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You are making my heart melt
“It is easy to love people in memory. The hard thing is to love them when they are right in front of you.”
This is for my Pixal: Master of Life and Death AU. If you’re interested please ask!
Hey! So um if you remember I made a request on your Danganronpa Thh ghost au if you could do sdra2 ghost au headcanons. If your still busy that's ok but if you forgot this is kinda like a reminder (Sorry of this sounds rude 😭)
Oh my goodness. I'm so sorry! I completely forgot. Also I got multiple requests for this and that is a foreign concept to me, I'm patting myself on the back for a job well done for the first one I guess.
I want to clarify - this one will be a little different than the other one. This will also be the last one of these I do until I play the third game. This isn't an x-reader. This is also going to be tricky considering the canon lore, so I'm kind of twisting it around instead of just throwing it all out completely. Have fun y'all.
- Danganronpa 2 Ghost AU - "They're Trapped."
Hi! Spoilers ahead. Also, just a big fat trigger warning in general.
When Makoto Naegi set out, against direct orders, to create the Neo World Program, he had good intentions. Rehabilitate the kids, even the questionable ones, to their original state. What he didn't expect were the files to get a little...weird. It didn't seem dangerous. At least, it wasn't until it was already too late.
The worst part is that Makoto would be rewarded with this transgression, this mistake. He outright refused to give the Hope Foundation the program, but when they took it by force, they realized why he hid it.
They were there. They weren't alive anymore, but that doesn't mean a whole lot in a fictional world made of binary coding. This is what they found.
Hajime Hinata is the only one that will greet you upon entering the Neo World Program.
When you first open your eyes on the beach, you'll see clear blue skies for miles, an ocean that looks and sounds just like the real deal, and a bundle of broken code flashing by the trees.
He's had the most sightings of all the students. If you're lucky, he'll even ask for your name.
If he's not there when you first wake up, then check the hotel. He can be seen walking around the cabins, hesitating on certain ones and letting his finger glaze over the mailboxes with their names on them.
His little friend is different. Much different.
9/10.
Izuru Kamukura is the same body with an incomplete personality.
He can be seen by the Ancient Ruins, pacing up and down the halls.
Sometimes he'll ignore you. Sometimes he's snippy and aggressive. He doesn't hurt anyone though, not anymore.
Many of us think that spirits don't want to ask us questions when in reality they just don't have that kind of energy to give anymore.
The Neo World Program flipped that logic on its head.
There was only one person that Kamukura actually talked to, and he asked him all kinds of questions. Who he was. What he was doing there.
Their meeting was solemn, but honest. He was quiet after that.
7/10, a mixed bag.
Gundham Tanaka pops from place to place, but the two main spots you'll find him are the Ranch and Strawberry House.
He's always alone, and he likes keeping it that way.
No animals have reported being around him - no animal noises in the glitches, or any mention of them in his code. Not even his hamsters.
At the Ranch, there are reports of the cows "brushing themselves". Bits of code surround the brush, as if he's specifically keeping the rest of himself hidden. These sightings are common though.
If all else fails, he wants you to know that the animals are taken care of.
There is one report. An anonymous employee went into Strawberry House and found his code in the Tower. They used a device mimicking a spirit box and could hear the constant click of his shoes.
Pacing in circles, and an occasional whistle of an unfamiliar tune. 10/10, harmless and is actually pretty helpful all things considered.
Peko Pekoyama has never been seen once, but it's known that she stays in the Beach House.
When they approached the building, they thought someone was already inside due to the footprints in the sand going in the door. The Beach House was completely empty.
She'll play the flashlight game. She's unresponsive to the spirit box.
The employee decided to wait until the night cycle kicked in, turned out the lights, and sat in the main room quietly.
They didn't hear much, but they did enjoy the quiet. Listening to the wind chimes and the ocean helped them meditate and stay calm in a time that a regular ghost hunter would be depressed about the lack of evidence collected.
After they were done they gave an audible warning before packing up to go, figuring that they weren't getting anything.
It turns out that the Beach House is the only place in the island that gives you a sense of peace. It wasn't programmed to give this atmosphere.
10/10, super chill.
Ibuki Mioda...has not changed at all. She bounces from place to place, but her sightings are mostly in the music venue.
You name it, it has happened in this building.
Equipment turning on by itself, speakers blasting scrambled rock music, something falling from the rafters in the ceiling, etc, etc, etc.
She does everything. She loves the flashlight game. The spirit box became redundant when they figured out that whenever it was in the music venue it would blast rock music. She's spoken through Ouijia Boards with specific messages. She even talks about executions and murders that she's witnessed.
Do you think a ghost could effectively haunt a music venue better? No, you don't. It's Ibuki Mioda.
8/10, somehow the loudest ghost ever.
Teruteru Hanamura is in the kitchen in the old building. There's no record of him ever moving from the old building at all, much less leaving the kitchen.
He's pretty quiet - unless you're a woman.
He reacts to men, but they've never gotten a response on the spirit box with them. He'll turn lights on and off and knock things over.
If you're a woman, there's not more physical activity but he will definitely talk.
He loves to talk. He answers every question that he can. He talks about his mother and her diner, the terror he felt from being stuck on this island with no rhyme or reason, his regret of killing the Imposter instead of Nagito.
He has absolutely no idea who he really is.
His code proves it. Could you imagine the Hope Foundation's reaction to Naegi's and Alter Ego's code actually working?
When asked if he'd ever leave the kitchen, he refused.
"I can't face them...not after what I did."
9/10, very helpful but prepare for emotional damage.
Sonia Nevermind is in the library on the second island.
They weren't able to get her on any devices. Nothing happens when people are in the room.
One of the employees got the idea to leave a camera and a tape recorder rolling there while they explored the rest of the island.
When they came back the tape recorder had been turned off and the camera had been glitched to stop recording about ten minutes in.
In those ten minutes, there was an orb accompanied with code glitches passing through the top corner of the frame. The tape recorder had been recording for two minutes, and all the heard was the sound of someone breathing.
That same employee spent the night in the library alone and they decided to bring a film camera so nothing could be corrupted.
They woke up multiple times throughout the night to sounds of books dropping, a girl crying, and what sounded like mice squeaking. These were later reported as hamster sounds.
The film camera had been set on a timer to go off every hour and take a picture. Only two pictures had something off - one had a dark shadow in the corner and the other was a picture of a mangled wall of binary code. It was translated later.
"Let us out."
8/10, spooky as shit but now we know where the hamsters went.
Akane Owari was last seen by Chandler Beach.
According to many employees, Akane tends to wander. She's never been seen in the same spot twice.
Many have tried to lure her out by coding smells of food to appear, but to no avail. She knows it's not real - she can't eat anymore.
Once she was caught on the spirit box in the hotel restaurant. It picked up sounds of chewing along with weird grunts of frustration. Another time she was in the beach house, making the window in the shower room rattle.
There's not a lot to note about her. She tends to keep to herself and avoids the Hope Foundation employees at all costs.
The only really significant finding happened in the hospital, in her old sick room. Sometimes the lights flicker, and the IV's will start to operate and show a heartbeat despite not being hooked up to a person. An employee was able to quietly play the flashlight game with her, asking simple questions about her and her life.
5/10, quiet but not very helpful.
The Imposter is still in the old building.
They're similar to Akane in the sense of not really interacting all that much, tending to stick to themself and haunt the old building alongside Teruteru.
The few times they did get them to interact were...interesting, to say the least.
They don't seem bothered by the fact that their murderer is literally a room away. "He did what he had to do." Fair enough.
One employee brought a knife to the building - all of their technology went wild; the tape recorder only got bits and pieces of loud static that wasn't there in real time, their flashlights went out, the spirit box wouldn't even turn on, etc. One of the cameras actually burst into flames.
That employee ended up throwing the knife out the door. Everything calmed down almost immediately.
6/10, whatever the fuck you do, don't bring a weapon.
Hiyoko Saionji is consistently found in the hotel restaurant.
She's occasionally been heard at the music venue as well, but the restaurant is her go-to.
She doesn't like the spirit box, but she loves the flashlight game. She will play that puppy all night.
When asked why she stays here of all places, the flashlights go quiet before they start flashing in a pattern.
It seems that she has an affinity for morse code.
"It's where big sis is."
One of the flashlights rolled over to a specific spot in the restaurant, by one of the walls. Right by where Mahiru's shrine used to be.
8/10, harmless but big ow.
Kazuichi Soda hasn't been seen by anyone. But he has been heard.
It is nearly impossible to track this motherfucker down.
They looked everywhere - the airport, the military base, the plushie factory, everywhere that they could think of.
It wasn't until an employee mentioned that he was close friends with Hajime that they got an idea. They set up some equipment with sensors around the hotel and waited.
When they looked at the footage later, there seemed to be more than one student there. They even overheard bits of a conversation on the spirit box:
"How's...oking today?"
"Nice and quie...ople seem to be comin...more and...though."
"...isn't...urprise. They seem to...help."
"...hat a joke."
10/10, quiet and looking out for the others.
Nekomaru Nidai has been seen twice - once in Strawberry House, and once by Chandler Beach.
Large flashes of code were seen in the tower elevator by the spot where he died by two witnesses. They tried to set out equipment to recreate this phenomenon, but it never happened again.
He likes the flashlight game. He hates the spirit box.
Funny enough, it seems like he can't recall a lot of his time as Mechumaru. He remembers taking the blast for Akane, and his last battle with Gundham. That's it.
The other time by the beach was also an accident, but there wasn't one flash of code - there were two.
The witness swears that it was Nekomaru and Akane, but they didn't hear anything. It seems that they were both simply enjoying each other's company for a while before going back to being restless spirits.
8/10, a little helpful but otherwise stays out of the way.
Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu can be found around the Beach House, but his most frequented spot is the diner.
Surprisingly enough, he's very interactive with the employees of the Hope Foundation. He uses the spirit box, he plays the flashlight game, etc.
He's even been seen in both code form and on an infrared sensor. He's had full conversations through the spirit box.
There was only one time he wasn't present, and when the employee assigned to him went looking, they felt drawn to the Beach House.
The power had been cut a long time ago, but they could still hear the faint sound of music while inside, along with some wind chimes. That sense of peace from before seemed amplified, growing into a feeling of joy.
When they turned on the spirit box, they could hear a whispering conversation between a male and a female with occasional laughter.
For one night a year, on the day Peko Pekoyama died, they're together again. 10/10.
Mahiru Koizumi is...everywhere?
She didn't get to see the rest of the islands like her classmates.
You know she's there when you hear a camera click and you're not actively taking photos. Sometimes she turns on the spirit equipment, effectively draining the batteries before they even start setting up.
She doesn't talk on the spirit box, but she'll do anything that's quiet. Dowsing rods, the flashlight game, etc.
She's picky about talking to guys, but gals and nonbinary pals? She's game.
When an employee mentioned Hiyoko Saionji, it got really quiet.
"Turn on the flashlight if you miss her."
Click.
9/10, minus one for ow factor.
Nagito Komaeda haunts the Ancient Ruins alongside Kamukura.
There's one rule; don't turn off the lights. Nobody has had the guts to try to break it.
Every room in that "school" has had something happen in it. Chairs have been thrown against the walls, tables knocked over, to try and break the coding he's trapped in.
Glass vases have been shattered, anything that's been on a table had been knocked over before, etc. There have been instances of an employee hearing the breaking of a glass vase that they put somewhere, going to check on it, and finding it completely intact, still on the table they left it on.
The employees that try to stay there for a full twenty-four hours never complete it. The longest completed run was sixteen hours.
The plan was simple; get there at ten AM, collect as much evidence as possible while taking shifts on sleeping, and leave at the same time the next day. The daytime was pretty mellow, with the occasional bang and crash recorded and not much else.
Once nighttime hit, it was a whole other ball game.
The two decided to stay in one of the classrooms with a lamp on, the overhead lights off, and the door closed. Screeches and cackling echoed off the walls, followed by intense sobbing. The employee that was asleep woke up from the feeling of choking, which was then confirmed by the bruises left behind around his throat. They wanted to stay, but, when the bulb in their lamp exploded, they decided against it.
1/10, fuck you and your temper tantrum.
Mikan Tsumiki floats around the third island, but she's seen the most at the Hospital.
An unnerving energy has since filled the building, with many if not all of the employees refusing to go inside.
If you're lucky, you'll see her from the corner of your eye. That's the most she's ever let herself be seen.
Sometimes the lights flicker without cause. The windows rattle and the glass cracks, as if someone tried to punch it.
Crying can be heard throughout the building at night. Sometimes there are screams. If you turn on the spirit box though, it gets interesting.
If you listen very closely, you can hear her whispers and rambling. She talks to herself.
She'll mutter medical knowledge, dates and times, names that were important to her - a little bit of everything.
She won't answer any direct questions, only Yes and No. She likes the Ouija board. One time an employee asked about Hiyoko and the planchet flew across the room.
5/10, do not interact if you are Hiyoko. Just don't.
Chiaki Nanami is nowhere and everywhere all at once.
Bits of her code fly around all of the islands, as if searching for something.
As an AI that was created to protect the students, she is the program. A memory that all of them had, and one that all of them wanted to see again.
If there's a direct Hope Foundation representative present, she will not interact. However, she seems to enjoy the company of the regular employees; maybe she relates to them more.
She likes big, open spaces; don't try to talk to her in a tight space, like a closet, because you'll get nothing.
Her favorite is the Ovilus box, since she can directly speak through it without too much effort.
Her physical form has only been seen once.
On one of the early mornings where an employee was out completing the night shift, the run began to rise where the waves crashed against each other before settling to the sandy shores of the beach. When they looked over to admire the view of the albeit-fake sunrise, two figures shielded by shadow caught their eye.
They claimed it looked as if a girl was there, waiting, when a boy came and scooped her up into a big hug. It was later confirmed that the descriptions matched Chiaki Nanami and Hajime Hinata.
10/10, she's finally home.
I hope you all enjoyed this, it was so hard to make! Thank you for your patience :)
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Magical Archives Game Guide Character Notes
・"Ack!!" Like Spade, he seems to be easily startled by the unexpected. ・"Normal anger!" When provoked, his face becomes red with anger like the Queen of Hearts. ・ Generally has his head slightly tilted back to look down on others (in a pompous way).
・Smiles when he is uncomfortable. His facial expressions are gentle, but his eyes are angled upward and his face itself isn’t built in a gentle way. ・He has a dark side, so his smile may hold a deeper meaning. It might be good to have him smile without showing his teeth. ・"Grin" (Mean) ・Glasses slipping ・"Ack!!" ・Angry… It might be good to have his glasses completely misaligned for gags. ・He is the type who, once his smile disappears, it stays gone for a while.
・It’s not half up, it’s a pompadour. ・"Sigh~" ・Crooked-tooth character. His right canine tooth is generally visible. ・He tucks his hair over here behind his ear, so it curls forward. Look at the overall balance and give him something of a sexy look with the angle of the curl. Pinned back.
・ Kind of like cat eyes ・ Normal ・ Make up. The heart is drawn from slightly off-center from his pupil. ・ A collar that cannot be removed over the head. After closing tight around the neck it adapts to the person it has been applied to. It is rather heavy and very conspicuous. ・How its looks to other students (a doodle of a cat with a sign around its neck that says ‘I ate food that I stole’)
・A cool beauty with a bit of roughness. Slanted eyes. ・Make up. A spade mark, angled like eyeliner from about the center of the eye. Opposite side to Ace. ・Not too gross-looking. Kind of like a flower. (a doodle of a cat with a sign around its neck that says ‘I sharpened my claws on the couch’)
・He has a hair whorl in the front. ・Braids. They get narrower towards the ends. ・Not really frizz, but rather hair that hasn’t grown as much as the rest to his back. ・Round ears that face forward, as he is a carnivore. ・His hair reaches down to about his shoulder blades.
・”Sigh~” ・His hairstyle is a little Mohawk-like, with volume at the top like a hyena. ・The large eyes make him look a little young, but his proportions are the same as Ace. ・He’s cute when his shoulders bob up and down ・”Shishishi!!” ・Laughter that is similar to the hyenas in the Lion King ・Mean grin ・”Ack!” ・Angry
・He looks the same from either side ・He’s a tough-looking character, but as he is still only 16 please do not draw him so that he looks too tough. Compared with Leona and Trey, he has slightly larger eyes. ・Out of all the characters, he is the most muscular. ・Wolf Form
・”Sigh~…” ・His scheming face. He looks a little more mature than the other second year characters. He has a mole near his mouth. ・I think he is the champion in the “hair that is difficult to draw” category. If you don't start with a rough outline of the silhouette and then draw it in, the right side will almost certainly come out too big… ・Rough drafts look like this ・You can’t really see his eyes from the left side. His glasses frames do not turn transparent.
・”Hm~” (dumbfounded by something bothersome) ・He has heterochromia and a double eyelid. Eyelid fold is in the shape of the eyes. ・More gentle than he looks. ・Doesn’t make very big facial expressions and doesn’t open his mouth very wide. ・You can see jagged teeth when he opens his mouth, as he is an eel. ・He is basically always smiling. ・Eel Form ・Human, Ace, Mermaid ・Around 190cm, so over twice that long? ・He is more fish-like than Azul, with proper fins. There are gills on his sides. ・Eels have stripes, so his body has stripes in places. Since the bottom of the sea is dark, his body is luminescent.
・He has a sturgeon scale earring in his right ear that matches Jade’s. Inspired by Ursula’s “Beluga Sevruga, sturgeon of the Caspian Sea”* ・His hairstyle is the mirror image of Jade’s. It is slightly messier, but it’s the same otherwise. ・I think having him slouch a little would help differentiate him from Jade. ・His eyes tend to do this, but be careful not to overdo it.
*It seems that when Disney's The Little Mermaid was translated into Japanese, the lyrics were changed from the original line of “Beluga Sevruga, come winds of the Caspian Sea” to "Beluga Sevruga, sturgeon of the Caspian Sea", so this might be a reference to Ursula's "stealing your voice" spell that only people who saw the Japan release of the movie will understand.
・”Sigh~” ・I’d like it if his earring could swing back and forth ・Like Jamil, he has prominent lines around his eyes. His expressions are similar to Ace’s, but 30% more exaggerated and he doesn’t try to look cool. He doesn’t look down that much. He’s easygoing. ・”Ahaha!” ・His “mean” face is more like a prankster ・A look he makes when he’s being controlled by Jamil. This expression looks a lot like Jamil himself. ・”Whoa!”
・He generally doesn’t open his mouth very wide when he laughs. This expression is him trying to keep himself from laughing but failing. ・Mean ・Wearing a hood ・His hair drapes over his left shoulder when his hood is up ・No hood
・His disappointed look can be a complete change from his usual expression ・”Ugh~ so disappointed” ・Just a well-groomed face. Heavy eyelashes, both top and bottom. Eyebrows are masculine and thick. His face is also slightly long in a masculine way. The placement of his eyes and nose are balanced in the same way as Leona’s and the other older students. It would be great if his gestures could be graceful, similar to the Evil Queen. ・Evil Queen laughter “Oh no―hohoho”
・The flow of his hair ・He is secretly very well-muscled. He almost never takes off his gloves for everyday tasks (in order to not leave any fingerprints behind). His neck and arms are thicker than Vil’s. When weighing himself it was discovered that he is actually heavier than Trey, and he feigned surprise. He looks the same from either side. ・His hair is just slightly longer towards the front. ・After drawing him, I wondered if him turning his head more gently and calmly would be better suited to the character.
・I designed the character to be a beautiful boy who looks like he belongs in a 1970s shoujo manga. He is a countryside juvenile delinquent on the inside, but Vil is forcing him to be a 'bishonen' character. His acting is not very good, so his facial expressions are usually stiff, but when his true self comes out, he often laughs a lot, often gets angry and is generally mischievous. ・”Ahaha” He has an innocent-looking smile
・”So disappointing” ・The flames of his hair become weaker when he loses interest in something. ・The bags under his eyes and the blue of his lips are not make up, but entirely natural. His eyebrows always make him look troubled. His hair is flames, so it is always moving, and the ends are translucent. His eyes are always shaded. He has a well-defined face, but he is not aware of it. ・The best smile he can manage. He is not plotting anything.
・His entire expression relies on his eyes because of his mask, so it might be hard to tell when he’s being mean. If possible, we can do things like raising or lowering his shoulders in a ‘hehehe’ gesture.
・”Disappointed” ・He has pointy ears. Since his horns are so large, his head tends to look too big if his face is not drawn a little smaller than other characters’. He has long lower eyelashes, but his facial features are a little softer than Vil’s and Leona's. ・”haha” His fangs are visible. ・He doesn't really get super angry, but the rare times he is angry it's like "Uwa, he's inhuman!" ・Super angry
・He wears a jacket in the same design as Malleus’ but it is oversized and floppy. The collar and sleeves, etc. are drawn overly large and exaggerated. ・Three layers of frills. The bottom layer has small pleats (after the pleats it becomes transparent) ・Disappointed ・His expressions are less so cute than they are calm. He opens his mouth wider than Riddle does and makes improper expressions, carelessly picking his nose, etc. ・Mean ・”Wahaha!"
・When he does smile―which is rarely―it’s a gentle expression. Lilia sees him smile quite often. ・He usually does not look mean. ・Surprise. He usually hides when he is shocked so that others cannot tell he has been caught off guard, but he does get surprised. ・Angry! He gets angry if something puts Malleus and the others in danger. ・As he cuts his own hair (or Lilia cuts it for him), it is rather rugged, but half of that is just bed hair.
・He is not as well muscled as Jack, but he is rather sturdy. However, his facial features are similar to those of Azul, and he has a refined face. Although he has an older-looking face for a first-year student, on the inside he is more like a puppy, and if you get to know him, he laughs a lot. In front of Malleus he acts like a cool and composed follower, but he actually has a wide range of facial expressions. ・”Ugh~…” ・Lightning bolt → ・His bangs and eyebrows are shaped like lightning bolts. He has an undercut hairstyle. He actually wants to push it all back, but his hair is too strong and won’t allow it. It is not cropped.
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These are just a few of the many notes in the Magical Archives, a game guide released in 2020. This is a different book from the Visual Book that was released on 22/8/10, which also included illustration notes, a few of which have been translated below!
(Disclaimer: Proofreading of the above was done by a professional JPN -> ENG translator that I reached out to, but these are still all fan translations! Official translation involves a lot of going back and forth with the client so that they can approve of how their work is being represented, but that does not happen with fan translations, so always be wary of anything like this, scanlations, fan-subs/dubs, etc., that do not come from official sources!)