History FanFic / NeverSayNever

** Same goes to Mondo, he attack Chihiro in blind rage after the later unknowningly pushes his BerserkButton.

** Subverted with Byakuya, despite his InsufferableGenius [[JerkassHasAPoint behaviour]] being the same as in the game, the lack of deaths makes him appear more insensitive than he really is.

** Byakuya is still the same InsufferableGenius as he is in the game, but most of his jerkass moments have [[JerkassHasAPoint good reasoning behind it]]. Him altering the crime scene in chapter 2 [[spoiler:was actually a gambit to expose Toko identity as Genocide Jack/Jill and to test Makoto’s intelligence.]] His secret is that [[spoiler:he's been financially helping outcasted members of his family]].
** The story downplay some of Celeste’s NoSympathy moments, having most of them aimed at the culprits of their respective trials.
* AmbiguousGender: Played with. After the students [[UnsettlingGenderReveal discovered Chihiro is actually male]] during the second trial, everyone avoid using gender-specific pronoun [[HeartwarmingMoments out of respect of Chihiro]] since they didn't know at the time how Chihiro identified herself.

* FailureGambit: Byakuya actions in chapter 2 turns out to be this. [[spoiler:He discovers early on that Toko is the infamous serial killer, Genocide Jack. He alters the crime scene to make it look like Genocide Jack made it and bring Makoto to the library to the library to study about the killer, lastly he purposely left some mistakes in the crime scene in order for Makoto to pick it up and test his intelligence. He successfully expose Genocide Jill to the group]].
* FixFic: A fic where EveryoneLives, but it also patches up a few minor plotholes and headscratchers from the game.

** Makoto save ‘Junko’ from Monokuma’s trap. This allowed her to saved both, Leon’s and Sayaka’s life.

* FriendOrIdolDecision: Kyouko is in a difficult place where her instinctive suspicions makes her doubting her allies despite numerous times they had proven themselves sincere.
* HairTriggerTemper: Mondo Owada's FatalFlaw. Not only is his EstablishingCharacterMoment, chapter 2 spent a good amount of time showing how prone to violence he can be. It reaches it's logical conclusion when Mondo [[spoiler:nearly]] killed Chihiro in a blind rage.
* HiddenDepths: Kyoko really doesn't like manipulating others and withdrawing crucial information, but she see it as a justified NecessaryEvil.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: Despite being a Alternative Retelling of the first game, the author assumes you’re already familiar with the original story. As such, there are secrets that are reveal much early, like Chihiro’s gender, Celeste’s real name, Mukuro disguising as her sister and Junko being the true mastermind.

* MythologyGag: On the second trial, Monokuma called Genocide Jill "the scissor cutty-cutty bitch", a reference to another fic writen by ''hunterofcomedy'', ''Fanfic/TheUltimateHope''.

** Several characters suffers from sleep deprivation for different reasons.

** Mondo breaks down once he realize he nearly killed Chihiro and cries again once he’s caught in the second trial.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Leon becomes incredible terrified of Monokuma after he was saved at the last second from his execution. Too bad for him, he has to deal with the bear for the rest of the story.

* LateSpoilerArrival: Despite being a Alternative Retelling of the first game, the author assumes you’re already familiar with the original story. As such, there are secrets that are reveal much early, like Chihiro’s gender, Celeste’s real name, Mukuro disguising as her sister and Junko being the true mastermind.

Also, [[IThoughItMean do not confuse]] this fic with a song from a [[Music/JustinBieber certain’s singer]].

** Subverted with Byakuya, despite his ProperlyParanoid [[JerkassHasAPoint jerkass behaviour]] being the same as in the game, the lack of deaths makes him appear more insensitive than he really is.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Downplayed with both Byakuya and Celeste.
** Byakuya is still the same InsufferableGenius as he is in the game, but most of his jerkass moments have [[JerkassHasAPoint good reasoning behind it]]. Him altering the crime scene in chapter 2 [[spoiler:was actually a gambit to expose Toko identity as Genocide Jack/Jill and to test Makoto’s intelligence.]]

* FixFic: One fic where EveryoneLives, but it also patches up a few minor plotholes and headscratchers from the game.

** This also applies to background story, Chihiro was bullied at young age for not being masculine enough and started cross-dressing to put an end to it, he ends up embracing his feminine side and cause him to become a {{Transgender}}.

* HumiliationConga: Both Leon and Sayaka are disparaged numerous times because they are confirmed attempted murderer, intentional or not. Sayaka also got her secret revealed in front of the others which, despite anonymously referred, is so damningly pointing at her that everyone now knows she once sabotaged her potential rival by siccing her fans on said rival and [[ColdBloodedTorture pouring acid down her throat]].

* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted. Sayaka manages to survive her stab wound despite bleeding out for hours on end, it is noted that she would have died had Leon [[ForWantOfANail not use towels as improvised bandages and had Mukuro not find her and give her first aid]]. The injury cripple her for several days.

* ShoutOut: In chapter 3, Mukuro uses a [[VideoGame/MetalGear cardboard box]] as a decoy to disctract Mondo long enough to sneak pass him, she couldn’d believe it actually worked.

* FailureGambit: Byakuya actions in chapter 2 turns out to be this. [[spoiler:He discovers early on that Toko is the infamous serial killer, Genocide Jack. He alters the crime scene to make it look like Genocide Jack made it and bring Makoto to the library to the library to study about the killer, lastly he purposely left some mistakes in the crime scene in order for Makoto to pick it up and test his intelligence and he is successful in exposing Genocide Jill to the group]].

* ForWantOfANail: The story heavily relies on this, to the point that the farther you go into the story, the more different it becomes from the original game.

** Leon makes use of towels in an attempt to stop Sayaka’s bleeding, unknownly to him it does help save her life.

** This also applies to background story, Chihiro was bullied at young age for not being masculine enough and started cross-dressing to put an end to it, unlike the game, he ends up embracing his feminine side and cause him to become a {{Transgender}}.

* RunningGag: Leon's attempts at eating a sandwich are constantly ruined. The story even have a tag lampshading it, ‘’[[FunnyMoments Sandwich Denial]]’’.

** Same goes to Mondo, he attack Chihiro in blind rage after the later unknownly pushes his BerserkButton.

** This also applies to background story, Chihiro was bullied at young age for nor being masculine enough and started cross-dressing to put an end to it, unlike the game, he ends up embracing his feminine side and cause him to become a {{Transgender}}.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Despite being the Ultimate Moral Compass, Taka is a [[GoodIsNotNice lot meaner]] than in the actual game.

* HiddenDepths: Kyoko really doesn't like manipulating others and withdrawing information, but she see it as a NecessaryEvil, considering the situation they're in it's justified.

* OnlyAFleshWound: Sayaka manages to survive her stab wound despite bleeding out for hours on end, but it is noted that she would have died had Leon [[ForWantOfANail not use towels as improvised bandages and had Mukuro not find her and give her first aid]].
** Subverted with [[spoiler: Chihiro. She's in a coma from Oowada's head wound]].

* RunningGag: Leon's attempts at eating a sandwich are constantly ruined.

* {{Transgender}}: Chihiro identifies herself as a female despite being biologically male.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Leon is incredible terrified of Monokuma after he was saved at the last second from his execution. Too bad for him, he has to deal with the bear for the rest of the story.

* HairTriggerTemper: Mondo Owada's FatalFlaw. Not only is his EstablishingCharacterMoment, chapter 2 spent a good amount of time show prone to violence he can be. It reaches it's logical conclusion when Mondo [[spoiler:nearly]] killed Chihiro in a blind rage.

* OnlyAFleshWound: Sayaka manages to survive her stab wound despite bleeding out for hours on end, but it is noted that she would have died had Leon not use towels as improvised bandages and had Mukuro not find her and give her first aid.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Leon is incredible terrified of Monokuma after he was saved at the last second from his execution. Too bad for him, he has to deal with the bear for the rest of the story.

** Subverted with Byakuya, despite his PorperlyParanoid [[JerkassHasAPoint jerkass behaviour]] being the same as in the game, the lack of deaths makes him appear more insensitive than he really is.

* FixFic: One fic where EveryoneLives, but it also patches up a few minior plotholes and headscratches from the game.

* FixFic: One fic where EveryoneLives, but it also patch up a few minior plotholes and headscratches from the game.

* LighterAndSofter: Only because everyone survive, otherwise it retains the same dark theme of the game.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Both Leon and Sayaka are horrified over their attempted murdered on each other.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Sayaka manages to survive her stab wound despite bleeding out for hours on end, but it is noted that she would have died had Leon didn't used towels as improvised bandages and had Mukuro didn't found her and gave her first aid.

* SwitchingPOV: While the story is mostly tell from Mukuro's P.O.V., all characters have their share in the spotlight.

* {{Transgender}}: Chihiro identifies herself as a female despite being a biological male.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Leon is incredible terrified of Monokuma after he was save at the last second from his execution. Too bad for him, he has to deal with the bear for the rest of the story.

* FixFic: One where everyone lives, but it also patch up and explains a few miniors plotholes and headscratches from the game.

* TheParagon: Beside Makoto, Mukuro in her "Junko" disguise is seen as this by the others because she's unyielding toward the mastermind's threats to her, becoming a protective figure toward the others because of her unexpected skills and her cheerful encouragements.

* WhatIf: Notable in that the fic takes many cues from another WhatIf scenario of the canon, ''Danganronpa IF''; Makoto saved Mukuro from Spear of Gungnir not because his memory returning from being zapped by the fake escape switch but because his natural kindness alarms him of Monokuma's trap, Mukuro betrays Junko but not immediately reveals herself as the Ultimate Soldier because of the circumstances, EverybodyLives but not by brute-forcing the Monokuma army, etc.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Despite being the Ultimate Moral Compass, Taka is a [[GoodIsNotNice lot meanier]] than in the actual game.

* OnlyAFleshWound: Sayaka manages to survive her stab wound despite bleeding out for hours on end, but it is noted that she would have died had Leon didn't used towels as improvised bandages and had Mukuro didn't find her and gave her first aid.

* ContinuityLockOut: Despite being a WhatIf fic from the first game, the author still expect you to have completed the game before reading the story in order to undestand it better.

* OnlyAFleshWound: Sayaka manages to survive her stab wound despite bleeding out for hours on end, but it is noted that she would have died if Mukuro and the other students didn't give her first aid.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Kiyotaka post-second trial has such an overbearing self-righteousness, Byakuya agrees to scheme with other students behind his back just to get some breathers.

* BloodKnight: Mukuro feels that she perhaps enjoys being put into a combat situation and protecting others using her skills a bit ''too'' much.

* {{Transgender}}: Chihiro identifies herself as a female despite being a biological male.

The author also has the fic on Fanfiction.Net, which can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11227053/1/Never-Say-Never here].

** Subverted with [[spoiler: Chihiro. She's in a coma from Mondo's head wound]].