Okano Keichi

**Okano Keichi** is the Assistant Headmaster of Rimoto Piozumu Academy, and a member of The Ultimate Coalition. He was also a participant of the killing game in the factory within Danganronpa: Insanity/Order.

## History

Okano Keichi was a child born with a mind that was more advanced than that of those around him, in the same sense of the rest of the coalition. The thing that set himself aside from the rest of the world was his ability to process the inner workings of events that occurred naturally around him. He could understand what led to things taking place, and with that, he eventually gained the ability to persuade certain events to happen. He would be able to very easily develop a psychological profile on people simply by talking to them for a short amount of time, and from there know how they would react to different stimuli.

### Before the Killing Games

#### Family Life

Okano was born as an only child to two very sophisticated parents, who both showed him a great deal of love. His father, Kyou Keichi, was a college professor who worked at one of the most advanced universities in the nation as it's leading researcher and teacher. His mother was a surgeon, who like the father, was the most skilled technical surgeon at her hospital of employment.

With how much his parents loved him, they would bring him in to their jobs constantly, and brag about him and his good grades at such a young age to their coworkers and colleagues. At his father's work, he would see so many people get taught by him that had such brilliant minds, and despite this be distracted by the silliest of things despite being taught lessons that should be sticking with them for life. And at his mother's job, he saw people who were just like the people that his father taught, that despite their intellect, still wound up in the hospital needing help. And together through these two views, he essentially saw that despite how much people were built up, and enriched by people like his father, they always had to be 'fixed' by people like his mother.

His world view, and opinions on people as a whole would stem from this realization of people needing to be fixed no matter how much they were built up by brilliant people that tried to help them.

#### Early Schooling

For all of his schooling, Okano attended private schools, receiving the best possible education as requested by his parents. He seldom made many friends, seeing them as imperfect people who lacked an ability to go through life in a correct fashion, and assumed each one of them would end up being someone who had to be fixed. And so even at this young age he would interact with others in order to live in society and not raise any questions about it. However, in the back of his mind he would continue judging others and thinking of the imperfections within them. Watching the imperfections, he began to see ways he could manipulate them, and therefore plan what they would do and how they would act.

Through this ability, he planted his seeds for the best possible life as early as elementary school, so that by the time he had reached middle school, he would essentially be the 'kingpin' of the kids in his grade, and even throughout other grades. He used this power to get the seats he wanted in classes, the occasional lunch, and would be able to talk to girls that he liked the look of. It was an easy life that he led. He didn't need anything that he gained from this, but he saw the opportunity to obtain something that people looked on fondly, and was labeled as lavish by those around him.

Throughout his schooling he would also develop an affinity for music. He would never play music, but he would find himself engrossed in songs he listened to in ways that he could lose his mind within. The most he would do in terms of replicating the music would be the occasional humming, and sometimes, he would sing. But very seldom.

#### College / Late Life

When he reached college, he had gotten everything he needed in life in terms of experiences, and there wasn't much left for him to seek out in life. Aside from his beliefs in the world and his longing for what everyone on earth was ultimately good for if it was so easy to control. Before long, though, he found someone in one of his college lectures that was able to entice his interest.

The class was one that surrounded ethics, in which Rimoto Hakka and Okano had a debate on the place in society that those more brilliantly talented should be given, and how much they should be expected to do in relation to those less fortunate. Okano had the belief that those who were 'better' (as a blanket term) should be given positions of power, and to this Rimoto agreed. Where their differing viewpoints came from was that Rimoto believed it was the duty of those better off to help raise those below them up to their level. Okano had a more cynical outlook which involved them simply being less, and staying as less. They could raise up if they were able to, but it was not any persons duty to tend to these matters.

Okano and Rimoto slowly became closer and closer acquaintances. Okano began to develop a level of respect for Rimoto that he did not feel in any other people he had met. Among these next few years, Okano would also create startup tech companies. During which, he would meet and become acquainted with many people who would go on to become members of The Ultimate Coalition, namely, Taniguchi Satoshi. The duo would also stay close after they graduated, still traveling the world, building their own businesses, and unintentionally, continuously finding those in the world who could be labeled as "remarkable” (to Rimoto, atleast. Okano found very few people trip remarkable.). At some point, Okano would take a vacation to america, where he would catch a circus play with a certain green haired Knivesman, who had an amazing act.

At an unknown time after Okano was out of college, he heard a local kid who was causing waves from his colleagues. This child being Nakata Yataro. He heard that the child was able to move the masses with the way he spoke and could understand emotions at a level that others couldn't even begin to believe in. Viewing Nakata speak, Okano's world view began to shift, as he saw a bit of Rimoto inside of the child, and even parts of himself too. It was then that he began to truly entertain the possibility that in this world, there may be more people who were truly remarkable like himself and Rimoto. This was shocking, since he had never considered a child remarkable in his whole life.

Through watching this speech, Okano's mind became a puzzle, as pieces began to slowly form together and make a bridge crossing Okano's desires and what he was capable of. Pieces were missing, but what he had access to began to take the form of something attainable, and brought back a mindset that he previously tossed out.

And so, Okano would slowly pitch the idea of the academy to Rimoto, very subtly. In a way that Rimoto wouldn't view it as solely Okano's idea, since Rimoto needed to be the face of the school, as he had a more prolific public image. The 30 people brought together to form The Ultimate Coalition were contacted, each with a specific manner and skillset that served as building blocks for this monumental project of Okano's. The bridge wasn't nearly complete, but after a couple years of research into those upcoming youth (talented or not) and his peers around him, everything was set. And the games had begun.