Alternate DRV3 Ending: Mastermind!Shuichi and Naegi’s Son
I’m coming out of retirement for a DRV3 ramble. Replayed the game in quarantine and I have to share this idea:
I thought the Monokubs were alluding to the idea that the game’s SHSLs were the children/relatives of the 78th class survivors and the 77th class. I mean, if Monokuma can now have kids, wouldn’t it make sense that the OGs would too?
The ending to V3 also sucked. I get the point of it, but oh it sucked. It needed a twist that no one would’ve seen coming that didn’t make us feel bad for being fans of the game. With this all said, IMO here’s how it should have ended:
Everything Chapters 1-5 goes as normal. In Chapter 6, Tsumugi reveals herself as the mastermind. However, soon after she takes credit for running the whole killing game she is killed by the real mastermind Shuichi Saihara. Yes, our protagonist Shuichi Saihara.
How could he be the mastermind you ask? Well, we the fans have only seen the side of him that he’s wanted us to see. The whole game he has played the part of the good detective that is out for the truth to protect everyone. In truth, he has helped the remaining survivors to get to this moment, to reveal that the person they’ve trusted the most with their lives, the person who has helped them trial after trial, has actually orchestrated everything with the goal of making them feel the most despair possible when they find out their devoted friend is the one behind it all. He’s the one who killed Rantaro and pinned the blame on Kaede, his so called close friend. He’s manipulated everyone into thinking he was trustworthy, especially Kaede, Kaito and Kokichi who all died having notable degrees of trust in him to do the right thing.
Why would Shuichi become the mastermind? Simply, he isn’t who we believed he was. The biggest reveal of all is that he’s actually Shuichi Naegi, Naegi and Kirigiri’s son.
Him being their son alone should make him a remnant of hope. After all, Naegi is the SHSL Hope cinnamon roll and Kirigiri is a driving force behind hope through all that she did as the SHSL Detective in THH and in her work for the Future Foundation. Shuichi, however, unfortunately grew up with an inferiority complex due to his famous parents. He desperately tried to be like them and succeed as a successful detective like his mother, however it pained him that he could never be as good as her no matter how hard he tried due to his tendency to doubt himself. His lack of perfection in his detective skills due to his self doubt costs him the chance to be scouted by Hope’s Peak, a severe blow to his pride. He begged his father to use his role as headmaster to admit him, and while it pained Naegi to do so, he told his son that he could not show any nepotism and overturn Hope’s Peak’s system for him. Naegi tried to tell him that there is no shame in going to a normal school and focusing on his detective skills among others there and Kirigiri agreed with his reasoning. Shuichi felt betrayed by both his parents and developed a hatred of being their son that doesn’t measure up, and that hatred leads him to despair. He meets Tsumugi (likely during one of his visits to Hope’s Peak to see his father) and they develop a toxic friendship. Tsumugi poked at Shuichi’s feelings and learned of his backstory and exploited it by helping him learn more about his parents’ backstories and Junko and Izuru’s actions in a Despair induced light. Shuichi became inspired by the Despair movement and he especially related to Hinata’s desire to have a talent and wanting to measure up to the Hope’s Peak students by any means necessary. He shared his feelings with Tsumugi who convinces him to help her develop the killing game against the best and brightest students Hope’s Peak had to offer. Shuichi fed into Tsumugi’s plotting and reasoning and became unhinged as he realized that the killing game will be the way to get revenge against life that dealt him the hand of being Naegi and Kirigiri’s son, and make his parents and the world feel the same feeling of hopelessness he’s felt all his life.
Ultimately Shuichi had an ace up his sleeve and plotted Tsumugi’s murder at the end of the game without her realizing it so that he could emerge as the SHSL Mastermind. He reveals to his surviving classmates that he has broadcasted the killing game to the whole world from the spaceship that they are on. His parents are able to send transmissions to the ship and they beg Shuichi to stop and remember who he is. Whether Shuichi listens to them and is able to be redeemed through hope, or elects to execute himself and make his parents feel the worst despair they’ve ever felt is up to the choices of the fans.
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