Danganrona: Losers Reunion
is a fanfiction by OrangeMKNinga. It features the deceased students who are revived to participate in another killing game, with Sayaka Maizono as the protagonist.
This fanfiction contains spoilers from the original games, as everyone has died in their past lives. Caution is advised before reading it.
This story contains examples of:
- Ascended Extra: Sayaka Maizono, the first ever victim of the franchise, serves as the main protagonist of the story.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: When Junko reveals herself to be the mastermind behind the Hope's Peak Academy killing game and the Jabberwock Island killing game, she has Mikan brainwashed into her Ultimate Despair mode. This causes the others to lock her up and place her under surveillance.
- Break Them by Talking: At the end of the first Class Trial, Tsumugi cosplays as survivors that were important to the participants to try to convince them to not vote for her. It didn't work.
- Call-Back:
- Sayaka goes into the kitchen to get a knife to kill someone. In this case, though, she realized that she's doing the exact same thing that led to her death in her previous life, so she stopped herself.
- Just like in the third case of Trigger Happy Havoc, the culprit of the first case gets exposed by using the Monopad to reveal the owner's true identity. Junko Enoshima, as it turns out, was really Tsumugi Shirogane, meaning that the actual victim was Junko.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: As with any Danganronpa killing game story, the executions are both cruel and ironic.
- Tsumugi has her clothes sewed into her skin before they were ripped out, skin included. She was redued to a skeleton dressed like Junko Enoshima before finally dying.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Tsumugi (actually Junko in disguise) was killed with a knife to the stomach instead of being crushed.
- Downer Beginning: The fic opens with Sayaka's last moments in her previous life before she died.
- Forged Message: Junko makes a bunch of fake letters and spreads them out among everyone, making it seem like those who died are still mad at their respective killers and don't forgive them for what they did, hoping to cause tension and instigate another murder. It fails though when Mondo apologizes to Chihiro and shows the letter he got, with them quickly realizing it's a forgery and informing the rest of the students before there is a serious misunderstanding.
- Heroic BSoD:
- Sayaka was left frozen when she saw Tsumugi's dead body with a knife sticking out of her chest, as it closely resembled her own death. It doesn't help that Tsumugi bears a resemblance to Sayaka.
- After the first trial ended, Sayaka froze again when she saw a photo of Makoto and Kyoko on a date.
- Idiot Hair: When Sayaka was using the bathroom in her room, she noticed that there is a strand of hair that's sticking up from the top of her head, just like all the other protagonists of the franchise.
- My Greatest Failure:
- Sayaka deeply regrets betraying Makoto. She wants to get out of the killing game alive and find Makoto to apologize to him.
- Mondo is ashamed of himself for killing Chihiro in a fit of rage. As a result, he plays more of a mediating role.
- Named by the Adaptation: The Ultimate Imposter is given an actual name: Shinji Henso.
- Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: Tsumugi uses her cosplay skills to try and guilt the others into not voting for her at the end of the first trial, taking on the likenesses of Fuyuhiko (for Peko), Sonia (for Gundham), Shuichi (for Kaito and Kaede), Himiko (for Tenko), Makoto (for Sayaka) and Hajime (for Chiaki). It almost works, but Chiaki sees through it instantly and snaps everyone else out of it by throwing her shoe at her.
- Trauma Button:
- Kaede panics when a hanging doll depicting her death pops up from her new piano. Even after she tossed the doll away, just looking at the piano brings her back that memory of her death.
- The dormitory bathrooms makes Sayaka uncomfortable, as that's exactly where she spent the last moments of her previous life.
- Wham Line: During the trial, Tsumugi tries to argue that the whole thing is fictional by revealing that she knows everything about everyone in the killing game. It gets to everyone except Rantaro, who simply challenges her to reveal the name of his youngest sister. Tsumugi dismisses this as irrelevant information that even Rantaro himself probably doesn’t know… to which Rantaro responds with this:Rantaro: Her name is Oribu.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are:
- Sayaka has immense guilt over kicking off the killing game she was in, but Mondo assures her that, since she didn't know about the class trials or the executions when she died, she's hardly the guiltiest person in this killing game.
- Sayaka feels guilty over sentencing Tsumugi to death, feeling like that could've been her if she had successfully killed Leon in her past life. Tenko states that, if it weren't for her realizing that Tsumugi and Junko had swapped places, no one would have been able to solve the crime.
