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I'd like to throw 3 ideas into the ring.
1, Several Accomplices.
Example: Due to a Motive or through some secondary agenda, At least 4 people get involved in a murder scheme, Maybe even involving the victim themselves, Could have fake testimony saying the victim was seen well past when they actually Died.
2, You Witness the Murder.
Example: Your alone with someone when a trap goes off and the Victim dies right Infront of your eyes, not great for the protag is likely to be framed for this.
3, Murder Mid-Trial.
Example: Likely through a Slow Poison, a Character snuffs it in the middle of the trial, Maybe right as they where about to drop vital testimony, could be done by the killer already or someone else.

One I've thought of is, deliberately not triggering the BDA. Someone finds a dead body, and they go to everyone else and say "Hey guys... Jims dead in the Library. If we don't want to go through a trial where we could literally all die. Lets barricade it up so we don't trigger an investigation/trial."

"the victim was mulch" chapter would get clowned for eternity LMAO 😭

For the mulch one I can imagine the discovery just being a piece of jewellery that we know the missing character wore that is seen in the dirt. Like a necklace that is made into a major part of the character that, after they go missing, is found in the dirt with blood residue on it

Not exactly a twist but I've always thought that having a split vote would be entertaining. The trials always end unanimously and I think having the player forced to try and convince one more person instead of everyone agreeing with them would be a good different.

protagonist who starts out as kind of a bad person attempts to murder someone, flees thinking they got away with it, but unbeknownst to them someone else came and finished them off, so like 95% of the evidence is stuff you left and for most of the trial you're genuinely trying to defend yourself and get away with it

Not necessarily 2x2 coded, but a fun twist to the formula I've had in mind if I ever did a fangan content was:

- Voting wrong doesn't end the killing game. The way I had it in mind, was that the person you vote for is who gets executed, REGARDLESS if they're the right person or not. For example let's say in chapter 1 of DR THH everyone voted Kyoko instead of Leon. Monokuma would execute Kyoko via the baseball machine and everyone would realize in horror that the themed execution means Leon was the killer as he walks away free, leaving the rest of them to continue the killing game knowing they got another innocent person killed. Sorta similar to Makoto taking the fall for killing Mukuro in chapter 5

It's not a twist per say but I want a body discovery annoucement when the protag isn't one of the first to discover the body. I know this happens in Danganronpa 2 chapter 2 but you were literally walking to where the body was either way
I wanted to be like "Oh I just finished my free time i'm going to sleep"

Tuntuntun
A body has been discover

The truly horrifying version of the last one; the body discovery announcement goes off when dinner is served.

On the going missing topic; I like the idea of an honest self-defense murder, where the blackened then hides the body in the hopes of never having a trial (because they don’t want to die, but they also don’t want to kill everyone else from a failed trial).

I’d also like to see a true accidental death.  Again we get flavors of it from Chiaki, but I mean someone dying from a true series of coincidences and bad luck where the trial is not just about figuring out WHAT happened, but trying to determine who counts as responsible in Monokuma’s eyes.

We once did a very goofy trial in an RP where the device that tracks people’s vitals was damaged, causing one of the surviving students to register as “dead” to the computer system, and we ran a whole trial where the “victim” was an active participant.

Imagine this: Danganronpa 2x2
Party again, blackout again, then returns to light
The body isnt discovered immediately, and people leave. When u return... You see Hajime body

I had a dream where a pair of identical twins, one the ultimate trader, one the ultimate traitor, spent so much time mimicking each other that they genuinely don't even remember which is which. One kills the other, but despite the fact that the killer is obviously the living twin, it's actually impossible to solve because not even the killer knows who's who.

I’ve been toying around with an idea where someone sets up a trap, but gets killed by someone else. Then a few chapters later, the trap ends up getting sprung by a different character, making the blackened a previous victim.

My concepts have even done that thing you mentioned where Monokuma ragdolls the corpse through a Rube Goldberg machine just so he doesn’t feel robbed of an execution.

It could also set up some paranoia where there could be any number of traps around the school that could go off at any moment.

the idea I’ve had stewing in my head is a character dying mid trial and that being used as evidence for the murder the trial is for.

You've said you're good at writing jokes, not murders, but I'd like to see a fanganronpa written by you where the entire killing game is clownery and fuck ups and nobody is doing adequately but somehow every murder gets solved anyways

One thing I'd like to see is "tricking" Monokuma to be an assassin.
Basically, not once did the rules specified that someone had to kill directly.
So if you forced someone to break the rules, then that someone would be killed by Monokuma and you'd still technically be "spotless".

Heres a twist i thought of! The support and the antagonist switch roles half way through the game. The support becomes antagonistic after a few chapters and the antagonist opens up more to the player and begins to help out more, becoming the support. Its an interesting idea to me.

Two ideas, a murderer whose ultimate talent is mimicking people, like tsumugi. They kill someone and attempt to destroy their body, planting evidence so it looks like they were the ones killed, and assume the identity of their victim. The second would be anexed to the ones you mention of a killer trap without a target in specific, the plot twist could be that the victim was the killer because  their trap was about to kill the only person they had started to get along with.

Someone gets killed, but you don’t find out they died until the trial, where you had no ability to investigate

I had this idea for a case where the victim hates you and actively fabricates a scene where you unknowingly stab their lifeless body with everybody around you.