Yui Aoide

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**Yui Aoide** is a character featured in the English fangame *Danganronpa: Antebellum* created by **Rippilie**.

She is known as the **Ultimate Conductor.**

## Gallery

📷 For more images of Yui, see: Danganronpa: Antebellum/Image Gallery and Yui Aoide/Sprite Gallery.
## Appearance

Yui is a 22-year-old Japanese Thai woman with pale skin, two-toned lilac and cyan hair styled into treble clef-shaped twin tails, and cyan eyes with music note-shaped pupils.

Yui wears a white button-up shirt with heart-shaped cyan buttons, a black tailcoat with white lace trim and gray striped lapels and waist pockets, and a conductor's wand with a cyan bow in the left pocket. Multiple white and cyan circular and heart-shaped pins adorn her shirt collar and right lapel. Yui's skirt is dark purple with two lavender stripes with white musical notes resembling a music staff, white lace trim, and a cyan waistband with a black music staff design. On her feet, Yui wears black and white boots with black ribbons and laces and gray thigh-high stockings with white lace, white stripes, and a black heart pattern. Yui wears a blue lace scrunchie on her wrist, black music note earrings, and two silver hairpins in her hair on the right side of her head, along with pink lipstick, blush, and blue eyeshadow on her right and pink on her left.

## Personality

Yui is a generally sweet and optimistic girl who, because of her talent, has become fairly good at 'conducting people'. She's quick to resolve arguments and break up fights. Despite her friendly nature, Yui can be rather bossy and even somewhat controlling, but she can assure you that it comes from a place of affection. She has a princess complex and hates being seen as plain, often coming off as very vain when it comes to her looks. She thinks of beauty as the most important quality in a person.

Yui interacts with her peers differently depending on their gender, having a tendency to dote on and nickname male students, frequently complimenting them, while having a disdain for her female counterparts, usually forgetting their names, insulting them, and being generally distrusting towards them. Yui's fixation on men often backfires, making them uncomfortable as Yui is unable to respect boundaries and take no for an answer, believing she knows what men "really want."

In Chapter 2, it is revealed that Yui is much more intelligent than she pretends to be, only acting dumb in order to attract men and actually being a very manipulative and scheming person, believing herself to be much smarter than everyone else and behaving condescendingly.

## History

### Early Life

Yui's mother died in childbirth, leaving only her father to raise her. Her father was a traditional man, wanting to raise a 'good woman', and by that he meant a good wife. Her childhood was perfectly controlled, with express interest shown in how she presented herself outwardly. So from a young age, everything, like Yui's weight, height, hobbies, and interests, were all heavily regulated to create the perfect wife. She was very much raised to believe that a wealthy, good-looking man was the ultimate goal and that all other women were competition. In spite of her father's wishes, Yui would sneak out of her room and go to the library to read books and learn new things. She may have been sheltered, but she would slowly grow smarter on her own, and the more she got away with sneaking out, the more cocky she got. She started thinking she was better than the rest—something special.

In her controlled life, Yui had one shred of freedom. One person who allowed her to be a normal child. Her best and only friend, Eiichi. Her obsession with him was less an obsession with him as a person and more an obsession with the freedom Eiichi represented—a man who would allow her to continue to strive for perfection. Yui's father only let her keep him around because he was a future marriage prospect.

As the two got older, Yui became more desperate to hold onto Eiichi. She saw him as her prince and other girls as competition. When he started to make more friends in middle school, Yui leaked an embarrassing secret of his: that he had 'girly' hobbies, causing him to lose them. At the age of 12, Yui kidnapped Eiichi's cat and instructed her servants to keep it locked away and not tell a soul, eventually releasing the cat after a few days and framing it as if she found it, making Eiichi indebted to her. The success of this plan emboldened Yui to try bigger stunts while also trying to achieve her own independence by getting better at controlling others. This took the form of conducting, which Yui loved because, for the first time in her life, others paid attention to her because of her talent rather than her looks.

One day, Yui and Eiichi were exchanging secrets when she confessed to him that she loved him. Eiichi turned her down and asked to remain only friends, which Yui instead took as a challenge, viewing it as a love story. Yui altered her behavior to act stupider, tried to become more attractive, and isolated him from the other girls in his life. After continuously being rejected by Eiichi, Yui decided to make his life hell so that he would finally say yes, starting with verbal harassment and stalking on social media and leading to blackmail, stalking, threats, and sexual and physical harassment. When Eiichi cut Yui off for good, Yui called a swat team to his house, claiming that all of the things she had done to Eiichi, he had instead done to her. This permanently injured his father, causing him to be unable to work again.

### Killing Game

Shinku meets Yui outside of the lecture hall, following Mononeko’s announcement, swaying back and forth and humming to herself. Shinku asks her if she has seen Dracul and Ismene around, and Yui replies that she has, seemingly already having forgotten Ismene’s name but not Dracul’s. She also informs Shinku that there are already 12 students in the lecture hall. She introduces herself to Shinku, surprised that he does not already know who she is on account of her famous orchestra, the first to play at the South Pole, and remarking how cute she looked in her winter attire. Shinku tells Yui her hair is cute, to which she is flattered, telling him it takes three hours to style each morning. Yui nicknames Shinku 'cheekbones', and Shinku gets the impression that Yui is not skilled in flirting.

After Mononeko announces the killing game, Yui panics, remarking that her fans are outside waiting for her. Yui also insists that she is not guilty of a crime and that she is the one innocent student out of the sixteen, also expressing suspicion towards Shinku’s claims that he does not remember what crime he committed.

The next morning, Yui would attend breakfast with the other students, being the first to greet Shinku and asking him to try some lavender-flavored muffins Mint had prepared. When Ismene shows up a bit later, Alora is the first to greet her as a murderer, with Yui and Rei making antagonistic comments pertaining to her and her crime.

Later that day, Ismene would invite Yui and all the other girls to the sterilization room, bringing Kotaro with them. She had promised to do something that would make them forgive her; her idea was to sacrifice him to a god to grant their wishes. Yui's wish is to find a boyfriend with a lot of muscles, the moon, and a larger chest after being cut off by Asuga. She then wants to throw a tea party in the biodome, wanting Shinku to assist her in telling everyone.

### Yui's Tea Party

The next afternoon, Yui goes to Shinku's dorm room, telling him of the tea party. He agrees to help her, and his first task is to gather everyone and tell them of their plans. Everyone besides Alora and Kiyoshi wishes to attend, but Yui would exclude Ismene from the invites, the latter agreeing with her. Following the announcements, Yui asks Shinku to accompany her to the library to fetch some chairs and tables. While in the library, Shinku would point out an empty box devoid of dust, telling Yui someone must've recently taken something out of it.

In the hallway on the way to the kitchen, Yui would point out the creepy-looking dolls on the high ledges around the laboratory. Not taking no for an answer, she climbs on Shinku's shoulders and tries to grab the doll, but his legs give out before she can reach it. This garners Alora's attention, who tells them it's possible the dolls are cameras.

Yui and Shinku would reach the kitchen to find Eiichi and Kotaro preparing the food for the party, with Kotaro telling her all the food would have to be vanilla-flavored as that's the only flavor available. She then leads Shinku to the biodome, questioning why he likes Ismene. She then asks him who his hostage is before crying and tearfully telling him that hers is her father.

Later at the tea party, Yui intercepts Shinku's attempt at socializing with Dracul by sweeping him away and asking him to dance. They'd engage in a conversation about their party outfits before they heard a scream belonging to Ismene, prompting Dracul to leave and investigate. The others then eat the pastries Eiichi and Kotaro prepared, feeling dizzy and collapsing shortly after.

When everyone awakens, they see Dracul's body sprawled over Kotaro's cake, his eyes gouged out, and his intestines wrapped around it. Yui complains about her party being ruined, prompting Shinku to lash out at her before apologizing.

Yui would be one of the main people to accuse Ismene of Dracul's murder during the subsequent class trial, but Maiko would be found guilty and voted as Dracul's killer before getting executed.

### Fate

Despite her anger, Yui is executed in “Chaque rose a son epine." She conducts an orchestra of Mononekos for an audience while wrapped up in thorny vines. As the show goes on, the audience becomes agitated and throws rocks at the Mononekos, destroying some of them. The more dissatisfaction the audience feels, the tighter the vines around Yui get, a vine around her neck tightening until it decapitates her.

## Talent

### Conductor

Yui is the Ultimate Conductor, the leader of the world's most famous orchestra, which she boasts was the first to play at the South Pole. Yui originally became interested in conducting as a result of wanting to practice something she had control over, usually lacking autonomy in her life, with it also being a 'girly' enough hobby for her father to approve of.

## Creation and Development

Yui's design was relatively unchanged between her beta design and final design, with her beta design featuring more saturated colors, her tailcoat and stockings being tinted purple, a different sleeve design, a lack of makeup, and the right pocket on her tailcoat being absent.

Very early in development, Ultimate Knitter and Ultimate Anime Enthusiast were both talents considered for Yui.

Yui's execution was originally intended to involve more shots showcasing her arm movements and the staff of the project being seated in the audience, but these elements were cut due to time and resource constraints.

## Trivia

* Yui's free time events are uniquely considered to be canonical to the events of Chapter 2.
* Yui's is the only character in Danganronpa: Antebellum whose free time events reward the player with a pair of underwear.
* Yui's hair is dyed, and her natural color is brown, as can be seen in flashbacks.
* Yui is heterosexual.