#it's so hard to keep all ch5's details together haha

[jacksmusesdrv3]

Do you have a link for the 'ouma isn't dead' theory? I want to reread it but can't find it. I absolutely love that theory but I always have a hard time remembering all the hints/evidence towards it.

Alas I don't have a very specific post of it (not anymore, or maybe it’s privated somewhere, or deleted, I can’t find it)- what I have is scattered pieces of evidence and general ideas of the theory everywhere and the kitchen sink

So to get a basic outline for mine at least, it’s basically:

Kaito plays a role in Ouma’s plan for the whole chapter- he helps co-ordinate a bunch of stuff that Ouma needs, and also keeps the group off his tail when they try to ask after him earlier on. To this end, he trusts Ouma enough to arrange and enact the Fake Crushing Plan(tm) and even help engineer his own kidnapping plot, among other things. Notice how cryptically he talks about the plan’s success to Shuichi, and obscures his relationship to Ouma when prompted by Kiibo to explain.

Kaito lies about the two items being crushed. Not only was the last Electrobomb way too useful to waste as a resistance item, the omni controller could not have been destroyed without freeing Monokuma from the trap designed to keep him away from the hangar in the first place (at least, such a thing would be pointlessly risky to do during this plot...)

Kiibo felt ill in the hangar due to the air- the reason had to do with something interfering with his systems, but in the JP text he was sure it wasn’t the Electrobomb causing that. A reason for that could be that he was sensing something in the air, however we never find out what it was that he sensed, just that leaving the hangar made him feel better (note: he is still within the Electrobomb’s range). The point being: perhaps a substance was used giving off a scent that he did not recognise and/or polluted the air, and that substance was coming from the hydraulic press.

Ouma used the Electrobomb in order to knock out the signal, to create the illusion that ‘the audience stopped engaging’. At least, the only established way to explain a sudden, timed blackout is an Electrobomb being used. All of this is so he can go underground - figuritively and literally - in order to mess up Monokuma’s master plan, that we don’t actually learn what it was in its entirety (due to missing bits of evidence- the nature of the ‘audience’ is a topic in itself, aha)

The long and short (without getting into all specific details of how they pulled it off- there’s... a lot to cover there): keeping Kaito as a possible ‘accessory-to-conspiracy’ in mind, and also a Danganronpa V3 script book that shows up in Chapter 5(?), the events of the plot may have gone down somewhat differently to what was said (Kaito’s a very good actor, so he’s capable of pulling it off, too)

I hope this helps! It’s an exciting thought, if hard to put down on paper entirely. I have a feeling some others may have gone through more particular details?