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Yttd au idea where somehow the trials for the ai of the participants were leaked to many Internet platforms before the participants were kidnapped.

I just think it would be fun. Imagine if it got leaked and before they could delete everything, the netizens that have seen it just started spreading it. Mostly because q-taro, kurumada, reko and alice wrre there and everyone speculated that they were somehow casted to this movie?

Random person: nah, it seems to be a small project tho? How did they manage to cast reko damn.

Random person 2: does anyone know who these people are? Because that blonde guy looks really hot.

Random person 3: agree agree! Holy fuck.

Random person 4: before op deleted everything, from what I know it was made from AI

Random person 5: Holy shit, this looks interesting. Why are there so many takes of this?

Random person 6: ai??? Wtf???

And many more people started chiming in, before

Random user: hold on, one of the characters looks like my classmate?

And that's how the trials of the ai for the death game got spread and soon it got to the actual participants.

(I just think this would be a fun for an au because this somehow becomes the reason why everyone tried to find each other so that they can solve this mystery.)

I'm thinking everyone would probably be mortified when they watch it, especially shin who just witnessed in every trial that he dies no matter what.

[dyingturn]

Alright, just a bit of a continuation/idea for this, I just watched Sara side story and I was like-- what if the loner that Sara beat at the card game was actually shin. And when he actually forgets his memories after the whole staging as if someone hit him with a wooden plank. After being confused by people distrusting him, he sees Sara and was like-- 'wait.. you look familiar..' and remembers that she was that woman that went around shouting who's next at the event and took all of his money.

I dunno, I think it would be funny, if before the reason why shin distrusts Sara so much was because she has the highest percentage in the victory rates. As to, temporary amnesiac shin distrusts Sara because she took all of his money at the event aka his life savings (he's totally not salty about the whole thing). Welp, atleast he won't be trying to actively antagonise Sara...

Well maybe just a bit, since he's still not really understanding all this death game, and maybe thought that he must be in a game show where the concept is a death game, and when he got into a quarrel with someone the producers thought he was faking It. So in his mind, the deaths might not be real. (Until he got into an attraction with kanna and realized that, the supposedly monsters were actually trying to kill them-- or maybe it was when he persistedly tried to partner up with Sara and almost got them killed by not trying to help).

But after that whole, I almost killed this person thing, he tries to actively help the others. It proved to be hard since that incident made their distrust for him heighten. But after some helping more and talking to others, it lessened and everyone now started trusting each other.

Until, his memories came back.

I have no clue when's a good (or worse) time for him to remember what happened in the first floors. And if it were to proceed like this, it would be a crack au that suddenly turn to angst or serious.

That's about the idea I got, I'm going back to sleep.

Au where in chapter 2, shin actually loses his memory about the whole death game and only remembers about his night shift before he got kidnapped. This happens after he was found passed out in his room with pieces of wood on his hair and the wooden plank on his bed.

This means, he also has no idea about the roasters, and is confused as to why they hate him or why they are calling him sou. He's mostly freaked out because he's convinced that they're actually the kidnappers.

He tries telling them that, no he's not faking it and two he doesn't know them for real. But since it looks like they're not listening to him anytime soon, they just leave except for kanna who's worried about him. Kanna tries to fill him in about what happened. And that's about it. Or maybe he only remembers his highschool life, but that's a bit, its gonna be hard for him to survive for real.

The other idea I got was like, midori sneaks on his room where he already did his fake getting hit in the head trick and decides to just erase his memory of him using safalin's machine-- but uhhh, I don't think the machine is very portable to be honest.

Your gonna have to use your imagination with this one.

[dyingturn]

Continuation of this, just for the other characters, because if I don't write them down, I'm going to forget everything hahaha.

Actor! Q-taro: ngl, he has played the game. Only because it was popular and he likes to on trend with everything. He doesn't agree with what his character did on the first main game, but he does understand that he did it survival. When he got the role he was nervous that he needed to learn everything about baseball, but the director's reassured him that he doesn't and if he does, he'll mostly just dress up as one for the other scenes. Though, just in case, he does try to remember some baseball terms to get into character. And when he woke up in his first trial, he really was glad he did because even after screaming for help, miley just giggles and mocks him. This wasn't even on the script, his trial wasn't suppose to be shown in the film, so he had no idea what to expect. But he does know what he needs to do, play his role and survive.

Actor! Mishima: he has played the game and read the visual novel. Its really fascinating to know more about his character, especially one that is eerily similar to him. Maybe that fascination was the reason why he decided to audition for that role. But when they were shooting his scene with the car, and waking up on the first trial. He tries to calmly guide the panicking nao to open the locks on his bindings. He can't help but notice how similar actor! Nao is with the nao right now. And so he tries his best to act as the game mishima, and save nao. I would like to believe he would be the chillest guy to isekai in this game, though he would be nervous and try to find a way to not die on the second trial by encouraging nao to vote for him and he would vote someone else except Sara. Because Sara's vote would be the most unpredictable one, and when he sees her not voting (like in the manga) he immediately looks out for other people that are not voting to avoid voting them.

Actor! Kai: he hasn't played the game or read the visual novel. He wasn't the type of person to be on trend of things, but after getting called by one of the directors to play as the character. He heard what kind of character he was going to play through the directors and understood why he was chosen to play the part. With how similar they are, except for the stalker part. So he mostly just reads the script to understand more about his character and sometimes meet with the other casts to practice. So when he woke up in his first trial, he has no idea what's happening until he met the other casts. Observing how Sara seems to be acting as the character even when there are no cameras rolling. But when Sara tries to question him, he tries to act as his character. It seems like he needs to find a way to avoid suspicion, but with how his character's background is, its going to be difficult. The reason he played as his character is to avoid suspicion from miley, and if he survives the first trial, avoid suspicion from his characters family.

That's all of the characters (except for the dolls and dummies!) Got a bit sick rn, so ill be sleeping now.

Au where an actor that acts for the best seller uhhh visual novel yttd has isekaid/transmigrated to the actual game. And now has to survive without tipping others off that they're not actually the character.

Alright, I really love actor aus, I haven't seen much on ao3 that is about yttd but I was just thinking, man, I would love to combine this with isekai/transmigration aus and here we are.

In the actors world, yttd was pretty popular. And having the opportunity to play as their favourite character is just like a dream come true. Seeing as how their character is just like them, personality and appearance wise, they just relate to them so much.

But while memorising the script from their trailer, before the shooting of their first scene. Their vision blurs and before they know it they just passed out.

And when they woke up, they saw a familiar place, the room that they were introduced to, to where their first scene would happen. The first trial room.

Okay, before anything, I haven't really figured out which character is actually gonna get isekaid so uhhh here are some thoughts

- they cannot remember their real name nor the names of the actors

- uhhh, I'll probably edit to add some here, idk

- it's only them who was isekaid there (but it would be interesting if there was someone else with them and just panicking because they have no idea if this character's actions became different because of their actions or its just someone like them

If its...

Actor! Sara: has read and played the visual novel. Has never met actor!Joe and they do rehearse sometimes. When they woke up in the game, they figured where they were and thought for a moment (huh, those lines seems similar-- it's the lines from the game!) And acted their lines word per word. And as they walk around they noticed the lack of cameras, the director's yell of cut or just the overall setting. Their motive of playing their role to avoid suspicion is mostly because of Joe.

Actor!kanna: has only read the script, they know about their character from the description of it from the directors but they have not read/played the visual game. When meeting actor!kugie they immediately became friends, often media described them to be sisters-- even acted on a movie. So So they realized they have a role as sisters in yttd series, they often rehearsed their lines. Waking up in the first trial, a!kanna were traumatised. They thought it was just scene, but halfway through they noticed the lack of cameras and immediately went to action and tried to help kugie. But it was too late. Their motives of playing their role is mostly due to them being terrified and not knowing what else to do.

Actor!reko: has played the game and read the script. They haven't met any of the actors, but they have heard of actor! Alice, since they have been watching some of his movies. (She thinks the game was neat, it had some banger of sound tracks too) I have no clue what reko's first trial actually was so, uhhh, their motive to playing their character is to just avoid suspicion.

Actor!nao: she's a new aspiring actor that has played/read the visual novel, it was amazing! They even made an art about it! Actor!mishima was actually the person that got her the role, since they know each other from... (plot convenience, I'll add something after), but what made her go there was to meet actor!reko, or who'll play as her. Anyways, the first trial, confused but played her part before asking mishima some things like, where Is this? Are we done shooting? Etc.. before realizing this was the game, and her motives for playing her part was to avoid suspicion from mishima.

I'll add the others later, I need to sleep hahaha.

[dyingturn]

It came to me in a dream, (probably) crack au where Sara and shin's trial got switched and oop- the roaster was misprinted and it showed Sara having the 0% and Shin having 15.5% In the victory rates.

(Or maybe if was serious and someone intentionally did it. Or an accident, haha, I mean it's so easy to mix up shin and Sara- but honestly it's up to imagination)

Sara wakes up in dark with only a lamp light illuminating a black board. Confused as to how and why she's there she tries to remember her situation, and started shouting for her mom and Joe. Right- the stalker! He must've kidnapped me! I need to find a way out. She thought, while frantically looking around to find an escape, but it was so dark, that she first investigated the papers on the black board.

That's when miley comes in to give the roasters. Of course, miley was also taken aback seeing Sara chidouin at this room. She just giggles, saying there has been a mistake but they just have to work with it. She hands them over and starts to thoroughly explain how accurate the results were. And how lucky Sara was with her victory rates, wholly unaware that the roasters percentage were wrong and that Sara is panicking again seeing her percentage as 0%. Certain death.

After miley leaves. Sara is left there alone. She's shaking. She doesn't want to die. And that when shin' shadow figure comes in. Asking if she knows what a majority vote is. The same dialogue happens, and when there's the reveal that it was actually shin (what I'm guessing is like a doll of him) and started saying the same thing. And now, Sara has decided she'll do anything to survive even at the cost of others lives.

Onto to shin's trial, he wakes up and bound to a bed and can only move his right hand. He's panicking, remembering that he got kidnapped after going home from a night shift. He started shouting for help, and if there's anyone there and Joe replied as if just also waking up. When he heard Joe's reply he asks if he can help him, but it seems like Joe also can't move. He tries to look for anything he can grasp on, and gets a cellphone and the trial starts.

He tries to find the key and gets out of his restraints, and tries to get Joe out of the restraints. But when he used the key, it doesn't work--. He tries again, and while Joe was waiting, he looks around and sees on the other side, (this is a bit from the manga) kugie seeing Joe, reaching out asking for help before being crushed by the bed. He looks back at shin who's looking around for another key-- or something! He tells shin that if he doesn't make it out, he assumes that his friend Sara must've also been kidnapped, to tell her that he loves her, he's her best friend.

(Y'know at this point shin could leave him to die and that would be an interesting thing to see at the victim videos or something. Or like floor masters hinting that Joe was there, and shin not telling Sara about Joe just from pure guilt and to avoid dying. And when Sara finds out, it'll be more of a reason to kill him ndisjsisns. Just a thought)

Shin thought of leaving him behind. But- he notices the red in the key have been scraped and there's a bit of green showing. Uses the sand paper and was able to get Joe out before the time limit. Joe thanks him profusely, saying how he almost died. They exchanged names and shin suggested they look around for anything. When they found nothing, they decided to get out of the room. While walking, Joe decided to go in front saying how shin would probably trip or something (idnkdss I dunno how to dialogue, how do these two interact in the game?) So shin just gives him the phone to illuminate the way saying that he trusts him. (Alright, I have no clue how they fall. Maybe they saw the big ass hole, and both tripped which is gonna be funny. Or they got trap door. Either way, that phone is gonna shatter).

That's all I got for now. I haven't gotten some of them refined like should shin be awake or passed out after that fall. If he wasn't, then he'll get carried by Joe to the central hall. He puts down shin somewhere, to lean on the wall. And Sara rushes to Joe, and Joe is equally relieved to see someone familiar and that Sara was okay. But Sara seemed, reserved? She looks and saw shin and was immediately suspicious, because wasn't that the guy she met at her trial room(?)

Yeah, nope, that's it. I'm going to sleep now.

[dyingturn]

I'm thinking of if Sara won where or which chapter would it be for this au.

What I'm thinking is, it would be from chapter 2 before the main game, where Sara became suspicious of Q-taro and (let's just say Q-taro inserted his tokens before asking Sara for more and after she declined, q-taro went to other people) inserted her tokens in the vending machine. It's opens and after ranger tells her what would happen to the other participants, she hesitates but after some thought, she still goes through. And that's when she blacked out and woke up in her classroom.

Other is with the main game in chapter 2, and Sara survives with nao but they get separated nonetheless. I think in this, nao would be more hesitant or distant with the professor since she knows its not him anymore and she already accepted his death. But, she would still treat him normally since with the reko doll, she knows that these dolls have feelings too. And she could like meet up with Sara, as they try to understand what is happening. And since this is still the chapter 2, Sara hasn't really moved on with Joe's death. It would be difficult for her to act normal.

Last one is basically, just the end of the game. Still have no idea how it'll end, but she does survive. It'll be like shin/Alice route just for sake of Sara forgetting about Joe. And meeting him outside triggers her memories and makes her remember him. Until it'll all come back together.

(Or idk, maybe it'll be more interesting if she doesn't remember him and is just confused as to who ryoko was talking to- or why is this guy so close to her)

(Y'know what would be fucked up? If ranger gave her Joe's hairpin before she goes through. Or maybe she asks for it and ranger gives it to her. Like its the only that proves everything about the death game was real. Joe is dead.

Or maybe it would be more interesting if she doesn't have it, then she could live ignoring the fact that the death game happened.)

She goes outside and meets ryoko.

Thats about everything I've got. Sleeping time.

Au where Sara is the only survivor of the death game, and instead of answering any of her questions or the mysteries about ASUNARO or her real family they just shove her outside. And every participants of the death game were replaced by dolls. They all don't know about this death game, since after the human them were kidnapped, the asunaro immediately replaced them.

So Joe doll is really worried about Sara because she seemed different from yesterday and doesn't have her 'memories' from the past few days. She also seems to be avoiding him, and one time when he'd pestered her long enough she just snapped and screamed at him, saying "you're not joe"/"shut up"-- Joe started to distance himself for now since ryoko Said that it might be for the best--

That's basically all what I've got.

[dyingturn]

Time travel au where at chapter 2, shin gets voted at the main game and wakes up in his highschool body. And he does everything he can to avoid sou to not get involved with the death game.

Alright, to be honest all I know is that shin met sou at his highschool, thought he was student, realized he wasn't. But they somehow became friends, (or he saw midori as a brother figure?).

I just think it would be funny how shin would react just from going back to class, seeing these people he forgot the names of, and studying... again. Of course he wasn't paying attention to that at all, he's confused, he was literally just fighting for his life to make the Joe ai work before he dies and now he's here?? What if this wasn't even real.

Anyways, he walks down to the hallway, and he sees it. A familiar green rat tailed hair, who's just smiling at him. No- he's dead. But...

Sou approaches him with that eerie smile of his and tries to have a small talk. Instead of answering he just ignores him, and when he pesters him long enough he just glares at him, before running off.

I'm thinking this would probably intrigue sou because shin isn't really acting like his past self and is wondering what event led to this drastic personality change and behaviour. And observes him even more. (Imagine if one day, sou actually transfers to the school just to do that, I know he can't but just imagine--)

(Because if he does, he would be able to pry more information from shin and shin would sometimes slip up when agitated/over confident like what happened at the main game, and sou was able to put together that shin either a) knows about asunaro therefore him b) pretty far fetched but time travel or something similar like false memories c) knows about the death game )

I have no clue how to end this, I'm not thinking of this au as a ship but more of a trying to avoid death flag kind of thing. Maybe he achieves avoiding sou and now lives a pretty normal life, hears about the news of Alice going to prison, not his problem but it Is concerning. And then wakes up at the death game, and was like "not again", but surprisingly, his percentage is different now.

Or maybe y'know, he meets or sees the other participants. The whiplash he gets when he sees keiji without his piss hair, sees q-taro in the television, passing by a delinquent looking mishima or something, I have no clue.

That's basically it. I'm sleeping early today, yeyy.

[dyingturn]

I wonder... with Sara gone, keiji would likely be the -kind of- leader of the group now. Or maybe Joe since despite what happened people still trust him and most suspicion about being involved in the death game were mainly because of sou. I just don't know if Joe still feels the same to them.

Alright, probably in chapter 2. Joe now has a similar experience of hallucination that Sara would have, punches the glass and keiji comes after hearing the glass shattering in Joe's room. Keiji helps him but afterwards Joe asks him to leave him alone for now. And then he was left alone to deal with the hallucinations.

Still some things were still similar, even with the monitor room, only mishima's monitor was on. He looks frantically for Sara's monitor and sees it, and tries to figure out how to turn it on and that when rio ranger comes in and mocks him that it won't open!

Alright I kept thinking what item of Sara should ranger have on, and I'm thinking maybe the blazer (but it's too common, not theirs), hair tie (it's not visibly shown on sprites so idk what it looks like) or uhhh the long socks ( I mean he wears kugie's skirt, might as well complete the whole outfit) so uhh yeah, Joe notices this and gets visibly angry at ranger, it was keiji that tries to diffuses the conflict/safalin comes in or something.

Anyways explanation about the token and attraction, still the same. Fast forward a bit to where they are trying to find sou only to see him passed out in his room. Sou starts saying his shit, the "who isn't here... don't tell me- miss Sara?" And gets punched to the face before the others were able to stop Joe.

Honestly, I might expand on this a bit more but I really (if the Joe was the son of the policeman keiji shot theory was true) want the uhhh drama this might cause. Like when keiji starts talking about why he became a policeman and then Joe starts talking about his dad. The suspicion that Joe had for keiji lowers, while keiji has a suspicion that the policeman he knows might be related to Joe.

(And also, remember that flashback scene from kanna about her sister, the one where she got the whole bucket on her head covering her face. Ngl, the kid that tries to cheer her up looks hella like Joe and then he just remembers it and they bond hsizhskajwi)

Okay that's all I got, I need to sleep.

Au where Joe lives and Sara dies in the main game from chapter 1. Alright, this is probably not that new of an au but imagine-- this would be so interesting!

I'm thinking of how Sara gets the sacrifice card and I'm thinking of like two scenarios.

Either Sara also takes the sacrifice card and now she got like two cards (after some puzzles and talking to other characters) she meets Joe at the bar. She looks over, thinking he might've also gotten a card and she sees their picture with ryoko. They talk about it, all tension leaving and Sara decides to trust Joe and ask if he saw any card. He says he doesn't and gives him the key master card. I haven't thought out why but it might have something to do with she trusts that just like in the first trial, he'll be able to save her if anything happens.

Or it could be after Sara got the key master card, she gives it to Joe and (after many puzzles later, basically when sou got knocked out) she picks up the sacrifice card and wasn't able to throw it away without having others be suspicious (she doesn't really know what the card means yet, but she has a bad feeling about it).

Its up for imagination how it happens really.

In the main game, the realisation dawns on sara. Her card... sacrifice... she'll die? If not her, then other people will.

... what about Joe?

Joe has the key master.

Sara stayed there panicking, she thought from what to do, to how to survive. And that if she's picked as the victim, she would pick Joe so that they can survive together.

(Uhh yeah, I can't write, but that's basically the idea--)

"You see I'm the keymaster"

"!!"

"Huh???"

Joe looks like he's about to say something but is hesitant, he looks over to Sara who nods, and he immediately announces that he's the keymaster.

And then the announcing that kai was actually the stalker. And then the laptop password. And then the arguing with sou. But half way through, something seems strange. Joe notices half way through arguing with sou, she looked more calm even when her arguments are no longer making sense.

So voting starts, and of course, Sara votes for Joe and the same participants from chap 1 are for preliminary vote except kanna. (I really have no idea how this is going to happen, since I want Sara to manipulate how the discussion is going to flow. she could convince everyone that she's the sage, and since no one is really gonna question her except sou, kai would probably see through her plan and go along with it, not saying anything)

And then 3 minutes are left, Sara tries to pressure them like there isn't enough time to know which between sou and kai is the sacrifice, and that its okay to vote for her. Joe argues with her bur ultimately gets nervous and tries to think how to identify the sacrifice. Of course keiji is suspicious asking her if she's actually okay with it. She agrees And he stays silent, before saying something like "...I guess my instincts were wrong" and of course, sou ruins the whole thing by accusing her of being the sacrifice.

(Yeahhh, that's about my 1am creativity for this. I need to sleep)

[dyingturn]

I think I'll just add here the others, I really have no clue about including the dummies tho, because what im thinking is like-- this is just the chapter 1 being filmed so the dummies (or people that did not survive the first trial) are not gonna present.

So here are some thoughts again for this actor x isekai au I've been thinking about...

Actor!shin: has probably watched every content /memes about the visual novel, but hasn't read/watched it. He pieced together the storyline by watching YouTube content or whatnot. I mean, why would he read/play the visual novel-- he's busy! (Is probably horrified of the outfit for shin-- ). He hasn't actually met the other actors except for Sara but barely acquaintances. When he first wakes up in the game, he was confused, with what was his outfit and who are these two people. His confusion and the fact that he realizes everything seems to be going as the script, is what made him act like his role. But mostly scared that acting Any differently before chapter 2 could gather negative attention ( and he doesn't want that, especially from the REAL sou hiyori). Let's just hope he actually got the story line correct--

Actor!keiji: honestly, I'm thinking that he's not even had a role like detective from his previous movies, but most of them have been action-based. Has not read/played the visual novel nor has he met the actors for the said game. (This got me thinking hard, and I still have no idea since if he let's sasahara live he's gonna have to pretend to know this detective which is bad because she'll immediately be suspicious of her behaviour, on the other hand, if he let's her die he doesn't have a motive to pretend to be his character other than avoid suspicion from the floor master's and whatnot) so uhhhh.... yikes. I'll probably edit this if I got any ideas.

Actor!gin: he has played the game! He actually knows everything about it, he once made an art about it. When he woke up to his first trial (alright, I have no clue what gin's first trial was--) and being surrounded by a bunch of strangers, he decided to play his role and introduced himself as gin. His mother told him to not tell strangers what his actual name was, afterall.

Actor!Joe: alright this guy, has probably played the game and cried so much after seeing his character die. Has not met any of the actors but when he met a!Sara, something immediately clicked and they became friends, often rehearsing lines together. (Or maybe its because he admires the character Sara from the game, who knows?) I'm thinking whether he should wake up in like while he was waiting for Sara so that it's more confusing or the first trial. If it were the latter, he was terrified when he woke up, confused but reacted on instinct and said his lines. Motive for playing his role was to avoid suspicion from Sara, but he'll try hid best not to get the sacrifice card tho.

Alright, that's about it. My head hurts thinking, I should really sleep now.

Au where an actor that acts for the best seller uhhh visual novel yttd has isekaid/transmigrated to the actual game. And now has to survive without tipping others off that they're not actually the character.

Alright, I really love actor aus, I haven't seen much on ao3 that is about yttd but I was just thinking, man, I would love to combine this with isekai/transmigration aus and here we are.

In the actors world, yttd was pretty popular. And having the opportunity to play as their favourite character is just like a dream come true. Seeing as how their character is just like them, personality and appearance wise, they just relate to them so much.

But while memorising the script from their trailer, before the shooting of their first scene. Their vision blurs and before they know it they just passed out.

And when they woke up, they saw a familiar place, the room that they were introduced to, to where their first scene would happen. The first trial room.

Okay, before anything, I haven't really figured out which character is actually gonna get isekaid so uhhh here are some thoughts

- they cannot remember their real name nor the names of the actors

- uhhh, I'll probably edit to add some here, idk

- it's only them who was isekaid there (but it would be interesting if there was someone else with them and just panicking because they have no idea if this character's actions became different because of their actions or its just someone like them

If its...

Actor! Sara: has read and played the visual novel. Has never met actor!Joe and they do rehearse sometimes. When they woke up in the game, they figured where they were and thought for a moment (huh, those lines seems similar-- it's the lines from the game!) And acted their lines word per word. And as they walk around they noticed the lack of cameras, the director's yell of cut or just the overall setting. Their motive of playing their role to avoid suspicion is mostly because of Joe.

Actor!kanna: has only read the script, they know about their character from the description of it from the directors but they have not read/played the visual game. When meeting actor!kugie they immediately became friends, often media described them to be sisters-- even acted on a movie. So So they realized they have a role as sisters in yttd series, they often rehearsed their lines. Waking up in the first trial, a!kanna were traumatised. They thought it was just scene, but halfway through they noticed the lack of cameras and immediately went to action and tried to help kugie. But it was too late. Their motives of playing their role is mostly due to them being terrified and not knowing what else to do.

Actor!reko: has played the game and read the script. They haven't met any of the actors, but they have heard of actor! Alice, since they have been watching some of his movies. (She thinks the game was neat, it had some banger of sound tracks too) I have no clue what reko's first trial actually was so, uhhh, their motive to playing their character is to just avoid suspicion.

Actor!nao: she's a new aspiring actor that has played/read the visual novel, it was amazing! They even made an art about it! Actor!mishima was actually the person that got her the role, since they know each other from... (plot convenience, I'll add something after), but what made her go there was to meet actor!reko, or who'll play as her. Anyways, the first trial, confused but played her part before asking mishima some things like, where Is this? Are we done shooting? Etc.. before realizing this was the game, and her motives for playing her part was to avoid suspicion from mishima.

I'll add the others later, I need to sleep hahaha.

[dyingturn]

Au where an actor that acts for the best seller uhhh visual novel yttd has isekaid/transmigrated to the actual game. And now has to survive without tipping others off that they're not actually the character.

Alright, I really love actor aus, I haven't seen much on ao3 that is about yttd but I was just thinking, man, I would love to combine this with isekai/transmigration aus and here we are.

In the actors world, yttd was pretty popular. And having the opportunity to play as their favourite character is just like a dream come true. Seeing as how their character is just like them, personality and appearance wise, they just relate to them so much.

But while memorising the script from their trailer, before the shooting of their first scene. Their vision blurs and before they know it they just passed out.

And when they woke up, they saw a familiar place, the room that they were introduced to, to where their first scene would happen. The first trial room.

Okay, before anything, I haven't really figured out which character is actually gonna get isekaid so uhhh here are some thoughts

- they cannot remember their real name nor the names of the actors

- uhhh, I'll probably edit to add some here, idk

- it's only them who was isekaid there (but it would be interesting if there was someone else with them and just panicking because they have no idea if this character's actions became different because of their actions or its just someone like them

If its...

Actor! Sara: has read and played the visual novel. Has never met actor!Joe and they do rehearse sometimes. When they woke up in the game, they figured where they were and thought for a moment (huh, those lines seems similar-- it's the lines from the game!) And acted their lines word per word. And as they walk around they noticed the lack of cameras, the director's yell of cut or just the overall setting. Their motive of playing their role to avoid suspicion is mostly because of Joe.

Actor!kanna: has only read the script, they know about their character from the description of it from the directors but they have not read/played the visual game. When meeting actor!kugie they immediately became friends, often media described them to be sisters-- even acted on a movie. So So they realized they have a role as sisters in yttd series, they often rehearsed their lines. Waking up in the first trial, a!kanna were traumatised. They thought it was just scene, but halfway through they noticed the lack of cameras and immediately went to action and tried to help kugie. But it was too late. Their motives of playing their role is mostly due to them being terrified and not knowing what else to do.

Actor!reko: has played the game and read the script. They haven't met any of the actors, but they have heard of actor! Alice, since they have been watching some of his movies. (She thinks the game was neat, it had some banger of sound tracks too) I have no clue what reko's first trial actually was so, uhhh, their motive to playing their character is to just avoid suspicion.

Actor!nao: she's a new aspiring actor that has played/read the visual novel, it was amazing! They even made an art about it! Actor!mishima was actually the person that got her the role, since they know each other from... (plot convenience, I'll add something after), but what made her go there was to meet actor!reko, or who'll play as her. Anyways, the first trial, confused but played her part before asking mishima some things like, where Is this? Are we done shooting? Etc.. before realizing this was the game, and her motives for playing her part was to avoid suspicion from mishima.

I'll add the others later, I need to sleep hahaha.

[dyingturn]

Au where Joe lives and Sara dies in the main game from chapter 1. Alright, this is probably not that new of an au but imagine-- this would be so interesting!

I'm thinking of how Sara gets the sacrifice card and I'm thinking of like two scenarios.

Either Sara also takes the sacrifice card and now she got like two cards (after some puzzles and talking to other characters) she meets Joe at the bar. She looks over, thinking he might've also gotten a card and she sees their picture with ryoko. They talk about it, all tension leaving and Sara decides to trust Joe and ask if he saw any card. He says he doesn't and gives him the key master card. I haven't thought out why but it might have something to do with she trusts that just like in the first trial, he'll be able to save her if anything happens.

Or it could be after Sara got the key master card, she gives it to Joe and (after many puzzles later, basically when sou got knocked out) she picks up the sacrifice card and wasn't able to throw it away without having others be suspicious (she doesn't really know what the card means yet, but she has a bad feeling about it).

Its up for imagination how it happens really.

In the main game, the realisation dawns on sara. Her card... sacrifice... she'll die? If not her, then other people will.

... what about Joe?

Joe has the key master.

Sara stayed there panicking, she thought from what to do, to how to survive. And that if she's picked as the victim, she would pick Joe so that they can survive together.

(Uhh yeah, I can't write, but that's basically the idea--)

"You see I'm the keymaster"

"!!"

"Huh???"

Joe looks like he's about to say something but is hesitant, he looks over to Sara who nods, and he immediately announces that he's the keymaster.

And then the announcing that kai was actually the stalker. And then the laptop password. And then the arguing with sou. But half way through, something seems strange. Joe notices half way through arguing with sou, she looked more calm even when her arguments are no longer making sense.

So voting starts, and of course, Sara votes for Joe and the same participants from chap 1 are for preliminary vote except kanna. (I really have no idea how this is going to happen, since I want Sara to manipulate how the discussion is going to flow. she could convince everyone that she's the sage, and since no one is really gonna question her except sou, kai would probably see through her plan and go along with it, not saying anything)

And then 3 minutes are left, Sara tries to pressure them like there isn't enough time to know which between sou and kai is the sacrifice, and that its okay to vote for her. Joe argues with her bur ultimately gets nervous and tries to think how to identify the sacrifice. Of course keiji is suspicious asking her if she's actually okay with it. She agrees And he stays silent, before saying something like "...I guess my instincts were wrong" and of course, sou ruins the whole thing by accusing her of being the sacrifice.

(Yeahhh, that's about my 1am creativity for this. I need to sleep)

[dyingturn]

Au where in chapter 2, shin actually loses his memory about the whole death game and only remembers about his night shift before he got kidnapped. This happens after he was found passed out in his room with pieces of wood on his hair and the wooden plank on his bed.

This means, he also has no idea about the roasters, and is confused as to why they hate him or why they are calling him sou. He's mostly freaked out because he's convinced that they're actually the kidnappers.

He tries telling them that, no he's not faking it and two he doesn't know them for real. But since it looks like they're not listening to him anytime soon, they just leave except for kanna who's worried about him. Kanna tries to fill him in about what happened. And that's about it. Or maybe he only remembers his highschool life, but that's a bit, its gonna be hard for him to survive for real.

The other idea I got was like, midori sneaks on his room where he already did his fake getting hit in the head trick and decides to just erase his memory of him using safalin's machine-- but uhhh, I don't think the machine is very portable to be honest.

Your gonna have to use your imagination with this one.

[dyingturn]

Another au where in second chapter, Sara can see Joe, kai and mishima's ghost, the only problem is that she can also see the hallucinations.

It starts off normal, she could see the hallucinations, it haunts her and she tries her best to ignore it. One day, when she went to the kitchen (lmao, I know there wasn't any on the third floor but imagine) and she sees kai's ghost, looking over the ingredients and thinking out loud what he could make with it.

But then she could see the lingering ghost of mishima around nao, or Joe once in a while, sometimes around her.

And uhhh, that's about it.

[dyingturn]

Au where Sara is the only survivor of the death game, and instead of answering any of her questions or the mysteries about ASUNARO or her real family they just shove her outside. And every participants of the death game were replaced by dolls. They all don't know about this death game, since after the human them were kidnapped, the asunaro immediately replaced them.

So Joe doll is really worried about Sara because she seemed different from yesterday and doesn't have her 'memories' from the past few days. She also seems to be avoiding him, and one time when he'd pestered her long enough she just snapped and screamed at him, saying "you're not joe"/"shut up"-- Joe started to distance himself for now since ryoko Said that it might be for the best--

That's basically all what I've got.

[dyingturn]

I keep thinking of what's happening outside while the characters are doing the death game. Like how's ryoko, is she trying to find them? How about gin's mother? Or the students/classmates/teachers that knows nao and mishima.

I really wanna know so bad :(( but I guess I'll just explore the fandom more, maybe the answer is in a wiki or something.