Tân Futsūko

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> *"I guess I am a problem. It's not like I didn't know that, though. The only thing I want is for people to hate me. And I'm succeeding. But there's something in me that's asking me if that's actually what I want. Maybe I just made it up. Because I don't know what it is that I want." - Pondering on his mental state in Chapter 3.*
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***Tân Futsūko*** is a character in the *Danganronpa: Nihilmania* story. He is one of the three headmasters of the Enlightenment Killing Game, along with his colleagues Anthony Almond and Fumihito Kawashima. He uses the alias "The Star" to hide his true identity as a former famous pop star from the public.

## Appearance

Tân is a 23-year-old man standing at 6'1" with a skinny and spindly build. He has dual color - white on the left and black on the right - shoulder-length hair that is rather messy. He is described as having "hollow grey eyes" and a consistent smile. In terms of clothing, Tân dons a grey collared shirt with the sleeves rolled to his elbows, a black tie, black suspenders, and black pants. Attached to his belt is a star-shaped trinket with gold chains.

In his Chapter 3 design, Tân's hair is a lot spikier. He has haphazardly applied and smudged black eyeliner, which is dripping down his face due to him apparently crying while putting it on. His grey shirt has been replaced with a white one, which has a popped collar that exposes a small portion of his chest, as well as black suspenders. He has a black jacket draped over his shoulders, some kind of ambiguous collar or necklace on his neck, and his black pants are now embroidered with a spine design going down each leg.

## Personality

Tân is a rather difficult character to understand at first glance. He more often than not is wearing a smile, acts like a typical pop star or magical girl, and seems extremely talkative - if a bit awkward. He will occasionally speak slowly and repeat or draw out his words, as well as put on a cutesy voice ("Pwease", "Sowwy", etc), either to annoy people or to emphasize his points. Because of his constant faux-positive attitude, Tân can appear unfazed by certain concerning topics - for example, he talks about Anthony beating him up as if it is a regular occurrence, and treats his horrible sleep deprivation as nothing more than an "oops" on his part. Another aspect that makes him hard to decipher is his habit of lying, as well as going off into macabre tangents, or becoming irritated and antagonizing, only to return to his normal personality moments later.

Tân has a peculiar obsession with getting people to dislike him for reasons unknown. He'll often commit unfavorable actions in order to subtly push the participants to view him negatively - such as admitting he is lying to them, annoying them, saying or doing strange things around them, purposefully withholding information from them, or simply reiterating that he is a terrible person and acting like a nightmare fetishist villain to prove it. He also sees no problem with making his fellow headmasters upset, as he confirms that he would purposefully allow a participant to break a rule just to make Anthony or Fumihito angry at him. Another thing Tân hyperfixates on is the concept of normalcy. He shows disgust for things that he considers "weird", and often states that he would prefer if everything was just normal, and he always claims that he himself is extremely normal. Despite this, Tân seems to act strange on purpose - possibly because he desires to paint himself as a hypocrite, thus making people dislike and distrust him more. Whenever he senses he's successfully made someone upset, he can be seen softly giggling to himself.

Though he is clearly not right in the head, Tân is arguably the most logical of the headmasters. Though Fumihito is usually the one that has to appear to reign Anthony in, Tân knows not to physically interfere because of the high risk that comes with provoking Anthony, and instead chooses to use his words. He seems to have quite a bit of knowledge on persuasion, and at times will know exactly what to say or do in order to get what he wants out of people (He was able to convince Anthony to make an apology cake for Fumihito by hiding his drug stash). Sometimes, he even appears to utilize his manipulative skills unintentionally, like with Seiha. Tân also knows not to form any meaningful deep relationships with or reveal too much about himself to the participants - while Anthony literally left a door to his abandoned office with confidential information wide open, and Fumihito has already developed romantic feelings for John, Tân is certainly the most careful and calculating when it comes to interactions.

Tân, in contrast to his supposedly outgoing yet ominous demeanor, seems to get panicked easily and grows rather nervous and awkward in a select few social situations - he has even stated that he considers himself to be shy and introverted, as he even chose to hide himself in Seiha's bathtub so he wouldn't have to attend Kumi's birthday party. He blurts random things out and apologizes for them, an action that is pretty uncharacteristic for someone that wants to be seen as unforgivable and mean. He has displayed anxious and paranoia behavior on quite a few occasions as well, though, he'll often sideline his nervousness or unfavorable feelings with a commonly-said catchphrase of his: "We stay silly". Tân has also experienced angry or fearful outbursts, and genuinely seems annoyed or agitated by many of the participants. He gets very embarrassed when he has to talk extensively about himself, implying he likely has low self esteem or doesn't think he has many positive or interesting traits to speak of.

He also has several depressive and self-deprecatory tendencies. It's made rather obvious that Tân is an alcoholic, and it's very much like him to want to drown his sorrows by drinking. However, when he doesn't feel like subjecting himself to the effects of alcohol, he will usually lay around and pathetically wallow in his own empty feelings, since he believes feeling awful is "what he deserves". During his final WWA-TV segment, he claims the idea of being a tiny insignificant star in the sky sounds appealing to him, and he expresses a fascination for "disappearing". While the guess can be made that this is an allegory for taking his own life, the more likely depiction is that he is referring to being hated, cast out, and eventually forgotten by humanity. He also has issues with sleeping well at night, so, he can often be found napping in random places around the facility. He doesn't express much zest for doing a lot of things or participating in events Anthony or Fumihito host, and seems to only appear in places with low social traffic in order to prevent himself from having to engage with anyone that could "drain his battery".

By the end of the longterm, it's revealed that Tân's popstar personality is an alter ego that he takes on whenever he feels unsafe or uncomfortable - which has grown to be a sensation he feels most of the time due to his anxiety and paranoia. His true personality is quiet, depressive, but also much more genuine and down-to-earth. He reveals in the epilogue WWA-TV segment that he didn't actually like any of the deaths, and was just going along with the killing game because he was willing to do absolutely anything to escape his life as an idol. He seems to be happy that it ended, but also worried about what will happen to Anthony. This reveals that Tân is also a caring person, which starkly contrasts the "insane and unforgivable jerkass" persona he had tried so desperately to keep up throughout the killing game.

It is confirmed in the final session before Nihilmania's cancellation that Tân was diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), but threw himself into a state of denial and chose to believe his psychiatrist was lying to him, most likely due to the fact he had gaslit himself into believing he was normal and happy through his popstar alter ego. In the epilogue, however, he appears to have finally come to terms with it, and is going to be getting therapy.

## History

### Early Life

Tân was a very quiet and reserved only child, who was eager to please his parents in any way he possibly could. His parents didn't treat him that nicely unless he proved he could excel, so Tân started to produce music just so he could have accomplishments to call his own. However, he had begun to get popular through this, and garnered fans and publicity from people enjoying his songs. He didn't really like the attention all that much, and he was always pretty afraid of people, but he decided to keep climbing the ranks and launch a career as a full-blown pop idol so his parents wouldn't be disappointed.

Tân began idol training - which proved to take quite a toll on him and be extremely mentally and physically exhausting. Eventually, at some point in his early teenage years, he signed onto a record label, and was sent off to live in a private community with only himself and staff of the record company. This meant he spent a lot of his time alone in a big house, away from his parents and away from other people. At this point, he had gotten extremely popular to the point he had a lot of fans and "stans" that eagerly awaited new music and shows. However, this also meant he had some questionable interactions with some of his weirder fans. One notable encounter he had was with a borderline psychotic fan, who claimed they were going to kill his parents and deliver their corpses to his house. This comment caused Tân to become extremely paranoid and develop a fear of waking up to his parent's dead bodies in his bed with him. This is also likely where his fear of death and murder in general spawned from.

As he trudged deeper into his career, Tân had started to view his pop idol self and his true self as almost completely different people. It had gone beyond the pop star just being a persona - and reached a point where it could be considered an alter ego. It was a state of mind he'd retreat to whenever he felt unsafe or uncomfortable so he could be happier again and shield himself from things such as his parents' criticism and his own unsavory feelings. Pop Star Tân was what could be considered a "protector" for Tân, and what was interesting is that he found he could stay in the happy alter ego longer through alcohol consumption.

Drinking alcohol caused him to temporarily forget about his true self so that he had no choice but to stay as Pop Star Tân until the effects wore off. Of course, his constant desire to be happy so he could feel safer and more accomplished gradually led to him developing an alcohol addiction. This also meant that whenever he would receive odd or threatening comments from obsessive followers, he would feel afraid and paranoid, thus forcing Pop Star Tân out, who simply remained complicit in response to these interactions so he wouldn't break character in front of his fans.

Upon turning 18, Tân was officially diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). However, he had spent so much time as his alter ego that he wholeheartedly believed his psychiatrist was lying to him, and he as a person was thoroughly happy and normal just like Pop Star Tân was.

As time went on, many of Tân's fears and bad experiences culminated in increased ideas and a common consensus in his mind that he was manipulating his fans. He truly could never be genuine with them due to the alter ego taking the reigns whenever he had an interaction with someone; his true self was a introverted and pathetic asshole; he smiled and waved in the face of stan chaos, acting high and mighty over them and constantly lying to them just so he can keep them foaming at the mouth and worshipping him like a musical messiah. Everything about him was so nauseatingly fake and awful and so, so draining. He wanted it all to end.

Every compliment made him want to pull out his hair. Watching his fans interact and gush over him was sickening. Why couldn't he be happy about this? Why wasn't drinking helping anymore? Does he just need to keep drinking? Was he just that terrible and ungrateful that he felt this indifferent to everything? Why can't the alter ego leave him be so he can speak as his genuine self for once in his life?

He was such a disgusting monster for letting this happen to himself. He didn't feel real, nothing was real to him. Everyone was just a liar, a liar who sought to hurt him further - his psychiatrist, his record label, his manager, his parents, *himself*... he couldn't trust anyone anymore. And so, he decided to leave.

Tân disappeared off the radar unannounced, dyed his hair from blonde to black and white, and tried to start a life as a new person. However, this didn't go exactly as planned. He was still haunted by the habits and fears from his life in the spotlight, and most notably, his alter ego never left. However, it began to mutate from simply a happy pop star to a twisted reflection of what he viewed himself as. A smiley, sadistic, careless, and manipulative parasite whose sole purpose was to convince others that "Tân Futsūko" is an unlikable villain who deserves to be hated and punished. Who grew sick of being liked despite his life being anyone else's dream, how selfish. Tân's life grew swarmed with fear and depression, and as a result, the Pop Star alter ego remained as the leader for most of his waking hours, keeping Tân on the backburner.

One night, while drunk in a bar, Tân met Woodrow Wilson, Anthony Almond, and Fumihito Kawashima. After talking for a little while and finding they had a lot of things in common, they decided to join forces and create their ideal "enlightenment" through a killing game. Tân was not sober at the time, so he made the decision not of his own accord. He hated the prospect of murder, of seeing people die, of waking up to corpses. But since it was a chance to leave his life in the limelight behind for good... he was willing to do anything.

Gone were the days of brushing off the bad behavior of those *weirdos* who obsessed over him, other people telling him false things about himself, and *god,* gone were the days of being LIKED despite the fact he was so vile that he just simply didn't deserve it. Finally. He could be the **normal** person he always knew he was.

Going under the alias of "The Star", Tân had finally appeared to get the life he wanted.

### Danganronpa: Nihilmania

#### Prologue - The Hosts are Proud to Introduce...

Tân is implied to be the one playing the ragtime music while the participants are in the morgue.

Once the cast reaches the auditorium, Tân doesn't join Anthony and Fumihito on stage, and instead controls the lights, music, and intercom because of "stage fright". He doesn't speak much except be asked to introduce himself, to which he awkwardly greets the cast over the speakers. After Anthony sets the auditorium on fire, Tân scolds him before the intercom cuts out.

After being released into the Worthless City, Seiha encounters Tân singing *"I'll Be Glad When You're Dead (You Rascal You)"* by Louis Armstrong in Club Aikido with the karaoke machine. Tân apologizes to Seiha, lamenting about how he was found singing awfully by the musical genius of all people. However, he then goes on to say that he was singing poorly on purpose, since sometimes it was fun for him to not have to worry about consistent quality. After being asked for an introduction. Tân grows embarrassed, saying he doesn't like talking about himself, before instantly switching back to normal, almost on a cue. Throughout the conversation, Tân proves to be extremely socially clumsy and erratic, yet somehow like he always knows exactly what direction the conversation will be heading. After getting confirmation that Seiha's never seen him before and a bit of thinking, he finally reveals his name and his past career as a pop star.

Emira enters the scene and Tân accidentally (or, perhaps, purposefully) startles both Seiha and Emira by his neck popping. Once Emira reveals herself, Tân denies her challenge for a staring contest under the excuse that she's "weird". Emira asks about the rainbow squares to complete the wall puzzle, and Tân plays dumb, acting like he doesn't know what she's talking about. Emira somehow eventually believes him, and she eggs him for an introduction. Tân forces her to check the tablet instead, adding a "pwease" to make it extra convincing... or, extra annoying. Afterwards, she asks if it's possible to break the Eyepads, and Tân panickily says no, claiming Anthony would kill her. Coincidentally, Anthony appears right after that, and Tân pretends to faint to ham up how scary Anthony is.

Tân tries to convince Anthony to give Emira a rainbow square so she can leave him alone, and ends up being "held hostage" by Emira as a threat. Xyl0 walks in and Tân acts frightened of him, before retracting his statement and begging for Xyl0 to save him from being Emira's hostage with the argument that he is "the littlest of guys". Anthony finally caves in and gives Emira a square, and Tân celebrates, giving Anthony an unwarranted hug. He forces Emira out, and begins talking to Xyl0 instead, asking why his limbs are invisible and if he gets called a freak for it. As the discussion continues, Tân's silly demeanor briefly fades, as he admits he told a purposefully obvious lie to Emira about his knowledge regarding the wall, and calls her strange for moving on from it so quickly instead of interrogating him since he's a host. He goes on to call pretty much *everyone* in the cast odd regarding their treatment of the killing game except for himself, before his bubbly attitude returns, and he continues to ask Xyl0 questions about his physiology.

He continues to display odd behavior in the conversation and overbearing curiosity about Xyl0. The latter boy becomes angry after Tân says his name without the 0, and, seeing his chance to subtly make someone upset at him, Tân continues to say his name without the 0. Xyl0 realizes what he's doing and snaps back, claiming he's going to stop hating Tân just to spite him. Tân parries by calling Xyl0 petty, continuing to try and make him uncomfortable by "psychoanalyzing" him and gathering lots of information about him. Tân eventually settles for calling him confusing, but internally believes he's winning the war between them, since Xyl0 still despises him. He exits the club.

#### Chapter 1 - Everything is Worthless

Throughout this chapter, Tân usually works in the bar, serving and making drinks.

At one point, he visits Len's room, claiming he's doing a "room quality survey". The survey does indeed get results, but he spends a much longer time in Len's room than planned. He ends up attempting to motivate Len to be more outgoing rather than ask him other questions about his room. At one point, Tân calls Len a "fake hero", hoping he'd notice and get upset, but he doesn't seem to comment on it, and Tân appears disappointed. After struggling to get up from his odd position on the couch, he leaves.

[More to be written some time...]

#### Chapter 3 - Hate Me, Normally!

After Xyl0, Emira, and Megumi discover the door in the sewers, they ring the doorbell. Tân peeks out, at first believing it's Anthony, but is deeply disappointed by seeing Emira, and almost instantly shuts the door in their faces. He re-opens the door soon after, and explains he's doing work on his floor. He lets them in to see the floor, and calls it "ugly and tasteless" since he made it. Tân then begins to ramble about getting an outfit change, while other people arrive to explore.

Tân finds Xyl0 glitching out on the floor and tries to assist him with his issue, but eventually gives up after Xyl0 says he doesn't know how to fix himself. Wondering if it's emotional support he needs, Tân leaves to get Seele to help. Tân arrives to Seele's dorm in his new style change for Chapter 3, but is instead greeted by Rebecca. Assuming she's the next best thing, Tân brings Rebecca along to help Xyl0.

After Rebecca and Xyl0 leave, Tân drops his happy demeanor and begins to talk to Anthony about the disastrous outcome of the killing game thus far, and wonders if it's even worth it. They talk about what they plan to do after the game, and mutually agree they have absolutely no idea what's left for them, and decide they should just keep going and see what happens.

## Relationships

### Anthony Almond

Tân claims he likes hanging out with Anthony more than Fumihito, most likely because Fumihito treats him nicely, and Anthony is mean to him - which is what Tân wants out of other people. He likes to pretend to be scared of Anthony during moments of rest to try and needlessly hype him up and/or irritate him through his nagging. However, when Anthony becomes angry, Tân has shown genuine fear and panic surrounding Anthony's possible actions, and tries to dissuade him from harming the participants without good reason. He seems to act more awkward and dweeby around Anthony, likely since he's known Anthony for longer and has an easier time lowering the walls of his usual persona around him.

When the two of them talk alone, they usually act like old friends. However, Tân still follows his old habits of purposefully making people mad on occasion. After Anthony had attempted to scare him in the bar, he shows no apprehension for bashing Anthony over the head with two alcohol bottles. After being punched in response, Tân becomes eerily joyful - not just because he was hurt, but because Anthony's "prank" had finally come full circle.

After revealing he had helped Zenkichi murder Kingston in the first trial, Tân shows hints of being furious at Anthony, but covers it up and pretends he's okay with it, possibly to make the participants think he doesn't care.

Chapter 2 and onwards, Tân and Anthony have a very frenemies-esque relationship. They both bond over being annoyed by Fumihito, as well as not having much of an idea of what's left for them after the killing game ends. They still insult and yell at each other, but appear to be the duo that's the most mutually close-knit in terms of relationships out of the headmasters.

In the Epilogue, Tân and Anthony seem to be extremely close. They both exchange banter, mutually poke fun at Fumihito, and are very friendly with each other. After Anthony subtly hints to his plans for himself after the game ends, Tân seems to be extremely saddened and afraid, but chooses to keep quiet to respect Anthony's wishes.

It has been stated that Tân views Anthony like a brother figure due to Tân's life as an only child living alone, and possibly also a desire to be a better brother to Anthony than Jax was. He even calls Anthony "bro" seemingly on impulse in the Epilogue, causing him to get embarrassed.

### Emira das Geheimnis

Emira is the participant Tân is the most vocal about disliking. He considers her extremely weird, which is a trait that gets pretty much anyone on Tân's blacklist, and is overall extremely annoyed by her and her behavior. He has a feeling she's acting this way just to get under his skin in an attempt to pull him apart and get information out of him, so he avoids talking to her when possible. (Ex: he shuts the door on her face when she, Xyl0, and Megumi discover the sewer door; *"But she's an inventor!" "Yeah, but she's also annoying! So I like Becca's idea better."*)

### Xyl0phonic

Tân seems to derive the most joy out of weirding out and annoying Xyl0, since it's pretty easy to get him upset. His most common method of irritation is not pronouncing the zero in Xyl0's name - however, when talking to Rebecca, he says the name how it's meant to be said, showing that he purposefully only says it incorrectly around Xyl0. However, Tân also displays a genuine interest in Xyl0's physiology, and seems to, in actuality, want to get closer to him so he can learn more. Of course, he can't shake off the habit of making it seem like he's trying to pick Xyl0 apart like a lab rat, though.

At some points, he does get a bit fed up with Xyl0 though, and becomes annoyed at his questionable intelligence. He berates Xyl0 for sticking his finger into the pool on the third floor - which caused him to start glitching - and even claims he's going to leave Xyl0 to die after the latter admits he doesn't know how to fix himself.

### Seiha Arumada

Seiha is the participant Tân appears to be the closest with. It's only natural, since Seiha was the first participant Tân met face-to-face. Tân often heaps praise and admiration upon Seiha's musical talent, though, doesn't show shame when he goes on rants about the damage a musical career has done to him. Overall, though, he treats Seiha with friendliness.

In contrast to the other participants, Tân doesn't show any interest in making Seiha upset. When Seiha begins to feel dejected over looking too much like a girl, rather than agree like he typically would in such a situation, Tân instead lifts Seiha's spirits by assuring him that gender stereotypes shouldn't matter to anyone, and he can be whatever he wants without input from others. He seems to be happy when Seiha gets a boost of confidence after this occurs.

### Zenkichi Hirabayashi

Tân and Zenkichi had a brief talk in the bar in Chapter 1, and they seemed to hit it off pretty well. Tân gladly accepted the task of finding a skateboard for Zenkichi, and, despite the apology note being rather goofy, did seem to feel genuinely sorry that he couldn't locate one.

It can be inferred that part of the reason Tân became irked after Anthony revealed he had swindled Zenkichi into going through with Kingston's murder was because he had found himself growing fond of Zenkichi. When he mentions being okay with Anthony helping Zenkichi during Chapter 2 while talking to Emira and Rebecca, it's very likely a lie to cover up his own remorse and to make himself appear more irredeemable.

## Quotes

*"...this has to be some kind of sick joke, I'm about to lose it. Can't I get a break around here...? The amount of garbage I have to deal with is getting ridiculous. Let me have one moment's peace, FUCK."* - During the first "hidden camera" WWA-TV segment.

*"Haha. I used to like music a lot. I still do. ...though, some part of it has been...ruined for me. I still enjoy listening to it whenever I'm stressed out, but to me, it feels like a lot of the life it once had has been completely drained from it. Especially louder, happier music. It just feels so...empty. Like it's taunting you, forcing you to look up the lyrics for any hidden meaning, and then finding out it's just another love song about a prince charming that doesn't even exist."* - Answering a question of the day question.

*"I want to go home. ...but I don’t want to go back. Can I just... sleep? For days and days and days? I can’t do this anymore. Was this even a good idea...? I-"* - Being depressive in a WWA-TV hidden camera segment.

*"It's been an absolute whirlwind. Sometimes, I thought I was ready to clock out, but... I'm glad we've at least made it this far! I think... this might be the first thing I've been genuinely motivated to follow through with for years now! So, we MUST be doing a good thing. Right?"* - In the 5-day celebration segment.

*"I guess that's why I'm the Star, huh? I'm not really as powerful as the Sun, or as graceful as a Moon. I'm just kinda... a little speck in the sky. I like it that way, though. I don't need to be anything special!"* - During his final solo WWA-TV segment. (1)

*"Wow. So, I really am just tiny. And insignificant. I like the idea of that. I'm the tallest and oldest of the 3 of us, yet I'm just so, so small in hindsight. That is beautiful. Maybe one day, I can find those super gigantic gas giants n' all that... and then I'll practically be nothing compared to them. Being nothing, woah. What would that be like? Kinda cool, I think. Maybe I should try it."* - During his final solo WWA-TV segment. (2)

*"Oh no, I'm not new to singing. I just wanted to have some fun. Be bad on purpose. You know? Don't you ever get the urge to slam your head onto piano keys repeatedly? Or smash a guitar on the ground? Or drag the bow of a cello across the strings until it BREAKS? It's hard to maintain quality, sooo... you need a break sometimes too, right? Or are you like. Just that serious. Are you? Thaaat... that would be so cool? Actually? If you can just consistently put out A-MAZING stuff without any breaks. You'd be liiike... uhhm... a super human! Yeah?"* - Meeting Seiha in Club Aikido.

*"...then, hiiii!~★ It's Tân Futsūko here. I used to be a pop star, but that life was so not me. I just prefer pursuing creativity on my own. People watching me make music is scary. So, we can be friends? Musical buddies? I think that would be nice... pow-powww!"* - Tân's introduction.

*"It is strange, isn't it? Strange, how nobody has really snapped at us or anything. They're kind of just going along with it. Solving the mysteries and having fun. I lied, by the way. I know what wall Emira was talking about. I think it was obvious, but she moved on anyway. Moving on. So quickly like that. Can you see why I'm calling them weird, now? They don't seem as scared as we expected. Sure, we went into this knowing they were such oddballs, and yet, I'm astounded by just how ODD they really are."* - Talking to Xyl0.

*"That's why you gotta PUT YOURSELF OUT THERE! Be forward! It's totally possible, you can do it!! You don't really exist unless you make an effort to do so. Sometimes, you get the luxury of having other people hang your picture on a wall for everybody to look at. Or maybe it's a detriment. It depends if you actually want to be known or not."* - During his "quality survey" in Len's room.

*"It hurt, though. It hurt a lot. Sometimes I wished I could shove a crank through my skull and into my brain and churn it like a keg. It'd be super gross and get blood everywhere, but if it stimulated me enough to finally come up with something passable, that's really all that mattered to me. Otherwise, someone would butt in to tell me how much I'm slacking instead of me having to tell myself. It's weird how other people expecting things out of you can brainwash you into expecting things out of yourself, too. Isn't that cruel?"* - Rambling to Seiha about creative burnout in the abandoned bus.

*“...what am I supposed to be forgiving you for? I think I should be the one saying sorry if you feel confident enough saying that to me. What are you? Why are you so weird? Nothing you say makes sense. How am I even supposed to forgive someone like you? You’re confusing me, and I don’t like it. Are you trying to bewilder me on purpose? Because congratulations... you’ve done it.”* - Expressing his annoyance towards Emira.

*"It's weird. I'd think people would feel good having so many people that are willing to defend your name, but it felt off. It felt like a bunch of mindless drones were just performing a pre-coded task, in order to always shift the blame off of me. I guess there are arguments for it, but what unsettled me was that this wasn't the first time they'd defended me, and worst of all, it wasn't the shittiest thing I'd done, either."* - Discussing a past event with Kumi.

*"...'cause, uh, I don't really like parties either. That's why I'm here. So many people... mmm. I'm a little shy boy. Waaah... I have a super fond memory from when I was little, m'parents took me to a restaurant for my birthday, and I started crying when the waiters came and sang me happy birthday. It felt so weeeird... like, do you ever get that feeling? When there's just a lot of people around you that're happy for you or for your friends, but you just can't feel anything remotely positive? It would feel bad if you had any energy to be remorseful."* - Talking to Seiha after being caught eating ice in his shower during Kumi's birthday party.

*"Don't let those secrets beat you, okay...? If everybody laughs at you... just know that I'm laughing with you instead. I'm not like them, okay? We're both the most normal ones here, and you know it."* - "Manipulating" Seiha after he accidentally convinced Seiha to dress up like a woman.

*"Ohhh. Yeah, it's for sure less noisy. I think everybody's still dealing with the '2 of our pals are dead' whiplash, mhehe. I don't blame them. Death is a pretty normal thing, though. I guess it just depends on **who** gets taken." - Talking to Seiha after the first trial.*

"There's a lotta things I don't care about. I was TOADS okay with Anthony making the roads on this floor super hazardous, I screamed a BUNCH but I was okay with the auditorium catching fire, *AND*... I was super okay with Anthony giving Zenkichi a helping hand, too. So, yeah! If you wanna call me kind, even if it's sarcastic, I guess I can't stop you. It should probably be known that that's not what it is, though! In actuality, you're just taking advantage of the fact that I'm too tired to be bothered by this stuff. Teehee." - Talking to Emira (and to an extent, Rebecca) at the ice cream truck.

*"...oh it's a dead guy."* - Finding Malleus's body in Chapter 2.

*"HAH! Wow, WOW! Great work, Tân! You've gotten caught up with liars, A-GAIN! Round of applause! A feat never-before-seen by man! How can this be? Am I just a magnet that attracts every person in existence that's raring to make my life as miserable as possible?" - Having a "tantrum" after the Chapter 2 trial.*

*"Now I made you all suspicious, haven't I? An' you're gonna follow me and stuff. Try to see what I'm hiding. Pick me apart. That's what psychologists do, right? They study the brain? That's the sugarcoated version. I think pretty much all they do is pressure people with their supposed 'knowledge of the human brain' until they let something slip. So they can feel better about themselves, knowing they have a semblance of power they can use against people." - Talking to Sylvester in the sewer. (1)*

*"Sylvie, I don't know if I've told you this, but I don't like you. People like you and your occupation - they lie. Don't they? Psychologist, psychiatrists, therapists... they try and tell you things about yourself. They scare people with their fancy words and questions so that they have no choice but to believe whatever they say, since they're the professionals. I know you're gonna go on a nerdy rant telling me I'm demonstrably wrong or whatever smart-sounding words you use to make yourself more credible. That's fine! I won't listen, though. Sorry." - Talking to Sylvester in the sewer. (2)*

*"That's rude. I don't live here. Maybe I should, though. Should I? I've never been in a super shitty place, I've lived well for all my life. I think I deserve more than just a taste of what it's like." - Response to being asked if he lives on the Third Floor.*

*"I knew it would turn out like this from the start. I tried to tell myself that being paranoid wasn't good, but it turns out my paranoia was right. Who would'a thunk it. This is going to crash and burn by the end, Anthony. I'm telling you that straight-up. None of us are going to get what we want. This was a disaster ever since the first conversation." - Discussing the killing game with Anthony in Chapter 3. (1)*

*"So, let's be normal just for this part. Okay? I don't deserve to be happy, but if there's one thing I deserve, it's nobody telling me what to do for once in my miserable life. And I, for one, would very much enjoy it if that time was now." - Discussing the killing game with Anthony in Chapter 3. (2)*

*"Did you help Zenkichi because you truly wanted a murder? Was it because, you discovered he was just as despondent and broken as you were? You gave mixed messages there, you know. Did you want to help him, or did you want him to die in the end? Because if we're going with that second option, then, based on the analogy I made earlier, would that mean you wish an equal death upon yourself?" - Discussing the killing game with Anthony in Chapter 3. (3)*

*"I've really wasted my life letting someone else who looked an awful lot like me take the reigns. So much so that who I was suffered and suffocated. I may not deserve nice things, but I won't hear another insult ever again if I don't do something about this. So, I'll do it." - In the Nihilmania Epilogue. (1)*

*"...I really wasn't the right guy for something like this. I lied. I lied a lot. I hated the deaths. Nobody deserved it. Not even Megumi. I don't like violence. I don't want people getting hurt. I don't want to wake up to a corpse, or manipulate anyone, or lie about not giving a shit about anyone dying. I don't want to do anything. I just want to go home, and I want to sleep. I can ponder more about what I don't like when there's somebody sitting across from me with a clipboard to listen to my bullshit. Maybe I never even wanted to be hated. Maybe I lied about that, too. I don't want you to forgive me, but I do want you to know that I... ... ...sorry. I said I'd make it quick." - In the Nihilmania Epilogue. (2)*

*"Don't fuck it up, okay? You know what's good for you. Maybe one day, we'll see each other again. And you'll be better than ever. ... As long as there's no proof to suggest otherwise... I choose to believe that we'll meet again. Perhaps only in sweet dreams, when you go to sleep. There's something left for you out there, and you aren't going to embrace it unless you move past whatever the hell this was and keep trucking. Even if you crash right through a stained glass window on your journey, who are you to just give up? I choose to think that... telling you to forget about this was selfish in practice, but... even if you may not remember us, that's not to say we don't want you to remember what you've learned. That thought comforts me. Makes me feel a lot better about this hogwash. So go on and get it, you crazy motherfucker. Earn your fate." - In the Nihilmania Epilogue. (3)*

*"We stay sillyyy...~★"* - A phrase often said by Tân.

## Gallery

Drawing of Tân as a magical girl by SuburbiiaA note Tân sent to Zenkichi in Chapter 1Drawing of Fumihito, Woodrow, Tân, and Anthony's funeral portrait for the Epilogue by Officer
## Trivia

* Tân is Homoromantic Asexual.
* Tân's natural hair color is blonde.
* Tân is stated to be heavily based on David Chiem from Danganronpa Despair Time (David's sprites will often be used to express emotion in his messages) as well as Midori Takamine from Ensemble Stars, and Mikoto Kayano from MILGRAM.
* Tân's birthday is July 10th, which is the release date of *The Normal Album*, the album his floor is based on.
	+ Coincidentally, this is also the date Nihilmania was officially announced to be cancelled.
* Tân is incredibly flexible and can do the spiderwalk. His bones are rather stiff, and will often pop and snap when he moves them, making his contortions even more frightening.
* Tân's MBTI type is (apparently) INTJ.
* According to one of the WWA-TV segments, Tân has a different scent of perfume for every day of the week.
* In a beta design, Tân had heterochromia; one eye red and the other grey. At one point, he also had a black and white spiral design in one of his eyes while the other was grey. Of course, this was changed to both of his eyes simply being grey.