Gaea Espère

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* Prologue
* Chapter 3

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

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

## Galleries

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

Gaea is a 165-cm (5'5") young woman of medium height and a slim build. She has yellow eyes and shoulder-length reddish-brown hair. She has a distinctive mole above her right eyebrow. Gaea wears a dark brown long-sleeved shirt with cream-colored cuffs and three brown buttons on either side, and a bicolored green and pale yellow scarf with a star design on the right and a grid design on the left, criss-crossed in the front and tucked into a long orange skirt with a black belt. Gaea wears pale yellow slip-on shoes and a golden pin featuring the same insignia as her 'Eve' persona on the left side of her scarf.

## History

### Early Life

Gaea was homeschooled and raised by two mothers—one a teacher and the other a prolific baker—along with her twin sister Pandora Espère.

### Preservation Project

For her talent as the Ultimate Cartographer, Gaea was part of a group of Ultimate Students who offered to participate in the Preservation Project, a scheme run by the government in which students would go to a safehouse to be protected from Earth-shattering earthquakes. Gaea was kidnapped before both Echo Pine's and Akihiko's groups were, and she was forced into a killing game at least two weeks prior to the killing game Echo is forced to take part in. Gaea would win her killing game as the sole survivor and be named an "Ultimate Student" in the eyes of the Preservation Project for her victory. Gaea's role within Echo's killing game is to act as "Eve", an informative overseer. Prior to the killing game's beginning, Gaea would leave a letter for Pandora with her and Zero's emblems to act as a clue before being trapped within the testing chambers on the basement floor of the facility.

On the first day of their captivity, Gaea, as Eve, informed the students of the amenities within the safehouse, including the meals in the dining room and the opening of the second-floor rooms. After they familiarized themselves with the layout of the building, Gaea called all the students to the atrium to welcome them to the safehouse. In the following days, Gaea informed the group when it was officially nighttime at nine o'clock each evening.

### First Motive

At nine in the morning on the third day, Gaea called the students to the atrium once more, but Echo, Pandora, Missy Vesper, Art Campopiano and Cyrus Suryc did not choose to attend.

Pandora found Gaea's note featuring the two symbols corresponding to Gaea and Zero, followed by, "If you recognize one of the symbols depicted, then you have finally found me and are safe. Please do not speak of this note's existence; trust no one but yourself". Despite the note's instructions, Pandora confided in Echo that she had found the note. Neither understood the note's meaning but suspected that it might mean there was a spy among the group. Pandora then left Echo and spent some time relaxing in the spa, where she met with Art. Pandora showed Art the note from Gaea, and their conversation made him suspect her of being the puzzlemaster who had trapped them there. After a discussion regarding the Forced Motive question, Pandora fell asleep. Since Art suspected Pandora of being the puzzlemaster and their conversation brought up his feelings of resentment towards his talent, he snapped and strangled Pandora to death with a towel.

After Art was found guilty of Pandora's murder in the class trial, Gaea interrupted Zero as he was taunting Art and told him to stop. After Art's execution, Gaea swore to Zero that she would fight back after what he did to her. Gaea then granted Echo the title of the Ultimate Memory, prompting laughter from Zero. Gaea and Zero bickered for the remainder of the trial, only stopping after Zero revealed to the remaining students that Cyrus was not to be trusted.

### Chapter 3

Following the "go with Missy and Forte first" route, Gaea's profile depicting her name and face was found by Forte in a page of student profiles found in Cyrus' room. All the students were grouped into pairs with people they were significantly involved with. Gaea's partner was Pandora, being her twin sister.

Further down the route, when Echo is with Lyle and Kanon at the basement floor, the trio find Gaea resting in the testing chambers. She wakes up when Lyle opens the capsule she had been in the for entirety of the game, and she explains that she's only an overseer of the game, unlike Zero who controls it. Gaea advises them not to release Akihiko from his capsule as he was in a worse condition, being merged with a program that induced despair. When a blackout occurs, Gaea finds a flashlight for them to see, finding Kanon had left the group. A Body Discovery Announcement for Forte soon sounds, and Gaea stays in the testing chambers to gather information on the monitors while Lyle and Echo rush to investigate the body.

### Chapter 4

Gaea would directly participate in the class trial using a hologram of herself. When Zero is outed as Forte's killer, he overloads the systems in an attempt to execute everyone including himself, but Gaea and the five remaining students survive. Echo and the others would meet with her in the testing chambers after they leave the trial grounds.

### Epilogue

Echo first met with Gaea alone, and she'd tell them that the nature of the killing games is to test bonds between friends until they self-implode. She also explains to them that their ultimate talent was a fabrication designed to challenge the preconceived notions Zero had about the participants. She apologises for her inaction within the game, and Echo fetches the others and brings them down to Gaea.

Gaea shows them the building they're in is under the sea, and that the Preservation Project utilised the talents of the Ultimate Psionic to fake the earthquakes to attract Ultimate Students to their safehouses in a bid to create the Ultimate Student. Gaea resolves to leave, taking Echo, Missy, Lyle, Sei and Kanon with her. She leads them through a hallway leading to an escape pod, ruminating with Echo about the losses of the people they cared for on the way.

Once 44 minutes pass within the escape pod, everyone except Echo and Gaea fall unconscious. Gaea explains to Echo it's due to the effect the Ultimate Psionic had on their minds in inducing stress to attract them to the safehouses. She then tells them that the Preservation Project was pursuing the ship, and that their only choice was to confront whoever found them once they reached the surface.

## Trivia

* Gaea's surname, Espère, is from the French "espérer", which means "hope".