Catching the Convict is a Henry Stickmin Series fanfic by IAmHoussem17 on Archive of Our Own.
The fic is written in an Interactive Fiction style where readers get to choose their own adventure and dictate the choices and different outcomes. In this one, you have to aid the Wall's warden Dmitri Johannes Petrov at capturing the infamous Henry Stickmin after his escape from The Wall.
Catching the Convict provides examples of the following tropes:
- Adaptational Protagonist: Dmitri is the "playable" character instead of Henry.
- Big Bad: Henry Stickmin, as Dmitri's goal is to take him down.
- Driven to Suicide: You can have Dmitri give up right away and try to kill himself at the beginning. He fails due to the cartoon physics of the world.
- Honor Among Thieves: You can choose to interrogate Ellie about Henry's escape. She doesn't cooperate, and even the fail quote lampshades it by name-dropping this trope.
- Multiple Endings: Just like Complex, it has five, each named after a trope:
- "Taking You with Me": Dmitri manages to kill Henry, but dies shortly after due to sustaining serious injury.
- "Bash Brothers": Dmitri teams up with his right hand man Grigori and they successfully beat Henry and imprison him. This leads to boosting the career of the two.
