' ' 𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒚-𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒚 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 ? ? ? ' ' |🃏°🂱⋆ 🎲 .🂱࿔*🃏 | 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒂 𝑳𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒈 | 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒑𝒂 𝑻𝑯𝑯 / 𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒄 |𝟕/𝟏𝟔

Celestia Ludenberg, real name Taeko Yasuhiro, also known as Celeste, is a student in Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th, and a participant of the Killing School Life run by Monosune, a false fox(Zorros). Her title is the Ultimate Gambler. Celestia stands at an average height but possesses a very skinny figure. She has pale skin, red eyes, and black hair in two large twin-drill pigtails. However, the twin drills are clip-ons. This distraughts Leon when he learns, as he thought she looked like emo Kasane Teto and had no idea they were fake. As an experienced gambler, Celestia appears collected, cold, and cunning by nature. She possesses the ability to manipulate others to do her bidding and can lie with a perfectly straight face. She employs these skills to orchestrate the murders of Hifumi and Kiyotaka, deceiving the majority of the students into believing her fabricated stories until the climax of her trial. Prior to her downfall, Celestia is shown to be fairly intelligent and insightful, referencing several aspects of game theory, such as the prisoner's dilemma and zero-sum games, and showcasing critical thinking skills during trials. She is able to bring up crucial points and can keep up with Byakuya and Kyoko's train of thought. Celestia is a very ambitious person, declaring that she will do anything it takes to win and is ready to go as far as murdering someone or manipulating others in cold blood. She is extremely selfish and values her life over the lives of others, stating she has no problem sacrificing others in order to save herself. She also has a lot of pride, refusing to surrender no matter how far into a corner she's pushed, as long as the chance for victory remains. However, when confronted with complete defeat, Celestia preferred to surrender gracefully over dragging out the inevitable. Celestia is shown to be relatively materialistic, with her biggest dream being living a life of luxury and decadence in a European castle. While the prospect of escaping the killing game is sufficient motivation for Celestia to commit murder, Monokuma's third motive appeals to her and becomes the final push that set her murder plot into motion. She is also the only person unable to view Alter Ego as a person or friend. Celestia believes in adaptability to be the key to survival, rather than strength or intellect, and she acts upon this by setting up measures such as the voluntarily imposed night-time curfew to protect the other students, as well as herself, from potential killers during the Killing School Life. She often reminds others to obey the curfew and is often annoyed when people such as Byakuya Togami violate the curfew, showing her authoritative and commanding nature. After the death of Chihiro, she coldly remarks that people who disobey the rules pay the price. In reality, she was lying about having to adapt and more than anyone wanted to leave the school, showing how easy it is for her to hide her emotions. Her mannerisms are strict, refined and her spoiled nature emphasizes this due to her aspiring to be like European royalty. She even has a habit of ranking people between Rank A and Rank F, with her not caring for anyone who is a D-rank and despising those who are F-rank. Celestia speaks softly and smiles often in order to imitate Victorian mannerisms and etiquette as a lady. While appearing polite and calm under her persona, her short temper surfaces when something fails to go as well as she expects it to, such as when Hifumi fails to make her royal milk tea as she likes it. Similarly, she loses her composure after being accused as the blackened during the third class trial. She shouts and denies accusations towards her with unusually rude mannerisms and vulgar language. While angry, she abandons her formal speech pattern in the original Japanese, and her fake European accent falters in the English dub. Moreover, while she acts haughty and self-centered, she despises her real self as she dislikes ordinary and common things and considers her real identity and name to be one of "a loser". Her short temper betrays her claim of being a consummate liar, one who can even fool her own emotions. Shortly before her execution, Makoto notices Celestia's fake smile beneath her constant poise, which she uses to conceal her fear. Celestia was a notorious liar, so it is difficult to determine what, if any, of her self-reported life prior to the Killing Game is fact. By all accounts, it seems she was given the given name Taeko Yasuhiro and born into a likely working-class family in the capital of Tochigi Prefecture, Utsunomiya where she came to love its most famous food, gyoza. Celestia had been a gambler for at least 4 years before becoming a student in Hope's Peak Academy. She has defeated many known gamblers including Ryou Ooba (a former gambler), which caused him to completely give it up. Ryou described her as crushing him in no time at all, and leaving as quickly as she came. Celestia had a cat named Grand Bois Chéri Ludenberg whom she spoiled and loved dearly. She taught him to enjoy eating gyoza and made it his favorite food, an example of their close bond. Grand Bois became a captive for Monosune's first motive during the Killing School Life, which revealed that he meant more to Celestia than any possible living relatives. Celestia loathed her true self and the common world she was born into, considering her given name of Taeko Yasuhiro a "loser's name", and so sometime during her childhood, Celestia retreated into an obsession with European royalty - particularly of the Victorian and Rococo period and European historical figures like Marie Antoinette. To make her life appear more glamorous, she took on the European-sounding name "Celestia Ludenberg" and concocted a fictional backstory for herself in which her father was a member of the French nobility, and her mother was a member of a German family of musicians. She began adopting a fake ambiguous European accent and wearing and designing her own well-known line of lolita fashion. Her ultimate dream in life was to own and live in a European castle filled with handsome male servants dressed as vampires, and this dream is what led her into the world of gambling in order to raise the significant amount of money she would need. As a person adept at lying, she became extremely successful in the underground gambling scene, able to even win games she had never played before simply on the strength of her ability to deceive and manipulate the other players. In Japan, gambling is illegal and largely controlled by the Yakuza, so Celestia frequently put her life at risk by playing against and defeating dangerous individuals to win the large sums of money she was chasing, particularly as an underage young girl. Despite these genuinely dangerous experiences, even in recounting the events to others she was prone to exaggeration, and instead of telling the real story would recount the stories of well-known gambling fiction such as Liar Game, Akagi, and 81diver, inserting herself into the fictional narratives as if they were real. Her rise to notoriety within the gambling scene brought her to the attention of Hope's Peak Academy scout Koichi Kizakura, leading to Celestia being chosen to enroll in the 78th Class as the Ultimate Gambler. The reason Celestia agreed to enroll in the 78th Class was the urge to achieve even more notoriety and success so she could quickly actualize her dream of becoming something like royalty herself.