Round 2 of We Could Be ran from August 9th, 2020 to September 26th, 2020.
Round 2 ofWe Could Be provides examples of:
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Happens to the entire cast after the final trial, when they break free of the All-Consuming End and gain complete control over the environment within the supercomputer.
- Bittersweet Ending: While the survivors manage to win and the dead are revived, they all learn to their horror that they're actually digital duplicates and have no way to return to their homeworlds and their old lives, and they'd be replacing the real them if they did. Sure, they end up as all-powerful overlords of a digital universe they can shape into whatever world they want, but that still feels like a hollow consolation prize, and the cast is still haunted by the unreality of what they were fighting to go back to.
- Canon Character All Along: The beast in the execution pit, AKA the All-Consuming End, is actually Pac-Man.
- Faux Horrific: Mayhem is horrified when Michael mentions that the Good Place has only frozen yogurt and not ice cream. Turns out that she's right to be, because it actually is the Bad Place.
- Death of a Child: Just like round 1, at least one kid ends up dying in each case.
- Flash Sideways: Occasionally, instead of regaining their lost memories, characters regain what seem to be memories of an alternate timeline with the same cast. It turns out that the game's been repeating for far longer than any of them imagined.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: The climax of the final trial involves doing this to bring all the dead back to themselves, Undertale-style.
- The Mole: Yuri is one to make sure HuBERT doesn't get too friendly with the cast, while Saul is spying on the rest of the cast in general. In one previous timeline, Scott was also a spy for the captors.
- Polyamory: Surolam, Luca, and Yuri form an official triad, with Yuri also having a thing with Niles, who similarly has a thing with Jasper. Surolam herself flirts with HuBERT quite a bit, and also has lovers back home.
- The Power of Love: Invoked by Shiki and Surolam in the confrontation with the Lost Souls to bring their lovers back to themselves.
- Throwing Off the Disability: In the ending, after gaining full control over the supercomputer, Luca fixes his migraines and memory loss issues, though he doesn't regain his old memories. Defied by Surolam, who keeps her blindness and simply gives herself back her transformation powers.
- Time Loop Trap: The final trial reveals that the game has been repeating for much longer than anyone would have imagined, though this is the first time characters have regained memories of previous games.
- Tomato in the Mirror: The final investigation reveals videos of the cast still living their lives in their original worlds. It's then revealed that the entire cast is digital clones of their original versions, stuck in a giant supercomputer. Some people take it better than others.
- Wham Episode: The ultimate, final confrontation/trial could be considered this. Especially since survivors and those dead learn that they're digital copies and afterwards that the universe ended up meshing into a supercomputer, which they now could control like gods. Phew.
- Would Hurt a Child: Yuri is the only culprit who doesn't target a kid for their murder attempt. Niles also doesn't kill a kid, but not for lack of trying-it's only by accident that the trap kills Luca instead of Koutarou. Though there's still a higher kid survival rate than in R1-Shiki and Koutarou both make it to the survivor pool.
