Fuyuko Fukuhara

Fuyuko Fukuhara 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 Ballerina (Super High School Level Ballerina).

## History

### Early Life

Fuyuko comes from a very wealthy family. During her childhood, her parents were rarely absent due to always being on trips and because of it, Fuyuko spent most of her time alone. She had a younger sister, and with their parents being absent, Fuyuko was the one always looking after her. Having no once else, the two were very close. Fuyuko tried to pay a lot of attention to her sister to try and give her a better childhood than she did.Her sister was very energetic and chaotic, which caused Fuyuko a lot of stress trying to keep up and preventing her from doing mischief.

Despite having her sister always around, Fuyuko often felt alone and depressed. She would lock herself up in her room, ignoring all of her sister's pleads to go in from the other side of the door. On one of these days, Fuyuko's sister snuck out in the middle of the night out of boredom to go play in the snow.

When Fuyuko woke up the next morning, she realized her sister was gone. After finding the closet open and her sister's winter clothes gone, Fuyuko figured out she had went outside. She ran outside and tried to follow her footprints, but as the snowstorm continued, they were covered.

Unable to continue searching for her sister, Fuyuko had no choice but to go back home and wait for a few days for her parents to return home. Once they did, she begged them to go on one of their helicopters to search for her, but they didn't bother to. Shocked by her parents lack of care for their own child, Fuyuko quickly grew a deep resentment for them and ran off again to try and continue searching for her sister. It was to no avail though, as she never found her. Knowing there was nowhere else she could go but home, Fuyuko headed back. Once she arrived back, she saw a few people on the doorstep, who told her that her parents had been killed in an accident on their way to another trip, something Fuyuko was relieved by.

Many people started coming by her house and showered Fuyuko with gifts and condolences for the death of her parents. As time passed, Fuyuko eventually started feeling guilty, and wondered why she was the only one that had survived. She began to blame herself, believing she could have saved her sister if only she hadn't ignored her requests to play.

One of Fuyuko's most valued possessions was a music box that belonged to her sister. Remembering her sister's dreams of wanting to be a ballerina, Fuyuko decided to pursue those dreams herself in memory of her.

### Killing School Duel

After everyone realizes the predicament they are in, Fuyuko gathers everyone's attention and reassures her classmates that no one will be dying, and that they will find a way to escape.

While everyone investigates for the first few days, the killing motive is introduced to them- if no one commits a murder in 3 days, random traps would be set off and kill each student one by one. With everyone horrified at the news, Fuyuko once again gives an encouraging speech. She proposes the idea of the Ballroom dance to help everyone forget about the killing game for a while.

During that time, Fuyuko is approached by Ikuro. She introduces herself, and after a bit of pleading she convinces Fuyuko to tell her about herself-including her past. Ikuro uses this information to her advantage, and immediately becomes very clingy around Fuyuko. She refers to her as her big sister, which Fuyuko is initially a bit shocked by but eventually warms up to Ikuro as well.

Ikuro was quickly able to gain Fuyuko's trust and care. Taking advantage of Fuyuko's trauma, Ikuro acts as the sister that Fuyuko lost many years ago. Knowing that Fuyuko is actually really concerned about the first motive, Ikuro is able to convince Fuyuko to carry out the first murder, but by using someone else to do so. Ikuro shows Fuyuko the abilities of her talent; to control a persons actions and movements using a doll. Though reluctant at first, Fuyuko agrees to the plan, as she understands that murder is necessary to survive the killing game.

### The Ballroom Dance

While getting ready for the dance, Fuyuko runs into Reiko at the dressing rooms, who is just sitting in a corner. Fuyuko asks her why she isn't getting ready, to which she replies that she doesnt care about their "stupid little party." Fuyuko teases her around a bit, and eventually convinces Reiko to attend. Fuyuko helps Reiko pick out a suit to wear before walking out.

Of course, Ikuro overheard the whole conversation between Fuyuko and Reiko. She suggests to make Reiko the culprit for their plan, to which Fuyuko outright refuses at first. Since Ikuro wont take no for an answer, she coerces Fuyuko into doing it, most likely by using her voodoo dolls to manipulate her.

Fuyuko approaches Reiko at the party and asks if she can have one of her cigarettes. Though Reiko gives it to her, she questions Fuyuko as to why someone like her would be smoking. Fuyuko tells her shes flattered, but that she isn't as proper as Reiko seems to think she is. Reiko teases Fuyuko for being a ballerina, so Fuyuko invites her for a dance. Reiko initially appears embarrassed but as the dance continues she begins to feel more comfortable.

The dance ends at the moment the music stops. Suddenly, the lights flicker and go out. While it is pitch black and nothing can be seen, Reiko feels someone tug on to her sleeve and lead her up some stairs. A flashlight suddenly lights up in her face, and she sees Fuyuko, Ikuro, and a guy on the floor. As Reiko stands confused, Ikuro hands her a doll and asks her to throw it at the chandelier. Puzzled by the strange request, Reiko continues to question her about whats really going on. Growing frustuated and impatient, Fuyuko grabs Reikos arm and, causing Reiko to lose her grip on the doll and it landing onto the chandelier. Ikuro warns Fuyuko about what she did, as just slightly touching the doll would have counted Fuyuko as a murderer too. Before Reiko can say anything, Fuyuko grabs her by the arm again and leads her back downstairs just as the lights turn back on. Looking up, Reiko sees the guy once laying on the floor fall down to the floor along with the chandelier. With the first murder having been committed, the crime scene is open for investigation.

Scared and confused, Reiko rushes out of the ballroom. Once outside, Fuyuko quickly runs after her. Panicking and stuttering, Reiko can barely say anything. Fuyuko calls Reiko a murderer, which just frustrated Reiko even more as she doesn't understand what is going on. Popping up behind Fuyuko, Ikuro holds her dolls. It finally dawns onto Reiko what happened, and she starts yelling at Fuyuko, calling her a liar for making her think that she was genuinely interested in her. She storms off and Fuyuko stands there blankly while Ikuro clings on to her arm.

### The Letter

Ikuro barges into Fuyuko's room meanwhile she is brushing her hair and asks her where her dolls are. Telling her that she did not take them, Fuyuko asks Ikuro to recall when she last had them. Ikuro say that she last had them when Reiko stormed off. Immediately realizing where the dolls were, Fuyuko reminds Ikuro that Reiko is the Ultimate Thief. At that moment, Fuyuko notices a letter behind her mirror. She opens it while Ikuro isn't looking as she is throwing a tantrum. The letter asks to meet up with Fuyuko in a hidden place, and says to not bring anyone else along.

Some minutes later, Fuyuko goes to the room she was requested to. In the middle of the room is Reiko holding a knife, surrounded by hundreds of Ikuro's dolls. Fuyuko asks if Reiko plans to kill her, to which Reiko says that she would never kill anyone, and that the knife is merely to protect herself. Fuyuko tells her that she already is a killer while pulling out a gun of her own. Reiko asks her the same thing Fuyuko asked her- if she plans to kill her. Fuyuko tells her that she prefers not to get her hands dirty and committing crimes directly (hence why she tricked Reiko to kill instead) and just carries it around as "a lady should always be ready to defend herself." After a few minutes of arguing, Ikuro suddenly pops up behind Fuyuko again. Angered at the sight of Ikuro, Reiko looses it and starts screaming at Ikuro. She picks up the a doll of Ikuro and throws it on the floor, stomping on it.

Ikuro begins to scream and cry in pain while Reiko continues to yell at her and call her "a little freak." Yelling at Reiko to stop, she lifts up the gun and points it at Reiko. She immediately freezes and asks Fuyuko why she is doing this. Why did she frame Reiko, why is she treating Reiko as if she is the one in the wrong, why is she on Ikuro's side when she is clearly insane? Fuyuko defends Ikuro again, and tell her that she is merely doing what is necessary to survive.

While Reiko continues to plead to Fuyuko, Ikuro still pretends to be injured on the ground while discreetly grabbing a Fuyuko doll. In that moment, Fuyuko's gun goes off in Reiko's direction, but she quickly deflects the bullet with a knife. Another dolls flies up into the air right in front of Reiko's knife. Not noticing the doll at first, Reiko's knife slashes through it. Reiko drops the knife and stands there in shock. Fuyuko quickly tries to explain that she doesn't know what happened and that she didn't mean to shoot her. Reiko falls to the floor crying, looking at the doll and realizing that it means someone else had died- and it had been by her hands.

Surely enough, the body discovery rings as another of their classmates had died. Fuyuko looks back and sees Ikuro rolling on the floor laughing. Horrified, she realizes that it was Ikuro that made her shoot the gun and manipulated the situation in order for another murder to happen. She then notices that Ikuro doesn't appear to be injured at all. Though she didn't say it out loud, Ikuro seems to read Fuyuko's thoughts and answers her question. She comments that she would never be so stupid to make a voodoo doll of herself. In that moment, Fuyuko begins to realize that Reiko was right about everything- Ikuro was a cruel and manipulative child. For the first time, Fuyuko decides to stand up against Ikuro and questions her as to why she would make Reiko kill another person, since one was already enough. However, it was too late to do anything about it, as Ikuro uses the Fuyuko doll to make Fuyuko forget about their involvement in the murder and about any of her interactions with Reiko.

### Ending 2

After Haruto and Yori's death right after Sayomi's execution, Mitsuaki falls into despair. Fuyuko taunts him for this, since he has already realized by now that everything that the trial led up to was truly his fault. Fuyuko seems to be self-projecting in some ways, as she also made some wrong decisions during the killing game that haunt her. She pretends to not care about what she did, but in reality it is something she hates herself for. Looking at Mitsuaki with disdain and little pity, she begins to walk away with tears in her eyes and doesn't look back, pledging to herself to forget everything that happened there and to start a new life. She is counted to be the only survivor, as Mitsuaki's fate is unconfirmed. but highly implied that he killed himself as well.

## Appearance

Fuyuko has brown skin and fuchsia eyes. She has very long wavy pink hair that is sometimes adored with a hairpin or ribbon.

Her outfit looks like an altered version of a regular sailor uniform: a diamond-checkered pink dress with some lace trimming. She wears black mary jane shoes with white ruffled socks. In her splash art, she is seen with a tutu.

## Personality

Fuyuko is first shown to be a leader. She is kind and charismatic, and attempts to keep everyone's hopes up when the killing game is first announced. Many people believe her to be a perfect and well mannered individual, but Fuyuko does not see herself that way. Though she tries to maintain calm most of the time, Fuyuko gets frustrated and irritated with people easily, and is often misunderstood by others due to everyone having very high and unrealistic expectations views of her. Despite seeming generally social, Fuyuko is actually very lonely and is afraid to get attached to people because she believes all her relationships will end badly. She struggles to trust people and finds it difficult to let go of grudges.

Despite initially acting as if she was very against the killing game, deep inside Fuyuko was as desperate as everyone else to escape, and would do whatever it took to survive. Behind the scenes, she was the first one to make a move during the killing game after being persuaded to by Ikuro Suzuki. Though Fuyuko feels some remorse for what she did, she tries her best to brush if off and convince herself its for the best. She is very emotionally vulnerable and is prone to manipulation, something that Ikuro used to her advantage.

After Ikuro's death, Fuyuko is finally free from her manipulation. She still feels some guilt for everything she did, but in the end does not regret most of her actions during the killing game and tells everyone that they would have died if she hadn't stepped in, and that she sacrificed her morals in order to do so. She regains her confidence and holds her resolve to survive the killing game, whether shes the only survivor or not.

## Relationships

### Ikuro Suzuki

Fuyuko and Ikuro become close friends since the beginning of the killing game, though it was not genuine. Ikuro reminds her of the sister she lost, and because of this, Fuyuko's judgement is often clouded by personal feelings, and accidentally becomes attached to Ikuro because she sometimes believes she is her actual sister. This causes Fuyuko to not notice the type of person Ikuro actually is; a very scheming and manipulating person that uses her innocent and childlike appearance to cover up her evil intentions. After Ikuro shows her true self at the 4th trial, Fuyuko finally accepts that her actual sister is dead, and that Ikuro is not her. Fuyuko no longer feels any attachment or care for Ikuro and finds relief in her death.

### Reiko Nakamura

Fuyuko chooses Reiko as the target for her plan, as she believes that it will be easy to frame Reiko as a murderer due to her criminal background. When she first approaches her, Reiko speaks to her distantly and mocks her like she would anyone else. In reality, Reiko is jealous of Fuyuko, for she is wealthy, beautiful, and has everything in life that Reiko could ever wish for. Reiko quickly grows deep admiration for Fuyuko that she has never had towards anyone else, but she refuses to admit or show it and continues to put up her moody personality around her. However, this admiration goes away after Reiko discovers that she was being used by Fuyuko, and she begins to see her as a selfish narcissist. But once Ikuro explains the truth, Reiko realizes that Fuyuko doesn't have her life as under control as she pretends it is. She defends Fuyuko and feels bad for the way she acted towards her before, even though Fuyuko also deceived her. In her final moments, she wonders if things could have been differently between her and Fuyuko.

## Assets/Clipart

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