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#in some versions of this verse it might be junko doing the manipulation instead; and it'd happen before the tragedy
darkimpulsed · 3 years
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DANGANRONPA VERSE // details.
okay, I thought about it last night and here’s what I got. Though before I start, here’s your warning for triggering content here including manipulation, gaslighting, murder, & threatening suicide to get what you want.
Before the Tragedy happened, Mikey had already lost Shinichiro, Emma and Baji similarly to how he did in canon. Of course, things played out a little differently due to there being no time travel in this verse, but Takemichi was still present and had played a major role in saving Draken’s life beforehand.
After the Tragedy happened, Mikey fought on the side of hope for a while beside Takemichi, Draken and the rest of Toman that remained - but he was empty the whole time. On the verge of giving up, he was extremely close to giving into despair. Toman noticed this fact, but none of them knew how to help him.
At one point, he was kidnapped by Izana. Izana manipulated him, convincing him that his friends couldn’t be trusted and that they had no faith in him, that they didn’t care about him - after all, they never once saw through his facade of being okay, and they’d never once tried to help him, right? Not really. He made Mikey believe that his fall into darkness was inevitable, no matter how hard he tried to fight it. It was easy to do - Mikey had already been on the edge of believing these things for quite a while, now.
Izana then presented him with Kisaki, the one who’d killed his sister and was responsible for Baji’s death, too. He offered him the chance to kill him, telling him that he’d let him go if he did - and Mikey took him up on that offer. When he killed Kisaki, he didn’t feel a thing.
It didn’t take long for Mikey to fall into darkness after that. Izana told him that spreading despair was all he was good for, and that it was the only way to take out his anger about everything that had happened to him. Mikey refused to go back to Toman, believing that Izana was the only one who still cared about him - and whenever he had second thoughts about what he was doing, Izana threatened to kill himself to keep him in line. Mikey couldn’t stand the thought of his own brother’s death being his fault, and so went along with whatever Izana suggested without complaint. He was manipulated into believing that the higher-up members of Toman who remained wanted Izana dead, so he began killing them one by one. Only Draken and Takemichi remained alive at the end of it all. This process took about a year or so.
But Mikey still kept a tiny bit of reluctance to kill innocent people. At the very least, he didn’t seem to get any joy out of spreading despair like everyone else did - he was just empty. So Izana decided to show him a modified version of the brainwashing video that he’d somehow got his hands on. It wasn’t as powerful as the real thing, but it affected Mikey’s mind enough that he egan to enjoy despair. Mikey suspected he knew what was going on when Izana presented him with the video, but he was far gone enough to just let it happen - and after that, he very quickly became addicted to the feeling of spreading despair to other people.
Mikey became a valuable asset to Despair after that. Though sometimes he still has doubts about what he’s doing, and it’s possible that he could still be saved... either way, Takemichi certainly hasn’t given up on him yet.
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