What happens when you put sixteen super high school level students in the same mall and force them to kill? You get Despair Mart! A sequel roleplay, Super Despair Mart 2, is currently in the works, with the cast announced on November 16th. You can find it here
Despair Mart contains examples of:
Despair Mart
- Aborted Arc: Krypt's Laser shooting cybernetic arm.
- Subverted - The mastermind was killed with everyone's laser shooting cybernetic arms.
- An Arm and a Leg: Krypt gets his arm broken then lopped of by Monobear.
- Artificial Limbs: Monobear then gives Krypt a robotic arm.
- Character Development: Alistair goes from a recluse who is sheltered in his video games to a hopeful young man and then becomes a psychopath willing to do anything to escape the mall.
- Chekhov's Gift: The EMP Bomb. Yasuho received it from the Mono Mono machine. Alistair later has a breakdown and pulls it out, using it as a bluff. Luckily it was a dud.
- The Chosen Many: The sixteen Super High School Level students were invited to the mall using a gift card.
- Deadpan Snarker: Yasuho, Umada and Dale can get pretty snarky when the time is right.
- Dropped Glasses: Alistair seems to have lost his glasses in future chapters.
- Downer Ending: The end of Chapter Five kills Yasuki and Lily, Alistair escapes the mall and Yaso is abducted by a stranger.
- Eye Scream: Daiki after Monobear steals Lily's makeup brush and throws it into her eye.
- Fake Memories: Every character except for Yaso has a made-up life.
- Foreshadowing: Lily's comment about blood always being pink. Turns out they're all androids and what they have in them is some colored liquid.
- If you really want to look more closely, Lily's initial body makeup is of metal, making her look like a robot of some sort. It was later revealed that everyone, sans Yaso, are androids.
- For Want Of A Nail: Alistair. Every time he speaks up he seems to guess the plans the group leader has. Numerous times the story has changed paths because of him.
- The Hero: Alistair himself falls into this role as the story progresses which makes it all the more surprising when he ends up being the culprit at the end of chapter five.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: Lily actually believes she's nothing more than that auxiliary shopper, despite her niceness towards everyone. This is highly evident in the Fifth Chapter, where she was being pointed as the culprit. She voted for herself, even if she wasn't the actual culprit, simply because all the evidence pointed to her.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Chrome has bangs to further show his being anti-social.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: After everyone finds out Saikua has a multiple personality disorder, everyone avoids her even more. she also feels this way after she becomes an AI, when others still avoid her.
- Important Hair Accessory: Yasuho always keeps her hair in a bun. But in Chapter 3, she lets it down and becomes Yasuki.
- Lights Off, Somebody Dies: When the lights turned off during chapter 3, Saikua was killed.
- Even in chapter 4 Mio was killed when the lights flipped off.
- A common theme in the game. Chances are when the lights go out, someone's gonna get killed.
- Limited Wardrobe: With the exception of Krypt, who changes outfits every day, everyone suffers from this.
- Love Makes You Crazy:
- Yasuki is what formed out of Yasuho's love for Daiki, and the boxer's death made Yasuho a bit.... crazy.
- Missing Time: Like most Dangan Ronpa fan creations, the characters remember nothing about how they got to the mall prior to waking up. This means they've forgotten about the friendships and rivalries they made prior to being locked within the mall.
- Mind over Matter: Chrome is from a minor telekinetic group. He committed murder by crushing Umada's windpipe through telekinesis.
- The Mole: Fukui was the traitor and had been working for Monobear.
- Morton's Fork: In the class trials, the students either choose the right culprit and see them die, or choose the wrong culprit and die themselves. They eventually do choose the wrong culprit during Chapter 5, allowing Alistair to escape the mall.
- Only Mostly Dead: The dead kids become AI programs. Later revealed to be their backup programming once Yaso finds out everyone but him were robots.
- Protagonist Journey to Villain: Alistair qualified as a perfect protagonist until he committed murder in chapter 5.
- Remember the New Guy?: Raspberry hasn't made any appearance since the start, but she's considered as one of the sixteen students trapped in the mall.
- Robotic Reveal: Everyone except Yaso, Kazuko, and the Mastermind are robots. They never even knew.
- Shout-Out: Alistair seems to do this a lot. Especially when he talks about the game that has Monobear in it.
- Yasuho also makes many subtle references to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
- Squishy Wizard: Sure, Chrome can lift objects using telekinesis, but that's literally all he can do aside from study.
- Teen Idol: Saikua takes on this trope as SHSL Triple Threat, known for singing, acting, and dancing. (Basically she's a normal Japanese Idol.)
- Took A Level In Jerk Ass: The Monobear in this roleplay is much more malicious than his anime counterpart.
- Twist Ending: The shoppers are all robots and Yaso is the only human. They have to make a choice between repeating the cycle and letting Yaso go, or killing the mastermind and having everyone trapped there forever. Everyone argues until they decide to let Yaso choose. A bright light flashes throughout the mall... And then they wake up, having only the memory of their name and a talent of theirs. They have no idea as to how they got there, but one thing's for certain...whatever happened...isn't good.
- This is actually the bad ending, but the group leader tried to play it off.
- Wake Up Make Up: Lily's body makeup only gets messed up when she cries. Even then the makeup on her face doesn't get messed up.
- Wham Episode: Chapter Three BEGINS with Monobear introducing a new punishment system and Dale LOSING A FOOT.
- Also Chapter Five. Alistair has gotten away with murder, everyone else is about to be executed, and no one knows who the mastermind really is. Then Yaso is saved by the seventeenth shopper and we find out that not only is everyone but Yaso an android, but that this game has been played two times before. Then Yaso is given a glimpse of the outside and sees a city in ruins and Alistair get shot in the head. Talk about an info dump.
- Wham Line: Kazuko, to Yaso: "I'll just revive them later."
Super Despair Mart 2
- An Arm and a Leg: Momoko, for not being in her room at night. This is what distracts the characters during Nahara's murder.
- Back from the Dead: All the characters come back as computers.
- Amelia and Rose (from despairmart 1) become a single entity.
- Chisato becomes a cat.
- Berserk Button: Do not mess with Chisato's cats.
- Black Blood: It's a Dangan Ronpa roleplay, of course the blood will be pink. At the start, Monobear makes the students take pills to turn their blood pink because he "doesn't want a gore fest".
- Crazy Cat Lady: SHSL Cat Whisperer Chisato Yu. To be fair, she's not very crazy but the cat part definitely applies.
- Deus Exit Machina: Kyle always seems to mysteriously disappear before the trials. Turns out he gets headaches and passes out.
- Improvised Weapon: Nahara's pencil. Subverted slightly, since the main reason he was stabbed with it was because Barbara needed to meet the blood count.
- Kick the Dog: Monobear when he kills one of Chisato's cats.
- Lights Off, Somebody Dies: Chapter 1 in which the lights going out for night time allows Barbara to go into Nahara's room, kill him and return to the girl's dormitory while Monobear was occupied with Momoko.
- Lottery of Doom: Monobear uses the Monomachine to decide who is the murder target of the week.
- Mythology Gag: Akira and Ryo are respectively played by Yasuho and Daiki from Despair Mart, and again the energetic girl in the relationship gets poisoned.
- In Chapter 6, Aiko becomes a Classical Anti-Hero and helps out Yaso, even though she's been upset for so long.
- One Last Smoke: Or, more accurately, one last song. Valentine tries to sing Dakota before he dies. A few of the other characters join in, but he's dragged off and executed before he can finish.
- The Pollyanna: Momoko has shades of this. She gets over losing a hand remarkably quick, and apparently keeps her old hand with her, cheerfully offering to show it.
- Remember the New Guy?: Kyo never appears. He is said to have died during chapter 3's Hunger Games.
- The Reveal: Amelia is a SHSL Assassin.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Takuma and Momoko.
- Took a Level in Badass: All the the previous dm shoppers come back as androids and save the human shoppers.
- Saikua, another previous shopper, who was the Stalker with a Crush, ended up becoming the girl who kills Sayaka Kanime with one blow of a cannon.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Monobear, of all people, is incredibly ruthless compared to the character in the original games. Whilst in the games (especially the first) Monobear's motives focus on exploiting people's weaknesses and insecurities, his methods in this roleplay include holding toddlers hostage, threatening to kill all of the students if a murder doesn't happen within a specific time limit and throwing them into a ruthless arena in a Hunger Games-style survival test.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Everyone to Amelia when she tries to intimidate Daisuke into stripping during the second trial. While Amelia's only intention was to solve the case, this causes the other characters to turn against her and vote for her to go in the Monoprison.
- World of Pun: Puns. Puns everywhere, normally OOC.
- Foot puns after Valentine is shot in the foot.
- A lot of this after Val and Barbara's execution, including "Even in death I'm smoking hot", "I lava me some good tunes" and "Val: Disco Inferno.
- The multitude of hand puns relating to Momoko's lost hand.
- I guess you could say that Lucas' execution was pretty... sharp.
- Would Hurt a Child: Monobear's first motive involves holding toddlers hostage. He releases them though, as is revealed after Barbara kills Nahara to protect them.
