Himari Hamasaki

'Himari'/MC3 by ayshiun on tumblr.

### Family / Loved Ones

Unnamed Parents (unknown whereabouts)Kanko Kenma [girlfriend] (unknown whereabouts)

## Personal Status

### Fate

Blackened of Miyo Katagiri's deathExecuted by Kurokuma

## Portrayal

### Design / Faceclaim

MC3 from Mystic Messenger

*“Anything can drive anyone,” she admitted quietly. “But we can hope for the best, definitely.”*

— Speaking with Kira about the first motive.

**Himari Hamasaki (浜崎ひまり)** is the faux deuteragonist for Danganronpa: Sister Location and a participant of the Secondary Ultimate Despair Killing Game. The killing game is not tied to a real Danganronpa game, however, it is featured on Quotev (@destinationdespair) and therefore, hosted online. Her title is the Ultimate Lucky Student.

## History

### Early Life

Himari grew up an only child in a well-off family. It is known that she used to own a dog, but he belonged to her parents, and was only around for a small period of time as she grew up. Raised in a household of his expectations, Himari's parents were dismayed to see her orienting herself with arts and crafts rather than a more useful skill. And quickly, her parents enforced that she should keep her focus on a more profitable and reliable career path.

### Primary events

Being pushed more and more to fo into law, Himari began focusing her sights, mores unwillingly, into the art of law, but continued to work with watercolors in the meantime. During her high school years, her parents agreed to send her to the reserve course of Hope's Peak Academy, at which she would continue her rigorous study habits to remain a prideful touchstone of the family. She attempted to enter the school by lottery, only for her name to be drawn and unfortunately burned to a crisp, not to her knowing, as Makoto Naegi became the coven 'Lucky Student' instead.

Once in the reserve course, she was able to reconnect with an old friend of hers, Kanko Kenma, who eventually became her girlfriend. Still struggling to maintain the uncertain path of her future, she ended up growing very attached to her partner as the academy bogged her further and further down with stress.

## Talent

### Ultimate Lucky Student

Unlike most Ultimates, who are selected for their demonstrated proficiency in their talent, the "talent" Himari's possessed is given in a annual nationwide draw for enrollment at Hope's Peak Academy. In actuality, the way Himari has this talent is via a lottery win, and the Main Course would dub her as "lucky".

### Reserve Course

Himari's real talent isn't one at all. Himari is truly just a normal girl who was supposed to be put in the Reserve Course of Hope's Peak Academy, Through misrememberance, she thought she was the Ultimate Lucky Student, when this really is a very complicated case.

In the *Makoto Naegi Secret File* from canon material*,* it was revealed that there was an unnamed girl was set to be the Ultimate Lucky Student of Class 78th - Himari Hamasaki was exactly that same girl. However, that paper was accidentally burnt, leading to a redraw of the lottery. Through this redraw, Makoto Naegi became the Ultimate Lucky Student of Class 78th, and Himari Hamasaki was demoted to just an ordinary Reserve Course student.

It can even be said, by Himari's admin, Entre, herself, that Himari's talent is more applicable to the Ultimate Unlucky Student, having bad luck that disguises itself as good luck. This would make sense, considering her early fate in the game, and unfortunate circumstances due to her execution.

## Before the Killing Game

It is assumed that Himari led the life of a Hope's Peak reserve course student, before being taken during the Tragedy by the Hope's Peak Rejects. Because of their dedication to despair, the group recreated a killing game and placed themselves and Future Foundation hostage, Chisafusa Tachibana, inside. Being the almost-lucky student, Himari was taken and brainwashed in hopes of making her the 'Makoto Naegi' of their killing game story, hence her execution being so similar to the original Naegi's 'After School Lesson.' However, this attempt at a copycat game failed when Himari became the first blackened instead, being fully executed and leaving the game sans a protagonist or a deuteragonist.

## Appearance

Himari is a high school aged girl, slightly above the Japan standards of height. Her appearance is based on the third MC from Mystic Messenger, so her looks are already predetermined.

She is relatively slender, having pale-to-fair skin and green eyes. Her staple trait is her long, curly red hair. It can be assumed she wears a white blouse button-up with a long, flowy brown skirt.

## Personality

Himari is introverted, but on the more outgoing side. She often judges on first appearances, and puts a lot of thought and logic into how she acts and treats others. As such, she is almost always very courteous.

She believes in keeping a level head, and tried her best to remain stiff and complaint-free. Himari is an optimistic, hard worker with a leader type, more often than not putting herself into the position when none others assert themselves.

Himari is emotional, though, but she just chooses to express that side of herself inwardly as opposed to outwardly. She’s fun-loving, but far from carefree. Insecurities surround the fact that she knows she can never quite be good enough. As much as she tries to put these worries from her mind, it is apparent that they occupy her thoughts a great deal.

As evidenced by the resolution of chapter one, she crumbles under pressure at times, and reacts impulsively when afraid. She chose to kill Miyo and attempt to escape the game when she discovered the true identities of the other participants. In the end, she appeared apologetic for her actions, and thankful to those who showed her kindness before her eventual demise.

## Relations Info

### Current Affiliation

Secondary Ultimate Despair Killing Game

Himari seemed to hold no quarrel with Miyo through their earlier talks, the 'lucky' student always addressing Katagiri with politeness and respect. However, their conversation did not last long, and it is likelier than not that their next interaction was Miyo's murder. Despite Himari's blackened status, it would seem she held no true ill will towards Miyo in specific. It is implied she was killed for reasons of convenience, and that Himari acted purely out of fear rather than a need for revenge.

### Kira Sunako

Himari and Kira exchanged a brief conversation when Himari caught Kira committing an act of minor arson. While the talk was brief, it was evidently uncomfortable on Himari's side. It is later implied that the reason for this was Himari's knowledge of Kira's despairing nature. However, Kira apologizes to Himari before her execution, sympathizing with her before her death, to which Himari thanks her as a final sentiment.

## Himari's Fate

Himari, at the conclusion of the first chapter, is revealed to be the blackened behind Miyo Katagiri's murder. Being prompted by the motive, during which Himari had learned unbeknownst to the others that everyone around her, with the exception of herself, was a despair. Acting on fear, Himari drowned the first protagonist in the fountain outside, only to later be exposed as the blackened.

Before she could explain the truth of their despairing nature, Himari was cut off, and pulled away to her execution, *Extra Lessons for the Unlucky.*

## Quotes

### Chapter One

* "Mm... no, I don’t remember anything. Guess that might not be super convincing, though. You can’t exactly go around taking everyone’s word, but it’s all I have to offer."
* "I’m the Ultimate Lucky Student. I got in by the lottery, basically. How about you?"
* "Yeah. That’s true. It’s important for everyone to think before they do anything brash. I just... hope everyone’s alright."
* "Assuming that this all happened somewhere else, or that the culprit went somewhere... these would be the place to start."
* "Chapstick? Could be hers. Or whoever killed her. Or even a witness - but if no one speaks up about it, I’m not sure how much it’ll help."
* "So, we should probably start with the cause of death. The cause of death was strangulation, right? We all agreed on that. But we never really decided how, *where,*or with what."
* "And, hey. I’ll be honest. That nail polish stain probably was mine. Because I used that bathroom - *to paint my nails.*I didn’t notice the paper towels, though. I guess I wasn’t being observant."
* "I didn’t want everyone to vote wrong, so I didn’t want to say anything. Hope that makes sense...”
* "You said so yourself, the culprit would need a great deal of strength to ambush someone like that. And I’d probably clean up better if I planned to kill someone - not that I think about that often, admittedly, but we all got the same motive, didn’t we? The photos? They seemed pretty easily feigned, it’s no reason so murder anyone."
* "Wasn’t my first solution. It wasn’t initially my idea, either. May have been a misunderstanding, but I was admittedly pretty jumpy. She caught me off-guard."
* "Probably not the best first instinct, but that wasn’t my motive. I guess it was just the *nudge.*Does that make any sense?"

## Trivia

* Himari never had a talent given by Hope's Peak Academy in the first place. Her title of Lucky Student was revoked due to a redraw.
	+ This makes Himari the only canonically stated character who truly was a Hope's Peak reject.
	+ It could be argued that Himari would be the Ultimate *Bad Luck*, considering her circumstances of being 'rejected' by Hope's Peak, thrown into a killing game, and found guilty of murder. Funnily, during her execution, she for a moment had good luck of not dying from her fall - but the good luck quickly subsided after she was crushed by the desk she was sitting on.

* Himari's execution is a blatant copy of Makoto Naegi and Kyoko Kirigiri's executions. Like Makoto's, she falls down into the garbage chute unharmed. However, like Kyoko's, she gets crushed anyway (albeit in a different way - via the desk falling on top of her).
	+ Her execution's title is also the OST name for Makoto's execution; *Extra Lessons for the Unlucky.*
* Ironic or not, Himari is one of the many ginger haired original character's admin Entre has that meets an unfortunate fate.
	+ Kaname Zabatsu is killed in Guessing Game chapter six for being the mastermind, and Fawkes, from Decay Chain, is outed from her occupation and swiftly killed; despite her having information on specific people. Both are fellow red-heads.
* Himari's character application is titled "[entre]s second application"[1] noting that Chisafusa Tachibana was likely created and submitted *first*, rather than the character supposedly a protagonist.