Beach Episode Sir’ Horikoshi I’m Begging You

The happy ending of Hope Arc was only temporary.

The first and last class of the new Hope's Peak Academy, most of which being outstanding youths that worked in the future foundation and fueled by their hatred of despair, used their talents to do everything they could to find out where the remnants of despair fled off to after their message against the world and how the remnants came to be. They got more then they bargained for, discovering the truth of how Hope's Peak, and talent in general, lead to the tragedy.

They broadcasted this information to the world, and the world ultimately decided that Hope's Peak needed to be shut down and the remnants must pay, despite everything. The class, in response, left to Jabberwock island. They were lead by the Ultimate Lucky Student and soon-to-be new Ultimate Hope, someone who was unlucky enough to meet all the remnants yet lucky enough to survive their torture. Someone driven mad by what they experienced and had trouble befriending their classmates due to every relationship they had during the tragedy ending in disaster. Someone whose body was so mutilated when they washed up on the gates of Hope's Peak academy that they now look more machine than human.

As great science is built on the shoulders of giants, and due to all the knowledge the class they found out through research and Future Foundation awareness, class 77-B couldn't stand a chance. They found a way to eradicate Komaeda's luck and Kamakura's existence. They massacred Class 77B: They were melted alive. Frozen and shattered. Maimed and trapped in a burning building. Hacked into bits. Suffocated from toxic gas as they cried for the ones they lost. The Hell Queen of Novoselic was the last person to be killed by the torturous devices she made. The Ultimate Filmmaker's broadcasting of such events let the whole world watch and cheer not in despair, but in hope over such evils being hushed away.

As for the survivors of Class 78, they ultimately survived unscathed, but not without some difficulties. For once they were on the wrong side of Hope and Despair, as they tried to halt their students discovering the truth and broadcasting it to the world. They ended up having to make a tough choice: either accept the academy they rebuilt being shut down as their upperclassmates were executed, or go down with them as traitors.

Soo... this probably wont get any attention but i dont want it to get lost between all the other ideas in my head-

As someone who's least favourite game is Goodbye Despair (shocking, right? I almost got doxxed on tiktok for this.) One of the many reasons why i dont like it is the atmosphere. In THH, the students are trapped in a school. Windows and doors are completely shut with metal plates, as we know. It creates a really claustrophobic atmosphere and makes it feel actually like a scary situation. Like, just imagine the dark halls of an empty school at night. During a killing game. Creepy.

In v3, we have another school. This time the windows and doors are not closed off. They have a huge garden, and some other buildings in it. But what makes it feel, again, claustrophobic is the huge dome/cage thing over them. Also, i think it fits so much with the "its actually fiction" plotline, like its not claustrophobic in the traditional sense. I think you'd feel less trapped, but more small and insignificant.

But in Goodbye Despair, i just dont get the same "trapped" feeling. Yes, they are in an island. They cant go anywhere. Except its a much bigger area than the other two, and definitely more comfortable. Though the "creepy" aspect still exists, due to island being abandoned. So, here's my alternate setting for Dr2! Of course this is just a idea, an AU of sorts... Im not trying to claim my version is better or anything lol.

What if Dr2 started in a cruise ship. It starts with class 77 on their way to the jabberwock island (for rehab since they are remnants). But before they could reach the island, monokuma stops the ship in the middle of ocean and starts the killing game. I think it would be scarier at night and more claustrophobic than an island. Since its in the middle of ocean, they could add a rule like "you cant kill a student by throwing them to the water" And someone will exploit the rule by throwing a dead body to the water. The cons of my idea is that chapter 4 wouldnt exist, which is one of my favourite chapters/trials in the whole series. And maybe Nagito bombing the hotel(?) In chapter 5 would be...uh..tricky. because if he bombs somewhere in the ship, it could start sinking. Actually, thats interesting too. The ship starts sinking, very slowly. So during chapter 5 and 6 they are racing with time. And the game ends with makoto,kyoko,togami coming to save them in little boats.

Top 5 Warriors of Hope

From my least to most favourite, here they are!

5. Monaca Towa

As the main antagonist of the game, I’m obviously bound to dislike her. But there wasn’t really anything redeeming about her. She was manipulative and calculating, and had tantrums whenever things didn’t go her way. I didn’t warm to her at all, unlike the others.That said, in DR3 Future Arc, she was totally different and I did start liking her there. But I’m basing this on Ultra Despair Girls, so bottom of the list she goes.

4. Nagisa Shingetsu

Unlike Monaca, I don’t actively dislike Nagisa. He’s just really forgettable. Despite surviving the longest of all the Warriors (except Monaca), I can’t remember anything much about him.

3. Jataro Kemuri

Poor Jataro, always getting put down by the others. I have a soft spot for him, but it’s not much more than that. In the game I found him rather irritating a lot of the time, and I’m not sure it was intended.

2. Kotoko Utsugi 

She’s generally the upbeat, funny one in the group, and I liked that. She also seems to be the most focused on what they are doing, constantly reminding the others about the game they are playing. She was good.

1. Masaru Daimon

I saw something the other day where someone had said Masaru was their least favourite DR character. And I just can’t agree with that. He’s the most personable of the Warriors, and I didn’t mind having him around. I think a little bit of that was where he was the first of the Warriors you fought, and that meant he was the one that made you think “whoa hold on, these kids aren’t the monsters I initially thought”. The scene where he stops and beats his arm for trembling..that was pretty uncomfortable (in a game where everything was uncomfortable) and my heart really went out to him.

-Alice

Bada ba ba, bada ba!~ Ba ba ba, badum badum baaa!~

*Ibuki gets up from her pod, and starts singing to herself and also moves slowly as if she was dancing with her with her eyes closed…*

*Fuyuhiko and Hajime are both dumbfounded and nudge each other and make air noises to convey who should go check on her first…it’s decided that it’s Hajime who goes…*

I-Ibuki….?

Ba-di-di-da, da da da dum, dum duuum!~ Dum dum!~

*Ibuki motions as if she opens a door then continues walking a few feet…*

Ibuki…

La la laaa, la la la laaaa!~

*Then she stops and motions again as if reaching for something…then she grabs Hajime’s tie…*

Ibuki!

Huh-wha?

AAAAAAAHHHH!

AAAAAAAHHH!

AAAAAAHHH!

AAAAAAHHHH!

Wait, why are you screaming?!

You scared Ibuki!

Wait a sec, even more than that…

Peeping Hajime! Pevert! What are you doing in my room?! And-

Wait….what happened to my room….?

Hmmmm….Lot more of a sci-fi aesthic going on here…

But I dig it! I can totally dig all the way to America with this getup!

Ibuki, wait a second-

Also sweet contact Hajime. Going for a two-tone style?

Not bad, not bad at all! I’d like to see mow many contacts I can put on, then I’ll be able to see the full rainbow!

Uh, Ibuki, hold on-

Eh, Fuyuhiko and Nagito are in my new room too? Is this a panty raid? I didn’t expect this from….

………….

……… *She looks at Nagito’s arm…*

Sweet Eldwin Elric cosplay. Where’d you get it?

Oh wait, I get it now! There’s a costume party going on right now and you came here to get Ibuki! Why didn’t you say so?

I’ve decided I’m going to a combination of Frankenstein’s Wife, Frankenstine’s Monster, and Frankenstine himself!

Bwahahahaha! With all these Franken’s combined I’ll be the ultimate super monster that terrorises the village!

Ibuki wait! Just, stop for a minute please!

Eh? Wha-wha-what?

………Ibuki?

What’s the last thing you remember?

Hmmmmm….

Well I woke up, trying a find a jam for my new song, then I saw you and we had a quick screaming fit, then I yelled and I looked at my new room and-

Before that, obviously!

Well I went to my cottage, took a nice long bath, tried to come up with a new song, then I took a mean nasty shit, then I bathed again, ran around my room to release all the energy I had and-

The night you went to bed, what happened?!

Psssshhhh….uuuummmmm….

Oh yeeeeaaaahhhh! Akane tried to fight Monokuma but Nekomaru jumped in front of Monokuma’s MegaBlaster and he got took away!

Poor Akane…we should do something nice for her….

Wait. Only that far back?

You don’t remember…the next few days or so, or what?!

Silly Fuyuhiko, the day just started! These are the next few days!

! …………

I…..Ibuki…..

Do you remember Hope’s Peak Academy?

Now Hajime’s the silly one! Monokuma and Monomi took our memories, remember-

Humor me!

Uh, alright…Let’s see…..

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmm uuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh……

Nope, nothing.

Ibuki, try. Try very very hard.

Try to remember anything, anything at all, about Hope’s Peak Academy, your time there, what happened afterwards. Something, anything!

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmm-

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm-

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnn-

Nope!

………….

Oh no…..

Concept: After the kids were rescued from their abusive family. They temporarily stayed with the Naegi family. One night, Kotoko wanted to stay with big brother Makoto, because she was afraid of sleeping alone. Then Masaru joined in a tsundere way, then Monaca. Jataro and Nagisa stayed with big sis Komaru. The next morning as the kids play in the park, Komaru claimed she enjoys being a big sister.

Seeing that post you made just now actually reminded me of something. This post-SDR2 RP blog storyline. Which claimed to be about the whole cast healing, and would be even-handed to everyone. Yet the writer's biases against Nagito constantly crept in, as there were noticeable double standards in the way he was treated compared to the rest of the cast.

Like I realized something upon looking at it again. It's Nagito, and Nagito alone who has to actually face his victims from when he was an Ultimate Despair. He's the one who gets ragged in person on by cast members from UDG. The others meanwhile? They never actually have to meet someone they personally wronged. There are no survivors of Novoselic (which got completely genocided in their version of events) ever confronts Sonia for example.

This is actually the case in a lot of fan works. It is very easy to tell when the writer has a bias against Komaeda. Personally, a thing I noticed when reading is that it feels like they all tend to put the other remnants in a good light while he is just. Separated. Similarly to how the fandom treats him in general by acting like he is the worst of them all. There's always that subtle undertone that shows they only hold things against him, which, again, is often because of the rooted ableism in how the fandom portrays him.

Funny... Since his actions really are tame compared to the others, he never even directly hurt anyone, unlike them. It's weird how the fandom doesn't hold the characters accountable for actual murders in the first place, but can I just mention how Komaeda (including Hinata) was the only remnant who didn't do anything violent and messed up except cutting his arm off?

As for Komaeda being the only one to face the people that he wronged, I saw that people even tend to make the remnants forgive each other immediately (or easily) or don't write any tension between them, making them friends. It's very confusing since they don't have normal relationships even in sdr2 and because they always make them target Komaeda with all the negativity... And because they literally killed each other. They would all be aware of how messed up they are and have to learn to accept it... They don't even have a reason to call Komaeda fucked up anymore because they've done worse, or rather he's fucked up too. They don't have to like him (they would realistically only tolerate everyone except the ones closer to them in the first place anyway), but it'd be way different, and they wouldn't be hostile. The fact that Komaeda would be peaceful makes that even more believable.

(Also do you mind sharing the name?)

Oh I’m a sucker for content about Makoto perpetuating the cycle that caused the apocalypse in the first place because it’s whats been expected of him and taught to him, like at the end of dr3 anime how he becomes the principal of the same establishment that did HORRIFIC human experimentation and perpetuated a system that crushed anyone deemed ordinary under its weight. The school ends up taking no blame for its very real and intensely horrific acts because they simply blame despair for it, so of course now that the Ultimate Hope is running it that means all the despair is gone and now Hope will happily shine again. Neatly sweeping under the rug the covered up murders and torture done in the name of that hope before. It wasn’t the system, it was a few wildcards, trust the system Makoto, it’s all you’ve been told works isn’t it? Society has to have Hope’s Peak Makoto, the two are one in the same isn’t it?

In the end his title of Hope and the expectations forces him into the same blindfold of “for hope” that allowed Izuru to exist. All he knows and really is allowed to know thanks to future foundation is that he is Hope and has to make more Hope and that as such Hope’s Peak must exist as a symbol of that Hope. Which is why when I write post danganronpa 3 content and acknowledge the canon of “he principal now” I have characters who actively oppose and fight against the re-installment of such a system because it’s just such a bad idea but the propaganda and hope worship is so intense Makoto doesn’t even consider how it might not be a good idea.

Hope and Despair are just so entwined you cannot be an ultimate hope without understanding and being able to use ultimate despair. The two concepts are so twisted together that Junko can cause massive hope if she chooses (ie warriors of hope) and Makoto can create great despair (accidentally letting a second killing game happen thanks to his illegal terrorist rehabilitation program) not to mention hope to one is despair to another, and there really is no way of predicting which way the pendulum will point to until after the act of potential hope OR despair is taken. Ultimate Hope? Ultimate Despair? The talents are one in the same at the end of the day. Anyone deemed to be an Ultimate Hope is one thought of “greater good” away from the next Tragedy. Makoto is no different, and the system will inevitably push his morals to that point if no one intervenes.

Munakata: You know nothing, you're just a naive child who thinks the world can be saved by positivity.

Well that might work in your game, but not in the real world.

Makoto: chained on the ground Your pathetic.

Munakata: What did you say?!

Makoto: You laughs, glares at him you know nothing. You think that I don't know, that words aren't enough to change people?

You think that I don't know that positivity can't fix everything?

Munakata: Than why do you drone on and on about it? If you truly believe your words are hollow, than why pretend to be such a fool?

Makoto: God your stupid. What I said was that I know words aren't enough. But they're a start, their a step and a necessary one.

If anyone's the hypocrite, it's you, Mr rehabilitating murderers is wrong but I'm gonna kill people that don't agree with me.

Munakata: You little-

Makoto: No? You go on and on about how dangerous it would be if despair disguised itself under a flag of hope.

And yet here you stand like your own Remnant of despair.

Munakata: How dare you! Kicks him, hard

Makoto: laughs And you say I'm the child. How did you get such a high up job?

I mean you talk tough but you're just a washed up graduate who's clings onto his high school glory days.

Munakata: seething How dare you!

Makoto: Oh I dare. I think you got the job to work at the overseas Hope's Peak, because you're so desperate to reignite that spark because you've found nothing else fulfilling in your life.

And than the world fell but you got lucky, because finally everything was yours. You could be the big bad hero you always wanted to be.

Munakata: You call this a victory?

Makoto: For you? Other than being vice chairman and Chisa, sounds like your dream.

Munakata: Don't you dare speak her name!

Makoto: Yeah, my bad I'm sorry. You know, I was willing to hear you out for her.

I've lost people, know how hard greif is especially in a place like this. And she wanted me to hear you out, and I thought sure okay.

Munakata: That sounds like her.

Makoto: But man, I've looked into the eyes of those infected with despair.

And I've still found shreds of humanity in their souls, you are as soulless as it gets. And I watched Junko kill her own sister without a second thought.

Munakata: scoffs

Makoto: Junko twisted the Remnants from the people they were. The kind, good loving people they were.

But no one did that to you, you are your truest self. There was nothing to regain because nothing was lost.

Munakata: Is that your long poetic way of calling me a monster? How original.

Makoto: No you're worse. Hell at least Junko knew she was being awful. You say the most awful things and pretend it's just.

Munakata: The truth is always hard to digest. You should know that better than anyone. But you insist on hiding behind your hollow words.

Makoto: They aren't hollow. Sure I talk, a lot. But I make my words mean things, I fill what could have been hollow because I believe in the power they hold.

Munakata: You do have a lot of influence in your words. But that doesn't change that they won't fix things.

Makoto: I know it's not going to fix everything! But if they can get people to act, if they can change someone's opinion. That makes them mean something.

What you're proposing would destroy what's on the surface but change won't happen if you won't touch the root of the issue.

Munakata: And what of it? It will only spread. I do what has to be done. I use my words and I put them into action.

Makoto: The difference is I'm proposing people care about each other and you're trying to justify mass murder.

That's the difference between you and me, you take the easy route.

Munakata: Easy?! You dare call this easy?!

Makoto: Violence is easy, you can hurt anyone without raising a hand. You know what's hard? Healing.

Going day in and day out in a hopeless world trying to convince people life's worth living.

You watched the game... How many times did I try to bring people together? How many times did I try to talk to someone who would later be a murderer?

A tear falls down his cheek.

I will carry their deaths for the rest of my life. I will be kind in a world that hates that because someone has to.

I gave my weakness to everyone not because I don't know the danger but because I do.

Because I know if one person, just one comes forward it can persuade others to do so too.

Munakata: Scoffs What you've done is make yourself a bigger target.

Makoto: Gets up, got free ages ago and stands tall It's easy to kill the people who wronged you. What's hard is knowing all they've done, and forgiving them anyway.

I smile and it hurts more than anything and yet I do it because it makes people feel at ease. And if that's make me weak? Than so be it.

Munakata: So what, you'll forgive me for all of this?

Makoto: Yeah, because even now I think there's still hope in you.

Munakata: That kind of optimism will get you killed one day.

Makoto: It's gotten me this far. Sad smile And apart from my friends, it's all I've got anyway walks away, pauses And for what it's worth, I'm sorry for your loss. Walks away

Lil happy boy ⭐️