u/The_Bruno64alt

Hey y'all! The Living Melody AU guy here, its been some time since the last post and I do apologize, Ive just been busy with some other personal projects and Uni to really have time to develop the AU that much. BUT I decided to take this time today to do as so! And I am very happy with what I came up with.

As you can see, a lot happens here, one of the main things is Hibiki and Yoruko argument. It takes place as a semi-replacement of the Sora and Yoruko argument, happening before said happens. It serves as both more screen time for Hibiki, and also more for her to do! I think the fight was gonna happen at one point or another with how I was developing Hibiki and Yuki's relationship, both being close and there for each other when their respective "big sibling" figure dies. And with the way Yoruko treated Yuki in chapter 4 and 5, Hibiki was going to retaliate one way or another.

So what better way to do it than in the worst moment Hibiki could find Yoruko and Yuki in? In this timeline, Hibiki joins Sora after she cant find Yuki, thats because throughout the first half of chapter 5, she acts as some sort of guardian to Yuki after the chapter 4 trial and the reveal of Utsuro in Yuki, so she constantly is trying to bring that out of him. That is why she and Sora team up to look for the two.

And after finding out whats happening? Hibiki snaps at Yoruko, basically telling her off at how hypocritical and mean she has treated Yuki in comparison to the rest. Which in turns causes Yoruko to pretty much tell Hibiki what she told Sora in the original.

And then we have the final part, which... I'm actually going to leave it to you guys to theorize about! I thought it would be fun to leave some parts unexplained for now so people could come up with their own theories about it. It will definitely be explained, and I already do have why this happens, but this gives me a way for me to interact with anyone that follows these posts and to also get inspired by any ideas to develop said AU!

Anyways, this is all I have to say for the time being, hope you guys liked the more experimental path I am going for this Universe as a way to give Hibiki more to do. And I will try and come back to more regular posting, no promises though!

I feel like Spike Chunsoft wanted to do something with these two being related in a way, because how are they so similar in almost every aspect? I mean, they both get introduced in dr3 (Sato is a dr2 character i know, but she got PROPERLY introduced in dr3), they both have green hair with purple eyes, their personalities consist of being cold and easily angered,>!and not to mention how gay asf both of these guys are.!<
That, with the combination at how Sato was just never given a first name ,not only in the anime itself but in literally any other promo art there is of Sato, makes me think that originally they had the idea to make these two siblings by retconning Sato's last name into a first name and giving her the full name of "Sato Sakakura", but somewhere along they line they scrapped said idea and just never bothered to give Sato a new first name.

I think its kinda sad if that was the case, it would have made Sato just a tad bit more relevant in the story, which she was pretty robbed out of being, but it would have also given Juzo another reason as to why >!he hates the ROD members, as one of them was the reason his sister got killed, and now Makoto was "saving" them too. !<
I'm honestly super happy that many fans have made them siblings, as they really do fit together. Myself included, only that mines a bit more complicated than the others. Though if I try and explain it then we'll be here for a week.

Hey guys! I know this is a pretty surprising twist from me, but before I continue on with chapter 5 of my Living Melody AU, I thought it would be kinda fun to go back and develop some of the changes that I think deserve a bit more of attention, so expect this one and maybe the next one to focus on the execution and the talk everyone has after Nikei reveals he is a void.

As for the execution, I thought I would take a more creative and unique approach than other Hibiki survives AUs. Most of them feature the fact that the key actually does bring one of them to safety, or that since Hibiki was being controlled it doesn't count. My problem with both of these reasoning is that Mikado would never let this happen intentionally, he is expecting 3 people dead by this case, so deliberately forgiving Hibiki on his own accord feels odd.

So the way I fixed this problem is instead make it so that its something OUT of Mikados control, and what better way to do it was with the way Hibiki was able to remove Kanade off from her? Instead of hitting Kanade a few times with the mic to let her go, what if instead something inside of her snaps and decides to finish her off and kill her right then and there? And since there is never said to be a timer on the execution, Hibiki after finishing her kill just freezes on the spot from shock. It fixes the entire problem of Mikado intervening for some reason to save one of the sisters when he needs 3 people to die.

Its also an awesome idea IMO because of how nobody wins this time:

Hibiki doesn't win because she now directly caused the death of her own sister, quite literally killing her and getting her own hands dirty. This, as Ive explained before, worsens Hibiki's mood throughout most of chapter 4 moving on.

Mikado doesn't win because now the entire case is ruined, there were 2 killers instead of 1, 1 victim instead of 2, not a void kill, and now after a lot of pressure from the others, the 2nd killer gets spared too.

the other guys don't win because now they have a broken Hibiki on their side, basically going back to not trusting anyone again and being distant, putting a strain and main cause now for Yuki to start to doubt the bond they all had.

And even Kanade doesn't win as she is now instead brutally killed by the one person she was controlling, not getting to see the death of Hibiki before her and I even wanted to make Kanade show actual genuine fear on her lasts moments to kind of emphasize that Kanade is still human and can experience said things.

So yeah, no one wins. This one is a lot shorter but that's meant to be the point, they're meant to be more lore building to past things I've mentioned before and felt like they needed a more in depth explanation. If I do continue doing this, next one might be related to the talk of Nikei and bonding right at the begging of Chapter 4, where Hibiki would take Yuki's side on not being able to trust people anymore.

Part 3 of my Living Melody AU: (Hibiki Survivor). Last post I explained how I wanted to touch more on Yuki and Hibiki's relation and here I'm doing just that. I wanted to do this specifically because I genuinely love these two together, ship or not, with just how much in common they start to have once chapter 3 rolled out. And I want to use it to its potential.

So, as I've stated before in other posts, Hibiki would take Yuki's side in this timeline when he goes on a tangent about not being able to work together after the third trial. Considering the closest person to her turned out to be a horrible person and the second closest one died by her and technically your hands as well, so i say its obvious she doesn't agree that bonding will make them not kill each other. The other reason as to why I made it so that she agrees with Yuki is to that they themselves can get closer, having someone take Yuki's side during chapter 4 ESPECIALLY after Shinji's death can honestly help him out. I doubt it would have stopped Yuki from experiencing the things he did in the original AU, but it would at least give him something to hold on to, which I think is cute.

I could see Hibiki staying close to Yuki after the talk shown above, which would happen when they're still trapped under Teruya's control in the room. In a sense, Hibiki starts using Yuki as a way to move on from Kanade and stop depending on her. As I've stated before, Hibiki feels responsible for the way Kanade started acting as a result of the harassment she inflicted on her from Hibikis inferiority complex. Having someone to just talk it out would feel refreshing and would mark as a good step in the right direction.

Another thing she would do is honestly call of Yoruko on the way she was treating Yuki this chapter, and saying Yoruko never showed the same resentment when Hibiki was the one crying instead. She basically works as a new partner for Yuki, and Yuki works as a new partner for her, they both have each others back. So you know she is going to get absolutely furious at Nikei when he reveals the truth about his plan to the rest and how Yuki was meant to be the culprit of the case.

But I think the most shocking part for Hibiki will be the reveal of Yuki being used as a vessel from VOID for the creation of Utsuro. Hibiki reacting to this and to Yuki slowly turning into him, knowing that she was also in that position and that its now happening to the person closest to her now, it absolutely freaks her out. This is my reasoning as to why Hibiki would stay relatively close to Yuki at all times during Chapter 5, trying to bring the old Maeda back and attempting to stop the transformation into Utsuro. But more on that when I reach chapter 5.

Anyways yes, this was an excuse to post Hibiyuki, but I tried my best to not be as biased and just make both of them survive all happy and dandy and live a happy life as a couple.

This has genuinely become my favorite rare ship of the Science Adventure Series, I think Riko and Shinji could have such a fun dynamic. With Haida being the more serious yet gloomier one, and Itou being the air headed yet happier.

I could see them beginning to bond in a hypothetical timeline in which Riko wasn't the 5th victim of the Return of the New Gen Madness, and probably had the same treatment as Shinji would have later on (potentially a more dire one as she had been mind controlled for weeks now).

Also, from what we know of her from the wrong victim memoirs side novel, I like to headcanon that Riko sometimes has depression episodes and be completely out of it, thinking she should have died along with her parents back at the Shibuya earthquake. And while before she had to deal with said episodes alone, at some point Itou steps in and tries to comfort her, making it more bearable to go through.