History Fanfic / EveryonesBrandNewAndImprovedKillingGameSemester

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12471300 Everyone's Brand New and Improved Killing Game Semester]]'' is a ''[[VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3 New Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony]]'' fanfiction written by Nhitori, which began on October 23rd, 2017. It updates near-daily with approximately 1,000 word chapters and is an alternative Killing Game, in which the characters of the original work have had their talents shuffled around. As the title indicates, nothing ends up playing out even remotely the same way.

* DarkMistress: [[spoiler: After continuing her relationship with Shirogane following her failure to be executed for a murder, Akamatsu could be considered this.]]

* GoodGirlGoneBad: [[spoiler: Kaede Akamatsu after the third trial.]]

* HopeCrusher: Monokuma at least. Possibly the Mastermind as well.

* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler:Kaede, for Tsumugi.]]

** Shirogane [[spoiler: though still ending up a murderer]] is not the Mastermind, which alone is an improvement over the original canon.

''Everyone's Brand New And Improved Killing Game Semester'' is a ''[[VideoGame/NewDanganRonpaV3 New Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony]]'' fanfiction written by Nhitori, which began on October 23rd, 2017. It updates near-daily with approximately 1,000 word chapters and is an alternative Killing Game, in which the characters of the original work have had their talents shuffled around. As the title indicates, nothing ends up playing out even remotely the same way.

''Everyone's Brand New And Improved Killing Game Semester'' is a ''New Danganronpa v3; Killing Harmony'' fanfiction written by Nhitori, which began on October 23rd, 2017. It updates near-daily with approximately 1,000 word chapters and is an alternative Killing Game, in which the characters of the original work have had their talents shuffled around.

*** The one placed in [[spoiler:the end of the Death Road of Despair]] results in [[spoiler:Tenko killing Gonta in a misguided attempt at protecting the others from the outside world by [[MercyKill having them executed by voting wrong.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: Whoever the Mastermind is, as they were not the Mastermind in the original canon.

* BigBad: The Mastermind

* DrivenToVillainy: Any culprit, and likely the Mastermind as well, have harsh and tragic pasts that the Killing Game only exaggerates.

* FunctionalAddict: [[spoiler: Shirogane is revealed to have been this prior to the Killing Game.]]

* HateSink: Korekiyo Shinguji serves as one for the audience and characters.

** [[spoiler: Akamatsu is distracted by Miu's short skirt.]]

* LongLostRelative: Shirogane describes her backstory of having an older stepbrother who mysteriously disappeared several years before the Killing Game.

* CorruptChurch: [[spoiler: Angie's backstory may involve this.]]

** [[spoiler: Angie is actually very snuggly herself, but states that she can't have her 'shoulders,waist, or kneecaps' touched]]

* HatesBeingTouched: Angie Yonaga [[spoiler: though only in regards to her shoulders, waist, and kneecaps.]]

* PedophilePriest: [[spoiler: Implied to be a possible factor in Angie's backstory.]]

* {{AbstractApotheosis}}: [[spoiler: Following Yumeno's death, Chabashira, Ouma, and others rally around her memory and call themselves "Yumeno's Angels".]]
* {{ActivistFundamentalistAntics}}: [[spoiler: The reason that Idabashi attempts to get away with murder.]]
* {{AdaptationalHeroism}}: Ouma is markedly less of an asshole, and does not play up a comically evil personality throughout a majority of the story [[spoiler: until Saihara is murdered, at which point he returns to his canonical Devil May Care attitude.]]

* {{AdaptationalVillainy}}: Whoever the Mastermind is, as they were not the Mastermind in the original canon.

* {{AdaptationPersonalityChange}}: Everybody has a different talent and backstory, leading to mildly different personalities all around.
* {{AIIsACrapshoot}}: [[spoiler: Maki's programming regarding Asimov's Laws of Robotics.]]
* {{AlasPoorVillain}}: The culprits of the murders.

* {{AdventurerArchaeologist}}: Tenko Chabashira is one of these, but often lampshades it by saying that it makes sense that she would be an Adventurer Anthropologist, as having an Ultimate Talent does mean going above and beyond.
** Under a similar heading, Shirogane subverts the trope in having the title of Ultimate Astronaut while actually being a scientist behind space travel, rather than somebody who truly aspires to go to space herself.
* {[AllMenArePerverts}}: Chabashira has this outlook [[spoiler: or so it seems at first, until she admits that it was only a snap judgment, and she's actually quite fond of her male peers. Though she has a funny way of showing it.]]
* {{ArcVillain}}: [[spoiler: Idabashi during the lead-up to and occurrence of the third trial.]]
* {{AssholeVictim}}: [[spoiler: Shinguji's painful suicide.]]

* {{BadSamaritan}}: Whoever the Mastermind is has still been helping and befriending the other characters. Could also be considered {{BitchInSheepsClothing}}.
* {{BecauseImGoodAtIt}}: [[spoiler: Ouma's explanation for why he became a magician, and later, why he let his manager blackmail him into sexual favors in order to keep getting gigs.]]
* {{BeetleManiac}}: Kaito Momota is one from his very introduction, comparing the beauty of beetles to the beauty of stars.
* {{BetterTheDevilYouKnow}}: Part of the reason why nobody wants to escape the Killing Game.
* {{BigBad}}: The Mastermind
** {{BigBadWannabe}}: [[spoiler: The Mastermind may not be as responsible for the deaths as they are in other Danganronpa works, as no murder has actually been committed as a direct result of a Monokuma Motive. The executions also seem a bit less painful than they ought to be.]]
** {{NonActionBigBad}}: The Big Bad seems to be slacking on encouraging murders, based on the nature of the motives delivered.
* {{BrainwashedAndCrazy}}: [[spoiler: The culprit of the second case turns out to have been compelled against her will to kill somebody by the programming of her robot body.]]
* {{BuffySpeak}}: Some of Angie's dialogue when she tries to talk about serious things is... special.
* {{CharacterizationMarchesOn}}: Usually a bad thing.

** [[spoiler: Amami actually experiences a positive bit of character development, resolving to "stop running away, and stop just making plans to run away" after having crossed his {{DespairEventHorizon}} following Maki's execution.]]
* {{ChekhovsGun}}: An important part of any Danganronpa.
* {{ConditionedToAcceptHorror}}: Basically every character, out of necessity of being in the Killing Game.
* {{TheConspiracy}}: [[spoiler: Future Foundation seems to be this after the third trial. Ultimate Despair also receives mention.]]

* {{CorruptChurch}}: [[spoiler: Angie's backstory may involve this.]]
* {{CorruptPolitician}}: [[spoiler: What Future Foundation wanted Idabashi to become. In a way, he fulfills their wishes in the third trial.]]
* {{CrapsackWorld}}: Every student within the Killing Game seems to feel that the outside world is a representation of a Crapsack World, down to having no motivation to escape ahead of Monokuma's promised three years because even a Killing Game is better, for some, than the tragedy of their normal lives.
* {{CrowdPleaser}}: Kokichi Ouma's Traditional Vaudeville Magic Show is an example of Ouma being a crowd pleaser [[spoiler: Until it turns out that throwing a magic show was the catalyst for Maki's programming to force her into committing murder]]

* {{CruelAndUnusualDeath}}: [[spoiler: So far, only Shinguji's suicide and Idabashi's execution truly fall under this heading. Depending on when Saihara died during his murder, his may also qualify. Maki's execution was not especially horrifying, as she was a robot, and all other victims have died in fairly pedestrian ways.]]
* {{CuddleBug}}: Chabashira is a very physical person [[spoiler: Which nearly creates a rift between her and Angie, when grabbing her shoulders gave her a panic attack.]]

* {{DarkerAndEdgier}}: When compared to the original DRV3, this fic has far more angst, lampshaded by stating that all characters were specifically selected for the Killing Game as "Tragic Ultimates". The backstories in this work are much more in line with the backstories of SDR2 than they are their source material.
* {{DarkMistress}}: [[spoiler: After continuing her relationship with Shirogane following her failure to be executed for a murder, Akamatsu could be considered this.]]
* {{DeconstructedCharacterArchetype}}: [[spoiler: Following the third trial, Akamatsu loses her hold on the hopeful protagonist archetype, becoming deeply flawed and losing the trust of her peers.]]
* {{DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything}}: Invoked during the second trial, when Ouma's alibi is [[spoiler: that he and Saihara "slept together", sleeping in the same room, the previous night.]] While actually an innocent statement, the other characters don't see it that way.
* {{TheDogWasTheMastermind}}: Like most Killing Games, the Mastermind is somewhere among the main cast.
* {{DrivenToVillainy}}: Any culprit, and likely the Mastermind as well, have harsh and tragic pasts that the Killing Game only exaggerates.
* {{DrivenToSuicide}}: [[spoiler: Shinguji invokes this at the very beginning of the Killing Game, killing himself and taking Yumeno down with him before having the chance to get killed by anyone else.]]
** [[spoiler: Following Maki's execution, Amami attempts to kill himself out of guilt and hopelessness, having crossed the {{DespairEventHorizon}}. However, he turns it around to {{CharacterDevelopment}} after Angie saves his life.]]

* {{EvenEvilHasStandards}}: Since the Mastermind is revealed to [[spoiler: have the Ultimate Talent of Ultimate Judgment, not Ultimate Despair]] it's safe to assume this trope applies.
* {{FanNickname}}: Kiibo Idabashi has been nicknamed "Kiishimaru" as a result of his swapped talent personality's similarity to the first game's equally fervent {{MoralGuardian}}.
* {{FoolForLove}}: [[spoiler: Ouma falling for Saihara; He invokes the trope audibly follwoing Saihara's death by saying 'only an idiot would fall in love in a place like this.']]
[[spoiler: Akamatsu also lampshades this when, despite saying she hadn't fallen for Shirogane, she's terrified of losing her.]]
* {{FriendToBugs}}: Kaito Momota, as the Ultimate Entomologist, is this. [[spoiler: As is Amami, who cares for the abandoned bugs following Momota's murder.]]
* {{FreudianExcuse}}: [[spoiler: Idabashi's murder attempt is a direct result of his poor upbringing to be a Despair-fighting supreme leader.]]
* {{FreudWasRight}}: Anytime two characters get involved, the others tend to make assumptions beyond the truth.
** [spoiler: For example, It was pretty clear that people believed Saihara and Ouma to have gone farther with their relationship than they did.]]
* {{FunctionalAddict}}: [[spoiler: Shirogane is revealed to have been this prior to the Killing Game.]]
* {{GoodGirlGoneBad}}: [[spoiler: Kaede Akamatsu after the third trial.
* {{HangingJudge}}: Possibly the Mastermind, [[spoiler: as they've been stated to be called "Ultimate Judgment".]]
* {{HatesBeingAlone}}: Tsumugi Shirogane. [[spoiler: due to her abandonment issues relating to her stepbrother.]]
* {{HatesBeingTouched}}: Angie Yonaga [[spoiler: though only in regards to her shoulders, waist, and kneecaps.]]
* {{HateSink}}: Korekiyo Shinguji serves as one for the audience and characters.
* {{HeroicBSOD}}: [[spoiler: Before Akamatsu completes her change to a {{GoodGirlGoneBad}}, she experiences one of these upon her discovery of Saihara's corpse.]]
* {{HopeCrusher}}: Monokuma at least. Possibly the Mastermind as well.
* {{HopeIsScary}}: An integral part of Danganronpa.

* {{HoYay}}: Very present [[spoiler: especially between Ouma and Saihara.]]
* {{KillTheCutie}}: [[spoiler: Yumeno is the first to die, in all of her adorableness.]]

* {{LesYay}}: Quite present.

* {{LongLostRelative}}: Shirogane describes her backstory of having an older stepbrother who mysteriously disappeared several years before the Killing Game.
* {{MiseryBuildsCharacter}}: Applies to every character, given their backstories as [[spoiler: Tragic Ultimates]].

* {{MoodWhiplash}}: A standard of Danganronpa, as it flips between intense despair during and just after trials, before returning to shenanigans until the next death. However, with each trial the tone over the shenanigans does grow less and less uplifting.
* {{MoralEventHorizon}}: [[spoiler: When Shinguji engineers the death of Yumeno in the first trial.]]

* {{NiceJobBreakingItHero}}: [[spoiler: When Ouma withholds Monokuma's Letter intended for Idabashi, it may or may not have led to the death of his own boyfriend.]]
* {{ObfuscatingStupidity}}: Gokuhara ''may'' fall under this trope, as he speaks in broken patterns and claims not to be very smart, but sometimes says the one thing to make the trial progress, and has very good people skills. [[spoiler: Especially when it comes to dealing with Chabashira's moments of despair.]]
* {{ObliviouslyEvil}}: [[spoiler: When Idabashi kills Saihara, his overall goal is to kill everyone there in what he believes to be a mercy kill, thinking they'd all been infected with Despair Fever.]]
* {{OhCrap}}: [[spoiler: When Akamatsu and Chabashira find they're trapped underground, and completely expect to die there.]]
* {{PedophilePriest}}: [[spoiler: Implied to be a possible factor in Angie's backstory.]]
* {{TragicVillain}}: [[spoiler: Idabashi, as he genuinely believed he was doing what was best for his friends.]]
* {{WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds}}: [[spoiler: Idabashi falls under this heading during the third case, in which he becomes motivated to mercy-kill all of his peers due to his own despair and the despair he perceived in them.]]

* {{FunctionalAddict}}: [[spoiler: Shirogane is revealed to have been this prior to the Killing Game.]]