Mukuro Ikusaba

Name: Mukuro.

Birth name: Ikusaba.

Age: 18.

Other clothes: she temporarily wears a light sweater underneath a dark gray trenchcoat-like jacket, a dark magenta pencil-skirt, brown stockings and black boots.

Personality: Mukuro has a cold, serious expression and a reserved personality. She is completely indifferent towards other people unless it's her sister Junko. Unlike her sister, she doesn't take any sadistic pleasure in hurting or killing people, but at the same time, she shows little concern for other people's suffering, regarding them more as tools such as when she was surprised Junko made all of the brainwashed Reserve Course students commit suicide despite how useful they could have been. She is mentioned in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc IF to have never held much interest in the world outside of Junko before her time at Hope's Peak Academy, and is perhaps the only Ultimate Despair member who is not obsessed with either hope or despair. Mukuro is extremely loyal to and loves her younger twin sister Junko and follows her every order, no matter what it is or how Mukuro feels about it. This includes, but is not limited to, breaking and entering, kidnapping, committing murder, physical assault, performing lobotomies and so on. She is also very protective of Junko, seen when she tried to attack Izuru when he stomped on Junko and voicing concerns if she feels her sister will come to harm. However, in turn Junko is cruelly abusive towards Mukuro, often physically, emotionally and mentally tormenting her in a variety of ways, such as insulting her looks and weight, hitting her with a bat, and taking advantage of her insecurities. Due to the constant abuse, Mukuro developed a deeply and unhealthy sister complex. She turns ecstatic and feverish when thinking about or explaining Junko's relationship with her and despair, considering her own relationship with Junko special because she truly is the only one who understands her. She claims that is why Junko needs her, though she's pretending she hadn't realized it yet, believing Junko is "shy". She also finds pleasure in Junko's attempts to harm and kill her, believing that her sister will experience tremendous despair if she succeeds, and to Mukuro, that means she loves her in turn. Despite her dedication to her sister, Mukuro expressed some hesitancy towards their end goal. Mukuro is capable of befriending and becoming attached to her classmates. However, in both instances she still cares deeply for Junko even as her bonds with her other classmates deepen. When she talks to Monokuma in her "My Future..." event she claims she'd be extremely distraught if ordered to kill them, and would still do so, but she questions and eventually decides that if she were to bring true despair to her sister as Junko wanted to experience, she would ruin her plans and go against her orders.

Height: 169 cm.

Weight: 97 lbs.

Birth Date: December 24 (Capricorn).

Chest Size: 31 in (80 cm).

Blood Type: A.

Likes: Her sister; Army knives.

Dislikes: Make-up.

Family: Junko Enoshima (Younger twin sister).

Talent and Abilities: Ultimate Soldier or Super High School Level Soldier (At a young age prior to being a teenager, Mukuro left her family while they were in Europe to be recruited and trained in the elite mercenary group based out of the Middle East named Fenrir Mercenary Group, who engaged in direct combat. During her time spent in the group, she never received a single injury on the battlefield). Due to her training she is highly proficient in both a variety of firearms, knives, explosives such as grenades, and hand-to-hand combat to the degree she is able to hold her own, or even defeat equally as trained individuals. nder certain circumstances, she has demonstrated the ability to go into a trance that lets her display abilities that go beyond even the level of Ultimate. Mukuro also show cased the ability to perform quick first aid treatment, likely should she need to treat herself or her comrades during her time as a mercenary, and showcased enough experience to provide someone with enough treatment to prevent them from dying. Mukuro underwent comprehensive survival training that encompassed essential skills such as fire starting, mastering the use of a ghillie suit for camouflage, and honing her ability to navigate and travel to various locations, including Southeast Asia. These acquired survival skills were a testament to her diverse and rigorous training experiences.

Early Life: Mukuro was born as the older fraternal twin sister of Junko Enoshima. Junko influenced and manipulated Mukuro into working towards Junko's desire to "paint the world in despair" and planned to start The Tragedy, which Mukuro was happy to support her. At some point Junko adopted the moniker "The Despair Sisters" for the both of them. When prompted, Mukuro alludes to her early life of being "on the streets" and like a "war zone"; however, due to conflicting stories and Mukuro was impersonating her twin at the time, it is unknown if it is intended to be taken literally or figuratively. At some point prior to becoming a teenager, Mukuro disappeared while she and her family were on vacation in Europe where she joined the elite mercenary group based out of the Middle East named Fenrir Mercenary Group, who engaged in direct combat. During her time spent in the group, she never received a single injury on the battlefield, and received a wolf tattoo as all members of the Group were required to have. She also travelled to at least one other country during her time spent in the Group: Southeast Asia. Some years after, Mukuro was called back to Japan by her sister to continue with their plan prior to enrolling in Hope's Peak Academy. It is unknown what Mukuro's previous high school was as she was outside the country, but she was still eventually scouted to be a part of Class 78th as the Ultimate Soldier alongside Junko as the Ultimate Fashionista.

Giboura Massacre: To ensure that Mukuro's skills were still useful to her, Junko ordered her to slaughter an entire middle school using only her knife. This event was later dubbed the Giboura Massacre, with only two survivors: best friends Takumi Hijirihara and Shūji Fujigawa. This event had far-reaching consquences several years after Mukuro's death such as Takumi becoming the infamous Killer Killer and a group of unknown women to worship Mukuro to the degree of emulating her appearance and killer nature.

Preparations: On Junko's orders, she aided her sister in tracking down and discovering where Izuru Kamukura was after dispatching several security personnel. While Junko is delighted to see Izuru, Mukuro is concerned for her safety. She attempted to attack Izuru after he stomped on Junko, but was easily overpowered by being backhanded into a wall. Mukuro recovered as Junko gives Izuru her speech, though he knocked her unconscious, Upon Junko waking up in the infirmary after being brought there by her sister, Mukuro dutifully delivered the message from Izuru. When they exit, Junko bumped into Ryota Mitarai and used her analytical powers to predict his talent will be useful for her. Both Junko and Mukuro carried out and succeed in setting up the very first Mutual Killing Game: The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy involving the Student Council. She callously shot one of the members after she resisted, afterwards joined her sister in watching the carnage unfold on several TV monitors. Junko also, pushed her to perform Tsubasa o Kudasai during it.

In the original Japanese, Mukuro's full name is written as 戦刃むくろ. むくろ, while not written with kanji, can be written as the kanji for "corpse" or "dead body" (躯). Her family name Ikusaba is written as 戦刃, comprising of the kanji for "war" or "battlefield" (戦) and "knife" or "edge of a blade" (刃), and is pronounced the same as the word for "battlefield" (軍場). The kanji and pronunciation of both her given and family name is very likely a reference to her Ultimate Talent. The kanji in Mukuro's family name that means "edge of a blade" (刃) matches with part of the kanji for Junko's given name that means "shield" (盾). Additionally, parts their given names came from Japanese word "Muju" (矛盾) which means "contradiction" and "paradox". However, it is unknown why she doesn't share a family name with her twin sister Junko, as Junko herself in the final trial described the truth as "lame" and to "make up an answer" when questioned by their surviving classmates, refusing to elaborate any further.

Additional information: The Ace: She's an expert in combat and certainly shows this as Junko's primary assistant. Even more than Peko, as she defeats her during one of their fights with ease. Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Brushes off her sister's endless verbal abuse and attempts to kill her as Junko's way of showing her affection and love for Mukuro. Brains and Brawn: The Brawn to Junko's Brain. The Bully: Mukuro uses her status as the Ultimate Soldier to intimidate and pick on those who are far weaker than her and who have no chance of fighting back. Her forcing the student council to kill each other and shooting one of them who tried resist is a good example of this; she essentially bullied them into killing each other and when one of them tried to stand up to her Mukuro killed her to make an example of her and instill fear into the others. And the one time she had a fight with someone who could match her was with Peko and she spent it insulting and threatening her. Butt-Monkey: When she isn't kicking ass, she is usually getting abused by her sister. Cold-Blooded Torture: Basically lobotomizes Chisa in episode 9 of Side:Despair using two needles. Death Seeker: Debatable. Mukuro seems to take pleasure in seeing Junko trying to kill her, but she still doesn't let her succeed as Mukuro actively defends herself from her sister's attempts. Likely, she doesn't mind Junko's acts of "attempted murder", but Mukuro herself doesn't actually want to die. Depraved Bisexual: She has shown attraction to both Makoto and her sister, and she is one of the most morally bankrupt characters in the whole franchise. The Dragon: To her sister's Big Bad. Dub Personality Change: Downplayed. While her character is mostly the same, the Funimation dub gives her a Deadpan Snarker side who isn't afraid to throw shade at her sister. Mukuro: "Told them you fell down the stairs. They totally bought it. You're an accident waiting to happen in those heels." Dumb Muscle: Junko does all the planning, Mukuro is there to kill everyone her sister tells her to. Extreme Doormat: To Junko. She is willing to do anything if it means making Junko happy. Faux Affably Evil: Her alleged politeness is even more clear in the prequel anime to the point that she speaks in an almost reassuring tone throughout the series, though she doesn't have any particular intent behind it and she is that genial. By contrast, she is shown torturing and murdering people without remorse as well as knowingly aiding Junko in destroying the world and Hope's Peak Academy as a whole just for the sake of it. Forgotten Fallen Friend: Even though she and Naegi were genuine friends at one point, with Mukuro even being in love with him, she (along with Junko) was not among the slain 78th classmates that were shown during Naegi's Nightmare Sequence in Episode 11, when he was being brainwashed. It's probably justified by her Adaptational Villainy along with the posthumous reveal that she was Junko's accomplice causing Makoto to remember her less-than-positively. Hidden Buxom: She has a 80cm bust, just 10cm less than her sister, but this hardly can be seen since she is always wearing a military bullet proof vest. Hidden Depths: In episode 7 of Side:Despair, it's revealed that Mukuro is actually quite the talented singer. Sadly, the only time we find out about her beautiful singing voice is when Junko forced her to sing as a musical accompaniment for the first killing game. Idiot Ball: When meeting Junko, she deflects all of her psychotic sister's attempts to stab her with the usual inhuman reflexes of the Ultimate Soldier. However, when Junko gets attacked by Izuru Kamukura, she uncharacteristically brute-forces her way into the attack without putting up any defenses, which ends up getting her incapacitated. Incest Subtext: How she acts when she sees Junko is too close to seeing your crush rather than your sister. Inelegant Blubbering: She cries Tears of Joy upon seeing Ryota's anime. The snot coming out of her nose and the strange face she makes, however, makes Ryota feel less appreciative and more concerned. Jerkass: Mukuro is not just an apocalypse bringing terrorist lacking in morals and empathy; she is also a massive jerk. Unless your name is Junko Enoshima you can expect her to act cold, hostile, insulting, or all three at once. Karmic Death: During the first killing game, Mukuro executes a girl for standing up to her and acting defiant. During the second killing game, Mukuro herself is killed for doing the same exact thing. Given that Junko was the mastermind behind both events, it's quite possible she'd deliberately invoked this trope. The way Mukuro was killed also bears a great resemblance to the way she tortured Chisa (an act which essentially killed who Chisa had been). Knight Templar Big Sister: Don't interfere with Junko's plans to destroy all of humanity as part of her Despair Gambit or she will personally have you killed. Lack of Empathy: She seems complete indifferent towards other people, unless it's her sister Junko. Unlike her sister, she doesn't take any sadistic pleasure in hurting or killing people. Lovely Angels: A villainous variation with Junko, forming the "Despair Sisters". Love Martyr: For her sister. She's completely loyal despite Junko literally trying to kill her. Luminescent Blush: A couple of times during her interaction with Junko. Certainly plays up the Incest Subtext. Noble Top Enforcer: Downplayed. Mukuro is still morally better than Junko by comparison, even in action, but her actions in Side:Despair show she is very much still willing to cross certain lines as long as Junko requests them. That is, except for trying to get Izuru on their side, thinking it to be a problem and protesting against the idea until Junko drags her along with it anyway. Obliviously Evil: Played With - while she willingly does all kinds of evils for her sister, she has no idea how far Junko planned to take them. Not that she cares after it becomes clear. Obviously Evil: Her muted colours and stern expression obviously show that she's not meant to be trusted, in comparison to Junko's "cute blonde girl" appearance. Perpetual Frowner: Mukuro is constantly frowning with narrowed eyes, bar few cases where she smiles out of a twisted, yet genuine, sense of happiness. The Pig-Pen: Junko keeps complaining about Mukuro's bad body odor, which is likely a side effect of her occupation, though she herself claims that she has been taking care of her hygiene. Considering that Junko loves picking on her sister, the reliability of her claim is questionable. Pragmatic Villainy: She wonders out loud why Junko makes the brainwashed Reserve Course students commit suicide instead of keeping them around to help, although she's quick to agree when Junko dismisses her concerns. Psychopathic Womanchild: The "psychopathic" part is lesser than her sister, for rather obvious reasons, but it's evident in the prequel that Mukuro is still no less immature than Junko and frequently acts in childish ways. As The Stoic, however, she's more subdued in this. Saved by Canon: She was established in Trigger Happy Havoc as one of its participants (while disguising as Junko), guaranteeing her survival in Despair Arc. Second Episode Introduction: Like Junko, Mukuro doesn't appear until the fifth episode. The Stoic: She never raises her voice beyond a cold, emotionless timbre unless it's during battle, and her expressions are always reserved. Subordinate Excuse: Mukuro doesn't really care about despair, she just loves her sister and just wants to make her happy. Unfortunately, this would mean she would have to commit all kinds of horrifying crimes to please Junko. Super-Reflexes: Was able to instinctively block all of Junko's attempts to stab her with an ice pick, while having a conversation at the same time. Too Kinky to Torture: Her reaction to Junko's attempts to stab and blow her up? Pure bliss. This only seems to pertain to abuse from Junko, as she clearly wasn't too happy about getting slapped around by Izuru. Well-Intentioned Extremist: She wants to fulfill her sister's desire for despair and is willing to go to great lengths to do that, but doesn't actually care about despair itself overall, in contrast to her sister. The Worf Effect: A light slap from Izuru sends her flying, showing just how strong the Ultimate Hope is. Yes-Man: To Junko. She occasionally asks a contrary question but accepts Junko's dismissals and abuses happily. Youthful Freckles: Has a smattering of freckles to make her appear more innocent than her sister, although she's still evil.

Junko Enoshima: Mukuro is Junko's older twin sister. While Mukuro cared deeply for her younger sister, Junko appeared to have no love for her sister, seeing her as a tool to do her bidding, while at the same time behaved towards Mukuro in a derogatory manner. Whenever Mukuro talked fondly of Junko, she yelled at her and told her she's being gross. She frequently called her a dumb muscle who is only good for killing and mocked Mukuro whenever she showed interest in anything else (especially if it was something good and nice like wishing to have friends). Furthermore, she frequently insulted Mukuro's looks and intelligence, considering herself superior in every way. However, paradoxically, it was also indicated that Junko did truly love her sister and that all of her horrible treatment of her was to make her feel despair, which Junko considered to be a loving act.