Danganronpa: Twisted Tragedy

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**Danganronpa: Twisted Tragedy** is the sequel to Danganronpa: Corrupted Hope and the second installment of the Corrupted Hope series. It is the second SYOC written by SilverMark16. It was first published on December 29, 2023.

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## Synopsis

*"Eighteen of Hope's Peak's finest awake to find themselves stuck in an abandoned theme park, Piero's Playground, the joyous place in the world! However, behind the smiles and laughs is a deadly game of tears and tragedy starring a Killing Game hosted by the eccentric Stanczyk and his twisted partner, Monoyena."*

## Plot Summary

### Prologue: A World of Laughs and Tears

The first update of the story features a brief blurb of "The Erl-King", a poem where a boy is killed by a sinister elf due to his father's disregard for the child's fear. After the blurb, the story opens with a ten-year-old boy, Nicky, walking to school alone for the first time. He expresses excitement to be independent from his mothers embarrassing behavior until an ice cream truck almost runs him over. Driving the truck is a man wearing a mask with two X's over its eyes, a nice big smile, a golden crown, and a purple cape. The man, wanting to express his apologies for the incident, offers free ice cream for the child. Nick is taken in by this and is presumably kidnapped by the masked man.
After the event we cut to a showcase of Hope's Peak Toronto where **Alvin Tetch**, a former talent scout and the viewer character for the prologue, is awaiting an interview with the headmistress Mabel Leve. He's anxious due to his perfectionist nature, but is reassured by Mable Leve noting his early attendance which is a quality she sees helping with his potential promotion. During their talk, she goes over his ten year service as a talent scout, and congratulates him for becoming an official teacher for Hope's Peak Toronto.
As a teacher for Class 1-C, he'll be helping them with a new program, the **New Life Program,** which Alvin describes as "*a second chance for Ultimates that feel like they need a new fresh start*". Mabel briefly tested Alvin on that info before accepting him as the teacher and taking him to meet the students. Only 4 were present in the class at first as it's explained one of the girls was taken to the infirmary for being to pale. The four students introduced are as follows: the cheerful **Alina Summers**, the polite yet kooky **Kazuki Nobukatsu**, the mysterious **Fábio Barbosa**, and the nervous wreck **Daisuke Kido**. Later the somewhat deranged and cold **Riku Arakawa** is brought in by Mabel. Alvin notes most of them are rather strange, scary (in Riku's case) or hesitant to open up, and he vows to rekindle hope in each of them.
When going to the infirmary to find the other students, Alvin and Mabel come across the dramatic **Manon Vivienne Levesque** attracting other boys on the floor due to her being an actress. She's told to go back to class after her antics and fake crying to Alvin. Mabel has to leave to take a call, which had been happening... A LOT... which leaves Alvin to meet the normal looking **Issac Santiago** who reveals he's actually not so normal by talking to a toy caterpillar named **Isolde**. Issac reveals four students are in the infirmary, which Alvin goes to investigate.
**Prologue (2)**
Inside the infirmary were indeed four students. The four being the energetic jock **Aidan Brighton**, the meticulous timekeeper **Alisa Zachary***,* the fastest draw in the North, South, East, and West **Yumi Gundo***,* and the motherly babysitter **Yukihiko Yuno**. Alisa was the one taken to the infirmary for appearing to pale. After checking in on the students, Alvin is pulled out by Mabel to handle a problem on the first floor. The problem being... **Hope Thornton**, who Mabel leaves Alvin to deal with. Hope had gathered a bunch of desk together with a megaphone and was shouting alien warnings to the other students.
After Alvin dealt with the situation, he met three other students watching the commotion. The students in question were the loopy butterfly scientist **Emmeline Swan***,* the composed and serene **Kikuko Unmei**, and the sea faring superstitious mess that was **Roderick Cutler**. Once they all got back to their classrooms, Mabel helped Alvin locate the last two students in the campus courtyard. That being the illusively devilish **Beauté Morose** with her secret talent, and the quiet karate legend **Marabel Garcia** who supposedly killed her own mother.
After all the intros are done, Alvin confides with Mabel about his doubts with handling the students of Class 1-C. Mabel reassures Alvin that he's the man for the job, which gives him the confidence needed to take charge of attendance back in his classroom. However, after remembering a comment Mabel made about there being an "even" number of students and noticing there were an odd number present, he tried to leave the classroom to get answers, only to realize the door was locked. The entire classroom is then filled with sleeping gas and everyone passes out.
The second part of the prologue ends with Mabel in her office, a serious look on her face as she watches a white truck drive off her campus, presumably with all of Class 1-C inside. She finishes up a phone call with someone, remembering Alvin's final words to her, and then turns away.
**Prologue (3)**
The next update of the story shows an advertisement interrupting an episode of Stanczyk Says promoting a new theme park called Piero's Playground. Stanczyk personally invites anyone watching to the Grand Opening of the park, promising thrilling rides, delicious foods, and exciting live entertainment. All of that wrapped up in a nice bow including Meet and Greet photo-op with Stanczyk himself.
The advertisement shows the theme park is set to open in summer and is sponsored by the Towa Group.
Just as the advertisement is wrapping up Stanczyk slowly grows more sinister saying his signature catchphrase "Best Friends to the End" before the entire broadcast goes static.
The chapter then shifts to Alvin and Class 1-C waking up strapped in ride harnesses and metal collars. They are introduced by the vulgar and violent Monoyena, who claims there are to many people in the group to continue to the killing game. He forces the group to play a game, the **Minigame: Hot Potato**, where over the course of ten minutes, players pass or keep the hot potato to choose who is incinerated amongst them.
The first pass starts with Marabel, who gives it to Daisuke, who gives it to Riku, who gives Beauté. Once Beauté realizes the intention of the game is to sacrifice someone, she suggest someone volunteer before passing it to Yumi. Alina and Kazuki offer to be sacrifices, so Yumi picks Alina. Alina gets cold feet and in a panic chooses Manon. Kazuki convinces Manon to give him the potato, which makes Alvin try and talk Kazuki out of the deed. Alvin eventually does and ends up with the potato as the ninth pass, but at the last second he passes the potato to Hope.
**Hope Thornton is the first to die** in Class 1-C and is burned alive.
Afterward Monoyena realizes he forgot the rule that "no old timer's" are allowed in Pierro's Playground.
**Alvin Tetch is the second to die** in Class 1-C and is also burned alive.
With Hope and Alvin dead the group panic before the room they are starts to drop from the sky. It turns out the room belongs to a beta ride drop tower just outside Pierro's Playground. The group leave the ride to find three notable locations. A hotel called "Hotel Mirai", a sandy shore in the distance, and the entrance to Pierro's Playground.
Stancyzk reveals himself and is very happy he has new friends to play with after his TV show got cancelled. The group are disturbed by his childish yet sinister antics, and are equally freaked out when Monoyena comes in and starts insulting Stancyzk. Aidan tries to attack Monoyena but is easily overpowered and almost killed by Monoyena who decides to let him go. Afterward, Stancyzk and Monoyena explain the killing game and how Pierro's Playground is a "killing zone" while outside of it is a "safe zone".
When Riku and Beauté speak out on the loophole of the rule, saying they could all just stay in the safe zone and never kill, Stanczyk reveals there's a kidnapped child in the park, that child being Nick at the start of the story, and to save him they have to venture into the "killing zone". Stanczyk claims this killing game is about "**just how much of your happiness are you will to put a smile on a litte boy’s face…?**"
When Stancyzk and Monoyena leave, Beauté expresses her excitement for the killing game while others contemplate what they must do for the kidnapped child.
The prologue ends with Nick alone in a room with toys and a TV replaying Stanczyk Says. He misses his mom, but then a voice reveals itself to comfort Nick by saying they are just like him.
**End Of Prologue**

## Killing Game

### Death Order

 Prologue:
burnt alive in incinerator after failing the Minigame: Hot Potato
&
**Alvin Tetch** burnt alive in incinerator due to Piero's Playground rules.
executed
 Chapter 1: ???
 Chapter 2: ???
 Chapter 3: ???
 Chapter 4: ???
 Chapter 5: ???
 Chapter 6: ???

## Art Gallery

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