Monokuma Maid

**Monokuma Maid** (モノクマ メイド *Monokuma Maid*) is a supporting character introduced in *Danganronpa Zero*. She is a member of Hope's Peak Academy's Reserve Course, being one of thousands of students to pay a large tuition to attend the institution. Following The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy, this student would join the student body in rebelling against Hope's Peak with The Parade.

## History

### Early Life

Much about her life prior to joining the Reserve Course remains unknown, though given that she was able to afford to attend such a school suggests that she comes from a rather well off family. It can be assumed that she attended Hope's Peak out of admiration for the school and hopes of potentially making it into the Main Course herself.

### Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - *Despair Arc*

#### Episode 07 - The Biggest, Most Atrocious Incident in Hope's Peak Academy's History

She was amongst the student body to receive the video showcasing the Student Council of Hope's Peak Academy murdering each other by the mass e-mail Junko Enoshima sent out, though was told that Izuru Kamukura - the Ultimate Hope created by Hope's Peak Academy - massacred them and their tuition was used to help create him. This would spark the Reserve Course to riot against Hope's Peak Academy in the event being known as The Parade. She, like the other Reserve Course, desired to get back at Hope's Peak by finding and 'crushing' their Ultimate Hope.

Sometime later, Junko used Ryota Mitarai's brainwashing techniques and the footage of the Student Council massacre to create the Despair Video and began using it to convert the Reserve Course to her side. This female student, like the rest of the Reserve Course, fell victim to it as well. This brainwashing drove her insane with despair, and she became one of many who became Junko's underlings.

### Danganronpa Zero

Following the aftermath, Junko began making plans for a future killing game, with one of the ideas she had in mind being a mascot of sorts. As a result, this female student became Monokuma Maid in hopes of filling that role. During this time, she also acted as a literal maid that helped operate the Reserve Course secret society's hideout and even attending to Junko if she was there.

Ryoko Otonashi would find herself waking up in said hideout, specifically in a spare bedroom, where Monomuka Maid awaited her with some terrible tea. Monokuma Maid would serve as the main informant of Ryoko, though seemed confused concerning Ryoko's lack of knowledge concerning their existence or reason why she was in their hideout. Believing it to merely be a test, she dutifully told Ryoko the way out of her bedroom and to main hub of their hideout, where multiple Monokuma-masked members were currently watching a replay of the Despair Video via loads of computers on desks.

She explained Monokuma was their mascot and where the hideout was—the West District of Hope's Peak, in the basement of a defunct Myst'ry Research Society room. In general, she also explained that everyone there were members of a Reserve Course secret society meant to go against Hope's Peak. However, when Ryoko referred to the Parade as a demonstration, she corrected it to a revolution and brought up the Ultimate Hope to Ryoko Otonashi. She explained that the Ultimate Hope was Hope's Peak own artificially created super genius via human experimentation, and how the Reserve Course was trying to get their hands on said genius (all while becoming noticeably more aggravated). She finally went on a long, angered, tirade concerning the unfair treatment of the Reserve Course faced and about Hope's Peak corruption.

Once she finally calmed down, she noted Ryoko didn't have to do anything for their secret society, and pointed out to where their sole bathroom was. Despite wondering if Ryoko would be okay without a map, the amnesiac girl waved her off, eager to get away from her. She would later wave to Ryoko, who had gotten sidetracked after getting a watch of the Despair Video and talking with the students who were viewing it for up to 5,818 times. Given the brutal killings that she witnessed, combined with how crazy the students were, Ryoko had opted to turn from them and run. Something that would only lead her into running into the confinement area of two captured Steering Committee members (one being heavily injured and the other already dead). During Ryoko's confrontation with the survivor, she would begin to blackout, though noticed a mass of Monokuma-masked people enter room. It's heavily implied that the society had killed the survivor, with it also being possible that the Monokuma Maid was amongst this mob of people.

Later on, Junko Enoshima scrapped the idea of using people dressed as mascots for her next killing game in favor of creating Monokuma. The reason being she considers her current idea as just tasteless and that there was room for improvement.

### Monokuma Maid's Fate

#### Episode 11 - Goodbye, Hope's Peak Academy

The day came when the Reserve Course broke into the Main Course grounds, destroying the new school building and slaughtering the entirety of the student body that were not affiliated with Ultimate Despair or were a part of Junko's class batch. Once that was complete, Junko sent the Reserve Course Monokuma's Gloomy Sunday, otherwise known as the Suicide Video. Driven to the brink, the Reserve Course committed suicide, either by running into the burning building of the new Main Course building or jumping out the building's high stories to plummet to their deaths. Regardless of how she decided to die, Monokuma Maid would have been amongst these victims. Their suicide would go on to be a further catalyst that would bring The Tragedy upon the world.

## Appearance

Monokuma Maid, like her name suggests, is dressed in a stereotypical black and white maid's outfit with a red ribbon on her chest. She wears thigh high socks and black shoes. Lastly, Monokuma Maid wears a Monokuma mask on her face, though one can see that she has long black hair, styled in twin tails, that reaches to her thighs. On the mask's head is a stereotypical mob cap.

## Personality

Initially, Monokuma Maid presents herself as a dutiful, polite, upbeat and respectful maid, even addressing Ryoko as 'Madam'. However, while knowledgeable and eager to prove herself, it became quickly apparent she was rather off-kilter. Likely due to exposure from repeatedly watching the Despair Video, Monokuma Maid is insane, erratic and highly emotional, being prone to violent fits of cursing, yelling, and ranting over her circumstances when pushed over the edge. She also has become extremely despairful and quite disillusioned concerning the concept of Hope.

Like the rest of the Reserve Course, she holds incredible disdain and bitterness against Hope's Peak Academy for treating the Reserve Course as second class citizens, for their corrupt misuse of their funds to make the Ultimate Hope and their ideology concerning talent itself. Like most of those who are affiliated with Junko Enoshima, she is utterly loyal to her leader and tried to pull off acting as a mascot for the sake of her plans, though her talk with Ryoko has her admit she felt as though that was impossible since she feels she couldn't understand her leader's mindset and being sorrow-filled since Junko was so 'interesting', meaning she can't fulfill her dream of being Monokuma.

### Junko Enoshima

Like everyone else in the Reserve Course, Monokuma Maid is devoted Ultimate Despair's founder, respectfully calling her 'Madam'. She wished to do her best to play her part as mascot to help serve Junko, but laments that Junko was so 'interesting' beyond comprehension, she lacked the skill to pull it off and properly take on the title of Monokuma. As for Junko herself, she never really considered the Reserve Course to be anything more than pawns used for her machinations, ultimately having all of them kill themselves in order to further her goals.

### Reserve Course

Like the rest of the Reserve Course, Monokuma Maid became violent and rioted against Hope's Peak upon receiving leaked information concerning The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy, with the brainwashing they received from the Despair Video only intensifying their feelings of hatred and bitterness against Hope's Peak for their corruption. This all culminated with the students of the Reserve Course finally invading the Main Course, slaughtering almost all the remaining student body before killing themselves on Junko's orders.

### Ryoko Otonashi

When Ryoko met Monokuma Maid, the latter was quite respectful to her, politely answering any questions that Ryoko may had and even calling her 'Madam'. However, as their interaction continued, Monokuma Maid had no qualms in going on an angry tangent about her gripes with Hope's Peak, not listening when Ryoko tried to calm her down with words. Likewise, Ryoko was disturbed by Monokuma Maid on a whole, wanting nothing more than to get away from the society since she believed she had nothing to do with them.

 Frequently, Monokuma Maid expressed confusion over Ryoko's lack of knowledge over the Reserve Course's insurrection, but seemed to chalk it up just being tested and Ryoko joking about. With the reveal that Ryoko was Junko was well, its heavily implied Monkuma's affable nature to the amnesiac was because she knew from the start that Ryoko was her boss joking with her.

## Trivia

* Monokuma Maid is the first of only four Reserve Course students to be named and serve a prominent role. Likewise, she was also the third and last to die chronologically, killing herself during the Reserve Course invasion of the Main Course.
* Monokuma Maid is one of two prominent female characters to debut in *Danganronpa Zero*, the other being Ryoko Otonashi.