#whit young mastermind

[strixop]

umm hi drdtumblr pls rb if you have an addition to this!!!!

okay okay so this is spur of the moment because my brain is disintegrating but like??? whit. right? theories about who he is, if he’s the mastermind, etc. aside, he has this habit of saying stuff that????? are 110% allusions to stuff he SHOULDNT know abt??????? always in a ‘oh boy i did NOT realize that the first time i watched this’ kinda way too (examples below)

chapter 2, ep. 7 ‘hanging out’

this is easily the most notable mention imho, references to DDLC aside, for all intents and purposes this is definitely?? a red flag???? given that area was in the playground HANGED??? the only real reasons i could think of is if he’d already seen the body, been the culprit, or the mastermind, and tbh i don’t think he’d be either of the first two 😭

chapter one, ep. 8 ‘prophetic dreams’

tbh this is WHY i’m making this post bc after i finished rewatching chapter 2 early i wanted to rewatch chapter one again right???? and okay u can have whatever thoughts abt mastermind BUT some of my personal favorites are the whit ones which just. make me at least pay attention to him right? and so i’m mid trail and realize he says THIS!!! a subtle but DIRECT reference to the mai dream!!!!!! like!!!!!!!!!

look i get that these two things alone don’t necessarily mean much BUT i’m convinced that they mean something and that i’ve probably missed out/forgotten some other similar bits like this!!!! this is where i ask u to help!!! if you’re rewatching too, or if you remember a specific moment like this, PLEASE reblog abt it! i feel like this is sm important!!!!!

[thedetectivesroomsystem]

Step back everyone!! There's someone peaking over my drawing!!

This is not a spoiler from DRDT, just my theory that Whit is a mastermind of this franchise. I colored him red that I got inspired from that one tiktok edit that I couldn't find (shit I need to find it)

Oh yeah I rushed it so the hands looks goofy.

[2802sen]

Everyone, just disappear.

Disappear. Disappear. Disappear.

Stay by my side.

Inspired by Ghost Flower - Nakiso. (mizu5)

MM!Whit design by @talkativeanonymous !!

I'm sorry, no character will be happy under my watch.

[starlet-orchids]

"TESTING? TESTING!!"

I really like the mm whit au by @talkativeanonymous so l drew this silly!! Maybe I will draw the one without the tv head but I have no ideas yet.

Mastermind aus are so fun, support your local drdt aus now we are all starving for more

[talkativeanonymous]

Fine okay you can have more Mastermind Whit!! SIGH!! I guess!! /silly Transparents under the cut as usual <3

[moxie-girl]

I'm a big fan of @talkativeanonymous's mastermind Whit design!! so I redrew the silly Whit gif from the episode 4 end card :3

have some alt versions bc I'm indecisive AND! transparent little guys so you can make him sit anywhere!!

[ccrisntok]

Mastermind Whace duo ?!

title says it all, lol. spoilers!

(more developed version of this au)

(ace still had his heart-attack, he was revived w a defibrillator)

the designs aren't anything too creative... this is more of a concept sketch then a real au rn!

there's basically no lore here yet, but uh... idk... ace feels doomed and wants others to feel the same way, whits lack of companionship leads him to hate other people, blah blah Mai set them up together and then died blah blah i'm sure some dramatically fucked up shit happens, who knows!

credit to @a-blog-for-kat for inspiring this with their post! these two aren't exactly the same as what their post purposed, but there's def inspo taken! check 'em out!!

[a-star-that-burns-brightly]

What the fuck is up with this man? No seriously, what the fuck was this about? I know what you're probably thinking "Everyone was trying to send Teruko to death, why is Whit being focused on here?"

That is true, but my thing about this is, to me, Whit joining in on the immediate bandwagon to vote for Teruko is...really fucking weird given his personality. One of Whit's main traits is the way he, almost rashly, puts his faith into other people. To the point where he is willing to lie or delay information from being presented. I made a whole post about this around a year ago, but later in this trial he puts his faith into the idea that Charles is not the culprit, lying about Charles being his friend so that the others would believe him. He interrupts when Teruko starts asking Eden for the note even though the note itself implicates Eden heavily. And he outright refuses to share David's secret for multiple minutes to "protect his career (paraphrasing), which I don't buy for a second because why the fuck would Whit care? what I'm trying to say is that all three of these circumstances where someone is being suspected or in danger of being suspected, Whit implicitly puts his faith in the idea that they are not the culprit, even if a majority of the evidence is pointing towards them. ...So why the fuck does he not do the same for Teruko? Later he joins Teruko's side in the scrum debate so we know eventually he stops suspecting her, but before that and especially in the screenshot, he just wants to vote and have the trial be done with. Given everything else, there's no reason for Whit to not defend Teruko, so why doesn't he? ...Well. Unless there was any particular reason he would want her to bite the bullet for Xander's murder.

Probably nothing though

[acethehorseishere]

sending this to remind myself to draw mm!ace later

Do remember to draw mm!Ace

Gonna use this ask to post today's obligatory offering. Didn't have much time so you get fugly doodles instead

Whit has been fighting the urge to jump Ace the moment it was revealed that he dismembered Charles (he doesn't care about the Mastermind part)

Too bad they got it wrong, he didn't get to punch him before his execution

Tfw you're trying to flirt but he's too busy watching the rest of your classmates die (also just found out he apparently killed someone)

[mimikip4744]

episode 16 was wild

Like, that was the best episode this far

but also WHAT THE FUCK!!!

[demodraws0606]

Guys...I think Whit is the culprit.

Sorry guys this is gonna be a long one

You know I'm a big believe of Whit mastermind theory and depending on how the trial goes he could still be the mastermind despite being the culprit but uhm...

Mf has like an 80 pourcent chance of being the culprit

My theory of Levi being the culprit kinda has went down the drain though i'm not really that upset about it because it was admitidely the most generic route.

I still do not buy for a second Eden is the culprit mainly because it contradicts a lot of her behaviors and also is only really based on one piece of evidence that could be explained by something else.

I think the most credible option to me right now, is Whit, especially because with how certain things are laid out for us we can actually make out a concrete motive for why Whit would do this.

I'm gonna write down what I think and explain why I believe Whit is most likely the culprit (also i'll deal with a couple of holes and explain why the theory still works alongside them) and also i'll use a couple of speculations made by other people as well

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I think it's known by everyone that the way Whit's secret was revealed is extremely strange, for like two reasons.

One, it means that it's impossible for anyone (including Whit himself, we'll get into that later) to have known what Whit's secret was, or to confirm it with certainty in the trial. We only have Whit's word for it.

Second, Whit takes a very strange amount of time until saying what secret he has, like right after Hu denied to say which secret she has. Which is extremely weird because if his life was so uneventful wouldn't he have managed to pick out a secret as blatant as this.

I thought this would be meant as a red herring to put suspicions on Whit however with Levi revealing his secret and this loose thread still not being addressed, I think it has to be important to the case at hand.

Now, despite people pointing this out every analysis that tries to handle this kinda goes into a brick wall because it immediatly assumes that Whit is lying about the dead mother secret being his. However there's too much pointing towards Whit having the dead mom secret.

No, I think we're going about this the wrong way. It's not about us not knowing what Whit's secret was, it's that Whit had no idea what secret actually was his

In fact that's mentionned before trial on how Whit just didn't know WHAT his secret even was, and no one could really tell him what it was because Rose threw it away

But that's weird right ? You would think Whit would know that his dead mother would be the likely secret, you could argue he just didn't want to share with everyone but that still doesn't explain the strange amount of time until he revealed he had Rose's secret.

And if he didn't want to share that his mom was dead, why did he let everyone the opportunity to say if they had his secret and to spill the beans...

Unless things are more complicated than just Whit having a dead mom, after all if it was just that wouldn't he have known immediatly that was his secret ? After all Teruko had the same issue as well as she didn't know what her secret could actually even be.

You could argue that I put my back against the wall here. If Whit not knowing his secret was his motive as to why he commited the murder then why did he let a bunch of people the opportunity to air out a potentially incriminating secret. Wouldn't that mean he wasn't worried about it ?

However, you have to keep in mind Whit had no idea how bad the secrets were, the only secrets that was revealed was J's which in retrospect of other secrets seemed like a much lighter one.

You could argue "Well Whit had David's secret which was pretty bad" however despite how bad that secret was it was also very vague and since Whit didn't know how much about David it doesn't really mean much on how deep the secrets were.

Considering Whit's personality as well, it was possible he was in denial or some deeper reason as to why he wasn't thinking about it. "Bitter things need to go down the drain" and all that.

In fact Whit was one of the first ones to say they shouldn't reveal their secret before J's secret was immediatly revealed.

I also don't think Whit being in denial has to be rooted in logic either (especially with how inconcistent he seems to be about the secrets), the murder was commited right before the deadline and although there was planning behind it, it was still a last minute decision (aka not done immediatly during the day of the motive reveal). You could argue pressure got to him or he overthought it as it became increasingly clear how much deeper the secrets went and how much the people who set this game up knew about them (something Whit investigated himself).

I think the way Whit acted about the secrets is too contradictory to really use any of what he says as actual evidence against the secrets not being his motive basically.

Now, let's go into the other point and how it works with the potential motive, the speculation that Arei was waterboarded.

Yeah, this seems to hint heavily that this is what happened and Arei's actual cause of death would be by drowning instead of strangulation like expected.

But why not strangulation ?? Why do a technique that is much harder to kill Arei, unless they were trying to get something out of drowning her. I mean we don't technically know if it was actual waterboarding but considering how planned this murder was and how we do actually have pieces of clothing that would serve for waterboarding, it seems to be likely.

(I'm not exactly sure how it stuck together with the starch afterwards but considering how the playground's ventilation works it's possible it dried up quickly) (There's also Arei's missing glove if you don't believe Teruko and Hu's clothing where used for it)

There's also no reason to drown her instead of strangling her with the rope unless there was another justification for it. But the episode actively goes out of it's way to say that there probably wasn't an attempt at tricking people into thinking the murder happened during 7:30 PM.

Anyways, why would the culprit waterboard Arei then ??? Clearly this means they were trying to get information out of her...

Which makes 0 sense unless it was Whit who would at least have a small justification for it, aka him not knowing what his secret is. I do admit it is a bit blurry on what type of information Whit would've truly wanted or why he did this before just killing her. However out of anyone (that already isn't pretty much confirmed innocent) it would only make sense for it to be him.

Now onto other stuff unrelated to the secret thing, like how unhelpful Whit has been this trial to a suspicious degree. AKA :

-Trying to distract away from the letter framing Eden and then just throwing her under the bus immediatly when he's questioned about it.

-Refusing to reveal David's secret

-Coincidentally having an excuse for not seeing Arei's body swaying

Now all of these could be argued to be in character reasons, after all didn't he do something like that chapter 1 with Charles (kind of). However this is a new level of trial interferance that really isn't justifiable at a certain point.

You could argue "well wouldn't talking about the note and David's secret be useful to make them seem guilty"' and while that'd be right to an extent. However everytime Whit witholds something like with Eden and David, he seems to cave eventually so the only thing he has achieved in this trial so far is to stall for time. Which could potentially be intentional if he's the culprit.

Now that I've kinda covered the major points, here are a list of suspicious things, mostly things that Whit knew before I get to my final point (how this would fit the narrative this chapter).

(I do wanna say most of this things isn't technically necessary info that the culprit needed to know but it definitely helps).

Whit was present during Teruko and Hu changing, meaning he would have known about their old clothes and could have found out where to get them.

Whit was present during the fight in the cafeteria, which is when Arei demanded to have her rope thrown away leading to Mono-TV putting it in storage

(Eden was busy helping J and Arturo so only Teruko, Charles and Whit could've known this information by listening in)

Whit also is the reason David is in the relaxation room leading to his conversation with Arei although idk how much of that would even possibly be planned or how that would help him, still important to note though.

There is probably more I could say however I want to get to my last point, I do think Whit being the culprit fits this case more than anyone else.

I know the question of the tape is still unanswered, if Eden did take it wouldn't that mean she is the culprit ? Well I don't think so but overall I just don't think this one singular piece of evidence is enough to say Eden's the culprit especially if we look at the bigger picture.

I'm probably just repeating the same things people probably have heard already but Eden committing such a gruesome murder for pratically no motive at all (outside getting out but it would make the secret motive useless) just doesn't really make sense.

However it is true that from what the title of this chapter suggests "all that glitters (is not gold)", it would mean a character isn't as innocent/good as they seem.

But wouldn't that title make more sense with Whit ?

Eden and Whit both are seemingly the positive vibes character of the cast, both being seemingly "normal". However Whit's positivity is a lot more toxic than Eden's, cracking jokes at innapropriate time and seeming to not let himself show even negative emotions (contrary to Eden who has let herself be upset multiple times).

Narratively speaking, Whit being the culprit, would put Charles in a similar situation to Teruko perhaps deepening their bond further without having Teruko going through a regression arc (she was way closer to Eden than she was with Whit).

It would allow Eden's message to not be lost/contradicted while also going with the apparent theme of the chapter that things aren't as they seem.

And also "all that glitters is not gold" would be a very smart saying for Whit, the one who died his hair blond (would be a very fun double meaning)

[yourlocalderp]

with all the mm! ace and whit stuff going on i decided to draw this while half conscious and no cohesive plot

also designs belong to @acethehorseishere and @talkativeanonymous respectfully go look at their art and join us in the brainrot

too many ass shots good for fanservice but bad rating wise

imagine if all the masterminds had that monokuma mindset from the dr1 anime like you can excuse killing people off but not slutty slut slut stuff

oh yeah bonus doodle

they're so silly

[red-winter-is-coming]

So last night I made a post (while half asleep in my bed) about a crack AU where instead of one Mastermind in DRDT, there's eight. I haven't finalized some details yet, but it's got the basics.

@smol-creecher then adding on a wonderful idea, making me solidly choose Nico as the Survivor of Ace's KG. This then devolved into the idea that Nico's memory wipe failed, so now there's just a quiet enby who knows that at the very least, Ace is a Mastermind. Ace, upon realizing this, promptly starts targeting Nico. None of the other masterminds or survivors are aware of this btw (until Nico attempts to murder Ace).

and so, that brings us to this post! Where I'll be going over different hypothetical interactions in the AU :D

Nico centric interaction ideas:

Nico, upon seeing Ace in the TV Room right after waking up: oh. fuck this guy Ace, upon seeing Nico's death glare across the room: oh shit, this guy

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Nico: *almost having a panic attack at the idea that the Mastermind has their secret* Ace: I am going to use this so they don't say anything.* almost dies for real this time because of this*

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Nico, in their room, after Ace's execution: Okay, okay. I'm fine now. One less mastermind left in the game. Ace, on the TV: I lived bitch Nico: Oh fuck off.

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David, talking out loud in his room: Of fucking course it was the one from Ace's game that didn't get their memories wiped.

Nico, walking by: *Fear*

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Whit: Yo- Nico: *jumps* Whit: Seriously? out of all the Masterminds I'm one of the better ones. Nico: There's more then Ace and David?????

Misc. interaction ideas:

David: *trying to get Teruko to distrust others so she doesn't win again* Eden, Min, Rose, Whit (& by accident, Charles): *spite David by befriending Teruko*

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Ace: Holy shit Min just got executed, are they going to do that to all of us? Min: Excuse me, I'm right here. Ace: GHOSTS ARE REAL?? (Ghosts are not real, Min was pulled out at the last second by MonoTV)

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Everyone debating on if MonoTV is a cat or a dog. Ace and Whit are convinced it's a dog, while most of the others are sure it's a cat.

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Eden, after someone found out about the whole 'eight masterminds' deal: I swear it's not that we all have a grudge! We're being forced to do this! David: Speak for yourself. J:... all of us aside from the depressed twink are being forced to do this. (David is not doing this out of free will but like hell is he letting someone know that)

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Charles: You know, you're going to blow our cover at this rate Whit: Of course I won't :D (he is)

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David: Of course Xander has no flaws, how could he? Whit: He literally used Charles as a way to get away with murder. David: That doesn't count Min: *holding back Whit with a struggle as Ace cheers for David to get jumped*

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David: Please can we release Xander? I know he won Eden's game, but he doesn't deserve this :(

J: Dude Min just killed him after he tried to kill Teruko

David:

David: She Fucking What

[fanganfessions]

I love how everyone just collectively agreed on mm!whace

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[thatseitagremlin]

i'm going to put this white boy through a torture gauntlet consisting of the most painful mario party ds minigames

[talkativeanonymous]

Doodles of my loser + info