Preface
Okay this is it everyone! The cast is finally being announced, this is all finalized! I'll just get to the reviews and then the chapter and then we'll talk more about it in the chapter notes!
PKRS: Don't worry about having to like Kimori and Mideoreon… They're meant to be likable! You'll find out more about them soon enough, I'm actually really excited for what they're around for. Honestly the twist that they're around for is something you've probably seen before, but that doesn't mean that I'm not excited about it! Thank you for the review!
Crimson Spider Lily: God, thank you for always having such in depth reviews because it's fun to reply to and interesting to read. Those are all really interesting thoughts! I'm glad someone picked up on all of the language that I used, it'll all become clear by the end of the prologue or well not *all* of it because that would make for a shitty mystery, but at least some of your questions are going to be answered!
Either way I'm glad that you already like the two of them and we'll get to see more of them soon actually!
Thinking back on all that's happened, it's sad that the world has come to this. After all of those killing games, we're all a little broken inside I think.
Hope.
Despair.
An endless cycle between the two, a cosmic struggle… It doesn't make any sense, does it?
Who on Earth or anywhere else would choose despair? Why was hope being put under such scrutiny? Yet, we keep going through it all. Not only that, we choose to prolong it ourselves. Everyone is complacent in it, those of us who fight for hope, those of us who are complacent in that Enoshima's despair… We're all a part of it.
Our autonomy is being swept to the wayside. All of us are just bystanders to these parades of death.
?: This is going to be our way of putting a stop to it.
This… This whole plan. This whole story is about putting an end to that. It's about dissuading people from such an elaborate, desperate attempt to contribute to all of that. All of that bullshit.
From this point forward we were only looking for one thing.
It's the future.
It's reality.
It's what we're going to return to the world.
We need this to succeed so that everything can become reasonable again, so that everyone can be… Well. So that everyone can be whole again I suppose. No more bitter pills of sacrifice to swallow. No more making people just for the sake of seeing those people die.
?: It's… It's, ultimately, the right thing to do isn't it?
?: That's what I've come to firmly believe at least.
Not one person deserves to live in a world like this. We all deserve better. Yet we've convinced ourselves that this is just how the world is. Is that really fair?
Is this what we're going to allow the world to be?
Do we really want this of all things?
?: No. I don't think that this is what humanity wants.
Cruelty isn't an innate part of human nature and yet so many have come to believe it is.
We aren't cruel and yet that's what we've been taught. We're complacent in that and we're complacent in the cruelty that exists in this world, but the funny thing is that we can all imagine better.
All of us can see a world full of happiness.
All of us can see a world where people are finally kind again.
All of us can see these worlds where people are people again, but I think that we've forgotten how to be in this one.
With things the way they are right now. I'll be the one to change the state of all of this, even though I won't be the one directly involved and I'll only be watching from the sidelines… This plan that I've set in motion will be what defines the moments that come thereafter.
They won't even see this coming. Those whose noses I am right beneath. The people who made this happen to the world that we're living in. I'll show them why it was wrong to allow this to happen to those born into this world.
I can't be complacent in just standing by quietly; someone needs to set the wheels of change in motion and…
?: It seems that would be me.
I look forward onto what the world has in store for me, and I take it in before taking my first step into all of it.
ROSTER
#1 - Kanako Hayashi [Writer's Block Abundance] - Ultimate [REDACTED]
#2 - Ichibei Onoe [Psionicstorm99] - Ultimate Trading Card Collector
#3 - Chio Togami [supernovaatsea] - Ultimate Curator
#4 - Takeru Gan [8bitfey] - Ultimate Graffiti Artist
#5 - Hiroshi "Hiro" Maide [Giangleo] - Ultimate Choreographer
#6 - Sachi Enatsu [Agrael] - Ultimate Janitor
#7 - Kuro Izaya [FenMoon] - Ultimate Villain
#8 - Isami Dotsuto [OfficialBengy] - Ultimate Film Director
#9 - Ritsu Osuda [eatsleepandreadrepeat] - Ultimate Butcher
#10 - Hayato Kanemoto [gNat2] - Ultimate Hunter
#11 - Asumi Kurosawa [alcamoth] - Ultimate Soprano
#12 - Momosuke Fukushima [wiseowl99] - Ultimate Skateboarder
#13 - Tomeo Katsura [gayishimaru] - Ultimate Vigilante
#14 - Haruki Hayashi [Sendokai Zak] - Ultimate Ballerina
#15 - Natsuo Kiseki [mukkou] - Ultimate Handyman
#16 - Vihn Yumeji [PKRS] - Ultimate Sleeper
?: Let's get started.
CHAPTER 0
A SET-UP, A DOWNFALL
END
Chapter Notes
10 - 03 - 2018
There we go! I'm really happy with how everything turned out and I'm so glad that I was able to update weekly! We are out of that period of cryptic stuff too, next chapter will be… Well, it'll be in two weeks and it won't be the prologue quite yet actually.
In two weeks on 24th of March I'm going to release Report Cards for all of these kids.
For some of you as a disclaimer I may have slightly changed some of their names, but it's because I looked up their names and they weren't actual names. I'm trying to find kanji for everyone which'll be revealed at the time!
Anyway, thank you all so much for keeping up with the story and sending in all of these submissions! I have a grand total of 31 submissions and I really appreciate it! Soon enough we'll actually be into all of this even if it takes a while and I'll be trying to keep everything up with content.
It may take a while to get everything out, but I'm excited to finally be able to do one of these
Honestly it's always kind of been a goal of mine to finish an SYOC and now we're one step closer, I have a whole lot planned that I'm so excited to share with all of you. I'm going to use this to practice writing further and work on developing the habits that I need to get things done elsewhere so wish me luck!
Thanks again for reading, leave a review if you can and I'll see y'all in two weeks time!
