History Fanfic / WhoWeWere

* ThreeAmigos: A few sets.
** Ai/Momo/Daisuke, while they all still live in Kobe.
** K1-b0/Toshiro/Keisuke
** Ace/K1-b0/Daisuke, and later (at least before the game starts), Miu/K1-b0/Kokichi actually remain friends.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Inverted. Several people, including [[SenpaiKohai Momo]] and even Kaito catch Kokichi trying to use Morse Code to communicate with [[spoiler: Daisuke]] and call him out on it, since he has to stand still and concentrate. Thankfully for him, none of them actually know Morse Code and see it only as a nervous tic/Kokichi [[StealthPun spacing out]]. [[spoiler: Except for K1-b0, who knows they're talking to each other, and even privately converses to them both this way.]]

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Inverted. Several people, including [[SempaiKohai Momo]] and even Kaito catch Kokichi trying to use Morse Code to communicate with [[spoiler: Daisuke]] and call him out on it, since he has to stand still and concentrate. Thankfully for him, none of them actually know Morse Code and see it only as a nervous tic/Kokichi [[StealthPun spacing out]]. [[spoiler: Except for K1-b0, who knows they're talking to each other, and even privately converses to them both this way.]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There's over 30 named characters with speaking roles, over 40 if you consider the scouted cast as separate characters from the characters they become.

"[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12362523 Who We Were]]" by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/divisionten divisionten]] and edited by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/FormerlyRandomLurker/pseuds/QwertysHuman QwertysHuman]] is a ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'' PerspectiveFlip fanfic following Ouma Kokichi, TheAntagonist of ''VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3''.

As the fanfic is canon-compliant and spoils some major plot points for Danganronpa V3 right from the first chapter, Danganronpa v3 [[LateArrivalSpoiler spoilers]] after this point will be left un-tagged.

* BiTheWay Every created Danganronpa character, though wether they'll act on it is a different story. Shuichi is written to have a possible romance with everyone.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler:

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Uh, I was serious. Turn sideways. Look at us. We look like we’re going to finally curb-stop Batman and pull off his mask on national TV."]]
->''Two high schoolers [[spoiler: try out for the 53rd season of Danganronpa...]] unfortunately, they get exactly what they wanted..''

"[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12362523 Who We Were]]" by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/divisionten divisionten]] and edited by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/FormerlyRandomLurker/pseuds/QwertysHuman QwertysHuman]] is a ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'' PerspectiveFlip fanfic following Ouma Kokichi, TheAntagonist of "VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3".

* ADayInTheLimeLight: Perspective breifly switches to follow K1-b0 after [[spoiler: Shuichi's second mind wipe, as K1-b0 helps patch up some injuries sustained before the start of the game. K1-b0 later gets several chapters from his perspective, jumping back [[MeanwhileBackAtThe to the holding facility]] an unspecified point in time after every character's death]] before switching back to Kokichi.

* HeroicBSOD: Kokichi invokes it on [[spoiler: Daisuke, with his BreakThemByTalking speech.]]
* InSpiteOfANail: Even with Kokichi watching the monitors of the entire school, Rantaro still dies. Monokuma does distract him for a few minutes, though.
* JapaneseHonorifics: Used to quickly show familiarity between characters.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted, there's multiple characters with the same first or last name. The characters use nicknames or other means to disambiguate, so despite some reused names (both Rei and Ichiro are Honda, and both Professor Iidabashi and one of the graduate robotics students are Ren), there's never any confusion.

* TheUncannyValley: A main theme of the story, in regards to both the humans getting brainwashed as well as K1-b0. K1-b0 himself would rather look less human than fall into this trope.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Averted, as K1-b0 is immediately treated like everyone else, at least in pregame, and invited to do everything the rest of the teenagers do. While he's made fun of, usually the people teasing him are teasing everyone (pre-game Kokichi and Miu, for example). The only thing that mildly upsets Daisuke is the fact that he knows he could be killed in the game, but K1-b0 can't, due to the nature of his backup.

** All the kids are on a first name basis on Arukawa's orders, to preserve the OneSteveLimit. Both Rei and Ichiro's last names are Honda, and there's another Sato other than Ai, though the fic hasn't said who. Even then, they still use honorifics.

* ChekhovsGun: The Danganronpa mind wipes can't overwrite smells, and even Arukawa mentions this to both Ai and Daisuke. [[spoiler: Between the coffee and incense, it's how Daisuke is able to snap himself out of stupor and take his hand over again. Too bad Kokichi doesn't remember [[EveryoneKnowsMorse Morse Code]]...]]

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: The fic is far enough along that it is tagged as being from Kokichi's perspective, though it starts off following a kid named Daisuke. It's fairly obvious this lonely nerd ends up becoming Kokichi on the show.