danganromps

Ooh, I love them! Okada looks adorable and with their talent as mortician, I'm getting full creepy child vibes and I am here for it.

Ok back to my actual OCs, I’ve scrapped Yuma (shsl actor) and Nakoma (shsl horse trainer). Yuma because I didn’t really have an idea of what I wanted him to be, and Nakoma because I felt she might be a little racially insensitive (like I literally got her name from Pocahontas’ friend in the Disney movie, zero research went into her oof) I’ll probably keep Yuma’s name at least, but as for what he’ll be, who knows..... Also Hisomu’s talent will be known! He was my shsl ???, but the whole time he was the shsl doll maker! Idk why he got ???’d, I really need to do a better job of writing things down because I do not remember why I did that to him.

I’ve been redrawing them if you want to see!

That is unhinged in the absolute best way!

Ruben: "Ruben is put in a room where he has to find the not poisoned wine. As he progresses, he will become kind of drunk and the differences will become harder to find. He eventually dies due to being poisoned."

Jack: "Jack Hause is strapped onto a round red and white bull's-eye wheel with their hands and feet tied up. The spotlight shines onto them as a cutout of a ringleader grabs a plastic throwing knife. The first swing instantly misses Jack, but cutout ringleader shouts for volunteers as the cutouts bring out a box of more plastic knifes and starts to throw the knives closer and closer to Jack's body as the wheel spins faster and faster. Jack realizes that the 'people' were bluffing and taunts the cutout and the audience like one would taunt a passersby in a dunk tank. Monokuma (who is one of the volunteers) gets angry and finally throws a real throwing knife at Jack's neck. Thus making Jack die a slow, painful death."

Some good ideas there! Ruben's execution I think could do with some polish - what prevents him from simply not drinking any of the wine? I think adding in a 'ticking clock' or some kind of 'drink the wine or else' would make this better. Another thing to think about, but not essential, is how his task is communicated. How would he (and the audience) know that he needs to find a non-poisoned wine? Obviously Monokuma can say just that, but as the old adage goes: show, don't tell.

Basically, we have characters A, B, and C. A is the mastermind, and B has a crush on C.

Character C is murdered, so character A takes advantage of an opportunity and tells B that if they help them run the killing game, they'll get revenge on the killer. B is so full of despair that they agree. Later, A is murdered, and B becomes full time mastermind for the rest of the game.

This is such a good idea, I love it. And presumably, the other participants have no idea about A being the mastemind or B taking over, so as they start to learn more about the mastermind, they get confused that they seem to be like two different people.

I did an answer about this a long time ago but I’ve got more experience now writing stuff, so I’ll do this again but better.

When it comes to motivation, especially for someone going so far as to create a killing game, you're often going to find some extremes of emotion behind it. Having a motivation of 'I felt like it' or 'lol I'm just cr*zy' is tricky to justify in a way that keeps the audience from feeling let down. It's not impossible to do (arguably the actual series did exactly that with Junko and Team Danganronpa), but it's difficult to do well.

So here's a couple of my favourite driving emotions and how they can relate to mastermind motivations!

Anger

I'll start with good old-fashioned anger. What events could drive someone to being so angry that they kidnap a bunch of people and force them to kill each other? In most cases they'll be motivated out of revenge, and this could be against individuals (for example if someone destroyed something or killed someone close to them) or a more general resentment against society (for example, a person who has maybe been shunned or let down by the world).

This can also influence your choice of participants. If your mastermind is angry at a particular person or people, would they include them in the game? Or perhaps the mastermind would make them watch as people they cared about were murdered.

Envy/Jealousy

I'll put these together since they're similar, but equally powerful drivers for people to take drastic actions (take the classic 'scorned lover' trope, for example). What would your mastermind want but be unable to get through normal means? This could be something commonly desired like money or fame, or maybe they've been denied something essential and want the world to hear them.

Jealousy (at least as I understand it) is similar but slightly different in that it's more about losing something they have rather than gaining something they don't. Obviously you've got the jealous partner idea, driven to extremes by the idea that they could lose someone close to them to someone else. Could they put on the game to prove to themselves or to their significant other that the person they're jealous of isn't as good as they think they are?

Fear

I quite like this as a basis for a motivation because it’s quite different from the other two. A mastermind driven by fear could be a reluctant one - maybe they’re having to put on a killing game they don’t want to, maybe they’re being threatened (great opportunity to introduce a twist of someone above them pulling the strings!). Or maybe they do want to carry out the game, perhaps their fear is of one of the participants and they want them gone but couldn’t do the job themselves. There’s so much you can do with fear...what could be so scary that you’d carry out a killing game to stop it happening?

Now obviously there are many more ways to come up with motivation that just basing from emotions, and depending on the way you write, you may have less of an emphasis on them and more on the action. But hopefully this (entirely too long) ramble will give you some pointers on how I would come up with a motivation. If you’re coming up with your own game, good luck with it!

It’s pretty much as dead as Chiaki. But I’m still more than happy to talk about game ideas if people send them in!

girl that seems important to plot gets killed off in the first chapter, buff guy gets freaked out and accidentally kills someone in the second chapter.) Like obviously it's not all the same, I just feel like I'm going to be called a copycat if I post it online. What do you think? -Jess💝👩‍💻 (2/2)

I guess some people might say you’re copying but honestly... who cares? As long as you are writing something that you want to write, it’s going to be great!

With anything Fangan-related, there will always be certain aspects that have to mimic the actual games - it’s a necessary part of the genre to have students trapped somewhere having to kill to survive. 

That said, if you feel awkward about some aspects, look at changing them slightly. For example, the students becoming friends after an endurance test in the sauna - if you’re worried that’s too similar to THH, then think about changing the situation slightly: could they bond with a different type of endurance, such as running laps around the gym? Or maybe you could stick to the sauna and have one of them pass out, and have them bond when the other saves them?

But hey, even if you write the exact same game with different characters, you’re still writing something and adding to the many amazing stories that us DR fans come up with - and that’s pretty awesome!

-Alice

5. Haiji Towa

I wasn’t prepared to put Haiji on this list, but then I read up on him and remembered what an awful person he was. Not only a grumpy, lecherous guy, he also spent the entire game NOT telling everyone Monaca was his sister. That would have been useful, dude!

4. Natsumi Kuzuryuu

She was not a likeable person when we saw her in DR3, that is for sure. It seems to me like she cared more about the status that her brother afforded her than Fuyuhiko himself. While he cared for her, she did annoy him a lot, and I think that it’s sad they never got to truly be brother and sister.

3. Mondo Oowada

Generally he had a good relationship with Daiya, but it ended up going sour when Mondo’s risk-taking resulted in his brother’s death. Mondo regretted it severely, but it’s still not something a brother should do.

2. Junko Enoshima

She had to be in it of course! Aside from destroying the world, the way she acts towards Mukuro is highly abusive. Mukuro has become dependent on her, and she takes advantage (just like she does with almost everyone). Ultimately this resulted in her murdering her sister but damn, this is a bad family!

1. Korekiyo Shinguuji

5. Monosuke (DRV3)

As Monokubs go, Monosuke was at least tolerable. His calmer nature meant he wasn’t too over the top, and I did get the impression of a slightly toned down Kurokuma at times. Which was okay.

4. Siren Monokuma (DRAE)

I love the way they take their job so seriously. Like “I’ve got an important job so I am going to make sure I do this right”

3. Motherkuma (DRV3)

The creator! I quite like Motherkuma, and the way it is like actual Monokuma, but all-knowing. The killing game will never end! That’s what you think...

2. Monophanie (DRV3)

Up until chapter 4, anyway. Monophanie was the ony one I could actually stand out of the Monokubs (I really disliked them, can you tell?). She was almost funny, but actually kind of likeable as well. But when the whole having a baby thing began in Ch4, ugh...no. Bye.

1. Ball Monokuma (DRAE)

Oh dang, there are a few. This is the one post that’ll probably annoy people, so discourse mode engage. (I’m not really that woke, I’m like…half asloop, so if you think I’m wrong, I probably am :D)

5. Chihiro Fujisaki (DR1)

Now I love Chihiro and that’s no bad thing. But the way his story played out has some somewhat awkward interpretations. For a start, he dressed as a girl because he was weak. That, for me, is probably the most problematic thing - simultaneously implying women are weak, as well as that if you’re not a strong man, you’re practically a woman. It’s just all a bit awkward - though remarkably, the anime dealt with this a little better than the game, if memory serves.

4. Shirokuma and Kurokuma (DRAE)

This one is probably more unintentional than the others. When you meet Shirokuma for the first time, he delivers a “I’m your ally. Look, I’m all white, see?” like he’s just been pulled over by a cop and it’s super awkward. Kurokuma, I’m sure, is intended to be a bit of a pastiche of gangsters, which is fine. Just, compared to Shirokuma’s “white is your friend” gimmick, it’s easy to get the wrong idea.

3. Angie Yonaga (DRV3)

I’ve mentioned this many times before, so I’ll keep it brief. Angie deserved better than to be portrayed as “weird Pacific islanders and their silly religions”.

2. Juzo Sakakura (DR3)

Juzo is the personification of the “tragic gays” trope. I got all excited when we finally had a canonically gay character…then they made it the whole reason that Junko got away with despairing the world. Of course, you could argue that it’s not trying to say that being gay is something to be kept secret, more that Juzo himself had unjustified shame and Junko is evil and played on that. Which makes sense, and is a great way to show Junko as a horrible person, but it remains that the only gay guy in the entire series was partly responsible for the end of the world because he was gay.

1. Daisaku Bandai (DR3)

OK, I am vastly underqualified to talk about the way racism differs and what’s acceptable in different countries. But Bandai literally looks like some outdated cartoon representation of a black person in 1950s America. It’s hugely uncomfortable.