#alternate mastermind au

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Idea for a mastermind Ryota Mitarai AU

Just putting this here in case anyone wishes to continue it because I do not know too much about the involved characters.

What if Ryota Mitarai, in a timeline where the tragedy never happened, snapped from overwork after graduating from Hope's Peak and created a killing game targeting those responsible for the horrible conditions inside the anime industry with the intent of spreading hope to their victims and despair to the perpetrators.

(Another part that's optional and I'm unsure if it fits, afterwards he used his brainwashing technique to make killing games a well loved form of entertainment and he founds Team Danganronpa, leading eventually to Danganronpa V3)

[charlietheepicwriter7]

Ooooooh~ I really like your ideas for the alternative mastermind au, especially with them having a somewhat romantic relationship with protag Kaede. Would you have the mastermind (and this goes both for Rantaro and Kokichi (and maybe Saihara?)) become yandere-ish towards her, or would they have a different kind of dynamic?

Okay, so I looked though my stuff because I didn't think I had an alternate mastermind AU???? The only one I can find that might fit is Ricochet, from my fic title game, so that's one I'm using.

Recap, bc i'm too lazy to link: Kaede managed to accidently kill Shirogane in chapter 1, they discover she was the mastermind, and just when she thinks they can all escape, Team Danganronpa hits the reset on their game, but for some reason, only Kaede remembers the previous start and things are different. She's labeled the Ultimate ???, Rantaro knows his talent (adventure, not survivalist), Shirogane isn't evil, and there isn't a secret mastermind room. Kaede has to figure out what's happening and how to keep everyone alive.

So, this au needs a different mastermind if Shirogane is normal. Honestly, I think the best Team DR could do on short notice is make Keebo the mastermind, or at least a spy or agent while they scramble to find a different mastermind. They mess with his memories so he has a false memory of being in a previous killing game with Kaede where she made it to the final chapter (making her the Ultimate Survivalist in this game), so he's really nice because he considers them friends and costars.

I like the idea of Keebo being a yandere in that context. Like, during the day, he's super sweet and supporting towards Kaede, but at night he's brooding, trying to make motives that would manipulate the others that are interested in her and make them kill each other.

Kaede tries to stick with the people who have changed the least after the reset, since she's more comfortable with them and is worried she might do something that makes her look sus. The people who have changed the least are Himiko (who is my chap 1 murder vic), Angie, and Kokichi. Angie and Kokichi switch between being Kaede's love interest and foil until one of them gets killed (probably Angie bc I can't bare to kill Kokichi). The remaining one becomes overly protective, but not necessarily yandere. Border yandere, maybe.

Rantaro will likely fill in after that death and Kaede discovers that he's a genuinely good person now that he isn't a walking mystery. Rantaro definitely has a dark side, though; he got to the final chapter of his first game for a reason, after all.

Team DR changes Shuichi to make him incredibly sus of Kaede, thinking she's the mastermind. He would treat her coldly bc of this.

[tied-ash]

Levi Mastermind AU!!

I've been thinking about him a lot ^^

[galactic-blitz707]

"Sacrifices must be made to feed a God...."

Or something idk-

Anywho! More Naga!Wesker stuff since you people seem to really love it and I can thank you guys enough for the support on all Naga!Wesker stuff I've been making out. Slowing getting back into the swing of things, gonna go poke @ask-naga-albertwesker-blog with a stick to wake him back up cause I know that snake be snoozing lol.

Either way I hope you enjoy!

[whererubbermeetstheroad]

Mastermind Makoto — Free Time Event (1)

CONTENT WARNING — mentions of sexual harassment, diet culture, and unsafe work environments. Stay safe out here.

I spent like three weeks on this, and it's not even that good.

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MM Kiyotaka: I'm the true embodiment of order and discipline. Chaos has no place in my world.

Hifumi: Can someone please shut this guy up?

Celestia: "I'd love to, but I think he's beyond help.

Mondo & Togami: I think it's hot.

Mondo: 👀

Togami: 👀

Mondo: 🪓

Togami:🥲

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broke: jiang cheng is an extremely complex character in this essay i (goes on for another 4000 words) WOKE: Jiang Cheng is having an existential crisis about being a side character in a romance story involving his brother and he has decided to make that everyone elses problem

Jiang Cheng being the only character with meta awareness is,, a hilarious concept

[salbertwolf]

Talent swap Au - Part 4

Celestia Ishimaru Ludenburg - Ultimate Fashionista

Mastermind of the Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in all of Hope's Peak Academy History

Much like canon Junko she keeps herself hidden of the rest, however her way of handling Monokuma is quiet different as this one appears to be more "composed" than canon Monokuma, naturally.

Still a liar, big liar. She lives for the applause.

"But why?" "You don't ask a bird why it flies or a fish why it swims, don't ask me why"

Her and Taka are siblings so sue me.

"There wasn't a body left to bury" "Are you sure?" "Huh?" "Are you sure there was even a body to bury?"

That's most for her, I love her so much, lives in my mind rent free.

Actual recreation of events on how her and Toko started working together:

Friend's words: I keep forgetting Toko's ultimate is soldier, lol what's she gonna do being a knight this girl is barely a wet sock Me: Bold of you to assume she doesn't still look like a wet sock

(I'm sorry for all Toko fans out there for this probable slander I have not played Ultimate Despair Girls okay? You may insult for the Toko slander, agreed? We cool?)

Part 3 <-

[thelemoncoffee]

What if Au where either Shuichi or Kokichi (or both) is the mastermind- but the Killing game is very different as a results.

by different i don't just mean different kill order either. i always thought it was weird that all Alt MM aus had any character doing the exact same formula and setup that Junko did, despite them probably having very different ideas of what kind of stuff they could do to create despair. So! this Au is one where the Killing Game rules and "how to play" are fitted more to how either MM would handle it.

For Shuichi, i see a less in your face situation, more like a "they don't know there's even a game until the first person has been murdered" type beat. Shuichi would influence the players with note and blackmail style motives that's not actively broadcasted to the others, basically trying to make a more eerie and cold feeling murder mystery for them to trudge through. after the first kill only then would his Monomascot reveal itself and tell them cryptically how to save their own asses in the trial, then rarely appeare unless summoned by calling it's name or if it's there to give someone some info that might get them to do something. The mono of course over sees the trials but is much less dramatic about it and give everyone a very uneasy feeing. it'd be way more mystery oriented and way less spectical.

For Kokichi it's like the canon killing game got cranked up to 11. He's all about the spectical, having his mono refer to him as "the ringleader" and going for a much more compettitive game-show approach. he isn't as keen on the killing part as he's still pasifictic, but he has lackies who can handle that for him, only getting blood on his hands indirectly. He wants to see them all struggle though, he wants to watch them go through any challenge he throws at them be it game or riddle or random countdown to beat, their panic and struggle under presure gives him pure joy. His mono would frequently appear to dramatically give them new bullshit to go through and put strain on the players and their sanity till they eventually snap and kill someone- triggering a trial ofc.

both would absolutly be hidden amongst the players but in two very different ways. Shuichi wants to see things from the ground level and directly influence it, he wants to get the satisfaction of giving these people a beacon of hope in such a scary situation only to turn around and be the source of their despair. Kokichi is there just for kicks, he said it himself- he loves playing life on hardmode- he'd absolutly want to pose as a player just to get to play his own games and risk his own life, he'd act alot less malicious than he does in canon as to divert attention from himself but he'd still be there wedging distrust between eveyone and getting his ass put in the hotseat for fun.

The two of them working together actually might end up with something similar to a canon Killing Game, what with Kokichi handling all the spectical and chaos while Shuichi does the dirty work of creating the mystery and exicuting people. it wouldn't be exactly the same of course, Kokichi wanting a more circus theme and more games/puzzles/challanges to trip them up, and Shuichi trying to make the mysteries more dire and complex than your average Junko would by keeping some motives secrete until it's too late. Hell, in a team up i could see them playing the "innocent couple" having everyone believe there's only one MM and playing a pair would easily put them in the clear, any fake fighting they may do would freak the other players out and add tension, and them being a couple would allow them to be around each other alot to plot together. They'd both love despair but their own ideas of what despair is are very different; Shuichi seeing it as a cold and painful thing that suffocates, and Kokichi seeing it more like a game prize. MM!Shuichi is a sadist, MM!Kokichi is an adrenallen Junkie.

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Mastermind Sonia Nevermind Sprite Edit

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@dire-kumori MMMM. EVIL. pure, unadulterated evil you have brought unto my dash, I love it.

Just. Evan trying so hard to reconcile the image of this stranger covered in blood beside him in the next loop, except the memory is so hazy he doesn't know what to make of it. At first he wants to hope that he was wrong and this stranger isn't actually working alongside the animatronics, but the more Ev tries to remember that cycle, the hazier the memory gets. And Evan can't stop thinking about how the very next thing that happened after he saw the stranger bleeding beside him, was getting attacked by the monsters. He opened his eyes and saw the stranger beside him-- just lying there, not even PRETENDING to be trying to help him anymore; the stranger killed himself just to get away from Evan, and he just left Ev alone to die.

When Evan wakes in the next loop, he can't even muster the energy to get out of bed. He knows the monsters will drag him out of bed if he doesn't get up, even without the stranger yelling that particular fact at him, but he can't help but just lay there.

The stranger tries keeping the doors shut alone, apparently having decided to keep pretending to help. Evan still can't get out of bed. He only has the effort to sob: "I can't do this anymore. I don't want to do this anymore. Please just stop!"

Maybe, eventually, Mikey gives up and curls up next to Evan in the bed with his arms wrapped protectively around his little brother. Or Maybe Michael scoops Evan up and tries running them both out of the house. Either way, Evan doesn't have the energy to fight against the stranger's hands on him. Either way, they both end up dead.

And speaking of Evan’s memories being confusing jumbles. Before Mikey tries revealing himself, back when Evan still thinks of Mikey as some stranger, maybe Michael has to listen to Evan beg for "Mikey" to come save him.

Evan doesn't remember who this "Mikey" that he is screaming for is anymore. When Evan was alive, he thought of his big brother Mike as being the adult he was supposed to be able to turn to for help, the person who would make everything okay. Now, dead and stuck in this nightmare, Evan has the vague sense that there was a Mikey in his life, someone who was supposed to be there for him and make everything better. Evan holds onto that single memory, that one vague hope that his mysterious Mikey might help him.

It encourages Mike to risk telling Evan the truth in one cycle, except when Evan learns that the Mikey he's been begging for help from and the cruel Foxy-mask boy in his memories are one and the same...

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Evan is *outraged.* He's dealt with a lot of pain and suffering and betrayal, but THIS?

Evan is in the middle of screaming at Mike thay he can try to be a good person all he wants but will NEVER make up for what he did when one of the animatronics gets past their defenses. Evan doesn't even notice at first; he's still mid-sentence screaming at Michael as the animatronic tears him apart.

Then Evan dies, and the cycle restarts, and Evan Forgets. Except, Michael can't help but notice that Evan never screams for "Mikey" to save him ever again.

And don't get me started on THIS.

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After getting so offended at me calling you a monster, I offer you the chance for a happy ending where Mikey and Evan resolve their issues and move on, and you teAR IT TO PIECES?? FOR SHAME

i mean, don't get me wrong, it's a beautifully horrific ending and i love it, but holy heck. I am going to need 3-5 business days to emotionally recover!!!

Michael slowly fading as he is FORCED to realize he can't save Evan after all. Evan’s hope of finally being at peace savagely crushed, as he is forced to remain stuck in the simulation until the software and hardware his spirit is attached to slowly crumbles with time and too much use.

And the idea of him (and Mike) getting recorded onto Help Wanted is PHENOMENAL.

I'm just imagining Evan cowering inside the Night Terrors/Fnaf 4 section of the game. Despite the lifetimes worth of awful memories he has inside that room, it's the first familiar place that Evan stumbles across, and he craves the comfort of the familiarity of his prison. He much prefers it to the unknown, and he's been stuck in this room for so long that the outside world (or, well, the other virtual recreations of the various games) are too big, too scary, too overwhelming. Besides, Evan has learned from his father’s simulation that bad things happen when he tries leaving this room.

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Thinking of making an angsty Bunny Mastermind Takaaki and Kiyotaka reunion thingy. (Like the AU still has elements from the original version of the AU. Like Taka being cloned/revived.)

[charlietheepicwriter7]

Deceit is in the Eye of the Beholder - NDRV3 (because I really like your stories for it)

First Idea: Mastermind Gonta au, because he's a Bee-holder, get it?

Second Idea: some type of alternate mastermind au, but I'm not sure who would be the best choice. I'm a Kaede-as-protag hoe, so obviously she's the protag, but everyone else is fair game. But it would be more impactful if it was someone she trusted.

(and I want to make it romance, because it kinda vibes with it)

Based on my shipping styles, the Mastermind would probably be Rantaro or Kokichi, followed by Shuichi. Maybe Rantaro fakes his death chapter one and ensures that Shuichi is executed instead?

If Kokichi is the Mastermind, he wouldn't lie to Kaede and tell her directly that he's the Mastermind. But she wouldn't take him seriously because he lies to everyone else, so she thinks he's lying.

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Danganronpa THH Spoilers!

I love the MM! Chihiro AU, but have any of you considered a Traitor! Alter Ego AU?

[dinosdontchew]

forgot to post this woops but heres a mastermind surfer

[whererubbermeetstheroad]

Protagonist Junko and Mastermind Makoto in a universe where everyone's moral alignment is shifted (AU name pending), with some shitty concept sketches and ideas.