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lore!!:

Daisuke was born into a very traditionalist family, with two older brothers. His family is upper-class, with his parents being a pair of wealthy politicians.

Growing up, he was always expected and told to be “manly,” “strong,” “brave,” “tough,” “stoic,” to one day get married to a beautiful woman, get a good job and start a family, that kind of stuff.

Daisuke was so far from that to the point that it was almost funny.

He was (and is) effeminate, kind, emotional, literally everything his family didn’t believe a man should be.

But good thing: they didn’t force him to act like he WAS actually what they thought a man should be. He was treated like a failure and a mistake, but they didn’t force anything on him.

Eventually, he began learning magic tricks from his grandpa and performing them on streets and such when he was about 12. His parents didn’t approve but set an expectation that he could make a profit from it. And eventually, he did, as he won a cash prize from an international youth's magic show competition thing when he was 15. For that, he earned his title as Ultimate Magician.

(Also, he is gay and has internalized homophobia because of his parents being overly traditional. They never said anything homophobic, per se, just set an expectation that one day he would marry a beautiful woman. Not intentional at all for him to end up that way on his parent's end, but their traditionalist mindset ended up with that effect. He believes love is love and that people should love who they want, but when it comes to him, he is the only exception.)

His surname (Amaterasu) comes from a Shinto goddess of the name Amaterasu Omikami. I'm not entirely sure if it's entirely respectful to have it as his surname, but it's supposed to represent his family's high status.

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anyways uh. based on that what are your predictions for him or something??? idk i rushed this post together in less than ten minutes

most people who have commented on where they think he lands is that he'll be a culprit.

also, my tumblr moot loves him.

(I would like to note that this DOES spoil my fanganronpa, DR Liars Game. Her lore hasn't came up yet, but I plan for it to be revealed in Chapter 2 via the first motive.)

Ok, so this is March Ackerly. One of my favorite OCs in my fangan.

When Akito (the protagonist) meets March, she claims to be the Ultimate Polyglot. All things considered, this is true, and she can definitely speak MANY languages.

Though, she lied about her talent and is actually the Ultimate Bioweapon. For a few reasons. One, I just really like that trope of lying about one's Ultimate. Two, she fears that if she is honest about being a Bioweapon, people won't treat her like how she wishes to be treated as. She wants to be treated as a human.

Now onto her backstory. Which I had a lot of fun writing. Just note that this is extremely historically inaccurate, but I tried to make it as accurate as I possibly could from what I researched.

She is a bioweapon created in 1512 by a mad scientist named Dr. Elia Venetian for the purpose of 1) finding immortality, and 2) creating the perfect soldier. She was titled "Project March" (or Projectum Martius, since Latin was widely used in 1500's Italy and was March's first language), after the month she was created. She was created on March 7th. HOW she was created is a mystery to even me. I don't know much about biotech from the early 1500s, as far as I know they didn't even know germs existed back then.

Eventually, before March was sold to the military of Italy for the sake of participating in the war that was happening at the time and any wars that would happen afterward, she burnt the laboratory down with Elia in it and ran away in January 1525.

Her freedom lasted until April 1525, when she was captured by the Novak Foundation. She was the subject of cruel experiments and being put to fight in local wars. She didn't lose a single fight (mostly because she literally couldn't die unless the damage is absolute, which we will get to later), until 1638 when she somehow got impaled through the skull and the Foundation assumed March was dead. And they didn't retrieve her body.

She finally got her freedom because the Novak Foundation was run by idiots. I'm being deadass.

That being said, they did (somehow) find out that she was still alive, but they couldn't find her and get her back before they dissolved in 1654.

And after March got her freedom, she ended up adapting into a cycle. Every 10 or 15 years (because she can't pass for anyone above the age of like 35, and with her white hair it would be even harder), she would change her identity and move somewhere else, often hopping countries. If anyone caught on to how she wasn't aging, she would have packed her bags and left shortly after she was confronted.

This cycle repeated over and over. She didn't get bored, somehow, and eventually it was 2025. Because my Fangan takes place in 2025. By then, Project March was known just as a conspiracy theory someone on an online forum made up when they were high. And is mostly known via Instagram slop content. She wanted to see if the education system has improved at all since it was introduced, so she made up the name March Ackerly, decided to pose as a transfer student in Japan, and she attended high school there as a very skilled polyglot.

And eventually Hope's Peak caught wind of her. And they manage to recruit her instead of doing the smart thing of handing the living weapon to the government or something. March only agreed to attend Hope's Peak if she was recognized as the Ultimate Polyglot instead of the Ultimate Bioweapon, and they managed to land on the agreement of her being the Ultimate Polyglot in public and her technically having a second Ultimate in the form of being the Ultimate Bioweapon. So technically, she was lying about her talent. Technically.

Now for some other things about her that are pretty important.

Why she looks so young: Regenerative abilities to keep her from dying or rotting into dust. Physically, she's about 24 years old, hence her younger appearance.

Her abilities: Okay, for one, she's extremely strong by design. She definitely can't overpower, say, Sakura, but she's the strongest of her cast. She also can heal almost any injury. If the damage is absolute (say, she is burnt alive, or dissolved in acid, or crushed by a hydraulic press) she is dead and done for because YOU CAN'T MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING, physically speaking. Because of this, she is far from the ideal murder target. Also, previously stated regenerative abilities.

Did the mastermind know?: Not when they first started the killing game, but they found out pretty quickly via digging through some documents. They thought it was too late to boot her out, so they settled for a 'secrets' motive where they threatened to reveal the secrets in X amount of time... but quickly fucked up as in they gave everyone the wrong secrets and the motive was called off for the time being while they prepared another.

How this is revealed: The protagonist gets March's blackmail, stating "March is a living weapon". The protag confronts her and bada bing bada boom talent reveal. This is early on in Chapter Two. It is eventually revealed to the rest of the cast and they act how you would probably expect.

Her inspo: I was VERY Resident Evil pilled when I first made her. She also was initially my take on Sora from SDRA2? She used to be the Ultimate ??? and not remember who she was. The protag gave her the name Kanon. She's changed a lot since then. I feel like a proud parent.

I had a lot of fun making her, I love March dearly.

Any thoughts?

(I guess this counts as promotion? I'm not actually quite sure, but it fits the best.)

These are only three of the 16 because dear god that would take way too long to write.

If they ever get turned into a proper fangan (probably just a written one on AO3 with minimal actual visuals, I'm not a game dev), it'll be called "Danganronpa Echo Chamber".

NOTE: None of this information is final. Also, if I have nothing to say for their backstory, it won't be listed.

CHARACTERS

01 - Kanon Fujita, Ultimate Polyglot.
Protagonist (temporarily, and we will go over that later.)
Female, 5'3", 109lbs.
Born November 12th
Likes: Cool weather, Autumn
Dislikes: Snow, Boats
Personality: She's sort of a Toko expy, since Toko is one of my favorite characters. With the mouth of a sailor and the stutter of... whatever comparison I could have made there, Kanon is a deeply insecure individual who projects onto others for their insults.
She wasn't intended to be a protagonist at first, but I decided to do so. That being said, I do have... specific plans for her.
Backstory (TW for grooming, marked as spoiler for people who don't want to hear about that. Inspired by one of Parako's OC's lore): >!Kanon was the affair child between two high ranking politicians. Her birth could have completely ruined their careers, so they just decided to hide her away in a house nobody knew about. One of the parents had to be around to make sure she didn't die, so they made a decision when Kanon was six. They decided to hire a private tutor, a 29-year-old woman named Yaeko Yoshida, or just Ms. Yoshida, as Kanon's full-time nanny. Beyond that, Kanon's parents only visited her briefly, once per year, for Kanon's birthday. Ms. Yoshida then groomed Kanon. She didn't have to isolate her, so she just did it. She gave Kanon ten, twelve, fourteen-hour lessons in languages, since Kanon picked up languages with such ease. And Kanon learnt them. Even when Ms. Yoshida isn't present, Kanon is terrified of her, yet loves her and craves her affection. She was the only consistent presence throughout her life. It's kind of my take on Korekiyo's backstory? I really like his character, he's very interesting.!<

02 - Masaru Akiyama, the Ultimate Detective
Support character (temporarily, and AGAIN, we will go over that later.)
Male, 5'9", 159lbs.
Born February 26th
Likes: Black coffee, Clocks
Dislikes: Noisy people, Fog
Personality: On the surface, he is apathetic, cold, logical, and direct. However, this is a result of him having alexithymia. His (internal) motto is "if I don't understand it, I won't show it". He does show emotions such as distress when, for example, someone dies. I would like to note that Masaru (as is of many of my OCs as a result of me projecting) is (an undiagnosed) autistic. This does not excuse his actions (PUT A PIN IN THAT, I WILL SPEAK MORE ABOUT THIS LATER), this is merely the reason he acts this way. He's also kind of brotherly?
Backstory: Something something Masaru's grandfather was a detective and decided to have him help out with his detective things as a young child because he was very intelligent even from a young age... I don't really have much down. Yeah. Very bare bones, and still in development.

03 - Uta Hozumi, the Ultimate Guitarist
Narratively opposite antag (TEMPORARILY, FOR THE THIRD TIME)
Female, 5'1", 119lbs.
Born August 1st
Likes: Takoyaki, Music festivals
Dislikes: Snakes, The cold
Personality: Energetic, blindly optimistic, very kind, generally just Masaru's polar opposite. I don't really know how to describe her. She's just... a joyful person with a lot of whimsy. I love her a lot!
Backstory: I'm not sure about her backstory so far. I just know that she grew up in a small town, and that she has two little siblings. She also uploaded guitar covers of songs she liked online.

MY PLANS

First things first, I would like to mention V3 for a moment.

V3's first twist, that Kaede is the culprit and an unreliable narrator, is something that I love ^((and will continue to glaze)). The role of the protagonist being given to Shuichi, who is Kaede's effective opposite, is something that I adore.

I mention this twist because it is what inspired me to write the first case of Echo Chamber in the first place.

Now, something I didn't want to do was completely rip off V3-1. I absolutely don't want to do that at all.

However, I just changed up the role in the case Kanon takes.

Kanon is Chapter 1's victim. The role of protagonist is then handed over to Uta, and then Masaru is the narratively opposite antagonist.

Now, let me summarize how I imagine this would go.

• Kanon and Masaru are talking in the library of wherever the KG takes place. It is, for SOME REASON, three stories tall and absolutely massive. I took some inspo from SDRA2 for this.
• Kanon just vents her fears of dying in the killing game to Masaru, who responds with an attempt to comfort her, though it isn't very good (because, well, its Masaru).
• Masaru then leaves, and Kanon watches him exit the library.
• I would like to establish that the library had a secret passageway that was accessible to everyone, and it just so happened to be close to where Kanon was standing.
• The culprit (a character not established, who is Asahi Teruoka, the Ultimate Butler) entered the library through the passageway and saw Kanon looking down at the library. This was after Masaru was gone.
• Asahi, though not planning to have committed a murder when heading to the library, saw the opportunity and shoved Kanon off. He then ran back as fast as his (very short, he's 4'7") legs could take him.
• This would not be shown to the reader, as after Masaru leaves the library, the POV cuts to Uta. She is walking and talking with another character (Venus (real name Daichi) Kainuma, the Ultimate "Combat Engineer" (actual title is Weaponsmith, Venus just likes the sound of Combat Engineer more) and they stumble upon Masaru leaving the library.
• They stop him, talk to him, and then they hear the sound of Kanon's body hitting the floor with a loud THUD.
• They rush back in and find Kanon's corpse, the BDA goes off, and Asahi reunites with the rest of the cast acting like he wasn't the culprit.

I'm not sure what would cause Asahi to be caught for this case, but it would probably have something to do with the process of elimination or something. Ideas are very welcome! I would appreciate it.