daisy chains | ndrv3
...another oumamimatsu au >//<
Maybe... a 79th class of hopes peak au? Where it takes Junko another year to get all the pieces together to destroy the world and Despair Arc takes place in her second year of high school.
Basically, Rantaro discovers that Junko-senpai and Mukuro-senpai are doing something sketchy, getting a head boink for his trouble that gives him temporary amnesia. Kaede and Kokichi, who were returning from detention (because of an argument they got into that somehow took out a wall), are the ones to find him and a bit of incriminating evidence that proves that someone is out there doing something evil.
Kokichi insists that they treat Rantaro themselves, only trusting Kaede because she was in detention with him (thus, could not boink heads) and also her righteousness would make her incapable of evil (or is it a trap...?), but either way, they can’t trust the school because fuck authority. Kaede reluctantly agrees. I like the idea that she’s noticed the way the reserve course is treated, and even has looked into their finances before being blocked. And Rantaro doesn’t remember his talent, nor any attachments to it.
Rantaro is still the Ultimate Survivor in this au, but pretends to be the Ultimate Adventurer. I’m not sure how he would become Ultimate Survivor, but both Kaede and Kokichi understand that if Rantaro can’t remember his talent, and reasonably prove it at the next exam, then he’ll be expelled, so there’s an arc of them trying to get him to do adventurey things, only for the exam to come around and the talent board has arranged, like, a death trap for him to escape (good thing Komaeda gets exams cancelled)
I have the image of the three of them linking arms with a group of daisy flowers in their mouths. Daisies can represent keeping a secret, so... that’s where all this came from.
