Characters / Danganronpa: A Chance of Despair

The characters who participate in yet another killing game in Hope's Peak Academy...

Male Students

Kyosuke Aozaki

Ultimate SleeperAgent

• Executed in chapter 3 for killing Robin and Jiro

Written by Retroflow.

• Deep Cover Agent: What his talent actually is.
• Heavy Sleeper: Kyosuke doesn't seem to be able to stay awake for more than an hour.

Ludger Wakahisa

Ultimate Philosopher

Currently alive as of chapter 4

Written by Ludcake.

• Dirty Coward: As shown in Chapter 2's trial.
• Driven to Villainy: Ludger tries to appeal to Monokuma during Chapter 2 Slowly Slipping Into Evil, leading up to a Sadistic Choice at the end of the trial where he has to either execute Juniper Jurai or reveal that he was lying all along. He decides to Take a Third Option and cross the Moral Event Horizon, making Juniper's best friend, Cole, execute her.
• The Philosopher: Ludger's Ultimate Talent and role for the early part of the RP is this.
• Self-Made Orphan: Ludger murdered his parents when he was 13 because according to his idea of ethics, their murder was a ethical thing to do.
• Tsundere: Ludger is an incredible tsundere, blushing and stuttering whenever his feelings are brought up.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Ludger believes that the ends justify the means, using that as an excuse for his parents' murder.

Heizo Misayasho (Boxes)

Ultimate Vigilante

Currently alive as of chapter 4

Written by Ghost Rave.

• Vigilante Man: Heizo's Ultimate Talent is literally this.

Tomi Hayashida

Ultimate Fashion Designer

Currently alive as of chapter 4

Written by Syniee.

• Calling Card: Mask's calling card is leaving the corpse in a casual pose with a tragic mask besides them.
• Serial Killer: Tomi is revealed as the serial killer known as Mask in Chapter 3.

Female Students

Robin Jiyū

Ultimate Animal Rights Activist

Killed in chapter 3 by Kyosuke

Written by Retroxide.

• Evil Vegetarian: After Chapter 3's motive.
• The Fundamentalist: Robin is a staunch defender of Veganism, trying to convert everyone to it and thinking that eating meat is disgusting. It's revealed in Chapter 3 that this is because after murdering an entire classroom when she was a child, she went through years of therapy to regard all life as equal.

Juniper Jurai

Ultimate Referee

Executed in chapter 2 for killing Miki

Written by f4ngy.

• The Bro Code: Juniper loyally follows the Bro Code her grandfather left her.
• Tomboy: Juniper is a tomboy through and through.

Aina Himura

Ultimate Matchmaker

Currently alive as of chapter 4

Written by Dardargo.

• Love Freak: If there's one trope to describe this character, this is it. Aina is crazy about love, the colour pink and cats.
• The Matchmaker: Aina's Ultimate Talent is this.

Kuni Hirano

Ultimate Entomologist

Currently alive as of chapter 4

Written by Icemeteor.

• High Priest: Plays herself as one to the tree in her room known, as Wise Tree, in order to avoid Aina's attempts at matchmaking her.
• Mirror Self: Rather than having one of herself, she turned herself into one to anyone that wasn't Hotaru or her mother after a workplace accident hospitalized Hotaru and snapping from the abuse she received from the Hiroto's grandfather Ryuketsu via letters.
• Tangled Family Tree: Her half brother Hotaru is related to the Hiroto family by blood while she is not, making her part of the Hiroto family herself by technicality.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: Spent the entire first chapter and a portion of the second chapter trapped in her room by a strange tree blocking her door.