#Denki Mystery

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No way look who's shown up in Hinamizawa

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denki!kuroba has plagued my mind for the past 24 hours so it's time to drop their design & lore. ( bonus + more lore under the cut! )

( ya'll knew i had to find a way to shoehorn kurokara into this au SOMEHOW. )

while they don't meet during the events of six idol statues of taboo, kuroha does eventually get to meet chorosuke's recently reunited brothers afterwards. strangely enough, it seems that karatsugu knows who they are. kuroha's life before the accident was much like the one kuroba lives ; having attended college for horticulture and working at their grandfather's floral shop. karatsugu and kuroha had known each other for a long time, having become friends in high school and staying quite close into adulthood. because of this, he was absolutely devastated when they suddenly disappeared a year and a half ago while on the way to visit family in yokohama. there were no reports of any crashes or deaths, no missing people found, nothing. it was as if they were spirited away, never to be heard of again. upon learning this, kuroha is rather distraught. even though his face is so familiar to them, the past he recounts to them refuses to come back to them. something they had been keeping a secret from the others at the midorito estate was that they had begun to recollect some things, but what they remembered seemed more like strange dreams than any memories they should have. memories of traveling with mononoke, fighting in gang wars, fending off youkai, a life much like what karatsugu described but not exactly the same... and in all of those memories, the six same faces, so eerily similar yet unsettling different. the most prominent of them all being the faces just like karatsugu's. they aren't sure why these strange memories are all they can recall, perhaps they're finally losing it, but with the brothers' help, kuroha might be able to figure out the true meaning behind them and even remember their life in this universe along the way.

ALSO, a quick explanation of denki!kuroba's name!

( fair warning : my understanding of japanese is very rudimentary so i may have made some mistakes in my translation or how names are written. please let me know if that's the case and i'll correct anything i've gotten wrong! )

kuroba / クロバ -> kuroha / 黒葉 ( くろは )

kuroba's name is written in katakana while kuroha's is written in kanji ( with furigana written in hiragana. )

kuroba's first name comes from クローバー ( kurōbā ) meaning clover. when the dakuten from バ ( ba ) is removed, it becomes ハ ( ha. ) the equivalent of ハ in hiragana is は, which is used in the furigana for kuroha's name. the kanji used for kuroha is 黒 ( kuro ) meaning black and 葉 ( ha ) meaning leaf.

yotsubana / 四つ花 ( ヨツバナ ) -> shinigusa / 死に草 ( しにグサ )

yotsubana comes from 四つ葉 ( yotsuba ) meaning four-leaved, notably used in the japanese for four-leaved clover / 四つ葉のクローバー ( yotsuba no kurōbā. ) the kanji for ba in youtsuba is swapped for 花 ( hana, ) which can be read has bana like in the surname tachibana. as a result, their surname can be read as " four flowers. "

the 四 ( yo ) from yotsubana, which can also be read as shi, becomes 死 ( shi, ) meaning death. the adverbializer に ( ni ) replaces つ ( tsu. ) the kanji for hana is replaced with 花 ( kusa, ) which is lifted from a synonym for clover, 詰草 ( tsumekusa. ) kusa becomes gusa as an instance of rendaku. their surname can be roughly read as " dead(ly) grass. "

[brofightiscancelled]

hajime runs out of money and has to move in with toshio

[mramur]

denki mystery

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strangers with the same face as you

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oni (king)

[akai-hito]

Love Denki Mystery Oso

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ATTENTION OC/SELF INSERT ARTISTS IMPORTANT AU INFO: in denki mystery your characters name would stay the same!!! the only characters who have name changes are the sextuplets, and this is only because they have 'matsu' in their original names [while still having been brought up by the dayons]! every other non-matsu character [ex: matsuzou, totoko, iyami, dayoko] has the same name because theirs dont interfere with the magic, [which was why only people w the name matsu was massacred in the first place and not anyone else] which means your characters would also stay the same!!!! [the ONLY one to have a nonmatsu name thats been changed is ori which should not have a stake in your oc or s/i naming choices since thats just to emphasize the dayons point of origin. I GET THAT THATS LESS COOL! I GET THAT ITS FUN TO COME UP WITH NEW NAMES! BUT IT DOESNT MAKE CANONICAL SENSE.....]

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denki mystery au moritsune…. poor little meow meow

moritsune’s name in this au is sakie ogami! their first name actually hasn’t changed, if you could believe it. transitioning is hard in this day and age, especially if you’ve forgotten everything about yourself!

the story i have written so far is that moritsune, in a dissociative fugue state following the death of someone close to them, wanders into akatsuka village. they’re in such bad shape that they can’t even remember their own last name, believing themself to be orphaned and without any other immediate family.

the ogami family takes them in and has them work at the family’s shrine for money and shelter. the only conditions are that they don’t leave the village.

they become close with toshio in this au, inevitable considering they share a home together. toshio’s kind of an oddball and gets sakie hooked on old legends and whatever crackpot theories he has, including the idea of him being one of six children.

irrelevant to that, however: after being trained in a religious setting for 4-5 years, sakie has gained the ability to “sense” spiritual energy (whether or not it’s actually legit is debatable), but gets very sick as a result. they’ve been recently having a series of vivid dreams, tall tales of a great black storm, and a night of spirits and yokai running amok…

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denki mystery things for an animatic i think i will never finish but like. i like you guys so im only showing it to you all

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Unnerving little fella

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self insert tiem :D

more info under the cut :)

Name: their name is my name and i dont want to share my irl name online :3

Age: 20-something

Pronouns: they/them

International student from the USA but they want to drop out. They work at a cafe and they hate their job. Their japanese is subpar, along with their english despite being a native speaker.

Their relationships with the sextuplets ^_^

Osomatsu - drinking buddies, he plays up his attraction to them around his brothers but when they're alone he treats them normally. They are rather close.

Karamatsu - they avoid him at all costs. His very existence repels them.

Choromatsu - they can't stand being around him too long. He's ok in small amounts but they don't really like being around him a lot

Ichimatsu - they hang out sometimes and enjoy each other's company.

Jyushimatsu - homoerotic besties YAY

Todomatsu - moots online, they met him first through their job

Now for the side characters :D

Totoko - they are very attracted to her. They love a woman who can kick their ass. Their relationship isn't very deep due to their awkwardness towards attractive women.

Nyaa-chan - they don't know jack shit about her nor would they care to due to Choromatsu liking her a little too much

Matsuyo and Matsuzo - weirdly attracted to both of them but they don't want to tell the brothers because that would be VERY awkward. They are very awkward with them.

Dekapan and Dayon - they are scared of Dayon but thinks Dekapan is goofy

Hatabou - he's intimidating to them for some weird reason

Iyami - they are also intimidated by him. They once saw him fight cats for scraps of food, they don't want to fuck with him at all.

Chibita - he verbally questions their choices, meanwhile, they keep him updated with their life. They met Chibita through the sextuplets and they enjoy his food.

I included a denki mystery design because tbh denki mystery is my fave :D

ANYWAYS SO! More rambling ahead about them!

They are replacing the Osomatsu-san staff but noncanonically, so their meta bullshit powers aren't that strong. It's strong enough that they can push reality to be sort of what they want, but they usually don't get their way.

I have a whole fucking google document about them might share more later yippee

If you got this far thanks for reading :3

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"and so, in exchange for becoming the sisters we'd always wished to be, the six of us had to obey the rules of the Mutsushika house."

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hands hands hands

[malaierba]

If you guys like the Denki Mystery AU, I can't recommend this fic enough.

The world building is made to fit the plot in a way that's nothing short of impressive, the plot twists HIT, and the feelings???

I'm crying in bed with a bunch of Kleenex around me, most from reading the alternate bad ending negl, but REGARDLESS. I'm just, beyond words.

I finally understand the appeal of the hesokuri wars au (beyond the hehe the losers look cool thing)