Empatheias App

⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Momo
Contact: schadenfreudere
Current Characters: Hiyono Yuizaki (Spiral ~The Bonds of Reasoning~)


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Kyoko Kirigiri
Age: very early 20s
Canon: Dangan Ronpa 3 (As a warning, this entire app will contain spoilers for the majority of the Dangan Ronpa series [zero, DR1, Danganronpa: Kirigiri, Killer Killer, and possibly SDR2])
Canon Point: End of the Final Killing Game

Background: DR Wiki article + supplemented by the DR Kirigiri Light Novel

Personality: While Kirigiri's core aspects remain the same, she has moved past some of her issues during the School Life of Mutual Killing, taking her sensibility as a detective with her to the Future Foundation, the organization responsible for rebuilding the world. While Kirigiri's blunt, impersonable personality doesn't seem like the best fit for a position of leadership in a branch responsible for public relations, she was deemed the most capable for the job by her superiors. As a leader, and a survivor of Junko Enoshima's killing game, she's respected and admired, though she considers herself a detective first and anything else second.

As the veteran of countless murder investigations, she has little hang ups regarding the human body or the dead. Nothing stands between her and a vital clue; if she has to, she'll shove her hand down the underwear of a dead man to fetch a scrap of paper he's concealed there shortly before his death, or taste the saliva from a corpse's mouth to check for traces of candy. Her hunt for the truth makes her unapologetic to any living bystanders, regardless of reactions of disgust at touching (or tasting) the dead or the tension and hurt feelings caused by her cold, no-nonsense attitude. During one investigation, she enters the office of a different branch unnanounced and completely ignores an employee trying to ask for her autograph. She proceeds without introduction or social niceties, launching into a series of questions regarding a serial killer she's trying to track down. When she has nothing more to ask, she leaves as abruptly as she entered, without any care for the person she interrogated or the fan she blew off.

In business-mode, she doesn’t speak insincerely, and it would take the regret from ruining a case or nearly killing someone due to her reckless actions for her to tell them she’s sorry. Murder investigations are dangerous by nature and Kirigiri is always prepared to put herself right in the middle of it. She focused on trying to find the culprit of the Final Killing game which pitted the chiefs of the Future Foundation and her friends Makoto Naegi and Aoi Asahina against each other. Knowing that she ran the risk of being poisoned to death if Naegi survived the fourth round of murders, she chose to focus on the investigation and set him up for success in her absence. Shortly before she was about to die, she took a drug that had the chance of mitigating the poison, without knowing if it would work or not.

The Kirigiri from the first game wouldn't have trusted someone else with an investigation, but after working on the School Life of Mutual Killing murders with Naegi Makoto and needing him to pull her and the other survivors out of their shock and depression during their final face off with Enoshima, he earned her confidence. In full anticipation of her own death during the Final Killing game, she leaves a notebook with her observation of the murders of their Future Foundation colleagues, helping Naegi figure out the trick behind their deaths.

In contrast, Kirigiri puts no trust in the two chiefs who tag along during her investigation. One of them, Koichi Kizakura, was a close friend of her late father, which dredged up her feelings of resentment towards him. The timid Ryota Mitarai wasn't supposed to be a part of the Future Foundation meeting that turned into the Final Killing Game, which raised suspicion in Kirigiri. While she would explain bits and pieces of what she'd found with them when they were with her, the full details were for Naegi alone. Silence can be used to protect herself and her knowledge from others, but she also uses it to protect others from themselves. Knowing that Naegi is in love with her and an honest, forthright person who would be willing to die in her place, she keeps the possibility that she might die a secret.

Probably the biggest change in Kirigiri since the end of their time in Hope's Peak is her affection for Naegi. While he started as a partner she couldn't trust, he became a friend she could tease in between cases. Her falling out with her father gave her a low opinion of men (which she would express in mocking, passive aggressive jabs) and her first love, Yui Samidare, is implied to have ended not only in emotional damage, but also in the horrific burns on her hands which she conceals with leather gloves. Despite her hesitation to fall in love again, Naegi's kindness, unwavering loyalty and willingness to forgive others made her want to get closer to him. Her bare hands served as a reminder of why she didn't want to get close to anyone, but by the Final Killing Game, she's comfortable enough to touch Naegi bare-handed. She's jokingly said that those she willingly reveals her hands to are those she considers family, but there might be at least a little truth behind her teasing.

Abilities: She’s been trained in shooting/marksmanship and a variety of martial arts. She also has great investigation skills.

Alignment: Kirigiri’s willingness to take life-threatening risks in pursuit of the truth feels most in line with Thras.

Other: Her hands are burned and covered with leather gloves at all times.


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉

General Sample: LINK

Emotion Sample: LINK


Questions: None!