Noice noice! ^..^ they have been entertaining as additional media, and been inspiring me to really research what DR actually is about.
Danganronpa Showa: Welcome to the Occupation
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Noice noice! ^..^ they have been entertaining as additional media, and been inspiring me to really research what DR actually is about.
Prologue Part 4: Miko, Miracle-worker, and Captain intros
- Location
- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Aoko
[X] Jeanne
[x] Dejan
Birdcoin! x1
I thought a tank suddenly barging out of a school, despite me not being a stranger to military vehicles, would be the most improbable thing I'd see that day. That may've been so, but that we were suddenly interrupted by a thunderous drumming sound, heavy chanting, and the thick smell of incense, didn't help in making me feel any less settled.
"You would say they're loud enough to wake the dead, but believe me, I've tried," Aoko said as she merely chuckled at this out-of-nowhere burst of noise. I, um, wasn't about to ask for an elaboration.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0CsmdB2jso
Just inside the main hall of Hope's Peak's North building, the building where classes were usually held whereas the South Building was more recreational, the whole floor was doused in circles of some sort of water that fizzled to the touch. Ofuda tags were plastered all over, as if this building was haunted or something, and even a crucifix had been hung up.
I soon saw the two people responsible; one was a shrine maiden who was still furiously beating her taiko drum. Her long hair, which I noted since most girls wore theirs shoulder-length, was black with a purple tinge and sported a crimson bow, and she wore a white school jacket above a red skirt and pantyhose, the same colour scheme as the traditional kosode and hakama. Most alarming was the giant nodachi sword sheathed on her back, which true I did sometimes see offered at shrines. No worse than the tank I figured.
The other was a man with flowing blond hair tinged black and a serious expression. His black robes were shrouded by a blue overcoat with gold trim, there was a mark in the shape of a cross over his eye, scars on his palms, and woven multicolour diamond-shape hanging around his neck. Hold on, was this that Ultimate Miracle-Worker Momoka had talked about on the radio?
"Hiyah, begone evil spirits!" the miko immediately said when she saw us, doing a flip jump over her drums and slowly unsheathing her sword, eyes glaring.
"Spirits? Wait no, we're just like you, w-we're the other students here!" I tried to say as quickly as I could, only for Aoko to slide in just to mess with things.
"Yes, we are but spirits from beyond the grave," she smirked, but then she asked the Miko, "However, why do you automatically assume we're evil spirits? One can't exactly help dying, and really what's the difference between ghost and human but tangibility?".
At this remark though, the miko scowled, folded her arms, and went, "Grr, don't think I can't tell when you're makin' fun of me!".
But a second, the miko's anger faded and was replaced by a beaming grin, "Anyways, I'm Amano-
[ ] Tomoe
[ ] Kagura
[ ] Miya
[ ] Write-in
Head Maiden all the way over at the Izumo Grand Shrine, which of course makes me Ultimate Miko!" she so smugly beamed.
Huh, it turned out Aoko's approach was more successful than mine, though I'm no Ultimate Reverse Psychologist.
"Even if we were a buncha spooks though, I doubt we'd be scared off by some crazy dame's artless drumming," I heard Genpachi mutter, "Seriously, no syncopation? this is the exact sorta crap music's been movin' away from".
"Hey, I heard that!" Amano then shot out again. Great, I didn't need Genpachi sabotaging this situation again.
The more reasonable, and with actual interviewing experience, Momoka then stepped in to address the holy man. "Why hello, you would be Omura-
[ ] Justo
[ ] Isukiri
[ ] Simeon
[ ] Write-in
the Ultimate Miracle-worker am I correct? I was handed a picture of you on my NHK radio program and knew you'd be at Hope's Peak, and the resemblance is uncanny" she said.
"Radio?!" Omura stared coldly at her. "Feh, do not tempt me, serpent, I know exactly what kinds of lurid programs and accursed anthems you place 'on the air'. Be off with you, soundwave Jezebel, may His divine light shield me from the music of Naamah!".
"Heh, I wish," Genpachi just smirked at Omura, "NHK only plays the lamest, tamest crap there is. Now jazz and blues, that's some proper Devil's music right there, actually worth selling your soul by the crossroads for". Birdcoin! x1
Omura just ignored him, in fact I wasn't even sure Omura understood him.
"P-Please, I meant no offence!" Momoka pleaded with the miracle-worker, "I-I said only positive things about you on our show, like how it's said your prayers saved your hometown from destruction, or that the Vatican's considering you as a future Pope or even Saint!".
"T-there's someone that Christian here?" Hildegard muttered for some reason.
"It's okay, just leave this ticnafa be," Jeanne then said, and er, I took it reversing word syllables was apparently a thing in French? "Le Catholic Church has its slithering tendrils in more zan enough places".
"Yeah, don't think I didn't notice the Vatican cosying up ta Mussolini, ya hear me?" Dejan exclaimed.
"Ah, but I had to notice that already you're getting along rather well with our Miko here?" Toranosuke swiftly stepped in to lighten Omura's mood, before Jeanne and Dejan's words could set him off again.
"Why yes, one of faith naturally recognises another, ahem, regardless of which faith," Omura smiled, his expression finally lightening, "And, well, I am not so removed from the material world to not recognise which faith has the most influence in our land".
"Yep, and don't you forget it!" Amano smirked, holding herself up.
"A pox on both your houses I'd say," Fuhito then had to butt in, "After all, what place does religion have in a rigorous investigation? A killer's motive maybe, but that is all. Reason has made a joke of your gods".
Th-these are your classmates, Kirigiri! Can't you get along? was what I wanted to say, but... the thought of anyone snapping back at me made me tremble, as if I was hearing my superiors barking down at me again.
"Yeah, but it makes for good drumming!" Amano then said out of nowhere, before she whipped her sticks back out and then started pounding on top of Fuhito's head. Toranosuke had to promptly step in to resolve things.
We soon split into groups to examine the main Hope's Peak building more thoroughly, and find out just where this Gymnasium was. Momoka, Dejan, and I couldn't help but notice the sight of a strange, metallic door that clashed with the surrounding wooden corridor.
I slowly approached to knock, only to immediately hear a firm, cold voice on the other end. "Who is this?"
"Er, hi there. I-I'm Tsubasa Enoshima, I'm a Pilot attending here. The other students and I w-were just trying to find the Gymnasium" I stepped back and told her.
The door gradually opened, and we were met by a tall girl sporting a blackish-brown ponytail. She wore a coat, black on the outside and blue on the inside, over a white naval jacket marked with a silver anchor emblem, then had on a pleated skirt and black boots with pantyhose.
"Yeah, and I do tank stuff! So like, that means we're practically a trio, right?" Dejan spoke up, but nobody acknowledged him.
"Oh my, you'd be the Ultimate Captain, wouldn't you?" Momoka said, her eyes brightening. "Ah, this'd make for everyone I had on my radio show!" The captain girl didn't acknowledge her either.
Her stone glare however did slowly fade, as she muttered, "Well, none of you seem a threat. Very well, while I'm here you may enter my Lab".
"Wait a minute, lab?" I said, a little off guard.
"Huh, didja barely read up on Hope's Peak before ya came here?" Dejan said, looking at me, "We're Ultimate students, so the school gives us custom-fit Ultimate Research Labs, like I got a whole garage and everything!".
"Oh, right. It's just I was scouted late, that's all, so I didn't get as much time" I told him.
The Lab of the Ultimate Captain actually had a whole bunch of metal doors inside, like most battleships did. I couldn't say for certain, but I vaguely remembered this was to protect against hull breaches. I even saw those little round windows and a steering wheel, no less. Just being in here, I nearly forgot this was even a schoolroom.
"I owe you my name, don't I?" the Captain said to us, before she sighed and said, "Very well, I am Yamato-
[ ] Kairi
[ ] Manami
[ ] Shinju
[ ] Write-in
[X] Jeanne
[x] Dejan
Birdcoin! x1
I thought a tank suddenly barging out of a school, despite me not being a stranger to military vehicles, would be the most improbable thing I'd see that day. That may've been so, but that we were suddenly interrupted by a thunderous drumming sound, heavy chanting, and the thick smell of incense, didn't help in making me feel any less settled.
"You would say they're loud enough to wake the dead, but believe me, I've tried," Aoko said as she merely chuckled at this out-of-nowhere burst of noise. I, um, wasn't about to ask for an elaboration.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0CsmdB2jso
Just inside the main hall of Hope's Peak's North building, the building where classes were usually held whereas the South Building was more recreational, the whole floor was doused in circles of some sort of water that fizzled to the touch. Ofuda tags were plastered all over, as if this building was haunted or something, and even a crucifix had been hung up.
I soon saw the two people responsible; one was a shrine maiden who was still furiously beating her taiko drum. Her long hair, which I noted since most girls wore theirs shoulder-length, was black with a purple tinge and sported a crimson bow, and she wore a white school jacket above a red skirt and pantyhose, the same colour scheme as the traditional kosode and hakama. Most alarming was the giant nodachi sword sheathed on her back, which true I did sometimes see offered at shrines. No worse than the tank I figured.
The other was a man with flowing blond hair tinged black and a serious expression. His black robes were shrouded by a blue overcoat with gold trim, there was a mark in the shape of a cross over his eye, scars on his palms, and woven multicolour diamond-shape hanging around his neck. Hold on, was this that Ultimate Miracle-Worker Momoka had talked about on the radio?
"Hiyah, begone evil spirits!" the miko immediately said when she saw us, doing a flip jump over her drums and slowly unsheathing her sword, eyes glaring.
"Spirits? Wait no, we're just like you, w-we're the other students here!" I tried to say as quickly as I could, only for Aoko to slide in just to mess with things.
"Yes, we are but spirits from beyond the grave," she smirked, but then she asked the Miko, "However, why do you automatically assume we're evil spirits? One can't exactly help dying, and really what's the difference between ghost and human but tangibility?".
At this remark though, the miko scowled, folded her arms, and went, "Grr, don't think I can't tell when you're makin' fun of me!".
But a second, the miko's anger faded and was replaced by a beaming grin, "Anyways, I'm Amano-
[ ] Tomoe
[ ] Kagura
[ ] Miya
[ ] Write-in
Head Maiden all the way over at the Izumo Grand Shrine, which of course makes me Ultimate Miko!" she so smugly beamed.
Huh, it turned out Aoko's approach was more successful than mine, though I'm no Ultimate Reverse Psychologist.
"Even if we were a buncha spooks though, I doubt we'd be scared off by some crazy dame's artless drumming," I heard Genpachi mutter, "Seriously, no syncopation? this is the exact sorta crap music's been movin' away from".
"Hey, I heard that!" Amano then shot out again. Great, I didn't need Genpachi sabotaging this situation again.
The more reasonable, and with actual interviewing experience, Momoka then stepped in to address the holy man. "Why hello, you would be Omura-
[ ] Justo
[ ] Isukiri
[ ] Simeon
[ ] Write-in
the Ultimate Miracle-worker am I correct? I was handed a picture of you on my NHK radio program and knew you'd be at Hope's Peak, and the resemblance is uncanny" she said.
"Radio?!" Omura stared coldly at her. "Feh, do not tempt me, serpent, I know exactly what kinds of lurid programs and accursed anthems you place 'on the air'. Be off with you, soundwave Jezebel, may His divine light shield me from the music of Naamah!".
"Heh, I wish," Genpachi just smirked at Omura, "NHK only plays the lamest, tamest crap there is. Now jazz and blues, that's some proper Devil's music right there, actually worth selling your soul by the crossroads for". Birdcoin! x1
Omura just ignored him, in fact I wasn't even sure Omura understood him.
"P-Please, I meant no offence!" Momoka pleaded with the miracle-worker, "I-I said only positive things about you on our show, like how it's said your prayers saved your hometown from destruction, or that the Vatican's considering you as a future Pope or even Saint!".
"T-there's someone that Christian here?" Hildegard muttered for some reason.
"It's okay, just leave this ticnafa be," Jeanne then said, and er, I took it reversing word syllables was apparently a thing in French? "Le Catholic Church has its slithering tendrils in more zan enough places".
"Yeah, don't think I didn't notice the Vatican cosying up ta Mussolini, ya hear me?" Dejan exclaimed.
"Ah, but I had to notice that already you're getting along rather well with our Miko here?" Toranosuke swiftly stepped in to lighten Omura's mood, before Jeanne and Dejan's words could set him off again.
"Why yes, one of faith naturally recognises another, ahem, regardless of which faith," Omura smiled, his expression finally lightening, "And, well, I am not so removed from the material world to not recognise which faith has the most influence in our land".
"Yep, and don't you forget it!" Amano smirked, holding herself up.
"A pox on both your houses I'd say," Fuhito then had to butt in, "After all, what place does religion have in a rigorous investigation? A killer's motive maybe, but that is all. Reason has made a joke of your gods".
Th-these are your classmates, Kirigiri! Can't you get along? was what I wanted to say, but... the thought of anyone snapping back at me made me tremble, as if I was hearing my superiors barking down at me again.
"Yeah, but it makes for good drumming!" Amano then said out of nowhere, before she whipped her sticks back out and then started pounding on top of Fuhito's head. Toranosuke had to promptly step in to resolve things.
We soon split into groups to examine the main Hope's Peak building more thoroughly, and find out just where this Gymnasium was. Momoka, Dejan, and I couldn't help but notice the sight of a strange, metallic door that clashed with the surrounding wooden corridor.
I slowly approached to knock, only to immediately hear a firm, cold voice on the other end. "Who is this?"
"Er, hi there. I-I'm Tsubasa Enoshima, I'm a Pilot attending here. The other students and I w-were just trying to find the Gymnasium" I stepped back and told her.
The door gradually opened, and we were met by a tall girl sporting a blackish-brown ponytail. She wore a coat, black on the outside and blue on the inside, over a white naval jacket marked with a silver anchor emblem, then had on a pleated skirt and black boots with pantyhose.
"Yeah, and I do tank stuff! So like, that means we're practically a trio, right?" Dejan spoke up, but nobody acknowledged him.
"Oh my, you'd be the Ultimate Captain, wouldn't you?" Momoka said, her eyes brightening. "Ah, this'd make for everyone I had on my radio show!" The captain girl didn't acknowledge her either.
Her stone glare however did slowly fade, as she muttered, "Well, none of you seem a threat. Very well, while I'm here you may enter my Lab".
"Wait a minute, lab?" I said, a little off guard.
"Huh, didja barely read up on Hope's Peak before ya came here?" Dejan said, looking at me, "We're Ultimate students, so the school gives us custom-fit Ultimate Research Labs, like I got a whole garage and everything!".
"Oh, right. It's just I was scouted late, that's all, so I didn't get as much time" I told him.
The Lab of the Ultimate Captain actually had a whole bunch of metal doors inside, like most battleships did. I couldn't say for certain, but I vaguely remembered this was to protect against hull breaches. I even saw those little round windows and a steering wheel, no less. Just being in here, I nearly forgot this was even a schoolroom.
"I owe you my name, don't I?" the Captain said to us, before she sighed and said, "Very well, I am Yamato-
[ ] Kairi
[ ] Manami
[ ] Shinju
[ ] Write-in
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- Pronouns
- He
[X] Kagura
[X] Justo
[X] Kairi
[X] Justo
[X] Kairi
- Location
- St. Petersburg
A subject is missing from the sentence.
[x] Tomoe
[x] Simeon
[x] Manami
Have no idea about these ones. No name in particular stands out to me, except maybe Simeon.
- Location
- Germany
[X] Kagura
[X] Simeon
[X] Manami
[X] Simeon
[X] Manami
- Location
- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The next story post is gonna be the last part of the prologue, I can confirm
Also, I was gonna ask if the lack of face claims is a problem for anyone, like I was told on a Discord server that it did make the Quest harder to read?
The reason I haven't been using them is because I kinda don't want to get too reliant on them in my writing, plus I had more specific appearances in mind for the characters here that I'm not sure one face claim could capture
Also, I was gonna ask if the lack of face claims is a problem for anyone, like I was told on a Discord server that it did make the Quest harder to read?
The reason I haven't been using them is because I kinda don't want to get too reliant on them in my writing, plus I had more specific appearances in mind for the characters here that I'm not sure one face claim could capture
- Location
- St. Petersburg
What is a face claim? A character portrait you borrow from another work?
I admit I can't keep track of everyone's names (except for outliers like Hildegard, Jeanne and Dejan), and their appearances are a blur, but that is a natural consequence of rapidly introducing 10 characters in 3 updates. The more we see them, the less of an issue it'll be.
If it bothers you to put existing pics to original characters, it might be a decent idea to make a post about influences and inspirations. The players will understand they aren't quite them and don't look exactly like that, but we'll still have a frame of reference.
Despair International managed fine without portraits though. Given enough character interactions everyone will gets a headcanon of what the game participants are like. The foreigners already stand out from the rest... though in some cases I wonder if it isn't a bit excessive / on the nose. Looking at you, Ms. Chevalier.
I admit I can't keep track of everyone's names (except for outliers like Hildegard, Jeanne and Dejan), and their appearances are a blur, but that is a natural consequence of rapidly introducing 10 characters in 3 updates. The more we see them, the less of an issue it'll be.
If it bothers you to put existing pics to original characters, it might be a decent idea to make a post about influences and inspirations. The players will understand they aren't quite them and don't look exactly like that, but we'll still have a frame of reference.
Despair International managed fine without portraits though. Given enough character interactions everyone will gets a headcanon of what the game participants are like. The foreigners already stand out from the rest... though in some cases I wonder if it isn't a bit excessive / on the nose. Looking at you, Ms. Chevalier.
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- Location
- Germany
I can't say that the lack of images is bothering me all that much. They can be a convenient shorthand, but they also significantly limit what you can do with character designs, which is especially relevant when it comes to a franchise with designs as colorful as Danganronpa. I don't think that generic anime pictures would fit very much.
Basically any image you use to represent how the character looks, yeah.
- Location
- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
- Pronouns
- She/Her
This may be the best compromise between having portraits but still having some freedom and flexibility for design, yeah.
For example, I had Fuu from Magic Knight Rayearth in mind when thinking about how Hildegard looks (though obviously Fuu doesn't wear a labcoat), looked up a bunch of Miko images for Amano but am mostly settling on something Rei (Sailor Mars) looking, Mori takes from Izanami in Persona 4, while the Captain draws from a bunch of shipgirls but mostly Azur Lane's Takako and KanColle's Yamato
A couple of characters also take from Danganronpa beta designs, like Jeanne takes from beta Mahiru but in a considerably more Dumas/Rose of Versailles-style outfit, Tsubasa has a hairstyle similar to beta Shuichi while his shorts and stockings combo is Houseki no Kuni-inspired, while with Omura I was picturing beta Gundham but with a Holy instead of Dark theme, then I added some bits from anime designs of the samurai Ukon Takayama (like being blond)
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- Location
- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Yeah, like I think this is the only Danganronpa Quest active right now (though Brightflame might be starting another). It seems like Danganronpa, while huge elsewhere online and having its fans here, hasn't really made much of a mark on SV. Like Karnewarrior's Ikusaba Quest would probably be the most successful DR Quest here, and even that was only a moderate success, and the Danganronpa discussion thread fizzled out pretty quickly
Granted, while I appreciate parts of the games, I'm one of those 'Mostly here for the fanworks' types when it comes to Danganronpa
Granted, while I appreciate parts of the games, I'm one of those 'Mostly here for the fanworks' types when it comes to Danganronpa
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[X] Kagura
[X] Simeon
[X] Manami
[X] Simeon
[X] Manami
Vote closed
- Location
- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Birdcoin! x1
Called this vote a little earlier than usual to get the prologue out of the way, and because I could see it wasn't that engaging a vote (funnily enough, 'Justo' was the name I used for Omura in the original preview post)
Given the avatar I'm using as-of-writing, thought I ought to post something from the fan series Brave Danganronpa, being where she (Anko Hibana) is from:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU_C-rOs3DE
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Prologue Part 5: Chimera, Re-enactor, Conlanger, and Columbird intros
- Location
- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[x] Kagura
[x] Simeon
[x] Manami
Having seen the Research Lab of the Ultimate Captain, if I could I would've taken the chance to go around searching for mine, or anyone else's, respective Labs. Unfortunately, we did have that Gym we needed to be getting to.
There being only so much space on the North Building's ground floor, and any way up in here blocked off by the ruins of crumbled stairs, it at least didn't take us much more time to find the Gymnasium at the end of a u-shaped hall. There was a small foyer just before the Gym though, containing what looked like trophies awarded to Hope's Peak's alumni. I could see swords and armour, a rifle, now smudged photographs, framed letters of commemoration, sporting equipment, even strange mechanical devices than ran on everything from clockwork to diesel tech.
Slowly everyone passed through the foyer, including who seemed to be the three remaining students I hadn't met yet... as I definitely would've recognised one girl if I'd seen her before. While she looked mostly human, she had wolf ears poking out of her bright-blue hair, the upper mouth and side-fang of a cat, the tails of a fox, squirrel, seal, and tanuki, the paws of a kangaroo, and the legs of a goat. I was surprised she was still able to put on a standard school uniform through all that.
"~Nyaa!" she smiled as she called out, before she started sniffing me. "Sowwy, but I hafta check to make sure you got nothin' dangerous on ya, mister," she told me, a snake's tongue flickering out of her, "Oh yeah, my name's Kimura-"
[ ] Hitomi
[ ] Kuzunoha
[ ] Etsuko
[ ] Write-in
-Wan wan! They say I'm 'sposed to be the Ultimate Chimera, but like, I thought those were just lion, goat, and snake? Then again, guess I gotta be called somethin' around here," she shrugged then panted.
"Er, okay... I'm Tsubasa Enoshima, charmed I'm sure," I tried to put as naturally as I could.Birdcoin! x1
Ultimate 'Chimera'? Normally by now I would've checked again to make doubly sure I wasn't dreaming, but the thing was, from what little info was leaked on lab experiments throughout the war... yeah, suddenly a hybrid beast-girl didn't seem so implausible.
The next student was at least fully human, well, as far as I could tell anyway. They were wrapped all over in bandages, had an eyepatch, a pointed helmet with deer antlers on it, carried a butterfly-shaped baton with the words for 'fire, forest, wind, mountain' written on it, carried a 'sword' shaped like a lightning-bolt, had on a sky-blue coat brighter than Simeon's or Manami's, and had on grey hakama with three arrows for pins.
They bowed before me, then intoned, "They call me the Ultimate Historical Re-enactor. I am Seki-
[ ] Mitsuyasu
[ ] Ienari
[ ] Toshiro
[ ] Yoritsune
[ ] Write-in
From their name I took it they were male, but I couldn't quite say either way.
"I am whichever gender my role requires," they then said to me, "I... guess thou couldst compare it to Kabuki or Takarazuka".
The last student was neither part-animal nor covered like a mummy, instead he had fogged-over glasses, messy hair beneath a striped top-hat with several pens, quills, and pencils stashed in its band, a tweed suit decorated with runestones and a tie marked with hieroglyphs, mounds of notes stuffed in his pockets, and unusually pointy ears. Any promise left of normalcy ended once he opened his mouth. Birdcoin! x1
"Hello, salut, ciao, nihao, shalom, aloha, privet, namaste, and salve! I am the Wizard of Words, the Lord of Linguistics, the Titan of Translation, and Sultan of Speech! B-But you can just call me Ultimate Conlanger, Iwai-"
[ ] Bungo
[ ] Kanji
[ ] Yakumo
[ ] Write-in
"'Conlanger'? I'm sorry, I don't think I've heard the term before" I told him.
Adjusting his glasses, he said, "As a Conlanger- well personally I prefer Conlanguer but Conlanger is the more accepted term, I create languages. Hard work you are aware, for not only does it require a thorough knowledge of several languages' worth of vocabulary and grammar to master, but also an imagination to make said new tongue more than just the sum of its parts. So naturally, I have already created several, multiple, a cascade of constructed languages, and I haven't even graduated".
Rude as it was to think it of him, but was he always this long-winded?
"Oh my, that's quite something. Actually, sounds like that'd be great for encryption, secret messages and all" I remarked, only to accidentally shatter his pleasant demeanor.
"Typical for an armed forces aviator, can you think of naught else but warfare, combat, conflict?!" he hissed out, but then took a deep breath and said, "My apologies, I did not mean to get off on the wrong foot, it's just... yes, during the war, cryptography and deception was all people wanted my talents for".
I could see what he meant. I sighed out and said, "Yeah, I mean I first got interested in flight as a kid, without a thought of killing anyone".
I had no idea how ironically tragic those words would come to be.
All sixteen of us students entering the gym at last, we were promptly caught off-guard by no less than fireworks being detonated inside. Manami, Dejan, and myself even dropped to the floor, as all I could think about were battlefield explosions.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MJgb-0Ya8
"What lily-livered display is this?! Stand to attention, son, don't you know you're in a Killing Game now, huh?!" came a shouting, heavily accented voice that didn't belong to any of my classmates.
I slowly picked myself up to see... that same animatronic eagle who'd been on the monitor was now descending from the ceiling to the teacher's podium. Perching and ruffling his feathers up, he then barked out (much as an eagle could), "Is this the best you <Japanese> have to offer? Well I've got news for ya, Class 39 of Pope's Beak or whatever, this ain't your grandpappy's Land of the Rising Sun. You're now in the greatest country on Earth, these-" he suddenly stared off into the distance and grew teary-eyed, "United States of America, and by God as my witness, you will act like it else I lay the smacketh down, ya hear?!"
"Ahem, pardon me... sir, but I believe you'll find this is Japan," Toranosuke spoke up, "Unless we've been moved somewhere, but this has certainly looked like Hope's Peak so far".
"Oh you haven't gone anywhere, son," the eagle said, unfolding a map with Japan coloured like the US flag, "We whupped your spineless asses, so this country is now under United States Occupation. You're playing by our rules boy, and because the Greatest Country on Earth singlehandedly beat you in the war, now you better prepare yourselves for the punishment. Do-I-make-myself-clear?!"
"D-did you say KillingGame?" Hildegard gasped at that phrase, before she bit her lip and said, "No, that's not possible, only the Nazis would do something like that..."
"Oh, the 'Nazis'? You mean those wienerschnitzels the U.S. of A thrashed six ways from Sunday?! Ergo, the Killing Game's an American tradition now, we won it, so we'll enact it on whoever we damn well like!" the eagle blasted back with.
"W-what? You're America, you say you're the good guys, right? Why the hell are you pulling this fascist crap?" Dejan exclaimed.
"Too right. Is zis too how you treat France? Your own ally?!" Jeanne spoke out and drew her sword, "I will never surrender to ze likes of treacherous scum like you, featherbrain!".
"Featherbrain?!" the eagle seethed, "First off, don't give me that 'never surrender' crap when your own country got pulverized by Jerry. Hell, if you'd put up a real fight, your sorry ass wouldn't have been carried here all the way to sunrise-land.
Second, for the duration of this All-American Killing Game, you shall address me as-
[ ] Liberty Bird
[ ] Washingtalon
[ ] Uncle Squawk
What in the goddang- Columbird, you will address me as Columbird, son! I don't give a damn what fancy-ass naming write-ins you have over here, but in America, you will memorize my name and like it, that's an order!" he squawked out.
"Oh my," Momoka gulped, before she breathed deep and asked, "Um, w-what do you mean by 'Killing Game', er, exactly?"
"Killing Game's a Killing Game, private!" Columbird said, "You want outta this dump? Then you sixteen better start murderin' each other, last one standing gets to leave! Does that get it through those thick skulls o' yours?" he tapped his own head to indicate.
He- he really did mean it. He... wanted us to all kill each other.
I looked around the room, suddenly seeing all the people I'd been introduced to, who may have been unusual but not dangerous... as murderers, each and every one of them.
I wanted to say I'd never seen anything like this before, but that'd be wrong. When my superiors truly wanted to punish someone in the air force, they wouldn't do it themselves, but force another, innocent junior to deal out the beating for them. Those juniors only had the hope that one day, they'd be the ones in the position to delegate out punishments to the next junior. Some of the beating had been so harsh, soldiers had died in training before they'd ever met the enemy.
"This is wrong!" I then burst out crying, "All wrong! The war was supposed to be over; we shouldn't have to go through this!"
"Weren't you in the air force, sonny boy, what sort of soldier descends into a blubberin' mess like this? Hmph, if an American soldier had acted like you just did, not that they ever would, we'd have used their sorry ass for target practice!" Columbird once more snapped.
"The fighting and violence will end when America says so! However," he then stated, his voice growing relatively softer, "We are the shining city on the hill, the new leader of the Western world, not some savages in squalor! Therefore, in honor of our great nation's legal and judicial foundations, anyone killing another shall promptly begin a trial to determine the godforsaken murderer".
"A trial?" Genpachi chuckled as he remarked, "Awful ironic with you tellin' us to start murdering each other. Suppose you have to cling on to some semblance of civility, don't ya?".
"Bah, I won't be taking any backtalk from some limp-wristed, hemp-smoking, lover of speakeasy devil music! All you here will kill, you will go to court, the killer will be found and executed or you will die trying, and you will like it, son!" Columbird went off again.
"What do you mean, 'you will die trying'?" Manami asked.
Before Columbird could actually answer, he went off on a tangent to me, "Ya see here, Wings Bay-island? This is the professional manner in which a real shoulder conducts himself! Or herself, figures you <Japanese's> cleaning ladies would make better soldiers than your men.
Anyway, yes. Should you fail to identify the actual killer in court, they will leave with their FREEDOM, whilst all you who failed to catch him will be executed for your incompetence. Is that clear?!" he got around to his answer.
With that, the United States of America declares the Killing Military School Life officially begun! Godspeed, and God bless our glorious nation!" Columbird saluted, before he finally left the Gym.
This was... this was really happening. Right now, any of my classmates could turn around and stab me- No, they wouldn't. Firstly, because we were all gathered in the Gym, so anyone who tried would be immediately found out, and secondly-
Because I'd been drafted into the air force. I knew what killers were like, and for little I'd known everyone here, I could tell they weren't that sort of people.
But I couldn't just stand here. I needed to think of a plan, and fast.
[ ] I'd stock up on food, then barricade myself in my dorm room in the South building
[ ] I'd keep trying to find a way out of here. Both the caves and the school buildings were blocked down, but if they'd gotten us down here, then there had to be a way back up
[ ] I'd listen to the others to see what they'd come up with:
- [ ] Toranosuke (Manager), he probably has a plan of action
- [ ] Genpachi's (Jazzman) kept surprisingly calm throughout
- [ ] Yudai (Jailbreaker), who'd been in situations just like this
- [ ] Hildegard (???), she seems to already know about Killing Games
- [ ] Dejan (Tank Commander), he has a tank after all
- [ ] Jeanne de Chevalier
- [ ] Write-in student
[ ] Write-in
[x] Simeon
[x] Manami
Having seen the Research Lab of the Ultimate Captain, if I could I would've taken the chance to go around searching for mine, or anyone else's, respective Labs. Unfortunately, we did have that Gym we needed to be getting to.
There being only so much space on the North Building's ground floor, and any way up in here blocked off by the ruins of crumbled stairs, it at least didn't take us much more time to find the Gymnasium at the end of a u-shaped hall. There was a small foyer just before the Gym though, containing what looked like trophies awarded to Hope's Peak's alumni. I could see swords and armour, a rifle, now smudged photographs, framed letters of commemoration, sporting equipment, even strange mechanical devices than ran on everything from clockwork to diesel tech.
Slowly everyone passed through the foyer, including who seemed to be the three remaining students I hadn't met yet... as I definitely would've recognised one girl if I'd seen her before. While she looked mostly human, she had wolf ears poking out of her bright-blue hair, the upper mouth and side-fang of a cat, the tails of a fox, squirrel, seal, and tanuki, the paws of a kangaroo, and the legs of a goat. I was surprised she was still able to put on a standard school uniform through all that.
"~Nyaa!" she smiled as she called out, before she started sniffing me. "Sowwy, but I hafta check to make sure you got nothin' dangerous on ya, mister," she told me, a snake's tongue flickering out of her, "Oh yeah, my name's Kimura-"
[ ] Hitomi
[ ] Kuzunoha
[ ] Etsuko
[ ] Write-in
-Wan wan! They say I'm 'sposed to be the Ultimate Chimera, but like, I thought those were just lion, goat, and snake? Then again, guess I gotta be called somethin' around here," she shrugged then panted.
"Er, okay... I'm Tsubasa Enoshima, charmed I'm sure," I tried to put as naturally as I could.Birdcoin! x1
Ultimate 'Chimera'? Normally by now I would've checked again to make doubly sure I wasn't dreaming, but the thing was, from what little info was leaked on lab experiments throughout the war... yeah, suddenly a hybrid beast-girl didn't seem so implausible.
The next student was at least fully human, well, as far as I could tell anyway. They were wrapped all over in bandages, had an eyepatch, a pointed helmet with deer antlers on it, carried a butterfly-shaped baton with the words for 'fire, forest, wind, mountain' written on it, carried a 'sword' shaped like a lightning-bolt, had on a sky-blue coat brighter than Simeon's or Manami's, and had on grey hakama with three arrows for pins.
They bowed before me, then intoned, "They call me the Ultimate Historical Re-enactor. I am Seki-
[ ] Mitsuyasu
[ ] Ienari
[ ] Toshiro
[ ] Yoritsune
[ ] Write-in
From their name I took it they were male, but I couldn't quite say either way.
"I am whichever gender my role requires," they then said to me, "I... guess thou couldst compare it to Kabuki or Takarazuka".
The last student was neither part-animal nor covered like a mummy, instead he had fogged-over glasses, messy hair beneath a striped top-hat with several pens, quills, and pencils stashed in its band, a tweed suit decorated with runestones and a tie marked with hieroglyphs, mounds of notes stuffed in his pockets, and unusually pointy ears. Any promise left of normalcy ended once he opened his mouth. Birdcoin! x1
"Hello, salut, ciao, nihao, shalom, aloha, privet, namaste, and salve! I am the Wizard of Words, the Lord of Linguistics, the Titan of Translation, and Sultan of Speech! B-But you can just call me Ultimate Conlanger, Iwai-"
[ ] Bungo
[ ] Kanji
[ ] Yakumo
[ ] Write-in
"'Conlanger'? I'm sorry, I don't think I've heard the term before" I told him.
Adjusting his glasses, he said, "As a Conlanger- well personally I prefer Conlanguer but Conlanger is the more accepted term, I create languages. Hard work you are aware, for not only does it require a thorough knowledge of several languages' worth of vocabulary and grammar to master, but also an imagination to make said new tongue more than just the sum of its parts. So naturally, I have already created several, multiple, a cascade of constructed languages, and I haven't even graduated".
Rude as it was to think it of him, but was he always this long-winded?
"Oh my, that's quite something. Actually, sounds like that'd be great for encryption, secret messages and all" I remarked, only to accidentally shatter his pleasant demeanor.
"Typical for an armed forces aviator, can you think of naught else but warfare, combat, conflict?!" he hissed out, but then took a deep breath and said, "My apologies, I did not mean to get off on the wrong foot, it's just... yes, during the war, cryptography and deception was all people wanted my talents for".
I could see what he meant. I sighed out and said, "Yeah, I mean I first got interested in flight as a kid, without a thought of killing anyone".
I had no idea how ironically tragic those words would come to be.
All sixteen of us students entering the gym at last, we were promptly caught off-guard by no less than fireworks being detonated inside. Manami, Dejan, and myself even dropped to the floor, as all I could think about were battlefield explosions.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MJgb-0Ya8
"What lily-livered display is this?! Stand to attention, son, don't you know you're in a Killing Game now, huh?!" came a shouting, heavily accented voice that didn't belong to any of my classmates.
I slowly picked myself up to see... that same animatronic eagle who'd been on the monitor was now descending from the ceiling to the teacher's podium. Perching and ruffling his feathers up, he then barked out (much as an eagle could), "Is this the best you <Japanese> have to offer? Well I've got news for ya, Class 39 of Pope's Beak or whatever, this ain't your grandpappy's Land of the Rising Sun. You're now in the greatest country on Earth, these-" he suddenly stared off into the distance and grew teary-eyed, "United States of America, and by God as my witness, you will act like it else I lay the smacketh down, ya hear?!"
"Ahem, pardon me... sir, but I believe you'll find this is Japan," Toranosuke spoke up, "Unless we've been moved somewhere, but this has certainly looked like Hope's Peak so far".
"Oh you haven't gone anywhere, son," the eagle said, unfolding a map with Japan coloured like the US flag, "We whupped your spineless asses, so this country is now under United States Occupation. You're playing by our rules boy, and because the Greatest Country on Earth singlehandedly beat you in the war, now you better prepare yourselves for the punishment. Do-I-make-myself-clear?!"
"D-did you say KillingGame?" Hildegard gasped at that phrase, before she bit her lip and said, "No, that's not possible, only the Nazis would do something like that..."
"Oh, the 'Nazis'? You mean those wienerschnitzels the U.S. of A thrashed six ways from Sunday?! Ergo, the Killing Game's an American tradition now, we won it, so we'll enact it on whoever we damn well like!" the eagle blasted back with.
"W-what? You're America, you say you're the good guys, right? Why the hell are you pulling this fascist crap?" Dejan exclaimed.
"Too right. Is zis too how you treat France? Your own ally?!" Jeanne spoke out and drew her sword, "I will never surrender to ze likes of treacherous scum like you, featherbrain!".
"Featherbrain?!" the eagle seethed, "First off, don't give me that 'never surrender' crap when your own country got pulverized by Jerry. Hell, if you'd put up a real fight, your sorry ass wouldn't have been carried here all the way to sunrise-land.
Second, for the duration of this All-American Killing Game, you shall address me as-
[ ] Washingtalon
[ ] Uncle Squawk
What in the goddang- Columbird, you will address me as Columbird, son! I don't give a damn what fancy-ass naming write-ins you have over here, but in America, you will memorize my name and like it, that's an order!" he squawked out.
"Oh my," Momoka gulped, before she breathed deep and asked, "Um, w-what do you mean by 'Killing Game', er, exactly?"
"Killing Game's a Killing Game, private!" Columbird said, "You want outta this dump? Then you sixteen better start murderin' each other, last one standing gets to leave! Does that get it through those thick skulls o' yours?" he tapped his own head to indicate.
He- he really did mean it. He... wanted us to all kill each other.
I looked around the room, suddenly seeing all the people I'd been introduced to, who may have been unusual but not dangerous... as murderers, each and every one of them.
I wanted to say I'd never seen anything like this before, but that'd be wrong. When my superiors truly wanted to punish someone in the air force, they wouldn't do it themselves, but force another, innocent junior to deal out the beating for them. Those juniors only had the hope that one day, they'd be the ones in the position to delegate out punishments to the next junior. Some of the beating had been so harsh, soldiers had died in training before they'd ever met the enemy.
"This is wrong!" I then burst out crying, "All wrong! The war was supposed to be over; we shouldn't have to go through this!"
"Weren't you in the air force, sonny boy, what sort of soldier descends into a blubberin' mess like this? Hmph, if an American soldier had acted like you just did, not that they ever would, we'd have used their sorry ass for target practice!" Columbird once more snapped.
"The fighting and violence will end when America says so! However," he then stated, his voice growing relatively softer, "We are the shining city on the hill, the new leader of the Western world, not some savages in squalor! Therefore, in honor of our great nation's legal and judicial foundations, anyone killing another shall promptly begin a trial to determine the godforsaken murderer".
"A trial?" Genpachi chuckled as he remarked, "Awful ironic with you tellin' us to start murdering each other. Suppose you have to cling on to some semblance of civility, don't ya?".
"Bah, I won't be taking any backtalk from some limp-wristed, hemp-smoking, lover of speakeasy devil music! All you here will kill, you will go to court, the killer will be found and executed or you will die trying, and you will like it, son!" Columbird went off again.
"What do you mean, 'you will die trying'?" Manami asked.
Before Columbird could actually answer, he went off on a tangent to me, "Ya see here, Wings Bay-island? This is the professional manner in which a real shoulder conducts himself! Or herself, figures you <Japanese's> cleaning ladies would make better soldiers than your men.
Anyway, yes. Should you fail to identify the actual killer in court, they will leave with their FREEDOM, whilst all you who failed to catch him will be executed for your incompetence. Is that clear?!" he got around to his answer.
With that, the United States of America declares the Killing Military School Life officially begun! Godspeed, and God bless our glorious nation!" Columbird saluted, before he finally left the Gym.
This was... this was really happening. Right now, any of my classmates could turn around and stab me- No, they wouldn't. Firstly, because we were all gathered in the Gym, so anyone who tried would be immediately found out, and secondly-
Because I'd been drafted into the air force. I knew what killers were like, and for little I'd known everyone here, I could tell they weren't that sort of people.
But I couldn't just stand here. I needed to think of a plan, and fast.
[ ] I'd stock up on food, then barricade myself in my dorm room in the South building
[ ] I'd keep trying to find a way out of here. Both the caves and the school buildings were blocked down, but if they'd gotten us down here, then there had to be a way back up
[ ] I'd listen to the others to see what they'd come up with:
- [ ] Toranosuke (Manager), he probably has a plan of action
- [ ] Genpachi's (Jazzman) kept surprisingly calm throughout
- [ ] Yudai (Jailbreaker), who'd been in situations just like this
- [ ] Hildegard (???), she seems to already know about Killing Games
- [ ] Dejan (Tank Commander), he has a tank after all
- [ ] Jeanne de Chevalier
- [ ] Write-in student
[ ] Write-in
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Astra Myst
Do you want a wish?
- Location
- Milky Way Galaxy
- Pronouns
- Femhon/Boymoder
Bruh
[X] I'd listen to the others to see what they'd come up with:
- [X] Hildegard (???), she seems to already know about Killing Games
[X] I'd listen to the others to see what they'd come up with:
- [X] Hildegard (???), she seems to already know about Killing Games
- Location
- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Is that good Bruh or bad Bruh?
Astra Myst
Do you want a wish?
- Location
- Milky Way Galaxy
- Pronouns
- Femhon/Boymoder
I don't know
Mechasaurian
Big Bossu
- Location
- Lost among fields of history
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] I'd listen to the others to see what they'd come up with:
- [X] Jeanne de Chevalier
I just like her.
- [X] Jeanne de Chevalier
I just like her.
[x] Etsuko
[x] Toshiro
[x] Kanji
[x] I'd listen to the others to see what they'd come up with:
- [x] Hildegard (???), she seems to already know about Killing Games
Now I might be talking nonsense because I don't know Danganronpa, but can we not hold a trial to convict the Columbird for any deaths? They are the ones most responsible for any murders.
File a Class-Action Lawsuit against the USA.
[x] Toshiro
[x] Kanji
[x] I'd listen to the others to see what they'd come up with:
- [x] Hildegard (???), she seems to already know about Killing Games
Now I might be talking nonsense because I don't know Danganronpa, but can we not hold a trial to convict the Columbird for any deaths? They are the ones most responsible for any murders.
File a Class-Action Lawsuit against the USA.
- Location
- Germany
[X] Etsuko
[X] Yoritsune
[X] Yakumo
[X] I'd listen to the others to see what they'd come up with:
- [X] Jeanne de Chevalier
We certainly got a colorful new arrival with the last batch. I did not expect a full on chimera. I kind of like the squirrel tail just thrown in there.
As for the the vote bringing us into the actual game, I can agree that what Hildegard knows is interesting, but she has also beeing very secretive up until now and I'm not sure if getting the spotlight on her as the first thing we do is a good idea, or if it's simply going to cause her to clamp up even more.
As for my vote, I have some interest in Jeanne as well. Somebody has to resist the autharianism of FREEDOM, which I can only assume is legally destinct from actual feedom. (I have to give it to Columbird though that he has the big ham act down pat.)
[X] Yoritsune
[X] Yakumo
[X] I'd listen to the others to see what they'd come up with:
- [X] Jeanne de Chevalier
We certainly got a colorful new arrival with the last batch. I did not expect a full on chimera. I kind of like the squirrel tail just thrown in there.
As for the the vote bringing us into the actual game, I can agree that what Hildegard knows is interesting, but she has also beeing very secretive up until now and I'm not sure if getting the spotlight on her as the first thing we do is a good idea, or if it's simply going to cause her to clamp up even more.
As for my vote, I have some interest in Jeanne as well. Somebody has to resist the autharianism of FREEDOM, which I can only assume is legally destinct from actual feedom. (I have to give it to Columbird though that he has the big ham act down pat.)
- Location
- St. Petersburg
I don't care what your designation is, everyone who talks with that amount of affectations is going to Ms. d'Arc's corner and getting theirs overridden. My mind's eye has you pegged as the Ultimate Furry.
[x] Kuzunoha
[x] Ienari
After the Tokugawas. A perfect fit for the Ultimate LARPer.
What you are is a total identity hazard, mate. Anyone can wrap themselves in bandages and pretend to be you. I'll be watching you!
...which no one, naturally, knows anything about. I'd say it is the most chuuni thing I heard of today, but we just had the pleasure of being introduced to Historical Reenactment.
[x] Kanji
At this point I just pick the names that would immediately remind me who the person is. Tsubasa -> Wings -> Pilot, Kanji -> Linguistics -> Conlanger, Ienari -> Tokugawa -> LARPer. Kuzunoha doesn't have that strong of a connotation, but I suppose Kuzunoha -> Kitsune -> Fox-girl (or everything-and-then-some-girl)?
Wait, no, don't cross out those options! I liked them!
Great meta joke, and Uncle Squawk is a perfect nickname to call the villain when out of their earshot.
[x] I'd listen to the others to see what they'd come up with:
- [x] Dejan (Tank Commander), he has a tank after all
A man with a plan has nothing on a man with a tank.
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- Location
- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Admittedly I got that 'character rejects your name for them' joke from Shadow Hearts, which does it in all three games but it works best in the first (where you can name all the other characters)
Before I found out there was an actual shogun by the name, I got Ienari (and Mitsuyasu) from combining the names Ieyasu and Mitsunari, hence Seki(gahara)... which is I guess kinda like calling an American Civil War Re-enactor Ulysses E. Getty. Yoritsune also comes from Yoritomo and Yoshitsune, while Toshiro references both Mifune and Gintama's not!Toshizo (and can easily shift to Toshiko for fluidity purposes)
Since I mentioned Rayearth's Fuu when discussing Hildegard's looks, I'm not sure if this was a CLAMP reference or not
Before I found out there was an actual shogun by the name, I got Ienari (and Mitsuyasu) from combining the names Ieyasu and Mitsunari, hence Seki(gahara)... which is I guess kinda like calling an American Civil War Re-enactor Ulysses E. Getty. Yoritsune also comes from Yoritomo and Yoshitsune, while Toshiro references both Mifune and Gintama's not!Toshizo (and can easily shift to Toshiko for fluidity purposes)
Since I mentioned Rayearth's Fuu when discussing Hildegard's looks, I'm not sure if this was a CLAMP reference or not
- Pronouns
- He
[X] Etsuko
[X] Yoritsune
[X] Yakumo
[X] I'd listen to the others to see what they'd come up with:
- [X] Hildegard (???), she seems to already know about Killing Games
[X] Yoritsune
[X] Yakumo
[X] I'd listen to the others to see what they'd come up with:
- [X] Hildegard (???), she seems to already know about Killing Games
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
[X] I'd stock up on food, then barricade myself in my dorm room in the South building
I'm gonna play devil's advocate and vote for MAXIMUM PARANOIA. Give our protagonist "character" and potential later development.
I'm gonna play devil's advocate and vote for MAXIMUM PARANOIA. Give our protagonist "character" and potential later development.