DANGANRONPA: DELUSIUM is a closed Discord-based Danganronpa roleplay group taking place in the universe of the YA book series The Illuminae Files.
DANGANRONPA: DELUSIUM demonstrates these examples of tropes:
- Amateur Sleuth: Downplayed in certain cases, played straight for the most part.
- Anyone Can Die: Even being a roleplay, any of the characters can be a victim or culprit.
- Black-and-Grey Morality: Arguably, the whole thing. In order to escape, you have to kill someone. If you vote for the culprit during the trial, you have a hand in their death. If you don't vote for the culprit, you're adding to the chances of someone innocent being killed. No one will escape this game without some guilt on their shoulders.
- Body of the Week: Every chapter results in at least one death that the remaining students have to investigate.
- Clear My Name / Clear Their Name: Happens whenever somebody is accused of the crime and fights the charges, or when their friends do their best to help them. Of course, the question of whether or not they're actually guilty is very real...
- Cruel and Unusual Death: The executions, which are tailor-made for each culprit. Usually, they either mock their Ultimate talent or exploit their deepest fears, ensuring their punishment is as terrifying as possible. Occasionally, a murder victim also dies in a particularly horrible manner.
- Developing Doomed Characters: That's some to most of the characters. Good luck figuring out which ones they are before they die.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: But who knows how much the students will have to sacrifice to achieve it?
- Everyone Is a Suspect: The objective of each trial is to find out who is the most suspicious.
- Evidence Scavenger Hunt: Once a body is discovered, the surviving students, culprit included, are expected to investigate for evidence to prepare for the class trial where they will attempt to find the person behind the crime.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Often, relationships (both platonic and possibly romantic) are formed due to the stress everyone is put under and the bonds created thusly.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Considering its premise and the fact that it's a roleplay, the characters are not above poking fun at the supposed absurdity of their circumstances.
- Mystery of the Week: There's a new murder about every two weeks.
- Public Execution: If a killer is caught, they are dragged away to a cruel execution that usually causes them a lot of emotional and physical suffering before they are finally killed.
- Red Herring: Par for the course in a murder mystery. There's usually one or two big ones every case.
- Sadistic Choice: Kill one of your classmates, or spend the rest of your life in captivity — and when it comes down to the trial, fess up and receive a gruesome punishment, or escape with the blood of everyone else on your hands.
- Shout-Out: May contain references to popular culture, internet phenomena and call-backs to previous games the muns and their muses have been in.
- Teen Genius: All the students to some extent. They were initially accepted into Future Hope Academy for being the best in their age bracket at what they do.
- Tonight, Someone Dies: Specifically, every couple of weeks, someone will be murdered.
- Win Your Freedom: Students are informed that escape is possible; they just have to get away with murder.
Characters
Leveret Byrne
Ultimate Genetic Engineer
Male | He/Him
Leveret Byrne, Genetic Engineer. Born and raised on Willarie III. Well-known for his ability to create and nurture a very wide range of animals, including designer kinds never before seen on any planet. He’s very popular with upper-scale clientele, as long as they can speak to his parents about the job. He’s not great with people.
Chapter 2 Victim
- Adorkable: He's helplessly nerdy and socially awkward; still, Lev is lovable nonetheless, or perhaps because of these traits.
- Cloudcuckoolander: It's not unfair to say that Lev is, at times, rather... spacey.
- Kill the Cutie: Lev is murdered in Chapter 2, proving that being naive and lovable just won't save you from dying in this game.
Apollo Cadeci
Ultimate Prosthetist
Male | He/Him
The Cadeci family are a family twelve strong of traveling doctors by trade, visiting planets wherever there are patients who can afford to commission their services in their private spaceship. Their price varies depending on the needs of the patients and their socioeconomic position—as stories go, those who can afford to pay more and those who can’t usually get cut a little slack. The newest addition to their working staff is Apollo, who at the young age of eighteen specializes in prosthetics of all sorts. Stories around the web paint him as more than a little eccentric; there are a few stories going around of those who’ve received prosthetics from him getting a little surprise extra features in their new body parts, and there are a few dubious stories that he’ll take old Terran music rather than money for payment if you’re willing to part with it. Regardless of what the rumor mill tells, however, the quality of his prosthetics is undisputed, and to hear a few newspapers tell it a few representatives of Ares VI have even contacted the Cadecis to try and commission Apollo for military application, and universities on Willarie III and Kerenza IV have invited him to study. If this is true, however, he’s obviously turned them down, as upon recruitment to Future Hope he still traveled with his family.
- LOADING...
Kujira Cannon
Ultimate Locksmith
Genderfluid | Any Pronouns
Kujira Cannon arose from the crowds of scientists in Willarie III to stand out for their skills in modern security and unique approach to the old idea of steam-powered technology. Their lock installations look like something out of a steampunk novel, much like they themself with their signature Neo-Steampunk fashion sense and famous representation of the subculture itself, but they take advantage of the climate and ample water on the planet to become indestructible and uncrackable by anyone. The Cannon name is now highly envied and respected across the planet, but many wonder how their inventions will be any use on planets beyond this one thanks to the specific design.
- An Arm and a Leg: Kujira loses their entire right arm during the Chapter 2 escape room event.
- Brutal Honesty: Kujira seems entirely oblivious to the fact that a lot of things they say are... well, insensitive, to say the least. And when it's pointed out, they don't even seem to care.
- Career-Ending Injury: Subverted. Even though Kujira works with their hands, losing an arm doesn't seem to be the end of the line for them; with Apollo's help, they get a new arm back quicker than anything, and they seem to be rearing to get back to work any minute.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Their Ultimate Talent might be a little overly specific, but Kujira claims to be a supergenius and the evidence seems to back them up, to a good extent at least. Given all of the gadget-y upgrades they've made to their apparel and the affinity for tinkering with tech, they fit this trope like a glove, it would seem.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: It's not completely clear whether or not Kujira is necessarily "evil", but their eyes are red.
"Ying Canzhao" / "Hawk" / "Yin Yishuang" / Ying Di
Ultimate Sculptor
Male | He/Him
Most results on your favorite search engine for “hawk” would only reveal the bird of prey. A slightly deeper search might dig up images and replicas of various sculptures that have appeared throughout Jia III, typically found to include a particular species of bird known as the Canzhao Ying, a hawk active mostly during the twilight periods of the day. The artist has never been identified, but it's generally accepted in the pieces’ small cult following to refer to the artist by the most prevalent subject matter - the twilight hawk.
Chapter 1 Killer
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Subverted. Black and red are the prominent colors of his clothes, but Hawk is arguably nowhere near evil. He did choose to murder with the intent of saving everyone on the ship, after all, and with the victim's explicit agreement at that.
Indigo Cascini
Ultimate Tattoo Artist
Male | He/Him
Indigo Cascini, founder and owner of the Rose Bush Tattoo Parlor, lives in the heart of Wenhua and is known as the Ultimate Tattoo Artist. His talkative and friendly exterior, his passion for design, and not to mention his steady hand, make him a superb artist of tattoos from the smallest to the most intricate designs. Any time you spend in his parlor is sure to be one to remember - past designs line the walls, music always fills the room, and his cheerful personality never fades!
- Big Brother Instinct: Indigo is sort of a Dad Friend, to Tetsuya, Shaun, and Lev especially.
Chisame Hino
Ultimate Journalist
Female | She/Her
Artists truly are admired only for their tragedy - just look at Poe, Marlowe, Woolfe! All of them, lights snuffed out by the winds called ‘time’ - and so soon as well. Truly, there is no way to advance in a place like the writing field without ending up dead and rotten, blind to the glory your work brings you…
…Or so they said.
Chisame Hino, a true journalist born within this new age - alive and kicking. She isn’t quite famous yet, but she’s definitely… well-known. A tame sort of well-known. Most of the residents of New Petersburg know her as the avid fan of ‘Touma’, a long since gone D-list writer who swept the world up with his senseless ideals. Chisame Hino seems very eager to push that agenda, even temporarily taking his pen name as her own in writing! Everyone’s at a loss in terms of her motives, but there’s no way a star as bright as this could be planning something malicious, right…?
- LOADING...
Forever Hiro
Ultimate Commandeer
Female | She/Her
Child prodigy and dedicated commandeer of Fleet 11038 is ‘Forever Hiro’. Under her lone father, wisened military official Gojira Hiro’s watchful eye, Forever has quickly climbed the ranks at a record pace, and practically sits on the top of the world. It’s rumored to be impossible for even grown adults and their entire fleet to make her waver. Truly, she has no hesitation and utmost confidence in every move she makes during the chess game that is life.
Chapter 1 Victim
- Action Girl: Self-explanatory, seeing her Talent and the fact that she held her own in a swordfight, without having been trained for such.
Iya Ito
Ultimate Dating Sim Developer
Female | She/Her
A young girl from Willarie III who works making Virtual Reality dating sims for a living under the username Merry Go Girl since she was 13! Even though creating dating sims is her talent and what she’s known best for, she’s also known for other things, such as the large amount of charity work she does, and as the only child of the head of a game company, Mirai Games. Other than this, not much is truly known about her aside from some rumors of her working on advanced AI in order to improve the quality of her dating sims even more.
- Eyes Out of Sight: Iya's bangs are long enough to cover her eyes completely. Some characters HINT: Umeka even think that she might be a Cyclops.
- The Pollyanna: Iya takes in everything that happens in the Killing Game and she seems to internalize it, yet moves on just as quickly, back to being cheerful in no time! Someone has to do it.
"P524" / Hiroshi Kei
Ultimate VR Software Engineer
Nonbinary | He/Him
Hiroshi Kei, or “p524” to the many inhabitants of his virtual world Ninth Life, is a mysterious individual who doesn’t seem to get out much. All important meetings and interactions with him are conducted in the virtual world, and nobody, not even his shareholders or coworkers, has ever seen him in person. Some speculate that he’s an AI. Some think he’s just a shut-in. Either way, Hiroshi releases patches and updates to the popular Ninth Life frequently while still maintaining his anonymity.
Chapter 2 Killer
Umeka Kinugasa
Ultimate Mecha Pilot
Female | She/Her
Umeka Kinugasa is the hero of her home planet Tichea. Using her marvelous MECHA, she saves those in need of saving. She’s got a fiery attitude that just beams from her! She will be the hero of any story, and is always ready to get down and dirty when it comes to saving and helping others. In the need of a strong gal with an even stronger robotic suit? ; You know who to call!
- Action Girl: She received her Talented status because she's a literal action superhero on her home planet.
- Badass Adorable: She fights evil! She's super duper cute!
Svetlana Krasheva
Ultimate Augmented Reality Engineer
Female | She/Her
Svetlana was born in the insanely wealthy Krasheva family on the planet of Kerenza IV and is the oldest of 4. She has a younger sister and 2 younger brothers. Since her childhood she’s been interested in creating technology. She used to compete in figure skating competitions and everyone thought she would one day become famous for her raw talent but one year she simply stopped competing and began focusing more heavily on her engineering, throwing herself completely into engineering multiple devices. This was the year that she created a small device that could visualize internal injuries in a much more advanced and accurate way, as well as could aid in procedures performed by doctors to make things like heart and brain surgery much easier and safer as well as have a higher rate of success. This new device utilized Augmented Reality as well as holograms to show medical personal exactly what was going on in the body. She patented this and made a sweet deal with a large firm which supplied hospitals and doctors offices across the planets and she quickly became a huge name especially in the tech and medical industries.
- LOADING...
Tatsuo Kurosawa
Ultimate Bounty Agent
Male | He/Him
Not much is known about Tatsuo Kurosawa’s early childhood. However, it is known that Kurosawa has been studying ancient forms of martial arts since the age of ten and he has been instructing self-defense classes in Sunbard, Ares VI since the age of fourteen. He is the youngest agent to ever be recognized by the United Terran Authority.
- Exhausted Eye Bags: Works long hours and doesn't get enough sleep.
- Hates Small Talk: Tatsuo does not do well with small talk. He is not an extroverted person and he finds casual conversations to be awkward. Often pretends that he is on the job in order to communicate more efficiently, as his job drives him.
- I Am Not My Father: Tatsuo has a troublesome relationship with his father and he does not want to be like him at all. This is a partial reason for following in his Grandparent's footsteps instead.
- I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: Tatsuo does not see anything particularly special about himself, so he feels confused when Charlie takes an interest in him.
- Married to the Job: Tatsuo is a workaholic who had no time for romance prior to life on The Kanada.
- Oblivious to Love: Did not notice any of Charlie's attempts to flirt with him.
- Raised by Grandparents: Tatsuo loves his Grandparents and is thankful to have been raised by them.
- Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Tatsuo has no idea how to unwind and have fun, and he is inexperienced socially.
- Secretly Selfish: In Chapter Two, secrets were revealed. Tatsuo's secret stated that he became a bounty agent in order to carry out his own personal vendetta.
- The Stoic: Tatsuo tends to under-react to most things and feels uncomfortable about expressing emotions, especially physically.
Yuuna Kusayanagi
Ultimate Forensic Pathologist
Female | She/Her
SYSERROR: NO PROFILE FOUND.
- Creepy Blue Eyes: Yuuna's eyes are a beautiful shade of ocean blue!... But something about her unblinking stare makes them preeeeeetty unsettling.
- Creepy Mortician: The personification of this trope, she seems to embrace her reputation - or at the very least, not care at all that people seem unsettled by her.
- Mad Doctor: Subverted, given that she isn't an actual doctor.
- Perpetual Smiler: In fact, she literally can't not smile; her face has been stuck in this position for - well, at least as long as Yuuna remembers.
- White Shirt of Death: Her signature labcoat is covered in bloodstains — it just begs the question as to whose blood it is.
- Yuuna says she actually can't remember to whom the blood belonged, except that it was one of her patients, and one that was particularly "special" to her.
Arodela Mac Fly
Ultimate Glider
Female | She/Her
A racer of the skies and a master of the wind, Arodela is a master of the skies and a lover of the open air. Some close relatives note on her confidence, her ability and most of all, her passion for her job. Nearly every week or two she sets new records that allowed her to make a potential job out of her passion. Of course, she’s hoping to continue her work in science, a parent stated, but she only does it to get something useful out of school and a backup for her job in the future if flying backfired. This rising star is someone to look out for, folks. With her boundless energy and almost too much confidence, she’s not afraid to put others in their place or push them to the side in order to get right into the spotlight. If you’re a fan of ariel sports, this is someone to know and look out for!
- Action Girl: To her very core. Arodela is athletic and spunky.
Tetsuya Nakamura
Ultimate Glass Artist
Male | He/Him
Due to modern scientific advancements, plain old glass is considered obsolete for architectural purposes, but has gained popularity in some circles as a medium for art, and the leading face in this field is none other than Tetsuya Nakamura. He was first thrust into the spotlight at the age of eleven, when one of his sculptures was featured in a show in Wenhua’s most famous art museum. After that, people all over Jia III began commissioning him to make their dream sculptures, and nearly every cultural center on the planet has come to be home to at least one of his works. When he’s not travelling to art shows or for his commissions, he sells everything from small trinkets to grand sculptures in his store in Wenhua, Glass Slipper.
- An Arm and a Leg: Tetsuya loses his left foot during the Chapter 2 escape game event.
- Break the Cutie: Like all of the other cute and pure characters in this game, Tetsuya seems to have a lot of heartbreak coming his way.
Yumi Nakano
Ultimate Sociologist
Female | She/Her
After making her research go public, Yumi Nakano has helped introduced a new perspective into the field of sociology. Despite being only 18, she has published over years worth of research. Through her knowledge, she has aided different government organizations, universities, and other companies in improving their systems to aid in society today. She currently resides in Jia III, continuing her research of cultural and societal development.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Yumi is a very sweet, very cute girl, with golden blonde hair.
Ningyoo Ningyoo
Ultimate Puppeteer
Agender | They/Them
Ningyoo Ningyoo is most widely known by the sheer confusion as to where they came from. It’s almost as if they just showed up one day, putting on their puppet shows. Their fame spiked quickly, going from performances on the street to parodying popular movies and media in their own "unique" way with their puppets. What an enigma!
- Deadpan Snarker: Despite their odd aloofness, Ningyoo's deadpan asides show that they clearly do have a sense of humor.
- Eyes Out of Sight: Ningyoo's hair obscures their eyes from sight, in a creepy way.
- The Nicknamer: Or... some type of variation on this. Ningyoo seems to have a difficult time remembering people's names, which means they typically refer to people however they want.
Charlie Rhodes
Ultimate Bassist
Male | He/Him
Charles Jude Rhodes, better known as Charlie, grew up as the youngest boy of 5 on the outskirts of JIA III where his father, a decorated surgeon, owned a large loft house. The family home became a comfort, the perfect recreational resort both of Charlie's parents could relax at when the pair would take breaks from working with the unfortunate on New Petersburg. According to an interview done with Vibe, Charlie began his musical career at the age of 4, his father putting him into classical musical lessons where he first started with piano, though as he himself grew up, moved to cello and double bass. During this time, he took part of many recitals, particularly playing for the posh upper class during their evergreen events.
Once hitting his early teens, Charlie took a break from classical music, moving into playing bass guitar. It was a transition Charlie himself has called an easy one multiple times on his social media Q&A's. The young talent played in multiple major festivals and parades, filling in for some of the most popular groups at the time; such as leading bands Metallic Shuttle and Plastic Animals.
Taking the plunge, his parents urging him to follow his dreams, Charlie is now residing with his oldest brother, Felix Rhodes (30, Architect) in the dead center of JIA III where he met fellow bandmates; Kou Iwai, Taro Wada, and Aki Yogi, forming the dreampop group: "SHORE." The new wave of music has been sweeping the galaxies off its feet, the boys now Household Names across the stars after their first album went platinum. What the future holds for the talent is truly unlimited.
- Attention Whore: From the get go, Charlie has demanded to be the center of attention. In prologue, he was revealed to be jealous of the attention Yunna received for being dead.
- Idle Rich: You ever have so much money you just don’t have to do anything? Charlie has been implied he grew up so spoiled, he didn’t have to worry about common tools of the trade such as reading. He spends his time enjoying parties, fashion, and living the high life. The joys of new money!
- The Prima Donna: Charlie is know for his expression of his assets and importance. Just SO rich! Just SO much better than you! To the public he may be a cute little boy, but the closer you get the more you wonder about his real personality.
- Born in the Wrong Century: Charlie is obsessed and has an attachment to the old Terran culture; the 80s. While living generations and generations ahead, the boy had a custom jacket made around the old aesthetics.
Shaun Rose
Ultimate Linguist
Male | He/Him
Shaun Rose, a young but talented linguist from Jia III, made his name by studying the cultural and linguistic differences of various planets. His mother’s job as a famous singer and his father’s as a well-known athlete means he always had more than enough money to occasionally travel to other planets and study their cultures. However, despite his mastery of almost a dozen different languages (along with English/whatever the common language is, he’s studied various sub-dialects and lesser-used languages on the various planets), the boy can’t speak worth a damn: painfully introverted and suffering from a terrible stutter, he usually prefers not to speak if he can help it.
- Break the Cutie: Like all of the other cute and pure characters in this game, Shaun seems to have a lot of heartbreak coming his way.
