Danganronpa: Suspiria
Disclaimer:
Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche
Suspiria is owned by Dario Argento and Seda Spettacoli
Hello, and welcome to my fourth Danganronpa fanfic. While "Survival In The City" was quite successful and both "Enoshima's Erotic Escapades" and "The Luckster and the Detective" are currently ongoing, I decided to try another fic since this series is quite one of my favorites and after re-watching the anime several times on my USB, it started to give me inspiration to try out another fic while awaiting the anime version of Danganronpa 2, which I hope it would be aired soon.
Okay, while my current and past Danganronpa fics are centered between events set before (Enoshima's Erotic Escapades, The Luckster and the Detective) and after (Survival in the City) the events of the anime, I decided to try another spin-off, and this is where things get a bit...interesting as I am going to try this story-making fic a different approach, something that most Danganronpa fans have not seen this before.
Last month I was surfing youtube and accidentally came across a movie that starred Jennifer Connelly which is titled "Phenomena", and after watching it, I was quite impressed with the story and decided to do some research, which led me to head for wikipedia, and there I got to learn about the director, who is hailed from Italy - Dario Argento. Having seen the list of films he directed, I was somewhat attracted by curiosity when I saw a trilogy of films that was listed, which are:
- Suspiria
- Inferno
- The Mother of Tears
It was then that I decided to check out the first installment, and though I did watch it, I was rather taken aback at the gory scenes yet I managed to held on and finished it. While quite an experience for me since I was used to watching gory scenes on Animal Kingdom (a cable channel), it nevertheless intrigued me and and this inspired me to come up with a new Danganronpa fic and see if this would attract viewers and readers who wanted to see interesting and new.
Another inspiration for coming up with this fic was another Danganronpa spin-off novel, titled "Danganronpa Kirigiri", and though I only got the summary, it was also another trigger for making me come up with this fic.
For the first time, this fic will take a supernatural-theme and a bit of adventure and suspense as the main character of this fic, Kyoko Kirigiri, will be the star here as she is set to go into different territory and will put her skills, and survival, to the test as she gets to solve the mystery of the situation she is in, and how she would survive the threat that is placed upon her. I hope that this fic would live up to your expectations as I wanted to give you something different from the ones I made.
Since this fic focuses on Kirigiri, this fic is set a three years before the start of the anime, hence other characters, such as Naegi, won't appear here.
Lastly, since this is a new and different approach from the ones I made, this will be my first T-rated Danganronpa fic, and though violence and a bit of gore would be prevalent here, I don't think this would warrant an M-rating since there won't be any love scenes here.
Well, that's the summary I can tell you right now, but you'll soon see where this would lead to, so here is the opening chapter, so read and enjoy!
Ch. 1: Joshou - San Mazāzu no Taitō
The Black Sea.
A sea in Southeastern Europe it is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean Seas and various straits. The Bosphorus Strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the Strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean Sea region of the Mediterranean. These waters separate eastern Europe and western Asia. The Black Sea is also connected to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch.
The Black Sea is connected to the World Ocean by a chain of two shallow straits, the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus. The Dardanelles is 55 m (180 ft) deep and the Bosphorus is as shallow as 36 m (118 ft). By comparison, at the height of the last ice age, sea levels were more than 100 m (330 ft) lower than they are now.
There is also evidence that water levels in the Black Sea were considerably lower at some point during the post-glacial period. Thus, for example, archaeologists found fresh-water snail shells and man-made structures in roughly 100 m (330 ft) of water off the Black Sea coast of modern Turkey. Therefore it is agreed that the Black Sea had been a landlocked freshwater lake (at least in upper layers) during the last glaciation and for some time after.
In the aftermath of the last glacial period, water levels in the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea rose independently until they were high enough to exchange water. The exact timeline of this development is still subject to debate. One possibility is that the Black Sea filled first, with excess fresh water flowing over the Bosphorus sill and eventually into the Mediterranean Sea. There are also catastrophic scenarios, such as the "Black Sea deluge theory".
The Black Sea was a busy waterway on the crossroads of the ancient world: the Balkans to the west, the Eurasian steppes to the north, Caucasus and Central Asia to the east, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia to the south, and Greece to the south-west.
The oldest processed gold in the world, arguably left by Old Europeans, was found in Varna, and the Black Sea was supposedly sailed by the Argonauts. The land at the eastern end of the Black Sea, Colchis, marked for the Greeks the edge of the known world.
The steppes to the north of the Black Sea have been suggested as the original homeland (Urheimat) of the speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language, (PIE) the progenitor of the Indo-European language family, by some scholars such as Marija Gimbutas; others move the heartland further east towards the Caspian Sea, yet others to Anatolia. Numerous ancient ports, some older than the Egyptian pyramids, line the Black Sea's coasts.
The Black Sea became an Ottoman Navy lake within five years of Genoa losing the Crimea in 1479, after which the only Western merchant vessels to sail its waters were those of Venice's old rival Ragusa. This restriction was gradually changed by the Russian Navy from 1783 until the relaxation of export controls in 1789 because of the French Revolution.
The Black Sea was a significant naval theatre of World War I and saw both naval and land battles during World War II.
The scene begins at the dawn of the 11th century, when three sisters, possibly of Greek descent, began a ritual that resulted in which they created the pernicious art of witchcraft on the coast of the Black Sea. In the years that followed, they wandered the world and amassed great personal wealth and power, leaving only death in their wake.
In the years, and centuries that followed, the trio, who are now collectively known as the Three Mothers, decided to spread their terror by living in several countries, amassing wealth and power so as that they can move freely without giving themselves away. Throughout the centuries the Three Mothers did everything they pleased, in a malevolent way, and upon the dawn of the 19th century, they looked forward to spread their evil, while adjusting to that era after centuries of living unabashed.
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The 19th Century
In the late 19th century the three women got together again and commissioned E. Varelli, an Italian architect based in London, to design and construct three stately buildings in three separate countries of their choosing. From these enchanted, bastion-like homes the Three Mothers "rule the world". According to Varelli's memoirs, entitled The Three Mothers by an anonymous colleague, the architect learned too late of the women's evil nature. The residences he designed will become so corrupted that eventually the land they were built on will become pestilential.
The scene then shifts to Germany, where one of the Three Mothers settled in, and is enjoying her power and wealth, while at the same time founded a coven to have servants serve her. This woman of the trio is identified as Mater Suspiriorum, aka the Mother of Sighs, is the oldest and wisest of the Three Mothers. Her given name (or perhaps an alias) is Helena Markos. She was also known as The Black Queen.
Markos, a Greek émigré, was exiled from many European countries and had written several books on a variety of arcane subjects. In 1895 she founded the Tanz Akademie ("Dance Academy" in German), a school for dance and the occult sciences, in the Black Forest outside Freiburg, Germany. The locals feared her, having intuited that she was a witch. As Markos' wealth grew so did suspicions about her true nature. To avert this unwanted scrutiny, she faked her own death in a fire in 1905. Control of the academy, in which became solely a ballet school, was said to have gone to Markos' prize pupil. In reality, this was Markos herself. (The Akademie bears a plaque stating that Desiderius Erasmus once lived there.)
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1940's
Markos used her power to cause influence in Germany's citizens, and its then-military, particularly, Adolf Hitler, to "go into arms" and seek power, which in turn caused a formation of the "Axis Power" which nearby and other countries, such as Hungary, Italy, and Japan, accepted the invitation and joined the alliance. This in turn spawned what is historically known as World War I and World War II, which lasted for several years, and this resulted in the death of many lives, innocent and the guilty ones.
However, Markos' influence, for some reasons, waned and World War II ended in the mid-1940's as Germany eventually loses its influence and their invasion which led to Hitler committing suicide, and the United States of Americ dropped what was historically known as the "atomic bomb", over Hiroshima, Japan, and that led to Japan's surrender, and peace was slowly restored in the world.
Despite this, the Three Mothers continued to live in secrecy and still influenced their surroundings with their evil aura, amassing wealth and power while keeping a low profile and continued to gain followers and acquired sacrifices for their coven.
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The present time
The scene shifts in Tokyo, Japan, and there it is shown that a family is assembled in a house where several family members are there, including a man and a young girl, who have some identical features, such as purple hair and eyes, and the two appeared to be close, in which they are revealed to be a father and daughter. They are identified as Jin Kirigiri, and his daughter as Kyoko, who is aged 14. It is then shown that the Kirigiri family are a family of famous detectives and unlike other girls her age, Kirigiri is very active and has already learned the ropes of being a detective at a very young age, which foreshadows her status in eventually becoming a student at Hope's Peak Academy (which she would enroll in three years from now).
At a family gathering, Jin is leading the dinner when Kyoko came to him and surprised her with something he did not even expect to see what she had just shown him, much to the surprise of the other Kirigiri family members.
"Dad..."
"Hello, Kyoko...you seemed to be in high spirits..."
"Yes...and not only do I get high marks in school...but I seemed to get some..."luck"..."
""Luck"? Really...?"
"Yes...I won a lottery..."
"Really...? What's the prize that you won?"
"A week's trip to Germany...and a free ballet lesson..."
"Seriously?"
Jin was surprised to see that Kyoko had won a lottery which gives her a one-week vacation and invitation to a prestigious ballet school in Germany, in which Kyoko appeared eager to go there though Jin was somewhat reluctant since his daughter is underage, and seemed to be unwilling to let her go on her own, but she insisted and assured that she will be alright, stating that this is part of being a detective - surviving on her own and she might learn some new experiences while at on her own.
"Are you serious about this?"
"Yes, dad...please give me your permission..."
"But...by yourself..."
"I'll be fine."
"Still, I..."
"I can take care of myself...and besides...this is a good learning experience for me..."
"By taking ballet lessons...?"
"As well as using my detective skills...it's also part of surviving on my own..."
Seeing that it was vacation time for his daughter, Jin reluctantly accepted her wishes as Kyoko thanked her dad as she prepared her clothes, while preparing to have her passport ready while Jin uses his "resources" to secure an itinerary for his daughter so that immigration officials will not question her intention to go overseas alone.
To Be Continued…
Hope you liked this opening chapter of this fic, though it focused mostly on the villains of this fic, how they started and their activities throughout their lives before arriving on the present time. Though it is justified as it showed what activities the villains did before "settling in", and now Kyoko Kirigiri appears along with her dad, though briefly as this serves as a precursor on her eventual confrontation with the villains.
This also shows that her skills as a detective would come in handy the moment she steps in to the villains of this fic's territory and this will show how and why she appeared calm and collected in the game and anime of Danganronpa.
Preview:
The next chapter will show Kirigiri leaving Japan and arrive at Germany, where she will try to settle in during her stay there, and gets some clues as she starts to suspect that the place she is about to board is not what she expected...