Letícia (DR)

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**Letícia** is a student of Hope's Peak Academy Brazilian's Branch's Class 1-A and a participant of the Killing School Challenge featured in Dangan Ronpa: Arcane's Temptation. Her title is **Ultimate Cheerleader** (Líder de Torcida de Nível Super Estudantil lit. *Super Student Level Cheerleader*).

## Official Bio

*Extreme liking for teen shows from the United States had an effect on Leticia's life, creating a cheerleading project for her school's soccer team, she quickly stood out as an old-fashioned **Ultimate Cheerleader**: beautiful, lively and not very smart. The school called on her to significantly increase her skills and, hopefully, bring credibility to the country in relation to cheerleading. Well, when Letícia feels like it, maybe that will happen. Letícia is a average teenager girl from nowadays, attached to her smartphone, loves talking about boys and wants to hang out; in the meantime, when she's not being bubbly, she's actually a pretty nice person, who loves following trends.*

## Appearance

Letícia is a extremely tall, white-skinned girl with brownish red, straight hip length hair and brown almond-shaped eyes. She has a rather prominent nose with small freckles on it and a round head. She wears round glasses with golden hinges.

On her usual outfit, she wears a light orange tie-up top with sleeves and a huge V-shaped collar exposing a small part of her considerably huge breasts. She also wears a high waist, white pencil skirt and orange slippers matching with her top. She also wears golden bracelets on her wrists.

On her pajamas, she lets go of her glasses and wears her hair in a ponytail and also goes barefoot. She wears a black top with lace trimmings along with matching shorts, with a small black bow attached to it.

## Personality

Letícia is a vapid and somewhat spoiled teenager girl with a simple, underachieving mindset. She's constantly distracted by her own phone's games and rarely commits fully to anything and is quite prone to ignoring people when they don't directly tries to speak up to her. While not exactly dimwitted, she may pass off as rather scatterbrained and shallow and her priorities rarely seem to match the bigger picture and she is one of the students who are the easiest to win over for the Student Council. While her lack of wits is less shown than Kariza and Junior's constant stupidity, she is often forgetting simple words or concepts and sometimes takes more time than others to understand sarcasm and mockery.

However, despite her vapid nature, Letícia seems to be rather easygoing and approachable person and easily one of the kindest students in the class: from the moment she meets Caio she treats him respectfully and tries to make things easy on him and is rather worried about Carlos' feelings when Bárbara practically humiliates him about his desire to join the council, even calling him "angel" in a rather endearing way and trying to be the most compassionate possible with him.

While her limited time makes it hard to truly grasp her fully, Letícia has demonstrated serious escapism tendencies to deal with her problems and anxieties, preferring to ignore major worries and the responsibility that comes with it, she's only interested in things that directly affect her and, still, she seems to be avoidant of those issues as well, being prone to crying out everything once and never thinking of it anymore, instead obsessing over something else as a way to cope with what would be much bigger, complex feelings she refuses to sort out. During the time in the game, she directly refuses to acknowledge the peer pressure she's submitted to and, instead, focuses solely on her newfound feelings for Evangelista, deciding to leave all of the problem solving to the Student Council.

Her forgetfulness, inability to stay focused, avoidance of committing and solving her issues and latching for dependence quickly on Evangelista once he shows the slightest of interest on her hints that her major fatal flaw is not stupidity, but sheer immaturity and a major inability to try and command her own life and make her own decisions, rather trying to push this kind of responsibility to others she relies upon. The video shown of her argument with Evangelista further confirms this, showing that she may have over-saturated the former with unrealistic expectations that he describe as "things that happens only on movies" and immediately breaking up with him once he refuses to commit fully to her.

A rather minor part of her personality that is sometimes hinted by others is that Letícia, while flawed, has a good aura and a purity, something that supposedly contributes to her talent as cheerleader and part of the reason her death was a big strike in the overall mood of the group.

## Talents and Abilities

### Ultimate Cheerleader

Letícia claims to be a "traditional" cheerleader who steers away from major athletic stunts and, instead, sticks to pom-poms, chants and tame cheers. Ian affirms she has swept up popularity by forming a unofficial cheer squad with her friends and quickly rose to popularity thanks to internet and brought an American tradition to Brazil. Additionally, his exposition of her talent hints her cheery disposition is able to cheer up from the smallest group of people to the biggest crowd and fill them up with disposition.

## History

### Prior to Killing School Challenge

Letícia spent her middle school years in **Bluebird's Institute for Girls**. Sometime during those years, she reunited a group of female friends and formed a unofficial cheer squad and quickly rose to popularity once internet discovered her. She was eventually recruited to Hope's Peak thanks to her cheering talent.

### Killing School Challenge

#### **Prologue**

Letícia is introduced along with Bárbara in the cafeteria, where she is playing games on her cellphone while Bárbara seems annoyed they aren't really interacting. She talks to Caio about having a big discussion about "true" and "fake" cheerleaders and she's not really into it, considering herself a traditional one instead. She is the one to suggest Ian to bring Caio to the school's gallery.

She is later present along with everyone else on the class' dinner at the same day, trying to break the uncomfortable silence and being the first one to speak up to Caio. Later, he is present in the classroom when Monokuma announces the killing game and is the one to question how much time they're going to spend trapped in the academy, and also asks Monokuma what kind of punishment he means when he says the blackened will be punished.

#### **Chapter 1**

During the first morning after Monokuma's appearance, she arrives in the cafeteria along with the group "that constitutes the most common class of highschoolers, with a normal sense of time", where she says she's fine because there's a power plug right near her bed so she can spend the whole night playing games without having to worry about her phone's battery. She is quick and eager to accept the newly formed Student Council's leadership once they announce it.

She later is with Bárbara and Carlos in the kitchen, while the former cleans the dishes, where she is playing games as Bárbara tries to bond with someone. She reveals she has read Carlos' blog about the occult at least once and is excited about how ghastly it is and, later, tries to change his mind about wanting to apply for the Student Council and, while she is kind about it, Bárbara makes him leave in rage with her brutal honesty, much to the cheerleader's guilt.

In the morning after she is seen agreeing with the idea of council because it's like "something she can't remember right now" and, later, is confused about Oliveira's bullying Carlos after the motive reveal, only to understand the joke moments later and feel mad about the surfer's attitude.

Later, she joins Carlos in the internal garden and has a conversation with him about their feelings towards the game, where she shrugs off major worries and reveals she doesn't really feel damp because there is nothing truly affecting her in the moment, blindly reassuring her faith in the council's work. She mentions having something good to worry about during this conversation, but manages to hide it when her roommate, Kimberlly, arrives. Once she discovers the kitchen is going to be occupied for the night, she nervously whimpers away. During Ian's party proposal, she seems excited about the prospect of eating party's food and mention loving party's sweets.

The morning after, her dead body is surprisingly found in the kitchen's freezer by a small handful of students, with large wounds to the head, prompting for the first ever investigation. After a trial, Evangelista is exposed not only as her killer but also as her secret lover, Monokuma shows a video fotage from the time of the murder where it's revealed he killed her in a fit of emotion over their differences towards their relationship and, in a whim, he tells the others he feels heartbroken over killing the one person that genuinely loved him for who he has, flaws included, in the moment she show him her own flaws. In his last moments, he whispers for himself and asks for her forgiveness.

#### **Post-Mortem**

Besides having her portrait appearing in all trials after her death, she is also mentioned during Chapter's 2 by Kimberlly and Bárbara in different occasions, multiple times.

## Relationships

### Evangelista

* **Mutual Love Interest; Killer**

While they are never seem interacting before the first trial, it's revealed they had a somewhat romantic relationship with each other and were meeting every night at the kitchen in a direct infraction of the Council's rules. While the full extent of their relationship isn't shown, they assumedly were close and Evangelista made it clear that Letícia has truly loved him for who he was.

Despite seemingly being attracted to each other, Evangelista failed to comitt to their relationship and was still flirtatious with other girls even when they were together, hinting he wasn't truly interested in her or, at least, not as invested as she was in their relationship. Nevertheless, after he kills her in a drugged fit of emotion, he changes his mind about her completely and spends his last moments mourning her and lamenting his previous attitude towards her.

### Kimberlly

* **Roommate; Friend**

While their relationship is never truly explored besides a few moments of talking to each other, it's implied they got pretty close during their small time together, seeing as how devastated Kimberlly was by her death and by the fact Letícia trusted Kimberlly with her secret and wasn't worried the composer was going to tattle her.

Letícia's death took a great toll on Kimberlly and motivated the girl to worry more about the other feelings so she could try and protect them from suffering the same fate as her friend.

### Carlos

* **Friend**

Letícia and Carlos are good friends despite their short time together, with Letícia eager to spend time with him and worried about his feelings, they got along rather well.

### Bárbara

* **Friend**

The two girls seemed to have spent a great deal of time together, being introduced together in the prologue and also hanging out with Carlos once. While Letícia seems to be annoyed by Bárbara's pushiness and insensitivity, they seem to still like each other. In Chapter 2, Bárbara even says Letícia gave her a chance when nobody else did and was left pretty lonely after the girl's death.

However, Bárbara wasn't very affected by Letícia's death itself and took it rather plainly despite their relationship, hinting they weren't fully close to each other.

## Free Time Events

The links below are full transcripts for Letícia's route in Free Time Events.

## Quotes

*Dangan Ronpa: Arcane's Temptation*

## Trivia

* The flowers on her death portrait are white carnations, flowers that means "sweet and lovely, innocence, pure love, faithfulness" in reference to her relationship with Evangelista and her overall personality.