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[sillyoldbear]

Player Name: bii
Preferred Pronouns?: she/her etc
Player Contact: obiisama
Other characters in play? Makoto “Lin” Kino

Character Name: Edward Bear aka Winnie the Pooh
Canon: Disney’s Winnie the Pooh
Game Transplant: Dangan Roleplay (Special Round: Disney Ronpa)
Original App: Here!
Game Summary: One day a nefarious mascot character by the name of Monobear attacked King Mickey and his court, stealing his magic hat and locking the king in the dungeon, while the rest of the inhabitants of Disney Castle fled, thus turning the Magic Kingdom into a Tragic Kingdom. He then proceeded to secure said castle so no one could get out, then kidnap fifteen Disney characters to participate in a death game for his entertainment. If anyone wanted to be able to free themselves from the castle, they would need to get away with murder.

How long was your character in Game: Six weeks! The entire run of the game. Somehow Pooh managed to make it into the survivor’s pool.
History of Character in their Game: OKAY, I’m going to divide this up into the various weeks/murders of the game to make this easier on all of us.

WEEK ONE: Pooh wakes up in the Tragic Kingdom with the other Disneys. He meets and establishes friendly relations with most of them. He goes looking for honey with some of them and finally finds it with Ariel. Then Monobear (or Mono Bear as Pooh pronounces it) shows up and tells them about the whole YOU HAVE TO MURDER YOUR WAY OUT THING. Pooh assumes at first that Monobear is a relative due to their mutual stuffed bear natures but he is not. Pooh then spends the rest of the week pleasantly exploring the castle and doing friendly things with the other inhabitants. Notable life events for Pooh include a short ride in the washing machine (thanks to Jack Skeleton), making music with Prince Naveen, and showing Gaston his stoutness exercises. Gaston explains to Pooh that eating vast quantities of eggs will give you muscles.

WEEK TWO: Since nobody’s murdered anybody yet, Monobear decides to curse everyone to give them extra motivation. Pooh’s “curse” ends up being turned into a Real Grizzly Bear complete with a craving for meat, albeit a golden one in a large red shirt. Right away he accidentally stabs himself with his claw and scares the heck out out of people by roaring in pain. Sora manages to calm him down, however, despite Sora’s own curse of unintelligibility. When Pooh sees that Gaston has been cursed to lose all his muscles, he’s one of the few people not to laugh at him. Instead, Pooh declares that they need to go to the kitchen to feed Gaston lots of eggs to bring his muscles back. He offers to give Gaston a ride to the kitchen on his back. It is the start of a beautiful friendship. Pooh is hungry, so Gaston decides to feed him meat, which Grizzy Pooh decides is almost as good as honey, albeit in a different way. He spends the rest of the week dealing with his new body and its strange habits, as well as being much stronger and faster than he’d ever been before. He accidentally breaks the bed in his room.

FIRST MURDER: At the end of the second week, the Disneys throw a costume party in the ball room. At eight o’clock the room suddenly goes dark. When the lights go back on, the tiny headless corpse of Iridessa (a light fairy from the Disney Fairies franchise) can be found on the middle of the dance floor among a large quantity of feathers. The curse is broken and everyone transforms into their normal selves. Pooh is one of the first people to reach the body and he asks around for thread so they sew her head back on if they find it, so she’ll be fixed. He doesn’t exactly understand death beyond the fact that people stop moving. He’s also confused that Iridessa smells like meat, as he doesn’t realize that meat comes from anywhere besides packages in the “cold green box” aka the castle refrigerator. He helps Maybeck search one of the hidden passages of the castle during the investigation. At the trial, nearly everyone dismisses the feathers as part of an obvious framejob of Howl (who’d been turned into a giant bird monster during the curse) and decides that Pooh must have committed the murder by accident and then had Gaston help him cover up the evidence. Gaston, Elsa, and Sora come to Pooh’s defense. In the end it turns out that Howl really did kill Iridessa in order not to lose his human mind from staying in monster bird for for too long and those feathers they assumed were part of a framejob were really just from Howl’s shedding. Howl is executed by immolation, which Pooh refuses to watch, letting Sora shield him from the sight. After the trial, the Disneys are given a strange pink cake. (It was meant to symbolize the first anniversary of Dangan Roleplay, not that anyone would know IC.)

THIRD WEEK: Pooh starts the week off very gloomy from his experience of the first week’s investigation and trial. As tradition, the solving of the first murder opens up another wing of the castle for the Disneys to investigate, in this case the West Tower. It contains a room full of dolls, a tea room, and a library. The doll room has dolls from the Small World ride and small doll replicas of Monobear’s captives. The replica of Pooh is completely identical to the actual Pooh (since he already is a stuffed animal) and Pooh finds the doll room to be Quite Scary. He’s fine with the library and the tea room, however, especially since the tea room has honey spoons and honey-flavored tea. Monobear’s curse for the week turns the castle topsy-turvy, making it so that any door could lead to almost anywhere in the castle. It also makes it so that the gravity of any given room could be in any direction, not necessarily leading down. Pooh has a little difficulty reaching the pantry cupboards after this and on Thursday he gets locked in a traumatic loop of not being able to leave the doll room for some time. However, he does manage to make it to the library for Naveen’s fireside party, where he conducts experiments in putting honey on meat skewers. (It turns out he’s still retained an enjoyment of meat even though he’s no longer a grizzly, but luckily he still doesn’t know where it comes from before it’s in packages.)

SECOND MURDER: Friday morning, Anna is found in the library, her head burnt in the fireplace, having been stabbed in the heart. Pooh is given the job of making sure Elsa doesn’t come into the library to find her sister’s corpse, that way keeping Pooh himself from having to see it. Unfortunately, she slips past him while he’s guarding the library door. Later, Pooh goes and helps Perry and Jack investigate the costume room. Perry and Jack figure out that Anna might have been shot with an arrow and then was stabbed later. A pot of honey with soot on it is found in the kitchen, but it’s soon dismissed as an attempt at framing Pooh at the trial, since Pooh would a) not eat dirty sooty honey if there was anything else around and b) would not leave a honey pot half-eaten. Gaston is accused of killing Anna due to his hunting prowess and Pooh comes to his defense. In the end it turns out that Bill Cipher killed Anna for his own arcane reasons, despite Anna being one of the few people in the castle that liked the triangle man. Bill is strangled by marionnette strings in his execution. Once more Pooh refuses to watch. Afterwards, Naveen asks everyone to meet him in the tea room.

FOURTH WEEK: The solving of the second murder opens up the East Tower of the castle, which has a garden room, a gallery, and a secret hidden room on top that Naveen, Ariel, and Perry figure out how to sing open. It turns out to be a sort of junk room/attic where Monobear has crammed stuff he doesn’t want lying around the rest of the castle, including portraits of Goofy, Donald, Daisy and other characters from the classic Disney shorts. The eleven remaining Disneys have a meeting there on Tuesday after Monobear announces that week’s motive: a redo button to let the murderer go back in time to change something they’d done previously. Maybeck, who’s technically a holographic guardian of the Disney theme parks, tries to explain that they’re all sort of fictional. Pooh takes this very well as he already knew he was in a book, having at times talked to the Narrator or climbed on the typography. Some of the other Disneys, however, think Maybeck is a crazy cultist because of this. Later that week, Pooh goes around with Maybeck singing at things to try to make another secret passage open. There is a grinding noise under their feet in the foyer that Pooh mistakes for his tummy rumbling but nothing they can see. He later goes to look for passages on his own in his room and Anna’s, the later with Sora’s help. He finds nothing but a sewing kit in Anna’s room. This will be important.

THIRD MURDER: Armed with his sewing kit, Pooh gets up early to look all over the castle, the idea being that if someone “stopped moving” again that week, he could maybe sew them up and fix them. He finds Elsa’s dead body sitting in an armchair in the library, but there’s nothing to sew because Elsa’s been poisoned. The others find him with sewing kit in hand, trying to figure out why he can’t fix anything and Pooh’s stubborn insistence he can find a way leads to Naveen losing his temper and yelling at Pooh for his willful denial of the facts. Donald takes Pooh aside and finally explains how death actually works to him. Later Donald and Pooh investigate the kitchen, using Pooh’s keen animal sense of smell to figure out that someone put some bad flowers into hot chocolate, which was fed to Elsa by her murderer. At the trial, the means of murder are easily figured out as it turns out that the ‘bad flowers’ were wolfsbane, but it takes some time for the actual murderer to be revealed as the Disneys aren’t very good at being detectives. It probably doesn’t help that the main lesson Pooh’s learned from the previous two trials is that he needs to deny his and Gaston’s involvement in things early and often, which only makes him sound guiltier. (This especially doesn’t help when one of the things he ends up denying on their joint behalf is wearing dresses.) In the end it turns out that Maleficent poisoned Elsa in order to undo her curse on Aurora, which she very much regretted, being the live-action Maleficent and not the animated one. (It was also meant to be something of a mercy for Elsa, who shut down completely upon her sister’s death.) Maleficent is executed by iron maiden. Pooh once more refuses to watch. Naveen invites everyone to his room to be sad together after the execution.

FIFTH WEEK: That Monday, Pooh helps Agent Platypus look for secret passes or compartments in the kitchen. Monobear announces Tuesday morning this week’s curse motive: anyone who eats any food until there is a murder will fall into the Sleep of Death and will only be able to be woken up if there is a murder. Given Pooh’s gluttony and honey addiction, this week promises to be difficult for him. Naveen, unfortunately, has already fallen into the sleep of death, as he was munching on an apple as Monobear made the announcement. Gaston draws dicks on his face because he’s terrible. Pooh, thinking the dicks are unfinished heffalump drawings, “finishes” them so that they have faces. Meanwhile, Maybeck decides he will sleeplessly guard the kitchen for the duration. Late that night--or perhaps early that morning--Pooh starts hallucinating that everything that surrounds him in the castle is honey and begins to make his way to the kitchen. He’s stopped by Maybeck. Unfortunately, the following afternoon, Pooh (who is hard into honey withdrawal) manages to make it past the exhausted Maybeck’s guard. He is found with his head in a honey jar by Maybeck and Sora.

FOURTH MURDER: Pooh wakes up in the doll room, his sleeping body having been switched with the Pooh doll by Monobear for shits and giggles during the week. Thinking he’s now the Pooh doll, Pooh freaks out and screams, which brings Jack Skellington to find him. Jack manages to explain to Pooh that he’s not the Pooh doll and Monobear just played a trick. It turns out that Sora was the victim of a nasty headwound and Gaston, Maybeck and Jack had found him in the kitchen. Pooh helps Maybeck and Jack look for clues in the foyer and the hall in front of the bedrooms. He and Jack also look in Sora’s room for clues. At the trial people accuse Maybeck of trying to summon Chernabog, but it eventually comes out that it was Agent Perry Platypus who accidentally killed Sora the night before while guarding Naveen, having assumed the dark figure bending over Naveen he’d seen when he’d returned from getting coffee in the kitchen was trying to murder Naveen and not check on him. Pooh begged Monobear not to execute Perry for making a mistake. When Monobear refused, Pooh told him that he hated him. He gives Perry a goodbye hug and forces himself to most of watch Perry’s execution, which ends with Perry being exploded. After the trial, Gaston makes stew for everyone in the kitchen and the remaining Disneys attempt to make each other feel better. Pooh and Maybeck sing the Heffalumps and Woozles song together so they will feel less sad.

SIXTH WEEK: As a change from the other weeks, instead of Monobear cursing them with a motive for murder, the Disneys are given a poem, in the style of Ten Little Soldier Boys, describing the previous deaths and hinting the next one will come about by jumping “neck-deep in hot water.” Pooh and the others try to solve the riddle. Naveen and Ariel, who have been falling in love over the course of their captivity, decide to get married, and Pooh volunteers to be their Ring Bear. Besides his ring duties, he also takes it upon himself to watch over the married couple after the ceremony, although his vigilance stops at their bedroom door.

THE MURDER THAT WASN’T: Despite Pooh marching up and down the hallways in front of the bedrooms during the night after the wedding, multiple people manage to get past his watch, probably by sneaking out while he was marching in the opposite direction. One of those people was Jack Skellington, who finds a pair of people struggling against each other in the Tea Room. In order to stop the fight, Jack sets himself on fire and shrieks. The two combatants fall over and it’s revealed they are Gaston and Naveen. Naveen had left his nuptial chamber after Ariel had fallen asleep because he wanted tea. Gaston, who’d been patrolling the castle, mistook him for being Maybeck, who he suspected to be Up To No Good. Thankfully, due to Jack’s timely intervention, nobody got their neck snapped. Ariel runs up to the tea room with Pooh right on her heels and he’s Very Relieved that nobody died.

THE LAST DAY: The next morning, there are Mysterious Pillars in the Foyer. Gaston and Pooh investigate one, but they need Ariel to read the engraving. It turns out that if King Arthur’s sword is placed in the pillar, it will open up to a secret passageway. The Disneys get ready to venture down into the secret passage, however Pooh first packs a bindle full of honey squeeze bottles. They follow the passage down to a trap door, which Gaston opens. There is a rickety ladder, which the small and light Pooh is the first to venture down, followed by Donald Duck. They find a magic door, which Maybeck finds a way to open. On the other side of the door is the castle dungeons. It is there where the Disneys find King Mickey, who was locked down there when Monobear took over his castle and stole his magic sorcerer's hat. The Disneys free King Mickey and make their way out of the dungeons, ending up in Monobear’s court room. It’s there that the final confrontation between Disneys and Monobear ensues, with Monobear throwing fireballs at King Mickey while the Disney throw pretty much everything else in the room at Monobear, attempting to knock the sorcerer’s hat off his ursine head. Pooh ends up sitting on Gaston’s shoulders and singing “Ho!” while throwing the honey in his bindle. Monobear ends up flooding the court room after he sets most of it on fire, which turns out unfortunately for him, because once the hat is finally knocked off, Ariel uses her swimming skills to get to it before Monobear can retrieve it. The hat is returned to King Mickey, who uses it to turn Monobear into stone. Freed from their captivity, Pooh and the remaining Disneys leave the castle. With the help of King Mickey’s brother, Oswald, their fallen compatriots manage to free themselves from the realm of forgotten characters, which their deaths had sent them to, and Oswald himself is even freed from that realm. And everyone lived happily ever after.

During his time in Monobear’s castle, Pooh made a lot of new friends. In fact, there were only two people in the Castle that Pooh did not consider his friend in some capacity by the end of the game of mutual killing. The first of these is Bill Cipher. Although Bill seemed helpful when Pooh first met him, the way Bill acted during the first trial made Pooh uneasy. Then, when Bill killed Anna for shits and giggles a week later, Pooh decided that he did not like Bill at all.

The other person in the castle that Pooh did not consider to be a friend was Monobear himself. Although at the beginning of his stay he was inclined to be friendly to his fellow stuffed bear and even assumed that Monobear was a distant relation, as time went on and Monobear kept on cursing them and expecting them to murder people, Pooh began to dislike Monobear more and more. By the time the last execution rolled around, Pooh had learned what it was to hate someone.

It wasn’t a nice feeling.

Among the rest of the Disneys, Pooh was especially close friends with three of them: Sora, Gaston, and Maybeck. Sora, in fact, had been friends with Kingdom Heart’s Pooh even before the Disney Life of Mutual Killing and had greeted Pooh when he saw him like he was an old friend. Pooh thought this just meant he’d forgotten Sora or Sora was from later in the book. It didn’t matter, because they became good friends right away again. Sora helped Pooh get through the executions, which were frightening.

With Donnie Maybeck, Pooh was one of the few Disneys to accept Maybeck’s explanations about his job and about Walt Disney. Maybeck, you see, was a person turned into a hologram who served as a guide and guardian to Disney theme parks and as such ended up puncturing the fourth wall at times, which lead most of the Disneys to thinking Maybeck was crazy and possibly a worshipper of Chernabog. (Long story, that.) Pooh, however, wasn’t bothered at all by the idea that he might be fictional, because he already knew he was in a book. He’d talked directly to the Narrator and climbed on the typography. So among the Disney, he probably trusted Maybeck the most.

His friendship with Gaston, however, did a good deal to… well, to make Gaston a less awful human being. Pooh’s simple, constant overtures of friendship, which he offered everyone he talked to, were something Gaston didn’t think too hard about during the first week of their captivity, but when Pooh had become a real grizzly bear the second week in the castle, those friendly moments were enough that Gaston found he didn’t want to hunt Pooh. Pooh, in turn, felt protective of Gaston, who had lost all his muscles thanks to the transformation curse and was weak and noodly. The two of them, Pooh and Gaston, spent a lot of time together the next few days, with Gaston feeding Pooh Grizzly meat and Pooh giving the noodly Gaston grizzly-back rides. And in some ways their odd friendship wasn’t that odd. After all, both Pooh and Gaston were creatures of very little brain, who were fond of eating vast quantities of their chosen foods (honey and eggs), had trouble reading anything but very small words, and wore bright red shirts. In any case, it was a friendship that would last the two the rest of their captivity, as they displayed implicit trust of each other during the investigations and trials, refusing to believe that either one could be guilty of murder.

How did they change from their canon personality wise (Please explain what caused it to happen?) Despite the terrors of the Disney Life of Mutual Killing, in some ways Pooh is very much the same bear he was before the whole mess started. He’s still inclined to trust easily and to follow the lead of smarter and more persuasive animals (and humans.) He’s still friendly to everyone as a matter of course and he’s still an absolute glutton for honey. All these things are true, but at the same time… something about Pooh has been irrevocably altered.

The theme of Disney Ronpa was the loss of innocence. Every single Disney suffered it to some extent. How could they not, when they were forced to murder each other and then convict and execute the murdering parties? Pooh was no different.

Before the Disney Life of Mutual Killing, Pooh didn’t really understand the concept of death. Why should he, when all his friends and so many inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Woods were animate stuffed animals? If someone lost a body part, it could easily been replaced with a needle and thread or with nails. Christopher Robin was forever nailing Eeyore’s tail back on. And in games of pretend, everyone was always all right at the end. It’s no wonder it wasn’t until a month in that Donald Duck was finally able to explain things so Pooh would understand them.

Pooh understands the concept of death now. Pooh also understands what it is to hate someone now. He doesn’t like hating someone--it really isn’t a pleasant feeling--but there’s no other words for the way he feels about Monobear. Monobear made everyone do awful things and he enjoyed the despair it caused them. Monobear showed no mercy, was perfectly happy to execute people on a technicality. He might be the only person Pooh has ever (and probably will ever) hate, but there’s no denying that he thoroughly earned it.

On a lighter note, Pooh ended up with a taste for meat when he was a grizzly that didn’t completely leave him once he was a stuffed bear again. Luckily, he doesn’t exactly understand where meat comes from, other than in wrapped packages, which is probably just as well. He wouldn’t want to know it comes from dead animals.

How did they change from their canon physically (Please explain what caused it to happen?): Physically, Pooh is much the same as he was before the Disney Life of Mutual Killing. Although some of Monobear’s curses had physical effects, none of them lasted very long.

It is unknown if Pooh has blood in his normal stuffed animal form, but when he was a grizzly bear his blood was bright pink, as was any other Dangan Roleplay character. If he ever becomes flesh-and-blood in the Meadous for any reason, he'll likely retain that pink blood.

Powers: Does being a walking, talking stuffed animal count as a power? Probably. Especially if you can eat vast quantities of honey. Back in the Hundred Acre Woods, Pooh also could talk to the Narrator of his book and climb out of the illustrations and onto the typography, although he won’t be doing that in the Meadous. Also, he can find home by listening to his tummy to guide him to his honey pots. Most importantly, however, Pooh has the power of friendship.
Possessions: The bee-stripe bathing suit outfit from his fantasy sequence in the 2010 Winnie the Pooh film, the book Babar (in French), the Little John fancy disguise outfit he wore to the party Iridessa died at, the pictures Maybeck and Sora drew for him, his popgun, and lots and lots and lots of honey. (Also, I suspect his hobbit hole house will be furnished much like his house in the Hundred Acre Woods was, to the point of the name SANDERS being over his door.)

Please provide three samples from your previous game, at least one will have to be third person with context:
Sample One: IN WHICH POOH IS A BIG BEAR AND GASTON RIDES A GRIZZLY
Sample Two: In which Pooh is sad after the first trial and his friends try to cheer him up
Sample Three: In which Pooh tries to fix Elsa after she is poisoned and Donald teaches him about death

Notes: Pooh is nigh-illiterate. Will Zephyr’s understanding stuff help him read the bulletin board or would he have to wish himself able to read?