History Characters / Danganronpa2FemaleStudents

** She also serves as one to fellow blonde-haired brat Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu. Both have very cute appearances that contrast their abrasive and toxic personality, both are very wary of others, both had an abusive home life with only one person in that life looking out for them (Peko, and Hiyoko's father), [[KickTheDog both bullied Mikan]], and lost the one girl they loved in the second trial which is why they tried to change. Fuyuhiko was [[WouldHitAGirl more]] [[AxCrazy dangerous]] and more toxic than Hiyoko to the point of causing multiple deaths but unlike her, he managed to complete his arc and overcome his grief over Peko whereas Hiyoko's grief over Mahiru wound up killing her, something which Fuyuhiko never acknowledges.

*** While everyone else is CharacterShilling for Fuyuhiko at the end of the second trial Hiyoko rightly points out that there's "no reason to wait for him", harsh as that sounds she's not wrong, outside of not going along with Peko's plan Fuyuhiko was nothing but vile towards the class and [[HeroKiller that he caused the death of Mahiru]]. Hiyoko yet again showed herself to be the only person mature enough to realise just how [[WouldHitAGirl vile]] Fuyuhiko's [[RevengebeforeReason actions]] were while the rest of the class equated being injured with instant redemption.

* BicepPolishingGesture: She has this as one of her [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/danganronpa/images/e/e6/Sonia_Nevermind_Halfbody_Sprite_%2822%29.png sprites.]], showcasing her confident side.

* BeneathTheMask: Hiyoko initially comes across as a rather vapid, egotistical, mean-spirited, and spoilt little brat with an overly cheery yet bitchy attitude. Beneath this however, she's a level-headed, self-loathing, sentimental, loyal and even at times sweet(when she's with Mahiru anyway) person who really just wants a friend but because of her past can't trust anyone, until she meets Mahiru, when she loses Mahiru she almost completely breaks as a result, showcasing that while flawed her whole selfish brat who couldn't care less about others is a façade and she actually does have a heart as well as a ton of internal issues that she hides because she doesn't want others to see her as weak.

* CovertPervert: While she'll still call Hajime a pervert, her only objection against taking her kimono off in front of him is if he doesn't know how to tie it back on when he says they should take their clothes off in Island Mode. She also is one of three people who actually like the ball gag gift(ironically so does Mikan) and asks Hajime to steal Sonia's panties in her first Free Time event. She gets extremely excited at the prospect of showering with Mahiru and offers to "wash her", as well.

** She also serves as one to fellow blonde-haired brat Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu. Both have very cute appearances that contrast their abrasive and toxic personality, both are very wary of others, both had an abusive home life with only one person in that life looking out for them(Peko, and Hiyoko's father), [[KickTheDog both bullied Mikan]], and lost the one girl they loved in the second trial which is why they tried to change. Fuyuhiko was [[WouldHitAGirl more]] [[AxCrazy dangerous]] and more toxic than Hiyoko to the point of causing multiple deaths but unlike her, he managed to complete his arc and overcome his grief over Peko whereas Hiyoko's grief over Mahiru wound up killing her, something which Fuyuhiko never acknowledges.

* TookALevelInBadass: In ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', after accidentally nearly drowning Tenko due to slipping in the hot spring, Sakura and Tenko suggest she train in martial arts to improve her balance, to fix her klutziness. She does so and gains enough confidence that she can later easily strike up conversations with more intimidating classmates Peko and Fuyuhiko, impressing them, and her "My Future" sequence has her being the dom over Miu once again, even making an IronicEcho joke to Miu.

* ShoutOut: A walking {{homage}} to the band Music/{{Nirvana}}. Sonia's home country is named after the bassist Krist Novoselic, and her last name is the title of the band's second album, ''Music/{{Nevermind}}''. Supplementary materials reveal that she went to "In Utero School" before Hope's Peak, with ''Music/InUtero'' being the name of another Nirvana album.

* FaceHeelTurn: Yes, this can apply to literally any other student in the series who commits a murder, however, Mikan sticks out the most as she starts ''out'' as a NiceGirl only to be forcibly reverted back to the Remnant of Despair brainwashed by [[BigBad Junko Enoshima]] that she actually is. Essentially, she switched to being a complete villain under the control over the true villain than simply being morally grey.

* KickTheDog: She openly states that she hoped those infected with the Despair Disease would kill themselves to spare anyone else the possibility of being infected as well although this comes across more like a dark joke than her genuine thoughts. When Mikan tries to comfort her after she starts crying in Chapter 2, she ''immediately'' switches to insulting Mikan like usual(although Mikan's "everything is okay now" is InnocentlyInsensitive considering for Hiyoko it wasn't, because Mahiru was still dead, doesn't make Hiyoko any less cruel or Mikan any less kind). In general her treatment of Mikan is this considering how needlessly mean it is.

* BigSisterInstinct: In ''UltimateSummerCamp'', she has this towards the younger kids from ''Ultra Despair Girls'', due to having her own little brothers and sisters. She helps Jataro clean up his mess and also has a race with Masaru later.

* OddFriendship: With Fuyuhiko from Chapter 4 on, as they both had someone in the killing game sacrifice themselves for their sakes.

* GodlikeGamer: Chiaki Nanami is considered "the Ultimate Gamer" and excels at almost every game she plays with little effort. The only games she's bad at are {{Dating Sim}}s. In ''Ulitmate Talent Development Plan'', she naturally loses to Izuru on her first game with him, but she's eager to try again. In a later interaction she mentions her ''win rate against him has been going up''. Yes, she can get wins against Izuru, who has his own Ultimate Gamer talent as well as several other ones that would be useful in gaming like Luck and Gambler.

* GodlikeGamer: Chiaki Nanami is considered "the Ultimate Gamer" and excels at almost every game she plays with little effort. The only games she's bad at are {{Dating Sim}}s. In ''Ulitmate Talent Development Plan'', she naturally loses to Izuru on her first game with him, but she's eager to try again. In a later interaction she mentions her ''win rate against him has been going up''. Yes, she can get wins against Izuru, who has her own Ultimate Gamer talent as well as several other ones that would be useful in gaming like Luck and Gambler.

* GodlikeGamer: Chiaki Nanami is considered "the Ultimate Gamer" and excels at almost every game she plays with little effort. The only games she's bad at are {{Dating Sim}}s.

* BloodKnight: She can't resist getting into fights. She gets into a sparring match with Nekomaru that ends with her bloodied because she just could not resist fighting a powerful opponent. In ''Ultimate Talent Development Plan'', she develops a similar rivalry with Sakura, with similar results. It's said that Akane is very physically powerful, but [[UnskilledButStrong she hasn't been trained in any style of fighting]], so she goes down pretty quickly to people who study martial arts disciplines like Nekomaru. She even admits that she wants to fight [[SerialKiller Genocide Jack]], just to fight an opponent with blades.

** Played for laughs but most of the others she deems worthy ends up being one sided with the latter refusing to fight her. The most notable being Mukuro (who's trying to hide her identity as Ultimate Soldier) and Kaito (who straight up refuses to fight a girl).

* TookALevelInBadass: In ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', after accidentally nearly drowning Tenko due to slipping in the hot spring, Sakura and Tenko suggest she train in martial arts to improve her balance, to fix her klutziness and she does so and gains enough confidence that she can later easily strike up conversations with more intimidating classmates Peko and Fuyuhiko, impressing them, and her "My Future" sequence has her being the dom over Miu once again, even making an IronicEcho joke to Miu.

* AmbiguouslyBi: There are a lot of implications that she goes both ways in the series. Her "beloved" that she talks in the Chapter 3 trial about is implied and later confirmed by ''Danganronpa 3'' to be Junko and she enjoys getting off on being in a position of power over Miu twice in ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', but she can also get a romantic ending with Hajime in Island Mode and she has cute ShipTease moments with Mondo in both ''UTDP'' and ''S''.

* TookALevelInBadass: In ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', after accidentally nearly drowning Tenko due to slipping in the hot spring, Sakura and Tenko suggest she train in martial arts to improve her balance, to fix her klumziness and she does so and gains enough confidence that she can later easily strike up conversations with more intimidating classmates Peko and Fuyuhiko, impressing them, and her "My Future" sequence has her being the dom over Miu once again.

* ThrowTheDogABone: People generally seem to treat Mikan better in the Talent Development Plan, where she has a heartwarming conversation with Tenko who thanks her for all her hard work (driving Mikan to TearsOfJoy) and when she insists on chasing after Mondo because his hand is injured, which he [[BelatedInjuryRealization barely noticed]], he actually apologizes for [[CannotTalkToWomen yelling at her out of reflexive nerves]] and pretty much lets her drag him to the infirmary so she won't start crying, [[ConsummateLiar Kokichi]] attempts to fake sick to get out of chores and when Mikan comments he doesn't seem sick, he merely lightly teases her before agreeing to go back to work and even compliments her for seeing through his lies. Even [[InsufferableGenius Miu]] is nice enough to show her all her inventions, albeit after bullying her until using the Hookup Counter on her and [[NoodleIncident getting a (presumably high) reading]]. The cast also stands up to Hiyoko when Hiyoko tries to force Mikan to clean up after the party entirely by herself and everyone pitches in together. Another interaction has Hiyoko going to pick on her while she's treating Kokichi, who is faking it again, and Kokichi redirects Hiyoko's bullying by teasing her, so she starts picking on him instead.

** It stays true mostly for ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', with only Hiyoko and occasionally Miu being mean, though she also was able to creep out Miu by getting a little too enthusiastic when she was in a position of power over her. When Hiyoko was bullying Mikan with Miu present, Miu started mocking Hiyoko, telling her to "Save the kinky stuff for the bedroom" and calling her "banana gremlin". She also creeps out ''Korekiyo'' when he tells her she should "[[DeadlyEuphemism nurse at my sister's side]]" and she gets a little enthusiastic about how weak his sister would be, with him quickly reversing course and claiming that he couldn't ask for the luxury of having her nurse his sister.

* ThrowTheDogABone: People generally seem to treat Mikan better in the Talent Development Plan, where she has a heartwarming conversation with Tenko who thanks her for all her hard work (driving Mikan to TearsOfJoy) and when she insists on chasing after Mondo because his hand is injured, which he [[BelatedInjuryRealization barely noticed]], he actually apologizes for [[CannotTalkToWomen yelling at her out of reflexive nerves]] and pretty much lets her drag him to the infirmary so she won't start crying, [[ConsummateLiar Kokichi]] attempts to fake sick to get out of chores and when Mikan comments he doesn't seem sick, he merely lightly teases her before agreeing to go back to work and even compliments her for seeing through his lies. Even [[InsufferableGenius Miu]] is nice enough to show her all her inventions, albeit after bullying her until using the Hookup Counter on her and [[NoodleIncident getting a (presumably high) reading]]. The cast also stands up to Hiyoko when Hiyoko tries to force Mikan to clean up after the party entirely by herself and everyone pitches in together.

* OddFriendship: With Gundham, the delusional animal breeder. She's not really friends with him because of [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys his dark and brooding persona]], but because he's a FriendToAllLivingThings. And [[CutenessProximity he has a bunch of cute critters around him at all times]].

* {{Irony}}: Like Celeste before her, Mikan's plan to create an alibi for herself ultimately proves to be her undoing.

* GoodIsNotNice: Is she ever. Hiyoko abhors the very idea of killing and is mostly just interested in keeping herself cozy until the situation is resolved. Her JerkassHasAPoint moments indicate that she really does want to help when things get bad, and she starts Chapter 3 off by building a memorial to Mahiru. None of this, however, stops her from being a {{Jerkass}} most of the time, and she gets killed before her attempt at growing out of this makes any significant progress. Though her {{Jerkass}} tendencies don't counter the fact that she never betrayed the class and was the only person in the class who held Fuyuhiko to account and actively did try to change, she's very much on the side of the class even if she's mean to them and utterly hates Monokkuma.

* LonelyRichKid: Grew up in an extremely wealthy family but as a result of her abusive mother and grandmother she was very sheltered and her only real connection was with her father who she was taken away from. she doesn't actually make any friends until her late teens in Mahiru (and Hajime in free time, her sour personality is partially a result of her loneliness.

** When she critiques Aoi's dancing skills and the girl asks her to help with her dancing skills, Hiyoko obliges her.

* ThinSkinnedBully: Despite how she likes to torment everybody, she'll start bawling when the tables get turned on her although she can certainly hold her own against the likes of Fuyuhiko.

* GoodIsNotNice: Is she ever. Hiyoko abhors the very idea of killing and is mostly just interested in keeping herself cozy until the situation is resolved. Her JerkassHasAPoint moments indicate that she really does want to help when things get bad, and she starts Chapter 3 off by building a memorial to Mahiru. None of this, however, stops her from being a {{Jerkass}} most of the time, and she gets killed before her attempt at growing out of this makes any significant progress. Though her {{Jerkass}} tendencies don't counter the fact that she never betrayed the class and was the only person in the class who held Fuyuhiko to account and actively did try to change.

* InsufferableGenius: Constantly boasts about her talent and being better than everyone else (ironically her levels of self esteem actually go into the negatives).

* TheLadette: As a tall, muscular woman with an aggressive personality, a [[OreOnna rough]] way of speaking, and interests that mainly include [[BigEater guzzling down huge amounts of food]] and [[BloodKnight sparring with people]], Akane is one of the most masculine women in the entire franchise. As you'd expect from the trope, she gets a fair number of [[MsFanservice fanservicey scenes]], and has absolutely zero qualms about it whatsoever... though it veers straight into FanDisservice when you do her Free Time Events and learn that she has a long, long history of being sexually harassed.

** In ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', Korekiyo suggests that she "[[DeadlyEuphemism nurse at my sister's side]]", and when she gets rather creepy about how ''weak'' she would be compared to her. ''Korekiyo'' basically has a "NoJustNo" reaction, leaving her confused, and him claiming she misinterpreted his "no" as something worse.