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aks3raao1 · 3 years

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Uhhh, well first there was this torture game involving my family (everyone died in front of my eyes by different methods(Mom: Hand mangled, infected and blood loss; Grandpa: Pecked by a bird, crushed by an aeroplane, Rest killed off screen by drowning in a flooded chamber)) and then I went to Egypt to look for a cure with Shuichi Saihara and Korekiyo and Shuichi was telling me a story about how two rivals became two rivals (which was exactly what had happened in the beginning of the dream where Nagito talked about his love™ for Hajime except he introduced a fan of the spy character (me) and made the spy character a male) which caused me to become wary of him. Then we all reached the Pyramids where there were people cosplaying the gods from the Egyptian Pantheon and Korekiyo began monologuing on The Book Of The Dead (which talked about resurrection due to dream logic apparently). And Shuichi and I became extremely involved in that resurrection drama. Shuichi was also trying to unlock the mystery behind Korekiyo and he is a serial killer who kills girls to send as "friends" to his deceased sister. However there are multiple theories behind what actually happened which Shuichi talks about later on) while I was more interested in the resurrection and the ways to do so.

And then there was an abrupt scene change to my school which had opened after the quarantine (and I was weirdly relieved because I had successfully done something but after the teacher thing, it became apparent that the success wasn't about school) and my mom was somehow alive again but I was shown to be staring at her hands and remembering what had happened (I had memories of the last two incidents) while she was just being normal and called a teacher to ask about me while I shrunk away (#just student things) and our school resembled a church in the middle of a garden type thing. There were white chairs laid out and I remember thinking that they looked like gravestones and shivered and then told mom that I was going inside because I didn't want to think about *that* now.

Our school looked....weird to say the least. They had renovated it so everything felt wrong because the colours were darker and earthy instead of the light ones I was used to and the stairs were all arranged differently as well. I grabbed a friend and we both went to find our class. Instead of two sections, we had four sections now and were very confused where to sit because we hadn't been informed of it prior to this. We sat down in a random section and I began doing my English work (which I had actually been doing when I fell asleep irl) but the time came and went and no one entered the class (Class eight for some reason), so we realised that we had made a mistake and we remembered that we were in ninth and I was like, "Oh fuck, the time is nearer than I thought" and we ran to our actual class where our classmates were. She went and started talking to another friend and I was left alone to find a seat. I saw Makoto Naegi (Protagonist of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc) who looked extremely nervous for some reason and said in narration,

"All the protagonists have been sent back in time to steer their respective classes away from the Killing Games and prevent the apocalypse before it starts. Will they be able to do it?"

Then the POV went over to Shuichi who had extremely distorted memories from the Killing Game was playing Detective on himself to figure out what they meant. He remembered that he desperately needed to figure out what was going on with Korekiyo, that Tsumugi was important and that Kokichi was dangerous but the other memories were too disjointed for him to figure out.

He tries to get Kokichi who's trying to. Uh, nail Tsumugi to the bulletin board with actual nails and hammers. Shuichi's horrified and believes that Kokichi is the one responsible for his Killing Game due to this kind of malicious attitude (and also because Tsumugi is a damned good actor at playing the victim + she might not be actually planning the Killing Game then) and he tries to actually restrain Kokichi who sees Shuichi and flees while Tsumugi falls to the ground crying. Shuichi runs over to comfort her and thinks of how Kokichi while pranking others never felt malicious at all but now he realises that he could have made a mistake. However it's also implied that he wants to get information about why Kokichi behaved the way he did since he obviously knows more than he lets on.

POV shifts over to Kokichi for a brief moment to show that he's the one with all memories intact but he cannot divulge them for game balance.

Then we see Shuichi who has remembered Korekiyo's case and is devising two theories on it:

a) Korekiyo is a loony delusional serial killer who loves to kill girls and is just using his own sister as an excuse (who he has killed himself too)

b) His sister was a dangerous psychopath (visualised by her turning into a snake and wrapping herself around his body in a sexual manner while he's in pain™) and that she emotionally manipulated him to do this and her ghost didn't abandon him even when he died.

As he's ruminating on this, the POV shifts to Hajime who's talking to Nagito and Chiaki and has a brief flashback to his time as Izuru Kamakura.

Now this is a divergence from actual canon in terms of backstories as we see Hawks grab Izuru and tell him that he will make him feel (in a fatherly found family way) something. A time period elapses where there is a part where Hawks takes Izuru to a fair and is talking about how great chicken nuggets and other chicken dishes are while Izuru emoily licks an ice-cream.

At the end of the time period, Izuru claims that he still can't feel anything and Hawks goes, "Well....I failed then" and flies him to a rooftop. Izuru is confused slightly when Hawks bends over him (no, not sexually, enough sex is enough) and then blood splatters onto Izuru's face and he realises that Hawks is bleeding from a fatal wound and that he had done that to save Izuru from being attacked. Hawks falls down, heavily injured as Izuru sits up and sees Tanizaki who's somehow an assassin here and is flying as well somehow. Izuru asks Hawks why he did this since Izuru could have saved himself too and then Hawks goes, "Because I am a hero", not really expecting Izuru to react much. (Note that chronologically, an apocalypse is going on now and Tanizaki has probably fallen into Despair and Hawks is tryna save the world or whatever). However Izuru does react and starts crying because this is the first time anyone saw him as a person who needs to be saved too.

It's implied that Hawks died here in actual memory but then Hajime pushes forth and invents a part where Hawks actually doesn't die there and instead gets up and fights Tanizaki.

Now Hawks's death was the reason Izuru wanted to save the world (mine was my family, Shuichi's was basically everyone but mostly Korekiyo, Makoto's was everyone), but since Hajime wanted to save everyone, he wanted to save Hawks as well.

However if he saved Hawks, then his reason to save others would vanish in that instant, causing a paradox and things to be reset.

Then I woke up with the message that, "Our traumas along with our happy times influence who we are now".

.............you be waking up to life lessons daily mah dude * finishes popcorn and claps* talk abt inspiring. Other than that, do you need a hug?

#danganronpa #mha #danganronpa x mha #dream #danganronpa dream #bnha #crossover #Hawks #shuichi saihara #kokichi ouma #drv3 korekiyo #izuru kamukura #our traumas along with our happy times influence who we are now

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melancholyoftruth · 6 years

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So I was thinking about Kaede would have been like as the protagonist. (Her relationships and the way she develops in the story)

And I’ll say it now I actually really love Shuichi. He might be my favorite protagonist (him or Hajime). So yeah!

Warning: Spoilers!

Character:

What I liked about Kaede in the beginning of the game was that she was different from other protagonists. She was more confident, assertive, and stubborn. I noticed all the protagonists have issues with self esteem like Hajime with his lack of talent. Shuichi doubts his detective skills and fears facing the truth, and Komaru believing she’s just a regular normal girl who can’t do anything. Naegi didn’t think much of himself and his talent, thinking he was just a regular guy. They all overcome their insecurities through the story and become more confident by the end of it.

I don’t mind that type of character development but considering it was done three times before I was slightly disappointed after thinking about it a little bit.

Now where i’m going here is that Kaede wouldn’t have that type of development considering she’s more confident in herself.

I was thinking her optimism and trust in others could change as the story goes on. She starts off trying to be the leader but as more murders occur she starts having less faith in others, but be more realistic. (paralleling to her old self before the game and how she said she doesn’t have faith in humanity).

Not to say it’s a bad thing as long as you don’t drown yourself into paranoia, but I could see Kaede’s ideals of teamwork and friendship falling apart a bit in her mind as the game goes on and not be exactly the same by the end.

She would have thoughts on defeating the mastermind through the entire game. In chapter six, I can imagine her be like Keebo in a way and try to defeat the mastermind but not see the real mastermind, the world. It’s not until Shuichi or the other suriviors get her to realize they can’t follow the hope vs despair thing.

When it comes to her reaction to the fact her life is literally a lie, I would think she would show more anger and disbelief than Shuichi. She might breakdown even more considering she was trying so hard to lead everyone and solve all this for them but to find out everything she knows is a lie she might break down like Shuichi did.

In the end I think she would rise up and remember the memories made in the game to help her live her new life. Kaede’s development would how her becomes more jaded in a way in the game but in the end because of her new friends she can live life facing forward. So happy ending yay!

Relationships: (this is more toward main story relevant characters like Shuichi, Maki, Kaito, and Ouma) (some relationships may have more detail than others because these are ideas that just popped into my head)

Shuichi: I personally believe if Kaede lived longer Shuichi would have a little romance sideplot like Maki and Kaito so this is going a more romantic route. So this is hypothetically if Kaede didn’t try to murder the mastermind or if was no time limit on the first murder. I think Kaede would try to encourage Shuichi to be more confident and he slowly does thanks to her. It would sorta be like Kirigiri’s and Naegi with how they would work together to solve the mysteries. (In the end the relationships are different because they’re different people). Shuichi would notice how Kaede would get more jaded as the game went on as try to cheer her up and be by her side as her trusted partner. Basically they would try to support each other. If Shuichi were to die I think it could in Chapter 5 (because shit goes down in chapter 5). If he murders I can picture it be like Chiaki’s case where Ouma could try to save everyone with a different plan but it got foiled by the mastermind, they would manipulate it to cause Ouma and Shuichi to die (Shuichi murdering Ouma accidentally). Shuichi would tell her to lead everyone to the truth and thank her for encouraging the whole game,) giving her his hat, and Shuichi was about to tell her more but Monokuma would then execute him. If Shuichi is a surivor he would probably clash with Kaede in Chapter 6 about how to go about the reality. She would try to lead everyone to “hope” to defeat the mastermind but Shuichi would try to tell her that this is what the audience wants. They would basically argue about what to do exactly. In the end I think they would show a lot of support for each other and it would imply they would like each other. Personally I think their relationship had a lot of potential and it was really disappointing and I would love to see where it could have gone (romantic and friendship wise).

Maki: I honestly believe Kaede and Maki wouldn’t get along right away. Kaede would probably be more stubborn to get into her lab and she would be a bit suspicious of her for trying to hide her lab. While Maki would find Kaede annoying for getting into her business. When Maki’s secret get out, I think Kaede would be more cautious than Shuichi was. But it’s not until Kaito get him, Shuichi, Maki, and Kaede together to get Maki to open up she’ll see Maki in a new light. Since Maki would try to open herself to other people, she would try to make amends with Kaede and try to befriend her. I think this relationship would have been cute, like imagine them talking about their little crushes on Kaito and Shuichi. I remember when official art of Kaede and Maki was first out and I was excited to see what the relationship was going to be like but oh well.

Kaito: I find this relationship interesting with how he actually did interact with her before Kaede died. He would try to go to her first about Maki and try get Kaede to see she’s a good person despite her outer appearance. Since Him and Kaede were the most positive ones in the group so I can picture him fully supporting her and both of them try to encourage Maki and Shuichi. I feel like they would have that type of dynamic where they would tease each other a bit but they’re good friends.

Ouma: So my first thoughts go back to Ouma’s last words to Kaede. “Well, Kaede, you definitely weren’t boring.” To be honest, I think that’s high praise from him. In the game, everyone was just leaving Ouma alone and letting him do as he pleases until Chapter 5. I think because of Kaede’s ideas of working together she would actually try to understand Ouma from the get-go. He would think she’s interesting for trying to understand him but be cryptic with her. In a more lighthearted note, I think he would mess with her quite a bit because Kaede would have those type of reactions that would be entertaining to watch, like her trying to stand her ground. He could embarrass her about Shuichi and I always thought it be be funny if he would lowkey flirt with her and Shuichi to mess with them. In one fanfic I read, Kaede kabe-doned him to catch him but he motorboated her to get her to let go and I was laughing so hard at that.

So yeah these are all my random thoughts on Kaede being protagonist. Kaede has so much potential as a character, and it’s a shame it went to waste like this in my opinion. I think her personality could have added a lot to the dynamic between the characters. I could write a “Kaede lives” fanfic but I honestly don’t trust myself writing the trials and the investigations without messing it up. But thanks for reading if you made it this far. Sorry all of this was messy but I really needed to express my thoughts. Feel free to tell me your ideas or opinions.

#kaede akamatsu #shuichi saihara #maki harukawa #kaito momota #ouma kokichi #saimatsu #danganronpa #ndrv3 #spoilers #new danganronpa v3 #headcanons

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sanctferum · 7 years

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Dangan Ronpa V3 Chapter 3 class trial START!

Last time, we avoided Kokichi becoming the third victim, and went under the floor and found a sickle, and etc.

Kaito laments that he won’t be of much help, since Monokuma disrupted his investigations. He did? That’s not that I remember you pausing your investigation for. Also, betcha someone, probably Maki, says “we weren’t expecting anything from you anyways.”

I was wrong. No one said the obvious joke.

A bit of back and forth later, Himiko speaks for the first time since she found Tenko’s body. A simple question: Who? The two people closest to her…both were killed. WHO?

Tsumugi says that maybe only one of the blackened is here at the trial grounds. The transfer student. Tsumigi is shaking. Kaito is freaking out. Time to prove Tsumugi wrong!

The Necronomicon is intact, so Angie can’t have completed the ritual, which requires burning the book.

Kaito is relieved. Well, no matter. The ritual wouldn’t have worked in the first place.

But Monokuma interrupts to say that it would have actually worked. And he never lies about motives…Monodam’s the one who gave out the motive, not Monokuma.

Maki thinks Monokuma is just trying to confuse us…I just noticed, Angie’s portrait at her courtroom podium isn’t crossed out, but instead has a halo and a pair of wings.

Miu declares that Kiyo killed Angie. Tenko’s blackened is still up in the air, but Kiyo was the one with the katana, right? But…how would he have gotten in? The door was locked, and Angie wouldn’t have let him in. So, is the blackened on the student council, then?

Kokichi claims to believe in Angie and Himiko’s friendship, which places Himiko beyond doubt. He even used the usual protagonist buzzwords regarding such stuff…if obviously insincerely.

Kokichi is pushing a theory that the culprit is Keebo, Gonta, or Tsumugi. I don’t feel comfortable dropping Himiko from the suspect list just yet, though.

Mass panic time, starring Gonta, Keebo, and Tsumugi! Tsumugi keeps defending herself and Gonta and forgetting to defend Keebo from the accusations as well. Keebo is none too pleased.

Are they the only ones who could have gotten in? Well, the only non-Council member who could have gotten in was Kokichi, with his lock-picking skills.

Kokichi confessed. To Angie’s murder, at least. There’s no way that’s actually true, so what is his game?

Everyone is confused, but Shuichi knows Kokichi’s ways by now. Kokichi couldn’t be the culprit. How would he have closed the door and locked it after leaving the lab?

Kokichi picked the lock…but we already know that’s not how the door was really locked. First of all, the front door was locked before the back door, which means locking the back door would’ve happened right when the blackened was leaving the crime scene. And when they locked the door, they used a certain tool.

Mind Mine! It’s the katana, duh. Hey, there’s a hidden Monokuma hidden on one side…nice, that’s all of them for this chapter.

The katana was used to hit the lock knob after the culprit left. I’m guessing the Kaede effigy was strung up so that it would fall down under its own weight. That would send it swinging across the room, hitting the lock, then rocking back and forth until it stopped, way before we ever found Angie’s body.

And our proof is the gold leaf. Monokuma finds that evidence familiar. It rings a bell, a school bell to be specific. Monophanie asks if he’s talking about a different school. Which school was Monokuma at before the Ultimate Academy? (Hint: it’s Hope’s Peak.)

The effigies were hung up all together as a diversion, just like Miu said at the beginning of the investigation. If only Kaede’s effigy had been hung up, or any of the other three, it would have been obvious what had happened…so the blackened hung all four up, despite only needing one. Kaede’s effigy…or more accurately, the effigy closest to the back door!

How did they calculate that the effigy really would fall down and swing into exactly the right place and then eventually be still? Kaito could’ve calculated that, or Miu, but I dunno.

Psyche Taxi. Fuck.

The first two questions were easy, but...the way the katana was used wasn’t swinging, so that messed me up. It was spinning.

The culprit might’ve had to try a few times, but the crime was committed at night. No one would have been around to see if they messed up and had to reenter the lab.

So the murder weapon was used to lock the door.

Kokichi was just fucking with us, but that doesn’t mean he couldn’t actually be the culprit.

Just as I thought. Kokichi wasn’t just trolling us…he wanted to hear if anyone would say anything suspicious while the pressure was off of them. But in the end, no one here believed Kokichi, so if the culprit had wanted to pin the blame on Kokichi, they would have been forced to either look suspicious or remain silent.

Miu is fired up! Kokichi…is playing along with her innuendos with some of his own.

Who set up the locked room mystery…without already knowing who the blackened is, we can’t answer this, so it’s a pointless question.

…Kokichi, did you just actually say that? What the fuck man. I know Miu likes to brag about her supposed sexual exploits, but what the fuck was that.

…Miu gets an ahegao face from being called a cum dumpster. Yeah, she’s a masochist all right. God fucking fuck.

Moving on. MOVING ON. Who could have gotten into Angie’s lab in the first place? It had to be one of six people: the rest of the Student Counsel, or Kokichi.

You guys keep leaving out Himiko. Kokichi…what were you up to when you shifted suspicion off of her…? Tenko’s also a possible culprit.

Kokichi stop being a little shitter.

Maki has a point. Kokichi has been leading the debate so far. He’s a potential suspect, isn’t he?

Suspect Rangers?

What should the Student Coincil survivors say to prove they aren’t suspects?

We’re going back and forth...and then Himiko brings up another thing. Tenko. We can’t say that the blackened who killed Angie wasn’t the one who killed Tenko, right?

Kokichi seems to have been waiting for Himiko to bring up Tenko. He calls her case meaningless until Angie’s case is solved.

For maybe the second or third time in the game, Himiko is showing emotion. And it’s anger. How dare he. How dare Kokichi call Tenko’s death meaningless…

Kokichi counters by claiming Himiko is lying. Up until now, Himiko seemed to regard Tenko as a pain, like many other things. Why is this display of emotion coming after Tenko is dead?

Himiko claims that what Kokichi said was true…and that’s why she’s so upset. Before, she ignored Tenko, and now…it’s too late. Too late for anything involving her. She’d wanted to thank Tenko…

As she starts to collapse under the weight of her own grief and guilt, Kaito steps up to the plate. Himiko cannot turn away from Tenko’s death…she has to face it, head-on! Only then will the truth be revealed!

And…if we never find out who killed Tenko, we’ll never be able to trust each other again. So we have to do it. So that we can survive.

God, I love Kaito and his hot-blooded inspiration speeches. He may be an idiot, but unlike Hiro in DR1, he’s actually useful sometimes.

Time to figure out whether both cases had the same culprit.

Did Kiyo change the topic on purpose? Or Kokichi, or Maki? Is someone playing us, even now?

Shuichi, Kiyo, Himiko, and Kokichi…but I’m certain none of them killed Tenko.

Kiyo suggested the whole séance idea, but he wanted to do it even before anyone died. And he’d mentioned the ritual to other people before everything went to shit, so.

Himiko selected the center room for the séance. I thought it was Kokichi? Maybe I’m misremembering. No, she was the one who suggested that.

And of course, the people not at the séance could have entered the room from beneath the floorboards, in the dark.

And if that’s true…Kiyo has a guess as to who killed Tenko. Keebo. Who could have moved in the dark? But we know that isn’t true. Keebo’s light would have been seen.

They marked Tenko with glowing paint? What does this look like, DR2 Case 1?

Monokuma says that sounds familiar as well. I cannot tell if he’s breaking the 4th wall, or if this game does have some kind of connection to the previous Dangan Ronpa games…

Tenko woulda noticed if the culprit had snuck in through the floorboard. Was it used as a means of escape, then?

When was Tenko killed? Whether it was before or after the thunking noise would be useful information.

We can’t figure out how Tenko was killed in the darkness, so Miu suggests that Tenko was killed some other time. Gonta suggests it was at the moment the cage was lifted…but the white sheet was removed before the cage was lifted, and at that time it already had been splattered with blood.

Miu refuses to back down, though, but no matter. Her argument rests on Tenko’s position being a sitting one. She wasn’t there, but we know better than that.

Kokichi humiliates Miu some more. Roasted!

So. Right now we’re having trouble figuring out how she was killed through the cage. The cloth over the cage would have had a hole where the weapon went through. Maybe the murder weapon is wrong, or…

Kokichi says it’s impossible for a living person to have killed Tenko during that time. The implications are that a dead person did it. Who? Angie? The transfer student? Don’t be ridiculous.

Angie’s spirit killing Tenko? Ridiculous. But Himiko seems to be taking Kokichi seriously. Kokichi proposes that Tenko killed Angie, and this was Angie’s revenge.

Kaito has an interesting idea. The blackened was hiding inside the cage during the séance. Maki thinks so as well. As for why the culprit wasn’t seen…maybe they didn’t need to hide in the first place. Huh?

The culprit could’ve killed her at any time during the séance.

Select a person? I, I don’t have enough clues. Also we’re not even halfway through the trial.

Uh…who would have been in the cage with Tenko? The only person in the cage was Tenko.

Then…is Maki calling it a suicide?

She volunteered to the person trapped in the cage. The sickle was under the floor…the floorboard was removed…she could have used her final moments to drop the sickle through the floorboard. But there’s something missing here. Himiko and me both know what that is: a motive. Why would Tenko try to get everyone killed?

Even if Tenko turned out to be the person who killed Angie, why would she kill herself, and try to kill everyone else?

I don’t think Tenko would kill herself to kill everyone else…certainly not Himiko, despite Kokichi’s theory. And besides…she wanted to live. She told Himiko that the two of them and everyone else would survive and get out together. She said this as one of her final sentences before she was killed…

Maki hid that she was a killer, but Tenko…she was very open. There’s no way she could’ve lied like that.

Kaito is calling Kokichi naïve. Oh how the tables have turned.

Keeping secrets is fine, Kaito says. If you have something you don’t want to share, it’s fine. The thing that matters is whether there’s malice hidden in those secrets.

Kaitoi believes in himself. He believes in Maki. He believes in us.

Kokichi can’t bring himself to trust other people.

Himiko knows believing in Tenko won’t bring her back. But even then, she wants to believe in Tenko. There’s no way Tenko would kill herself, OR others!

We need to defend Tenko’s honor with some reason why she wouldn’t or couldn’t have done it. And it just so happens that while I got nothing, Shuichi has an idea. Some other bit of Tenko’s final words…”I’ll see you all after the séance”. She thought she would be alive on the other side.

Let’s get going. If they think Tenko threw the sickle under the floor, we’ll lie. We’ll tell them she died instantly. Maki knows that Shuichi is lying, which is why Shuichi asked her to trust in him beforehand.

Maki comes through and backs up our lie. Which means we’re back to someone else killing Tenko during the séance…

Something peculiar during the séance? Why yes, there was a strange sound…something fell down from somewhere. It was something to do with the floorboard. An intense impact that loosened the floorboard, huh?

After a bunch of thinking, I decide that the floorboard must have come loose because of the missing crosspiece.

Hmmm. There’s a diagram…were they trying to tip the balance of the floorboard? What would that accomplish? Unless part of the iron cage had a sharp protrusion. Or…maybe it was to get Tenko’s neck in range of the sickle. Either way, it had to have involved a seesaw effect.

So someone stomped on the floorboard, and Tenko found herself being lifted into the air. Then what? The sickle was taped to the top of the cage?

Apparently so. The God Dog statue kept the blade in place, too. Hmmm. Things don’t look good for Kiyo, then.

Before anyone can accuse Kiyo of anything, Kiyo takes the initiative. In his eyes, Himiko was the one who killed Tenko. The only one who could have. As the one who suggested that the séance be held in the center room…as the one who first lifted the cage, a perfect opportunity to retrieve the weapon and drop it below the floor…Himiko could’ve snuck into Kiyo’s lab and read about the séance beforehand, too! But like the suicide theory, we still lack a motive.

Himiko, say something in your defense.

Himiko is reacting strangely. Very strangely. As if she’s just finding out that she killed Tenko. But if she prepared the crime beforehand, that shouldn’t be the case.

Halfway through the case now! We’ll finish this later.

#Dangan Ronpa #Dangan Ronpa V3 #Danganronpa V3

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