How I Met Your Mother (And How I Met Your Father), also known as The Ultimate Detective and The Ultimate Hope Gaiden: How I Met Your Mother (And How I Met Your Father), is a story in the Danganronpa Gaiden Series written by WiiFan2009
as a request from NotFanFicNet.
When Makoto and Kyoko Naegi ask their five-year-old daughter Kiki what she wants to read for story time, she asks them to tell her how the two met and fell in love. Thus, throughout several nights, the two tell their daughter about their first two years together before their memories were stolen by Junko.
It's available on both AO3 and Fanfiction.net.
How I Met Your Mother (And How I Met Your Father) provides examples of:
- Adaptation Expansion: This story describes the two years in Hope's Peak prior to the events of DR1.
- Cliffhanger: With the exception of the last two chapters, this tends to frequently happen. This is justified due to this being a bedtime story being told to a five-year-old that needs to sleep.
- Framing Device: The story of how Makoto and Kyoko met and developed their relationship is told by their present selves to their daughter in a series of bedtime stories.
- How Dad Met Mom: The whole premise of the story.
- Love at First Sight: Discussed and Lampshaded. Up until her parents actually getting together, Kiki constantly takes many of the two's interaction as a sign of the two instantly falling in love. Of course, Makoto and Kyoko will then tell her that that's not how that works.
- Story Arc: The story is broken into five arcs, with interludes between each arc:
- Trust Arc details how Makoto and Kyoko first met and how Makoto gained her trust.
- Bonding Arc details how Kyoko bonded with Makoto and the rest of Class 78.
- Intimacy Arc details how the two slowly developed feelings for one another.
- Love Arc details the pair beginning their relationship.
- In between Love Arc is the "Christmas with the Naegis" mini arc, which details Makoto and Kyoko spending winter break at the former's home and meeting his family.
- Despair Arc details the two and the rest of Class 78's time locked down in Hope's Peak before their memories were erased.
