Yukio Shizukane

## Family

* Unnamed father†
* Yoko Shizukane (mother)\*
* Mika Shizukane (younger sister)
* Mamimi Shizukane (youngest sister)

**Yukio Shizukane** (静鐘 雪雄) is a former student at Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th and participant of the Killing School Life. He was picked randomly in a lottery to choose a common student and such, received the honor to attend Hope's Peak Academy as the **Ultimate Lucky Student** (超高校級の幸運, lit. Super High School Level Good Luck). He is the main protagonist of *Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc*.

After successfully defeating temporarily the mastermind of the killing game and escaping Hope's Peak, he joined Future Foundation alongside Miki Kagurazaka and Suzune Tsukishima, the other two survivors.

## Appearance

Yukio is a young man with decent height, fair complex, blonde hair and green eyes. As he lost his school memories, he is two years older than he believed, the proof being the muscles he gained from training with Suzune in his school years. He wears glasses with black frame, a white sleeved shirt, black blazer, dark green sweater vest, gray pants, white socks and green sneakers. After getting stabbed by Enju Otsuka as an attempt to frame him for her crime, he gained a scar in his abdomen.

## History

### Early life

Yukio is the older brother of two younger twin sisters. He lived peacefully until his father died and left them alone in the world. Due to that, he developed a huge sense of responsability as the only man in the house and such, started doing everything he could to help out his mother and little sisters. Yukio attended Evergarden High School (常原高校) before attending Hope's Peak Academy.

In a fatidic day of his first year in high school, depicted in *Danganronpa Shizukane*, he heard about a fugitive criminal that robbed a bank. Worried about his sisters, he keeps walking until he was called by his two closest friends at school and they convinced him to try to get a prize at a vending machine in a convenience store nearby. Although he did get it, the machine broke and caught fire, meaning that he lost his money and didn't get the prize. His two friends ran away when they noticed what was going on. Yukio was with them.

When he was running, however, he bumped on a blond woman that fell on the floor. He tried to help her but was rejected, she took her bag that also fell and left. Yukio left, too, unaware that he took the wrong bag. As he was trying to go back home, he noticed being chased by someone and tried to lost her sight but was unsuccessful. He then discovered that it was the same woman who was after him and she started shooting at him while he tried to escape.

They arrive at a construction site where Yukio could mislead her for a while but not too much. He asked her the motive for being chased and got surprised as she said that it was all about the bag he was with. She discovered that he tried to take her to the police and was irritated by his actions. Yukio hide from her vision and was waiting for his death even if he didn't want to die, after all.

He then started his plan and thrown away the bag with money, desperating the woman, and he tried to run from her. However, he tripped as other signal of his strange luck. When she was about to kill him, bats appeared and interrupted her doing. Thinking about his family, he decided not to flee as he was worried about them. He hit her chin with his right elbow and when he heard the police, he ran away.

It didn't take long until he got kicked by his little sister, Mika, that complained with Mamimi about he being late for dinner. He tried to explain to them what happened but they got the wrong idea. Soon, they got in familiar and good mood but Mamimi gave him a letter from Hope's Peak.

### Killing School Life

After attending at Hope's Peak for two years, his memories were erased by the efforts of Rei Kindaichi, Hikaru Aino and Mitsuru Kudo, the masterminds behind The Tragedy, and put in the Killing School Life alongside his fifteen classmates.

## Trivia

* His name came out from a story by Miika, where the real people in her life gained life in a fictional plot. As Yukio is a Japanese descendant, she put that name on his controllable character as a honorable mention.
* Yukio is very similar to Taichi Kawasumi from *Daily Butterfly* in many ways:
	+ Both have blond hair and green eyes. They also wears glasses.
	+ Both are strong martial artists. Taichi enjoy Karate style while Yukio enjoy Bajiquan style.
	+ Both looks frightful but are actually very shy and tends to blush easily.
	+ Both have the same height.
* Yukio is confirmed to be bisexual.
* It is heavily implied in *Danganronpa Shizukane 2* that Yukio lost his virginity with a friend.
* According to his character overview: he uses ぼく as a manner of speaking in first person, adds "-san" (さん) to girls' surnames and "-kun" (くん) to boys' surnames.

## References

1. ↑ The prize is said to be Project Zombie, a profitable gift in *Danganronpa 1*’s MonoMono Machine.