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first sprite edit in a WHILE dont jump me

Hey guys! I know this is a pretty surprising twist from me, but before I continue on with chapter 5 of my Living Melody AU, I thought it would be kinda fun to go back and develop some of the changes that I think deserve a bit more of attention, so expect this one and maybe the next one to focus on the execution and the talk everyone has after Nikei reveals he is a void.

As for the execution, I thought I would take a more creative and unique approach than other Hibiki survives AUs. Most of them feature the fact that the key actually does bring one of them to safety, or that since Hibiki was being controlled it doesn't count. My problem with both of these reasoning is that Mikado would never let this happen intentionally, he is expecting 3 people dead by this case, so deliberately forgiving Hibiki on his own accord feels odd.

So the way I fixed this problem is instead make it so that its something OUT of Mikados control, and what better way to do it was with the way Hibiki was able to remove Kanade off from her? Instead of hitting Kanade a few times with the mic to let her go, what if instead something inside of her snaps and decides to finish her off and kill her right then and there? And since there is never said to be a timer on the execution, Hibiki after finishing her kill just freezes on the spot from shock. It fixes the entire problem of Mikado intervening for some reason to save one of the sisters when he needs 3 people to die.

Its also an awesome idea IMO because of how nobody wins this time:

Hibiki doesn't win because she now directly caused the death of her own sister, quite literally killing her and getting her own hands dirty. This, as Ive explained before, worsens Hibiki's mood throughout most of chapter 4 moving on.

Mikado doesn't win because now the entire case is ruined, there were 2 killers instead of 1, 1 victim instead of 2, not a void kill, and now after a lot of pressure from the others, the 2nd killer gets spared too.

the other guys don't win because now they have a broken Hibiki on their side, basically going back to not trusting anyone again and being distant, putting a strain and main cause now for Yuki to start to doubt the bond they all had.

And even Kanade doesn't win as she is now instead brutally killed by the one person she was controlling, not getting to see the death of Hibiki before her and I even wanted to make Kanade show actual genuine fear on her lasts moments to kind of emphasize that Kanade is still human and can experience said things.

So yeah, no one wins. This one is a lot shorter but that's meant to be the point, they're meant to be more lore building to past things I've mentioned before and felt like they needed a more in depth explanation. If I do continue doing this, next one might be related to the talk of Nikei and bonding right at the begging of Chapter 4, where Hibiki would take Yuki's side on not being able to trust people anymore.

For me, it's easily Setsuka 💙

Kanata is a close second

Part 3 of my Living Melody AU: (Hibiki Survivor). Last post I explained how I wanted to touch more on Yuki and Hibiki's relation and here I'm doing just that. I wanted to do this specifically because I genuinely love these two together, ship or not, with just how much in common they start to have once chapter 3 rolled out. And I want to use it to its potential.

So, as I've stated before in other posts, Hibiki would take Yuki's side in this timeline when he goes on a tangent about not being able to work together after the third trial. Considering the closest person to her turned out to be a horrible person and the second closest one died by her and technically your hands as well, so i say its obvious she doesn't agree that bonding will make them not kill each other. The other reason as to why I made it so that she agrees with Yuki is to that they themselves can get closer, having someone take Yuki's side during chapter 4 ESPECIALLY after Shinji's death can honestly help him out. I doubt it would have stopped Yuki from experiencing the things he did in the original AU, but it would at least give him something to hold on to, which I think is cute.

I could see Hibiki staying close to Yuki after the talk shown above, which would happen when they're still trapped under Teruya's control in the room. In a sense, Hibiki starts using Yuki as a way to move on from Kanade and stop depending on her. As I've stated before, Hibiki feels responsible for the way Kanade started acting as a result of the harassment she inflicted on her from Hibikis inferiority complex. Having someone to just talk it out would feel refreshing and would mark as a good step in the right direction.

Another thing she would do is honestly call of Yoruko on the way she was treating Yuki this chapter, and saying Yoruko never showed the same resentment when Hibiki was the one crying instead. She basically works as a new partner for Yuki, and Yuki works as a new partner for her, they both have each others back. So you know she is going to get absolutely furious at Nikei when he reveals the truth about his plan to the rest and how Yuki was meant to be the culprit of the case.

But I think the most shocking part for Hibiki will be the reveal of Yuki being used as a vessel from VOID for the creation of Utsuro. Hibiki reacting to this and to Yuki slowly turning into him, knowing that she was also in that position and that its now happening to the person closest to her now, it absolutely freaks her out. This is my reasoning as to why Hibiki would stay relatively close to Yuki at all times during Chapter 5, trying to bring the old Maeda back and attempting to stop the transformation into Utsuro. But more on that when I reach chapter 5.

Anyways yes, this was an excuse to post Hibiyuki, but I tried my best to not be as biased and just make both of them survive all happy and dandy and live a happy life as a couple.

I finally completed my stylized art of the DRA girls, finishing with Akane and Kiyoka because I forgot to draw them before. I wasn’t even going to do the guys but some people wanted me to, and these are pretty fun to make and don’t take a lot of time, so might as well. If anyone wants me to draw the SDRA2 characters after I complete all the DRA boys, then just let me know. Here is Yuki, Teruya and Mitch (whose name is allegedly Mitsuhiro) for now.

I'm still working on details but comment any other ideas for me to add to my oc also she is the Ultimate Lyricist so tell me any more ideas I should add

I was playing through DRA when I noticed that it kept showing something like this when I gave Kinji and Mikako a gift. I've looked through the files and did not see the file anywhere. I hope that there's a fix for this since I've redownloaded the file multiple times. If it helps, I downloaded the "Prologue + Chapter 1" file from https://zephi.itch.io/danganronpa-another-storybuild, downloaded the top link of EasyRPG from https://easyrpg.org/player/downloads/, and extracted the files using Bandizip.