Haruko

Haruko is a student in Peace Valley Academy in Danganronpa : Chaos Descent.

Physical Traits
Haruko is an odd girl who was raised in the suburbs with her dad. Her usual attire is a loose-fitting baseball t-shirt and baggy shorts, with a purple and orange ball cap representing her favourite baseball team, the Ducks. She has a necklace made of various claws and teeth of animals she's taxidermied. Her orangish-blonde hair is usually in two short pigtails, though it isn't tied very well. Her eyes are pale blue, and she has a triangle of freckles under her right eye. She has a patch of scarred pinkish skin around her left eye.

Personal Life
She was raised with a single father, and overall describes her life experience as that of a "plain kid." She was often taken to baseball games, and she says that the scar on her eye is from being hit in the face by the ball once. She can't see very well out of the injured eye.

Haruko claims she's always had a "morbid interest" in taxidermy, eventually deciding to pursue it further. Other kids found her weird for it, but she simply ignored their words. Haruko sometimes mentions that her brain feels weird, as if it weren't her own, but it's suspected that she just gained brain damage from her eye injury. This could also explain her apparent lack of certain memories, including her own name and birthday.

Personality
Haruko's personality is somewhat childish. She gets scared easily, and often fears getting in trouble from breaking rules, but she is otherwise very active and energetic. She's weirdly unphased by morbid things, even making shockingly dark jokes at inappropriate times.

Haruko has incredibly strange emotional reactions to certain scenarios. She tends to giggle when she's scared, and she's quick to put on a smile when threatened. When she's close to crying, she begins laughing in an almost maniacal way, and insists that her tears were from her laughter, rather than her sadness. Whenever somebody tells her something, she asks, "am I allowed to remember that?" as though she's constantly walking on eggshells. This is all because of her injury.

Trivia

 * She feels an uncanny sense of familiarity towards Hitoshi, despite never having met him before Peace Valley.
 * Haruko finds comfort in staying near Kana, even though she's commonly feared, and even regarded as crazy by some.
 * She describes Peace Valley as "a constant state of deja-vu." Nobody can decipher what she means by this.
 * She likes oranges.
 * She has a strange aversion to cameras, mirrors, and windows. She blocked the window in her room with a blanket.
 * Her favourite shape is a square.