History Roleplay / ModelRonpa

* CameBackWrong: Applies to the [[spoiler: MirAI.co's test subjects.]] Leading to [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream several lashing out in violence]] at students throughout the game.]]

* CameBackWrong: Applies to the [[spoiler: MirAI.co's test subjects.]] Leading to [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream several lashing out in violence]]]] at students throughout the game.]]

[[http://model-ronpa.tumblr.com/about Model-Ronpa]] is a submission-based Franchise/DanganRonpa roleplay group hosted over Discord and Tumblr. Twenty of the most conventionally attractive and photogenic students in Hope’s Peak are offered a position to model for the latest edition of HP’s Most Excellent, a magazine that showcases SHSL students and their achievements over the past year. Their food, housing, and other necessities will be provided for the three weeks the students spend modelling for the the magazine, and they will be paid handsomely after the shoots are complete.

* DeadToBeginWith: Applies to [[spoiler: the [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] and background characters found in the game.]] The only real exceptions to this are [[spoilers: The Chaperones, The Benefactors, Mamoru, and KIT.]]

*** [[spoiler:This trope also manages to involve most of the robots HP's Most Excellent as a result of their AI being the result of transhumanism experimentation.]]

*** [[spoiler:This trope also manages to encompass all of the NPCs with the exceptions of Mina, K.I.T, and Mamoru as a result of the robots discovered in the agency to be the result of transhumanism experimentation.]]

** [[spoiler:'''Eiji Mazawa''', ''SHSL Horror Musician'', Chapter 4 Victim]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"Try your hardest, not just for the cameras, but for the world. Walk the runway like your life depends on it!"]]

** Despite being the one who has spent the most time with HP's Most Excellent's robotic staff, Mina [[spoiler:is unable to stop the Judges going rogue and is unable to convince Mamoru not to punish her at the end of GFS #2]]

** Despite being the one who has spent the most time with HP's Most Excellent's robotic staff, [[spoiler: she is unable to stop the Judges going rogue and is unable to convince Mamoru not to punish her at the end of GFS #2]]

!! The magical tropes in this magical roleplay include:

** Chapter 1's Group Fashion Show revolved around the theme of Cute. You would expect the appropriately named Cute Team to do well, right? [[spoiler: Not only did they fail to break the top three where every '' other'' team in the agency had a representative (their highest scorer was Kaz at 5th), two of their teammates also took last and second last place. The judges must really be fickle.]]

DramaticIrony:

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: That's some to most of the characters. Good luck figuring out which ones they are before they die.
* DramaticIrony:

* WorldOfSnark: Many of the students and [=NPCs=] have sharp tongues. SnarkToSnarkCombat is inevitable.

''If beauty is pain, prepare to hurt.''

* AmateurSleuth: Downplayed in certain cases, played straight for the most part, averted in the case of Reiko the [[PrivateDetective Cold Case Detective]]
* AmusingInjuries: On ''[[CriticalFailure very]]'' [[CriticalFailure bad RNG rolls]], the students tend to cause misfortune or injury to themselves. This is often taken seriously depending on the context and the severity of the wound, but sometimes it's played for humor instead.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Chapter 4 saw a ''lot'' of these, due to the motive [[spoiler:of potentially being forgotten forever]]. To wit, this happens with [[spoiler:three]] different people: [[spoiler:Holy, Shinobu K., and Airi]].

** Even extends to deaths outside the norm, as demonstrated with [[spoiler:Subaru and Deborah during the third motive.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: At the beginning of Chapter 1, several students wish that the people associated with Mahoutokoro would sacrifice themselves to protect the [=HPA=] students. Come the first "trial", [[spoiler: the clan founders do exactly that, falling in their battle against Ouryuu... who still isn't satisfied and just continues to torment the students.]]
* BloodOnTheDebateFloor: This sometimes happens when tensions boil over during or after a trial, or if a suspect decides to fight back anyone trying to do a physical check on them, most prominently seen in Chapters 3 and 4. Even without punches being exchanged, numerous death threats also get thrown around, some of them quite graphic. [[TheGadfly Takako]] treats the entire situation like a soap opera.

** [[spoiler:Subverted for the first chapter. The apparent victim turns out to have barely survived, and the other students narrowly vote not to have a trial, sparing the attacker from execution.]]
* BornUnlucky: Evidently, [[spoiler:Clan Byakko. Three of the first four dead students hail from them, leaving the clan at half-strength only three chapters in.]]

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Many details of the setting match the representative colors of the Clans: Blue for Seiryuu, red for Suzaku, white/green for Byakko, and black/[[PurpleIsTheNewBlack purple]] for Genbu. The roster even depicts each student with GlowingEyes in their Clan's color. Yellow/gold is the color of Ouryuu, and [[spoiler:Yukie]] gets [[SupernaturalGoldEyes gold eyes]] when... ''something'' starts influencing [[spoiler:her]] speech.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The executions, which are tailor-made for each culprit. Usually, they either mock their Super High School Level talent or exploit their deepest fears, ensuring their punishment is as terrifying as possible. Occasionally, a murder victim also dies in a particularly horrible manner, or a Labyrinth hazard gives an especially painful or drawn-out death.

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: That's some to most of the characters. Good luck figuring out which ones they are before they die. They currently consist of:
** [[spoiler:'''Shinobu Tenpō''', ''SHSL Alpinist'', Chapter 2 Victim]]
** [[spoiler:'''Jinzaemon Hasekura''', ''SHSL Boxer / Vigilante'', Executed as a result of a mistrial in Chapter 2]]
** [[spoiler:'''Subaru Kurokawa''', ''SHSL Horror Mangaka'', Perishes due to the motive mid-Chapter 3]]
** [[spoiler:'''Deborah Daze''', ''SHSL Carhop'', Perishes due to the motive mid-Chapter 3]]
** [[spoiler:'''Mio Agatsuma''', ''SHSL Survival Gamer'', Chapter 3 Victim]]
** [[spoiler:'''Miyu Suzuki''', ''SHSL Oil Painter / Art Forger'', Chapter 3 Killer]]
** [[spoiler:'''Airi Inoue''', ''SHSL Sculptor'', Chapter 4 Victim]]
** [[spoiler:'''Mi-ke''', ''SHSL Feline Behaviourist'', Executed as a result of a mistrial in Chapter 4]]
* DraggedByTheCollar: A variant done with the obi, which glow and pull students around under certain circumstances such as for punishment or to get them out of danger. During the prologue, most of the Suzaku students are seen getting dragged by their obi back to their dorm, effectively grounded. This usually only drags people around by the waists, but if a student is wearing their obi in a nonstandard way such as as a ''scarf''...
* DwindlingParty: The game began with 24 students, and people have steadily begun to die as the chapters go on.
* DysfunctionJunction: With twenty-four different characters (not counting [=NPCs=]), it's to be expected that something like this would happen. To what extent depends on the character in question...and the person playing them.

* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Unlike the source material, these students remember their times together at Hope's Peak. The difference is that many of them were not in the same class and only a handful had spoken sparingly before.

* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When Zoya first meets the [=HPA=] students, she says that she thought people with such important titles would have been taller. It should be noted that both Zoya and her sister are over ''six feet tall''.
* FestivalEpisode:
** Chapter 3's event is a summer festival, complete with games, dancing, and cherry blossoms (altered by magic to bloom out of season).
** Chapter 4's event is a [[SchoolFestival sports festival]]. Alongside the traditional beanbag-throwing game and team events, there's also a trivia game [[spoiler:that ends up leaking a lot of dark personal secrets, and even predictions of future incidents]].

* FlowerMotif:
** Ouryuu's signature flower is a golden chrysanthemum, which is a recurring symbol. The center of the trial room features its image on the floor, which opens up to reveal the Labyrinth. Students receive temporary petal markings after going on a Labyrinth trip, [[spoiler:as well as unfading ones after sentencing someone to execution]].
** The Majo Matsuri event in Chapter 3 includes a lot of flower symbolism: The students are given hairpins with flowers representing their respective clan, they send flowers with special meanings amongst each other to send messages, and there's even an [=OOC=] section on the event document asking what flower represents each character individually.
** ...the last of which comes back with a vengeance in Chapter 4, when the motive involves those same flowers blooming and withering on each character's head, symbolizing the memories they've left on other people.
* TheFourGods: The four Clans (equivalent to the Houses of Hogwarts and Ilvermorny) are based on these, from name to mascot to overall aesthetic. The Yellow Dragon is also represented in the story as a major villain.
* FromBadToWorse:
** Used as the title of one of the event posts in Chapter 1, signifying that Ouryuu is ''furious'' that [[spoiler:a student thought dead was actually still alive]]. It culminates in her trying to kill all of the students at once, the clan founders waging a futile battle to defeat her, and Ouryuu demanding ''extra'' sacrifices in retribution for this "trickery" (becoming the in-character justification for executions).
** The aftermath of the Chapter 2 trial: [[spoiler:While awaiting punishment for the mistrial, tensions rapidly escalate between the students, peaking when a knife gets involved. What really tips it over the edge is when the randomizer settles on a target: It's someone from the same clan as the victim, leaving Byakko with a third of its students dead in less than a day. As if that's not bad enough, the students actually get to ''experience the execution through Jinzaemon's eyes'', feeling his pain. Their bodies are marked with chrysanthemum petals as a permanent reminder of his death.]]

* {{Irony}}: The first chapter, and the rest of the story in comparison. [[spoiler:Airi nearly murders Miyu; later, Miyu is the murderer of Chapter 3, while Airi is murdered in Chapter 4.]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The Chapter 4 motive. As each petal falls from a student's flower, more and more people will forget they ever existed -- classmates, family, enemies, fans, etc.. The amnesia is reversed after a murder takes place -- unless that student loses ''all'' of their petals, in which case it's permanent.

* MalevolentArchitecture: Ouryuu's Labyrinth is a ''dangerous'' location to explore. Between all the hazards set up in each section and how most actions are subject to the whims of the RandomNumberGod, students can be seriously injured or even killed in the Labyrinth -- although they're returned to the entrance alive and unharmed, save for any psychological trauma.
* MiscarriageOfJustice:
** The end result of Chapter [[spoiler:2]]: [[spoiler:Tenpō's killer can't be identified, with the only certain fact being that it was someone from Suzaku, but not Tsukuyomi. Jinzaemon is then selected at random to be executed.]]
** This is also the outcome of Chapter [[spoiler:4]]: [[spoiler:Almost every vote piles onto Mitsuo, mainly because of the fear that this is his ''second'' murder (having been discovered to be Tenpō's killer). It isn't, and it was Joon-young who killed Airi. Mi-ke is then selected to be executed.]]
* {{Muggles}}: The Japanese equivalent, ''mahounashi.''

* NonUniformUniform: The [=HPA=] students are given Mahoutokoro uniforms, but they're allowed to customize certain aspects to their liking (sleeve length, pants and/or skirts, optional color-shifting robes, etc). They can even ignore parts of the uniform and wear their own clothes. The only thing they're actually required to wear is the obi because of the vital functions it carries out... and there's no rule saying they have to wear it ''properly''.
* OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs:
** Some of the celebrity students are aware of the existence of [[RealPersonFic real-person fanfics]] about themselves. A few even deliberately seek them out and read them.
** During one group's Labyrinth run, they find a scrapbook filled with photos from "Nondespair AU": An [[AlternateUniverseFic alternate universe]] where they're able to lead peaceful lives at Hope's Peak Academy.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, as there are two students named Shinobu and one student named Shino. Played with for student aliases: [[spoiler:Two students actually go by the nickname Shiba. One of them, however, is not openly known as that name and only uses in certain criminal communications; it's rarely brought up publicly due to lack of relevance.]]
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Deceased students persist as ghosts and can rather freely interact with the rest of the cast, even participating in trials and [[spoiler:having access to a special section of the Labyrinth]]. There are some limitations, however: They are intangible to living people and most objects, and even the few items they ''can'' touch are only temporarily tangible. Ghosts who have very recently died also cannot attend a trial and murder victims initially recall little to nothing about their deaths, both to preserve the integrity of the mystery.

* PlotTriggeringDeath: The murder of [[spoiler:Seiji Ohara, their chaperone,]] marks the awakening of Ouryuu and the end of the prologue.
* PoorCommunicationKills: During Chapter 3, [[spoiler:the murderer and one of her accomplices hatch up a [[WoundedGazelleGambit dual]]-[[ZeroApprovalGambit gambit]] plan to protect the former -- and neither of them warn the ''second'' accomplice about this]]. As a result, in the trial [[spoiler:the third person is devastated by watching their boyfriend act so cruelly to gain the class's hatred, and in their breakdown they implicate the true killer]].
* PublicExecution: If a killer is caught or if someone is randomly chosen as a scapegoat, they are dragged away to a cruel execution that usually causes them a lot of emotional and physical suffering before they are finally killed. [[spoiler:In a twist on the standard executions of the genre, the remaining students view and experience the entire execution from the condemned's perspective, and afterwards they're left with markings on their bodies that mirror the late student's wounds.]]
* RandomNumberGod: Many events in the game, such as the results of area explorations, are determined by a roll between 1 and 20; the numbers can be further weighted by factors like Clan affiliation and current character health. This can quickly build up into a lot of chaos if characters get multiple bad rolls in a row.

* StaircaseTumble: The entryway to the Dungeon and Labyrinth area is a long staircase leading into darkness. And walking up or down these stairs requires [[RandomNumberGod a roll]]. Accidents have become so frequent that it borders on a RunningGag, although as of late the staircase rolls have been skipped.

* WelcomedToTheMasquerade: An exchange between Mahoutokoro and Hope's Peak Academy sees the latter sending two dozen students to the magical school.
* WhamEpisode: Chapter 3 becomes this during the second half, beginning with the reveal of the motive: [[spoiler:A heat wave has begun, and all sources of food and water have been removed. On the second and third days of the motive, Subaru and Deborah pass away from heat stroke. Mio is murdered on the third night, and during the course of the trial it becomes clear that ''three people'' worked together to kill them -- Mi-ke, Kris, and Miyu. The latter two are also revealed to be lying about their talents and are the Hitman and Art Forger respectively, while Jinzaemon and Tsukuyomi are revealed to be the Vigilante and Phantom Thief. The class is nearly led into a mistrial before pinning Miyu as the true culprit, and this ''destroys'' the reputations of her and her accomplices.]] At the end of it all, many students find it difficult to trust one another again.

[[https://mahouproject-one.tumblr.com/ The M.A.H.O.U. Project]] is a submission-based Franchise/DanganRonpa + Franchise/HarryPotter crossover roleplay group hosted over Tumblr. In a cultural exchange between the magical and non-magical worlds, a group of ''mahounashi,'' muggles, are taken to the Japanese wizarding school Mahoutokoro to spend a semester and experience a snippet of the wizarding world.

However, once there, things go differently than planned...

''Welcome, Beautiful SHSL students! The 20 of you have been chosen to model for the annual edition of HP’s Most Excellent, a well-renowned magazine featuring Hope’s Peak’s brightest, most outstanding, and definitely most photogenic students of the year!''

''Now turn, strike a pose, and get ready for your close-up, because this year’s issue will surely 'slay' the masses!''

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[[caption-width-right:350:"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."]]