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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

[apeopleperson]

I was so miserable that he just couldn't help it. I seemed to be just the kind of child who would need his personal intervention. Monobear helped, of course.

[Looking very pleased with herself, while Jorgen just...is red. Super red.]

You know as well as I do, if Steven dies you would all fall apart. And I'm certain Steven will see reason when I'm done with him. Others have before. Others much stronger than you ever will be.

After all.

Where do you think the survivors of the previous class went?

[trustyboomerang]

So he fell for your act. Gotta say, if you weren't so evil, you'd be a popular actress.

[He looks over at Jorgen.] Why were you dumb enough to make a godchild out of a girl who can electrocute people?

[At that question he stiffens and looks at the people in front of him. No... how... wait.]

So you're trying to follow in the footsteps of Long Feng. [Wasn't there a bit about 20 individuals who were influential?] You're training people for assassination... or worse.

[apeopleperson]

We only had baseline information on this universe! We don't exactly go off into other universes outside of ours on a normal basis!

The weak always mistake vision for evil. But enough of that.

[That smile on Azula's brightens up. Now he's starting to get it.]

I can't say I'm not relieved you survived to this point. Now, I can give you an excellent demonstration of what I plan to do. At least, for our world. Long Feng's methods were as short-sighted as he was.

[Then, sharply to her left:]

Number 5. Front and center.

[At this, one of the cloaked figures - about Azula's height - jerks up, and leaves their place in line. They quietly stride over to Azula, who looks just as pleased as punch.]

Number 5 was a particularly difficult nuisance in the previous class, but they've been outstanding in their loyalty to me since I managed to...convince them my side was right. Isn't that right?

[There is a small nod from the cloaked figure.]

Since I've discarded those annoying hallucinations and falsehoods about the world from my mind, I figured it would work wonders if I did the same for others. You'd be surprised the literature on the subject! What you found was just a little bit of what I read.