Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu

## Character Backstory

**Warning:** The following contains spoilers for Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu has always been a tough guy. When Monokuma announced to Fuyuhiko's class that their field trip would become the Killing School Trip, Fuyuhiko understood that he couldn't trust any of his peers from that point forward. To him, any one of them could be an enemy. Over the course of the Killing School Trip, however, they would gradually change his mind. Although, Fuyuhiko did find a connection to a couple of his classmates through a game that Monokuma provided as a motive for the second murder. After being the first to complete the game, he was rewarded with photos that link Mahiru Koizumi to the death of two classmates years ago. After enlisting Peko Pekoyama to help him confront Mahiru in private, Fuyuhiko almost killed her before Peko took the weapon from him and did the deed herself, seeing herself as a tool and an extension of Fuyuhiko due to their shared childhood and her loyalties to his yakuza clan. After the trial found Peko guilty, Fuyuhiko tried to stop Peko from being executed- which did nothing but led to Fuyuhiko losing his right eye- and sought forgiveness from his classmates by slicing his own stomach and volunteering to help with the care of those affected by the Despair Disease. He survived many more hardships until the end of the Killing School Trip, in which he and only a few other students survived.

## Character Card Abilities

### Primary Active: **Steal, Police Report**

* Each night, you may steal an item from somebody's fronthand.
* You can immediately use it as a free action, else the stealing of the exact item is announced the next morning.

### Secondary Passive: **Laundering**

* Night investigations on or about you yield no results.
* Each day, choose 3 items on the field and be told if they were discarded or used the previous night.

## Character Card Notes

### Primary Notes:

* Fuyuhiko can also steal from dead bodies.
* Stolen and immediately used cards are discarded as normal.

## Strategy

Fuyuhiko's active ability allows him to steal and potentially use items from other characters for himself. For this reason, Fuyuhiko doesn't technically need to have items in his inventory to use an item as an action. As the items of dead people are revealed to all players and can't be interacted with by most characters, Fuyuhiko may look at the items of dead characters as publicly known actions/free uses he can perform. Fuyuhiko can also use his passive ability to learn about the origins of cards that show up in the discard pile, faceup or facedown.

Using Steal not only allows Fuyuhiko to perform a free action with an item but prevents the character that owns that item from using it himself/herself. By choosing not to use it, Fuyuhiko can attempt to declare publicly who had that item- especially if that item could be dangerous to those on the side of hope. If Fuyuhiko is the blackened, he can use his abilities to naturally suppress/manipulate/eliminate other players with just a little bit of luck, all without possibly providing evidence to those targeting him with investigation abilities/items (such as Kyoko's Track, Binoculars, or Magnifying Glass). Perhaps a weakness to Fuyuhiko when he's on the side of hope is that it can be a little difficult to trust that his intentions are benign, as there's no way to *prove* his innocence (even when he *is* innocent) and Fuyuhiko can only use Steal without hurting somebody if he targets a dead character.