History Fanfic / Amalgamate

* Accidental Public Confession: At least one of the electrobombs was a dud, which meant[[spoiler: the entire world saw and heard Kokichi confess his weakness and fears to Kaito despite Kokichi using an electrobomb to prevent this very information from getting loose.]]

* BrokenTears: Kaito gets to see Kokichi succumb to genuine heartbreaking tears as Kokichi desperately tries to convince Kaito to kill him.

* TheChessmaster: Despite being thoroughly traumatized and dying throughout most of the fic, Kokichi is still Kokichi and as such, is constantly running at least three different plans at all times.

* [[spoiler:GenreShift]]: [[spoiler:To the outside world, who were watching their fun campy murder mystery show right up until Tsumugi turned it into a psychological horror snuff survival show.]]

* BreakTheCutie: Keeping Kokichi alive has resulted in him going through quite the ordeal, from being kept alive against his will to having to perform while dying and in crippling pain, Kokichi may have survived the hangar, but it's left quite a few mental and physical marks on the normally unflappable Supreme Leader.

* ForceFeeding: Maki had to force the antidote down a nearly unconscious Kokichi. It was not pleasant. [[spoiler: Kokichi is also forced to eat a dead dove on the side of the street not to die in a flashback light, as you can imagine he threw it up right after.]]

Kaito hates Kokichi… but he hates the killing game even more. In the cold, cavernous Exisal hangar, Kaito stares into the poison-fevered eyes of the Ultimate Supreme Leader and makes a decision: the killing game is over. He will not kill Kokichi. He will not drop the press and entomb this child inside the killing game he claims to despise. So, Kaito comes up with a plan to save Kokichi’s life, but to pull it off, the two of them will have to work together inside the Exisal, trick Monokuma into reaching a false verdict, and end the class trial before Kokichi succumbs to the Strike-9

* AngerBornOfWorry: Maki is constantly angry at something, but most of the time this anger comes from an inability to do more to help or that when she does help it often involves having to hurt someone despite really not wanting to hurt anyone, not even Kokichi.

* BreakTheCutie: Keeping Kokichi alive has resulted in him going through quite the ordeal, from being kept alive against his will to having to perform while dying and in crippling pain, Kokichi may have survived the hangar, but it's definitely left quite a few mental and physical marks on the normally unflappable Supreme Leader.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler: Maki]] can't kill [[spoiler: Tsumugi]] because that would just start back up the killing game.
* TheChessmaster: Despite being thoroughly traumatized and literally dying throughout most of the fic, Kokichi is still Kokichi and as such is constantly running at least three different plans at all times.

* {{Cult}}: the Holy Salvation Society while still mostly confined to flashback lights is much more prominent and important than in canon.

* DeadlyGame: [[spoiler: Shockingly this trope isn't here for the current killing game but because Kokichi had gone through a different death game before this one with the rest of DICE. This game seems to have left Kokichi the last man standing with the death of every single other person in the game, and many others outside the game. However, Kaito's memories of it do get called into question of it by Kaito himself when he mentions them not feeling quite right.]]
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Himiko's master who also happened to be one of the members of DICE who got killed by Maki before the events of the game. The rest of DICE seems to have been killed as well afterward in the death game Kokichi went through before the current one.]]
* DeepSleep: Kokichi seems to keep falling into these at just the worst times.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Kokichi seems to be going through one at the end of chapter 13 after being choked out to return his memories after a forced near-death experience. Whatever memories have returned have seemingly pushed the boy into a full remnant. One also appears to Kaito in the flashback lights, when Shuichi's actions accidentally spiral out into an immense amount of death, including Kaito's grandparents when he led the remnants right to them on accident.]]
* DownerBeginning: The story's start takes place in the hangar before trial 5, so you can imagine the angst that's already going on, and it's only the start!

* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler: The plan to put Kokichi to the brink of death to basically speedrun regaining his memories worked! Though now with how he's talking about despair, it may have been better if it didn't]]

* HopeBringer: Okasan the dove! A sweet bird that originally belonged to Himiko is often seen giving comfort to the cast.

* ManipulativeBastard: Tsumugi, being the mastermind having to work around this twist can't be easy, but she sure makes it look like it is even if you want to throttle her for it.

* ThePowerOfActing: Kokichi's acting is incredibly skillful and many plot points could only happen because Kokichi is just that good of an actor.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Kaito to basically everyone, his inability to give up along with a new understanding of Kokichi means he keeps fucking up everyone's plans.

* TookALevelInBadass: Himiko while mostly useless for combat and anything too physical in the original story becomes a lot more dangerous in combat and more ruthless as time passes.
* TookALevelInCynicism: As much as Kaito tries to stay positive, even his normal heroic fanfare has been slipping quite a lot throughout the story.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kokichi to Maki in chapter 13 and Kokichi at the Monokubs in chapter 14.
->[[spoiler:'''Kokichi:''' You made your choice that day, Maki Roll! Nobody stopped you from following us! Nobody forced you to become a murderer!”]]

* YouKilledMyFather:[[spoiler: Kaito has a moment like this towards Shuichi when he realizes Shuichi's negligence very likely resulted in his grandparents deaths in a flashback light.]]