A Lil' Something For Valentine's Day

Clay - "Sleeping?" Apollo - :) I'm going to kill this fucking guy.

College-AU with art student!Apollo ^^

So just to recap in todays event:

maxo was teleported out of prison in order to attend the event

the federation led a pre-election dinner, complete with a new chef employee!

clip compilation of funny qsmp moments

candidate speeches, including a final gegg speech where dozens of geggs were warped into the dining room

elquackity publicly denounced the federation in his speech

a fake tallulah and chayanne showed up, without egg cracks, didn’t respond to questions, and then revealed themselves to be CODES IN DISGUISE who assassinated gegg and attempted to kill the other candidates, while taking advantage of the sweeping edge bug

code-tallulah was killed by etoiles and code-chayanne was killed by philza, who both got respectively to have a big fight and get vengeance on the codes

slimecicle finally revealed that he was gegg THE WHOLE TIME 😱 but also gegg is dead and gone forever now

elquackity attempted to make a deal with slimecicle and offered to introduce him to powerful people if he helped elquackity get elected

etoiles told slimecicle about the sweeping edge bug that contributed to the deaths of juanaflippa and tilin

elquackity and maxo had a confrontation in the desert (with cellbit and roier spying while invis) with maxo saying he knows elquackity is an imposter and working for the federation. they fought, and eventually elquackity fled

aypierre gave slimecicle a tour of his gegg factory, where he has an infinite gegg spawner set up

jaiden got a hatsune miku haircut from pac e mike :)

foolish FINALLY received a mission from the federation to arrest pac e mike because they were supposedly behind the disappearance of mr mustard, the capybara. they were arrested and ended up in prison

tazercraft stream ended on a screen with morse code that translated to “nenhuma fuga é impossível” or “no escape is impossible”, a reference to their prison break series and canon backstory fuga impossível

foolish was interrogated by cellbit and co about his role in tazercraft’s disappearance

cellbit found another book from whoever contacted him after the last debate, saying that they have a common enemy

Team Blue (Day 1)

"Promises Unbroken (Yingdu-centric Fics)" - Series

A collection of canon-compliant one-shots. Set in the Yingdu/Bridon Arc timeline so prepare for heavy spoilers. Fics can be wholesome, fluffy or angsty.

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Series Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/4569916

First oneshot's up!

"Come Morning Light (you and I'll be safe and sound)"

~1.7k words Rated T

"I can't promise forever but I'll stay here as long as I can." Hours after Lu Guang confesses, Cheng Xiaoshi responds in kind. AKA a Deleted Scene set after the coded marriage proposal, feat. First Kisses.

Read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61893577

Danganronpa Ultimate Categorization

Welcome back to another episode of: Jade is a nerd about something absolutely useless! Today's topic: Talent classification in Danganronpa/Fangans.

In the process of making my own fangan/s, I've created a classification system for the types of talents you can give characters. These classifications are...

Arts: Talents that are involved in the visual arts, performing arts, or fashion. Encompasses performers of all types, any type of visual artist, or anyone involved in fashion. (Ex. Actor, Abstract Artist, Model)

Practical: Talents that focus on a specialized skill or work with your hands. Also includes any talents that are religious or spiritual in nature. (Ex. Mechanical Engineer, Detective, Shrine Maiden)

Academic: Talents that are recognized by how much knowledge or experience a character has in an academic field. Covers most science, literature, math, and research based talents. (Ex. Chemist, Theologian, Archaeologist)

Sports: Talents relating to athletic skill. (Ex. Footballer, Kickboxer, Bowler)

Novelty: Talents given to a person who is special simply by existing. Can also be given to characters who win a contest for their talent. Includes Lucky/Unlucky Students, royalty, and non-human characters. (Ex. Lucky Student, Student, Princess)

This system of classification was based on my experience in the community over about three or four years, seeing many other people's original characters as well as creating my own. I found many fell into these categories. My "perfect" ratio, which my friends and I used as a guideline for making our fangan casts, is 4 arts : 4 practical : 4 academic : 2 sports: 2 novelty. I felt this ratio kept things even and grounded.

A few months ago, I began to wonder if my "perfect" ratio was more of my own creation than an actual pattern I saw. I thought, in the event it was, that I would come up with a mathematically accurate ratio that better represented the talent distribution of Danganronpa and its fan projects. This was my attempt at doing just that.

Data Collection

For this, I tried to collect as varied of a sample as possible. I included the three mainline Danganronpa games and sixteen fangans, ranging from very popular ones to very obscure ones. The fangans sampled for this analysis were...

Danganronpa Another

Super Danganronpa Another 2

Danganronpa Despair Time

Brave Danganronpa Coward's Paradise

Project Eden's Garden

Danganronpa He(art)less Deceit

Danganronpa Hushed Whispers

Danganronpa Muave

Danganronpa Despair's Revival

Danganronpa Re:Birth

Danganronpa Twisted Truths

Danganronpa Survivor's Guilt

Danganronpa Despair's Flame (my fangan! also the one where the talent ratio originated)

Danganronpa Cyberspace

Danganronpa Akeda Amusements

Danganronpa Lost Paradise (my other fangan that isn't released anywhere but I'm counting anyway)

I figured out the talent ratio for each individual game by looking through their casts and sorting them with my classification system. Ultimate ???'s were thrown out if possible (such as in the case of Akeda Amusements, where Hanari was thrown out due to the fangan having seventeen participants) and if not, they were counted as novelty.

Also, shout out to Yuki Maeda and Teruya Ōtori for managing to count for two different data sets despite my best efforts at finagling a way to keep them confined to one.

Observations

The first thing I noticed in looking at the ratios for canon Danganronpa was that Academic ultimates are underrepresented compared to what I initially remembered. It had been a while since I revisited the mainline games, and it was a shock to be reminded of that. I was also reminded, but not quite as shocked by the greater emphasis on practical ultimates.

In fangans, the focus on practical ultimates continues to be heavy, with none having less than two. There was also less focus on sports ultimates, with the majority having only one or two compared to the three that the mainline games had a majority of the time. They also tend to have more academic ultimates.

I think that this could be explained by looking at the types of people who make fangans. The majority of people I know who make fangans have very particular knowledge about certain fields due to experience or heavy research, and more often than not these fields do not include sports. They are more likely to make characters based on their experiences and knowledge that they can then insert into the story to make it seem more authentic.

I also, unsurprisingly, found that my "perfect" ratio was not reflected in many of the fangans I looked at. There was only one besides my own that followed that ratio.

Now, if my "perfect" ratio is not the mathematically perfect ratio, then what is?

According to the data collected for the canon games, this is.

This just so happens to also be the ratio for Trigger Happy Havoc.

According to the data collected from the fangans, this is the perfect ratio.

The only fangan that followed this ratio exactly was Akeda Amusements. V3 also had this distribution.

When considering both mainline and fan made games, the perfect ratio was this.

Ironically, not a single mainline game or fan game followed this ratio.

Out of curiosity, I also calculated the standard deviation for each data set.

Canon Danganronpa has little to no variation, conveying that talent ratios are quite consistent between games. The biggest variation would be in the novelty category, making sense as V3 scaled down the amount of novelty ultimates compared to the other two games.

The fangans are shown to have a much larger variation. Though I can't be surprised by this, as perhaps it is an unfair comparison. The mainline Danganronpa games were written by mostly the same team and had less to sample from, while the fangans have not only a larger sample size in which to deviate, but many different writers that think differently about talent distribution.

Final Thoughts

In putting this all together, I found that my classification system, while not perfect in any sense of the word, has some validity to it. If I wanted to, I could definitely make some improvements to it (especially in distinguishing between certain academic and practical fields from novelty), but as of now it works perfectly fine as an aide in cast creation for me.

My ratio is also not perfect, which was an expected outcome. Really none of the ratios I found are perfect, with none of them representing more than one or two of any mainline or fan made game. While ratios like the ones I found can be good for making sure you have a balanced distribution of talents, they aren't required to make a good cast. Personally, I'll continue using my personal "perfect" ratio as a baseline for any cast I make in the future.

I also had a lot of fun making this, and hope I can find a way to make more posts like this in the future. Thank you for reading this.

I saw this clip on Youtube and I immediately thought about them

Mumza is truly one of us

My Little Mothkid

Okay! So for the last day of @alt-zadr-b1tch3z CREATURES, I wanted to share the idea for my one AU.

There is a lot of amazing work with Zim and Dib taking care of the smeet, and I thought what if they would find themself attached to a different type of creature, a moth creature :3

Dib with Zim, were sent to investigate what was the cause of the abnormal screech coming from the forest, scarring the locals. During the investigation, they came across a frail-looking moth creature and Dib immediately decided to uphold their task and catch the new discovery. Strangely enough, they didn't have much trouble capturing it (I mean, of course! Dib is the best paranormal investigator after all. At least, this is what he was bragging about all the way home).

When they arrived at Zim's base, Dib was so excited and ready to dissect and examine the creature right on the spot but when it come to it

he couldn't get himself to do it

Still wanting to research the cryptid without harming it, he made sure to provide the monster with everything it wanted needed. From all kinds of food and treats to a ton of different toys. All in the name of science!

From observation, he found out the cryptid is a female, doesn't look like she can fly, and isn't able to speak, but still show some kind of verbal communication and understanding of her surroundings. In just a couple of days, all of Dib's notebooks were filled with information like: What is the length of her wings? What foods does she like? What are the best toys for her? What is the proper way to hold her to put her to sleep? All the necessary information.

Zim on the other hand wasn't so fond of the idea of her running all over his base and causing destruction everywhere. He already had Gir and didn't need another kid bag of germs with the lack of boundaries on top of his responsibilities. But stupid Dib couldn't even keep his pet thing properly clean, so again all the work falls on the amazing Zim's shoulders!

But they couldn't keep her locked in Zim's base forever, thankfully they have Tak to help work on the disguise so they could move more easily around the neighborhood. [In this story, Tak stayed on Earth and I will touch on why hopefully in some future comics ^^ (or if it will be too much for me then I will share it thru texts)]

But as time passes, one day they need to learn that stealing the cryptid from the monster forest wasn't the wisest idea.