Sayomi Kimiya

Sayomi Kimiya is a student at the Palace of Hope, and a participant of the Killing School Duel featured in Danganronpa: Unending. Her title is the Ultimate Nail Artist (Super High School Level Nail Artist).

## History

### Early Life

Sayomi never had a childhood, having spent her years locked up in an empty room. She had very little self awareness, unaware of her existence.

Every morning, there would be either a plate of food or an unlocked door waiting for her. Sayomi took this opportunity to go outside, only to discover it wasn't much better there. It was a small and polluted town, and she never saw any other women or children, just many seemingly dangerous men. She tried her best to avoid them, and was untimately only safe in her locked room.

On her 12th birthday, Sayomi found a small birthday cake at her door. She didn't know what it was or what it meant, but ate it anyways. She noticed a candle, something she had never seen in her entire life, so she simply just left it laying on the wooden floor and went outside. Later on, that very candle burned the house down and spread outside, eventually reaching an oil refinery and blowing up the whole town. There was assumed no survivors but Sayomi, who fled on instinct.

Sayomi eventually came across a big city surrounded by many small neighborhoods. One day, she was found by a kind young woman, who decided to take Sayomi in. The woman raised Sayomi as her own and taught her to speak, read or write, and many other crafts.

This only lasted a while as one day the woman that had taken Sayomi eventually passed away due to a terminal ilness. Sayomi had no choice but to continue on in life, and to survive based on what her adoptive mother had taught her.

### Killing School Duel

When Sayomi is first approached by Yori, she is seen trying to get away from a conversation with Haruto. Annoyed by him, Sayomi didn't want anything to do with Haruto and headed her own way. Before leaving, she mocked Haruto for believing everyone could leave the killing game alive.

To Sayomi's unfortune, she ended up bumping into Yori and Haruto many times while investigating by herself. She didn't appear to be as bothered, and even agreed to have a few conversations with them.

### The Ballroom Dance

After the announcement of the party, Sayomi is approached by some of her classmates and asked if she could do their nails for them, to which she hesitantly agrees.

After Yori and Haruto arrive at the party, they realize that Sayomi isn't there. They ask around, but all the people that saw her stated it was before the party. Noticing an open balcony, Haruto goes over, and is followed by Yori, where they find Sayomi standing. Sayomi explains she was just taking some fresh air as she doesn't really like crowds, and Yori and Haruto stay to accompany her. Sayomi is silent and doesnt wish to speak much, but she tells them she will consider opening up to them if she survives further into the killing game. Their conversation was interrupted once they heard the Body Discovery Announcement, so they go back inside to join everyone.

### Sayomi's Lie

Sayomi goes up to Yori during the 1st class trial after his anxiety prevents him from being able to talk in front of everyone. Sayomi is able to gain his trust and offers to present his evidence to the whole group herself. Haruto meets up with them after a trial, and brings them into a promise that all three of them will survive the killing game together

### The Attempt

Sayomi joins Yori and Haruto to do some research at the library. After heading their own ways, Sayomi pretends to go to her room but instead stops by the warehouse to continue investigating. Coincidentally, she bumps into Haruto there. After checking the inventory, they notice that a rope appears to be missing. After pondering on it, they suddenly realize what is happening and quickly rush over to Yori's room.

Haruto and Sayomi pound on Yori's door, and eventually, they are able to break it down and rush in to find Yori. They barely made it in time, and Yori wakes up a while later and finds them in his room, then realizes he failed to kill himself. Even though Yori promises them he wont try it again, Haruto and Sayomi take him to the dinning room in the middle of the night to bring up the mood. They cook a feast, and then all have dinner in the middle of the night.

### The Double Blackened Plot

Earlier in the afternoon, Haruto convinces Sayomi to lend him her key,as he had lost his. However, Haruto ends up losing it as well, but forgets to mention to Sayomi, who had spent the whole day in her suite.

Sometime in the middle of the night, Sayomi wakes up and find her door wide open. She believes there's something suspicious going on, but has no choice but to go and close the door. (Victim 1) and (Victim 2) then sneak up on her unseen and drug her.

Sayomi is shoved into a bag, and they take her to the balcony to throw her into the river. However, Sayomi wakes up the moment she falls into the water and is able to escape. They realize this, so Sayomi runs in the opposite way and uses the palace's hidden basement entrance, and from there she makes it up to the highest floor.

Sayomi, believing she cannot escape death, attempts to make it onto the roof in an effort to end her own life before anyone else gets the chance to kill her. She goes into the upper floor bathroom, and opens the vent on the wall to sneak up onto the roof. However, she doesn't realize her boots had water on them from the river, so she slips and breaks the shower nozzle when attempting to break her fall. [Victim 1 & 2) quickly find where Sayomi is hiding, and go into the bathroom. Sayomi from inside the shower, sneaks up on them and wraps the shower nozzle around [Victim 1]'s neck and swings him into the glass shower wall, which shatters and kills him. As [Victim 2] stands still in shock, Sayomi takes her chance and picks up the vent and swings it at his head. She wraps herself in a towel, and leaves the murder scene completely untouched before heading back to her room.

### The Double Blackened Body Discovery

Haruto quickly rushes over to Sayomi's room in the morning to wake her up, Yori stops him and tells him to let Sayomi rest, but Haruto ignores this and wakes her up anyways. They all continue back to the fifth floor, and find some glass shards peeking out from under the bathroom door. Haruto quickly panics and open the door, finding (Victim 1) and (Victim 2)'s bodies. The body discovery announcement is rung, and everyone comes to investigate. Sayomi pretends to feel nauseous as a reason to excuse herself from the scene.

### The Plan to End the Game

Haruto drags Sayomi along to the pharmacy to try and find some medicine for her, though they also run into Mitsuaki there. Sayomi has to keep on pretending that she feels ill, and eventually convinces Haruto to go away and let her rest. Seeing his talent as potentially useful, Sayomi decides to confide her plan with Mitsuaki, so she reveals to him that she is the culprit.

She tells him its fine if he doesn't trust her and wants to reveal the truth to everyone, but asks him to help her survive. She explains how she has discovered information about the killing game, but that she needs more time to sort it all out, and since she is getting executed on that day she wont have time to finish her investigation. Mitsuaki agrees to help, and is able to find a poison that makes someone appear as dead, but then wake up after some hours. Since they arent sure if Sayomi will actually survive, Sayomi explains to Mitsuaki that shes already left many clues hidden around the palace, and asks Mitsuaki to find them so he can carry out the information in case she doesnt survive.

### Secret of the 3rd Class Trial

The trial comes to a stop, and due to lack of evidence the culprit was unable to be found. While everyone is about to let themselves die, Sayomi brings up to Yori a small piece of evidence he missed. He remembers the evidence Sayomi is talking about, and at that moment he realizes who the culprit is. Although in denial, he helps convince everyone to vote for Sayomi.

Sayomi is confirmed to be the culprit, something which Haruto can't believe. He claims there is something wrong with the voting system or that she has been framed, but after Sayomi explains all the events of the case he has no choice but to believe her. Haruto still claims that Sayomi should not be executed as she was acting in self-defense, but it doesn't make a difference. Sayomi doesn't seem bothered by the fact shes about to ''die'' and says her goodbyes, entrusting Haruto to look over Yori.

As she is about to face death, it suddenly dawns onto Sayomi that she may not actually escape death this time. She looks up and waves towards the to Yori and Haruto before drinking the poison. A flashing sign lights up, stating the execution has failed. It seemingly plummets Sayomi from the heights, but while everyone was looking away due to glass shards flying all over the place, Mitsuaki had snuck into the execution area and catches Sayomi before she falls to her death.

As the "execution" ends, everyone leaves the trial room. Even though the plan was between Mitsuaki and Sayomi, Mitsuaki isn't sure whether Sayomi really survived or not since the effects of the poison could have always gone wrong. However, Sayomi does wake up, though she did have some acid burns from the execution. She quickly redyes her blonde hair blue, then begins to prepare for her investigation to stop the killing game.

After Sayomi's "death", Yori's and Haruto's friendship breaks up. Haruto takes out his anger on Yori, blaming him for Sayomi's death because of his suicidal nature that she tried to protect him from. Haruto later secretly teams up with the mastermind, wishing to avenge Sayomi's death, while Yori forms a new friendship when approached by Mitsuaki.

### The Reveal

At the 6th and final trial, Haruto is able to frame Mitsuaki and convices Yori that he was being manipulated by him the whole time. As Mitsuaki is about to be voted, he pulls out a gun and points it at Yori to simply buy himself more time, as he had no intention of actually hurting Yori. At that moment, Sayomi shows up and the trial takes a drastic turn.

As the trial progresses, Haruto pulls out a box of tapes (that he has never watched) that was given to him by the previous mastermind. One of the videos contains a news clip from about 4 years ago, depicted ruins of a lab that were discovered. No survivors were found, and the fate of all the subjects was unknown as well.

After some analysis, it was obvious that the lab in the clip was the place were Sayomi was kept during the majority of her life. It is revealed that it was a cloning facility, attempting to create a new Junko Enoshima using her DNA, something even Sayomi wasn't even aware of until that moment.

Sayomi claims that despite being created from her genes, she is not anything like the real Junko. She is her own person with her own ideas and personality, and that she would never do any of the things Junko did. She states that the Junko Enoshima they created in that lab years ago died in the explosion along with the rest of them, and that the one standing in front of them is not her but Sayomi Kimiya.

The group decides to trust Sayomi, then only Haruto is executed for being the mastermind. She survives along with Yori, Mitsuaki, and Fuyuko.

#### Bad End

Mitsuaki believes that it isnt Sayomi's choice whether she is Junko or not. He claims that Junko's desire for despair is in her blood and in her nature as well; it could trigger at any moment against whether Sayomi wants it to or not. Not willing to risk her causing another Tragedy, Mitsuaki decides to vote for Sayomi during the trial, resulting in her execution. In an attempt to save her, Haruto runs into the execution area, only to be executed as well. Yori, devasted by Sayomi's death, gets into an argument with Mitsuaki about why he killed her even though she was clearly on their side. She was the person that mattered most to Yori, and the only one that could understand him. Out of frustuation, Yori manages to shove Mitsuaki to the ground. He take his gun from him, and then shoots himself in the head, leaving Mitsuaki and Fuyuko as the only survivors.

Mitsuaki felt nothing but guilt; his vote led to the death of not only Sayomi, but Yori's as well. They were people that he trusted with his life, people that had counted on him to find the truth- but his clouded judgement and fear led him to an irreversible mistake. He would never be able to forget what he had done on that day- and so he sat on the floor leaning against the wall, cradling the same gun Yori had shot himself with just a few moments ago..

## Appearance

Sayomi is of slightly shorter stature than average. She has dyed light blue hair styled into two braids with one of them loosely resting behind her back and the other one swept in front of her along with the rest of her loose hair. She has pale skin, blue eyes, and blue nails.

Sayomi wears a prep style-outfit, consisting of a blue blazer with a checkered bow that matches the pattern on her skirt. Her sleeves are droopy, and she wears sheer black knee-length thighs, along with tall laced black boots.

Sayomi's formal clothing collection majorly consists of sleeveless blue dresses with gold accents, typically stars or other celestial symbols. She usually puts her hair up, though it is also sometimes simply loose and wavy. She frequently wears accessories such as hairpins and capes.

As a child, Sayomi resembles Junko Enoshima much more. She has the same blue eyes as her and blonde hair, which Sayomi has started dyeing blue since she was young so that she could resemble her adoptive mother more. After her "execution" in Chapter 3, some of her hair dye begins to wear off so she goes to retouch it in the bathroom.

## Personality

Introverted, Sayomi initially shows a cold and distant personality, being rude and even sort of violent to those she believes don't deserve any kind of respect. She openly dislikes the majority of people, though there are a few exceptions. To people she is close to, she is very teasing and cheerful, even seeming a bit childlike, which is most likely a result of never actually having a childhood. She is an understanding and sympathetic friend who stands up for those she cares about.

Before forming some friendships during the killing game, she tried not to bother with teamwork as she on her own can manage, especially in the trials. Despite her lack of education, Sayomi is extremely intelligent and doesn't often need to rely on others. She has very little faith and trust for people in general, stating at the beginning of the killing game that she doesn't believe everyone has what it takes to keep themselves from murdering each other. She also isn't affected by peoples deaths, seeing it as something normal and obviously expected within the killing game. She sees very little value in people's life, including her own, as she has no problem trying to end her own life if it meant someone else wouldn't get to kill her.

Though not insecure, Sayomi isn't exactly confident either. Due to spending a lot of years with no human contact, she feels unable to understand both other people's emotions and her own. After revealing she's still alive many trials after her execution however, Sayomi seems to have changed, showing more confidence than before. She's speaks more confidently, but it is a possibility that all this is just to seem reliable to get the trust of her classmates during the trial.

Sayomi's sort of violent attitude at times is later discovered to have a deeper meaning behind it; it is most fragments of Junko Enoshima's personality due to having her DNA. Despite this, Sayomi claims she is nothing like her, and that she could never be the kind of person Junko was. The Junko they created was dead, and Sayomi was "born" afterwards in that same body.

By the end of the killing game, Sayomi had become a much more open and compassionate person that had taken many risks in order to try and protect her classmates, especially her close friends. She begins to see that there is a deeper meaning to life and fights to protect it. It becomes obvious that she is nothing like Junko Enoshima.

## Relationships

### Yori Amari

Yori is one of the few people that Sayomi genuinely cares for during the killing game. Having a similar personality to him and having been through similar situations as him before, Sayomi sees a lot of herself in Yori. Sayomi tries to speak more to him and encourages him to open up to her about anything that is troubling him. Sayomi wishes to have Yori's trust, as she wants him to have someone there for him, unlike her who never did.

### Haruto Kaneko

Despite first being very skeptical of him, Sayomi eventually seems to come to an understanding with Haruto. With him being very talkative and trying to get her to speak to him, Sayomi believes him to be a bit pushy. After time, Sayomi realizes that he's trying his best to be a good friend, even though he might not be the best at supporting others. Before her ''execution'', Sayomi places her trust into Haruto and asks him and Yori to protect each other during the killing game, although this trust is later broken when Haruto abandons and blames Yori for everything, then continues to betray the group by joining then becoming the second mastermind. Throughout the killing game, it was shown that Haruto had feelings for Sayomi, though clearly she did not feel the same about him, and because of that her presumed death was very hard on him.

### Mitsuaki Hayashi

Even though they originally had very few interactions, Mitsuaki and Sayomi have mutual respect and trust in each other. Mitsuaki appreciates the fact that Sayomi hasnt tried to use his talent to her advantage as other people have, and he seems to look up to her for the lengths shes gone to attempt and end the killing game, and does his best to help her with the plan. Sayomi is grateful that Mitsuaki decided to trust her since the beginning, despite her revealing to him that she was the 3rd culprit.

## Image Gallery

Sayomi standing by the balcony during the Ballroom PartyRevealing herself during the trial in Chapter 6.
## Assets/Clipart

Character IllustrationTalent ScreenCharacter Illustration 2