Chihiro Fujisaki

Chihiro Fujisaki (不二咲 千尋 Fujisaki Chihiro) is a character featured in Dangan Ronpa: Academy of Hope and High School Students of Despair. She has the title Super High-School Level Programmer (超高校級の「プログラマー」Chō Kōkō Kyū no "Puroguramā"). She was a programmer who had created much innovative software and currently was working to create an AI that had an actual intelligence and ego. Fujisaki was killed by Oowada in Chapter 2 after she divulged her secret to him. She secretly created, and left behind the Artificial Intelligence program, Alter Ego, in order to aid the surviving students.

Appearance
She has short, light brown, layered hair and brown eyes. Fujisaki wears a female school uniform, consisting of a dark green jacket with a white dress shirt underneath, a brown skirt, matching suspenders, and black socks.

Personality
Fujisaki has a meek and timid personality. She is concerned with seeming weak, which causes her to be constantly working towards being stronger. She has felt a lot of pressure, due to being designated male at birth, to act "tougher". This is, in fact, what inspired her to begin experimenting with gender presentation, but the fact that she was designated male at birth does not mean that she is a cisgender male.

Fujisaki cares a great deal for the people around her, and greatly dislikes fighting. Despite feeling weak, when it is suggested that they should all share their secrets within the group, Fujisaki is one of the few that agreed. This shows that she is not as weak as she thinks, and emphasizes her eternal striving towards becoming stronger.

Pre-Despair Incident
When Fujisaki was a child, she was too weak to play outside with her friends, causing her to begin playing on the computer to make the time pass. Her father, a system engineer, had developed many major computer programs, and one day, Fujisaki found an incomplete information retrieval system that utilizes voice input. This lead her to create her own modifications for it, and she soon realized that she could write programs by herself. Her father praised her for her work and, as Fujisaki finally found something she could take pride in, she became absorbed in programming.

High School Life of Mutual Killing
Fujisaki was first seen alongside the other students in front of the school gate.

Fujisaki was visibly shocked after witnessing Kuwata’s execution. She thought that she and the other students were no better than Kuwata, since they indirectly murdered him by voting him as the culprit. When Togami was found in the library after his sudden disappearance, he began to antagonize Fujisaki, causing Oowada to interject between the two by saying that it was not right to do that to the weak.

The next morning, the students gathered in the cafeteria. Fujisaki, still feeling down due to the events that transpired the day before, began crying after Oowada's argument with Ishimaru. Taken aback by Fujisaki’s reaction, Oowada immediately regretted his action and promised to protect her from any danger. This touched Fujisaki’s heart so much that it inspired her to take action and become stronger. In order to achieve this, she said she would start working out, much to Yamada’s dismay. After this, Oogami and Asahina asked her to go to the gym room to work out together. However, Fujisaki declined their invitation in fear of having her secret revealed.

After Monobear gave the students envelopes containing their most embarrassing secret as a motive for murder, Fujisaki was shocked to see her secret. However, instead of feeling scared, she became even more determined to reveal her secret in an attempt to change and be stronger. She decided to share hersecret with Oowada, whom Fujisaki admired, by inviting him to go work out together at the gym. That night, Fujisaki went to the storage room, attempting to search for a jersey that she needed to wear for her first workout session. She was intercepted by Celes, who happened to pass near the storage room. Startled with the gambler’s sudden appearance, Fujisaki quickly took off without mentioning where she intended to go off to.

When she arrived at the gym, she met up with Oowada and revealed her secret to him. As Oowada was still feeling pressured by Monobear’s threat, he felt envious of Fujisaki, because unlike him, Fujisaki did not run away from her problem and was actively trying to make her life better. Ultimately, his envy towards Fujisaki turned into anger, leading to her murder.

Later, it was discovered that Fujisaki had designed an artificial intelligence in an attempt to decrypt files about Hope's Peak Academy and she hid it in the locker room, away from the cameras, in the form of a laptop that she had taken from the library. That A.I., called Alter Ego, was the reason that Naegi survived his execution and the remaining students were able to escape the academy.

Mondo Oowada
Fujisaki admired Oowada, as she assumed he had a lot of strength. This admiration lead to Fujisaki making the resolution to become stronger. However, she didn't realize that Oowada wasn't as strong as she thought, and was actually under strain from Monobear's threat. Prior to Fujisaki asking Oowada to help her work out, Oowada tried to defend Fujisaki. This made her feel worse, however, as it made her feel weak. He also yelled at Fujisaki shortly afterward, causing her to cry. Swearing by his honour to never hurt Fujisaki again, he was able to make her feel better, and helped to cement her decision to reveal her secret to him.

Once Fujisaki revealed her secret to Oowada, and that she wanted to be stronger, Oowada was unable to control his emotions, and exploded in a rage, killing Fujisaki by striking her in the head with a dumbbell. After realizing what he had done, Oowada attempts to keep what he had done a secret, including switching the crime scene around.

Alter Ego
Fujisaki created Alter Ego from the old laptop found in the library. Alter Ego holds the highest respect for Fujisaki, referring to her as "Master". Fujisaki hid Alter Ego in the changing room in hopes that it would help the other students escape from the school.

Quotes

 * “I’m probably just imagining things, but did we ever meet somewhere before?”
 * “You look a little… displeased. You’re not angry with me, are you?”
 * “Oh, thank god! I thought you didn’t like me.”
 * “K,…killing… there’s no way…”

Trivia

 * Fujisaki shares the same birthday as Chiaki Nanami, being March 14th.
 * Fujisaki created the program and software that was used to make Monobear.
 * When she and Naegi started to introduce themselves, she said something about how maybe they had met somewhere before. It is possible that she broke from her amnesia (all of them were classmates in the Pre-Despair days), although only a little.