Kiyoshi Ainara

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

He is known as the **Ultimate Sculptor**.

## Gallery

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

Kiyoshi is a tall 24-year-old Japanese man with pale skin, messy orange hair, and yellow eyes. He wears a gray button-up shirt with a yellow tie with gold pins on the collar. Over this, he wears a black jumper with two black drawstrings fastened by gold buttons over his chest. He wears plain brown pants and black shoes. Over his waist, he wears two light brown belts with sculpting supplies attached to them, and he carries a light brown backpack with one strap over his left shoulder. He also wears black glasses.

## Personality

Perhaps due to his upbringing, Kiyoshi is very narcissistic, believing that due to his status as an Ultimate it is his duty to do whatever he must to further his skills, uncaring if people get hurt because of it. He is also skeptical and uncaring towards other people, but displays obsessive behaviour towards his muses and treats them very poorly. He is an individual led by passion and excitement, bouncing from one muse to the next when he gets bored of them. The only person Kiyoshi seems to have empathy for is his daughter, Kiyoka, who he claims to love very much, though it is unclear whether he truly cares for her as he plans for her to become his successor. He is also aware of his off-putting and creepy nature, and is capable of restraint when acting upon his wants and desires, but this restraint is often temporary.

## History

### Early Life

Kiyoshi's parents died when he was very young, leaving him in the care of his aunt and uncle, who gave him a lot of freedom and treated him like a prince. When he was young, he found an injured red finch and nursed it back to health, sculpting a birdcage for it to keep it safe. As the finch grew, he needed to sculpt replacement birdcages, giving him a love of sculpting. He didn't have any friends, and he found that anyone who talked with him did so as part of a prank, leaving him very skeptical of other people. As the years passed and he indulged in his love of sculpting, he wasn't able to find muses to sculpt through normal means, so he kidnapped a total of 11 girls of different ages and backgrounds to sculpt different emotions, mostly involving fear and anxiety. He kept them in his basement and collected blackmail on them so that when he released them they couldn't go to the police. Four years prior to the killing game, Kiyoshi had a daughter with his girlfriend at the time, Tomoni Fukuizumi, though he later cheated and broke up with her.

### Killing Game

#### Prologue

Shinku finds him in the lecture hall, Kiyoshi deep in thought observing and ruminating on Alora's beauty as he attempted to talk with him. Kiyoshi states he already knew who Shinku was before snapping out of it, apologising for his rudeness and explaining his goal to find the perfect muse. He then introduces himself, saying he focuses on creating statues inspired by human emotion.

Once Shinku's introductions are finished, Mononeko comes out from behind the stage and informs the students 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. Kiyoshi would then leave the lecture hall. Later that night, Mononeko shows Kiyoshi and the others the first trio of crimes, namely Ismene's, Kotaro's, and Mint's.

#### Chapter 1

The next morning, Kiyoshi joins the others for a communal breakfast in the dining hall. When Shinku, Dracul and Ismene leave due to the group's antagonistic comments towards her, Kiyoshi stays behind with the others.

The next morning, Kiyoshi, Taka and Mint gather at Shinku's door to invite him to join them on an expedition to the sterilisation room, explaining the girls had taken Kotaro and gathered there for a meeting. Whether Shinku agrees or not, Kiyoshi, Taka and Mint go to the sterilisation room to check out the girls, becoming disappointed when it's revealed they were engaging in a ritual to appease a god to fulfill their wishes and using Kotaro as a sacrifice.

After the gathering, Kiyoshi would receive the first motive, a video depicting someone he knew as a hostage. He seems to not care much about it. The next afternoon, he is called to the lecture hall along with the others to be invited to a tea party by Yui and Shinku. Alongside Alora and Ismene, he would decline, as he didn't care for his hostage.

While the others have their tea party, Kiyoshi would stand outside Ismene's dorm room while she and Alora drank wine and talked. After an unknown amount of time, the Body Discovery Announcement goes off, alerting the trio to the biodome. They find Dracul's corpse on top of Kotaro's cake. During the investigation, Kiyoshi is found in Ismene's room by Shinku, inspecting the room and moving things around. He tells Shinku Alora and Ismene had spent the night chatting together in her room. When Shinku finds a broken wine bottle, Kiyoshi sarcastically applauds him for his investigating skills, then warns him that he "can repeat lessons the deadman taught him but please know the deadman died for a reason. Don't become the next deadman." Mononeko then calls them to the ladder to go to the trial room, and he and Shinku walk there together.

Due to his absence from the tea party, Kiyoshi would be momentarily considered a suspect for Dracul's murder, but the theory is disproved by alibis from Ismene and Alora, who mention he made his presence very known outside Ismene's dorm. When Ismene is brought up as a suspect twice, he assists in confirming her alibi. He eventually votes Maiko as the killer.

Just before Maiko's execution, Mononeko reveals the next trio of crimes. First is Taka's, the second is Kiyoshi's, which explains that he kidnapped 11 girls over the years to use as muses for his sculptures and collecting blackmail on them to prevent them from going to the police. The last crime is Maiko's, and after the crimes are released, Kiyoshi is immediately regarded as a creep by the others. He defends himself by saying it's what he had to do to develop his skills, but no one takes that as an excuse. They all eventually break away to their dorms.