Drv3 Au - Blog Posts

unfinished saiou doodle that i kinda like

i forgot to upload it here whoops

I was cooking this morning and then got side tracked playing Zelda. I think I was onto something

Introducing my super cringe DRV3 AU I made back in either 2020 or 2021, I recently revamped it a lil so have these dumb lil Twitter post redraws... Drawovers??

Kamukura and Kokichi

apparently Kamukura taking care of child Kokichi during the tragedy is a thing and I absolutely love the idea. 14/10, take all of my money, au creators.

More content please.

A bit more of Resurgence V3! I've been dabbling a few ideas, but this is one I decided on a while ago - those monokuma helmets have been improved. Again.

And somehow, one ends up on you-know-who's head - and Shuichi's the first one to find him after this incident.

That's a bit late, plot wise, though

I'm a little in love with the idea of Kokichi going through a Kamukura phase, long hair and all.

I want this to put people in a panic about another "dangerous" Ultimate being bored, meanwhile he's content to just flop in a corner. It makes me giggle.

Hajime just gets a sudden shiver all the way over on Jabberwock.

One day Resurgence V3 will have official outfits

That day is not today!

One detail found in the progression of Resurgence, Kokichi starts to collect mementos of his fellow participants. Does Kiibo count as a memento if he's technically the person as well?

I will say, the starter outfit already holds one of these mementos, if yall can guess it!

But I mean, you can tell who this is about, right? :)

Too bad Hajime isn't here, they really need the Ultimate Therapist...

Yeah - they didn't start off on the right foot even on their second life or death situation.

They need to start talking about what happened in the game though. Starting at knife point might be better than ending at knife point, ya know?

hello!!! i just stumbled across your resurgence au (i think that's the name lol) and it looks super cool!!!! :OOO may i ask what is maki's whole deal,,,i love her a lot :3

It's Maki time!

So in Resurgence, like the rest of the V3 cast, Maki is saved from the simulation by Future Foundation. I've touched on this in a few older posts, but their recovery took place in a hastily thrown together field base/hospital in a city that's still pretty deep in despair. It was a matter of not being able to get transport in for everyone right away - they had a set date for the helicopters to come for them all.

By unfortunate coincidence (coincidence, huh) - the day the helicopters come, the hospital is bombed by a Despair mob. They weren't so happy with their show being cancelled by stupid teenagers (THH was streamed to the world, then despair audiences kinda gutted and reverse engineered the Neo World Program after the Remnants were restored to their og personalities, I'd say it's probably because of the brainwashed Future Foundation members that it got out to the world - so yeah "Danganronpa" is a "TV" show in that regard, but its not how the V3 ending explains it)

Maki was in a separate wing from most of the others when the bombs went off, and her escape route ended up on the side where the mob was gathered (a lot of the others got around the mob by going out other exits) - So Maki has to fight her way to safety, and unfortunately, she misses out on the helicopter evacuation.

Now, Maki can take care of herself. She might not be Ultimate Apocalypse Survivor, but she has the training to patch wounds, adapt to harsh conditions, and defend herself. So she's doing about as fine as one can in a city that's basically an active war zone.

Then Kaede shows up.

Honestly, I'm not sure why I chose Kaede, I really wanna explore that dynamic but haven't gotten around to it yet - I think their personalities would blend and butt against each other in a situation like this, it's like a hardcore setting for the killing game with no rules. Kaede was with Future Foundation as a field agent, but her squad got separated during an attack (they were probably looking for the missing V3 cast) - Funnily enough Kaito, Tenko, and Shuichi were on that squad so - yikes on missing them.

So now it's Maki and Kaede vs the world!

Until Kaede's radio starts unscrambling itself and picking up Future Foundation communications again - but they can't reply it seems. The signal seems to fade in and out each time they leave this district, maybe they should investigate, right?

... Oh hi Kokichi and Kiibo!

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That's about as far as I've gotten in the general aspect of Maki's arc! I could go into detail about points up until now, but this post is already getting long on me. There will be bonding, there will be old scores to settle, there will be... forgiveness? Well, it's too early to say. I think the four of them are an interesting squad to shove into the apocalypse together, especially knowing the later game dynamics of Kokichi, Kiibo, and Maki, and me basically having to figure out Kaede and if the blank slate of her not being around for most of V3 is something that helps them all get along or complete ruins the dynamic at moments.

I finally figured out an AU name! Now I can stop calling it the Kiibo head AU!!!

Welcome to the stage:

Resurgence V3

The name makes sense if yall know what I have planned for it - which you'll find out later on.

But hopefully yall will stick around now that I can properly tag this all - also this is the moment I will say I despise drawing cityscapes so I guess I'm in for pain

Two become four.

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Just an overview of who went where after the hospital explosion! (Those are Jabberwock are me writing them out of the plot until I figure out where they fit. Don't worry, they'll be back, they're just getting deprogrammed from that,,, stuff from the virtual world!)

Everyone's favorite severed head!

Just a run down on Kiibo's existing functions, his main function is acting as a radio to pick up on Future Foundation movements/missions in hope he and Kokichi can cross paths with them. Unfortunately, he isn't equiped with the ability to project his own frequencies via the antenna, so there's not way to communicate back to them, at least on his own.

Somehow, they keep missing the field agents. Weird, huh?