DanganDJ Misc Trivia

                                    

                                          
DR character types:
Lewd character: Hiiro
Chuuni: Muni, Towa, Hiiro sometimes, Kurumiiko
Protag: Anyone with an ahoge (LOL JK)
AI/robot: Lumina, the preserved minds of the deceased students
The unhinged rambler: Noa
Foreign student: Rinku, Yuka/Jenny, Saki (alien), Dalia (because of the headcanon of her being biracial), Miiko (because traveler lol). Couldn't think of anyone in RONDO that I could really justify, per se, LOL.
Trial Gremlins: Muni (overconfident, often incorrect).
Shinobu (calls everyone out for being stupid and is often correct herself, think Byakuya). Esora plays dumb but is actually sharper than a knife.
Hiiro (guides people to the right answer while pretending she's not doing anything at all, think Nagito).
Kurumiiko (need I say more? LOL)!
School trivia:
My idea for Hope's Pinnacle's layout is: Basement, ground floor, first floor for classrooms, second floor for dorms, third floor for more classrooms, fourth floor for storage, fifth floor for security/cameras/where the masterminds have their secret meetups, and then the rooftop. Then there's a massive campus that surrounds the school, and a massive forest that surrounds the campus.
The trial room is designed such that the circular patch of ground at the center of all the podiums looks like a DJ disc (the monodisc I have as my blog background).
And for the order of who stands beside who, I took from the final screenshot of Petite Mix.
Monochio watches from a red couch at the head of the room.
Other trivia:
Muni's bunny ears were a gift from Usami because she saw how insecure Muni really was about herself even though she acted like she thought she was the greatest Ultimate in the world.
Monochio uses it/its pronouns in reference to its robotic nature and the fact that Nyochio has been addressed as male and female in D4. It also acts as a balance between Monokuma and Monomi who were male and female.
Another reason I called this the Killing School Transfer is for the meta reference of the D4 girls being transferred into the DR-verse.
V3 had "KubzPadz". I have "PheFos" (Pheline Fones, courtesy of Monochio). I also have Monokitz and katz to balance out Monokumas.
One of the Trial Minigames is the taxi cab/snowboard and I imagine the D4 equivalent to be the "Mind Motorcycle" because of how many D4 girls have motorcycles.
And the disc at the center of the trial room spins before every Debate Scrum.
Random timely trivia: The M4 SO art of Dalia and Rika standing in the rain crying is so perfect for Chap 4 of this Killing Game.
Family Relationships:
Rinku is related to Rantaro or Kiyo.
Shinobu is related to Chiaki, and Yuka to Mahiru.
Saki is related to Kaito.
Rika is related to Masaru and Dalia to Angie.
Nagisa is related to Ibuki Mioda.
Kurumi is related to Kokichi.
Elaboration on other units:
LMO and COA were Hope's Peak staff and became Hope's Pinnacle staff at the end of the saga. Before and during, however, they would've been scattered around all the schools and campuses.
As for Unichord, Michiru was the type to dream of having a Talent, thinking that it made her super cool to be an Ultimate. After enrolling, however, she learns that although she's an Ultimate, she's still less talented than most of her peers. Her arc is about finding the people she trusts, accomplishing things she would've never been able to do alone. That was why she was able to help Shinobu in the best ending, she had since found her unit, and they helped her survive and grow until Shinobu needed her.
Again, Lumina was created to be a Hope AI, but her arc involves learning that Hope isn't manufactured or programmed (similar to Izuru and Nozomi/Kiko), rather, Hope is learned and developed over time, and anyone can do it, AI or human.
Hayate and Kokoa I imagined as normal Talented middle schoolers with them meeting Michiru and Lumina during their adventures through Towa City. The Warriors of Hope and DICE would've played big roles in their storylines.
I also had it in mind that Kurumiiko temporarily led part of the Warriors of Hope, as the group was originally designed to combat Junko until Monaca hijacked it and made it what it was in Ultra Despair Girls. After the D4 cast is all kidnapped, this is what gives Monaca the chance to take power from Kurumiiko.
As for Abyssmare, Neo is an Ult. Vocalist aspiring to be an Ult. Diva with the potential to be an Ult. Leader if only she actually invested time in people that weren't just her.
Sophia is the Mikan to Neo's Junko.
Weronika has Akane vibes.
And Elsie has Fuyuhiko vibes. That's why I originally wanted her as an American version of him, complete with ties to the mafia the way he has ties to the yakuza. But after learning a bit more about Elsie's story, she strikes me as more of a Hiyoko type. Or Kokichi.
They were meant to be the first students of the overseas academy, then they became temporary leaders of the Future Foundation until their in-fighting allowed another group to steal their power. Makoto helps them fix it and they enroll in Hope's Pinnacle to learn from the other students how to be a good Ultimate.