Norman

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## Characteristics

### Height

* 6'1"\*
* 185 cm\*

### Family

Mother†
Old Car†
Stray Cat†

## Personal Status

### Affiliation

Victims Catharsis Committee
Ercassam Auctions

## Debut

### Novel

Danganronpa Kirigiri Volume 2

**Norman** (ノーマン, *Nōman*) is a guest character and antagonist featured in the second novel of *Danganronpa Kirigiri*. He is the main host of the Norman's Hotel Murder Case Duel Noir. This page will only document differences seen in the Danganronpa version of Norman, compared to the original Norman Bates.

## History:

### Prior Life

Norman was a serial killer in his prior life, who died over 50 years before *Danganronpa Kirigiri*. His infamy caused a hotel to become named after him. Similar to the film Psycho, similar events actually happened likely with some alterations to fit. In Psycho, these murders would play out at the Bate's Motel, however it is unknown if the same is true for Danganronpa. The hotel named after him opened 20 years before *Danganronpa Kirigiri*, and was built away from the city in a forest, with gothic style architecture and off topic decorations. Trees were planted in it's gardens with no space between them, with some bamboo planted near the water. This made the hotel a massive success, combined with luxurious rooms, and food prepared by real chefs, which attracted a lot of people.

However, the business lasted only 5 years due to the increasing number of suicide cases, and the hotel continued to fall as fewer and fewer guests came to their door. The reputation of the place was at its lowest, but the hotel was still open until an incident forced them to close everything. One night, a guest went mad and attacked one person after another. The man then stopped in front of a door and smashed it with a hammer, before destroying the Buddha statue inside. Another man was later arrested for crushing the head of a sleeping guest, saying that he felt a presence in his room that woke him, and he saw a man in the wall who choked him when he started to scream.

The man seemed to have attacked the victim because she was supposedly hiding in the wall. In the next room, another body had been found. Thirteen other victims were also discovered in different rooms. Of course, the "Man in the Wall" hypothesis was thought to be unlikely, but no other evidence could point to a killer. So the case was abandoned, and the hotel had to close. The people in charge snapped, people disappeared from the hotel, and the place had been abandoned for 15 years ever since.

Norman's image and history is later used by the Victims Catharsis Committee for their Duel Noir program.

### Norman's Hotel Murder Case

At 6PM of the first day, the entrance to the dining hall opens and the ten participants meet Norman, who ends up shocking several of them as they weren't expecting their host to be a talking painting (however, they are calmed down quickly once Suisei Nanamura reveals it was an LCD monitor instead). Norman orders for the participants to set at the dining table and give up all of their funds, citing the auction can not start without it. With vary degrees of reluctance, all the group's money is placed on the table where Taehime Uozumi is ordered to throw all of it into the fireplace, much to the dismay of the greedier of the participants.

To cheer them up, he orders them to look under their seats where each participant has a bag of over 100 million yen. In order for them all to be on equal grounds for the auction, that yen is what they'll be using to bid. He then reveals what will be hosted: The right to be the detective, otherwise known as the Detective's Right. He goes on to explain the reason why something like this is up for grabs is because there will be a killer that will try to off one of them each night and the only way to protect themselves is to become the detective, the only one that the culprit of the Duel Noir can not kill. He goes on to explain the rules of the Norman's Hotel Duel Noir and the schedule, however, during this exchange Susei questions him if the rules can be altered, though Norman ignores him (something that gives away the fact that Norman himself is only giving out prerecorded lines).

When all the rules have been explained, he then says that before the auction starts he's going to prepare dinner and orders Taehime to come to the balcony of the dining hall where his painting was stationed. While reluctant, she obeys and stands in front. Unfortunately for her, this was a trap and she is shot twice, with her body falling onto the table below before it bursts into flames. He announces dinner as being roasted maid and that he killed her to prove to the others that this situation was real. He also notes that since she was 'cooked', she didn't count for the one person per day rule. With that said, he leaves under the excuse that he has to find his mother and that the participants will never see him again (but since he wasn't a central character it was fine), thus leaving future auctions to be hosted by his Mother, an Old Car & a Stray Cat.

## Appearance

Norman's portrait is usually seen as young Caucasian male with brown hair, with the use of LCD that allows his lips to move and change expressions.

## Personality

For his time in the hotel, Norman comes across as rather similar to Monokuma. He is depicted as amiable with a desire for seeing fair play, such as ordering all funds to be burnt and replaced with the one hundred million yen for each participant, though rather impatient with his refusal to repeat the rules of the auction. However, he has no qualms in putting the participants into a life or death scenario, and even grins sadistically before killing Taehime, with her death even causing him to whip out a cruel joke, showing a morbid sense of humor. Given that his entire dialogue is prerecorded, it stands to reason that Norman has no true personality of his own.

This stands in contrast to his movie personality where he comes of as more bumbling, quirky and endearing to the people he talks to with an edge of something not quite right to him.

## Trivia

* Norman is based on the character Norman Bates from the film Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock.
	+ Apparently the film Psycho was a real event that took place in the Danganronpa universe, likely with slight alterations to the plot to fit in the world of *Danganronpa*.
* Norman and his fellow hosts are one of the few guest characters that appear in Danganronpa that is not from the Kagami Family Saga. The only others being 'K', Kōhei Matsudaira and the Rhinogradentia.