History Fanfic / FracturedFates

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The castle contains some rooms that one would think to be strange for a European-esque castle, such as the fitness room in the South Wing, or just generally impractical, such treasure room in the West Wing.

* EveryoneIsASuspect: Akira claims this during Chapter 2's investigation, due to the fact that the murder occurring during nighttime means it is likely nobody has a solid alibi for the time of the crime.

{{Egopolis}}: Downplayed in that Monokuma doesn't have images of himself plastered all over the castle, but Hana does see a few self portraits of the bear hung up in the hallways of the West Wing.

* YouWakeUpInARoom: Hana first wakes up in the castle lying on a bed in her designated bedroom.

** In Chapter 2, Itachi's execution is built up as a standard [[Franchise/DanganRonpa Danganronpa]]-style execution...and then he [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide.]]

The story can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12999713/1/Fractured-Fates here]]. It is currently in-progress, with a prologue and three chapters concluded. Be warned: '''''all spoilers below are unmarked,''''' because like its [[Franchise/DanganRonpa canon counterpart]] it would be difficult to list tropes for this fic without spoiling everything.

* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Girls:]] [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snarker]] Shiori and [[TheHeart heartful]] Rumi form this as the story goes on. It's played with, however, in that the two have much more plot relevance than most examples of this trope.

[[caption-width-right:246:The story's cover art [[note]]Top row, far left and going right: [[TheStoic Itachi Kunata]], [[NonIdleRich Tadao Shimaru]], [[DeadpanSnarker Shiori Sauchi]], [[CreepyMortician Hiroshi Ashi]], [[ShipperOnDeck Rumi Hamasaki]]. Middle row: [[{{Chuunibyou}} Azami Kurobe]], [[OnlySaneMan Mikio Nakamura]], [[PassionateSportsGirl Hana Amari]], [[CrusadingLawyer Akira Rimutsu]], [[GentleGiant Saku Yamamoto]]. Bottom row: [[LargeHam Ryoto Miura]], [[{{Troll}} Hinata Yonade]], [[NervousWreck Asuna Izumi]], [[PerpetualSmiler Shiro Koichi]], [[AdventurerArchaeologist Kaneki Tenmaru]].[[/note]]]]

Hana Amari is a girl who is average in appearance, but in reality holds exceptional talent; specifically, she has recently been scouted by the famed Hope's Peak Academy to attend as the Ultimate Surfer. Unfortunately, whatever excitement or fear she may have felt is all throw out the window when her first day at the academy takes a turn for the strange. Suddenly, Hana and her fourteen other classmates find themselves in a mysterious castle, with a [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc certain monochrome bear]] appearing and forcing them into a game of kill or be killed. Now, Hana and her friends must uncover the mysteries lurking in the halls of their prison in order to learn the truth behind this killing game...or face the dread of despair. But the truth...may be even darker than Hana could have ever imagined.

*** Interestingly enough, Chapter 2 also plays this trope straight in the form of a paper Shiro wrote a poem on with a strange blood pattern on it (later revealed to have been a bootprint).

** In Chapter 3, Tadao's execution takes this [[UpToEleven Up To Eleven]]- he is almost sliced by a giant knife, crushed by a giant meat mallet, and suffocated in a giant plastic bag before he is ultimately thrown into an oven with a giant chicken dish and [[KillItFire burned alive.]]

** In Chapter 1, it appears as if Azami is about to be crushed between a pair of giant stone blocks with mirrors on one side...but those turned out to be fake. The alternative, however, is not much better.

** In Chapter 3, Tadao's execution takes this [[UpToEleven Up To Eleven]]- he is almost sliced by a giant knife, crushed by a giant meat mallet, and suffocated in a giant plastic bag before he is ultimately thrown into an oven with a giant chicken dish and burned alive.

* SanitySlippage: Asuna appears to be going through this in Chapter 3 as a result of [[BreakTheCutie everything that happened]] in the chapter prior. She comes out of it as of Chapter 3, Part 5.

** Then, in Chapter 3, Asuna undergoes a complete personality change after misinterpreting the advice Akira had given her after Kaneki's trial. She believed that, when Akira told her not to let her grief control her, she shouldn't let herself grieve or truly feel anything ''at all'' (not helped by the guilt she was already feeling). This results in Asuna becoming completely [[TookALevelInJerkass vicious and hostile]] towards her classmates, only being brought out of it when Hana basically spells out what Akira actually meant. In short: Asuna was doing exactly what Akira told her NOT to do.
*** Not to mention Hana even names this trope when explaining this to Asuna.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: The opening of the story depicts Hana being woken up in a hallway by a boy named Hiroshi, after having passed out as a result of finding something in a room with blood on the floor. This scene is repeated word-for-word in Part 4 of Chapter 1, only now with full context: Hana had just discovered Mikio's body in the fitness room, and passed out in the hallway as a result.

* IronicDeath: Itachi's botched execution, as he commits suicide with the same weapon (a second hunting knife identical to the murder weapon) he used to kill Kaneki.

** In the third trial, Tadao is disregarding Hana's claim that he is involved in the murders of Saku and Shiro, naming several pieces of evidence in mockery of the circumstantial evidence against him. One of those pieces of evidence is the "red wine bottle" that Hana claimed was used to knock out Saku...but nobody had ever specified what color the wine bottle that was, and it was in fact something that only four people should know about: Hana, Hiroshi, Akira, and the person who attacked Hana in the wine room the day before the murders.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The castle contains some rooms that one would think to be strange or impractical, such as the fitness room in the South Wing or the treasure room in the West Wing.

* FourIsDeath: Averted in Chapter 1, where Mikio's body is found in Part 3. Played straight in Chapter 2, where Kaneki's body is found at the end of Part 4.

* DeadlyDeferredConversation: Both Hana and Asuna want to know why Kaneki had been acting so [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness strange]] that day; Kaneki, feeling guilty about her behavior, promises them that she will explain everything the next day. Unfortunately for her, she winds up murdered that same night.

*** The dumbwaiter that goes between the wine room and the smaller banquet room is utilized by the killer as a means to move between the top and bottom floors of the West Wing ver quickly.

** At the beginning of Chapter 3's Deadly Life, Monokuma comments on Saku's death by mentioning how "the burly ones usually last a little longer than this", referencing the Danganronpa trope of the [[BigHeartedMuscle Big-Hearted Muscle]] characters dying in Chapter 4.