History Characters / DanganronpaPekoPekoyama

* FeudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: She uses "being made to kill who Fuyuhiko orders her to" as the justification for killing Mahiru under his presumed orders, which he never actually made in the first place. To say the ''least'' of everyone's reactions post-Chapter 2's trial, no one in the cast believes this should be used as a reason to senselessly murder someone, Fuyuhiko himself included. [[InvokedTrope Peko eventually realizes the same thing for herself too]].

* TheQuietOne: By far the quietest student of the second game and speaks very softly. This makes her brief role as Sparkling Justice all the more jarring as her LargeHam tendencies and shouting are the complete opposite of her usual self.

* FatalFlaw: Peko is unable to see herself as anything other than Fuyuhiko's tool, viewing herself and everyone else as expendable, which leads her to kill Mahiru under the assumption that Fuyuhiko would be considered the true mastermind, and thus graduate after everyone else convicted her. Not only did Fuyuhiko ''not'' feel the same (and in fact hated that his childhood friend saw herself that way), but as Monokuma points out, while she was acting in what she thought was Fuyuhiko's best interest, she couldn't be considered a tool because she was acting on her own initiative. After all, Fuyuhiko would never have ordered her to die for him.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: She misinterprets Fuyuhiko's desire to start over and have a relationship as classmates rather than master and tool, thus assuming that he hates her as a tool of his clan. Although Fuyuhiko absolutely doesn't help by involving her in his plan to kill Mahiru.

* PunchClockVillain: Peko is a Yakuza hitman who follows the orders of Fuyuhiko, but lacks the sociopathic glee of killing that comes with it. She kills who ''he'' tells her to kill, which is unfortunately PlayedForDrama during Chapter 2 of the second game when she uses her status as a hitman who [[JustFollowingOrders follows orders]] as part of her scheme to kill Mahiru and give Fuyuhiko the opening to escape the Killing School Trip alone.

* PunchClockVillain: Peko is a Yakuza hitman who follows the orders of Fuyuhiko, but lacks the sociopathic glee of killing that comes with it. She kills who ''he'' tells her to kill, which is unfortunately PlayedForDrama during Chapter 2 when she uses her status as a hitman who [[JustFollowingOrders follows orders]] as part of her scheme to kill Mahiru and give Fuyuhiko the opening to escape the Killing School Trip alone.

* CombatPragmatist: She basically steals Fuyuhiko's kill for Mahiru by literally taking the bat and whacking Mahiru with it before Mahiru even has the chance to ''defend herself from the blow'' or Fuyuhiko even gives his consent for her to do such a thing. This pragmatism is justified in-universe, as she is actually a hitman, so she's not one for giving her opponents a chance to fight back.

* TheComicallySerious: Peko is generally very stoic and blunt and isn't the best at understanding humor, which leads to some amusing moments, like when Hajime tries to make a joke about a panda that "walks into a restaurant, eats, shoots, and leaves," to which Peko very seriously says "I already know they do that". In ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', Miu calls her "gloomy" and insults her looks several times, but Peko never really reacts to them, other than when called gloomy. Miu then offers to let her "gaze upon her and behold her brilliance", which Peko actually does and notes that her mood does feel lightened before thanking her and leaving, leaving Miu annoyed that she didn't look at her longer.

* BespectacledCutie: Although Peko is certainly intense, she's mostly a kind-hearted young woman who can be rather adorable at points; her glasses only add to this, especially as shown with her two smiling sprites, which are really cute.

* WhenSheSmiles: Peko is the most poker-faced student of the Killing School Trip, and in her 3rd Free Time event, she reveals that she forgot how to smile in happiness (see TheUnsmile). In her next two Free Time Events, she tries to relearn how to smile. When [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe praising]] Fuyuhiko and attempting to say farewell to him before her execution, she gives [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/danganronpa/images/a/a7/Danganronpa_V3_Bonus_Mode_Peko_Pekoyama_Sprite_%2814%29.png a very bittersweet]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/danganronpa/images/f/f5/Peko_Pekoyama_Halfbody_Sprite_%287%29.png and heartfelt, thankful smile]], which would be sweet if it weren't under [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove such heartbreakingly painful circumstances]]. She's finally able to smile with complete happiness in her final Free Time Event and some of her Island Mode events, and it's poignant and beautiful in both cases.

* TheComicallySerious: Peko is generally very stoic and blunt and isn't the best at understanding humor, which leads to some amusing moments, like when Hajime tries to make a joke about a panda that "walks into a restaurant, eats, shoots, and leaves," to which Peko very seriously says "I already know they do that".

* HiddenDepths: In ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', she plays a fighting game with Chiaki and Akane. Akane taps out soon, but Peko and Chiaki play for quite a while, long enough for Akane to doze off and then decide it was to late to go back to her cabin and have an impromptu slumber party. Peko also notes that she was ''closing in on Chiaki's win count'', by the end of it.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has three major examples of this near the end of her trial

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: She deludes herself into thinking otherwise thanks to a DarkAndTroubledPast, but Peko believes that sacrificing herself in place of Fuyuhiko because she prefer he live than die during the Killing School Trip thanks to a petty {{revenge}} plot is the better outcome. The rest of the class disagree with this upon finding out, however, [[WhatTheHellHero finding it downright absurd that she'd even do something that reckless]].

* HateSink: [[NiceGirl Peko]] is anything but this, however she briefly invokes this trope in the second trial during her Sparkling Justice act, portraying herself as a remorseless psychopath who is proud of her brutal murder of Mahiru. This is in order to get the class, in particular a very vengeful Hiyoko, to vote for her as quickly as possible, which proves good for her plan, as Sonia only questions her being nothing like the real Sparkling Justice until ''after'' everyone voted. Peko in a very intelligent move made herself as hateable as possible to the class, so she could carry her plan through. Had her plan worked as intended, this would have gotten herself and the rest of the class killed so that Fuyuhiko could graduate, but Fuyuhiko doesn't see her as a tool, which, combined with the fact that Monokuma only pins the murder on her causes her plan to fail. However, the reality is Peko never believed a single word she said as Sparkling Justice and was always the kind-hearted and gentle samurai everyone thought she was prior and even seems relieved when she drops this persona.

* TheUnfought: She's one of two the culprits (the other being Chiaki) you do not have an Argument Armament with. instead, Fuyuhiko takes her place, desperate to prove that she's innocent before she can say anything.

* SociallyAwkwardHero: And also a HumbleHero, Peko is definitely amongst the most deferential characters in the series, and is also endearingly shy. She doesn't have any self-worth problems that would make her obnoxious, unlike most characters, though that's only in terms of having a ''high'' opinion of herself (at best, she has a neutral opinion; at worst, she loathes herself and thinks she has no personal agency). Of course, as the second game shows, these traits of hers are, in reality, [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]] and PlayedForDrama to the point that she commits a ThanatosGambit while in the Neo World Program in her misguided attempt at protecting Fuyuhiko because she doesn't see ''herself'' as having personal agency, which ends up biting her back hard when [[DidntThinkThisThrough she only ends up getting herself (or rather her avatar) executed because she actually has it]], but, of course, doesn't have the self-worth to realize she has such.

* KnightTemplar: Her first instinct when it comes to protecting Fuyuhiko from the killing game is to conduct a [[ThanatosGambit gambit]] to trick everyone except Fuyuhiko into being executed by justifying her status as [[SatelliteCharacter his "tool"]]. Monokuma doesn't buy the story that she didn't do the murder of her own agency, when she did, and is promptly executed.