Allow me to ramble about my crossover fan Danganronpa plot that will never see the light of day.
Like, what would realistically happen if you dropped a bunch of anime protags in a killing game? Which is to say, things get FUBAR for Monokuma at hypersonic speed and Light Yagami dies like a chump.
Julian Mintz, Ultimate Tactician - Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988 OVA)
Light Yagami, Former Ultimate ??? (a.k.a. Former Ultimate Executioner) - Death Note
Yugi Mutou, Ultimate Card Gamer - Yu-Gi-Oh!
Bertolt Hoover, Ultimate Marksman - Attack on Titan
Snufkin, Ultimate Vagabond - Moomin (1990 anime)
Giorno Giovanna, Ultimate Mafioso - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
Musashi Goda, Ultimate XC Runner - Mob Psycho 100
Edward Elric, Ultimate Alchemist - Fullmetal Alchemist (the 2003 anime, not Brotherhood; the wrong Edward was grabbed by mistake.)
Momo Ayase, Ultimate Telekinetic - Dandadan
Wakaba Hiiro ("Kumoko"), Former Ultimate Arachnid - So I'm a Spider, So What?
Tsuyu Asui, Ultimate Frog Thingy - My Hero Acadamia
Violet Evergarden, Ultimate Typist - Violet Evergarden
Nami, Ultimate Navigator - One Piece
Izutsumi, Ultimate Dungeon Crawler - Delicious in Dungeon
Françoise Appledelhi ("Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV" or "Radical Ed"), Ultimate Hacker - Cowboy Bebop
Mayuri Shiina, Ultimate Hostage - Steins;Gate
As mentioned, because Light Yagami dies like a chump before Monokuma's Killing Game Summer Camp can even be announced, the mastermind is immediately put on the backfoot.
Monokuma is forced to postpone the trial for two days and lock everyone in the main lodge of this lakeside summer camp so they can at least get to know each other before they kill each other.
They keep trying to kill each other. Nami gets blasted by a shotgun door trap and only survives thanks to Giorno Giovanna's healing intervention; Tsuyu Asui is almost pulped by a grandfather clock.
Yugi Mutou hosts a mock trial, end result being that Kumoko the spider is locked in a pet carrier for attempted serial murder. Also Snufkin keeps fucking off to god knows where. He does not care for this at all.
Realizing that the murder of Light Yagami (that poor, innocent bean) is the perfect crime thanks to impossible-to-prove supernatural fuckery, Tsuyu Asui, Julian Mintz, and Momo Ayase form a conspiracy to successfully goad the blackened into an incriminating mistake before the trial. Tsuyu escapes the lodge and returns to the scene of the crime, which winds up costing her life.
But her sacrifice pays off. Her co-conspirators (and co-protagonists) enter the first class trial knowing for a fact that Giorno Giovanna is the culprit, but Giorno's sheer charisma turns proceedings into a slog and he only narrowly convicted and executed.
Also, it turns out spiders shockingly cannot talk, so Violet Evergarden gives Kumoko a typewriter. Snufkin is compelled to read out Kumoko's lines like a non-union VA. He gets surprisingly invested in the role. A fateful partnership is born.
Snufkin and Kumoko soon become as thick as thieves, as the kind wanderer starts getting through to the recluse. Meanwhile, Musashi Goda and Mayuri Shiina start a daily Body Improvement regimen. Nami is recovering â far slower now that Giorno is gone â but starts acting distinctly out-of-character.
The mastermind is the victim of the second trial. Monokuma made Light's Death Note into motivation ("an easy kill!"). Nami soon finds her name written in the notebook, and flips out â because she's actually Tsumugi Shirogane from Danganronpa V3 in cosplay and the Death Note failing to kill "Nami" would blow her cover. Faced with this clusterfuck of a Catch-22, the mastermind bumbles ass-backwards into an EMP trap and - ZZZZZAP!
Not only does this kill Tsumugi, but it briefly knocks out power for the whole killing game. Suddenly everyone is speaking their native languages like it's the Tower of Babel. Both Radical Ed and Snufkin speak Swedish, so she drags him away to help with something, and soon power is restored.
(Thus, Radical Ed seamlessly takes over as the mastermind and no one fucking notices.)
Without a Monokuma File, the true identity of "Nami" must be deduced during the class trial. Once the Death Note is proven a red herring and Snufkin stops covering for her, it turns out the blackened really was Kumoko this time. Snufkin and Kumoko share a tear-stricken farewell before she is executed.
(However, her home setting has a respawn mechanic, and that EMP killed the vent camera network. A tiny baby spider hatches in the vents and starts scuttling around. This was Kumoko's plan the whole time.)
Then, Yugi Mutou discovers a stockpile of radioactive material (radium paint from Evergarden's room, smoke detectors, a whole-ass nugget of plutonium, etc.) and is consumed in an explosion that gives EVERYONE radiation poisoning. The explosion was by utter accident â Izutsumi was supposed to die, and it was supposed to be subtle. Luckily for the culprit Bertolt Hoover, she still succumbs to her intended dose of radiation, falls into a pond and drowns.
But ALSO, Violet Evergarden simply vanishes, and Monokuma issues a "kill-on-sight" order when she never shows up to the class trial. Edward Elric confesses that he accidentally sent her into system shock when performing maintenance on her prosthetic arms, but no one can know her exact time of death since it took place right before the explosion.
(There's no way to verify. Kumoko stole the body because she was hungry.)
The question becomes "who died first?" rather than "who's the killer?" because only the first chronological death counts in a class trial. Luckily, Snufkin is reassembling Yugi's Millenium Puzzle that contains Yugi's dark alter ego Yami/the Pharoah, and they can ask him once it's finished. Unluckily, Bertolt Hoover decides "fuck it!", stabs Julian Mintz to death on the stand to rig an otherwise split vote, and since Monokuma just gives up at this point, WINS this season of Danganronpa.
Then Yami Snufkin(!) sends Bertolt's soul to the Shadow Realm. It is a very badass moment and not at all ridiculous.
But, utterly consumed by revenge, the Pharoah creates a NEW Shadow Game, supplants Monokuma as headmaster, and immediately falls under the thrall of the one orchestrating this killing game to begin with (Admin D from So I'm a Spider, So What?).
Monokuma, meanwhile becomes a contestant and is forced to live with the others. Everyone's still dying from radiation poisoning BTW.
But plot twist! The summer camp they've been trapped in was the lake from Warrior Cats this whole time!
(Monokuma skeletonized all the cats. Yes, even Jayfeather. I'm sorry.)
The remnants of StarClan have befriended the Founder Ymir and transport a temporary simulacrum of Izutsumi to Moominvalley via PATHS, where she encounters the Moomins.
Moomintroll becomes our new protagonist.
He is delivered a tablet and an XBOX controller, and discovers he can remotely puppet Momo Ayase's body like a video game character. Similarly, friends and relations from other home universes are piloting the radiation-addled bodies of other contestants. This is the newest motive, and the closest to a cry for help the Headmaster-Pharoah can muster under Admin D's constraints.
Moomintroll vows to save his best friend Snufkin from the Pharoah's possession, and sets off with Izutsumi to meet with the Hobgoblin. Meanwhile, Monokuma booby-traps Violet Evergarden's half-eaten corpse to be "discovered" in a bid to flush out Kumoko, triggering the fourth case and forcing Yami Snufkin to unwillingly resume their role as headmaster.
Working together, Moomin and Momo Ayase discover that Kumoko is alive, and that Edward likely didn't kill Violet Evergarden. However, to give Kumoko as much time as possible to sabotage Yami's killing game, they must obfuscate the investigation and prolong the class trial as long as feasibly possible. Everyone and their mother is accused of cannibalism.
This gambit fails. Kumoko is outed and forced to rejoin the game mid-trial. Mayuri Shiina is voted as the blackened and executed, but she frees Snufkin by taking the Millenium Puzzle with her and the Pharoah is hoist on his own petard.
Monokuma becomes headmaster again â but the Hobgoblin and similar great powers from other realities are now forming an alliance to topple Admin D (Monokuma's sponsor) thanks to Izutsumi and Snufkin's efforts. They'll probably fail, but any way you slice it, Monokuma is FUCKED.
(Everyone has figured that the replacement mastermind is Radical Ed at this point. She's grown kind of unsubtle about it.)
The Hobgoblin magically transports Moomintroll into Danganronpa for a brief time (lol). Imagine a big, white hippo creature descending from the heavens to pass along the cure to radiation poisoning. He reunites with Snufkin, but their meeting is both sad and short.
The truth is, back during Case 2, Snufkin allowed Kumoko to write his name in the Death Note to perish, within a moderate timeframe, in such a manner that also takes down whoever's orchestrating the killing game and frees everyone else. But then Bertolt Hoover killed three people and everything went to shit.
Overcome by remorse and guilt, Snufkin bids farewell to Moomin, then wanders into the woods to die alone. Moomin is whisked away back home to Moominvalley a heartbroken, sobbing wreck. Momo Ayase assumes the mantle of protagonist for the rest of the story.
Radical Ed is fated by the Death Note to be the fifth culprit in an incredibly convoluted way and gets executed for Snufkin's death. Maybe it involves Musashi Goda? He's been a contestant this whole time but hasn't, uh⊠done anything.
How do events proceed? I have no fucking idea. End result, the Hobgoblin's alliance fails miserably and several universes are destroyed in the crossfire. Of the surviving players: Momo Ayase, Edward Elric, and best boy Musashi Goda manage to return home alive; Izutsumi remains a traumatized refugee in Moominvalley, turned into a regular talking cat; and Kumoko stays behind to bring down her mortal enemy.
It turns out Admin D, the Big Bad, made the catastrophic mistake of abducting the wrong version of Edward Elric, and therefore assumed she'd be dealing with the version of Truth from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. But she never watched the 2003 anime because she's a manga purist snob, and that version of Truth does not play fair. With Kumoko sacrificing every cat soul in StarClan as sufficient toll, Admin D is dragged kicking and screaming into the depths of the Gate of Truth â and that's that.
(monokuma found dead in an applebee's parking lot)
