Danganronpa: Hope Noir

***Danganronpa: Hope Noir***is a fictional story created by LoneWandererFrom, the first installment in The Luminary Trilogy.

*Hope Noir* tells us about a class of sixteen students from many different countries in Europe, closed within the walls of Hope's Peak European Boarding School (HPEBS), forced to play a killing game organized and led by Monokuma, a sadistic and eccentric robot resembling a creepy teddie bear.

Although it takes a big chunk of classic Danganronpa stories (isolated location, sixteen students, Monokuma, and "Hope VS Despair" type of story), it takes a few fresh looks on the concept, especially not by focusing on "Hope VS Despair" conflict between several characters, like in other creations, but more on this conflict within the protagonist's inner self, and adding new plot elements, like The Mastermind's Challenge.

The story introduces previously mentioned HPEBS, one of several foreign schools created by Hope's Peak Academy as a part of the Ultimate Talent Promotion Program. The program is about, as the name suggests, promoting the concept of an Ultimate student in the world, counting for financial help in building different official Hope's Peak schools. This led to using old schools in the world as Hope's Peak Boarding Schools, a few for every large region on the Earth. To each of them, there have been chosen Ultimate-level students from the region, divided into classes. Hope's Peak Academy provided every financial support possible, in case if chosen students were in poor material condition. The students weren't some random students, they were all carefully picked as the best in their category and given an Ultimate title. Our story revolves around HPEBS Class A, specifically a certain student: Arthur Pohl.

## Development

Author dragged into the world of Danganronpa in March 2020 by his friend, quickly fell in love with the concepts of Ultimate students and killing games. As he was already a wannabe-writer and author of several other fanfics (mostly from *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* and *Fallout*), he decided to create his own story set in Hope's Peak Series of Danganronpa. Began planning a story and writing it down on this Wiki, as it was easier for him to note such things on Wikis, with possible contact with other creators. The first chapters will begin to come out on Wattpad as soon, as everything will be done.

## Summary

One day a successful teenage German writer - Arthur Pohl - receives a letter from a world-popular high school in Japan, Hope's Peak Academy. The letter says a boarding school will be opened in Garmish-Partenkirchen and that Arthur has been chosen to attend it, signed in as the Ultimate Crime Fiction Writer. Arthur gladly accepts this offer and as the new school year begins, he lands in a bus driving him and other Ultimate students from all the Europe to HPEBS. After accidentally falling asleep in the bus, he wakes up in a class. Is he already in the school? Who brought him there? Why are all the other students in the same situation? Where are the teachers? And why is that creepy teddie bear telling the students to kill each other?

## Cast

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Arthur is rather confident about himself and his skills, although he is a very static person who prefers doing things at home rather than outside, and sport only a few times a week for better health. That contradicts with his general liking of very loud and energetic people and gives him a dominating feeling that he's boring. He also isn't good with seeing dead bodies, and while he can do it, his mentals aren't great with it.
Arthur has an imaginary friend, a personification of his own logical side and a person Arthur would like to be - an optimistic, sharp-minded, and witty teenage detective, Gerard Fuchs, main protagonist of Pohl's book series, where he solves crimes in Breslau in 1920. Except for imaginary, he also has a few real friends, specifically his besties Alfred and Klaudia, and later also Gabrielle and Brenda.

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Gerard is 16-years old detective in Breslau, Germany, in 1920, solving many bloody cases long before the police does. He's very optimistic and confident, never bores anyone and makes a lot of friends. His sharp mind is often helping Arthur use his own (as they're literally the same) during investigations and Class Trials.
He lost his right eye in a fight with his first criminal, that's why he wears an eyepatch.

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Cat genuinely hates this title and prefers to be referred to as the Ultimate Robotics Engineer, but no one particularly cares. Also, due to her title and cold personality, she is often distrusted by others. Due to her past with James, the distrust is mutual, excluding Klaudia and Alfred. Because of certain reasons she holds a specific grudge towards Arthur and the students are rivaling.

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He changes the color of his sweater every day.

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