Mikami Miki

**Mikami Miki** is a student who applied for Rimoto Piozumu Academy in its second year, and a participant in the killing game that took place at the abandoned theme park in Danganronpa: Mirrored Fate. Her title is the **Ultimate Televangelist.**

## Personality

At the start of both games, Mikami comes off as a meek but kind girl. It is difficult for her to understand social cues, especially sarcasm, due to her sheltered upbringing. This has resulted in many behavioral symptoms such as being easily intimidated, breaking down and crying with little provocation, profusely apologizing, and nervously stuttering while speaking. She constantly worries about always coming off as kind and understanding. This delicate persona makes her susceptible to severe bouts of anxiety and depersonalization. When she is socializing, it is usually due to her feeling that she needs to be in the public eye, and consistently maintain the positive persona she dons for a living. However, as the Ultimate Televangelist, Mikami tends to act much more confident while speaking about her talent; she is able to use her positive and persuasive way of speaking as a motivator to her classmates.

Because of the severe abuse she has incurred in the past at the hands of her family, Mikami cycles between being very awkward and having a warped perception of both positive and negative social interaction, or being a strongly staunch source of positivity. When treated with any sort of individual respect or sympathy, her first response is most often an exaggerated response, usually becoming instantly overwhelmed with emotion.

## History

### Danganronpa: Mirrored Fate

#### Chapter 1

The last thing Mikami remembers upon waking was her interview and acceptance call to Rimoto Piozumu Academy. She wakes up in her newly-assigned room in the hotel. Upon leaving her room to explore, she discovers she is trapped in a theme park with fourteen other students who received similar calls to her own. Once everyone was gathered, a mechanical wolf-like creature, who calls itself Fukushu, announces that they will be participating in a killing game. Mikami's initial reaction was to succumb to shock, not trying to believe the situation they're in.

Within the first few days of being in her new surrounding, she manages to meet some of the other students and gains a particular fondness for Olivia Vinson and Sana Arakaki, and considers them both close friends very quickly. One morning, Olivia knocks on Mikami's door, asking Mikami to come with her to investigate a loud noise she heard coming from Kimiko's room. Upon entering the room with both Olivia and Sana, the three of them spot broken glass on the floor of the room and approach the window to investigate further. Once the three of them look out of the window, they find Takahito Ishii's lifeless body on the ground of the courtyard. The three of them discovering the body triggers the first Body Discovery Announcement.

The three of them race down to the courtyard, where they confirm Takahito's death. Other students begin to pour out from inside the hotel after hearing the Body Discovery Announcement. Fukushu then appears and tells the students that they have twenty-four hours to uncover who Takahito's murder is, followed by a Class Trial. The students break off to investigate. Mikami prays over Takahito's corpse, then rushes back up to her room.

Mikami chooses not to take part in the investigations taking place due to Takahito's death, opting to stay in the confines of her room, where it's safe. During this time, Mikami spends most of her time trying to calm her nerves, as she continually suffers from anxiety attacks as a result of the shock of finding Takahito's body. She blames herself for his death, feeling as if she could have done more to prevent his death.

On the day of the trial, Mikami is dragged to the circus-like tent now present in the courtyard. After all the students arrive, bars come down around the tent, preventing them from leaving. During the trial, Mikami tries her best to be helpful in remembering as much detail of the body discovery as she can provide, as well as confirming alibis for herself, Olivia, and Sana. By the end of the trial, Mikami agrees with the consensus that Takahito had slipped and fallen to his own death, and casts her vote for him.

#### Chapter 2

After Takahito's trial, Mikami rushes back up to her bedroom, looking to forget the events that unfolded just moments ago. The next day, more of the amusement park opens up to the students; including a fun slide, teacups, skylift, and a game center. Looking to explore the new area, Mikami begins walking along the trail, coming across the game center, where some of her classmates were gathered discussing the new attractions.

The next day, Mikami returns to the game center, not wanting to explore the rest of the park on her own and looking for anyone that might be around. She meets Oliver and Kimiko there, and Oliver shares that he knows who it was that carved the threat into his door, and agrees to share who it was in exchange for Mikami and Kimiko's help with a plan of his. The girls begrudgingly agree, and Oliver tells them it was Tazi, which the girls did not believe. Oliver instructs Kimiko to round up as many people as she can and bring them to the south courtyard as he and Mikami walk there. Once Kimiko comes back with a small group, Oliver whispers into Mikami's ear, asking her to trust him. Oliver grabs Mikami, then pulls a shard of glass out of his pocket and holds it to her neck, threatening to kill her if the person who carved it into his door didn't step forward. Mikami, panicked, tries to struggle free, but Oliver pulls her back in. The group watches the scene unfold, horrified, with the exception of Kimiko, who keeps edging Oliver on, and encouraging that he kill her. Mikami, knowing she's not strong enough to get out of this situation, looks pleadingly at Kimiko to tell the group who Oliver had accused, which she does. Oliver lets Mikami go as she falls to the floor, legs giving out. Olivia, Sana, and Jason all rush to her aid and eventually help her back onto her feet.

Wanting to get away from what had just happened, she hobbles into the hotel lobby and sits down on one of the couches. She's unable to form a coherent thought or sentence as her mind raced with the details of what had just happened due to partial shock. She continually babbles if she'd done something wrong and if she were in trouble, to which Sana replied that she was not. Kimiko then enters the lobby and attempts to minimize the gravity of the situation. After hearing enough of her, Mikami stands up and snaps at her, asking why she'd continue to encourage Oliver, believing that Kimiko wouldn't care if Oliver genuinely were to do her harm. After her outburst, Mikami feels all the energy drain from her body as she returns to her room.

Mikami spends the next day locked in her room, trying to get a hold of her emotions. On one end, Mikami is absolutely terrified of what Oliver had done to her. On the other, she clings on tightly to her belief that he's deserving of forgiveness. In the end, she opts on forgiving him and goes to look for him in the park. After a while of searching, she locates him talking to Sana. Mikami notices the look of guilt on Oliver's face and it only strengthens her resolve to forgive him. She tells him this, and Oliver breaks down, thanking her. After this, Oliver seems to return to his usual, joking self.

Later in the day, Olivia invites Mikami to a girl's night sleepover in her room, as she's already invited most of the other girls in the group. Mikami agrees, looking forward to spending some time with her friends and feeling some normalcy after the prior days' events. They gather some snacks and head up to Olivia's room, meeting the rest of the invitees on the way. The girls spend the evening talking and snacking before hearing a knock on the door. Startled, the group decides to go investigate the source of the knock, only to discover it was Oliver trying to play a prank. Knowing who knocked, they go back to Olivia's room to sleep, relieved that it wasn't anything sinister.

When morning comes, Mikami wakes up last, greeting everyone still in the room, before deciding she was going to explore the park more. She continued to walk among the new paths until she came across the teacups, becoming immediately entranced by them. She spends some time trying to figure out how to turn them on before hearing Fukushu announce a Body Discovery Announcement at the bottom of the Fun Slide. Mikami rushes over and rejoins the group and sees Riko's body hung up in a potato sack, tied up with an electrical cord. Mikami watches as the group takes her down and examines her body.

During the trial, Mikami, again, tries to be as helpful as possible in recalling what she had seen the day prior as well as the evidence she was able to examine during the initial investigation. Although she did not have an alibi herself, she was not suspected at any point of being the culprit. The group deduces that the killer is Shin, as he'd murdered Riko to be able to save his sisters from his father's extreme abuse. He states that he fears he is going to go to hell because of what he'd done. Mikami becomes extremely upset at this and tells him that won't be the case. Jason continues to tell Shin that he is going to hell for killing Riko, as Mikami begins to doubt her faith and teachings for the first time, believing that someone who'd killed for the reason Shin did couldn't be damned to hell. As a final plea, Shin asks that the group helps his sisters after they escape. The group agrees, Mikami promising him that his death wouldn't be in vain.

After watching Shin's execution, Mikami begins to sob uncontrollably. Haru walks over and puts a hand on her shoulder and she throws her arms around him and continues to cry. The group begins to slowly filter out of the trial tent and move back out to the south courtyard.