THE MASTERMIND AU MEME

[milliondollarpipes]

THE MASTERMIND AU
AMBIDEX EDITION

With Round 3 now over, it's about time we had the mastermind meme!

To those who aren't familiar, this is essentially an AU where your character is the one responsible for Round 3's Mutual Killing Game, and all of the carnage that came with it, from the kidnapping to the motives to the trials to the executions! And now, they have chosen to reveal themselves before the remaining members of their class at the final trial!

As such, you are free to play around with this as much as you would like; did your character make a contract with Kyuubey, or did your character put everyone in the Killing Game for a different reason? What is your character's motivation for bringing despair? What do they intend to get out of this seemingly senseless killing? And what does the rest of the class have to do to stop the madness and go home?

There's probably going to be quite a bit of AUing from your character's original canon happening here to make them into the best harbingers of despair they can be, so feel free to go as nuts with it as you want to! And, of course, feel free to tag others with your character's reaction to their classmate's big reveal; it doesn't matter whether or not your character made it to endgame, have fun and mix up the survivor pool as much as you'd like!

Oh, and feel free to describe your character's sweet new Monobear-themed duds, too!!

Original meme text borrowed and modified from loveisanopendoor!

Comments

[callbacks]

Dave was real. But he failed way before any of you had a chance to meet him, save perhaps the troll guy. We've been animating him since you guys woke up here, and since we were just running power through his body, everything he did was what he would've done, if he were alive. But he already told you he wasn't. You know that.

this is why i don't phonetag

[mutantkoalabff]

[...]

You never brought him back. You... [Her voice cracks.] You just used him. Why?

Phonetagging is hard and those of us who do it wish we didn't

[callbacks]

He asked us to. To save everything else.

[The tentacles move gently behind the barrier at her back.]

We never told you what he was fighting, did we? What we're still trying to fight. All those worlds, ended, but it always seemed like there was something worse waiting for him, wasn't there? That's the impression you must've got.

[mutantkoalabff]

[All of this reminds her too much of things she'd left behind back home. She shivers, more sensing the tentacles move than seeing them, and shuffles closer to her podium.]

H-he was trying to save people. [Self-sacrificial idiot, all this time. He'd told her...

Stupid, stupid Dave.]

From whatever it is you're fighting...but he wouldn't- you just lock us away in here, how does that help? How- he didn't ask you to do this, you Eldritch Freaks!

[callbacks]

...He didn't, no. But misery loves company, and he was basically the one in the end who led us to Enoshima Junko and the power to touch every world. There are no heroes.

[If that sounds bitter, it must be that Dave's despair is etched that deeply into his body. Into his beating heart.]

Listen, kid. If you had to make a choice between the living and the already dead, who would you sacrifice to save the world?

[mutantkoalabff]

[How can she fix this? How can she save him, someone who's already dead? Even if she isn't a hero, if she is very sure of that, still, Dave, you--]

...What kind of question is that? I don't like it.