Forte Solo

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**Forte Solo** is a character featured in the English fangame *Danganronpa: Lapse* created by Mythridate.

He is known as the **Ultimate Opera Singer**.

## Galleries

📷 For more images of Forte, see Danganronpa: Lapse/Image Gallery and Forte Solo/Sprite Gallery.
## Appearance

Forte is a 175 cm (5'9) tall man with olive skin, white hair with black streaks, black eyebrows, red eyes, and a scar over his right eye. In his sprites, he wears a purple collared shirt tucked into black pants, a black belt with a gold buckle, white gloves, a brown scarf with yellow cross detailing and a shiny blue butterfly pin draped loosely over his shoulders with one side each falling over the front and back of his torso, and black dress shoes. Like everyone else in the killing game, he wears a rose-colored bracelet on his left wrist.
In his talent illustration, he wears a black suit consisting of a black dress shirt with dark grey detailing and two star-shaped gold pins near the neck, a cape that's black on the outside and blue on the inside, white gloves, black dress pants, and black dress shoes.

## History

### Preservation Project

Forte, as the Ultimate Opera Singer, was among a group of other Ultimate students who volunteered to participate in the Preservation Project, a scheme by the government in which students could go to a specially engineered safehouse where they would be protected from a series of Earth-shattering earthquakes that had been tearing through the planet. Unbeknownst to the volunteers, the Preservation Project was instead a front being used to run an experimental 7-day-long killing game in which students were tasked with murdering one of their fellow students without getting caught. Cyrus Suryc, the Ultimate Confidential Informant working on behalf of the Preservation Project, had been observing each of the students for a long time and knew everything about them, particularly looking for information that could be exploited to provoke them to commit murder or a weakness that could be used to harm them, such as a mental illness or allergy. All of the students involved in the Project were violently abducted by a "capture group" of Ultimate students, hit hard on the back of the head until they were knocked out, and transported to the Project building unconscious.

## Trivia

* Forte's given name is very likely a reference to the music term forte, meaning music that should be played loudly. His surname is likely a reference to the opera term solo.
* Creator Mythridate considers Forte to be the hardest character to write, having trouble conveying Forte's particularly romantic outlook on life without coming across as "too hammy".
* Creator Mythridate has stated that Forte's imagined voice is the same as Shadow the Hedgehog from the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
* Creator Mythridate has assigned a Pokémon type to each of the Lapse characters, and Forte's type is the rock type.
* Forte's former high school, Relic Song High School, is in reference to the signature move of the Pokémon Meloetta, Relic Song.
* Forte is fluent in French.
* Each member of the Danganronpa: Lapse cast has an associated flower, Forte's being the calla lily, which is said to represent Magnificence and beauty, befitting Forte's elegant demeanor.
* Forte is an aromantic asexual.

## References

1. ↑ **Mythridate's Website**: Post Chapter 2 Q&A (January 14, 2020)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 **Mythridate's Website**: Extra Character Info (October 18, 2019)
3. ↑ **Mythridate's Website**: Post-Chapter 1, Pre-Chapter 2 Q&A (December 22, 2019)