Dangan Ronpa: The Courage of Hope and The Strength of Despair
is a currently ongoing spin-off fanfic of Danganronpa written by Adzan and set just before the the beginning of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, wherein a new set of characters, dubbed the 79th Class of Hope's Peak Academy, must participate in an all new mutual killing event, led by an anonymous mastermind.
Yuuta Hirota, a skilled young marksman, finds himself drifting unconscious after opening a letter addressed to him by Hope's Peak Academy. He wakes up in a abandoned classroom which he recognizes as Hope's Peak Academy due to the school's emblem being pasted everywhere. By opening the only door inside the classroom, he collided into an new ally. Literally.
After joining up and meeting his numerous fellow classmates, he along with them are forced by Monokuma to kill one another in a glorified battle royale against their will. And when the first signs of tension start show themselves, Yuuta finds himself within the crossfire.
So, how strong is the power of your hope?
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Tropes contained in Dangan Ronpa: The Courage of Hope and The Strength of Despair:
- Accidental Murder: The first trial was still held despite this unfortunate turn of events.
- Anyone Can Die: If you didn't expect to see this trope here, then shame on you..
- Arc Words: Despair, as Monokuma's goal, is mentioned many times through the game, and to a lesser extent hope.
- Big Bad: Monokuma, just like in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and its sequel Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
- Big Brother Is Watching: Monokuma can even teleport for crying out loud.
- Body of the Week: This a mystery horror fanfic after all.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Monokuma constantly does this.
- Cliffhanger: Happens in every chapter.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: The executions are graphically written.
- Deadly Game
- Despair Event Horizon: Monokuma's stated objective is to bring despair. If the students don't start killing each soon, he sure as heck has the resources to make them think otherwise.
- Diabolical Mastermind: But not in the usual way it's portrayed in the trope, this mastermind is insane, and hogs the spotlight for the entirety of Chapter 1, oh and topped with boisterous laugh to boot.
- Dwindling Party
- Easter Egg: There are a lot of them too.
- In chapter 1, it's implied that Izuru Kamukura was the one that knocked out the mastermind. Considering the timeline of this fanfic, it wouldn't be too strange if it was the case.
- In chapter 2, Yuuta references Chihiro, the SHSL Programmer and Leon, the SHSL Baseball Player.
- In the same chapter as above, Akiko made a reference to Sayaka, the SHSL Idol.
- In chapter 3, Monokuma references the trope Laser-Guided Amnesia
- Elaborate University High: Implied with regards to the Academy.
- Foreshadowing: The letter near the beginning of chapter 2.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble
- Gilded Cage: The renovated Hope's Peak academy.
- Hand Wave: Yet again Monokuma leaves out how the students lost their memories.
- Involuntary Battle to the Death:
- Ironic Echo:
- In chapter 4, Seijun gets shot back with his own passive-aggressive quip at Yevan, made in the previous chapter, by Yevan herself.
- In chapter 5, Kotone's dialogue upon finding out about the class trials and their implications of an execution is reminisce of Hibiki's own comment from Chapter 3.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: All the students had their memories of just after they received a letter from Hope's Peak Academy, to set it up so that it looked like they had never come to the school before.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall Leaning On The Fourth Wall]]: Monokuma does this a lot, but he isn't the only one.
- Limited Wardrobe:
- Despite being locked up in a boarding school for at least a long time, none of the students even bothered change their clothes.
- Downplayed, in chapter 3 where Monokuma states that the school had prepared multiple copies of the same outfit prepared for everyone.
- Ontological Mystery: None of the characters have any idea how the school was locked down.
- Sadistic Choice: Kill one of your classmates, or spend the rest of your life in captivity - and when it comes down to the trial, fess up and receive a gruesome punishment, or escape with the blood of everyone else on your hands.
- Ship Tease: Yuuta and Megumi fall in this one, a lot.
- As of Chapter 4, Kenta and Kotone.
- As of Chapter 5, Yevan and Makoto.
- Shout-Out:
- Chapter 2.Kenta: Yeah, yeah. I get it. Social link activate.
- Chapter 5.Monokuma: Hold your horses there, Phoenix Wrong.
- Chapter 6.*Probably Monokuma*: You're gonna have to swipe at it like in one of those mobile games, Mad Avains was it?
- During the post-intermission drabble by Monokuma in the same chapter, he mentions Morphogenetic Field Theory followed by the surprised expression Jumping Jellybeans!, alluding to the main character's nickname
- Chapter 2.
- Ten Little Murder Victims
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The executions are pretty much the embodiment of this trope, if the graphic writing didn't clue you in.
- Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Subverted, it looked like it went well for Yevan and Tetsu... But then stuff happened, guess you didn't think that completely through didn't you?
- Win Your Freedom: The ultimate goal of the mutual killing event.
- You Wake Up in a Room: The start of Chapter 2
