Trabia Garden

Seeing Monoursa every time I come to the front page of my journal is starting to make me feel very uncomfortable, and so I am compelled to push it down with an entry. Unfortunately, this entry contains equally horrible speculation on what might happen in chapter four of Dangan Ronpa. But, you know, at least it's under a cut!

Spoilers up to yesterday's update of the Let's Play, update 72.


( Dangan Ronpa: it's essentially baseless prediction time! )


I've been worrying, inevitably, about how I would cope in Dangan Ronpa. Well, 'badly', of course, but more specifically than that. I say 'worrying' rather than 'wondering' because I actually find myself getting quite anxious about my inability to come up with a good plan for this scenario. Riona, you are highly unlikely to be locked in a school by a sadistic teddy bear that wants you to murder your peers. All else aside, why would Hope's Peak Academy select you? You're not a high-school student. Even if you were, what would your title be: Super High-school Level Ill-advised Pokémon Crossover Writer?

My first thought was that I'd probably just squirrel away as much food as I could and lock myself in my room. On further consideration, though, survival is about more than just not being murdered: it's also about being able to catch the killer when murders are committed. If the other captives don't know what you're like, if as far as they know you haven't formed any attachments to anyone else, you'll look suspicious. If they conclude that you're the murderer when you're not, everyone dies.

So I suppose the thing to do is to stay, as far as possible, in the company of at least two people you're reasonably confident won't try to kill you. I think Asahina and Chihiro are the ones I'd be quickest to trust. Anyone who wanted to murder you would have two options: kill you in so subtle a way that your companions wouldn't realise who did it, or kill all three of you. All of you become very inconvenient to target. (The 'at least two', of course, is in case you've misjudged one of your companions.)

I am definitely thinking too much about this.


I was just poking through my bookmarks, seeing whether I had anything to add to this entry for people who haven't yet fallen into the fabulous pit of despair that is Dangan Ronpa, and discovered that at some point I felt the need to bookmark a video in which the little round sheep of Final Fantasy XIII sit around and occasionally go 'baa'. The video is HD and thirty-five minutes long. All right, then.

I don't think the sheep video is really entry material. Sorry, people who aren't reading Dangan Ronpa: I've failed you.

Thank you so much for your comments on andtimetravel! I am incredibly glad the people who've reviewed seem to like it, as there are many thousands of words to come, and we feared a story about Derren Brown and the Doctor in the world of Pokémon would have a prospective audience of about two. (Future instalments will be set elsewhere; we haven't just written tens of thousands of words about Derren and the Doctor in the world of Pokémon. Although perhaps we should.)

moogle62 has now departed, and I was left feeling rather morose as I returned home from the train station. This house was much nicer when it had a Moog in it. However, she has said she will attempt to write fanfiction for me, which would certainly ease the pain of Mooglessness a little. (For my part, I may have promised to write some Derren hurt/comfort, as penance for going OBVIOUSLY THIS IS THE WAY AND THE MAP IS WRONG and thus ruining our watching-a-play plans like an idiot. A tip for all: if we are trying to find a place within a strict time limit and I start trying to lead the way, punch me in the face. I have absolutely no idea of how to go about this hurt/comfort-writing thing, but I must try!)

HERE IS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION: were Pokémon to exist in the world of Merlin, would Uther forbid the ownership of Pokémon in general or only of Psychic Pokémon? And what Pokémon would the characters have?

Working theories:

- Uther, assuming that he does not hate all Pokémon, has an Arcanine. I imagine he would enjoy owning an enormous fiery dog. Also, it is loyal, which he would like.
- moogle62 suggests that something unbearably cute, like a Horsea or an Igglybuff, would attach itself to Arthur. Arthur would not appreciate it. (An Igglybuff is probably more plausible, as I imagine a Horsea would be confined to water. PERHAPS IT KNOWS SURF AND FOLLOWS ARTHUR EVERYWHERE ON A GIANT WAVE. Or, er, perhaps not.)
- Gwen would have an Eevee, probably. Eevee seems a bit of a cliché, but I really do think it would be the perfect Pokémon for Gwen.
- We had some trouble with Morgana. Eventually, moogle62 decided that she would have, and I quote, a 'psychic Meowth'. I DON'T KNOW. ASK MOOG.
- Merlin himself would have something rather rare, of course. Perhaps an unusually small Dratini that he wears around his neck like a scarf. Because that would be really cute. (This is why I am inclined to say that Uther objects only to Psychic Pokémon, rather than to Pokémon in general: there would be no adorable Dratini-wearing otherwise.) Also, an Abra, the existence of which he must conceal from Uther.

Merlin's obvious desire to have a pet unicorn and ride around on it with Arthur probably translates into an ambition to catch a Rapidash.