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Jun. 16th, 2018 10:56 pm I JUST GOT AN IDEA I MIGHT WRITE ABOUT
LIKE AN IDEA I REALLY REALLY LIKE
I HAVEN'T FELT LIKE THIS FOR YEARS
EVER SINCE I CAME UP WITH THE RWBY FIC IDEA IN 2013 AND SPAWNED A 300,000 WORD MONSTROSITY I MOSTLY REFUSE TO RELEASE TO THE WORLD
oh btw DANGANRONPA V3 SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY
so there's several different kinds of fics that run rampant in V3, mostly alternate scenario fics, the most popular being what if Kaede lived and wasn't a decoy protagonist !! which is great and all but not what I'm thinking of
another common one is pregame/prologue versions of the characters which at first I was mostly lukewarm about because the personalities of those before the ones I fell in love with never seemed particularly interesting to me UNLESS there was a TWIST !!! to who they were, that made V3 even MORE OF A TRAGEDY
some common ones I see are like, Kokichi was like a nice meek dude or whatever before he became lying incarnate, or X character is now a douchenozzle because they were so good in canon, like Kaito being a complete dick etc which does have some basis in canon because there were glimpses of a few characters pre-Danganronpa. in fact, my all time favourite fic in all of dangan ronpa is a pregame scenario depicting Korekiyo and Tenko before the game, which I wish was canon 'cause it's so juicy and ironic or whatever the word is compared to V3's chapter three. I link fic here because it so good
anyway I came across artwork of pregame Tenko and Himiko and their expressions gave me this idea. Since they are IN MY OPINIOn the closest thing V3 has to a yuri couple (I mean it's still one-sided so it's like, half-canon at most, but that's really as far as V3 has ever gotten unless Mikan's unhealthy delirious foreshadowing attraction to Junko counts (NO IT DOESN'T!!!) and Ibuki's random outbursts of girl-loving is just scratching the surface ANYWAY) what if pregame they were like the stereotypical yuri anime protagonists? THEIR DESIGNS FIT!
Think of animes like Strawberry Panic or Kannazuki no Miko! There's this ULTRA IMPOSSIBLY COOL SUPER TALENTED dark-haired tall expressionless beauty who is like rich and popular and all the boys and girls want to date her but she doesn't care and is always stone-faced because that is THE COOL THING. This is like, the absolute opposite of Tenko's personality, but her pregame design fits! She wears one of the more expensive school uniforms like she's ultra rich or something and doesn't have any of the goofy girly bows and ribbons and such all over her like in her normal design, so it could work! So basically she's carrying on life like the privileged noble she is, playing some crazy difficult instrument, being the fastest in all the relays in gym and acing all her tests or w/e I don't care, and then .... !!
Himiko, the AVERAGE JAPANESE HIGH SCHOOL GIRL, wearing her stereotypical SAILOR FUKU, transfers to the school! Now you may ask how average is the opposite of Himiko, but Himiko in-game is such an oddball in so many ways (especially in the Japanese version where she speaks like an elderly mage character in an RPG) that average works! So she's like genki but NOT THAT GENKI, and tries her best!!! but her best is usually average to above-average, and then she catches glimpse of the COOLEST GIRL ON THE BLOCK, Tenko! And at first she admires her and idolizes her but of course that feeling may evolve into MORE! But Tenko always brushes her off and ignores her like she ignores everyone else because she's too busy maintaining her coolness.
Oh and Angie can come too! BUT INSTEAD, THIS VERSION OF ANGIE is Himiko's bestest friend! Who always supports her and is her wingman! She's like the ultimate best friend, and I think if I were watching an anime like this I'd prefer Himiko to be shipped with Angie because she always cares and supports her unlike the aloof cool girl Himiko yearns for, but I DIGRESS! Also she is just normal ultra genki girl, or whatever.
Anyway I haven't figured out any concrete reason why any of these three would join Danganronpa but the first thing that popped in my head is maybe Tenko feels isolated, bored, and lonely, and is secretly super arrogant inside or whatever. HER INTELLECT AND ATHLETIC IS FAR SUPERIOR ABOVE EVERYONE ELSE so she thinks she can join Danganronpa and defeat them all, or if she doesn't her bored life can end and that's that. Maybe there's some complicated super hidden complexes and depression deep inside her idk, and then Himiko is like "NO SHE'S THROWING HER LIFE AWAY WE MUST CONVINCE HER NOT TO JOIN!!" and inadvertently ends up joining by accident with a worried Angie in tow I DON'T KNOW I HAVEN'T THOUGHT THIS FAR
The point is everything is flipped! And ironic! You see, in V3 Tenko is far less bright than potential pregame!Tenko, and her feelings are always out in the open. She's extremely gullible but very good natured and supportive/kind to others. The one-sided crush is flipped where Tenko now crushes on Himiko and does everything she can to befriend her or help her improve as a person. Himiko meanwhile has fallen into her own fantasies, has no real drive to do anything, and speaks/acts like a larper, a farcry from the average and normal girl of before. Angie switches from a super supportive best friend to a manipulative cult leader who leads Himiko down the wrong path and drives a wedge between her and Tenko. This makes the deaths in chapter three more hard-hitting, because Himiko pays no attention to Tenko and only realizes how good a friend she could have been too late, and though she still values Angie after her death, her reputation and influence on the others is now heavily damaged and down in the negatives.
It basically means Himiko's crush reciprocates but now Himiko doesn't, and doesn't even like her anymore, but when Himiko finally does appreciate her, Tenko is dead. Her best friend for the longest time now doesn't hesitate to suspect Himiko and throw her under the bus, and even endangers her life by upping the ante in her magic show with piranhas, all in the name of a fictional god fashioned for her fictional persona, far more toxic than a loyal, dear friend can be and now Angie's dead too! Also, in remembering her past/real life but retaining her current personality, Himiko might prefer fake persona Tenko to real!Tenko because real!Tenko always ignored her/never cared about her, which is all the more despair, but it's ultimately a moot point because they're dead anyway. IT GIVES LOTS OF CONFLICT TO THE STILL SURVIVING HIMIKO, struggling to figure out if it's a good idea to want Tenko back but not as herself, or if the fictional persona IS who Tenko is and she shouldn't feel guilty about it at all, or for Angie, being infuriated at what she turned into and everything Angie lost, but Angie is now dead so it doesn't matter. Her being an afterthought is also blood-boiling. This all makes Himiko more tired.
And that is ANOTHER thing, Himiko expressing herself and being more open is what her previous self could do easily, but she still gets tired very often, and this complicated thought process over her now deceased friends makes her all the more exhausted. And realizing that she remembers she could have been energetic/genki easily but it comes far more difficult to her now is incredibly confusing/even MORE tiring.
OH and what if, even though pregame!Angie supported Himiko's pursuits for uninterested super cool Tenko, she also realized Tenko might not be good for her, or isn't super realistic (because these stereotypical yuri anime couples were SUCH HEALTHY relationships!!!) , so sometimes she tries to distract Himiko from Tenko and to like, idk, her? MAYBE PREGAME ANGIE HAD A CRUSH ON HIMIKO, so Himiko now has MORE conflicted feelings, like, should she have just paid attention and hooked up with pregame Angie, or was it better to befriend and hook up with V3 Tenko!???? OR IS LIKING FICTIONAL TENKO WRONG BECAUSE SHE IS FICTIONAL? BUT NOW HIMIKO IS THE FICTIONAL HIMIKO, AND PREGAME ANGIE PROBABLY WOULDN'T HAVE LIKED FICTIONAL HIMIKO AND IT'S JUST ALL VERY CONFUSING AND DEPRESSING AND GAAHHHH
god this is one of those stories that would have like the Tenko/Himiko (onesided) tag that I'd avoid like the plague but I'd ALSO INCLUDE Himiko/Tenko (onesided) which makes sense in the context of this story but would be confusing as a descriptor, and then to boot Angie/Himiko (onesided) as an EXTRA whammy.
ALSO TEAM DANGANRONPA HAD THE GALL TO MAKE HIMIKO LIKE MEN AS WELL, WHEN PREGAME HIMIKO WAS FULL ON LESBIAN, AND SHE WAS STRAIGHT IN THE GAME, BUT REMEMBERING BOTH MAKES HER BI, WHICH IS FURTHER CONFUSION AND SADNESS FOR HIMIKO !!!! SO MUCH ENDLESS POTENTIAL FOR THIS STORY! SHE STRUGGLES WITH HER SEXUALITY BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT SHE EMBRACED HER FICTIONAL PERSONA, BUT THE MEMORY OF HER PREGAME!SELF RESURFACES ALL THESE GAY THOUGHTS AND SHE HAD A SELF-HATRED FOR PREGAME!HIMIKO BECAUSE SHE WAS STUPID ENOUGH TO SIGN UP FOR THIS KILLING GAME ALL FOR THIS GIRL WHO WASN'T GOOD FOR HER ANYWAY BUT SHE SHOULD HAVE APPRECIATED WHEN SHE WAS ACTUALLY GOOD ENOUGH FOR HER IN FICTION REALITY SHOW LAND!! WHICH IS THE HIMIKO SHE IDENTIFIES AS THE MOST, BUT THAT ONE MADE HER STRAIGHT! IT'S SUPER CONFUSING AND INFURIATING!!
How do I even start writing this. I am so lost.
EDIT: Oh you might be wondering why I don't just write YET ANOTHER PRISON AU, but you see, for V3, there was confusion about the academy name before the game came out. Since it was called "Gifted Academy for Inmates" or something like that, several people, including me, assumed it was set in an actual prison with a cast full of actual criminals. This was wrong of course, but this misconception has ALREADY spawned a few prison AUs in the fanon, so y'know, why do I need to do one when it's already out there? P: I am a LAZY person so I see no reason to write something that's already been done or is being done. In fact that RWBY fic may not have existed if I knew something called the mafia AU existed (and I would have read, but refused to on the basis the stories may have been too similar and I'd lose motivation on my own story, so yeah)
LIKE AN IDEA I REALLY REALLY LIKE
I HAVEN'T FELT LIKE THIS FOR YEARS
EVER SINCE I CAME UP WITH THE RWBY FIC IDEA IN 2013 AND SPAWNED A 300,000 WORD MONSTROSITY I MOSTLY REFUSE TO RELEASE TO THE WORLD
oh btw DANGANRONPA V3 SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY
so there's several different kinds of fics that run rampant in V3, mostly alternate scenario fics, the most popular being what if Kaede lived and wasn't a decoy protagonist !! which is great and all but not what I'm thinking of
another common one is pregame/prologue versions of the characters which at first I was mostly lukewarm about because the personalities of those before the ones I fell in love with never seemed particularly interesting to me UNLESS there was a TWIST !!! to who they were, that made V3 even MORE OF A TRAGEDY
some common ones I see are like, Kokichi was like a nice meek dude or whatever before he became lying incarnate, or X character is now a douchenozzle because they were so good in canon, like Kaito being a complete dick etc which does have some basis in canon because there were glimpses of a few characters pre-Danganronpa. in fact, my all time favourite fic in all of dangan ronpa is a pregame scenario depicting Korekiyo and Tenko before the game, which I wish was canon 'cause it's so juicy and ironic or whatever the word is compared to V3's chapter three. I link fic here because it so good
anyway I came across artwork of pregame Tenko and Himiko and their expressions gave me this idea. Since they are IN MY OPINIOn the closest thing V3 has to a yuri couple (I mean it's still one-sided so it's like, half-canon at most, but that's really as far as V3 has ever gotten unless Mikan's unhealthy delirious foreshadowing attraction to Junko counts (NO IT DOESN'T!!!) and Ibuki's random outbursts of girl-loving is just scratching the surface ANYWAY) what if pregame they were like the stereotypical yuri anime protagonists? THEIR DESIGNS FIT!
Think of animes like Strawberry Panic or Kannazuki no Miko! There's this ULTRA IMPOSSIBLY COOL SUPER TALENTED dark-haired tall expressionless beauty who is like rich and popular and all the boys and girls want to date her but she doesn't care and is always stone-faced because that is THE COOL THING. This is like, the absolute opposite of Tenko's personality, but her pregame design fits! She wears one of the more expensive school uniforms like she's ultra rich or something and doesn't have any of the goofy girly bows and ribbons and such all over her like in her normal design, so it could work! So basically she's carrying on life like the privileged noble she is, playing some crazy difficult instrument, being the fastest in all the relays in gym and acing all her tests or w/e I don't care, and then .... !!
Himiko, the AVERAGE JAPANESE HIGH SCHOOL GIRL, wearing her stereotypical SAILOR FUKU, transfers to the school! Now you may ask how average is the opposite of Himiko, but Himiko in-game is such an oddball in so many ways (especially in the Japanese version where she speaks like an elderly mage character in an RPG) that average works! So she's like genki but NOT THAT GENKI, and tries her best!!! but her best is usually average to above-average, and then she catches glimpse of the COOLEST GIRL ON THE BLOCK, Tenko! And at first she admires her and idolizes her but of course that feeling may evolve into MORE! But Tenko always brushes her off and ignores her like she ignores everyone else because she's too busy maintaining her coolness.
Oh and Angie can come too! BUT INSTEAD, THIS VERSION OF ANGIE is Himiko's bestest friend! Who always supports her and is her wingman! She's like the ultimate best friend, and I think if I were watching an anime like this I'd prefer Himiko to be shipped with Angie because she always cares and supports her unlike the aloof cool girl Himiko yearns for, but I DIGRESS! Also she is just normal ultra genki girl, or whatever.
Anyway I haven't figured out any concrete reason why any of these three would join Danganronpa but the first thing that popped in my head is maybe Tenko feels isolated, bored, and lonely, and is secretly super arrogant inside or whatever. HER INTELLECT AND ATHLETIC IS FAR SUPERIOR ABOVE EVERYONE ELSE so she thinks she can join Danganronpa and defeat them all, or if she doesn't her bored life can end and that's that. Maybe there's some complicated super hidden complexes and depression deep inside her idk, and then Himiko is like "NO SHE'S THROWING HER LIFE AWAY WE MUST CONVINCE HER NOT TO JOIN!!" and inadvertently ends up joining by accident with a worried Angie in tow I DON'T KNOW I HAVEN'T THOUGHT THIS FAR
The point is everything is flipped! And ironic! You see, in V3 Tenko is far less bright than potential pregame!Tenko, and her feelings are always out in the open. She's extremely gullible but very good natured and supportive/kind to others. The one-sided crush is flipped where Tenko now crushes on Himiko and does everything she can to befriend her or help her improve as a person. Himiko meanwhile has fallen into her own fantasies, has no real drive to do anything, and speaks/acts like a larper, a farcry from the average and normal girl of before. Angie switches from a super supportive best friend to a manipulative cult leader who leads Himiko down the wrong path and drives a wedge between her and Tenko. This makes the deaths in chapter three more hard-hitting, because Himiko pays no attention to Tenko and only realizes how good a friend she could have been too late, and though she still values Angie after her death, her reputation and influence on the others is now heavily damaged and down in the negatives.
It basically means Himiko's crush reciprocates but now Himiko doesn't, and doesn't even like her anymore, but when Himiko finally does appreciate her, Tenko is dead. Her best friend for the longest time now doesn't hesitate to suspect Himiko and throw her under the bus, and even endangers her life by upping the ante in her magic show with piranhas, all in the name of a fictional god fashioned for her fictional persona, far more toxic than a loyal, dear friend can be and now Angie's dead too! Also, in remembering her past/real life but retaining her current personality, Himiko might prefer fake persona Tenko to real!Tenko because real!Tenko always ignored her/never cared about her, which is all the more despair, but it's ultimately a moot point because they're dead anyway. IT GIVES LOTS OF CONFLICT TO THE STILL SURVIVING HIMIKO, struggling to figure out if it's a good idea to want Tenko back but not as herself, or if the fictional persona IS who Tenko is and she shouldn't feel guilty about it at all, or for Angie, being infuriated at what she turned into and everything Angie lost, but Angie is now dead so it doesn't matter. Her being an afterthought is also blood-boiling. This all makes Himiko more tired.
And that is ANOTHER thing, Himiko expressing herself and being more open is what her previous self could do easily, but she still gets tired very often, and this complicated thought process over her now deceased friends makes her all the more exhausted. And realizing that she remembers she could have been energetic/genki easily but it comes far more difficult to her now is incredibly confusing/even MORE tiring.
OH and what if, even though pregame!Angie supported Himiko's pursuits for uninterested super cool Tenko, she also realized Tenko might not be good for her, or isn't super realistic (because these stereotypical yuri anime couples were SUCH HEALTHY relationships!!!) , so sometimes she tries to distract Himiko from Tenko and to like, idk, her? MAYBE PREGAME ANGIE HAD A CRUSH ON HIMIKO, so Himiko now has MORE conflicted feelings, like, should she have just paid attention and hooked up with pregame Angie, or was it better to befriend and hook up with V3 Tenko!???? OR IS LIKING FICTIONAL TENKO WRONG BECAUSE SHE IS FICTIONAL? BUT NOW HIMIKO IS THE FICTIONAL HIMIKO, AND PREGAME ANGIE PROBABLY WOULDN'T HAVE LIKED FICTIONAL HIMIKO AND IT'S JUST ALL VERY CONFUSING AND DEPRESSING AND GAAHHHH
god this is one of those stories that would have like the Tenko/Himiko (onesided) tag that I'd avoid like the plague but I'd ALSO INCLUDE Himiko/Tenko (onesided) which makes sense in the context of this story but would be confusing as a descriptor, and then to boot Angie/Himiko (onesided) as an EXTRA whammy.
ALSO TEAM DANGANRONPA HAD THE GALL TO MAKE HIMIKO LIKE MEN AS WELL, WHEN PREGAME HIMIKO WAS FULL ON LESBIAN, AND SHE WAS STRAIGHT IN THE GAME, BUT REMEMBERING BOTH MAKES HER BI, WHICH IS FURTHER CONFUSION AND SADNESS FOR HIMIKO !!!! SO MUCH ENDLESS POTENTIAL FOR THIS STORY! SHE STRUGGLES WITH HER SEXUALITY BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT SHE EMBRACED HER FICTIONAL PERSONA, BUT THE MEMORY OF HER PREGAME!SELF RESURFACES ALL THESE GAY THOUGHTS AND SHE HAD A SELF-HATRED FOR PREGAME!HIMIKO BECAUSE SHE WAS STUPID ENOUGH TO SIGN UP FOR THIS KILLING GAME ALL FOR THIS GIRL WHO WASN'T GOOD FOR HER ANYWAY BUT SHE SHOULD HAVE APPRECIATED WHEN SHE WAS ACTUALLY GOOD ENOUGH FOR HER IN FICTION REALITY SHOW LAND!! WHICH IS THE HIMIKO SHE IDENTIFIES AS THE MOST, BUT THAT ONE MADE HER STRAIGHT! IT'S SUPER CONFUSING AND INFURIATING!!
How do I even start writing this. I am so lost.
EDIT: Oh you might be wondering why I don't just write YET ANOTHER PRISON AU, but you see, for V3, there was confusion about the academy name before the game came out. Since it was called "Gifted Academy for Inmates" or something like that, several people, including me, assumed it was set in an actual prison with a cast full of actual criminals. This was wrong of course, but this misconception has ALREADY spawned a few prison AUs in the fanon, so y'know, why do I need to do one when it's already out there? P: I am a LAZY person so I see no reason to write something that's already been done or is being done. In fact that RWBY fic may not have existed if I knew something called the mafia AU existed (and I would have read, but refused to on the basis the stories may have been too similar and I'd lose motivation on my own story, so yeah)