Disappeared

Arc Words, anyone?

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.

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Tropes used in Disappeared include:

• 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.