Celestia explained that the killing game was incredibly intricate and that the mastermind must be extremely powerful to create technology as advanced as Monokuma and take over Hope's Peak Academy. This showed she had no mercy for those who refused to follow the school rules, and that her empathy was lacking.įollowing the events of the first Class Trial, the class convened in the Dining Hall in the morning to devise a plan of action.

Everyone agreed to comply with Celestia's rule to lower the odds of someone getting killed.Īfter the death of Mukuro Ikusaba disguised as Junko Enoshima, Celestia callously stated that those unwilling to adapt deserve to die. Taking leadership over the group, she decreed that no one should be allowed to go out of their dormitory at nighttime, which wasn't specified in the student handbook. Celestia's video showed her most beloved relative was her cat, Grand Bois Chéri Ludenberg.Īfter the students found out that there no way to escape Hope's Peak Academy on the first floor, Celestia sweetly suggested that they simply adapt to their new lives to prevent anyone from getting hurt. The first motive to murder were DVDs with a video from Monokuma that implied their loved ones were in danger. Shortly thereafter, the students were forced to participate in the mutual killing game. Makoto recalled reading a thread online that described her as a top gambler and an expert of deception, so he remained suspicious. She reassured him that 'Celestia' was indeed her real name. When Makoto Naegi introduced himself, he immediately questioned Celestia's name and identity. Despite these genuinely dangerous experiences, even in recounting the events to others she was prone to exaggeration, and instead of telling the real story would recount the stories of well-known gambling fiction such as Liar Game, Akagi, and 81diver, inserting herself into the fictional narratives as if they were real. In Japan, gambling is illegal and largely controlled by the Yakuza, so Celestia frequently put her life at risk by playing against and defeating dangerous individuals to win the large sums of money she was chasing, particularly as an underage young girl. Her ultimate dream in life was to own and live in a European castle filled with handsome male servants dressed as vampires, and this dream is what led her into the world of gambling in order to raise the significant amount of money she would need.Īs a person adept at lying, she became extremely successful in the underground gambling scene, able to even win games she had never played before simply on the strength of her ability to deceive and manipulate the other players.

She began adopting a fake ambiguous European accent and wearing and designing her own well-known line of lolita fashion. To make her life appear more glamorous, she took on the European-sounding name 'Celestia Ludenberg' and concocted a fictional backstory for herself in which her father was a member of the French nobility, and her mother was a member of a German family of musicians. Grand Bois became a captive for Monokuma's first motive during the Killing School Life, which revealed that he meant more to Celestia than any possible living relatives.Ĭelestia loathed her true self and the common world she was born into, considering her given name of Taeko Yasuhiro a 'loser's name', and so sometime during her childhood, Celestia retreated into an obsession with European royalty - particularly of the Victorian and Rococo period and European historical figures like Marie Antoinette. She taught him to enjoy eating gyoza and made it his favorite food, an example of their close bond. Celestia had a cat named Grand Bois Chéri Ludenberg whom she spoiled and loved dearly. Ryou described her as crushing him in no time at all, and leaving as quickly as she came. She has defeated many known gamblers including Ryou Ooba (a former gambler), which caused him to completely give it up. As mentioned in Danganronpa Kirigiri, Celestia had been a gambler for at least 4 years before becoming a student in Hope's Peak Academy. By all accounts, it seems she was given the given name Taeko Yasuhiro and born into a likely working-class family in the capital of Tochigi Prefecture, Utsunomiya where she came to love its most famous food, gyoza. Celestia was a notorious liar - to the point of earning the nickname 'Queen of Liars' - and so it is difficult to determine what, if any, of her self-reported life prior to the Killing Game is fact.

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