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I'd like to point out that my checklist is steadily collecting checkmarks.

Game Changer Season 7 Predictions

Sam Does Not Say

Enter the Greenroom

Brennan has an aneurysm

Deja Vu pt. 2 - same contestants, same questions

Samuel Dalton appearance

Milgram Experiment gone wrong

Jamais Vu

Escape the White Room

Mock execution

Everybody Do The Wenis

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They forgot the only consistent rule of Game Changer - Sam is always the enemy.

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Super excited to share my piece for @oumotazine2 !!

It was a joy to finally create a scenario that I've been dreaming of since the beginning of my oumota phase, and I'm really happy that it's a part of this amazing zine

Be sure to look out for leftovers starting the 22th of this month!

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I think it would be funny if DICE itself was a front for the Future Foundation and Kokichi is running the whole shebang.

Ultimate Secret Agent/Ultimate Spy Kokichi AU

(Post-Tragedy, Makoto's New Hope's Peak AU)

After the Tragedy, the world rebuilt itself with the help of different organizations such as the Future Foundation, now under less corrupt management. However, Despair Cults continue to re-emerge and commit terrorist acts, uncommon at this point in time, but certainly not unheard of.

To fight against them, a myriad of organizations are formed, but none of them are quite as efficient as DICE, a secret organization the public has never heard of that goes toe to toe directly with the Future Foundation. Its leader is rumored to be a big, scary man, ruthless and merciless in his eradication of despair, and by some thought to be a despair advocate himself. That is, of course, a lie.

DICE is still a secret organization of pranksters and thieves, who now also commit high caliber spy missions to make the world a better place in the form of very convoluted plans. It started off as a group of 10 to 11 orphaned clowns, escaped from the terrible foster care system of Japan that the current world is slowly trying to improve on. They remain the core members, but the organization expands in branches over time to further their goals, still maintaining the rule of “don't kill people.”

Makoto Naegi, the Principal of New Hope’s Peak, tries to reach out to the mysterious leader of DICE. To his luck, said leader is willing to hear him out. Makoto planned to ask the leader of DICE to externally monitor New Hope’s Peak, as to prevent the Tragedy from ever happening again, but when he's met with the unexpected sight of a 5’1 tall 16 year old, a change of plans occurs.

Makoto asks Kokichi to attend his school and act as a mole amongst the Ultimates (reason as to why Kokichi pokes and prods at the other students so much, aside from amusement) while becoming an Ultimate himself, something very warranted if he truly was the leader of DICE. Kokichi already had his eyes on New Hope’s Peak, so he agrees on his own terms. He's a leader, so he won't act as a lackey!

All the documents in New Hope's Peak referring to Kokichi are either destroyed, tampered with or non-existent.

In regards to his Ultimate Talent/s, either:

1. He has a double talent like Junko, being both the Ultimate Supreme Leader and the Ultimate Secret Agent.

2. He is the Ultimate Secret Agent, but says he's the Ultimate Grandmaster to be more inconspicuous.

3. He is the Ultimate Secret Agent, but says he's the Ultimate Supreme Leader, as such an extravagant title makes his every tale of spy hijinks seem like an elaborate lie.

4. He is the Ultimate Supreme Leader, and was either scouted due to an elaborate prank he pulled off with DICE, or he snuck into Makoto’s archives and enrolled himself in to spy on New Hope’s Peak.

5. He is the Ultimate Grandmaster. After he initially sustained his organization with the money he won from his chess matches, he gets scouted by New Hope's Peak or enrolls himself in to become a self-appointed mole.

[My prompts can be used with credit! I'd love to see something inspired by this <3]

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I'm in agreement with @lockpickingliar - I don't think Kokichi wanted to sacrifice anyone, but he was definitely operating on a completely different level than the others and was prepared to do what was necessary. No single piece in the chess metaphor can be more important than the goal - as he says in the second trial, the rest of the cast is "hiding behind the word trust," too afraid to point fingers even when their own lives are on the line. No one else has the spine to make the hard calls, so he has to step up. He even accounts for the failure of his own plan and leaves crucial breadcrumbs behind in his (unlocked) room for the survivors.

Kokichi being aware of the fourth wall is a near game breaking level of awareness. The Mastermind's identity, whoever he's playing chess against, doesn't matter if he can flip the whole table. It would have given the player too much information if he was the protagonist, but I can't stop thinking about how much more interesting V3 would have been from his perspective.

I really, really wish one of the clues we found in his room were some of the files from Shuichi's lab - there's no way he ignored those, and given how many accurate conclusions he managed to draw from so few scraps of information, I'd bet money he realized they were from past rounds. The way things are, all but two members of the class are screwed - he can't save anyone already on the chopping block. But maybe he can save season 54.

seen a couple posts talking about the ending of the drv3 chapter 5 trial so here's my personal take:

shuichi and kaito didn't "ruin" kokichi's plan, because it never would have worked in the first place. monokuma had too much control over the whole situation. i think monokuma threatening to kill everyone and kaito stepping out of the exisal was the only way that trial could have ended, regardless of what shuichi did.

it's partially because of kaito's nature and partially tsumugi's as the mastermind. we know tsumugi will do ANYTHING to keep the game going, including breaking the rules, so if there was an unsolvable murder i guarantee she would bend the truth to make it solvable. she's not going down that easy.

kaito didn't completely understand kokichi's plan- he was only doing it as a favor from one dying kid to another. the second it looked like his friends would get killed because of it, he jumped ship. kaito cares too much about others, and not enough about himself, and he would never have risked his friends being executed.

if kokichi's plan DID work, and they voted kokichi as the blackened, i don't think THIS monokuma would have let it slide. it would still be an incorrect vote, and tsumugi clearly doesn't care about the rules the way junko did. she'd kill all of them and have kaito "graduate." i don't think kaito would let that happen, and i don't think he even had enough faith in the plan to GET that far, especially if monokuma started pushing him to reveal himself the way he does in canon. he didn't care about "tricking the mastermind" the way kokichi definitely did- he just cared about making sure everyone made it out alive.

that isn't to say that kokichi DIDN'T care about everyone else (clearly he very much did), moreso that he cared a lot about fucking with the game itself. he hated the game, and he hated the audience, and i think, crucially, he hated the killing. his view on it was different than kaito's, and while they both wanted to "end" the game, that meant different things for each of them.

kaito is headstrong and easy to anger, and extremely loyal. kaito made the conscious decision to murder kokichi, and he did it to save maki. there was, of course, the element of wanting to "end" the game, but i really don't think that was his main goal. it was a killing game, and he chose to kill, even if it was for someone else. kokichi gave kaito a reason to kill him, but kaito still chose to commit murder. i think the guilt of that was eating at his pride, and that's partially why he showed himself at the end.

kokichi and kaito are both flawed people, and they made bad decisions. kokichi's crazy ass plan was a shot in the dark, and it was desperate, and both of them were dying. shuichi did the best he could with what kokichi gave him, and i don't think enough people give him credit for that. he even tries to backtrack when he realized kokichi's actual goal!!!! the plan was just so flawed from the beginning, because kokichi still had no idea who the mastermind was, and he didn't trust anyone enough to ask them for help (you could argue he DID trust them with the plan after his death, in his own convoluted way, but it's behind so many layers of distrust that it was doomed to fail.)

i think we all too readily believed the idea that, if it worked, this plan would end the killing game and everyone would live happily ever after. MAYBE in a junko-run killing game, like ch6 of trigger happy havoc, but not with tsumugi. if they voted kokichi, i think monokuma would have smoked kaito out and then killed everyone. it wouldn't have been a checkmate.

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Please do, and please tag me 🙏

The V3 version of Danganronpa relies on the prison-industrial complex for victims volunteers, specifically juvenile detention centers. Adolescents are offered lightened sentences for participation and full pardons for winning, thus ensuring the sign-up process is (technically) voluntary. DICE is an activist organization - the acronym is Danganronpa Is (a) Criminal Enterprise - that protests the profiteering off of the vulnerable and works to challenge the draconian laws concerning mild, petty crimes that exist primarily to feed the system.

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Feel free to take it on, I very much doubt I'll ever actually write it 😆 But, hope springs eternal.

The V3 version of Danganronpa relies on the prison-industrial complex for victims volunteers, specifically juvenile detention centers. Adolescents are offered lightened sentences for participation and full pardons for winning, thus ensuring the sign-up process is (technically) voluntary. DICE is an activist organization - the acronym is Danganronpa Is (a) Criminal Enterprise - that protests the profiteering off of the vulnerable and works to challenge the draconian laws concerning mild, petty crimes that exist primarily to feed the system.

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Alright, let's see here....

The ones I have so far:

- Himiko has a severe iron deficiency that caused her to nap in class all the time.

- Kirumi lied about her age to earn a position with a housekeeping business.

- Tsumugi was born pirating media, especially old, out-of-print manga and niche anime.

- Gonta isn't a delinquent, he just has a learning disability.

- Ryoma really did kill a guy.

The rest of the class:

- Kaede got caught breaking into school after hours to practice on the piano.

- Tenko beat up a rich kid trying to use his status to pressure girls into "dates."

- Kaito skipped regular classes and tried to sneak into astronomy lectures at the local college instead.

- Angie broke into a art museum; she was found the next morning staring entranced at a painting of sunflowers.

- Miu regularly ditched class to go smoke behind the school.

- Maki has Resting Bitch Face; it was perceived as "having an Attitude."

- Korekiyo is a DICE operative; he joined up after his sister was forced into the game.

- Rantaro's first game was for never coming to class; his second was as another DICE operative.

- Shuichi also isn't a delinquent; he's just a Danganronpa freak.

- Kokichi was a Direct Threat to the system, but too wily to get nabbed. He deliberately orchestrated his inclusion into the game with the intent of dismantling it from the inside in a plan I won't get into in case I ever do decide to actually write any of this.

The V3 version of Danganronpa relies on the prison-industrial complex for victims volunteers, specifically juvenile detention centers. Adolescents are offered lightened sentences for participation and full pardons for winning, thus ensuring the sign-up process is (technically) voluntary. DICE is an activist organization - the acronym is Danganronpa Is (a) Criminal Enterprise - that protests the profiteering off of the vulnerable and works to challenge the draconian laws concerning mild, petty crimes that exist primarily to feed the system.

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Excited to see what other subcultures Dropout introduces to Dungeons and Dragons in the future, but I also think it would be really funny if they mashed the Queens and Wrestlers into one party for a season.

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I'd like to play a dating sim where you have loads and loads of options, all different kinds of characters to pursue but none of them ever feel quite right and the ultimate end goal of the game is to realize your character is asexual and doesn't want or need a romantic relationship to feel happy and fulfilled.

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I suppose Shirogane would know the most about jumping the shark.

i like to joke that shirogane killed amami for incredibly petty reasons

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Not to undermine the point, but given how V3 ends, can we say anything about his backstory is true? And both the good and bad things that happened to him in game weren't a matter of luck, but completely scripted; calling Rantaro lucky will ultimately come down to what you view as true. Not saying you're wrong or anything, just that I personally didn't interpret the game in the same way :)

I found myself thinking, a few weeks back, that it was strange that DRV3 didn't have a lucky character. The Lucky Student was such a pivotal role in the first two games - its omission in the third, the one most obsessed with the tropes of the franchise, is curious.

Which lead me to the thought that there is one character in V3 strongly associated with dice, a symbol of luck. Kokichi does seem to have some sort of luck cycle similar to Nagito in that every time something bad happens to him, a good result comes along with it:

Getting a concussion leads to crucial evidence that solves the third case

Being a murder target in case four lays the groundwork for his Mastermind plan

Maik poisoning him forces Kaito to cooperate in case five

It also works in reverse; trying to help the group always comes with a side effect.

Revealing Maki's talent got him strangled

The motive video watch party lead to him being swarmed by Gonta's bugs

Saving Kaito and Maki did not end the game

If there is a luck mechanic to the world of V3, Kokichi is exactly the type of character I would expect to weaponize it.

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I'll admit I didn't play Ultimate Summer Camp, so can't comment on any of it - is it only a board game, or is there any narrative weight? I don't tend to pay any attention to actual stats and numbers; I can't play Pokémon competitively because I use my favorites 😆

Dying first is the opposite of lucky, so I just can't see Rantaro in that role. Though one might argue not having to go through all that trauma is its own sort of luck.

I can definitely see Kokichi as an Analyst - Junko is canonically one, and Izuru is an artificial one. It's not a stretch to think the third game would also feature an Analyst. Kokichi values things that are "not boring" - both known Analysts are extremely bored by the world, and were the villains of their respective games. Much like his Mastermind parallels, Kokichi's character inverts tropes we've previously seen. His false antagonism contrasts Junko's true malice, and his playfulness opposes Izuru's ennui.

I found myself thinking, a few weeks back, that it was strange that DRV3 didn't have a lucky character. The Lucky Student was such a pivotal role in the first two games - its omission in the third, the one most obsessed with the tropes of the franchise, is curious.

Which lead me to the thought that there is one character in V3 strongly associated with dice, a symbol of luck. Kokichi does seem to have some sort of luck cycle similar to Nagito in that every time something bad happens to him, a good result comes along with it:

Getting a concussion leads to crucial evidence that solves the third case

Being a murder target in case four lays the groundwork for his Mastermind plan

Maik poisoning him forces Kaito to cooperate in case five

It also works in reverse; trying to help the group always comes with a side effect.

Revealing Maki's talent got him strangled

The motive video watch party lead to him being swarmed by Gonta's bugs

Saving Kaito and Maki did not end the game

If there is a luck mechanic to the world of V3, Kokichi is exactly the type of character I would expect to weaponize it.

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Saiouma except Kokichi purposefully flirted with Shuichi just to queerbait the audience... And it worked.

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Sam's really out here conspiring to turn all of Brennan's values against him.

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already forgot how long kokichi was laying there in chapter 3 so i drew him just sort of waiting there for like 5 minutes letting himself bleed on the ground after stepping through a floorboard waiting for someone to see him

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watched through the playthrough of 1000xresist with a growing sense of "was iris groomed? am i the only one getting these vibes at all?" wondering if i was just making shit up but then in the last two chapters they drop all the stuff about mimi having a "special relationship with her" and having alone time with her while talking casually to the commander about having her inseminated, and then later we learned that iris stabbed mimi before calling forth the source to wipe out all other humans on the ship?

and already i was like OH yeah that tracks, sounds like she wasn't just experimented upon but was being sexually abused

and then it went on with my own uncomfortable feelings re the alien/the source itself and how the clones and others referred to iris's relationship to the occupants--fucking them, fraternizing, comparing it to a past boyfriend; and then i realized the jiao picture was a secretary from the source and it still acted enamoured of her and offered her massages; and then i thought of all the glimpses we get of iris's exhaustion and dissociation and lost time after every communion with the source and how closely it mirrors victims of csa's own dissociation. and how even as she abused her daughters she refused the source access to them (much to its chagrin)

and THEN secretary and the source got to talk directly and the way the source talks about iris. flat out having isolated her, targeting her bc she was an alienated and unpleasant teenage girl, calling her "my iris", practically slobbering at the thought of using her, and then secretary says "you communed with her" with the same horror one would say when they heard of a rape; and the source continues on about how iris is always going to belong to it, same as secretary and other clones--because iris's children and the source's children, by default, belong to the source

because iris was groomed and abused, first abused by her mom who herself suffered trauma and was rejected by her own mother, then her peers in a racist environment, and then experimented upon and used by the soldiers and very likely groomed and sexually abused by mimi, and then the source comes in and swoops her up, a flower ready to be plucked. it keeps asking her to get access to her own children, her sisters--"to the very end, she was so protective of her sisters. she never allowed me to listen in."

and she was still. ALLMO. she was still horrific to youngest/principal. she was forever emotionally and physically frozen in the limbo of being 17-18 and traumatized while being groomed by both an older scientist with absolute power over her, and then by an eldritch alien force who saw her emotions and trauma as something to consume and preserve in itself, that demanded more and more to the point that she began to lose sleep and time and sense of reality. when principal comes to her, she acts like they last spoke a month ago instead of a millennia. did she know? did she know her act of rage and lashing out would create a monster? was she so lost in the communion and abuse by the source that she didn't even notice the time pass? did the simulacre of jiao the source made to assuage her guilt and ptsd lie to her? i'm obsessed. iris kwan jesus christ