Tauji Hairi

Tauji Hairi is the Ultimate Humanitarian. Prior to the events of the novel, she was in the process of being scouted for Hope's Peak Academy. She runs a large and widely popular humanitarian organization and charity that she started herself, which earned her her ultimate title. She is a lesbian.

## Appearance

Tauji has dark green hair tied in two braids and light green eyes. She bedazzles her hair with a colorful assortment of hairclips. She needs glasses due to vision problems, and wears hair ties and bracelets on her arms. Her outfit consists of her white uniform, black striped pants, and black boots. She has earrings shaped like the planet earth.

## Personality

Tauji is kind, caring, and hopeful. She believes that anything is possible with teamwork and a good attitude. Her strong leadership qualities make the others turn to her for guidance in the early chapters, and she does her best to set rules and regulations to keep everyone safe. She believes she has a duty to the earth and all the people on it, and she works tirelessly to fulfill that duty. She blames herself for every death and strives to protect the other contestants. She does her best to maintain a steady presence, though she does break down several times from guilt. Despite her kindness, she isn’t afraid to do what’s necessary, and has a strong and commanding personality.

## Relationships

Tauji has a fairly good relationship with the rest of her family, though she never talks about them during the game show.

Though she doesn’t become close with many people during the game show, preferring to be an all around encourager for the group, she does maintain a few strong relationships.

Jio Konosuke and her were fairly close, and Jio affirms in chapter five that her and Tauji are unofficially dating.

Hosoo Yushiro becomes someone Tauji relies on as a friend and a supporter.

Other relationships of note are with Ishiwari Shoken, Saiki Umi, Morimoto Motomori, and the inner circle.

## Life

### The killing game show

#### Prologue

Waking up alongside fifteen other contestants, Tauji finds that she’s been kidnapped and forced to compete in a killing game show. Her natural leadership tendencies take over, and she attempts to bring the group together and protect them.

#### Chapter one

After ascending to an unofficial leadership position, Tauji assembles a buddy system keeping everyone in pairs.

#### Chapter two

In an attempt at forming a better leadership council, Tauji forms the inner circle, a group of people she trusts and believes are helpful. This group is comprised of Hosoo Yushiro, Shinzo Mashiro, Jio Konosuke, Ishiwari Shoken, and Rai Gihei. She decides to close off the greenhouse, which is full of deadly poison, and appoints Ishiwari as a guard. She also gives the green light to hide dangerous gardening tools in Ishiwari’s room. When word of these things get out to the other contestants, they react badly. Shinzo informs Kiya Anju about the inner circle, and the exclusion of the other contestants causes everyone to revolt against Tauji. After the murder and trial, Tauji heavily blames herself, believing she made the wrong call.

#### Chapter three

Tauji closes herself off in her room from the others, ridden with guilt. Because she’s isolated herself, she is framed for the third murder, as she has no alibi and has been acting strange. Believing this is punishment for her failures, she prepares to accept this fate, but Hosoo believes in her and encourages her to defend herself. After the murder and trial, Tauji regains her determination to protect everyone.

#### Chapter four

Offering support to a grieving Saiki Umi, Tauji supports her in her idea of holding a memorial service. Before the service can take place, however, Monokuma presents the next motive: events taking place in the outside world in their personal lives. After one round of this jeopardy style game, the group decides to stop playing, turning their attention onto the service once more. However, Monokuma leaves their 500 motives on their beds in the form of a letter. Tauji, with Jio, finds her motive and learns that her organization has completely fallen apart. Despite these new motives, everyone agrees to thrust Hosoo with an escape plan and move forward with the service. Tauji’s commitment to the world, however, leads her to begin a murder plot. She believes that the lives of her classmates are worth less than the lives she can help outside the game show. Using arsenic given to her by Monokuma, she poisons one of the memorial service drinks, and ends up killing Izuhara Isao. Kanda Akio exposes her crime, however, by identifying the container the arsenic was transported in as a balloon Tauji brought into the kitchen. Her murder discovered, she is given a choice by Monokuma to either receive a quick death or attempt to walk a pole across a pit of fire and be let free. She accepts the second option despite knowing it was rigged from the start, her duty to the world forcing her to at least try. She ends up falling and is burned alive.