Yukinari Shimotsuki

* Adult
* Child

> "*"Decide our fate...?" What the hell was it talking about? Everyone seemed lost, but chose a card anyway.*"
> ― Yukinari, Chapter 1
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**Yukinari Shimotsuki** is the protagonist of *Wolf Game/Another* and the player character.

## Alternate Versions

**Wolf Game**

* Eve Project
* Wolf Detective White Papers
* Circus AU

**Another**

* Valentine Cafe Event
* Phantom Wolf
* Idol AU
* Culture Festival (Alice-kun)
* Culture Festival (Ghost)
* Hitman Death Hotel
* Pirate Despair Island

## Appearance

Yukinari appears to be a dusty blond male with green eyes. He wears a 3 metallic holed red beanie, as well as glasses. He wears a black and red-plaid hoodie divided into two sides, and yellow headphones around his neck.

His face and physique are made to be very androgynous, and multiple other characters remark on how feminine he looks. He's often mistaken for a girl when he's in women's clothes, even by people that know him.

## Personality

Yukinari is described as being a cowardly and slightly gloomy person. He startles easily and, prior to the conclusion of The Wolf Game, is prone to making selfish decisions because of his own cowardice. He lacks confidence in himself due to a traumatic incident in his past, and isn't usually the type of person to start conversations.

On the other hand, many other characters find him easy to talk to, and he's a kind person at heart that wants to help people but just doesn't have the courage. He also has difficulty turning people down when they ask him to do something. He's not exceptionally smart, but he has his moments.

## Plot

 The following section contains spoilers about the main game! Proceed with caution.

* Wolf Game
* Wolf Game Another

### Backstory

He moves to new schools regularly due to his dad's work. At this new school he meets and befriends a kid named Tomoya. Tomoya is bullied at school, but despite that he's really happy because he has his one true friend Yukinari. He and Tomoya had a little thing they called a "joint notebook" where they would take turns writing in it and put it back in their locker, then the other person would find it and write it in it. After a bullying incident Yukinari wrote in the notebook asking if there's something he can do to help and Tomoya said everything's fine, as long as Yukinari is his friend everything is okay.

One day the bullies target Yukinari for being friends with Tomoya and demanded answers from him however Yukinari denied those claims and lied, saying he wasn't friends with him.

One day Tomoya is being bullied yet again and the girls are telling the bullies to stop. Tomoya is crying however Yukinari didn't defend him, despite promising him he will never leave him, and left with his new friends and never spoke to Tomoya ever again.

About half a year later Tomoya calls Yukinari and tells him he regrets becoming friends with him and if he knew he would end up hurting so badly he would have never talked to him. Afterwards Tomoya committed suicide by jumping off the building.

Five years before the Wolf Game happens, the Yuuya incident occurs. Yukinari along with Ritsu and Takuya are on a train together and Yukinari watched the murder happen, too afraid to do anything about it. This leads to him becoming a participant in the Wolf Game.

### Chapter 1

Yukinari wakes up in a dark room, there's a girl along with him who asks if he's going to run away again. When he leaves the room he meets the other participants.

### Chapter 2

He gets chased during the night by someone wearing a wolf mask.

### Chapter 3

Yukinari pulls the Wolf card however he fails to kill anyone. There's another Wolf in this chapter, Maki. Yukinari helps her hide Osamu's body. During the trial Maki tries to pin the crime on Yukinari but he's able to defend himself and she gets executed.

### Chapter 4

He goes to meet Misaki in an empty classroom. Misaki tries to kill him but fails to do so. She gets executed during the trial.

### Chapter 6

#### Neutral Ending

Yukinari is about to pull the trigger and kill Rintarou however before he's able to do so he gets shot by someone and dies.

### Chapter 1

Yukinari awakens seated in the middle of a pitch dark room. Unaware of where he is, he hears a female voice call out to him. They don't come to any conclusions about their situation and elect to search for a light switch in the room, but Yukinari remains rooted to his seat out of fear. After a few moments, he hears the female voice get closer and calls out to her to tell her that he's right in front of her. She leans towards his ear and asks him if he's going to run away again, shocking him. He wonders to himself if she knows about his past, then retorts out loud that he won't run away. He gets out of the chair and feels along the wall, eventually finding the light switch.

After the lights in the room flicker on, he turns to find the source of the voice only to see no one else in the room with him. The door leading out of the room is locked, and words etched onto the door state that the key can be found in the brightest spot in the room. Yukinari finds the door key where the lamp is and leaves the room to find himself in what looks like a recreational room with 13 other people that he's never met.

Following the explanation of The Wolf Game's rules, the participants decide to split up to search for an exit, and Yukinari is paired with Ritsu to search the third floor. During their introductions, Yukinari is shocked to discover that she's an adult, initially believing her to be in elementary school (which does not make her happy). In the classroom on the third floor, they find cryptic words written on the blackboard and some photos of the participants in their private lives.

Once all of the participants have shared the information they found during their search for an exit, Yukinari retires to the common room where he finds Yuuto playing games. He attempts to break the ice, but finds no success in getting anything out of Yuuto. Yuuto gives him the nickname "Meek Mario" (弱虫マリオ, lit.: "Coward Mario") because he looks like a coward and wears a red hat. He also remarks that Yukinari doesn't seem like the type who would survive, stating that he acts suspiciously, doesn't seem very smart, and, above all, is "Meek Mario". Yukinari is about to say something back when their conversation is interrupted by someone screaming.

## Relationships

 The following section contains spoilers about the main game! Proceed with caution.

### Tomoya Aizawa

Yukinari's childhood best friend. When they first met, Yukinari initially thought Tomoya was a girl.

Yukinari is shown to both admire and envy Tomoya. His main source of envy is in their height difference as teenagers/adults, but he also sees Tomoya as someone who would be capable of overcoming anything. He describes him as bright, cheerful, kind, and strong-willed.

* Wolf Game/Another

In the main story of Wolf Game and Wolf Game Another, Tomoya's suicide is the source of Yukinari's trauma. They met in the fourth grade when Yukinari transferred schools and Tomoya offered to show him to the science room. During the course of several months, they became each other's first close friend (in Tomoya's case, his first ever friend) and engaged in a diary exchange at Tomoya's request so they could secretly write to each other.

When Yukinari witnesses Tomoya being bullied, he wants to help him but is too afraid to act. He's later accosted by the same bullies for being Tomoya's friend, to which he lies and says that he isn't. He constantly wills himself to have the courage to protect his friend, but is unable to do so every time. The situation reaches a head when Tomoya is bullied in front of him in the classroom, and he finds himself running away from the situation once more despite promising to himself that he would step in the next time. He mistakes the look on Tomoya's face for resentment towards himself and can't find it in himself to reach out after that point. This betrayal is what ultimately leads Tomoya to commit suicide, and due to the trauma and guilt, Yukinari loses confidence in himself and no longer wants to associate with other people.

After the conclusion of The Wolf Game and Kou's side story, Yukinari returns to the elementary school where he first met Tomoya to confront the trauma of his past.
### Younger Sister (Unnamed)

Yukinari is on good terms with his younger sister and has a difficult time refusing her. Due to the fact that she lives in the dorms at an all-girls high school, they don't see each other very often.

### Rintarou Iida

* Wolf Game
* Wolf Game Another

### Misaki Mori

Yukinari expresses multiple times that Misaki is his type and will frequently think to himself that she's cute or kind. The transparency of his interest in Misaki earns him a lot of teasing from others and occasionally the ire of her younger brother, Rintarou.

* Wolf Game
* Wolf Game Another

During the second chapter of Wolf Game Another, Yukinari has the opportunity to kill Misaki by getting her to drink a cup of coffee that he'd poisoned prior, but decides against it. Later, during the investigation and trial in the same chapter, Misaki pretends that he hadn't offered her coffee despite everyone else turning on him.

In the third chapter, Yukinari is the one that discovers Misaki walking in the hallway during the night, and he follows her to the library where he spies her attempting to kill Rintarou. Kou spotting Yukinari leads to Misaki's failure and subsequent execution as the third Wolf.

In the normal ending of the final chapter, Yukinari is shot and killed by Misaki. In the true ending, he drags her out of the building at Rintarou's request as the building is collapsing. He carries her a distance until he runs into the caretaker at the orphanage the Mori siblings were living at, and he leaves her in his care. After the events of The Wolf Game, it's implied that he hasn't seen or heard from Misaki since, and ponders on how she's doing.

## Trivia

* His family has their own LINE chat group.
* Yukinari describes his type as kind, cheerful, and someone he enjoys being around.
* He's the only male character to appear in the fanbook specifically for the female characters (dressed in his female attire).