History Roleplay / Cartesio

%% * AccidentalMurder: What the [[spoiler:sixth]] case turns out to be.

%% * IMeantToDoThat: How Franciscus reacts after getting himself covered in butter when messing up a puzzle in the Week 2 mission.

%% * ThePollyanna: Sakura.

%% * PublicExecution: For murder culprits, although characters can choose to skip watching it.

%% * ShotAtDawn: How murder culprits are typically taken out.

%% * StupidSacrifice: How [[spoiler:Nine's murder of Moloch]] is viewed.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Azura; this does help draw suspension away from her during the first trial, since the others realize her bare feet would have been injured if she walked through the scene of the crime, the junkyard. In the fourth case, [[spoiler:this proves fatal to her when she slips on one of Franciscus' [[MoneyMauling Pay Day coins]].]]

** [[VisualNovel/RoseGunsDays Wayne]] mentions [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Franciscus]] looking similar to a younger version of Philip U. Butler. Both of them are, appearance-wise, [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of [[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry Battler Ushiromiya.]]

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Millium is a cheerful and energetic 13 year old girl who has no issue volunteering to murder [[spoiler:Clarisse as revenge for her murder of Bakugou.]]

* ButtMonkey: Keith, the only one among the "tourists" to wind up imprisoned by the townsfolk, and a frequent victim of teasing thanks to his [[HairTriggerTemper hot-blooded personality]] and [[ObliviousToSarcasm inability to recognize when perverted jokes are being made]].

** There aren’t any other Natalies in Cartesio, but an apparent coworker of the Sergeant’s shares a first name with [[spoiler:her deceased brother.]]

* StopBeingStereotypical: Franciscus is very annoyed with Frasier for giving rich people a bad name by [[spoiler: choosing to kill Jughead for the purpose of his own fame.]]

%% * WasItAllALie: Asked by Sakura and Osomatsu to Franciscus when he confesses to [[spoiler:Azura’s murder.]]

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: As time goes on and the tourists end up damaging more and more of the town both by doing tasks and committing murders, the townspeople's opinion of them starts going down.

Cartesio is a murdergame set in an industrial countryside town, where the characters spend a month residing in the motel and exploring the many locations in the town. Every week there’s both a task from the Sergeant that will involve lawbreaking and generally making the townspeople’s lives a living hell, and a murder case that will make all the players face against a culprit in a trial.

Cartesio can be read on Dreamwidth [[https://cartesianism.dreamwidth.org here.]]

!This game provides examples of:

%% * AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:What the sixth case turns out to be.]]

** Also, during [[spoiler: his confession in the fourth trial, Franciscus' icon changes to Black Battler and his truthful statements are colored in red.]]
* AffectionateNickname: Millium is fond of giving these out. Refers to her robot Airgetlam exlusively as "Lammy," Osomatsu as just "Oso," and refers to Bakugou as "Bakky."
%% * AmbiguousGender: Kino. [[spoiler:Confirmed female as of Week 4.]]
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: The Sergeant brings Mako back to life for the sixth motive in order to push Bolin into acting. It works, but given that Bolin was caught and executed, it’s doubtful that the Sergeant would have kept him around...]]

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Millium is a cheerful and energetic 13 year old girl who [[spoiler:has no issue volunteering to murder Clarisse as revenge for her murder of Bakugou.]]
* ABirthdayNotABreak: [[spoiler:Both Natalie and Osomatsu's birthdays pass while in Cartesio. Oso's even falls on the day right before the final investigation and trial.]]

* BreakTheCutie: The game seems to be specifically targeting Sakura at times, particularly in the second half. [[spoiler: In Case Four, her fellow Mock Round member Millium is killed by her close friend, Olympia. During Olympia’s VillainousBreakdown, she learns that Franciscus went KnightTemplarBigBrother and murdered Azura to use the motive to escape with her, something that infuriates her since she never asked for it. Then, she can only watch in despair as ParentalSubstitute Oda tells her goodbye before going to kill Olympia for killing Millium. ''Then,'' in Case Five, the two victims are her other Mock Round survivor, Wayne, and her second ParentalSubstitute, Dazai. By the end of Case Six, where she learns that her good friend Bolin was the culprit due to an AccidentalMurder, she’s so broken that Natalie needs to vote for her.]]

* BloodKnight: The majority of the group is often annoyed, unsettled, or anything in-between by how quick Clarisse is to jump to violent solutions to even the smallest of problems. [[spoiler:It’s also why most of them aren’t particularly shocked when she’s convicted as Bakugou’s killer.]]

* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: During endgame, part of the town distracts the Sergeant while another group, including the brainwashed mock round characters, tries to drive the visitors out of town. It fails, but they manage to keep up the distraction so the visitors can investigate the Lodge.]]
* TheComicallySerious: Jughead notes that Olympia's lack of any natural reaction to humor she makes a perfect StraightMan.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Azura; this does help draw suspension away from her during the first trial, since the others realize her bare feet would have been injured if she walked through the scene of the crime, the junkyard. [[spoiler: In the fourth case, this proves fatal to her when she slips on one of Franciscus' [[MoneyMauling Pay Day coins]].]]
%% * DontYouDarePityMe: Natalie is prone to this, [[spoiler:as is Clarisse once people start digging at her motive]].

* GadgeteerGenius: Moloch is one of the most capable captives in the field of engineering. He even starts working on a radio, [[spoiler:which sadly ends up unfinished when he is murdered.]]

%% * GlorySeeker: [[spoiler:Clarisse]]'s motive Week 3.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Keith shades of this in the sixth trial when [[spoiler:he suggests that everyone vote for him instead of Bolin, claiming that his Earthbending would make him more useful in a final confrontation with the Sergeant,]] and is baffled by Osomatsu’s claim that he is their leader.

* {{Irony}}: Damon, one of the game’s participants that [[spoiler:not only has prior blood on his hands, but is also rather morally bankrupt due to willingly lying to and blackmailing a coworker into taking the fall for him, ''somehow'' managed to be one of the only people to never make the suspect list (''the'' only one if you consider Sakura’s first game not having a list as her being suspected).]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:The player characters from the mock week return as semi-amnesiac [=NPCs=] that believe they live and work in the town.]]
* MomentKiller: [[spoiler: Keith and Natalie's kiss in endgame gets interrupted by multiple characters, starting with Kino doing a golf clap.]]
* MoreExpendableThanYou: [[spoiler: Keith tries to argue this as why everyone should vote for him instead of Bolin in the sixth trial. Considering the suspect list also includes Natalie and Osomatsu, no one buys it for a second.]]

* OlympusMons: [[spoiler: One of Franciscus' Pokemon is the child of the legendary Shaymin, with a lot of their abilities.]]

** Both [[spoiler: Kino and Oda]] had someone close to them named Sakura [[spoiler: who is now dead]], and [[spoiler: Kino's]] birth name turns out to also be Sakura.
* ItsPersonal: How [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Millium]] feels about [[spoiler: [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Bakugou]]'s trial.]] She's completely distrusting of all the culprits, even the ones she was previously on good terms with.

* RevengeBeforeReason: Despite knowing it won’t end well for him, Oda’s TranquilFury over [[spoiler:Millium, who was [[LikeASonToMe like a daughter to him]], being killed by one of her closest friends, Olympia, is too great for him to resist killing her, and he is forced to take her place in the execution.]]

%% * SociallyAwkwardHero: Keith.

* SkewedPriorities: Kinzie's reaction after [[spoiler:Franciscus confesses.]]
-->'''Kinzie:''' [[spoiler: God, I finally get laid in this hellhole and it's someone working off murder stress!]]
* StepfordSmiler: Millium's cheerful and zany enough that it's easy to forget she was born and raised a spy. This can lead to some pretty severe MoodWhiplash, such as when [[spoiler:she reveals during Bakugou's trial that she fully intended to volunteer as executioner regardless of who the culprit was, when more than half of them were people she considered friends]].

* StopBeingStereotypical: Franciscus is very annoyed with [[spoiler: Frasier]] for giving rich people a bad name by [[spoiler: choosing to kill Jughead for the purpose of his own fame.]]

%% * SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler:Nine's motive for Week 2.]] Cian also suffers from this.

* TomatoIntheMirror: [[spoiler: All the visitors, as well as their hostages for the Week 7 motive, are simply AI copies of the originals. The survivor pool takes this surprisingly positively.]]
* TorchesAndPitchforks: [[spoiler: Wielded by the townsfolk during the sixth week's event, when looking for the kidnapped Davis.]]

* TheUnhug: Franciscus gives Sakura an awkward hug when he finds her crying [[spoiler:after discovering her friends from the mock trial round are still trapped in town.]]
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: An innocent comment about [[spoiler:Keith and Cian]] spending the night together leads to constant discussions from the dead side about their multiple partners.
%% * WasItAllALie: Asked by Sakura and Osomatsu to [[spoiler:Franciscus when he confesses to Azura’s murder.]]

* WingedHumanoid: Hawks has two large feathered wings. [[spoiler: It’s later revealed in the fifth trial that he can [[FeatherFlechettes fire feathers from them like projectiles]] and even [[RazorWing use them like blades]].]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Millium and Sakura are afraid of ghosts.

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:What the sixth case turns out to be.]]
* ActorAllusion: [[VisualNovel/RoseGunsDays Wayne]] mentions [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Franciscus]] looking similar to a younger version of Philip U. Butler. Both of them are, appearance-wise, [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of [[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry Battler Ushiromiya.]]

* AmbiguousGender: Kino. [[spoiler:Confirmed female as of Week 4.]]

* CardCarryingVillain: Clarisse, as well as Dabi - literally.

* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: Bolin to Sakura during the Week 3 trial.
* CrazyEnoughToWork: In the second trial, [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendofKorra Bolin]] is able to bend enough mud off everyone's bodies to provide comparisons to the suspects' footprints.

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Nine, Clarisse, and Oda.]]
* DeathIsASadThing: As Millium is slowly learning.
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Employed (alongside CrocodileTears) by Millium against the townsfolk, to limited success. It works well enough with the police chief, but it just causes the journalist to peg her as the mastermind among the tourists.
* DirtyKid: Millium, unfortunately for everyone involved. It's mostly to get a rise out of people, though.

* TheDitz: Nine.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Natalie is prone to this, [[spoiler:as is Clarisse once people start digging at her motive]].

* [[PoliceAreUseless Firefighters Are Useless]]: They have to be told to put out the burning car in the junkyard [[spoiler: that contains Moloch's corpse]].

* GlorySeeker: [[spoiler:Clarisse]]'s motive Week 3.
* HeHadAName: Millium to Dabi in regards to [[spoiler:Bakugou]].

* HumanLadder: Used to reach the cinema sign during the Week 2 mission.
* IMeantToDoThat: How Franciscus reacts after getting himself covered in butter when messing up a puzzle in the Week 2 mission.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Millium can come across as this due to a combination of her young age and LackOfEmpathy.

* {{Jerkass}}: Clarisse.
* [[spoiler:LaserGuidedAmnesia]]: [[spoiler:The player characters from the mock week return as semi-amnesiac [=NPCs=] that believe they live and work in the town.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: Clarisse feels this way about [[spoiler:her own death]].
* TheNicknamer: Gant and Millium.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Nine, and ''how''.

* ThePollyanna: Sakura.

* PublicExecution: For murder culprits, although characters can choose to skip watching it.

* SociallyAwkwardHero: Keith.
* ShotAtDawn: How murder culprits are typically taken out.

* TheStoic: Kino.
* StupidSacrifice: How [[spoiler:Nine's murder of Moloch]] is viewed.
* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler:Nine's motive for Week 2.]] Cian also suffers from this.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Clarisse.
* TokenMiniMoe: Sakura and Millium.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Millium frequently exhibits this.
* {{Tsundere}}: Natalie can come across as this.
* TykeBomb: Millium, to the horror of half the cast.

* WasItAllALie: Asked by Sakura and Osomatsu to [[spoiler:Franciscus when he confesses to Azura’s murder.]]

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have to Be Ghosts?]]: Millium and Sakura certainly feel this way.

The Mock Round began on May 6th, 2018 and ended on May 13th. Round 1 began on September 24th, 2018.

* MoreExpendableThanYou: [[spoiler: Keith tries to argue this as why everyone should vote for him instead of Bolin in the trial. Considering the suspect list also includes Natalie and Osomatsu, no one buys it for a second.]]

* PhoneCallFromTheDead: They contact the living through [[spoiler: their choice of jukebox songs, the names used in video game high scores, and zooming in on words using a microfiche reader. They can also only receive communication back through the same medium.]]

* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: For some reason, the Sergeant seems to feel nothing but vehement hatred towards Clarisse.