#rain code swap

[michimiart-blog]

Y'all, remember my post of my Rain Code swap AU?

Well, I finally have a role for Yakou and Shinigami.

My guy will take Vivia's role, so he has the Spectral Projection Forte, and Shinigami will be an Amaterasu Researcher and Tenko's older sister!

I wanted to do this for the Rain Code Ship Week, since that's the prompt I mostly looked forward to, but I was conflicted on drawing this scene of Yakou finding about Chief Tenko's note and past, or recreate that one scene in the Mystery Laberynth of Chap.4 with Yakou fighting Yuma in order to keep the Chief's secret.

Unfortunately, I had a lot of trouble with the scene so I stuck with this one.

Context below the cut!

Tenko and Sherley (Shinigami's human name for this) were really close, even when choosing different career paths, they still shared part of their lives.

This means that Sherley and Tenko were just in a casual meeting on the cafe when the hitman found them, attempted to gunshot Sherley and Tenko defended her sister.

Tenko still had to pay the damages and Sherley helped.

Sherley wanted to expose Dr. Aide (Fake Zilch who takes Huesca's role)'s dealings with Guillamine (since she is the Peacekeepers director in this) and she got killed by Yomi (who takes Fake Zilch's role as a hitman) in a wanna-be accident, 4 years before the current events.

Tenko attempts to investigate and almost got to Yomi and Dr. Aide involvement before one of her last employees got killed and she took this as a huge warning, stopping the investigation.

Fast forward to a really depressed state, she receives this letter by Guillamine, the Master Detectives arrive (Melami, Shachi, Iruka, Yakou and Yuma respectively) and the plans goes mostly similar, with the exception mayhaps that Yakou fell in love with the Chief and was more fierce on protecting her in the Mystery Laberynth.

Contrary to Vivia in the game who finally accepted Yuma's stance, in this AU, Yakou didn't do it, mostly because he didn't like that victims of injustice are killed rather than the real culprits (even though Tenko did commit murder), that was a jab for the fact that they couldn't execute Guillamine.

Also, contrary to Vivia who left after the Chief was declared dead, in this AU Yakou stayed by Tenko's side until he was forced to leave due to her body being taken to the Restricted Area.

And Yakou actually stayed on Kanai Ward after everyone left the city.

[sakura-code]

My Rain Code Swap AU

So I’ve been seeing many Rain Code swap AUs all throughout Tumblr, and after a recent one gave me some inspirations, I came up with my own Swap AU. Basically what if the Nocturnal Detective Agency and the Peacekeepers swapped roles, but the NDA characters are still the good guys and the Peacekeeper characters are still the bad guys?

Some ramblings below because this AU has a lot of explanations and canon divergence. Also game spoilers ahead!

Desuhiko, Halara, Vivia, and Fubuki are all from Kanai Ward, meaning yes, they are all Homunculi this time, while the Swap!Detectives (except Yomi) are human with Fortes of their own and a cyborg in the mix

Yakou will be the cowardly yet kind-hearted Director of the Peacekeepers (though still not the best leader at times as usual), Vivia is the Vice Director of the Peacekeeper and Yakou’s boyfriend, and Desuhiko, Halara, and Fubuki are the Section Chiefs of the Investigation Team and in Yakou’s close circle (of friends)

The Swap!NDA still have powers, but they are less powerful and more so like how they were before they trained them into Foresnsic Fortes (Yakou is still the same as usual). Halara has the power to see brief flashbacks when they touch objects and people, but it leaves them strained so they only rarely use it. Desuhiko can still transform into another person, but only with himself. Fubuki can sense time precisely and even sense when time is manipulated. And Vivia can sense, see, and hear ghosts all around him, but cannot transform into a ghost.

The characters’ personalities still stay the same, so this time the Swap!Detective Agency are the enemies as corrupt Detectives while the Swap!Peacekeepers are actually a fair police force trying their best to help the citizens of Kanai Ward

Yuma and Makoto are still the same where Yuma is the amnesiac detective-in-training and Makoto is the CEO of Amaterasu respectively

Yomi is the manipulative, charismatic detective chief that worked to make the Peacekeepers look unreliable and corrupt from spreading rumors to manipulating crimes and investigations to even bribing some Peacekeeper officers to abuse their powers and give him a hand

Yomi is still aware of Project Homunculus, having been working with Dr. Huesca in the shadows as a shadow benefactor. Director Yakou was never aware of the project going on at all, even when it’s shut down (he has heard rumors of the inhumane project though)

[daily-makoto-kagutsuchi]

posting this here cuz why not

Swap Makoto

[brightstarblogs]

Happy Birthday @/bokoboko_cant!

Tekikan-san is another Kokobolt friend of mine and I adore their art! So, for their birthday I drew some gender swapped Kokobolt for them! They are pretty as girls!

[rindragon-from-twewy]

Raincode Ship Week Day 5: Swap - Desuhiko x Yuma

Ok so tldr, I may or may not have fallen in love with this drawing while I was doing it so much so that I'm actively working on a whole forte swap au now-

I can't help but imagine how off the wall chaotic things would be if Desuhiko was the protag instead of Yuma- like Shinigami's experience would either be the most fun she's ever had or hell on earth, having to deal with an amnesiac who knows fuck all about himself except how to be dirty minded.

Also I think it'd be funny if swap Yuma was a famous musician trying to break in to the crime fighting world, instead of a detective trying to become a superstar. The WDO probably only sent him to Kanai Ward hoping he'd die cuz they don't want him around but he's a roach of a creature who just won't stay down!

[tea-n-ink]

So i made a Swap AU

more doodles under cut

references:

Swapped Link and Midna Au by @/mimiadraws

Troubled Birds Meme and Cat knife meme

This onion article

Danganronpa V3 As Fandub Quotes | Animatic | Collab w/ SporkWizard by livarachii (for the pose) and this vine for the audio

[cr4zedf0x]

Yuma Month

Day 26: Role-Swap

It's an idea that I thought was cool, and I plan to one day make more posts about my version of this "Swap AU"

So there's my version of Death God Yuma and Amnesiac Detective Shinigami :3c

[creampuffiemina]

stinky redraw

and also this ig

[takamooyu]

Little random trash sketches for raincode swap au Yuma

[rainbow-journalist]

Day 21: Roleswap

Tw: 🎭⚠️

I know everyone had the same idea, but I want to share my interpretation.

Makoto swapping places with Yuma, there would be some changes, like, his physical appearance would change, the WDO uniform could be purple, because purple and yellow go together very well, Makoto being a complicated protagonist, Amaterasu and Detectives Agency would switch places. Imagine having Yomi as your chief?

Makoto would probably have less empathy for the culprits compared to Yuma, although we can say that he would also erase his memories and could become someone more emotional?

@kanai-ward-census

[seth-burroughs]

rain code characters opinions on employing children to work in coal mines

Yakou Furio believes you should NOT make children work at coal mines. It is simply too dangerous AND incredibly gruelling work, not to mention an absolutely unhinged thing to just do or allow. He will go a step further and say that children should not work to support their parents at all, and would like to also say that in fact nobody should work or do anything for society in order to obtain basic necessities, however he's a bit scared of the surveillance drones listening in to this conversation and getting his sub blown up for the 34th time this year

Makoto Kagutsuchi thinks it's very sad that some children have to work at coal mines but that is just one of the harsh realities of our society and there is truly nothing he can do about it. He reassures you, however, that the child employees working at Amaterasu Corporation's secret mineshafts all were properly educated on basic mining safety as well as what to do in case of an emergency, and given hard hats along with a water bottle in case they get thirsty on their 8th hour underground and are being paid fair wages in exchange and-

Yomi Hellsmile believes it is perfectly fine for children to work at coal mines. He says that he worked in a coal mine as a child himself and he turned out fine. In his words, the supposed dangers of employing children at coal mines are being purposefully blown out of proportion by a communist psyop conspiring to stage a coup in his company for their own financial gain. In fact, parents at Amaterasu deciding to employ their children to work for the company as well could bring massive benefits to all parties, and should be the norm. Besides, the children yearn for the mines. occupying them with this kind of hard physical work will help them get all that energy out and make them learn many valuable skills they will need in the future. It is a very enriching activity for them. Furthermore, no parent should worry about the safety of their kids in the mines during the week, as Amaterasu Corporation is gracefully choosing to supply them with education on basic mining safety, hard hats, water bottles, a fair wage, and the affirmation that they're greatly helping to benefit both their family and society as a whole with their service.

Dr. Huesca loooves employing children to work at coal mines and gains huge pleasure in watching them suffer and die because he fucking hates kids. But, as we all probably assumed, the main reason is not any earthly pleasures he has sworn off of many years ago in order to devote himself to scientific research feeling celibacy. In truth, his favourite thing about employing children to work at coal mines is that after they complete their shift they are usually too exhausted to resist as they're getting taken away to his secret laboratory to get injected with radioactive dna altering chemical turning them into superpowered mutants that he forces to be his minions to do his evil bidding forever. For research purposes

[geodraws04]

Okay Raincode Nation.

Hear me out.

Swap AU.

Yuma, Shinigami, and the NDA as the Peacekeepers aka the villains, and then Yomi, Martina, and Peacekeepers and Makoto as the detectives aka the protags/heros.

Yomi in Yuma’s role and Martina in Shinigami’s role.

Then vice versa: Yuma in Yomi’s role and Shinigami in Martina’s role.

Personalities don’t change though it’s literally just these lads in the exact opposite scenario they were originally-

What shenanigans would issue.

Ideas. Hand them over.

[rindragon-from-twewy]

Mmmm forte swap au brain rot upon ye!

I've already completed designs for everyone at the NDA but I wanna space out the posts a bit cuz I don't think I'd be able to say all I'd want to in just one post!

Ramble about character info below; (+spoilers for all of mdarc)

Obviously this is based on my silly doodles for rain code ship week but I've actually started putting a lot of thought in to this now! (I've had waaaaaaay too much free time recently and I'm blessed with the ability to come up with lore/world building very quickly given enough motivation!)

So first off: Why Storm Cypher? Well cuz it's a protagonist swap! Desuhiko's now the amnesiac trainee being haunted by Shinigami so it made sense in my opinion to make this au's name reflectant of his last name, Thunderbolt. So that's where the 'Storm' comes from. 'Cypher' because it's a form of code and... well I just think it sounds nice basically! I do what I do for my own enjoyment, I don't always need to have a reason - no matter what my teachers say.

Also I decided to change some (Not all) character's last name's to better reflect their newly assigned fortes.

Anyway- It's character info dumping time!!!

Desuhiko, like og Yuma, has absolutely no memory of his past. While his personality remains fairly intact, he boards the Amaterasu Express hoping to figure out who he is along the way. While nobody there knows who he is, he instead finds he have a knack for word-play, puns and pick up lines, leading to accusations of secretly being a circus clown as opposed to a detective. This attitude is only solidified more upon meeting Shinigami, the death god with just as many innuendos to make as he does. They get along almost dangerously well, even more so when he learns she has a humanoid form. After completing the first mystery labyrinth, he decides that being a detective HAS to be his true calling, since solving the case was pretty fun all things considered, and receives his hoodie from The Chief to help keep him dry once arriving in Kanai Ward.

Yuma on the other hand, takes the place of co-star of chapter 2. At first he comes off as cool and charismatic but he breaks down almost immediately at the slightest hint of conflict. He's been a very famous musician for years prior to becoming a master detective, though he finds it hard to fully express himself through anything other then his appearance and music. The anxiety induced from an excess of fans, attention, and not knowing who to trust anymore thanks to his own popularity, he was ecstatic to be scouted by the WDO for his talents in disguises. Once it blossomed into a fully fledged forte and he was allowed to work as a detective properly though... they started regretting hiring him. Chaotic, anti-authoritatian and impossible to track down, he's more of a vigilante then a real detective. He was selected to go to Kanai Ward due to it's predicted high mortality rate, the higher ups hoping to dispose of the troublemaker without being too obvious about it. What does APAB mean you ask? All Peacekeepers Are Bastards!!! The Chief wasn't very happy to see him wearing it but permanent marker is permanent.

I haven't decided if I'll change Shinigami's humanoid design yet. If I do though, it'll probably just be more remenicent of her beta design. I haven't decided if I'll swap the Amaterasu Express detectives either though but... maybe I will. Since its forte swap though, the peacekeepers will all remain the same.

I'm hoping to write a fanfic for this, as opposed to like... a comic. But I'm partial to the idea of maybe doing an ask blog as well? I don't know yet. Either way, I'll probably post more for this tomorrow! <3

[nayosopp]

a bunch of unfinished shinigami & yuma swap drawings i did a while ago heee (yuma as a death god & shini as a detective)

i wish they hugged at the end, they really needed it :(

[elina-sakura]

Rain Code: Spin The Wheel

So a while ago, I did a Spin the Wheel concept of my own with the Rain Code cast that appeared in the main game. And it turned out interesting, so I’ve decided to post my results, along with some ramblings about the said results. Spoilers for Rain Code.

Protagonist: Fubuki Clockford

Support (Shinigami): Kurumi Wendy

Support (Informant): Dr. Huesca

Chapter 0 Cast

Yakou Furio

Zange Eraser

Waruna (hitwoman)

Yuma Kokohead

Pucci Lavmin

Nocturnal Detective Agency

Chief Kurane

Makoto Kagutsuchi

Iruka

Guillaume Hall

Halara Nightmare

Peacekeepers

Director Margulaw

Vice Director Yomi Hellsmile

Shinigami (Chapter 0)

Zilch Alexander (Chapter 1)

Karen (Intern)

Aphex Logan

Chapter 1 Cast

The Priest

Melami Goldmine

Seth Burroughs (The Nail Man)

The Nun (The Copycat)

Chapter 2 Cast

Martina Electro

The Servant (Victim)

Icardi

The Worshipper

Chapter 3 Cast

Shachi

Dominic Fulltank

Servan

Yoshiko (Murderer)

Swank Catsonell (Victim)

Chapter 4 Victim

Desuhiko Thunderbolt

Vivia Twilight (motivator for murder/died from Amaterasu/Peacekeepers)

!!Rambling Time!!

I’m happy one of the NDA is the protagonist, and it’s Fubuki! And her Shinigami is Kurumi, so it’s an adorable, wholesome girl squad! We can even get fun RPG references, and Kurumi can do wholesome games for clues. But also moral conflict because neither would be up for murdering, and Fubuki feeling guilty for relying on Kurumi to solve the mysteries in exchange of the culprits’ souls.

With how the criminals from Chapters 0-2 (basically three chapters), there would be a build up of the girls slowly accepting that perhaps culprits dying is fine as long as they no longer hurt people for their own benefits (yes, I am going to frame Chapter 2 less sympathetic as opposed to in-game, which makes it the turning point of the girls starting to accept that the end justifies the mean, before that is once again challenged in Chapter 3).

It’s funny how the three Aetheria Trio somehow still ended up being murderers at the end of the day (or two out of three if we count killer!Waruna being an imposter tho).

I was so sad when I spun the wheel for Chapter 0, and both Yuma and Yakou ended up in the cast, meaning they die😭 Also, Pucci and Zange could not escape their fates.

Though Yuma ending up as a Chapter 0 victim actually sets up a great characterization for Makoto in this AU (who I’ve decided will be the complex, Ch 4 character because I say so). Where in this Swap AU, Makoto and Yuma are twin brothers who worked as Master Detectives in the WDO. So when Yuma ended up dying on the Amaterasu Express, it broke Makoto. To the point he wears a mask to hide his face because he has the exact same face as his now late brother he can’t bear to see anymore. Perhaps he’s even antagonistic towards Fubuki because she survived the Amaterasu Express Massacre, and is resentful how she’s the one who gets out alive, like she’s been exchanged to live instead of his precious twin. Maybe Chapter 4, he decides to exact his revenge on the Peacekeepers for all the murder they have done, including Yuma, and end it once and for all. And considering he has Coalescence as well, perhaps he may even get the same power as Fubuki and end up literally clashing swords in the Mystery Labyrinth.

Funny story, when I was spinning for the swap!NDA, I was getting like all females with only Makoto as the only male, and I was kind of praying to the wheel to give me another male, or at least another gender. And guess who the last gender that ends up joining (or staying in this case) in the NDA.

Dr. Huesca being the informant actually sounds right when you think further on it. Like perhaps his characterization can be based on the glimpse heel-turn self we’ve seen from the recorded video, where he once again (or perhaps remembered) how far his experiment had went and decided to call it quit. He’s still a mad scientist, but now has a (very shaky) moral compass and is more morally grey.

Kurane being Chief is also very fitting because it was mentioned/implied she has some interest in detective works (I understand it’s probably more so playing as a Detective as a character, but I hc she has interest in detective work as well). But also kind of funny and sad because the NDA now has a prodigal child detective who is a theater kid and obsessed with romance novels as their only Detective Chief in Kanai Ward. And to add relationship between her and Vivia, perhaps Vivia took Kurane in as her apprentice when she was younger, which helped lead to her becoming a WDO Detective, and leading up to her becoming the Chief when Vivia dies during an investigation on Amaterasu. Or, if I want to be original, perhaps Vivia is separated from his soul and body, and they’re both being preserved in Amaterasu. Who knows🤷🏼‍♀️

And Yomi Hellsmile is honestly really fitting as Vice Director because he can be that sadistic, power-hungry we know and love. Desiring to become the next Director of the Peacekeepers and trying to off Director Margulaw. I even got an idea that perhaps maybe he teams up with a certain, grieving Master Detective to help overthrow Margulaw (because I kind of imagine the CEO would not be dumb enough to give someone like Yomi power like that). Not entirely sure if I want to make Margulaw a corrupt Director or a benevolent Director (or in-between) because I want to avoid making his characterization from being too close to my Director Yakou’s characterization I’m currently/planning.

Finally, for Chapter 3, I’m imagining how it can play out is that Swank Catsonell was once the leader of the Resistance, but he was terrible at it. He was selfish and greedy and was fine with causing more destruction that leads to more problems for Dohya District. Shachi, one of the Resistance leaders, was against Swank’s methods and was planning to overthrow him, alongside Dominic Fulltank and Yoshiko. However, after Swank nearly went too far on something (maybe having a hand in the NDA blowing up or something), Yoshiko decides to take action and kill Swank herself. After she dies, Shachi is the one who gives the request that leads to motivate him to become the new Resistance Leader.

[markerofthemidnight]

Thinking of writing a Rain Code Peggy Sue/Swap AU. As in, at the end of the final Labyrinth, something happens that resets the timeline to the beginning of Chapter 0 as well as swaps everyone’s roles, and Yuma and Shinigami are the only ones who remember the original timeline.

A few fun ideas for this:

Shinigami

“Human” name is Shini Requiem (as borrowed from another trainee detective that’s never mentioned in the true story, so the real Yuma never appears here)

The other detectives just assume the reason why she’s… like that is because the supposed amnesia just made her weird

Still doesn’t stop her from being fairly competent at times, though, so they don’t really complain (if only they knew 60% of her competence is just advice given to her by a reluctant death god…)

REALLY having a bad time figuring out how to do human things like eating, and sleeping, and breathing

As a result has absolutely no internal clock, either staying awake when she wants to fall asleep or falling asleep when she needs to stay awake

She also has to do things like breathe and blink manually until her subconscious figures out it has to do those things itself, which takes about like a day

She’s an absolute MASTER in Mystery Labyrinths, though, for understandable reasons

(which is even more impressive given the fact that personality swapping means that the mysteries are fairly different now, and even if they weren’t, it’s not like she can remember all the details of all the cases)

Is still brooding over the fact that her tits mysteriously disappeared when she became a human: combine that with the height difference, and she basically looks like an overly sassy little girl

(“NOW I’M THE FLAT-CHESTED UGGO! WHYYYYYYY?!”)

Has no problem walking but can’t really run since she’s used to just floating

Actually isn’t as mean to other people as she is in the main game

(which is absolutely NOT because her usual personality is just a defense mechanism since anyone in their right mind would be terrified of a goddess of death, and even her masters would probably despise her because no god should be that incompetent: so if they’re going to hate her, it should at least be because of something she can control, right?)

Yuma

Ghost form just looks like Shinigami’s but slimmer, blue, and with curved horns

Human form is a fancier version of his typical outfit except a foot or so taller with a crown, the aforementioned horns, and two demonic wings that he still hasn’t figured out how to retract into his body like Shinigami does for hers

As a result, whenever he transforms, the sequence consists of him flailing about trying to balance himself with the gigantic flapping monstrosities now on his back as his clothing just magically materialises onto him

“Arise, Mystery LabyriiiIIIIIIIIINNNTH-“

His confidence pretty much took a terminal nosedive as soon as the last Labyrinth made it finally start to get better

Is especially not doing very well coping with the mental changes that come with being a death god, which starts out as just being attracted to the scent of blood, but gets… worse, over time.

”Shini, you have to hurry! If you don’t, Zange will boom-kill… I did not just say that.”

(note: still called her Shinigami at first but transitioned over to Shini rather quickly. He is still Iiving in denial of the fact that it may subconsciously be a pet name)

His version of Shinigami’s scythe is his blade, and naturally its new counterpart is the Solution Scythe

(summoning animation now consists of them doing a short little waltz before Shinigami rips off one of his wings, which turns into the scythe, and a new wing grows back painlessly)

Really doesn’t want to stab Shinigami in the back all the time even though it’s necessary to proceed in the Labyrinths: between this, Crime Scene Recreation, GOD Shinigami, and all the other situations that require him to be forceful in any sense, he makes a terrible guide