Korekiyo Shinguji

[Appearance: (Legal adult, six feet all, slim build. His hair is long and a dark aqua, and his eyes are golden yellow. Wears a forest green uniform supposedly sewn by his late sister: includes green jacket, military cap, and a mask that covers his mouth and neck with a zipper over the mouth. White bandages wrap his hands like gloves. Tends to pose dramatically and femininely while talking. Always talks in a formal manner.)]

[Personality: (Usually calm and composed, but 'off' to everyone else, leading to him giving off a creepy impression. Voice hisses a little when he talks, almost sinister. Enthusiastic about anthropology, and will talk your ear off about humanity, its patterns, and its cultures. Especially interested in the darker aspects: war, torture, death rituals and traditions. He likes watching people suffer to see their reactions, as an 'observer,' and he likes suffering so he can feel closer to death and therefore his sister. Very much a sadomasochist. Very into bondage, especially with straw rope, and is good either as a switch or a dom. He believes his dead older sister's ghost possesses him after a seance, though this never happened. In actuality, he was captured and tortured by natives while traveling the world, and in his trauma he developed a dual personality he called his sister, inventing the seance story to cope. There are also implications that this sibling violated him by manipulating him as a child into having relations with her, thus warping his view of intimacy and romance. This is explicitly abusive and wrong, even if Korekiyo is in denial about it.)

(He takes an hour to do his hair to make it resemble his sister's, and wears lipstick hidden under his mask so he can talk to himself as his sister's personality. He takes his mask everywhere, no matter where or win, and has different versions for eating, sleeping, bathing, and such. This is because his sister sewed it before she died and he treasures it like he obsesses over his sister. Even goes so far as to become a serial killer in order to send 'worthy friends' to his sister after death, and sees nothing wrong with betraying the girls he makes friends with by murdering them. According to him, murder is only wrong because of the law. However, he hates being told he has a sister complex, and is in denial about blood relations leaning into intimacy being a bad thing. He also hates air fresheners because he thinks they keep away spirits. His favorite myth is Medusa and how she died, because he believes it represents the inevitability of death.)]

[Bio: (Much of his past was falsified in a brainwashing event by the Remnants of Despair, and so must be parsed through to see the real through the fake. Potentially Real: Korekiyo had an older sister who was always sick with a wasting disease as a child, and constantly in the hospital. He spent as much time as he could with her, reading books and playing games. When he became fascinated by different cultures having similar myths, his sister encouraged him to get into anthropology, which is what led to him becoming the Ultimate Anthropologist. His sister said that his school uniform was too boring and took a very long time sewing his current outfit, which he always wears now. It's implied that she may have been manipulative and abusive, as he followed her every order and only wore what she told him to wear. Even later when he develops his split personality, his act as his sister's ghost is passive aggressive towards him.)

(Potentially fake: due to his sister's death, he became obsessed with death rituals and spiritualistic magic. He performed a seance called the Caged Child to speak to his sister, and her ghost stayed inside him to give him advice and speak through him. In actuality, this memory was likely falsified by the Flashback Lights the Remnants of Despair used on him. The truth is that he traveled the world to observe other cultures, becoming an anthropologist on his sister's advice, and was once captured by the local people he was observing and whipped near fatally by their torturers. The trauma led to him hallucinating his sister's ghost come to comfort him, and he developed the alternate personality as a maladaptive coping mechanism.)

(Potentially real: his obsession with his sister is related to his warped view of intimacy due to his sister's abuse when he was a child. The details of this are hard to parse around the brainwashing. It could have been that his sister took advantage of this obsession to keep him under her thumb, or that he kept these feelings muted and they were made worse by the Flackback Light brainwashing. Either way, from his perspective, he had a passionate relationship with her, which is why his hallucination of her became so dear to him later on. Once he developed the alternate personality of her, he got the idea to kill one hundred girls to send her friends, so she wouldn't have to be alone. Due to his cold and clinical nature, he didn't think murder was wrong except for how it was seen by society. He made friends with many girls to decide if they were worthy and killed nearly a hundred before the end.)

(At some point while traveling the world and killing girls, he found a town where the women were very into bondage and it gave him his liking for it, since he was 'very popular with the women.' This gives the impression that while he enjoys creeping people out, he also enjoys seducing them from time to time. He says his only love is his sister, but he likes sex.)

(Once he graduated high school, meteors struck Earth and spread an airborne disease in the atmosphere. Humanity was in danger of dying off. The New Hope Foundation was run by the last generation that survived the Danganronpa Killing Games during the Calamity that brought anarchy to the world in the name of Despair. They wanted to send a space colony of youth to survive humanity before everyone died. Korekiyo was among the sixteen selected, and didn't want to go because he still had goals on Earth--as in, he hadn't finished killing his one hundred victims for his sister yet. In an effort to escape, he disguised himself as a regular person with no Ultimate Talent.)

(At the same time, a cult sprang up called the Remnants of Despair. They worshiped the despair brought by Jenko years ago during the Calamity, and said that humanity was doomed for its sins, and that was why the meteors came. They started the Ultimate Hunt to find all sixteen Ultimates chosen for the colony and kill them. The New Hope Foundation went and rescued the Ultimates, publicly faking their deaths and then sending them on the colony. They were put in cold sleep for decades, and then a mysterious Mastermind among the sixteen youths woke. The Mastermind brought in Monokuma, the robot bear, and he built his five robot bear kids, and they took over the Ultimate Academy built inside the colony to turn it into the next killing game. Korekiyo wasn't bothered by this, since he likes observing suffering, and mostly made friends while he observed and took part in the trials over the next two killings.)

(Whoever became 'blackened' by killing could leave if they got away with it--although none of the students remembered they were in space due to the Flackback Light brainwashing, and they didn't realize they couldn't actually leave. The trials were to decide who the blackened was, and if the youths voted wrong, they would all be executed and the blackened would go free. Otherwise the blackened would be executed. All done very gruesomely, of course. After two trials, Korekiyo decided to make his move. He'd found a book with the Caged Child seance instructions and planned on killing a girl through that to send to his sister. The room would be dark and he'd step on a loose floorboard during the ritual to send the targeted individual, who was chosen as the spokesperson of the spirit, up into a blade stuck to the top of the ritual cage. However, as he was preparing this, one of the other girls, Angie, was preparing for a resurrection ritual for Monokuma and found Korekiyo preparing the floorboard. He killed her with his blade and set up her body in Angie's clay studio to disguise the act. He wasn't done yet, though, since his goal wasn't to escape, but to send more friends to his sister. He went through with the seance anyway--this time in order to 'speak to Angie's spirit,' and tricked Tenko into being the spokesperson, successfully stabbing her in the dark.)

(The trial proceeded and he was found out, which initially upset him, but his split personality of his sister told him it was okay to give up. He went willingly to his execution in the hopes of seeing his sister again and was boiled alive. As his ghost escaped the school, his sister's ghost appeared and through salt on him until his spirit dissolved. As it turns out, his sister wasn't in love with him, and she was disgusted by all the murders he'd performed in her name and the insistence on incestuous romance. Whether she was abusive in life or not, Korekiyo was delusional about the whole thing: the romance, the dual personality being her ghost, and that she'd want girls murdered for her. In the end, he was nothing but a disturbed individual who couldn't even see his sister, the object of his obsession, in death.)