History Roleplay / TrustfellRoundOne

%%* MurderTropes
%%** Victim 1: NeckSnap
%%** Culprit 1: OffWithHisHead
%%** Victim 2: DuelToTheDeath
%%** Culprit 2: HumanPincushion
%%** Victim 3: BoomHeadshot
%%** Culprit 3: NeckSnap, ColdBloodedTorture
%%** Victim 4: PerfectPoison
%%** Culprit 4: LastStand, CleanCut
%%** Victim 5-A: InTheBack
%%** Victim 5-B: NeckSnap
%%** Culprit 5: OffWithHisHead, EatenAlive
%%** Retaliation 1: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
%%** Victim 6-B: DyingClue
%%** Victim 6-C: TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn, MolotovCocktail
%%** Victim 6-D: AbsurdlySharpBlade
%%** Culprit 6-A: BetterToDieThanBeKilled
%%** Culprit 6-B: ChainLightning, StuffBlowingUp
%%** Victim 7: TamperingWithFoodAndDrink, NeverSuicide
%%** Culprit 7: RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts
%%** Retaliation 2: DoNotGoGentle
%%** Conductor: BackstabBackfire, CombinationAttack

%%** Victim 6-A: DropTheHammer
%%** Victim 6-B: DropTheHammer, DyingClue

* CluckingFunny: The chickens. Initially one of Tabby's many requests intended to annoy the Conductor, the petition is actually granted, and one week's motive quadruples their number. The comic relief comes from both their origin and how most of the students struggle to learn to take care of them.

* {{Fainting}}: Blue once she finds the gory second crime scene.

* TheEndOrIsIt: The captives in the end have defeated the Conductor and just want to go home, but the BiggerBad could well strike again with someone else.
-->'''Susan:''' We've done everything we could, I think. He was right -- we really ''can't'' just storm up and kill God. Maybe some of us could take care of it later, but [[BroughtDownToNormal the way]] [[ShellshockedVeteran we are now?]] All we can do is go home and try to recover.

* PinchMe: Undyne pinches herself to prove that she and the other dead really did revive and she's not dreaming it up.

%%* GoOutWithASmile: Hibiki was found like this.

-->"...This is one of those concepts that's going to do your head in the longer you think about it, just for reference's sake."
-->-The Conductor ([[spoiler:Solf J Kimblee]])

* AccidentalKidnapping: [[spoiler:The captives were pulled through a gate by mistake.]]
* AccidentalMisnaming: Forgetting [[spoiler:Mustang's recently revealed]] name, Elise refers to him as "Mr... Horse?" The name catches on with the others as well, especially in narrative text. Dio also has to stop himself from saying "Erina" instead of "Elise."
* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:Upon learning that they weren't the first class,]] some students theorize that alternate versions of themselves were also captured somewhere. Rakka [[WhatMeasureIsANonUnique has a breakdown over it]].
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The party goes off with Rick's portal gun in search of their homes.]]
* AntagonistInMourning: [[spoiler:The Conductor is ''furious'' when Ashley is killed. It doesn't make him sympathetic, though; his "mourning process" involves executing her killer in a torturous, sadistic manner that calls back to her deepest trauma and lasts for minutes on end.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The students are alive and, with enough trial and error using Rick's portal gun, they can find their ways home... but they're very traumatized, their attempt at mercy went poorly, and Father is still out there, with hints given during the final trial that he's going to want revenge once he hears what they've done.]]
* BizarreTasteInFood: One way to tell [[spoiler:that it's Envy and not Dio in the kitchen at night]] is that his idea of a midnight snack is a disaster cobbled together from random items from the fridge.

* BurnBabyBurn: [[spoiler:The freed captives toss all the things they no longer want to deal with, including many of their personal files, onto Kimblee's funeral pyre]] in the end.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: The survivors, [[spoiler:barring Susan and Sol, vote to spare the Conductor for this reason. [[TheFarmerAndTheViper It doesn't work out.]]]]
* CastFromLifespan: [[spoiler:Kimblee posits that this likely happened to those who didn't have superpowers to lose.]]
* ChristmasMiracle: It's Christmas morning when, suddenly, [[spoiler:the sunroom unlocks and the dead are finally able to send their letters to the living]].

* [[invoked]] CrossoverShip: Inevitable with panfandom roleplay. Jean/Weiss and Blue/Yuuri are confirmed canon and a few others are left ambiguous in the end.
* ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping: Rick's Christmas gift [[spoiler:to the living is just a roll of TP.]]

* CrossingTheBurntBridge: [[spoiler:Asuka and Ashley in the dead world]], very slowly and initially just out of necessity. They start to contemplate what went on between them [[spoiler:when Asuka tells Ashley how she was sadistically executed for Ashley's murder]] and eventually repair their relationship [[spoiler:when Ashley gets wasted at the bar and Asuka listens to her and helps her back to her room]].
* CryLaughing: Some of the characters in the end, particularly [[spoiler:Undyne when she revives]].
* CueTheSun: After weeks of no natural light, [[spoiler:the survivors finally find a sunroom on the top floor.]]
* DarknessEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Thinking he can kill the shadow, Logan]] walks the dark hallways without a flashlight or fire. It doesn't exactly go well.
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:Kimblee likes to keep track of his.]]
* DecapitationRequired: The Conductor remarks that [[GenreSavvy he tends to go for decapitation when he isn't sure how to kill something]]. He puts this to use [[spoiler:and turns out to be wrong when this ''doesn't'' kill Dio]].

** The culprit (and the victim) of Case 7 get a lot of this, with a number of the survivors shocked that [[spoiler:Cabanela would let Sukuyo coerce him into her illogical plan and that her idea of redeeming herself involved trying to get them all killed.]]
** Also Bakugou in the sixth trial, when [[spoiler:Rick confesses and kills himself]].

* EarthAllAlong: Though really more on an OOC level. After all, [[spoiler:none of the characters could fourth-wall ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''.]]
* EatingTheEnemy: [[spoiler:The survivors at least consider giving the Conductor's body to Kaneki.]]

* EndingMemorialService: The final post of Round 1 starts with [[spoiler:Jean lighting a funeral pyre for Kimblee]].
* TheEndOrIsIt: The captives in the end [[spoiler:have defeated the Conductor and just want to go home, but the BiggerBad could well strike again with someone else.]]
-->'''Susan:''' We've done everything we could, I think. He was right -- [[spoiler:we really ''can't'' just storm up and kill God.]] Maybe some of us could take care of it later, but [[BroughtDownToNormal the way]] [[ShellshockedVeteran we are now?]] All we can do is go home and try to recover.
* ElCidPloy: Twisted when [[spoiler:Kimductor insists that his "shadow friend" is alive and unrelated to the dead man found in the ballroom. In this case, the mastermind is pretending his ally is alive, rather than the followers pretending their leader is.]]

* EyepatchOfPower: Three of them. [[spoiler:And they're all dead by the end of week three.]]
* EyeScream: Used in the third case when [[spoiler:Ashley, fighting back against Asuka, goes for her eye with scissors. Twisted in that it was the eye Asuka had already lost.]]
* FaceMonsterTurn: [[spoiler:The backstory of the shadow creature.]]
* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:Ashley when she's shot in the head and Asuka when she reveals that she's been stabbed in her empty eye socket.]]

* TheFarmerAndTheViper: [[spoiler:Mercy was not the correct choice. Invoked by Kimblee in response, just before he tries to kill the survivors.]]
--> [[spoiler:"You would spare someone who's never done anything for you – I told you that I received you as a ''mistake''. Why do you think that your survival matters enough to me to send you all back where you came from – why do you think I would bother, when this entire setup was designed to kill you from the start?"]]
* FlamingSword: Susan famously uses one [[spoiler:to land the final blow on Kimblee.]]
* FoodEnd: Well... [[spoiler:for [[ImAHumanitarian Kaneki]], [[ZombieApocalypse it was]]...]]
* ForbiddenChekhovsGun: The flavour text for the "Potion" item outright tells you not to drink it. [[spoiler:It's used to revive Logan mid-game (very briefly) and again to bring back all the dead.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Accidental when contrast is built up between Lisbeth in backstory and Susan in the ending. Lisbeth [[spoiler:was working for Kimblee despite her misgivings, tried to stab him in the face, and he killed her]]. Come the final trial, Susan [[spoiler:was going to let Kimblee live despite her misgivings, he ''tries'' to kill her and the others, and she stabs him in the face. Successfully.]]
** Sukuyo, in the aftermath of [[spoiler:Logan's ill-fated fight with the shadow]], announces, "We need to invest in {{flaming sword}}s to prevent this from ever happening again!" As shown in the round's SignatureScene, TheCuckoolanderWasRight.
* ForgedMessage: There are two: [[spoiler:one from Cabanela (actually Dio) and one from Mordecai (actually Rick). Sukuyo's looked suspicious, but she actually did write it.]]
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The "Teen Asshole Squad," [[spoiler:composed of the survivor pool's teenagers aside from Blue, who belongs to [[TheMole another]] CastHerd]]. Bakugou is sanguine, Sol is choleric, Weiss is melancholic, and Jean is phlegmatic.
* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Cabanela is the victim of one in case five, where a note in his handwriting was used to lure out the victim, who was also found with holding one of his regains. It turns out the latter was a coincidence.]]

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Subverted and played straight [[spoiler:when all the deceased characters are revived via the [[VideoGame/FableII resurrection phials]] that come with this penalty.]]
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Reaver and Youko privately joke about this. [[spoiler:It becomes extremely relevant during the first trial.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Hibiki was found like this.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: The Conductor's "God." [[spoiler:The characters aren't sure what to do in the end, knowing he's still out there.]]
* HairContrastDuo: Sol and Luna are a twin variant.

* HavingABlast: The stolen superpower of two students, one of whom [[ThrowDownTheBomblet eventually starts compensating]]. [[spoiler:The Conductor has the same ability]].

** Logan goes unresponsive at [[spoiler:Reaver's execution]], where he fears what will happen to his home.
** Half the remaining game when [[spoiler:Logan is killed by the shadow monster - and they're there to witness it the second time.]]
* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: A few characters start to question Elise in the sixth trial when she suddenly drops the topic she was going after. [[spoiler:She's actually just trying not to mention the ghosts in front of the Conductor, since she'd been telling him that the seances were silly and ineffectual and the other students would surely pipe in saying they were real.]]

* IDidntMeanToKillHim: [[spoiler:Tabby only meant to kill one person; she wanted Mordecai as a witness so she could be sent to the execution pit, but the wound she gave him was accidentally fatal.]]
* InUniverseCatharsis: ''So many characters'' [[spoiler:beat up on or otherwise desecrated Kimblee's corpse]].
* KickTheMoralityPet: [[spoiler:Asuka does this ''deliberately'', enacting a plot to kill her closest friend to break her bonds because she's afraid of what having them will do to her. When she's caught, most of the school turns on her, and she spends a lot of time and development in deadland working through what she's done.]]
* KilledOffForReal: An unnamed chicken [[spoiler:and the Conductor.]]
* TheKingslayer: [[spoiler:The shadow's treated as a bigger threat after killing Logan.]]
* LastMinuteHookup: All the pairings this round are either this or MaybeEverAfter.
* LivingShadow: The Conductor's "associate." [[spoiler:It -- or, rather, ''he'' -- wasn't always that way.]]

* LosingYourHead: [[spoiler:When Dio's execution beheads him, his still-living head starts attacking, screaming, and hopping around by its thrashing blood vessels.]]
* MaliciousMisnaming: [[spoiler:Those who call Kimblee "Kimberly."]]

* MercyKill: [[spoiler:What the ghosts' killing Mustang boils down to, though they don't know it at the time.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Three of them, actually.]]
* MurderTropes
** Victim 1: NeckSnap
** Culprit 1: OffWithHisHead
** Victim 2: DuelToTheDeath
** Culprit 2: HumanPincushion
** Victim 3: BoomHeadshot
** Culprit 3: NeckSnap, ColdBloodedTorture
** Victim 4: PerfectPoison
** Culprit 4: LastStand, CleanCut
** Victim 5-A: InTheBack
** Victim 5-B: NeckSnap
** Culprit 5: OffWithHisHead, EatenAlive
** Retaliation 1: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** Victim 6-A: DropTheHammer
** Victim 6-B: DropTheHammer, DyingClue
** Victim 6-C: TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn, MolotovCocktail
** Victim 6-D: AbsurdlySharpBlade
** Culprit 6-A: BetterToDieThanBeKilled
** Culprit 6-B: ChainLightning, StuffBlowingUp
** Victim 7: TamperingWithFoodAndDrink, NeverSuicide
** Culprit 7: RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts
** Retaliation 2: DoNotGoGentle
** Conductor: BackstabBackfire, CombinationAttack
* TheMusicMeister: While a ''person'' doesn't have this ability, a piano does.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Youko, you really shouldn't have [[spoiler:asked the Conductor about the ghosts.]]

* NowOrNeverKiss: [[spoiler:Weiss gives one to Jean]] just before the final investigation.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sol and Bakugou realize that there's something wrong at the seventh trial when [[spoiler:Cabanela, who'd always refrained from judging the killers, calls this one "[[YouMonster a real monster]]."]]
* OriginalGeneration: Lisbeth and the chickens, [[spoiler:but ''not'' the Conductor.]]
* OpenSaysMe: A rule is made against this when the locked doors appear. [[spoiler:Dio kicks down a couple of doors in the epilogue.]]
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Part of a lot of characters' canons [[spoiler:and the way they got to Anime Germany.]]
* OutOfCharacterAlert: [[spoiler:Envy tries to avert this by not getting into conversations and shapeshifting less popular people. Still, when Beedrill is secretly watching, the Pokémon finds it weird that "Dio" would take anything from the fridge; the real Dio, after all, "eats like a Golbat" (i.e. drinking blood).]]

* PinchMe: Undyne pinches herself to prove that [[spoiler:she and the other dead really did revive]] and she's not dreaming it up.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Stated by name as Logan regrets his life choices.
* PrecisionFStrike: Sukuyo calling [[spoiler:Morty's]] murderer an SOB when she's usually so sweet and polite.
* ProfaneLastWords: [[spoiler:Did we really expect anything else from Rick?]]
* RagnarokProofing: [[spoiler:Graceside survived the apocalypse outside its doors.]] Foreshadowed in case 6, where it's noted that the place seems to be built to withstand a bombing.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:By arranging her own murder, Sukuyo tries to invoke this.]]
* RedHerringMole: Near the end of the game, the Conductor is fed up with TheMole and outs her identity to the group... sort of; he puts ''three'' options out there and tells the Participants that one of them was working for him and they should figure out which one isn't the red herring. [[spoiler:Of course, it's not that simple. Unknown to the rest of the group or to each other, Sukuyo, Elise, and Blue were ''all'' the Conductor's moles.]]
* ResurrectiveImmortality: [[spoiler:Logan]] displays this when the shadow counterattacks, [[spoiler:but only once. It turns out to ''not'' be an ability of his, but an effect of a potion]].
* RewatchBonus: In week one, [[spoiler:Logan is paranoid that ghosts are responsible for leaving coins for the students in their bedrooms while they sleep.]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} That's exactly what it was]].

* RulesLawyer: Weiss tries to be one. The Conductor won't have any of it.
* SecurityCling: Some of the younger students cling onto Logan out of worry when [[spoiler:he shows up in the dead realm]].

* [[invoked]] ShipToShipCombat: When Ashley and Asuka are reading the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' series. Ashley ships canon and Asuka ships Harmony. They even get into a screaming match over it [[spoiler:in the middle of the final trial]]!

* SmoochOfVictory: Blue and Yuuri, [[spoiler:after the latter is revived post-Final Trial.]]
* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: [[spoiler:The Participants largely do want to keep things from getting worse after they've dealt with the Conductor, but have no way to do so, and return hopelessly to their lives.]]
* StalkerShrine: Sol discovers what she calls a "stalker room," wallpapered with photos of [[spoiler:the Participants, especially the ones Envy impersonated or considered impersonating.]]

* TortureAlwaysWorks: [[spoiler:The real reason Kimblee knows so much about his captives.]]
* TrashCanBonfire: Sukuyo lights one in the aftermath of [[spoiler:Logan's death]]. She clings to it the whole night in fear of the shadow monster.
* TrickBomb: Tabby starts making flashbangs, which she and others use [[spoiler:to fight the shadow monster]]. They quickly get banned from the courtroom.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: While this isn't actually what happened, Blue and Bakugou theorize that [[spoiler:the body last found in the ballroom -- actually Mustang -- could be the Conductor, attacked by his "shadow friend."]]
* TwoDunIt: The Conductor tells Rick that it's possible for two culprits to win by getting away with the same murder. [[spoiler:Rick then plans to convince Morty to kill someone with him. However, Morty is killed before he can.]]

* ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer: [[spoiler:Trying to spare the mastermind instead of kill him almost bad-ended the game.]]
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:The Shadow/Mustang, who was human before being experimented on.]]
* WeakenedByTheLight: Not just Dio; [[spoiler:the shadow monster too, and not just to sunlight.]]
* WelcomeBackTraitor: [[spoiler:To Blue and Elise after the mole reveal. After the Conductor had betrayed them for protecting the ghosts, the other captives found it practical, plus Blue had intended to play the Conductor from the start and Elise had already had a change of heart and quit.]]

* WhamLine: The Conductor's in the seventh trial. [[spoiler:"Did you really think I would be stupid enough to rely on the word of one person?"]]

* WhatMeasureIsANonUnique: Rakka wonders this when her fellow captives throw around the theory that they might not be the only versions of themselves out there or even the only ones to come to Graceside, [[spoiler:which isn't proven in Round 1 itself, but the premise of Round 6 cements it]].

--> "'''NO STEAK FOR A MONTH, KATSUKI.'''"
--> "I CAN MAKE MY OWN STEAK NOW ANYWAY, MOM!!"
** After [[spoiler:being revived]], Rakka tearfully calls Susan "Mom."
* YouMonster: Hibiki says this to [[spoiler:Asuka, with the backing of most and the judgment of others, for killing her own friend]]. Cabanela admonishes her for it, but later says it himself, [[spoiler:about himself]].
* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: [[spoiler:Kimblee admits that he actually doesn't ''know'' why everyone was BroughtDownToNormal and the "fee paid to the Gate" theory is only a theory, with this being his secondary hypothesis.]]
* YourSoulIsMine: Thanks to the [[{{VideoGames/Undertale}} backgrounds of]] [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure several of]] [[{{Manga/Tactics}} the deceased]], their WildMassGuessing lead them to this conclusion. [[spoiler:They were wrong, and [[AccidentalKidnapping the truth]] [[ForTheEvulz was much]] [[ItAmusedMe simpler.]]]]

* AccidentallyAccurate: The characters start to theorize later on that maybe alternate versions of themselves have been or will be kidnapped for a similar exercise. Come round six, alternate versions of captives from rounds one through five
* AccidentalMisnaming: Forgetting [[spoiler:Mustang's recently revealed]] name, Elise refers to him as "Mr... Horse?" The name catches on with the others as well, especially in narrative text.
** Dio also has to stop himself from saying "Erina" instead of "Elise."

* BiggerBad: The Conductor's "God." [[spoiler:The characters aren't sure what to do in the end, knowing he's still out there.]]

* DisappointedByTheMotive: The culprit (and the victim) of Case 7 get a lot of this, with a number of the survivors shocked that [[spoiler:Cabanela would let Sukuyo coerce him into her illogical plan and that her idea of redeeming herself involved trying to get them all killed.]]

-->"[[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth They]] died for ''that''...!?"

* WhatMeasureIsANonUnique: Rakka wonders this when her fellow captives throw around the theory that they might not be the only versions of themselves out there or even the only ones to come to Graceside, [[spoiler:which is never proven either way]].

--> [[spoiler:"You would spare someone who's never done anything for you – I told you that I received you as a ''mistake''. Why do you think that your survival matters enough to me to send you all back where you came from – why do you think I would bother, when this entire setup was designed to kill you from the start?]]
--> [[spoiler:I've told you so many times that no one matters to me – that my own family didn't matter to me. My country, my colleagues, people I was in close contact with, ''all of them died'' because I couldn't be bothered to save them, and yet...? And yet you think that I would willingly give up my personal source of power for you?]]
--> [[spoiler:And ''you're willing to abandon everything you've wanted from the start, because you think you've found a better deal?'']]
--> [[spoiler:For all this talk of trusting your friends, you certainly don't trust them enough to get all of you out of this situation without relying on a person who cares nothing for you and wants to see you dead."]]

* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:The freed captives toss all the things they no longer want to deal with, including many of their personal files, onto Kimblee's funeral pyre]] in the end.

* HairContrastDuo: Sol and Luna are a YinYangTwins variant.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Sol discovers what she calls a "stalker room," wallpapered with photos of [[spoiler:the Participants, especially the ones Envy impersonated or considered impersonating.]]

* TwoDunIt: The Conductor tells Rick that it's possible for two culprits to win by getting away with the same murder. [[spoiler:Rick then plans to convince Morty to kill someone with him. However, Morty is killed before he can.]]

The first round of Roleplay/''{{Trustfell}}''.