will change for the better after this. Kurumi's glad. The detectives still have their mission of discovering Kanai Ward's Ultimate Secret... But for the first time in years, Kanai Ward seems to have a bright future ahead of them.

... To Kurumi and everyone else's dismay, however, the tragedies aren't over yet. Apparently, after they see the news of the World Detective Organization getting bombed, everyone in the sub at the time is knocked out. And when they wake back up... Yuma is gone. Nothing else was taken, no threatening note was left behind... Yuma's just disappeared.

They all have a bad feeling about this. The detectives are determined to settle this themselves, to keep the "civilians" out of harm's way... But Kurumi, the Aetheria trio, and the Resistance absolutely refuse to sit this one out. While the detectives go straight to Amaterasu HQ to confront them about Yuma's abduction, the Aetheria girls and the Resistance scour Kanai Ward, just on the off chance that Yuma was taken by someone else...

To their great horror and discomfort, however... Yuma is nowhere to be found. They investigate hard over the next two days... The detectives return with their conclusion Yuma isn't in Amaterasu, they were even allowed free roam of the Amaterasu premises by Peacekeepers and researchers alike. And... he wasn't there. The Aetheria girls and the Resistance didn't have any luck, either - no one had seen or heard from Yuma. It's like he disappeared from the world completely...

And that's around the time that the detectives decided it was time to confront the one area they'd left untouched: The Restricted Area. If Yuma was nowhere in the Kanai Ward that they knew... Then he had to be there. Determined to save Yuma, everyone bands together to bust into the Restricted Area, rules and laws be damned. (人◕ω◕) They take one of the Resistance's vans and use it like a battering ram to plow through the electric fence around the perimeter of the Restricted Area. Then they take another van and drive on through the opening, not trusting at all what might be on the other side...

The Restricted Area is unlike anything they'd seen in Kanai Ward. It was rundown, and it seemed like an older area of the city, nowhere near as bright and illuminating as the rest of the city. It was like... darkness lurked in the Restricted Area. A deep darkness that made Kurumi feel anxious and worried, but they needed to take the plunge and find Yuma at all costs... He... He had to be there. There was nowhere left. No other possibilities. Kurumi and everyone else were unable to accept the possibility that it was too late to save Yuma... that he was already gone.

After finding that the Restricted Area was not an easy place to navigate by car, and that the people roaming about it seemed... strange somehow... the "Yuma Rescue Squad" got out to explore the area on foot. Servan and Aphex would stay with the van, driving around where they could and keeping an eye out. But the detectives, Kurumi, the Aetheria trio, and Shachi, and Iruka all split up to cover the most ground. They weren't dumb enough to search on their own, not in such unfamiliar territory; they formed pairs or groups. Kurumi stuck with her friends, and bravely forged on ahead.

... It was such a spooky, spine-tingling place. The locals were gruff and unresponsive to them, and not a single teenager was keen on approaching them more closely. They vaguely knew that this area was rumored to have had a gas leak in the nearby mines, and that Amaterasu labeled this town as uninhabitable... So maybe the locals were so strange because of that gas leak. Amaterasu might not have been able to do anything for the people here.

All Kurumi could do was keep searching for Yuma... He had to be okay. He had to be. Seeing this place so desolate and brought to utter ruination... A heavy weight was in Kurumi's chest and refused to go away. If Yuma was here, there was a good chance that he hadn't eaten or slept well... But they would save him. They wouldn't leave a single stone unturned.

To their immense relief, Kurane was able to find Yuma after what must have been an hour... He was holed up in a random house, after barricading the door and windows. Yuma... Yuma was bleeding. It looked like someone or something had tried gnawing his shoulder and neck, and his clothes were all roughed up. Kurumi and Yoshiko did what they could, scrounging around for any First Aid supplies in the home, bandaging Yuma up and sterilizing his wounds. He was horrified at seeing them in the abandoned village, fearfully asking if they'd encountered anyone... If everyone else had come here.

Yuma was not that relieved to hear that was the case. When asked what had happened to him, why he was holed up here, all Yuma could say was that the people in this village were wrong... They weren't normal. Weren't sane. He even went so far as to call them zombies... Yuma wasn't sure how or why he was brought here, but they needed to round up everyone and leave. He didn't want to endanger his friends...

He didn't feel that he was worth the effort to come here. Yuma had been prepared to just die trapped in this abandoned house. But now all he wants is to just get everyone safely out of the village... go back where they came. If they have to leave him behind, so be it.

Yoshiko and Waruna gave Yuma an earful about his self-sacrificial attitude, and Kurumi and Kurane just did their best to comfort him. They'd make it out... But Kurumi came to the realization that they should investigate this place. Yes, safety was paramount... But if they just left, Yuma could get dragged back here by whoever kidnapped him. Hell, the Peacekeepers might punish them for breaking in here, or they'd just seal off the Restricted Area again... This was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to find out what this place was, what happened here, and why Yuma was brought here.

... Kurane doesn't like the thought of lingering somewhere that almost got Yuma killed, but Waruna and Yoshiko uneasily agree that Kurumi's right. They can't just... leave without answers. They'll look around while searching for the Resistance and the detectives.

In subsequent events, they skirt around the locals that Yuma's deeply fearful of. They investigate an old post office, and find the order to evacuate amidst papers left behind. Soon enough familiar faces show up, and the girls have no choice but to believe the "zombie" story that Yuma fed them. There's no other explanation for seeing Karen and her father approaching them sluggishly, moaning and groaning incomprehensibly. They make a run for it, and somebody outside shoots an arrow attached with a note that explained a little bit about defective homunculi... They don't have the time to sit and reflect on it, so they keep moving, and eventually run into the Priest from the church, as well as that Worshipper. And before long, more and more familiar faces emerge from the woodwork, none of them can be reasoned with so Yuma and the girls keep running.

Gradually, they hook back up with the other Rescue Squad members, who are thankfully in one piece, if not spooked by the seemingly cannibalistic residents. They eventually reach the ominous factory, and uncover more information about homunculi and the true nature of Kanai Ward. Some Rescue Squad members are already in the factory and surrounding areas, poking around. They learn the uncomfortable truth that the meat buns of Kanai Ward are made from human corpses, and they just keep learning more and more...

The final "stop" on their tour is an old bathhouse up high. They all can see this is where the unending rain originates from, and when they turn off the equipment... everyone but the detectives pass out, and the residents of the abandon village go berserk. Makoto arrives to restore the rain, but only after Yuma "lends a hand". Right after the rain is back, Makoto and the detectives have a tense standoff, and Yuma has no choice but to access the Mystery Labyrinth one more time to resolve everything. Thankfully, however, he's not alone as all the Nocturnal Detective Agency personnel join Yuma on this last eye-opening adventure. (人◕ω◕)

The Future

Players should probably know by now how the final adventure goes. (人◕ω◕) Yuma uncovers everything, and this time he's got his NDA friends supporting him, not just Shinigami. It's an emotional rollercoaster for all of them... But they get Makoto to change his ways, to leave the labyrinth and reveal the truth without killing him.

I haven't really mentioned up until now, but the chief difference with the labyrinths from canon is that it's possible to talk it out with the culprits' souls and have them reveal the truth to everyone outside the labyrinth. There's no need to execute the culprit every single time. With the soul returning to the culprit, changed, the labyrinth fades away on its own. So essentially, Yuma and co. won't have to use Shinigami's emergency exit. (人◕ω◕) Shinigami can remain contracted to Yuma.

Of course that means Yuma won't regain his memories... But he's fine with that in the end~ Because all the mysteries have been solved. Makoto is going to tell Kanai Ward everything, and he's going to strive to open their city up to the world and allow them opportunities to leave. Amaterasu will develop innovations to help them deal with their weakness to sunlight. Hearing the truth will be hard for the citizens, especially for the Rescue Squad... But the people of Kanai Ward will endure.

And the NDA... Well... (人◕ω◕) Yakou thinks he'll be on his own again, everyone else returning to the WDO for new assignments... But he's floored when he's wrong. Yuma, for one, resolves to stay and help the NDA. Kanai Ward still needs detectives... They're at a crossroads now, with Peacekeepers receiving a major overhaul, Amaterasu coming back from years of corruption. Yuma might not have the memories, but he knows that he used to be #1 of the WDO, and as he currently is... He can't lead the organization. Yuma would rather work here, where he knows he can still make a difference. (人◕ω◕) The train gang that he came here with pretty much agree to stay, too, for their own reasons. Desuhiko, Halara, Vivia, and Fubuki will at least go back to the WDO for the election to decide the new #1, but then they'll probably come back to help as detectives~ Their time here wasn't long, but they're loyal to each other and to Yakou. It's enough to make the poor guy bawl his eyes out. He's touched. (人◕ω◕)

Kurumi graduates from Aetheria Academy soon after everything resolves, and she remains the city's informant - although with the detectives' help, she may find new informants willing to step up, to learn from her~ Yuma remained here because of his bonds with the few people of Kanai Ward that he's gotten to know these past several weeks. He has an ever-deepening bond with Kurumi and her friends, and the Resistance.

Yuma still has plans to travel the world someday... He may or may not settle in Kanai Ward forever... But he's in no rush to leave. And even if he ever does depart, Yuma will have a bunch of... buddies... tagging along. (人◕ω◕) ... Alright, they're his girlfriends. No use beating around the bush. He can't deny that he loves them all, and they love him. ... A lot. (人◕ω◕) Sure, certain girls are more competitive and greedy... But Kurumi's one of the ones willing to share Yuma. Yoshiko, Waruna, Kurane, Fubuki, Pucci... They're all good people. She wouldn't keep Yuma from them~

... Guillaume is an interesting one, but more on her later. (人◕ω◕)

Surprisingly, Kurumi is slower on the "I wanna marry Yuma" campaign... She's content to just be with him. Yoshiko, Waruna, and Kurane are more ambitious. ... Or in Kurane's case, she just... needs him. Very badly. (人◕ω◕) Pucci is ambitious, too. Fubuki more goes with the flow. Guillaume is... Guillaume. There's no rush for baby Yuma's, either. Not for Kurumi, at least. Not to say Kurumi wouldn't like having a family with Yuma; the idea is very appealing. It's just... Kurumi's deeply flustered with that intimate stuff. The really, really intimate stuff. Hugs and kisses are great, she likes cuddling, but taking off clothes and doing..... that... Kurumi's not horny. It's too embarrassing for her. In the beginning, anyway. Kurumi is beaten out by her friends in this instance; each of them having their reasons for craving Yuma on that physical level. (人◕ω◕)

Nevertheless, Kurumi does form a family with Yuma someday. Makoto was gracious enough to give Yuma and his ladies residence in Kanai Tower, and later he also helps oversee the building of a proper "home" for all of them... Of course it has to be big. There's seven of them plus Yuma. And then you throw in their kids... Yuma's life is very busy with seven lovers, but he doesn't regret loving them. (人◕ω◕) Kurumi's one of the gentler, "fun" moms. And she's second in maturity, only losing out to Yoshiko on that front. ... But that's cuz Yoshiko's used to being a mother figure, even before her children were born.

The rain never stops in Kanai Ward... But now Kurumi and everyone else knows it's there to protect them. And with the NDA alive and thriving in the new Kanai Ward... With Yuma there... Life had never been sweeter for Kurumi-chan. (人◕ω◕)

[super-smash-bracket]

ROUND ONE

Magnus

Pit: Hey, is that Magnus? Heeey! Magnus! Over here! Magnus: What- Oh, angel face. Figure'd I'd see you here. Pit: Of course! You were an Assist Trophy for a bit, so of course it would only be a matter of time before you made it big! Magnus: Feels a little weird, but I'm glad to be on the battlefield longer. Gaol sends her regards, by the way. Palutena: Tell Magnus I do apologize for what happened to her. Viridi: Um, do we even need to give Pit advice here? He's beaten Magnus once before, hasn't he? Pit: Yeah, but that was different. This is a whole different way to fight! Magnus: Having another private conversation with your goddess, angel face? Pit: Just- Getting advice on fighting you! Magnus: HA! Then I guess I don't have to go easy on you. Pit: Gulp.

Makoto Naegi

Pit: Huh. He seems like an ordinary guy. Palutena: That's Makoto Naegi! He's a student at Hope's Peak Academy, a vocational high school. Viridi: Vocational? What discipline? Palutena: All of them! Every student is the best of the best at their talents, ranging from Swimming to Fortune Telling to Gambling! Since Makoto here won a lottery out of every high school student in Japan, he's the Ultimate Lucky Student. Pit: Can luck be a talent? It's not exactly something you train in. Palutena: Well, strange things do happen around him. Pit, if he starts Concentrating, those Truth Bullets he collects as the match goes on will start to home in on you! Keep up the pressure to break his concentration!

[mythgirlimagines]

Hello!! Forgive me for bothering you and I know you probably have a lot of requests, but I was wondering: What do you think about rarepairing Tanakure(Gundham/Yasuhiro) from Danganronpa? Could you write any headcanons for them?

I really like your work and will be grateful :3

thank you so much! I hope you enjoy these ^_^

Gundham and Hiro were a kind of opposite pair, at least according to their classmates, since Hiro was so wary of the occult. But one thing led to another, and they were dating.

Gundham wasn’t a touchy-feely guy, but Hiro was fond of little touches like a pat on the shoulder or something like that. He does his best to remember Gundham’s boundaries, though.

They spend a lot of time taking care of Gundham’s animals, since there are a lot of them under Gundham’s care. Hiro’s gotten quite familiar with all of them, and has won most of them over.

Though Gundham wasn’t quite sure about some of Hiro’s occult run-ins, he finds them fascinating the way Hiro tells them. Really, he likes the way Hiro’s voice sounds.

Hiro knows that it’s kind of rare for Gundham to be really comfortable with someone, and he feels honored that he’s one of those people! Gundham deserves to have more people like that.

[dragon-in-the-watery-bowl]

And here are the last batch of Danganronpa fankids, for the Celestia x Kyoko, Impostor x Ryota and Yamato x Tsurugi ships.

Info under the cut:

Name: Kanami Kirigiri (霧切 叶望). Age: 13. Parents: Kyoko Kirigiri and Celestia Ludenberg/Taeko Yasuhiro. Gender: Female. (Possible) Ultimate Title: Ultimate Detective. Birthdate: October 29 (Scorpio). Height: 149 cm. Weight: 32 kg. Chest Size: 69 cm. Blood Type: B. Likes: Jewelry. Dislikes: Ginger, spicy food.

In a world where things went different, and class 78 didn't became the victims of a killing game, Kyoko Kirigiri and Celestia Ludenberg ended up together and with a daughter. Having inherited both the deductive prowess and cunning ruthlessness of both her mothers, Kanami won easily the position of the Kirigiri family's heir, and was trained into the passed down role of a detective, solving her first case at 8 years old, the disappearance (and death) of her homeroom teacher, winning herself fame and glory, but at the cost of any meaningful friendship, something that she doesn't cares about, thanks to letting this fame, and her family legacy, go over her head, and giving her a massive ego problem, something that she will need to reign in before it end up crashing down on her, even if it ends up being easier saying it than doing it.

Name: Akito Kisaragi (如月 義士). Age: 8. Parents: Tsurugi Kinjo and Yamato Kisaragi. Gender: Male. (Possible) Ultimate Title: Ultimate Inventor. Birthdate: May 3 (Taurus). Height: 123 cm. Weight: 14 kg. Chest Size: 65 cm. Blood Type: B. Likes: Machines, justice. Dislikes: Destruction, violence.

In a world where the Tragedy never happened, and class 79 was able to have a normal school life in Hope's Peak, Tsurugi Kinjo and Yamato Kisaragi started a friendship that eventually evolved into something romantic, and ended up with the both of them becoming parents to a young boy. Quiet and shy, he spends almost all of his time between looking at what his fathers do while working and trying to imitate them (The latter usually never going well), thanks to having grown to admire them intensely in the short amount of time he has been alive.

By the time he would come to age, he would become a great inventor, enough to be admitted into Hope's Peak, but, at the same time, friendships would become hard for him to form, thanks to inheriting somewhat Tsurugi's black-and-white way of seeing the world, making him untrustfull of anyone who isn't his dads, something that he would take time to grow out of.

Name: Kyo Mitarai (御手洗 鏡). Age: 7. Parents: Ryota Mitarai and Ultimate Imposter. Gender: Female. (Possible) Ultimate Title: Unknown. Birthdate: January 5 (Capricorn). Height: 113 cm. Weight: 36 kg. Chest Size: 92 cm. Blood Type: O. Likes: Anime, manga, fast food. Dislikes: Abandonment.

After the end of the Tragedy, and with the members of class 77-B resigning themselves to live outside of civilization as penance for their crimes, some of them had kids with each other, with Ryota Mitarai and the person known just as "The Ultimate Imposter" being two of them. Really skittish and shy, she is following her fairer-headed dad's steps of becoming an animator to a T, thanks to terribly crushing feelings of loneliness and wistfulness born from the bad hand fate gave to his parents, and their class, forcing her to live in a island lost in the mind of the common passerby until she's of age, feelings that not even the kids of his parents' classmates can't alleviate, no matter how strong their friendships with her became.

Thanks to this, her biggest dream became to become famous, maybe through creating a new manga series, once she's an adult, just to feel that warmth that her family tried, but failed, to give her.

[mint-8]

Danganronpa Fan Executions

These are pretty much ideas I came up with for some of my Danganronpa OCs. Criticism is greatly appreciated.

High School Level Ultimate Calligraphy - Bloody Red Ink: The student finds themselves in a dark room. When light brightens their surroundings, they can find 4 Monokumas dressed as judges. The student then is challenged to create the most intricate, most beautiful creation they can and are given a set time period. For them to escape the execution, they will need at least 1 approval from any of the Monokumas. They frantically wright with the ink and brushes in the room and, once they are done, all of the Monokumas stare blankly at the papers before ripping them apart, spitting on them and trashing every single one. The student then falls from a trap door into a glass container resembling an ink bottle. The bottle starts to slowly fill up to it’s maximum with ink, and the student tries their best to stay afloat but fail. As they are slowly losing air, a Monokuma appears and breaks the bottle, setting the student free. The student gasping for air then falls into what looks to be an assembling line. From behind them, thousands of hammers appear, and they start to slowly, yet strongly, fall into the student’s body, from their legs to their head. The student’s body is pulverized, and the bloody remains are sealed into a new ink bottle.

High School Level Ultimate Perfumer - Can you find the scent?: The student is put in a garden filled with different flowers and herbs. Monokumas dressed as celebrities and rich people start to demand diferente fragrances from the student, but for every Monokuma that they displease with their perfume a meter will slowly rise, indicating that a deadly toxin will start to enter the air as it becomes full. The student fails every time to give a perfect concoction to the Monokumas, for they will never be satisfied and eventually collapse, with blood leaking from their eyes, mouth, nose, and ears.

High School Level Ultimate Archer - Pin Point the Monokuma!: The student is put in a carnival-like booth where a Monokuma dressed as a circus ringleader tasks them with finding the correct Monokuma doll hidden inside a tiny box after they are shuffled with many others boxes. For every wrong guess they take, a poisonous arrow will be shot at them. The student starts to shoot at every box they believe is the correct one, yet they miss every time. Finally, they shoot at the only box remaining, revealing it to be fake as well. Then, a Monokuma dressed as Robin Hood whistles behind the student, revealing hundreds of other Monokumas, all with bows and arrows leaking a toxic green liquid. As the student slowly looks back, all of the arrows are shot, killing the student slowly as they bleed from their wounds and the poison.

High School Level Ultimate Auctioneer - To the Highest Bidder!: The student appears chained to a luxurious chair, befitting of royalty, in front of an entire audience of sophisticated looking Monokumas. A Monokuma dressed in a copy of the student's uniform appears beside them with a microphone, announcing that the ultimate action has started and for the bears to give their bids. One of the Monokuma asks for the student's right leg for a bet of 1 million Mono Coins, then a second Monokuma offers 2 million Mono Coins, and it goes on and on until a final Monokuma offers 100 million Mono Coins. The student's leg is chopped off by 2 Monokumas dressed as doctors. Then the auction continues. All of the Monokumas proceed to offer millions of Coins in exchange of the student's extremities, but are always won over by a 100 million Mono Coin bet. Once the student is left with no arms or legs, the final bet of the night starts, their head. It becomes a fierce fight for the Monokumas but, as always, the highest offer of 100 million Mono Coins wins. The student watches in horror as a saw falls from the ceiling, chopping their head off. The final shot shown is the winner Monokumas carrying the legs, arms and head as trophies.

[jamieprimack]

At last, I have finally completed my illustration of Junko Enoshima, Danganronpa's Ultimate Fashionista, and the Diva of Despair 🖤❤️ I'm mortified by how much time I spent on this. I kept experimenting with coloring ideas, hating them, and starting over. I guess you could say Junko won in the end because she truly filled me with Despair ™

[destinygoldenstar]

Miki Peridot ; The Ultimate Scientist (Danganronpa The Privileged Traitor)

Takeo Midorigawa (Tah-Kay-oh Me-door-ee-gah-wa) ; 21 Years Old ; From Hiroshima, Japan ; The Ultimate Scientist

*Fanganronpa Antagonist* Miki Peridot is a student of Hopes Peak College Class B-3 in Danganronpa The Privileged Traitor. I labeled her as ‘the antagonist’ but keep in mind that in this fangan, the protagonist is the traitor and the support is the mastermind, knowledge the audience has right away. So keep in mind there’s a difference between ‘antagonist’ and ‘villain’ in definition.

Takeo Midorigawa is her birth name, but she made a name change as the Mad Scientist and rogue inventor, Miki Peridot. Famous for her reckless inventions to be displayed throughout the country of Japan, and her mechanical arm, which she claims to the public is her personal sidekick, and she became an amputee when she fought a shark mutated into a T-Rex hybrid. The creature lost.

This story is a lie. In actuality, she was born in critical condition.

She was miraculously rescued, but without an arm and metal devices all over her chest that couldn’t be removed. She had to get a prosthetic arm, and keep this metal all over her torso. As such, she’s flat chested, and infertile. She would be like this the rest of her life.

Despite her condition, she was quickly adopted by a loving family that were both inventors. They taught her everything about tech and science of all sorts. Miki quickly proved herself as a prodigy who grasped rocket science at age five. And soon she started making experiments of her own and publishing these experiments to the world. She found the cure for cancer when she was twelve.

The only problem with her fame was that it went to her head. If there’s one seven deadly sun that describes Miki, it’s pride.

She wears her image like a trophy, is extremely confident, and is prone to bragging rights and putting herself on a pedestal that deserves respect. She knows she’s modern science’s best b*tch.

Though it’s because of this ego that she has a hard time connecting with other people. Though the reasoning is different in Sara’s case, this is something the two have in common.

Because of accusations of her inventions being dangerous, Miki was described as a mad scientist supervillain using her inventions to take over Japan.

Her rival who would play cat and mouse with her was Japan’s vigilante of the night, The Black Dragon (Riyuko Kurai).

It’s a classic superhero supervillain dynamic, but with a twist.

Because Miki defeated her opponent. But not in the sense of ‘she killed her’ or ‘she locked her up’. No, instead she persuaded her that her inventions were actually beneficial, and the two became friends who perused the same goal.

Now Mikis inventions are being sold to people for protection and innovation, and she’s known as the supervillain who won.

Riyuko is Miki’s only friend, and the only person she chooses to interact with. Everyone else is someone who needs to be protected or marketed to, and therefore inferior.

And then both of them go to Hopes Peak, only to realize it’s a killing game. People will die.

Miki tasks herself to use her tech to protect the other students with tech and using her brain to solve the school mystery. But no one wants her help because of how she approaches the goal of protecting them. She’s arrogant about it, and cold towards others who try to help besides Riyuko, and has a temper when it comes to people touching her stuff. DONT TOUCH HER STUFF.

She sees the other students as lesser intelligent and strength who need protection and a savior, and not as people who can survive on their own. Riyuko is the only exception as a vigilante who already proved to Miki she was capable of such.

If she wants to save the others and solve the mystery on who the bad guys are, she may have to learn humility.

Victim? Killer? Survivor?

Again, I labeled her as ‘the antagonist’. But look up the definition. Then look up the definition of a villain. There’s a difference between the two words. Especially if you know who the protagonist (Sara Fumihito) and support (Senri Endo) are supposed to be.

Miki is also the only character in this cast who is an amputee, with no killing game causing it. That metal arm is not armor or anything, that’s her actual arm.

Riyuko Kurai, The Black Dragon, The Ultimate Vigilante, is also a student and a character.

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chihiro isn't meant to be transmasc chihiro's backstory is meant to mock/deny the existence of trans women..

You're not wrong. "Male character cross-dressing" is an oversimplified and harmful way that a lot of cis creators look at trans people.

But at the same time, "Female-presenting character strives to become comfortable with coming out as male" is very much a transmasc journey.

In the process of writing Chihiro, they ended up coding him as something completely different. To the point that if they had just cut off the "Biologically AMAB" part of his backstory (and subsequent gross discovery of said detail), they would have created a fine trans character.

I'm willing to give some benefit of doubt because the series lionizes Chihiro. He's beloved by everyone, even his killer, and his work goes on to shape the course of Danganronpa 1 and 2 in pivotal ways.

He's treated as a Sacrificial Lamb; A character so pure and innocent and good that it breaks everyone's heart when they die, while also given posthumous vindication through being one of the most important and influential people in the protagonist cast. Junko would have won twice over were it not for Chihiro.

This still, of course, contributes to the pattern of trans characters always being killed. It's still not good representation, and it deserves to be criticized.

But the way the franchise treats him as "Glorious Chihiro Died For Your Sins" leads me to believe the problems fall more into the "Tone-Deaf Ignorance" category rather than the "Cruel, Mean-Spirited Caricature" category.

They didn't set out to make a cruel joke. They were trying to write a good character and failed.