Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
Jumpchain DLC:
“I Want To Become The Overlord!”
By HeavensAnon

Note: This can happen at any time during the Disgaea 1/D2 jump, though the fluff text assumes and recommends you’re at least a year into the jump.

You finally get a moment’s rest. Whether it’s in the safety of your Warehouse, some property you own, or a spot to contemplate what to do next...you’ve finally found a moment’s rest in this crazy land. A chance to relax, or at least pause, and take a deep breath.

“Ahem.”

The moment you do, someone has appeared as if from nowhere. A floating girl with two large shackles on her arms with short, broken chains dangling from them. The whites of her eyes are pitch black and her irises are crimson, and you can see what looks vaguely like black cat ears on top of her head. The rest of her is an obnoxiously pale white – dress, hair, the works.

By now, you’ve seen plenty of colorful characters, so this isn’t a huge surprise. If you’ve done your homework, you even recognize who this is. If not, she’s all to happy to introduce herself.

“Hey, are you listening? You should be paying attention when an Overlord is talking to you, you know.”

This is Pram the Oracle, a powerful Overlord who is (was?) respected amongst the others due to both her incredible mana power and ability to see into the future. She’s also notorious for being...well, troublesome. More than that, if you’ve done your homework, you know she’s from an extremely distant Netherworld that isn’t even involved with Laharl’s.

Not waiting or responding to any questions, she takes something out of her pocket and holds it up in front of you. It’s a Dark Assembly ticket, almost identical to the one your benefactor offered you back in the Item section.

...’Item section’. You’ve been in this world too long if you’re thinking this close to the fourth wall.

“So, I hear you’re supposed to be this dimension-traveling big shot, buuut...I don’t really care about that. I’ve got better thing to do than to be this far out in the boonies, except apparently, the local Dark Assembly needed an Overlord to supervise this. And...I drew the freaking short straw.”

You imagine that has more to do with your benefactor’s actions than a random draw. Something about this feels ‘planned’, somehow.

“You should be happy, having such a powerful Demon overseeing you! It’s a thing that only happens...never.” That earns a cringe. You can almost taste the resentment and spite in her voice, like someone who has been forced on garbage duty.

When you finally get around to asking what she’s supposed to supervise, she wordlessly hands over your ticket. And it reads…

Jumper Wishes To Become The Overlord Of A New Netherworld
Y/N?

There is...an almost unanimous number of ‘yays’ on that ticket. How odd.

“So, yeah, that’s a thing. I’m gonna leave all the exposition to your boss, so just hold up that ticket in the air whenever you’re ready.”

There is more to this multiverse than just the three realms of this jump. There are many worlds scattered across the cosmos and various planets among them. Many of them are separated by dimensional barriers that would take a proper Gate to traverse, isolating them to just themselves. But in each of those worlds is a separate Netherworld containing the Demons of that world, and even a separate Celestia containing its Angels. This is by no means a universal rule, but it’s common enough that Overlords tend to have each other on speed dial.

There is one thing that every Netherworld has in common, aside from usually being amazingly unpleasant places for a normal human to live. They are usually ruled by a singular despot, an Overlord, who often acquires their position by virtue of being the most powerful or the most charismatic thing in that entire Netherworld. Or they bumble and trip their way into it. Either way, they’re the ones who have the final say in what happens in said Netherworld. This is usually, but not always, a Demon who was born within it.

You are now being given an opportunity to claim your own Netherworld.