Ichika Aoi

Ichika Aoi is a student of Hope's Peak Academy, and a participant of the City Killing Game featured in the Danganronpa RP Hub. Her title is the Ultimate Assistant [ lit. Super High School Level Assistant. ]
==Appearance==
Ichika is a very short girl, with black hair, creamy skin and red eyes. Her appearance can change overtime during her life.
Prior to the Tragedy, her hair is tied to pigtails using white ribbons. She wears a black-collared grey sailor uniform with a white ribbon and black jacket. She wears grey oversized pants and white boots.
During her character arc short story "The Next Chairman", Ichika's appearance is the same, except she wore a black scarf, and instead of her normal jacket, she wore a red coat. Her hair is also styled into a braid.
As Chairman, she wore a grey blouse shirt and black pants, with a black jacket over it and a black ribbon around her neck. She also wears black high-heels and cherry earrings. Her hair is curled and tied into a high ponytail using white ribbons.
==Personality==
Ichika Aoi is a frail girl, who seems like the type to fail at everything involving physical activities. Her emotions are also weak, unable to stand up for herself most of the time and just does what others said. However, that weak trait of hers is what led her to become the Ultimate Assistant. Despite that, Ichika has a lot of regrets in her life, but just doesn't know what to do to atone for it. She's also known for being incredibly shy and clumsy. Ichika also treats others as if they were also her bosses.
Ichika is the type of person who blames herself whenever something bad happens, whether if she actually has anything to do with it or not. She also feels bad whenever she misses the opportunity of helping others. Her brother called this her "Ultimate Assistant guilt".
Ichika also has a weakness complex that plagued her for the majority of her life, always refusing to see how much value she actually has. Eventually, she got rid of this complex some time before she became Chairman.
==Talents and abilities==
===Ultimate Assistant===
Ichika is capable of accomplishing almost any request she receives from her bosses. She always values others' needs over her own.
===Photography===
Ichika was simply interested in photography and tried it from time to time as a hobby. She is average in photography.
===Cooking===
Ichika has very little knowledge on cooking, only knowing how to make pancakes.
===Archery===
Ichika was interested in archery because Akari, her boyfriend, is the Ultimate Archer, and wanted to learn something that he liked. She is not very good at it, but enjoyed it nonetheless.
===Entrepreneurship===
Ichika had always wanted to get her father's approval to run a company, but he refused. During The Next Chairman, Ichika able to bring back their business from ruins and is currently running the Aoi Enterprises.
===Engineering===
Growing up, Ichika had been around electronics and constructions due to her father running an electronics and construction company. She learned how to repair electronics and has a bit of knowledge in architecture since she was little. Though she doesn't know too much or is that very good at it to be considered a talent.
==Background==
===Prior to the tragedy===
Ichika Aoi is born in September 18. She grew up having a frail body, which means she is unable to participate in school activities and games, leading her to have barely any friends. On top of that, she is also socially anxious, finding trouble with interacting with others apart from her parents and younger brother.
Her mother, Emiko Aoi, died from a car accident when Ichika was only five, and her father, Asahi Aoi, runs a large electronics and construction company called the Aoi Enterprises. It is supposedly a family business, but because of Ichika's frail body and lack of social skills, he didn't want her to be the next chairman. Instead, her father chose her younger brother, Jiro Aoi, as the successor.
Ichika wasn't jealous, but instead she felt guilty for not being good enough to be the successor of Aoi Enterprises. Because of that guilt, she decided to focus entirely on her studies in school, getting impressive grades from her classes.
Her father was impressed, and he decided to let Ichika become the secretary of Aoi Enterprises. She assisted her father in many tasks.
The employees working in Aoi Enterprises started spreading rumors when they saw Ichika working there for the first time, understandably confused why she is working there despite her brother is the supposed next chairman instead of her.
Those rumors eventually spreaded across the country, about a teenage girl working in Aoi Enterprises. Of course, other companies heard about it as well, and wanted Ichika to work for them too.
Ichika took on several part time jobs in many different companies in the country.
Ichika in school was known well for her unfailing tasks and endless selflessness. Helping others naturally became a part of her. Most were grateful for her fulfilling their requests, while some sought to use that to their advantage.
Many boys in Ichika's elementary school bullied her for her weak appearance and social anxiety. They also forced Ichika to do things that they want, such as their homeworks, projects, passing notes during tests and quizzes to cheat, etc.
Things got worse when the rumor of Ichika Aoi, a very young elementary school girl, was working for one of the biggest companies in the country. It didn't help especially that the bullies also heard that Ichika was doing it because she was ashamed of not being appointed as the chairman and that her brother was chosen over her. The bullies LOVED shaming Ichika for this.
They kept telling her: "Doing what others tell you to is ALL YOU'RE GOOD AT!" This plagued Ichika to the point where she started thinking it's true. She truly believed that being an assistant is "all she's good at".
During her highschool years, one of her male classmates, Akari Haku, had tried to attempt something drastic. Ichika saw what he was trying to do, and she quickly saved him from the terrible fate.
The two became friends, and eventually lovers. Ichika supported Akari as best as she can, since she knows that Akari was clearly going through something.
One day, Akari confessed to her about his talent. Ichika was shocked to hear this, but she does not immediately resent Akari for it. Rather, she only distanced herself from him. She did not want to break up with him because she knows he'll try it again if she leaves him.
Because of Ichika's hard work, acting as a secretary for numerous companies, Hope's Peak Academy scouted her, giving her the title of the Ultimate Assistant.
===City Killing Game===
After the Tragedy had struck, Ichika was left alive by the mastermind. The mastermind contacted Ichika and had told her that they have her father and brother as hostages. Furthermore, they also said that the Aoi Enterprises would be in utter ruin. Ichika begged the mastermind to not hurt her family and not ruin the business she had spent her whole life with. The mastermind would not harm them, on one condition: If Ichika plays the role of traitor.
Ichika reluctantly agreed, afraid for her family's lives. Arriving at the dome, she met with Draco Daichi, the Ultimate Novelist, or rather Rae, the Ultimate Doll. The two started spending some time together, and became friends.
The killing game had started, and Ichika spent 11,000 years inside the time-slowed, time-looping dome. In some of the loops, some of the other participants played as traitor with her, including Showmaster, who still has faint memories of being the traitor.
The final loop had came, and Ichika continued her role as traitor. Ichika spent time with Draco and two other participants, Kenny and Hikaru.
When the first motive, the Wheel of Loved Ones, was introduced, Ichika begged the mastermind to not kill anyone. But the mastermind had refused to listen to her, and by random chance, killed off Kenny's brother, Brandon Suzuki.
After Red's trial for the murder of Tel Honst, the second motive was introduced, the Despair Disease. Ichika was one of the first participants to catch it, being brought into her apartment due to her sudden fever, but because of the disease, she caught symptoms which made her rude, egotistical, and foul-mouthed.
Some time passed, and Ichika found a bag of pink marshmallows and macarons, and gave them out to most of the participants.
Ichika recovered from the disease after Ichie Kito was killed by Takado Koeya, who had put Ichie's blood into the food she had given out unbeknownst to anyone.
After the trial, the third motive was introduced, tightening of wristbands. During this time, the mastermind had contacted Ichika that they are planning a murder caused by someone else on accident. Ichika was in charge of designing the motive.
The first double-murder occured, and Kirikuma was executed for the murder of Brooklyn Blackthorne, while Ayumu Itazura was excluded from punishment despite killing Alisa Vasilievtseva. During this time, Ichika would be nearly complete with the motive she and the mastermind had been planning.
During all of these events, Ichika had been keeping track of the events by writing them down in her diary, and leaving them in the locked storage room of the supermarket for the mastermind to check daily. However, her diary was stolen by Rae sometime after the fourth motive, the natural disasters, and after Kenny's death.
Later in Rae's trial for Kenny's death, Rae had given the remaining participants the last entry that Ichika had written: "The next motive is ready, thanks to KARO and his ______"
After the trial, Ichika and the remaining participants were brought into the office building, where the motive she and the mastermind had been planning will take place: escape rooms.
Ichika was placed into Section A along with Amanita and Aoki Calais. After clearing escape rooms A1, Ichika left to the secret hallway without Aoki and Nita's noticing, and went to the Control Room and messed with the wires that connects to Section C's buttons in escape room C3.
After clearing Checkpoint-A2, Aoki was forced to be left behind while Ichika and Amanita proceeded without them.
A chase scene occured with Red's corpse, which got them into the archives room, where Aoki was found unconscious at the end of a hall. Nita ran up towards Aoki while Ichika tripped by accident, which saved her from Nita's fate... being impaled by spears.
Ichika was left alone with Nita's corpse for hours... Until Showmaster and everyone else from Section C showed up and the investigation started.
During the trial, they came to the conclusion that KARO was the accidental culprit. But KARO, as the Ultimate Escapologist, was able to evade from his punishment. But Aoki Calais was then executed in his place.
After this trial, Ichika worked with everyone else to find the Mastermind and Traitor, even though she herself is the Traitor. Bill found Ichika's Diary in Draco's apartment, to which he showed to everyone during the trial without everyone knowing Ichika owned it.
The contents of the diary mentioned the traitor having a brother, to which Hikaru found out Ichika was the writer of this diary, and at the very same time, the Traitor. Ichika confessed her actions to the group with regret, and told everyone that she needed to find the Mastermind, as she also doesn't know their true identity.
Ichika expressed that the Mastermind had access to the secret hallway that connected to Section B, where Hikaru, Nick, and Bill were in. The rest of the participants soon found out that Bill was the Mastermind because Bill was left behind with the secret passage.
Ichika tried defending Bill at first, but Bill confessed anyways. After Bill's speech about the time loops happening in the city, the city started to collapse. However, Ichika and the remaining survivors, apart from Bill, were rescued by Future Foundation member Pat, the Ultimate Scientist who was previously in the Cruise Ship Killing Game.
===The Next Chairman===
After escaping the city, Ichika started living in the Future Foundation with Hikaru, Ayumu, and Connie. However, Ichika constantly avoided her fellow survivors, as she was afraid of what others think of her since she was the Traitor who helped kill Nita.
Ichika locked herself in her room for several days, always thinking of her father and brother, and the Aoi Enterprises. But after two weeks, She decided to quietly leave the Future Foundation Headquarters to look for her family and bring back the Aoi Enterprises.
After a month's worth of travelling, she was encountered by a Remnant of Despair, who was then shot to death by her former co-worker, Kiyoshi Miyamoto. Kiyoshi brought her to an underground hidden shelter where the remaining Aoi Enterprises employees resided ever since the tragedy struck.
He and another co-worker, Keisuke Ueno, also explained to her that her father and brother were kidnapped by Remnants of Despair and since then they have not been found.
Ichika then asked for Kiyoshi's consent to become the chairman of Aoi Enterprises. Kiyoshi knew that Ichika wanted to make her father and brother proud, so he gave her the role of chairman.
Ichika is now currently the Chairman of Aoi Enterprises. Her current whereabouts are in the repaired Aoi Enterprises building which is protected by a dome.
===Post-KG Events===
Ichika continued running the Aoi Enterprises, making sure the survivors are safe and living in healthy lives, while also continuously constructing around the Aoi Enterprises building.
At one point, Keisuke went out for food and ended up finding Asahi's body in a river, which lead to him reporting to Ichika about it. Ichika mourned and promised her father she will continue running her father's business for as long as she lives.
One day, Kiyoshi came to Ichika's office saying he found a survivor. Ichika asks to bring them in, only to find out it was Hikaru. After asking Kiyoshi to leave the room, she and Hikaru awkwardly talked to each other.
Ichika learned that Hikaru was purposely looking for her, and she responded that he didn't need to. He asked her if she really thought he was going to let her put herself into danger, to which she apologized. Hikaru, to her surprise, then apologized to her, for making her think he still hated her.
Hikaru then told her that he still considered Ichika as a friend despite being the Traitor, and the two's relationship healed.
Hikaru also told her that Jiro is alive in the Future Foundation. Ichika then called the Future Foundation Headquarters and Jiro picked up the phone. Jiro was surprised and excited to see Ichika again that he rushed to the Aoi Enterprises building, allowing the two siblings to reunite.
Some time after this, Ichika remet Akari Haku, her boyfriend. He started living with her in the Aoi Enterprises, but the two rarely talked. Eventually, Akari had enough of this and confronted Ichika, calling her a coward.
It resulted to Ichika getting angry at Akari and calling him weak for depending his life on her. Ichika explained she could not be with someone who does not learn to be independent. Ichika broke up with Akari, so that Ichika could let Akari become independent. As of now, the two still lives together in the Aoi Enterprises, but only as friends.
==Free Time Events==
===1st Event===
You enter the diner and see Ichika there. She jumped when you greeted her and accidentally scared her. You offer to hang out and Ichika accepts. Since you two are in the diner, you decide to make some cookies. You get started on it and it was a success! Well, you got some flour on your clothes when you slipped in the process. When you two were waiting for the cookies in the oven, you ask her about her family's business that she mentioned before. She said that her father runs it and that she has been helping him with most of the work, which made her the Ultimate Assistant. She doesn't answer you when you ask her if she takes breaks, and instead tells you to not worry about it. She then asked you about your talent and how you got it, and you tell her that it was a childhood hobby that turned into a sport. Ichika notices how you zoned out for a moment. Once the cookies are done in the oven, you let them cool off while you leave briefly to clean yourself up. You try them, and they were really good. You suggest giving them to the other participants. You bid each other farewell for now.
===2nd Event===
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===3rd Event===
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===5th Event===
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==Relationships==
===Family===
====Emiko Aoi====
Emiko Aoi is Ichika's mother. Emiko died in a car accident when she was on her way to a meeting, while Ichika was still 5. As a result, the two were not so close. However, Ichika remembered her mother as a kind woman who gave endless love to her children.
====Asahi Aoi====
Asahi Aoi is Ichika's father and boss. The two has the typical "father-daughter" love. There had been multiple times Ichika tries to convince him to appoint her as the next chairman. However, Asahi always rejected.
====Jiro Aoi====
Jiro Aoi is Ichika's brother, younger by two years. Ichika also works for Jiro just like how she works for her father, which can make Jiro think he himself is the "Ultimate Boss" since the Ultimate Assistant mainly works for him. The two are very close, as Ichika always has difficulty making friends.
===Friends===
====Minoru "Draco" Daichi-Moore====
Draco, or rather known as Rae, and Ichika know each other even before the Killing Game happened due to Ichika's role as the traitor and Draco's role as Junko Enoshima's "child" and a Remnant of Despair. The two are close friends.
====Ken James Suzuki====
Ken, or Kenny, is the first person outside of Ichika's family that she got comfortable with. She trusts Kenny and considered him a dear friend. Ichika also sees Kenny as a sort of big brother figure, despite being older than him.
====Hikaru Kishimoto====
Ichika also sees Hikaru as a big brother figure. But the two's relationship severed slightly after her reveal of being the traitor working for the mastermind.
During Outside World, she and Hikaru's relationship recovered from talking it out and apologizing to each other.
===Love Interests===
====Akari Haku====
Akari Haku is the Ultimate Archer, and Ichika's boyfriend. They have been dating since highschool. Akari is respectful towards Ichika and the two have a healthy relationship.
It is revealed during the Train Station Killing Game that the two's relationship is not as wholesome as it seems. Ichika constantly avoided Akari because of his talent, always making up excuses as to why she "can't hang out with him".
As of now, the two have broken up.
===Professional Relationships===
====Satoshi Teru====
Satoshi Teru is one of her many bosses, and is the Ultimate Heir of the Teru Incorporation. The two interact as normally as any boss and assistant, with Satoshi being somewhat more friendly due to his personality.
====Kuro Shirozawa====
Kuro Shirozawa is one of her many bosses. The two do not interact much.
====Kiyoshi Miyamoto====
Kiyoshi Miyamoto is one of Asahi's top employees, next to Ichika, in the Aoi Enterprises. He and Ichika are co-workers and Kiyoshi is very friendly towards Ichika. Kiyoshi also admires Ichika's Ultimate talent and her commitment towards her father. Kiyoshi also used to babysit Ichika and her brother when he was in his teens.
====Keisuke Ueno====
Keisuke Ueno is another one of Asahi's top employees. He's a serious young man but he is normally very reliable. He takes pleasure in working for the Aoi Enterprises, alongside Kiyoshi Miyamoto and Ichika.
====Bill====
Ichika was the traitor working for the mastermind, that mastermind being Bill. Bill has taken Ichika's father and brother as hostages, and used the Aoi Enterprises as leverage for Ichika to work for him as the traitor.
====Chokusetsu Kuragari====
Ichika worked for Setsu and his film company only a few times prior to the Tragedy.
==Art Gallery==
==Trivia==
*Ichika is born with a physically weak body.
*Ichika's name means one thousand flowers.
**Ichika's brother, Jiro's name means "second son", a reference to him being the secondborn of Asahi and Emiko.
*Ichika has social anxiety.
**Ichika stutters in her speaking almost to everyone. However, there are rare cases where she won't stutter. If she does not stutter around someone, it means that she finds comfort and truly trusts that person.
*Ichika has a habit of calling others by their last names.
**This is due to her being required to call others by their last names during her jobs as secretary.
*When Ichika gets complimented, she gets flustered easily and may blush.
**This became a joke from her owner Soul and always called her a typical "anime girl" OOC.
*Ichika dislikes sweets and sugar, since she gets sugar-high very easily.
**However, if she was invited to eat something sweet by another person, she could not bear to say no, since she thought rejecting an offer would be rude.
*Ichika's favorite drink is coffee.
*Ichika's favorite food is buttered popcorn.
*Ichika has many fears and phobias, which include spiders, heights, the dark, failure, and guilt.
*Ichika's voice claim is Stephanie Sheh.
*Ichika grew up thinking that "silence means yes".
*During City Killing Game Chapter Two, Ichika was one of the participants who caught the Despair Disease.
**Ichika's Despair Diseased self had traits of confidence, egotistical, and rudeness, and often called her "former self" a loser.
*Ichika has a weakness complex, which can make her percieve herself as a "weak girl" who could never do anything right.
**She often ranted about this to Draco, to which he genuinely grew annoyed at.
**This weakness complex of hers developed when she heard her brother was going to be the next chairman instead of her.
*Ichika is the official primary traitor of the City Killing Game, working alongside Draco as the unofficial traitor.
**Ichika is unaware of the time loops.
**Depending on the loop, Ichika also worked for some of the other participants as "secondary traitors". This includes Nick, or Showmaster, which can explain his faint memories of being a traitor.
**Ichika did not know the identity of the Mastermind until Bill's reveal in Chapter Six.
*Depending on the loops, Ichika may have been killed by most of the other participants. It is currently undecided whether Ichika has ever killed someone or not. It would depend on whatever Bill had demanded her to do in order for her family to not get harmed.
*Ichika has a playlist of songs that suit her character.
**You can find this playlist in Spotify which is simply named "Ichika's Playlist", put together by Soul or rather known as ScarfSquadLeader.
**One of Ichika's favorite songs is Shelter by Porter Robinson and Madeon. She sang it during Chapter One's Karaoke event.
*When Ichika and Jiro are younger, their father would be so busy that he had to hire a babysitter to look after them. That babysitter just so happened to be Kiyoshi.
**Ichika would often cry as a child because her brother had often done rough play with her and Kiyoshi ended up always having to comfort Ichika whenever he was around to look after them.
**Kiyoshi also sometimes invited Keisuke whenever Keisuke had nothing to do. He would end up lecturing Jiro for discomforting Ichika while Kiyoshi tries to calm her down.
*Ichika's current backstory is a revamp by Soulless.
**There weren't many changes, the only difference was that there was no bullying happening in the original.
*Ichika's first free time event is inspired by a oneshot that Soulless requested Gamemaster (owner of Connie Everheart) to write.
**The oneshot request was a result of a bet between Soulless and Gamemaster during Train Station Killing Game, involving the two's participant characters, Akari Haku and Yuna Tachi.