Line #10 Roleplay/CastleWhimsicalRoundTwo


1	Round two of ''Roleplay/CastleWhimsical'' is set in Ira Academy, a boarding school where children will learn to be upstanding members of society! Don't worry too much about how none of them remember how they got here...
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3	!This game provides examples of:
4	* AllForNothing: The third case [[spoiler:involved Yuta discovering Valmont's nefarious intentions towards Dylan, ultimately killing Valmont and being executed himself]]. Victim of the fourth case? [[spoiler:Dylan.]]
5	* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Valmont was already perceived negatively in the school for such actions as treating Yasu like his servant and threatening to cook and eat a turtle. Then, he made the decision to threaten Dylan with a knife, widely assumed at first to be a murder attempt which Yuta interrupted.]] The document for the third case is quite literally named "will anyone blame [[spoiler:Yuta]] tho".
6	* AxesAtSchool: Axes ''distributed'' at school, even--multiple characters have weapons as regains.
7	* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Ira Academy. Even before the whole murder aspect, it's ''brainwashing the students.''
8	* BondingOverMissingParents: "Unspoken: ''How many of us have dead parents, exactly?''"
9	* DoWellButNotPerfect: The culprit of case one [[spoiler:didn't want everyone to be executed, but making an effort to get away with murder was a condition of the motive. She admits she [[IndyPloy didn't really have a plan for threading this needle]].]]
10	* ElevatorSchool: The "students" range in age from 5 to 17.
11	* EntertaininglyWrong: After finding a note mentioning "Nigel Uno" from Round One, Emma assumes that he's [[spoiler:Father's son instead of his nephew.]]
12	* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Sympathizing with the fourth culprit, [[spoiler:Kuro]] shouts that "[[spoiler:Dylan]] isn't the only person here with a friend!"
13	* FriendlyGhost: There's at least one. [[spoiler:There might have been another, but she [[ReducedToDust didn't make it]] out of her part in one of TheSevenMysteries.]]
14	* HatedByAll: The Principal. On top of all the students hating him, [[spoiler:even Kakuya hates him]].
15	* HighSchoolDance: One is held at the end of week 0. [[spoiler:It's rather ruined by the big murdergame reveal.]]
16	* HiveMind: The "Little Brothers" are described this way.
17	* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: {{Subverted}} - there was some pushback when it was first suggested that they kill the Principal, but it went out the window by the time of the second execution.
18	* IHaveYourWife: The second motive.
19	* InternalReveal: The fourth motive, which threatens to reveal characters' secrets, involves several secrets that even the characters themselves didn't know at their current canon point.
20	* IronicEchoCut: Adorabat [[spoiler: discovered the first body and immediately wished Dewey wouldn't find out. Cue the body announcement, which Dewey heard.]]
21	* LateToTheRescue: At the end, when [[spoiler:the characters from round 1]] arrive, some of them are planning to rescue the students from the murdergame, not realizing it's already over.
22	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: None of the characters can remember what happened between their arrival and the intro log.
23	* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: The most critical evidence in case four is a piece of white fabric caught in the latch of the library window.
24	* MakeTheDogTestify: In Trial 5, the group gets [[spoiler:Koishi's parrot, Toritorika, to take a look at everyone and see how she reacts, making them realize she's only reacting to human girls.]]
25	* MassHypnosis: The intro log wasn't the characters' arrival, but their sudden and then-unexplained ''recovery'' from being brainwashed.
26	* MonsterClown: One of these executes the culprit of case 1, in reference to [[spoiler:[[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Pierrot and the Akanbes]].]]
27	* MoralityTropes:
28	** BlackAndGrayMorality: The main initial flow of the game between the Principal levying the motive and the culprits who neutralize his threats, though this can be flattened into BlackAndWhiteMorality depending on who you ask.
29	** BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:When Kakuya usurps the principal, she sincerely explains that she's doing something good and fun by freeing the children from the Principal's brainwashing and putting them into a killing game instead, where death is not exactly meaningful. This also applies to her devoted girlfriend Yasu, though she can at least understand human reasoning better.]]
30	* NonMaliciousMonster: In Week 5 it's revealed [[spoiler:that several of the monsters attacking the students during the weekly mystery are actually just hungry, and have been forced to feed on fear instead of their usual diet.]]
31	* NothingIsScarier: Several days of week 0 have passed without the characters being informed that they are expected to commit murder, [[DramaticIrony raising the question]] for the audience of ''how'' they will be informed. [[spoiler:Eventually it happened at the dance.]]
32	* NotInFrontOfTheKid: Several people try not to swear in front of Adorabat, the youngest member of the group. [[spoiler:Eventually, when tempers run high in Trial 4, multiple people start using the word "fuck" at each other, causing her to learn it and start [[InnocentSwearing using it casually]] during Week 5.]]
33	* PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: The culprit of case four [[spoiler:is the first to aim for the mass execution outcome, having decided that a small chance of being able to resurrect everyone afterwards is better than continuing to endure]].
34	* SchoolIsMurder: Literally the premise.
35	* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Characters end up spending a lot of time in uniform by necessity, since they start out with few ''other'' clothes to wear.
36	* ShootTheDog: How the culprit of case 1 sees their murder: [[spoiler:better for one person to die than for everyone to be subjected to monsters like [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Joker]].]]
37	* SpellingBee: One of these takes place on Saturday of week 0, just before the dance.
38	* TheSevenMysteries: One is revealed per week, along with a fragment of the setting's history. They even started with the classic "ghost in the music room"!
39	* UniversalTranslator: It even works on Emma's sign language, and Thomasin finds herself able to respond in kind.
40	* UnusualEuphemism: The "alternate capstone project" is [[spoiler:the murdergame classic of getting away with murder]].
41	* VillainTeamUp: For the first motive, the Principal threatens to bring in everyone's enemies. Although several of the characters think it would turn into EvilVersusEvil instead.
42	* WhamLine: [[https://castle-whims.dreamwidth.org/11120.html?thread=5388656#cmt5388656 "You even tried to murder my Prefect!"]], says the Principal, letting it slip that he ''isn't'' actually all-seeing and all-knowing.
43	* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Film/TheCabinInTheWoods meets Franchise/DanganRonpa.
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Context Roleplay / CastleWhimsicalRoundTwo