Danganrona: Losers Reunion
is a fanfiction by OrangeMKNinga
. It features the deceased students who are revived to participate in another killing game, with Sayaka Maizono as the protagonist.
This fanfiction contains spoilers from the original games, as everyone has died in their past lives. Caution is advised before reading it.
This story contains examples of:
- Accidental Murder: Comes up during the second trial: Nekomaru bumped into Kaito, causing him to fall into the range of a gun trap.
- Ascended Extra: Sayaka Maizono, the first ever victim of the franchise, serves as the main protagonist of the story.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: When Junko reveals herself to be the mastermind behind the Hope's Peak Academy killing game and the Jabberwock Island killing game, she has Mikan brainwashed into her Ultimate Despair mode. This causes the others to lock her up and place her under surveillance.
- Break Them by Talking: At the end of the first Class Trial, Tsumugi cosplays as survivors that were important to the participants to try to convince them to not vote for her. It didn't work.
- Call-Back:
- Sayaka goes into the kitchen to get a knife to kill someone. In this case, though, she realized that she's doing the exact same thing that led to her death in her previous life, so she stopped herself.
- Just like in the third case of Trigger Happy Havoc, the culprit of the first case gets exposed by using the Monopad to reveal the owner's true identity. Junko Enoshima, as it turns out, was really Tsumugi Shirogane, meaning that the actual victim was Junko.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: As with any Danganronpa killing game story, the executions are both cruel and ironic.
- Tsumugi has her clothes sewed into her skin before they were ripped out, skin included. She was redued to a skeleton dressed like Junko Enoshima before finally dying.
- Nekomaru is forced to run on a treadmill set up in front of a buzzsaw, with heavy weights attached to his arms and legs by hooks and chains. He ultimately slips on his own blood and falls off the treadmill; rather than hitting the buzzsaw, he slams into the weight machine and gets a 40lb weight launched at his head, crushing it.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation:
- The first victim of the game is Junko disguised as Tsumugi, and she dies via a knife to the stomach rather than being crushed.
- In parallel to the above, the first culprit is executed via having costumes sewn onto her body and repeatedly ripped off instead of being crushed.
- The second victim, Kaito, gets his face blown off by a shotgun blast rather than dying from his illness mid-execution.
- The second person convicted is Nekomaru, who gets executed with his head getting squashed instead of dropped to his demise.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Played for Drama when Monokuma casually decides to retroactively punish Ibuki for smashing her guitar during her first concert by giving her a lobotomy.
- Downer Beginning: The fic opens with Sayaka's last moments in her previous life before she died.
- Driven to Suicide: Brought up during "Queen of the Castle": Miu's idea of solving matters is to give each of their three captives a noose and annoy them into using it. None of the three are interested in taking the bait.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: A lock of Sayaka's hair starts stubbornly sticking up atop her head to symbolize her newfound status as a protagonist, following the series tradition.
- Forged Message: Junko makes a bunch of fake letters and spreads them out among everyone, making it seem like those who died are still mad at their respective killers and don't forgive them for what they did, hoping to cause tension and instigate another murder. It fails though when Mondo apologizes to Chihiro and shows the letter he got, with them quickly realizing it's a forgery and informing the rest of the students before there is a serious misunderstanding.
- From Bad to Worse: Invoked by several titles for Chapter 3, which include "Going from Bad", "To Better?", "Back to Bad", "To Worse", "Way Worse".
- Heroic BSoD:
- Sayaka was left frozen when she saw Tsumugi's dead body with a knife sticking out of her chest, as it closely resembled her own death. It doesn't help that Tsumugi bears a resemblance to Sayaka.
- After the first trial ended, Sayaka froze again when she saw a photo of Makoto and Kyoko on a date.
- I Lied: Monokuma infuriates all of the survivors during the denouncement of the second trial, when he reveals that he'd lied about imposing a time limit so that they'd rush into convicting Nekomaru rather than figuring out who set the trap that killed Kaito.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: In the wake of the second trial, Mondo declares that "I'm getting a fucking drink" and scrounges up some wine to share with most of the other survivors.
- Idiot Hair: When Sayaka was using the bathroom in her room, she noticed that there is a strand of hair that's sticking up from the top of her head, just like all the other protagonists of the franchise.
- Let No Crisis Go to Waste:
- Monokuma's third motive is one he personally engineers in this fashion: first, he decides to punish poor Ibuki after learning they'd broken one of his rules weeks ago by forcibly lobotomizing her. He then declares that he's willing to reverse this decision if somebody commits murder.
- Angie then attempts to take advantage of the above to manipulate the other students into falling into line behind them... only to be outplayed by Celes exposing the part she played in Ibuki's punishment and seizing control for herself.
- Living Lie Detector: Celes claims to be one, capable of telling when others are trying to peddle falsehoods around her. However, she acknowledges that this skill is far from foolproof; people can evade detection if they're careful enough with their words.
- Miscarriage of Justice: In the second trial, Monokuma manipulates the students into voting for Nekomaru by pretending he's setting a time limit, tricking them into thinking they don't have time to determine who set the trap that killed Kaito.
- My Greatest Failure:
- Sayaka deeply regrets betraying Makoto. She wants to get out of the killing game alive and find Makoto to apologize to him.
- Mondo is ashamed of himself for killing Chihiro in a fit of rage. As a result, he plays more of a mediating role.
- Named by the Adaptation: The Ultimate Imposter is given an actual name: Shinji Henso.
- Plot Parallel:
- The first murder scene reminds Sayaka of how she died during her original game.
- Similarly, the second murder of this game hearkens back to the first murder of V3. Specifically, an innocent person winds up being executed — only this time, the students are fully aware that it's a Miscarriage of Justice, and Rantarou is the culprit rather than the victim.
- Race Against the Clock: Invoked by Monokuma, who abruptly declares in the middle of the second trial that they've only got ten minutes left to come to a conclusion about who's responsible.
- Selective Enforcement: Deliberately practiced by Monokuma in order to upset the students. For instance, he refuses to punish Rantaro for setting the trap that got Kaito killed and Nekomaru executed, yet drags Ibuki off to be lobotomized for a much lesser offense that had happened weeks before.
- Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: Tsumugi uses her cosplay skills to try and guilt the others into not voting for her at the end of the first trial, taking on the likenesses of Fuyuhiko (for Peko), Sonia (for Gundham), Shuichi (for Kaito and Kaede), Himiko (for Tenko), Makoto (for Sayaka) and Hajime (for Chiaki). It almost works, but Chiaki sees through it instantly and snaps everyone else out of it by throwing her shoe at her.
- Silent Treatment: After the second execution, the remaining students pointedly refuse to scream and freak out, knowing that's just what Monokuma wants to see. After a few moments, they file over to the elevator, leaving Monokuma yelling after them.
- Tempting Fate: During Chapter 3, Ibuki reassures everyone that she's not worried about Monokuma punishing her over destroying her guitar, as she figures she can handle having her head shaved like Leon. Then Monokuma declares she'll face a much more severe punishment, since the guitar was more expensive than what Leon broke.
- Trauma Button:
- Kaede panics when a hanging doll depicting her death pops up from her new piano. Even after she tossed the doll away, just looking at the piano brings her back that memory of her death.
- The dormitory bathrooms makes Sayaka uncomfortable, as that's exactly where she spent the last moments of her previous life.
- Tyrant Takes the Helm: Chapter 3 sees Angie attempting to do this, even going so far as to get Ibuki lobotomized as part of their scheme. But she's outmaneuvered by Celeste, who throws Angie into one of the cells she was using to punish dissidents and starts ruling over the survivors as "Queen Celeste".
- Villainous Breakdown: In Chapter 3, Angie goes full A God Am I after Miu shows the other students security footage of her speaking with Monokuma, revealing she was the one who got Ibuki lobotomized.
- Wham Line:
- During the first trial, Tsumugi tries to argue that the whole thing is fictional by revealing that she knows everything about everyone in the killing game. It gets to everyone except Rantaro, who simply challenges her to reveal the name of his youngest sister. Tsumugi dismisses this as irrelevant information that even Rantaro himself probably doesn't know... to which Rantaro responds with this:Rantaro: Her name is Oribu.
- The final line of "Queen of the Castle" is Sayaka telling Miu that "We need to kill Celeste".
- During the first trial, Tsumugi tries to argue that the whole thing is fictional by revealing that she knows everything about everyone in the killing game. It gets to everyone except Rantaro, who simply challenges her to reveal the name of his youngest sister. Tsumugi dismisses this as irrelevant information that even Rantaro himself probably doesn't know... to which Rantaro responds with this:
- Wham Shot: During the denouncement of Chapter 2, Rantaro pulls a spare shotgun shell out of his pocket, revealing him as the one responsible for Kaito's death.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are:
- Sayaka has immense guilt over kicking off the killing game she was in, but Mondo assures her that, since she didn't know about the class trials or the executions when she died, she's hardly the guiltiest person in this killing game.
- Sayaka feels guilty over sentencing Tsumugi to death, feeling like that could've been her if she had successfully killed Leon in her past life. Tenko states that, if it weren't for her realizing that Tsumugi and Junko had swapped places, no one would have been able to solve the crime.
- Similarly, most of the other survivors reassure Sayaka and Ibuki that they aren't to blame for Nekomaru being convicted during the second trial.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: In Part 17 of Chapter 3, most of the survivors shout "OH, COME ON!" upon learning that they're being forced to redecorate everything to suit Celeste's personal aesthetical tastes.
