Cospox

[Sneaky Fox]

So, we saw the cospox in chapter 1 when Tsumugi tried to cosplay as Kaede. And over the entire game this has been the reason she cannot impersonate anyone at the school. She can only cosplay as fictional characters.
but the ending shows they all were fictional characters. And she even cosplayed as pretty much the entire cast of 1 and 2.
Does this mean, Kaede was not a fictional character? Was it all a lie and why is it never adressed? this is a clear contradiction and I wounder why we never took a look at this? It would have been a great tool to expose all she said about the show as a lie.

[Protocol27]

Shuichi does allude to everything possibly being a lie in the epilogue when Tsumugi said that she was a "copycat criminal," since that implies that the killing game held was illegal. Although, it could be interpreted that she calledh erself that because she performed the greatest crime of all in her own opinion, she got cocky and ruined Danganronpa like Junko ruined the world in DR1. To Tsumugi, she ruined the world and filled it with despair. To Tsumugi, Danganronpa being ruined is her "biggest most awful most tragic event" in human history. Or whatever that event is called.

It's not fully addressed because it's left up to the player to interpret if Danganronpa truly is fictional, if it was all a lie, or a mix of both (ex. everything is fictional but Tsumugi just lied about having cospox by mimicking it using makeup).

[Hurkyl]

Another loophole is the notion that when donning Kaede's clothes, Tsumugi can choose between trying to cosplay as Kaede the real person and trying to cosplay as Kaede the persona created for the killing game.

[コトラ]

If she lied about what triggers Cospox, and it instead triggers when cosplaying as fictional characters, then the events of the other games can be seen as canon and it also fits into the "would rather make the clothes than actually wear them" aspect of her character, since she wouldn't be able to cosplay as a fictional character without turning pink. The fact that Ultimate Pianist Kaede is a fictional character supports this, as Tsumugi likely wouldn't have any problem cosplaying as the real Kaede.

[Sneaky Fox]

but she put on her pianist outfit.

[コトラ]

I'm referring to the theory that the audition tapes shown in Chapter 6 are just Tsumugi cosplaying as the real students, since they're heavily implied to be faked as the students' personality in the tapes are nothing at all like their personalities in the first Prologue. The only resemblance is pregame Kaede saying something like "I called for help, but nobody came. It reminded me of how rotten the world is.", though since all the students were kidnapped, it's very unlikely that they applied to be on the show.

[Burny]

Kaede is a real person regardless of the role she's been given by Tsumugi (ultimate pianist). There's still a living human being behind the persona. The characters from the previous games are seen as completely fictional, as in - they never existed in real life.

[Sneaky Fox]

and that contradicts what she was claiming the whole time. they are not fictional characters. they are real people. The whole conflict from the final class trial was about them being real people or just fictional characters. and the cospox prove that.
notice how she never cosplays as any of the dead characters from v3 either? her claim is a lie. And I bet they even kept their real names like Shichi or Kaede. The probably never changed it, they just changed their personality. that is why the name is cencored from the audition tape too.

[Burny]

Originally posted by Sneaky Fox:

and that contradicts what she was claiming the whole time. they are not fictional characters. they are real people. The whole conflict from the final class trial was about them being real people or just fictional characters. and the cospox prove that.
notice how she never cosplays as any of the dead characters from v3 either? her claim is a lie. And I bet they even kept their real names like Shichi or Kaede. The probably never changed it, they just changed their personality. that is why the name is cencored from the audition tape too.

V3 characters are real people roleplaying as fictional characters. DR1&2 characters are assumed to be fully made up as in an anime/cartoon. You can't make up an allergic reaction. That's of course what I understood from the explanation, many people have different interpretations.

[Sneaky Fox]

there is only what Tsumugi said. "I cannot cosplay real people." And I must say, the fact this was never mentioned during the final trial pisses me off big time.