Petra Ishiwata

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Petra Ishiwata was a student of Hope's Peak Academy and was a participant in the Killing Game that took place on board the Chalice Express. Her title was the Ultimate Makeup Artist.

## Personality

Petra was a kind-hearted and bubbly person who spent most of her time on board the Chalice Express attempting to befriend and learn about her fellow passengers. She was known to affectionately refer to people she liked as "honey" or "baby", particularly Randhir Singh and Tomo Akuma, whom she considered her closest friends on the train.

Petra tried to keep an open mind about everything and talk to anyone who'd sit still for long enough. She loved to share her joy of makeup and firmly held the belief that anybody could wear and enjoy it if they wanted to.

She expressed fear and uncertainty about their situation, but remained mostly positive externally and kept her anxieties internal.

Petra actually had quite a fierce temper, but never got the chance to fully show it.

## Appearance

Petra was mid height, standing at about 5'6"/167cm, with shoulder-length wavy dyed blonde hair, green eyes and freckles.

She cared a lot about her appearance and would usually be seen in very fashionable and effeminate clothing and jewellery.

Due to her talent as the Ultimate Makeup Artist, she wore a lot of colourful and bright makeup, particularly favouring extravagant eyeliner designs and complementing eyeshadow.

## Backstory

Petra was born in London to a Greek American father and English Japanese mother. She was number three of four siblings. Her three brothers are called Theo, Andreas and Niko. Her family lived between London, Athens and New York, settling in the US when Petra was twelve.

She became interested in makeup when her mother gave her access to her collection nd showed her the basics when she was very little. She was allowed to experiment herself before too long and took to it like a duck to water.

She practiced on friends, then models, then movie sets, and eventually started a social media account to show off her looks and quickly accrued a large following and a name for herself as one of the youngest makeup talents ever known.

## Post Game

During the events of the final chapter, it came to light that Petra betrayed the group by assisting the Mastermind, Tomo, using her makeup skills to help convince the group that the bodies of those supposedly murdered were real.

This caused a rift in her relationship with Randhir, who had become rather beaten down after suffering what he believed to be several losses of those he cared about.

After the passengers of the Chalice Express were told they were free to leave, Petra had assumed she was going to be left by herself, but Randhir told her she could come with him, Kyo Nishiyama, Fubuki Wami and Lindsey Fisher.

## Relationships

### Randhir Singh

Randhir and Petra first met shortly after the apparent death of Rey Ocacine, the Ultimate Hacker, after he was punished by the Mascots for attempting to hack the train.

They provided some comfort to each other as they were both very shaken by the horrible event, and shared some details with each other to help distract themselves. Petra did gold eyeliner on Randhir, complimenting the way it looked.

They started a little game they called "Randhir and Petra not on the death train", where they pretended to just be normal friends hanging out.

They met again after they both received their motive effects in Chapter Two when Randhir sent her a message, asking to meet up and complain. He had been affected with constant exploding head syndrome and she had been affected with extremely shaky hands, leading to Randhir helping to brush and re-do her hair. She also shared her birthday was soon, but "died" at the hands of Edric Tiryaki three days before it would have fallen. Randhir was crushed by her death and mourned her alongside Tomo.

She was not seen again until the final chapter when all of the cryo chambers holding the "dead" Ultimates were revealed and the game ended.

For a while after the main events of Train To Nowhere, Randhir and Petra were unable to speak to each other, the pain of the past too much to bear.

Some time later, the two shared a heart-to-heart, where Petra revealed she had started experiencing panic attacks and told the truth about how she had come to work for Tomo.

It was a step in the right direction for healing their relationship, as both desperately wanted things to get better. Petra and Randhir told each other they were the "best family [they] ever had", and that is how they continued to see each other.

### Tomo Akuma

Tomo and Petra were originally thought to have met in the first chapter (along with Fubuki Wami and Kira Sato), but it later came to light that wasn't the case.

Tomo's talent as the Ultimate Director ("in more ways than one", as Petra put it to Randhir) allowed her to manipulate somebody she knew was a huge fan of her work and used Petra's talents for her own gain. Petra stated in a conversation to Randhir that while she knew what was going on, Tomo had made it seem much less severe than it really was, but her judgement had been clouded due to a starry-eyed obsession with the director (the nature of which was slightly implied to be romantic).

Petra refused to say her name any more after the Killing Game ended, only referring to her as "she" or "her".ĺ

## Trivia

Her favourite colour is red.

She used to like making up stories in her head, but believed none of them were interesting enough to attempt to write down or publish.

She started experimenting with makeup at the age of six.

She likes to sing.

## TV Tropes

Dumb Blonde - Subverted as Petra showed herself to be intelligent, though she did recall people calling her a bimbo in the past.

Affectionate Nickname - She was known to nickname people she liked, usually with "honey" or "baby".

False Friend - The victim of this due to Tomo manipulating her, needing her makeup skills for the Killing Game to work.

Found Family - Her strong friendship with Randhir led to them considering each other this.