Mayumi Takimura

> "...you don't deserve to suffer... no one does here. No one who died and no one who's alive deserves all of this, I'm sure about that."
>
> - Mayumi Takimura

**Mayumi Takimura** was a student who applied for Rimoto Piozumu Azademy in its second year, and a participant in the killing game that took place at the abandoned theme park in *Danganronpa: Mirrored Fate*.

## Personality

Her intended personality was meant to be a "cheery, preppy, caring, and nice" person. Her character application even mentions how she was meant to be somewhat of an older sister figure to others.

However, this did not end up happening. In the game itself, she ended up much more shy and withdrawn, usually straying away from the more dangerous activities that some of the participants tended to get involved in. She was noted for usually sticking to the morally right thing to do and tried to stay polite, even at the cost of the relationships of the people around her.

Some of her intended personality did show through, however. The most notable aspect of this is when she helped Zenkichi when he was going through a rather depressive time during Chapter 3. She generally also tried to stay positive as much as possible around others.

## History

### Before the Killing Game

*This information is more or less ripped straight from another application. Some of this information may not reflect the tone of the rest of the page.*

Funny enough, Mayumi's biological parents aren’t her current parents. She used to live in another family: her original mom and dad, and her sister. Her sister was quite older than she was (an 8 year difference), but her sister was a responsible and kind older sister, taking care of her and all of that. Her parents were also quite loving as well.

One day, when Mayumi was around 6, her parents went to a party, leaving her and her sister (who was 14 at the time) alone in the house. Obviously, this was only supposed to be a short parting, but it ended up being longer than what was expected when her parents got into a car accident with a drunk driver on the way home. The police had to carry the news over to the two back at home, and they were now parentless. Her parents were first generation immigrants and didn’t have any relatives in Japan; after some discussions involving the parents’ relatives from all over the world, they decided it would be best if Mayumi and her sister stay (relatively) where they were, and so they went through the adoption system.

Needless to say, this was a hard time for both Mayumi and her sister. Mayumi might have grieved forever if it weren’t for her sister, who put on a strong face and managed to console her sister through the trauma. Mayumi would never forget her sister’s help, and vowed to pay her back one day by proving her sister’s efforts on her weren’t wasted.

Eventually, the two were adopted. They now had a new mom and dad, who they eventually learned to love, but they had no new siblings. Their new parents were rather rich, though, due to their own company (Takimura Technologies), although neither her nor her sister would ever get very involved with it. Eventually, her sister went to university, and Mayumi was left alone, but she still wanted to prove herself.

She tried all sorts of things (with the help of her parents), from soccer to chess. As you might expect, it eventually led her to tennis. Initially, it was just some private lessons… but she seemed to have an almost natural touch with tennis, so eventually she tried out for her school team. She got in, became the top player there, and eventually even went beyond her tennis team, going across the world and even getting a chance to play against the pros.

As one could expect, eventually she was awarded the title of the Ultimate Tennis Player (or at least was commonly called one). She was pretty happy when she got that news, as she finally felt like she proved her worth… to an extent.

But it didn't feel like enough. It never would feel like enough. And so she applied to Rimoto Piozumu Azademy in order to better her skills to maybe satisfy that.