Mal Burnow

* MF
* Pre-KG

(Real Name) Jane Hogan

Burnow Mafia (disbanded)

> I’ve always been in control, Anthony. Ever since it happened I’ve controlled what happens in my life. Not this shit.”
>
> -Mal Burnow

> WHAT THE FUCK?!”
>
> -Mal Burnow

**Mal Burnow** (Real name Jane Hogan) was a student who applied for Rimoto Piozumu Academy in its second year, and a participant in the killing game that took place at the abandoned theme park in *Danganronpa: Mirrored Fate.*

## Personality

**Mal Burnow** was a tough girl. She exuded a threatening aura and was always ready for a comeback. She intentionally was rude to people, as she believed other peoples feelings did not matter. Not many things bothered her. It took a lot to hurt her ego. Although, she became vulnerable and easier to hurt when you were one of her close friends, or even closer than a friend. She swore, a lot, as she thought it emphasized a sentence and added personality to it. She was very into philosophy, often having deep conversations with fellow Killing Game Participant, Anthony Malthe. Over the course of her time in the Killing Game, she began to open up more about her feelings and thoughts, something she had previously kept to herself.

## History

### Before The Killing Game

On May 22nd, 2002, Jane Hogan was born into the wealthy and powerful family behind the Burnow mafia. Her parents, Nicholas and Sarah Hogan, were the leaders. From a young age, they trained their daughter to be a "perfect weapon." She became skilled in all forms of combat, but specifically unarmed hand to hand combat. She also became very fond of gymnastics and dance, specifically ballet. At the age of 11, she realized she could not be on the front lines of the mafia. She did not have what it took to look someone in the eyes and kill them. Her parents were furious. Acting as if she was not their daughter. One day however, they came to her with an idea. They needed a hacker. She immediately agreed and was a master at it.

But, on the day before her 13th birthday, she was working on a mission with her parents. A bank heist. When the group had made it to the vault, there was nothing inside. That was when Janes camera went out, and all she heard was yelling and gunshots. After a couple of seconds, the camera came back on, and she saw the lifeless bodies of her parents on the ground. The other members who had shot them started yelling for Jane, shouting about how they were going to "Finish off the Hogan's for good!" She immediately took all of her money and ran, telling their family butler, to run too.

After a long journey and many, many airplane trips, she finally landed in Tokyo, Japan under a new name. **Mal Burnow**. For a while she lived on the street. as she used up most of the money she was able to grab on airplane tickets. But she came up with an idea, and began a hacking company to make some money, known as Burnow Hacking. She wasn't entirely sure if the mafia was stil even after her, but she wasn't taking any chances. She locked herself in a penthouse apartment she bought, drowning her PTSD and trauma with whiskey and hacking. She chopped off her hair, dyed it a tealish-blue, bought fake glasses, and got lots of tattoos and piercings.

She stayed like this for 5 years, job after job, whiskey bottle after whiskey bottle, and eventually she met a girl. This girl was the love of Mals life, or at least she thought. She discovered she was lesbian, and dated this girl for about a month and a half, before the girl broke up with her. Due to her past with her parents, she had extreme separation anxiety and missed the girl every single day of her life. She would fall in love all over again even at the sound of her voice. This became a real problem for her, so one day she found a solution.

Rimoto Piozumu Academy. A school for the best of the best, which she thought she was. A place to get away from the rogue Mafia members,if they still were even after her. A place to get away from the girl. A fresh start. It was exactly what she needed. She signed up under her fake name, Mal Burnow, and her talent, Ultimate Hacker.

### Danganronpa: Mirrored Fate

#### **Chapter 1**

##### **Day 1**

Mal awoke in her trailer. She very quickly jumped out of bed, threw on her hoodie, and walked out into her trailer common. She watched people go in and out, just surveying. It wasn't until all the students were called to the courtyard for the announcement that she finally spoke. The first words out of her mouth were those of insulting nature, making fun of all the other students hairdos. She mostly stayed silent for the entire announcement of the killing game, trying hide her underlying fear of meeting the same fate as her parents.

She exited to the restaurant after the meeting, and began talking a big game for a woman of her height. Talking about how the world is "survival of the fittest" and "only the strong live." Very shortly after, she fell asleep in the restaurant and was awoken by the chatter of the other participants. She immediately started yelling at Foujita Oba for smoking near her (something her parents used to do frequently, although this was not told to the participants.) Her temper was very short, due to the withdrawal she was feeling from the lack of whiskey, so she blew up on Zenkichi Otohashi for acting like a dog, which annoyed many of the other participants.

She had a conversation with Foujita and Anthony Malthe in the kitchen while trying to find any sort of alcohol. She said that they are the only two people she'd talked to so far that don't make her immediately want to vomit, and thus, a bond was formed, more specifically with Anthony than Fou. What followed was a very long guessing game at Mal's ultimate, which was briefly interrupted by the bullying of Dyson Kyosko. After the bullying session, they returned to guessing Mals ultimate. Anthony guessed that she was the "Ultimate Nerd" and ran off. She tore off after him, obviously with the intent to hurt him.

She was able to cool off and not deal any damage to him, which was probably better for both of them. The group correctly guessed Mal as the Ultimate Hacker and the conversation returned to a less chaotic nature. Mal exited the restaurant, only to meet Zenkichi in the courtyard. Seeing no one else was around, Mal dropped her tough girl persona and gave an honest apology to Zenki for being so rude to him. The apology was short lived however, as she very quickly grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and threatened to kill him if he told anyone she was nice to him. She then voiced her suspicions of Zenkis ability to get this far in the application process, and if he was really as dumb as he came across.

She returned to her trailer and laid down in her bed. She didn't really make any friends tat day, or any enemies. She had her suspicions about Zenkichi and her interest in Anthony, but nothing other than that. She quickly fell asleep for the rest of the day.

## Trivia

* "Mal", stems from "Malware", and "Burnow", stems from the burn of a "firewall". Both are common terms in hacking.
* This is Ein’s first Danganronpa Character.
* Mal's sexuality is Lesbian
* Before her trial, many people referred to Mal as the potential protagonist of the season.
* Mal spent most of her time during the Killing Game with either Anthony Malthe or Katie Cross.
* Mal was an excellent drummer.