Akari Tereru

Sprite (D4)

**Akari Tereru** is an original character featured in the Future Foundation. She is one of the eleven victims of the Tragedy Across the Seas.

She was enrolled as part of **Class 80** of Makoto Naegi's newly revived **Hope's Peak Academy**. She graduated with honors as the **Ultimate Collector**, and kept her title as part of the new policy surrounding graduation of the academy or those that had graduated beforehand.

## Gallery

For more images of Akari, see Akari Tereru/Image Gallery.

## Appearance

Akari is a young woman of average height who is chubby-looking. She has pale white skin. Her hair is black, fluffy, and messy. She wears big, rounded, and black-framed glasses. Has brown eyes. Akari wears a cropped short-sleeved, white, buttoned, collared shirt with a chest pocket and the top few buttons undone, exposing a large amount of cleavage with a black tie from her Hope's Peak uniform. She wears black pants and white sneakers. She carries a brown mailman’s bag adorned with various pins that she has collected.

## Creation and Development

Created as a self-insert at first, turned into an original character for the Danganronpa 4.

## Name Etymology

Akari's first name translates to ''Jasmine'' in Japanese. And her last name Tereru, meaning ''Introverted''.

“Jazmin” was a name Akari used in public. This change of name was less due to circumstances and more due to her criminal status. For her to enter the ship, she would’ve had to provide a name, and tracking systems would’ve detected and possibly reported her to the authorities. So the use of JAZMIN or JAZMINE was more of a mask than anything else.

## Personality

Akari is an oddity, even within the group. She is quick-witted and very brave, but she also loves to steal from others to add to her collection. However, she cares for her friends to the point of desperation if she were to lose them. She is a clumsy person; her clumsiness even led her to her death.

## Talent & Abilities

### Ultimate Collector:

Akari was the daughter of a middle-class family who couldn't afford toys or other collectibles. So instead, she collected things like cans she found near the trash, rocks of different colours, or leaves with different shapes.

One day she saw a book that she really liked in a store, but she didn't have enough money for it. She couldn't resist the urge to steal it since she really wanted it, and she was successful. Every day, she went to that store to steal collectibles. The owners knew that books and toys were being stolen, but she was never suspected of the stolen items due to her naive looks.

During the tragedy, the situation worsened, but her collecting skills led to her obtaining items that people would soon find useful. She would survive the tragedy using her collecting skills to provide herself as useful to others, and thus she would never be someone's target.

Even though Hope's Peak knew she was a thief, they accepted her because ''She could do whatever it takes to add new things to her collection.''

## History

Because of her economic situation, she was often bullied, and she never really stood up to them, which caused the situation to worsen over time. But then she met Akemi Warugaki. Akemi protected her from the bullies. She was two years younger than her, and she inspired Akari to become the very best they could be.

She would join the first class of the new Hope's Peak class 80. Unlike in the past, she didn't get bullied, and she felt pretty welcomed.

## Relationships

### Akemi Warugaki:

Akari and Akemi were childhood friends since the day Akemi stood up to Akari's bullies.

One day she would reunite with Akemi, now a student in the same academy as her but two classes younger. Once Akemi was selected to go on a trip to the new Future Foundation, she decided to use her savings and accompany her as well.

### Ichigo Misaki:

Akari and Ichigo were classmates at Makoto Naegi's newly revived Hope's Peak Academy. They got close over time and eventually met again on the trip to the new Future Foundation.

During the Tragedy Across the Seas, Akari always felt something for Ichigo, though Ichigo only saw her as a close friend. Akari knew she had no chances with her since Ichigo was with Yamato Shinku at the time. Akari died before she got to tell her feelings to her.

## Trivia

* Her favourite colour is purple.