DISTRUST

by xGlowingGreenEyesx

Hope's Peak Academy's new batch of students are sent to a different location to carry out their academy lives while the iconic building is being 'remodeled'. Stuck in a just as lavish different academy, our students learn that everything won't go like it was advertised in the acceptance letter. (More Inside!)

1. Explanations

Hello! c: And welcome to the off-shoot of Hope's Peak Academy! Let me explain some things so that you won't be confused while reading the story.

• No prior knowledge of DanganRonpa is needed to read this fanfiction! c: I will try my best to make everything fluid for newcomers. Just know that, if you are new to this, some things can't and won't make sense at first, but they will eventually!

• This is an AU of DanganRonpa. While the original characters do indeed exist, you will not be seeing them anywhere. (They might be mentioned at times.)

• The construction of Hope's Peak Academy is different from the games! Please keep this in mind.

• There is an Ultimate Despair hiding among this group, and they are the Mastermind pulling the strings here. They worked under Junko, as did the rest of the Ultimate Despairs, during the horrible, most awful, most tragic event in human history. (Yeah, that thing.)

• 'Graduation' will work a bit differently than the original DanganRonpa games. Instead of the normal 'if the murderer wins, everyone else dies', it'll work in this way:

If the killer wins and is not voted as the blackened during the majority vote, they will be given a choice. They may leave, or they may stay with the group. If they choose to leave, they can exit the academy free and clear, but if they choose to stay, their win will be depleted. Basically, if they change their mind and want to leave later, they'll have to kill someone and win again. If the killer wins, no one is executed. If the killer loses, the killer is executed.