lmao lowk had a funny idea for a crackfic in the in-game universe for DRV3 where someone just can't speak Japanese (English wtv, they're speaking Japanese in my head because they're Japanese) as a motive, and it just seems rlly funny if it was Kokichi in particular (because he thrives on using his words as weapons of manipulation and information gathering throughout the game, and not being able to mess with people verbally like he usually does would totally mess w/ him).
I HC that Kokichi is more biologically Chinese than Japanese, and while he splits the Chinese and Japanese ethnicities down the middle, he speaks both languages as if they are both his first language or mother tongue.
Imagining him being stuck yelling at people in Mandarin because they aren't understanding him (but he can understand them) while they are LITERALLY in the middle of a trial is so funny to me.
And for shits and giggles, Kiibo can't translate him because idk if he can do that in the first place, and if he can, Monokuma said hell no to that and blocked that modification (Miu is outraged by this, because now she can't work on Kiibo. Monokuma has forbidden it in the duration of this motive).
For Saiouma funnies, we can add my "Shuichi learned Mandarin because he was bored" HC into that, and now Shuichi is the only person who can verbally communicate with him.
For me, writing with this cast is always lowk a crackfic at its core, but I can see ways to make this into a whump or an angst-heavy fic
