Recap / How I Met Your Mother (And How I Met Your Father) Love Arc Chapter Thirty-Eight: Class 78th’s Ultimatum!

Love Arc Chapter Thirty-Eight: Class 78th’s Ultimatum!

Original Release: September 5, 2020 (Fanfiction.net), September 6, 2020 (AO3)

Summary

As Class 78th gathers in the Dining Hall, Headmaster Kirigiri announced that the 77th Class and Chisa Yukizome have died and that the outside world is no longer safe. He then gives the surviving students an ultimatum: agree to live inside the school until the Tragedy ends, or risk going outside to be reunited with their loved ones. What will they decide?

Tropes

• Call-Forward: After Makoto encourages everyone to go through with the shelter-in-place plan with a short Rousing Speech, Kyoko notes how he's a natural-born leader and thinks to herself that she could see him running Hope's Peak one day.
• Internal Reveal: All of Class 78 learn of Chisa and Class 77's (supposed) death.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When Kyoko compliments Makoto on being a natural-born leader and he predictably reflects the compliment, she makes it clear how special she thinks he is.
  Kyoko: You’re a natural-born leader, Makoto.
  Makoto: Y…you’re exaggerating…I told you, I’m average, my optimism is the only thing I have going for me…
  Kyoko: I told you before, you’re special, Makoto. And your optimism is exactly what we needed right now. When everyone was unsure about what to do, you reminded them that they were the world’s hope, and you gave them hope for a future when the Tragedy passes. You and you alone got everyone to agree to this plan; if that doesn’t make you a good leader, then I don’t know what does… Is it any wonder why we elected you Class Representative in a landslide?