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AU WORKSHOP

AU WORKSHOP - JANUARY
Welcome to Recollé's AU Workshop! On this post players new and old are encouraged to help one another make connections for their AU lives and to ask for or offer ideas if they so choose. Please respond to the post with the below form, and/or feel free to comment to anyone else to work things out! Please be aware that posting to this workshop does not guarantee you a reserve, and that multiple players are permitted to workshop the same character. Please find our mod questions comment here.

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BLURB: Here you should write what you have for your AU; your character's age, occupation, name, hobbies - that sort of thing! Just let us know what you have.
LOOKING FOR: Are you looking for family members or friends or enemies for your character to be pre-planned? Or are you asking for ideas or feedback on your AU idea? Anything goes, just specify what you would like.
OPTIONAL ENABLE ME: Are you torn between which character to app? Let us help! Post your ideas in a comment and let fellow players offer feedback and CR ideas. You can also use this section to ask for canonmates you would like to see in-game whether it be in your specific AU or for different CR.

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Hi, thank you for your question! Could you please elaborate a little on how you would execute this? We just want to make sure we understand correctly before finalizing an answer.

Thank you in advance!

Yes, definitely! So basically I was thinking that Ryoko would get into an accident as a child that put her in severe trauma that would make it so that while she recalls everything from her past, her brain cannot retain memories up to a certain age - of course, this does not mean that the memories themselves aren't there, but rather her brain files those memories as "unimportant" which is why she isn't recalling them.

Of course, I was going to play out that she has that gap of memories that are missing were written out in her journal so while she wouldn't have the memories itself she would be able to access the knowledge of the time period that she's missing.

When she regains her analysis ability - which would allow her to retain the memories she wouldn't have this issue anymore, if that makes any sense. If you need me to elaborate further, I can if necessary.

Thank you for the clarification! So what you're saying is that Ryoko wouldn't have access to these memories from a certain age (let's say from birth until age 14 or something) and she can't exactly retain memories until she reaches a certain age. Basically deep-seeded forgotten memories.

In reviewing both this comment and the comment above, we would also like a little bit of an elaboration on how she would be able to start retaining the memories and how she would trigger memories if she doesn't have access to those memories via memory loss and can't retain them for x amount of years. How are the memories written out in her journal? Are they provided by someone else? If so, what reasonable belief does Ryoko have to believe these written accounts? How would she regain her analysis ability?

Our apologies for all of the questions but given the nature of the canon we just want to have an idea of how this particular piece of the world of Dangan Ronpa would reasonably be translated to an AU to reincarnate Ryoko aka Junko. Thank you in advance!

I believe you've misinterpeted what I've said - if I'm wrong, please correct me, but I'm trying to make sure I'm as succinct as possible - so I'll see if I can lay this out better, using this diagram as a reference. The blue section represents her memories from using a similar example, birth until age 15, while the red section shows memories past fifteen.

With the way I was planning on playing her AU, I wanted her to keep her memories until the accident - or to be more specific, retain the memories - so she would have anterograde amnesia or something similar to that. She can recall things for a short period of time, but not for long periods of time. As for who writes the journal, the memories are written by herself while the event is happening, if that makes sense; if that's not possible, I can go with another alternative option, but I would prefer to mirror canon in this case, as she would be able to recognize her own handwriting, seeing as it wouldn't have changed all that much from the age of fifteen to, let's say... seventeen.

As for her analysis ability, since the FAQ says that SHSL abilities would be considered regains, I would most likely have to do it that way - correct me if I'm wrong - if that makes sense. Of course, since it is also anterograde amnesia, I am willing to cure it alternatively through having her see a doctor through surgery, therapy, hypnosis or some other method, since even with the loss of memories past the event that would have caused her amnesia, the memories are still stored in the body and cell memory.

I apologize if I'm going around in circles or if this sounds confusing but hopefully that makes sense to you guys?

Hello! We wanted to pop in and say that we did receive your response, but we will need to discuss at further length when the entire modteam is around. Thank you for your patience and your explanation! We hope to have an answer to you as quickly as possible.

Hello there! So after extensive review and discussing it amongst ourselves at a team, we believe we fully understand the situation and what you’re asking for the AU and have come up with a resolution.

With the explanation provided it’s fine to have her keep her AU memories of her AU life until the accident. It’s also fine for her to be dealing with anterograde amnesia if that’s the route that you choose to take.

While it’s fine for you purchase a regain of her analysis ability with bonus points as per our regain items rules, for something as canon-specific and almost supernatural as an SHSL skill, that is something we would prefer be paired with a memory regain as well.

So with that being said, yes you’re allowed to do this but we would suggest it might be best to have the amnesia cured via an alternative method so that she can start regaining her memories and recall that she has a special ability, at which time with enough points a SHSL regain may be purchased. This could serve as an interesting starting point for building CR and giving Ryoko/Junko motivations in-game to work with others and seek out other people.

We hope this helps and answers your question!

Totally understood and this works splendidly in my favor; thank you for the apt response as well as the suggestion, it's very much appreciated!

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