I'm shivering in anticipation… He's coming!
Hope's Peak's academy's greatest achievement, Junko-sama's most devoted follower… he's coming to visit me, a lowly pickpocket!
But someone like Kamukura-san wouldn't come to visit just anyone, no. I created all this for him, just like he set fire to the world for her. A killing game, to match the one the Ultimate Despair herself set up in the very academy that welcomed us all.
I made it special, though. Kamukura-san wouldn't accept just another pale imitation. He would need to see that it's interesting, that it can only ever bring undeniable despair…
I'm the Ultimate Pickpocket – other people are geniuses of creation, destruction and subterfuge, while the one thing I excel at is the illicit acquiring of information. I was passing by through one of the safe zones when a particular pocket caught my eye – the pocket of a member of the Future Foundation.
Funny thing, that. An organization devoted to undoing the despair Junko-sama had brought to the world… they even picked up those bastards that survived the Killing Game. A blight upon the world that was a blight in itself… an ultimately pointless banding of men.
So a plan came together. One pocket always leads to another, and a man's pocket hides just enough secrets… Secrets that, when put to use, bring people together. They brought them to Skypoint.
It was a lovely idea – a place to rival Hope's Peak, the competition, as they'd say. They would raise their students into the sky just like their gifts would raise humanity itself closer to the heavens. Wishful thinking, all of it, and the Tragedy struck before it ever opened to the populace.
Skypoint academy, a school atop a tower, windows spread all around it so that the city below could always look up and see the bright, shining hope of the future… A great tomb for the promising talents that volunteered themselves to the Future Foundation.
The elevator doors open, and he looks at me. He looks at me. Kamukura-san looks at me like I'm worthy of his eyes, and he walks into the beautiful trap I constructed. It's all too real, and I'm almost struck speechless:
"It's… It's finished. I wanted you to s-see it, I thought it'd… interest you."
"The construction is immaculate, built better than Hope's Peak…" he drawled, walking up to one of the tower windows, "this is a place for a killing game."
"Yes!" I agreed, careful not to smile.
"Come."
So I did, walking up to the window, watching with hidden glee as he effortlessly finds the concealed button, forcing the glass aside.
The strong wind whips us both, and I can't help but admire the way his hair flows… the day he cuts it is the day I die…
"You created a perfect killing game. You've somehow acquired the Monokuma AI, and have produced enough bodies to pull it off… you've even lured in members of the Future Foundation, coming here from across the globe as we speak, not one of them aware of the others."
"I had to do my part… I wasn't with you during the tragedy, so I…"
"You did well," he spoke, just the slightest of glints in his eye.
I felt a strong shove, the ground giving way under my feet. I turn, looking at the already fading figure of Izuru Kamukura, and I realize what I've done wrong.
I made him feel glad about something – I've insulted him, and everything he believes in.
The river is where I'll land, and its shore is where my body will wash up, broken into chunks by the impact of the fall. Just another corpse in a world with so many of them.
Doesn't matter.
The Killing Game of Skypoint Academy has already begun.
Yet another SYOC… this time, atop a tower!
An important gimmick is the fact that an OC has to be a member of the Future Foundation, and thus dedicated to healing the world from the effects of the worldwide despair.
A lot of fun applications came in! I'll credit the contributors of the characters at the end of their run with the story, when they inevitably meet a grisly fate.
We've got:
-The Ultimate Freerunner (& Protagonist), Ellie Doerner
-The Ultimate Pirate, Ulrick Milliner
-The Ultimate DJ, Matt Lucas
-The Ultimate Butler, Dylan Miles
-The Ultimate Roboticist, Boris Petrov
-The Ultimate Stuntman, Amand Bretz
-The Ultimate Boxer, Asami Katozumi
-The Ultimate Ghost Hunter, Evelyn Shmidt
-The Ultimate Falconer, Liam Wright
-The Ultimate Vigilante, Kenji Mai
-The Ultimate Commander, Farran White
-The Ultimate F-1 Racer, Lucille DuCarde
-The Ultimate Illusionist, Seina Arakasawa
-The Ultimate Criminologist, Solvia Corraine
-The Ultimate Cosplayer, Christine Riese
-The Ultimate Caligrapher, Hoshika Yoshinaga
That's everyone! Thanks for sending 'em over!