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shockersalvage · 2 years ago

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Danganronpa: Demo Storyline - What If

I really like old concepts, especially in the case of mystery series like Danganronpa. It’s fun to see what could have been if a character was portrayed a certain way or if a plot point was handled differently. It’s fun to speculate! For this post, I’m taking a look at DR1′s old demo and essentially writing how I think Danganronpa would go if the story went with what it depicted there.

Basically, as shown above, Hagakure was killed instead of Maizono in a bare bones version of DR1′s first trial. In addition, Yamada was implied to be his killer and, in the demo manga, we even get to see Yamada’s unused execution...well, get used!

This also mean Sayaka, Mukuro and Leon get their time in the sun! So this storyline idea is just an expansion on this Demo’s premise. I hope you guys enjoy and I welcome any questions on it!~

CHAPTER ONE:

In this, Makoto finds not only Hagakure dead in his shower, but also Maizono knocked out cold. So the case goes from ‘proving you didn’t kill a popular girl’ to ‘proving you aren’t some psycho that beat a popular girl and killed a random dude’.

Because of Maizono’s condition, the nurse’s office is opened to treat her and Mukuro is essentially volunteered to keep watch over her by one of the colder students, maybe Celeste or Togami. Thereby ruining the plan for Mukuro to step on Monokuma and get executed.

Now, Sayaka does wake up and about halfway through the Trial returns…however, she insists that Makoto was the one to actually kill Hagakure. Thus, elading to a case where Makoto is desperately trying to find the truth while avoiding his classmates judgement of ‘attacking a girl and killing an innocent soul’.

In this version, the plan Maizono had was to kill Hagakure who still didn’t believe that a killing game was happening and take advantage of that ignorance. However, despite her initial attack, like in the 1st storyline, Hagakure manages to get a legup and, unlike Leon, manages to knock her out.

Now, this revelation causes Sayaka’s trust to plummet in the group and she has a bit of a breakdown. Trying to convince everyone she’s just Japan’s average Superstar, not an attempted murderer. It takes Kyoko and Makoto intervening from getting the group to mis-lynch her.

It’s then that the case eventually goes down the path of revealing who actually killed Hagakure: Yamada. In this version, he was out at night trying to dump away trash when he noticed the door to Makoto’s room open. There he found Hagakure standing over a prone Sayaka’s body, knife in hand and, realizing the game was legit, wondering what he should do.

Enraged, Yamada startles Hagakure enough that he drops the knife and flees into Makoto’s bathroom. There the case plays out in the demo with Yamada using his toolkit to break in and kill Hagakure, and gets found out because of his oily fingers staining the lint roller used to clean up his hair.

Yamada’s motivation to kill now leans towards him genuinely wanting to make sure his big sister is safe, playing into more of a Teruteru motivation.

Yamada is executed, but compared to the mainline story, tension is centered towards Sayaka for essentially getting two of them killed, with calls to lock her up. Makoto advocates to just drop it…but its clear he’s affected by this betrayal and his faith in her has taken a hit.

Sayaka in general is heavily traumatized by the execution and the realization she condemned someone to die. She’s back to essentially herself once she got the first motive.

CHAPTER 2:

With Hagakure and Yamada dead, Celeste loses both her scapegoat and accomplice. Meaning, she ends up trying to subjugate the second most malleable person she hopes to get, essentially the meek Fujisaki.

Speaking of which, because Leon survived in this version, he imprints on another ‘brother’ so to speak. He now looks up to Leon due to his confidence, and when in time for the second motive…that night he confides in Leon.

Now considering Leon can accept a yandere cousin in Kanon, while surprised, he does accept Fujisaki and promises to help him accept himself when the motive does arrive…

However, this does leave an issue concerning Mondo. His story continues the same and he bonds with Ishimaru, but there’s still that complex concerning Daiya’s death.

He does wonder about at night, stewing in anger when he reaches Togami in the library.

Because Togami is a dick, and out of fear for his secret to be revealed, he attempts to kill Togami. However, in this version, Toko is also in the library, hiding as she admires Togami.

Surprisingly, Togami can evade Mondo for a bit and even him injure somewhat by getting him to ram into a bookshelf, causing it to fall on him. Mondo’s hurt, but when he gets out he’s still seeing red.

The dust from the attack gets Toko to sneeze and turn into Genocider Syo. While Syo doesn’t usually kill boys like Mondo considering the danger Togami was in, she fatally wounds him.

Now, given that Syo is now our Blackened and is aware she killed someone, she refuses to allow Togami to go about framing her (since it would damage her reputation).

Togami forcibly switches her by throwing dust at her face and manipulates Toko that despite being the Culprit she can both win the Class Trial AND somehow get Togami out as well.

Together, both tamper with the scene to make it seem like Sayaka killed Mondo or that Chihiro had a plan in killing him, via a note Fujisaki had written to get Leon to the boy’s changing room…and what Leon casually tossed away in the nearby trash that Togami happened to find.

Now during this chapter most do not trust Sayaka given what happened in Chapter 1, so when she gives quite the shocked reaction upon seeing her secret, the others are quick to pressure her into remaining in her room.

Thus, when they find Mondo dead, having been stabbed by likely a knife they grow suspicious over Sayaka, with Makoto and Kyoko being the main ones trying to clear her name. Again.

Likewise, Chihiro is revealed to be a boy, but compared to his peers inspecting his corpse, its shocking, but they do come to accept him and with a bit of vouching from Leon, clears him from suspicion.

Toko is eventually outed by Togami after people began to suspect him, much to her horror. Before she gets executed, Genocider Syo drops a few lines concerning how the class met each other before and how things weren’t what they seem in her own loony fashion.

Togami’s reputation is…well, its pretty much the same post ch2, though I guess somehow its a bit worse? Given his more active role in getting someone killed and manipulating Toko.

CHAPTER 3:

With more of their number dead as a result of meddling from third parties, group cohesion has taken a further hit. However, instead of Hina finding Alter Ego in the locker, Fujisaki is instead confronted by Celeste who wants him to only tell a select group of people he knows he can fully trust/be useful (screened by Celeste of course). In short only Chihiro, Celeste, Leon, Makoto know about the laptop at first.

Of course their new little group does form a wedge between those that remain. Group Two (Kyoko, Junkuro, Sakura and Hina), with the outcasts being there own little third parties. Kyoko, being Kyoko, knows something is up and wants to speak with Makoto, but Celeste or Leon usually manage to get the lucky student away from the amnesiac.

Ishimaru is eventually recruited by Fujisaki after seeing just how depressed he was following Mondo’s death. However, once he becomes Kiyondo, Celeste manipulates him into being essentially a guard dog for Ego to allow the others more time for themselves.

Things come to a head when Group 2, with Togami, confront the Laptop Team during a meeting wrap-up, wanting to know what they were all planning with a laptop of all things. Things get heated and just when it seems a fight is about to break out, Makoto is more than ready to come clean and inform his classmates about Ego…but that is interrupted by an announcement for Monokuma about the current motive.

Yamada and Hagakure might be dead, but Celeste’s love of money still persists and she got a plan going on to get that dough. Manipulating Kiyondo, she tries to get him to believe that in order for them, plus Alter Ego, to be safe he needs to help Celeste win at the class trial.

First things first…hamper her enemies. Luring Makoto to the game room at night, she has Kiyondo smack from him behind with a small hammer. She is quite aware of Makoto helping lead the class trials to getting Yamada and Syo found out, so getting him out of the picture was a must.

However, Kiyondo becomes reluctant to finish him off and that’s when Chihiro comes in by chance. Upon seeing the scene, he begs for both to stop. That they don’t have to hurt each other and they can escape with his work. All of them.

Kiyondo falters and even Celeste looks a bit taken aback given the situation. However, she can’t quite accept things as it were. She has a dream that she wants fulfilled and is willing to go the lengths to see it made and tries to attack Chihiro…

But Ishimaru takes it instead, apologizing to Chihiro and Makoto as he collapses. As Makoto blacks out he witness Celeste walk up to Chihiro…and hears a familiar voice of one he struggled to call a friend anymore.

When he wakes up he’s in the infirmary, alongside Chihiro and Ishimaru. The latter isn’t dead and is back to normal, though bandages are on his head from his injury. Chihiro’s, however, is more severe and he’s in a coma.

Of course, that leaves to wondering about what happened to Celeste, which the others decide its best to just show him. In the art room, Celeste’s body is discovered. Dead via neck being broken.

So the trial becomes about what happened following Makoto passing out. In turn, the assault of the boys was discovered by none other than the outcast Sayaka, who attacked Celeste herself and got her to at least go on the run.

Not wanting to leave the other by themselves for too long, Sayaka gets assistance from the others to get the injured to safety, staying with them as a manhunt goes around looking for the rogue gambler. Which leads to the situation, where Celeste was found murdered.

Ultimately, the blame for the murder would go to Aoi Asahina. However, she was not lured by money like most would assume. Rather, she ended up giving in to one of her flaws - her emotional rage. She hates being in a game where she has to distrust others, be with people that doesn’t hold others best interests in heart and seeing how callous people can be.

Thus, when she finally sees Celeste in the art room, trying to salvage the situation and act like her ‘prim’ self, she gets angrier and angrier. Ultimately, in tears, she’s brought over the edge when Celeste snaps at her even daring to feel betrayed yet again and calling her foolish…so she shoves the goth. Unfortunately, Celeste trips on her own fallen hammer and breaks her neck.

Asahina is discovered following people beginning to suspect Sakura was the one, and Hina is outed simply because, in her own passion, accidentally discloses a detail of how Celeste died (via tripping).

During the aftermath, Hina breaks down from the guilt of her own sins, apologizing profusely for putting the others through this and is terrified of getting executed. However, she goes quietly when she sees Sakura is about to get hurt from her decision. She tanks Sakura for being such a wonderful friend and encourages her to survive, leaving the Ogress in tears as she’s executed.

The aftermath of the trial has Makoto and Sayaka start to mend their friendship, with the offer of trust being extended to her.

CHAPTER 4-6:

Mashing these together since the fifth and sixth chapters aren’t as long.

Learning from their mistakes, the remnants of Celeste’s group welcome the others in to the hiding spot of Alter Ego. Now, Makoto has witnessed Sakura’s fighting Monokuma and is concerning her status, but given the situation knows there’s not much he can say without coming across as just acting like Celeste/Togami. Kyoko picks up on this, though his hesitance to say things just yet leads to the whole ‘Kyoko being mad’ at Makoto spiel.

The motive for this chapter is altered slightly given Mukuro is still alive and kicking. Now, here, Monokuma reveals that not only is Sakura a traitor, but she is one of two amongst them. If someone were to kill Sakura then not only would they recieve no penalty (meaning no class trial), but they would get a huge hint on who the second traitor for the Mastermind was.

Sakura’s betrayal again shakes the class, but given who survives the reaction steadily becomes different. Makoto, Sayaka and Ishimaru want to give her a chance considering their experiences with betrayal/betraying themselves. Mukuro and Leon are on the fence on the matter considering the same experiences, which isn’t helped by Togami publicly considering her a threat. As for Kyoko, she’s about the same as ever.

It’s around this time, that Chihiro wakes up. With knowledge of the data processing room, he wants to use Alter Ego to hack into their in order to get more information about the Mastermind, HPA and potentially disable the system long enough for the group to make a play. Though he needs some form of distraction.

Given Hina’s desire for Sakura to live and fight on, the martial artist opts not to consider choosing suicide. Instead, with help from the few willing to give her a chance, she arranges for a private meeting with Leon and Mukuro in the music room. On the surface.

In truth, Sakura and both of them were in on a plan to give Chihiro that chance, with all three havin a scuffle in the music room. As a result, for a moment of time, Chihiro seems to have done it as the school begins to shutdown thanks to his machinations.

However, because of Mukuro being Junko’s other spy, she informs her of this action, thus allowing her to pre-prep some defense measures to help stop Chihiro.

In the end, the school experiences a series of blackout for a deal of time, with people like Kyoko trying to make use of it to get into the Headmaster’s office, in which she succeeds.

However, when things finally settle and lights come on for good. They see, Togami lying in the music room. His head crushed by a light fixture dropping on his head.

In the trial, its discovered that Togami accidentally got himself trying to turn the chaos of the music room into a trap to kill one of the others. At least that’s how I would think it would go down. Like before the others arrive he tries setting up some sort of trip that could get someone killed, but the blackouts gets him knocked about accidentally in the chaos and himself killed by his own trap.

Honestly, I just think it’d be fitting for Togami to somehow get himself killed after all this time. Though, likewise, this and the case after this ideas are waaaay rougher. Don’t quite have a super grasp on the details of how they would ever come about

However, while Togami might haven taken himself out, Monokuma is more than aware of Chihiro’s meddling and due to his rule breaking has him executed.

However, before he is killed, Chihiro gives everyone a great deal of Hope, proud that they were all capable of working together to get as far as they could. He encourages them to keep it up!~

As a result, following his demise, everyone becomes unified—all taking up a united stance against the Mastermind…Mukuro being sort of the exception.

By now, the mystery surrounding the sixteenth student is afoot and there’s the whole issue concerning Monokuma being inactive, which the Havoc cast believe its a remnant of Chihiro’s work at play.

The person who bites it this chapter is none other than Kyoko Kirigiri - her body found stuffed in the Monokuma Flower.

Now, by now Mukuro Ikusaba’s identity is being thoroughly discussed during the tiral and its because rather clear that her measurements line up quite well with what they know of Junko.

Ultimately, Mukuro’s true identity is revealed and the other classmates are all for voting her off for her duplicity and the hand she held in getting Kyoko killed. This would lead into the good/bad routes. Where Makoto joining in gets Mukuro executed. The good route has him talk them down from jumping the gun.

However, like last time, Mukuro takes on Kyoko’s role in getting him seemingly executed without Makoto’s evidence against it. However, like in canon, Alter Ego saves him.

Sayaka goes does to save Makoto from the trash heap, their bond fully re-established and complete.

Thus, sixth trial of this timeline holds: Makoto, Maizono, Mukuro, Leon, Sakura and Ishimaru as the surviving six. Mukuro takes Toko’s place as being the one to tell the others about the state of the outside world. Junko is the one who kills Kyoko in that weird Despair Luchador persona.

Thus, we’re at the end! Hope you enjoyed reading this! When it came to deciding who lives and dies, while I didn’t intend for the former survivors to be offed one by one, I thought to continue such a path after deciding Toko should murder Mondo.

Speaking of Mondo, and Celeste too, while I did play around with them not comitting murder or even surviving, I think their strong motivations in the official games would just make them act out anyway, even if they weren’t successful here. Especially, concerning Celeste.

Anywho, hope you enjoyed it!~

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