Hope's Peak Reform School

## History

FIFTY YEARS AGO, THE FIFTY-THIRD SEASON of Danganronpa ended and marked the finale of a despair-inducing franchise created by a surviving group of Remnants of Despairs. Sixty years before that, Junko Enoshima wreaked havoc upon the world by causing The Tragedy, also known as The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History. The Tragedy was utter anarchy—governments and societal structures alike collapsed across the globe, and millions of lives were lost through senseless murder. However, The Tragedy is best known for its killing games, where Ultimate Students from Hope’s Peak Academy were forced to kill one another and participate in class trials to escape imprisonment.

Six students survived the first killing game, and all sixteen students were rescued from the second. Over the course of five years, they joined the Future Foundation, an organization dedicated to fighting despair, and helped put an end to The Tragedy. When most of the world had been restored to order, the Future Foundation recruited Ryota Mitarai, the Ultimate Animator, to create a brain-washing video that would erase the world’s memory of The Tragedy and inspire hope again. The Future Foundation then went into hiding, running out of the public’s eye.

Unfortunately, despite the Future Foundation's best efforts to avoid another Tragedy, some Remnants of Despair remained. These people, hopelessly devoted to the late Junko Enoshima and despair itself, united to create an endless killing game: the Danganronpa series. Although Ultimates still exist and attend Hope's Peak High School, most of the contestants on Danganronpa were normal teenagers who were simply enamored with the excitement and romanticization of murder. With the use of brain-washing similar to the treatment given to hajime Hinata, Team Danganronpa successfully turned ordinary Japanese students into fictional Ultimates. Although the Danganronpa games consistently showed a theme of hope prevailing, it was, in actuality, subtly turning the world towards despair by

glamorizing unethical actions. However, Team Danganronpa's plans wereunexpectedly derailed in the fifty-third season, when Shuichi Saihara, Maki Harukawa, and Himiko Yumeno defeated the mastermind, Tsumugi Shirogane, and escaped their imprisonment. Team Danganronpa was investigated by the Future Foundation and quickly shut down. Ever since, the world has lived relatively normally. Without the threat of despair, Hope's Peak Academy has flourished, cultivating the talents of Ultimates like never before. The institution recently implemented anew program: Kibougamine Gakuen ReformSchool for Gifted Juveniles, or simply Hope's Peak Reform School.

Hope's Peak Reform School is in a building completely separate from the main academy, but still on the same campus. It is heavily guarded and its students, nicknamed "Ultimate Delinquents", have significantly less freedom that normal Ultimates. Ultimate Delinquents consist of students charged with usually minor unlawful behavior such as truancy, petty theft, vandalism, fighting, etc.; however, a few unique Instances are significantly more severe. The purpose of Hope's Peak Reform School is rather self-explanatory: to help these troublemakers better themselves. However, there are many people who believe that the time and money put into the program are being wasted. Normal citizens, teachers and Ultimate Students alike have chosen to shun the Delinquents, believing them to be a stain on the reputation of Hope's Peak Academy. It would be an understatement to say that the Reform School students are under great pressure.

## Locations

### Gym

The gym has a brown, washed-out checkered floor with an excess of smears and skids on its polished surface. The walls are a smooth concrete, painted to be a yellowed eggshell white. Large boarded-up windows cover every wall with only two feet separating them. There is only one entrance on the southern side of the room. The gym also doubles as a fitness center, but due to it being used as a room for assembly, the equipment, including, but not limited, to dumbbells, ellipticals, and treadmills, are pushed to small carpeted squares on the outskirts and corners of the room. A temporary iron stage with a compartment underneath to house equipment has been set up, commonly used by Monokuma.

#### Relevant Events

* Monokuma uses the gym for assembly, and it was the first location depicted in the reform killing game, where the killing game was announced.

### Monomono Machine Room

The recreation room has dark grey carpeted flooring with an unsavory lime-toned wall. It is neat and orderly, with rows of lockers that contain board and card games, as well as some labeled for personal use lining the east wall. A ping pong table and a pool table sit as centerpiece of the room. Behind them on the northernmost side is a large rectangular installation into the wall, housing a Monokuma machine. Clad in camouflage with a little Monokuma in full military gear embracing a rifle, the Monokuma machine dispenses gifts that can be given to your classmates.

### Male Bathroom

The men’s bathroom is a long corridor themed after the Navy. It has blue walls and white tiled floors and ceilings. The push-to-open single door is on the southern wall. Sinks line the eastern side, each with a mirror above it and a soap dispenser behind it. The western side has half closed dark blue stalls with toilets in them, and half dark blue urinals. The stalls have a seashell pattern on them, and a massive anchor can be found on the outside of the door, just beneath the male sign.

### Female Bathroom

The women’s bathroom is a long corridor themed after the Air Force. It has orange walls and white tiled floors and ceilings. The pull-to-open single door is on the southern wall. Sinks line the western side, each with a mirror above it and a soap dispenser behind it. The eastern side has warmer orange stalls containing toilets. The stalls have patterns of planes flying over mountains, and an airplane is hung on the outside of the door, just beneath the female sign. There’s a large, darkened stain on the wall beside the door.

### Communal Bath

The communal bath is the cleanest and most well-furnished of all the rooms at the reform school, making one wonder if it was ever intended for the delinquent students. It has a marbled floor with a base emerald green wall, along with white architecture arches rounding the room. A chandelier attached with rustic chains holds a few traditional candles lit with real fire, which accompany the many candlesticks around the bathhouse that are somehow always lit. The bath is an installation into the marbled floor, with benches all around the pentagon and an odd number of jets. Several lush plants line the corners, framing a bench that looks down into the bath. Outside the door of the bath’s sauna, is thirteen lockers where belongings may be stored while bathing.

### Main Hall

The main hall connects each room in the reform center. The floor consists of white tile, complimenting the mossy green walls. The walls are far apart, low ceiling with substantial width. Watering fountains surface occasionally on the west wall, and small signs use photos to designate which room is which. Plants are outside every door, and it’s illuminated by overhead ceiling lights. Monokuma propaganda posters can be found on every new corridor, featuring the bear in military attire ensuring change and enlisting the readers help. There is also a large bolted metal door on its southernmost wall.

### Cafeteria

The cafeteria is a large room that has every single wall bolted shut, as it used to be entirely windows. The floors are a pastel mossy tile, and the ceiling is an odd transparent black with layers of artistic rafters and bars. There are around twenty tables in alternating white and black with red plastic chairs. Each table has an umbrella above it, as if it was once stationed outside. There is no notable decor besides large plant life in pots stationed outside doors. A line cut off with plush rope designates where students should stand to collect their trays and food from cafeteria workers, and folded paper rests atop the cafeteria counter, stained with blood, fashioned with the last meals the reform school ever served.

### Kitchen

The kitchen is entirely grey steel and iron, on every single surface. It’s connected directly to the dining hall, through grade school style half windows for food to be served through on trays. Inside, there’s a large walk-in fridge with everything imaginable. There’s a darkened stain on the wall beside one of the stoves. Stoves line the walls with a range above each one. A small metallic island is in the center, hosting a sink and spice racks, as well as chemicals and other various kitchen cleaning supplies.

### Laundry Room

The laundry room is quadrilateral with white tiles and speckled white walls, and a northern entrance. Metallic washers and dryers line the east wall. A plastic table is in the middle, with plastic chairs and a stack of magazines about behavioral correction. A long drying rack appears on the southern wall in two metal bars, a thin line of wire, and clothespins to hold up clothes. This room lacks any and all decor, despite one of the Monokuma propaganda posters from the main hall.

### Dorm Rooms

The dorm rooms are strict and military. They’re a medium sized square with no indents, a pale green carpet and white-tiled walls. There is one large window, which is boarded off, and a single door on the twin bed rests in the corner, alongside an arm chair and a small garbage bin. On the westmost side of the dorm is a desk that comes with paper, writing utensils, a toolkit for the men, and a sewing kit for the women. Just beside the bed on the east wall is a large locker, inside of which is a Monokuma Decoration Package!™, which comes with everything you’d need to make your highly customizable dorm feel like home just for you, as well as a complimentary basket of types of fruit from around the world.

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