#I have a lot more Danganronpa analysis in mind but not the energy sadly

[let-me-call-myself-olga]

Tips and tricks on how to survive Danganronpa

Ok, since a lot of people liked my post about how the mastermind of V3 could've been caught I decided to make a small guide on how someone could survive Danganronpa.

So you just found yourself and 15 other students trapped in Hope's Peak Academy. Everyone seems confused on how they got in this facility and the inability of getting out of it, but as soon as everyone gatters a black and white teddybear presents itself as Monokuma and welcomes you all to the killing game.

Now that we know the setting we are in and how dangerous the situation is the first thing we have to do is stay calm and try to keep the rest of the students calm. If we act rationally and get everyone to quiet down then we might get the chance to negotiate with Monokuma and try to get him to let us out of the school. Of course, Monokuma won't let us out until there are only two students left, but for someone who wouldn't know that it would be worth the shot since the group might start viewing them as a valuable player, being brave enough to ask things like this. With everyone thinking of us as a great person we are reducing the risk of getting ourselves killed.

Monokuma starts explaining the rules and everyone feels uneasy. Once Monokuma finishes the killing game starts and the participants are left to do whatever they want.

Now before we begin with the ground rules there is something that must be clarified. The difference between a death game and a killing game: in a death game the game tries to kill you; in a killing game the participants try to kill you. With that in mind we won't be able to 100% work togheter as you would expect in a death game such as Your Turn To Die (had to make the reference because the game is gold, go play it), therefore we can get started with the ground rules:

1. Never fully trust anybody:

This game was made so that it can evaluate the psychology of each player, making the students go against each other so that they can see them reaching their breaking points and who can keep their morals under life-threatning situations.

Of course there will be betrayals, otherwise the game wouldn't be able to go on, but the best thing to do is manipulate your fellow players into murder and make them think it was THEIR OWN ideea so that the rest of the students won't try to go against you, after all, survival is the main goal.

2. If you aren't a master manipulator but a little cinnamon roll then this rule should be your ace: find people to spend your time with!

Going alone is honestly one of the dumbest decisions you could ever make (looking at you Rantaro), so the best thing to do is find someone with strong morals and become their companion, because by doing so you will have more chances of winning than going with someone whose morals are out the window (manipulators and possible murderers)or going all alone.

If you are great at mind games then the people you want to spend your time with are:

a. mentally gray people or better known as "the mood equivalent to resting bitch face"(ex. Chiaki Nanami, Himiko Yumeno)

b. physically weak people (ex. Chihiro Fujisaki, Shuichi Saihara)

c.(female presenting people only) simps (ex. Hifumi Yamada, Kazuichi Souda)

d.(people good at keeping their image clean only) gullible people (ex. Chihiro Fujisaki, Gonta Gokuhara)

3. The most important rule, the one only dum dums don't follow: respect Monokuma.

This is literally the one rule that decides it all since Monokuma is the one supervising and controlling the killing game. Defying him is like giving yourself a death sentence./srs

The most you can do in order to help everyone as a whole is buy time by either being nice to Monokuma or by "planning a murder" and having him prolongue the time you have for killing.

4. Overanalysis is key.

The mistake killing games and death games usually make is the underestimation of the players looking into things as this can give us a big adventage.

Since the rules aren't overlyconcrete about what you can't and cannot do this gives us a chance to find gaps and use them to their full extent.

As all of us know, what I like to call the most important rule goes as follows:

→"Nighttime" is from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. The dining hall and gymnasium are off-limits at night.

Since the rest of the rules don't talk about restrictions when it comes to our enviroment and Monokuma didn't add one yet that means we are being given control over property damage, giving us benefits I will talk about later.

Now that we finished with the ground rules, there are aspects that we need to keep in mind during trials:

A. as an "investigator"

B. as a blackened

A. as an "investigator"

When trying to find the blackened, rule 4 is a great strategy to make sure that we don't miss crucial details that could show us the blackened when searching.

Once we gathered enough proof and time is up we enter the trial room. The thing about trials is the fact that staying quiet the whole time is as bad as talking non-stop and getting participants in tight spots for absolutely no reason, therefore we should try and speak moderately, a bit higher than average since we have done the most investigating and people will want to know what we found. Communicating information isn't hard since we can either tell it ourselves or (if we are uncomfortable with speaking to "large" groups) we can have someone next to us give our thoughts on the topic.

The trick to this is that you need to look and sound trustworthy and never back on your word. If you seem confident and ready to take responsability then the group will most likely agree with you.

B. as a blackened

To be honest, it is almost the same as A., but the gimmick to this is that you have to be a good liar and keep a poker face for the entire trial (something that the SHSL Gambler wasn't able to do for some reason). If you are bad at lying then just speak only when you are asked about your opinions and such and try to get yourself as far as possible from the spotlight.

Since we know the trial etiquete it is time for the fun part: making use of everyone's talents.

Some of the most important have to be SHSL Mechanic and SHSL Inventor as the two of them have access to gear that could be used to get the students out of this building (ex. blow-torches, screwdrivers and wrenches etc.)

Some other useful talents could be SHSL Programmer (they can hack the cameras and have them blocked on the same imagery for an entire night that can be used by the students to get out of the school), SHSL Magician, Musician and Pianist are a few "ultimates" good for decoy as they would be able to get Monokuma and the cameras' attention, leaving the exit "without security".

During trials roles such as SHSL Anthropologist, Writing Prodogy(not Toko though, she bases her work on herself)and Fanfic Creator/Doujin Author are efficient as they are able to tell differences in behavior (as they need to have deep understanding of the human nature in order for their works to get them awarded as SHSLs, making them observing types that should pick up any changes in manners of acting).

Of course we have SHSL Detectives, Criminologists (Shuichi Saihara screams Criminologist and you cannot tell me otherwise)and Analysts(Junko used to be SHSL Analyst before becoming SHSL Despair from what I know)that are 100% putting their fullest in those trials and beating the living daylights out of the culprits.

To be honest, "ultimates" aren't the things you should mainly put your attention on but their wielder's competence (SHSL Princess is a seemingly useless role and yet Sonia was able to help a lot in Chapter 2 trial and Chapter 5 investigation with the things she learned by being a princess). Fixating on talent just gets in the way.

Now I am ending my rant because I am sure you can pinpoint the moment I started losing energy and I hope you are having a wonderful day!