Fanfic / Mirai SMP

Due to the nature of this work focusing entirely around major character death, all spoilers will be unmarked. You Have Been Warned.

"The winner... will become God."

Mirai SMP is a SMPLive fanfiction written by xYouly on Wattpad and Archive of Our Own. It follows the mechanics of Future Diary.

Fifteen young men are brought into a Deadly Game by God where only one can make it out alive, with the winner becoming the new God of the world. Each player is equipped with a "diary", a smartphone which can tell the user information about their future, with each being personalized to the person who holds it.

Mirai SMP follows Technoblade, the first diary holder, as he tries just to survive as long as he can in this messed-up game he's found himself in, making friends, enemies, and everything inbetween along the way.

The fic began on November 23, 2019, and completed on December 20, 2020. It can be read on Wattpad here, or on AO3 here. The fic also has an unfinished prequel titled Against God, which focuses on a different group of MCYT creators.

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Mirai SMP contains examples of:

Tropes A-M

• Abandoned Hospital: Techno, Cooper and Travis visit an abandoned hospital early on while hunting supplies.
• Accidental Murder: The arrival of Sneeg scares Techno so badly that his instincts kick in and he stabs Poke, killing him. He's horrified by this.

• All Deaths Final: It is specifically noted that not even God can revive the dead, though this is not entirely true — as one randomly-selected player in the game will be able to unlock the ability to resurrect another player.
• And Now for Someone Completely Different: POV changes are common, but Ryan's first chapter is a shock due to how late it occurs.
• Anyone Can Die: Given the setup for the plot revolves around a Deadly Game, it only makes sense that this would be the case. This is hammered in pretty early on when Cooper is killed by an explosive trap set by Taylor and Jordan in their garage, after several chapters of us seeing him, Travis and Techno bond, drilling it into the reader early into the story that not even the characters that get significant development are safe from suddenly meeting their demise.
• Arc Words: "Always stick together" is a major example during the earlier chapters — it's a message that Techno, Cooper and Travis receive on their phones, and Cooper doesn't listen to, leading to his demise. These three words nag at Techno for a long while after this.
• Armor-Piercing Question: After Cooper's death, Techno refuses to check his phone out of fear. He is taken aback when Connor asks him:
  Connor: Is it because you think your friends died?
• Ascended Extra: For the first half of the fic, Ryan seems to be a largely unimportant character who rarely comes up. That is, until we are suddenly thrust into his perspective and he becomes a major character in the plot.
• Back for the Dead: Cooper gets revived... Only to die again quickly after when he gets into an argument with Schlatt.
• Back from the Dead: Travis unlocks the ability to revive a fallen player upon his death, which he uses on Cooper, despite his protests.
• Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: In the parking garage, when Techno hears a gunshot go off, he initially assumes that Jordan must have shot at him, until he sees that Taylor is bleeding, and then notices that the shot came from the Nervous Wreck cutie Travis.
• "Be Quiet!" Nudge: A slap, but regardless, Cooper has a physical reaction when Travis is being too loud while they're hiding from Techno.
• Bloody Horror: Gratuitous amounts of blood are present in the hospital near the start.
• Bludgeoned to Death: Wilbur kills Jordan by bashing his head in with his guitar.
• Bullying a Dragon: Schlatt has the audacity to call God a "dumbass" in Chapter 2.
• Characters Dropping Like Flies: Constantly, given the fic runs on a Deadly Game premise.
• Chekhov's Gag: Cooper's inability to swim doesn't seem like anything more than a funny line or endearing quirk. That is, until after he's Back from the Dead, and pushes Schlatt overboard while they work on a boat they found... and is grabbed and pulled down underwater with him.
• Corpse Land: It is revealed at the end that the hospital Techno explored at the start is full of the dead bodies of the diary holders from all the previous resets during God's attempt to make Techno win.
• Crapsack World: You're in a game where it is almost guaranteed that you're gonna die, and probably brutally, too. You get to bear witness to everyone you care about dying one by one. And all this is for the game of a sick God.
• Darker and Edgier: SMPLive is mostly comedic. While Mirai SMP has its moments, its plot is primarily Played for Drama and Horror.
• Deadly Game: The Mirai SMP game has the diary holders competing for godhood, with the only way of being eliminated being death.
• Death-Activated Superpower:
  • Inverted with each diary holder's special ability, which is unlocked upon them killing someone.
  • Played straight with Travis's resurrection ability, which is unlocked upon his own death.
• Demonic Possession: Near the end of the fic, Travis is able to deduce that Joko is being possessed by some kind of outside entity, which turns out to be one of God's assistant demons, Yetz.
• Diving Save: Joko saves Travis from the garage explosion by grabbing him with a flame retardant blanket and pulling him out of the way in time.
• Dwindling Party: The players are slowly killed off one by one.
• Dysfunction Junction: Nearly all the characters have their own issues or baggage, and the ones who don't already from the start definitely do by the end.
• Fusion Fic: The fic places SMPLive characters in Future Diary.
• Godhood Seeker: All of the diary holders are competing for the opportunity to become the new God. Some want it stronger than others.
• Go Through Me: Cooper is standing in front of Travis protectively when Techno finds them hiding.
  Hiding in the corner of the area beside a tree stump are two boys - one behind it, and the other in a protective stance in front of him.
• Holographic Terminal: In Chapter 2, God summons a giant holographic screen to introduce the players.
• Improbable Age: While most of the characters fall into "hard to believe they're teenagers", a couple stand out in particular:
  • Joko, despite being 18, is a police officer for the FBI.
  • Sneeg is a professional gambler despite only being 17 years old.
• Improbable Infant Survival: Not literally. Techno almost doesn't believe it when he learns Travis is still alive, due to how naïve and weak he is. This is directly lampshaded:
  Though, the diary doesn't lie; if he had died, the phone would have said so. But what were the odds of a child-like boy like Travis surviving an explosion? It was gravely slim - no, almost impossible. It doesn't make any sense.
• Insistent Terminology: Schlatt is very offended by God's initial introduction of him as a scammer.
  Schlatt: There is an incredible difference between scamming people and selling taxed goods and services at a supplier's level of profitable price! I'm receiving tax revenue higher than total loss of surplus, not 'scamming'.
• In the Dreaming Stage of Grief: Techno's first reaction to learning about the Mirai SMP game is that it has to be a dream.
  This is all a dream. Right? It has to be a dream. It has to be. This can't be real. None of this can be real.
• Involuntary Battle to the Death: The entire plot is based around this trope, as only one character can live to the end.

Tropes N-Z

• Never Found the Body: A non-traditional example happens when Techno finally checks his phone's messages after Cooper and Travis's apparent demise. He sees the expected death message for Cooper... But not for Travis.
• Never Split the Party: Subverted and then painfully deconstructed with Techno, Cooper and Travis in the beginning of the story. Their diaries urge them to stick together, which they do try to do... Except Cooper, who insists they go down a dangerous path and runs off before Techno can stop him. Techno gets an alert that Cooper will die if he opens the door that Taylor and Jordan have set a trap up in... And he's unable to stop him due to being separated from him.
• Odd Friendship: The nervous and naïve Travis has one with the trained killer Joko, though calling it a friendship might be a bit of a stretch — it's more of an odd alliance if anything. This is lampshaded:
  During the timespan of the explosion and now, Travis has found an unlikely ally.
• Personality Powers:
  • Each diary tells the user's fate in a form that is personalized to their life.
  • The ability that players unlock upon killing someone is also based on a characteristic of themselves.
• Rapid-Fire Descriptors: Schlatt's insult towards God in Chapter 2:
  Schlatt: ...you useless uneducated piece of shadowy-demon lying motherfucking shit!
• Reality-Writing Book: It turns out that the diaries don't just interpret someone's future — they are their future, and that breaking someone's diary will cause them to stop existing.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Techno initially assumes Travis died along with Cooper, but doesn't check his diary. When he does, he sees that Travis's death message isn't there.
• Russian Roulette: Connor suggests this when he, Schlatt and Techno are considering what will happen when they're the final three.
  Connor: I thought about that for a while, and.. I think our best option would be russian roulette.
• Scry vs. Scry: The plot revolves around people with smartphones that can tell their future fighting each other to the death as they use these abilities to outsmart each other.
• Soul Jar: The diaries qualify as type 1a — breaking a diary holder's phone will kill them.
• Super Drowning Skills: Cooper and Travis are noted to not be able to swim, which is bad, given Travis accidentally drops their guns in a lake.
• Supernatural Phone: The players' diaries take the form of smartphones that send them messages when in danger or nearby another player.
• Symbolic Mutilation: Schlatt gives up his leg for a hang-glider — as in the phrase "paid an arm and a leg" taken literally.
• Taking the Bullet: When Yetz (in control of Joko's body) shoots Techno near the end, he's saved by Travis getting in front of him. The unfairness of Travis's death is what causes him to unlock revival.
• Teens Are Monsters: The entire story is focused on a group of teenagers locked in a Deadly Game as it slowly corrupts their minds and drives them to do things they wouldn't otherwise.
• There Are No Adults: While a few of the diary holders are technically adults at eighteen or nineteen, every one of them is a teenager.
• There Can Only Be One: Only one person can make it to the end and become the new God.
• Unwanted Revival: After Travis unlocks the ability of resurrection, he's given the choice to use it on himself or anyone else. He glances around the room of the dead before his eyes land on Cooper, who instantly begins to protest.
  Oh, no. Don't. Don't do it.
  Travis starts toward the bridge leading to Cooper.
  "Travis, no!" Cooper argues quickly, "revive yourself! Drop the staff!"
• Villain Has a Point: When Joko points out that he was able to protect Travis when Techno wasn't, Techno realizes that he's right.
  Techno stops, and is left speechless at this.
  He's... Right.
• Walking Spoiler: Talking about anything Travis does following the explosion is a major spoiler, since the reader is supposed to believe he died.
• Will Talk for a Price: Connor tells Techno that Schlatt's diary can give him any information he wants, including where to find Travis, and he offers their assistance... On the condition that Techno help them acquire guns.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: In Chapter 4, Techno hides from Poke behind some boxes, hoping he'll just leave like a horror movie bad guy. He's immediately proven wrong when Poke points out how dumb of a hiding spot it is.
  Still grasping onto the hopes that maybe he read his diary wrong, and he'd actually walk away, just like those villains in the horror movies would do, Techno doesn't say a word. He refuses to give up his hiding spot.
• You Are Number 6: Every diary holder is assigned a number. This is somewhat downplayed as the characters are introduced by name, but others forget quickly until reintroduced and refer to each other by number often anyways.
• You Keep Using That Word: Techno falls into this in Chapter 4 when Poke calls him a hitman:
  Poke: You chose the wrong day to be a hitman, buddy.
  Techno: Well, hitman's assistant, techni—
• You're Insane!: Cooper has this reaction to Techno suggesting they jump out the window to escape the building they're in.
  Cooper: Are you fucking crazy, pig boy? We'd break our legs if we jumped out!

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DEAD END.

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