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A popular roleplaying board based on Battle Royale, Survival of the Fittest has been around for roughly three years, and is one of the few RPs in the fandom with an entirely original plot (though the full details have yet to be revealed). A winner has already been found for "version one" and "version two", and "version three" is approaching its climax, with more secrets behind the mysterious terrorist organization behind SOTF being subtly revealed in the announcements. With a fairly large community, and even a wiki, SOTF looks like it will be around for quite some time.
The roleplay is geared primarily towards intermediate-advanced level writers, so it might not be for everyone, especially if they are new to roleplaying. However, SOTF is open for anyone to join - although there is a member approval process in place, as well as a rigourous character acceptance system.
Version three is winding down, with very few students left alive, but that doesn't mean it's too late to join in. Registrations for the version four Pregame are open, and it is proceeding quickly.
SOTF can be found here
The wiki can be found here
For reference, those RPing characters are called 'handlers' on the board, so if you see SotF examples using the word, this is what is meant by it.
If you thought this page was about the slogan coined to summarize the theory of evolution and later appropriated by people who consider themselves fit, you're looking for Darwinist.
This roleplay provides notable examples of the following (please add examples to their relevant pages. This article is long enough without every new trope to apply to the series being added to it):
- Aborted Arc: Many, which is to expected given the nature of the RP Board.
- Abusive Parents: This occurs very often, although most of the more obvious examples can be found within the first two games. For some, such as Mariavel Varella, this is a defining part of their backstory.
- Anti Hero: Many, the most notable being Bryan Calvert, Hawley Faust, and as of V3, Adam Dodd.
- Anti Villain: Bobby Jacks is an example of this trope. Whilst he does play the game, he is constantly plagued by his guilty conscience, being painfully aware of everything he is doing. Indeed, he compares himself to Macbeth on several occasions. I Did What I Had To Do about covers his justification.
- Bullet Proof Vest: Subverted for the most part - in SOTF, these tend to be treated very realistically. However, this is also played straight in the case of Shannon McLocke, who takes a close range shotgun blast to the chest and gets up with barely a scratch.
- Caught With Your Pants Down: This happens to Beth Vandelinder - as Melina Frost walks in her. Particularly squicky as Melina then forces her to keep going before effectively joining in. Depraved Bisexual indeed... Oh, and Melina uses a vase to help.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Mitch Gunther.
Mitch: Dog eat dog. Dogs don't eat dogs, they eat birds and cats and Kibblebits if they have a family. Those words are silly. But I would have gotten that right if that silly glasses boy hadn't answered before me. Yes, I would have gotten it right.
Anna: Oh dear... I regret to say this, but I feel as though I'm in the uncanny valley right now... oh my, did that inside joke come out alright? I hope I did...
- Cluster F Bomb: In V1, Adam Dodd is as famous for this as Jacob Starr is for having too much iron in his blood. There are others, but nobody has quite reached his level of profanity.
- Cold Blooded Torture: Occurs quite often with insane characters, for example, J.R. Rizzolo cruelly tortures Cara Scholte and Laeil Burbank in V3.
- Complete Monster: Cody Jenson of V1 after his first two kills.
- Crowning Momentof Awesome: Most characters will get one at some point. One of the better examples involves a character being dropkicked off the roof of a building.
- Deserted Island: The main stage of Survival of the Fittest.
- Downer Ending: By default - when the game has only one survivor, there's going to be precious little to smile about.
- Dropped A Bridge On Him: Mods are often forced to do this to inactive characters. A massive wave of inactivity in V3 forced the admins to (allegedly) kill off a large number of characters off screen en masse, including major characters such as Neil Sinclair, Julie Mikan, Darnell Butler, and even Adam Dodd.
- Explosive Leash: Following the story of Battle Royale, collars are fitted to every character. They go off if they are in a dangerzone, if attempts are made to remove them, if the character attempts to escape, if they piss off Danya...
- Expy: Some of the characters are blatant clones of either past SOTF characters or characters from Battle Royale.
- Flashbacks: Loads of them.
- Fridge Logic: A fair bit. Any number of cool scenes can fall into this trap. Say for example, Adam Dodd's killing of terrorist Elijah Rice. Basically, Adam cuts his opponent in half. Awesome. But wait, this guy is wearing body armour, it isn't a particularly strong sword and Adam is an exhausted, not very muscular teenager. The whole scene falls down.
- Gorn: Rather...prevalent.
- Heroic BSOD: Adam Dodd, after the deaths of Madeleine Shirohara and Amanda Jones and a few other characters.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Notably, handlers can do this, using their 'Hero Card' to have their own character killed off in order to save someone else's.
- Hope Spot: Several. For example Ricardo Chee's death or Elsie Darroch's.
- Karma Houdini: Even though the survivors had pledged to kill Danya, the mastermind of SOTF has so far managed to avoid any major punishment (like a well-deserved Karmic Death) at the end of each version. We'll just have to wait and see how the endgame of Version 3 plays out...
- Killed Off For Real: Everyone - except for Andrea Vanlandingham, Burton Harris, and Denise Depuis (the first time each of them were 'killed', that is)
- Kill Em All: The whole point of the game, being based on Battle Royale, is to force the involved students to kill each other off until there is only one survivor.
- Lampshade Hanging: Has proven to be quite common over the three year history and thousands of posts of SOTF.
- Loads And Loads Of Characters: Each game has over one hundred students, and one of the test runs had two hundred, as does v3.
- By the looks of things, V4 is turning out to have numbers around 250 so far.
- Made Of Iron: While there were other examples, Jacob Starr was the most egregious example to the point where the SOTF community has their own name for this trope: the Jacob Treatment.
- Mary Sue: Plenty of them show up in the application process.
- Moral Event Horizon: Cody Jensen raping and murdering Madelaine Shirohara, and then accidentally killing Amanda Jones.
- Nightmare Fuel: The gore of some scenes is simply unbelievable, and others are incredibly creepy.
- Paranoia Fuel: This troper finds himself constantly wondering which of his classmates would end up murdering him after browsing the forum for too long.
- Out With A Bang: Happens to a few characters in V1 and in V2. As Mr. Danya put it during his announcements.
Danya: She took him to Heaven before she took him down to Hell.
- Sinister Surveillance: The cameras all around the Island, along with the collars track everything the students are doing.
- Tear Jerker: Several, although given the premise, that isn't really surprising.
- The Tetris Effect: Just find a few characters you're interested in, and watch the hours whittle away.
- The Power Of Friendship: Subverted to hell in many, many instances. Sydney Morvran, winner of V0 (the final 'test run') is the most prominent example of this. He ends up being the sole survivor of his first game by using his best friend as a human shield after all the rest of his friends started attacking one another in a paranoid fit. Then Syd was put into the next game as punishment for not killing anybody.
- Web Original: While the RP is based on Koshun Takami's Battle Royale, it has entirely original characters and a very different setting and plot. While a Fan Work, it also originated on the web and has branched off in a different direction from the original Battle Royale. It used to be based in the same universe as Battle Royale, but was retconned in v3 to be set in an original setting.
- Write Who You Know: There are a large number of self insert characters or characters who are basically people the handler knows in real life. These characters are typically portrayed realistically, however.
- Your Head Asplode: Collar detonation. Stay in a danger zone too long, try to remove the collar, suffer an unfortunate impact, get used as an example by Danya to try to scare off SADD...
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