Hope and Despair are thematically bankrupt ideas
yeah
My talent is being
Ultimate Thinker
“You have already been involved in at least two separate murders.”
Chat wants you to elaborate
Ultimate Thinker goes hard
Ultimate Skeptic. they somehow manage to be even more annoying than the ultimate procrastinator during trials, while also saving the group from near death multiple times a trial
We had this role once. They died in chapter 1.
Ultimate Intellectual
eventually a killer murks them for being annoying
V3’s theme was so much better for a murder mystery setting regardless of whether or not you like the story.
It’s an expy of light side vs dark side without any of the nuance of light side vs dark side that makes for interesting characters
In short give the Mastermind better fucking motivation than “I want suffering”
Doing That
That’s a perfectly good motivation
big if true
instantly becomes the most useful trial character in the entire series simply for saying “guys, perhaps the person we found unconscious with a giant sign saying “HE DID IT” hanging above him was framed?”
shoutout AI (Easy)
but you better believe they’re gonna be a bigger roadblock than the killer themselves in the homestretch