Paige

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Paige is a character in Penguinronpa. She is one of fifteen participants in the killing game. She was executed by Monobert after she was found out to be responsible for the death of Rockhopper. Her talent is the **Ultimate Puffle Handler** due to her status as the trainer of the Elite Puffles and her love for puffles.

## Appearance

Paige is a pink penguin wearing a beige hat with a maroon strip and a silver whistle that she originally uses to call the Elite Puffles. She uses this whistle to wake up the sleeping attendants of the party in Chapter 2, and Agent removes her whistle during Chapter 2's trial.

## Personality

Paige is generally a friendly penguin and agent of the EPF, and she is closest to her fellow agents. However, she is very distrustful of the other participants, especially Klutzy. She has a passion for puffles, which impacts her in the way that her nightmare from the Sleepy Song drives her despair when she sees the slaughter of various puffles. During the trial, she acts distressed and defensive of her actions. When she is finally deemed the culprit of Rockhopper's murder, she succumbs to despair, only snapping out of it during her execution.

## History

### Main Story

#### Prologue

Paige first appears along with the other eleven penguins remaining on the island. She quickly becomes anxious to leave for the Snow Forts according to a certain note's instructions, but Aunt Arctic convinces her to stay and introduce herself. While Rockhopper is introducing himself, she brings up her concern for his puffle, Yarr. Later, she introduces herself and her talent, though her nickname "PH" prompts Gary to give information relevant to "pH" (potential of hydrogen)—an apparently frequent occurrence every time she mentions her nickname. She proceeds to inform the group about the disappearance of the island's puffles, which stresses her out.

When Monobert reveals himself and introduces Klutzy as the fifteenth participant of the killing game, Paige expresses her concern for Klutzy's potential place of rest, though she does so in a way that implies her distrust of Klutzy.

#### Chapter 1

On the morning of the first day, Paige gathers with the rest of the main participants at the Snow Forts. She solidifies her distrust of Klutzy through her accusation of Klutzy as the traitor (though Monobert confirms this to be false) and her initial wariness to allow him to join their group searches. She soon leaves with Dot and Jet Pack Guy to investigate the Lighthouse, and the trio report with the rest of the group at the Pizza Parlor that the place was locked.

On the second day, everyone gathers in the Coffee Shop, but Paige and Cadence get into an argument due to Cadence's doubt in Gary's inventions and Paige's quick accusation of Cadence as the traitor. She then leaves with everyone else and does not appear until the Body Discovery Announcement of Aunt Arctic.

She joins Agent and Gary to investigate the Coffee Shop, where she then apologizes to Cadence about the previous events and encourages them all to work together.

During the first Dimensional Trial, she once again accuses Klutzy of being Aunt Arctic's murderer; however, Monobert's information regarding Klutzy's status during nighttime proves him to be innocent. She also retaliates in Aunt Arctic's defense about using the director's suit when Franky brings up how suspicious the appearance could look. She is there to witness Sensei's execution.

#### Chapter 2

On the first day of Chapter 2, she expresses sympathies for Rookie after the events of Chapter 1. She tags along with Agent, Jet Pack Guy, and Franky to the Lighthouse to find it unlocked. After they find the Sleepy Song and Franky plays it, she—along with Agent and Jet Pack Guy—fall asleep due to the song and insists that Agent not share their dream if "it was anything like [hers]." This is later to be revealed as a nightmare about a puffle slaughter that is the catalyst to her despair.

She joins the group to investigate Aunt Arctic's igloo (where she expresses her sorrow for Aunt Arctic's death) and to visit Rookie. At Rookie's igloo, she and all of the other agents present agree to grant Agent the title as the new Director of the EPF.

The next day, she witnesses Gary's explanation of a newly found camera, and she questions the recording aspect of the camera. Later that night, she and the other participants report to the Snow Forts to receive the next motive: a threat of a bomb blowing up the New World. She expresses shock and disgust at the new motive. However, she agrees on Rookie's idea to throw a party, and she even relinquishes her objections to Klutzy's attendance of the party (this could have been for more malevolent reasons, though). She also helps Dot, Agent, and Jet Pack Guy clean up the Pizza Parlor after the Pizzatron 3000 went out of control when Dot suddenly fell asleep; this event later serves as evidence for Paige's crime.

Through the second Dimensional Trial, it is revealed that during the party, Paige killed Rockhopper. Earlier in the day, she wrote notes to Cadence and Franky to threaten them out of attending the party in order to enact her plan easier. She also recorded herself playing the Sleepy Song on the piano in the Pizza Parlor, which put Dot to sleep in the process before Paige woke her up with her whistle. While she offered to help Dot clean the mess in the kitchen, she accidentally spilled tomato sauce on her back, which smeared onto the sliding door of the remote control jet pack's compartment in the Dojo—as the weight of the jet pack forced her to use both arms to carry it and her back to close the door. During the party, Paige played the recording of the Sleepy Song on the DVD Player 3000 to force everyone to fall asleep and strapped Rockhopper to the remote control jet pack. Using the jet pack to fly him to the Ice Rink, she directed his body above the rink and dropped his body to the ground, the impact of hitting the ground and the added explosion due to the jet pack resulting in his death. Once the murder had been committed, she blew on her whistle to wake everyone up again. Agent proves this final point by taking her whistle, playing the Sleepy Song, and waking everyone up with a tweet of the whistle.

Paige admits to the crime after the complete accusation, and she falls into despair due to the threat that the motive had on the lives of the puffles in the New World. She says that she would have initially killed Klutzy, but Rockhopper's companionship with Yarr compelled her to kill him instead. She reveals that her despair has come from her nightmare after falling asleep to the Sleepy Song for the first time; in her dream, she witnessed the slaughter of several puffles, which the thought of the dream "fills [her] with despair all over again." Her behavior and actions greatly affect Dot, who retaliates by isolating herself from the rest of the group for the next few chapters. With the correct culprit found, she is sent to her execution.

Her execution follows the original Club Penguin minigame "Puffle Roundup" with a few references such as the cannons of "Puffle Launch" and the Rainbow Puffle (albeit a disguised bomb). She tames several robotic puffles and tries to use their talents to save herself and them from falling to their deaths. To her misfortune, all of the puffles turn out to be bombs, and she dies by blowing up from the bombs, the only thing left being her charred hat.

### Bonus Content

#### Penguinronpa Holiday Special (2020)

Paige makes a brief appearance in the Holiday Special where she is found at the Migrator to explain her role of "puffle-sitting" Yarr and to direct the main cast to the Dojo with the hint that Rockhopper was "taking a hike up a mountain." She appears in her beige short-sleeve jacket from her later designs in Club Penguin as well as a pair of pink puffle earmuffs.

#### Penguinronpa Halloween Special (2021)

Paige makes a few appearances throughout the Halloween Special. She first appears in the Dojo when the main cast is looking for Flare to fix a key that Skip the Bellhop broke and explains that Flare went out to trick-or-treat with the other puffles. She does not appear until the end of the special, and she joins everyone else on the Beacon saying, "Did somebody say puffles?" despite there being no reference to puffles whatsoever (Rookie points this out with the simple phrase "No"). In the credits, she appears as a starring role alongside Rory and Loop, who seem to be rolling her across the building. In this special, she is completing a dual costume with Loop: while she wears a giant Pink Puffle costume and a larger copy of Loop's hat, Loop is wearing a smaller copy of Paige's hat and a small beak strapped over her face.

#### Penguinronpa Holiday Special (2021)

Paige arrives on the eighth day of the Twelve Days of Penguinronpa to recite a slightly altered parody of a famous line from A Visit from St. Nicholas only for the Elite Puffles, to which Paige exclaims surprise after she supposedly tucked them in for bed. When Dot suggests to sing them a song as a lullaby, Paige joins the other cast members to add the line "Eight Elite Puffles."

## Trivia

* Although Paige doesn't remember much during her time of being consumed by despair, her despair began to fade when she saw the Robopuffles during her execution. She says that she does feel despair when thinking about her actions, but the others in the void help her through it.
* Even when entering the void after death, Paige contained cookies, O'Berries, and gum in her hat.
	+ However, she has implied in the Dot/Paige Q+A that the O'Berries made her sick.
* Paige cannot choose her favorite puffle among both general puffles and the Elite Puffles, as she says that "a momma does not have a favorite child." However, the Elite Puffles do have a special place in her heart.
* She apologizes to Rockhopper frequently for her actions, but he has forgiven her many times.
* Paige never hated Klutzy, but she felt suspicion towards him due to him being Herbert's former henchman.
	+ She has admitted that Klutzy is cute.
	+ She has revealed that she and Klutzy are now friends in the void together.
* While there is no official confirmation, it is implied that Dot and Paige may have had romantic feelings for one another prior to Chapter 2's end.
* Paige advises to impress people with knowledge about puffles.
* Paige sometimes makes puns, as seen in the Dot/Paige Q+A: "Ya look snow good in that one..."
* Paige's favorite memory is the time she, Dot, and the Elite Puffles went surfing at the Cove. She recalls how Dot ended up wiping out, so Flare relit the campfire that a wave had extinguished and they all sat down around it to observe the stars.
* Paige has often been compared to Nagito Komaeda, a character from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair with an obsession for hope. This is likely due to her intense despair seen in Chapter 2.
* Tofu has stated that if they could make a change to Chapter 2, they would lessen the intensity of Paige's despair.
* Paige's first Two-Lies-One-Truth (2L1T) from September 2020 references how she "will wish she were still alive for something that happens soon," which is a reference to the official introduction of the Elite Puffles.