History Roleplay / ItsCurtains

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Yes, [[spoiler:Darla]] was a terrible person and got what was coming to her. Her killer is still portrayed and received as pure evil for it, though, due to [[spoiler:falling for a [[DisappointedByTheMotive money motive]], targeting Darla because she looks like a [[WouldHurtAChild child]] instead of for her personality or deeds, and killing the sympathetic Eliza as well.]]

* GenderNeutralWriting: [[spoiler:Hans reveals that the Management always refers to the mastermind as "they." He concludes that [[MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial the only reason that the crew would have to do that]] would be to protect the identity of the mastermind because that person must be a woman.]]

* TheyDo: [[spoiler:Billyanna. When we say "they get married," we mean "they get married on the spot, with the Pirate King officiating, ''right in the middle of the mastermind trial.''"]]

** TriangRelations: All three are Type 4.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Yes, soup cakes like the one Astarte makes in Week 4 actually exist. They're a lot better than they sound, too, and far from the weirdest cakes out there (a few recipes from the early 1940s include ''salt pork'').

* BigSecret: To see who might have had incentive to kill after the secrets motive, everyone is made to give up their greatest secrets. Though it does have an ill effect on some of their reputations, specifically Hans's and Darla's, their secrets don't actually bear on the case. [[spoiler:This even applies to the culprit. Gabe didn't so much kill for his secret as because he liked [[PinocchioSyndrome becoming real]], [[DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs wanted to stay that way]], and [[ForTheEvulz thought he could get away with it]].]]

** The Balladeer [[spoiler: stops Cain's KillEmAll pontificating during the vote]] by using a VaudevilleHook during the fourth trial.

* ArmourPiercingSlap: Anna delivers one to [[spoiler:Cain at his confession.]]

* CourtroomAntic: Calls for stripping predictably started in the first trial, and it gets weirder from there.

* FilkSong: Most of the songs, though some are used unaltered.

* CastingAShadow: Someone in management has this power and uses it for executions. [[spoiler:At least, that's what it looks like.]]

* ChekhovsGun: The book ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'', for Astarte. Natalie recommended it to her in Week 3. [[spoiler: She ''was'' going to read it after finishing ''Literature/TheStand'' in Week 5, and was ''just'' about to that Thursday night... only to realize that she ''doesn't remember reading it'', or even going to bed for that matter - only that she woke up the next day...]]

* DespairEventHorizon: Heather is ''not'' taking being trapped well; after the very first murder, she decides that everyone should comply and stop trying to escape, and after the second, she says there's no point even in that.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Wow, a garden and even a bakery alongside the usual kitchen and bar? There's someplace to eat on every floor! [[spoiler:Sure enough, there's also a motive where each floor is sealed off.]]

* HeroicBSOD: At the fifth body discovery, [[spoiler:Anna, coming downstairs with a pie for Natalie,]] stops and goes near-unresponsive. With the shock plus the strain of [[TheInsomniac the motive]], she can't even register that someone is dead.

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Dark Cain, posing as Astarte,]] calls for a strip search in the first trial; this accomplishes nothing. A few weeks later, that same person is guilty themselves, and strip searches have now become commonplace; a strip search exposes his guilt.

* FlawExploitation: Done by each of the culprits from cases 1-4. [[spoiler:D-ne knew Valjean was old and when she could catch and overpower him, Gabe identified that Hime was naive and would believe any cry for help, Hook knew that Darla had a sweet tooth and would take advantage of anyone offering to cook for her, and Cain knew of Javert's despair over Eliza and his trust in Astarte.]]

* {{Fainting}}: Eliza at the first body discovery.

* NoAccountingForTaste: Natalie offers this explanation when Jezebel is disappointed by a poorly-written romance novel and asks why the protagonist would give a second thought to her BastardBoyfriend.

It's Curtains is a short-term murder game in the style of ''Roleplay/DanganRoleplay'' and ''Roleplay/{{Trustfell}}'' with a musical twist: all characters involved will be from various musically-inclined canons. That means stage musicals, movie musicals, musical episodes of TV series- if it's a musical, it's welcome!

It's Curtains may be read on Dreamwidth [[http://itscurtains.dreamwidth.org/ here]], and the blog for deceased chaarcters [[https://curtainsdown.dreamwidth.org/ here]].

It's Curtains may be read on Dreamwidth [[http://itscurtains.dreamwidth.org/ here]].

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The characters are brought in missing memories and regain one after each murder.

* SayMyName: Javert departs from his [[YouAreNumberSix usual habit]] for Valjean in the song where they meet each other [[spoiler:and permanently, after Valjean dies]].

* ShoutOut: Before the second case, the victim-to-be sets up a scene with Halloween decorations, between a spider dressed as a farmer and one that's lost a limb. [[Roleplay/Trustfell3TrustFallWithAVengeance This was intentional,]] as [[spoiler:the Mozu/Yang case also involved what looked to be two victims and turned out to be a MutualKill via LaserGuidedKarma.]]

* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Astarte, so far, is the best example in the round. While D-ne, Gabe, and Hook were all willing to kill the rest of the cast to escape, poor Astarte truly believed she was innocent until the trial started and the truth slowly came out.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Part of what motivates [[spoiler:Cain in Week 4, alongside the motive, is that he no longer needs to possess Astarte.]]

* YouMonster: Seymour says this about [[spoiler:himself when he remembers what he did in canon]]. Astarte, sympathizer to ''actual'' monsters, just gets confused.

* BootstrappedTheme: Many of the characters' contributions to the final RepriseMedley are from their canons, but weren't their own songs originally; for example, "The Last Change" was Usagi's song even if it was associated with Astarte's important scenes, "Seventeen" belonged mainly to Veronica and had nothing to do with Heather McNamara, and while Hime took part in "Ima Koko Kara," in canon she only had one solo line in it.

* CentralTheme: Can be read as "There's nothing wrong with a happy ending" and "There's a difference between healthy [[BeYourself self-acceptance]] and being stuck in a prescribed role, refusing to change." On a meta level (fittingly), there's a third: "CharacterDevelopment is a good thing and a roleplayer doesn't have to play everyone as static {{Flat Character}}s to avoid being called OOC." With this and the Mastermind's [[EvilCannotComprehendGood attitude towards happy endings in murdergames,]] the CentralTheme could just be "TakeThat, [[FanDumb Anoncomms]]."

* FryingPanOfDoom: Anna channels her {{fanon}} [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} cousin]] to rescue her boyfriend from a stagehand.

* ImAHumanitarian: The Merchandise Booth sells [[Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet suspicious meat pies]]. As to whether they're made of people like in the ShoutOut source material, [[ShrugOfGod no one's saying]].

* UptownGirl: [[PortmanteauCoupleName Billyanna]]. Billy is always nervous that his status or lack thereof will pose a problem if they return to Anna's home.

* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:TheMole is an alternate universe counterpart of the Phantom.]] This wasn't planned, but as later [[ItWasHisSled became a meme:]] "Sometimes... you app the mastermind."

* CentralTheme: Much like Round 1 was a TakeThat to [[FanHater anoncomm culture circa 2016]], Round 3 can very easily be read as a celebration of murdergame genre tropes that people outside the community regularly pooh-pooh, such as [[FamilyOfChoice found family]], [[MarryThemAll resolving love triangles with polyamory]], and [[EasilyForgiven forgiving even the least sympathetic culprits]]. This works especially with the Wizard's obsession with restoring everything to before the crossover "tainted" it scanning easily to cries of CanonDefilement.

* BuildingOfAdventure: The Opera House, with new floors always unlocking.

* ClosedCircle: The Cast is stuck in the Opera House.

* SadisticChoice: Even a self-defence case or SympatheticMurderer case has to lead to a conviction and execution -- or a mass execution.
* SeriesGoal: TryNotToDie. This proves difficult.
* SinisterSurveillance: There are cameras all over the Opera House.
* SpeechCentricWork: The mysteries are solved by talking and investigation. Trials don't ''usually'' come to physical blows, though there was that one time...

* UniversalTranslator: For practical playability reasons.

* AdultFear: Eliza's HeroicBSOD addresses parents outliving their children, while Heather's at the same time brings up teenage suicide, even if you know [[NeverSuicide what really happened]].

* SpotOfTea: There's a tea room in the Opera House, and it's one of the more popular places.