History NightmareFuel / DoubtAcademy

** It's even worse than that, as is elaborated on his next post. [[spoiler:Gei has been missing for ''weeks'', having tried to dig in the Labyrinth by himself and getting caught up in a cave-in. He's been trapped there the entire time, injured and slowly starving to death, with no one having any idea where he's gone]] If anything, the earthquake ''saved his life'' by moving the debris enough for him to stagger over to the others as they traveled through the tunnels.

[[folder:Doubt Academy Espilon]]

** During investigations, [[spoiler:Saori and Chiemi]] end up on a long scavenger hunt involving missing key cards, most of them from deceased students. Upon finding Ayako's card, they use it on her storage locker and discover [[spoiler:Emiko's ''decapitated head'']] in there. Understandably, they're absolutely distraught at this and remain so when they have to talk about it during the trial.

!!Doubt Academy 1

** First up, [[http://shsl-doubt.tumblr.com/post/48462630768/ we have]] [[spoiler:Zetsubou Zamboni. Akari gets dragged into a rink, then forced to skate for her life to escape Monobear's Mono-zamboni. The rinks filled with Monobear ice statues, providing both obstacles to dodge through and reminders of what'll happen if she's caught, as they're smashed to pieces. Distracted by this, she skates right into a patch of thin ice and breaks through into the freezing water. Though she fights her way back up to the surface, the Mono-zamboni passes overhead ''just'' as she reaches it, refreezing the ice and sealing her in to drown.]]
*** As if all of that wasn't bad enough, [[spoiler:the very photo she didn't want the others to see -- the one that led to her falsely accusation in the first place -- is thrown onto the ice so she spends her last moments gazing up at it]]. The only small comfort that lends is how [[spoiler:it hides her face as she drowns]].
** The [[http://shsl-doubt.tumblr.com/post/49160959136/ second one]]: [[spoiler:Fight or Flight. With a chain collar around her neck, Saiko's dragged before an obstacle course in mockery of the military training her strict family forced her to go through all her life. At the far end sits a plane, which she makes a break for. Just as she'd made it through and is about to reach it, the chain pulls taut, then retracts, bruising her neck hard enough that she temporarily loses her voice. That means whatever defiant last words she might've had for the Monobears who surround her, forming a firing squad, go unheard... There's only the sound of gunfire, and in its wake the faint click of her collar unlatching too late to make any difference.]]
** The [[http://shsl-doubt.tumblr.com/post/50222686587/ third]]: [[spoiler:On a Roll (Lose Yourself). Emilia gets strapped into a giant Mono-roller coaster, with four giantic Monokuma marbles right behind her. As the car surges along the rails, she's presented with several forks in the track; each time, she chooses to go right, and a laser mounted behind her car hits the switch so that one of the marbles goes left. At the last fork, however, Monokuma's manning the lever, and pulls it, sending her back to the start. The car halts, the seatbelt unlocks, she has a chance to breathe... before the last marble, never deflected from its path, catches up and crushes them completely.]]
** The [[http://shsl-doubt.tumblr.com/post/50836159147/ fourth]]: [[spoiler:Needlepoint. Ryo winds up in a claustrophobic labyrinth; the more they run, the more the walls seem to close in... until they find a exit door. Bursting through it, they ''barely'' manage to avoid impaling themselves on the spikes beyond. Paralyzed with fear, their last strength is used to desperately scream the name of their beloved before the doors slam shut...]]
** The [[http://shsl-doubt.tumblr.com/post/51371902429/ fifth]] includes a warning before it even gets started, for good reason: [[spoiler:Halftime Show. The completely cracked Seiichi allows himself to be tied to a metal table shaped like an X. As a saw blade closes in, he makes absolutely no effort to escape, instead smiling madly as it lowers and slices him through at the waist.]]
** The [[http://shsl-doubt.tumblr.com/post/57031972604 sixth]]: [[spoiler:Hickory Dickory Doubt. Nanase becomes the hand of a massive, Monobear-faced clock with the faces of all the dead students replacing the numbers. As she spins round and round, faster and faster, a cuckoo door in the top slides open, revealing a Monobear sitting on a blade. After several near misses, it finally pops out right as her neck reaches it...]]

* The fact that [[spoiler:Seiichi]] completely concealed their SanitySlippage until the fifth trial. Particularly the [[FridgeHorror realization]] that [[spoiler:if he'd kept it together, ''he might have won'']].

!!Doubt Academy Black

!!Doubt Academy White

!!DA Black and White
* The {{Awful Truth}}s linking both games together.
** First off, you have the existence of [[spoiler:The Collective -- a group guiding society from behind the shadows, out to usher in a new age of peace and tranquility... through horrible experiments. All the students in both games were ''bought'' from Hope's Peak as [[TestedOnHumans human guinea pigs]]. Half of them had HeelFaceBrainwashing chips implanted on the back of their necks so The Collective could see if they would hold up under the stress of a mutual killing game. The other half were going to be subject to other experiments... like whatever the hell was done to [[WasOnceAMan Usami]]]].
** In case you need any more proof [[spoiler:The Collective]] is bad news...? [[spoiler:They found out about what the Headmaster did with the DA Project... and ''recruited him''.]]
** Then there's [[spoiler:Doctrina Artifica]], aka [[spoiler:LaResistance]]... only [[spoiler:they're just as bad. They're responsible for kick-starting the mutual killing game over at Bright Side, as part of their plan to expose The Collective to the world]].

!!Doubt Academy Alpha

!!Doubt Academy Omega

!!Doubt Academy Alpha and Omega
* Both of the initial murders have something in common- [[spoiler:the fact that it seems as if both of them have had things done to the bodies afterwards that WEREN'T the cause of death. If it weren't for the Monobear file detailing what the student actually died of, then figuring out the details of the murder could be much more difficult... which is probably exactly why it happened.]]
* Each game has had a secondary 'sub-game' that is essential to the completion of the plot- [[spoiler: in Alpha, it's the [[BeneathTheEarth Labyrinth]], and in Omega, it's the [[EasternRPG Animus]].]] How are we introduced to each of these? [[spoiler:By having Monobear throw the first person to defy him in there, where they are almost [[SacrificialLion instantly killed]]. How terrifying must it be, knowing that you have to go in there for any hope of finding more out about why you're all trapped here when your first experience is seeing how deadly it is?]]
* In case one needed another example of Monobear's sense of ''mercy'' being anything ''but'', he's offered [[http://shsl-doubtalpha.tumblr.com/post/82068398939/ab-normal-days-the-deal both]] [[http://shsl-doubtomega.tumblr.com/post/82068384117/ab-normal-days-true-democracy groups]] a SadisticChoice. He's willing to take a week-long break -- no motives, no murders, investigations or trials... Heck, he'll even let Monomi take over for a while! But in order to earn that break, they have to execute somebody ''as a group''. Meaning the majority has to decide whether or not to sacrifice somebody to buy themselves some safety, then vote on who the poor victim's gonna be.

* The fifth execution, [[spoiler:''averted!'' There ''is'' no execution, because Akira killed Shinji, and was then killed himself, and the class voted for Akira, so since the class ''did'' technically vote for a murderer, Monobear decides not to pull his usual "execute someone anyway" schtick.]]

* The fourth execution: [[spoiler:[[http://shsl-doubtomega.tumblr.com/post/83274457342/monobear-theatre-edm-is-dead EDM is Dead]]. Ume is dropped into a far more Tron-style virtual world, where she encounters thousands of Monobear cops. She's able to fight them off for quite a while, until they begin to retreat... and she sees a massive cannon has been lining up the whole time, bigger than a hotel. It fires, and completely obliterates her.]]

* The fourth execution: [[spoiler:http://shsl-doubtalpha.tumblr.com/post/83274498303/monobear-theater-cherry-popper Cherry Popper]]. Mitsu has been bound up in a seemingly sensual-looking bedroom, her wrists and ankles tied with silk ropes. In silhouette, a Monobear approaches her, carrying something which obviously terrifies her. She begins to scream and struggle as he gets closer, where it's revealed that he's carrying a huge chainsaw. A curtain drops, and Monobear tears her in two with it.]]

* The fourth execution: [[spoiler:http://shsl-doubtomega.tumblr.com/post/83274457342/monobear-theatre-edm-is-dead EDM is Dead]]. Ume is dropped into a far more Tron-style virtual world, where she encounters thousands of Monobear cops. She's able to fight them off for quite a while, until they begin to retreat... and she sees a massive cannon has been lining up the whole time, bigger than a hotel. It fires, and completely obliterates her.]]

*** We later learn that [[spoiler:Nanoka is ''in fact'' not dead. She's excavated from the rubble, but must recover in the hospital, and she's blind, deaf, and crippled in two legs.]]

* In case one needed another example of Monobear's sense of ''mercy'' being anything ''but'', he's offered the group a SadisticChoice. He'll [[http://shsl-doubtalpha.tumblr.com/post/82068398939/ab-normal-days-the-deal give the group a week-long break]], and even let Monomi take charge during that time... but only if they earn it. How? By voting to execute somebody ''as a group''.

* Each game has had a secondary 'sub-game' that is essential to the completion of the plot- [[spoiler: in Alpha, it's the [[BeneathTheEarth Labyrinth]], and in Omega, it's the [[EasternRPG Animus]].]] How are we introduced to each of these? [[spoiler:By having Monobear throw the first person to defy him in there, where they are almost [[SacrificialLion instantly killed]]. How terrifying must it be, knowing that you have to go in there for any hope of finding more out about why you're all trapped here when your first experience is seeing how deadly it is?]]

* Not just the first execution, [[spoiler:[[http://shsl-doubtalpha.tumblr.com/post/79723949465/monobear-theater-heartstopper Heartstopper]]]], but what precedes it. [[spoiler:The innocent Yuuto]] furiously denounces the other students, and insists that Monobear [[ForcedToWatch make them watch]] what happens next. [[spoiler:He's then placed inside a soundproofed jar, where the vibrations from huge speakers- emitting the sound of his own heartbeat- gradually tear apart his blood vessels and rupture his heart. The description of the execution notes that it's ''absolutely agonizing.'']]

* The explanation of everyone's 'student IDs' being labelled as 'Tunnel Licenses' is explained when [[spoiler:they're introduced to the Labyrinth, a massive system of caves and tunnels they're ''expected'' to spend time excavating. Even before Monobear showed up, Usami was very reluctant to explain anything about why they were doing this, only that it was essential to their being there.]]
* [[spoiler:Whenever a student has been killed so far, even though the others have asked if they could perform a burial, Monomi has denied them... and has been very unwilling to explain where the bodies are otherwise going...]]
* In the very first trial, [[spoiler: nobody has any idea who actually killed Ayako. Everyone throws around theories and confused timelines for a while before ultimately voting Yuuto Ikeda for what appears to be a flimsy alibi and a few pieces of circumstantial evidence.]]
** Even more frightening is that [[spoiler: even as they vote, they have no idea what happened. Yuuto wasn't the killer, and they likely will never know who was. Doubt Academy Alpha just began by executing an innocent.]]

* [[spoiler:Not just the first execution, [[http://shsl-doubtalpha.tumblr.com/post/79723949465/monobear-theater-heartstopper Heartstopper]], but what precedes it. Yuuto furiously denounces the other students, and insists that Monobear make them watch what happens next. He's then placed inside a soundproofed jar, where the vibrations from huge speakers- emitting the sound of his own heartbeat- gradually tear apart his blood vessels and rupture his heart. The description of the execution notes that it's ''absolutely agonizing.'']]
* [[spoiler:The second execution, [[http://shsl-doubtalpha.tumblr.com/post/81151266229/monobear-theater-kanadehon-chushingura Kanadehon Chushingura]]. To put it in as few words as possible, it's the Japanese ''seppuku'' ritual, performed exactly and precisely, by Yuu. Except Monobear's robots are forcing his movements, holding his eyes open, and the entire time, he's ''screaming''. And then Monobear decapitates him.]]

** During investigations, [[spoiler:Saori and Chiemi end up on a long scavenger hunt involving missing key cards, most of them from deceased students. Upon finding Ayako's card, they use it on her storage locker and discover Emiko's ''decapitated head'' in there. Understandably, they're absolutely distraught at this and remain so when they have to talk about it during the trial.]]

* [[spoiler:Monobear demonstrating just how frightening being data InsideAComputerSystem can be when he unveils the first week's motivation. He drops the firewalls for just a moment, and computer viruses immediately start painfully glitching out Monomi. And unless someone commits a murder, then ALL of the students will be vulnerable to the same fate.]]
* [[http://superpuppeteer.tumblr.com/private/81436595458/tumblr_n3dmwjxUAN1tsueci Minako's Closet.]] [[spoiler: She seems like the sweetest, most innocent person among the students. So why does she have a CreepyDoll that's an ''exact replica of her''?]]
* [[spoiler:In the first trial, someone accidentally hits Minako's [[http://shsl-doubtomega.tumblr.com/post/79445800716/focus-re-aqua Berserk Button]]. Going from her usual self to SUDDEN SCREAMING FURY makes you wonder if she's a StepfordSmiler, or perhaps something worse...]]
** [[spoiler:Actually, this one is justified by other materials you find in Minako's room. She has lots of dating magazines and tips on how to be sexy, and it's eventually explained that this is because Minako was never able to get a boyfriend or even a single date because of her small stature and small bust. She once gave a love letter to someone, for example, only for that person to reject the letter without even opening it. So the reason Minako is hyper-sensitive about being called a child isn't because of some horrible secret, but because her childlike looks have been an impediment to any possible romance, and thus are a sore spot for her.]]
* [[spoiler:The first execution, [[http://shsl-doubtomega.tumblr.com/post/79723940361/monobear-theater-unfortunately-white-room Unfortunately White Room]], for everyone involved. First, there's a fakeout, when it looks like Lee is to be given a lethal injection. But then a Pit and the Pendulum-style grandfather clock appears, with a henna tattoo pen attached... except that's a fakeout too. The room rotates to drop Lee from an enormous height to her death- which she was always terrified of happening... except she's dropped ''right back into'' the courtroom, where she is dashed against the floor in front of everyone. Several students are explicitly noted to scream, vomit or even pass out entirely.]]
* [[spoiler:The second execution, [[http://shsl-doubtomega.tumblr.com/post/81151217504/monobear-theatre-run-like-hell Run Like Hell...]] but before it even begins, Usoko bolts towards the exit of the courtroom, frantically clawing at the door and screaming to be let out. But she's dragged away and placed into an exact replica of Roppongi, the city she grew up in, where she's chased down by various Monobears in cop cars. She reaches a dead end... and once again, it's revealed that she's standing right in front of the students in the courtroom, behind a glass wall. She hammers on the wall, pleading for her escape... and a hologram of her brother appears, briefly, terrifying her. Then the Monobears open fire, shooting her until she's basically a mangled pile of gore. Except for her head, that is, which is noted to remain staring at the students.]]

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