Killing Natsumi
Feb. 27th, 2026 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phantasmalpoisonAfter all this time, I've finally started a chapter fic! It's absolutely actually just going to be the same as my series but as one work, years between chapters or whatever. Anyway, I'm finally going to be doing Sonia/Peko Twilight Syndrome style ghost story investigation with all the stuff going on at Hope's Peak. It's started off silly, but there's got to be darker stuff because of what's going on at the time.
Ignoring the DR3 canon is a time-honoured tradition in the Danganronpa fandom, and indeed DR3 itself rather fucks with the timeline. I've already kept Natsumi alive into the year 78 join, but now I'm not sure when to kill her off! It's a big deal to Pekoyama as my main character, but I don't really want to rehash that whole thing again and just write that case. Still, I want her to die, and it will affect Peko's mood.
Honestly, DR3's version of the events from Twilight Syndrome Murder Case seen in SDR2 just add all this extra potentially meaningful lore. Combining multiple sources is confusing.
Koizumi knew about the reserve course (her friend from middle school joined!)? What is the situation with friendships between reserve course and main course students? Natsumi was in the photography club with Koizumi? And Sato? Did they go to the same middle school, or was this at Hope's Peak? The reserve course are part of the same clubs as the main course? Natsumi and Fuyuhiko are in the same year? Tsumiki, Koizumi, Saionji, Mioda and Sato walk home together? And lol Hinata witnessed a load of this but isn't included in the game?
Fundamentally, DR3 changes stuff. Mitarai has memories of getting bullied as a kid and photographed by kids with rather modern looking smartphones, which seems rather high-tech and futuristic of them, unless the year this is all set has changed. The Tragedy of HPA has council members killing in the corridor, outside the room with the blood and the chalk outlines! So I'm totally fine to ignore the overly easy happy ending where everyone from 77b looks happy and healthy save for one hand and one eye, and I'll kill Natsumi when I'm ready.
But when is that?
Ignoring the DR3 canon is a time-honoured tradition in the Danganronpa fandom, and indeed DR3 itself rather fucks with the timeline. I've already kept Natsumi alive into the year 78 join, but now I'm not sure when to kill her off! It's a big deal to Pekoyama as my main character, but I don't really want to rehash that whole thing again and just write that case. Still, I want her to die, and it will affect Peko's mood.
Honestly, DR3's version of the events from Twilight Syndrome Murder Case seen in SDR2 just add all this extra potentially meaningful lore. Combining multiple sources is confusing.
Koizumi knew about the reserve course (her friend from middle school joined!)? What is the situation with friendships between reserve course and main course students? Natsumi was in the photography club with Koizumi? And Sato? Did they go to the same middle school, or was this at Hope's Peak? The reserve course are part of the same clubs as the main course? Natsumi and Fuyuhiko are in the same year? Tsumiki, Koizumi, Saionji, Mioda and Sato walk home together? And lol Hinata witnessed a load of this but isn't included in the game?
Fundamentally, DR3 changes stuff. Mitarai has memories of getting bullied as a kid and photographed by kids with rather modern looking smartphones, which seems rather high-tech and futuristic of them, unless the year this is all set has changed. The Tragedy of HPA has council members killing in the corridor, outside the room with the blood and the chalk outlines! So I'm totally fine to ignore the overly easy happy ending where everyone from 77b looks happy and healthy save for one hand and one eye, and I'll kill Natsumi when I'm ready.
But when is that?
