Junko Enoshima

Ultimate Despair

Junko Enoshima is a former member of Class 78th at hope's peak academy, and was the mastermind behind The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy, Hope's Peak Academy Killing Game, and the Jabberwock Island Killing Game.

## History

### Early Life

Junko Enoshima was the secondborn child of Aika Enoshima and Hiroshi Enoshima. She was born 3 minutes after her twin sister, Mukuro Ikusaba. She was instantly favored by her parents, considering she was "prettier" then Mukuro, and thus could work as a model, as Aika Enoshima would see fit. Junko received little to no attention from her parents outside of being trained to be a model from age 2, controlling her diet and fitness activities. Regardless, from a young age, Junko felt little to nothing at all, self-describing the first feeling she felt from birth being total and complete "despair". Junko was born with the ability to read and analyze people, growing quickly bored with the world due to this. Because of her ability to predict humankind's next actions, Junko's interest in the raw feeling of Despair only increased, due to the unpredictable nature of despair.

Junko reveled in putting down and insulting her twin sister, Mukuro in every aspect of her life, completely controlling Mukuro's livelihood and personality until Mukuro had no choice but to adore her.

In elementary school, Junko met Yasuke Matsuda, as the two had no friends and quickly found eachother interesting. One particular moment between the two when they were elementary school students was when Junko spent a month building a sand sculpture modeled after the Sagrada Familia church at the public park, and she even used very advanced techniques for her age. The sculpture got closer to completion and many people from around the neighborhood came over just to watch her work.

One day, the sandcastle was found destroyed just before it was completed. Junko cried continuously for almost an entire day and Yasuke went around angrily looking for the perpetrator. Not being able to find out anything useful discouraged Yasuke. While he was sitting on a bench in front of the remains of the sand sculpture, Junko ran up to him with a large smile and whispered in his ear that she was the culprit who destroyed the sculpture all along, asking him to keep it a secret. When asked for a reason, she replied that she did so by accident. Truthfully, she had done this to get Yasuke out of his house, upset that his mother's condition had led him to become more withdrawn than usual, though the Despair she felt didn't exactly hurt.

In the years following the death of Yasuke's mother, Junko became the person that Yasuke felt he could always lean on. She promised to always be there for him, which helped develop his stronger feelings towards her. She said she'll never forget Yasuke even if she forgets everything else, and they'll always be together. For the first time in his life, Yasuke cried in front of another person, after making her promise she won't make fun of him, won't tell anyone and won't try to console him. Yasuke was the only person Junko ever felt genuine love and care for.

Junko had a strong desire to "paint the world in despair" and planned to start The Tragedy, the worst, most despair-inducing incident in the history of mankind. As a teen, Junko began a modeling career and quickly became an idol amongst the Japanese population with her extravagant tastes. One reason for her popularity was the fact that, ironically, she didn't seem fake. Her career created a lot of unwanted attention as well; she claimed that the only men who were interested in her were "creeps who did not actually care about her." Later, Junko was scouted to join Hope's Peak Academy as the Ultimate Fashionista, alongside Mukuro Ikusaba, the Ultimate Soldier.

### The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event In Human History

Junko very quickly began executing her plans to intiate the Tragedy. Starting with Mikan Tsumiki, Junko slowly but surely seduced the members of Class 77th to despair, making them just as devoted to Junko and Despair as Mukuro was. Using Mukuro as a spy, Junko collected information regarding the Kamakura project and Izuru Kamakura in general.

Junko, with Mukuro acting as her personal assassin and bodyguard, broke into Izuru's cell, convincing him to join the Ultimate Despair in order to escape the boredom of his life. Junko then went to Jin Kirigiri, blackmailing him with the details of the Kamakura project, including the misuse of the Reserve Course Student's admission fees. She asked for complete control over Hope's Peak, if Jin Kirigiri's bunker plan ever had to become a reality. Kirigiri refused, just according to Junko's plan.

Junko then orchestrated The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy, using Mukuro as the administrator of the killing of the student council. At the end of the Tragedy of Hope's Peak, only Karen Kisaragi survived (albeit barely). Junko, having recorded the whole game, then took the recordings and framed Izuru Kamakura as the sole perpetrator of the game, leaking both this and the circumstances of Izuru's creation to the public. Faced with the knowledge that their admission fees had been used to make a superhuman who then turned around and butchered 20 people enraged the Reserve Course, leading to their riots as Junko's first school year came to a close.

### Whatever Happened to Ryoko Otonashi?

Following the end of her first school year at Hope's Peak, Junko Enoshima tested her memory erasing technology on herself, completely wiping her identity and memory, assuming the identity of Ryoko Otonashi. As Ryoko, Junko reunited with Yasuke Matsuda, and fell in love with him again. Matsuda tried his hardest to permanently remove Junko from Ryoko's brain, but couldn't bring himself to do so. Ryoko discovered a "conspiracy" lying at the heart of Hope's Peak, which was really a fake mystery developed by Junko herself in order to lead herself back to her old personality. Mukuro, masquerading as Junko, pushed Ryoko back into becoming Junko. After becoming Junko again, Junko brutally attacked and mutilated Yasuke, kidnapping him and keeping him in a coma until it would come time to use him as a player in the Jabberwock Island Killing Game. She did this for the sole purpose of despair.

### The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event In Human History (cont.)

After returning to her true self and killing the personality of Ryoko Otonashi permanently, Junko resumed her scheming to create the Tragedy. Around this time, Junko found and rescued the Warriors of Hope from committing suicide, earning their trust and undying worship. However, Junko only truly cared about Monaca Towa, as through Monaca, Junko could acquire the funding to mass produce Monokumas.

As the Reserve Course Parade began to riot much more aggressively, Junko approached Jin Kirigiri once again, saying that if Jin didn't look the other way and allow her to do whatever she wanted with Jin's bunker plan, she would tell the Reserve Course students to commit mass suicide. Jin gave her complete control over Hope's Peak, but Junko still had the reserve course kill themselves. Soon after, Junko shot and killed Jin Kirigiri.

Lastly, with an army of despaired Class 77th and Monokumas, Junko let her despairs lose across Japan, starting her conquest of the nation in the name of Despair. Meanwhile, she aided the other members of Class 78th, barricading Hope's Peak Academy. The Tragedy had begun.

### Before the Hope's Peak Academy Killing Game

Over the two years Junko spent inside Hope's Peak, Junko spent time with the other students while slowly but surely laying the seeds for the Hope's Peak Academy Killing Game. Junko also stole and copied the code for Chihiro Fujisaki's Alter Ego programming, using her analytical skills to program and reverse engineer an AI based from Junko's personality, as a fail safe in case the Hope's Peak Academy Killing Game went south.

### Reload Your Revolver

Junko, hiding in the data center of Hope's Peak Academy, manipulated and orchestrated the events of the Hope's Peak Academy killing game, systematically killing her classmates, or rather, having them kill each other. Junko, under the mask of Monokuma, acted as the administrator of the game, using both Sakura Oogami and Mukuro Ikusaba (disguised as Junko) as moles to sew discourse within the class.

Junko oversaw the execution of Kotomi Ikuta, Kiriko Nishizawa, Iore Kitabayashi, Tsubasa Kamii, Alter Ego, and Sayaka Maizono, before agreeing to Mukuro's proposal of one last class trial. Junko's identity was unveiled during the final class trial, where she reveled in the despair and shock she created within her classmates. Despite her overwhelming confidence in Despair, Junko was still defeated her class 78th, and gleefully executed herself.

### Hearts and Hand Grenades

The Ultimate Despairs, still mourning Junko's death, redoubled their brutal efforts in the name of despair. The Warriors of Hope, mourning the loss of their "big sister" started planning to revive her via the creation of the Ultimate Successor. However, Junko lived on inside of the data cards holding the info for AI Junko, housed inside of Kurokuma and Shirokuma. Following the destruction of Big Bang Monokuma, thanks to Komaru Naegi and Toko Fukawa, Izuru Kamakura retrieved the data cards and allowed himself to be captured by Mukuro Ikusaba and Celestia Ludenberg, placing her data inside the Neo World Program.

### As We Are The Summer

After her AI was uploaded into the NWP, Junko quickly hi-jacked the Neo World Program's main purpose (restoring Class 77th's personalities), instead turning the NWP into another Killing Game. Junko once again acted as the administrator, using Monokuma as a cover. She oversaw the execution of Kazuichi Soda, Mahiru Koizumi, Mikan Tsumiki, Amira Howards, Sonia Nevermind, and Nagito Komaeda, before accepting Monomi's offer for a final class trial. Although confident, Junko lost, and was finally executed, being permanently put down.