History Fanfic / WhereTalentGoesOnVacation

** Kyoko Kirigiri appears during the Epilogue as [[spoiler:Miura and Edogawa are reporting to her about the successful retrieval of the Killing School Trip survivors from the Neo World Program and the arrest of Yukari Nagato]]. [[spoiler:She and the rest of the Hope's Peak Killing Game survivors minus Toko also appear during the first post-credits scene where they meet with the Talent High survivors while recovering from the events of the [[Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool Final Killing Game]]]].

* OnceMoreWithClarity: In Chapter Zero, Nagato experiences a pre-cruise memory with Azuki with them imprisoned together where the latter states that she's heard that [[spoiler: their captives are going to use the Neo World Program on them]] but all proper names in this conversation have been filtered out. During the final trial, Nagato experiences the memory again, [[spoiler:but this time, the missing bits are filled in, revealing Nagato's mother has been the one holding them prisoner along with several other members of Ultimate Despair]].

** At the fifth island's college, the art gallery's Talent High School features a portrait of Class 33 with X's over the faces of everyone who died, as well as the portrait of the Class 33 student council Miura discovered during the class' final investigation.
* TheCameo: Alter Ego briefly appears during the final investigation period.

-->'''Nagato''': To add to what I said earlier, Monokuma must not planned to include the traitor. As such, he had to improvise, and so came up with a role for the traitor to play in the killing game. If that's true, then... of course.\\

** Chapter VI, Part 3. [[spoiler:In the final class trial, Nagato reveals that the students are in the [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Neo World Program]] and unmasks the traitor as her own mother. After she and the rest of the surviving students vote her as the traitor, [[Fanfic/WhereTalentGoesToDie Kaori Miura]] arrives to help out the remaining students as Monokuma transforms into a giant Monokuma-stylized version of Nagato's mother.]]

* VirtualReality: It's hinted several times throughout the story that the "cruise" is actually taking place in the [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Neo World Program]], [[spoiler:and officially confirmed during the final chapter]].

'''Monokuma''': Not exactly, Nagato-san. It's kind of disappointing, you know? After all this time, and all these murders, [[spoiler:the traitor's ''still alive'']].

The fic can be found on [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13301684/1/ Fanfiction.net]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19060270/chapters/45276307 AO3]].

* DwindlingParty: As expected of Danganronpa, although considering the teacher counts as part of the class, there are seventeen people at the start of the fic. As of this writing, [[spoiler:that number is down to six]].

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: No one in the class remembers anything between when they left for the school and when they woke up in the hotel.

'''Monokuma''': Not exactly, Nagato-san. It's kind of disappointing, you know? After all this time, and all these murders, the traitor's ''still alive''.

* DwindlingParty: As expected of Danganronpa, although considering the teacher counts as part of the class, there are seventeen people at the start of the fic. As of this writing, [[spoiler:that number is down to nine]].

** Chapter V, Part 5. [[spoiler:Nagato proves that both Asakura and Karita ended up killing each other, causing Monokuma to demand the remaining students to offer up someone to be executed a per his Rule 16. Higurashi offers himself up to be executed and is killed, but afterwards Monokuma reveals to the remaining survivors that the traitor's still alive]].

* RedHerring: After the third body is discovered, Monokuma announces that for this investigation period only, no trial will be held if a second body is found, though the killer won't be able to graduate. Since this is the third trial, a ''Danganronpa'' fan might suspect this might be used to provide the second death that normally shows up in the third trials, but [[BreakingOldTrends no second death occurs]].

'''Monkuma''': ''[makes a "tsk-tsk" noise]'' The ''only'' person? There's no less than three such people here, [[spoiler:including you! Oh, and Kojima-san, but he's dead now]]. ''[[[spoiler:Asakura]] and [[spoiler:Kurogane]] turn pale]'' It just so happens that those two are related to members of Talent High School's board of directors. [[spoiler:Asakura's maternal uncle is Jiro Kusakabe, a member of the board, while Kojima-san's mother's cousin is Yukino Ishigami, a fellow member of the board. As for Nagato-san, she isn't just Nagato-sensei's daughter, but Chairman Takehiko Mitamura's granddaughter]].

** Like in the previous fic and the canon games, [[spoiler:[[TheBigGuy the muscular character]] is killed in the fourth chapter.]]

* UnreliableExpositor: During his lectures on the [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Hope's Peak]] and [[Fanfic/WhereTalentGoesToDie Talent High]] killing games, Monokuma engages in several {{Blatant Lie}}s- namely [[spoiler:the canon one about [[LightNovel/DanganronpaZero Kumakura being the one who killed the Hope's Peak student council when it was actually Junko]], that Mukuro was executed for attempting to betray Junko when she was actually loyal to Junko the entire time and was the one betrayed by her sister, that Kagami was a member of Ultimate Despair when he was actually just using Junko's philosophies for revenge against the Talent High staff, and that the survivors of both games slaughtered their respective masterminds]].

* UnreliableExpositer: During his lectures on the [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Hope's Peak]] and [[Fanfic/WhereTalentGoesToDie Talent High]] killing games, Monokuma engages in several {{Blatant Lie}}s- namely [[spoiler:the canon one about [[LightNovel/DanganronpaZero Kumakura being the one who killed the Hope's Peak student council when it was actually Junko]], that Mukuro was executed for attempting to betray Junko when she was actually loyal to Junko the entire time and was the one betrayed by her sister, that Kagami was a member of Ultimate Despair when he was actually just using Junko's philosophies for revenge against the Talent High staff, and that the survivors of both games slaughtered their respective masterminds]].

** The third case isn't a double murder.

** The college the remaining students visit on the fifth island is called [[VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls Towa University]] and each of the buildings and labs there are named after a character from ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' or ''LightNovel/DanganronpaZero''.

** Chapter V, Part 2. [[spoiler:The class arrives on the fifth island and find out about the [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Hope's Peak]] and [[Fanfic/WhereTalentGoesToDie Talent High School]] killing games. Monokuma, in an effort to speed up a killing, hints that the traitor is someone who isn't supposed to be part of the class. When Asakura tries to use this to finger Nagato as the traitor since she got in because her mother's a teacher, Monokuma not only reveals Nagato's aforementioned status as the illegitimate granddaughter of the school's chairman, but also reveals that Asakura and the late Kojima also got in because their relatives were part of the Talent High school board]].

* [[spoiler:DecoyProtagonist]]: [[spoiler:Azuki ends up being the blackened in the third case and is executed, with Nagato taking over as protagonist afterwards.]]

** Chapter V, Part 1. [[spoiler:Monokuma, in an effort to speed up a killing, hints that the traitor is someone who isn't supposed to be part of the class. When Asakura tries to use this to finger Nagato as the traitor since she got in because her mother's a teacher, Monokuma not only reveals Nagato's aforementioned status as the illegitimate granddaughter of the school's chairman, but also reveals that Asakura and the late Kojima also got in because their relatives were part of the Talent High school board]].

'''Monkuma''': ''[makes a "tsk-tsk" noise]'' The ''only'' person? There's no less than three such people here, [[spoiler:including you!]]

** The college the remaining students visit on the fifth island is called [[VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls Towa University]] and each of the buildings and labs there are named after a character from ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' or ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaZero''.

** [[spoiler:Kirishima]]'s execution is called "Evolve or Die," recalling [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Celestia Ludenberg's]] {{Catchphrase}} of "Adapt or die."

'''Azuki''': Now that we know where the trigger to the office trap is, there's only one person who could have set off the trap that killed [[spoiler:Mihama]]. [[spoiler:Namely me]].

* GottaCatchThemAll: Monokuma challenges Azuki to find six Hidden Monokumas- one on the ship and one on each of the first five islands.

** [[spoiler:In one Azuki's final conversations with Himemiya before her death, Himemiya admits to her that she has a crush on Sasaki, but doesn't plan on pursuing her because she doesn't want to give Sasaki false hope in case either one of them end up dying in the Killing Game. On the fourth island, Sasaki admits to Nagato that she's also in love with Himemiya, but doesn't plan on confessing to her because of similar reasons plus her unsureness about Himemiya's sexuality.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Azuki ends up being the blackened in the third case and is executed, with Nagato taking over as protagonist afterwards.]]

* DramaticIrony: In Chapter 3, Azuki and Hikaru Kurogane discuss the latter's cousin Shiro, with Azuki hoping that Shiro doesn't get recruited to Talent High School or he might find himself in a Killing Game as well. As readers of ''Fanfic/WhereTalentGoesToDie'' well know, not only did Shiro end up getting recruited to Talent High and get in a Killing Game himself, [[spoiler:he ended up being the first victim]].

* DwindlingParty: As expected of Danganronpa, although considering the teacher counts as part of the class, there are seventeen people at the start of the fic. As of this writing, [[spoiler:that number is down to eleven]].