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I know people are gonna go scream "PLEASE UPDATE" in the comments of chapter 27, but... bad news.
Yup, Recasted is not going to receive any new updates. It was an ambitious idea I made after making Redux, my SDRA2 rewrite. I never expected the support or attention I got, and I also wanted to say thank you to everyone who wrote comments. It means a lot to know that people were genuinely interested. Thank you all.
I wanted to give some sense of closure though so I'm dedicating this chapter to every major theme and plot point I had planned out.
If anyone would like to copy and paste this story and make an attempt at writing out the following chapters themselves, they are more than free to do so. And heck, if I like them enough, I’ll post them as the official chapters with full credits back to your other works as well.
So what follows is the full, unmarked spoilers of what I had originally intended. Feel free to read up on them if you so desire, or feel free to wait for someone to actually write the story. Either way, I’m sorry I couldn’t finish the story as intended, but I hope that you’ll enjoy whatever else I work on in the future. At the very least, I know I will actually finish those stories.
Spoilers start here
The Plot/Twists
The big twist at the end would reveal that the students were on the run from Mikado Sannoji and Void. This was their refugee base.
Kana was the mastermind of Recasted. Her motive would be that she wanted to spread despair to everyone!
And now comes Kana's execution. I had a very hard time coming up with an execution for the mastermind, since I knew I couldn't just reuse Utsuro's execution.
If you wanna write one, that's fine!
Who lives and who dies
In what would have been the next chapter, the students are told about the Neo World Program, and they would enter the program, appearing as chibis.
In the program, Yamako murders Satsuki by drowning her in the mansion's foundation.
Having Mikako be on the receiving end of the fourth Argument Armament would have been a bonus. And a fun one at that.
This is the chapter 4 post trial Yamako's execution.
Mikako would also have several nightmares regarding her sister's death during the start of Chapter 5.
Takara is getting really sick of people hating her, so she enters an alliance with Kizuna. They start a plan to kill Kanata, poisoning her drink with a non-lethal poison. Kanata is then knocked out with this drink, before finally dying of hypothermia after Kizuna traps her in the freezer.
The two are found out, and are both executed. While Kizuna's execution succeeds, Haruka's AI sabotages the execution like Syobai did in canon SDRA2 so Takara ends up in the trash pile.
In chapter 6, Kiyoka throws herself down the garbage chute to save Takara, and together they make it back to the other students.
Cue final investigation.
As for the final trial, Kana would reveal herself as mastermind, and give the survivors the choice of picking between hope or despair. They pick hope, and Kana dies.
Survivors: Kiyoka, Marissa, Takara and Mikako
Note: In chapter 6, Takara starts wearing a bandage around her head after she almost got executed.