Ultimate Heroes
is a Danganronpa V3 Fic series by SeashellCosmos. Featuring the stories of Ultimates and The Show Starts Now
Makoto is an exceedingly average teenager in a world on the brink of disaster. Abducted along with a group of supposedly super powered teenagers to be ‘kept safe’ inside a prison like building, his search for answers leads him into more trouble than he bargained for.
Shuichi had been sick for as long as he could remember, and has recently resigned himself to spend his days confined in a hospital as the growing turmoil of the outside world quickly becomes too dangerous. His life is boring. He watches the news to pass the time, theorizing and marveling at this new group of vigilantes known as Ultimates try and save society from completely collapsing in on himself. Despite everything, a small part of him feels… almost lucky (almost) to be living in a world where something like actual superheroes seem to exist.
Please note spoilers for Danganronpa will be left untagged.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: A running theme of the stories is how few people actually wanted these powers, but still most learn to adapt to and accept that they can likely never return to normal life.
- Kid Hero: Basically everyone with powers is a teenager or started as a teenager.
- Meta Origin
- Personality Powers: Most of the kids have powers based on their ultimate talents.
- Leon, the Ultimate Baseball Star, has a perfect pitch- he never misses with thrown objects.
- Sayaka, the Ultimate Idol, has a voice that can now literally hypnotize people.
- Yasuhiro's clairvoyance is expanded from his canon 'one in three predictions are right'.
- Sakura naturally has Super-Strength.
Ultimates
- Adaptational Heroism:
- Monokuma is genuinely on the students' side and locked them into the school to protect them from the Future Foundation, who wanted to make them brainwashed super-assassins.
- Genocider Syo is still a murderess, but this time she kills Future Foundation agents trying to kidnap Toko, not boys Toko is attracted to.
- Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Monokuma is a member of the found family now and no one can do anything about it.
- Adaptation Expansion: The cast learns a lot of their past was forgotten or otherwise misconstrued on what actually happened, to the point Mondo is horrified when he learns that the death of his brother was the result of someone actually trying to assassinate Mondo.
- Bad Powers, Good People: Makoto has essentially the same powerset as Junko. He mostly uses it to counter her influence. His power disturbs him because he can't help but compare it to Junko and worry that he's inadvertently hurting people and that no one can ever trust him because he could Mind Rape them at any time.
- Beware the Superman: Junko is the last person who you'd want to get superpowers of any sort, much less these superpowers.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The students have brainwashing triggers programmed into them. Makoto's doesn't work properly, and he can talk the others out of brainwashing. Which he has to do to most of his classmates after Junko gets into the security systems.
- The Corrupter: Take canon Junko and add mind control. It's exactly as bad as it sounds.
- Empty Shell: What Junko attempts to do to Makoto by brainwashing him into forgetting everything about himself so she can better train and use him.
- Evil Mentor: Junko tries to do this to Makoto due to their similar powers.
- Fights Like a Normal: Despite their powers, basically everyone has grown up as just slightly odd kids, so unless under mind control, they're go to in any situation tends to be a more mundane then super solution. Many even loathe using their powers as well, as it just reminds them of their situation.
- Flawed Prototype/Super Prototype: Junko to Makoto. One one hand, her powers are more developed than his. On the other hand, he was made as her replacement, because he's a Nice Guy and Junko is... well, Junko.
- Go Mad from the Isolation: Yasuhiro is terrified of the experiments that were done to him and being forced to return to his own personal sensory deprivation pod to better access and forcibly use his powers.
- Immune to Mind Control: Makoto is immune to the brainwashing the others have programmed in. Toko is also immune by proxy; she herself can't resist it like Makoto, but the codes don't work on Syo and any attempt to use them on Toko will merely result in Syo coming out and probably killing whoever tried.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Leon doesn't miss anything he throws, ever.
- I Never Told You My Name: Somewhat ironically given canon, this time Mondo is the one to notice a slip of the tongue; Kiyotaka called him 'Owada' before he introduced himself.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Makoto has to do this to Sayaka after Junko brainwashes her.
- Happily Adopted: Makoto recalls that his parents were always open with him about his being adopted and happy to discuss it with him if he wanted.
- The Kindnapper: At least, that’s how Monokuma views the cast getting locked in Hope’s Peak to further develop their powers in more violent ways.
- Mind Rape: Junko's specialty.
- Playing with Fire: Kyoko's power, which is why she wears gloves in this universe.
- Professional Killer: What the program and Junko is trying to turn that cast into.
- Super-Strength: Sakura's power.
- Tyke Bomb: The Future Foundation tried to make the kids into these. Unfortunately, they bit off more than they could chew with Junko.
- You Are Number 6: All the class have numbers associated with their project, which are tattooed on their shoulders. Except Ishimaru, because he's not one of them. He's a robot designed to take care of them.
- Junko is 78-1.
- Leon is 78-4.
- Makoto is 78-7.
- Byakuya is 78-10.
- Mukuro is 78-13.
The Show Starts Now
- Badass Normal: Miu Iruma has no enhancement; her body actually rejected the mutagen. She's just really smart. She hides this because she doesn't want to be pitied.
- Conflict Ball: And her name is Tsumugi Shirogane. Part of her powers includes being able to force conflict within the group whenever she wants. Kokichi and Shuichi agree that it's highly suspicious that massive arguments and urgent problems come up every time they try directly use Shuichi's Living Lie Detector powers to expose The Mole.
- Delicate and Sickly: Shuichi has some sort of illness. What it is, even he doesn't know.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Tsumugi's internal narration notes that they almost threw up upon learning what the Izuru Kamukura project entailed.
- Forced Sleep: Tsumugi's power. Well, one of the uses for it.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: All the V3 students refer to Izuru Kamukura as 'the Kamukura project' and 'it', highlighting how they no longer see him as human; rather, to them he's a human-shaped natural disaster.
- Living Lie Detector: Shuichi. Which gets annoying when he has to listen to Kokichi's compulsive lying.
- More than Mind Control: Tsumugi's power. She can't outright control actions, but she can give people ideas and make them more amenable or averse to certain courses of action.
- The Patient Has Left the Building: The story begins with a very confused Shuichi having to make an escape from the hospital he's at or die. It's later mentioned that hundreds of patients died at the hospital the night Shuichi escaped.
- Power Copying: Izuru Kamukura's power, fittingly enough.
