Why not hide the body?

[Whitnee]

So ever since DR2, I've been wondering what would happen if someone was killed and the killer just hid their body somewhere no one could find. This couldn't work in DR1 because the only place you could plausibly pull this off is by hiding it in your room, and once the victim was missing for a long enough time, someone would demand to look in there. In DR2 however, you could just tie a weight to the body and drop it in the ocean or the water around all the condos.

Honestly, someone could have used the pirnas in Himiko's room to devour the body, and then all they'd have to deal with was the bones which they could grind or crush or bury. I guess this wouldn't be very purposeful unless the killer killed by accident and wanted to avoid a trial at all cost, but it'd be pretty funny if they put the victim's bone grains in an ordinary place so three people would stumble across a body and not even realize it until they got the monokuma file.

This would probably never happen in any of the games, but what do you think would happen if the victim was hidden or mutilated in a way others could stumble across it and not even realize.

[BeastBox]

In DR2, I feel like that would violate the "no littering" rule, and the alarm would sound.

I do like the idea of getting wilder with the cases, but of course they still have to be solvable in some way. I thought it would have been interesting for someone to be murdered by something someone set up in a previous case. Like how Kaito was coughing up all that blood .... imagine if he had been poisoned by a would-be murderer two caes ago and they were playing the long game. Bonus points: his murderer gets murdered before the poison can kill Kaito. :)

There's only so much you can do without violating the Danganronpa format. All of this would work, but maybe in a different game.

[Battler Ushiromiya]

Plot. That's basically the only reason.

Honestly, it would be morbidly hilarious if something like that happened. Just like "A body has been discovered! Please head to X Area", and then Monokuma pops up with the Monokuma files, and goes "Yeah, the victim's right there on that rock. He's been grinded into a fine paste, if you can't tell. Good ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ luck".

[Whitnee]

Oh yeah, the littering rule... That shoots the DR2 theory, good point (although can you imagine how funny it would be to hear Monokuma and Monomi argue about a dead student being considered litter while everyone just stands there horrified.)

And yeah, I kinda figured that would be a great murder, but the entire case would be really hard to do.

When I first thought of it, I pictured a scene where it's chapter 2, everyone's at enjoying a nice dinner made by Kirumi (of course one person is missing), then Monokuma shows up "late" gives them the Monokuma file and where the bloody picture of the victim's body usually is there's just a picture of the half ate feast. Seeing everyone realize what it meant one by one would be so funny.

All jokes aside, if there was a way to disguise the body in a wild way, that would be awesome. I absolutely loved Ryoma's body discovery.

[Sepiablitz]

What would be even better imo would be this: One person goes missing (killed and body hidden) and then another one is killed and mutilated beyond recognition. So you wouldn't know which body you found.
Extra: If both murderers used the same method to hide the body, they wouldn't even know if their victim was found or the other ones.
No idea how you could pull that one off though, especially the motive to hide a body is difficult since the body needs to be found for a trial and a trial needs to be won to graduate.

[Nanako]

throughout all the games ive been really hoping to find a corpse stuffed in a locker or something.
I dislike that all the murders happen during a major story event, you can pretty much tell when its going to happen

[LightlySalted]

All these complicated murders with these fancy contraptions. Whatever happened to a good ol sneak attack with a swift stab at the heart or throat slice?

[oursjulien]

I think you have to make the body discoverable somehow to trigger the trial you have to win to escape the killing game .... No body discovery, no trial, no escape . So there isn't too much point into killing one of your comrade and making his/her body disappear if that means you cannot even participate in the trial x)

[WizoDard]

Originally posted by LightlySalted:

All these complicated murders with these fancy contraptions. Whatever happened to a good ol sneak attack with a swift stab at the heart or throat slice?

Just ask Mr.Seesaw Effect if you want to see that, xD. He was very traditional to the Danganronpa killing method. Kirumi, however, was original and decided to bop someone on the head, and then proceed to drown them to death when they woke up, xD.

[WizoDard]

Originally posted by Battler Ushiromiya:

Plot. That's basically the only reason.

Honestly, it would be morbidly hilarious if something like that happened. Just like "A body has been discovered! Please head to X Area", and then Monokuma pops up with the Monokuma files, and goes "Yeah, the victim's right there on that rock. He's been grinded into a fine paste, if you can't tell. Good ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ luck".

Well, plot is a major thing in Danganronpa, and working around killing tropes is a thing Danganronpa loves to do. So I think if there is ever a sequel Killing Game with another creator other than Kodaka, after UDG2 of course, then there should be a case when the body is unidentifiable. More likely, you wouldn't find out who actually died until after you figure out how the murderer committed the crime. Kind of like Case 5 in DRV3 where you find out who was actually dead at the end. Except you never find out until after the trial when Monokuma tells you who it was...

[GrandMasterFox]

First, you're wrong about the first game. There are plenty of places to hide the body. Kirigi was walking around in secret passages and avoiding Monokuma and the Student's eyes.

Second, there's a simple reason why nobody tries to hide the body -
There wouldn't be a class trial until a body is found. The killers are (usually) driven by an attempt to win the game, therefore they try to win the trial.

There are exceptions with some of them, Sakura and Nagito for instance. But... Those would be really funny if the body is hidden.

[Monsieur Crow]

Originally posted by GrandMasterFox:

First, you're wrong about the first game. There are plenty of places to hide the body. Kirigi was walking around in secret passages and avoiding Monokuma and the Student's eyes.

Kyoko only went around the secret passageways after she stole the key from the Headmaster's Office, a looooooong while into the killing game. Even then, you answered your own question: hiding the body prevents a trial from happening, and thus, your ticket to freedom.

[Canonically Cute]

No class trial will be held until someone find body so if someone hide the body then killing will be pointless unless some char hate another very much
And actually we got kinda hidden body in chapter 5

[Zaltys]

Yeah, and killing everyone one by one over time and hiding the bodies isn't an option either, since serial killing is against the rules.

[Whitnee]

This method wouldn't really work in the thrid game because all of the murders were done with a purpose. I was thinking more about accidental kills such as Mondo's case when he killed outside of his will or Leon's who said he acted out of self-defense. Maybe they would hide the body to avoid the trial and avoid having to kill everyone else or die themselves. Of course, this may not work because Monokuma would probably lead the students to the body or do something to get the game moving forward.

[Lord Crocosquirrel]

In DR2 there's a fast and efficient way to dispose of a body: Chop it into small pieces and leave them in the animal feed on the Ranch. Domesticated pigs and cattle never notice what's in that crap anyway. It wouldn't be littering, because it was all tucked away nicely and not left lying about willy-nilly.

As for DR1, the first student to make it into the Headmaster's Office would effectively have carte blanche. Either that, or the guy on trash duty. If you're cute enough, or talk a really good game, you might be able to get the key anyway. Incinerators are brilliant like that. Especially if you do it before the two-kill rule gets implemented.

Besides... Until a body has been seen by three or more people, it's business as usual.