Sky Interloper
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What were they saying about DR0? I tended to like the revelations about Junko from that story.
Some inconsequential garbled quotes from the novel that in context are huge spoilers.
The theory that every character is just a perversely exaggerated identity of their own original character is one I've pretty much held onto since day one of beating the game. It doesn't make sense for someone like Kaede who according to her audition tape "has no faith in humanity", to help someone like Shuichi, a person she's just met. I think it's more so that unlike Ultimate!Kaede, regular Kaede is just a cynic/realist. The first thing she tells Shuichi to do is to shut up and get a hold of himself, which she does in a really demanding manner, but she apologizes not long after that, showing that there's a part of her that actually does care about people. In contrast, the first thing Ultimate!Kaede tries to do is immediately comfort Shuichi in a friendly manner. The one thing both Kaedes have in common is that they have no trouble being assertive, but Ultimate!Kaede plays up both her ability to be caring and brings a large side of flaws into the forefront with that.
It's kinda why I wish if V3 was going to deconstruct the Danganronpa formula, they'd have gone deeper into the entire concept of Ultimates and making a singular interest be the end-all, be-all to a character's identity. If Keebo was a human, he probably had a fascination with mechas or robots, maybe studying robotics science even. Maki might've had a weapons fixation. It would've been interesting to explore, and perfect for Kaede since she's the one character to have seen the biggest attitude change to the player, and she has a very throwaway "uninteresting" title in contrast to everyone else, especially Shuichi who ends up emboldening the DR concept.
A good theory on the creation of the Ultimate personalities. It would be easier for Team Danganronpa to take the base characteristics of a participant and exagerate them for the sake of the game - at the final trial only the concept of implanting memories is touched upon, not an erasure of personality like what happened in Izuru's case.
What you propose would have been interesting, but I wonder if the pacing wouldn't hurt as a result. A longer pre-Flashlight prologue would have been too suspect, and the final trial is long enough as it is.