Sei Konno

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**Sei Konno** is a character featured in the English fangame *Danganronpa: Lapse* created by Mythridate.

She is known as the **Ultimate Watchmaker.**

## Galleries

📷 For more images of Sei, see: Danganronpa: Lapse/Image Gallery and Sei Konno/Sprite Gallery.
## Appearance

Sei is a 185-cm (5'5") tall young woman with a slim build. She has light blue eyes and slightly wavy purple hair that curves to the right as it gets farther down. She wears an orange turtleneck sweater with a design on it underneath a brown coat that is buttoned up 3/4 of the way. The coat has black cuffs on the ends of the sleeves that have colored patches on them. The coat itself has yellow buttons and a black collar that has a small emblem on it. She wears short black shorts with light gray stripes on them. She wears long navy blue socks with a design on the left sock. She also wears a pair of tall black boots with blue strings that reach to the middle of her calf. Sei has an industrial, four helix and a lobe piercing—all solid black.

## Personality

Sei is a shy girl who is introduced as meek, timid, and easily startled. She has a habit of stuttering her words, getting lost in thought, and nervously fidgeting with her watches. Sei is reclusive; she tends to try and hide from the other people and avoid social situations, having to be coaxed into joining the rest of the group. In spite of possessing an ultimate talent, Sei frequently downplays her abilities, referring to herself as a mere hobbyist and showing confusion at the thought of anyone calling her talented.

## History

### Early life

After working with watches and clocks for some time, a woman approached Sei with an offer which Sei, lost in thought, initially mistook as an offer to buy her work, which she declined, opting to keep her creations for herself. The woman explained she was not a potential customer, but rather, wanted to make Sei's work more well known, which Sei replied to in disbelief, wondering why someone would think of her as talented..

### Preservation Project

Sei, as the Ultimate Watchmaker, was among a group of other Ultimate students who volunteered to participate in the Preservation Project, a scheme by the government in which students could go to a specially engineered safehouse where they would be protected from a series of Earth-shattering earthquakes that had been tearing through the planet. Unbeknownst to the volunteers, the Preservation Project was instead a front being used to run an experimental 7-day-long killing game in which students were tasked with murdering one of their fellow students without getting caught. Cyrus Suryc, the Ultimate Confidential Informant working on behalf of the Preservation Project, had been observing each of the students for a long time and knew everything about them, particularly looking for information that could be exploited to provoke them to commit murder or a weakness that could be used to harm them, such as a mental illness or allergy. All of the students involved in the Project were violently abducted by a "capture group" of Ultimate students, hit hard on the back of the head until they were knocked out, and transported to the Project building unconscious.

## Talent

Sei is the Ultimate Watchmaker, but she is shown to be reluctant to call herself so, shyly stating she only tinkers with watches, in spite of the fact that the watches she makes exhibit excellent craftsmanship and tend to fetch a high price. Sei doesn't particularly care for the money she makes, she recounts a time when a buyer offered her three luxury cars for one of her watches, but she only considers the fact that she does not know how to drive and has no use for them. Sei considers her work a hobby rather than a profession.

## Trivia

* Sei's given name is comprised of 1 kanji, 聖 (sei), meaning "holy, sacred".
* Sei's surname is comprised of 2 kanji. The first is 子(ko), meaning "child", and the second is 野 (no), meaning "plains, field".
* Sei was Creator Mythridate's favorite character to design, as they enjoy Sei's complexity and "have a soft spot for characters that have an eye covered by hair".
* Creator Mythridate has stated that Sei's imagined voice is the same as Kaoru from Rilakkuma.
* Creator Mythridate has assigned a Pokémon type to each of the Lapse characters, and Sei's type is the steel type.
	+ Sei's school, Soul Heart Industries Academy, is a reference to the signature ability of the steel-type mythical Pokémon, Magearna, Soul Heart.
* Each member of the Danganronpa: Lapse cast has an associated flower, Sei's being the purple hyacinth, which is said to represent sorrow and pleas for forgiveness, which may be in reference to Sei's actions within the killing game.
* Sei is a repressed asexual lesbian, meaning she has not come to the realization that she has romantic feelings for other women.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 **Mythridate's Website**: (COMIC) Doubt (February 2022)
2. ↑ **Mythridate's Website**: Post Chapter 2 Q&A (January 14, 2020)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 **Mythridate's Website**: Extra Character Info (October 18, 2019)
4. ↑ **Mythridate's Website**: Post-Chapter 1, Pre-Chapter 2 Q&A (December 22, 2019)