Mikan Tsumiki

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* Sprite (E1)

**Mikan Tsumiki** is a participant from Danganronpa 2 featured in the Future Foundation. She is one of the participants of the events of Episode 1.

## Gallery

For more images of Mikan, see Mikan Tsumiki/Image Gallery.

## Appearance

Mikan has fair skin and long, choppy, dark, plum-colored hair that is cut unevenly as a result of bullying. The longest point of her hair appears to be just past her fingertips, whereas the shortest point is slightly above her neck. Her bangs flow straight down, but are also cut at visibly differing levels. She has pale gray-mauve eyes that almost constantly convey anxiety or tearfulness. There is a beauty mark under her left eye's corner.

She wears a nurse uniform which consists of a pale pink long-sleeved shirt with a white collar and sleeves trimmed with white. A short, white, slightly wrinkled pleated skirt is visible underneath. Mikan wears a tie over this which is to represent the Future Foundation. It is marked with the Future Foundation logo on the tie. As well as this, she has bandages wrapped around her left forearm and hand, excluding the fingers, and around her right leg from her mid-thigh to above her ankle. Additionally, she has a square gauze band-aid on her left kneecap and wears pale pink crew length socks and white loafers.

## Personality

Because of the severe abuse she has incurred in the past, Mikan is very awkward and has a warped perception of both positive and negative social interaction. When treated with any sort of individual respect or sympathy, her first response is most often outright confusion, and sometimes assuming she has done something wrong. When first meeting with Phoenix, she offers him to beat, strip, draw on or do other bad things to her, and states that she has done so multiple times with previous schoolmates so that they won't hate her and will continue to associate with her.

Perhaps because of her high understanding of human physiology, Mikan is shown to be very skilled at reading people's faces, but she tends to over-analyze them and is quick to assume that she is disliked by those around her. She generally wants to be liked by and help other people, but her utter lack of confidence and wish to not be a bother causes her to rarely assert herself or state her feelings openly; if she feels the need, she will more than likely ask for permission from her peers to do so. This is exacerbated considerably during Class Trials, where despite her talent being incredibly useful for solving a murder, she will rarely ever speak up by her own accord.

## Talent & Abilities

### Ultimate Nurse:

Because there was no one to take care of her wounds, Mikan learned to take care of herself from a very young age. As she became more and more skilled in this area, she took an interest in nursing, realizing that it gave her a feeling of control over sick and injured people - as weaker people would have to depend on her completely, and their lives would be in her hands. Her skills in this field eventually continued to grow and she seemed to have developed almost all the necessary skills and abilities required of a nurse such as being able to give first-aid, creating various medicine/drugs, being capable of performing surgery, critical analysis of her patients condition in a moments notice and adaptability in dealing with medical emergencies.

## History

Mikan had a harsh life as a child. She was physically and emotionally abused by people in her family and in other places, like school. Among other things, she mentioned being splashed with water, smeared with mud, and getting burned with cigarettes. The bullies would beat her up, cut her hair, draw on her, use her as a target for dart games, make her responsible for their debts, and tell her to eat bugs and make her imitate animals. She was even told to strip at times. In addition, she didn't have any friends.

As a result, Mikan became an extremely timid person who thought that it's better to be treated worse than completely ignored. She feared loneliness and lack of attention more than the abuse and let people do whatever they wanted with her.

Because there was no one to take care of her wounds, Mikan learned to take care of herself from a very young age. As she became more and more skilled in this area, she took an interest in nursing, realizing that she could have a feeling of control over sick and injured people ー as the weaker people, they would have to depend on her completely and their lives would be in her hands.

## Relationships

### Natsumi:

The Relation between Natsumi and Mikan during Episode 1 is a complicated story, the two seem awfully close as they share the similar backstories of feeling ignored by other people, the two grow extremely close and have some moments where Natsumi teaches Mikan not to be so apologetic to people in the ship, and that she shouldn't even trust anyone there. The two weren't always together, as they split off for a while and Mikan eventually finds Natsumis dead body.

### Phoenix:

Phoenix and Mikan met during the Prologue of Episode 1, where Mikan falls to her knees and begs for forgiveness for not being able to handle the situation, Phoenix unlike others, even Mikan's close friend Natsumi, shows her compassion and tells her that there's no need to always apologise as he isn't hurt by what she said, During chapter 1 when the timer was close to an end Phoenix hands Mikan a fibre wire, tells her to save everyones lives and do the right thing. However, due to Phoenix having being the only one to show kindness to Mikan she refuses, she saved Phoenix's life which ultimately saved everyones lives for future chapters, unfortunately her not killing Phoenix resulted in her only other close friend, Natsumi, to die. During chapter 1 class trial, Mikan and Phoenix seem to be the only one to understand who the actual killer was, Mikan trusts Phoenix's instincts all throughout the trial to avenge Natsumi. Mikan was awakened by Phoenix during the events of Chapter 2, after being poisoned and struggling with the loss of Natsumi, Mikan becomes manic and goes crazy lashing out at people and threatening Goro, Phoenix is the one to snap her out of it telling her it is the motives from Spamton to effect her majorly, and to trust to not give into despair. Mikan thanks Phoenix before having another side effect of the poison, she runs off to think about her actions, when she is ultimately killed by Goro in one of the ships bathrooms, along with Rise who was there to check on her.