Ayako Suzuki

* PotF
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> ":D in progress"
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> - Ayako Suzuki

**Ayako Suzuki** was a rejected student from Rimoto Piozumu Academy, and a participant in the killing game that took place at the old fashioned town in *Danganronpa: Plight of the Forgotten.*

## Personality

Ayako's personality tends to differ per person, and sometimes at random. Sometimes, she's shown to be extremely timid, calm, and strangely level-headed, mostly during trials. At other times, she can be manic, unpredictable, and on certain occasions, downright antagonistic, albeit somewhat unintentionally. She has very low self-esteem, and on top of that, very low self-control, and displays both suicidal tendencies and commits acts of self-harm. As well, Ayako has a severe anxiety disorder, and during her time in her Killing Game, she suffered multiple panic attacks. At heart, Ayako was a kind soul who just wanted to protect herself and her friends, although her actions were terribly misguided and at most times did the opposite.

## History

### Before the Killing Game

Previously to the Killing Game, Ayako had spent most of her entire life in her room, alone. After her parents gave birth to a prodigy of a daughter, they had an unplanned pregnancy. This baby was Ayako, who was planned to have been aborted but kept under the pretense that she might be like her sister. Treated horribly during her childhood years, she began to develop an anxiety disorder, became extremely depressed and suicidal, and at times would become manic, at one point getting expelled from school for assaulting a fellow classmate when she was 9, resulting in her parents forcing her to take online classes. This would cause her to be locked in her room at all times. One time, while her parents were not there, she got out of her room and began to explore the house. When her sister found her, Ayako got scared and attacked her with a nearby knife, leaving a scar down her left arm. During this time in her room, she took up painting and discovered a passion within that hobby. When her parents discovered this, they acted as if they were proud of her to others around them, and would begin to force Ayako to paint for monetary value. Later, they forced her to apply to the Rimoto Piozumu Academy, where she would originally hate the idea. After realizing she would be able to get away from home, she then applied, only to be rejected. Soon after that, killing game would start.

### Danganronpa: Plight of the Forgotten

#### Chapter 1

At the beginning of the Killing Game, Ayako felt scared and alone, and after waking up in the Kitchen, almost immediately tried to take a knife for protection. Later that day, she would take a knife, and go on to tell fellow abductee Opal Petrovich this, looking for forgiveness. During this moment, Ayako grew closer to Opal, and the two would spend the night together, sharing personal moments and chocolate, which culminated into Opal withdrawing from the conversation after being pushed too hard. After this, Ayako searched for companionship elsewhere, and found it in the presence of Jackie Dive. The two would quickly become close, and over the course of Chapters 2-5, they would only become closer.

Late into the Chapter, the two would plan the first murder, with Jackie convincing Slime Rimiro to kill Kitani Okura and then himself, with Ayako supplying the knife needed. Their plan went smoothly and they entered the trial knowing exactly what had happened. Because Ayako sought approval from Jackie, she aimed to disrupt the trial, which caused the group to grow angry and heavily distrust her, with things only clearing up after Jackie intervened. After the trial, most of the group was disappointed in Ayako, to the point of no longer wanting to interact with her. Seeing Opal disappointed in her, as well as her crush at the time, Shinpi Fukitsuna, start to tear up, made her hate herself even more, but also motivated her to be better.

#### Chapter 2

After her outburst during the trial, the group started to distrust and dislike Ayako, tending to avoid her. She slowly managed to gain most of the group's trust back, with the main exception being Akira Hashiru, who would hold a grudge against her for the rest of the Killing Game. During this chapter, she became closer to Ferris McGrath and Hironaka Haruka. Later, once Nathan Kabet was let out of solitary, she threatened him with a knife asking for him to give them information. The group saw this as her going off the hinges again and slowly distrusted her once more. Nothing of importance took place until the day before Koroku Machimalus' murder, where Ren Aiuchi had been following and pestering her over the group's bathroom, which Ren had used to sleep in. During their confrontation, Ayako threatened to murder Ren, however, Ren did not back down, eventually leading to Jackie having to de-escalate the situation. Before parting ways, Ren told Ayako that she was "a parasite" and fed off of the chaos that she had been causing, and then told her to do something that was actually likeable. While investigating, Ayako had begun to suspect Ren, which upset Jackie greatly.

During the second trial, Ayako tried as hard as she could to prove Ren wrong and solve the case for the group, eventually discovering the key detail to the identity of the culprit, being that Ren had been experiencing happiness before the effects of motive had been cured, something that only the culprit would have had cured by that point. Once the group returned from the trial, Ayako had felt much better about herself and her abilities, having somewhat of a newfound confidence, albeit for a very short amount of time.

#### Chapter 3

Before the motive was revealed, Ayako felt proud of herself for her accomplishments during the trial, and was working further towards earning the trust of the group. Shortly after the second trial, the motive was revealed and Ayako started to develop suicidal thoughts once again. In a short downward spiral, she had begun to hate herself once more, and thought things would be better if she killed herself so that no one's loved ones would die. During this period, she lost all romantic feelings for anyone she had them for previously, and began to distance herself from everyone. Once the new area opened up, Ayako got a hold of the gun found in the shooting range. Then, she entered the room where her and a few others were staying, including Garry Grater, who had been in the room at the time. Ayako threatened to shoot herself in front of Garry, much to his dismay. Luckily, he was able to talk her down from this act, taking the gun. Later the next day, she tried again, this time in front of Opal, Charlotte Dupont, and Hironaka. This attempt ended in Hironaka confessing her love to Ayako, with Ayako profusely apologizing for trying to end her own life. The two would then become a couple, which greatly boosted Ayako's mental state.

Later, the third murder occurred, and seeing an opportunity, she decided to try and kill another member of the group, Marcelle Treillard. This murder attempt failed, which resulted in Marcelle considering Ayako an enemy who could never gain her trust back. At the end of the trial, it was revealed that Shinpi, Ayako's former crush and good friend, had been the killer. This would break Ayako's heart and the two would share a moment before Shinpi's execution. During this, Ayako was given her notebook. After the trial was finished, Ayako decided to continue writing in the notebook in place of Shinpi, using it as sort of a diary. Ayako's notebook pages can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10IY-7wxTfFbAmlxN1pFLaXL2nB7MTt4goOwDqtOEK8k/edit?usp=sharing

#### Chapter 4

Things were finally starting to feel normal for a while, before tensions increased in Ayako's living space. The residents, being Ayako and Hironaka, Garry, Dachi Maru, and sometimes Opal. After Ayako's murder attempt, some people started to see her differently, mainly Dachi. As Ayako became more comfortable with her surroundings, she started to show her more confident, almost antagonistic, side more often. This eventually led to Akira slapping her in the face, a trend that would later continue. This made her extremely fearful of Akira, and though people had backed her up, saying that what he did wasn't right, Dachi and Marcelle had agreed with Akira's actions. Prompting this, Dachi began to think of Ayako as a weak-willed dog, practically serving Jackie. When told about the slap, he told Ayako all this, and left their living arrangement. This had hurt Ayako immensely as previous to these events, Dachi had been nice to Ayako. After suffering a few more panic attacks, and building up her relationship with Jackie and Hironaka, she had began to think maybe her relationship with Hiro wasn't what she wanted, and instead wanted to be with Opal. Following, she broke up with Hiro, and began to spend more time with Opal. Overall, without Hiro's support, her mental health began to worsen once again.

While exploring late at night, she came across a door that wouldn't open. The weird thing about this is that the door did not even have a lock. Scared and alone, she went back to her room to find Jackie, and the two headed back. After finally getting the door open, they triggered a trap that crushed a body, and filled it with splinters. This was the body of Isuma Tsutsumi, and after discovering who it was, the two began to worry that by setting off the trap, Jackie would be declared guilty instead of whoever set it up. After figuring out it was Dachi who set up the trap, the two had a heated debate during the trial until Ayako was told to back off. Dachi later confessed to the crime, and while saying goodbye to everyone, Ayako tried to hug him. Before she could, Dachi slapped her and told her to wake up, and then hugged her. Ayako accepted the hug but did not know how to feel. Following this, she began to feel afraid of everyone around her, aside from Opal and Jackie.

#### Chapter 5

Due to her unease with everyone around her, Ayako began to brainstorm ways to get people to like her again. She eventually settled on writing a note in the same manner that previous ones addressed to some sort of traitor or mastermind had been written. Pretending to be upset and scared when Marcelle comes upon the note, Marcelle took it upon herself to reveal this "twist" to the rest of the group. Their opinions on this discovery were split, some believing this redeemed Ayako; that she was forced to do these awful things. Others believed that this changed nothing, and this only left more of a distaste.

The note that Ayako had written said; "Dear Ayako, You have 10 days. - Fukushu"

Everyone else thinking the note was true, they believed Ayako when she told them that the note meant she would be killed if a murder did not happen in 10 days. During the days before this timer would run out, she spent all of her time with Jackie, Opal, and Garry. She built up her relationship with these 3, slowly "coming to terms" with her death. In reality, she just believed that someone would kill before the timer ran out, and she wouldn't have to worry about them finding out it was fake. Unfortunately, Marcelle then burned down the commons and faked a note that stated Ayako "had 24 hours left to live." Because this obviously wasn't true, Ayako revealed to the others that her note was faked. This caused just about everyone to lose all trust in her once more, including those close to her, with the exception of Jackie. Following an outburst, Ayako followed Garry back to where they had slept, begging him to give her another chance. This works, just barely, and she is able to reform her relationship with him. Following this, Ayako would dedicate her time to focusing on herself, trying as hard as she possibly could to redeem herself in the eyes of the others. During this time, Ayako painted everyone who had died up to this point, showing the group this painting in hopes they would appreciate it. Adjacent to this, she also began to make plans with Jackie for another murder.

Once Marcelle's body was found, she realized very quickly into the investigation that the only culprit had to be Jackie. In denial, she desperately pushed against this idea during the trial, instead accusing Kazuoki Doko, and eventually accusing herself, in hopes that she could save her friend. Snapping her out of her frenzy, Jackie slapped Ayako across the face. Unlike the past two times she had been slapped, Ayako was taken aback by this one, and was able to see what she was doing. Promptly, she hugged Jackie, and the two shared an emotional goodbye before his execution. Losing her first and best friend, this drove Ayako into a deep depression until she later had the idea to give him a "proper" funeral.

#### Chapter 6

Without Jackie, Ayako struggled to find a footing amongst the other survivors. Grieving his loss, she wallowed around until painting her deceased friend, later filling up the kitchen sink with water before she floated the painting on top and lit it on fire, Opal and Garry also present to watch. Keeping what Jackie had said in mind, she set out to find the mastermind who was behind everyone's deaths in this killing game. As the motive was revealed and she found out that they would only have 72 hours left to kill before they all died, Ayako pushed herself hard to figure out how she could put a stop to the killing game. Spending most of her time at a machine (that would later be revealed to be an elevator to the *real* top floor) on the fourth floor of a building on the game's site, she tried for hours and hours to guess the combination that would cause it to do something. Spending most of her time with Garry and Opal, she became close friends with the two.

On the day that the timer would be up, like the rest of the participants, Ayako woke up to find a note in her pocket, telling her to be at the room with the machine at a specific time. She initially pushed for everyone to stick together and not do what the note said, but after Fukushu caught her alone, he told her that she and everyone else would be killed if Ayako didn't show up to the room at the specified time without anyone else around. Paranoid, she stayed at the machine, pressing different buttons the whole day. Shortly before the specified time, Akira and Opal walked up to the room Ayako was supposed to be alone in, holding hands. A combination of that gesture and the fact that she couldn't let anyone else be around her set her off, yelling at Akira to leave the room until their verbal argument became physical. Eventually, after swinging her guitar at him, he left with Opal, leaving Ayako alone with Garry, who had just walked in.

After a quick goodbye, Ayako's time came, and the machine opened up to reveal an elevator. When she got inside and was taken to the top floor, she was met by the mastermind, Nathan Kabet, who had disguised himself with a cloak and voice changer. The two talked about the situation for some time, with Nathan admitting that he wanted to stop the killing game and make Ayako the hero who took down both this game, and the previous one started by Nakata Yataro. They made a deal together; that the two would fight, one killing the other, and going to trial, dying to put an end to the game. However, before the two fought, Nathan whispered something to Ayako. He told her that when she "died", the cameras in the room would shut off and an exchange would be made, switching her out for a body double. Now confident and trusting of the mastermind behind the game, Ayako faked a fight with Nathan, faking her death as Akira came in. When he left, she was switched out for a double that was actually stabbed in the chest. After the switch, Ayako was taken to a bunker under the site where she watched the rest of the killing game take place, staying there after the survivors left.

### Danganronpa: Tainted Visions

#### Post-Game

After her "death" in the killing game she was a part of, Ayako spent the next 2 years inside of the bunker Nathan had let her stay in. Eventually, she was found by two members of the academy, being Amari Kamlyn and Takai Kado. The two would keep her there, telling the world that she had died after putting an end to both killing games that had taken place so far. She was visited by Amari somewhat often, up until her death, as well as the erasure of Takai's memories. Alone, Ayako spent her days in the bunker playing video games that they'd left for her, painting, and thinking deeply about her life thus far. When Nadia showed up at the location of the bunker, Ayako was surprised to see that the person visiting her was not Amari, who she was not aware died, but a friend from her previous killing game. She stood there in her new home, jaw dropped. Their interaction afterward is not known.

## Trivia

* Ayako's sexuality is Lesbian.
* Ayako's 17th birthday happened during the Killing Game she was in, although it was never celebrated.
* Ayako suffers from a speech impediment that causes her to stutter regularly.