supergaybabyjail | THE MASTERMIND AU MEME

THE MASTERMIND AU
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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!

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[When all was said and done, it seemed as though a very thorough course in contract law was due for someone or another, but right now, the surviving students were primarily concerned with that whole Mastermind business.

So... there was the matter of the Holy Grail War --- more than one, actually, and the basement seemed to be filled with research notes on the subject. There's a lot of nigh-impenetrable magic jargon, but it's possible to get the gist of things. There was supposed to be an artifact that contained immeasurable magical power that could theoretically be used to grant any wish... but something had tainted it. Some poor fool had summoned Angra Mainyu, the incarnation of all the evils of the world, into a previous war, and things had gone a bit pear-shaped from there. There's also a fair bit of information about things like Second Magic, which seems to involve world hopping, and memory altering magic... HMMM...

And then, there were notes on what seemed to be an entirely different magic system altogether... one that granted immeasurable magical power in exchange for a wish. The notes on this system seemed a bit less certain, as though the writer didn't have quite as good a grasp on the systems involved, but it seemed to involve soul gems and contracts and weird cat things with ears coming out of their ears and a whole heck of a lot of despair.

...well, there's only one person versed enough in the former sort of magical jargon here, as anyone who's read his book may surmise, so when the Mastermind is... well... reasonably quickly named, shit proceeds to get absurd.

For starters, the walls begin bleeding some horrendous substance that looks like blood mixed with ichor, which is never a good sign. Fortunately, it seems as though a moat of sorts has opened up around the outer rim of the courtroom, so none of that seems to be spreading around anyone's feet... yet, anyway. There doesn't seem to be any end to the substance dripping down the walls... also, there seems to be a fountain emerging from the center of the floor, between the students' podiums. It's a very classically sculpted, fairly realistic-looking black and white bear holding a blackened cup that's spewing... ah, yes, more of that gross muddy stuff.

And now, where Monobear usually is... well, that sure is someone who should've been dead after the third execution, isn't it? There is a Monobear present, albeit one made out of some sort of strange, silvery substance, but the center of attraction seems to be Kayneth... but he looks a bit different. His hair's gone from blond to white, his eyes from blue to red, and there are some strange red veins snaking their way up his throat and onto the lower bits of his face. His attire's a bit different as well, from solid blue to black vertically striped with blue... and at his neck is some kind of brooch set with a jewel that seems to glow with darkness, as if such a thing was possible.

He stands up from the chair he was lounging in and heads to the edge of his little platform to address the survivors.]

You know, I never really would have guessed that you would have accomplished this without all of you falling in on each other eventually... but I can't say I'm not impressed by the results.

I really do have to wonder how much you can withstand before you break, of course, but I'm sure it'll produce an intriguing end result.

...

Your outfit is bad and you should feel bad.

[Dave sort of looks like he's about ready to climb up on top of his podium to get away from the icky muddy shit that isn't even anywhere near him yet, but for now, he stays where he is.]

...I...

[...he should be offended, but this...]

...I can't escape the pinstripes. They keep coming back no matter how many blue coats I try and make.

I suppose fashion sins are included in all the evils of the world, but it's really the most frustrating part of this whole thing.

[Duster isn't sure if he's seeing things again when the walls leak...blood? Goo? Whatever it is, it's gross, and he lifts up a foot when a bit gets too close for comfort.

Kayneth. Somehow, Duster doesn't feel all too surprised. He killed two people in cold blood, after all. That should have been a sign that he was capable of running a game like this. Duster does his best to ignore the red lines on his face, attributing that to some magic bullshit he doesn't know. He doesn't know what's going on at all, and he should ask first about his plans, his powers, the silver Monobear, the threatening goo, but he's distracted by one other thing-]

You lied about your legs not working. [Dick move, Kayneth.]

Well, it's true that they wouldn't work under normal circumstances, but this body is really just a meat puppet at this point, so things like nerve damage don't matter at all.

[...he doesn't actually seem terribly bothered by saying that, although it's really kind of horrifying, jesus.]

[Narrowing his eyes at you, because how messed up does a person have to be to say that so casually?]

If you're a puppet, who's controlling you?

[The black goo is looking more and more suspicious by the second, and Duster climbs his podium to sit on it. If that's what's behind Kayneth's makeover, he can't risk touching it.]

Are you trying to fill the room with this stuff?! [This better be over quick, before they drown in liquefied evil.]

...no, no, I'm controlling myself, but not from my body. but I wouldn't say it's remote, either. I'm really rather certain you wouldn't get it, so don't even bother trying.

Well, would you like to keep wasting time so you can find out?

[That explanation makes no sense and raises more questions that it should have, but they have no time for a villainous monologue. Kayneth could have done without another insult to Duster's intelligence, but he'll let this one slide. Only because they're running out of time.]

No.

...Tell us what you're planning to do with all this. [And how to stop it, he almost adds.]

Ah, I was planning on letting all the evils of the world end humanity in fire, really, because that's literally the only thing keeping me going. I likely would've collapsed into some sort of despair singularity at some point otherwise, because that's apparently how it's supposed to go, but... well, you know how it is.

[Narrows. Eyes.]

You're doing all this because you're bored? And what's this going to do to us? [Gripping onto the podium with one hand, he stretches the other out towards a wall covered in liquid evil.] If this was your plan all along, why did you make us kill each other?!

...When I said this is the only thing keeping me going, I never said "boredom" entered into it. Did you even bother reading any of the evidence I left for you?

Let me spell it out for you --- I am all the evils of the world. The only thing keeping me in existence is the culmination of the sins that humans and other associated beings endlessly perpetuate against each other.

Well, yes, I did...

[To be honest, he wasn't around for the explanation of Angra Mainyu. He was busy investigating the room full of embroidery and magic tomes. There was something about a Holy Grail that could grant any wish, but he wasn't aware of what it actually held.]

It means you're running this game so you can survive. All we have to do is stop playing and leave. [He says as he eyes the blackness.] We're done feeding into our despair, right?

Are you really naive enough to think you're the only sources of despair and evil in the world? There isn't really a limit to that sort of thing. Believe me, I'd know.

THE MASTERMIND AU MEME

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