The cast of Rising Inferno, drawn by Xed. (xed#7048)
Danganronpa: Rising Inferno is a Danganronpa Killing Game RP hosted over Discord. Created and Hosted by Bits (bitsihko#7438) and Mak (stxrfzll#8008), It features a cast of Original Characters (Selected through applications) and is not directly tied into the canonical events of the Danganronpa Franchise, although it follows its Killing Game rules, premise, and Ultimate Talent systems.22 Ultimate Students find themselves locked inside the world's 8th wonder, a gigantic skyscraper they took refuge in after an intense flood. Soon enough, they are held captive at the top of the fancy tower by Ester and Adam, two overpowered warrior humanoids with Goat ears. Their only hope is descending back to the ground floor and escape, which they can only do by playing the Goats' Killing game…
The killing game has been running for 7 chapters, with only one trial left before the ending. You can read the roleplay here.
Rising Inferno contains examples of:
- Anyone Can Die: As a Danganronpa roleplay where the players only know the fates of their own characters, anyone besides the two hosts can be expected to die at any moment.
- Angst: Oh, oh so much. Every sane, non-villain character can be expected to experience this at some point of the story. Hell, even the villains get their fair share.
- Villainous Breakdown: Common in most trials. Michelle and Trandafira's are particularly intense. Some even happen outside the trial room, where the threat of death is not immediate.
- Ontological Mystery: The reason why they've been led to, trapped and then forced to play the game within the tower remains a mystery until the very end.
- Closed Circle: They're trapped, and no one's coming to help. The nature of the game (kill and get away with it or die executed) means they are always the only ones capable of being responsible for a classmate's death.
- Deadly Game: Like in the real Danganronpa, the cast is forced to play a game where the only way to escape their prison is to kill someone, then not be found out by the others during the following "Class Trial". If they fail, they are executed. If they succeed, *everyone else gets the chop*.
- Involuntary Battle to the Death: All students are forced to participate in the killing game.
- Taste the Rainbow: On top of every character (literally called "Ultimates") being the most successful person in their field and age-range, they have admittedly very anime designs with colorful hair, intricate outfits galore, layered personalities and complex, over-the-top backstories to match. One of them is even a Robot Cowboy Uber Driver, for Christ's sake!
- Face–Heel Turn: From the Killers to Traitor to Mastermind, many characters throughout the game display this.
- Dwindling Party: Follow this lovable cast of 22 wacky teenagers, trapped in this surreal situation! Just don't get too attached. Or do.
- Gilded Cage: The world's eighth wonder is a 50-floors high skyscraper complete with roomy, personalized lofts for everyone, rooms dedicated to their talents, luxury restaurants, clubs, pools, casinos, and even an indoor mall! They're still trapped, and forced to kill each other inside of it.
- Kill the Cutie: This happens several times. The two most blatant examples being Trandafira and Aiko's deaths, in chapters 4 and 6 respectively. The former's accidental murder and execution being a major
Tear Jerker, and the later literally dying while hugging her teddy bear. - Pet the Dog: Villainous characters and characters who end up killing often have these moments, and aside from Ester everyone has at least one, including the openly villainous Adam, Bunnie, Léonie and Alexandria. As the plot progresses, Adam becomes particularly prone to this.
- Tragic Villain: Arguably every killer, save for Léonie. The very nature of the game makes killing out of necessity the default scenario, and outright malice is very rare. Where it gets weird is that several of the killing game's "staff" gets this characterization. Even the Mastermind, Alexandria, can be considered this!
- Tragic Bromance: In a dwindling cast where characters spend most of their time getting close to each other before they're forced to betray one-another, this is bound to happen a lot. Extends all Genders and all dynamics; most notably Cali losing her de-facto daughter and then her closest friend through execution and suicide respectively. Yikes.
- Asshole Victim: Like the killers, most victims are sympathetic. Jackson and Samuel, however, were pretty rude to everyone; with Jackson also being uncooperative. It doesn't help that his killer is very sympathetic and has an absolutely heart-breaking trial. See "Kill The Cutie" above. Léonie could also qualify as this, given that she is executed for a matter unrelated to her murder.
- Ten Little Murder Victims: One of the overarching goals of the characters is to find out the identities of the Traitor and the Mastermind, two people masquerading as fellow hostages, with the former working with Ester & Adam and the later being their boss. On a smaller scale, every murder case qualifies as this.
- Was It All a Lie?: This happens a couple of times, most notably with Alexandria when she reveals her true nature to her girlfriend, Dahlia.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Prone to happen when killers are involved. Poor Samir in particular is often the victim of this.
- Blood Sport: The executions discovered killers are subjected to are so over-the-top and theatrical that they qualify as this.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: All the executions. They include: A maze filled with traps; a variety of animals ripping you to shreds; piano-wire puppetry; being tied to electronics then electrocuted with water, being crushed to death by closing walls… and we're sparring you all the theatrics.
