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Seeing as how it's been about seven months since the last time we did this, it's high time for another...


TEST DRIVE MEME!

Post with the characters you're thinking of apping in to see how they do! Either they've been here a while, are just arriving, or anything you want!

Have fun!

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Yasuhiro Hagakure | Dangan Ronpa

[crystalballer]

[Outside your local Pokemon Center, you'll find some hobo-looking kid with really freaking huge hair sitting on a mat with an Elgyem at his side. He's got a variety of weird objects sitting around: a crystal ball, some tarot cards (Pokemon style of course), incense burners... and next to all of that, a sign in surprisingly immaculate handwriting reads, "Get your fortune read for only P50,000!"

... Wow, what a rip. But this guy seems to be in great spirits about it. He even calls out to you since he notices you're eying his stuff.]

Hey, hey! The Fates are telling me it's a really good idea for you to get your fortune read right now. Seriously dude, it's a matter of life or death!

[He seems way too happy to be saying something so serious.]

[ardent]

[...you know, he still has not gotten over the perpetual sense of "why this" that you tend to inspire, but he's not going to...complain, exactly. Instead, he'll just...]

Hagakure-kun, you had better have gotten the Center's permission to do this here...

[okay yeah he's going to complain but what are you even doing.]

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[crystalballer]

[Crap, he wasn't expecting Ishimaru to be here! He knew the SHSL Killjoy would ask about something completely trivial like getting permission to do his business on public property.

He remains all smiles, although it's obvious that it's a nervous smile now. And the sheepish laugh isn't doing him any favors.]

'course I got permission Ishimaru-chi! Don't wanna get in trouble, right? Haha...ha...

[crystalballer]

[...

WAIT A DAMN MINUTE.]

Ishimaru-chi?! W-What are you doing here?! You're...supposed to be...

[He loses the ability to speak for a second because he's frozen in horror.

GOOD GODS THERE ARE GHOSTS IN THIS PLACE.]

[ardent]

[Actually...kinda. But let's not get into that...]

It's all explainable, Hagakure-kun, everything is fine! I can tell you for a fact that I'm still...

[...alive, but that wording still cuts a bit too deeply for comfort.]

Nothing has happened to me yet!

[crystalballer]

[Hagakure manages to unfreeze himself, if only for a moment.]

Wait, so you know?

[Actually scratch that, he's not fully convinced yet.]

B-But how do I know you're not just a ghost pretending to be alive? I know you advanced ghosts can look like the real deal!

[This really must sound great for Ishimaru.]

[ardent]

[Greatly confusing, more like. Hagakure, what is your logic even - ]

How many advanced ghosts have you met?!

[throw_stone]

[The Fates? Hm. Ramza approaches - watch out, he's actually a believer in gods!]
Can you truly speak with the... Fates?
[You don't seem the sort - you don't look like a priest, or anything like that. Plus powers got taken, so...]

[crystalballer]

[So is Hagakure, how convenient!

He nods enthusiastically.]

Sure can! I get a lot of my visions from them. If you want, I can see if they'll say anything about you.

[Even the Pokemon world has spiritualists like him, so he must be getting his visions somehow.]

[throw_stone]

[...Hm. Ramza sits down, looking very doubtful. But, hey. He keeps on praying, this guy may be from a land where the gods are more visible. Who knows!]
I have the G- currency.
[He was about to say Gil! Don't mind his serious-looking face. For sixteen, he looks super intense.]
Have any you have made in this land come true?

[lieutenantantichrist]

[Blake is eying him all right. He's followed by a little Snubbull who taps curiously on the crystal ball.]

Get out of here and quit trying to scam people, kid.

[crystalballer]

[Hagakure gives Blake a long, hard stare. Psh, nonbelievers. But still, this guy looks a little intimidating so Hagakure keeps his guard up.]

But it's not a scam, dude... My predictions actually come true!

[lieutenantantichrist]

[A nonbeliever like you wouldn't believe.]

[It's easy to hold your own in a staredown when the other guy's down on the ground.]

Sure they do. Just like everybody else's.

Let me guess. There's some dead guy who wants to talk to me, and his name starts with a T. Or an A. Or an S.

[crystalballer]

Wow, way to stereotype me!

[Now Hagakure's just plain offended.]

First of all? Please don't lump me in with "everybody else." A lot of 'em are into that occult crap. I'm actually serious about this! I wouldn't be called the Super High-School Level Fortune Teller if I wasn't the real deal.

Second of all, just 'cause I can channel spirits doesn't mean I like to! 'cause I don't! At all.

[He then crosses his arms in a, "so there" manner.]

That said, visions are my go-to method.

[lieutenantantichrist]

You're doing a good job being a stereotype all by yourself. All you need's a drum circle.

[Blake crosses his arms and looks flatly down at the kid.]

Hate to break it to you, but fortune telling is occult crap.

Trying taking a shower and cutting off the dreadlocks before somebody hauls you off to the home for wandering hippies.

[The look on his face gets even more dubious.]

Visions. Are those the kid that come from eating funny mushrooms, or the ones from licking frogs?

[readapts]

Eh?

[Oh. Well, would you fancy this...]

Hagakure-kun? [...] Um, is now the time you should be telling fortunes...?

[So he's an opportunist? New world ain't so freaky?? And isn't 50,000 expensive... Chihiro's pretty sure he's never seen that much money here at any time.]

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[crystalballer]

F-Fujisaki-chi?!

[SO MANY GHOSTS UP IN THIS WORLD, WHY.]

[crystalballer]

[Okay, okay. Calm down, Hagakure. Maybe Ishimaru and Chihiro really aren't ghosts, so he really needs to stop immediately jumping to that conclusion. Still, it's really unsettling to see them alive and well again...

He laughs awkwardly, trying to regain his composure.]

Ah, sorry 'bout that. But of course! Any time's a good time for fortune-telling! 'sides, I need to make my travel and food money somehow, right?

[How about trying to get a real job, Hagakure.]

[readapts]

[The reaction just gets a sheepish smile, at least... Chihiro takes a lot of things well.]

It's okay, [just like that!!] But, um, it might be easier to get a job and earn money like that, right...? You might spend all day sitting out here if no-one else passes by... or if they aren't interested...

[crystalballer]

[Bless you for being so understanding, Chihiro...]

Well, I kinda thought about doing that, but I'd rather get money doing what I'm best at, y'know? I just wanna make use of my talent!

[Even if he doesn't realize he's charging waaay too much.]

You get where I'm coming from, don't you? You must've made a whole bunch of programs for cash.

[superordinary]

Hagakure-kun, I don't think it's a matter of life and death...

[ OH BOY Naegi is so glad to see him but this seems a little stupid tbh. The P50 000 price tag is especially stupid. ]

[crystalballer]

Oh, hey Naegi-chi!

[Compared to how he reacted to the other students from Hope's Peak, that was really nonchalant.

And well...your face is stupid, Naegs. 8| ]

Okay, maybe death isn't the right word, considering there's a lot of defyin' it going on in this world. It's a little unsettling, to tell you the truth.

[thejusticewagon]

[Fortunes, huh? Well, she's tempted to try this out to see how it compares to her mother's fabled flower fortunes... and then she sees the price tag.]

P50,000?! That's highway robbery! Why should I go for that when I can get a perfectly good fortune for free?

[AND SHE HAS VERY STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT HIGHWAY ROBBERY]

[crystalballer]

[Hagakure's taken off guard by such a claim!]

Wh-wha?! Who the heck wouldn't charge for perfectly good fortunes? They don't come easy, y'know!

[thejusticewagon]

Hah, we'll see about that!

[...it is hard to pose dramatically and not look comically melodramatic while holding something resembling a daisy, but Cynthia is going to do her damnedest...]

I was planning on challenging you to a fortune-telling duel for the sake of engaging someone of similar skill in honorable combat... but now I see what I really have to do!

This duel is for the sake of justice!!!