the mastermind meme

[monomods]

 

You asked for it, we're finally giving it to you! Say hello to the mastermind meme!

What does this mean exactly? It means your character is the one responsible for everything! They've been controlling Monobear from the shadows (or maybe they have an assistant to help them, possibly even one of your classmates!), they've been putting forth the motives, running the trials, all of it! And now they've finally chosen to reveal themselves and their true motives.

What are their motives? Why do they want to spread despair? Are they somehow connected to the late Junko Enoshima? And most importantly what is their snazzy Monobear-themed look like? You decide!

Threading reactions is highly encouraged and feel free to AU things up to mix up our current survivor pool as much as you'd like.

Comments

no i really do feel a little bad I JUST WANTED IT TO BE A NICE ROUNDED 5 /WAILS

[toheirishuman]

It can't be both?

[He doesn't know what he wants, okay? John was quite possibly one of the worst people to have give into despair, he has none of Junko's focus. He's just a scrambling, directionless loose cannon.]

Mmmm...good question! I haven't really thought that far ahead but...I think I might go back to our world and spread despair there too!

[See? he has no concrete plan for how he's going to accomplish this. He's just going to do it. Somehow...]

Ooooo yes I like the sound of that! It'll be so easy too, I think. Just a little prodding here and there... Everyone will come falling down like a house of cards!

WELL OKAY THEN

[timelymaid]

[ ...You know, she'd like to say he's wrong, but...well, he was at the center of his friend group more or less, and her friends...

Hell, they wouldn't even take that much prodding, would they? Murdering one another was like their team skill. Which Aradia didn't usually like to talk about, but...it was definitely a thing that was a thing. The meteor trip had only required Gamzee going off sopor, in the end, although there'd been more going on, too.

...It's easy to picture their home falling down like John somehow did. And while she'd said she wanted to see what happened when everything blew up...

Aradia hadn't meant this, she didn't think. ]

Why despair?

[ ...She'd just...kind of like to know. ]

[toheirishuman]

[John sighs in a way that seems to suggest he finds the question very quaint. Oh, Aradia...you are so blind to the truth here.]

No matter how hard you try, you can't stop despair from spreading. And there's no other explanation for why that would be, other than that it has to be the state the universe wants to be in.

Get it?

[timelymaid]

[ Why does that sound like an explanation of paradox space.

Is John suggesting Despair is paradox space? ]

I don't think that's necessarily true. Perhaps certain things were meant to happen, but I don't think that means that the universe requires those same things to happen everywhere?