Ruruka Andou

**Ruruka Ando** (安藤 流流歌 *Andō Ruruka*) is a character featured in Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School. Her title during her time at Hope's Peak Academy's Class 76th was the **Ultimate Confectioner** (超高校級の「お菓子職人」 *chō kōkō kyū no “okashi shokunin”* lit. *Super High School Level Confectioner*).

She is a member of the Future Foundation, and the leader of the 8th Division. Her responsibility as the leader is to help provide stable food sources. She, along with the other Future Foundation heads, is forced to participate in the Final Killing Game.

## Appearance

Ruruka is a woman in her early twenties, around 23 at youngest (about 18 in *Danganronpa 3 - Despair Arc*).

She has lilac eyes, short strawberry blonde hair, and a petite, cheerful appearance. She wears a pink coat with puffy white fur trimming, yellow shorts, white thigh high socks and pink boots with multiple straps. She also has a yellowish hat with a small strawberry on top of it; where she has pinned her Future Foundation ID. There is also a triangle pattern on the back of her hat.

During her time at Hope's Peak Academy, Ruruka wore the standard Academy uniform with fur trimming that looks similar to the fur on her coat that she wears in the Future Arc. The boots and socks she wore are also very similar to the ones she wears in the future. She also wore a pink hat and a green ribbon with strawberries on the ends.

## Personality

Ruruka is a cunning young woman who is described to have a mean streak despite her cute appearance. She appears rather manipulative and is not above using her friends to achieve her goals. She can be extremely selfish as well, as during the Final Killing Game, she focuses only on keeping herself alive.

While she can appear easily annoyed and even mean towards others, Ruruka acts very sweet and intimate with her romantic partner Sonosuke, and she often feeds him her candy. Her candy can brainwash and manipulate people; thanks to this, Ruruka is a resourceful and skilled negotiator.

Despite being a high-ranking member of Future Foundation, she seems skeptical regarding its purpose, at one point stating that, "just like Hope's Peak Academy and Seiko Kimura", it is rotten to the core. Furthermore, after she learned Seiko's NG Code, she requested her to murder the true leader of the Future Foundation, Kyosuke Munakata.

Ruruka has a strong hatred and fear of being betrayed, and she would rather betray others before they have any chance to do the same to her, including her own boyfriend. She knows it's wrong, but her fear of betrayal is too strong, and she is implied to have a fear of trust which is called pistanthrophobia. Ruruka's childhood friend, Seiko, "backstabbing" her in high school might have made this worse, but this doesn't appear to be the cause of it. She appeared to have some sort of trust issues much earlier as well, as she strongly disliked it when her close ones wouldn't eat her treats and took it very personally. She has stated that she won't trust anyone who doesn't eat her candy.

## Talent

### Ultimate Confectioner

Ruruka is an exemplary cook and also exceptionally skilled at creating candies and other sweets. A promising newcomer, she won a sweeping victory at the confectionery industry’s pastry contest. She began energetically working on creating a product that she can offer to famous corporations and candy stores. Ruruka's confections have a subtle flavor and beautiful presentation, but their most outstanding trait is how addictive they are, similar to hard narcotics. Some raised concern over the danger this poses, but she did not give any indication she would abuse her power.

Ruruka has a specially-made, extremely addictive brand of chocolate that has the ability to brainwash others. When consumed, the victim will follow her orders without question, which is demonstrated when she force-feeds a chocolate to Juzo Sakakura.

## Trivia

* Her given name, Ruruka (流流歌), means "outpouring song".
* Ruruka's last name, Andō (安藤), consists of the words "peace" and "wisteria". The wisteria part of her name could refer to her eye color, which is a light purple.
* Both "Confectionery" and "菓子" actually comprise both Baker's Confectionery (Pastry/Cakes) and Sugar Confectionery (Candy). In common modern English, Ruruka's talent is closer to that of a Pastry Chef.
* In her initial design, Ruruka's title is "Schemer".
* Ruruka's death was oddly enough never acknowledged by the survivors of the Final Killing Game. It was referenced when Makoto discusses the presence of monitors at all the suicide scenes, meaning her corpse must have been found, however, no-one is shown reacting to her death.
* It is possible that she attempted to use her talent to save herself from the Suicide Video by attempting to over-power it with her mind-altering sweets, which could be why she was surrounded by them. However, due to the amount in her mouth, it is possible she choked herself on them while committing suicide, resulting in a subconjunctival hemorrhage (shown by the redness of her eyes).
	+ This could be why Ruruka's corpse is not hanged or suspended like the rest of the victims of the suicide videos.
* Ruruka is technically the last victim of the Final Killing Game, as Kyoko remained comatose and eventually survived, and Juzo died after all of the monitors had been shut off and the NG Code violation restrictions were lifted.