#story differences

[modstarfell]

Fnaf lore post but its my au lore

There’s a lot of misconceptions and confusion about what’s going on with my SDRA AU.... So per anon’s request, I wrote as much as I could without spoiling much of anything that hasn’t been said!

Setting:

The story mainly is focused around Akane Taira and “Utsuro”. A self labeled name of a boy trying to forget his past. The story is wonky at the start because they each have their own separate story, Akane’s is more talked about over Utsuro’s as I refuse to give out more detail then his name that I shared. (I will not be posting it myself until I get to the point in the story where it’s finally said.) They run away together and live together in a house that Utsuro’s luck found for them in the forest (Later referred to as the void house). Some time down the line, Utsuro enrolls himself and Akane into HPA originally for Akane to have a chance at making more friends and getting a better education. He goes because she’ll literally get lost without him.

Canon events that are linked in DRA game happen. (Everything in DRA does still happen in this AU. Things expanded more on later for ch6.) Shobai has taken on a ‘favor’ for Akane and has come to the children weekly to help them with whatever they may need. The children grow increasingly concerned for why Akane and Utsuro haven't returned and set off on a mission to try and find them themselves. Mikado creates AiKado and AiKado manages to locate the video that was sent to Enoshima of the DRA killing game, taking a bit longer but eventually finding the Kisaragi Laboratory where they were located.

Mikado and Kokoro went to the Laboratory and managed to find and retrieve the bodies of class 79. To their surprise, they were all technically still alive. They were put into a comatose state of sorts. After returning back to their work place with the bodies, Mikado worked with a few other co-workers (Unnamed as of now) to create healing-pods. Slowly but surely the pods began replenishing their bodies to workable states of their former selves. Some were easier to heal then others but it was a success! Kokoro wanted to try and bring them back from their comatose/dead state... So she had Mikado create the Revival project(Refer to the background story here)

The program DOES help them come back, but there’s an error in their memories. None of class 79 remember any of the killing game and need to remember in order to leave the program like everyone else.

Characters:

First things first, I made profiles here for the cast in AU. Click their names for their google doc to pop up.

Class 79:

Akane Taira: Devoted as she, there’s a soft spot in her for children. She’s not much of a conversationalist unless the topic at hand she’s been prepared for or about Utsuro. This being said, she created a persona to use while she was at HPA to come off as easier to talk to, more befitting of a maid (Maid!kane). She and Utsuro agree to use their persona’s in the killing game rather than themselves as their classmates wouldn’t know the difference between the real them or the persona’s.

Ayame Hanato: Not many changes. Serves as more of a big sibling/peacemaker role.

Haruhiko Kobashikawa: Not many changes. It’s been discussed BTS that his brother may have had a deeper influence on him than intended. (Nothing fruitful to change)

Kakeru Yamaguchi: Not many changes. Nothing’s been talked about him too much aside from his relationship with Midori and friendship with Kanata occasionally. He made time to visit Midori every free chance he could get even if he had to sneak in with Kanata’s help.

Kanata Inori: Not many changes. She’ll claim she’s fine with living a ‘boring life of a surgeon’, but it’s mostly to keep her patients' information safe but her life dealing with patients is more than enough for her then focusing on getting new interests. Although she likes ‘cute things’.

Kinji Uehara: Not many changes. Talks about his past/the orphanage kids have been talked about a few times BTS... It’s more than likely that instead of having lived in a church setting, he lived with the orphanages instead and used money that was donated for the children.

Kiyoka Maki: Although she struggles to think before she speaks, she can read the room a bit better. She doesn’t comprehend her feelings properly though. Yuzuki and Rika have been brought up before and she would try and communicate with them if she were able to.

Kizuna Tomori: Due to having her school memories, she’s changed quite a bit. While she’s still very sassy... Her views on others has changed. More often than not she’s hanging out with the besties™️(The sports-gang) and tries to ignore the boys that are ogling her. Her jokes are still a bit on the iffy side but she’ll apologize if she’s told it’s too far at least.

Mikako Kurokawa: She generally still keeps her peppy attitude but fatigue washes over her easily if she’s moving for too long or her emotions are in high stress. She can still be difficult to get to know but she’ll perk right up as soon as Yamato comes into the picture. Very protective over her friends no matter how close.

Mitsuhiro Higa: Just like Kizuna, having his school memories changed how he would’ve acted. Now he’s gotten his ego under control and more or less hangs out with the other athletic students just to be included in things from time to time. He’ll at least try and teach the others soccer from time to time. (Post regaining his memories he WILL apologize to Akane.)

Rei Mekaru: When it comes to DRA Nothing really changed. Her role in the Kisaragi Foundation got her speaking to many more people though and she figured out how to separate her work from her personal life. However, she spends most of her time at work to avoid the fact she would be alone after hours in her personal life.

Satsuki Iranami: Not many changes. Her and Haruhiko continue their relationship from HPA, there was no reason for them not to since their memories continue from the game. (Forgot to add this earlier.) She expands more than what was just written in her FTE’s and is really good with animals! Her family has been talked a lot more BTS but they would need their own post and I don’t have any writing done for them yet as I forget who’s who still.

Teruya Ootori: When it comes to DRA Nothing really changed. Besides the canon financial department, he interacts a lot more with survivors of the tragedy and is a bright cheery face to everyone he’s meeting with. He still has his father around and helps him a lot with the replenishing of Otori Mart.

Tsurugi Kinjo: When it comes to DRA Nothing really changed. He has kept Juu alive and he is currently in the foundation’s care locked in a place only Tsurugi knows of. Tsurugi’s mother has been talked about BTS, his relationship with her has yet to be made public. His wounds of needing a wheelchair and his eye were caused by the sui attempt in ch5. His wounds worsened as the divine luck began wearing off over the years.

Utsuro: The people who he’s helped have been a little more hands-on meeting wise. He wants Akane to be able to move on from being by his side, to have a life she deserves. Looking into the HPA register roster for class 79, he decided they should join in to give Akane a chance to make better friends. ‘Kidnapping’ Yuki and taking his place, he created a persona like Yuki that he used while interacting with the other people in the academy. When the two of them met Enoshima things began changing. He didn’t want Akane to fall down the despair path so he used hypnosis findings he found in the library to create ‘Sora’. A being of hope that should deter her from following him and become an entirely new person. He has emotions but shuts them out for the most part, is afraid to understand them. His first meeting and first few months with Akane have been written out (I don’t remember where) but not talked about on the rp blog.

Yamato Kisaragi: Not many changes. (FROM CHAPTER ZERO) While he still receives brain damage, it’s mostly recovered in the simulation. Him regaining his memories will affect this a bit in various ways... His death was very peculiar with the explosion and missed points it should’ve very well exploded too. Aside from that, most of the change happens in his family relations. How he grew up pre-Mikako was brought into the picture.

SDRA2:

Emma Magorobi: While she still has the same general childhood; After a while she instead ran away from her home to an airport and hid in a plane's undercarriage that happened to be going to Japan. She ran away once the flight landed and ran deep into the forest where she eventually collapsed. She was taken back to the Void house and cared for by Akane till she woke up. Emma actually chose her first name herself. Her last name was given to her by the agency manager she works with later down the line.

Hajime Makunouchi: While he still has the same general childhood; He had gained a ‘last wish’ from the adults who felt bad about his situation. He was able to go to an amusement park where he had met Utsuro and Akane. The two felt bad for him... Utsuro cured his illness and took him home with them.

Hibiki Otonokoji: Nothing has changed much for Hibiki. She might occasionally be nicer to Kanade, but only when it has something to do with their ‘talents’. I haven’t had much time to develop her... Sorry.

Iroha Nijiue: While she still has the same general childhood; A banquet was held and the family was attacked, with the building coming down they didn’t bother to try and even alert the tiny Iroha as she was trapped in her room. Utsuro happened to pass by and wandered into the building and took Iroha with him. The Nijiue family never bothered looking for her after that.

Kanade Otonokoji: After succeeding in her plans, she continued on with the band for a while... Although she quickly grew tired of their fans so she ended the band with a charity concert and that was the last of ‘Melody Rhythm’. Getting everything she wanted should’ve been all she needed but she wasn’t satisfied still. Part of her missed her older sister. So she went to Kokoro after hearing through the grapevine about the project and asked for her help to recover Hibiki to a state where she can at least have some of her spunk back in her. She also had thrown away her hair clip as there wasn’t a need for it anymore.

Kokoro Mitsume: Most of Kokoro’s changes occur AFTER Mikako’s death. Prior though, she still kept and answers to both Mitsume and Kurokawa. After going through the files that the chip recorded from Mikako that she never bothered to delete, she began to feel guilty and regret... She knew she was a horrible parent and wanted to make it up somehow. Since Mikako and this ‘Utsuro’ were in the same class, she was the one to ask force Mikado to build a simulation that would work on reactivating their brains while she and other co-workers began working on repairing parts of bodies that weren’t capable of being replenished normally.

Mikado Sannoji: While he still has the same general childhood; He instead had followed Utsuro home, growing more and more curious about his ability and who he was as a person. While he still roughly remains an introvert, he’s the oldest of all the ‘void’ children. Trying to keep a way to make his family happy and take on the duties Utsuro once had. (This is mostly a made-up pressure he’s put on his own shoulders.) Once he realized he wasn’t able to give the others a proper oldest brother in himself, he had created AiKado to try and replace himself with someone more happier and extroverted in his family's life. Although when Kokoro had him create the simulation... He had no way of launching the EXE properly, and running it with AiKado at the time seemed like the best solution and it held itself together decently well.

Monocrow: A duplicated coding from Mono-san (Yuri’s AI). Turned into a bird for easier data compression. He mostly flies around the island looking for Utsuro as ordered by his coding. Doesn’t do much, just a funky bird, certainly no reason to be hosting a game.

Nikei Yomiuri: As Nikei has no canon backstory yet, I threw one together to a similar level of the other voids. The easiest comparison is Kotoko Utsugi’s backstory. Due to how intense everything was for him, Nikei had developed into a system with an alter to help protect him in bad situations. He had gone on later to kill his parents before running away, as far as his legs could carry him when he bumped into Utsuro and began spewing everything out to the other. Utsuro didn’t talk but still took him in.

Setsuka Chiebukuro: Her ‘big sis’ and excitable personality is only a front she puts to make herself seem more friendly. Her avatar having her eye covered with hair is just to help her hide it more secretly as she would in the real world. Having both her eyes open for long periods of time will cause her to not only feel dizzy but have her faint like a narcoleptic no matter how she tries to counter it. She’s more likely to snap right back at those who employ her if she doesn’t appreciate their tone towards her.

Shinji Kasai: Over stricken with grief and guilt, he and Kokoro struck a deal that would help his pain go away and possibly work on fixing his back in the meantime. Sadly he's in a similar situation to Hibiki where I haven’t had the time/any ideas to work on him.

Shobai Hashimoto: While he still has the same general childhood; One day he saw a wandering Akane and for some reason after looking at her... He saw himself in her. He’s been in that position so he called her over before others could get to her and took her in like a little sister. He won’t admit it but he’s gained a real attachment to Akane. Part of his hair is dyed underneath his ponytail (You can only see it in certain sprites in the real world) to match her hair so she’ll always be with him in some way. Even if he has a job, Akane’s request comes first. He’ll visit “the twerps” once a week, bringing them food and various items they’ve requested. He holds quite the grudge against Utsuro.

Yoruko Kabuya: Having the same upbringing as canon still hadn’t freed her from her social-phobia. She used to go around school with something (I cannot remember if it’s a bag or a box) over her head so the others wouldn’t have to look at her directly just because she was that afraid of them. She has ‘quit’ hostessing to some extent. While she still works it’s not as often and has been in frequent touch with Minako, who helped her get set up to go into the simulation.

Yuri Kagarin: The reason for him being in the simulation has been talked about a few times but I don’t remember if anything has officially been written down. While he’s had some help with the simulation himself, he refuses to take credit for anything involved in it. (Monocrow is not his, Mono-san is.) He created Mono-san as a means to be a therapist to help out others, he figured an AI like that could provide use given what the simulation was meant to be used for.

‘Extra’ Characters:

Aiko Maeda: Surprise surprise, she survived. She wasn’t actually harmed in the motive video. They made it seem like she was attacked and injured but at the most they scared her till she fainted. She wanders through the streets looking for her son.

Hikaru Ando: Nothing of note-worthy difference. Yet. There’s been some BTS talk about the Ando family in general a few times.. but nothing solid.

Keisuke Iranami: Just as said in Satsuki’s section, their family has been expanded upon BTS, he is a twin!! He’s way more serious on doing anything for Satsuki over anything else (to the point there’s been memes about him not allowed to have his phone during training sessions in case Satsuki were to call him). A stand alone difference though, not much...

Midori Yamaguchi: Was actually one of Kanata’s patients. (Unsure if this was true canonically but she is in AU.) She’ll remain quiet about her symptoms if she thinks she’ll be able to aid someone much easier without having to worry about her sickness in the grand scheme of things. Overexerts + anxiety in one bundle.

Minako Tomori: Understands she wasn’t the best of parents to Kizuna... Just wants to hold her daughter again. She is often trying to cheer up the others to not worry about their families too much because they wouldn’t want them to be sad when they're alive right? While she still doesn’t play much of a fighting role, if needed she’ll join alongside in fights the best she can. Relationship with her ex-husband has been talked about BTS + scenes from Kizuna’s childhood.

M/Mikado!Sora: A glitch in the simulation. They will exist as long as AiKado exists in the simulation. They express emotions more easily and has a nearly unsatisfiable rage. Despite their extroverted nature, they don’t believe they can be saved. They will be deleted after the simulation has taken its course.

Ryutaro Maki: Nothing of note-worthy difference. His relationship with Kiyoka and his parents has been talked about but hasn’t made a difference in character story yet.

Y/Yuki!Sora: A glitch in the simulation. They will exist as long as "Yuki Maeda'' exists in the simulation. They solemnly express actual emotion. An opposite to M, they are quiet, introverted and often just watch the others in the simulation. Occasionally acting as a guide to help outsiders get to where they need to. They have hope that they can be salvaged by the end of everything at least.

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Story:

Most of what is different are how things played out pre-game and ch5-6 in terms of what occurred through Akane. To try and explain without giving too many spoilers in detail:

Utsuro only really learned about Yuki Maeda after learning about class 79′s supposed class roster. His luck took care of the rest for him, having slowly changed his appearance to look more like Yuki day after day. One day, Akane and Utsuro hunted down Yuki and knocked him out and left him somewhere to die.

While in the killing game, when Tsurugi accuses Taira of being the mastermind, Utsuro’s luck was supposed to interfere and wake up Project Hope to take her place and start over an entirely new slate, never to be considered Taira again. However, Akane’s willpower overcame the slumbering luck and she instead returned to her rightful place and continued on with her goal of waking up Utsuro. 

Utsuro, realizing that his luck had failed him in ‘saving’ Taira, made sure that if anything he’ll keep her safe out of the entire class. With him being awake and his luck back in action, her wound bleed enough to lull her into a comatose state with the other survivors.

Things to note:

All of VOID are one-two years apart in age. In order of oldest to youngest it’s Mikado -> Hajime -> Emma -> Nikei -> Iroha

Mikado and Kokoro still work at the same unnamed research facility and are co-workers. 

The Kisaragi Foundation members are all still co-workers and Teruya was the one to get a call from Kokoro who then relayed the message to Rei and later Tsurug about the Revival Project.

Characters like Setsuka and Yoruko have motifs changed to their avatar to reflect real world things to aid themselves, where Kokoro’s was pure cosmetic from her not caring about how her hair looked.

Taira(s) have an ability to sense just what Utsuro is feeling regardless if he verbalizes his words.

Maid!Kane, Sora and “Yuki Maeda” are not alters to Akane Taira/Utsuro. They were personas created to have them act like other people. Both Despair!Kane and Utsuro were active while they were in HPA times.

DISCLAIMERS:

Everything I write I have either done extensive research into or have had experience with it myself. I try to tag things accordingly as I’m aware a lot of what is involved can be sensitive topics for things. There are few things that are dramatized for the fact of fiction writing and it is impossible to write them with 100% accuracy in works.

Y sprite helped made by @proftsutsu​ . Please do not use it.

[jesncin]

"Who Is Superman? A Private Interview with Lois Lane" a fancomic about hope and connection. I've had this story in mind for so long and I'm very excited to be able to share it at last. Thank you for reading, and happy Lunar New Year!

[platoapproved]

What was that you said about memory? "A monster," was it?

[iwasbored777]

We're not appreciating the Weird Barbie enough. It's said in the movie that she helps everyone who need help while they always see her as someone who's not as good as them. She was friends with all dismissed Barbies and Kens, was there to offer support and safe shelter for everyone who needed it in Kendom, without her nothing in the movie would've been alright. When Stereotypical Barbie calls her "ugly and unwanted" she still helps her.

She was representing a woman in women's world who was pushed aside by other women because she didn't fit in but still had more wisdom and kindness than everyone who thought they're better than her.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[orcboxer]

those first couple weeks after escaping a time loop have gotta be disorienting as all fuck. all those little cues that used to tell you what's about to happen are now triggers that cause you to brace for something that isn't coming. you have to relearn the permanence of death -- hell, you have reacquaint yourself with the entire concept of finality altogether. everything keeps changing but it never changes back and you keep having to remind yourself that this is normal. "it won't reset anymore," you echo to yourself, over and over and over, like a broken record, like you're still trapped in a loop, like someone who escaped the time loop but was doomed to bring it into the future with them

[gravitycoill]

lil comic i’ve had in my head for a bit

[canarymithrun]

[gotstabbedbyapen]

It's always "Hades isn't bad or cruel, his deeds are just metaphors of the inevitable death" or "Hades kidnapping Persephone represent the premature death".

But when the argument "Zeus has numerous affairs and many children because he represent the fertile rain" is brought up, all nuance is suddenly out of the window and Zeus is just a womanizer who can't keep it in his pants.

[shesnake]

I'm a lesbian and i see myself in media about bi women, also in media about gay/bi men. even if it's not Entirely made for me, it's still for me. and I know and hope that other gay/bi people are able to see parts of themselves in lesbian media. sorry to be cheesy but we are more similar than we are different and it's those experiences we share that draw us to these stories in the first place, and the reason we're even telling them <3

[lgbtlunaverse]

There's a version of the "don't go grocery shopping while hungry" rule specifically for writers where you should never under any circumstances be allowed to touch your draft within 3 hours of reading a really good story. Because sometimes when you read something great your head goes "fuck this is so much better than my stuff I should make that more like THIS instead!" Look at me. That's the devil talking and you should close the document NOW.

[beaft]

thinking about bg3 astarion introduction. something very funny about meeting a weird guy on the road and he's like "hey, sorry for trying to stab you. i'm a lawyer btw" and you're like well that seems true. and you click on his picture and see that his character class is just Professional Liar

[nyctosaurid]

don bluth films occupy a weird space because he's both inarguably an auteur who directs very strange, earnest, often "ugly" films but also a guy who near exclusively made movies for 8 year olds in the home video era. so basically everything he's ever done is a grimy, dreamy rumination on death and spirituality and has a direct to video sequel called something like secret of nimh 2: mrs. brisby's holiday adventure

[ruporas]

trigunned the hades or hadesed the trigun (id in alt)

[ronanlynchbf]

tshirt that says NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY

[snorlaxatives]

i think one of the best parts about being a teenager in the early to mid 2010s was that cigarettes were definitely not cool anymore and vapes hadn’t popularized yet so my lungs made it out of my peak impressionable years relatively unscathed