Roleplay / Class Trials CT 17

A Trial Series from the r/Danganroleplay Subreddit which began with the murder of Yasuhiro Hagakure. Began in Season 2. Notable for featuring various Zero Escape themes and references throughout. Currently consists of four trials, with a 5th and final trial planned.

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General Tropes for the Series

• Cross Over Ship: Hiyoko and Leon get extremely close in this series, with strong romantic implications.
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Hiyoko goes through a growth spurt in the timeskip between the first and second trials of the series.
• Shout-Out: This trial series features tons of references to the Zero Escape franchise, as Zero Time Dilemma was released shortly before the trial began.

Class Trial 17

Yasuhiro Hagakure is found dead in the Hope's Peak Academy infirmary.

Tropes for the Original Class Trial

• Accidental Murder: Mikan poisons Twogami mid-trial in order to test whether rigour mortis would affect somebody under the poison's influence, intending to give him the antidote. She fails to cure it in time and Twogami dies.
  • Notably, this is an example for both Mikan and her Roleplayer, as Twogami wasn't planned to die and was declared dead by the host as the consequence of doing something so dangerous.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: Hagakure's death isn't exactly met with much angst in or out of character.
• Butt-Monkey: Hiyoko takes up this role as she spends a huge chunk of the trial locked up in a crate.
• The Dog Bites Back: After initially trying to get Mukuro to let Hiyoko out of the crate, a few unwarranted insults led Mikan to demand that Hiyoko be left in.
• Due to the Dead: After Twogami dies, Nagito encourages Mukuro to shove his body into a crate to prevent him from smelling. She ends up having to cut him into pieces in order to make him fit into any of her crates, with Nagito supplying a knife to do so. Nobody else even bothers to react to this.
• Face Death with Dignity:
  • Mikan accepts her impending execution for accidentally killing Twogami without much fuss.
  • After finally being voted as Hagakure's killer, Celeste goes out with the same dignity that she did in the original game.
• Frame-Up: Celeste plants a note under Nagito's door to frame him for helping Mukuro murder Hagakure.
• Monty Hall Problem: Mikan and Celeste are forced to compete in an inverted Monty Hall game, where only one option is deadly. Both end up dead too, with Celeste deciding to switch boxes without realizing the problem and Mikan simply having been unlucky enough to have picked the deadly box to begin with.
• Never Suicide: Celeste tries to claim that she saw Hiro accidentally commit suicide. Nobody believes her.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Mukuro leaves her room and weapon stash unlocked.
• Not Me This Time: Nagito is left alone with the body for fifteen minutes, but turns out to have left the scene exactly as he found it.
• Refuge in Audacity: On two different occasions, Nagito pulls out kitchen knives from his coat, one of which has been stained with blood. Nobody even bothers to question it.
• Sadistic Choice: Once Mikan accidentally kills Twogami during the trial, Monokuma adjusts the rules to allow the class to sacrifice themselves to prevent yet another death for her by making voting for Twogami's murderer a win condition as well as voting for Hagakure's. Everyone votes for Mikan anyway.
• Saying Too Much: While denouncing everybody over the idiocy of poisoning Twogami, Celeste accidentally lets it slip that she was the one who planted the knife in his hands.
• Senseless Sacrifice: Mikan injects Twogami with a deadly muscle relaxant in order to test whether he'd be able to grip a weapon. She's unable to administer the antidote in time and Nagito is quick to point out that the information is relatively minor and could've easily been gotten by simply asking Monokuma.
• Too Stupid To Live: Chiaki and Mikan come up with a plan to test a deadly muscle relaxant on a classmate to see whether clutching the knife is necessary, with Twogami volunteering for the job. Twogami dies before he can receive the antidote, leaving the rest of the class shocked at what they'd done.

Class Trial 17-2

Months after Hagakure's murder, various poisons and drugs are added to the Nurse's Office and the Chem Lab, with an automated security system tracking all who enter. Nevertheless, Chiaki is found dead in the Chem Lab and Kyoko's body is found in her dorm, injected by an unknown poison.

Tropes for the Second Trial

• Angrish: Nagito is reduced to this when Hajime claims to have received Izuru's Ultimate Hope talents and chosen not to make use of them, with Nagito finding the idea of doing so to be offensive to everything he believes in.
• Back from the Dead: Kyoko joins the courtroom towards the end of the trial, having merely been drugged instead of killed.
• Continuity Nod: Class Trial 5 is subtly called back to when a reference to Junko prompts Leon to declare that he'd kill her to end the game if she showed up and Nagito offers to assist him in that scenario.
• Death Faked for You: In order to frame those the people who entered the Chem Lab as culprits, Mukuro drugs Kyoko and uses a fake Body Discovery Announcement to have her pronounced dead, performing the autopsy herself to convince everybody.
• Detective Mole: The culprit turns out to be Mukuruo, who performed the autopsy that claimed Kyoko to have died of poison
• Early-Bird Cameo: Junko appears at the Trial's conclusion, having decided to witness Mukuro's execution personally.
• Frame-Up: Byakuya is drugged and found in the Chem Lab with Chiaki's dead body.
• I Have Your Wife: Junko admits that she has also abducted the friends of the survivors, specifically name-dropping Makoto, Toko, Sakura, and Mahiru as hostages of hers.
• Informed Ability: Hajime infects himself with a strain of Remembering Disease that is said to restore Izuru Kamakura's talents while letting him remain Hajime Hinata. He shows none of Izuru's abilities.
• Locked Room Mystery: A variation, as Chiaki is killed inside the Chem Lab after security doors that track everybody who enters are installed. Mukuro shoots her from outside the Lab while the doors were still open.
• The Lost Lenore: Chiaki becomes one for Hajime.
• The Mole: Mukuro seems to have been acting as one, having unrepentantly killed Chiaki to please Junko and proving capable of forging Body Discovery Announcements and Monokuma Files for Kyoko's fake death.
• Moral Dilemma: After Junko's sudden appearance, Nagito reminds Leon of a claim that he'd kill her if he ever saw her and tosses him a revolver. With Hiyoko pleading for him not get himself killed for doing it, Leon backs down without knowing that the gun wasn't even loaded to begin with as Nagito hasn't managed to get any ammunition.
• Rage Breaking Point: Nagito reaches his after Hajime reveals that he's received Izuru's talents and decided not to use them. It works to the group's advantage as Nagito suddenly offers up the solution to how Mukuro murdered Kyoko and wraps out the trial out of sheer outrage at Hajime.
• Skewed Priorities: While most of the characters are shocked when Kyoko resurfaces alive, Nagito greets her fairly casually. He only notes sadly that he needs to learn how to check for a pulse better.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: After threats to pelt her rotten classmates with gummmies, Hiyoko lives up to her threat and begins attacking Hajime with thrown gummies. Hajime is unharmed by the soft candies and thanks her for the snack.
• Time Skip: Months have passed in the time since the previous trial, with Hiyoko employing screenshots from Danganronpa 3 as her new sprite set to show off her growth spurt.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Nagito and Fuyhiko note that Mukuro probably could've been more successful if she'd just finished Kyoko off after drugging her, given that she did the autopsy and nobody would've been able to tell the difference.

Class Trial 17-3

In the wake of Chiaki's murder, another murder takes place. This time the victims are Hina and Chihiro, each one found in a different location and killed by a different weapon. What is the connection?

Tropes for the Third Trial

• Brainwashed and Crazy: Hajime turns out to be the murderer, driven to despair by the Remembering Disease that he infected himself with in the previous trial. Notably, he has not become Izuru Kamakura though, acting more like an evil version of himself.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Hifumi becomes convinced that Mukuro's ghost is responsible for the murders, even scattering salt around the real crime scene to stave off her evil spirit.
• Driven to Suicide: Hina's cause of death turns out to be Radical Six, a disease which forces the victim to commit suicide.
• Informed Ability: At the end of the previous trial, Hajime was allowed to keep one talent and chose to be an Ultimate Gamer to honour Chiaki. Hajime never actually gets a chance to play any video games, as a bitter Nagito points out.
• Insane Troll Logic: Kyoko apparently believed that the best way to solve Asahina's murder was to move her body to another room and stage it.
• Locked Room Mystery: Intentionally Averted In-Character. Kyoko found Hina's body in one after what .seemed to be a suicide and, believing it to have been murder, moved the body to an unlocked room so that nobody would realize that Hina had died in a Locked Room.
• The Resenter: Even before Hajime is revealed to be the killer, Nagito shows that he clearly hasn't forgiven him for refusing to use his talents.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: After showing up late to the investigation of the real crime scene during the intermission, Nagito is more curious why salt has been scattered around the room
• What the Hell, Hero?: Kyoko's decision to move Hina's body and stage it prompts a lot of outrage from the cast.

Class Trial 17-4

A sinister broadcast reveals that Monokuma has imprisoned the friends of our Killing Game's remaining survivors in two separate chambers, threatening to douse one chamber with acid. He forces a vote to determine which batch of loved ones will be killed, a vote which ends in a tie and a momentary stay of execution for both groups.

However, Monokuma will only let one group go if the other is killed, resulting in a race against the clock as the players seek to either bring down the Mastermind once and for all or break that tie by committing murder.

In the end, an exploded corpse identified as Nagito Komaeda is found in the Gymnasium. Who killed him and how will his death affect the hostage situation?

Tropes for the Fourth Trial

• Big Bad: The existence of a Mastermind other than Junko is revealed, with Nagito dubbing them "Zero".
• …But He Sounds Handsome: Inverted. Monokuma suddenly becomes very insulting towards Nagito after Nagito takes over the killing game.
• The Con: Byakuya discourages anybody from accessing the Chem Lab poisons by putting a fake eHandbook scanner and claiming that only he has access to it, having Nagito agree ahead of time to pretend that he can't open the door.
• Dead All Along: Junko turns out to have been the corpse that Nagito used to stage his own death.
• Death Is Cheap: Nagito reveals that anybody who dies in this Killing Game has their consciousness sent back in time to the first day of the killing game.
• Despair Event Horizon: Already traumatized by Leon's sudden death mid-trial, Hiyoko crosses this when the trial ends without a mass execution and Nagito points out that Leon's death has broken the tie in a way which condemns Hiyoko's best friend Mahiru to be melted alive by acid.
• "Everybody Dies" Ending: Nagito's goal, wanting to send everybody back in time. He succeeds.
• Exact Words: Nagito attempts this, having the players vote on "Who Killed Nagito Komaeda?" rather than who killed Junko or Leon. In the end, enough of the students see through it and avoid voting for him.
• Faking the Dead: Nagito turns out to be alive and running the trial in secret.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Hifumi has it pointed out during the vote on which group of captives to execute that none of the sixteen hostages are friends with him and that he has no stake in the vote. Hifumi admits that it is true, albeit harsh.
• Gambit Pile Up: Hifumi, Byakuya, Fuyhiko, and Leon all made murder attempts.
• Godzilla Threshold: In order to save the captives, Kyoko recruited Nagito and Komaru for a plan to destroy the Air Purifier and force Junko to come out of hiding to stop her. Since the Air Purifier is actually a time machine, it actually works.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: Nagito reveals that he and the other victims were all trapped in one, repeating the killing game over and over as everybody keeps dying and descending into madness. He returned to this timeline to bring the others into the loop, hoping they'll be enough to help him break it.
• Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Nagito planned on killing the cast in a mass execution, but when they vote correctly, settles for using a bomb instead.
• Heroic BSoD: Hiyoko is catatonic after Mahiru and her group are killed, only returning to normal after they've been sent back in time.
• Impersonation Gambit: Nagito turns out to have hijacked Monokuma and been hosting the trial.
• Left Hanging: Nagito never reveals the details of Junko's murder or the relevance of the evidence tied to it, leaving that as a mystery for the future.
• Out-of-Character Alert: Hiyoko is finally tipped off to the fact that Nagito is controlling Monokuma when Monokuma goes on a rant praising Leon's shining hope and willingness to sacrifice himself for the group.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Nagito uses his knowledge of dying at Leon's hands to set up circumstances so that he'll survive long enough to hijack the Killing Game.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: Nagito suddenly shoots Leon dead upon officially joining the trial.
• Sympathetic Murderer: Leon is almost one, having poisoned Hifumi during an attempt by the later to kill Hiyoko and then deciding to kill Nagito as well to ensure that the tie vote gets broken in a way where the group that includes his cousin, Kanon, and Hiyoko's best friend, Mahiru, are saved. Unbeknownst to him, Nagito managed to get himself an antidote.
• They Know Too Much: After Byakuya's eHandbook was stolen, he planned on murdering somebody and framing the eHandbook thief. He reveals that his plan was to kill Nagito, the only person who knew that the eHandbook scanner was fake
• Time Loop Fatigue: Nagito admits that he's the only one from the time loop he escaped who hasn't succumbed to this by now, as the others have all lost their minds.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: While his plan to kill the entire cast was certainly brutal, Nagito does so in order to send everybody back in time to create a timeline where everybody can escape the killing game.