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 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)

Blame Akira.

Also wtf why was 14 so short compared to this chapter. How am I dividing these? With no thought put into it at all it seems!


Yaaa. I almost feel like posting the whole story thus far. Who knows. I dunno why I'm posting these so far off. Ah well.

HELLO. THIS IS CHAPTER THIRTEEN OF ONLY STORY SPOTTO HAS BEEN WORKING ON FOR OVER TWO YEARS. I actually had writer's block for about eight months early on in this chapter before finally continuing, so... if you can tell where, you win a prize!

I also added a scene I wrote a few months back to make this a little more...cohesive? AND a scene I wrote like... a week ago, ha. So if it seems a bit unorganized or whatever... that is the reason. One of the scenes probably made more sense in chapter twelve but it's a bit late for that now. So yeah, got stuck on this chapter for forever, had tons of changes.

( I actually really like the number thirteen. )

HELLO AGAIN MY DARLING

It has been quite some time, has it? Haven't been able to write or post my writings or whatever due to personal problems and general busy-ness with life. Oh and also because I wanted to have more of arc three done before posting arc two. This will probably be posted in a bit slower pace than arc one as I try to get through arc three. You see by the time I posted arc one's final chapter I finished arc two, so I wanna do the same here. Unfortunately arc three is not as complete as arc two was when I began posting arc one. Are you confused yet? P:

I'm still undecided as to whether or not arc four will exist. If it does it'll probably be the shortest and if not, arc three will be awfully long. So there's that. Oh and that excuse is not the entire excuse. Most of my free-time was taken up being obsessed with lemons or marathoning nostalgic (but very good) childhood cartoons, going crazy about the latest iteration of Digimon Tri, so....I was also distracted! Yay.

HERE BEGINS ARC TWO, Chapter 11.

I'm so full.
And bleh. 
How about that latest RWBY episode eh? Egads.

OH YEAH CHAPTER NINE HA HA
I hope all one of you enjoyed chapter eight!
Here we go!

( straight to the point yo )

is mutton really the only word that rhymes with button? surely there is something else
like
uh
hm.

well here's chapter seven
ALSO KNOWN AS, that chapter with SHINY NEW CHARACTERS WHAT

( flutton )

Wow I really need to stop ending chapters with a character falling asleep. It's so cliché.

SPOILERS: THIS CHAPTER ENDS WITH A CHARACTER FALLING ASLEEP OMFGGG RUINED FOREVAAA!!11!!1!

EXTRA SPOILERS DON'T LOOK: the chapter after this one DOESN'T end with a character falling asleep.

actual spoilers: I do not know how drugs work. If you do, please kindly share how wrong this chapter is.

the last spoiler I swear: Congrats! After this chapter you are halfway through the first arc! Technically. (I mean, every chapter after this is going to be longer and longer so probably not)

( in which ALL of the things happen )

The Goat, the Sheep, and the Lamster
also known as TGtSatL
what a horrible acronym
...also known as the Lamster story
chap 3

I DON'T CARE ANYMORE
remember that story i keep mentioning to everyone and have been for like a year and was like 'yay i wrote 100K words!' but showed no one!?

BECAUSE I WAS TOO ANXIOUS TO EVER POST IT? BECAUSE I HAD WRITTEN WITH THIS SORT OF PREMISE KINDA BEFORE AND I WAS WORRIED PEOPLE WOULD BE LIKE "SPOTTO WHY YOU OBSESSED WITH WRITING ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK CROSSOVERS!?" WELL I WILL TELL YOU ONE THING. AND THAT THING IS THAT I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT SHOW.

Also several months ago I linked it to one person but as far as I know they've never read it, probably because I sent all 181 pages of the first arc to them at once. Perhaps that was too overwhelming.

SO, BECAUSE I DO NOT CARE ANYMORE, here's chapter one of the cheesiest title ever (but I still spent weeks figuring it out)

The Goat, the Sheep, and the Lamster.

Once upon a time on a cold, chilly day there was a boy named Max. He had lovely yellow, messy hair and freckles upon his face, above which were some wondrous blue eyes. He was hopping about on the sidewalk that day, taking such a path seeing as he was bordered on both sides by knee-height snow. His boots left jolly imprints on the mostly-shovelled sidewalk, appearing rather sporadically in time with his merry gait. He looked up and there appeared to be a large bridge going right over the four-lane road he was next to. He had been planning to visit the store across the street a few blocks from whence he stood, but this was the first he had seen of this bridge. Knowing he had never trekked onto such a marvel of architecture, and knowing it was far more convenient than to wait at yet another boring stop-light several metres down the street, Max took several steps up the stairway, advancing across the bridge.

He stopped at the middle to gawk at the cars zooming past underneath him, as if they had no qualms about the no-doubt icy surfaces they were rolling across. His thoughts were cut-short when one car had overestimated its own all-weather tires, skidding about until it had come to a roaring halt into the stairway Max had moments ago climbed. The hood of the poor sedan was crumpled up, and the woman in the driver's seat was shocked right out, having barely recovered from the air bag expanding in such speeds as to protect her pretty face from the unmerciful steering wheel. Max reacted as one would, quickly dashing across the bridge and rushing down the stairs. Unfortunately in his haste, he too had overestimated his boots' ability to grip on the icy surfaces and found himself not just descending, but tumbling down to the ground. With reflexes like that of a competitive sports participant, Max threw out his left arm to shield the rest of his body from the solid ground below. He fell with a heavy thud, though it was somewhat muffled by his heavy winter coat.

Alas, Max's clever ploy to protect the rest of his body was not a smart one for his arm, which had held out well in the nanoseconds it could to keep the rest of his body from contacting the unmoving sidewalk, but in doing so the elbow snapped right back, and a pain Max had not felt since he was a young child during a nasty bike crash rushed back into his memories as well as his nerves. His other arm grasped the elbow in an instant, and it took him great willpower, the same willpower he used to summon his God Turtle during spinning top battles, to keep from crying out.

And so the story ends with two accidents, damages on vehicles and limbs be damned. The synposis of a story that Spotto read has now come true, from the keyboard of Spotto as opposed to the fraudulent and untrue summary that was one she had read earlier. It had promised the reader, should they venture into such a tale, that Max would've broken his arm after falling down some stairs. Neither of which ever happened in such a story, and a girl, so unsatisfied was she, immediately loaded up Dreamwidth to write down an impromptu story.

None of which would have happened if a bloody antivirus had updated promptly, allowing her a night's rest during the late hours of 3:20AM. But since it took its sweet time thanks to her ISP's incompetence, she had to wait, and wait, and wait with droopy eyes and baited breath, until great rage urged her to express her emotions in that of a pointless drabble.

This has been Spotto and FUCK NOSTALGIA. WHY ARE ALL THESE OLD FANFICTIONS SO BAD!?!?!?