Ikeike Yamu

### Talent Description

Ultimate Horror Novelists write, revise and publish their own horror novels, along with analyze other novels.

## Game Info

### Killing Game

Danganronpa V6: Justifying Actions

> "Oh, this will make a great novel once I'm out of here!"
> ***Ikeike Yamu; Chapter 1 of "Danganronpa V6: Justifying Actions"***
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## Appearance

Ikeike is a tall, pale woman with dark purple-blue hair that is half-up in space buns, being held up by white bows. She had wide green eyes with long eyelashes and somewhat thin eyebrows. Ikeike has no freckles, beauty marks, or glasses whatsoever.

As for clothing, Ikeike had a more casual type of style. Her shirt is half white-half green with the opposing color as stripes. It hangs around her shoulders, revealing her cleavage. Her bottoms consist of a green skirt that ends near the top of her thighs. She does wear black socks, which come up to below her knees, and black mary-jane shoes.

## Personality

Ikeike seems to be very passionate and loyal about her talent, as she tends to say that she could write a novel about nearly every situation within the killing game. However, she does normally forget about the idea after a bit, as she is quite forgetful.

Ikeike is also very forgiving, often giving people more chances than they deserve. She claims that she lives by a quote made by one of her favorite horror characters, that being "I don't hold anger anymore, even for those who hurt and betray me."

However, she could be considered as quite sloppy and messy, leaving her and Uehi Aoikawa's dorm a mess most of the time. She has a tendency to misplace items, which is caused by her forgetfulness, and has a breakdown tearing up said room where she misplaced her item.

## Life

### **Prior To The Killing Game**

Ikeike Yamu was born to a single mother as an only child. Her father was battling an illness while her mother was pregnant, and passed away shortly after she was born. Due to this, she hardly ever knew her father. She spent most of her time with her mother, and basically relied on her for everything.

Her mother sheltered her, shielding her from the harsh world outside. She did not want to lose her child, especially after losing her spouse years prior. Because of this, Ikeike had stayed inside majority of the time, and picked up reading as something to pass the time. She instantly fell in love with reading, and spent most of her free time doing so.

The only time Ikeike was allowed outside was to go to school, in which her mother would watch over her to make sure she got there safe. Within school, she was ignored and pushed aside by the other children, being deemed as an "antisocial bookworm with no friends". Ikeike didn't seem to mind, however, and continued to stay by herself all throughout her school years.

In her first year of upper secondary school, she began to write her own stories within her notebooks during her classes. Ikeike wrote about anything she could manage to think about, from short stories about characters she created to a whole fictional world. Because of this new obsession, she prioritized her writing and not her schooling, which made her fall behind in it.

Ikeike was near failing and having to retake her grade, to which she had to pause her writing in order to pass. She was bored and unhappy because of this and received poor grades on her homework. By some miracle, she had managed to pass her grade, and was back to writing and reading.

By the time she graduated, she had advanced from simple, short stories to well-written and thought-out horror novels. Ikeike had published her books online, to which she had gathered an audience who loved her work. One day, after posting a new book, she checked her email and saw a letter from an academy.

The academy was called "Chikaaki Academy For Gifted Students" and said that they were impressed with her novels. They offered her to enroll in their academy with the title "Ultimate Horror Novelist", to which she accepted.

## Relationships

### **Uehi Aoikawa**

Uehi is Ikeike's dormmate and "best and only friend". Uehi is one of the only people to be kind towards Ikeike, to which she appreciates. Overall, they're on friendly terms and consider each other friends.

## Quotes

> "Uehi!~ My best and only friend!~"
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> **Calling for Uehi Aoikawa in Chapter Two**
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> "You don't know where my heart lies, do you? Well... I mean... I know it isn't your fault. You think you live in a world that you clutch, that you rule, but in reality? You just don't get out that much. But I don't really have the right to talk, do I? I rarely went outside before all this either."
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> **Arguing with Choune Yohara in the Chapter One trial.**
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## Trivia

* She is based off of the Melanie Martinez song "Fire Drill".