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THE MASTERMIND AU
NICK V. CN EDITION

It's time for Nick vs. CN's mastermind meme!

To those who aren't familiar, this is essentially an AU where your character is the one responsible for Nick v CN'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; was your character just another pawn in the grand scheme of things, 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

[bedazzledbellybutton]

[Well, let's start with the bowl. Is there something in it?]

[whoseclues]

[ Hmm. There's a book open to a recipe for cake, and a few ingredients next to the bowl. It doesn't look like they finished the recipe, though.

Maybe we should help them out? ]

[bedazzledbellybutton]

[Oh! Well, he has baked a cake before. What does the book say is left to do?]

[whoseclues]

[ The book has a picture of a cake in it, along with many other desserts.

It's really not the most helpful cookbook. ]

[bedazzledbellybutton]

[.....Um... Okay. What ingredients have already been used?]

[whoseclues]

[ The bowl has a few dry ingredients in it but is still mostly empty!

There's several other ingredients that look like they haven't been used, sitting next to the bowl. ]

[bedazzledbellybutton]

[Are they all cake ingredients? Or are there some decidedly not cake ingredients there?]

[whoseclues]

[ Hmm... Looks like it's a mix of both! We'll have to help decide which ingredients to use.

Which of these three items should we use?

One | Two | Three ]

[bedazzledbellybutton]

[Well, one, of course. You know, since flour is... actually safe to eat.]

[whoseclues]

[ That sounds like a good idea! Let's go ahead and add that.

Hmm... so, which one of these do you think is best?

One| Two | Three ]

[bedazzledbellybutton]

[Who would want to eat a sock-flavored cake? Let's go ahead and pick two: eggs.]

[whoseclues]

[ Two it is! You're really good at this, Steven!

Looks like there's only three more ingredients to choose from. Do you know which of these is right?

One | Two | Three

[bedazzledbellybutton]

[Oh boy, three! He loves chocolate cake!]

[whoseclues]

[ And now it's done! Good job! Mm, that cake looks delicious. We should pour it into a cakepan and stick it in the oven. There's gotta be one around here somewhere. ]

[bedazzledbellybutton]

[Sounds good! Let's search through the cabinets for one! Or if not there, the dish rack]

[whoseclues]

[ Lots of nice clean plates and bowls in the cabinets, but no cakepan.

Looks like there's a freshly-cleaned one in the dishrack, though! Hmm... something smells spicy over here. It looks like someone spilled grains of something... ]

[bedazzledbellybutton]

[Really? Let's take a closer at the spicy stuff.]

[whoseclues]

[ Well, if anybody wanted to spice things up in the kitchen, looks like they're out of luck! Glass shards and a handful of white and black specks are all that remain of the kitchen's most notable inhabitants.

Mr. Salt and Mr. Pepper are dead. ]

[bedazzledbellybutton]

[THIS WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPY FUN BAKING TIME!

Steven instantly recoils in shock once he recognizes the shards. Mr. Salt... Mrs. Pepper... They had been so nice... Treated everyone in the house like their own kids... And now...

...Now they had two more people to bring back when they escaped.

...Well, Blue? Is this the clue you wanted him to find?]

[whoseclues]

[ Hmm, well, if you see anything particularly noticeable, feel free to draw it in your notebook!

Maybe he'd better examine the bodies? ]

[bedazzledbellybutton]

[Okay... He doesn't want to, but... Let's look at their bodies...]

[whoseclues]

[ Just a few shards left here, really, and a pile of white salt and black pepper. Looks like something's sticking out of the pile of salt, though? ]

[bedazzledbellybutton]

[...Just...just gonna carefully take it out and lay it on the counter if he can't already see it...]

[whoseclues]

[ Sure looks like a magnifying glass! Perfect for a mystery game!

Anything around here you want to take a closer look at? ]

[bedazzledbellybutton]

[The bodies?....I mean, he doesn't want to, but if that doesn't yield anything, he'll look around the sink, window, baking area, and so on.]