Why is swimming pool on second floor

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

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[Runa Silvertongue]

You know... that's actually a really good question. You'd think it would've been on the first floor as an annex to the gym. I never questioned why the pool was on the 2nd floor. Maybe the floor/ceiling was strengthened to allow for a 2nd floor pool? Other than that, I got nothin.

[Mysti_Fogg]

Because they didn't want to make an auditorium for announcements and theatrical performances (these were common in the high schools near where I grew up, but perhaps in Japan they use the gym for everything like we did at the elementary school level? I mean, it's also obviously a matter of funding, but I didn't think Hope's Peak had a huge cash flow problem in its early years.).

Basically, Monokuma needed a place to gather everyone together and they picked the gym, so the gym had to be accessible on the 1st floor to go with their idea of unlocking floors only as the game progressed. So when choosing between the two, they picked gym, even though pool made more sense. They could have also put the pool on the first floor (would have made way more sense) and only unlocked it later like the nurse's office), but Hina would have gotten Sakura to knock the doors down ASAP. So they put it on the second floor so that they could use the locker room/exercise rooms for the second murder.

Logically, it's a stupid place for a pool. But since it's not a real place where they would have had to pay a crap ton of money to reinforce the floor and constantly worry about leaks onto their gym and also put the pool on the 4th floor, come to think of it, because they need at least that much space to account for the pool's depth, Spike Chunsoft have bent time and space to give us a pool on the 2nd floor for the purposes of their plot.

[SHABOINGBOING]

honestly a very good question that i can't think of an answer to

[Chief Gooley]

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