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Danganronpa: Abyssal Fate was a Danganronpa 2020-2021 fan roleplay run on Discord by somepersonnamedcaloy, with a now-scrapped rehosted version with the same name called Continuum Restored. Due to the host's reservations regarding Abyssal Fate itself alongside preparing a Spirtual Successor of the roleplay, it has been reopened and archived here to help new hosts understand what to not do when hosting a DRRP while showing the inspiration for Danganronpa United By Love.

With plans to refine on what made Abyssal Fate promising, a Spiritual Successor known as Danganronpa United By Love made by the same host, intends on making a more streamlined and enjoyable version of this while ensuring the flaws that held this roleplay back are toned down, or removed at best.

Being trapped in VR with fifteen strangers is bad. KNOWING you're trapped in VR with fifteen strangers is worse. Yet that's the situation poor Ruby Rose finds herself in, as yet another game of life and death springs up around her, all the while more mysteries rising around her. What is the Dunamis Foundation? Who is Mukuro Ikusaba, and why can't she herself remember? And most importantly, how is Weiss connected to all of this? Why does Ruby have a growing feeling of dread the closer the answers to any of those questions come...?

While the roleplay and fanfic adaptation has been discontinued outright, somepersonnamedcaloy is now planning to create a Spiritual Successor of sorts to Abyssal Fate even with his Creator Backlash towards Abyssal Fate, with the main reason being that he learned several important lessons from the hosting experience, ones that will be used in Danganronpa United By Love.

Tropes in Danganronpa: Abyssal Fate include:

• Adaptational Villainy: The initial version had Makoto straight up bomb the fucking Dunamis Foundation then instigate the killing game after aforementioned foundation was manipulated into killing Kyoko. This will not make it's way into Continuum Restored for a very major reason. On a more canonical note, Weiss, who manipulated her best friend into killing her own sister and plunged her into total despair, as well as being the true mastermind of the killing game.
• Back from the Dead: Mukuro, obviously- this is speculated to be a factor in why she has amnesia. After being the first blackened, Jason Todd turns up alive in a Lazarus Pit in Chapter 3, reentering the game and ultimately ending up surviving.
• Batman Gambit: Cyrus manages to round up the victims of the event that caused dimensions to mesh together by simply providing a false lead that they were a multidimensional version of the Remnants of Despair. In reality only one of them is, but that doesn't stop the Future Foundation from rounding up all sixteen of them and putting them through the Neo World Program in an attempt to repair their mental states anyway. He also manipulates the Dunamis Foundation into killing a major figure in the Future Foundation- either Kyoko or Byakuya depending on version- which leads to one of the Future Foundation leaders (either Makoto or Toko) stealing their private information... including a hard drive that he'd downloaded Despair!Weiss' mind onto, allowing her to take the form of Monokuma in the killing game.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: While Cyrus is the one who created the killing game, Monokuma is actually being controlled by an Alter Ego AI of Weiss, and Ruby is her Dragon, responsible for gathering the other "students" in the first place.
• Creator Backlash: The host of the roleplay was infamously hard on himself regarding the roleplay's failures, thinking that it failed to live up to what he imagined were to be standards within the community. Nowadays, it's been toned down due to the existence of United By Love, with the backlash being more subdued and for different reasons entirely:
  • Ruby Rose and Aaron Yasumochi being borderline examples Spotlight-Stealing Squad engineered by the host.
  • The overly convulted plot that led to multiple prequels being planned for it began.
  • The Character Derailment of Makoto Naegi.
• Dead All Along: Weiss. Ruby doesn't take it well.
• The Ending Changes Everything: If the sheer amount of spoiler tags on this page doesn't tip you off, well...
• Everyone Is a Tomato: Viciously defied. While the story seems to be building up to the entire cast being members of the interdimensional terrorist group known as Abyssal Despair, in reality it's only Ruby- more importantly, the Big Bad planned on the Future Foundation believing this trope would be in play.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: The finale eventually turns into this for Ruby, courtesy of Mukuro most of all.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Applies to Mukuro, Noah, and Vigilante - all of whom are rather rude at times but ultimately are decent people, with Vigilante ultimately pulling a sacrifice in Chapter 4 to end the killing game.
• Kill the Ones You Love: Mukuro eventually learns this was the reason for her death, courtesy of Junko. It's also later described in vivid detail by Ruby, regarding her own sister, during the final trial.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Mukuro doesn't remember anything about canon for a long chunk of the story. Ruby also has it, but for VERY different reasons.
• Odd Friendship: Noah is a Deadpan Snarker Non-Action Guy, while Ruby is a Genki Girl and the embodiment of Little Red Fighting Hood. Somehow, they get along great, with Ruby even training Noah to fight. That training is ultimately what allows him to kill Yang in Chapter 5, kicking Ruby's Sanity Slippage into overdrive.
• One-Steve Limit: Played with. There is only one character named Yang in this RP, but due to Ruby's older sister sharing that name, confusion occasionally occurs- especially since that Yang was very relevant to another RP.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: When the Big Bad Duumvirate has almost won, four of the five survivors plunged into despair with one of them even leading said charge, Natsuki of all people proves to be too tsundere to let it affect her. This ultimately starts the chain needed for the other survivors to come to their senses.
• Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Well, more like Slowly Slipping Back into evil, but considering Ruby's slippage over the course of the story it counts.
• Spanner in the Works: The entirety of Vigilante's murder plan revolves around frustrating, confusing and destroying Monokuma's sanity. By the end of chapter 4, he completely fucks off, leaving his ally Cyrus to control the killing game for a chapter. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Awesome when you realize that he got one over on not the original Monokuma, but the one controlled by Weiss.
• Spoilered Rotten: Look at all of those tags.
• Sword of Plot Advancement: In a roundabout way, Myrtenaster. It serves as one of Ruby's biggest clues that Weiss may not be as innocent in all of this as she thought, and it falling into her hands is what kickstarts the chain of reveals that results in her Protagonist Journey to Villain.
• Tomato in the Mirror: The group eventually learns that Ruby is one of her world's Remnants of Despair. This, along with Weiss' death is the last bit of confirmation Ruby needs to cross the Despair Event Horizon and end up as one of the final bosses.
• Tragic Keepsake: Ruby explains early on that the reason she wears her Badass Cape everywhere is because it's the last thing her mother gave her before dying. She later gets another in the form of Myrtenaster, which she keeps even after the finale, believing Weiss wouldn't want to be remembered by what she became.
• Uncertain Doom: While the rest of Team RWBY's fates were explored, it's never fully explained what happened to Blake or whether she's even alive. No one knows- Ruby doesn't, Weiss doesn't, Toko and Cyrus don't know either... though considering they're from post-V3, odds are Blake fleeing to her homeland spared her from the fates of her friends, a possibility Ruby considers during the epilogue.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to discuss Weiss' role in the story without spoiling the biggest twist of the plot.