History Roleplay / TrustfellRoundSix

%%* MurderTropes
%%** '''Victim 1:''' AccidentalMurder, DeathByFallingOver
%%** '''Culprit 1:''' KickThemWhileTheyAreDown
%%** '''Retaliation 1:''' StuffBlowingUp
%%** '''Victim 2:''' ElectrifiedBathtub, NeverSuicide
%%** '''Culprit 2:''' NeckSnap, (averted) HarmlessFreezing
%%** '''Victim 3-A:''' PerfectPoison
%%** '''Victim 3-B:''' NotEnoughToBury
%%** '''Culprit 3/Victim 3-A again:''' PetalPower, BeamSpam
%%** '''Time Limit Punishment 1:''' MindOverMatter, NeckSnap
%%** '''Victim 4:''' TamperingWithFoodAndDrink, NeverSuicide
%%** '''Culprit 4:''' EyeScream, MindOverMatter, FlamingSword
%%** '''Retaliation 2:''' BoomHeadshot
%%** '''Retaliation 3:''' HumanPincushion
%%** '''Victim 5-A and 5-B:''' LockedUpAndLeftBehind, KillItWithFire
%%** '''Culprit 5-A:''' ChainPain, ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
%%** '''Culprit 5-B:''' TimeDelayedDeath
%%** '''Personnel Change:''' SlashedThroat
%%** '''Retaliation 4:''' InTheBack
%%** '''Victim 6:''' MurderByCremation, NeckSnap
%%** '''Culprit 6:''' WhyAmITicking
%%** '''Victim 7-A:''' BladeSpam
%%** '''Victim 7-B:''' TapOnTheHead, OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank
%%** '''Victim 7-C:''' TapOnTheHead
%%** '''Culprit 7:''' HollywoodHeartAttack
%%** '''Time Limit Punishment 2:''' HumanPincushion
%%** '''Victim 8-A:''' BoobyTrap, SlashedThroat
%%** '''Victim 8-B:''' BoobyTrap, HighVoltageDeath
%%** '''Culprit 8:''' FaceDeathWithDignity, HumanPincushion

* CanadaEh: Tabby assumes that Estelle must be from Canada because she's very polite and ApologizesALot.

* PowerCopying: Jericho and Alena (and, later, Hilda) execute or punish people by using previous rounds' characters' WeaponOfChoice (like Asgore's trident) or SignatureMove (like Kira's Stand).

* BelatedBackstory: Often, Round 6 reveals things about the characters that didn't come up during their rounds. Case 3's revelations about its culprit are a huge example.

* NotSoDifferent: Jean is suspicious of possible non-humans because they might be the human-eating monsters from his world. When this leads to Caren accidentally killing him, she admits that among the many factors that keep her people from revealing themselves are the legends humans tell about them. This includes real-world legends where humans can become immortal by killing and eating mermaids.

* WallMaster: Discussed in the fourth investigation.
-->'''Mod Narration:''' As a hint, you might want to try looking up.
-->'''Elda's Narration:''' Science has now proven Elda would be eaten by a spider in a dungeon.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Adelina, Estelle, and Caren are all in the same round this time. All three are princesses who had to go out adventuring due to various circumstances, but they all turned out very different because of it.

-->"Guilty or innocent, it really doesn't matter."
-->'''-Jericho''' ([[spoiler:Lisbeth Larimore]])

* AccentRelapse: [[spoiler:Celia is found out in the third trial when her accent slips out while she's imitating Fern.]]

* AlternateSelf: Everyone is this to their original rounds' selves, but Jericho treats them like they're the same exact people. [[spoiler:They are and they aren't. Lisbeth had Rachel find those exact people, with the same souls and same energy signatures, but Cascada's TimeTravel created an offshoot timeline, so she found those same versions of the characters but inadvertently made new ones out of them in making a timeline where this was the murdergame they all went to instead.]]

* AntiClimax: [[spoiler: Knowing that she wants a big, flashy execution like the others, Hilda decides to mock Aligula by giving her a straightforward and comparatively underwhelming death from a [[HollywoodHeartAttack "broken heart"]] via Misa's Death Note.]]

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Luca asks [[spoiler:Rachel]], "When will this all stop?" after arguing that [[spoiler:the slippery slope Jericho/Lisbeth's gone down will mean she'll just keep killing.]]

* AscendedMeme: Case three really does involve a kidney on the floor.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:The world destroyed outside, having been populated by the industry and their target audience.]]

* BastardlySpeech: Half the [=MTBs=] are this, as unsympathetic culprits are at an all-time high.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Everyone is alive and there will never be a DeadlyGame again, but an entire world is staying destroyed to ensure that, and the sisters and their friends can't have their home back because of it.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: The secrets motive returns, but this time, everyone ''but'' the culprits has their own secret shared at the end, no matter what.

* ButterflyOfDoom: [[spoiler:Lisbeth's goal is to find the source of the cataclysm and kill it in the past to undo the disaster. Every little change has a huge effect on the world here, as discussed in the last trial.]]

* CallBack: There are a ''lot'' to previous rounds. For instance...

** Jericho keeps making cryptic comments that only make sense to those who read the previous rounds, like calling Blue a traitor (she was [[TheMole a mole]] in Round 1), referencing Sigrun's group-endangering decisions in Round 2, and calling Zagi a mess when he's not even here. [[spoiler:Turns out she has a hit list including every villain in the game's history.]]
** Remember when Walt nonlethally stabbed Fern in Round 3? [[spoiler:That's the exact same place her body, taken over by the bacteria inside her, kills him from.]]
** Susan calls Kimblee a wanker [[spoiler:before she votes for him to die]], just like her Round 1 counterpart did before she killed his.
** Rin gives the same "You ''[[PrecisionFStrike bastard]]''!" and charge at the culprit of the sixth trial that Sakura did in ''her'' sixth trial, and for the same reason (albeit this one [[spoiler:[[YouKilledMyFather killed her father]], not her sister]]).
** Just like in her original round, [[spoiler:Kyrie lures victims with a trap that includes another red liquid posing as blood.]]

* CerebusRetcon: To all the way back in Round 1. [[spoiler:Lisbeth leaving to work for Dio wasn't just a silly ending gag. It gave her the power to run countless versions of '''every ''Trustfell'' character to date''' through murder sims that could only ever bad-end.]]

* CreepySouvenir: Alena keeps [[spoiler:Caren's SoulJar]] and wears it around after executing her. [[spoiler:Aligula]] does take some body parts from her victims, but rather than keep them, she sets up a scavenger hunt to distract people investigating the scene and makes them look for all of them.
* CurseCutShort: Yousuke is about to say "ass," looks at Susan, and thinks better of it.

* DeclarationOfProtection: Elda and Alex declare that they won't let Sayaka die. [[spoiler:This only gets Alex killed alongside Sayaka.]]
** Luca [[spoiler:towards ''everyone'' at the eighth trial]].
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Adelina is a medieval princess, so this is normal to ''her,'' but it shocks Luca to learn that [[spoiler:she got married at 16.]]

* ExactWords: Tarrlok's secret reveal says [[spoiler:that he's responsible for his brother's death. He believes this to just be compounding SurvivorGuilt for [[NeverFoundTheBody the disappearance]], without all his memories. In truth, his brother's ''presumed'' death wasn't his actual one, where Tarrlok committed MurderSuicide on purpose.]]
** "Taken care of personally" ''sounded'' like Jericho had betrayed and killed [[spoiler:Dio. Nope. When Lisbeth, Jericho's true identity, is pressed, she has to admit that she let him go due to a case of MadLove.]]

* FillItWithFlowers: Sayaka interprets [[spoiler:Kimblee giving her his Philosopher's Stones and telling her to use them when she's figured out this alchemy thing]] as this and swears she'll make the world beautiful. Given who we're talking about, ''he'' probably did not want this.

* ForYourOwnGood: Kimblee claims that this is why he [[spoiler:drugged Archer with sleeping pills]].

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: During the final trial, while [[spoiler:Lisbeth]] is arguing with the Participants and pontificating about evil and the events that led up to this point, [[spoiler:Rachel]] can be seen standing at her podium and vacantly using Blue's Ditto as a stress toy.
* GirlishPigtails: Rin has them, Caren occasionally, Chie dares Tarrlok to do it once, and [[spoiler:Lisbeth combines them with MotherlySidePlait]].
* GivenNameReveal: A few for both first and last names. First, we learn that Alena's surname is "Larimore," indicating that she's related to Hilda. [[spoiler:Then, when it turns out that "Hilda" and "Alena" were actually both Glory/Michaela in disguise and the remaining Participants never knew the real ones, we also find out that Glory/Michaela's real name is Rachel.]] Finally, Jericho's real name is revealed: [[spoiler:Lisbeth ''Larimore.'' Yup, turns out "Lisbeth Benn" was another pseudonym and she's really the third sister.]]

* HeartbreakAndIceCream: While she doesn't get dumped, Sayaka holes herself up in her room and eats ice cream for lunch after [[spoiler:remembering the sealing of the school]].
* HelpFaceTurn: [[spoiler:While Rachel can't disobey the Larimore sisters and must treat anything they tell her as truth, she admits that she fears how obsessive Lisbeth's gotten with ignoring inconvenient facts and trying to solve everything with mass murder. Thus, she starts up a final investigation, hoping that the Participants can do something to help.]]

* IconicItem: Many, as always, appear in the regains -- this time, including items from previous characters. Rin, for instance, immediately recognizes Sakura's ribbon. Also, [[spoiler:Lisbeth and company collect and store the Iconic Items of former masterminds (though Archer's was technically not ''his'') and people who gave them trouble.]]

* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: Averted; while the WorkingTitle was ''Trustfell 6: Shit, We're Out of'' Franchise/DieHard ''Movies,'' the eventual title is just ''Trustfell'' Round 6.
* ISurrenderSuckers: [[spoiler:Kimblee]] looks like he's going to calmly accept his own execution, only to pull Alena down and disarm her. Unfortunately for him, she still kills him.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Yuri accuses Jericho of this when [[spoiler:he pleads with Rachel to let them try to reason with their captor]], and the others agree.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Fern's own infected body is what kills Walt, growing from the same spot where his Round 3 counterpart stabbed hers.]] Also, what Jericho believes awaits the four masterminds, even if [[AlternateSelf it wasn't technically them]] running the other rounds.
* KillingYourAlternateSelf: [[spoiler:Kyrie plots to do this so she can give herself another chance at life at another her's expense.]]
* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler:Hilda is introduced killing Alena and taking her job.]]

* LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler:Elda and Aligula, as well as Yuri and Rideaux,]] in the ending log.
* LastSecondWordSwap: In the final log, Fern calls [[spoiler:Lisbeth]] "kind of a diiiiiiiiiid you need anything," combining this with CurseCutShort.
* LetterMotif: Pointed out with Jericho and Johanna. [[spoiler:Turns out Johanna is ''not'' Jericho, but she ''is'' Jericho's RightHandCat.]]

* MirrorMatch: When executing [[spoiler:Terumi]], instead of using a non-represented previous round's character's weapon or ability, Alena pulls out the culprit's own.

* MurderTropes
** '''Victim 1:''' AccidentalMurder, DeathByFallingOver
** '''Culprit 1:''' KickThemWhileTheyAreDown
** '''Retaliation 1:''' StuffBlowingUp
** '''Victim 2:''' ElectrifiedBathtub, NeverSuicide
** '''Culprit 2:''' NeckSnap, (averted) HarmlessFreezing
** '''Victim 3-A:''' PerfectPoison
** '''Victim 3-B:''' NotEnoughToBury
** '''Culprit 3/[[spoiler:Victim 3-A again]]:''' PetalPower, BeamSpam
** '''Time Limit Punishment 1:''' MindOverMatter, NeckSnap
** '''Victim 4:''' TamperingWithFoodAndDrink, NeverSuicide
** '''Culprit 4:''' EyeScream, MindOverMatter, FlamingSword
** '''Retaliation 2:''' BoomHeadshot
** '''Retaliation 3:''' HumanPincushion
** '''Victim 5-A and 5-B:''' LockedUpAndLeftBehind, KillItWithFire
** '''Culprit 5-A:''' ChainPain, ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** '''Culprit 5-B:''' TimeDelayedDeath
** '''Personnel Change:''' SlashedThroat
** '''Retaliation 4:''' InTheBack
** '''Victim 6:''' MurderByCremation, NeckSnap
** '''Culprit 6:''' WhyAmITicking
** '''Victim 7-A:''' BladeSpam
** '''Victim 7-B:''' TapOnTheHead, OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank
** '''Victim 7-C:''' TapOnTheHead
** '''Culprit 7:''' HollywoodHeartAttack
** '''Time Limit Punishment 2:''' HumanPincushion
** '''Victim 8-A:''' BoobyTrap, SlashedThroat
** '''Victim 8-B:''' BoobyTrap, HighVoltageDeath
** '''Culprit 8:''' FaceDeathWithDignity, HumanPincushion
* NeckLift: During his execution, [[spoiler:Kirei does this to Hilda to try and kill her. She responds by using 2003 Kimbley's ability to make him explosive and kills him with one well-placed kick.]]
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: [[spoiler:Jericho/Lisbeth's motivation and the final choice: save the world but let the murdergames continue and erase everything that happened in all six rounds of ''Trustfell,'' or stop the games but let the world stay ruined. Adelina goes straight for the former choice, but the other survivors pick the latter after Tarrlok and Rin argue that the calamity, having been caused by the practice of kidnapping people from other worlds to kill each other, will only happen again.]]
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Discussed when [[spoiler:Sigrun finds out about the real Alena]], though it doesn't happen, despite all the alternate selves in the plot.
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: [[spoiler:The enclosed sunroom on the roof never lets in any sun. While a city is visible, no matter when the characters go up, it's dark. This is a result of the cataclysm.]]

* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Jericho gives one when explaining the end of Round 5.
* NotMeThisTime: Tabby when [[spoiler:Blue]], not her, steals the kitchen toaster.
* NotSoDifferent: Jean is suspicious of possible non-humans because they might be the human-eating monsters from his world. [[spoiler:When this leads to Caren accidentally killing him, she admits that among the many factors that keep her people from revealing themselves are the legends humans tell about them. This includes real-world legends where humans can become immortal by killing and eating mermaids.]]
* OddNameOut: This is not named for ''Die Hardest,'' presumably as that is still in DevelopmentHell.

* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: Explored with the moral dilemma in the final trial. After the first phase [[spoiler:has the Participants arguing for their own lives and solving the mystery of who triggered the calamity]] and the second [[spoiler:debates whether Lisbeth should be spared]], the third and final question asks [[spoiler:whether the survivor pool will reset to before the calamity, saving the Larimore sisters' world but allowing the murdergame industry to continue and undoing the events of all six rounds of ''Trustfell,'' or whether they'll continue from AfterTheEnd to shut down the industry, saving themselves as they are.]] While the second option would help people other than the leads, it's still a lot ''fewer'' people, many of whom the multiverse is better off without, so the focus is on this.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: [[spoiler:Largely averted. While Lisbeth paints the previous versions of the cast as a bunch of disasters, most of the cast is impressed, and Susan even says she wishes she'd done what R1 Susan had.]]
* OutOfCharacterAlert: [[spoiler:"Fern" is revealed to be Celia when her accent slips.]]

* PowerCopying: Jericho and Alena [[spoiler:(and, later, Hilda)]] execute or punish people by using previous rounds' characters' WeaponOfChoice (like Asgore's trident) or SignatureMove (like Kira's Stand).
* ThePunishmentIsTheCrime: Rin tells Sayaka that she can't condemn her like Sayaka feels she deserves for her crime at home, since [[spoiler:Sayaka already died for it]], but also, Rin thinks to herself, because the worst part would be having to live with it.

* RousingSpeech: [[spoiler:When Elda defies Kyrie in the last player trial, both talking her down and giving the others hope for survival.]]

* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Estelle gets this from just about everybody.

* StealthPun: [[spoiler:Johanna, the robot cat that has strange abilities relating to her owner's Stand, can move between the living and dead layers of the simulation. Some of the characters realize the stealth pun and start making "Schroedinger's Cat" jokes.]]
* TastesLikeFriendship: Tabby attempts to exploit this by making food for everyone so they won't want to kill her.]]

* ThinkNothingOfIt: Elda says she just did what she had to do after Yuri tells her she's done well by [[spoiler:making Kyrie surrender rather than kill them all.]]

* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:Unlike in Round 4, where it was just a RedHerring, Round 6 ''does'' heavily involve time travel. Lisbeth's Stand has caused her to loop endless murder exercises to kill groups of Participants again and again, and the final choice is whether or not to allow her to reset the timeline to before any of this ever happened.]]
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Even Sigrun and Kimblee, the more unflappable of the cast, are dumbstruck by the sheer ''weirdness'' [[spoiler:of Celia controlling the Fernslob.]]
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: The first murder. [[spoiler:Caren panics at a threat and shoves Jean away when he goes for her pendant, and he dies from the fall.]]
* UndeadTaxExemption: Tarrlok comments that getting established in another world would be "an administrative nightmare." [[spoiler:He and many others end up moving into Elda's town anyway.]]
* UnexplainedRecovery: How the mastermind's notes treat [[spoiler:Hilda being NotQuiteDead after Archer assumed he'd killed her in the backstory of Round 2, as well as her revival after she was killed in Round 4]]. Players and readers, of course, ''do'' have the explanations, at least if they read Round 4.

* VictorGainsLosersPowers: Aligula theorizes that the Coordinators got all those other people's powers and weapons by killing them and absorbing their abilities. [[DramaticIrony We know]] all their owners ''have'' been in murdergames before, [[spoiler:and we discover that Lisbeth grabbed everyone again for more and killed them all, but that's not really how Rachel got their powers and weapons; it was just a matter of programming them in.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Lisbeth after the Participants figure out that Rachel pulling from an unstable world caused the cataclysm, rather than the person who was pulled from that world doing it.]]

* WhamEpisode: The mastermind trial was a cascade of revelations bringing up dangling plot threads from every single previous round, especially how it [[spoiler:brings all six Mystery Women into the same round for the first time]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never do find out [[spoiler:which world was the unstable one that brought the cataclysm, because we don't need to; the solution is that opening the portal to the world caused it, so the "one at fault" was Rachel or whoever's orders she was forced to act on, not the person who lived in that world]].
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Elda and Caren struggle with mistreatment for being inhuman, although the former is accepted by many of the characters. [[spoiler: Celia (in Fern's body) argues that her thousands of bacteria deserve to live as well, to no one's agreement.]]
* WhereItAllBegan: The setting returns to the first round's Graceside Prep, though it's a little [[ChaosArchitecture different]] [[spoiler:because it's a digital recreation]].

* WrongRestroomDilemma: Hibiki accidentally wanders into the men's room, happily greets Tarrlok (who was washing his hands), and still only notices where she is when she sees the urinals.
* WrongTimeTravelSavvy: [[spoiler:The final trial involves Lisbeth explaining how her Stand turns back time and creates offshoots.]] Some of the Participants have set, conflicting ideas about how it should work.

* YouAreNotAlone: Commonly heard in a number of situations. For instance, Alex starts telling this to people when she sees them in pain, [[spoiler:probably wanting them to turn out better than her ghosts]], and Adelina tells a drunk Fern the same thing and confesses that she's scared too.
* YouCantFightFate: Sayaka starts to believe this when she falls into despair after the sixth trial.

* MarryThemAll: Hibiki leaves a love letter for Rin, who is taken. Rin decides a

* IconicItem: Many, as always, appear in the regains -- this time, including items from previous characters. Rin, for instance, immediately recognizes Sakura's ribbon.

* LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler:Elda and Aligula]] in the ending log.

-->'''Elda Narration:''' Science has now proven Elda would be eaten by a spider in a dungeon.

* WhamEpisode: The mastermind trial was a cascade of revelations bringing up dangling plot threads from every single previous round, bringing all six Mystery Women into the same round for the first time.

* CerebusRetcon: To all the way back in Round 1. [[spoiler:Lisbeth leaving to work for Dio wasn't just a silly ending gag. It gave her the power to run countless versions of '''every ''Trustfell' character to date''' through murder sims that could only ever bad-end.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Jericho might be all too happy to kill people over it, but the final choice is ''hard'' because what the mastermind wants and what the Participants want could both be considered "the greater good."

* HardToLightFire: Fire behaves bizarrely in this version of Graceside. Even a fire that would normally burn the school to the ground is localized to one room and goes out mysteriously, and burned-in graffiti is strangely controlled.]]

* UnholyMatrimony: When Kirei and Kimblee talk about their similarities in the fourth trial, the rest of the cast starts to think this.

* WhereItAllBegan: The setting returns to the first round's Graceside Prep.

** '''Victim 8-B: BoobyTrap, HighVoltageDeath

** Jericho keeps making cryptic comments that only make sense to those who read the previous rounds, like calling Blue a traitor (she was [[TheMole a mole]] in Round 1), referencing Sigrun's group-endangering decisions in Round 2, and calling Zagi a mess when he's not even here.