#mastermind taka

[friendlylifecherry]

Kiyotaka Week Day 3: AU. Mastermind Ishimaru AU. Unedited, mostly

@mini-mecha-cowboy

It's rather late in the night and Taka is doing the old, familiar dance of speaking to Izuru inside of his dorm room. It's just that this time, it's through one of the Monokumas instead of with the communicator.

"I really have to say, Kamukura-kun, this was an excellent first day as Monokuma. I'm quite proud of your performance! I was actually pretty worried when you didn't want me to know what you were going to do for Monokuma, but your performance was actually very well-actuated! I’m very proud of you, Kamukura-kun!” Taka says as he changes into his sleep clothes.

Izuru rolls his eyes behind the monitors, mostly focused on putting together the assets for the first Monokuma theater. He knows that Taka is proud of him, it’s nothing at all new for anything that Izuru does. It’s not like Izuru has to bother putting on the act here.

“It’s nothing. So, what do you expect will happen next?” Izuru says as Taka brushes his hair and teeth.

Taka spits out the toothpaste after he’s done thoroughly scrubbing his mouth. “Considering that I know the others quite well, I doubt they will start any sort of murder anytime soon. But this first murder does have to happen within the week.” After all, the news cycle already has a million other things to focus on outside of updates about these children trapped inside of a school with a murderous robot bear, even with a 24-hour live feed. If he wants to keep the attention of the media, he better have it clear that this is not some sick joke by a cultist but the real deal.

Izuru nods as he integrates the background music in the Monokuma Theater. “Motive or do we force the issue?”

Taka weighs his options. Just forcing the issue through some form of blackmail would be easy, but it wouldn’t send the message that he wants to send. No need to make a point about inherent human desperation when the first deaths happened because it was literally forced onto them. On the other hand, someone does have to be dead by the end of the week, and if they wait around, they may genuinely be waiting forever. And Izuru sure is not going to wait forever for his promised entertainment.

“How about this? If a murder doesn’t happen within the next 3 days, you can use one of the motives. If someone doesn’t get murdered after that, then we can start forcing the issue! Would that be acceptable?” Taka asks as he makes his nightly final rounds before he heads to bed.

“Can do!” Monokuma cheerily salutes Taka. Izuru’s working with the audio equipment. You have to make sure that the voice sounds the same in the Theater as it does in the live feed, or at least similar enough. “So, who do you want to bring in for plan B? Maybe your favorite thug?”

Taka turns bright red and chastizes Monokuma. “Mondo is not a thug!”

“So you’re *not* denying that he’s your favorite? I thought that you were supposed to be “impartial and fair”, Ishimaru-kun?” Ugh, Taka can already feel his face get redder and the headache start growing. Why does he even bother with these arguments? He never wins them anyway. Monokuma continues as if Taka didn’t interrupt him. “How about Oogami? She’s big and strong, and pretty much would have to listen to whatever we say if it has something to with our hostages.”

“Oogami-kun is a good choice, but I doubt that the dojo would be good enough collateral.” A centuries-old family dojo is all well and good, incredibly important, and almost a holy ground for Sakura. But the fact that it was burned down in an arsonist’s blaze (unrelated to the Ultimate Despair) about 6 months ago and all the members have been scattered to the winds in the refugee crisis is a bit of a snag on the effectiveness.

“Not that run-down old dojo, dummy! I meant her little boyfriend. Well, little compared to her right now, anyhow.” That actually draws Taka’s attention from organizing his papers.

“I thought that Kenshiro-kun was terminally ill with a severe cancer diagnosis?” Frankly, with the collapse of medical services, he should’ve died a while ago.

“Nope! He’s still kicking somehow! Ain’t the world’s strongest man for nothing, the weirdo! Gwahahahahaha!” Monokuma laughs at his hilarious “joke”. “He’s actually the one we got in custody right now!”

Well, that certainly makes things much easier for everyone. Provable collateral and if there’s anything about Sakura that he knows, she would do literally anything to protect her loved ones. Even kill or die for them.

“Well, that’s perfect! You can contact her as soon as possible, correct? Maybe make some implications that we can keep him alive as well, to really sell it.” Taka wants this to be locked down by the time that he wakes up, after all. "And after that, please get some sleep! A healthy mind and body start with proper rest!"

"Fine, fine. I gotta go now, since she's just done meditating. Buh-bye!" And with that, Monokuma disappears again.

The light on the camera in his dorm room comes back on, Izuru must be focused somewhere else and done with the conversation for the night. Well now, it’s off to dreamland for Taka! He would be a hypocrite if he didn't get his rest now! And with that, he shuts off the lights and drifts off to sleep.

[bluuscreen]

triple masterminds ?

[edgy-senju]

Masterminds meet the regular version of their respective bro... it doesn't go well.

[multipearionare]

I think Mastermind Taka and Mastermind Daiya would like eachother and protect Mondo at ALL cost, together.

just two normal people who are normal about their favorite person, which is a normal thing to do

[brainfilehasstoppedworking]

If Mondo didn't kill Chihiro, then he can be like Prince Charming for Taka. But Takaaki would never let Mondo get close. He'd make SURE that Taka is far away from Mondo or anyone. Prince Charming? Mondo? Please, he wants to laugh. But Monomi says that she thinks Mondo would be a great Prince Charming...they do seem...close.

Hm..

[mangoshibi]

Quick practice sketch comic to show off survivor Taka, Mondo, and Chihiro

[theamityelf]

Okay, another thought for Byazuru:

His main tell for how much he likes someone is letting them drag him around and manhandle him. MM Ishimaru would be able to get away with throwing him over his shoulder and carrying him (but if he wants to get down he will) and Makoto is allowed to play with his hair as much as his little heart desires (he only puts up with it because he isn't rough with it.)

My willingness to have everything be true at the same time is about to make me fly too close to the sun here, lol. Because now I'm imagining Makoto Kamukura, Byakuya Kamukura, and standard Izuru all existing while Mastermind Taka and Mastermind Junko exist, separately.

Like, imagining Junko is trying to use Izuru to bring about the Tragedy for her despair world and her killing game, and separately, Mastermind Taka is trying to use Byakuya for a different thing, and Makoto is close friends with everyone involved and especially close with Byakuya and Izuru.

[le-agent-egg]

this week has been the longest year of my life please taka a mm!taka doodle i made while procrastinating on another assignment 🤪🤪🤪

[le-agent-egg]

Ohhh look at him he’s so silly cmon he’s just a little guy

the most important panel

[friendlylifecherry]

Kiyotaka Week Day 1, Fire. Unreleased, unedited excerpt from case fic in Mastermind Ishimaru AU

Makoto knows, at least, what he has to do and lays out the events of the case from the very beginning. The cuplrit had been scared for everyone, worried that there very well may be no way out of the killing game and how they were going to get everyone out of here alive. Then they heard that the headmaster was the one who trapped them into this school from Alter Ego and, somewhat reasonably, made the connection that the headmaster was the one controlling Monokuma and this killing game. So later that night, they went up to the 4th floor and the headmaster’s office to sneak in. They caught Kirigiri-san there and they got into a fight (which explains why the office looks ransacked and all the bloodstains leading up to the music room).

But now the headmaster is unconscious/dead and the culprit has a new problem: even if they haven't killed the headmaster now, they definitely put themself and everyone else at massive risk. If the headmaster wakes up, he’s going to retaliate tenfold, maybe even ten-thousand-fold. That’s what Monokuma does. So the culprit figured out something: they had to kill the headmaster, Monokuma, the *killing game* for good.

They can’t take the victim downstairs, way too many people that can notice between there and the incinerator. So they drag Jin into the music room and makes a makeshift funeral pyre out of the wooden benches. But since they need something to light the blaze and make it hot enough to burn the body to the bones. So they head out and grab accelerants; the teacher’s liquor, the more flammable chemicals from the chem lab, and the oil from the warehouse, along with some matches. The matches could be hidden easily enough in a pocket, but such a big bottle of oil would be almost impossible to hide, so they just held it as they left. That’s when the culprit met Syo on the way out, which likely wasn’t part of the plan at all but at least saved them from her asking about what they were doing, since she thought they were off to “spend time” with Mondo.

The culprit came back to the music room and set up the pyre, using sand from the physics lab to keep the blaze from spreading far beyond what they could extinguish. And with that, they set the pyre for Jin Kirigiri ablaze. When the flames were high, they decided to toss the bloody clothes into the fire, making sure that the evidence was burned to a crisp. But not everything burned properly, with one last piece of fabric being left between Jin’s fingers even after the fire was extinguished. Isn’t that right, Kiyotaka Ishimaru?!

@mini-mecha-cowboy

[bluuscreen]

also some other au sketches. will not be apologising for heathers in 2024 ur just gonna hafta live with it

[edgy-senju]

More Mastermind!Ishimondo for the soul~

Also yall should vote Taka in this poll

[kkat-astrophic]

nooo it was about Taka

Daily Danganronpa Fun Fact #228

The God that Tsumugi spoke about when talking to Angie was Izuru Kamukura. Despite his name being written in katakana, making its meaning ambiguous, the original name taken from the founder had the kanji 神, meaning God.

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[theultimatekamehamehavoc]

One thing I've noticed about Makoto is that like, he never really mentions having any other friends. For instance, in the killing game in the first trial, his motive video has his family which makes sense. However, this would also imply that he never really had a bigger connection with anyone else or as much as his family. Hence, did he have any friends before Hopes Peak or were they just not close enough to even remotely mention? Also, doesn't this, in a way, contradict his "average" status and how he sees himself? Not saying that it's wrong for him to not have any friends, just that it's one of those things that's a typical thing to occur. Plus, the fact that he claims how "average" he is only to have several traits that don't fit into that makes him more interesting such as his boundless hope or the fact that he was wetting the bed until 5th grade. (will never get over that cus like, was he okay?? hope he was okay u_u) Back to the friend thing though, literally the only person he mentions knowing in school is Sayaka. It's the fact that he has no other connections with others kids his age in the past aside from her and it's not like they were very close besties then, anyway just that he knew her then. It kinda gives him a level of connection with some of the more loner characters in the first game honestly. Cus he's got no close friends that are close enough to be abducted! Reminds me of how Byakuya had his butler, Celeste had her cat, Toko had her little stink bug, and how honestly none of the class (or hell, any danganronpa character tbh) have both family AND friends held captive. It's just one or the other or someone/something miscellaneous like a pet or butler or just one parent being in their motive like Yasuhiro and his mom, Chihiro and his dad, or Taka with his dad. I also feel this adds a bit more to the tragedy of the first game with Hopes Peak, the more that I think about it. Like, some of them had their very first friends they ever got, probably the first ever real connection with someone their age who also wasn't connected with their talent specifically. Think Mondo and his gang or Sayaka and her girl group. Not saying those don't mean anything but still. So, it's interesting to think that they all have that level of connection with them, even "average Makoto". Just a thought though! Edit: Is Sakura the only one btw? Cus she has a boyfriend I think and it also mentioned that like, her whole dojo was being threatened by the mastermind? Which like, includes her family in there. So is Sakura the only one who doesn't have some trauma or baggage with a parent? Though crap. Nevermind. She got called ogre a lot so yeah. These bastards are fucked hahaha!!

[brainfilehasstoppedworking]

More Mastermind Takaaki stuff. This is like, post everything. After he's had revenge and shit. (This is also in clone Taka's P.O.V.) The person that helped me with some of the story (@artz16) talked about maybe having Takaaki ask (kidnap) Kazuichi to make a cloning machine to bring back all the students that died. Including Hifumi and Celeste (who has personal business with.) And like, it can make some good ass angst.

Just Taka trying to grasp everything, trying to just process what he's just…woken up to. He's not really himself and he's terrified of the man his father became. His father murdered and harmed others to just have some sort of vengeance for him. The sheer insanity that his father was overcome with. And most of all, he joined those who started all of this. The reason him and others have died. He's terrified of his father, scared of his actions. His behavior. His murder spree. He doesn't know what to do, his father has gone absolutely mad. But he can't just leave him. He doesn't know what he's capable of.

And Takaaki, he's completely fucked up. He's so happy to have his son back. But he just notices the look of absolute fear in his son's face. Then the realization just hits him like a bunch of bricks. That he's killed people. He killed, he hurt, he manipulated, etc. All just for one goal. And it just fucks him up completely and eats away at him. And the fact he scared his son. That he's scared many of the people he cared for all because of his actions. It just echoes in his brain. But he couldn't help it and he can't just stop. He can't turn back time. He did the damage. And that's it. But he's terrified of himself and the fact he could hurt Taka as he did to those who stuck by him.

He wonders if Taka hates him.

[mangoshibi]

Cant forget about Taka, mondo, and Chihiro too!!