Kokoro Mitsume

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 —Kokoro's Character Profile

**Kokoro Mitsume** (미츠메 코코로 *Mitsume Kokoro)* is a main character featured in the Korean fangame **Super Danganronpa Another 2~ The Moon of Hope and the Sun of Despair~**, made by **LINUJ**. She is the **Super High School Level Psychologist** (초고교급 심리학자).

Before the events of the killing game she was known as **Kokoro Kurokawa** (쿠로카와 코코로 *Kurokawa Kokoro*), the wife of Sojiro Kurokawa and mother of Mikako Kurokawa.

## Official Description

> A genius recognized by the scientific community in the United States for her groundbreaking research and papers. Being an expert on human emotions, she was scouted to Hope’s Peak as the SHSL Psychologist. Due to her advanced insight into human vital signs and thought patterns, she can predict the behavior of others and essentially “read their minds”. However, this insight causes her to have problems socializing, as her ability to predict what people will say causes her to alienate herself. Despite her expertise in human emotion, her emotional responses are, ironically, subdued.
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## History

### Background

Kokoro had started to show symptoms of having Alexithymia - a personality trait characterized by the inability to identify or explain experienced emotions - from an early age. Apart from her sharp sense of curiosity, Kokoro was unable to identify any of the other emotions she had felt. Over time her biological parents grew upset over their daughter's struggles, leading them to give up on parenting her. Kokoro was put into the foster care system soon after, where she would later be adopted by a wealthy couple from whom she took the surname of.

As she grew older, Kokoro began to show interest in her condition and emotions in general, which led her to start researching both topics in great detail. Her adoptive parents were supportive of her newfound interest and commonly funded Kokoro with the materials she needed for her research. Kokoro later pursued a career in psychology, adept at identifying other people's emotions but still struggling to identify her own.

Since becoming a psychologist, Kokoro spend the majority of her life at her workplace. Soon, her curiosity about human emotions grew, but the resources she had left her questions largely unanswered. During this time, Kokoro had been aware that another psychologist at her workplace was developing feelings for Kokoro. At an unknown point in time the two married and had a child; Mikako Kurokawa. With Sojiro agreeing out of love for his wife, Kokoro began to experiment on their child, in search of discovering the 'primitive emotions'.

Sojiro began to feel growing guilt over these experiments. One day, due to his guilt, Sojiro took Mikako and fled with her to the mountains. Sojiro died in this area by unknown means- most likely by hyperthermia, or potentially during a fall- while Mikako was now left on her lonesome. Mikako fell into a stream soon after Satiro's death but was later saved by Hanzo Kisaragi, who would later adopt Mikako.

For the years to come, Kokoro remained unaware of what happened that day and made no effort to try getting into contact with Sojiro or Mikako, dubbing the latter as a 'failed experiment'.

### The Tragedy

During the tragedy, Kokoro had taken shelter at her workplace. At some point in time Kokoro met Mikado Sannōji, a talented programmer who had been in search of a mysterious man; Utsuro, someone who had blessed him earlier in his life. Mikado commonly funded Kokoro's projects, often with stolen money, in turn receiving help for his projects. One of these projects included creating an AI of himself, with Kokoro providing all the necessary emotional data and certain insights.

Sometime before the Field Trip of Mutual Killing Mikado and Kokoro met together at her office. While the two spoke together Mikado, with Kokoro's permission, goes to input brand-new data into her personal computer. As he is searching around however he discovers data from a chip implanted in her daughter, Mikako. Mikado is soon left enraged as he finds out Mikako had met Utsuro several years prior. After another sleepless night Kokoro analyses the data for Mikado.

At yet another unknown point in time Mikado is murdered by Shobai, after his A.I. grows sentient thanks to the emotional data provided by Kokoro. Although aware of the dangers Kokoro left the A.I. to its devices, witnessing its acts but doing nothing to stop it. This act soon backfired on her as she is one of the many kidnapped for its plans of resurrecting Utsuro.

### The Field Trip of Mutual Killing

*Main Article: Super Danganronpa Another 2*

Kokoro was one of fifteen talented students exclusively invited to a field trip at Utsuroshima, an isolated resort island created just for Ultimate's. Once everyone is gather to the beach by Yuki they begin to discuss their situation, with drastic suggestions and odd discoveries causing the groups confusion and certain worries to rise. With the possibility of kidnapping on everyone's mind after Yuri speaks about his experiences, Setsuka brings up the suggestion of swimming in the ocean. Kokoro is one of the few who does not swim in the ocean, instead focused on her tablet. Just as Yuki was about to join in however, he along with everyone else blacks out.

As they wake up they find themselves back into their original clothing. Before they are able to question what happened however, an anonymous announcement from a close-by monitor draws the students to the central park. Under the false belief they were there for the schools opening ceremony everybody gathers, but are soon stunned to be met with a monochromatic bird, Monocrow. The self-proclaimed headmaster of Utsuroshima, the group is left further panicked as he reveals the only way anyone would be able to leave the island was by murdering one of their classmates and getting away with it. Enraged by this several classmates prepare to attack Monocrow, but are quickly stopped in place by Mikado, who up until then had remained completely silent. Attempting to protect the students from Monocrow, Mikado steps forward in place. Before he is able to do anything more however, a loud gunshot erupts as Mikado is shot in the head.

### The First Murder

During the following days Kokoro attempts to build a transmitter to communicate with the outside world, but ultimately fails, unable to connect to a signal. During one of their morning meetings Yuri Kagarin, the Super High School Level Spaceman, reveals his true colours to the participants, revealing he would be more than willing to give up his life for a woman's safety. Able to corroborate what he was saying, tensions rise upon the group. As a result of this Setsuka decides to throw a surprise party. During this time Emma kicks off a friendship with Kokoro.

A day later Yuri's corpse is found at the bottom of the Uehara Bell Tower, cut and bloodied. During the subsequent class trial for Yuri's murder Kokoro is able to partially discover the truth behind the case, pinpointing Hajime as the culprit far before anyone else was able to. Her discoveries later on in the trial cause Hajime to reveal himself as a member of Void, a terrorist organization led by Mikado. He is soon executed by Monocrow.

### Secret Meeting with Emma

After the class trial Kokoro began to shut herself off from the rest of the participants, in search for the members of void and enlisting help from newly-included participant Teruya. During this time Hibiki too shuts herself off from the rest of the group, later causing Setsuka to encourage her, starting the exclusive Melody Rhythm Concert.

During this concert Kokoro met with Emma, under the false impression Teruya; appointed as her bodyguard had been watching their discussion. Unaware he had gone to watch the concert, Kokoro confronts Emma about her membership in Void, but rather than threatening her, attempts to make her rejoin the rest of the group. As Emma's facade drops for a moment, Kokoro is able to gain full insight on the other members of Void, and learns about Emma's relationship with her father. Bringing this topic up Kokoro was soon overpowered by a traumatised Emma, who attacked Kokoro and caused her to lose consciousness. At the end of the concert the main group discovers Kokoro unconscious, and escorts her back to her room. Unbeknown to the main group, Emma had stolen Kokoro's e-handbook+, allowing her full access to her room.

### Fate

Over the course of the next several days Kokoro is trapped inside her dorms freezer. Unable to communicate with anyone, and having lost a finger during her time unconscious, Emma began to pose as Kokoro. Pretending to have been affected by an unnamed sickness which left Kokoro unable to move or speak, the trapped Kokoro had been slowly freezing. Before she succumbs to hypothermia, Kokoro is able to leave a final dying clue which is later used against Emma in the subsequent class trial. After her death Kokoro is removed from the freezer; her hands and feet amputated from her body to frame her death as the curse of Yuki-onno.

Emma is later executed by Monocrow, found guilty as the culprit behind Kokoro's murder.

### Legacy

After her death, Sora ponders if she would be able to survive the class trial with the help of Kokoro, Kanade, or Shobai.

As the virtual world begins to fail a capsule with Kokoro's body and real name is found by Yoruko and Sora. After the events of the killing game, Kokoro's comatose body is put under constant surveillance by the Kisaragi Foundation.

## Appearance

Kokoro is a young woman with shoulder-length unkempt black hair, yellow eyes, fair skin, red-rimmed glasses. She stands at 158 cm tall.

Kokoro wears a long-sleeved maroon sweater with a pink frilly collar, a loosely hanging black and orange tie with the symbol of her previous high school prominent, and pink embroidery. Underneath her sweater, Kokoro wears a sleeveless button-up vest, with the top button undone. She also wears a pair of black shorts and a pair of blue dog-cat slippers. In her character illustration, Kokoro dons a white lab coat, with three visible pockets.

During the killing school trip, Kokoro carries a purple iPad on her person. She also has a plaster stuck on her right knee.

Outside of the simulation, Kokoro has longer, now unkempt, hair that reaches past shoulder length. Her attire consists of a black shirt, a white lab coat that reaches past her knees, a pair of rouge pink tracksuit bottoms with white stripes, and blue dog-cat slippers.

## Personality

 —Kokoro's Profile

Diagnosed with alexithymia at a young age, Kokoro struggles to socialize with others, and finds it difficult to convey her own emotions. In-part of her anti-social nature, Kokoro doesn't like being in large crowds, and is often quiet when with others. Due to her vast knowledge of human emotions, Kokoro finds it easy to predict what people will say, which further troubles her attempts to socialize with others. Her insight on emotions becomes useful during the early weeks of the killing game, Kokoro initially uses her abilities to deduce the members of Void. After the first class trial exposes her abilities, however, she closed herself off from the rest of the group, and refused to be an active help to them. Against her own words however, she would enlist Teruya's help as her bodyguard, and went to confront a member of Void. Kokoro is stated to be one of the four most intelligent characters in the game.

One of Kokoro's biggest dreams in life is to study the primitive emotions. Before the events of the first killing game, Kokoro enacts on her dreams, and experiments on her own child. Although she fails to find any results, Kokoro regards her child as a 'failed experiment', and felt no guilt over her actions. Even after these events took place, Kokoro made no effort to contact her husband or daughter.

In addition to this, Kokoro's curiosity often gets the better of her. After Mikado's AI gains sentience, Kokoro allowed him to commit all sorts of crimes, and gave him free reign over his actions.

## Talent and Abilities

### Super High School Level Psychologist

    A genius recognized throughout the country for her expansive knowledge, Kokoro has been fascinated with psychology ever since her childhood. Born with Alexithymia, a neuropsychological condition which resulted in Kokoro facing difficulties in feeling, identifying, and expressing her emotions, Kokoro became interested in human emotions from a young age. Backed up by her foster family, her studies were funded, until she eventually gained the title of Super High School Level Psychologist.

As a psychologist, Kokoro has the eerie ability to 'mind read' people, simply by looking into a persons eyes. Throughout the killing game, this ability allows Kokoro to learn about the members of Void, and caused her to be one of the first to discover Hajime's involvement in Yuri's death. Though this ability proved useful on numerous occasions, it often creeped out her classmates.

In reality, Kokoro was never scouted by Hope's Peak Academy, though was a Symbol of Hope during the tragedy. Over a decade before the tragedy, Kokoro had a child for the sole purpose of expanding her knowledge, interested in learning a persons primitive emotions. When it came to her knowledge, Kokoro was willing to use any method possible, even when it harmed others. Several years after Mikako's escape, Kokoro used her abilities to help fulfil Mikado's dream, with her knowledge causing Mikado's AI to gain sentience.

In spite of her knowledge, Kokoro's talent has several known weaknesses. One such weakness occurs when a persons eyes are obscured, as she was unable to read Hajime at all due to his sunglasses. She also struggled to properly read Emma due to her ability to supress her aura.

### Technological Knowledge

After Mikako's birth Kokoro implanted a chip into her brain, designed to record her thoughts and emotions. Even after her escape, this chip remained active until her eventual death in the first killing game.

During the early weeks of the killing game Kokoro designs a transmitter, though for unknown reasons, it fails.

## About

### Creation and Development

Untranslated Info*The information below is currently untranslated. It will be re-written in more detail when more information is available.*
Kokoro underwent the most design changes out of the entire cast, receiving over four different designs, being one of the last characters concepted for the game. In her earliest design Kokoro wore her hair in a ponytail that reached to knee-length, wore a pair of circular glasses, a vest, a ribbon, a labcoat, and a skirt. Feeling that this design was too similar to the previous games Rei Mekaru, LINUJ redesigned Kokoro. Although her hair began to resemble her finalized design, she instead wore a sweater vest, a labcoat, and a tie. At this point in time Kokoro's setup hadn't been finalized, but details such as her personality started to appear in her third design. In this one she no longer wore her labcoat, but still wore a sweater jacket with numerous pockets. She also wore a loose tie and a pair of shorts. Kokoro's setting was to be Mikado's collaborator, an idea he came up with when thinking about the writing of the early chapters.

### Stats

Non-Canon*The information below is considered **non-canon**.*
Kokoro received generally high results. She received the second highest score of 'A' in her intelligence, reasoning ability, and acting ability. In contrast to this, she also received the second-lowest score of 'D' in her humaneness and physical ability. In addition to this, Kokoro received the lowest possible score of 'E' in her combat ability.

### Alternate Fates

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**처형명 : IF ~ 코코로의 행복이론**

평화로운 노래와 함께 박수갈채가 터진다. 미츠메는 웨딩 드레스를 입고 누군가와 결혼식을 올리고 있다. 장면이 빠르게 전환되며, 딸이 태어난다. 열심히 일을 하며, 휴일에는 가족끼리 놀러가기도 하고, 시험 성적을 가지고 혼내기도 하고, 딸의 참관수업에 가기도 한다. 세월이 흘러 부쩍 큰 딸이 결혼하여 독립하고, 남편과 여유로운 노후를 보내는 미츠메. 남편의 무릎에 누워 지긋이 눈을 감으며 화면이 줌아웃 된다. 지금까지 나온 장면들은 디스플레이 속 영상이었고, 디스플레이의 코드들이 사지가 묶인 미츠메의 귀 속을 통과해 뇌까지 관통하고 있으며, 미츠메의 눈, 코, 입에서는 피가 흘러나온다. 잠시 뒤, 미츠메의 공허한 눈이 클로즈업되며 화면이 암전된다. **━ Unused Execution**

## Trivia

* Kokoro ranked 15th in the official *Super Danganronpa Another 2* Popularity Poll. She received 49 votes (1.2% of the overall amount of votes).
* Kokoro's execution title roughly translates to "IF: Kokoro's Theory of Happiness".
* Kokoro has no favourite or least favourite foods. She enjoys caffeine.
* Kokoro's hairstyle was designed by chance.

## References

1. ↑ https://sdra2eng.tumblr.com/tagged/Meet-the-ultimates
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.castingcall.club/projects/super-danganronpa-another-2-the-official-english-localization-aca6d5ad-d3cb-4e53-aa2a-880533616242
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia#:~:text=Alexithymia%20is%20a%20personality%20trait,social%20attachment%2C%20and%20interpersonal%20relation.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVMVoRlLt3w
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 https://linuj.tistory.com/entry/%EC%8A%A4%ED%8F%AC%EC%9D%BC%EB%9F%AC%E5%A4%9A-%ED%9B%84%EC%86%8D%EC%9E%91-%EC%BA%90%EB%A6%AD%ED%84%B0-%EC%84%A4%EC%A0%95%EB%B9%84%ED%99%94-10-%EB%AF%B8%EC%B8%A0%EB%A9%94-%EC%BD%94%EC%BD%94%EB%A1%9C?category=498325
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://linuj.tistory.com/entry/%EC%8A%A4%ED%8F%AC%EC%9D%BC%EB%9F%AC%E5%A4%9A-%ED%9B%84%EC%86%8D%EC%9E%91-%EC%BA%90%EB%A6%AD%ED%84%B0-%EC%84%A4%EC%A0%95%EB%B9%84%ED%99%94-15-%EC%B9%B4%EA%B0%80%EB%A6%B0-%EC%9C%A0%EB%A6%AC-%EC%9D%8C%EC%8B%9D-%EA%B8%B0%ED%98%B8%EC%A0%84%ED%88%AC%EB%A0%A5-%EB%9E%AD%ED%81%AC
7. ↑ https://linuj.tistory.com/entry/%EC%8A%88%ED%8D%BC-%EB%8B%A8%EA%B0%84%EB%A1%A0%ED%8C%8C-%EC%96%B4%EB%82%98%EB%8D%94-2-%ED%9D%AC%EB%A7%9D%EC%9D%98-%EB%8B%AC%EA%B3%BC-%EC%A0%88%EB%A7%9D%EC%9D%98-%ED%83%9C%EC%96%91-%EC%9D%B8%EA%B8%B0%ED%88%AC%ED%91%9C-%EA%B2%B0%EA%B3%BC-%EB%B0%9C%ED%91%9C
8. ↑ **Kokoro Mitsume Character Reveal**