MASCOT OF DESPAIR

Blood in the Danganronpa universe isn’t actually pink! its only visualized as pink my source for this is that there are several times throughout the games in which blood is referred to as red or crimson both by the narrator and by characters within the games in short?  we see the blood as pink because of the ‘’Psychopop’’ art style, but the characters themselves clearly see the blood as red.

Miscellaneous sounds of clicking and murmuring could be heard before the screen finally turns on to reveal what appears be a small blue haired child.  

“Alright, alright now all I have to do is…”

They cut themselves once they noticed the recording started briefly, smiling at the camera before stepping a bit further back from it to show himself from the waist up showing that they were wearing a pair of light blue cartoon looking tiger pajama’s and although it was difficult to see from this angle the back appeared to have white stripes the outfit seemed much more akin to something a young child would wear and not so much a sixteen year old teenager.. they’d smile once again before speaking with enthusiasm, excitement and eagerness.

"Hello, my name is Yuma Akimatsu otherwise known as the Ultimate Storyteller! I’m in Hope’s Peak Academy’s 66th class and I don’t believe anyone else in my class is on here, but I’ve noticed that a lot of the other students of Hope’s Peak are and they seem like genuinely great people! I rarely get chances to talk to people outside of my own class so I thought that reaching out to other students on here would be a great opportunity to meet new people and hear some interesting stories! so I’d really appreciate it if you could share this post, thanks bunches!”

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“NO! NUH-UH! NOT HAPPENIN’ SWEETHEART! IF WE GIVE YOU EVEN A FRACTION OF THAT POWER YOU’D STOP BEING BABY AND WE’D STOP SELLING BODY PILLOWS TO LONELY MIDDLE AGED MEN! WE STILL HAVE A BOTTOM LINE TO REACH IN MERCH SALES!”

“BODY PILLOWS, BODY PILLOWS, BODY PILLOWS!! SO THEY CAN #### AND ### ALL OVER THE ###### AND #### THEN AND ONLY THEN THEY WILL ######!!”

“Oh, so is this where all my former students scurried off to after their graduation? all of them blacken and spotless alike just happened to be drawn to this particular website how fascinating!”

“Though it isn’t like I don’t understand the appeal with such a widespread audience of obsessive and adoring fans, they could easily manipulate them into doing their bidding or even finally get all that pity they’ve ever dreamed of after preaching their tragic tales to the internet!”

“Anywho, I think that’s enough speculation for now as their former principal I am very eager to see what productive and not so productive members of society they’ve grown into! so it’d be a massive help if you’d reblog this to get the word out thank you beary much! I look forward to our little class reunion pufufufu~”

“HOW MANY TIMES MUST I SAY I’M NOT A TEDDY BEAR! I’M MONOK-” The animatronic bear’s initial response to the child’s sudden hug was to forcefully shove them off complain or even slash at the poor girl in an attempt to harm them y’know his typical M.O but considering the current situation being that he hasn’t explained any rules and secondly, even if he did the child is probably being far too young to understand them having exhausted his options they decided to take a different approach.  //Side note:Monokuma was soft to the touch, but under the heavy padding if hugged tight enough a harder material could be felt.// 

“Well, Heya there kiddo! now don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the compliment being ‘kawaii’ is the one goal in life as a mascot, but suddenly hugging strangers without permission is a biiiig~ mistake! it could lead to many ‘No nos’ and dangers, including death!”  

“But don’t worry I’m not dangerous even if I am a bear! Anyways, how about we start over? my name is Monokuma! what’s yours?”

The robotic bear would briefly become completely stiff and motionless almost as if it went into some type of standby mode, but it didn’t last long before it sprung back to life. “Um, so your name is ‘Hikari’ ... is there any reason in particular why you’re not being accompanied by a parent, guardian or sibling?”

“Nope and nope! Good try, but that ain’t it! It’s something that I reeeeeally love! I’m surprised no one has said it yet. But, hi Monokuma! Wasn’t expectin’ ya to be here!”

“Drats! and there I was thinking I was so clever..”

“Though I can’t help but wonder what really was the answer…? what is the one other major thing that brings joy and entertainment into even the mastermind if not despair? Maybe, just.. Maybe the true answer is the friends we made along the way! Yep, I’m totally not wrong, I just happened to find the deeper truth.”

“Anywho, believe it or not I didn’t really care about that stupid guessing game I’m actually here to check out our newly revealed Mastermind! Soooo… whatcha doin’?”

“N’awww, don’t worry Mono! It’s taking the others a long time to figure it out. Though, despair is one part of the password, if that makes ya a little bit more happy, nishishi!~”

“You’re absolutely right! people are so overly sensitive nowadays the slightest suggestion of something they aren’t fond of can send them to tears or burst of anger with just the power of words! back in the good old times it’d take nothing short of murder to upset someone to that degree. Puhupuhupuhu~”

“And as for what I’m doing? Well, I’m enthusiastically making preparations for an even more extremely exhilarating blood-pumpingly hopelessly despair inducing games of mutual killings that’d make the previous look like a corny family sitcom of course! though since that answer is sorta plain and you’re also rooting for team despair, I’ll letcha in on a little secret.. I’m actually cooking up something so horrifically, hopelessly despair inducing it’d put even the tragedy to shame.”

“Okay, that was a lie, but the truth is I haven’t been doing anything remotely productive or interesting recently whatsoever! in fact the only thing I’ve done since my last game of mutual killing is investigating ironically, chatting with all these dupes, doubles and doppelgangers that suddenly started to populate the streets really has my curiosity peaked, especially the ones of those who have died, such as yourself.”

The robotic mascot would briefly become completely stiff and motionless almost as if it went into some type of standby mode, but it didn’t last long before it sprung back to life sitting down shortly before speaking again.  “Now that I’ve finally said it out loud that sounded really sad like an old washed up celebrity whose living far past their prime desperately clinging onto to what little relevance they have left... But that bomb thing sure does sounds interesting!”

“You want power…? YOU WANT POWER?! YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE POWER!!”

“Oh, so is this where all my former students scurried off to after their graduation? all of them blacken and spotless alike just happened to be drawn to this particular website how fascinating!”

“Though it isn’t like I don’t understand the appeal with such a widespread audience of obsessive and adoring fans, they could easily manipulate them into doing their bidding or even finally get all that pity they’ve ever dreamed of after preaching their tragic tales to the internet!”

“Anywho, I think that’s enough speculation for now as their former principal I am very eager to see what productive and not so productive members of society they’ve grown into! so it’d be a massive help if you’d reblog this to get the word out thank you beary much! I look forward to our little class reunion pufufufu~”

“HOW MANY TIMES MUST I SAY I’M NOT A TEDDY BEAR! I’M MONOK-” The animatronic bear’s initial response to the child’s sudden hug was to forcefully shove them off complain or even slash at the poor girl in an attempt to harm them y’know his typical M.O but considering the current situation being that he hasn’t explained any rules and secondly, even if he did the child is probably being far too young to understand them having exhausted his options they decided to take a different approach.  //Side note:Monokuma was soft to the touch, but under the heavy padding if hugged tight enough a harder material could be felt.// 

"Well, Heya there kiddo! now don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the compliment being ‘kawaii’ is the one goal in life as a mascot, but suddenly hugging strangers without permission is a biiiig~ mistake! it could lead to many ‘No nos’ and dangers, including death!”  

“But don’t worry I’m not dangerous even if I am a bear! Anyways, how about we start over? my name is Monokuma! what’s yours?”

“Nope and nope! Good try, but that ain’t it! It’s something that I reeeeeally love! I’m surprised no one has said it yet. But, hi Monokuma! Wasn’t expectin’ ya to be here!”

“Drats! and there I was thinking I was so clever..”

“Though I can’t help but wonder what really was the answer...? what is the one other major thing that brings joy and entertainment into even the mastermind if not despair? Maybe, just.. Maybe the true answer is the friends we made along the way! Yep, I’m totally not wrong, I just happened to find the deeper truth.”

“Anywho, believe it or not I didn’t really care about that stupid guessing game I’m actually here to check out our newly revealed Mastermind! Soooo... whatcha doin’?”