Ruruka Ando

**Ruruka Ando** (安藤(あんど)流流歌(るるか), *Andō Ruruka*) is a character featured in the *Persona 2: The End of Seven Sisters High School* series.

During her time in class 2-C at Seven Sisters High School, her nickname was "**Candy Girl**" after awakening her Persona. After leaving Seven Sisters High School, her nickname was updated to "**Queen-bee Confectioner**".

She is an agent of the Assassination Specialized Execution Foundation and is the Branch Office 8 Director, her responsibility as the director is to assist in procuring stable food sources. She, along with the other Assassination Specialized Execution Foundation Directors, is forced to participate in the Final Survival Game.

## Appearances

* *Persona 2: The End of Seven Sisters High School - Innocent Sin Arc*: Major character
* *Persona 2: The End of Seven Sisters High School - Eternal Punishment Arc*: Major character, Minor antagonist.

## Personality

Ruruka is a cunning, confident, entitled, intelligent, and manipulative woman, who is described as having a mean streak despite her cute appearance. She appears rather manipulative and is not above using her friends to achieve her goals. She can be extremely selfish as well, and during the Final Survival Game, focuses only on keeping herself alive.

While she can appear easily annoyed, aggressive, bullied, sociopath, envious, and even mean towards others, Ruruka acts very sweet and intimate with her husband Izayoi and often feeds him her candy. Her candy can brainwash, control, and manipulate people. Thanks to this, Ruruka is a resourceful, popular, and skilled negotiator. She has mentioned that she won't trust anyone who doesn't eat her candy.

Ruruka also loves threats to her foes and is always happy to see their suffering, misery, and pain. For example, Melissa shouts at Akihiko for beating Makoto and Izayoi throwing kunai at the wall. She threatened her, if she shouted again, she would tell Izayoi to throw one at her head or she would behead her head off. When the Senior Assassinationers get scolded by General Rebecca or the 1980s Team, she will make her villainess smile, smirk, and chuckle at them.

Despite being a high-ranking agent of the Assassination Specialized Execution Foundation, she seems skeptical regarding its purpose, at one point stating that "just like Seven Sisters High School and Saiko Kimura", it is rotten to the core. Furthermore, after she learned Saiko's NG Code, she requested her to battle the true leader of the Assassination Specialized Execution Foundation, Kyosuke Miyamura.

Ruruka has a strong hatred and fear of being betrayed, and she would rather betray others before they have any chance to do the same to her, including her own husband. She knows it's wrong, but her fear of betrayal is too strong. This may have started when Ruruka's childhood friend, Saiko, "backstabbed" her in high school.

In reality, she always humiliates and makes fun of the Senior Assassinationers and The 1980s Team and uses insult words to make them angry and unsatisfied with her. However, she secretly sabotages their mission and shamefully them in front of the public. Thanks to Junta for saving the Senior Assassinationers's reputation from her humiliation.

Especially the 14th Division Head; Sarah Silverman, she is hostile to her until now after being saved by the 1980s Team. Ruruka has her malice plan to kill Sarah, such as push the bookshelf on her until her malice plan were exposed to the world by Sarah.

Ruruka easily furious and frustrated when her plan to eliminate the Senior Assassinationers are gossipy by the public and get exposed to the world. She has no choice but to grudge against the Senior Assassinationers and the 1980s Team.

## Etymology

* The name **Ruruka** means "flow, style, manner, method" (流) (**ru**) and "song" (歌) (**ka, uta**)
	+ The letter (流) (**ru**) is doubled to (流流) (**ruru**) means "outpouring".
* Ruruka's surname **Ando** means "peaceful" (宮) (**an**) and "wisteria" (代) (**do**).

## Trivia

* Ruruka's personality is same as Regina George from the 2004 American film Mean Girls. However, describe by the character designer Shingenori Soejima, Ruruka is rather brutally evil than Regina because Ruruka is too mean persona user.
* Ruruka should be the main antagonist for the anime series because she is mean and have malice plan to destroy the Senior Assassinationers.