Characters / Danganronpa: Antebellum

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It's virtually impossible to list Tropes for these characters without spoiling everything or creating Self-Fulfilling Spoilers because of the large amount of reveals and murderer-victim exclusive tropes this Visual Novel contains.

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Shinku Kutsuki

Shinku Kutsuki

Ultimate Writer

Voiced by: IanEwing

I always wanted to make people feel- something- with my writing...but I never wanted to cause harm...so how...did I get here?

The protagonist of the game. An incredibly talented writer who often overworks and pushes himself to further his skills, he finds it hard to sleep at night due to both jotting new ideas down and due to some past guilt he's carrying with him. He tries his best to be polite and isn't too easily scared, but he often overthinks every word he speaks and then stays awake worrying about what he could've said differently.

While Shinku's crime is unclear, it seems to revolve around the disappearance of his younger sister Akari.

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• Color Failure: One of his sprites has him do this.
• Driven to Suicide: Shinku begins seriously contemplating this by Chapter 3, leading to him drinking what he thinks is poisoned tea and later almost swallowing a lethal dose of pills. Asuga finds him in time before he goes through with it.
• Hallucinations: He's plagued by these frequently, starting with those of his sister and later including the dead participants of the killing game. Lyra provides him with some medication to help with this.
• The Generic Guy: Often mocked for being this by Taka.
• The Hero Dies: Narrowly avoided in Chapter 2, when Emilia tries to kill him after she learns about Akari. Had it not been for Mint and the Body Discovery Announcement, Shinku very likely would've died.
  • Once again narrowly avoided in Chapter 3, where Shinku nearly attempts suicide before being stopped by Asuga.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Saying his self-esteem is low would be an understatement.
• Idiot Hair: As a protagonist, it's a given.
• The Insomniac: Shinku does not sleep very often, being plagued by nightmares, guilt and hallucinations.
• It's All My Fault: He blames himself a lot, particularly for the death of Dracul and Akari's disappearance.
• The Kirk: In his Freudian Trio with Ismene and Dracul.
• Leitmotif: "I Haven't Slept Yet."
• Most Writers Are Writers: While he's still portrayed as a Ridiculously Average Guy, Shinku does have a talent of his own in writing.
• Ship Tease: Gets a lot of this with Dracul, especially in his free time events, where the two of them actually become a couple. Sadly doesn't last for too long.
• So Proud of You: Says this to Takiko in Chapter 3 as a way to get past her to reach the biodome. Knowing Shinku, though, he meant it genuinely.
• The Workaholic: He's written books, poems, pamphlets, plays, nearly anything that has words on it. Deconstructed, especially in Rei's free time events, where Shinku admits that he focused so much on achieving his goal that he neglected a lot of important things and crushed others' dreams, especially Akari.
• You Should Have Died Instead: His hallucinations say as much to him, and he's usually too devastated to respond.

Dracul Tremblay

Dracul Tremblay

Ultimate Dungeon Master

Voiced by: ThatOneSubscriber

Not to worry! Your fearless guild master is here!

A rather loud and eccentric individual, Dracul is nevertheless a natural leader, always trying to pick people up and learn from them. While he can be annoying, he's annoying in a way that some can't help but find charming. He currently holds the world record for the sheer amount of D&D campaigns that he has ran which is how he earned his Ultimate title. Dracul has a sort of inferiority complex, he's scared his normal life is so boring and tiring so he tries to act like some of the characters he's used in his campaigns to be more interesting. But that fear of being dull is ever present.

He's the first victim of the Killing Game, murdered by Maiko after she overheard his criminal history.

His crime was shoplifting from small businesses in order to support his family, which led to many of them closing.

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• Affectionate Nickname: He calls Shinku and Ismene "Shin" and "Isi" respectively. Shinku in turn calls him "Drac."
• Awesome Mc Cool Name: "Dracul" is a Romanian name that literally means "Dragon."
• Beneath the Mask: While he tries to be an upstanding and supportive friend, Dracul struggles with a very depressive and guilty mindset.
• Chuunibyou: Played with, as Dracul intentionally puts on the guild master persona as a means to cheer people up and have fun, but he can drop it when the situation calls for seriousness.
• Dead Guy on Display: His body is propped up against a large cake, with his intestines wrapped around it and his eyes placed on top.
• Disappeared Dad: His father isn't in the picture, leaving his mom alone to take care of him and his sisters.
• Driven to Suicide: Implied in Dungeon Master.mp3, where it seems like he keeps coming to a bridge with the intent to jump, only to be talked out of it by a girl he doesn't know the name of.
• Establishing Character Moment: He's introduced rolling a D20 on whether Shinku should join their guild.
• Exotic Eye Designs: He has a 20 in his pupils.
• Eye Scream: After he was killed, his eyes were taken out of his head and placed on top of the cake.
• Game Master: He got his title from the total number of campaigns he's run, which began as a way to keep his sisters entertained.
• I Just Want to Be Special: He's scared his normal life is boring and tiring, so he tries to act like some of the characters he's used in his campaigns to be more interesting and make people happy. This can backfire in the opposite way and almost come off as toxic positivity at times, though he means well.
• Justified Criminal: While he feels guilty and even tried to pay the stores back, given that his mom was the only one to support their huge family, it's hard to fault Dracul for what he did.
• The McCoy: In his Freudian Trio with Shinku and Ismene.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: He has eight younger sisters.
• Motivational Lie: The "Love Suicide" ending of Pink and Dungeon Master.mp3 both reveal that Dracul, while he talks a lot about belief in others and that people deserve second chances, he doesn't actually believe in them very strongly. He says these things because he wants to protect his sisters and to push people to try and actually be better.
• Must Make Amends: He felt so guilty for stealing that he sold his computer to try and repay the shops, but by then, the damage was done and many of them had to shut down.
• Ship Tease: Gets a lot of this with Shinku, especially in his free time events, where the two of them actually become a couple. Sadly doesn't last for too long.

Eiichi Sakaguchi

Eiichi Sakaguchi

Ultimate Gacha Game Player

Voiced by: V-Meister

Yay! I knew I could count on you buddy, you sound like a swell guy- an SSR tier friend if I say so myself!

A kind and sweet individual who's a master of gacha games- he plays all sorts, from gacha RPGs to rhythm games. He loves the rush he gets when he pulls units and tries his best to help others feel that same rush. He works part-time at a gym to fund his game addiction and he finds it hard to hold back on the spending when a seasonal unit appears. He tries his best to practice self-restraint, however. He's always encouraging others to work on bettering themselves and dealing with their bad habits.

He's the victim of Chapter 2, murdered by Yui in retaliation for not returning her feelings.

His crime is unknown.

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• Big Brother Instinct: He fills this role for Kotaro, taking him under his wing and treating him like a little brother.
• The Big Guy: At 6'6", he's easily the largest member of the cast.
• Childhood Friends: With Yui, unfortunately for him.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Completely averted. The effects Yui's had on his life are rightfully presented as disturbing.
• False Rape Accusation: Courtesy of Yui, who lied to the police and got Eiichi swatted for it, although whether that has any connection to his position in the killing game isn't yet clear.
• Gentle Giant: He's huge, muscular and wouldn't hurt a fly.
• Good Parents: After his negative experiences with Yui, his parents were quite accommodating to him.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Eiichi always tried to see the good in everyone he meets, and admits he wouldn't even push bad people out of his life. It's left him with serious trust issues.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: He feels that his talent isn't as important as those of the others, which is why he wants to be a "support unit" to everyone else.
• Horns of Villainy: His hoodie has what look like small devil horns, although Eiichi himself is actually a very sweet person.
• Incompatible Orientation: He's gay, which was why he was never going to return Yui's feelings.
• Just One More Level!: He has a bit of an addiction to the gacha games he plays.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: He likes cats.
• Leitmotif: "Jpeg Junkie."
• Like Brother and Sister: After he cut ties with Yui and tried to branch out from his seclusion, he met a girl from his school named Alya, who was suffering from severe bullying. Eiichi offered to give her self-defense lessons and taught her what signs to look out for when dealing with people. He views her like an honorary sister and always supported her in things like chess tournaments.
• The Shut-In: After everything with Yui, Eiichi became quite withdrawn from everyone, including his own parents. He didn't want to be touched, be looked at or even leave his room. Being swatted certainly didn't help matters.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Kind-hearted, friendly and supportive, poor Eiichi doesn't live past Chapter 2.

Kiyoshi Ainara

Kiyoshi Ainara

Ultimate Sculptor

Voiced by: Jsharp_VO

Would you like me to sculpt you a backbone, Shinku?

Kiyoshi is a master sculptor with hundreds of his creations showcased in museums around the world. He has developed a slight ego due to his success and believes he is smarter than a majority of people. Although Kiyoshi mostly remains quiet, he is fairly vocal about his search for new things to sculpt. Due to the sheer amount of art that Kiyoshi has created he is now bored by most things he sculpts- he's captivated, however, by emotion and more so the lack thereof it... he's on a quest for the perfect subject/ muse to sculpt something so perfect that it is above all conceivable emotion.

His crime was kidnapping eleven girls over the years to use them as muses for his art and blackmailing them to keep them from reporting him.

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• Animal Lover: He really likes birds. He got his start sculpting when he found a sick and injured finch one day and decided to care for it, making it a cage to live in. Over time, he kept making the cage bigger and bigger, and eventually got into other sculptures as well.
• Brick Joke: As his page quote suggests, in his introduction, Kiyoshi asks Shinku if he'd like him to sculpt him a backbone. His free time events, he actually sculpts him a human spine as a gift for putting up with him.
• Closet Geek: When Shinku asks if he wants to read the Melody Pretty manga, Kiyoshi is silent for a moment, but then is all for it. Afterward, the two have an in-depth analytical conversation about the show.
• Eccentric Artist: He's like this at the best of times. At his worst, well...
• Entitled Bastard: In Chapter 2, when confronted by Taka about his past kidnappings, he defends himself by saying it was for his talent. He's also quite frustrated that nobody else seems to show any pride for their talents.
  Kiyoshi: You'll all see where I'm coming from later. We are Ultimates. We are above the common folk. It's our *duty* to hone our talent. It's not our fault if some get hurt for it.
• Has a Type: By his own admission, he has a fascination with people who show few emotions, which explains his attraction to Alora.
• Hidden Depths: Mostly a jerkass throughout the story, but he does express a caring side in his free time events, where he shares his love of birds and comes to really appreciate Shinku's friendship.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: As Shinku learns in his free time events, Kiyoshi's never had any close friends. He initially assumes Shinku asking him to hang out is the setup to a prank, but genuinely comes to appreciate having Shinku around. By the end, he plans to work on himself and understand why he seems to have trouble making and keeping friends.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Throughout Chapter 2, he's frustrated that everyone focuses on calling him out for his crime when many of them have done things that are just as harmful, if not more so.
• Leitmotif: "Pygmalion."
• Mad Artist: He has a tendency to fixate on capturing particular emotions, especially fear and anxiety. This, unfortunately, often manifests in taking people against their will to capture the genuine emotions from them.
• Muse Abuse: He's kidnapped eleven girls to use as muses for his art, and in his free time events, he does this to Shinku as well. He at least let the girls go without hurting them and has the decency to apologize to Shinku afterward.
• Nephewism: After his parents moved overseas, he was left in the care of his aunt and uncle.
• Older Than They Look: At 24, he's the second-oldest among the cast.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Does this in some of his sprites.
• Take That!: While none of his recent statues have been met with acclaim, he says it could be worse; that he could be some digital artist trying to make it big on some washed out old social media site.
• Utility Belt: He wears a pair of belts with his art tools.
• Villainous Face Hold: During Mononeko's reveal of his crime, he's seen doing this to one of his captives.
• Wild Teen Party: His aunt and uncle gave a lot of freedom growing up, and he tried to throw a few of these, but nobody ever showed up.

Kotaro Chishiki

Kotaro Chishiki

Ultimate Encyclopedia

Voiced by: jva25

Did you know you only set a good first impression about 60% of the time?

Kotaro is a very bright young boy, growing up he was fairly sickly so he spent ages inside studying various books. Due to this, Kotaro knows loads of random facts- but he lacks any common sense. Kotaro is a bit of a scatterbrain and doesn't really understand others' boundaries but he tries his best to understand others and improve his social skills. He may be a bit of an idiot sometimes and doesn't really know the appropriate way to respond to violence but he's trying.

His crime was earning his Ultimate title through bribery thanks to his parents.

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• Asian and Nerdy: He's Japanese and very knowledgeable.
• The Baby of the Bunch: The shortest and youngest boy in the cast.
• Color Failure: In one of his sprites, and especially common in the wake of Eiichi's death.
• Despair Event Horizon: Hits this in Chapter 3, feeling like Eiichi's death was his fault and wishing he'd died as well. Rei takes it upon himself to watch over him and help him understand it wasn't their fault.
• Dissonant Serenity: He's absolutely elated by Yui's execution, much to the discomfort of everyone else.
• Exotic Eye Designs: His pupils are shaped like small hearts.
• Grew a Spine: After Eiichi's death, Kotaro makes it his goal to find the culprit and make them pay. His awkward and insecure mannerisms disappear, especially during the trial.
• Happily Adopted: He was adopted by a rich couple when he was three and they were very kind to him.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Despite how smart he clearly is, Kotaro feels like the bribery and lies about his grades make him unworthy of his Ultimate title.
• Leitmotif: "Useless Bliss."
• The Load: Views himself this way and is sure the others feel the same.
• Nerd Glasses: He wears thick coke bottle glasses.
• Nerdy Nasalness: Has a nasally voice.
• Older Than They Look: Kotaro's 18, but dresses and acts much younger than he really is. In his Free Time Events, he thinks if it's because he's afraid of growing up and not being ready for the real world.
• Shrinking Violet: He's very soft-spoken and insecure, especially in regard to his talent.
• Sleepyhead: He can often be found napping around the library.
• The Smart Guy: He enjoys sharing the many facts he knows at any opportunity.
• Spoiled Sweet: His parents showered him with presents, gifts, toys and generally did everything to give him a perfect life. When he decided he wanted to be an Ultimate, his parents assisted him however they could. This eventually lead to them bribing schools to allow him to have an Ultimate talent. Even so, he's an overall kind boy.
• Suicide by Cop: Attempts this in Chapter 3 by providing a visibly depressed and suicidal Shinku with poisoned tea, simply because he wants to be found and executed. Rei intervenes before the situation can escalate.

Mint Byrne

Mint Byrne

Ultimate Herbalist

Voiced by: Grief

Oh geez- S-Sorry! I forgot to introduce myself- I'm Mint Byrne, Ultimate Herbalist. Uhm- sorry for wasting your time! It's nice to meet you!

Mint is a timid and shy world renowned herbalist. He isn't very good with people and tends to prefer talking with plants, caring for them as if they were his own children. He often gets lost in his gardening and making his own herbal remedies that he forgets the very world around him. However, he will speak to other people but only when spoken to first. He has a rather friendly attitude during conversations but can be overly polite and apologize for the smallest things and the smallest comments about him can make him very upset.

His crime was committing health insurance fraud and agreeing to hide murder evidence from gangs in his garden in exchange for money.

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• Abusive Parents: His father Basil had difficulty controlling his anger and would often take it out on the family. He was very harsh to Mint, from insulting him whenever he got sad or angry to ruining his plants, and often wished he had a daughter instead. His mother Peony had it even worse, to the point that Basil often got physical with her, and she eventually took Mint and Lavender and left Basil when Mint was nine.
• All for Nothing: All those laws he broke and Lavender still ended up dying. He hasn't taken it well.
• Ambiguously Brown: Word of God confirms he's Irish, and growing up on a farm suggests he's very tan.
• Apologizes a Lot: He does this fairly often.
• Big Damn Heroes: An unintentional example, but thanks to the notes Yui sent out as part of her own murder plan, Mint happens to catch Shinku and Emilia just as she's trying to murder him, and tries to talk her down. For good measure, after she snaps out of it, he also takes her knife and puts it out of her reach.
• Brutal Honesty: When asking if Emilia has any tips for getting over a breakup, she says if he's anything like her, he won't get over it. His response?
  Mint: Y-You'll just use increasingly more unhealthy coping mechanisms?
• Caring Gardener: Mint grew up on a family farm, where his interest in herbalism started thanks to his mother growing plants of her own, including a lavender bush that Mint took a special interest in.
• Establishing Character Moment: He's introduced with Emilia asking if he grows drugs or if he's sexually attracted to plants, all while he's backed into a corner and barely able to respond. Not long afterward, he compliments Ismene on the laurels she wears in her hair.
• Exotic Eye Designs: His pupils are shaped like x's.
• Family Theme Naming: His whole family has plant names, including his father Basil, his mother Peony and his little sister Lavender. This also extends outside his family to his old boyfriend Primrose.
• Incredibly Lame Fun: In his bar scene in Chapter 3, Mint suggests some alternatives to getting high, such as germinating seeds. Even he realizes how lame it sounds.
• It's All My Fault: He blames himself for Lavender getting sick and dying, and believes it should've been him instead. He even believes that everyone, even Peony, wishes it'd been him too.
• Justified Criminal: Health insurance fraud, working with gangs, hiding murder evidence...all to support his very sick sister while she was in the hospital.
• Leitmotif: "It'll Be Okay."
• Love Redeems: His boyfriend Primrose used to be a troubled person, but thanks to help from Mint, he grew to be a better person and understood that he deserved good in his life. He remembers it quite fondly, and even Emilia is moved to tears by his story. Unfortunately, they also broke up before the Killing Game and he doesn't like thinking about it too much.
• Luminescent Blush: Whenever he's flustered.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: With Emilia.
• Momma's Boy: He greatly admires his mother Peony.
• Nature Lover: He really loves plants and animals.
• No Social Skills: Mint finds it easier to deal with plants than people, since he can tell exactly what plants need and what their properties are.
• Odd Friendship: He's quite close with Emilia, who's opposite to him in just about every way.
• Please Wake Up: Says this word for word when he, Shinku and Asuga find Emilia's body.
• Shrinking Violet: He's quite shy and soft-spoken.
• Straight Edge Evil: It would be hard to call Mint evil, but he is a convicted criminal and refuses to ever use drugs or alcohol.
• Stronger Than They Look: While he may look fairly skinny, Mint's actually quite strong. He has no problem carrying two huge buckets of water and says he could ride a bike with Primrose on the back.
• Talking to Plants: He does this sometimes. In his first free time event, Shinku finds him talking to a sorrel bush he's named Alan. Mint's very embarrassed when he realizes Shinku's standing there.
• Youthful Freckles: His cheeks and arms are covered in them.

Rei Higashi

Rei Higashi

Ultimate Mentalist

Voiced by: Juichi

Well, well, I look forward to exploring the darkest...deepest...parts of your mind that even you are terrified of...

A cunning and intelligent mentalist prodigy, Rei has a like for being loved by people unconditionally- often not to give the people he befriends joy but instead to fulfill his need to feel special and loved. He tends to view people as tools first before he sees them as humans. However, occasionally there are people he genuinely cares for and loves unconditionally. Behind all his masks he's just a scared little boy who wants to be loved.

His crime is unknown.

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• Ambiguous Situation: In his free time events, Rei tells Shinku a story about a mage who lost everyone close to him, and so devoted himself to finding a way to bring his siblings back. He soon became known as the most powerful mage in the land, and the king requested that he takes his daughter's hand in marriage. The mage accepted and was given a new chance at life, but he still wasn't happy. He wanted to control the kingdom, and had the power to do so, but he once again lost everything and the king finally put an end to his life. Even Shinku isn't sure what Rei's trying to tell him with the story.
• But Thou Must!: In one of his questions for Shinku, Rei asks if he believes in fate. The only options are "yes."
• Devoted to You: To Lyra. Rei is absolutely infatuated with her, and considers her the best of everyone there. He's even willing to devote everything to finding a way to help her escape.
• Do Wrong, Right: When Kotaro tries to give Shinku poisoned tea in Chapter 3, Rei comes in, analyzes the situation and tries to put a stop to it...because it needs more mystery. He asks Kotaro who he thinks is really responsible: Shinku if he drank it intentionally, Kotaro for making the tea or Rei for giving it to Shinku knowing it's poisoned. He finds the idea a fun psychological discussion, which is enough to put Kotaro off from the idea. Of course, he also swapped out the tea with orange juice, as he never intended Shinku to die.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Dark-haired, with a face made even paler thanks to his makeup, and he can be very unsettling at times.
• The Hilarity of Hats: Wears a black top hat decorated with playing cards.
• Hypno Fool: In Chapter 2, after Taka forbids access to the group's food, Rei suggests putting on a hypnosis show, during which he inflicts this on Taka and Alora, getting the lock combination from the former and also rendering him mute while turning the latter into a Genki Girl.
• The Fatalist: He's a firm believer in the idea that You Can't Fight Fate, although he admits it might also be a coping mechanism to deal with tragedy in his life.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Deep down, Rei wants this more than anything. His profile even lists his greatest fear as not being loved.
• Leitmotif: "Don’t Deny Fate."
• Mysterious Past: Not much of Rei's actual background is clear. All that he does reveal is that he has (or had) a sister he misses a lot.
  • In the bonus scenes of Chapter 3, Rei also shares that he used to mix drinks at his father's parties. If Shinku asks about his father, he simply says it's rude to talk about family at the table. He also admits that, given the chance, he would burn all his memories of his old life down.
• Playing Card Motifs: His whole look is full of playing card symbols, and he carries a stack of cards with him at all times.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Maiko during the first trial.
  Rei: You are not a magical girl. You are not Melody Pretty. You never were. Never will be. [...] You are just a child playing a game, deluding themself...too much of a coward to face the pitiful creature they really are. I'm not even mad about Dracul, I'm mad you keep hiding. You put yourself on a pedestal and act all high and mighty above us. When you're just as low as all of us, you're just delusional. Now just face the world and face your fate instead of denying your purpose.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When his eyes glow, he's usually up to something.
• Slasher Smile: In a few of his sprites.
• Sleight of Handiness: During the discussion with Kotaro and Shinku about the poisoned tea, he covertly swaps it with a cup full of orange juice.
• Something Only They Would Say: At the end of the second trial, Shinku encourages everyone to stop fighting and stop killing each other, that it'd be better for them all to work toward the redemption Mononeko wants for them all. Rei responds by suggesting that that's just the sort of thing the person behind the game would say.
• Suicide Dare: Twice in Chapter 3, and all against people he's sure are either the mastermind or working with them. First is in the biodome after the discovery of the fake door, where he suggests anyone who knows it or uses it could be an enemy, and after Asuga suggests it could be Lyra, he suggests Asuga should kill herself over the food stunt with Taka so they can get their friends back. Second is him encouraging Shinku to drink (fake) poisoned tea so they can get to the trial and play a fun psychological discussion game over who's responsible, though it's more to prove a point to Kotaro.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Before the hypnosis show, Kotaro approached Rei and asked if maybe he could help Eiichi with his trust issues. Rei did just that, calling him up during the show and hypnotizing him to be more trusting. Unfortunately, Yui takes advantage of this as part of her murder plan.
• Wild Card: It's very hard to get a read on what Rei's thinking or planning.

Taka Takahiro

Taka Takahiro

Ultimate TV Personality

Voiced by: DeigenVG

Your eyes do not deceive you, I am the exciting host of the popular family gameshow Downcount, the famous presenter of EFG News and the creator and host of the show- Looking into Crime.

A TV Personality who's most famously known for hosting several gameshows. Taka is loud and seemingly never stops talking, this has made him slightly unpopular with younger viewers. He's most popular with old people, however he wishes to improve to branch out to his younger target audience. Taka can be quite cynical and is always looking for a story to tell, he has quite bad performance anxiety and feels he doesn't deserve the fame he gets. He puts on a smiley persona most of the time, but secretly despises pandering to old people and cares mostly about the money and being "cool" to the youths.

He's seemingly killed in Chapter 2, but soon wakes up, having only suffered a head injury. He ultimately does die in Chapter 3, found shortly after Emilia.

His crime was tampering with evidence at crime scenes to make them more interesting for his show.

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• Birds of a Feather: As performers, he and Asuga get along very well.
• A Boy and His X: His closest friend is his pet fish, Man.
• But Not Too Foreign: Half-Japanese, half-Swedish.
• Card-Carrying Villain: After his crime is revealed, he takes on a more villainous persona...which involves doing things like waking people up too early and leaving Legos on the floor. The most threatening thing he does is forbidding the group's access to food until everyone reveals their secrets, but this is mitigated largely by Asuga.
• Cyberbullying: Has been the subject of this, including being made into a meme. He takes it all in stride and believes becoming famous among the younger generation will put an end to it.
  Taka: Soon no one will make fun of me on the internet again!
• Destroy the Evidence: Not anything he did personally, but he did do this at various crime scenes to make them more interesting for his true crime show. He comes to regret this by the start of Chapter 3, admitting he wasn't thinking of the consequences.
• Friendless Background: His closest friend for a long time was his pet fish, Man. Even he realizes how absurd it sounds.
• Game Show Host: He hosts the in-universe game show Downcount.
• Hidden Depths: Beneath his quirky showman persona, Taka can be an emotionally intelligent individual. When Emilia asks how she can earn forgiveness, he recommends that she take accountability not for the sake of her reputation but for the people she's hurt. They may not forgive you, but they may appreciate you trying to be a better person.
• Idiot Hair: Has five of these that stick up from different parts of his hair.
• Leitmotif: "Taka's Treacherous Tune™."
• Master of the Mixed Message: At the start of Chapter 3, when Asuga comforts him over his past, Taka says he loves her, only to follow it up by saying she's his best friend. Shortly afterward, he actually calls her his girlfriend...as in, "his friend who is a girl sometimes." Even Asuga seems baffled.
• Mic Drop: Some of his sprites also have this.
• Moment Killer: When Ismene and Lyra are having a moment in Chapter 3, he walks in on them and thinks they're having a sleepover.
• Motor Mouth: When he starts talking, it takes him a while to stop.
• Only in It for the Money: His goal for becoming famous, largely, is to earn fame, fortune and attention from fans, who he believes will carry him and help make him happy. At the start of Chapter 3, he admits what he really wants is an audience of people who'll like him for him and who he can talk with openly.
• Poke the Poodle: While restricting access to the group's food is bad, as detailed above, most of his other evil acts are pretty harmless.
• Repetitive Name: Taka Takahiro.
• Sad Clown: He puts on the funny eccentric persona on purpose as a way to get people to like him. He's really a shy kid who'd like a chance to open up to an audience who cares about him for him, not who they want him to be. His dislike of having a mostly older audience is also implied to stem from his grandparents cutting off contact with him due to his gender identity.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: Funny, upbeat, quirky...Taka sadly doesn't make it past Chapter 3.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Taka does have a pretty big reputation, but he's mostly watched by older folks. He'd prefer to have a younger audience, most of whom consider him a joke.
• Spanner in the Works: He accidentally walks in on Yui's murder of Eiichi, screws up the plan she'd had in mind, and actually proves to be a vital piece to solving it.
• The Speechless: Rendered this way for much of Chapter 2 by Rei during the hypnosis show, just to give everyone a break from his voice.
• Take That!: He makes more than a few jabs at some infamous Youtuber apology videos, such as citing his lawyers recommending him not to do an interpretative dance or play ukelele.
• Totally Radical: A more modern version, where he says emojis and sounds text slang out fully, and one from a millennial himself, ironically.
• Trans Tribulations: Averted for the most part. Taka's parents were quite understanding when he came out to them and they helped him transition early on. The only real issues that seemed to arise were with his grandparents, who are implied to have cut ties with him over it.

Female Participants

Ismene Circe

Ismene Circe

Ultimate Mythologist

Voiced by: SilverGlimse

Hello, Mortal.

Ismene is a smart yet reserved girl who's often stuck in her own head or stuck in books. She loves mystery and is always looking for a good story... fictional or not. She tends to be rather morbid and makes inappropriate jokes about death, but she does have some self control. She often doesn't hold relationships or friendships as dear as the other person in the friendship- which can lead to arguments and whatever bonds she manages to establish quickly break down. Behind it all, Ismene has a Goddess complex. She believes she's smarter than everyone else and should be treated better than the majority.

Her crime was murdering her professor.

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• Affectionate Nickname: She calls Lyra "Lyre" after the two become friends.
• The Alcoholic: She drinks as a way of communing with Dionysus, and even has a chest of wine she keeps under her bed. In her Free Time Events, she reveals she's been drinking since she was only 14, and suggests she started drinking as a way to cope with the stress of her education.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: While her hair is lighter than most examples, she fits this trope quite well.
• The Atoner: She wants to be this after the group escapes the game, even if she doesn't feel guilty for killing her Evil Teacher.
• Break the Haughty: Starting from Trial 1 after losing Dracul.
• Deadpan Snarker: Very even-voiced and she can be very snarky as well.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She gradually warms up to Lyra after Chapter 1, to the point of voicing her own insecurities and vulnerabilities in Chapter 3.
• Education Mama: Her parents were quite strict when it came to her education, to which she's more than a little resentful.
• Establishing Character Moment: She's introduced as very tired of Dracul's antics and dismisses Shinku's views on the usage of repeated mythology tropes in literature on the grounds that he's wrong because she said so.
• Evil Teacher: Her education was handcrafted to give her the best possible upbringing, but she was under a ton of pressure to succeed, where any grade less than perfect would put an end to her aspirations. One of her professors tried to take advantage of this and threatened to fail her if she didn't provide sexual favors for him. She later led him out into the woods and stabbed him to death.
• Exotic Eye Designs: She has 'I' designs in her pupils.
• Get Out!: To Shinku in Chapter 2, after the two have an argument about Dracul's death.
• Hold Your Hippogriffs: She frequently invokes the Greek pantheon and refers to regular people as "mortals."
• Human Sacrifice: After murdering her professor, she sacrificed him to the Gods, which she clarifies was the only time she ever did something like that.
• Insufferable Genius: She believes she's smarter than everyone else and should be treated as such.
• Interrupted Intimacy: In Chapter 3, she and Lyra were very close to something major happening, only for Taka to show up and want to join their "sleepover."
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While Ismene can come off as haughty, rude and dismissive, she genuinely cares for people who consider her a friend. She's particularly broken up by Dracul's death and is heartbroken to learn about Lyra's crime. In Chapter 3, after spending the whole day annoying and taking jabs at each other, Ismene admits she cares a lot about Lyra and wants to escape with her.
• Justified Criminal: It's hard to say Ismene's wrong when she says her professor deserved it. Ismene also suggests, if it wasn't her he went after, it likely would've been another student of his.
• Leitmotif: "Hymenaeus."
• Lonely Rich Kid: Her education was handcrafted to give her the best possible upbringing, but she was also isolated from most other students and didn't have any close friends. She even admits she doesn't really know how to talk to people her own age.
• Meaningful Name: "Ismene" is a female Greek name that means "knowledgeable," fitting for someone with her academic skills. Her surname, "Circe" was also the name of a witch from Greek Mythology.
• Not So Stoic: Her normally stoic façade shatters a few times, particularly on the subject of Dracul's death.
• Ojou Ringlets: Her hair forms several small curls.
• Pals with Jesus: She claims to have a personal relationship with Dionysus, and by drinking, she can commune with him and he can even possess her for a length of time.
• The Spock: In her Freudian Trio with Shinku and Dracul.
• Sophisticated as Hell: With how formal and regal she comes across, it can be quite surprising when she does a drop a swear, like calling Shinku a little bitch.
• Straight Man: Plays this to Dracul and later to Lyra.
• Was It All a Lie?: She's worried about this regarding Lyra, and once her secrets are revealed, Ismene asks if Lyra really plans to stick around or if she'll use her as a source of entertainment and move on. She admits she cares about her, but is worried she's just Loving a Shadow. Lyra admits the opposite: she does care about Ismene, and it scares her to think that, given what's happened to Callum and Sachiko. Ismene suggests they could work on being better together.
• Uptown Girl: She and Lyra become quite close during Chapters 2 and 3, and even she jokes about how a rich and highly educated mythologist and an impoverished con artist being together would be incredibly scandalous.

Alora Asami

Alora Asami

Ultimate Chemist

Voiced by: PiperJG

Both our times are important factors, yours may be less important than mine but time has value- small talk and pleasantries do not.

Alora Asami was a prodigy from a young age, inventing medication to "fix" people. She's very keen on the ideas of efficiency, perfection, and purity. She's very blunt in general and will avoid conversations whenever possible. From an outside eye it appears that Alora doesn't display nor feel a single emotion and holds no particular person above another. In class trials she can easily work out how a murder was committed but has difficult working out the culprit as she often can't figure out motives.

Her crime is unknown.

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• Abusive Parents: Downplayed, especially compared to many of the others. Her parents forbid her from playing games and to focus on education, and when her sister tried to play them with her, they punished her and told Alora to prioritize education above all else.
• Alliterative Name: Alora Asami.
• But Not Too Foreign: Half-Japanese, half-Swedish.
• Child Prodigy: She was quite intelligent even as a child, and left the elite school she'd joined because she already understood everything they were teaching.
• Emotionless Girl: Alora seemingly doesn't display much interest in anything besides being productive. In Chapter 2, after she participates in Rei's hypnosis show, he hypnotizes her to show more emotion and the results are...surprising, to the say the least. In her Free Time Events, it's implied she does this to herself deliberately using her medications, seemingly for Lillith.
• Fantastic Drug: She's able to make medicines that can alter peoples' personalities, from making them act certain ways, to only feeling one emotion, to not feeling any emotions at all.
• Incredibly Lame Fun: She doesn't find anything besides working particularly interesting, and even says she finds glasses of water too flavorful. In her Free Time Events, also tells Shinku that she feels that doing things that are unproductive will make her less intelligent.
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: As a chemist, she wears one at all times.
• Leitmotif: "Controlled Reaction."
• Nerdy Nasalness: She has a nasally tinge to her voice, much like Kotaro.
• No Social Skills: Alora doesn't really grasp how relationships are supposed to work, and believes that people trying to get her to like them want her to give them medications to make them act the way she'd prefer.
• Only Friend: The only friend she'd ever had in school was a fashion student named Lillith.
• The Smart One: Easily the smartest among the group.
• Toxic Friend Influence: If her final Free Time Event is anything to go by, her relationship with Lillith was not a healthy one even before the killing game.
  Alora: I changed my entire personality for you, I gave up feeling happiness for you, I gave every emotion up for you. Why are you running?
• White Hair, Black Heart: It's hard to say that Alora is actually evil, but she doesn't have a good grasp of people or how relationships are supposed to work. She's also very unempathetic toward everyone, including her own sister.
• The Workaholic: Her main priority in life is being productive. Even she doesn't really know why she does it.
• Wrong-Name Outburst: In her final free time event, she calls Shinku "Lillith" by mistake.

Asuga Hino

Asuga Hino

Ultimate Ringleader

Voiced by: QuipOfTheTongue

Welcome to the show of life! Sit back, relax and enjoy the entertainment-mwehehehe!

Asuga is a very outgoing and loud girl who loves talking... a whole lot. She's actually pretty cautious and insecure about most things, but she doesn't mention it nor show it directly. She's a fairly quirky girl and can't stay on one topic for too long. Despite the fact this circus owner seems to always be on an eternal sugar rush, she's actually fairly mature and empathetic. Many people see Asuga as a sort of big sister figure in their life and aspire to be like her and have her seemingly unending energy. She seems to love what she does unconditionally and doesn't care what others think.

Her crime is unknown.

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• Abusive Parents: Her mother was a brutal Stage Mom who forced her into becoming the Little Ultimate Pageant Queen, treating her like an adult even when she was in elementary school. She would even do things like restrict how much food they got, choking them with hairspray and treated her son like a girl. Asuga grew increasingly defiant against her, which lead to more and more arguments until Asuga leapt out the window one day and never looked back. Unfortunately, after she left, her mother turned her ambitions toward Asuga's young brother instead.
• Affectionate Nickname: She refers to Shinku as "skinny legs."
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: The characters and narration use both "she" and "they" for Asuga, and Taka refers to her as "his friend who is a girl sometimes." Rippilie has confirmed Asuga is a demigirl.^note  Someone who doesn't fully identify as female.
• Beyond Redemption: Surprisingly enough, in one of her free time events, she expresses this sentiment toward criminals. She believes that, because they've already proven they can go low, there's nothing stopping them from going there again. The most they can do is slow down their "decay" and do slightly better, but she believes they'll always eventually fall back into their old habits.
• Big Damn Heroes: She manages to find Shinku in time to stop his suicide attempt.
• Birds of a Feather: As performers, they and Taka get along very well.
• But Not Too Foreign: She's half-Japanese, half-African American.
• Circus Brat: A self-made one, as she and several other homeless kids put together their own circus, which proved very successful.
• Cool Big Sis: She fills this role within the cast, trying her best to support everyone.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: In Chapter 3, she makes a drink Taka refers to as "Sugi Juice," which includes chocolate, tomato juice, milk and vinegar. Shinku drinks it...and is baffled that it actually tastes delicious.
• The Dragon: She becomes this, more or less, for Taka once he decides to become a card-carrying Harmless Villain, mostly to keep the others from kicking his ass.
• The Fatalist: She believes that it's best to stick to your fate rather than changing destiny.
• Genki Girl: She's almost always excited and full of energy.
• In Vino Veritas: During her bar scene in Chapter 3, Asuga, while completely plastered, vents to Shinku about how she's in love with someone (all but said to be Taka) and isn't sure how to tell him.
• Leitmotif: "Falling Star of the Show."
• My Greatest Failure: Her biggest regret is leaving her brother Nikko with their mother, and that her defiance may have made her behavior even worse. Her goal is to someday reunite with him and be a better sister.
• Repulsive Ringmaster: Completely inverted. Asuga is a friendly and caring big sister figure, and considers her fellow circus members to be family.
• The Runaway: After an argument with her mother, Asuga ran away from home and started a new life on the streets, eventually leading to her putting together a circus.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: She's quite supportive of the others, such as encouraging Shinku to have more confidence in himself.

Emilia Carmine

Emilia Carmine

Ultimate Pyrotechnician

Voiced by: Cynderheart

If you call me a nerdy title like "pyrotechwhatever", I'll write you several strongly worded paragraphs. And kick you where the sun don't shine.

The Ultimate Pyrotechnician but prefers to be called the Ultimate Arsonist. She is a bubbly but stubborn, hot-headed and sarcastic young lady. She's a master of pyrotechnics and knows all the mechanics and science behind fire. She's not very respectful of personal boundaries and often accidentally makes jokes at others expense... usually to make herself feel better. She's got a bit of a height complex and gets really mad very easily when people call her a little girl. Leading on from this, Emilia is quick to defend someone if anyone makes fun of the way they look and she does not condone nor tolerate bullying... unless it's done by her.

She's the first among the two victims of Chapter 3.

Her crime was burning down her father's hospital, killing and injuring hundreds of people.

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• Abusive Parents: Emilia's father wanted her to fit his ideal of a perfect daughter, and would often lock her away until she behaved like he wanted, even lying to people and pretending she was sick so he could monitor her. He was also very cruel to Emilia's transgender older sister, Elodi, and eventually kicked her out of the house after an argument. When she showed back up at his hospital a year later, suffering from some sort of illness, he turned her away.
• Accidental Murder: Burning down her dad's hospital just to spite him lead to multiple injuries and a few accidental deaths.
• Afraid of Doctors: Thanks to her father, Emilia is terrified of everything medical.
• Ambiguously Brown: Word of God confirms she's French, though her surname is actually Italian.
• Apology Gift: In her Chapter 3 bonus scene, she decides to make paintings for Mint and Shinku as an apology. Taka also asks for one, as a gift for helping her figure out how to apologize.
• Berserk Button: Her height, anything medical and people who take family for granted.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: People pitying her annoys her.
• Establishing Character Moment: She's introduced asking Mint questions like if he grows drugs or if he's sexually attracted to plants.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Her pupils are flame-shaped.
• Fiery Redhead: Fittingly, her hair ranges from red to orange.
• French Jerk: She's French and can be quite crude.
• These Hands Have Killed: In Chapter 3, after she talks about she doesn't trust most of the group, Ismene makes a comment about how she has the biggest body count out of anyone there. Emilia simply looks down at her hands and walks away.
• Height Angst: As the second-shortest female member of the cast, it bothers her quite a bit. The correct answer for one of her questions in her free time events is "Spiritually, very tall."
• High-Pressure Emotion: Some of her sprites have smoke billowing from the top of her head.
• Hypocritical Humor: During their conversation in Chapter 3, she starts deflecting Shinku's questions by calling him a gayass who's mourning a second dead boyfriend. Shinku rightfully points out that not only is that what she's doing, she also kisses women.
• I Can Change My Beloved: In Chapter 3, Emilia admits to Shinku that she's been subject to this so often from so many people, none of which has helped, that she doesn't really want to be fixed anymore. She feels guilty about it either way.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's rude, condescending and obnoxious, but also has a very caring side to her. She absolutely loves her older sister and would do anything to get her back. At the start of Chapter 3, she also apologizes to Shinku and admits (in a backhanded sort of way) that she does care about him.
• Kill It with Fire: When she ran away from home, she also decided to burn down her father's hospital, an act that got several hundred people injured and even killed a few.
• Lady Swears-a-Lot: A sentence rarely comes out of her mouth without including a curse or some kind of crude insult.
• Leitmotif: "Arson is a Girl's Best Friend."
• Love Hurts: She doesn't go into detail, but when Mint is reminiscing about his ex-boyfriend and how much he misses him, she tells him it's okay to be sad, since she's been getting over a breakup for the last two years.
  Mint: …A-Any tips on getting over things?
  Emilia: Oh honey, if you're like me…you won't get over it.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: With Mint.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Twice in Chapter 2. First is when she tries to kill Shinku and Mint, only for the Body Discovery Announcement chimes in and put a stop to it. She drops the knife and quickly apologizes. Later on, when her crime is revealed at the end of the trial, she said she wanted to get back at her father, but clearly regrets what she did.
• Odd Friendship: She's quite close with Mint, who's the opposite of her in just about every way. Emilia even considers him an honorary brother.
• Older Than They Look: She's 19 and really hates when people think of her as a little girl.
• Peaceful in Death: When her body is found by Shinku, Asuga and Mint, she's floating on her back in a pond, covered in vines and with a flower resting on her chest. While there's clearly blood in her hair, she looks far more peaceful compared to Taka's death.
• Pyromaniac: Fire is her favorite thing in the world. She even prefers to introduce herself as the Ultimate Arsonist, rather than a pyrotechnician.
• The Runaway: After leaving the hospital, she lived on the streets for quite some time.
• Straight Gay: Word of God confirms she's a lesbian.
• Stepford Snarker: Under her crass attitude, Emilia is a very insecure and guilty person, especially in regard to the fate of her sister and the people in her dad's hospital.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Her anger often gets the better of her and she doesn't consider the consequences of her actions until later. It's what lead to her setting fire to her dad's hospital and deciding to try and kill Shinku in chapter 2.

Maiko Yuzuki

Maiko Yuzuki

Ultimate Voice Actor

Voiced by: HopelessLuna

Sparkles and justice, crafting the new melody the whole world will sing- I'm Melody Pretty!

Maiko is a well known voice actress, voicing roles in over 150 shows/ movies/games/advertisements in only the last 3 years. Her most popular role is a magical girl character she voices called Melody Pretty. The fame she got from playing Melody Pretty got into her head, causing Maiko to convince herself that she is, in fact, Melody Pretty herself. She acts like Melody Pretty, she dresses like Melody Pretty, she only eats foods Melody Pretty ate in the anime, etc.

She's the first culprit, murdering Dracul due to his criminal past and presenting his body on the cake during the party.

Her crime was murdering multiple people on the grounds that they were criminals.

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• A Day in the Limelight: She's the Player Character of Pink, where her primary goal is going around trying to get information out of people for Yui
• Abusive Parents: Her mother was a Stage Mom who forced her into voice acting in order to live vicariously through her, and who had a desperate need for affection, leading her to constantly be with horrible men who also stole money from the two of them. Eventually, when she started dating legitimately dangerous men, Maiko decided to take things into her own hands.
• Affectionate Nickname: She often refers to the other residents of the lab with the names of characters from the Melody Pretty anime.
• All Crimes Are Equal: Anything from shoplifting to murder is enough for Maiko to brand someone as a criminal and therefore kill them.
• Ambiguously Brown: Subverted. Maiko is biracial, but her mother actually made her take tanning pills as part of some fashion trend. Rippilie has said these contributed to her overall poor health.
• Becoming the Mask: Played with. Maiko began voicing Melody Pretty as a young girl, finding comfort in the character as she grew up in an abusive household. While she intentionally puts on the persona of Melody Pretty, she can drop it if she wants; she just really prefers to be Melody Pretty because she believes it's the only reason why people would like her. It even allowed her to distance herself from her murders. Voicing the character has become such a core part of her identity that, even during her execution, Maiko cannot bring herself to admit that she isn't really Melody Pretty.
• Beneath the Mask: As Shinku gets to learn in her Free Time events, the real Maiko is soft-spoken, socially awkward, irritable and more than a little foul-mouthed. All reasons why she was drawn to the character in the first place.
• Black-and-White Insanity: Maiko despises criminals as a whole, seeing them all as less than human and, in her Free Time Events, begs Shinku to tell her he's innocent, since he's the only friend she really has.
  • Actually discussed throughout Pink, where Maiko's morality is challenged at several points and she challenges others in turn. There are clear signs she doubts her actions, but also that she believes strongly in justice and that people who do wrong can't be better. The most profound example being how she responds to Dracul, where she actually agrees with him that a Motivational Lie is the best bet to getting the others to change, hence why she's willing to become the bad guy.
• But Not Too Foreign: She's half-Japanese and half-German.
• Chekhov's Skill: When Ismene makes it clear she wasn't in any position or situation to scream during the party, suspicion falls on Maiko and her skills in voice acting. Turns out, she attempted to frame Ismene for Dracul's murder by recording herself screaming in Ismene's voice earlier in the day, then played it at the party.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: It goes without saying that Maiko is...not the most grounded or stable person in the cast..
• Disproportionate Retribution: Everyone's very horrified to learn that she killed Dracul because she overheard he was once a shoplifter. Even Ismene has to ask why Maiko didn't come after her, since it was revealed by Mononeko that she killed her professor. Maiko states that she was planning on it, but she hyperfocuses on one task at a time and decided to kill Dracul because she heard about his crime first.
• Everybody Has Standards: Maiko may be irritable, delusional and violent, but she does have a soft spot for kids. In Voice Actress.mp3, when a mysterious woman confronts her with pictures of her crime scenes at a convention, Maiko quietly pleads with her to stop for fear of scaring the children around.
  • She has a few moments in Pink, especially around Yui. When she learns just what Yui did to Eiichi, she loses it.
• Eye Scream: She gouges Dracul's eyes out after he dies and decorates the top of the cake with them.
• For Great Justice: She loves talking about she promotes justice, love and sparkles.
• Former Child Star: Maiko's been voicing Melody Pretty since she was a little girl and saying it's had an impact on her mental health would be an understatement.
• Friendless Background: She didn't have any close friends growing up, and has come to believe nobody would like her real personality even now. Pink has her desperately wanting to be friends with Yui and agreeing to help her gather info on the group.
• Insistent Terminology: She always insists people call her Melody Pretty.
• Kill It with Fire: Her execution ends this way, with a recording booth catching fire when she can't admit that she isn't really Melody Pretty.
• Knight Templar: Since Melody Pretty fights for justice, she believes everything she does is just.
• Magical Girl: Her outfit and persona give off this vibe, and of course these are based on the character she voice acts. Her true personality, that of a serial-killing vigilante, makes her closer to a Dark Magical Girl.
• Nice Character, Mean Actor: It's unlikely that any fans of Melody Pretty expected that her voice actress would actually be a delusional serial killer.
• Older Than She Looks: You'd be forgiven for not realizing Maiko's actually 26, making her the oldest among the cast.
• Perspective Flip: The "Love Suicide" ending of Pink has Maiko confronting Dracul about his beliefs, and while both of them seem to find common ground regarding their desire to help the others, she ultimately still carries through with murdering him and decides it's better to make sure everyone remembers his lies fondly and hates her instead. It ends with her execution, with her hoping that maybe he and Dracul could meet again and finally get to know each other.
• Serial Killer: And she has a fairly large body count.
• Shout-Out: Melody Pretty, being a magical girl character, is a pastiche of these. The most obvious is Sailor Moon, while the name may be a combo of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch and Pretty Cure.
• Tragic Monster: While Maiko is a serial killer and has maimed and killed countless people, it's very obvious she's also never had much of a support network. Having grown up under a cruel stage mom, multiple criminal stepfathers, and the belief that nobody would ever like the real her, what else could one have expected?
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Maiko genuinely believes that what she's doing is just and that she's an ally to the police, and while she may have killed legitimate criminals before, her definition of "criminal" is also worryingly broad.

Takiko Ushina

Takiko Ushina

Ultimate Little Sister

Voiced by: SilentEcho

Hellohellohello, good wonderful amazing super special day to you- new big bro!

A bubbly, outgoing girl, Takiko works as a little sister for hire, spending time with people and making them happy. However, under that, she has difficulty dealing with negative emotions and has a surprisingly cynical view on herself and life in general.

Her crime is unknown, but she apparently was drafted for some kind of war.

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• Affectionate Nickname: She gives these to a lot of people, such as "Lyly" for Lyra and "Shishi" for Shinku.
• Animal Motifs: Rabbits.
• The Anti-Nihilist: In Chapter 2, Takiko admits she finds everything meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but that means it's up to us to assign that meaning. She chooses to believe in good things so the bad things don't seem so bad.
• "Begone" Bribe: As she reveals in Chapter 3, Mononeko gave her a huge bag of monocoins in exchange for keeping quiet about a secret in the biodome...which she immediately blabs about once the group is split up, bringing it to Shinku, Asuga and Mint's attention.
• But Not Too Foreign: She's half-Japanese, a quarter British and a quarter American.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: After all she's been through, she hardly bats an eye at murder investigations.
• The Cutie: Comes off as this initially, but spending time with her makes it clear she has a lot going on below the surface...
• Death by Childbirth: Her mother died giving birth to her.
• Dissonant Serenity: She's always smiling and speaks in a cheery tone...even when saying things that horrify others.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her introduction has her excitedly bombard Shinku with a ton of questions.
• Everything's Better with Rainbows: One of her sprites has her making a rainbow between her hands.
• I Didn't Tell You Because You'd Be Unhappy: She usually keeps a lot of things bottled up and hidden from the others, especially Lyra, and plays up her childishness either so people will protect her, or jus so nobody will feel tempted to hurt her. A lot of it is motivated to keep Lyra from feeling any guiltier about what happened to her.
• I See Dead People: In her bonus scene in Chapter 3, she talks with Shinku for a while and says he likes talking to ghosts. When Shinku says ghosts aren't real, she asks about the shadow standing behind him. She doesn't elaborate on this any further.
• Leitmotif: "At Your Service!"^note  Not that I want to be.
• Old Friend: She and Lyra knew each other before the killing game, though they hadn't seen each other for about a year before then.
• Older Than They Look: While she's short and acts fairly childish, Takiko's actually 18. Her bar scene in Chapter 3 actually highlights this where, while she doesn't drink, she likes sitting there because she can actually act her age.
• Orphan's Ordeal: She lost her mother in childbirth, her father to a murder-suicide and her older sister Sachiko to a mafia hit. Her only real support left is with Lyra, and the impact of it all on her mental health is quite clear.
• Pater Familicide: When she was eight, Takiko's father waited until Sachiko was out of the house, then told Takiko they were going to visit a bridge...which he drove their car off of. Takiko survived, but was in and out of a coma for the next five years.
• Perpetual Smiler: No matter what's going on, Takiko is never seen without some kind of smile on her face. In her free time events, she reveals she takes medicine Alora gave her long ago and claims she doesn't even feel negative emotions anymore.
• The Power of Friendship: Despite her pretty dark view on life, she unambiguously believes in the importance of friendship. She has a very close bond with Lyra and hopes that she and Shinku can become as close as family. In her final free time event, she even suggests they could turn the mastermind over to their side by becoming friends with them.
• Rape as Backstory: While it's not outright stated, Takiko's role as a "Little sister for hire" is heavily implied to be essentially a form of prostitution enforced by the mafia. In her final free time event, Shinku is horrified when she asks if he wants something from her, like if he plans to use her as a doll or take her up to his room, knowing she can't resist. He hugs her and assures her it would never happen.
• Smarter Than They Look: While Takiko's neither dumb nor a child, she does tend to stun people with her wisdom. For Shinku, she suggests he avoid trying to completely change his negative mindset and instead try to change his perspective on his situation. In Chapter 2, she also points out the spotlight as a key piece of evidence in Eiichi's murder, which everyone else missed.
• Stepford Smiler: She's all smiles and sunshine on the surface, and an ocean of emotional turmoil below.
• Teen Pregnancy: She and Sachiko were products of this, with their parents only being 16 when the latter was born.
• Token Mini-Moe: At 4'7", she's the shortest member of the cast.
• Troubled, but Cute: If it's not clear by now, poor Takiko has been through a lot, but she keeps up a positive attitude nonetheless.

Lyra Shatel

Lyra Shatel/"Pippi Roseblaid"

Ultimate Debatist (fake)/Con Artist

Voiced by: akp

Think of me as, uh- like- your token wine aunt, aite?

Lyra Shatel is the Ultimate Debatist. She is a confident, slightly cocky, impulsive, thrill-seeking girl. She tends to do things for fun and rarely cares nor considers the consequences, or at least doesn't appear to consider the consequences. She's annoyingly good at contributing in trials, having very strong opinions and shooting down other arguments quickly- even if they're right. Despite her confidence she secretly has a lot of insecurities and is fairly familiar with breakdowns, using her confident persona as a mask for her true flaws and self loathing.

Her crime was working with an organized crime group, mostly selling narcotics, ones often laced with dangerous substances.

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• A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 3 shines the spotlight on her just as much as Shinku, complete with flashbacks to her old life and a POV switch.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Lyra may be a liar, a thief, and a drug-dealer who's harmed countless people, but she clearly regrets what she's done and many of her lies are said for her own safety and the safety of others. This in contrast to Yui, a self-absorbed delusional yandere who used her to further her murder plan against Eiichi.
• Affectionate Nickname: She calls Takiko "Taki" and Ismene "Iz."
• At Least I Admit It: She makes no illusions that she's a good person, and says as much during her fight with Yui after the second trial.
  Lyra: At least I admit I'm a terrible person, you seem to deny it in every way and hope that the world just bends to your will!
• Becoming the Mask: "Lyra Shatel" isn't her real name, and she admits she doesn't really know who the real her is anymore, but she's coming to enjoy the people she's made under her current alias.
• Berserk Button: Bringing up her past is a good way to get punched, as Yui finds out.
• Cool Big Sis: Fills this role for Takiko.
• Consummate Liar: Played with, given that she's very good at deceiving people when necessary, but when with someone she feels she can trust, she often dumps much of her actual past on them.
• Dark and Troubled Past: What little is made clear is that after her parents kicked her out, she was left homeless and hungry, and was eventually recruited by a gang run by Shedo. She tried to have a secret second life with Callum, Takiko and Sachiko, but when her boss found out, he had Callum and Sachiko killed and recruited Takiko as well, forbidding them from seeing each other. Then, a year later, she ends up in a killing game.
• Deadpan Snarker: Affectionately so, especially toward people she likes.
• Deuteragonist: After Shinku, she's the most plot-important character in the story.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Turns out she has good reasons for hiding her real name, given her connections to the mafia.
• Double Agent: Part of her deal with Hope's Peak for her becoming the Ultimate Debatist was for her to also act as this for Shedo's gang.
• Drowning My Sorrows/Must Have Nicotine: She carries a flask of alcohol and cigarettes with her all the time, and Shinku often finds her stress-drinking or smoking.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Her pupils are shaped like stars.
• Flipping the Bird: Often does this in her sprites.
• Forced into Evil: A very hungry and desperate 14-year-old Lyra was recruited by a mafia boss, who said he could turn her life around within a year. Even she realizes how sketchy it sounds, but she had nothing else and by the time she realized, she was in too deep to really do anything about it. Takiko tries to defend her after the second trial, saying it's all they could do for money.
• Foreign Exchange Student: She pretended to be a Dutch exchange student named Pippi so she could attend high school with Callum and join his debate club, while the real Pippi was off exploring Europe.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: The descriptions of the bonus videos are written from the perspective of "Pippi Roseblaid", the alias Lyra used when attending high school with Callum, and all discussing a set of video tapes she found relating to the people taken for the killing game and how she's apparently working with a detective to find them.
• Hallucinations: Much like Shinku, she experiences PTSD-related hallucinations.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: What she likes to present herself as, when she's burying her self-loathing under as many substances as she can get her hands on.
• Interrupted Intimacy: She and Ismene were very close to something major happening, only for Taka to show up and want to join their "sleepover."
• It Was a Gift: She has several star-shaped hair clips in her hair, which were a gift from Takiko.
• It's All My Fault: A lot of people have died because of her connections to the mafia, including Callum and Sachiko, and Takiko ended up with a horrible job under the mafia as well. Needless to say, it weighs on her conscience.
  Lyra: I get everybody killed, Iz.
• The Kindnapper: During one of her drug-runs, she came across Takiko alone in her apartment. She took it upon herself to take her out for ice cream and movies, even dating Sachiko and becoming a secondary parental figure in Takiko's life. This, unfortunately, also brought the Ushina family into the mafia's sphere.
• Legacy Character: In a sense. Callum was actually the Ultimate Debatist who dragged her along to his debate club, and she mostly went for the food, but after his death, she took on the title herself. In Chapter 3, she reveals this was actually Hope's Peak's decision, asking her to also spy on Shedo's gang.
• Leitmotif: "The Stars Are So Pretty."
• Living a Double Life: She was working for the mafia and trying to live a normal life, from pretending to be a foreign exchange student to attend high school with Callum and later spending time with the Ushina sisters. It didn't last and didn't end well for any of them.
• The Lost Lenore: She was in a relationship with Takiko's older sister Sachiko, who was killed thanks to her connections to the mafia. Thinking about Sachiko drives Lyra to tears in her free time event.
• Mysterious Past: Very little of Lyra's true past is clear, and she really doesn't want to talk about it. As it turns out, not only is her talent fake but "Lyra Shatel" isn't even her real name. Ismene suggests she's spent so long living fake lives that she doesn't even know who the real her is anymore.
  • Chapter 3 provides a few flashbacks to her old life, such as her being recruited by Mr. Shedo, meeting Callum and later Sachiko...and how it all comes to an end.
• Nerds Are Sexy: She really takes a liking to nerds.
• Odd Friendship: With Rei, who she likes doing dramatic acting bits with.
• Old Friend: She and Takiko are quite close, though it's been a year since they'd last seen each other by the start of the killing game.
• Parental Abandonment: Her parents kicked her out when she was 14, leaving her to fend for herself.
• Police Are Useless: She's not at all fond of the police.
• Replacement Goldfish: Much like how Ismene wonders Was It All a Lie? in Chapter 3, Lyra worries if she's using her to fill the void that Dracul's death left. Ismene assures her that what they have is different, and she cares about her for her.
• Sad Clown/Stepford Snarker: She cracks jokes, makes sarcastic remarks and even does bits with people like Rei, but under it all, Lyra is quite a mass. Ismene calls her out for it in Chapter 3, asking Lyra to be more honest with her from now on.
• Saying Too Much: During her emotional breakdowns, she often lets details about her past life slip.
• Teen Pregnancy: Heavily implied by her free time events, where one of her questions for Shinku is whether abortion is okay. After the second trial, Yui reveals that she did get pregnant, and given that Lyra is only 20, it was likely this.
• Tragic Keepsake: Her blue jacket actually belonged to Callum.
• Troll: She likes messing with people. Throughout Chapter 3, she messes with Ismene by intentionally giving her incorrect mythology facts.
• Unwitting Pawn: After Yui gets a hold of her secrets, she uses Lyra to collect everyone else's secrets, which form the basis of her murder plan in Chapter 2.
• Uptown Girl: She and Ismene become quite close during Chapters 2 and 3, promising to support each other through everything from now on. Lyra jokes that she might make "Lyra Circe" her new alias, which Ismene seems very alright with.

Yui Aoide

Yui Aoide

Ultimate Conductor

Voiced by: HecticVexor

Ah well, a girl's gotta do what she can to attract the boys~

A sweet and generally optimistic girl, she's a talented conductor who's conducted many of the world's most famous orchestras. Due to this, she's also become fairly good at "conducting people," she's quick to resolve arguments and break up fights. Despite her friendly nature, Yui can be rather bossy and even somewhat controlling- but she can assure you that it comes from a place of affection. She hates being seen as plain and is a little vain regarding her looks.

She is the culprit of chapter 2, murdering Eiichi for not returning her feelings.

Her crime was stalking, harassing and doing everything in her power to ruin Eiichi's life, including sending the police to his house on false rape charges.

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• Abusive Parents: While she's a thoroughly unpleasant and despicable person, Yui is heavily implied to have internalised her beliefs about romance, intelligence, and the like from a controlling father. In "Conductor.mp3", she even mentions he'd be very upset to learn that she was attending something as "lowly" as a therapy session.
• Anime Hair: Her hair is split down the middle between green and purple, and is styled into two treble clefs. By her own admission, it takes about three hours to style it every morning. Flashbacks after the second trial reveal her natural hair color is brown.
• Affectionate Nickname: She often refers to Shinku as "cheekbones."
• Asshole Victim: Absolutely no one is sad to see her go, especially not Kotaro.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She's introduced a fairly friendly and outgoing person, if a bit weird and full of herself. Then in Chapter 1, she starts making very rude and cruel comments about Ismene, even Slut-Shaming her for what happened with her professor. Then Chapter 2 comes along and the real Yui comes out...
• Broken Record: As it becomes more and more clear that Yui is the culprit of Chapter 2, she starts repeating herself more and more incessantly, much to the annoyance of everyone. In particular, she keeps stressing that "little old me" couldn't possibly have killed Eiichi, while simultaneously insisting that she has to "slow down" for all of the "intellectually stunted" idiots in the room.
• But Not Too Foreign: She's half-Japanese, half-Thai.
• Childhood Friends: With Eiichi.
• Covert Pervert: Some of her comments to Shinku in Chapter 2 reveal she has fantasies of being kidnapped and being hypnotized.
• Daddy's Girl: She's quite close with her father, who actually encouraged a lot of her bad behavior and always drilled it into her head that she needs to find a husband. In "Conductor.mp3", it's revealed that she goes out of her way to be "perfect" because he's apathetic to all her achievements that aren't related to romance.
• Entitled to Have You: Yui's possessiveness and vanity manage to put Christian Gray to shame.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Her pupils are shaped like musical notes.
• Failed a Spot Check: She tried to kill Taka to get rid of the only witness to her crime, but failed to actually check if he was actually dead. He later proves vital in solving the case.
• Female Misogynist: Many of her cruelest and most sexualized insults are directed toward other girls, particularly those with past histories of sexual harassment/abuse, such as accusing Ismene of sleeping with her professor for good grades, calling Takiko "jailbait", and mocking Lyra for getting pregnant at some point. And all this from the girl who only seems interested in finding a man herself.
• Glory Hound: Not only did she kill Eiichi to get back at him for not loving her, but because she hoped, by escaping the killing game as the sole survivor, she'd become famous and get even more attention and opportunities.
• Hate Sink: Bigoted, manipulative, callous, condescending, shallow, delusional, obsessive, narcissistic, and just flat-out cruel...if it's not clear by now, nobody else in the cast feels the slightest bit of sympathy for her. She even creeps out Mononeko. "Conductor.mp3" adds some sympathy for her, however — there, she comes off as much more understandably insecure and depressed, wanting to find someone who won't try to make her change and who can just let her be herself.
• Heel Realization: In the "New Melodies" ending of Pink, Maiko actually manages to get through to Yui and gets her to realize how much harm she's caused. After her and Dracul are dead, she washes the dye out of her hair, cuts it short and joins the surviving group at breakfast planning to tell them the truth about her, and asking nobody to forgive her.
• Hope Spot: Yui actually did start questioning why she was so fixated on Eiichi and wondered if it was worth it trying to pursue him anymore. She tried to see a therapist against her father's wishes, where she admitted all she really wanted was to feel loved and she can't keep lying to herself anymore that what she's doing is making her happy. It might've turned out well...if Yui had gone to the right therapy office.
• I Can Change My Beloved: One of her many, many delusional beliefs is that she could "fix" Eiichi and make him fall for her. Needless to say, that was never going to happen.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Her fundamental motivation, whether by her father or by her "prince".
• If I Can't Have You…: Her main reason for committing murder.
• Incompatible Orientation: The biggest reason why she and Eiichi were never gonna happen was because he's gay. Not that it was going to stop her. Rippille has even stated that, while Eiichi made it clear he's not interested in her romantically, Yui believed that she could "cure" him, something backed up by her comments in "Conductor.mp3."
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: For all her bluster about being "perfect" and deserving of fame and fortune, "Conductor.mp3" has her confide that she wants to be anything but herself, and so puts all of her energy into appearing perfect.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: While she has her moments of seeming kindness and apparent innocence, Yui is by-and-large a horribly selfish, cruel person.
• Leitmotif: "Practice Makes Perfect."
• Lonely at the Top: Says as much in "Conductor.mp3", where all her accolades as an Ultimate mean nothing to her if she's constantly feeling lonely and miserable.
• Love Makes You Evil: Oh yeah.
• Manipulative Bitch: After getting Lyra's secret from Mononeko, she uses her to help get a hold of everyone else's secrets, which then forms the basis of her murder plan.
• Narcissist: A truly textbook case, to the point of checking off all nine of the DSM's criteria (to qualify, you only need to display five). In order, Yui has an inflated sense of self-importance, a preoccupation with an idealized romance to some "prince", a belief that she must associate with special people (or, rather, that she doesn't deserve to be anywhere near the criminal Ultimates in this game), a thirst for others' admiration, a childishly unrealistic sense of entitlement, a demonstrated ability and willingness to manipulate people, a profound Lack of Empathy, a jealous side, and many, many verbal displays of her arrogance. She even has a few of the lesser-known signs of clinical narcissism, too, including a need to appear perfect and a very fragile sense of self underneath her immense ego.
• Never My Fault: At no point does Yui ever take responsibility for the things she's done and continues claiming that she's innocent. Even when Mononeko explains her criminal past to the group, she refuses to acknowledge any of it.
• Nightmare Face: When her true colors are revealed in Chapter 2, she becomes very prone to wide-eyed scowls and frightening smirks that rival Kokichi Ouma and Kanade Otonokoji. This tendency even gets lampshaded towards the end of the trial.
• Off with Her Head!: Her execution ends with her being decapitated.
• Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction when the woman she thinks is a therapist starts repeating her father's words to her, something she couldn't possibly have known.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Not only does she slut-shame and mock both Ismene and Lyra for their past histories, but she's also very homophobic and transphobic. After Taka becomes a wrench in her plan, she starts angrily referring to him as "it."
• Psychological Projection: When discussing Eiichi in Conductor.mp3, she starts off talking about he's her perfect prince charming, but the conversation shifts after she starts venting and it's hard not to get the sense she's actually talking about herself.
  Yui: He is...a demon. A flawed creature, but he is perfect, a damn saint of an honorable villain, that boy is. Because he...he could be so much, but he doesn't try. He retreats away from himself, he retreats away from me, and laziness angers me above all else, because as my father said, "there are no ugly people, only lazy people."
• Psychopathic Womanchild: She's 22 years old, but still fantasizes about fairytale romance with her "prince" Eiichi and insists that the world change to accommodate her desires, rather than the other way around. And, of course, she commits a bunch of heinous acts like stalking, sexual harassment, calling in a SWAT team on Eiichi for doing all the things she did, and concocting a premeditated murder.
• Rich Bitch: What she lacks in morals she makes up for with money.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Subverted. While she was infatuated with Eiichi, she also would've been just as happy to get with another guy so long as they said yes.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She is obsessed with finding a man, to the point that she literally asks Shinku in all of her free time events if he'll be her boyfriend. This was also a major motivating factor in her treatment of Eiichi. Deconstructed in Conductor.mp3, where she admits to a woman she thinks is a therapist that pursuing him hasn't worked, it's just made her miserable and she's wondering if it's even worth it anymore.
• Stalker with a Crush: She stalked Eiichi throughout their childhood and teenage years.
• Therapy Is for the Weak: Subverted in "Conductor.mp3", where Yui actually does try going to therapy, even if her dad views it as lowly and her issues something she should be able to handle on her own. Unfortunately, she happened to cross paths with the wrong person...
• Thinks Like a Romance Novel: She has a very idealized view of romance and relationships, thinking that persistence is the key and that having a boyfriend is just an end in itself. Of course, when doing this (especially to someone who isn't interested in women) you're just bound to push them away.
  Yui: I want my life to be nothing short of a fairy tale, and what's a fairy tale without a prince?
• Tragic Villain: While Yui is without a doubt a horrid person, much of her behavior can be attributed to her sheltered upbringing by her heavily traditionalist father. He drilled it into her head that her personal dreams didn't matter, never taught her basic human decency and that she had to fulfill her role of honoring his legacy by finding a husband. An upbringing that would lead her down a very dark path.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: As a child, Yui used to be pretty close friends with Eiichi. Pink even reveals she once appeared on TV as an aspiring idol, where she made it clear her dream was to shine as a bright star and not as part of a constellation. While that dream was crushed early on by her father, Yui's appearance there helped inspire Maiko to pursue her dream of voicing Melody Pretty.
• Villain Has a Point: As vile as she is, she does bring everyone's attention to the fact that Lyra has been keeping her own Dark and Troubled Past hidden to everyone else, and that the identity she's told everyone thus far is a lie.
• Virtuous Character Copy: Amazingly for a Hate Sink, Yui's one of these to Kanade Otonokoji. Both are unpleasantly smug perfectionists with a music-related talent and multicolored hair, hide their true selves under a sweet facade, go to drastic and disturbing lengths to get the person they claim to love, drag out their final trial by bragging about their intellect and flashing frightening faces, and are executed by asphyxiation after committing a premeditated murder. But that is where the similarities end.
  • Yui mainly relies on indirect methods, like blackmail, to deal with her adversaries rather than direct methods, like brainwashing and murder, as Kanade does.
  • Yui denies she is a bad person and has to have her abuses exposed by Mononeko, while Kanade openly revels in causing suffering and happily tells all the survivors about being a Serial Killer.
  • Yui at least has the sense to acknowledge that she could find another "prince" if things didn't work out with Eiichi, but Kanade is so fixated on Hibiki that (by LINUJ's own word) she would sooner kill herself than live in a world without her.
  • Yui is implied to be a toxic person because of her misogynistic and uncaring father, whom she wants to impress and seemingly tries to emulate in every way. Kanade has been the way she is from birth, and kills her parents with zero remorse while never even acknowledging them as her family.
  • Yui reveals the dark secret she's been holding onto at the end of the trial after hinting at it earlier, while Kanade spitefully destroys her secret at the end of the trial without ever mentioning it before it goes up in flames.
  • In sum: Yui is a semi-realistic narcissist with some sympathetic traits (however scant), but Kanade is a crime thriller's take on a psychopath with absolutely zero redeeming qualities.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: From what we learn in "Conductor.mp3", nothing she ever did, even achieving her Ultimate talent, was enough to impress her father.
• Yandere: As people like Eiichi and Shinku learn firsthand, Yui does not take no for an answer.

Antagonists

Mononeko

Mononeko

Voiced by: Meenakshious

Anywhoo~ I'm Mononeko- your wonderful doctor!

The mascot and mastermind of the killing game.

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• Beyond Redemption: How he views anyone who does decide to kill and anyone who dies.
• Bribe Backfire: He attempts to keep Takiko from telling anyone about a secret door she discovers in the biodome by giving her a comically huge bag of monocoins. This backfires tremendously when the group is separated by the ceiling collapse and Takiko is happy to share she has money to buy amenities they need, also bringing the door's existence up to the others.
• Cats Are Mean
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: While happy to set up a killing game, Mononeko doesn't seem interested in inflicting despair on the participants. Rather, he seems to want them all to find atonement even when faced with a killing game. Of course, he's also pretty ruthless when it comes to his methods. He also refers to himself as their doctor rather than their headmaster.
• Didn't See That Coming: Even he wasn't prepared for the ceiling to collapse in Chapter 3.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Subject to this over time, especially in Chapter 3, where he pays off Takiko with tons of monocoins to stay quiet about a secret door, only for her to immediately blab to everyone. Later on, when Shinku, Asuga and Mint accidentally find the door, Asuga says it wasn't her fault and Mononeko should blame gravity. Needless to say, the cat gets very annoyed nobody takes him seriously.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Even Mononeko is disgusted with Yui's behavior in Chapter 2.
• Noose Necktie: Not a necktie, but he does have a tiny hangman's noose trailing off from the end of his tail.
• Taking the Kids: After Eiichi's body is discovered, Mononeko explains that he can't stay long, as he has to file child support payments.

The Mastermind(?) (MAJOR SPOILERS)

Lillith

Voiced by: Yari_Roo

Throughout my life, I've made a hobby to see people break- shatter, like glass.

A young woman with the extraordinary ability to make tragedy befall anyone who crosses her path, she was raised in hospitals after being abandoned in a coinlocker as a child. Her parentage is unconfirmed. She appears to be rather bitter at her life, rather curious about the cruel and unusual ways people used to hurt themselves to achieve beauty.

Despite being recently engaged, she has not been seen for a few months. She's the ultimate fashion historian.

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• Batman Gambit: In Voice Actress.mp3, after confronting Maiko about her past crimes, Lillith makes her an offer: she's captured a notorious serial killer called Charity in a warehouse just outside the city. She gives Maiko the address and says, if Charity's still alive by tomorrow, all charges she had against her will be dropped. Needless to say, given that Maiko ended up in the killing game, she played right into Lillith's hands.
• Big Bad Friend: To Alora, to whom Lillith was the closest she had to a friend.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: It's implied that this is actually due to Disease Bleach.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: She wears a frilly black and white lolita dress.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In Dungeon Master.mp3, when Dracul tries to be kind to her and tell her she's a good person, Lillith is taken aback...then snaps at him and tells him she doesn't want to be fixed, accusing him of just feeding into his savior complex.
• Expy: A villainous fashion student involved with a killing game? Where've we heard that before?
• Flower Motifs: She has a fondness for white lilies.
  Lillith: They're a lovely little oxymoron in themselves, representing both purity and death.
• The Ghost: She's yet to appear in the actual game outside of the secret bad ending, but she's mentioned a few times and is featured prominently in bonus videos.
• Greater-Scope Villain: She seems to have been the one to gather everyone together for the killing game. In each of the bonus videos, Lillith encounters them and confronts them with evidence from their past.
• I Am the Noun: In Conductor.mp3, when Yui asks who she is, she responds with, "I am the truth, Ms. Aoide. Now face me."
• Manipulative Bitch: She's taken on a lot of personas throughout the bonus videos in order to get close to the future participants of the killing game, such as pretending to be a therapist so she can get info on Yui.
• Mysterious Waif: Whoever she is, she has a major connection to the killing game.
• Nightmare Face: She has plenty of these, many with a huge Slasher Smile.
• Parental Abandonment: If her profile is anything to go by, she was abandoned as a child.
• Psycho Psychologist: She appears in "Conductor.mp3" as Yui's "therapist".
• Sadist: She seems to get a kick out of causing pain and misery.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Subverted. While she breaks the fourth wall in the "Don't press the button" ending, she says that, despite anything she might say or threaten to do, she's limited to whatever has been written for her and thus it doesn't really matter.
• Tranquil Fury: She never raises her voice, even when she's angry.
• You Bastard!: In the "Don't press the button" ending, Lillith appears and addresses the player directly, scolding them for getting Shinku killed simply to satisfy their own curiosity, calling them a selfish God. And while Shinku will be back once the game resets and won't remember any of this, thus it won't really matter, the death order of the game has already been determined.
• Your Days Are Numbered: In Dungeon Master.mp3, Dracul asks if her story about being in the hospital with some illness was a lie, which she clarifies it wasn't. She knows she'll be dying soon anyway, so there's no sense dwelling on it.

Side Characters

Akari Kutsuki

Akari Kutsuki

Shinku's younger sister, who went missing prior to the events of the Killing Game.

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• Ambiguous Situation: How and why she disappeared is unknown, but Shinku was blamed for it and feels responsible, given that he said he crushed her dreams in some aspect.
• Batter Up!: She carries a bat in some of her sprites. When Shinku's hallucination breaks down, it clearly has bloodstains.
• Idiot Hair: Looks like a flipped version of her brother's.
• The Ghost: She isn't seen or heard until the opening of Chapter 3, only appearing as a heavily distorted hallucination to Shinku.
• Loving a Shadow: In Chapter 3, Shinku's hallucination of her accuses him of idealizing her and not remembering her how she truly was, as a way to bury his guilt.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eyes glow red as she accuses Shinku of living in denial.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Not much is known about Akari, but her disappearance is how Shinku ended up arrested and landed in the Killing Game.
• The Speechless: She doesn't talk during the opening of Chapter 3, only making gestures and expressions. When she does speak as the hallucination breaks down, she isn't voiced.

Lavender Byrne

Lavender Byrne

Voiced by: HopelessLuna

Mint's sickly little sister.

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• Delicate and Sickly: She was hospitalized for an unspecified illness, which Mint blames himself for and took it upon himself to help her.
• Family Theme Naming: Much like the rest of her family.
• Posthumous Character: Sadly, she's long dead.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: When Mint visits her in the hospital, she asks about their financial situation and tells Mint he doesn't have to visit her all the time. Mint counters by saying she shouldn't try to be so mature for her age. She even muses that she's spent so long worrying about dying and making peace with it that she's forgotten how to hope.

Callum Nilsson

Callum Nilsson

Voiced by: Jason11818

A young prodigy of an Ultimate who eliminated every single one of his enemies in debating competitions, he was known to come from fairly humble beginnings. He was a fairly well put together man but was known for his terrible luck. He didn't have too many friends growing up until he reached high school where he was seen with [REDACTED].

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• Bully Magnet: Lyra points it out and he admits it as much.
  Callum: I know, I know, I'm basically a massive billboard that says "I'm a dumb tiny nerd man, bully me!"
• Friendless Background: Lyra was one of the only friends he had outside of the debate club.
• Idiot Hair: He has a curly ahoge.
• Posthumous Character: When talking about him with both Shinku and Ismene, Lyra makes it clear Callum went missing one day and was never seen again. She knows Shedo is responsible.
• Quintessential British Gentleman: Downplayed, given that he's just a teenager, but after Lyra saves him from a duo of bullies, he invites her to his debate club.

Sachiko Ushina

Sachiko Ushina

Voiced by: SakuraSchwein

Takiko's older sister and Lyra's old girlfriend.

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• Justified Criminal: To pay for Takiko's medical care when she was in a coma, Sachiko resorted to testing medications for Alora, though the details are left ambiguous.
• The Lost Lenore: To Lyra, after she was killed by Shedo.
• Official Couple: With Lyra, at least for a time.
• Posthumous Character: She's been dead for well over a year by the time the Killing Game begins.
• Promoted to Parent: After the deaths of their parents, Sachiko had to take on the duty of caring for Takiko. According to Takiko, she used to get so angry that she broke bowls and even once broke her leg. Once Lyra entered the picture, however, things got better...at least for a while.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Falling in love with a con artist with ties to a gang was never gonna end well.
• Teen Pregnancy: She was the first child of teen parents.

Kohana Shinjushitsu

Kohana Shinjushitsu

Voiced by: Voncreep

Kohana Shinjushitsu (a stage name that means a child of flowers born from the mother of pearl) is a highly famous lolita fashion model, trying all types of lolita fashion from OTT sweet to gothic to classic to steampunk... you name it, Kohana has modelled it. While generally loved by the media, she is usually hated by those also in the lolita fashion community.

In reality, Kohana is Nikko Hino, the younger brother of Asuga.

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• Ambiguously Brown: Like Asuga, he's half-Japanese, half-African American.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: What Kohana is best known for modeling.
• Quiet Cry for Help: During his victory speech at a pageant, he shifts from what he'd usually say to talking about the importance of seeking a way out. His mother picks up what he's implying and cuts the cameras.
• Raised as the Opposite Gender: Given that Asuga ran away from home when Nikko was still young, their mother likely raised him like this to compensate for losing her daughter. Even Shinku is surprised to learn that "Kohana" is actually a guy.

Elodi Carmine

Elodi Carmine

Emilia's older sister.

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• Girly Girl: According to Emilia, Elodi fit her father's standards for what a woman should be...it's just that he didn't accept her for who she was.
• The Ghost: She's yet to make an appearance or even have an official sprite made.
• Ill Girl: The last time Emilia saw her, she was suffering from some kind of illness and showed up to the hospital for treatment. Their father turned her away and she vanished, though Emilia refuses to believe her sickness killed her.
• Parental Abandonment: She and her father clashed often after he refused to accept Elodi for who she was, still referring to her by her deadname, and he eventually kicked her out of the house. Later, when she showed up at his hospital, he turned her away, much to Emilia's anger.
• Thicker Than Water: She and Emilia were very close. Emilia would do anything to reunite with her, and is infuriated by those who take family for granted.
• Trans Tribulations: She unfortunately was subject to this thanks to her father.

Man (The Fish)

Man (The Fish)

Voiced by: PiperJG

Taka's pet fish.

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• The Hilarity of Hats: She wears a tiny red top hat and bow tie.
• Intellectual Animal: Implied, as Man seems able to understand Taka and responds by gurgling when he asks questions.
• Non-Indicative Name: A fish, named Man. And according to Taka, Man is female.

Mister Shedo

Mister Shedo

Voiced by: Grief

A gang leader who recruited Lyra at a young age.

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• Badass in a Nice Suit: He wears a three-piece suit, complete with what look like bloodstains on the coat.
• The Faceless: In his only official sprite, his face is obscured.
• Faux Affably Evil: He comes across a young Lyra sitting in an alleyway at night, and offers to give her a hand, saying she seems like the kind of person he needs.
• The Ghost: He only appears partially in one of Lyra's flashbacks and his (heavily distorted) voice is only heard twice.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He's the reason why Lyra and Takiko ended up in the Killing Game.
• Would Hurt a Child: He has no qualms about murdering teenagers or recruiting them for roles like drug running, debt collection and prostitution. From comments in Lyra's flashbacks, he apparently recruits from disadvantaged kids on the regular.
• Yakuza: Based on his profession and the tattoos on his hands and neck, he seems to be this.

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