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fatherfigurefusion · 4 months ago

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How does the first game play out, in terms of killing order?

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Let's start from the beginning:

It gets very long, so the plot is below the cut.

Also, I'd appreciate fic ideas!

(Word Count: 3150)

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Prologue: Say Goodbye to Peace!

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We start with our protagonist waking up in an empty classroom barred by steel plates.

He establishes himself as Hajime Hinata, someone who failed to get into the Ultimate course at Hope's Peak Academy, even failing the annual "Lucky Student" lottery.

So it was rather bizarre that the acceptance letter in front of him claimed that he is apparently the "Ultimate Lucky Student".

Eventually, he met up with his fifteen other classmates.

Once the introductions have come to a close, out comes the host of the game: the cuddly and diabolical Monokuma himself!

You've probably heard this same song and dance a million times before, so I will not bore you with the rules.

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Chapter 1: Just to Survive

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With everyone still shaken up by the announcement of the killing game, everyone split up to investigate the rest of the school. Amongst them, Kiyotaka Ishimaru volunteered to investigate the school with Hajime, where their awkward attempts at conversation eventually divulged a bit into the dichotomy between "natural talent" vs. "natural geniuses".

With no murders happening for the next couple of days, Monokuma offered the students their first motive towards murder: hostage videos of their loved ones. Hajime was rightfully shaken up and anxious over his personal motive, showcasing his parents getting assaulted and his house getting ransacked by a large group of masked individuals.

With the motive now in order, Taka decided to establish some new ground rules to prevent any murder from happening, including a curfew rule and a prompt disposal of any sharp items from the rooms of the students. This got mixed reception from the students, ranging from relief to anger to scoffing at his naivety.

In spite of his safety measures, a murder ended up happening.

Kiyotaka Ishimaru, the Ultimate Moral Compass, was found in the hallways of the dorms, with a massive bloody wound on the back of his head.

With everybody's alibis being brought into suspicion, due to the murder happening so late into the night, the students had a hard time fingering the proper culprit. But with the assistance of the intelligent yet aloof Kyoko Kirigiri, Hajime managed to figure out who the culprit is, upon realizing where those glass shards imbedded in the back of Taka's head came from: a crystal ball.

While Taka was counting on his ground rules preventing a murder, he didn't account for blunt objects still being used as murder weapons. So, while Taka was keeping watch on each of the dorm rooms, one of the students snuck behind him and tossed their crystal ball at the back of the moral compass's head, using their overcoat like a smock to prevent any blood from getting on their clothes and body. From there, all the culprit had to do was hide their bloody overcoat and the shards of their crystal ball back in his room, and pretend that nothing ever happened.

From there, the culprit is quite obvious: Yasuhiro Hagakure, the Ultimate Clairvoyant.

Once he was found out as the culprit, the foolish clairvoyant broke down, revealing that he was really concerned about his mother, who was the only family member that he had left. He had to kill to make sure that she was okay.

But all of the sympathetic reasoning in the world isn't going to stop Monokuma from dragging the man kicking and screaming to his execution. In his execution, Hiro gets trapped in a giant crystal ball and helmed by Monokuma dressed as an animatronic fortune-telling machine. Once a coin was inserted, the clairvoyant started floating around, as Monokuma read a bunch of despairing futures. As more coins are inserted at once, Monokuma starts going haywire. The similarly-haywire gravity mechanism slammed Hiro repeatedly against the walls of the crystal ball. Eventually, the machine broke down, and all that remains of the Ultimate Clairvoyant is a bloody smear.

It was only now that reality of the game began to sink in for the Ultimates.

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Chapter 2: The War of Rotten People

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After the events of the first murder and trial, Monokuma both opened up a new floor and introduced a new motive secret for the remaining 14 students: their deepest and darkest secrets being shared with another student.

Although the threat of murder continues, some friendships are started to sprout; primarily those between Chihiro, Mondo, Aoi, and Sakura. Since Aoi ended up receiving Chihiro's secret regarding his gender, she started to incorporate the programmer into her friend group with Sakura. Mondo later joined them, wishing to properly release his pent-up stress from both his past and present.

But this cheer didn't last for long, for the next body was found in the library.

The corpse of Hifumi Yamada, the Ultimate Fanfiction Creator, was found slumped against the bookshelves, with his throat slit.

During the trial, plenty of confusion came from the fact that there were several unclaimed secrets and uncooperative parties. Byakuya Togami and Celestia Ludenberg, in particular, seem to derive a sense of enjoyment in hiding the secrets they've received.

But as more secrets ended up getting exposed in the trial, and the true culprit got cornered in the process (particularly the fact that Hifumi's throat was slit with scissors), the devious duo unveiled the murderer's secret: that being the existence of the culprit's murderous alter.

And that culprit is Toko Fukawa, the Ultimate Writing Prodigy, and her alter, Genocide Jack, the Ultimate Murderous Fiend.

As it turns out, Hifumi ended up receiving Toko's secret, and antagonized his rival-in-writing with it. This resulted in his murder, which both Byakuya and Celestia witnessed. They worked together to alter the crime scene as a "test" of sorts for the remaining students that would ultimately implicate the true culprit. This resulted in outrage from the other students, but especially the betrayed Toko.

Just like with Hiro before her, Toko was dragged to her customized execution. In it, Toko was forced to write an incredibly long manuscript for her book. But instead of ink, she had to use her own blood. When the writer was almost completely exsanguinated, the sheer amount of blood caused her to pass out, allowing her to switch to Genocide Jack. What appeared to be a shadow of Byakuya appeared in front of her, causing her to get out of her seat and leap towards her. A blade emerged from "Byakuya" splitting her down from the middle, finally killing the girl.

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Chapter 3: New Threats Emerge From the Shadows! Keep Low, Soldier!

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With yet another floor unlocked, Monokuma introduced yet another motive: the promise of ten million dollars to whoever gets away with murder.

Having spent a peculiar amount of time in his room, Chihiro finally emerges with a brand-new invention: an AI program known as "Alter Ego". With the villainous natures of both Byakuya and Celestia now open to the public, Hajime and Mondo forbids either of the duo for even touching the program without being watched.

Luckily, Alter Ego remained practically untouched, and the devious duo seemed to be oddly quiet and well-behaved (by their standards anyways).

But that tranquility came to a close, when the cast found, not one, but two new bodies.

Leon Kuwata, the Ultimate Baseball Star, was found stuffed into the art storage, with several stab wounds in his front.

The mangled body of Junko Enoshima, the Ultimate Fashionista, was found at the bottom of the stairs to Floor 2.

Upon seeing the dead body of her beloved sister, Mukuro was enraged, determined to make the culprit pay.

During the trial, a debate erupted on whether Leon's killer and Junko's killer are the same person, but they eventually deduced that these two cases are unrelated to each other.

On one side of the equation, Leon was lured into the art room by the culprit, and they managed to overpower the athlete, thanks to the athlete's feelings for them. They brought both a golden sword and a simple kitchen knife, hoping to frame the wounds caused by the former on the latter. However, the gold dust on Leon's body was a dead giveaway. Combined with the faulty alibi caused by the culprit needing to wash their hands of the gold dust, they were eventually exposed.

And who is the person who killed Leon? It turned out to be Sayaka Maizono, the Ultimate Pop Sensation.

As it turned out, Sayaka fell for the motive, wishing to provide money to save her destitute living situation. She had to push any sense of attachment towards the others to the side, for she would do anything to advance her career as an idol. That did not stop her from breaking her normally-detached facade, once she was successfully implicated.

On the other side, Junko was "playfully" antagonizing her killer, even making some "mock" threats towards their passion project. Eventually, the culprit had enough and ended up accidentally shoving her down the stairs, breaking her bones and eventually her neck on the way down. Overcome by guilt, the culprit confessed almost immediately, much to the denial of their closest friends and to the fury of Mukuro.

And Junko's accidental murderer was, surprisingly, Chihiro Fujisaki, the Ultimate Programmer.

Having learned that Sayaka's murder of Leon happened first, the class learned that the idol had to be the one to face execution. The idol singer managed to give one last faint smile before being dragged off to her final swan song. Finding herself strung up like a puppet, Sayaka was forced to dance across a stage of flashing colors and blaring music. Her feet were forced to step on the wrong colored tiles, resulting in increasingly-harsh electric shocks running through her body. Even after her corpse was completely fried from the electric shocks, her body was still forced to dance for practically eternity.

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Chapter 4: Saying Sorry to The World

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After the events of the last trial, tensions seemed to be higher than ever. With Chihiro isolating himself out of guilt, Byakuya and Celestia being confined to their respective rooms, and Mukuro making her plans to kill Chihiro apparent, before confining herself.

Out of the whole cast, it seems as though only Hajime, Aoi, Sakura are still trying to keep the group together, to no avail.

In lieu of a motive, Monokuma dropped quite the plot twist (two, that is) on them: (1) Hajime is not even supposed to be in this class and (2) the whole class managed to drive one of their classmates to suicide.

While the first announcement barely made any waves (the cruel theories of Byakuya, Celestia, and Mukuro, notwithstanding), the second one led to waves of regret pounding on their souls.

Especially, oddly enough, Kyoko.

Everyone agreed that the best plan for now was to stay in their rooms and not do anything that they might regret. But as another body dropped, it was clear that their promise would never be honored.

The body of Aoi Asahina was found riddled with bullet wounds in the changing room.

As if that wasn't bad enough, Sakura and Mondo have been inflicted with severe wounds as well, with the latter even needing to wear an eyepatch on his left eye.

Hajime, Kyoko, Celestia, and Byakuya, learned that, upon hearing of Mukuro's plans to kill Chihiro, the "Training Quartet" dedicated themselves towards protecting the programmer from the soldier's rampage. This dedication towards protecting Chihiro led to them sustaining severe wounds from Mukuro's attack.

Because of this, suspicion instantly fell on Mukuro. However, Hajime and Kyoko deduced that something else was the cause of Aoi's death.

As it turns out, Aoi ordered the culprit to kill her, her optimism completely shot by the whirlwind of recent events. In her mind, she would rather die that have to lose another one of her friends. The culprit gave her one final protein shake, laced with poison.

And the person who laced and handed her the protein shake was Sakura Oogami, the Ultimate Martial Artist.

It was with heavy hearts that the remaining students voted for Sakura (especially Mondo and Chihiro), and sent her off to her death. In her execution, Sakura was forced to fight off a horde of progressively stronger Monokuma, until she ends up dying from her muscles overloading. In spite of all this, though, Sakura continues to stand. This blatant act of defiance only serves to enrage Monokuma, as he angrily escorts the depressed students out of the trial room.

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Chapter 5: Mind Over Matter; Pain of a Vengeful Revenant

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After Mukuro's rampage and the ensuing fallout, the remaining students decide to stick it to Monokuma, put their differences aside, and try, once again, to get out.

Although it was very hard to let Mukuro back into the group, especially with Mondo's vendetta against her, Chihiro's forgiving nature ensures that at least some progress is being made.

But, oddly enough, none of the students have seen either Byakuya or Celestia.

That is, until the students made it to the biology lab.

The bodies of both Byakuya Togami, the Ultimate Affluent Progeny, and Celestia Ludenberg, the Ultimate Gambler, were found in the biology lab. No signs of death are found on their bodies.

Just like the previous four times, the students made their way to the trial grounds to solve the mysterious "double murder".

Everyone else had an alibi, apart from Hajime and Kyoko, with the rest of them attending a new bonding exercise in the gym. Because of this, suspicion ends up falling on the duo.

Contrary to her aloof character, Kyoko is oddly insistent that she is the culprit, and tries to lift the blame off of Hajime.

Hajime was forced to make a choice between voting for a party that was obviously not guilty, or framing himself. He ultimately chose the former.

Although Monokuma tells them that they have voted wrong, he seemed oddly eager to execute Kyoko Kirigiri, the Ultimate Detective. More eager than he has ever been. A pair of mechanical handcuffs latch themselves onto Kyoko and pull her towards a metal pole, which she was tightly bound to. An inhuman amount of weapons point towards Kyoko, ready to fire. Just as the weapons began to fire, the execution shut off for some reason. This allows Hajime to rescue her. They still ended up falling into a garbage dump.

When interrogated by Hajime on her actions, Kyoko tearfully breaks down. From there, it was revealed that Kyoko had all of her memories retained, unlike the other students. She remembered the class being friends with each other for a good two years. Until, she found out that one of said classmates turned their rival class against them. When she tried to expose him for his acts, he used this to paint her as a cruel and monstrous abuser. This explains why the person behind Monokuma was so eager to execute her.

This was just before he faked his suicide, to fully paint his class as a bunch of neglectful and cruel monsters.

Wanting justice for the needless slaughter of the class, Hajime and Kyoko finally got out of the garbage dump. The two confronted Monokuma, forcing a reinvestigation and retrial.

The stuffed bear tried desperately to stop them, only for a building-wide blackout to shut the bear down.

With no time to waste, the survivors got together to find all the clues that they possibly could.

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Chapter 6: Ultimate Vengeance, Ultimate Slaughter, Ultimate Conflict, Ultimate Punishment, Ultimate Finale

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During the investigation, the students found a couple of newspaper clippings on Byakuya's dead body. They were primarily related to the alleged suicide of Makoto Naegi, due to mistreatment by his classmates.

Byakuya and Celestia have both written respective notes to the rest of the students, outlining their murder plan to "end the killing game". It started with both of them, getting into the mysterious room on the fourth floor. Although they both got attacked by a horde of mysterious masked people, they both managed to recover enough information to come to a conclusion:

Not only is Makoto Naegi the mastermind, but he is also still alive.

For the grand finale, the remaining five survivors made their way over to the trial room. With the electricity still turned off, they got to work reporting their discoveries. But when they got to the topic of Makoto Naegi being the mastermind, the electricity flickered back on.

Monokuma jumps up from his spot, stark raving mad. Frothing at the mouth that the boy they killed could potentially be the mastermind. Even his familiar voice started to sound more disjointed, like several people speaking at once.

That is, until a foot came crashing down on the plush toy.

A foot belonging to Makoto Naegi, the real Ultimate Lucky Student. (Although, he prefers to be called the "Ultimate Warmonger".)

Upon seeing the boy, memories came rushing back for the remaining students, except for Hajime. They were horrified upon seeing the person they always thought they could trust and confide in, enthusiastically confirm himself to be the mastermind behind this whole chain of events.

However, as Makoto himself confirms, he was not the person who put them into the killing game. He switched on the giant television in the middle of the trial room to showcase who was responsible.

Class 77. The remaining students saw the shocked and horrified faces of their upperclassman staring back at them.

After this bombshell, Makoto decided to tell everyone his backstory. Growing up, he always had a resentment for Ultimate students, but knew that he would remain a nobody forever, if he didn't become an Ultimate. And this resentment didn't stop, after he was accepted into Hope's Peak.

He wanted nothing more than to knock them down a few pegs, and show that Ultimates are just like everybody else. Just as stupid and susceptible to manipulation as anyone else.

Upon seeing just how broken and dysfunctional the students of Class 77 are, he found the perfect patsies.

He started waltzing his way into their lives, greeting them cheerfully and treating them like a decent human being. It was something that most of Class 77 have never received in their lives. For that, they latched onto his affection like a newborn to a mother's nipple.

He started to put up the facade of an innocent and childish person to further endear himself to them.

Pretty soon, even the unsavory likes of Fuyuhiko, Hiyoko, and Teruteru dropped pretty much all of their worse qualities, and became only the best older sibling figures to him.

Eventually, he started to intersperse teeny-little ideas that maybe his classmates don't actually treat him like a person.

That Leon and Aoi force him to do their homework. That Celestia and Byakuya use him like a servant or a pack mule. That Sayaka and Sakura critique his body and force him to starve himself. That Junko inflicts cruel pranks on him for her own amusement. That Kiyotaka considers him the pinnacle of laziness for his Ultimate. That Yasuhiro saddles him with his debts and forces him to confront any rival gangs. That the others know about this, and don't do anything to speak out against this treatment.

But no one was worse than his girlfriend, Kyoko. A spoiled brat who only got in on family connections. Someone who cruelly disregards and neglects him, whenever he was struggling with anything. Someone who thinks of him as an incapable moron who can't do anything without her holding his hand. Someone who uses him as bait during cases. Even spread some rumors that she was cheating on him with another guy.

The more the class hears these stories, the more their wrath and hatred towards Makoto's class increases. And once the luckster bursts into (crocodile) tears, all they saw was red.

Nobody hurts with their baby. Nobody.

Eventually, these stories spread across the whole school, with only the Reserve Course not hearing of those rumors.

While their reputations were already shaky, by the time Makoto commits "suicide" from stress, the world at large hates their guts.

As several videos could tell, even the loved ones of Class 78 want nothing more to do with them. Chihiro's father, Mondo's gang, even Kyoko's grandfather.

Pulling all the survivors into the deepest pit of despair.

Makoto allowed them to make a choice: they can either stay in the academy and hide away from a world that hates their guts, or get out of the academy and stand face-to-face with a world that hates their guts.

Everybody was at a standstill...

Until Hajime stood his ground, and voted to be let out: taking the risk condemnation over an act of cowardice any day.

His words inspired peace within the rest of the survivors, allowing them to make the decision to leave the game and face the world.

But not before dragging Makoto and Class 77 out to face the consequences of their actions.

This concludes the story of Hajime Hinata (the "Ultimate Peacekeeper"), Kyoko Kirigiri (the Ultimate Detective), Mondo Oowada (the Ultimate Biker Gang Leader), Chihiro Fujisaki (the Ultimate Programmer), and Mukuro Ikusaba (the Ultimate Soldier).

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