Tower of Animus

"Your world has been destroyed. I saved you. Let's all be happy here."

Tower of Animus is a Journal Roleplay which began on Livejournal but moved to Dreamwidth.

Somewhere, in a world not associated with any other, there's a lone Tower surrounded by fog. This Tower has no entrances and no exits; people simply wake up in a bed provided for them, and are given some of their possessions in a trunk and a couple of letters explaining the situation. (See above.) From there, they are trapped in the Tower and expected to live there, under the watchful eyes of the Tower administration; for better or for worse.


 * A House Divided: The managers have begun to turn on each other, and are now getting the residents caught up in their antics.
 * Alien Geometries: Riki's pod in the Infighting event is this trope incarnate.
 * Apocalypse How: Class 4 across a multitude of worlds. At least, according to the administrators of the Tower.
 * Battle Royale: The Labyrinth Experiment took several characters into a labyrinth where they had to kill each other until only one was left standing.
 * And just to make everything better, each character already had a collar around their neck. (If they attempt to take it off, one wonders, does the collar explode?)
 * This is what happens when the collar is removed. Any attempts by the character to remove it are futile.
 * Bigger on the Inside: Many of the floors seem to be this.
 * Bizarrchitecture: And this.
 * Body Horror: In spades.
 * Brotherhood of Evil: The villains have formed one of these.
 * Cast Herd: Shin Megami Tensei has a massive one.
 * So does Kingdom Hearts
 * Some factions of the Homestuck cast are guilty of this.
 * All is one with the Zelda cast.
 * Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The collar colors of all the different characters (which are assigned by the mods upon acceptance into the game), though why characters get the colors they do is up for debate
 * Cosmopolitan Council: Ganondorf set up a council where the villains can meet and be villainous.
 * Deadly Game: The Labyrinth event and the Hitori Kakurenbo event.
 * Death Is Not Permanent: Characters typically wake up the next day after suffering a death.
 * Death Is a Slap on The Wrist: The attitude a handful of characters have taken because of the tower respawn.
 * Eldritch Location: Riki is rather fond of making the Tower seem like one of these.
 * Everything's Worse with Bears: The Hitori Kakurenbo event featured living teddy bears that killed whoever they encountered.
 * Captain Cinnamon Claws has become particularly notorious among the player base.
 * Horrible Judge of Character: There are a lot of these.
 * AU!Xion thinks Master Xehanort is a nice old man who can teacher her lots of things.
 * Self-proclaimed Ally of Justice Sayaka gets along really well with the members of Strega.
 * Joke Item: Some characters received these as randomized weapons in the Labyrinth event. France getting a megaphone is notable.
 * La Résistance: The Fellowship of Animus, headed by Gandalf and Princess Zelda, is slated to become this.
 * Mad Doctor: Jason is in charge of the medical needs of the Tower. He is also kind of a sociopath.
 * Mercy Kill: Some members of Jason's pod in the Infighting event (notably, AU!Minato) plan to try this, since being in Jason's pod is a Fate Worse Than Death.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Animus is pretty much this: the game.
 * During the Labyrinth event, sponsoring another character to help them out in the maze was literal nightmare fuel for the sponsor - they'd have terrible nightmares, the subject of which was given out by the mods.
 * Non-Player Character: The five 'administrators' of the tower, most of them unpleasant to deal with.
 * Suicide by Cop: Strega!Ken did this his second day with an event-addled Minami's 'aid', as he was just off of  in his canon. He got better due to tower respawn.
 * Sweet Polly Oliver: Fem!Link
 * Three Amigos: Recently, Reno, Shion and Xion have formed one of these.
 * Token Good Teammate: Oftentimes it seems like Dax is the only manager of the Tower with any sense of common morality.
 * The Tower: Obviously.
 * What Is Going On?: Everyone.