Disappeared



Persona 4, Recycled in Space, with an even more screwed up cast engaged in Teeth-Clenched Teamwork. They fight shadows.

For a broader description, Disappeared! is a Role Playing Game that is played on InsaneJournal. It takes the basic idea behind Persona 4 and makes it much bigger.

It has a wiki at: Sweetcouch.

Disappeared provides examples of the following tropes:

 * Adults Are Useless - Not a single persona-user is older than 18. Guess who are the sole group actually doing anything about the murders and disappearances?
 * Arc Words - "Millennium City", "Disappear", "Paradise".
 * Angrish - Maeko has a tendency to devolve into saying "stupid stupid stupid" and variations of such when angered sufficiently.
 * Beach Episode - It ended in the team fighting Toshimi's Nietzsche Wannabe shadow at the top of a spinning lighthouse.
 * Big Ball of Violence - All Out Attack.
 * Big Damn Heroes - Featured in practically every dungeon.
 * Bland-Name Product - Much more extensive than in Persona 4, with everything from 4chan to the Nippon Ham Fighters, and including TV Tropes itself, getting this treatment.
 * Breaking the Fellowship - The team's meltdown after Kiriko's dungeon, which nearly gets them killed when Maeko's shadow sells them out to the murderous angels.
 * Breather Episode - Essentially everything that isn't the overarching plot, an investigation, or a dungeon.
 * Broken Bridge - The lighthouse staircase in Toshimi's dungeon.
 * Butt Monkey - Keiichi.
 * Butterfly of Death and Rebirth - Philemon. He appears to the party after the first Curb Stomp Battle against the angels, granting them the Butterfly Room.
 * Cargo Ship - Kiriko x Giant bag of money, anyone? Also, Couch x Bonsai, in the anonymous fic meme.
 * Character Blog - A large part of the game takes place posted on these.
 * Character Development - Integral to the plot of the game is the maturation of the teenage cast.
 * Chekhov's Gun - Hikaru's occult shop, and the fact that his items closely resemble the same items obtained from shadows in Paradise.
 * Clap Your Hands If You Believe - Paradise is entirely formed from people's thoughts.
 * Class Trip/Hot Springs Episode - Just like in Persona 3, but it went much better for the boys in this cast.
 * Collective Groan - The typical response to Misaki's Friendship Speeches.
 * Contemplate Our Navels - Introspection and self-links are this.
 * Cultural Posturing - Half of what Kouchisei has to say is about the obvious superiority of Japan.
 * Destination Defenestration - Done in reverse to Kozue by Reizo in an attempt to enter a locked dorm room.
 * Digging Yourself Deeper - Every attempt Toru makes at assuring the team of his HeterosexualToday heterosexuality.
 * Dream World - Paradise.
 * Dramatic Wind - Featured in Toshimi's dungeon. It's actually important to the plot.
 * Dumbass Has a Point - The easiest way to sum up Kiriko's interactions with Keiichi (when they're positive.)
 * Dysfunction Junction
 * Elevator School
 * Ensemble Darkhorse - Reizo and Shirou. Maybe even Toru to a certain degree.
 * Evil Counterpart
 * Eyes of Gold - The Shadow versions of the characters.
 * Fan Disservice - Mara-chan.
 * Fan Nickname - "OM Gels", for the angels, S![name] for characters' shadows.
 * Fisher Kingdom - The characters' respective dungeons.
 * Video Games - Toru's dungeon played with many of these genres.
 * Fairy Tale Motifs - Maeko.
 * Comic Books, Super Team - Tom.
 * Camp Mood Whiplash - Seiko.
 * High School Dance meets Love Hotels - Kozue.
 * Survival Horror - Reizo.
 * Dystopia - Keiichi.
 * Wedding Day - With bombs. Kiriko
 * Flash Back - Heavily featured in many dungeons.
 * Fountain of Memes - Reizo and #4.
 * Four Is Death - There are four angels. They appear in the technical fourth dungeon. In one more humorous example, Kai repeatedly fails his Zio spells by rolling fours in combat.
 * Giant Space Flea From Nowhere - The initial arrival of the angels appeared to be this.
 * GIRL - Kiriko prefers to play as male characters in MMORPGs. So does #4.
 * Hands-Off Parenting - Except for where they actively feature in the individual plotlines of characters, most parents are conspicuously absent. Toru's are extremely glaring examples.
 * Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? - THIS IS A NO-BUTTFUCK ZONE!
 * Heel Face Turn - Seiji betrays the other angels in order to assist the team. It doesn't end well for him.
 * High School - Like all Persona Games.
 * Ho Yay - Maeko and Misaki, Toru and practically everyone, Renju and Masami (kinda), Renju and Kozue, Kai and Kouki...
 * Improbable Weapon User - Kozue uses a tennis racquet. Joke weapons also tend to fall into this category.
 * Info Dump - Seiji delivers one after his Heel Face Turn.
 * Intentional Engrish for Funny- The most memorable segment of Maeko's dungeon.
 * Jigsaw Puzzle Plot - Comes with the fragmented nature of the storytelling.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia - If a character rejects their persona and powers, the rest of the team automatically forgets about their involvement in Paradise.
 * Light Is Not Good - While Shadows are common enemies, the real villains of this story are a group of angels.
 * Kill It With Fire - Attempted upon the Couch.
 * Killed Off for Real - Mr. Aomori, Seiji
 * Madness Mantra - peelpeelpeel. Also, S!Renju's Buddhist chants.
 * Malicious Slander - Slung left and right. This is High School, after all.
 * Mega Corp - Naka Co.
 * Masquerade - Both persona-users and angels alike.
 * Memetic Mutation - Several noteworthy examples:
 * The sweet couch.
 * Reizo's junk.
 * Reizo's slim hips.
 * This is a no buttfuck zone!
 * Danger at the rear!
 * Winged asses.
 * The Kondo Hole and Kondo Sack
 * Peelpeelpeel
 * ALL RIGHT, I'M PUMPED NOW!
 * "possibly homosexual, must investigate further"
 * Bromonade
 * Punch him, puncher!
 * "Kanaye's dungeon is definitely next!"
 * Kiriko x Giant Bag of Money OTP
 * Mirror Boss - Shadow Seiko, literally.
 * Never Speak Ill of the Dead - Invoked with the deaths of Shingo, Kei, Seiji, and Mr. Aomori.
 * New Transfer Student - Nayuki, until he was sent to the moon.
 * Next Sunday AD - The game is set in 2013.
 * Nightmare Fuel - Many of the dungeons and bosses, but most obviously Renju's and Reizo's.
 * Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant - Seiji and Kouki.
 * Ojou - There exists an Ojou Club made up of Masami, Kiriko, Kajiko, Tamiko, and Noriko. They commit crime.
 * One Noriko Limit - There were originally three characters named Noriko. Since then, only one has persisted. Another one had her name retconned to Natsuko.
 * One-Winged Angel - The boss shadow forms of characters. Some more than others...
 * Outlaw Couple - Kiriko and Reizo.
 * Parental Abandonment - Most of the characters have issues.
 * Player Punch - Seiji's death, the fact that Sato Kei was the original persona-user.
 * Posthumous Character - Sato Kei and Shingo Furukawa.
 * Precision F-Strike - Masami said "fucking?" She's definitely gone shadow.
 * Prolonged Prologue - The predungeon investigations are often quite lengthy.
 * Purple Prose - Kazuya's horrible love poems.
 * Put On a Bus - Shiori, Kanaye, Emi, Yuuto, and Kazuya (to name the more blatant examples...)
 * Ragtag Bunch of Misfits - The Anti-Bullying Club/investigation team.
 * Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud - Yoshimi does this while attempting to apologize for her intrusion on Toru and Kazuya's first date.
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech - Commonly delivered by shadows before being rejected.
 * Retcon - Ginjiro never invaded the dorms. Nobody ever called Toshimi scary. Reizo never commented on Yoshimi's Bland Name Kingdom Hearts panties because she doesn't own any.
 * Room Full of Crazy - Kiriko's dorm room after she goes shadow.
 * School Festival - It cannot end well.
 * Screw You Angels
 * Seeking Sanctuary - The Butterfly Room cannot be entered by malicious shadows, or so it seems.
 * Seinfeldian Conversation - The Gossipers, full-stop.
 * Sempai-Kohai - Used heavily in character interactions.
 * Shirtless Scene - Reizo gets several, in order to... erm... highlight his yakuza tattoos.
 * Shut UP, Hannibal - Happens during the boss battle with Hikaru. Toru and Tom don't feel like dealing with a Well-Intentioned Extremist, it seems.
 * Slice of Life - The non-plot character threads, which deal with club activities, video games, dates, chance encounters, and other mundane interactions meant to flesh out the characters.
 * Snooping Little Kid - Emi and Kozue, who attempt to spy on the Anti-Bullying Club and end up getting dragged in to being persona-users when they're caught.
 * So Bad It's Good - The Christmas story, which was a bad Final Fantasy VII fanfiction with the names replaced.
 * Subcultures in Japan - In spades.
 * Summon Magic - The personae.
 * Talking Is a Free Action - Most obviously during dungeons and boss fights.
 * Tanabata - Heralds Misaki's disappearance into Paradise.
 * Tarot Motifs - One for each major player character.
 * Team Pet - Tom's puppy Max.
 * Ten Minute Retirement - Yoshimi and Renju both undergo them when they lose their personae.
 * True Companions - Reluctantly.
 * There Are No Therapists - Ever. If there were, the cast likely wouldn't have to fight their shadows!
 * Think About Your Persona - What gets the team (other than Toshimi and Kanaye out of the void in Renju's dungeon.
 * Throw It In - The couch/Butterfly Room were never originally in the plan for the game, but then the couch dodged fate and set the circumstances leading up to its home in motion.
 * Too Dumb to Live - Anybody who picks a fight with Reizo.
 * Touched By Vorlons - Being thrown into Paradise seems to have activated the characters as persona-users.
 * Translation Convention - The game is supposedly set in Japan, and is thus technically in Japanese, but written out in English.
 * Troll Bridge - The kendo teammates' questions in Masami's dungeon.
 * Urban Fantasy - As per the game's basis.
 * Useless Useful Spell - Status skills and Light/Dark spells.
 * Utopia Justifies the Means - The angels and their Millennium City.
 * The Verse - Set in the same continuity/universe as Persona3 and Persona4. And apparently Hellsing, according to Word of God.
 * Villainous Crossdresser - Noriko Kojima.
 * Violence Really Is the Answer - A belated discovery in Toshimi's dungeon, when confronting the Gene/Ginji shadow.
 * Wake Up, Go to School, Save The World
 * The World Is Always Doomed - Only a few years after Nyx and Izanami, a group of young are stuck fighting the angels and their impending Millenium City! Persona-users never catch a break, do they?
 * Winged Humanoid - The angels.
 * World of Cardboard Speech - Features heavily in Character Development at the end of/after dungeons.
 * Why Did It Have To Be Cars? - In Tom's dungeon, Toshimi turns out to be utterly terrified of the cars attacking the party. Turns out, her cousin was killed in a car accident right before her eyes.
 * You Can't Thwart Stage One - Every attempt at preventing the angels from throwing characters in Paradise is doomed to fail. As is being a character with The Potential and not getting thrown in by the team.