Byakuya Togami (十神 白夜) is a major anti-hero and a student in Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th, and a participant of the Killing School Life featured in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. His title is the Ultimate Affluent Progeny
Biography[]
During the Tragedy, Jin Kirigiri, the Headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy, planned to seal the school building and let the students live forever inside the Academy in order to protect them from the destruction. The class agreed to his plan, and they sealed the building together. The students lived peacefully inside the school building for a year without knowing that the Ultimate Despair members were already in their midst. The students soon became forced into the killing game. As an incentive to murder in order to escape, the students were each given a DVD featuring a video from Monokuma which implied that their loved ones were in danger. Byakuya's butler, Aloysius, was captured by Ultimate Despair for this motive.
As the Killing Game began, Byakuya was extremely cold and dismissive towards the other students, making his dislike to them known and stating that he would not cooperate with them. He did not trust any of the other students, assuming any of them could be plotting a murder. Like the battle he had faced with to earn his place in the Togami family, he decided to treat the Killing Game as the game is claimed to be, one he intended to win. His dismissive and derogatory attitude towards the others ultimately led to Mondo snapping and attempting to attack Byakuya. Makoto tried to intervene, but became the target for Mondo's attack instead, resulting in Mondo knocking him out in a fit of rage. After the deaths of "Junko", Sayaka Maizono, and Leon Kuwata, Monokuma opened up a new floor, where Kyoko found an old, dusty letter which stated that Hope's Peak Academy had been forced to shut down. Byakuya suggested that the letter could be fake, but believed that if it was real, then the mastermind may have placed them in a different school, citing that the mastermind was powerful enough to build a trial ground and a place for execution.
The next day, instead of attending the regular morning meeting, he spent the morning reading in the library. When the other students came to look for him, he stated that he was trying to come up with something "original" for his plot, should he become a villain in the game. Mondo got angry at him again and threatened to kill him. Chihiro Fujisaki tried to mediate the argument because they do not like the idea of friends killing each other or fighting - but Byakuya shut Chihiro down by stating that they aren't friends. Mondo threatened to kill him again for picking on those who couldn't fight back but declared that he wouldn't simply cooperate with anyone anymore. Byakuya remained in the Library, refusing to talk to anyone. Later when Toko and Makoto went to see Byakuya, he told them to get out and told Toko to take a bath, commenting on her smell. This caused Toko to misinterpret it as him caring about her and she quickly developed feelings for him. Before Monokuma's second motive, Toko told Byakuya her secret: that she was Genocide Jack. Whilst at the library, before going back to his room, Byakuya noticed Mondo leaving the girl's changing room and had a look inside, noticing the dead body of Chihiro Fujisaki. He decided to stage the scene to make the killing game more interesting for himself, as well as to reveal Toko's identity as Genocide Jack. Using an extension cord which would lead the other students to deduce he could be a suspect, he crucified Chihiro's body on a weight bench frame and wrote Genocide Jack's calling card "Blood Lust" on the wall in Chihiro's blood.
The next morning, after the students received the announcement that someone had been murdered, Byakuya led Makoto and the others to the girl's changing room and agreed to co-operate with Makoto in the investigation, not revealing that he knew the true culprit. After investigating and finding a few more clues, Byakuya took Makoto to the library and showed him the Genocide Jack case file, where Makoto learned that Genocide Jack has a case of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Byakuya told him that all Genocide Jack killings had "Blood Lust" written beside them and top-secret information from police records stated that all victims were crucified. He then split up from Makoto.
During the Class Trial, he quickly exposed Toko as Genocide Jack, shocking the others. He explained that he knew because Toko had disclosed it to him, which made her faint and her Genocide Jack personality to emerge. The other students deduced that Genocide Jack couldn't have killed Chihiro, because Chihiro was a girl (Genocide Jack only kills males), and that the murder weapon was a dumbbell rather than her signature Genoscissors. Suspicion quickly turned to Byakuya due to the extension cord the students had seen him using in the library, however, it was then revealed that Chihiro had actually been killed in the boy's locker room, and was actually male; both facts Byakuya did not know, which determined Byakuya wasn't the killer. He admitted at this point to staging the crime scene; much to his classmates' disgust and anger. When asked about his motives, he called them irrelevant but said they should look for the real killer. Later Mondo was found as the killer and was executed.
The group's attitude continued to sour towards him after learning what he had done to Chihiro's body and potentially could have led to them failing the class trial and being executed, despite his claim that he would have revealed the truth if they had come close to doing so. This came due to a head after Sakura was revealed to be a mole within the group; Byakuya showed no respect to Sakura, which angered Aoi so much that she slapped him across the face.
After Sakura's death, Aoi fell into a deep state of depression and fury and attempted to manipulate the trial so that she would be the killer and lead to them all being killed. During the Class Trial, Byakuya became convinced that she killed Sakura, but when Makoto and Kyoko show evidence that showed that it wasn't her and was instead part of her plan, Byakuya became enraged that he had been so mislead in his deductions. Kyoko told that Byakuya that the reason he couldn't solve the case was because he was so dismissive of other peoples' feelings and does not understand that not everyone acts according to calculations and cost-benefit diagrams; much to Byakuya's shock.
After the further deaths of their classmates, the students were forced into an investigation to identify the missing 16th student and ultimately deduced that the true mastermind of the killing game was Junko Enoshima. Byakuya and the other remaining survivors were shocked to learn that the 'Junko Enoshima' they met was actually Junko's twin sister, Mukuro Ikusaba and that the world outside their walls was in a state of collapse due to The Tragedy. Byakuya was shocked when Junko illustrated his family's current situation - or, "lack of a situation", given that his family had apparently been "completely wiped out" - and was rendered completely speechless for the first time since the start of the Killing Game.
Byakuya and the other survivors began to fall to despair, only for Makoto to find his true self as the Ultimate Hope, and guide all of them back onto the path of hope. Makoto's speech to Byakuya helped him move past the initial shock of what Junko had revealed about his family, and he declared that as long as he were alive, the Togami Family would never truly die. He vowed to rebuild his family no matter what opposed him once he entered the outside world. Supporting Makoto, Byakuya and the remaining students voted for Hope - causing Junko to fall into one last episode of despair shortly before she executed herself in The Ultimate Punishment.
With Junko dead, the School Killing Life was finally over, and the survivors found an escape switch that would allow them to leave the academy. Their torments were finally over, Byakuya remained arrogant to his peers, but also finally admitted that, without everyone's help, he wouldn't have survived through this gruesome journey. Byakuya repeated his vow to rebuild his family with his own hands and declared that it would be far greater than before. With that, Byakuya emerged from Hope's Peak Academy as one of the survivors at the end of the game.