Eric Attinson

*This article is about Eric Attinson (deceased). For Eric Attinson from the College Game, see Shinobu Watanabe.*

## Eric Attinson

### Appears in

Neo Danganronpa 56 (mentioned), College Game (mentioned)

## Status

### Family

Cara Fischer (sister), Norah Fischer-Nome (mother), Robin Attinson (father), Anna Attinson (aunt)

## Report Card

### Dislikes

Awkward Conversation

**Eric Attinson** is a prolific forensic scientist who investigated Danganronpa copycat murders after Team Danganronpa dissolved, as well as the Shinobu Watanabe murders. He received an offer letter from Hope's Peak to join Class 1 as the Ultimate Forensic Scientist, but declined it. After Shinobu Watanabe murdered him, she stole his identity and posed as him while attending Hope's Peak.

## Appearance

Just like his mother, Eric has long, white hair. It's much straighter than hers, however, and he pulls it into a ponytail. He has blue eyes like his father, and they're always focused. Eric dons a pair of rectangular frame glasses that he would not be able to see well without. On the left side of his face, right under his lips, is a small mole. He has this in common with most of his family members. As a scientist, it's rare that you'll find Eric without his lab coat. Underneath it, he wears a white button-up dress shirt. Some days, he'll even wear a tie with it. He wears black slacks and loafers.

When he's not working, which is rarely, he wears white or grey button-ups and sweaters with dark-wash jeans and sneakers.

## Personality

Since he's a workaholic, Eric does not speak with others very often. He is more likely to speak to fellow scientists. Because of this, he may come across as rude or awkward, but he means well. He's always curious about things and passionate to a fault. Though he does not often speak with others or get close to people, he is incredibly loyal with the people he IS close to. He is surprisingly unforgiving when people do him wrong, though it is a case-by-case thing. He can be very stubborn, but when he makes a mistake, he tries his best to learn from it and not do it again.

## Talent & Abilities

Eric is the best of the best in forensics, almost always finding the culprit through biological evidence and pure science. He's very observant and knowledgeable in his field. He's also pretty perceptive and trusts his gut feeling.

## History

### Early Life

Because his mother abandoned him, Eric grew up for the first five years of his life thinking that his aunt, Anna Attinson, was his parent. However, he shortly met Norah, his biological mom. Still, even after meeting her, he kept living with Anna. She taught him how to garden and how to cook. On top of that, she taught him self defense. He hated it, though, as well as any sort of physical activity. He kept to himself, mostly just studying or researching things on his own time. He learned good eating habits and how to be a well-adjusted person, despite his familial situation. No one else he knew as a kid had a passion for science like he did, and it made him feel lonely. He further pulled himself into his own shell and into his studies, continuing to neglect his own social needs.

When he was 18, his mother brought a teenage girl into his house that he had never met. This girl ended up being Cara Fischer, and it was revealed that she was his half-sister. While that would eventually be proven to be a half-truth, Eric would die not knowing that they were fully related.

For the next few years, he got closer to Cara. He started to become a bit more social thanks to her.

### Before College Game

After the Danganronpa V3 incident, Eric was incredibly busy. Constantly, he was having to investigate copycat murders. There were quite a few notable ones, but the ones that bothered him most were the Komaeda copycat murders. To make matters more complicated, he began to work on cracking a series of serial murders. There were a few abnormalities, but the main one was that DNA was being left at the scene that were linked to two possible people: Shiori Watanabe or Shinobu Watanabe. One of them was associated with Blackthorn, and one was dead. His assumption was that Shiori was guilty of the crimes, but luckily, enough evidence pointed to the opposite. He found fingerprints at a crime scene that belonged to Shinobu Watanabe, and Shiori's were still in tact. Despite twins having identical DNA, they do not have identical fingerprints. To his surprise, Eric Attinson received a letter while trying to find out how a dead woman could be killing countless individuals. Due to his involvement in Danganronpa cases, he was skittish to accept. However, he hit a breakthrough and began to track down Shinobu. He declined, unable to let up on his work until he found her.

Unfortunately, that led to his downfall. One day, as he was working on getting the last bits of evidence together to incriminate her, Shinobu Watanabe snuck into his lab as one of his colleagues and stabbed him to death. His sister, Cara, had just came by to visit and caught the tail-end of the murder before running away out of fear, traumatized.

## Relationships

### Cara Fischer

Meeting Cara helped Eric come out of his shell and become more social overall. Though they were only half siblings, they were decently close. Cara was someone that was bright and caring for Eric, and he wasn't used to that. Meanwhile, Cara wasn't used to someone caring so much about the things she had to say. She often made a point to visit him and bring him food and sweets, as he was a workaholic. He often lectured her on her sweet tooth, urging her to take better care of herself due to her already poor health. Eric and Cara taught each other what family was supposed to be like, and they understood each other very well.

### Norah Fischer-Nome

Eric was never fond of his mother. She hid everything from him, was barely in his life, and made him feel like he wasn't important. Though he was excited at first when he met her to finally spend time with his mom, as he got older, he often would act out in the rare case that he was stuck being with her. He gave up on keeping contact with her once he stated college, only ever contacting Cara and, on rarer occasion, Anna.

### Robin Attinson

Though Eric was alive before Robin's death, he doesn't remember anything, as he was very small. Both Cara and Eric inherited their love of science and research from him.

### Anna Attinson

Anna was the closest Eric ever got to a mother, and even though she was dear to him, they constantly struggled to understand one another. He was always thankful to her, but was glad when he no longer had to live with her.