Danmaku Ronpa Planning Thread!

[kokoroandherkokoro]

you can see the nervousness of me right now

Umm..Hello there! This is Kero, otherwise known as kokoroandherkokoro on here and Tumblr! Now, if you read the title then you probably want to know what this idea is about and such.

Well I noticed that this site is rather stagnant in members and posts but that's probably because of the lack of members here. Well I decided to make an idea that would possibly bring new members to the site. Now, we're known (or at least want to be known) as a Touhou RP blog along with other things right? So, if we are a Touhou forum, what's the thing that happens in Gensokyo almost all the time?


An incident! That's right, a huge incident that a set number of heroes go out and solve with good ol' Gensokyo-style violence! Now, I thought that us, the members here so far could plan it in private or in this thread before I make a master post of it. Now, you maybe thinking "We don't have enough members to do that."


Well that's not a huge problem. While it would be nice to have a lot of members to help out, I think that this could go smoothly with the members we have now, if a sudden surplus of members doesn't appear. Not to mention, I'll advertise this daily on my Tumblr and pray that someone will read it. How I think the incident could go is two ways: One, a simple roleplay or Two,albeit more complex(?), a story where each person in the cycle writes a chapter of their character solving the incident (which is a bit more closer to the game because the character you are solves the incident). 

My theory is that if we continuously advertise the forum with the incident in action, then others would become interested in the site and join!


Now, the first part before I make the masterpost on this thread about it is PLANNING THE INCIDENT. So for now, this thread is the planning thread of the incident if anyone is interested. We'll probably have main things to plan like

• The incident's plot
• The incident's causers
• The incident's solvers
• How are we going to do this.
• Advertising!

That's the main gist of what we need to do! (of course small details like shot types, incident gimmick, spellcards, and stuff like that comes later!) So now I declare this planning thread open! Once we finish, I'll find a pretty picture for the masterpost and rewrite the info, and advertise again!

[Metroid Life]

An amazing idea, Miss Kero. An incident... well, I do have a idea, namely for my OC, Hakkyou. She's a youkai with power over emotion, but the most she can do is alter one of two people, sometimes a crown if they're weak-willed or already experiencing a lot of something (like fear if they're at a crime scene, for instance.) Or, stretching things a bit, she can manifest her emotions as temporary familiars to help her. But ultimately, she's still just a stage 3 boss at best.

...but what if she got her hands on more power? THEN she could really shake things up, causing the emotions of people all over Gensokyo to spiral out of control, dropping everything into chaos. The question is, who would grant her this power, how is it being granted, and why are they doing it? 

That's one idea, anyway, but perhaps I or someone else will think of something better, who knows? 

Oh, and who's the girl in your post, Miss Kero, if I may ask?

[kokoroandherkokoro]

OH MY GOD. MY IDEA SOUNDED AMAZING. Hooray~

But yeah that sounds like a good idea! Maybe one of the incident plots that could be used could be a plot similar to DDC but with manipulating emotions though we need characters for every stage though. I had an idea of unusual natural occurrences happening throughout Gensokyo that causes havoc to the land through a number of ways but idk. Maybe Knell could have an idea for an incident and then see which would work and then work on the rest of the main parts~ uwu

Oh the girl? That's SHSL Gamer Chiaki Nanami from Super Dangan Ronpa 2! She's one of my favorite characters from the series so I decided to use as a faceclaim for announcements along with other Dangan Ronpa characters~ uwu

[kokoroandherkokoro]

STOP THE PRESSES! 

I finished talking with Knell just now! And we decided to make this, not only an incident, but a crossover as well! What is the crossover? Well, Danmaku Ronpa of course. And this is the masterpost! 

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                                                ~*Questions and Answers about this incident*~ 
What is Danmaku Ronpa? 

• Danmaku Ronpa is the crossover between Touhou Project and the video game series Dangan Ronpa! 

Dangan Ronpa?

• Dangan Ronpa is the video game series made by Spike Chunsoft. It's a murder mystery visual novel about 15 students, each excelling at a talent that is often their title (EX: SHSL Baseball Player). They go to Hope's Peak, a top notch academy that hones their abilities so that they could succeed in later life. The game centers around the protag. Makoto Naegi who got accepted in the school because of a raffle thus giving him the title SHSL Good Luck. At first, it seems normal as he steps into the school but he then passes out and when he awakes, he has no memories of his past whatsoever; Upon meeting the other students, they met the headmaster: A bear named Monobear/Monokuma. He then locks all of the students inside of the school and says that no one is allowed to leave the school for the rest of their lives! Unless.... They murder another student and not get caught. The ultimate battle between Hope and Despair! 

(That's the main gist of the plot!) 

Well how will this go? 

• We'll follow the plot of the game expect with Touhou characters (and yes, OCs are fine!). This will be a roleplay so make sure to double check for updates when it starts! Murders will be decided by a random choice generator as of now and I'll send a message to both participants for their consent; If no, it'll keep going until two people say yes. Trials will go like a trial and if you want to do the metaphorical bullets, you could! 
  
  

Characters

• Just say what characters, their Super High School Level and it's set! The number of students in this will probably be around 15-18 students so that should be enough space! I'll put down everything in a Google Docs document that I shall make today or tomorrow! As for now, get to character taking! 

As for the masterminds of this....Ehehe. That's a secret~ But me and Knell play them in this thing so you can always take a guess. 

Have a despairing good time! 

[Metroid Life]

So, if one of the characters was Reimu... she'd be a Super High-School Level Sealer or something like that?

[kokoroandherkokoro]

Yeah! But mostly likely SHSL Shrine Maiden. It's pretty much, taking a talent or skill that the character is good at and turning it into their Super High School Level! Then there's SHSL Despair and SHSL Hope.

[Knell]

{Doesn't Simon Blackquill{Ace Attorney 5} look like Gundam from Dangan Ronpa?}




I think we should lay down some ground rules before proceeding. I apologize for not appearing sooner, but I haven't been in the greatest shape, but sometimes you just gotta suck it up. Now then, I suggest we lay out the relations before hand. We want this to be an incident, no? So it must be planned out from beginning to end.

First we must get a group of characters lined up, as stated before. Naturally, the characters in this little sadistic game will not be allowed powers, unless it's for plot purposes.



Now I know what you're thinking, but Knelll, it's touhou, surely we should be allowed powers. That's true, but you must remember this is also a crossover, it's simply the touhou characters in a scenario that's from a totally different game. We also must choose which characters would bring the greatest conflict and interesting story/drama and for added flare, maybe even comedic relief. It'll have to be a variety of unique characters, maybe even characters that don't know each other. Perhaps something like Kisume and Rumia, wouldn't that be funny?

Anyways, for more information on Dangan Ronpa, I suggest you ask Kero, I'm clueless when it comes to that, but anything about the plot for the RP itself I'm willing to answer.

[kokoroandherkokoro]

OH MY GOD HE DOES. YOU FOUND GUNDAM'S DAD. 

But anyway,

Knell is right! Some basic rules and things have to be applied for it to run completely smooth! About the powers thing though, one of our newest members and one of my Tumblr friends Sagaciouscejai actually made a headcanon post about Danmaku Ronpa which actually make sense. Also, I agree with the unique cast; One of the reasons about Dangan Ronpa that makes it interesting is the fact that even though the characters (at least for the first game) are based on common stereotypes, they manage to give off different personalities, amazing character development, and run over your feelings in the process. I guess that's the first two rules so far. The next thing should be where this will take place and how will murders, incentives, and trials go like 

[Metroid Life]

Removing wings, brrr... I was thinking more along the lines of something to repress their powers rather than remove them and their body parts. Logically speaking, I don't think, say, Utsuho has large enough wings to lift her off without magic, unless she's in her normal crow form, (which naturally would fall under magic to be repressed) so the wings and such would be useless without the magic that goes with it. Nor do I think removing their memories would be a good idea, exactly, since then no one would know who anyone else is. Yes, some of them would be meeting for the first time, but familiar faces bumping into each other is enviable. For instance, pretty much everyone would know who Reimu or Marisa is, whereas Yuyuko would be more or less unknown outside of the Netherworld. Plus, the fact that they know who they used to be would certainly come into it, particularly youkai who consider themselves superior to humans and the like. Can't exactly have character development without a starting character, after all.

[kokoroandherkokoro]

Hmm...That is a good point. Maybe such things that would show that they're not human would be sealed or repressed since they have to think they're humans,after all. Though the memory erasing is pretty common in Dangan Ronpa.

*MASSIVE SPOILER FOR DANGAN RONPA ALERT*

You see, in the games, all of the character's memories from two years were erased by the mastermind, Junko Enoshima. The reason why she did that was to spread despair faster as two years ago, the Most Despair-Inducing Incident happened which caused the end of the world; she erased their memories so they could murder each other thinking that the world is still normal, until the survivors of the first game find out during the sixth trial.

*END SPOILER*

But yeah, the memory erasing wouldn't totally erase their past as Sayaka remembered Naegi from junior high school so if they had memories further than 2 years, it would make sense for them to remember past relationships! I guess for the character development thing, the main part of DR with theirs was the fact that the character were only based on their starting personalites, the stereotypes they played, and their talent but as the game progress with the murders and trials, people actually saw their true personalities and character development which 9/10 made people cry (PEKO AND KUZURYUU B YE ).

I guess for this crossover, the starting personalities would be mixes of their canon personality, common stereotypes, and talent like the game itself and then maybe start getting further with character development with each murder/trial (IF YOUMU AND YUYUKO BECOME LIKE PEKO AND KUZURYUU, I'M GONNA DIE)

[sagaciouscejai]

Oct 8, 2013 14:11:38 GMT -5 Metroid Life said:

Removing wings, brrr... I was thinking more along the lines of something to repress their powers rather than remove them and their body parts. Logically speaking, I don't think, say, Utsuho has large enough wings to lift her off without magic, unless she's in her normal crow form, (which naturally would fall under magic to be repressed) so the wings and such would be useless without the magic that goes with it. Nor do I think removing their memories would be a good idea, exactly, since then no one would know who anyone else is. Yes, some of them would be meeting for the first time, but familiar faces bumping into each other is enviable. For instance, pretty much everyone would know who Reimu or Marisa is, whereas Yuyuko would be more or less unknown outside of the Netherworld. Plus, the fact that they know who they used to be would certainly come into it, particularly youkai who consider themselves superior to humans and the like. Can't exactly have character development without a starting character, after all.

Yo, first off I love the fact that your using my post!
secondly: Danganronpa 1&2 spoilers ahead

Well, when I was talking about body part removal in the post, I was thinking of using some brand of Japanese ritual seals, which would act to hide the parts (Stick one on the appropriate part, wait for the anime smoke cloud to fade and you are left with the patch over the area of the body where the part would be. Remove fully to reverse) instead of cutting them off entirely.

Also, memory removal/manipulation is a central concept within Danganronpa, even to the point of making everyone forget that they even met, which did happen within both games in the series. Plus, we can always do introductions to each character being RP'd in such a style that might happen in a game, going from person to person (I admit this sort of monotony made it hard for me to get into the series when first reading the let's play, but it does help to establish first impressions to be exploited upon).

It should be remembered that no matter who ends up our antagonist, they all have the same goal: enacting and inflicting despair upon the captive "students". Removing memories of trust and interaction is meant to keep the students alienated from each other in fear of being killed, and can also be used as a "motives" given by Monobear to incite mutual killing (We could always us this to play an example of "I remember you" with Youmu & Yuyuko, Reisen and Eirin, etc.)

[Metroid Life]

Oh, I see. So by that logic, Reimu and Marisa would remember each other, for instance, but Reimu might not remember meeting Miko or something, because that's too recent.

[kokoroandherkokoro]

Yep exactly! That's how the cycle of mutual killing goes: Erase the memories for more despair! I should say that I made the Google Drive document so if you want to claim a Touhou, it is allowed! I guess the number of students we should aim for is hmm....Maybe 15 min, 18 max, I guess! ovo. You could take a crack at their SHSL or you could let me do it!

I guess the next things is how trials and murders will work, the setting of this, and anyone who want to discuss something else new or was already mentioned. =v=

[sagaciouscejai]

Oct 8, 2013 18:44:34 GMT -5 kokoroandherkokoro said:

Yep exactly! That's how the cycle of mutual killing goes: Erase the memories for more despair! I should say that I made the Google Drive document so if you want to claim a Touhou, it is allowed! I guess the number of students we should aim for is hmm....Maybe 15 min, 18 max, I guess! ovo. You could take a crack at their SHSL or you could let me do it!

I guess the next things is how trials and murders will work, the setting of this, and anyone who want to discuss something else new or was already mentioned. =v=

Let's see here, what we need to establish now is:

1. Characters used (16+secondaries) along with SHSL talent (gotta be a SHSL Good (Bad?) Luck).
2. Setting of the mutual killing (try to keep it within 5 distinct areas)
3. Our SHSL Despair member(s).
4. Murders (Motives given, Victim(s), Culprit, processes), will probably go hand in hand with developing the setting at times.
5. Backstory that led to mutual killing (how the despair got into Gensokyo.)

As well, I also made a list of potential characters with their SHSL a while back, so let me share a few:

• Hong Meiling: SHSL Martial artist
• Yuuka Kazami: SHSL Botanist
• Sanae Kochiya: SHSL Thaumaturge
• Reisen Udongein Inaba: SHSL Top Gun
• Youmu Konpaku: SHSL Swordswoman
• Toyosatomimi no Miko: SHSL Prince
• Murasa Minamitsu: SHSL Sailor

[Metroid Life]

Well, if we must have a SHSL good/bad luck, Tewi would be the obvious candidate... Does Science qualify? If so then I'd nominate Rikako, along with possibly Rika for SHSL Engineer and Patchouli for SHSL Magician and/or Librarian. Oh, and maybe Mystia for SHSL Idol. Although, I have to wonder what Yukari would be doing... I keep thinking she'd be running things somehow.