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Danganronpa Kirigiri - List of Detective Library members & their monster reps
In Danganronpa Kirigiri, the Triple Zero detectives of the Detective Library were based upon/referenced four types of monsters in fiction: ghost, werewolf, vampire and doppleganger. I always thought that was a pretty cool choice for Kitayama to go down and go to thinking what other types of monsters the other detectives would represent.
Which is basically what below is - a list of every named Detective Library member and monster would best fit them, in book order. As well as who represents the four monsters I mentioned above.
Main Duo:
Kyoko Kirigiri - Angel of Death (Now for Kyoko's monster I wanted something that best represents Kyoko's relation with Death and, ultimately her benevolent nature behind her stonefaced mask. So I chose her as the metaphorical Angel of Death - someone who brings about the end of those who have Fallen by uncovering the truth behind their misdeeds. Yet, in doing so, is also saving lives of those that were in danger because of the Fallen's actions. She also attends a religious school so it ties back well with those origins.
Yui Samidare - Powers (A type of angel in Christian theology and apart of the Middle Order of angels. Her whole thing is being a detective to protect others from evil and Powers are types of angels that hold the power to dispel or defeat evil. Also calls back to Yui being from a religious school. If I had to choose something else, I'd make Yui a guardian angel to match Kyoko being an angel of death. But, for reasons below, decided to forego it to complete another set )
DRK1:
Kou Inuzuka - Hellhound (Kou surname 'Inuzaka' contains the word for dog in Japanese, and Kou himself is an arsonist. Of the reps, I think this is one of the most fitting I've come up with)
Eigo Amino - Robot (Eigo is said to have zero presence or stands out, and he's a detective that poses as a businessman AKA a cog in a machine of office life. So I figured a robot was the best thing to compare him to)
Shiita Enbi - Zombie (Based upon the whole deal with him being dead all along, and also Tadashi's deal with having no legs, so kind of shambling about, reminds me of those types of zombies in horror games or shows)
Johnny Arp - Werewolf (From DRK Vol 6 - referred to heavily with wolfish traits or personality)
Gekka Ryuzoji - Vampire (From his design & titles; he's heavily based upon Count Dracula from the titular novel)
Rei Mikagami - Ghost (Comes from his epithet of 'Ghost in the Mirror' and his own ghostly ability to seemingly disappear from the scene with ease. Honorary mention goes to 'unicorn' given that's what his alias, Licorne, means in French).
DRK2:
Taehime Uozumi - Mermaid (Made her mermaid given her surname, Uozumi, is literally 'sleeping with the fishes'...and, okay, the pun with her fake profession was too tempting to pass up)
Suisei Nanamura - Father Time (Suisei is obsessed with time and managing it, so making him Father Time seemed pretty natural
Mikado Shinsen - Doppleganger (From his epithet, the Variationist, and skills as a master of disguise. Honorary mention goes to him being referred to as a Shinigami/Reaper by Chage and the connection he does have with the dead)
DRK 3
Hajiki Yaki - Devil (His DSC card is 666 which is considered a devilish number in Abrahamic religon, and his own thing is being a detective that goes against gambling - a type of deal with the devil?)
Salvador Yadorigi Fukuro - Gorgon (Okay, now, admittedly, this one is one of my weakest, but was inspired to call him a gorgon due to his own whole thing with his special eyes, and how he stunned Keisuke from DRK4 with the look of them. Stunning? Turning people to stone? A stretch? Kind of, but I still think it also kind of works so...)
Sachi Mizuiyama - Elf (Okay, beyond her getting an elf because she's short, was also inspried to give it to her based upon elves appearing young when they're actually older - something that's been pointed out about Sachi - and how elves/fairy-ish folk tend to have skewed moralities. Something that skewed me towards Sachi and her whole deal)
Korisu Kakitsubata - Succubus (Also one of my weakest, yet this one just feels so fitting. She dresses provocatively and acts seemingly benevolent, but that's hiding a malicious front to get away with claiming a soul. Plus, another case of her being related to fire and Succubi being from Hell - it just kind makes itself work out)
Suntetsu Shirasu - Underworld Gatekeeper (Chose this after a lot of internal debating, but decided this might be the most fitting? Like Gozu & Mezu or Cerberus, Suntetsu's actions decided who remains in the living and who has to remain in the afterlife. If there was a more fitting word for this type of monster, I'll gladly hear it out)
DRK4:
Tsukiyo Nada & Nazuna Toakitsu - Dominion & Virtue (Types of Angels in Christian theology and apart of the Middle Order set of angels with the Powers. Tsukiyo is Dominion given they govern celestial bodies & Tsukiyo's name refers to the night sky itself - ok that and her domineering personality. Naz is Virtue since one of its job is to bolster faith, and Naz is the most supportive of the duo in terms of helping out Yui to Salvador to Tsukiyo as well. Plus, they round out Yui being Power and also coming from a religious school)
DRK5:
Tatsutora Oboro - Bakaneko (Ok, the weakest one out of the lot, but also didn't really want to spend too much time on a minor guy like Oboro. As such, with part of his name, 'Tora', meaning tiger the idea that came to mind was a simple monster cat!)
DRK 6:
Motosuke Suzuyari - Yeti (He's in the icy mountains, described as being kind of wild looking. It writes itself)
Ayako Saiko - Witch (@drmedicsgamesurgery holds credit for the intiial placeholder as being a 'Mad Scientist'. However, mad scientists aren't technically monsters, I decided to swap it with the mad scientist of monster: a witch)
DRK 7:
Shiroko Yukimura - Yuki-onna (I got this based upon her part of her name 'Shiro' meaning white and the fact she appeared in a snowy setting)
Senshi Kadomi - Giant (Big guy with a knack for violence to get what he wants? Yeah, Senshi was pretty much hardlocked into being a giant from early on)
Kanji Yuhain - The 1st Horseman/Conquest/Pestilence/White Rider (I went with the 1st Horseman of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, after being inspired from Yuhain riding to Sirius on top of a white horse which symbolizes conquest or pestilence in the modern age. Both fit Yuhain as a guy who seeks to conquer the detective world as the King of Detectives and given his corrupt nature, he can very much be considered a pestilence.)
What if Danganronpa: Kirigiri was instead structured like a story about yet another Killing Game?
Cast:
Death Order:
Explination for all chapters down below
So, now its time for Danganronpa Kirigiri! the long awaited 3rd entry in the "What if other entries were made like the trilogy".
For this one, I wanted to try and keep it fresh and also unexpected, not as much as the Killer Killer one, but enough so that it stands out, not to mention we now have 7 chapters to accommodate the larger cast with 20, as the Kirigiri cast is pretty large in general and hey, the novel has 7 chapters, so why not replicate it here?
Prologue + Chapter 1:
The premise of this game will be quite different than usual, we of course still have Yui as our protagonist, Kyoko as our support, and we will be having Suisei as our overall antagonist. In here, a total of 20 people were chosen to participate in a gran event! And those three, along with 17 others were invited over, that's when the doors to the overall location to the killing game close and everyone is told that they are now participants of the Ultimate Duel Noir.
The rules are similar to the trilogy rules, but now with the added fact that whoever gets to leave will also be awarded with Mikado's entire fortune, a great legacy of his. This gets everyone on their toes, detectives or not. (Note that they do not know who Mikado is at this point in time, as he will be disguised as someone else and have an alias to keep his name out of the picture).
Anyways, just like the dr3 one, i have next to no clue how the motive nor kills themselves would go through, though most likely they would have a pretty similar feel and difficulty as those of the novels.
Anyways, what's more of a crazy and awesome way to start us off than to kill off a 000 detective himself? Sorry Johnny, I love you but you dying first can bring a lot of interesting dilemmas and trials without someone knowing the deal one second in.
And the person who killed him is unfortunately Hajiki, the least developed out of the three detectives we meet. I think his motive could relate back to how he is someone who is hot-blooded and impulsive in taking action. Maybe he heard a rumour about Johnny being the MM, whether it'd be for his knowledge on the situation or a miscellaneous reason. So he acted on the spot and killed him before he could potentially hurt someone, which was obv wrong and wasn't the mastermind himself.
Chapter 2:
Unlike the dr3 crew, the dr:k cast never seems to unite one as a group, often just forming their own little factions and group up with people close to them, so the deaths of Johnny and Hajiki dont really affect anyone. Though the next one def will affect someone, as Nazuna is found to be the second victim of the game, making Tsukiyo go absolute nuts considering they are close friends.
And the person who killed her would be none other than Shiroko! This one is def easier to pinpoint what motive she would have, as we already have the fact that she is a mother who loves and protects her kids very dearly, just make it relate to that and she will kill in no time me thinks.
Chapter 3:
After the trial, Tsukiyo is left sulking, but after some encouragement from Yui and Kyoko (mostly Yui) she decides to fight for Nazuna and even joins Yui and Kyoko's duo.
Now this is where things go crazy, we have a TRIPLE murder case at our hands, with all none victim, surviving mystery club members being killed. During the entire trial, it slowly seems to be building up to make Rei the culprit, until she herself reveals that while yes, she did kill both Goro and Kosuke, it was Kosuke that first killed Emi. This was by manipulation from Rei of course.
You may be wondering why i made Rei like this? well, by the little of what we got from her, she seems to gen not be mentally sane at all, being described as a person who chases pigeons when they're being fed and cutting the breaks of Torus sisters car. So why not make her completely deranged? It would fit with the many characters here as them being an asshole and not many nice people.
Of course, Toru crashes out at this, and basically beats up Rei while she laughs at the rage of him. Making end of the third and most brutal chapter here.
Chapter 4:
To tone it back down a bit, Toru is still absolutely livid and out of it, so its better for no one to try and socialize with him. And that's not our attention for now, because uh oh... we have a double murder! Salvador and Taehime are both found dead.
Everyone starts throwing fingers in the trial as to who did it, because it was at this point that everyone was much more un easy with one another, until they found out that the true culprits were actually themselves, as an act of sacrifice between each other. Was It an attempt to try and make peace with the remaining survivors? who knows, but if it was then...
Chapter 5:
It didn't work, as we find Toru dead now! and the killer is, surprisingly, Tsukiyo Nada! why? it was in self defence, as Toru seemed to have finally fully snapped and tried to first off himself, and when he was stopped by Tsukiyo, he moved onto trying to kill her, which didn't succeed as she was able to kill him first. she apologizes for what she did before she is ultimately executed.
Chapter 6:
And these chapters between the 3rd one and the last one are gonna go pretty quickly, because i have NO. FUCKING. CLUE about how they would turn out aside from the kills/death order. So we find both Licorne and Mifune dead, and the culprit, somewhat symbolically is Kanji, representing the final antagonist in Kirigiri. He was about to shoot Kyoko with a gun he was able to steal from Johnny back in day one when Meruko all like the queen she is and with her last strength was able to walk all the way over to the trial room and BEND THE FUCKING GUN. like old times. Making Kanji not able to do jack and get killed.
Chapter 7:
Final chapter baby! of course the mastermind of all of this is surprise surprise (not really) Mikado!... yeah shocker, the guy who barely did anything is the MM. So for motive, he made the killing game as a way for Kyoko to become the Ultimate detective and stop the upcoming tragedy that's about to come.
But, a major difference in this one is that unlike the novels, Yui isn't the one to sacrifice herself, as doing so wouldn't end the Killing game, so as her own act and final goodbye to Samidare, Kyoko sacrifices herself. Leaving Yui absolutely devastated and regretful she couldn't do anything to save her like her sister. Just an FYI, Kyoko sacrifices JUST herself so the games end, Mikado actually lives through this. So survivors consist of:
Yui Samidare
Mikado Shinsen
Suisei Nanamura
Sachi Mizuyame
Rei Naruko
And there we have it! the 3rd entry of the saga, if you want to check out the other two, then they will be linked right here:
Danganronpa Killer Killer:
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Killing Order:
Danganronpa 3:
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