Ryūsei Kobayashi

**Ryūsei Kobayashi** is a student who does not attend Rimoto Piozumu Academy, and a participant in the killing game that took place at the factory in *Danganronpa: Insanity/Order*.

## Personality

Ryūsei has slowly been mellowing out over the years, losing his sense of worth and letting himself be controlled to some degree as he loses his motivation. He is most comfortable joking around and not taking things seriously, actively showing a distaste for anger and rarely having deeper conversations, purposefully avoiding talking too in-depth about himself. However, there are times when he loses his temper and needs a physical outlet for this anger, often resulting in violence followed by immense guilt. This attempt at tight control over his emotions has led him to try censor himself, forcing himself to avoid saying swear words. It also makes his outbursts that much more scary and overwhelming for himself.

## History

### Before the Killing Game (The Happenings)

Being born a coin-locker baby and later losing his adoptive father, Ryūsei largely grew up in the care system. He never seemed to care a whole lot about anything or anyone, letting his anger and violence get him through his teen years.

However, after being forced out, he set his mind to fulfilling his father’s dream of being the first man on mars, even if he wasn’t alive to see it. This strong motivation did lead to him produce some incredible work at a young age, catching the eye of a couple of businessmen. After promising him an escape from his difficult life, he agreed to work for them.

Ryūsei he quickly found he was unhappy with the circumstances, but was trapped and unwilling to lose his new privileges. He continued to begrudgingly work for them, while spending every other waking moment on his passion project to get his father out of the atmosphere.

Spontaneously gaining his Ultimate title a few years later seemed like a possible escape, so he took it graciously.

### Danganronpa: Insanity/Order

#### Chapter 1

One of the first things to happen in the killing game was for Natalie Tiler to give Ryūsei the nickname 'Dickcheese'. He also drew a series of images on the lounge whiteboards that stayed for the whole killing game and started a trend of writing on the walls. Often the messages were disturbing, though, and Ryūsei would clean them up himself.

He was also the first to get into the kitchen, taking a knife before anyone would be able to tell. He left this in his shed, This was promptly stolen by Hannes Lep and later used as fabricated evidence against Natalie to win a mock election.

#### Chapter 2

Ryūsei was the first to discover Shiori Hashimoto, tied up and unconscious, in the small storage room. He spent a lot of the rest of the chapter trying to work out who had tied her up, not knowing it was organised by Akira Hashiru with Shiori's consent. Because of this, he never really found out the truth of what happened.

This was also when Shiori and Natalie fell out, Ryūsei trying to stay neutral in the middle. Shiori being executed for murder this chapter caused Ryūsei to put a lot more faith in Natalie, all her lies about Shiori lining up. They were friends before, but this was when they became the duo that lasted to the end of the killing game.

He also momentarily moved into a shed with Cammelia Kang in this chapter. It was very short lived, though, as a pillow fight went out of control and Ryūsei ended up punching Cammelia in the face on reflex. He quickly went into a panic and fled, switching back to his old dorm. He spent the rest of his time with Cammelia feeling somewhat guilty, trying to make up for it even if she wasn't bothered about what had happened.

#### Chapter 3

During a strange handstand contest in the kitchen, Hannes drops the knife he took from Ryūsei, allowing him to take it back. He kept it for the rest of the game.

Later on, during Cammelia's body discovery, Ryūsei punched Hannes. Unlike with Cammelia, this was done with purpose. From this point onwards, he became much less stable. It wasn't very obvious, with maybe the most noticeable difference being his sudden use of swear words after adamantly trying to avoid them until this point. He became a lot more open to violence, though.

#### Chapter 4

After the opening of the printing room, Ryūsei was the first to work out how the 3D printers worked, printing off a plastic dinosaur he named Gooseberry. Unfortunately, Gooseberry is most likely destroyed along with the factory. R.I.P. Gooseberry.

After the trial, Natalie and Ryūsei made very rough plans to beat up Hannes due to his mutilation of Zenshi Sasada's corpse. This plan never came to fruition. Not in the way it was planned.

#### Chapter 5

Only one day after the chapter 4 trial, Natalie and Hannes started to argue. This eventually led to Ryūsei threatening to murder Hannes. Aside from those threats and the motivation, though, no real attempt was made to take his life. Ryūsei and Natalie did chase Hannes through the factory, though.

The next day, Natalie gifted Ryūsei with a ring with 'DC' on it. He wore it for the rest of the killing game.

Later on, Ryūsei, along with the help of Charlotte Dupont, moved all the chemicals out of the lab and stored most of them in his shed for the rest of the killing game. He kept cyanide on him from that point onwards, though, meant as an emergency way out of any sticky situations. It never had to be used.

#### Chapter 6

He started chapter 6 by threatening to hit Ayako Suzuki with a brick. Despite this, though, the two quickly became fast friends. Ayako was second only to Natalie.

He also somewhat reconciled with Hannes during this chapter. This was mainly due to pity, but also due to the fact that he didn't end up in rooms with both Natalie and Hannes at the same time. His pity only grew after Hannes attempted to coax Ryūsei into killing him but failed.

After Hannes' execution, Ryūsei's guilt and pity for him grew. Though possibly unrelated, Ryūsei couldn't help but feel a personal connection to the fact that Hannes was beaten and called names until he fell to his death.

During the final trial he correctly voted Okano as mastermind.

#### Post Game

Ryūsei Kobayashi has remained alive but in a coma since the killing game.

## Trivia

- He was known almost exclusively as ‘Dickcheese’ or ‘DC’ throughout most of the game

- His legal name is technically Ryūsei Yamamoto, after his adoption into the Yamamoto family later in his life, but he almost never uses that name for himself

- He once sent a hamster out of the atmosphere and got it back completely unharmed. He is rather proud of this achievement

- Part of his work deal included marrying Sakiko Miyazaki, the daughter of one of the business men. However, they are currently only engaged

- His hair is actually a very dark blue, but this is only visible under direct sunlight

- His adoptive father was meant to be an astronaut, but due to health complications he wasn't allowed. His father's passion for space sparked his own

- Ryūsei was named so because his father claimed he found him after witnessing a shooting star. He would often tell Ryūsei that he was the star itself: a gift from the heavens.