Celestia Ludenberg

### Goals

Win a high amount of money in order to own a castle with handsome servants dressed as vampires.
Escape from the Killing School Life(both failed).

### Heroic Achievements

Helping to solve the first two class trials.
Helping to keep the existence of Alter Ego a secret from Monokuma.

### Type of GH

Anti-Heroic Gambler

**Celestia "Celeste" Ludenberg** is a character from the Danganronpa franchise. She appears in the beginning as a supporting figure but is later revealed to be the culprit of Chapter 3 of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc who needs to be stopped. She holds the title of **Ultimate Gambler** and goes by the moniker **Queen of Liars**.

In the game, she is voiced by Hekiru Shiina in the Japanese version of the game, and by Marieve Herington in the English version of the game.

In the anime, she is voiced by Hekiru Shiina in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Lindsay Seidel in the English version of the anime.

## What Makes Her a Guile Hero?

* Due to the self-loathing she developed as her true self, Taeko Yasuhiro, she reinvented herself at a young age by taking the moniker “Celestia Ludenberg”, perfecting the arts of strategy and maintaining a poker face, and even adopted a fake yet convincing European accent.
* Designed her own well-known line of Lolita fashion at a young age.
* She became a gambler by the age of 12 and defeated many known gamblers with her wits and cunning, with her life frequently being put at risk.
* She is one of the smartest students in the Killing Game as she explains several aspects of game theory such as Prisoner’s Dilemma and Zero-Sum Game and how she, Kyoko, Byakuya, and Makoto are the ones who bring up important points and are able to follow Byakuya and Kyoko's line of thought throughout the trials.
* During the first class trial she was the one to deduce that Sayaka planned to pin her crime on Makoto due to her being the one to suggest switching rooms to Makoto and due to Sayaka switching the nameplates of Makoto and Sayaka’s rooms.
* During the second class trial her testimony of seeing Chihiro before he was murdered was crucial in identifying the killer. She was also able to deduce that Chihiro was going to meet with someone based on his wording, “I’m kind of in a hurry.”
* She was able to trick Aoi into revealing the fact that she was lying about her stomachache through psychological tactics. This act would lead to the remaining students discovering Alter Ego.
* When Monokuma nearly discovered the secret of Alter Ego once everyone exited the dressing room Celeste was able to seamlessly tell a believable lie of the girls winning the right to the bathhouse through a rock-paper-scissors match which temporarily through Monokuma off of their track.
* Her murder plan was actually somewhat clever with most of the mistakes in it being Hifumi’s fault (i.e. designing Robo Justice so that it could not bend at the waist, the way he applied the fake blood to himself, and uttering part of Celeste’s real name before he died).
* Before her execution she gives the key to the locker she hid Alter Ego in to Kyoko allowing the remaining students to keep their hope alive (In the anime she even hands it to Kyoko in a way in which Monokuma would not notice).

## External Links

* Celestia Ludenberg on the Heroes Wiki
* Celestia Ludenberg on the Danganronpa Wiki