Zetsubou no Musume

**"** *So full of despair... You never learn, do you? If you had learned not to lose hope so easily you would never find yourself in such a situation. Yet to me, the most overwhelming sense of despair within you... it is quite flavorful. Brings me so much joy, I tell you. Would you not find it somewhat fitting that your despair does that for me? What a joke. A despairingly bland joke indeed.* **"** - Zetsubou taunting someone in despair.

**"** *What, you want to know who I am? That is Zetsubou, Daughter of Despair to you!* **"** - Zetsubou revealing herself.

The **Zetsubou no Musume** (ゼツボウ・ノ・ムスメ, *Zetsubō no Musume,* lit. *"Daughter of Despair"*), real name **Zetsubou** (ゼツボウ, *Zetsubō,* lit. *"Despair"*) and sometimes known as **Despair's Daughter,** the **Daughter of Despair,** or **Despair's Personification** (ゼツボウ・ノ・ギジン, *Zetsubō no Gijin,* lit. *"Personification of Despair"*), is most probably Yuhun's most prominent original character. Originally a fan-made *Arcaea* Partner, Zetsubou went on to achieve growing notoriety as Yuhun's 'other half'.

She is one of the Personifications, the most famous and feared one, and is believed to be one of the first to exist.

## Name

**Zetsubou** is the Japanese word for *despair*, the state in someone's conscious of having lost all hope. Her titles of **Despair's Daughter** and **Despair's Personification** refer to her despair-based motif, her love of and passion for the feeling itself. The former of the two titles refers to her name's meaning- her full name of **Zetsubou no Musume** literally means 'daughter of despair'.

Initially, she was meant as a fan-created, non-canonical third major *Arcaea* Partner who would feed off the despair felt by the titular world's inhabitants, though when now thought of, Zetsubou was created by Yuhun since she found despair to be an interesting feeling and wanted to make a character based off of it. Nowadays, Yuhun considers Zetsubou to be a part of her, since they "share a lot of traits and have many things in common".

*Despairé* is Yuhun's 'little play on despair'.

## Appearance

### Original

The **Zetsubou no Musume** is of above average height, appearing to be about 190cm tall. She dresses herself in a detailed shirt, tail-coat, pants that are baggy at the ends of each leg with the left leg being rolled up, and cross-laced boots, all of which are white and red, with everything but the shirt being mostly white with red detailing, whereas the shirt is red with the white image of an intricately-designed dream-catcher.

Her eyes bear red-ring irises and black sclera, the latter possibly referencing the phrase "pitch-black despair', thus referencing her title of the **Daughter of Despair.** She wears a bandage with a red cross in its center on her left cheek, though there is no injury underneath it.

## Personality

The **Zetsubou no Musume** is known to look upon despair as a pleasure and delight, even willing it to sink into peoples' minds. However, she also looks upon despair as something that people should deliver themselves from. It's believed she earned her nicknames from her strength, which was created from what is believed to be a 'heavy sense of despair' from the mind of someone unknown.

## Relationships

[This section is a work in progress. Please be patient!]

## Galleries

### True Form + Variants

Zetsubou's officially titled Despairé (Awoken) Mode.
### As a Skyrix

Zetsubou as a Skyrix during Dragon Adventures' 2022 Valentines Event.
### As an Ibetchi

Zetsubou as an Ibetchi in one of two secret caves.
### Other

Zetsubou's first iteration. Note that the pupils are different.
## Lore

[This section is a work in progress. Please be patient.]

## Fiction Appearances

[This section is a work in progress. Please be patient.]

## Quotes

**"** *Don't you ever learn anything about falling into despair and coming back out of it? It's the slightest bit of a shame for me to say that all but one of you have not learned from it.* **"** - The Zetsubou no Musume.

**"** *There are two types of despair in this world: sweet, happy despair, which I feel a lot- and the kind of despair that has the potential to just straight-up kill someone.* **"** - The Zetsubou no Musume talking about despair.

**"** *Hey... cry about it... I'm glad that we were close. Do me a last favor... and... hold on to hope and despair. It's the least that you could do for me, Ichizero. If despair comes to you... tend to it as much as you want... before letting it go.* **"** - Zetsubou's last words before one of her deaths.

**"** *Care for a little dance with despair?* **"** - Zetsubou post-mortem as a spirit, asking someone to dance with her.

**"** *I have a great pun for you guys... How do you make hope despair? Give it the word 'less'. \*imitates sting\** **"** - Zetsubou's 'despairingly hilarious' pun.

**"** *Despair is my favorite feeling for one reason, and I think you know why: it's fun to watch it sink in, and eventually kill someone... in a way. Of course, not literally. Or maybe because I'm born of it. Hope, you say? \*yawns\* Please. Hope is a fickle- or rather, terribly bland subject. Despair is **far more** interesting to talk about.* **"** - Zetsubou, on why despair is her favorite subject.

## Trivia

* The Zetsubou no Musume's page was the 19th on this wiki- this may have some relation to 19 being Yuhun's favorite number.
* Yuhun has previously described the Zetsubou no Musume as someone who "represents her dark side better than any other character that she has created".
* Yuhun has a Strawberry-Pearl-Garnet quest preset *Dragon Adventures* Skyrix that she has dubbed the Zetsubou no Musume's Skyrix form as a joke.
* The Zetsubou no Musume is one of three of Yuhun's characters that have multi-coloured blood; the others are her alter ego. the Zetsubou no Chimamire, and Kyo no Kakusei.
* The Zetsubou no Musume is depicted in most of Yuhun's fan-fictions and fictions in all three of her different forms to be physically 17 years old- this makes her one of only two of Yuhun's characters to have a known specified age.
	+ The other is Todesuu. Coincidentally, both girls are both stated to be 17 years old, though Todesuu is depicted as being 16 prior to her betrayal.
* Yuhun once joked that the Zetsubou no Musume's favorite Pokémon card would be the shiny Mega Gardevoir-*EX* from the *XY: Steam Siege* expansion.
	+ This is most likely because the attack on this card is called *Despair Ray*.
	+ Additionally, pronouncing *Despairé* is the same as pronouncing said attack, but as if it was one word.
* Despair as a feeling in Yuhun's literature pieces is referred to as a 'she', possibly in reference to Zetsubou.