Akio Akagawa

> "*So... Y-You don't need to worry anymore! You're... You're all fine! I.. I'm going to fix things. I'm going to... do the same thing I've always did. I'm going to fix it all.*"
>
> —Chapter 3, Day 11

**Akio Akagawa** is a participant in NOT: A Killing Game and an OC originating from an alternate universe of the *Danganronpa* series.

(Character image created on Picrew. Picrew made by user @duckyora.)

## History

### Early Life

Akio Akagawa has the official title of the Ultimate Psychologist, given to her due to her proficiency in psychology. She has discovered many new things about the human mind during her studies, and due to her title, she went to Hope's Peak Academy during her high school years. When she graduated, she worked almost immediately at one of few mental hospitals found in Japan, due to the stigma around mental health in the country. It was, however, considered the best that there was in Japan, and was named Hope's Promise, established by a former Ultimate Psychologist before her. There, she worked as one of the most favorited staff members there, and helped many, many people to improve their mental health. Akio's actual life in detail was surprisingly average, and not many interesting things had occurred until she began working.

As Akio continued to work for Hope's Purpose, things began to go downhill. As the weeks went on, the hospital became more and more crowded, likely due to the buzz around her and her title belonging under this hospital's name. Akio was assigned to psychologically evaluate and help people, and she gradually was assigned to work on more and more intense and nearly unsolvable cases. As she tried to fix the problems of many people, she shouldered the burden of people's own mental struggles, and this also weighed her down by a lot, to the point where her mental health was also struggling. It came to the point where Akio was near crazy, but refused help due to her own feelings of obligation to put others before herself. This came to the point where she finally gave in and tried to get help so she could continue work, and she now takes medication to keep herself stable when she begins to have episodes. Afterwards, Akio continued normally, despite the problems she was already facing from it.

Well, normally until the killing game began, that is.

### Chapter 1

Akio was one of the first to wake up, meeting the others in the killing game and establishing acquaintances with the others. Before the first murder, Akio takes it upon herself to investigate immediately, wanting to find out as much information as possible on where they've arrived.

Soon enough, Akio finds the bodies of both Monoboy and Chumkuma along with the others, and a bit of panic begins to set in. She investigates with the others, pairing with Sw6aterCS, who is known as The Drone at the time. During this investigation, she discovers that Chumkuma died from electrocution due to there being water and electrical wires, as well as investigating the plumbing on the ship. Drone and Akio then decide to rest in the library for a while. There, she reveals for the first time her Ultimate talent. She stays in the library for a while, having discovered multiple books of interest regarding both the group's possible location... as well as books on psychology. Some others take interest in this, and they join her in the library. These people include Chihiro, Sans, and Sou. She noticeably hides what she is working on from the others, but nonetheless forms closer bonds with the other three before collecting her notes and taking her leave.

After the first trial, Akio notably becomes a bit mentally unstable, beginning to break down. When asked what's wrong, Akio refuses to say. Sou pushes her to tell him what's wrong, mentioning that she said she trusted everyone earlier. Akio's tone becomes sharp and resilient, and she takes her leave quickly after continuing to refuse to answer his question. From then on, the relationship between Akio and Sou begins to become tense, and it will only worsen as the killing game continues.

Akio joins the others in the main deck lounge later during the investigation, and discusses the situation with L, Chihiro, Sou, Sans, and Gen. During this meeting, they all discover that they come from different universes. She establishes her beliefs with the others quickly, saying that having allies is a very important thing, and that trust could possibly be the key to their survival. She also details that she's welcome to help the others in any way that she can, and attempts to comfort Chihiro when he mentions that he's nervous.

Akio soon excuses herself temporarily to go and get medicine from the nurse's office, claiming she has a headache. She comes back soon enough, but upon closer inspection, she seems to have two pill bottles... how peculiar. Akio soon becomes tired, and falls asleep in the lounge. The others carry her to her own dorm, discovering a file that was peeking out from underneath her dresser. Out of curiosity, they read it, only to find nothing but notes on Akio herself. The paper including these notes is strange, though. It's typed out, and has complicated medical terms near the top of the page, as well as many words and sentences being scribbled out and written over in Akio's barely-readable, doctor-esque handwriting.

The note reads as follows:

Number 198648, Akio Akagawa

So far, there's not been many signs of improvement regarding **▅▅▅▅▅**, but there has been some... odd behaviors surfacing that we've ob**▅▅▅▅.** This includes **▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅**. Security may need to be **▅▅▅▅▅**, and a possible **▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅.**

But that note isn't important yet, now is it?

### Chapter 2

In chapter 2 of NOT, Akio awakens to find herself rescued from the sinking ship, and taken to Bind. She finds L still in the spawn area, who asks her about how her "test" went. Akio laughs nervously and denies the existence of any test, before heading off to find the others. Akio is assigned to A-group, and she meets Chihiro at A-site, where they chat for a while. It is mostly discussion about their location, until Sou approaches them. He seems strangely excited to see Akio, which she's weirded out by, before he walks away yet again. After some more chat, Chihiro and Akio hear a strange sound, and go to investigate. They find one of the two portals in Bind, with Sou asking them to help him find his can of Sprite. Akio agrees, until they wander back to A-site, where Sou stops and confronts Akio. He pulls out the paper that was found in her room earlier, telling her to go into the portal and see what happens if she wants the paper back. Akio panics for a moment, before straightening up and turning to a cold deadpan. They argue for a while, Akio refusing to enter the portal, until a cage appears and blocks their vision of the portal. It disappears soon after without a trace of anyone being there. The three of them all become nervous, and decide to drop the debate. Akio goes to her room promptly after.

The motive is soon introduced the day after, and a box in placed in A-site with the files from B-group. Akio comes out of her room soon after, visibly very distressed, but trying her best to stay put together. She refuses to read anyone's file, however... Sou does read *her* file. And thus, he finds out all of her background and personal information. The relationship between the two begins to become more tense than ever before as he plans his idea to blackmail her.

Soon after the motive, Kanade's body is discovered in B-hookah. Akio goes to investigate A-short, where she discovers strewn files, a tripwire, the cage that Cypher had used near the portal a couple days ago, and a projectile device. During the trial, Akio begins to get on Sou's case soon enough, consistently pointing out that he is suspicious. Until some peoples' files are presented. Along with L's, Sou's, and Cypher's, Akio's file is also presented, and she begins to panic. The files go around in order, Akio becoming more nervous and more suspicious, until she tries to get Sou's file read first. This is in hopes that they'd forget about her file, and that she would also find out the reason behind his suspicious behavior. They argue, until... Akio's file is blank, and it is no longer readable. She finally relaxes, and they come to the conclusion that Kanade was the actual killer all along. Akio nervously asks the mascots for her file, and upon hearing that all the files are now blank, she panics even more and quickly leaves. However, she also takes the Exposition Drone with her, as it had broken down.

Once Akio is in her room with the drone, it awakens, and they have a conversation. The drone refers to itself in third person, which makes her suspicious, but she continues anyhow. She learns that the drone has incredible mathematical skills, but... apparently he also had a professor. She begins to suspect that someone is behind the drone somewhere, but she doesn't elaborate on the idea. L comes and talks to the drone for a minute, before they both leave her room.

Akio soon is called to Def-Spawn with the others, and a new mascot tells them to go into a strange portal. She enters, beginning chapter 3.

## Appearance

Akio is an average height compared to the rest of the group, and often has a tight posture with her hands behind her back or folded in front of her. Her skin is quite pale, and she has bright, rectangular-shaped eyes. Her hair is short and only barely reaches her neck, with two long pieces of hair in the front reaching her shoulders. In her actual clothing design, she wears a white headband, as well as round glasses with bronze rims, and a plain black choker. She has a long-sleeved white button-up, with a tan sweater vest that has a pin on it. She also has a red ribbon as a tie. Her skirt is tan and pleated, with white knee-high socks and pastel blue loafers. Akio often has a stoic or neutral expression on her face, and doesn't show lots of extreme emotions very often.

## Trivia

* Akio Akagawa is one of two OCs in NOT1, the other being sw6/The Drone.
* Akio's current art is made with a Picrew, so her actual design is unable to be emulated in it.