Mayumi Shimizu

'Mayumi'/Moka art by ravenousruss on tumblr.

*"Are you really saying you think I could have done this? I'm a*model*. I'm weaker than most everyone here."*

— Mayumi when accused of murdering Arata.

**Mayumi Shimizu (まゆみ しみず)** is a participant of the Secondary Ultimate Despair Killing Game. The killing game is not tied to a real Danganronpa game, however, it is featured on Quotev (@destinationdespair) and therefore, hosted online. Her title is the Ultimate Model.

 History

### Early Life

Mayumi's parents were murdered at a young age, leaving her to herself. Instead of going to foster care, Mayumi decided to fend for herself on the streets. She sometimes even took refuge in forests or under bridges.

### Primary events

Mayumi started to survive on her own, which meant a lot of stealing. This draws similarity to Erisai Chifasho, as they both grew up without supervision from adults and on the streets. Though, as she got older, her simple days of stealing would turn to slaughter.

From killing, Mayumi would pick up resources like money for food, water, shelter, and clothing. However, all of these were without real malicious intent; it was purely for survival.

It's assumed that this life of crime took damage to Mayumi, making her feel angry about what she does. For her wish, it could be assumed she wished for a better, more stable life.

## Talent

### Ultimate Model

Mayumi introduces herself as the Ultimate Model. As such, she's claimed to be on numerous magazines for fashion and beauty products. No one seems to support her claims, but some agree that she is a very fashionable character.

She uses this title to make her less of a threat, a cover story to hide her real talent, the Ultimate Manslaughterer.

### Ultimate Manslaughterer

As a child, Mayumi grew up having to fend for herself. She developed a skill in murder, having to make sure they were all done without spite to her victim. She is familiar with multiple types of weapons, and has a powerful strength and endurance.

Mayumi is also capable of masking someone else as the culprit, letting herself run free, as exhibited from her trying to frame Riko Kasumi of Chapter Two's murder case. However, her set up of Riko did not go as planned, and she was executed after trial.

However, it is clear this memory of an Ultimate is a part of the fabrication made by The Despair Sister Location killing game, so Mayumi never had a talent given by Hope's Peak Academy in the first place.

## Before the Killing Game

It is assumed that Mayumi led the life of a Hope's Peak rejected high school student who fell into despair with those similar in age range.

It is suspected that Mayumi was always close to falling into despair. After thoughtlessly murdering people to survive, once the infectious nature of despair caught up to her, she couldn't stop. At first, local news stations treated her as a serial killer that finally was messy enough to be detected, but soon, her reign of terror was soon horrifying. Her usual body count of 2 older people a month rose to whole households a week. She murdered an entire snobby mansion family, using it as a base to live out her dramatic fantasies of being a respected, wealthy model.

With many others, Mayumi learned of the Class 78th's Killing School Life. Because of their dedication to despair, the group recreated a killing game and placed themselves and Future Foundation hostage, Chisafusa Tachibana, inside.

## Appearance

Mayumi is a high school aged girl with long, silver hair, fair skin, and red eyes. Her appearance is based on Moka Akashiya's inner form from Rosario + Vampire, so her looks are already predetermined.

Mayumi is, in essence, a girl with a curvaceous physique. Her shirt exposes a small portion of cleavage, and she's one to tease people about it. Because of this, it doesn't surprise many people that her supposed talent is that of a model. However, she is still very strong and able to lift her own weight or more.

Her regular school uniform is a medium-green dress jacket with a taupe brown, pleated checkered skirt. Mayumi has navy blue thigh-high socks and black, buckled shoes. As accessory, she wears a choker with silver chains.

## Personality

Mayumi puts up the front of being very kind, cheerful, and a bit flirtatious, though truly she's very snarky and cold. Sometimes being seen as self absorbed, she doesn't care for people's input of her actions. She usually uses polite or laid-back language whenever she talks to the others, but her short-fused nature surfaces when something fails to go as well as she expects it to, such as when she was suspected as the blackened in Chapter Two.

Mayumi is disgusted of her personal life, putting up an act of being a lot more fortunate and dramatic than she really is. When given the chance of wishing for a stable life, she jumps at the chance. She doesn't have any malicious intent to others, though her behavior may seem to indicate otherwise.

## Relations Info

### Previous Affliation

Ultimate Despair

Mayumi was executed in Chapter 2 after killing Arata Masako via bleeding them out.

## Quotes

* (When interrogated by Ayaki and Shikou) *"Why? There isn't anything to show. All this finger pointing won't get us any closer to finding the culprit."*
* *"The real killer must be enjoying all of this idiocy."*

* (Showing injuries from murder) *"These are merely old wounds from a not so successful photo shoot."*
* *"But do you know why? Why I would go and kill someone like that? Unlike a cold blooded killer, I only kill for my own survival. For years I have been on the run, unable to live. So all of you have a house, food. You even have water. You can survive."*

## Trivia

* Mayumi is the only character in Danganronpa: Sister Location who lies about her true talent.
	+ Although none of the characters really have Ultimates due to the storyline, Mayumi nonetheless fakes being the Ultimate Model.
	+ Mayumi is the first character in the SLverse to lie about her true talent. The second is Kyo Haku from Guessing Game, who claims to be the Ultimate Poet.
	+ She is the second character who has trouble with her title; the other being Shikou Motoyoshi, who forgets their talent. However, unlike Shikou, Mayumi doesn't forget.
	+ The Ultimate Model title is lightly shared by Junko Enoshima, as she's the Ultimate Fashionsta, but is also similar and listed as the Ultimate Model in some translations (i.e., Italian and Spanish).

* In legal terms, the phrase "Manslaughterer" would be someone who kills without malice, in the heat of the moment, or with no thinking beforehand. Ironically, it's clear Mayumi had actually planned to kill Arata Masako, having a reason being the wish motive, and quickly pinned the murder on Riko Kasumi, leaving that specific murder as not manslaughter.
* Her birthday, July 19th, is the same as suspected murderer Lizzie Borden.
* Mayumi's original character was orphaned by her admin, leading to a bit of tweaking or additions to information never given.