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Danganronpa 96 (Fanfic)
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Danganronpa96: Chimamire is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover Danganronpa fanfic written by Lennardd on Archive Of Our Own. It follows Shunsuke Hayasaka as him and his two friends, Mai Tsurugi and Naomichi Kurumada, wake up in a mysterious island with 13 other people of varying species and are forced to participate in a killing game by the sadistic tiger Monotora, where you must kill someone and get away with it to survive, or figure out who the culprit is and have them voted for execution, condemning the culprit to death but saving everyone else.

The cast of this fanfic includes characters from Your Turn to Die, Breaking Bad, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Aggretsuko, Doki Doki Literature Club!, Ao Oni, Yuppie Psycho, BoJack Horseman, Cookie Run, Death Note and ENA.


Danganronpa 96: Chimamire provides examples of:

  • Accidental Murder: The murder of Chapter 2, and the second murder of Chapter 3, are eventually revealed to be this:
    • The Chapter 2 murder happened thanks to the blackened, suffering from extreme sleep deprivation thanks to the motive, hallucinating the victim as a monster after hearing her sing Death Metal and sending him into a panic.
    • The third blackened didn't wanted to kill her victim, but she didn't took in account the facts that 1: the victim would try to protect herself from the falling bookcase, and 2: that the weight of the bookcase would make the murder weapon, that was stabbed on the victim's hand, stab the victim's heart as she tried to protect herself from it.
  • Adaptational Gender Identity: In their official material, ENA is confirmed by Word of God to be a girl, despite her masculine Happy Voice. In here, however, they're explicitly described as using they/them pronouns, seems to be unaware of the concept of "gender", and can enter places reserved for one gender or another without any issue.
  • Adaptational Villainy:
    • In Doki Doki Literature Club!, Yuri only becomes a violently sadomasochist Yandere thanks to Monika messing with her character file to make her undesirable to the player, but in here, it only takes her spending 4 all-nighters reading horror novels, and pondering about her and the other characters' present situation, to fall into this state and attempt to cause a Total Party Kill to save Natsuki.
    • Also, all the murderers, who are heroes on their stories of origin.
  • The Alcoholic: BoJack, like in canon, is always carrying, and drinking, alcohol no matter the situation.
  • Anguished Declaration of Love: Two examples of this happens in Chapter 2 and 5, the first one being a platonic version of this from Kaidou to Saiki before the former is going to be executed for Retsuko's murder, and the second one being a romantic version done by Hayasaka to Kurumada as the former tries to save the latter from being executed for being both L's murderer and the traitor.
  • Anyone Can Die: Naturally, as it’s a killing game. It’s always hard to guess who’ll be the next victim/culprit.
  • Breaking Old Trends: This killing game doesn't follows the traditional tropes of the canon games:
    • Thanks to ENA carrying Moony with them when they were abducted, the killing game has 17 participants instead of 16.
    • Monokuma is substituted as the killing game mascot by Monotora, who is a robotic tiger with and self-aware AI and functional organs that lets them eat meat to recharge.
    • One of the participants (Moony) doesn't have an Ultimate Title.
    • The participants, because of being hired by Nesos instead of being admitted into a school, are called "employees" instead of "students".
    • The mastermind, instead of being one of the participants Hiding in Plain Sight, is not only monitoring the killing game outside the island, but also is using the recourses of the Nesos company to keep the killing game going.
    • The "Detective" character (L) isn't part of the Power Trio, with his spot being instead filled by Brian.
    • The "Monokuma Theater" segments between days are substituted by the "Monotora Files", a bunch of recording sessions that show the creation and early life of the titular sadistic robot.
    • The first motive, despite being having a similar I Have Your Wife theme as the first motive of Trigger Happy Havoc, it uses letters instead of a video.
    • The Closing Arguments of every case, except the fifth, are told by the "Detective" character instead of the protagonist. And even then, the fifth Closing Argument has to be finished by the blackened because of the protagonist being in the middle of an Heroic BSoD.
    • Chapter 3 ends up having three examples of this:
      • The "rival" character (Yuri) ends up dying as the second victim of Chapter 3, instead of dying as the victim of Chapter 5
      • Instead of a murderer killing two victims, this Chapter's two victims were killed by two different people, with the characters having to decide which one of the two culprits to send to their death based on which victim died first.
      • Unlike the Chapter 3 killers in canon, the two culprits of this Chapter 3 are both Sympathetic Killers, with Natsuki having been manipulated by Yuri into killing ENA, and Mai only wanting to stop Yuri from continuing her mad attempts to "save" Natsuki at the expense of everyone else, and killing her accidentally.
    • Because of the combined facts that the Chapter 4 "murder" was actually a suicide attempt made by the victim, and that the "victim" had actually survived thanks to how he tried to end his own life, the "blackened" who ends up being executed in the Chapter is the victim himself.
  • Call-Back: This killing game has a lot of references to both the canon games, and Lennardd previous fic, Danganronpa 69:
    • The way Hayasaka, Kurumada and Mai find eachother once they arrive to Island Nesos is reminiscing of how Hajime and Nagito met in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
    • The story also takes place in a deserted island similar to Jabberwock Island.
    • The first motive involves the participants receiving something that implies that their loved ones are in danger, similar to the first motive of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
    • The motivations of the first blackened are similar to the ones the first blackened of Danganronpa 69 had. Specifically, he found something about the victim that made them untrustworthy, and decided to kill them before they could hurt the other participants.
    • The second murder ends up being very similar to the one of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: The murder killed the victim accidentally thanks to being in a bad mental state thanks to the motive, move their body to a location that only can be accessed by women, and when they leave, a third party manipulate the crime scene to make everyone believe that someone else killed the victim. Also, the blackened's closest friend ends up falling into a Heroic BSoD during Chapter 3 thanks to their execution.
    • In a similar way to Nagito, Yuri reveals to the rest of her co-workers her darker side, and confesses to a murder she didn't commit, in a twisted attempt to "help" the true blackened during the trial, causing her to become The Friend Nobody Likes in the process.
    • The first murder of Chapter 3 follows a similar path as Trigger Happy Havoc's: The most unlikeable member of the cast manipulates the most loyal person to them into killing someone else under false charges. The main differences are that Yuri manipulated Natsuki to "save" her from the killing game, and Yuri, not Natsuki, is the one who becomes the second victim.
    • In a similar vein to Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, the Chapter 4's motive involves the surviving characters entering in a VR game to find a "clue" the mastermind left behind.
    • The "simulated murders" zones where the characters go to find the pieces of the "clue" in the VR simulation, are the places where the bodies of Mr. Krabs, King Dedede, 2D and Peter Griffin were found during Danganronpa 69. Also, Monotora mentions how Mario killed Mr. Krabs on that fic during the 5th trial.
    • The hallucinations that make the fourth motive work similarly to the "Monokuma's Gloomy Sunday" of Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School.
    • The Chapter 4's "murder" is eventually revealed to be a suicide that was mistaken by a murder thanks to someone else attacking the victim before their death, like in Trigger Happy Havoc.
    • Like Nagito did in Danganronpa 2's Chapter 5, L threatens the other participants with (fake) bombs in an attempt to find the traitor working with Nesos.
    • Like Chiaki did before him, Kurumada ends up revealing himself as both the Chapter 5's blackened and the traitor to save the other participants.
  • Cats Are Mean: Monotora, the robotic mascot of the killing game, is a tiger that not only wants to see the participants kill eachother for sadistic fun, but also likes to threatening them with eating them if they do something that their creators don't approve. The Monotora Files, however, imply that Monotora could be instead being forced to help the mastermind with the killing game through some kind of programming.
  • Chained Heat: The third motive involves the characters being handcuffed to each other with special cuffs that have an explosive that will activate if either one of them leaves to the other islands without their partner, or try to take off the cuffs.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: All the executions and body discoveries are very brutal.
  • Darkest Hour: Chapter 5. L is dead, depriving the survivors of their main detective, and Kurumada's reveal as both The Mole and L's killer, and his subsequent execution, sends both Brian and Hayasaka beyond the Despair Event Horizon, with the only hope that the survivors have now of being rescued being the reveal of two mysterious characters, that are working on finding a way to get into Nesos Island, at the tail end of the Chapter.
  • Deadly Game: Much like the original Danganronpa, the main premise is a killing game where you must kill someone and not get caught to escape.
  • Desecrating the Dead: In Chapter 2, Yuri, after finding Retsuko's body, decides to stab it multiple times in a attempt to pin the blame of her death on herself so she can coerce the blackened into using the additional motive to save Natsuki if the other participants vote wrong.
  • Dramatic Dislocation: In Chapter 3, Mai does this to escape from her cuffs and go to the 3rd island to confront Yuri without endangering Kurumada's life. This ends up being the decisive proof that outs her as the Chapter's blackened.
  • Driven to Suicide: The Chapter 4's victim, BoJack, tried to take his own life through a vodka overdose, but his "death" ended up almost erroneously ruled a murder thanks to him and Jesse having a fight moments before he succumbed to the alcohol. BoJack eventually succeeds in killing himself in his "execution", as he willingly took a drug dose and let himself fall into the pool to end it all.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The Monotora Files show that, once Dokahana was created, Monotora became very close to her, to the point that her death (Implied to be at the hands of the mastermind, and Nesos's CEO) left them deeply furious at everyone around them.
  • Evil, Inc.: Nesos, who sends 17 people into an island so they can force them to kill each other for fun, create a violent, and sadistic, robot tiger that can feed on humans, and murder their own employees when they try to oppose them and their evil plans.
  • Foreshadowing: Like all Danganronpa -style stories, there are moments in the story that alude to future reveals:
    • When Hayasaka finally sees the finished boat that Walter White made everyone build to escape from the island, he can't help but to comment on how small it is. The reason why is because, as the first blackened reveals, Walter was planning all along to use the boat to only get himself and Jesse out of the island.
    • Before Walter's body is found, Kaidou ends up bumping with L, and, thanks to the fact he hadn't slept well the previous night, he ends up mistaking him with the Dark Reunion. He ends up becoming the second blackened after the second motive makes him hallucinate Retsuko as a monster after hearing her sing Death Metal.
    • Despite the fact that one of the rules of the killing game being that the employees can't go outside between 12:00 AM and 7:00 AM because that's the time where Monotora starts hunting, a lot of the characters have never crossed paths with the robotic tiger despite being outside during that time-slot. It's eventually revealed by Moony that this is because Monotora was actually spending their supposed time hunting instead on the fourth island's factory.
    • There's multiple ones for the Internal Reveal of Saiki's Psychic Powers, like him never opening his mouth when he talks, suggesting to go to the beach to find Walter at the end of Chapter 1's Daily Life, somehow dissapering in a literal blink after Hayasaka sees him outside his room after the second trial, his reaction just before ENA's body is found in the third island's clocktower, and him being able to somehow stop Hayasaka's Psychic-Assisted Suicide in Chapter 4 without touching them in any way.
  • Hallucinations: This ends up being the true Chapter 4's motive, with Nesos manipulating the remaining characters into getting infected with an "Hallucinatory Bug" that would make them have hallucinations of their dead co-workers berating them and wearing them down until someone dies.
  • Hidden Villain: The mastermind, and Nesos CEO, obviously.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: The first victim, Walter White, is initially painted as a gruff but reasonable leader-like figure who wants to help the rest of the group to escape the island through making a boat, but, as the first blackened discovered, he was just planning on escape the island alone with Jesse all along, having never had the hope to make a boat big enough for everyone in the island.
  • Karma Houdini: Despite having killed ENA, Natsuki avoids execution thanks to the fact that ENA survived long enough for Mai to kill Yuri in a failed attempt to stop her. Justified by the fact that it is made extremely clear that she only murdered ENA because Yuri manipulated her into doing it as part of another one of her attempts to "save" her.
  • Make It Look Like an Accident: In Chapter 2, after Kaidou realized that he had killed Retsuko in a fit of sleep-deprived panic, he moved her body to the Karaoke Bar's girls bathroom, opened a sink and clogged a toilet to flood the room, smeared some blood on one of the sinks, and put empty bottles of alcohol on the room where she was singing before her death to make it look like she drunkenly hit her head on the sink after going to the bathroom.
  • Massive Multiplayer Crossover: This fic is a crossover between 11 fandoms in a Danganronpa setting.
  • Only Mostly Dead: Chapter 4's victim, BoJack, is revealed that actually survived his suicide attempt, with the alcohol overdose he caused on himself instead leaving him in a coma he was pulled out by Nesos. Sadly, thanks to the rules of the killing game, this means that he ends up dying anyways through execution.
  • Psychic-Assisted Suicide: The hallucinations caused by the fourth motive, in a similar way to the Monokuma's Gloomy Sunday, seem to influence its victims into suicide with mirages of their loved ones berating them, telling them that they're terrible people, and convincing them to end their own lives so they can "atone" for their mistakes. Jesse, Hayasaka and BoJack end up falling under the hallucinations' spell at different points during the Chapter, but only the latter ends up being successful on this endeavor.
  • Psychic Powers: Saiki, like it is shown in his series, is an extremely powerful esper, to the point that Nesos had to weaken his powers, and making him feel pain every time he used them, so he couldn't ruin the killing game before it started.
  • Recurring Element: As expected for a DR fanstory, most of the participants follow familiar archetypes:
    • Hayasaka is the plain male protagonist who has a unremarkable talent which he feels uncomfortable with.
    • Both Kurumada and BoJack share the role of the Big Guy of the group but while the former is also the main Love Interest and the traitor, the latter becomes the Chapter 4 victim/culprit.
    • Saiki, like Kyoko, Hajime, and Rantaro, has his Ultimate Title listed as "Ultimate ???". He also ends up taking Kiyotaka and Fuyuhiko's role of being the Chapter 2's blackened's close friend that falls into a Heroic BSoD after the blackened is outed and executed for their crime.
    • L, thanks to his detective skills, becomes The Coroner of the group.
    • Walter White, similar to Sayaka, the Imposter, Rantaro and Kaede, ends up becoming the supposedly important character that ends up dying in the first chapter.
    • Yuri is the kind, sweet, girl that ends up revealing a darker side to herself during one of the trials.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: As the Monotora Files show, Monotora had a "sister" called Dokahana, who unlike them, was a small and sweet cat-like robot who only fed on poisonous flowers, and only could communicate with squeaking.
  • Sleep Deprivation Punishment: The motive for Chapter 2 is that none of the participants are allowed to sleep until someone commits a murder. The class endures it for a few days, though Hayasaka and Brian almost fall asleep multiple times. The motive comes to an end when Kaidou hallucinates that Retsuko is a monster from the lack of sleep, and kills her in an attempt to protect himself.
  • Spanner in the Works: Yuri's plan in Chapter 3 was to manipulate Natsuki into fatally poisoning ENA before throwing them from the highest point of the 3rd island's clocktower so she could manipulate the other characters again into wrongly voting for her so she could "save" Natsuki from the killing game, but her plan ends up failing for two reasons: The first one is that Mai, who had realized that she was planning something, discovered what she did to ENA and went to stop her, accidentally killing her in the process, and the second one was that ENA's non-human nature meant that the poison-fall combo didn't killed them as immediately as she and Natsuki thought, with them clinging to life long enough to die after Yuri, and freeing Natsuki from being the blackened.
  • Suicide by Cop: In Chapter 4, thanks to the hallucinations he has been suffering from the motive, Jesse decides to end it all via provoking Monotora into attacking him. Thankfully, BoJack ends up saving him in the nick of time.
  • Tamer and Chaster: The Argument Armaments on this story, unlike the ones in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, doesn't show the opponent in any kind of Fanservice-ish Clothing Damage once they're beaten.
  • Yandere: During the second trial, Yuri reveals herself to be a platonic version of this towards Natsuki, manipulating the crime scene of Retsuko's murder to paint herself as the killer so she can kill everyone with a wrong vote and force Kaidou to use the Chapter's additional motive to get Natsuki out of the island.
  • You Said You Would Let Them Go: Once he's revealed as the traitor working with Nesos, Kurumada tells to the survivors that the only reason why he became The Mole in the first place was to protect Hayasaka and Mai from the killing game, so, when Mai was executed because of her killing Yuri, he couldn't help but to be furious with Nesos for breaking their deal.

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