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You say "unleashed the beast" as if this rewrite wasn't exactly what I wanted smh

Also I did allow for shuffling deaths around lol, I think you misread that

But aye the idea of Genocider being a fictive is actually really really cool, props for that

Even if you and I got some wildly different opinions (I don't like Celeste all that much sorgy) that was a pretty good read, so take this as a reminder to do the other games as well

Also unrelated but I do wanna doodle a lil smth for you since I got obsessed with your blog but who knows when I'll actually get the time to draw

Anyway, have a good one

- timeline autism anon

LMAO all good timeline anon! I was surprised by the restriction but this makes more sense lol. Still, I started under this level of restriction, and I will finish it like so! Though I have to admit, it'll probably be a lot harder to do with sdr2 in particular

(If you're at all curious, letting people shuffle places likely wouldn't have changed much for THH anyway, save maybe having Byakuya kill Taka and Hiro both and set up the whole thing. But I honestly like it better the way it came out anyway, so who cares lol)

Glad you liked the first one! Ik Celeste isn't for everyone, but she's so thematically strong with the rest of the main cast she seems like a strong move for me. Curious who you'd choose though?

You're gonna draw me a doodle? 🥹 timeline anon I'm honored just don't forget anon ask doesn't allow images

Anywho, let's try our hand at SDR2, shall we?

GOODBYE DESPAIR- ONE SWAP

I doubt I'll have nearly as much trouble with UDG and V3 as I did deciding this one, and that's mainly based in just how inter-connected the story of sdr2 and its survivors really are. Every chapter is pretty well-structured within itself with who lives and dies, and the survivors are all well selected as characters with strong arcs or just that have no reason to be targeted at any point. If any one game has the most overarching consistent story quality, it's SDR2, even if I think the other three games have higher highs and stronger individual moving parts.

That said, Sonia is getting the axe. Don't get me wrong; I really like Sonia! She's a very fun and endearing character. And it's not like she's a bad survivor pick by any means. However, Hajime, Fuyuhiko, and Akane all have really strong character arcs, and Kazuichi has to be alive until at least the ch4 investigation in order to fix that elevator. And since Gundham, Nagito, and Chiaki all have really important roles to play in their respective places, Kazuichi has to live by default. By process of elimination, Sonia is all that's left.

Once, a long time ago, I made a google slide about why subbing in Sonia as a survivor with Mahiru would be the best way to fix all my personal problems with SDR2, and later posted it on here. Problem is, that slide also included the changes I'd make to chapters 2, 3, and 4 as a result to make these changes fit. And, as you know, I'm sticking with the 'only one swap' for this story. One survivor and one dead character swap, everyone else stays in their respective places. So sadly, my Mahiru fix-it AU isn't applicable here. Then what's the solution? We swap one blonde for another, having Sonia die as the unexpected second victim in chapter 3 and allow for Hiyoko to finish her arc.

CH 1-2

There's not really any changes to be made here, to be honest. I believe Kodaka has actually confirmed on either twitter or bluesky that Hiyoko was originally going to live before being subbed out for Fuyuhiko, and you can kind of tell, especially in the second chapter. So I really don't see much point in changing anything about these chapters.

CH 3

The chapter 3 murder for this game has ALWAYS pissed me tf off. It's physically impossible for Mikan to have pulled off that kind of coverup with that much speed and precision, and I'm not even talking about clumsiness here. I'm talking her following immediately behind Hajime to watch him find Ibuki's body, run in behind him, unveil Hiyoko's body and hide the coverup, and destroy the camera, and use quick-dry glue to glue the doors shut in an extremely hot venue on a DESERT ISLAND, then run back to the hospital to meet Fuyuhiko, and then WALK AROUND THE ISLAND THE LONG WAY, all in the same timespan it took Hajime to SPRINT to the NEAREST NEIGHBORING BUILDING AND TALK BRIEFLY TO TWO PEOPLE. Fuck ch 3 murder plot frfr. So if I take this victim-swap as an opportunity to rewrite this entire case, well, then, just forgive me already!

In the game, Sonia was the one that found Hiyoko struggling with her kimono without Mahiru's help, and wanted to assist her. Despite that, Hiyoko wouldn't let her. It's Sonia herself who actually tells Hiyoko about the full-length mirror. So we can easily use this to motive-swap the reason why it's Sonia going to the music venue instead of Hiyoko. Hiyoko won't go outside, not for anything, so instead of telling Hiyoko about the mirror, she resolves to go get it for her as a gift.

I'm thinking Kazuichi, in all his definitely normal ways of crushing, sees her on her way out and asks where she's going, asking of she wants an escort even, and her telling him she left something at the venue and doesn't need help. He wants to go anyway but decides to not be weird about it and lets her go. Not only does this help triangulate the time she left, it also allows for Kazuichi to actually, you know. Have an arc. The guilt he'd feel about not having gone with her, only for Hiyoko and/or Fuyuhiko to tell him it only would've gotten him killed too and that it was better he didn't keep forcing himself on her could be good for him. Simultaneously, it's a really good setup for his increasing paranoia in the following chapter.

Now, let's say the murder itself ends up being pretty similar to how it happened in-game. The plan is to hang up Ibuki and make it look like her death was a suicide, Sonia just so happens to walk in on it, Mikan ends up forced to kill her out of necessity. All that works. The problem is the cover-up. So what do we do? I think we want it to look like Ibuki killed Sonia, then hung herself out of guilt. So all we really need to do, rather than go through all the steps of confusing the death order, is leave Sonia's body exactly where it is and alter the entrance to the venue a bit. Let there be a back door behind the curtains of the stage, and more importantly, let its existence be hidden and mostly unknown by the group. In fact, besides Ibuki and Mikan, have no one know about it until the investigation. I'm thinking that after finding the setup for the fake hanging live video, Hajime and Chiaki go back to look at the stage curtain again and pull it away, only to find the hidden back door, and have that be the final trigger for the trial to begin. Using this back door, Mikan could lock the front door and run out the back before Hajime ever shows up, then act out the hanging in the morning. Hajime wouldn't be able to open the door, he'd run to the hotel, and Mikan would just need to wait for Fuyuhiko and start looking in the same direction. She conveniently meets Hajime and Chiaki when they 'can't open the door' to the venue, and thus, an alibi is granted without all the strangeness of the cover-up that the official game had.

Hiyoko was Mikan's #1 biggest bully. We all know this. So I think her being alive to watch Mikan's breakdown would be really great for her character, especially when you see who Mikan did kill. On the one hand, Ibuki being the specific target Mikan chose is a FASCINATING choice from a character perspective. Ibuki was actually the one sexually objectifying her the most out of the cast prior to now, talking about how cute and sexy she was whenever she was upset and even going so far as to ask Mikan to take sexy photos of her when she fell in the salad position in the first chapter. Mikan, as we know, thrives on negative attention; it's why she got so attached to Junko, so her being associated with Ibuki after the fact and even getting ready for the beach day with her in chapter 2 made sense. Thus, her turning around and killing her, and then re-enacting it to look like a death of her own choice, is really, really interesting, especially when you realize that she only did so after regaining her memories. Ibuki did NOT treat her well, and she returns the favor when she remembers her actual beloved. Now we pair that with Sonia, who did literally nothing to her whatsoever. If anything, Sonia was one of the nicer members of the cast, as even if she doesn't like someone, she remains at least polite, with Kaz as a notable exception but hell, I think we all know why.

Hiyoko not only surviving Mikan's snap, but also being indirectly responsible for the death of Sonia, then, could push her over the edge in a really, really great way. Mikan emphasizing that killing her friends meant nothing, nothing because it was for her beloved, that it didn't matter who she killed, and perhaps most interestingly, that Hiyoko's jabs and prods and insults meant nothing, she had no power, only Mikan did, would go so, so hard. Imagine, Hiyoko leaving that trial and trying to regain some sense of control. Oh, I knew something was wrong with that stupid bitch, I survived, Sonia was stupid for walking into that, only to privately get crushed under the weight of it? Immaculate. I'm imagining something like a scene between Hiyoko and Chiaki where Chiaki gently tells her it's okay to be angry, but it's also okay to mourn, too, and maybe asking if she'd like to add Sonia to her memorial. Maybe Hiyoko tries to keep a brave face, but her true grief breaks through the cracks, and her insistence that she's not crying over it being a clear distinction from when she fake-cries to make people feel bad.

CH 4

The main changes are dynamic-wise, as the story itself from here on out is pretty airtight. For one thing, ch 4 had a lot of casual Sondham, with Sonia and Gundham going off together a few times and Sonia's disbelief at Gundham being the killer. So instead, I imagine this chapter would focus more on what Kazuichi and Gundham's dynamic would look like without Sonia, mainly in Kazuichi awkwardly trying to latch himself onto Gundham and Gundham NOT having a good time. Think to the cast pairing up when they wake up in the funhouse; in-game, Sonia and Gundham run off without telling anyone, but here, I imagine it'd look more like Kazuichi insisting on pairing up with Gundham, and when he responds in disbelief, Kaz says something along the lines of "Miss- I mean, Sonia- she trusted you more than anyone else, right? If we're gonna pair up, you're probably the safest bet." And Gundham sighs but lets him follow along, because Kaz is too much of a coward to kill anyway.

This frees up Chiaki to pair up with Mechamaru instead(we all know she was obsessed with his robot form), and leaves Hiyoko with Hajime. I'm not sure exactly how this would look, but most likely, it's Hiyoko being whiny and complainy and maybe even trying to run away from Hajime. When her hand is forced, though, I'm thinking an admission of survivor's guilt- people who get close to her die. It happened with Mahiru and Sonia; they stuck their necks out for her and paid the price. She lost her own father to people after her. So Hajime should just fuck off and get out of her way; she can take care of herself. And Hajime could, in classic Hajime fashion, call bullshit. He's literally the one who proved her innocence for Mahiru's murder AND got Chiaki to help her tie up her kimono before the trial. What happened to Mahiru and Sonia weren't her fault at all, and honestly, it's kinda conceited to act otherwise, ngl :/ I think mouthing off to someone who can actually match her energy here is what she needs. The more I think about it, actually, Hajime and Chiaki are the two opposing ends of what Hiyoko needed. Funny how that goes.

Anywho, I'd also like for Hajime and Hiyoko overhearing Akane and Fuyuhiko's conversation to be unskippable; that's such a strong moment for both characters, and making it skippable is such a disservice to them both.

One other thing for Kaz. Gundham being the killer would make him regress more, or so you might initially think. But Gundham's whole thing is anti-cowardice here. Letting themselves starve to death was the coward's way out, so killing for the sake of everyone's spirit would more likely inspire Kaz to really accept that his classmates are his friends first and to swear off his former cowardice forever. This also explains why he'd go forward trying to catch Nagito and save the group without it being just "to impress Miss Sonia."

CH 5

So you know how Sonia's whole thing in this chapter is knowing a fuckton about military weaponry and being shrugged off by the others in the investigation for seemingly no reason other than sexism? Well, I think it actually works a lot better with Hiyoko here. In the previous chapters, we've seen Hiyoko struggle to want to help the others over protecting herself, and the people she gets close to consistently dying. So in a new chapter where Nagito is running wild, Hiyoko wanting to actually get to work on the ruins and not being taken seriously feels more in-line with the way people treat her. She's a whiny, self-serving crybaby with like no physical strength, she certainly can't help in capturing Nagito! Plus, Hiyoko's whole thing is being perceived as a child, and her trying to take advantage of that to get what she wants. So seeing it actively work against her in that everyone tries to tell her not to help in catching Nagito and to stay out of it and stay safe would make for a good chance for her to prove herself. Maybe she doesn't know a ton about the military like Sonia would, but she has survived multiple attempted assassinations, and I think her insisting on being there when they catch Nagito and maybe even jumping and pulling Kaz away from the bomb right before it goes off would be a good defining moment of growth for her.

CH 6

Having Hiyoko there to confirm that she has no sister or family that looks like the picture is way better than having to take Monokuma at his word. Just saying. Also, Hiyoko hearing Mahiru in the final sequence just feels right. Maybe Kaz could hear Sonia and Gundham this way, too

I'm lowkey falling in love with this au we're making here help-

#anon ask #ask box #danganronpa #sdr2 #sdr2 au #hiyoko saionji #kazuichi soda #hajime hinata #chiaki nanami #sonia nevermind #gundham tanaka #thanks anon!

Thinking abt @chxrrie-bxmb ‘s mastermind Hajime au. Thinking abt Hajime/Izuru being so attached to Junko that he’s basically codependent.

Thinking about how he might behave during the one trial (idk which, haven’t gotten that far) where Mikan is revealed to be in love with junko (iirc, i’ve only heard about it.) Would he be upset? Would he mask how he really feels, or would he declare that Mikan isn’t worthy of loving/being loved by Junko?

I need to know more about this au, and i stfg I need to draw something for it. Like a mastermind hajime design…. That would be pretty neat i think.

Cherrie,,, pls yap to us more about Mastermind Hajime,,, i love him sm u don’t even understanddddd

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