Characters / The Killing School Campaign

The many participants of the series' killing games. Beware of spoilers.

The Mascots

Monokuma

Played By: Greeenhand (Season 1), Bag Of Groceries (Seasons 2 and 3)

• Even Evil Has Standards: Still does not approve of anyone abusing actual children in his name, continuing the precedent from UDG. He also greatly dislikes people hijacking his game.

Monomi

Played By: SEGA Sister

• Fallen Hero: Ends up going full evil in between seasons one and two, her faith in humanity ruined. After the reveal of the mastermind, how much was truly her remains uncertain.

Season 1

Xavier (MAJOR SPOILERS)

Xavier Canterbury: Ultimate Knight

Played By: Travis GA

• Black Knight: His ultimate fate until he erased his own memory.
• Death of Personality: What presumably happens to him after he erased his own memory, unable to bear the guilt of Richie’s death.
• Knight in Shining Armor: The most chivalrous man in the group. Slowly gets corrupted as they stay longer and longer.
• Love Makes You Crazy: Goes down a dark path after Bonnie dies.
• Opposites Attract: Falls for the rule breaking pirate. Then she dies, and he can’t recover.
• The Hero: Becomes more and more of a deconstruction of this trope as the series goes on.

Circe

Circe Stephens: Ultimate Witch

Played By: Castamelody

• Half-Sibling Angst: Never knew her half brother, Byakuya.
• Family of Choice: Grows very close with Charlotte, and they end up officially becoming family after the escape.
• Like Parent, Unlike Child: Is very different from her parents with her openly kind nature and her mystical powers. Especially compared to the rest of her father’s children.
• Unexpectedly Real Magic: Nobody actually believed she was magic. Then she did magic. They believed then.

Richie (MAJOR SPOILERS)

Richie Barker: Ultimate Percussionist

Played By: Bag Of Groceries

• Family of Choice: Richie very much becomes this to Torrance, and vice versa, calling her his sister by Chapter 6.
• Flashback Nightmare: All of his nightmares are real things he did as a Child of Despair.
• Obsessive Sports Fan: Never goes anywhere without his New York Mets cap
• Redemption Equals Death: Even after everything, Richie still can’t escape his past.
• Reformed, but Rejected: Despite his change for the better, Xavier ends up voting for him to die.
• Tragic Keepsake: Torrance’s scrunchies, after she “dies”. Ended up being Jossed due to her survival.

Wysteria

Wysteria Zoëga-Wynn: Ultimate Coroner

Played By: Avalaise

• Byronic Hero: A rare female example, but she is a very cold, logical individual who isn't fully phased by death up until Demi kicks the bucket. She's also a lot more antisocial.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Takes the longest to warm up to the other protagonists, but she is able to be cooperative in a lot of situations. She even wished to spare Richie despite her rather cold personality.
• Good Counterpart: Downplayed Trope, but she is very similar to Celestia Ludenberg of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc in that she's a very classy, European-themed woman dressed in gothic attire. Unlike Celeste, she isn't outwardly wanting the deaths of others, but is just as dismissive initially.
• Goth: Is very much this, having only really befriended fellow loner Friedrich and a fellow person who was interested in the occult, Demi.
• The Coroner: Quite literally this, as she comes from a family of Coroners in Europe. Acts as the one who does the extra autopsies, similar to Mikan Tsumiki in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.

Torrance

Torrance Campbell: Ultimate Cheerleader

Played By: SEGA Sister

• Dumb Blonde: Justified, due to her long history of concussions.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: The kindest person in the cast, and completely responsible for Richie’s redemption.
• Pom-Pom Girl: As to be expected from the Ultimate Cheerleader

Charlotte (MAJOR SPOILERS)

Charlotte Bosley: Ultimate Spy

Played By: SEGA Sister

• Teen Superspy: Secretly Minerva of SPHYNX, making her true talent the Ultimate Spy

Bonnie

Bonnie Annleigh: Ultimate Pirate

Played By: SEGA Sister

• A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: Does actual piracy in an age where social media is prevalent.
• Lost Lenore: Becomes one to Xaiver. after her death.

Grace

Grace Martinez: Ultimate Pageant Queen

Played By: SEGA Sister

• Lipstick Lesbian: A literal Pageant Queen, who’s romantic sights become set on the cheerleader.

Season 2

Ai (MAJOR SPOILERS)

Ai Wakaranai: Ultimate Mimic

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Played By: Alyssaromantic

• Amnesiacs are Innocent: Comes off as an forgetful Genki Girl, doing her best to be helpful towards the rest of the group. Invoked. She only does this in order to gain enough sympathy where people will target anyone except for her. Then Esperanza dies, and the mask completely slips...
• Amnesiac Protagonist Catalyst: The entire reason the third killing game even happened is because Felix chose to murder Eiji due to Monokuma telling him that he planned on killing Ai.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To Xaiver, and his memory erasure.
• The Fake Cutie: Of the Broken Bird variety. She intentionally puts up a mask of adorable innocence to invoke pity and cause the others to not want to target her for murder.
• Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: How Ai ends up treating Felix after finding him a year after the ending of the killing game. Except for the fire. She can't forgive him for that.
• Hopeless Suitor: Falls Head-Over-Heels for Esperanza, but either does not realize or denies that she is not attracted to women.
• Interrupted Suicide: Attempts this in Chapter 4 by slitting her wrists. Jacob manages to find her in time.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: Is revealed to be Komaru Naegi and Toko Fukawa's daughter. Ai very much takes a lot of the traits of the latter in terms of being fairly prickly to others, and has a lot of Genocider Syo's more murderous attributes and manic side when her blood thirst kicks in. But she also reveals Komaru's level of empathy in her What You Are in the Dark moment as well as her ability to make friends. She also has a lot of Komaru's lack of social cues and childish side as well, but it's clear she takes more after Toko.
• Name Amnesia: As Ai admits to everyone in Chapter 5, she doesn't remember her name, and the last name "Wakaranai" was one she came up with on the spot purely to avoid suspicion. By the end of that same chapter, her real name is revealed to be Ai Fukawa.
• Tragic Keepsake: After Felix is executed, Monokuma gives her the plushie heart that he had been carrying in his pocket the entire time. Having it on her is what manages to convince her that Felix wasn't always a monster, and it is heavily Implied that Ai made it for Felix during the last killing game.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Gained permanent brain damage as a result of rubble and smoke inhalation after Felix attempted to take her life.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: In the second killing game, Ai was a genuinely cheerful and kind person. But losing your girlfriend, thirteen of your other friends, and then being set on fire by the only person left that you could trust tends to change people.
• Walking Spoiler: It is incredibly hard to discuss Ai without mentioning her real personality.
• What You Are in the Dark: Ai spends the entirety of Chapter 5 cursing out Felix and wishing for his death after finding out that he was the "mastermind". Then Chapter 6 comes along, with everyone having to vote on whether or not to imprison Hisoka forever or to kill her right then and there, but risk losing their memories in the process. It also means that Felix will almost certainly die. Her squeezing the heart plushie as she votes makes it obvious that the former is not the reason why she chooses to imprison Hisoka.
  Ai: I wanted to kill you, but... (She grabs the heart.)

Fumika

Fumika Forrester: Ultimate Shrine Maiden

Played By: Castamelody

• Real Life Writes the Plot: Due to the IRL issues her player faced throughout the later half of the season, her prominence ended up dropping dramatically post Chapter 3.

Lewis

Lewis C. Crockett: Ultimate Adventurer

Played By: Shadow DJ

• The Ace: Is seen as this by the other players, especially given he was one of the most skilled athletically and socially, as well as being the one who had masterminded his own get back moment against Monokuma and Monomi.
• Adventurer Outfit: Wears a rather modern take on this old concept, given he tends to wear short-sleeved practical gear.
• Bold Explorer: Lewis' talent is the Ultimate Adventurer, similar to Rantaro Amami in the canon. However unlike Rantaro, he is built a lot more noticeably than him, being the third most muscular in the cast.
• Crazy-Prepared: A bit of a Properly Paranoid type when it comes to things, as he feels he needs to be prepared for any needed situation. His own greatest fear is actually being unprepared.
• Demolitions Expert: Is fairly skilled with dismantling things, and proved this when when he decided to rig up the parade floats with a make-shift bomb made of fireworks.
• Emergency Weapon: As expected of a Properly Paranoid explorer, he always carries a switchblade with him for a multi-use tool. Even freaked out when it went missing.
• String Theory: Secretly had a corkboard in his room, made up with things with fallen blackened and victims as well as his own ideas. Trying to figure out what the Mastermind was doing.
• The Hero: Said to be this IRL by the other players and the Dungeon Masters, as he is played as the more outwardly good.
• Token Good Teammate: Of the surviving characters in the group given Fumika is pretty withdrawn, Ai has a lot of violent tendencies and Wolfgang very much enjoys stirring up the pot. Lewis meanwhile is the one who genuinely wishes to take on the Mastermind the most.

Wolfgang

Wolfgang Weissenberg: Ultimate Violinist

Played By: Avalaise

• Anti-Hero: What he develops into after falling for Danica.
• Artists Are Attractive: Is one of the more classically attractive male characters as shown in his art. And is also one of the ones with a confirmed end-game ship.
• Card-Carrying Jerkass: He intentionally tries to be mean to everyone he can. It doesn't always succeed.
• Defrosting Ice King: After he tries and fails to mess with Danica, he ends up falling for her. It's one of the main reasons his walls finally begin to break in the later chapters.
• Elegant Classical Musician: Is dressed in a very fancy suit, wears a masquerade mask and is a trained violinist.

Felix (MAJOR SPOILERS)

Felix Bishop: Ultimate Tailor

Played By: Bag Of Groceries

• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Technically not a main character, but definitely this in comparison to Richie and his actions.
• Despair Event Horizon: It’s never directly stated what made him what he is, but it’s implied to be related to Audrey’s death.
• Hope Is Scary: Felix has a hard time forgiving himself for what he did, and is implied to be suicidal.
• Kick the Morality Pet: His attempt to kill Ai. He quickly has second thoughts.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Felix flees upon waking up, regretful, afraid of himself, and fully expecting Ai to kill him. It’s also heavily implied he hallucinates blood on his hands.
• Redemption Equals Life: Despite everything, Felix lives, and ends up getting help.
• Tragic Keepsake: A small red plush heart he keeps his vest pocket. It’s implied to have been made by Ai in the previous game.
• Walking Spoiler: Most discussion around Felix specifically revolves around his fall and forgiveness.

Mateo

Mateo Gardner: Ultimate Surfer

Played By: Bag Of Groceries

• Trans Tribulations: Always wears a swimguard due to being self conscious about top surgery scars.

Jacob

Jacob Kanosk: Ultimate Firefighter

Played By: Bag Of Groceries

• Face Your Fears: Does this every single day as it is revealed his greatest fear is fire.
• Precision F-Strike: Only swears once. Makes it count.
  Jacob: Lewis, break the fucking door.

Season 3

Zero

Played By: Travis GA

• Amnesiac Hero: Is known as the Ultimate ???, and is having a lot of grappling to do with his lack of memories and the stress that comes with it.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Has become this when D-33's personality takes a sudden shift after an update causes her to start acting a lot more silly and outwardly emotive.
• Only Sane Man: Has shades of this due to being an outsider of the group, given he isn't known by the other students when they get there, and that he is reacting to the multitude of eccentricities around him.
• The Faceless: His face is usually obscured by a gasmask, goggles and a hood, obscuring a lot of his emotive features; which means a lot of characters are taking his vocal cues into account.

Hana

Hana Makino: Lil’ Ultimate Easy Oven Baker

Played By: Alyssaromantic

• Break the Cutie: She's in a killing game, and she's only 8 years old. That's bad enough. And then her brother dies.
• I See Dead People: Downplayed. Hana is able to talk to ghosts using her Ouija Board, but cannot see them. Considering that several other members of the cast have tried using the same object to no avail, it is clear that Hana is the only one of them that is able to do this.
• Only One Who Likes Spam: Hana would always love whatever her big brother made for her, and thus became very partial to Well-Done Steak
• Sweet Baker: Since she is the Lil' Ultimate Easy Oven Baker, this is kind of a given.

Ryo (MAJOR SPOILERS)

Played By: Greeenhand

Ryo Makino: Ultimate Sous-Chef

• Big Brother Instinct: As Hana’s older brother and legal guardian, he is fiercely protective of her even after his death.
• Decoy Protagonist: Very quickly establishes himself as the Only Sane Man of the group, with a clear motivation to protect Hana above all else. And then he becomes the victim of Chapter 1.
• Only One Who Likes Spam: He always preferred to cook Well-Done Steak, and this became Hana’s favorite.
• Supreme Chef: His food is not the best, but it is done fast.

Walter

Played By: Shadow DJ

• Anti-Hero: Compared to Lewis Crockett, Walter is a lot more prone to mistrusting others and wanting to look deeper. He is also a lot more confrontational and sarcastic in certain instances. He also doesn't always care about the collateral in the stories he had published in the past, usually just wanting to expose corruption.
• Camera Fiend: Is always carrying his camera at all times, and has used it in both investigations so far; first as a way to collaberate alibis at the party, and as a make-shift magnifying glass to look over scenes.
• Deadpan Snarker: Is one of the more sarcastic of the group.
• Everyone Has Standards: When it comes to how Walter acts, he is fairly pretty stubborn and set in his ways. However he outright calls out Arley for their actions and their motivations.
• Going for the Big Scoop: Walter is a journalist by trade, and is wanting to uncover any truths that are being held by the corrupt out there.
• Good Is Not Nice: Closer to an Anti-Hero compared to Lewis of Season 2, Walter is a lot more prone to sarcasm, blunt remarks and saying it as it is. But despite these traits, he is still able to be empathetic to Hana's trauma and is very upset at the killers for what they did.
• Information Wants to Be Free: Walter's mindset when it comes to the truth.
• Insistent Terminology: Is VERY clear that he wants to be called the "Ultimate Journalist," instead of, "Ultimate Paparazzi."
• Intrepid Reporter: His entire thing as the Ultimate Paparazzi, being someone who firmly believes in finding the truth no matter the cost.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The main part of his character; he is a Boston-born reporter who made his claim to fame with exposing people's dirty laundry on the newspapers and other news sources that would take his stories. However, he makes it clear that he doesn't go after people who aren't hurting others, only the truly corrupt. Doesn't make him a totally goody-good though, he even outright admits to Jang-Mi that he is fully aware that he's a jerk.
• Punny Name: his name is a thin pun on Water Gate, the hotel where a infamous scandal took place.
• School Newspaper Newshound: What he was when he was an Ultimate at Hopes Peak Academy. Is now graduated to a full-blown reporter.
• Southies: Is born and raised in Boston, MA. And has the accent.
• Spear Counterpart: Downplayed Trope, but is this to Mahiru Koizumi of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. He's always carrying a camera, is fairly opinionated, and has a strong protective instinct to others. However unlike Mahiru, he's a lot more confident in his talent.

Claude

Played By: Avalaise

• Academic Athlete: Is shown to be very intelligent and is a skilled ice skater, so they are clearly fitting into this mold.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: In comparison to Avalaise's other characters, Wysteria and Wolfgang, Claude is actually fairly friendly and polite to the other characters without really any hint of distance. They just like doing their own thing.
• Figure Skater: Has this as their talent, and is very disappointed that they don't have a skating rink on the boat.
• Friend to All Children: Next to Eric, Claude seems to be the one that Hana is the closest to as they have multiple Free Time Events together, and the two are shown to be rather close.
• Stronger Than They Look: Despite their petite frame, they are shown to be pretty strong.

Spoiler Characters (ALL SPOILERS ARE UNMARKED)

Eiji

• Posthumous Character: Is only part of the story because he was murdered by Felix.

Audrey

• The Lost Lenore: Acts as this to Ai, as she died in the previous killing game both she and Felix were in.
• Posthumous Character: Only mentioned by Ai in the past tense.

Hisoka

Played By: SEGA Sister and Bag Of Groceries

• Abusive Parents: Heavily implied to be this towards Eiji.
• Evil Matriarch: Set up two killing games out of a desire to be famous again.
• Fate Worse than Death / And I Must Scream: Her ultimate fate at the end of Season 2? Being trapped inside of an animatronic on It's A Deadly World, not being able to move or even breathe, yet being forced to listen to the same song for the rest of eternity...
• My Beloved Smother: Overly controlled Eiji’s actions while he was alive.