#project mara

[trashrat420]

I present to you, the first wave of Project Eden’s Garden memes, I did it for drdt and now I’m doing it for p:eg, and I am proud to admit that there are no spoilers contained in any of these either

What? Chapter 1 deadly life? I have no idea what you’re talking about. Everyone is alive and well and they’re all friends

[kitkats-and-kittens]

Idk the idea of Damian clinging to his league heritage and the rest of the Batfam doing their best to help him come to terms with the fact that his upbringing was abusive and they don’t really get how he can’t see it, because training a child as a living weapon, teaching them to kill, physically and emotionally abusing them from the age of like 4 is such an obviously fucked way to grow up.

But Damian clings to it anyway, because as much as they try to his siblings will never understand. They won’t understand the soft smiles his mother gave him when he returned from a mission, or the jokes he shared with Mara, or playing with servants children who called him Hafid instead of Damian. They won’t understand the rare times when Ra’s would tell him stories of a long forgotten past or days spent learning to cook and sew with his mother.

Because as much as they care about him, to them Damian Al Ghul represents everything bad that has ever happened to him. Damian Al Ghul is the cross he is forced to bare, as though his home is something he should consider a burden.

Because they may love him, but they can’t understand.

But idk.

[hellohiyoko]

In hindsight, both the culprit and victim of Chapter 1 should've been very obvious.

Project: Eden's Garden Spoilers

Wolfgang's animal motif is a sheep, and sheep tend to be sacrificial animals in the Bible. It only makes sense for him to be the first to go.

As for Eva, her being tempted to kill not only by Tozu (the goat, representing the devil), but subtly by Damon as well (a snake) as the first killer is very reminiscent of her namesake, Eve, the first woman and person to sin after being deceived by the serpent aka the devil.

Genius.

I also can't help but wonder if Wolfgang's blackmail (and Eva's or anyone else's) will play a bigger role in the overall story.

[markerofthemidnight]

I got bored so. Pffft here’s a Chapter 1 bingo card.

[cheesecakemermaid1048]

Decided post a tierlist after watching chapter one

[misseyres]

something about me is that i’m a sucker for ships where both people are traumatized and they find love & build a good life anyway. despite despite despite etc.

[chimerathekid]

"Aren't you a little young to be a detective?" I still like making fake screenshots and crossover pictures

Crow Country is fun and since I did some crossover art with the Detective Grimoire guys a while back, I figured I'd do a piece for this series too. Theyre both fun and I like detectives

[hopeeater]

Christmas Project Eden's Garden Icons

[pearlv1ne]

OKAY BUT WHY DID THEY MADE TOZU BALD

[troublerats]

Premature English

[trashrat420]

And now presenting wave 2 of project Eden’s garden memes!

Still with no spoilers, I’m in denial chat, my fave got offed and I’m very upset about it if you couldn’t tell..

Now Wenona and Ingrid are here!! Still no Eloise, idk man I don’t have any shy and scared memes stocked up quite yet, I’ll get her eventually chat

[mara-phelion]

alex is the type of guy to go "where my hug at" but like not to be creepy, he's just touch starved and doesn't know how to ask for affection

[hellohiyoko]

I've seen people talk about the culprit's execution in P:EG and a certain aspect of said execution that people assume will be incorporated into future executions. I figured I'd give my two cents on what this would mean for the rest of the game.

Spoilers below for Chapter 1 of Project: Eden's Garden, and a long rambling post that's all over the place

And for the three main games of Danganronpa as well. Sorry for being vague in the beginning, I didn't want to spoil it right away.

In Eva Tsunaka's execution, after being discovered as the blackened responsible for Wolfgang Akire's death, she's desperately running up a conveyor belt to prevent herself from falling into the fiery pits of a furnace or incinerator of sorts. While suffering from the wounds of sharp protractors and nails being thrown at her, she managed to climb up and almost reach the top. The obstacle in her path is what Eva (and the audience) assumed to be the dummy replica of Cara Koskinen, the Ultimate Teacher's Aide whose death was used for the mock trial.

Eva grabs the hand, only to be mortified that it's a real corpse as the whole arm rips off and follows Eva to meet her demise as they fall into the flames.

Now initially, like others, I was under the assumption that Cara's corpse was used to represent Eva's trust (or lack there of) in people. Eva only reached out to grab the hand assuming it was the same dummy from before, only to find herself let down again by a human (a dead one, but still a human nonetheless).

I think there's more to it than that.

For starters, Cara's actual corpse seemed rather...fresh, showing no signs of decomposing. This could insinuate that either A.) Cara died rather recently or B.) Cara died quite some time ago, and Tozu and Mara kept it preserved. Option B seems much more likely, and obvious, but that begs the question of why. If we're to assume that the sixteen students hadn't met or knew of Cara previously, and if we're to assume that Cara's corpse will be included in future executions, why use Cara specifically?

Cara must be important not only to the overall story of Project: Eden's Garden, but to the cast as well. Her talent as the Ultimate Teacher's Aide could imply that she was once their teacher, which would mean that a time skip of sorts between the train ride and the beginning gameplay of the Prologue had occurred, a recurring theme present in all of the major Danganronpa games.

And what despair it would bring to the survivors at the end as they realize that the remains of their once beloved teacher have been cremated alongside their fallen classmates...

There are, however, two possible contradictions with this theory that I will address and attempt to clear up.

1.) As stated previously by the team behind P:EG, previous Danganronpa Tropes were going to be avoided, and the "time skip, memories erased" plotline is a huge plot point for all three games. However, as seen in Eva's execution (and the overall chapter), some tropes may not be avoided after all. A character who the audience deemed to be important was still murdered (Sayaka, Twogami, Rantaro, Wolfgang), an attempted murder had gone wrong (Sayaka failed to kill Leon, Nagito's plan was thwarted by Twogami, Kaede's plan to kill the mastermind failed, and Wolfgang was electrocuted before he could murder Diana), and the first blackened of the game was still dragged out of the courtroom with chains around their neck (Leon, Teruteru, Kaede, and Eva). While the first chapter and trial of P:EG is still unique enough to not be a direct copycat of the first chapters of THH, SDR2, and V3, it still rhymes. So it wouldn't be too big of a stretch to assume that a time skip of sorts could be in play...

Until you consider the second contradiction.

2.) Toshiko Kayura. If a time skip did occur, how much time could have passed since the sixteen students arrived on the train? If it were a couple of months, then sure, Toshiko being 14 isn't a problem. But if Cara is a teacher that the cast has known for, say a year or two, then where does that leave Toshiko?

Easy, what if Toshiko was much younger when Damon arrived on the train? As many have pointed out, Toshiko is the only character to not speak during the train scene. And when Damon recalls seeing her on the train, he says that he wasn't sure of Toshiko's age since she was seated when he boarded. Perhaps, Toshiko was a bit shorter as a twelve year old compared to her now fourteen year old self, which makes Toshiko even more suspicious, but that's another post for another day.

Moving on though, if we're to believe that Cara died rather recently, this allots for more speculation. Was she a part of another killing game?

Or, did Cara arrive on campus earlier than the others to fulfill her duties as the Ultimate Teacher's Aide, and attempt to fight off whoever's responsible for the killing game?

Let's say Cara was a participant in a previous killing game. If we're still operating under the notion that Cara died somewhat recently, and that the killing game she participated in had subsequently concluded recently, it would only make sense that Cara was the last victim to fall.

Or does it?

Recall the rule in Chapter 1 that states that the killing game will end when there are two survivors left. Cara dying recently, with the respective killing game we assume she was a part of no longer taking place, would assume that the killing game ended because there were two survivors left at the time of Cara's murder. However, from what the Tozu Tablets and Tozu himself suggest in the Prologue, only one culprit was behind her murder. If we're to assume that Tozu isn't an unreliable narrator, nothing at the mock crime scene suggests that Cara was prepared to fight two assailants rather than just the one. (EDIT: Other than the obvious gun we see her with, lmao, but even so, how can we be sure that the gun was hers? There's also no evidence that seems to suggest that two people had attacked Cara simultaneously, other than maybe the 28 stab wounds.)

So unless Tozu's lying, we can't say for sure that Cara was in a killing game. And even if she was, why bother using a body that has no connection to the rest of the cast in Eva's execution?

We could, however, infer that Cara had tried to fight off whoever was responsible for the killing game, which is why Tozu is hiding the identity of the culprit. Then, after successfully murdering Cara and usurping control of the school, they could further punish Cara by means of mutilation should we assume that her corpse will be present in future executions.

Mutilation in the Bible is often seen as a punishment of sin. So, if Cara's corpse makes future appearances in future trials, her punishment for attempting to stop the killing game could be the mutilation of her body (and going back to the theory that they knew of her before, this adds an extra punishment and despair to the blackened students that will be executed in future chapters).

Speaking of mutilation, how many limbs does Cara have left after the first execution? Two of her legs, and an arm. So, should other limbs be used in future executions, this would imply that there will be at least three more culprits. Counting her head and neck and the rest of the body, you could potentially squeeze in two more culprits. So the number of executed students could range from 4 to 6, if using Cara's body in executions continues to be a pattern.

[markerofthemidnight]

My ranking of each character’s designs!

I think some of them (like everyone in the “good but kinda meh” tier) are alright but could’ve been a bit more detailed, but more or less they’re all great!

…And as for Mara… look, I just think she could’ve been a lot scarier, okay?!

[setsunaaaicons]

I can be yuor angel.. or yuor devil... 😈😈

[fanganronpa-ships]

Ship: Tozu and Mara from Project: Eden's Garden