Ok since this little plot bunny just won't leave my head, I'm putting it out as a new writing challenge. Here are the basics: this is an AU of the whole Danganronpa series minus 3 and anything else that isn't the games but here's the twist; all the canon victims get brought back to life through the power of science and the supernatural. Let me explain: in Danganronpa Trigger Happy Havoc, Chihiro (with the unknowing help of a pre-despair Kazuichi) would make robotic duplicates of everyone including himself that after they died, their soul would go into the robot and they would continue on like normal-ish as would the game. Next in 2: Goodbye Despair, in this version of the virtual world, in order to prevent coma upon murder, a secret program was put into the code to transfer all the victim's data into a robot body ala Nekomaru becoming Mechamaru. This is how the Neo World Program would prevent the 11 victims of the School Trip of Mutual Killing from becoming vegetative deadweights. Finally for Killing Harmony, after Kirumi's execution, Angie would realize just how dangerous it is starting to become in the Academy so she goes about creating wax sculptures of everyone (and not just Kaede, Rantaro, Ryoma, and Kirumi) believing that after death, Atua would transfer their souls into the wax figurine. She would only be half right though as what actually happens is Monokuma transferring their souls into a robotic endoskeleton that he puts inside the wax figurine without her knowledge (and no that is not weird at all. This is Danganronpa after all). However, because of the nature of the wax sculptures, none of the dead victims are capable of communicating without writing it down or when it's class trial time and they use the special text to speech program that Monokuma lets them use because in the fast paced class trials, writing everything down would take too long. Now I know what you're thinking: How can there be a class trial if the victim will still technically be alive? But here's where it gets tricky and interesting: they still have to go through the class trial to find the murderer because Monokuma threatens to destroy their bodies and thus killing them for good if they so much as make a peep about who their killer was so it will still be unknown to everyone but the victim and Monokuma himself (minus the 5th trial in Killing Harmony because Kokichi will hide himself at very specific angles making sure no one can see him so that his plan can still work). Also to keep things very interesting, in all 3 games, the robot part won't be brought in until Chapter 3 of every game (how would that work? Well since Chihiro is the Ultimate Programmer, I figure it would take him like 10 minutes tops to make the robot and then program it to lose all its AI once the spirit possesses it, the Neo World Program would be near instantaneous, and Angie doesn't make the wax figures until Chapter 3 and being the Ultimate Artist probably means making wax figures for everyone is a piece of cale for her). Once again the only credit you have to give me is the idea for the challenge being mine. Everything else, go ahead and take the credit so long as you adhere to the rules stated here.
