Autumn Palmer

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## Fangan Info

### Artists

StephenW313

**Autumn Palmer** is a main character featured in the American Fangame Danganronpa V4 Rocky Restarts, created by StephenW313. She is known as the **Ultimate Gardener**.

## Appearance

Autumn is a young woman that stands at 5'8". She has long green hair braided into a ponytail that hangs over her right shoulder, and hazel eyes. Autumn wears a red top with a floral rim; and a chest pocket with a flower emblem, wearing her shirt in a way that shows her right shoulder. In addition to this Autumn wears a pair of blue denim shorts and a pair of green boots. On her right wrist Autumn wears a bangle, and wears flower pins in her hair and braid.

In an older in-game design, Autumn used to wear a light red plaid shirt, a dark green apron, and a pair of denim jeans. Her hair was still kept in a braid but instead went over her left shoulder, and she wore only one flower pin in her hair.

Across the game Autumn carries around Succi, a potted plant Autumn believes she can communicate with.

## History

### Early Life

Early in Autumn's life she would wake up one day to find Succi lying next to her. At first Autumn didn't like Succi, finding the plant to be creepy, so frequently tried to give him away to other people. Despite this, Succi would always re-appear underneath Autumn's bed the next day. Eventually Autumn gave up on trying to give Succi away and kept him instead, something she's glad she did in present time.

During her class trial, she mentioned her mother was a criminal. Autumn would always try to help her change, but eventually, her mother got caught.

### The Ultimate Camp

Autumn was one of sixteen students who was invited to stay at the Ultimate Camp, an American-based resort which was intended to stimulate the typical Ultimate Academy environment. After the group arrived everyone went their separate ways; introducing themselves to each other while exploring the camp grounds. Soon after their arrival; everyone regroups at the nearby diner, under the misguided impression they'd be meeting the camp's counsellors. In their place, however, Monokuma; a monochrome stuffed bear introduces himself to the camp's leader. The group is left stunned after Monokuma reveals that the group is there to participate in a mutual killing game; where the only way they would be able to leave is to get away with murder.

In the following days of the games announcement Autumn decides to begin cooking breakfast for the group, working alongside Norah against the groups initial reluctance. During the game Norah and Autumn would grow closer with each other. She later joins Glenn, Alexander, Julien, and Kim on a run through the camp grounds.

### Autumn's plot

Moved my the motive of being able to save a friend, Autumn begins to work on a plan of murder during the night of the sleepover; with the misinterpreted belief she would be able to get help for the rest of the participants. Staying behind late to clean the kitchen; Autumn makes plans with Norah to meet her at the pier, yet doesn't immediately leave. Instead Autumn writes a forged love letter signed by Angela, and slips the note underneath Alexander's door after finishing her jobs. When heading to the pier Autumn notices Norah and Harmony already swimming, which she would use to her advantage by setting the time from 10 to 12, in attempt to give her a false alibi. After about two hours swimming Harmony's clothes are left drenched, leading Autumn and Norah to find her a spare set from her cabin. As a result of their loudness, Marie who was unable to sleep gets into an argument with Norah, leaving Autumn alone in Harmony's room and allowing her to perfect her alibi. After returning Harmony's clothes to her, the trio separate for the night.

At around 12:30 that night Alexander, having read the note left to him, heads to the side of the shop and waits by a nearby bench while Autumn awaited her chance in the bushes. Unexpectly for both however, Glenn returns to the camp that night which causes Alexander to run away. Panicked by his sudden appearance Autumn is forced to change her plans, sneaking up behind Glenn and stabbing him through the throat, causing him to instantly die. Much to Autumn's luck however, another unexpected visitor passed by that night, and she is forced to hold him hostage. Unwilling to murder her witness Autumn instead takes Hunter's necklace and hides it in Succi's pot, intending to use it as blackmail against him if he didn't help her cover up her murder. Able to convince Hunter, Autumn is able to further implicate Angela and Harmony, leaving a forged dying note in Glenn's journal, and covering Harmony's clothes in his blood.

### Fate

During the subsequent class trial for the murder of Glenn, Autumn is found guilty by the other students for Glenn's murder. The main piece of evidence used to pinpoint her as the murderer is left with her witness Hunter, who over the course of the trial breaksdown from the loss of his necklace. Secondly, the participants are able to narrow Autumn down as the killer due to her interference with Norah's watch and Harmony's clock, directly implicating the three of them. Unable to hide the truth any longer, Hunter eventually admits he saw Autumn at the scene of the crime. Mistakenly also admitting to her crime as she curses out Norah and Hunter, Autumn reaches into Succi's plant pot and pulls out where Hunter's necklace was; likely in attempt to destroy it, but is stunned when she notices it had been replaced with a stone. Norah soon reveals Hunter's necklaces and returns it to him, having stolen it from Autumn sometime during the trial.

Autumn is soon voted as the culprit and is executed by Monokuma. During her execution Autumn is tied to a bed surrounded by plants. Within a short amount of time they begin to grow exceptionally fast and sprout through Autumn's body, piercing her torso in multiple places. As Monokuma picks up a pair of shears, Autumn sees the ghost of her mom who placed her hand on her shoulder. Reduced to tears by the pain and the sight of her mom, Autumn is unable to move as Monokuma used the pair of shears to decapitate Autumn's head, instantly killing her. Her head then falls to the ground, with her death witnessed by the rest of the participants.

## Personality

Autumn is recognised to be a strange person by the other participants of the killing game, often witnessed talking to her potted plant Succi. In spite of this though Autumn is shown to be a kind-hearted person, cooking breakfast for everyone during their early meetings, and attempting to give Norah the chance for people to trust her.

On the other hand, Autumn's relationship with Norah is more complicated than what it is initially made out to be. Likely in part due to her childhood, Autumn grows close with Norah and is seemingly fixated on the idea of "fixing" her from her criminal ways. During the class trial their relationship would fall apart completely, as she targets all of her frustrations towards Norah, describing her as "impossible to fix", even in spite of only knowing her for a week at the time, as pointed out by Marie.

After receiving their first motive, her manipulatable side begins to flourish more. Although she intends to use the motive to get help from the outside world, Autumn (and by extent Succi) completely misinterpret that the class trial meant killing everyone else in addition to her target. She later shows regret for killing Glenn, apologising to his corpse, everyone, and Kim during the class trial.

Despite sharing a great deal of care for Succi, Autumn's feelings on them are also quite complicated, referring to them as a "curse".

## About

### Talent and Abilities

#### Ultimate Gardener

Enrolled as this years Ultimate Gardener, little is currently known about Autumn's achievements or what got her into gardening. Autumn takes care of all sorts of plants, stating to have several back at home. In addition to this she carries around and cares for Succi.

#### Cooking Ability

Together with Norah, Autumn would often cook breakfast for herself and the other participants. During their time together, Autumn was able to teach Norah how to cook within just a week.

## Trivia

* Autumn originally would have had a minigame in the first class trial, which was described to be similar to the Head Honcho minigame from Mario Party DS. This idea was scrapped due to coding difficulties.
* Autumn was apart of the initial eleven participants planned to be included in the game.
* Autumn is featured in a fanmade illustration drawn by the creator of Danganronpa: Despair Time.

## References

1. ↑ ***Danganronpa V4 Rocky Restarts***: Prologue
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQj5kWtHwl0
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44JNmNHiQGI
4. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/danganronpa/comments/aif7i2/anyone\_got\_any\_ultimate\_ideas\_that\_fit\_in\_with\_my/
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/DespairTime/status/1330332144040882178