THE MASTERMIND AU MEME

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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!

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[mindofathief]

...I cared about you. I'm so sorry I couldn't save you. I'm sorry I couldn't stop you from doing this!

[Why is he feeling so terrible? She's right: she killed everyone to escape. He could feel the same way about anyone who succeeded getting away with murder, couldn't he? Yet for three weeks, he couldn't bring himself to hate completely despise them. It was the latest trial when he could finally give an angry speech to the culprit. He was so ready to fight the mastermind...but how could he bring himself to hate Haruka, of all people?]

[mopocalypse]

No, this...

[Isn't how it's supposed to go.]

This really is despair, isn't it? Despair is the only thing left after this game.

[mindofathief]

We could've...That could'be been any of us! Monobear got to you...!

["I want to protect her," he told himself when they first met. He felt a particular pain from her that he couldn't recognize until well after she was dead. She came from one of the cruelest families he ever heard of, and he couldn't see that, blinded by what he accepted as normal as a child.

He couldn't save her from despair.]

No, it can't be. That can't be the only thing left.

[mopocalypse]

What else is there? Look at me. My friends are all gone. All the people who cared about me, who tried to save me -- because of me! That's despair. Why should only I feel that way? Why... And why did all of you last so long? You loved each other, all of you did! Why? Why didn't this game end like the last one?

[mindofathief]

Because...we couldn't abandon each other. Each week, someone died, and we could have all done something to stop them! When I thought you died...I promised myself that I would never let this happen again. We had to stick together.

[Funny. It's because of Haruka's "death" that Duster vowed to keep the survivors together. And now she's alive. She's the reason over half of their number is dead, but...]

Haruka...why did you do this?