"What can I do for you?"

A sideblog for Danganronpa based OC, Ultimate Massage Therapist. Askbox is always open! Affiliated with: Rewound Circuit. Status: Alive.

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Reminiscing the Past || Sandwich Yanagisawa || Chapter 1 Motive Reaction

A brown-haired lad was standing in the lounge, His face was stoic, which is a bit unusual, since he is considered someone who smiles frequently. A memory began to play in his head.

“Sister, you’re so good in massaging shoulders!” The boy was in awe, glancing at the other.

The nun smiled at him. “Really? I’m glad to hear that. I tried hard learning this, you know!”

The boy tilted his head. “Why are you trying so hard for, Sister?” He asked, intrigued.

The nun closed her eyes, and smiled even wider. It was soft and gentle. “Because whenever I massage someone’s shoulder, they feel happy and relaxed, and somehow, I feel the same way too. Their happiness, is also my happiness.”

The boy then turned around, and grinned energetically. “Then, then! I want to massage people too! I want to make everyone happy, so that Sister will be happy!” The smile was bright and innocent, as if he was affected by the other’s pure intention of helping others.

“Is that so? You’re a kind boy, Sandwich.” The nun smiled back at him, as she patted his head.

“…..” Sandwich gritted his teeth. He was sure of it, that hostage that Monokuma was talking about is definitely Sister. After all, she is the one whom he considers his most loved person in this whole world. True, he does love other people, but Sister holds a special place in his heart.

He took a look at the motive board again.

“SANDWICH YANAGISAWA - SPARED”

As he read those words, his knees fell onto the floor. For once, he felt so grateful that someone that he loves so, so much was saved from this horrible event. He wanted to know who got Sister as their motive video, and ultimately spared her, but for now, he knows what is he going to do next.

He stood up, and took out his tablet. “YES” and “NO” button were written on it, as he watched the video of a person in a cell. Now that Sister is finally saved, he can finally save this person too. He pressed “NO”. He then looked at the motive board, trying to see whose hostage that was spared. A second after, the screen flickered, and the list was updated.

“🌠- SPARED”

He sighed out of relief, and smiled, knowing that he had saved someone. For now, he needs to find that person who saved Sister, and thank them properly.

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Chapter 1 | Those We Leave Behind

(tw: blood, gunfire)

“I will not stand for this!!”

You hear a loud yell from amongst you. Turning around, it’s apparent that it is the resident hanafuda player as he continues to yell.

“You expect me to believe that a tap of the button will determine whether or not someone dies? When all this video is is just of them imprisoned?!”

“Yes!”

“What kind of fool do you take me for?!”

Hideyoshi scoffs. He turns his gaze back to his e-handbook with a look of disdain across his face and continues to speak. Some of you might even be able to look over his shoulder or otherwise take a peek and see the prompt on his tablet screen: “Will you kill Atsuko Nikolaievich?” with a [YES] or [NO] option below it. There’s some small text at the bottom but it’s a bit hard to read from your position.

“I won’t be deterred by a bluff like this. It is nothing, surely. You will not scare me with theatrics and words alone!”

With that, he presses one of the buttons. His expression is stern as he watches but you watch as it drops completely at the sound of a gunshot. Any other audio had been quiet, seemingly nonexistent, from the video beforehand but this is audible to all of you in the dead silence of the station.

“N-No… This can’t… This can’t… I d-didn’t…! I didn’t!!”

His features become marred with anguish, with shock, and as he sputters, failing to come up with the power he did before, you understand what he has become etched with.

Despair.

He’s trembling but he soon runs off in a mad dash, the clattering of his handbook the last thing he leaves you all with. Monokuma sighs and strides over, picking up what’s been discarded.

“Knew it. At least it’s not damaged, I guess… Yikes.”

“For anyone who’s wondering, here’s what he saw.”

He turns the pad and shows the video currently playing on the tablet. It’s a small screen, but the sight of crimson floods your vision even if you’re standing faraway.

On the screen is a fancily dressed girl, some of which you might recognize as Atsuko Nikolaievich, a girl who has been admitted into Hope’s Peak Academy’s winter roster for the 82nd Class. If you had done this research, you would also know her to be the upcoming Super High-School Level Duchess.

Or rather, she was going to be all that. Instead, she is lying against the wall of the cell with blood seeping out of a bullet hole in her chest, never to breathe again much less lead people or attend a prestigious academy.

Monokuma turns the pad away and passes it to A-30N, muttering an order for him to go deliver it back to the boy’s room. With that, the food court cashier whirs away.

“Well, that’s all we had to tell you. Remember, three days is all you’ve got.”

And he too whisks himself away. However, his presence leaving you all is not the thing that haunts this. No, instead if you were to look at the newly installed board on the wall, you would see the following sight:

ATSUKO AINARA - KILLED

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Chapter 1 | The Calm Before the Storm

“You guys are probably tap-happy, but before you open that, lemme get something straight, got it?”

“Each one of you got a video of somebody else. You probably won’t recognize who it is, but it’s the loved one of someone else in this place– Monomi and I not included, naturally.”

“Spoiler alert, but you’ll be given a choice: kill the person or spare ‘em. Of course, we’re not idiots and know you’d all just choose mercy if not for one other fact.”

The male chaperone gives an expectant look over towards A-30N.

“Only 10 people can be saved. You will be prompted with the question ‘Will you kill’ followed by the name of somebody’s loved one. After ten people choose ‘NO’, that option be blocked. Figuring out who lives and who dies is up to you! While I am not an expert in ethics, If there’s anything I can help with, let me know! I am always here to make your experience at Zenith Station as smooth and as easy as possible.”

“A board of whose loved one has been killed or spared will be posted up on the wall here. The actual names of the hostages are kept secret between the person who loves ‘em and the person making the decision though, but you’re free to blab if you want.”

He taps the electronic board already behind him next to the timetable of the trains. The board listed every student in the class with a blank status.

“This bad boy’s gonna update in real time too. I know it’d make more sense to just have this in your e-handbooks and all, but no questions about it, alright? I’ve been yelling and screaming enough for the both of us, but some people just don’t listen. Sheesh.”

“If you kill one of your fellow students, you will be able to try to save more than ten hostages. You have 72 hours to murder and to decide to kill or spare your hostage. If any hostage’s fate has not been decided after the 72 hours, they will die. I have a very precise sense of time, so feel free to ask me how many hours are left! I am happy to make this process as streamlined as possible!”

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Chapter 1 | Time in the Limelight

You hear Monokuma mumble confusedly as he stares at his own e-handbook before he notices you’ve all been assembled. He rips his attention away from it, greeting you all with a toothy grin.

“Oh! Took you all long enough. Alright, let’s get this settled nice and quick. I know we can’t ALL be morning people.”

“Good morning everyone! I am A-30N! I am so excited to be here! We are having a meeting. Thank you for your cooperation.”

Any questioning looks at A-30N’s promoted role only is answered with a shrug on Monokuma’s part. You notice Monomi’s lack of presence today.

“Now, you will be given a reason to commit a murder. It is statistically unlikely for humans to commit murder meaninglessly. This is because of your sense of justice and your biological urge to not kill humans. Hopefully this gets you all motivated! I’m here to help! If this doesn’t motivate you, please let me know. Your feedback is always appreciated!”

Any hope of yesterday’s nonchalant reveal that this was to turn into a mutual killing game being all a joke becomes dimmer.

“Take a look at your electronic handbooks. There should be a new tab on it now. Real helpful for this stuff.”

Lo and behold, you indeed could access a new feature. It really must have been added extremely recently considering before you entered the lounge, it most certainly was not there.

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Chapter 1 | The Morning After

A few minutes after 9AM of the next day, you hear a notification ping from your e-handbook. It merely stated a tiny objective in a pop-up window:

Meet at the lounge as soon as possible.

There was no indication of who had been the one to send it, but you imagine it was likely one of your chaperones. Mixed emotions amongst you flare up considering what had happened less than forty-eight hours ago in that exact area, and though one might reread the rules to see if there was any that specified you had to go there, it likely wouldn’t end well to simply ignore the request.

Regardless of your feelings and choice on the matter, you close out the window only for a little bit later a small melodic tone to ring out from the P.A. system, ensuring no matter where you were whether or not you had your e-handbook on you that you could listen to the following command:

“Hey! Make it to the lounge pronto. You’ll all have the rest of the day to yourselves after this, promise!”

Monokuma’s message is short and simple – debatably sweet, a debate in which he is losing.

Once more, all areas seemed to be locked after his message and A-30N was sent to escort any stragglers, temporarily evicting them from their rooms. For anyone who attempted to resist him, they would find out the food court cashier was actually quite the strong force to be reckoned with.

In the end, inevitably, everyone meets at the same place they started this mess.

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                                                  PROLOGUE END.

                                         Remaining Students: 20/20.

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Prologue | True Purpose

“Alright, we won’t keep up much more of your time. But I’m sure you guys have figured out by now that situation has changed.

“You all will be staying here for an indefinite amount of time. The way to escape? Kill your fellow classmates and get away with it. Otherwise, we’re ALL staying put here ‘til who knows when.”

“A new area has opened up, as well as a train line. Feel free to explore it to past the time. However, you should all sleep…it’s quite late, isn’t it?”

The two turn away to leave, giving no further instruction to any of you. The one person Monokuma does address on his way away is the robot companion you had most likely forgotten about to this point.

“Oh yeah, A-30N? You can go open everything back up. Sorry for the hold up.”

The three leave you all at last to god knows where (well, perhaps you suppose it’s easier to guess where your food court assistant is going) with only your thoughts, the collapsed body of your classmate, and a handful of revelations.

Why was this happening?

Who was Yoko Kurusu?

What happened to attending Hope’s Peak Academy? To hope? To the future?

…What was going to happen to you?

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Prologue | Falling Action

“Th-That’s enough, Kurusu-san.”

“…Apologies, we weren’t expecting this sort of outburst.”

Any sense of accomplishment given with these electronic handbooks is thrown to the side. They gave you time and maps but they also created tension with the introduction of the rules. Were you supposed to just pretend that nothing odd was being said?

“You should all take some time to read the rules. Though you may do it at your own pace, know that you must follow them at all times.”

Monokuma looks at Monomi with a bemused expression but with a single stern stare back, a stare tinged with a bit of melancholy, Monokuma turns his head away and almost looks a bit guilty before sighing and nodding.

You decide to take her advice and take a look at the full list of rules by yourself, still unnerved.

Rule #1: Students may reside only within Zenith Station. Leaving the station is an unacceptable use of time.

Rule #2: With minimal restrictions, you are free to explore Zenith Station at your discretion.

Rule #3: Violence against Monokuma and/or Monomi is strictly prohibited, as is destruction of property.

Rule #4: Anyone who kills a fellow student and becomes “blackened” will graduate, unless they are discovered.

Rule #5: Monokuma nor Monomi will never directly participate in a murder.

Rule #6: A body discovery announcement will occur when three or more students discover a body.

Rule #7: Once a body announcement takes place, a class trial will begin shortly thereafter. Participation is mandatory for all surviving students.

Rule #8: If the guilty party is exposed during the class trial, they alone will be executed. For our purposes, “exposed” means that a simple majority has voted for them as the culprit.

Rule #9: If the guilty party is not exposed, they will remain alive and unconfirmed while another student from the pool of people voted for shall be selected to be executed in their place. Having more votes for oneself increases their chances of being selected.

Rule #10: The guilty party may only kill a maximum of two people per class trial.

Rule #11: If a student becomes “blackened” twice and remains unexposed for both class trials, they alone may graduate.

Rule #12: Students who violate these rules will receive corporal punishment.

Rule #13: Additional regulations may be added if necessary.

Perhaps some of you rush to Yoshiko’s side instead though, discarding the rules entirely for another time.

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Prologue | Keep the Peace

(tw: electrocution)

In the midst of Monokuma reading the rules aloud, you could barely get past the fifth rule before you heard the cry of someone amongst you, someone decidedly not either of the chaperones.

“Wh…what? You can’t be serious, right…?”

You turn to the source and see it’s a blonde young girl wearing makeup. Whether you’ve talked to her yet or not, you recognize or at least can reasonably deduce that she was one of the other nineteen students besides yourself that had woken up in the station’s lounge prior.

Evidently distressed by the idea of having to kill each other, she frantically looking at her classmates as if she was expecting someone else to speak up. Taking a step towards Monokuma, she continued speaking, voice slightly louder than before.

“You…can’t make us do this…! This has to be some kind of joke–”

As the blonde young girl stepped towards Monokuma another figured stepped apart from the crowd towards her. Another girl with long black hair stepped forward. Suddenly she moved forward with great speed, almost as if she was floating across the ground.

“Halt! Do not proceed any further.”

Her voice boomed with an unnatural echo effect to it. The girls eyes also changed from their normal shade of pink to a pair of red and blue eyes.To compliment it all, the sound of a police siren seemed to emit from the girl from an unseen speaker.

“H…huh…?”

Seeing that the blonde girl hadn’t stepped back from Monokuma, Yoko leapt forward with shocking speed, gliding across the floor with previously unseen wheels in her shoes.

“Defiance of Rule 3 detected. Apprehending now.”

Yoko reached forward and grabbed Yoshiko on the wrist. Before the girl even had any time to react, an electric shock began to pulse through her body. It became clear that somehow Yoko had tazed Yoshiko just by grabbing her. Yoshiko collapsed to the ground right before her immediately afterwards, which caused Yoko to turn to the crowd.

“Please everyone. Remember to follow the rules. I would very much like to avoid having to do that again.”

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Prologue | Rules are Necessary

“Wow, some of you look way happier than I thought you would be at that. Well, it’s good to be grateful for what you have so keep it up!”

“Before we jump into things, there’s a RULES tab in there that you guys should look at. I’ll start reading them aloud as you find it. A-HEM.

“Rule #1: Students may reside only within Zenith Station. Leaving the station is an unacceptable use of time.

“Rule #2: With minimal restrictions, you are free to explore Zenith Station at your discretion.

“Rule #3: Violence against Monokuma and/or Monomi is strictly prohibited, as is destruction of property.

“Rule #4: Anyone who kills a fellow student and becomes “blackened” will graduate, unless they are discovered.

“Rule #5: Monokuma nor Monomi will never directly participate in a murder.

“Rule #6: A–”

Midway through, another voice cuts him off.

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Prologue | Handy Dandy Device

“We have Electronic Handbooks for all of you. It comes with a multitude of features, including a currency called monocoins that you may use at the gachapon in the souvenir shop and the map of the station.”

Monokuma takes the box from her and holds it as Monomi passes out the electronic devices out to you all. She checks each one before she gives them to each student. They’re about the size of a tablet.

Upon turning them on, your name and talent shows up on it much like your keycard. It also displays your Hope’s Peak class number. Swiping through, you do indeed notice the maps and your coin count, but most notably is finally an indication of what time it is.

2:07AM.

This still didn’t tell you how long it had been since you’ve woken up, how long it had been since the supposed accident, but it was something. Given enough time too, you watch it shift from one minute to the next. You have at last been given a clock that works. You can count the seconds, and the time between 2:08AM and 2:09AM was indeed a full sixty.

A shred of something had been bestowed and with that a little relief amongst a sea of uncertainty.

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Prologue | Round Up

Even if you decided not to go to the lounge of your own accord, A-30N (the robot that mans a lot of the food court restaurants) pushily escorts you back there anyway. All the stores close, their shutters going down, and even your keycard is rejected by your own room after the announcement. There IS no place to go except the lounge unless you just want to sit around with nothing to do.

When everyone is congregated, it can be noted that nothing has really changed. Monokuma and Monomi both stand there, the latter holding a box in her arms.

“Aaand twenty! That’s all of you, yup! Good job, I guess!”

“Hello everyone, thank you for meeting with us.”

“I’m sure you guys have noticed that we’ve brought something with us. Think of ‘em as gifts sent from the higher-ups!”

With the back of his hand, Monokuma pats the front of the box. It contents are still obscured to you, but Monomi adjusts her hold on the container and fishes out something from it, holding it up in the air and revealing it to you all…

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Prologue | It Cracks to Life

Left to your devices with chaperones that up and disappeared into the air, around three-fourths of the day had wasted away before you hear word of something. A loud crackling noise in the air resounds and then you hear a voice in the peace that settles afterwards.

“A-ha!! FINALLY they sent it ov–”

It cuts off with what sounds like a loud metallic screech (a microphone being dropped, maybe?) and then silence follows once more. Regardless, your attention is now grabbed by the PA system. Before you can resume what you were doing, the voice returns, clearly Monokuma.

“Listen up, punks! We got some news for you lot so hurry your bums over to the lounge! You remember where it is, right? It’s where you woke up. Get a movin’ and we’ll meet you there!”

The feed cuts off. Though he wasn’t the nicest about it, you suppose there’s no big reason to really stand him up, so off you go.

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BREAK!! | Game Start Info

Hey, it’s game start officially! Wow! There’s a few things to take note of first, but we’re really excited to see things get kicked off too. 

I recommend looking back at the How to Play section or at the very least the very beginning of it.

There’s no thread limit! Just take on whatever you think you can personally handle.

The students have access to their keycards which means they can unlock their rooms. However, this is all those keycards can do. They currently do NOT have access to the public bios or any roster page information. They only know their classmates if they’ve either done prior research on them or just knew about them before attending Hope’s Peak.

Monokuma and Monomi are currently… Gone into the ether as far as everyone’s aware, but they’re certainly… around, right?

Everyone’s dormitories can only be unlocked by their own individual keycard. Each room is already mysteriously decorated to the person’s aesthetics and personal comfort surprisingly enough.

When submitting something to the blog, the title can be whatever you want but please include your character’s name in it somewhere. Also be sure to tick off the tag ‘rwc’ since that’s just the tag we use for every in-game post.

We’re not gonna hard-enforce a strict timeline or anything, but please don’t have a starter ( a single scenario ) get replied to by two people without it being a group thread. That’s the most blatant example of timeline convergence and that’s a bit more messy than we would like.

Prologue in-character will take place over the course of three-fourths of a day.

Students waking up will realize any phones on them are dead. Any devices that can connect to the outside world cannot reach a signal. All time-keeping devices have also stopped working and are set to 00:00 / 12:00AM.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask a moderator! I probably forgot something in here regardless, so don’t worry if you’re confused about something. I hope you all have fun!

☾ mod n

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Prologue | Where Can We Go?

“Arrangements have been made so that you can all stay here until we are told to escort you to HPA.”

“Your luggage and everything’s been moved into those rooms too. Talk about living with luxury, having everything done for you! I guess we’re kinda of the same ilk though, hahaha!”

At that point in time, the man who calls himself Monokuma takes out a bunch of keycards and shows them off as if they were a fan of cards in his hand.

“These bad boys are yours temporarily. We brought ‘em with us from the admissions office before you bozos start asking. Be sure to take the one that’s yours, y’hear me?”

With that, he tosses them all up into the air and they fall to the ground. You can spot a few names and talents as you search for your own.

“Goodbye. Let me know if you need anything, and I will do my best to help.”

“See ya later suckers! We’ll be around and about. You know.”

The two of them part, off to do who knows what. Left with nothing but nineteen strangers, a mysterious keycard, and a subway area, what is there to do with your seemingly limitless time?

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Prologue | History Repeats

(tw: train accident mention)

The two stumble their way over and in that time, you can manage to get up. If you don’t, Monokuma comes up to slap you on your back as he paces around, Monomi sighing as she watches on. Eventually, her male peer joins her at her side and the two of them are in front of the group of you.

“You’re probably confused, right? I guess I’ll try my best to fill you in on what’s happening. There was a horrible accident, and the investigation is still underway. Luckily, you’re all safe, though you’ve been out for some time. Because of the investigation, your admission will take longer than originally anticipated, but until then, Hope’s Peak Academy has sent us to watch over you.”

“Count yourselves lucky too. We’re the best!!”

“AHEM. I’m Monokuma, the dazzling dude of the night!”

“And I’m Monomi, the incandescent dame of the day.”

Well, rumors say HPA doesn’t have the most conventional staff or teaching methods. It’s a bit much to see it in person though and right after waking up.

“Speaking of Hope’s Peak, this subway belongs to ‘em! Boy, the things money can do.”

“Keep it on the DL, but something like this happened with the 54th class too. Before everyone went back to thinking trains were hot even if a bit pricy yeah? So Hope’s Peak made their own rail system just in case and we’ve been only really using it for field trips and such ‘til now. We’ll be using the bad boys you rats just saw to transport you all to HPA once we’ve been given the green light, but until then, stay put. Capiche?”

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Prologue | The Morning Greets You

(tw: swearing)

Her expression changes ever so slightly, scrutinizing you all now as the last three trains behind her leave their posts, and you hold your breath in.

“Oh, I see that you’re awake. That’s good.”

She hasn’t moved from that middle platform to your own, but she speaks at last. A signal of life breathes out from her, and that sense of inexplicable dread is drained from you ever so slightly.

There’s something undeniably strange about her though. You spot legs behind her own and her hair seems to have gotten… wilder. Bigger. Something totally on its own.

“Hey! Wakey-wakey, you lot!!”

“Could you keep your voice down? Like I said, they’re already awake.”

“You can never be sure! Look at some of ‘em, still stuck on their asses!”

The other person with her reveals himself having hidden under the copious amount of locks she has, though he soon extricates himself from her, a grin across his face and an expectant look upon her own.

“Alright you bastards! Don’t move an inch! We’ll be over there in a sec so don’t get impatient with us!!”

“C’mon, Monomi! Pick your feet up already!”

“… … …”