Danganronpa: String Theory (DrV3)

EXECUTION #1

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There's a red pleated curtain, one which is pulled aside to reveal a black stage that is just barely lit by the spotlights illuminating the center. There's nothing there...

And then there suddenly is.

Tsumugi Shirogane drops down from somewhere above, landing on her feet and immediately buckling down to her knees in an effort to absorb the entire impact of her fall. She winces, clutching at both her neck and her feet as the piles of chains drop down beside her.

As she sits there, lines of Monokumas appear in rows before the stage she's been dropped onto, the bears filling up the seats by the dozen as if they're attending some sort of stage play.

Some of the Monokumas in front of her are dressed in cheap cosplays like the ratty Jibankuma costume he wore once before, all of which are particularly unappealing. One of those bears in the crowd, a Monokuma that looks like the crowd's leader, holds up a laptop for everyone to see.

The laptop in question has a screen bearing a game title reading "Cosplay Simulator", one with an image of a girl that looks like a badly drawn anime version of Tsumugi in a cute cat-girl maid cosplay. Laptop Monokuma bypasses the screen upon turning the laptop towards himself and tinkering with the program.

The game opens up to a dress-up template with a cute chibi version of Tsumugi standing in a bubblegum pastel designed interface on a stage. The mouse cursor has turned into something that looks like a white cartoon glove like something straight out of the west's animation from the fifties when rubber-hose was the most popular style. Options on what to change on Tsumugi range on clothing, accessories, hairstyles, etc.

"Click on me!" a dialogue bubble reads from the Tsumugi on the computer, which the operating Laptop Monokuma doesn't hesitate to click on.

The spotlights far back behind the real Tsumugi on the stage go dead, followed by a pair of mechanical white gloved hands similar to the computer cursor appearing from the darkness behind.

There's a moment where they close in on the bi-spectacled girl and time almost slows...

But then the hands grab at her- the crazy mess of movements a tornado of wind, movement, flying clothing, and wigs.

The dust clears just for a second, long enough to see Tsumugi covered head to toe in measuring tape, but it's quickly hidden behind another tornado of movement as the hands resume their job.

Laptop Monokuma hits a few keys and runs his paw across the trackpad to make selections. As mundane as it sounds, it's actually much more intense seeing it. Monokuma's paws are practically on fire with how quick his movements across the laptop are.

When the gloved hands finally clear, Tsumugi is no longer standing there.

It's...Sailor Moon?

She does her classic pose, prompted mostly by the measuring tape locked to her joints and waist along with her metal monokuma neck clamp and chain.

The sound of shutters go off as the crowd hurries to get photographs, half-blinding the blonde on the stage. It's impressive cosplay, Tsumugi looks nothing like herself anymore.

The tape poses her a few more times before the hands dive in again- prompted by laptop Monokuma customizing her in another cosplay.

Sailor Moon is replaced by another blonde girl, one in a pink and lilac dress with an emphasis on gold regalia and a crest of three triangles with wings.

The measuring tape forces the elvish eared girl into different poses to match her new character, just before the hands dive in again to swap her with a dark haired boy with a navy blue shirt and shorts. The red and white fan symbol on his back barely visible before becoming an orange short-haired girl in a white dress with purple ribbons and a matching white hat.