Deathdrop Gameshow
is a Tumblr roleplay based on Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and taking elements from Big Brother. It began its first game on August 23, 2015, and ended on January 23, 2016.
18 students receive a letter in the mail, proclaiming that they are one of the lucky few chosen to be a houseguest on the newest series of Big Brother! In this version, featuring only students from Hope's Peak, the victor is promised amazing wealth and success for their future. Hosted by the lovely Julia Sinclaire, the students have to form alliances and decide who can and cannot be trusted...
Until Julia suddenly announces that the show has been taken over by someone else, and now the rules are a little different. The competition to become the Head of Household isn't quite that anymore; it's murder. Kill someone, and you'll get to nominate two more people for eviction. After an investigation period, the remaining students will have a class trial to try and figure out who the culprit is. If they get it right, then the culprit is evicted. If they get it wrong, then the students have to vote to 'evict' one of the nominees.
Much like Big Brother, there are fun challenges in which you, too, can win the Power of Veto! Don't want someone up on the chopping block? Take them down, and then the HoH will have to nominate someone else.
Why is this happening? What's the point? Will the students manage to escape, or will their numbers dwindle until only one remains...?
Tropes in general for Deathdrop Gameshow
- Body of the Week: As a Dangan Ronpa RP, of course this happens.
- Dark Secret: The second motive gives the students a choice; have their futures destroyed, or have their darkest secrets revealed to the world. A vote has their futures being destroyed, protecting secrets for now.
- Dead Guy on Display: All bodies are laying wherever they were left, ready to be investigated.
- Divided We Fall: Some of the students believe that they should all work together so no unpleasant murders happen.
- Do Not Adjust Your Set: As it was intended to be a normal TV show prior, it wasn't difficult for Big Brother and the mastermind to take over the show and continue to broadcast it.
- Downer Ending: The game ends with all the students but the Mastermind in the hands of the Big Bad. The surviving students get their memories erased and become mindless, then are separated into different labs for human experimentation. The dead students, who had their minds uploaded into robots, also get their memories erased and are sent to an entirely different location. On top of that, the Big Bad plans to do the whole thing all over again with a new batch of kids.
- Empty Chair Memorial: Even after a student dies, their podium remains during the class trials.
- Everyone Went to School Together: They're all students of Hope's Peak, some of which knew each other prior to the events of the game.
- Everyone Is a Suspect: Even the first trial has the students going from suspecting Meihua, to Allen, to Kai, to Ritsuka, to Meihua...
- Fairplay Whodunnit: Mostly. So far, if a crime scene has been played with, it's been by the culprit. Knox's Decalogue is still intact.
- Hostile Show Takeover: It appears this way, as the prologue began like any other reality show... only for chapter one to begin with the revelation that Julia, the host, is being threatened and held hostage. Oh yeah, and the house residents now have to kill each other.
- Public Execution: Either the culprits, or one of the nominees.
- "Ray of Hope" Ending: A small glimmer of hope comes from the fact that the robot-ified Mastermind is still with Never, who plans to rebel and look for a way to save both the incoming class and the first class. Time will tell how successful this will be.
- Sacrificial Lion: Kokoro<3Ashi, who is murdered before there can even be a motive; investigating her death and finding the culprit would unlock clues as to who the Mastermind is.
- Sadistic Choice:
- How motives are determined; Big Brother issues one of these for the houseguests to vote between. Whichever gets the most votes is the new motive.
- The HoH has to choose two people to nominate. The rest of the students might have to choose which one of those innocent people to have executed.
- Timed Mission: Investigations and trials both have only a set amount of time to be completed.
