Socialist FanFiction

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Sorry about the pretentious prose, I know it's bad. I'm just working on the vibe... please don't downvote me!

Miu leaned onto the walls of the institute, staring at the glowglobes drifting across the ceiling, reminiscent of glowing jellyfish in the deep ocean. It was the middle of the night and so they were rightfully dim, fostering a peaceful and quiet atmosphere. During the day, the halls of the no-physics OKB would be bustling with human activity, with researchers and students scuttling throughout the halls to the many classrooms and labs throughout the building, but for now there was only her alone with her thoughts.

From a floor-to-ceiling window the muted outline of the cityscape was visible. The spinshards in the windows arranged themselves to absorb the light, until an entire city's worth of illumination was reduced to a dim gray glow. With the darkness came an acute awareness, to the point where she could here the white noise from electrical machinery in the walls.

"I want to see the city."

"I said, I want to see the city! Damn you, that's a command, Systems!"

Quiet compliance and the faint humming of rotating spinshards, until finally the scene outside the window resolved itself into blurs of color.

"There you are, Miu. What are you doing up so late?"

She lifted her head. "Professor Alexandrov?"

"That's not an answer."

"I can't sleep."

"And why would that be?"

As far as she knew, there was scarcely anyone else in the building, aside from maybe a few researchers. Even scientists were human; rest was a universal need. It just came difficultly sometimes, like now.

"I don't think I'm cut out to be a no-physicist, Professor. I-- can I leave the institute? I'm just a student. I can still transfer fields, right?"

The Professor frowned. "Come with me."

She hurried to match his stride down the winding halls as glowglobes whooshed gently to illuminate their path.

At last they came to a stop in front of a room Miu recognized as the classroom where they studied during the day. As with everything else, it was quiet and dark. The glowglobes inside the room gradually brightened until she was able to see clearly.

"You have already made a dedication to no-physics, one that is not easily broken."

"But... I'm not that good of a student. I'm far from your best. And Kokichi Oma quit already! He said he's gonna be a space marine, or something."

"I don't care what Kokichi Oma did. I'd like you to reconsider. Do you really think you'd find success in any other field of expertise? Do you think that you could still start from scratch, now? By the time you have achieved what you want in your new desired field, you'll be years behind!"

"Of course," the Professor continued, "that is not necessarily a bad thing. But I think you will agree with me, when I say that I hate to see years wasted."

"I---"

"Solve the problem."

"What?"

"The problem on the board. Solve it."

"You can't be serious! I---"

"Solve it, Miu."

".... Alright."

The problem read, "A no-ship is traveling with a steady reactor output of 3.6e39 Joules. Assuming a Markov efficiency value of 79% and a no-field mass of 9.97e8 kilograms, find the distance traveled in realspace corresponding to 4.54 kilometers in foldspace."

Nothing made her loathe the field, and even more so herself than this problem. It represented all her failings, the long hours of working again and again over a paper scribbled and erased over a hundred times.

Miu rubbed her forehead and placed the formula onto the chalkboard: Dr = Df(((EEe-Mnc)^1/4)Ma)

Ma, the Markov constant. She scribbled over the two damned letters and wrote "42.017" above them. At least she had the consolation of knowing. She recalled Kokichi believing the constant was 69.

Now the Energy efficiency. She repeated the process of crossing out and rewriting with 0.79 over the Ee...

She continued across the formula, feeling the cold sweat across her brow. The Professor was there, watching. Ten minutes, twenty minutes, more and more time passed as her frustration grew with each new error that needed her resolving. Aware of the Professor's prescence, though, she carried on through the tedious calculations.

"Dr is 1.393e12, Professor."

"Eh? Where'd he go?"

A brief pause. It was just her alone in the room now, with a single glowglobe hovering near the blackboard.

"Maybe it's not that bad..."

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Below is a compilation of terms and definitions commonly encountered during studies of the Junkosreich era.

Arkhangelsky, Pavel: The Ultimate Marxist-Leninist. Was once part of the Literature Club and aided in the radicalization of its members. Later invited to Hope's Peak Academy and trapped in the First Killing Game.

Army Group Commander: A Red Army position commanding an army group, equivalent to a Future Foundation Field Marshal or an Imperium Bashar.

Battle of Hope's Peak Academy: Largest and last battle in the Verzweiflungkrieg. Saw the end of the Imperium as well as the death of the Tyrant.

Battle of Moscow: A battle taking place in Moscow between the Imperium general Alscaen Miller and the Red Army AGC Kyoko Kirigiri. Ended with a Red Army victory.

Bashar: An Imperium position in command of an army group, similar to a Red Army Army Group Commander or a Future Foundation Field Marshal. Not to be confused with Mukuro Ikusaba, the Grand Bashar.

Crysknife: a rare milky-white crystalline knife obtained by Mukuro Ikusaba from a middle-eastern spice dealer. Capable of cutting notches in fibersteel.

Deep Battle Doctrine: A military doctrine developed by the Soviet Union that was utilized heavily by Duncan Illinois during his wars against the Imperium military.

Despair Priests: Preists of the Imperium who carried out rituals.

Despair Speakers: an elite Imperium military unit that were extremely adept at combat. They often also performed the fuction of Despair Priests.

Enoshima, Junko: Also known as Jalib Alyas, Bringer of the Change, The Tyrant. Prescient Mentat-accelerationist who designed the Golden Path and ruled the Imperium of Despair for most of its existence.

Fedaykin: Red Army elites, Dare-to-Die corps.

First Killing Game: The killing game hosted by Monokuma in Hope's Peak Academy.

Future Foundation: A bourgeoisie paramilitary organization dedicated to both the opposition of both the Red Army and the Imperium of Despair.

Grand Battleplan: A military doctrine focused on extensive planning and preparation. Noted for its use by Kyoko Kirigiri.

Grand Bashar: An Imperium position that not only commanded more troops than a normal Bashar, but also performed various ceremonial tasks. The only Grand Bashar was Mukuro Ikusaba.

Golden Path: a path devised by the Tyrant to throw the world into socialism. It differed from traditional accelerationism in actually working due to requiring immense prescience.

Hearts of Iron IV(OOC): A game that I got most of my military 'knowledge' for this fanfiction from.

Ikusaba, Mukuro: Imperium Grand Bashar, sister of the Tyrant. Dueled Duncan Illinois on multiple occasions. Noted for her expertise with the Mechanized Warfare Doctrine.

Illinois, Duncan: Former member of the Literature club. Expert swordsman and Red Army General, noted for his expertise with the Deep Battle doctrine.

Imperium of Despair: An Ultra-neoliberal State Fascist state that existed during the Verzweiflungkrieg. Its main enemies were the Red Army and Future Foundation.

Jalib Alyas: 'Bringer of Despair'. See also 'Enoshima, Junko'.

Junkosreich: Another common name for the Imperium of Despair.

Kirigiri, Kyoko: Red Army AGC, noted for her use of the Grand Battleplan doctrine.

Lasart: common name for Lockheed-Martin laser artillery.

Lasgun: A gun that fired a concentrated beam of light to destroy a target.

Lockheed-Martin: a corporation that was essentially forced under state control during the Imperium era.

Mechanized Warfare: a military doctrine focused on using speed and maneuver to cut off and disorganize enemy forces. Noted for its use by Mukuro Ikusaba.

Mentat: an individual capable of powerful mental calculations. They formed Projection-predictions that were generally extremely accurate.

Microsoft Ix: another name for the microsoft company, which produced electronics for the Imperium.

Monomark: the main currency of the Imperium. Hyperinflation rendered it mostly worthless--by the time of the Imperium's collapse, a single monomark was worth 1/10^35 of its original value.

Naegi, Komaru: sister of General Makoto Naegi of the Red Army, member of the Fedaykin and lasgun adept.

Naegi, Makoto: Red Army General noted for his use of the Superior Firepower military doctrine.

Natsuki: a former member of the Literature Club who later joined the Red Army.

Ornithopter: experimental aircraft of the Imperium that had vibrating wings, similar to that of a dragonfly.

Padishah Kaiserin: the title for the leader of the Imperium of Despair. See also 'Enoshima, Junko'.

Reserve Army of Despair: Also known simply as the Reserves. A large and disorganized military force mainly used as cannon fodder by the Imperium military.

Sayori: Former member of the Literature Club who joined the Red Army.

Superior Firepower Doctrine: a military doctrine focused on throwing shells, not men at the enemy. Noted for its use by Makoto Naegi.

Tyrant, the: See also 'Enoshima, Junko'

Verzweiflung Waffe SS: Elite military unit of the Imperium. Used mainly as a glorified police force.

Verzweiflungkrieg: The War of Despair

Woolgathering: the act of wandering off on a train of thought. Dangerous for mentats.

Yuri: Former member of the Literature Club. Famous communist thinker and writer.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48500788/chapters/122340298

If you haven't read the first one, please do. And sorry if the first chapter is short. I was in a rush to get something out!

So after way too much procrastinating, I finally finished this, although I fell into my nasty habit of rushing endings. That's OK, though, because we're getting a sequel. And it's set in danganronpa. Yay!

read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48069781/chapters/121209082

This is planned as a sort of sequel to my ddlc fanfiction.

It's kind of like a jreg video in that the students are meant to represent different political ideologies. If you were looking for stuff involving the original cast, you'll find them with the communist partisans.

If you're into Dune, or history stuff like Weimar Germany and 1930s KMT China, you will love this.

In its very early stages, but basically, Katniss discovers her dad's past as a worker's advocate when he was alive and discovers of his execution which was framed as a mining accident through searching through his many letters and other belongings in her own house. Along with this, she finds numerous socialist books (Das Kapital and others) preserved through these times in a battered condition (I don't know how it's gonna be preserved, but it will be preserved somehow), while reading these books, she gets radicalized which then spreads onto Gale, who gets radicalized himself. We converge back into the canon as Katniss's sister gets selected for the Hunger Games and Katniss volunteers, but after that, I'm not so sure how the story would go and if Katniss would do any different during the Games, if she wins with Peeta or wins alone. Along with that, I'm not so sure how the story would go after the Games and her victory, although I do know that all of this would culminate into the people of Panem rising up against the Capitol in a revolution and eventually establishing a socialist state. So, I do need a lot of help in regards to the plot and to how Katniss would really try to set up a socialist state with the little amount of books that were preserved and a lot of socialist texts being lost in time.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48069781/chapters/121209082

Please come and take a look. I'm also planning a sequel!

I was wondering if anyone had written or read interesting stuff and could share it here.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2038914

I actually found this little trilogy from a thread in lemmygrad a few months ago, I genuinely enjoyed it a ton. Shame it hasn't been updated in a year when it's so close to the end, but that's just fanfic for you I guess

Not sure if this quite counts as fanfic, but also not sure where it would fit better. It's an alternate history where Rosa Luxemburg survives and world revolution comes to pass.