Murder U is a series of games in The Murderverse, hosted by wingedcatgirl. The series opens with a mysterious glowing pink woman summoning 16 players onto an isolated college campus and ordering them to kill each other if they want to leave.
Unlike most games in the Murderverse, Murder U is built on a model more like Danganronpa than Werewolf (1997) — any player may choose to kill at any time, if they decide it's a good idea.
Installments so far:
- Murder U
(complete) - Murder U Too (complete)
The Murder U series contains examples of:
- Better to Die than Be Killed:
- Attempted by Theodore in Murder U, but defied. He attempts to taser himself to death when he thinks he's caught, just to deny Steybarque the satisfaction of killing him, but the host intervenes to stop him and ensure he gets put on trial.
- Played straight by Ronnie in Murder U Too. After confessing to Rosa's murder and being voted off, Ronnie slits his wrists and jumps off the balcony to his death.
- Blatant Lies: When Yoshiko joins midway through the first game, the headmistress claims the school is "named after corvids" despite the cast being at that very moment investigating Mafuyu's murder.
- Calvinball: The pink host is quite willing to change the rules at any time if it suits her. Shortly before the first game's first trial, she redoes the entire day/night cycle to include a trial phase and redefines a murderer's win condition to account for it.
- Cassandra Truth: Kellensea solves the first case of Murder U Too almost instantly and is extremely willing to make this known, but due to bad first impressions, the other players assume that she's either jumping to conclusions or outright framing the person she's accused. It doesn't help that she found the most damning of the evidence, and all while nobody was around to witness her, making it very easy to assume she was trying a Frame-Up.
- Closed Circle: The premise of the game is that the host has trapped the players in a relatively small area and only by getting away with murder can they escape.
- Disappointed by the Motive: In Murder U Too, after being convicted, the first killer admitted their reason for killing: "Simple. Me wanted cookies." The other guests are appalled that someone would kill for a petty reason like that.
- Invincible Villain:
- The headmistress seems impervious to attacks, allowing Beatrice to swing full-force with her hammer just so everyone can see it passing through with no effect.
- The host of the second game is much crueler but no less showy about it, opting to let Ranma take a swing at him so he can freeze the martial artist in place and punish him for it.
- Loophole Abuse: The rules of the first game contain an intentional loophole, which ends up used in an unintended way. The headmistress deliberately designed the escape mechanism to allow a successful murderer to enable someone else to escape. Ruby Ramirez spots the loophole, then takes it further and uses it to get everyone out, bringing the first game to its end in one fell swoop. The unintended loophole is removed from the second game, and the intended one is made an explicit rule.
- Pass the Popcorn: The first host shows up again towards the end of the second game, just watching and holding a box of popcorn.
- Pun-Based Title: Murder U is indeed supposed to sound like "Murder You". The second installment, Murder U Too, is also a pun, combining "Murder U 2" with "Murder You Too".
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: On Day 3 of the first game, Theodore Sticks was executed for murder via six different methods of death simultaneously.
- Too Dumb to Live: In the second game, after Kai has recovered from being poisoned and Kellensea has admitted to doing it (counting on there being no punishment since Kai survived), Ranma takes out a rag collected during the investigation, covered in what is probably the same poison, and licks it. To nobody's surprise but his own, he collapses swiftly, and only survives because he gets immediate medical attention.Kellensea: Vels, Ranma, you licked the fucking doorknob. You knew it was poison, I had SAID it was poison, I had SPECIFICALLY TOLD you "yeah I poisoned it, Kai's alive though, I owe him blood money for damages" and you went and LICKED THE DOORKNOB COVERED IN INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST SAUCE.
- Wham Line: In the first game: "Everyone, meet me at the front door! That's my plan. When the door opens, we get out together. Hurry!" Ruby Ramirez, the only murderer to escape conviction and earn the ability to escape, plans to use that ability to get everyone out. This marks the beginning of the end of the game's first round.
