Lyle D. Termina

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**Lyle D. Termina** is a character featured in the English fangame *Danganronpa: Lapse* created by Mythridate.

He is known as the **Ultimate Puzzlemaster**.

## Galleries

📷 For more images of Lyle, see Danganronpa: Lapse/Image Gallery and Lyle D. Termina/Sprite Gallery.
## Appearance

Lyle is a 167 cm (5'6") tall man with a slim build. He has violet eyes and black cheekbone-length wavy hair with side bangs and a fringe that reaches between his eyes. He wears a black collared shirt with a six-point star pin over the left fold, a dark pink die with purple and yellow detailing, and a small gold pin. Over his shirt, he wears a gray and white jacket with fur trimming over the collar. The jacket has three buttons on the left side, the top one being blue with a black cross, the middle one being yellow with four holes, and the bottom one being red with a circle. The jacket also has one black-edged pocket on each side and a scrap of black fabric hanging over the left sleeve. He wears black jeans with an indigo belt holding them up and a woven strap on the front of each leg. He wears gray socks and indigo slip-on shoes. He also wears black fingerless gloves and two mismatched earrings, one a large white triangle and one a gold pendant charm. Like everyone else in the killing game, he wears a rose-colored bracelet on his left wrist.

## Personality

During the early parts of chapter one and the prologue Lyle is an upbeat and relatively happy and energetic person, eager to explore his newfound surroundings and solve the 'ARG scheme' of the mansion even believing initially that the killing game was just a part of the ARG. After Art's death he adopts a more pessimistic personality, being rather short tempered and condescending. He is very easily angered and is often alone rather than with others.

## History

### Early Life

Lyle attended Signal Prep High School, which later became Rain Moth Institute when it merged with Art's school, A.A. Academy. Before the two schools merged, Lyle had briefly met Art, whom he taught how to solve a Rubik's Cube. Unfortunately, the two were interrupted by one of Art's golfing managers, who took the cube, smashed it to pieces on the ground, and scolded Art for "going around and picking up trash" before forcing him to return to the golf course.

### Preservation Project

Lyle, as the Ultimate Puzzlemaster, 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.

## Creation and Development

Between the release of Chapter 2 of Danganronpa: Lapse and the definitive edition, Lyle underwent minor modifications to his design, including the removal of the tan sweater vest he initially wore and the addition of a purple belt and a golden tie pin in its place.

## Trivia

* Lyle's character illustration contains references to a handful of other games within the death game genre, including the number '8' bracelet from Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Q's helmet from Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma, and the collars from Your Turn To Die.
* Creator Mythridate considers Lyle to be the hardest character to draw, having to practice drawing his hair many times in a notebook to get used to drawing him.
* Creator Mythridate has stated that her imagined voice for Lyle is the same as Tadano from Aggretsuko.
* Creator Mythridate has assigned a Pokémon type to each of the Lapse characters, and Lyle's type is the bug type.
	+ Lyle's first school, Signal Prep High School, is named after the bug-type Pokémon move Signal Beam. Rain Moth Institute, the name Lyle's school takes on when it merges with Art's school, is named after the Pokémon Masquerain which can learn both Signal Beam (representing Lyle's school) and Aerial Ace (for which Art's school is named).
* Each member of the Danganronpa: Lapse cast has an associated flower, Lyle's being the asphodelus, which is commonly associated with the phrase "my regrets follow you to the grave", which may be in reference to Lyle's unspoken romantic feelings towards Art.
* Lyle is transgender and a demiromantic asexual.

## References

1. ↑ **Mythridate's Website**: (COMIC) Brevity (January 17, 2020)
2. ↑ **Mythridate's Website**: Post Chapter 2 Q&A (January 14, 2020)
3. ↑ **Mythridate's Website**: Extra Character Info (October 18, 2019)
4. ↑ **Mythridate's Website**: Post-Chapter 1, Pre-Chapter 2 Q&A (December 22, 2019)