Chisa Yukizome

**Chisa Yukizome** (雪染 ちさ, *Yukizome Chisa*) 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 74th was the **Super High School Level Housekeeper** (超高校級の「家政婦」*chō kōkō kyū no “kaseifu”*).

She is a member of the Future Foundation, and the leader of the 5th Division. Her responsibility as the leader is to gather intelligence on the phenomenon of Despair. She, along with the other Future Foundation heads, is forced to participate in the Final Killing Game.

## Appearance

Chisa is a woman in her mid-twenties, around 25 at youngest (about 20-21 in Danganronpa 3 - Despair Arc).

She is a young, petite and smiling woman, who comes across very cheerful and friendly. She has large green eyes and orange hair almost always tied into a ponytail. A small part of hair on the right side of her head is curled.

During her time as Class 77-B's homeroom teacher, Chisa used to wear a light blue skirt suit with a white dress shirt underneath. She would also frequently put an apron over her dress, apparently a habit from her days as a housekeeper. Interestingly, she also carries around a pair of Wakizashi as part of this attire.

In Future Arc, her color scheme is darker and more dull, making her hair appear brown instead of orange. She wears a white coat, with the Future Foundation ID pinned to its lapel, a pink dress shirt, and a black vest. She wears a black pencil skirt, black tights, and black mid-heel shoes.

## Personality

Chisa is a very friendly woman with a cheerful disposition. She is generally very lively and confident, always working hard with a smile on her face and facing new challenges with positive attitude. In general, she is a kind person who comforts those who need it and takes care of others. However, she is also rather quirky and a little odd, which is often pointed out by her students who find some of her behavior confusing. At first, she called her students "rotten oranges", randomly pulled knives on some of her students to make her point clear, and at one point nonchalantly let Nekomaru and Akane destroy the classroom simply because Nekomaru explained they're training. She also tends to randomly appear next to her students out of nowhere to give them advice, which sometimes startles them, and enthusiastically encourages them when they feel insecure. She is stated to be often even more enthusiastic than her students. She can be dense at times, and is described by Juzo Sakakura to be "easily absorbed" by things, to the point where she loses sight of her original goal.

Despite her quirkiness, Chisa is quite competent, and not just as a housekeeper. As a teacher, she is shown to be very passionate and engaging. She is able to adjust her personality to best communicate with each student—such as being kind to Mikan Tsumiki and abrasive with Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu. She is willing to go to great lengths to teach and uses certain triggers to lure out the other students, such as using Sonia Nevermind to lure Teruteru Hanamura from the kitchen of the cafeteria. She can also be a competent spy and while she isn't been shown to be a fighter, she can fearlessly step between fights, such as when she quickly stepped in front of Hajime just when he was about to be punched by Juzo and she didn't even blink despite his fist being millimeters in front of her face. Her braveness is also seen in the way she is willing to face even the Ultimate Despair for the sake of her students. She has a very strong sense of right and wrong, as she frequently protests Juzo's violent nature and is absolutely horrified when she finds out about the Academy's human experiments. She values interpersonal relationships, youth, and believes that there is more to life that just talent, and her ideals have greatly inspired others such as Chiaki and Hajime.

Much like Juzo, she is very devoted to her classmate, Kyosuke Munakata, and does not regret anything he asks her to do and has said that she is willing to die for him. She has strong romantic feelings for Kyosuke and acts a bit like a teenager in love about it, seemingly being too shy to tell Kyosuke about it and blushing shyly when she imagines them as a romantic couple. However, she constantly and openly talks to Juzo about her feelings for Kyosuke with no shame. While she originally worked only for Kyosuke's goals, she grew truly attached to her students, and chose to help her students at one point when Kyosuke and Juzo needed her. When her students were in danger, she appeared to ignore common sense and instead quickly went to help them on her own.

Chisa was shown to be unusually resilient against the brainwashing by Junko and Mukuro, but eventually succumbed and fell into despair, losing all of her hope and even forgetting her feelings for Kyosuke. As a spy for Ultimate Despair, Chisa acted normally and could manipulate her own emotions; in Future Arc #10, she faked her tears after she and Kyosuke found dead bodies of kids; despite having personally murdered them in a fit of despair, Chisa put on a perfectly convincing performance of horrified sorrow as she wondered who could have done this. Chisa also knew how to manipulate Kyosuke and her normally shyer behavior towards him turned much more bold, as she became openly physically and emotionally affectionate towards him, which seemed to successfully manipulate him. It's also stated that after joining the Future Foundation, she played the role of keeping the atmosphere surrounding Future Foundation as relaxed as possible, though in reality all of this was manipulation.

At first, it seems that Chisa kept her despair persona even after her death, as she is seen watching the Final Killing Game progress while calmly eating popcorn in the afterlife, and even seems sarcastic when talking of her own death. However, in a conversation with Junko in the afterlife, Chisa rebutts Junko's claims that the world will fall into despair, stating that the world is not done for, as hope now begins. This proves that the brainwashing wore off once Chisa died, but it's unsure whether she reverted back to her original personality.

## Talent and Abilities

### Super High School Level Housekeeper

As the former Super High School Level Housekeeper, Chisa likes to keep things clean, and even serves tea during meetings of Future Foundation Division heads.

### Infiltration

While it is unknown if she received professional training, Chisa has been shown to be an expert infiltrator. She was able to sneak into the office of one of the members of Hope's Peak's Steering Commitee undetected, and she was able to infiltrate the Future Foundation as a member of Ultimate Despair, without her closest friends Juzo or Kyosuke noticing that she had been corrupted.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Chisa has infiltrated the school April is going too, out to assassinate her.

## Trivia

* Her given name is written in hiragana and hence there are many possible kanji spellings for "Chisa". However, some of the most common spellings include 萵苣, which means "lettuce", and 千紗, which means "a thousand gauze". The latter suits her title of housekeeper, as if mending to all of her students' problems.
* Yukizome (雪染) can be translated as meaning "Snow Prints", or "dyed snow"
* Chisa's talent is similar to that of Kirumi Tojo's.
* On her profile seen in the salvaged PDA in Future Arc #09, Chisa's zodiac sign was erroneously listed as Cancer instead of Taurus.
* Her initial design is dark haired and extremely similar to Mikan; her redesign is possibly to minimize outing her as a Remnant of Despair from the beginning.
* During a scene in Despair Arc #01, Chisa is seen with a guitar that has the kanji for 'Kyosuke' (京助) printed on the body.
* Along with the Great Gozu, Chisa is one of the two Final Killing Game participants whose NG Code never appeared to directly affect their actions/fate in the game.