Hideki Takahashi

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**Hideki Takahashi** is a main character featured in **Danganronpa: Hope Restoration**, created by **Lazer-Bunny**. He is known as the **Ultimate Con Artist**.

## Galleries

📷 For images of Hideki, visit Hideki Takahashi/Image Gallery
📷 For sprites of Hideki, visit Hideki Takahashi/Sprite Gallery
## Appearance

Hideki is a tall highschool student with reddish-orange hair, green eyes, and a goatee. He wears a red hat over his head, covering the majority of his hair and head. His hair appears to be slicked back.

Hideki wears a beige dress shirt with a neatly folded collar, a golden button, and a brown tie with the emblem of his previous highschool along the end of it. Over his shirt Hideki wears a closed brown vest with golden buttons, as well as a pinstripe red suit, the same colour as his pants, with golden buttons, cufflinks, and an inner square pattern. Hideki also wears a pair of brown shoes with dual zippers along the flaps.

## Official Description

"Hideki's a naturally likeable and charismatic guy, and that probably has a part to play in his talent. Although he may seem sketchy, he's actually a genuinely friendly person who's fun to be around. He's sociable and tries his best to be everyone's friend. (Presumably not for any ulterior motives). Although he's highly cunning and remarkably street smart, he has a bad habit of over-estimating himself, which leads to some irresponsible and impulsive decisions on his part.

As the Ultimate Con Artist, Hideki's mastered the arts of lying, manipulation, deal making, and convincing people to buy into very obvious scams. He also has an almost unnatural way of talking his way out of any and all consequences of his actions.

## History

### Background

Little is currently known about Hideki's life before joining the Hope Restoration Project.

### The Hope Restoration Project

Hideki was one of sixteen selected to participate in the Hope Restoration Project, designed after a series of tragic incidents damaged the reputation of Ultimates. Carefully selected celebrities were invited to the project, in the hope they would be able to regain the publics opinion. At an unknown point in time Hideki found himself in the schools building, and got in an argument with Takiyama before introducing himself to Reiko Shimura and Haruhi Miyazaki. Soon after introducing himself, an anonymous announcement drew everyone to the gymnasium for the opening ceremony.

At arrival the students met Moneko, the self-proclaimed headmaster of the Hope Restoration Project. As everyone else began to void their panics, Moneko was about to explain the situation before another android fell from the ceiling. Monomeow, also the self-proclaimed headmaster of the school building, attacked Moneko in front of the the other students, before punching him away from the gym. After doing this he revealed everyone would be participating in a 'special game', where the students had to murder each other to be able to leave the school building. Otherwise stuck there indefinitely, every started to panic. Soon after Takiyama pondered whether anyone was already thinking of murder, the students were silenced by their fear.

## Personality

Hideki's a naturally likeable and charismatic guy, and that probably has a part to play in his talent. Although he may seem sketchy, he's actually a genuinely friendly person who's fun to be around. He's sociable and tries his best to be everyone's friend. (Presumably not for any ulterior motives). Although he's highly cunning and remarkably street smart, he has a bad habit of over-estimating himself, which leads to some irresponsible and impulsive decisions on his part.

## Talent and Abilities

### Ultimate Con Artist

As the Ultimate Con Artist, Hideki's mastered the arts of lying, manipulation, deal making, and convincing people to buy into very obvious scams. He also has an almost unnatural way of talking his way out of any and all consequences of his actions.