#ndrv3 theory

[doodlebug-writer]

What would be a sure fire way to actually kill Makoto Naegi in a way where his luck wouldn’t interfere? Specifically, if Junko were to succeed in killing Makoto in any way, how would he do it?

(some things to consider:

In SDR2, Nagito is able to be killed because his death WAS the desired outcome, and his good luck enabled it to happen.

another ultimate luck talent can sometimes cancel out another’s, as seen in the DR3 anime in the Kamukura/Komaeda confrontation

In the DR3 anime, the brainwashing video almost causes Makoto to kill himself without any interference from his lucky talent. In retrospect, you could argue Sakakura’s arrival counts, but I really don’t think this was intended to be “just lucky that Sakakura was there!”)

[shsl-hubris-guy]

Honestly now that I'm thinking about it, Korekiyo's execution is the strongest piece of evidence as to why Tsumugi's "you're all fiction" assertion at the final trial is a big fat lie.

She claims their backstories and traumas were all implanted into their minds and made them fictional. Besides themselves, everyone they loved never existed.

We see Korekiyo, in no uncertain terms, murdered by the ghost of his sister. She appears in the execution and throws salt on him. She was real. She existed. That trauma and history was 100% legitimate. We already know ghosts are real in the DR universe, too, thanks to Komaru's brief possession in UDG ch 5

Also, and this has always been how I've read it, but the book Shuichi finds in Kokichi's lab says it was researched thoroughly by experts on the subject of the history of Hope's Peak. That's the sort of accrediting you find in a history book, not a tv guide. Never mind that it uses images from the games we're familiar with, SDR2 does the same thing for the THH game and profiles of the survivors. The answer to why is very clearly just reusing assets.

There's more evidence, too, like Tsumugi's Cospox being a contradiction to her claims of Kaede and the others being fiction. If she believes them all to be fictional characters, she shouldn't have gotten Cospox in Kaede's Ultimate Pianist outfit. If she faked it to get away with murder, it's no longer a credible source, meaning all those 'characters' she dresses up as could be real people. It's a piece of evidence that slips right by.

I've also seen it mentioned before that the floor in the audition videos we see matches the one in Tsumugi's lab, and that they claim makes other than their own despite still going by Shuichi and Kaede in the prologue, which is all true. So it's not like the audition tapes are trustworthy source of information either.

Not to mention, Tsumugi's references are the biggest indicator of her being the mastermind, and what are the title screens of Danganronpa 4-10? References to other media, every one of them. Are we supposed to believe that those really happened? What evidence for them existing are we actually given? Considering she waves off dressing as any of them on the basis of 'oh you wouldn't know them they went to another school' how reliable is that claim?

The only other thing I can think of that's used as evidence of the history of Danganronpa being undoubtedly fictional in V3 is the brief look at the kid named Makoto that watches the games and one day wants to..... What? It cuts off before we can hear what it is he wants to do. The audition tapes would lead you to believe he wants to become part of the game, but maybe he just wants to work on the games, same as Tsumugi

If you think about the Ultimate Hunt Rantaro was given a bit of information on, and the fact that he was chosen from the previous game, I think it's not entirely unlikely that that 'Hunt' is happening in the real world, and that Team Danganronpa are hunting down Ultimates in real life to make their games, hence why they hide their identities and even erase their memories in some cases. Maybe after a failed revival of Hope's Peak, the world has turned against Ultimates.

And, hey, when you think about it, doesn't Tsumugi try to say that the remnants of despair view Junko as their god, and that a god would never beforehand a follower? And doesn't she later say she's cosplaying Junko to bring a god to life before their eyes? Are we sure Tsumugi wasn't just one of the many manipulated by Junko, perhaps as a child? Someone so insignificant to her that we as an audience never had to meet her, but that was so taken by Junko's created image that she dedicated her life to the art of replication?

Idk, I just feel like people take Tsumugi's bravado at the end of V3 a little too seriously. Like I thought we knew the person in charge of a killing game that's built its themes on the idea of reality and lies could lie about reality

[danganronpa-theories-v3]

DRV3 is looped

I am certainly a supporter of the "DRV3 is a simulation" theory. There has been a lot of discussion about it before, both on reddit and tumblr. But if it is a simulation, how about an assumption that it is a looped simulation? There have been hints about it thrown in the dialogue, implicating that what is happening in the game can somehow happen again.

There's also a comment from Tsumugi in the Ultimate Talent Development Plan where she says that the "world" (and the Academy is referred to as a "world" many times) she's going to cosplay is the one she will cosplay 1,000 times.

But to me, the most obvious hint is the existence and the structure of Virtual World in ch4 - a looped structure with a wall that has been brought up a hundred times during the trial and plays a big role in it.

It makes me think about the End Wall that surrounds the Academy and the strange comments about it.

There's no way the whole Virtual World thing isn't representing at least something that happens in the main story. And as we see in epilogue, there is truly nothing outside of the End Wall, just like there's nothing outside of the Virtual World's map. The epilogue is in general practically a reveal that the whole Killing Game is a simulation (at least as I see it) but what do you think about the notion of it being looped?

[kaitobromota]

🍦What’s the Tsumugi salmon mode ending trivia? (<- brain chemistry unironically changed because of Tsumugi)

Honestly it's less an Easter Egg, per say, and more, HEY HOW DO MORE PEOPLE NOT TALK ABOUT IT IT'S WILD

And after some more 'normal' dialogue, at the very end...

LIKE HELLO??? It's completely out of left field and the only moment like this in all the post game stuff. Super eerie there is something sooo wrong with her for this <3

[dangan-kagura]

Theory: Rantaro’s sisters might actually be a metaphor for the people who were killed in his killing game. So let's assume Rantaro really did partake in a previous killing game. When he got to star in the next season, Team Danganronpa gave him a new character that involves traveling the world in search for his sisters. It’s likely that, outside the Danganronpa universe, after his previous game, Rantaro was in denial that his friends were all killed and wanted to believe they were still alive somehow.

Rantaro states that he has 12 sisters. That would be an equivalent number to how many people are killed in Danganronpa, meaning that 4 people, including Rantaro, survived in Danganronpa 52. And it’s stated in the final trial that Rantaro sacrificed himself so that the other survivors of his killing game would live, but it meant that he had to star in the next season, that was his punishment.

Rantaro’s character may have been different in Danganronpa 52. He could’ve been the Ultimate Adventurer, or something else, but definitely not the Ultimate Survivor. Once his killing game was over, Pregame Rantaro probably wanted to travel around the real world thinking that Team Danganronpa had hidden his friends somehow. But once they kidnapped him again, they altered his memories by making him forget about his previous killing game and give him this Ultimate Adventurer character that involves him saying he traveled the world to find his lost sisters, but in actuality, he wanted to find his friends that were killed.

Why would his character have been different in Danganronpa 52? Odds are, Danganronpa 4 through 52 had stories that were in no way related to Hope’s Peak Academy or even the Ultimate Hunt. In the last trial, it’s stated that they gave them the Flashback Light about Hope’s Peak so that they could have the hope to stop Kokichi, since the Flashback Lights are made by selecting what kinds of fake memories to use.

Also, at the beginning of the game, Rantaro is the most calm and cautious out of everyone when the Exisals appeared. In his FTEs, he states that he’s been in life-threatening situations when traveling the world. It could be more likely that he was so calm about the new killing game because of his experience in whatever kind of killing game he and his “sisters” starred in. Because everyone’s pregame selves act the same as they do in-game, Pregame Rantaro probably had an idea as to why he was kidnapped, but once his memories were altered, Team Danganronpa decided to make Rantaro’s new character a homage to what his life was like after Danganronpa 52.

[ultimateplaylistmaker]

Oops wrote lyrics, anyways checkered past is not having fun in the nightmare moon bad end

[louisetteschuunishenanigans]

(Apparently y'all liked when I posted about Danganronpa and I got this hc I want out there so here comes the food guys)

Is it likely we'll ever get another Danganronpa game? Nah

Do I want this nonexistent game to be about Rantaro's killing game and do I know exactly how it must end anyway? Hell yeah

Of course it's entirely possible that the Ultimate Survivor thing isn't a unique case in the in-universe DR franchise and it's just a way of bringing back a fan-favourite candidate like they probably do on reality shows.

But wouldn't it be MUCH more fun if Rantaro alone got that title bc he really was the sole survivor of his game, in what could have been a first in the series?

The thing with a series being as formulaic as DR is that the same structure becomes expected. NDRV3 Trial 1 worked so well bc according to The Formula, everyone can die EXCEPT the protagonist, so throwing that out the window is an instant shocker so long as it's decently executed. And while I have my issues with Kaede's plan and her just jumping to killing the mastermind like that (idk it just felt ooc for her to resort to killing so soon), I can't deny the twist was very well prepared and all that stealth foreshadowing HURTS on second watch.

So when all the shit in NDRV3 Chapter 5 happened, no one, not a single mf believed that could be it, because according to The Formula, all the actually important lore shows up on Trial 6 alongside the Mastermind, and the game can't end before that reveal. No one believed in the unsolvable case, because The Formula says there is always one culprit and there can never be a wrong answer. This, even when actually having more than one culprit would actually make a more interesting story as previously stated.

But with Rantaro's game? The fact that he survives isn't too bad a foregone conclusion when we still have to discover HOW he survived, who else was with him and how they died. But what of Trial 6, when everything about the Mastermind (Tsumugi/Junko) and the meta aspects is foregone conclusion?

So... How about we just skip Chapter 6 entirely? What if we overthrew The Formula by stopping at Trial 5, if there is nothing more shocking a Trial 6 could possibly do?

So if Rantaro really is the sole survivor of his game. Okay, the idea of the protagonist soloing a trial against the Mastermind is actually pretty awesome, but isn't there a more plausible explanation as to why only one person would walk out of a killing game alive?

Imagine going through an intense trial, but finally coming close to the truth and uncovering the killer's plot, and getting to the vote... Only, for the first time in the franchise, to see the result be WRONG. To realize the game pulled a little unreliable narrator on us and the "truth" was just the narrative the very character we play as wanted us to follow. To witness what a mass execution is like at last and for it to unveil Rantaro as the first blackened to have successfully gotten away with it.

And for the game to just. End there, without the expected Trial 6.

Now imagine replaying through that chapter knowing the end and picking up on all the subtle hints of what Rantaro was doing behind everyone's back, even ours. Worse, replaying the game and following the Ultimate Adventurer's character development along the whole game now knowing it all culminates with him finding the resolve to betray all the other students.

Oh how cruel and utterly beautiful that would be </3

(Bonus headcanon I got while reviewing this before posting: What if that game introduced red herring truth bullets, as in clues you collect that are never meant to be used at all in the trial and just here to misguide the player, so an added difficulty is now picking out the right clues that will lead to the truth. But in hindsight, the final trial turns out to have been about picking your clues to derail the trial and push YOUR narrative when some of the "red herrings" were clues that could've exposed you)

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

Let's see. I remember the images of the characters dropping and EVERYONE had theories on who was what. Shinguuji was pinned as a Folklorist while people were losing There minds that there was a robot now.

I don't remember when but people were stoked that we finally had an artist among the cast.

THE VOICE REVEALS... I personally choked on my spit when I heard Ryoma.

Most of this is my personal experience, but I remember NDRV3 came out in Japan and the site I was using to watch all the new content KEPT CRASHING due to overload.

People thought Miu and Kaede were sisters? It's a bit fuzzy but I remember people thinking that.

THE HEEL TURN people had with Shinguuji when it came to leaning his whole twist. People up and dropped him, but now he seems to be decently liked.

When the English voices got revealed people were not happy lol. Esp with Ouma, people confused his voice with Shinguuji's and kinda flipped when they realized who was who.

(SDR2 story cause this cracks me up) Kyle Hebert (Souda's VA) accidentally confirmed SDR2 was coming to the west via a tweet. He thought the game released that day, but it was actually THH that released. So he basically gave us confirmation before any official announcements.

I HEARD THERE WERE STREAMS. What I would do to see screenshots of those chats, especially during the big moments....

I Saw that people thought Miu and Kaede were sisters! I think it was either misinformation from 4chan, confusion about Kaede's secret twin, or maybe both.

THAT STORY ABOUT KYLE HEBERT... That's so funny oh my god. I would've been horrified at myself, but they didn't seem too mad considering they brought him back for v3 LMAO

Re: Korekiyo, I think its a running trend from v3's initial release for there to be extreme knee-jerk reactions that people soften on over time, including with korekiyo

[spectral-kitkat]

DANGANRONPA V3 SPOILERS FOR CHAPTERS 1 AND 6!!!! (Idk if anyone needs that warning but better safe than sorry)

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When I first played NDRV3 and got to the part where they discover Rantaro’s body in the Library I distinctly remember focusing on the blood splatter on the wall by his body.

I was basically in full detective mode at that point so noted in my head that Rantaro must’ve been struck from behind for that certain blood stain to occur.

Then the investigation started and the blood on the wall wasn’t included as a truth bullet so I thought maybe I’d just watched too much true crime and was thinking too hard about what could’ve just been an artistic design choice to show that avacado boy was in fact now guacamole and not just unconscious.

Come to the trial and Kaede confirming that she dropped the shotput ball from above and I was convinced that it was just me over analysing.

I forgot about my theory since as the game progressed my mind went and focused on trying to solve the other murders - until chapter 6…

…and Tsumugi is uncovered as the one who killed Rantaro. It’s then mentioned that she did so by surprise surprise striking him in the back of the head!

I was fucking amazed! My original theory was correct and I didn’t even realise it at the time 😂

[shsl-hubris-guy]

Anywho while it's fresh on my mind, I don't think Keebo got erased by the audience at the end of V3

Don't get me wrong; I'm sure his personality was wiped. The game makes that very clear. But that doesn't mean Keebo the identity left with it. When Hajime was wiped and became known as Izuru, he was still a person. An identity. The same is true of Keebo, I think

Keebo is in reference to both Makoto and Hajime in the final case. Like Makoto, he's renamed as ultimate hope, taking the reigns to push for hope and fight against despair as a figurehead. Similarly, like Hajime, there's an attempt made by the corporation responsible for him to wipe his personality to make him a better puppet. But in that same vein, we still see Keebo respond to his name, and speak to Shuichi, Tsumugi, and the others after the trial. He may have been emptied of his personality traits and quirks, but the AI is still there and still functioning, even after allowing the audience to temporarily speak through him. He's still responsible for his actions.

In the final execution of Danganronpa, it opens with him using the same actions and techniques as he did at the start of the chapter in an attempt to destroy the school. The audience isn't voting in his every move; he's still there, and we even get a glimpse of him when we watch him ensure that his friends live. Keebo may not be as lovely as before, but it's still him, and it's his decision to self destruct and give his friends a chance to break out of Tsumugi's world of fiction.

If Keebo is still present, then he can still defy the audience. He can still choose to abstain against the words of the inner voice. And in that potential choice, one final lie becomes the truth- the truth that the audience turns its back on Tsumugi's work. Keebo claims that abstaining and destroying the game was the audience's will that they voted for. But if he ignored the vote, that would make the audience give up regardless, and we watch them switch off their screens one by one as his lie becomes a prophecy. The game is broken now. Why bother playing?

And Tsumugi, a mastermind who insists she knew everything that would happen, that she wrote all these characters and planned out their arcs and was in control all the time, dies to a lie that she couldn't see through, a choice she couldn't predict. She loses. Her replication of an ultimate analyst fails yet again as yet another player deceives her

[silverraindropliliacsky]

I have a theory.

I think very early in the game, probably after trial one, Kokichi used his lock picking skills to explore the ENTIRE available area, including Rantaros' room. (Including everyone's room)

I think he found a hint that led him to discovering something crucial about Rantaro, not the whole story but enough important bits. He was likely investigating the mystery behind Rantaro and his secret talent throughout trials one, two, and three, all culminating in the events of trials 4&5. By trial 3 he was able to discover the secret to the outside world through this investigation. This is why HE left the two notes Horse A and Twins B. He took Rantaros' effigy specifically because it aided in his investigation somehow.

Idk maybe looking at him helped him focus his thoughts on the matter.

I still wanna know why Kokichi did this????? Why did he hang it up??? Why did he put over the bed??? The only reason I could think of as to why he put if over his bed, was to look at him. He probably thought Rantaro was pretty.

[danganronpa-theories-v3]

Is Shuichi the mastermind of V3?

I've had a few thoughts about four chapters and Shuichi's involvement in them.

FIRST CHAPTER So, the first case had an unreliable narrator as Kaede. While playing the game for the first time, Shuichi felt like a really good and reliable guy to me but after analyzing the game again and looking at other people's theories, I think Shuichi might be strongly connected to the mastermind to the point of being one. A detail that strucks out about Shuichi is his parents being an actor and a screenwriter. This is important considering the game's ending. I believe it means there's a possibility of him having good acting skills and feeling comfortable being a character in a "fictional" world. In the first chapter, Shuichi had quite a few opportunities to notice what Kaede has been up to.

He leaves her around shotput balls, soon-to-become murder weapons.

He had an opportunity to see that the books were put in a very strange fashion.

Clearly, he withheld information about the cameras from everyone including Kaede for no obvious reason.

It is very possible he messed the cameras up in some way (https://www.tumblr.com/fit-artichoke8738/649993708004130816/problems-with-the-library-cameras-drv3-ch-1).

SECOND CHAPTER The most suspicious thing about the second chapter was the way Ryoma died. I suppose there's no arguments against Kirumi being the killer but did she kill Ryoma the way Shuichi said she did? https://youtu.be/HXuq50Bt6PE?t=341 - Monosuke here even touches on the topic of the cause of death although in the usual wacky way. Monosuke has a "slip-up" in which he says it was practically impossible to put the body in the piranha tank - you had to lean through the window and that would count as breaking the rules. All that when other characters emphasize that the trick would work only if someone carefully put the body in the piranha tank. Ryoma had a crack on his skull. Could Kirumi have killed him with one blow and leave his body without any other manipulations, and then someone decided to make things more interesting? Perhaps, to give Shuichi another chance to shine as a detective?

THIRD CHAPTER Korekiyo's behavior during the third trial was a bit suspicious. Korekiyo acted as if he didn't remember killing Angie or perhaps didn't do it at all. He was ready to prove his innocence till his dead sister persona told him to "admit defeat", otherwise he would probably try to defend himself further - and that's already after the Closing Argument! But he wasn't really nervous nor did he put much of a fight when the students suspected him in killing Tenko. You can say he simply realized he isn't going to be executed for this but obviously killing Tenko would make him the prime suspect in Angie's murder, especially if he knew he used the same floorboard to kill both of the girls. I think another thing a lot of people already noticed is that Korekiyo only asks about what would happen if there are two blackened after the second murder already happened. and he does it in front of everyone. And he doesn't even get the answer at that moment because Monokubs (seemingly) didn't expect this to happen at all - this to me outrules the possibility Kiyo asked about this before. Korekiyo also is the first one to say "We should investigate Tenko's death as well, just in case" after it's revealed only the Angie's killer is the blackened, basically asking to be outed as her murderer and possibly appreciated as one, with his genius seesaw trick and all. Before the Closing Argument, Shuichi says, "Kiyo..I want you to confess! No…I will force you to confess!". Sounds strange if we consider the possibility Kiyo might not have anything else to confess for.

FOURTH CHAPTER The 4th chapter… something tells me Shuichi had a hand in Miu's murder. One of the most suspicious things is how Kaito was the last to appear when everyone's logged out. He said, "What's this all about!? What was that body discovery announce-" when there was no body discovery announcement. It is EXTREMELY suspicious that he knew someone was dead beforehand. He even goes on to repeat that obvious lie, saying "when that body discovery announcement woke me up, I rushed over here". For some reason, Shuichi doesn't question this one. After Shuichi said he was going to reveal the culprit, Kokichi says, "Even if the culprit is Kaito?". Is Kaito the culprit?

@fit-artichoke8738 theorized about the possibility of Body Swapping (https://www.tumblr.com/fit-artichoke8738/648228491354144768/body-swapping-in-the-virtual-world-drv3-ch4). As far as I recall, Miu didn't specify at the beginning that you can log out as anyone, so that makes not mentioning that you can log in as anyone less improbable. https://youtu.be/LVrHupB88y4?t=2880 - In this sequence (Gonta bringing the bridge), we see events not only through Shuichi's perspective, something that the game didn't do very often. What was the reason for that? During the trial, Kokichi was quite angry at Gonta, pressuring him to make solid arguments to defend himself. Some people say Kokichi just wanted to kill everyone after he had the card key and saw what the "real world" was like. But he also said (in yellow, mind you) that he wants to live with his super angry sprite. If this line was genuine, then why would he pressure Gonta to defend himself so much? Perhaps because Kokichi thought that Gonta might not actually be the culprit?

This first line came after Miu explained everything. Isn't Gonta smart enough to at least listen to what Miu just told everyone? Maybe I'm wrong but this bit feels like someone putting on an act. The second line - and then again, Gonta questioned something that was explained a few seconds ago.

So these chapters have these questionable moments that make me think Shuichi has something to do with the game's mastermind if he isn't one to begin with.

[growling]

for the ask game (with either raincode or danganronpa) :

👛 your favorite rare pair?

💕a ship you’d defend with your life?

♠️ favorite protagonist?

(from this ask game)

👛 your favorite rare pair?

I don't think much about danganronpa shipping anymore (my brain is now just permanently rotating enoshima, kamukura, komaeda, ouma and kiibo there like rotisserie chickens instead, i am TOO BUSY!!!), so rain code it is: yumayomi/kokohell/the japanese side calls it yumayomi ig and the english side does not call it anything because no one except me and like 2 other people care. yuma & yomi are just so objectively hilarious as a duo and the possibilities of putting them in Situations are fucking endless nobody does it like they do it. every day another yuma and yomi au idea establishes itself in my mind i am running out of storage room i have so many other things i should care about that aren't wacky rain code yaois but guess what i cannot they won't let me

(also fubuyomi honorable mention. I have to mention fubuyomi they also drive me but I have zero words to describe it. oh and worshipper x priest despite me keeping silent about it for a solid few months i did not forget religious serial killer toxic sludge yaoi anyway have you listened to we will commit wolf murder by of montreal for no reason in particular)

💕a ship you’d defend with your life?

zero hesistation ougoku danganronpa like what is you people's PROBLEM??? "it's abusive" jesse what the fuck are you talking about. Ouma did not "manipulate" him Gokuhara knew exactly what he was doing. Ouma explicitly told him his plans for the Insect Meet and Greet in the FTE's right before the event, and Gokuhara got mad at him because he lied about liking bugs, (which Ouma had to do because you've all seen how Gokuhara reacts to people that don't. you've seen it) NOT because he suddenly realized he was being manipulated or something. So many people dismiss the sheer amount of agency Gokuhara actually had in chapter 4, in favour of painting the situation as just "poor stupid baby gonta got tricked into murder by the big bad ouma :((((" while. he is not STUPID (HE IS LITERALLY A SCIENTIST??) he was not COERCED into his crimes, he was a WILLING ACCOMPLICE!!!!!! I FEEL LIKE I'M LOSING MY GODDAMN MIND!!!!! He did it in a misguided attempt at mercy killing his classmates after finding out the world got fucked and everything sucks now. There are multiple pieces of dialogue that highly imply Ouma did in fact also want to mercy kill the class - which also makes sense as it would end the killing game (you know his. main. true. goal.) This would mean that he only started his plan to become the “mastermind” after Gonta told him to not die with him <- this one's quoted from my favourite dr theory blog jacksmusesdrv3 hello hava good day I couldn't find another way to word this myself. "Ouma faked being sad Gokuhara's about to be/got executed in front of him" his reaction literally parallels Kuzuryuu's to Pekoyama's death buddy. buddy. Ouma's entire thing is that he lies about lying about lying about lying WHY are you taking his word at face value why are you believing whAT THE LIAR IS TELLING YOU?????? WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING. PUT ME OUT OF MY FUCKING MISERY I CANNOT TAKE THIS. People treat Gokuhara like he's stupid (which is "funny" (he said through clenched teeth) since isn't that the entire thing everybody ingame severely underestimates him and then. i can't) while he and Ouma are two of some of the smartest people in the game. And! Gokuhara is perfectly capable of lying and having ulterior motives we've all saw him do that right :)))) multiple times right :)))))) Gokuhara even SAYS Ouma didn't trick him BECAUSE HE DIDN'T. HE DID NOT. These two have the some of the most genuine dynamics in dr, and the best in ndrv3, and you dare disrespect them like this. shame on you. SHAME. People always assume the worst in Ouma, and the best in Gokuhara. This is my personal hell. I am not okay.

♠️ favorite protagonist?

Easily Yuma, beating literally all of dr's protags (though dr1 Naegi has second place. I love you Naegi Makoto). Where do I even start? I think I'm too tired after the above rant to articulate myself anymore and I think if I wasn't that essay would take an entire week to finish lmao.

Thanks for the ask anon :3 !!!

[dangan-kagura]

Theory: The motive videos work in the same way as the Flashback Lights.

Possible evidence

Kirumi stated that she remembered being prime minister just from watching her own motive video. So once she watched it herself, she believed that what was on it was true and part of her backstory.

Kaito stated in his 4th FTE that the current prime minister was one of his previous sidekicks. Now you would think that he’s talking about Kirumi, but it should be noted that you can get Kaito’s 4th FTE in Chapter 2, and when he saw Kirumi’s motive video, like everyone else, he didn’t want to believe it was true. So since the beginning, Kaito couldn’t have known Kirumi was the current prime minister, so he could’ve been talking about someone else.

After Kirumi’s execution, Angie was the one to suggest the motive videos being similar to the Flashback Lights, where if the specific person was watching their own motive video, they’ll believe that what’s on it is true.

Kokichi also got his own motive video and it stated that his organization DICE did “petty non-violent crimes and harmless pranks”. So if Kokichi saw it, he’d be smart enough to not actually commit murder.

Even though Ryoma's motive video says he has no one important to him, in his FTEs with Kaede, he said that he had a cat that he cared about. Now think back to Ultra Despair Girls, it's revealed that Celestia and Toko both had animals in their motive videos, so how come Ryoma's cat wasn't in his motive video?

The only thing that would get in the way of this theory is Maki’s motive video, which most likely reveals her secret about being the Ultimate Assassin and Ryoma was the one to get it. It’s more likely that since the beginning, Maki was already the Ultimate Assassin and simply used Ultimate Child Caregiver to hide that truth.

[your-dear-memmy]

Ohh for sure!

Perhaps that's kind of the deal with Tsumugi herself! She's just there to make Monokuma spares and sow discord and doubt (by being the first to scream at everything), because the grand reveal isn't even about her- it's about Junko Enoshima the 53rd. She's just a placeholder, and that's why she's so 'plain'. The real mastermind is Team Danganronpa, and she's just a vessel for their figure head Junko.

My point is that I think she could've been as much of a puppet as the other players in the game: an ordinary girl that was kidnapped (or auditioned, depending on your interpretation) and made into the mastermind with the prologue's flashback lights. That'd mean that if she died too soon it would've been inconsequential, as she wasn't really needed to keep the game going. Said game already had an entire Team running it from the shadows, so an insider as the mastermind was probably just for convenience- whether she knew it or not.

So yes, I think if she did die early on then someone would've just had the flashback light used on them to become the mastermind, though without the cosplay gimmick the Junko reveal would have to be done with ai Junko instead-

-Either that, or the flashback light could've turned their new mastermind into a Remnant of Despair, like Tsumugi tried to do with Kokichi to get Maki to kill him, except it would have to be applied on the direct participant.

maybe this is already a commonly accepted idea but anyway I firmly believe that if the mastermind in Danganronpa V3 had been killed early on, they'd have flashback lighted somebody else into being the mastermind. they'd have made it so that person believed they were the mastermind all along

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just a fun theory

Good morning doods!

So I recently rewatched the V3 executions...and remembered a common theory that was going around in the Japanese fandom that’s not really known in the Western fandom. Here goes

Warning: Spoilers

it was rumored within the Japanese fandom that the way most monocubs died during the executions were actually how the creators wanted to kill(finish off) the characters but couldn't due to its gruesome overkill and needed to keep things PG13. Akamatsu's head gets decapitated from the closing piano, rolling her head staring at classmates at the end; Toujou's limbs torn apart from the saws + fall; Bugs "stings" Gonta, gets into his skin laying eggs and birthed from inside tearing his body apart. 

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