Ismene Circe

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**Ismene Circe** is a character featured in the English fangame *Danganronpa: Antebellum* created by **Rippilie**.

She is known as the **Ultimate Mythologist.**

## Gallery

📷 For more images of Ismene, see: Danganronpa: Antebellum/Image Gallery and Ismene Circe/Sprite Gallery.
## Appearance

Ismene is a tall young woman with pale skin and freckles, long curly gold-auburn hair with a small braid on the right and a fringe, and dark magenta eyes. She wears a white button up shirt with gold buttons and a black ribbon under a mint-green dress with a dark green crossed-pattern belt at the waist and a vine design over her right breast. She wears white socks with a vine design, the right one reaching her calf, the left reaching her ankle. She also wears dull purple pumps. She additionally wears a gold beaded bracelet over her right wrist, a wreath of vines in her hair, and carries a thick brown book.

## History

### Early Life

Ismene grew up attending a private academy with a rigorous curriculum dedicated to giving her the best chance in life. Due to this, she was isolated from other kids and had a lot of pressure put on her to maintain perfect grades. One Thursday afternoon when she was sixteen years old, her professor asked her to meet him after class. When she did meet with him, he began to flirt and put his hands on her, threatening to give her a bad grade on her most recent essay if she didn't meet with him at his apartment later that night to "talk it over". Later that night, she sent him a text asking to meet in the woods, luring him there where she killed him.

### Killing Game

#### Prologue

Alongside Dracul, Ismene watches over Shinku before he wakes up, questioning if he was still breathing. Once he does wake up, she is reluctant to introduce herself, but does so upon Dracul's request, also writing off his accomplishments as a writer due to believing that modern literature only plagiarises old legends. When Dracul thinks to explore where they are, he would attempt to hold Ismene's hand, but she would reject him. She and Dracul then bicker about their situation while Shinku notices Maiko in the distance, who runs up to them.

Maiko introduces herself before they all hear a ruckus coming from a room near them, Maiko telling them to investigate what's going on while she stands guard in the hall. Ismene would witness Emilia harassing Mint for his talent and love of plants before Dracul breaks up their argument and tells Mint that Shinku will approach him, while himself and Ismene will do so later, despite her protests. Mint would then notice Ismene's laurel hair ornament, complimenting the choice of leaves, flustering her.

Dracul posits they should all split up to search for more people and reconvene at a later time. After Ismene leaves, she interacts with other students and explores until all the students are called to the lecture hall. While in the lecture hall, she and Dracul would socialise with Alora and Kiyoshi, finding it challenging to chat with them. Once Shinku's introductions are finished, Mononeko informs them of the nature of the killing game; that all but one of them had committed a crime without due punishment, their imprisonment acting as rehabilitation. Soon all the other students leave the lecture hall, leaving Ismene, Dracul and Shinku alone. Dracul explains to them that he doesn't care what they'd done, confessing he'd shoplifted from independent businesses which contributed to them closing down. Shinku doesn't know his crime, but Ismene says she isn't strong enough to accept responsibility for her actions, running off.

Later that night while the students are in their dorms, Mononeko would broadcast the first three crimes on the monitors. The first is Ismene's, where they reveal that she had led her professor into the woods and killed him as part of a ritualistic sacrifice.

#### Chapter 1

The next morning, Ismene walks in on the others engaging in a communal breakfast in the dining hall. Upon her arrival, Alora greets her with "hello murderer" and Rei and Yui make antagonistic comments towards her for her crime. She quickly leaves, Dracul running after her out to the main hallway.

When Shinku joins them in the hallway, Ismene initially believes he's there to mock her, and Dracul is upset due to the other's reactions in the dining hall. Shinku is apprehensive to hear her reasoning for her crime, but Dracul is open minded if she wishes to tell them. She then explains that when she was young, she was enrolled in a prestigious academy with a curriculum meticulously dedicated to giving her the best chance in life. When she was 16, her much-older professor told her that he would give her a bad grade on an essay she wrote if she didn't come to his apartment that night to "talk things out". That night, she sent him a text asking him to come to the woods, where she killed him. At the end of her explanation, Dracul hugs her, Shinku following soon after.

The next morning, Ismene gathered the female students and Kotaro in the sterilisation room, planning to use him as a sacrifice to a god in order to fulfill their wishes. She lets all the other girls make their wishes as Takiko advances on him with a knife. After the gathering, Mononeko shows Ismene and the others personalised motive videos depicting a hostage of someone they know, providing extra incentive to kill.

The next afternoon, Ismene and the others are called to the lecture hall to be informed of a tea party Yui planned to throw. Despite Dracul's protests, Ismene is banned from attending, but she declines anyway, alongside Alora and Kiyoshi. During the party, Ismene spends the time with Alora, the pair drinking wine in her dorm room while Kiyoshi hangs around outside her door.

When the Body Discovery Announcement for Dracul sounds, the trio run to the biodome, Ismene tearing up at the sight of Dracul's body. Shinku at first tries to comfort her, but she declines, telling him to focus on Dracul. Shinku then questions her about her scream that everyone had heard during the party, but she wouldn't know what he was talking aboout. During Shinku's investigation, she would stay at the perimeter of the biodome, refusing to talk with anyone.

During the trial, Ismene is regarded as the main suspect due to preconceived notions of her because of her crime, and her scream having rung out while everyone was at the party. Shinku is eventually able to disprove the theories of Ismene's involvement as it's revealed Maiko recorded her own voice screaming in Ismene's pitch as a red herring. Amongst other evidence, Ismene angrily votes Maiko as Dracul's killer.

## References

1. ↑ **Instagram:** Ismene is demiromantic pansexual!