Junko

**Junko Jiraiyawat** (จุนโกะ จิไรยะวัฒน์) is a supporting character and antagonist from the Thai Netflix series *Girl from Nowhere*, first appearing and debuting in Season 2. She is initially introduced as a helpless young school girl suffering from illness. In a turn of events, Yuri ends up granting Junko her supernatural abilities after Nanno is supposedly killed. She is the biological and only daughter of Waan. She is portrayed by Ploy Sornarin.

## Biography

Junko had an estranged childhood, becoming a borderline lab rat of sorts for her mother and her very dangerous and damaging drugs, which only increased her ill state.

Junko was a girl with hemophilia who was bound to a wheelchair because of severity of her sickness, and her mother, known as Teacher Waan, dotes on her both at home and at her job, where she serves as a school nurse. Teacher Waan has been secretly injecting Junko with medicine to keep her sick, to which Junko has been rejecting.

During a sudden twist in *"The Judgement"*, Junko is granted Yuri's supernatural abilities after Waan is killed, and Nanno has died supposedly. She thirstfully accepts the power.

## History

### "*The Judgement*"

Nanno arrives at her school and briefly mistakes her for her nemesis Yuri when she sees her sitting in a wheelchair. The school is noticeably empty, sans Junko, and Nanno strikes up a conversation with her that is cut short when Junko accidentally nips herself with a pair of scissors and needs to be taken to the nurse's office; due to her supposed hemophilia this could be a life-threatening injury. Nanno later confronts the school nurse, Miss Waan, who is also Junko's mother with how coincidental it is that a number of teachers and students have mysteriously transferred from the school and going missing right after. Waan gives deflective answers and sends Nanno on her way. Nanno later breaks into Waan's garage and discovers corpses hidden in barrels full of salt.

Nanno learns that the injections Waan has been giving Junko are placebos, and suspects that Waan has been faking Junko's physical disabilities to defraud donators and murdered anyone who knew the truth. When Nanno confronts Waan, however, Waan confesses that Junko was behind the murders, having disemboweled people that had offended or bullied her in the past. Feeling responsible, Waan hid the bodies and kept Junko heavily sedated to stop her murderous rampage. Yuri arrives, having wheeled Junko to eavesdrop on the conversation, and the duo reveal that Yuri was the one who switched the sedatives with placebos. Junko, enraged at her mother for taking away her ability to commit murder, reveals herself to be able to walk perfectly fine, and attacks Waan with a knife. Nanno disarms Junko, but Waan repeatedly stabs Nanno to cover up Junko's crimes. Immediately after, Junko takes the knife and slits Waan's throat while Yuri laughs, gleeful that Nanno was disposed of. Yuri then feeds Junko her blood to make her immortal, and the two leave to destroy humanity, while a revived Nanno watches from the distance, questioning if her missions are even necessary.

## Physical appearance

Junko, initially appearing crippled and unable to walk, instead rolling around in a Wheelchair, is a young girl with a short, brown bob-haircut, and tan skin, of Thai descent. She wears a school uniform from head-to-toe, which includes a button-up white shirt and dark skirt and low unform heels. She stands at a height of 5' 3".

## Personality and traits

Junko is vengeful, hateful, and resenting of her mother for what was done to her, and those around her for ridiculing her. Junko's entire personality revolves around her spiteful and violet nature. It is implied that Junko was once sweet, loving, and innocent, until the incidents that often occurred in her childhood. She was treated unfairly by her peers and teachers alike because of her disability, and she grew deeply angered and conflicted, eventually becoming cold and quiet.

Junko is still immature and childish, as shown when she is enjoying things she indulges in, though they are usually violent and unexpectedly dark activities for her age. She is also exceedingly smart in comparison to her peers.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Immortality**: When Yuri granted her the abilities she had herself, she immediately took on immortality, which means she does not age physically and cannot die.

## Trivia

* Ploy Sornarin, Junko's actress, is notably older than the character herself, being in her twenties, whereas Junko is around eleven.