History Characters / Danganronpa2FemaleStudents

* IJustWantToBeLoved: Having been constantly bullied throughout her life and being around a couple of abrasive students on her Jabberwock Island trip, she is strongly motivated by a desire to be appreciated for who and what she is. This is PlayedForDrama in Chapter 3, when she is driven to kill a student under her care because of "her beloved" being the only one who "didn't hate her"; said person is revealed to be [[BigBad Junko Enoshima]].

* BeyondTheImpossible: In ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', she and Kaede have a collaboration act that they perform together and they go to [[BrokenAce Izuru]] to get his opinion. He notes that they probably already know what needs work on a technical level and also that it was too flashy. When Kaede presses for how he felt about it on a personal level, he notes that it ''made him compose a song''. Naturally Ibuki and Kaede are gobsmacked by this and he notes that their performance together was unpredictable enough ''to give him inspiration to do that''. They're unsurprisingly over the moon about that and enthusiastically want him to play the song.

* TokenGoodTeammate: She is the only student that isn't secretly an Ultimate Despair who fell under the influence of [[BigBad Junko Enoshima]] in the real world. This doesn't stop Nagito from manipulating her into a crime anyway, though. Justified, as this was the intention, and she's a literal ArtificialIntelligence.

* TokenGoodTeammate: She is the only student that isn't secretly an Ultimate Despair who fell under the influence of [[BigBad Junko Enoshima]] in the real world. This doesn't stop Nagito from manipulating her into a crime anyway, though. Justified, as this was the intention, and she's a literal ArtificalIntelligence.

* StoryBreakerPower: Her ability to take photographs is precisely what leads to Nagito's plot falling apart in Chapter 1, as it showed everyone's positions before the blackout, allowing her to mark everyone's positions for the trial later on. She gets killed off in following chapter thanks to the recklessness of an AxCrazy Fuyuhiko.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: She's definitely one of the nicer girls in the story, but struggles with the notion that there's more to her than just her talent in photography. A lot of her [[{{Tsundere}} guarded behavior]] can be explained by her underlying insecurity, even in regards to her Ultimate ability.

* HonourBeforeReason: Her attempts to make amends with Fuyuhiko can be seen as this, instead of running from the clearly unstable Fuyuhiko when he ambushes her at the beach house she tries to talk to him to make things right, when he starts to go off the deep end and tells her Sato's death doesn't matter when she asks him about it, she starts to yell him about revenge instead of again, running away from a clearly dangerous situation. This gets her killed. In general Mahiru is an extremely moral and kind person, but sometimes this clouds her judgment and causes her to act recklessly despite being level-headed most of the time.

* TapOnTheHead: A lethal example of this trope, as she dies from being bashed in the head with a baseball bat thankfully instantly as a result of Peko's genuine skill and potentially Peko intentionally ensuring her death was instant.

* SchoolBullyingIsHarmless: Ahahaha, '''[[SubvertedTrope no]]'''. Mikan's been systematically abused by her peers ever since childhood and learned that the only way anyone would be willing to pay her the slightest bit of mind was to utterly humiliate herself in front of them. In her Free Time events, if she feels Hajime's getting bored by her company, she'll offer to perform degrading acts like stripping or imitating a sea turtle laying eggs. As a Remnant of Despair, she yells about how she's sick of being mistreated and seems to blame the rest of the group for letting her turn out how she did, which seems less like raw brainwashing and more like feelings that becoming a remnant brought to the surface.

* TheUnfought: She's one of two the culprits (the other being Peko) you do not have an Argument Armament with. instead, Monomi takes her place, arguing that she doesn't know or work with her once she'd ousted as the traitor

* TroubledAbuser: Hiyoko's Free-Time Events reveal that her childhood was genuinely ''miserable''; her family aside from her father hated her out of jealousy, her grandmother took her from her father at a young age to train her, and she was subject to "pranks" that sometimes escalated to ''actual assassination attempts''. Psychological studies have shown that often bullies mistreat people to regaiin a sense of control after being mistreated themselves, making it rather understandable (if not excusable) that a kid who was regularly subjected to things like pins being put in her shoes, dead mice being left on her bed, poisoned food, and having stage lights dropped on her would feel a deep-seated need to regain some control of her life.

* FreudianExcuse: Though its factuality is disputable(although more likely than not that she was telling the truth as Hajime notes), the backstory she reveals helps explain some of her bullying ways. Many studies on bullying show that the bully is trying to recapture a sense of power and agency they lost from being mistreated by mistreating others.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Gummy bears. She only eats a particular brand too, which clears her name in Chapter 2 when the culprit plants a gummy bear with a flavor it doesn't have.
* TroubledAbuser: Hiyoko's Free-Time Events reveal that her family has treated her miserably out of jealousy regarding her dance talent, and the only person who ever treated her kindly was her father. It goes a long way in explaining her cruelty towards others and while it doesn't excuse it, she genuinely didn't know any better.

* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While she isn't evil, Hiyoko is both [[ThePigPen rather stinky]] and one of the biggest {{Jerkass}}es on Jabberwock Island.

* TheUnfought: She's one of two the culprits (the other being Peko) you do not have an Argument Armament with. instead, Monomi takes her place, arguing that she doesn't know or work with her once she'd ousted as the traitor

* HeroesWantRedheads: If you get her ending in Dangan Island.

* JerkassToOne: Mahiru gets along worse with Fuyuhiko than anyone else, even the other boys. Even before learning about the incident in which he killed her friend, she calls Fuyuhiko out on expressing a willingness to kill, and mocks him for it when he briefly becomes a suspect in the first chapter.

* 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. In ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', she's a little thicker-skinned, but Kokichi was easily able to get under her skin after messing with her about her height change, which annoys her, but he says he is actually happy for her growing in height because "[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech After all, you won't be able to use your childish looks as an excuse for your sad behavior anymore!]]" To which she gets pissed and calls him "You little shit!" and then threaten him when they get out of the simulation.