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Character Name: chiaki nanami
Canon: super danga ronpa 2
Canon Point: chapter 4, before the deaths and trial
Background/History: sdr2 history summary, nanami's wiki page, chapter summaries, lp 1, lp 2

Personality:

In a high school classroom, it is typical to see a student start dozing off during lecture for reasons unknown. It could a number of possibilities until you finally decide to ask them directly and the answer is something quite typical: they had been gaming all night trying to beat a game. This student would be Chiaki Nanami.

"There was this one game you could only play in sunlight. The difficulty level was far too high for adults and shut-ins."
When we first meet Nanami, she's gaming, and spends most of her free time playing games. With this in mind, adding on to the fact that she seems a little vacant and bad at socializing, it is easy to group her in a category with those useless introverted gamers who will have no career and instead spend their life playing games in their mother's basement. As a gamer, Nanami is always tired due to the fact that she stays up playing video games, which has lead to multiple occurrences of her falling asleep even while she is standing up. She seems to be always in a daze, taking long pauses before speaking and it has come to a point where Akane compares her to an old fashion TV that you have to knock on the head a few times to get working again. However, while she appears to be spacing out there is always a chance that she's in deep thought, whether it be from gaming or not. And this is the part where I tear down all the judgement a person might have about Nanami until now. During her introduction, the protagonist asks, "You're not very good at conversation are you?" but this isn't entirely the case! Nanami claims that: "I can’t speak well unless I compose everything I want to say inside my head first. If I don’t have every word prepared, I’m just not a very good speaker…" and these words prove true in the future, after building friends and going through trials. Don't be mistaken!! Nanami's not simply someone who only cares about playing games and has come to be very well loved by her fellow classmates..

With the title of Super High School Level Gamer, it's not surprising that Nanami is good with all types of gaming genres! While some people might deem her skill useless, they have proved very useful during events, such as when it came to mapping an area or figuring out the True Ending code to a video game they had to finish. She's very passionate about her games, and if she is presented with a game, her tired demeanor would dissolved away in her excitement. Unsurprising, she's a complete gaming nerd who compares real life to a game. Often making references that are either too obscure or out of place to understand, she thinks that life itself should be treated more of less like a game as well as something where you would get meaning out of it -- whether you win or lose.

"Not all games have happy endings, but you should always be left with something meaningful after you beat a game."

For someone that can be considered to have bad social skills, Nanami can actually be very assertive, especially during trials. When someone is being needlessly rude or annoying while they're trying to solve the murder she would straight up ask them to stop talking. She's even told Monobear to shut up, which must have taken a lot of guts. However, she isn't rude, just straightforward and stern about her order. And since she's not very good at speaking, she can get mad and pout if someone doesn't listen to her after she says something she feels that is important. Everything she does usually is to move things forward, or even to make peace. She slapped Akane once in order to stop her from hurting Komaeda any longer because she was strangling him and Nanami had to remind Akane that she isn't that kind of person. If everyone were given a role, Nanami can be described as the peacemaker of the group. Almost on par with her passion for games, Nanami is one of the people that strongly opposes to mutual killing. She's determined to keep everyone safe and this determination to stop murders really shines though so that even Hinata was thrown off by her chance in attitude. We find out later that there is a stronger reason for this, besides her care for her friends.

"I… will never stand for any more mutual killing".

Since the beginning of the game, there have been rumors of a traitor being among the students, and by the end of Chapter 5 we learn that this traitor is Nanami. While labelled a traitor, this is actually not as bad as it sounds! This just means that she isn't part of the class among the original students who attended Hope's Peak Academy. The truth is she's an AI program and not an actual person. She was created by ALTER EGO, a program created by Fujisaki Chihiro who was a student from the first game. This may seem confusing, but the students that we have come to learn about all became Super High School Level Despair during the 2 years they've attended the school. They all followed their leader, Junko Enoshima, who is also the main antagonist of the first game. After Junko's death, the Hope Program plugged the despair students into a virtual world so that they may live normal lives on an island and hopefully overcome despair. Their memories are wiped away so they don't actually remember Junko or ever attending the school.

The purpose of the program is to create an environment where Monomi may watch over the students as they create hope and become friends. They wanted to cure these students of despair so that they would be able to live normal lives again. Like Monomi, Nanami had also been put into this program to make sure the students do what they are meant to do. However, Junko had planned on this and created a virus to take for the program, causing Monobear to rise again and force the students to start mutual killing. This is why she felt so strongly about combating despair and murder! You can say she's created for the opposite purpose of Junko so she would do anything in her power to stop her.

Just because Nanami is an AI, it does not mean that she did not develop her own personality. The program made by Chihiro is a very complex one and Nanami can easily be described as her own person. She's a very kind person and even though she is the traitor, it was never her intention to hide this fact from the rest of the group. No matter how hard she tried, she was programmed not to betray the Hope Program and therefore could not tell everyone even during a hard time. However, her own feelings on the matter is the contradicts her task as a program, showing that she has her own mind. Before her trial, Komaeda used his luck in order to drive out the traitor, staging his own death so that Nanami would be the one to trigger and murder him. Just when it felt like it was hopeless, Nanami told the rest of the students to choose her, telling Hinata to prove that she's the traitor and indirectly giving away that she was the traitor so that the other students can continue to live on. (We find out later Komaeda meant to kill everyone but Nanami, so if she had not found a way to reveal herself, everyone else would be died).

"... this is the only way I can exist, and I cannot ever betray the Future Foundation"
" What the hell does that … but you ended up betraying them anyway"

In the end, Nanami's role throughout the game tends to contradict what someone might think of her when they first meet her. She isn't a lazy gamer at all but someone that is kind, caring, with an eye for detail even if she does seem a little slow and moves in her own pace.

As a side note as I didn't know where else to put it, Nanami being an AI also explains why she seems to know very little about the outside world. This is especially shown when talking about “Hina Matsuri”, celebrated on March 3rd, where people pray for the health and well-being of the girls in the family as well as decorate the place with doll displays. Hinata was really surprised when he found out that Nanami didn't know what it was, and has grown up without ever hearing about it. It is also revealed in a free time event that she didn't know that milk came from cows, so there's probably a lot... she doesn't know.

Abilities/Powers: Nanami is given the title of Super High School Gamer, which means that she is remarkably good at games. The only game she is bad at are dating games, which is probably understandable given what she is. She also has the ability to fall asleep while standing up...

Items/Weapons: 1) PSP 2) Power cord 3) A Game Disc.