Danganronpa: Rebound

Danganronpa: Rebound (DR:RB) is a fangan written in plot summaries written by TypicallyCyan. The set theme is atonement vs corruption, more specifically whether morally questionable people can reach atonement, or if they are permanently stuck in a state of corruption. The main idea is redemption.

As of this page being created, all eight chapters, along with the prologue and epilogue, have been finished. In addition to the main storyline, the creator is making bonus content to flesh out some characters, more specifically the underdeveloped ones.

"*16 students have found themselves played by the hands of Monokuma, and therefore stuck in the 81st killing game. Kill someone successfully in order to be granted safety from the killing game. The main question is, will everyone prove themselves to be nice, supportive people who all get along with each other, or... will everyone's desires get the better of them?*" - The official description.

## Notes and Warnings:

***This project contains themes of manipulation, extreme gore and violence, trauma, drinking/alcoholism, substance abuse, and MUCH more. If you don’t like those things or they are triggering for you then don’t read any of the pages related to it.***

## Characters:

### Protagonists:

Ten Sasakawa (Initially the main protagonist)

Junko Funakoshi (Replacement protagonist, introduced in chapter four)

Midori Okuno (Protagonist throughout bonus content)

### Supporting Characters:

Tetsuo Yanagihara (Initial supporting character)

Fujiko Takayanagi (Initially the main supporting character)

Midori Okuno (Supporting character turned antagonist, is a protagonist in bonus content)

Tokuji Hojo (Initially a minor supporting character, becomes a minor antagonist from the end of chapter four to chapter seven)

Ryuzo Saijo (Replacement supporting character, introduced in chapter four)

### Antagonists:

Tokuji Hojo (Initially a minor supporting character, becomes a minor antagonist from the end of chapter four to chapter seven)

Midori Okuno (Supporting character turned antagonist, is a protagonist in some of the bonus content)

### Masterminds:

Yoshiko Shimura (Primary mastermind, introduced in chapter four)

Shigeno Shiba (Secondary mastermind, introduced in chapter four)

### Other Participants

Kino Ogata

Masamitsu Ishikawa

Mieko Urabe

Miharu Takeda

Mitsuru Kawahata

Motoichi Hata

Seikichi Ando (Introduced in chapter four)

Shigeo Murai

Shu Kanzaki

Takahiro Murai (Introduced in chapter four)

Takamitsu Iwaki

Tokumi Kitahara

Yuzuru Noda

### Bonus Characters

Maiko Furuba

Rei Okuno

Himitsu Tachibana

Tsuguo Hojo

Akari Saitozaki

### Minor Characters

Mariko Wakamatsu

Azami Hojo

Naomi Harukawa

Shigeichi Takayanagi

## Plot So Far:

### Prologue:

The player wakes up in Hope's Peak Academy as Ten Sasakawa, the Ultimate Theorist, and meets 15 other people, that are referred to as participants. Their names and talents are Fujiko Takayanagi, the Ultimate Cartographer, Kino Ogata, the Former Ultimate Cheerleader, Masamitsu Ishikawa, the Ultimate Demolitionist, Midori Okuno, the Ultimate Forensic Analyst, Mieko Urabe, the Ultimate Astronomer, Miharu Takeda, the Ultimate Basketball Star, Mitsuru Kawahata, the Ultimate Scriptwriter, Motoichi Hata, the Ultimate Musician, Shigeo Murai, the Ultimate Toxicologist, Shu Kanzaki, the Ultimate Field Hockey Player, Takamitsu Iwaki, the Ultimate Strategist, Tetsuo Yanagihara, the Ultimate Cosmetologist, Tokuji Hojo, the Ultimate Film Director, Tokumi Kitahara, the Ultimate Marine Biologist, and Yuzuru Noda, the Ultimate Linguist. After Ten introduces herself to everyone else, Monokuma appears and kickstarts the killing game. He explains the rules to everyone, and to demonstrate what happens to rulebreakers, he traps Kino in a water tank. After Kino is released from the water tank, the player has two choices. They can either make Ten save Kino on her own, which will toggle the Savior Continuity, or make Ten leave saving Kino to Midori, which will toggle the Survivor Continuity. Then, the Prologue ends.

### Chapter One:

When the events of the Prologue conclude, the player can choose to do Free Time Events to learn about the other participants. But there's a twist. If the player wants to achieve the Hidden Ending, they must do Free Time Events in a certain order throughout the first five chapters. For this chapter, to progress towards the Hidden Ending, the player must start and finish Kino, Yuzuru, and Shu's Free Time Events respectively, by the end of this chapter's Daily Life. Around halfway through the Daily Life, Monokuma releases the motive, which is commands forced onto the participants. If even one person disobeys their command, everyone dies. Eventually, Kino wakes up the player and informs them about something important. Then, both you and Kino find Yuzuru Noda's corpse in the library, along with... one of Shu's hockey sticks. Kino lets out a blood-curdling scream, which attracts Midori and Motoichi's attention. As soon as the two of them walk into the library, the Body Discovery Announcement is triggered, which forces everyone into an investigation. After the investigation, everyone goes to the elevator to prepare for the Class Trial. As the murder weapon belongs to Shu, suspicion initially falls onto him, until Midori comes to his defense, saying that he's not sloppy enough to leave a bloody murder weapon out in the open. Then, everyone retraces their steps and continues debating, until Mieko and Mitsuru point out a story about the culprit telling them about an injury. The player recalls that Kino told them the same story, and comes to the conclusion she is the culprit. When the votes are counted, Kino is the one with the most votes, and the conclusion is correct. All at once, Fujiko, Shigeo, and Miharu all ask why Kino committed murder. She says it was partially because of her command, and partially because of how her bad luck supposedly doesn't trigger at all when causing direct harm to others. However, it is stated this could be a coping mechanism. Then Kino is dragged to her execution, and has to do complex cheerleading routines, until she fails one of them and is decapitated by dozens of arrows bombarding her, which marks the end of the first chapter.

### Chapter Two:

After Kino's execution, everyone, especially Mitsuru, is visibly distraught and doesn't know what to do, but they all hope to work past it, even though they will never forget what happened. If the player is aiming to get the Hidden Ending, they do all their Free Time Events with Mieko, then Takamitsu, and finally Miharu. If not, they do Free Times with whoever else they want to. Then, Monokuma announces the second motive, which is an anonymous survey about how everyone feels about each other. He states that the 3 most popular participants will gain immunity from being murdered, while the 3 least popular participants will be more vulnerable to murders, and everyone in between receives no reward or punishment. The next day, Fujiko suggests in order to get over the motive, she hosts an event for everyone to get to know eachother better later in the week. A day after her event, you have breakfast with her and Tokuji, and then hear a loud crash come from the basement of the academy, which draws your attention to that location. There, you find Takamitsu Iwaki, with bruises and scratches around his dead body, along with a stab wound in his head, and a cut in his throat. As soon as everyone is finished investigating, they start another trial, and try to find the culprit behind the mess made. However, during the trial, the player realizes Takamitsu wasn't just an innocent victim, that he was planning to kill someone ever since the killing game started, and that he stalked them while they did Kino, Yuzuru, Shu, Mieko, and Miharu's Free Time Events. But he didn't just stalk Ten, he stalked ***everyone.*** Fujiko then shows you a map of the basement which helps you find out how the culprit exploited the structure of the room to commit the murder. Then, you recall that you saw two dents in the closet, which indicate struggles from the victim. After that discovery, you notice that there was an accomplice involved in the murder; Tokumi explains to you that the cause of the loud crash was something being thrown at the closet. That's just enough evidence to have you accuse Miharu as the accomplice, but you still haven't found out the culprit. Conveniently, Masamitsu points out that he saw someone take the basement key, and that because Motoichi observed the sounds made by the footsteps of the person who took the basement key, and noticed only Mieko could have made such quiet sounds, you realize that she is the culprit. After the votes are counted, Mieko explains that she overheard Takamitsu plan to kill Miharu, and she couldn't allow that, so she had to protect the one person who took her seriously, and killed Takamitsu. Then, Mieko is executed, dragged into space, and then the Sun to finish everything off. Miharu then has a breakdown, and the chapter ends.

### Chapter Three:

Right after Mieko's execution, Shigeo can be seen comforting Miharu over what happened, and you ask the two of them if everything's okay. (Hidden Ending) They both berate the player for not being able to see the true seriousness of the situation despite knowing Mieko really well. Then, the player leaves their presence, but Shigeo follows them, and apologizes for his outburst. And then they do Motoichi, Shigeo, and Tetsuo's Free Time Events. (Mainline Endings) Shigeo tells the player, "That's what I have been wondering. Miharu won't talk to anybody except me, and even if she does talk to me, it's not more than a minute before she goes away from me again. In addition, she'll barely come out of her room, only leaving if she is forced to leave." Regardless of whatever endings the player is aiming for, after two out of three Free Time Slots are filled, Monokuma announces the third motive, which threatens to leak ***everyone's*** criminal offenses if nobody kills in 48 hours. Around a day and a half after the motive reveal, Miharu Takeda and Shigeo Murai are found dead in the same room. Miharu is drowned in a pool of chlorine, and Shigeo is horribly mutilated, and has film reel wrapped all around his corpse. After a strenuous investigation, the third trial starts, and since there is incriminating evidence against Tokuji, your first instinct is to accuse him. But after he rebuts all your points against him, you no longer think of him as a suspect. Then, you come to the conclusion one victim killed the other, and the true culprit killed the second victim, as "the case wouldn't make sense any other way." Since it says on the Monokuma Files that Shigeo died after Miharu, you can conlude he was the one to kill Miharu, and then the true culprit killed him. When you recall that there was film reel and a hammer in Motoichi's room, you point out that you think he is the culprit, and then he has a breakdown, and pleads with you that he couldn't have done it, that you're making the wrong choice, etcetera. When his pleading doesn't work, he starts to swear at and insult anyone who *dares* to accuse him of being the culprit. After an exhaustingly long trial, he gives up on "stalling for time," and confesses that he's the culprit. Monokuma thinks that's good enough evidence to end the trial, and reveals Motoichi's crime, along with Tokuji and Midori's. This causes mayhem among the remaining participants, with Motoichi and Tokuji getting into an argument, where the former addresses to the latter that he's at least "straight with people", and rarely pretends to be something he's not. Eventually, Monokuma then states that Motoichi's *actual* crime was murdering his ex-girlfriend before the killing game, Himitsu Tachibana, and he is promptly executed as a consequence brought upon by the rules. This marks the end of Chapter Three.

### Chapter Four:

At the start of the chapter, the remaining participants, minus Midori, since they have been isolated for what they did, are scolding Tokuji for his crime, but then he snaps at everyone, and asks why they're not scolding Midori for what they did. Tetsuo explains that Midori isn't trying to make "dumb excuses" for what they did, and are being mature and taking responsibility. This argument is interrupted by Monokuma announcing new participants, and their names are Takahiro Murai, Ryuzo Saijo, Seikichi Ando, Yoshiko Shimura, Shigeno Shiba, and Junko Funakoshi. (Hidden Ending) Despite the messed up information revealed in the previous trial, you decide to do Free Time Events with Tokumi, Tokuji, and Masamitsu. (Mainline Endings) The player decides to do Free Time Events with someone who "isn't so bad compared to everyone else." Then, Monokuma announces the motive, which involves everyone partnering up with two other people. After what feels like forever, Shu Kanzaki is found in a boiling water trap, dead in front of everyone. When the trial starts up, nobody has any evidence, yet. Then, Yoshiko informs you that the culprit set up a boiling water trap involving explosives, and that theory is unanimously correct. When you explain how the killer did it, at the same exact time, Tokumi and Masamitsu confess to being the culprit, and it is up to you to find out who is telling the truth. Eventually, Takahiro concludes the case, and points out the evidence needed to pinpoint Tokumi as the culprit. During the post-trial, Tokumi confesses she killed Shu in hopes of escaping with Masamitsu and Tetsuo. Initially, Tetsuo is upset, but then he comes to Tokumi's defense, saying what they did outside of the killing game was the least the three of them could do for money. After that incident, Tokuji points out that everything Tokumi told others about herself, such as her name and talent, is a lie, as her real name is Nobuko, and she's the Ultimate Identity Thief, and that he hates everyone still remaining. As soon as Monokuma plans an execution for Nobuko, Tokuji aims a gun to her head, but Nobuko takes it from him, and does something devastating. This wraps up the fourth chapter.

### Chapter Five:

Concluding the events of the previous trial, Tokuji isolates himself from everybody, and he says this during his final interaction with the cast, "After the events of the last trial, I don't see the point in interacting with people, no... inferior harlots like... you all; so I have made the choice to isolate myself from everybody unless the situation is urgent. Do not participate in useless idle chatter with me, do not interact with me *at all* if I don't say otherwise. I don't need to get murdered by a mentally stunted parasite with the same "just forgive and forget" mindset as everyone else!" (Hidden Ending) To finish the step in the Hidden Ending that involves Free Time Events, you do Fujiko, Midori, and Mitsuru's Free Time Events. (Mainline Ending) you do Free Time Events with whoever you want to, with the exception of Tokuji, since he physically won't allow you to do Free Time Events with him from this point onward. As soon as you fill up all the Free Time Slots, Monokuma attempts to announce the fifth motive, but then things start to slowly break down, and everyone starts losing their memories, which is the motive of this chapter. The motive will stop if two criteria are reached. The first criteria is that someone must commit a murder, and if there is more than one murder, the motive will only finish when all bodies are discovered; and the second criteria is when everyone loses all of their memories, and as a result, Monokuma, along with the whole place everyone is trapped in, breaks down completely. During this chapter, Junko receives a day in the limelight, but it doesn't really mean anything good happened. Soon, everyone finds Ten Sasakawa dead and electrocuted in the Supply Closet, and Ryuzo, Fujiko, Yoshiko, and Shigeno find Takahiro Murai dead and decapitated in the same area, with their head on the floor, his body restrained by strings, and gardening shears next to his head. When the Monokuma File is given to everyone, it states Takahiro died first, and Ten died after him. After a tiring investigation, you start the trial, and after finding out the murder weapon is a sword, you move onto alibis. Mitsuru then becomes a suspect, because she had a suspicious alibi. Well it turns out that suspicious or not, her alibi is the turning point in the trial that reveals Tetsuo Yanagihara to have killed Takahiro Murai. She is immediately executed in front of everyone, and after his execution, it is revealed the trial isn't over yet, as the participants have to find out who killed Ten. Seikichi mentions that Fujiko is suspicious, since she knew about the trap, and stayed back. She gets defensive, and mentions seeing Midori's handbook being in the Science Lab after the murder. After half an hour, it is determined Fujiko Takayanagi killed Ten Sasakawa. But this conclusion is... incorrect. However, Monokuma isn't just executing everybody, but is instead only executing Fujiko, as she had the most votes. When she is executed, the participants move onto what they hope is the final part of the trial, and after exchanging alibis, theories, and suspicions, Ryuzo asks for everyone's handwriting out of the blue, as he saw a note with strange handwriting. Eventually, he and Masamitsu point out that Midori is the true culprit behind Ten's murder, and the trial *promptly* comes to a close, for real this time; Midori reveals their true colors, and Monokuma asks everyone to leave, since he needs to come up with a motive.

### Chapter Six:

Monokuma announces the next motive to everyone as soon as they all wake up. He tells everyone if someone kills the second mastermind, they get 10 million dollars, private information about the game and all the participants, and a free exit from the killing school trip. The motive does not apply to Midori, because they got away with murder, and are basically "free" from the game. Around midnight, when you're looking for others, you find Seikichi Ando, the Manga Artist, dead in his bed, with a bottle of poison next to him, and his face buried in a manga. There seem to be a lot of papercuts there. In addition, you see Shigeno Shiba's door opened slightly. After discovering Ando's corpse, you go into the basement, and see Masamitsu and Midori, along with a gun next to each of them. At first glance, you think they're both dead. But after you check both of their pulses, you notice Midori is still breathing. Therefore you come to the conclusion Midori killed Masamitsu. In addition, you find Tokuji in one of the infirmary's hospital beds, albeit knocked out with 3 stab wounds. During this time period, you convince Monokuma to let Tokuji stay absent for the entire trial, but he can come back before the execution. During the trial, you take a look at the papercuts. They seem unnatural, almost as if the culprit forced them there. Your evidence doesn't help much, but it throws two people out of suspicion. Next, remembering the bolt cutters, you know the culprit is someone who is short, and can't reach the wires in order to hijack the lights and seize poison from the infirmary. At that point, you remember Mitsuru and Ryuzo are the shortest ones in the class, leaving them under the most suspicion. You ask both of them for their alibis, and Ryuzo says he was carrying Tokuji to the infirmary, which means it has to be Mitsuru who killed Seikichi. In addition, you and Ryuzo saw her pacing around. She tells you, "It was because my conscience caught up to me. You win." After the trial ends, Tokuji comes into the trial room, and asks what everyone supposedly won. Mitsuru tells him they won the trial, and he goes on a long tirade about how she had no rights to murder Seikichi, even if he could have been the other mastermind. As soon as he finishes yelling, Monokuma begins the execution. When Mitsuru is found dead, bleeding out and missing her head, everyone is immediately horrified, and they go back to their rooms.

### Chapter Seven:

(Hidden Ending) You wake up to a numberpad replacing the doorknob of your room's door, along with some instructions that say, "FOCUS," "You don't have much time," and, "Can you remember?" You also find a note that says, "1=A, 2=B, 3=C, 4=D, 5=E, 6=F, 7=G, 8=H, 9=I, 10=J, 11=K, 12=L, 13=M, 14=N, 15=O, 16=P, 17=Q, 18=R, 19=S, 20=T, 21=U, 22=V, 23=W, 24=X, 25=Y, 26=Z." If you type 11-9-14-15, 25-21-26-21-18-21, and 19-8-21 in the first pad, you can go onto the second one. If you type 13-9-5-11-15, 20-1-11-1-13-9-20-19-21, and 13-9-8-1-18-21 into the second pad, you are free to advance onto the third one. If you type 13-15-20-15-9-3-8-9, 19-8-9-7-5-15, and 20-5-20-19-21-15 into the third pad, you can go to the fourth one. However, the fourth pad has two solutions; the first solution is 20-15-11-21-13-9, 20-15-11-21-10-9, and 13-1-19-1-13-9-20-19-21, while the second one is 14-15-2-21-11-15, 20-15-11-21-10-9, and 13-1-19-1-13-9-20-19-21. Either of those solutions will allow you to advance onto the fifth and final pad. If you got all the previous codes correct, and type 6-21-10-9-11-15, 13-9-4-15-18-9, and 13-9-20-19-21-18-21 into the final pad, granted that you did this quick enough, you will get a special achievement in Chapter Eight. Immediately after you finish the puzzle, you will meet up with everyone else, expecting a motive, but receiving no news. Finally, you all decide to go to the administrator's office, and find Monokuma dismantled in a chair. Since you've determined none of the students are the killer, you declare Monokuma accidentally killed himself. While he was trying to give the announcement, he pressed the self-destruct button, and got dismantled in his chair. There is no execution. Meanwhile, a fight breaks out between Tokuji and Midori, which ends when Midori slices Tokuji in half. The chapter ends there. (Mainline Ending) You will meet up with everyone else, expecting a motive, but receiving no news. Finally, you all decide to go to the administrator's office, and find Monokuma dismantled in a chair. Since you've determined none of the students are the killer, you declare Monokuma accidentally killed himself. While he was trying to give the announcement, he pressed the self-destruct button, and got dismantled in his chair. There is no execution. Meanwhile, a fight breaks out between Tokuji and Midori, which ends when Midori slices Tokuji in half. The chapter ends there.

### Chapter Eight:

There is no Daily Life, and no investigation, instead, the protagonist is given Truth Bullets from all the previous investigations that were irrelevant to the cases themselves and hops right into a class trial with the remaining students. After a lot of bickering and arguing back and forth for a while about who the mastermind is, everyone comes to the final and ultimate conclusion that the mastermind is Yoshiko Shimura, the Gameshow Host. However, she's not the only mastermind, as Shigeno Shiba, the Illusionist, is working for him. Yoshiko explains their motivations, and how far they'd be willing to go to let everyone die. After the trial and reveal, as Yoshiko is about to execute everybody, an alarm goes off, saying the "school" will blow up in 30 minutes. In the meantime, Shigeno tries to tell everyone something they know as quick as possible. They start off with the academy actually being a pyramid, and the corpses are stored on the bottom floor after a certain amount of time. However, the rest is free for the students who are alive to use. Yoshiko gives the remaining cast 15 minutes to escape, before they are buried and crushed under the rubble. Everyone escapes within the nick of time, and they have to go undercover, or else the police will find them and arrest them.