#roaring cherry blossom

[dragonclaude]

Hey, I honestly had this question in my head for some time for RCB. So what does the game over screen look like? Say if you run out of health, fail a timed quest, or make the slightest mistake. Will Sakura have voice lines when the game over screen shows, and maybe have a recall of tips in case they skip it?

Oh good question! This is something I have like, exact image idea for too.

First, I should mention that Sakura would “Save” the game by getting into a meditating pose which can only be done out of combat. If you had allies, they also sit and chill with you too:

Because of this, when you get a game over, it’s played as if she’s thinking about what may happen in the future and made a bad choice. If it was a less important death like a wandering Monokuma, she would say something more generic like “I should be careful.” or a simple sigh. Dying in a normal boss battle, timed quest or some kind of puzzle area that can have a hint she would say something more unique.

But if it were one of the boss fights like Mahiru or Ult. Imposter who are purposely trying to re-despair her, the game over would briefly be her falling into despair again before transitioning back to the save point.

The recall for tips is cool though, that could be a nice qol too :]

[laylamvart]

Made two more, but they were other people’s AUs, sooooo…headcanons galore!

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[dragonclaude]

wait are you actually considering making a RCB game or is your imagination just that vivid

Might as well answer this too.

See I would LOVE to but unfortunately, I do not have a team to finish a project of that massive scope. But it's fun to think about so I drew it :]

[dragonclaude]

Will you continue the Roaring Cherry Blossom au? It's really fun to read and think about as an au.

I got a couple of these questions these few months so I wanted to answer:

I haven't stopped thinking about this AU, I assure you! I have a few ideas for drawings and animations I've been wanting to make that I just haven't gotten the motivation to do in between my more consistent workload and original projects.

But I can share an animation experiment I did around a year or so! I wanted to finish it before posting but I think at this point I'm just gonna try something new. Hope you enjoy :]

[dragonclaude]

What would happen if someone got a pirated version of the Roaring Cherry Blossoms Game? Or what would happen if someone tried to hack the game to skip ahead and stuff? What devious scary machinations do you have for such people to witness?

In this economy and how good hackers/pirates are these days? Pirates will find a way around whatever I throw in eventually xD

I would prefer to give a message like "Hey we notice you're pirating. If possible, please give something back to the crew if you enjoyed the game. Thanks." at the beginning and credits along with places you could give or something.

If they are skipping levels however.... I wonder if it would be possible to add dialogue to the cast where they start finding Sakura more uncanny. For example, if you skip a remnant battle, they would be like "next you have to fight....oh you already did that one...? But I don't remember asking you to do that-" and Sakura becomes increasingly more aware of how she seems to be forgetting parts of her life. This disturbs her enough for ambient music to become kinda unsettling in each level. I think it would also be funny if you skip very long parts of the game, it boots you back to the beginning after you beat a level via Sakura waking up in a "what a weird vision" sentiment. xD

[dragonclaude]

Sakura needs a nice calm vacation after RCB-

She does, but the emptiness will always be bittersweet.....

[dragonclaude]

For the future purpose of speedrunning, would there be any glitches and/or hacks speedrunners can use in the Roaring Cherry Blossoms Game? Like if you do a certain action in a specific location and time, you can skip the journey and immediately start a boss fight?

I actually wondered about this before!

Of course, I would want as few bugs as possible but perhaps some frame-perfect inputs could cause her to jump higher or have faster ways of travel first of all. With how many factors are in play from weapons, monokuma types, locations, and attack animations, it wouldn't be out of the question for there to be some kind of clipping through a level exploit that is hyper-specific. 

Maybe during the Towa city section, if you manage to get Genocide Jack to slash a monokuma at the exact frame that you're attacking with a long weapon that is about to break you can collide hitboxes and fly off in a direction to enter the Nagito encounter cutscene to save 10 minutes or something xD It will be dubbed "Jack skip".

I would love to see it though; In a similar way as watching Breath of the Wild Link save the world in 30 minutes in his underwear and abusing gravity powers. I want to watch Sakura wake up from dying, have her friends witness her clip through a building, and when she gets back she has somehow beaten every single remnant and brought them back to base without anyone even asking her to do so. The cryptid timeline. xD

[dragonclaude]

After the events of the Roaring Cherry Blossoms AU and the Danganronpa 3 Hope Side Anime, how would Sakura feel about the rebuilding of Hope’s Peak Academy, and how would she feel about Makoto becoming the School’s New Principal?

As much as my own opinion is that it's a bad idea, Sakura trusts and has a lot of faith in her friends. If Makoto is confident that he would become a successful principal, then she would support him. I don't think she would agree to be a faculty/staff member but she would offer that she will always be open to be called again if another threat shows up.

After RCB, I can imagine Sakura just needs......a break really xD

[dragonclaude]

Does Sakura still have her memories in RCB? That’s gonna affect what I say next

If it's true that the survivors were able to regain their memories after DR1, they they would likely do that to Sakura too.

If this is the case, the only removed memory would be the part when she was a temporary remnant and that’s why the other remnants are trying to make her remember it. Specifically remember the despair brainwash.

[dragonclaude]

Talking about cutscenes and dialogues, if Nekomaru - who I see as one of the only Ultimate Despair fights to be "purely" hand to hand - doesnt have a "skio the boss" prompt he at least has a "skip the cutscene" prompt, despite it probably being OOC for Sakura.

I thought of the "Shut Wyzen up" button being for Gundham's starting Monologue, yes xD Asura's wrath is so great

Since Nekomaru’s a later battle, I think she would want to hear if he happens to say any important information about the other remnants before they fight. Plus I think Sakura would love a regular hand-to-hand fight with no Monokuma BS after having to deal with it so much and wouldn’t want to interrupt it.

[dragonclaude]

Not to be a bother but do you have a still image of that rules of nature Sakura pic?

Sure!

[dragonclaude]

I got a big ask by @isdisorigionalenoughforyou about little details of my Action game AU and I decided to dedicate a few sketches to it!

Question 2 is a reference to this older drawing, and if you'd like to see more about the AU checkout my pinned post for a quick link tree!

As usual, longer answers under the cut, enjoy!

There is a non-zero possibility that Togami corp has an entertainment room with a karaoke machine and card games/board games to play with others during moments of relaxation. Makoto, Hina, Yasuhiro and Kyoko could be options for their own solo songs and also there would be at least a duet in there with you and Hina. Making the rest of the game would be priority and I would only do something like this if there’s enough money and resources left over but y’know xD I wouldn’t want to add distractions like the Despair Karaoke places during the combat-focused sections; It would mean I’d have to consider something like that for every other remnant or else it would be……weird to choose only Ibuki for that. But maybe postgame she would welcome the challenge or something, who knows!

Stat bonuses, no, but I have been thinking for a while about them giving you a slightly different fighting style. Monokuma outfit starts off with claws and you fight more animalistically, Anniversary outfit starts with metal fans and you do more dodgy/graceful movements. The only problem is there's not really a reason sakura couldn't have different fighting styles on default except for the fact we may run out of buttons to be able to use them all xD But I LOVE the suggestion of each giving a minor change like hearing the monokumas or making the songs a rock cover.

I don't think there would be a traditional fishing minigame with a rod and actual fish but you will be able to find harpoons/hooks with ropes that you can pick up as weapons that could also be used in that way. There is no doubt going to be large holes or chasms in the ground that you could send a hook down and see what you get. Maybe a Monosalmon or something could be caught then thrown to distract Monokumas like Siren monokumas in UDG xD (But also, you’re absolutely right, every good game has a fishing minigame so this should be no exception)

I agree, I think that's what I'm going to decide on for Nagitos fight in the end! But there is no way Sakura is going to bring him to other fights especially after seeing how dangerous his luck is when bringing him back to base. Nagito is an SCP needing to be contained xD As for linearity, I think all the remnants will be divided in clusters of "early" "middle" and "late" with Imposter being the last that isnt Izuru that you could do in the order you want. Sonia will be a special case in which her fight is scheduled for a certain time in the late-game and you can either wait until then or go after some remnants before going to Novoselic.

Since there would be abandoned supermarkets all around, you would be able to grab ingredients for protein shakes, tea or coffee to make at the base and bring with you like a health and stamina potion. I didn't think it could have a minigame attached to it but now I want there to be xD Perhaps you could brew your potions mix protein shakes of various ingredients so you can personalize your healing item. For example, maybe some ingredients provide slightly longer focus time, higher health, healing over time etc. and you can create a drink to provide either purely one effect or mix of several for your upcoming mission depending on what you think you need. Could be cool!

[dragonclaude]

What if in the roaring cherry blossoms Gundham fight you have the option of skipping the boss by just standing there and listening to his whole monologue for like half an hour until he gets exhausted or the future foundation shows up. That would be funny I think

I agree, it would be xD

I don't think future foundation getting involved would be a good idea as then it'd make it much harder to get Gundham for the Neo world program. But I think hearing out Gundham's entire monologue could be fun as an achievement or something xD

[Also this is a reference to the last drawings of this post]

[dragonclaude]

something something Rules of Nature Wrecker Monokuma.

I seriously love seeing your art whenever I see it across my dash, and I love how dedicated and thoughtful you are in your Roaring Cherryblossom AU (iirc). Do you have any other ideas for your other AU fights or no? Or any Monokumas that are based off of the originals in UDG and act like higher tiered versions (or like "badasses" from Borderlands"?

already said it but again, love seeing your art and all your posts whenever I come across your blog and see my dash. hope you're doing well and that life's treating ya right! got it memorized?

RULES OF NATURE!!!!

AND THEY RUN WHEN THE SUN COMES UP-

Anyways, thank you so much!! I'm really happy to hear it! ;0;

Hmm, at the moment I've written/drawn all of my current boss ideas for Roaring Cherry Blossom; but there are some characters missing that I need to make bigger drawings for when I'm confident enough with their ideas. Some of them include Nagito, Fuyuhiko/Peko, Nekomaru, and Kazuichi which I have the main ideas for but I still need to iron out the details. Neko and Kazu mostly because they are mid-late bosses that could change depending on the plot.

I did actually have more ideas for more fusions as well as "higher tiered" monokumas but they're all sketches. Heres a compilation!

I need to make some more eldritch robotic horrors...

As for the end, I'm doing alright thank you! Sakura on the brain everyday helps me through the tougher times xD

[dragonclaude]

I was thinking more about the Monokumas for my action game AU. Now with some new ideas! (and sakura for size reference)

Because of how many Monokuma parts or scrap metal would be scattered once you beat them, I think it’d be cool if later Monokuma enemies will start using them to become stronger.

More descriptions about each one below!

Ibuki fight: During her stage, the monokumas will be cheering for her in the audience until you move to their part of the battlefield. They then get up and attack you as a pack with regular monokuma attacks but they make louder sounds. Ibukumas with the boomboxes appear sparingly and attack from long range with the loud music coming from the radio.

Mahiru fight: Despite it being a late fight, almost all of the Mahikumas are disruptive/stunners rather than fighters. They will disrupt you with camera flashes, spotlight blinding, false noises to trigger your alerts etc. But also, there is a recurring newspaper monokuma that will come to you at random parts of the story, giving you the latest Newspaper by Mahiru. One such instance that I thought of is depicted in this post.

Hiyoko fight: Could have more yokai inspired designs but I’m not sure which would be the most fitting for a mountain Dojo 😅 These monokumas attack on rhythm to the music in the level and you would have to counterattack on the beat to defeat them. Stronger Hiyokumas need several hits to be destroyed but will be pushed back and resume attacking you on beat yet again.

Teru/Akane fight: There will be a group of monokumas in the back of the room with Teruteru and another group along with Akane in their fight, but all holding similar weapons. Some Akanekumas attack with large kitchen knives, some throw cleavers, some burn you with blowtorches and some carry food for Akane to heal her. The Terukumas meanwhile will lob oil and fire towards you in order to make the battle more dangerous to traverse. If all Akanekumas (and Akane) is defeated, the Terukumas will lunge and attack to stop you from reaching Teruteru.

Armored Beast: This one attached parts of Guard monokumas onto their body. Using their new strength, these monokumas can move huge objects on their own and a pack of them could break down a small building. They would attack by lunging at you and block their weak eye when you attack their front. You would have to find a way to rip off the arm shields or its armored back in order to beat it effectively.

Scrapheap Junk: A junk monokuma that has attached many pieces of scrap from all over the land onto itself. Unlike melded, this monokuma is quicker but only attacks one way at a time.There could be different kinds of scrapheap monokumas that have special parts (ex: one only made of car parts, one only made of furniture etc.) and would have a slightly different attack pattern. But generally, just dodge or parry its attacks then hit it enough to defeat it.

Melded Junk: An amalgamation of many separate half-destroyed monokumas that attached to each other to make a functional robot. They have attacks like every monokuma type in UDG (except ball) and can attack many times at all angles despite being slow moving. They can also bring forth more enemies to attack you with the alarm on their arm. Depending on how many monokumas are operating it, you will have to completely destroy all of the heads from its body to fully defeat it.

Wrecker: A project of remnant Kazuichi. Instead of building a huge monokuma himself, he decides to program many engineer monokumas to collect parts and form a Big Bang Monokuma-sized robot. This one’s purpose is destroying buildings and bunkers to keep tragedy survivors from hiding. Wherever Wrecker goes, engineer monokumas are sure to follow to collect the scrap from its destruction. Also a priority to destroy whenever the future foundation finds one on their radar.

[dragonclaude]

Ok, I want to first of all say that your Roaring Cherry Blossom AU is super cool and I think it further shows that Sakura was killed in the original game because she'd be too powerful otherwise /lh /silly /gen

Anyways, I had a thought regarding Remnant Imposter as a boss. I believe they'd be a mind fuck boss, at least in universe due to their ability of being able to pretty much perfectly impersonate someone + their intelligence. If they're taking strong hits from Sakura and feel like they're at about just under half health, they would most likely bail for the time and change strategies. Sakura would definitely chase after them only to lose them temporarily. And that's when she the Imposter impersonating Kenshiro (Sakura would be a little skeptical, but not enough that the Imposter can't fool her) and when her guard is at it's lowest, just straight up punch her in the chest/gut as hard as possible and claim any love and positivity they had was a lie. At this point Sakura would obviously know it's the Imposter, but I think these words might still hurd Sakura. The finishing blow for the fight would probably be a very strong hit on the back of the Imposter's head that knocks them out cold.

TL;DR: A boss fight between the Ultimate Imposter would be a mind fuck because the Imposter is smart and halfway through the fight would run off and pretend to be Kenshiro in order to mentally and emotionally hurt Sakurac

Thank you! Yeah, if Sakura didn’t have the weight of the hostages on her either, the game would’ve ended pretty quick but alas xD

Ahh the Imposter fight. Despite possibly being the last remnant boss, I haven’t written a solid description for it yet since lots of things could change if the plot changes beforehand…..

In this game, Imposter is the leader of the remnants. While Nekomaru is the battle commander and is seen more often, Imposter handles the intel and tactics. 

Your idea is great! The concept of Imposter being a strong mental and physical battle is really what I was going for too. I just think it’d need some setup:

Despite their best efforts, there would come a point where Imposter will be the last remnant left (besides Izuru) and Future Foundation/Togami corp would have found and enclosed the building where they hide. The building would likely be a military base and have a deep, underground bunker. Sakura would enter from the top and find that lots of the first floors have caved in and there’s a mess of rubble that is easy to get lost in. One thing that remains consistent on each floor, though, is that there are lots of broken mirrors and dust/fog that would cause you to start getting hallucinations and false alerts like the level before the Mahiru boss. 

If Imposter can’t beat you on equal grounds, the best they can do is skew the playing field, right?

Sometimes one of these mirrors would actually be a window where Imposter is behind, taking the likeness of someone close to Sakura and talking to her like if this was all still in her head. Maybe they would even become remnant Sakura, “fighting” her by trying to make her remember the awful things she did in that state.

As for more specifics the actual boss battle……good question. No doubt they would be trying to attack where Sakura would mostly likely be weak (insecurities/worries about her friends) but Its hard to say what the “arena” would look like in the end.

Either way, drawing!