#dreadnoughtspoilers

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happy birthday ping!! gotta be honest im not feelin real good about 2025 but you know what we take it a day at a time

hopefully i can get back on the ball with asks and spoiler writeups this year!!

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I made a Dreadnought Despair TalentSwap AU for fun and uh-

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Tim: Ultimate Paparazzi

Aoi: Ultimate Librarian (PROTAG AOI-)

Gugalanna: Ultimate Pathologist

Honoka: Ultimate Luchadora (Oh no-)

Ishi: Ultimate Tech Support (PFFT-)

Jurou: Reserve Course Student

Kapono: Ultimate Ikebana Artist

Michi: Ultimate Roller Derby Jammer

Nikola: Ultimate Knitter

Ping: Ultimate Paleontologist (Human Ping?)

Riko: Ultimate Operatic Tenor

Salvatore: Ultimate ??? (ROBOT SAL??)

Siegfried: Ultimate Chainsaw Artist (That's scary-)

Tiffani: Ultimate TV Pitchwoman (PFFTHAHAHA-)

Vasundhara: Ultimate Tap Dancer (OH NO)

Yusra: Ultimate Aerospace Engineer

Enjoy my random input for some of these swaps lmao

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although the votes are more split than i expected, it looks like we're leaning towards talking about spoilers on main! reminder that i'll be using the #dreadnoughtspoilers tag for these posts in case you do want to wait until reboot ch1 is done (i have no idea how long that will take though!)

finally. the real reason i revived the blog. finally i can post this poll

which of these dreadnought spoilers do you think is real

there are 16 masterminds

20 year timeskip

ping is a human

both a serial killer fakeout AND an actual serial killer

someone's mom gets executed

victim accuses murderer from beyond the grave

protagonist switch

despair mole survives the game

yusra has a gun

there's a michael buble song on the mastermind playlist

Voting ended onSep 30, 2024

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oh that is WILD. I HAVE to know the Ping thing, since I can see why that got the fewest votes...though considering the mastermind/mole situation, I guess you could stick an extra human in some secret rooms and have none of the others (able to) question or find them, so that's my baseline guess. It'd be REALLY funny if it was somehow Tiffani though. Also, if I may, was that going to be an endgame reveal or come out earlier? Actually I'm curious about the timeline for when we'd have learned the other big things too since there are a lot, if you plan to go into that...

oh see that's a really good guess! that's the like. logical reasonable way to have ping be a human. but no, uh, well you'll see,

the timeline is a good idea tho lemme put it under the cut

ch2: serial killer fakeout (yall are not ready for this one)

ch3: victim accuses murderer from beyond the grave, someone's mom gets executed, 20 yr timeskip (happens before the story starts but this is when they find out)

ch4: protagonist switch (temporary from tim to mecha-ishi), ping is a human

ch5: yusra has a gun, actual serial killer (probably would've showed up here towards the end? or maybe ch6)

ch6: 16 masterminds (foreshadowed throughout and there were planned to be interludes from their POV in between chapters of the reboot? but not explicitly confirmed until here), despair mole survives game, buble on the mm megamix playlist

a lot of other stuff happens too these were just the funniest ones out of context for the poll

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hi its me again i fear. is kaponos nose injured or does he wear the Band-Aid for hashtag fashion. if it is injured how hasnt it healed yet

would you believe me if i told you this stumbles into endgame spoiler territory

doylist explanation: i think it looks cute for his design

watsonian explanation: kapono forgot the bandage was on his face. he probably hasn't looked in a mirror since he woke up on the dreadnought

spoiler explanation:

minor injury from playing volleyball or something. after word got out to the dreadnought about The Tragedy they were in a hurry to get everyone in the cryogenic pods with little regard for what they were wearing at the time. hence everyone wearing their costumes or iconic outfits-- they were getting ready for their ultimate talent exams. it's only been a couple days since the injury from kapono's point of view so it still hurts, and he doesn't remember where it came from so he thinks it safer to keep the bandage

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long time listener, first time caller! did any of the characters have beta versions that were drastically different to how they turned out in the final version? (designs, fates, power roles, etc)

MAN i wish i still had the dreamselfy designs from when i was originally planning the cast… not everyone had one but most of the characters i designed specifically for the fic did. pour one out for dreamselfy

both in visuals and backstory, though, nik has changed the most from his original incarnation! so much so that in fact… spoilers under the cut

… he became a separate character entirely! keep an eye out for posts about the mastermind(s) and nik's backstory :)

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CLASS TRIAL 1 - Climactic Deduction

if you wanna see it again without playing thru the whole trial (or if the ending animation wasn't loading for you 😭) here's the art for the climactic deduction!!

OUGH its been weeks and i still get upset looking at that one guga panel. im much happier with how she turned out in the rewrite but she still deserves better 😔

[here's the original version] if you're curious! i like the new version more overall of course but there's a few panels i still really like the energy of in the old one haha

(and now its bothering me that the ending animation still has the border when i took if off of all the other panels OH NO)

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good evening a gremlin possessed me this afternoon