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PLAYER
Name: Megan
Age: 22
Personal Journal: sleeting
E-mail: flufflekittens@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: mercurialfelines / theoryofillusion AIM

CHARACTER
Name: Chihiro Fujisaki.
Canon: Dangan Ronpa.
Age: Believes he's approx. 15-16 and just beginning Hope's Peak but is more like 18-20 (likely closer to 17 or 18), because of an in-canon memory wipe.
Timeline: Post-death in Chapter 2.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: n/a

Personality:

It is evident from the first time we meet Chihiro Fujisaki that he is a timid, meek young "girl", described as looking like a small frightened animal. Chihiro is sweet and apologetic and is quickly concerned that Naegi (the point of view character for Dangan Ronpa) dislikes him. As well, he is introduced as a female-- this is because he has been cross-dressing as a girl for several years to avoid being considered weak for lacking traditionally masculine traits, both in terms of his small build and personality. He was bullied when he was younger for both of these things, and chose to cope with it by hiding an entire portion of his identity; while he thinks of himself as a boy and even works up to telling Oowada (and, in school mode, tells Naegi), Chihiro has a deep-rooted complex about appearing weak, and his true gender is a closely guarded secret. Or was, until the students were threatened with their secrets being revealed and Chihiro chose to confide in Mondo Oowada, hoping the tougher boy could help him become strong enough that he could reveal his secret on his own. And then Oowada killed him instead, and everyone became privy to his secret post-mortem.

Given that he was one of the few of his classmates willing to share his secret (if not right away) instead of resorting to murder, Chihiro is possibly one of the emotionally stronger among his classmates. While he doesn't have physical strength on his side and while Chihiro has a hard time seeing the way in which he is strong, he is strong compared to the classmates who allowed themselves to change or break over the course of the game. Rather than despairing over his situation (although Chihiro does cry and clearly isn't happy about his situation), he becomes determined to overcome his perceived weakness. Even when he doesn't think he will last through the game, Chihiro thinks of the others and their survival, going so far as to leave behind an AI program meant to help them escape the game-- regardless of Chihiro's own fate. It is also clear he is not someone who would commit murder otherwise, as at one point he admits he didn't even want to kill a mosquito instead letting it feed off of him and saying that it probably had a family. A mosquito. Chihiro clearly believes strongly in the sanctity of life. He also has a deep consideration on whether or not Artificial Intelligence can be developed to possess a soul-- an unsurprising concern for a programmer who created his own AI program.

Chihiro is both one of the more reasonable of his classmates and one of the ones more prone to falling to pieces when things go south. He almost never allows himself to be drawn into wild speculation, and tries to be of help in the trial he is able to participate in, for example, and is always willing to help the others explore and try to find a way out no matter how upset he might be at the time. Even if it is effected by his overwhelmingly sweet nature, Chihiro possesses an analytical and reasonable mind befitting a computer programmer. While this does not help his social skills at all, he shows a clear regard for friendship and a dislike for fighting between friends. It is unlikely that he had many friends growing up-- it is stated that as a child he was too weak to go outside and play, which left him to discover programming by learning from his father who was a computer systems engineer. His biggest strengths lie with his programming skill, and it appears to be the only thing he has a passion for (not surprising, given most Hope's Peak students take great pride in their talent).

As his greatest fear is appearing weak, his greatest desire is to be strong-- though it takes his secret being threatened to be revealed for him to become determined enough to reach for his desire, instead of hiding in girl's clothing to avoid being seen as weak. His weakness complex keeps him from realizing that some of his seemingly weak traits can be seen as strengths-- his kindness, his honesty, the trust he puts in others, and his intelligence. Because all of these fail to meet the masculine ideal of what a man should be, he feels like a failure himself. Never mind that he's a downright prodigy with computers. The AI program he creates lives on after his death, helping his classmates far more than he had hoped, and Alter Ego is imbued with Chihiro's personality and wishes as his creation: the program is willing to sacrifice itself for the students and does everything in its power to support them to the end of the game, just as Chihiro had tried to do for them before his life came to an end.

Background: Here.

Abilities: Chihiro is the Super High School Level Programmer-- in other words, the biggest and baddest computer nerd at the High School level. Considering he created an Artificial Intelligence program from scratch and it did wonders even after he died, it's no wonder why he has the title. That's... that's about it.

First Person: Reply to Sonia on the test drive.

Third Person:

When he awoke on the train, Chihiro still felt as though he were sleeping. He watched the plains and then the fog with curiosity (this was not Hope's Peak, he noted idly), but it wasn't until had stepped off the empty train and into the train station that the situation hit him. The last thing he remembered before the train was the training room, with Mondo Oowada. There had been a burst of pain in his head, and then... then he awoke on the train. He reaches up to touch the back of his head, half expecting for it to come away bloody, though it doesn't. He stares at it for a long moment, trying to process. Had Oowada-kun killed him...? No, surely he wouldn't have...

But if he did, did that mean Chihiro was now in some sort of after life...? He looked around the train station, taking a few shaky steps forward. He didn't feel dead. What was death supposed to feel like, anyway? Despite the growing horrors of the mutual killing game, he hadn't given that much thought about where they'd go when they died. He would have supposed it'd be like a hard drive failure, the brain shutting down and never whirring back to life, everything inside becoming inaccessible and fried. But the soul, where did the soul go? He wouldn't have imagined a train station.

Maybe he wasn't dead. Maybe he was unconscious, or maybe Oowada-kun hadn't really struck him from behind. Yes, maybe that was the case. Instead they had all found a way out of Hope's Peak, and... and what? Chihiro had just somehow gotten on a train by himself to some mystery city, and somewhere along the way lost his memory of it? No, that didn't make sense. But did it really make sense for this to be the after life?

He paused, taking a deep breath, closing his eyes tightly and clasping his hands together. He was panicking, shaking even though it wasn't particularly chilly out. Not an unreasonable thing to do in this situation, true enough, but he knew he had to calm down. He didn't know where he was, or if it was after life or if he'd somehow left Hope's Peak. It could be some sort of new awful idea of Monobear's, expand the "mutual killing game" from the confines of Hope's Peak into an entire city. Even if that sounded incredibly implausible, he wouldn't be able to figure it out unless he found something or someone-- his classmates. That's who he needed to find. Naegi-kun and the others... they had to be here. Even if this was the after life, then he should at least be able to find Enoshima-san, Maizono-san, and Kuwata-kun. Then he'd be able to figure out what was happening.