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Character: Hajime Hinata
Age: It's never outright stated in canon, actually; his avatar is physically 16-17 years old, although he's technically lived (but does not remember) more years than that, so he's about 19-20.
Canon: Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Academy
Canon Point: post-Chapter 6, right before everyone leaves the Neo World Program.

Background: Wiki + Spoiler-kun wiki. While I am, for the most part, going with the English translation in regards to terminology and wording with a few exceptions - mostly in regards to how Hajime himself refers to people and how he refers to others.

Personality:

"Honestly, I’m not so special to warrant a formal introduction,
and whenever I’m asked to give one I get terribly embarrassed…
But since it’s customary, I thought I’d let you hear it.
My name is Hajime Hinata."

If you just took a look at him, the first impression you would get from him is that he's painfully ordinary. There's nothing special to him in the slightest, as is obvious by the fact that even his outfit is just a plain shirt, tie, and jeans. Even his hobbies and interests are nothing to really look at.

In the beginning of the game, you see Hajime Hinata as a young man whose life ambition was one thing, and one alone: to become a student at Hope's Peak Academy. To him, the concept of the school was an amazing thing; people who had talent would come to this school and be guaranteed success. And to Hajime himself, having talent meant being important, being special. If he had something like that, maybe people would look at him differently. Talent, to Hajime, was something that, at first, was something he wanted to the point where the sheer concept of having such a thing bordered on obsession, as it's showed when he says, "There's only one reason I came to Hope's Peak Academy... Because I admired Hope's Peak Academy."

As the game progresses, Hajime soon realizes that talent isn't everything the world has to offer; there's more to life than just hope, talent, ambition, and becoming somebody. Being himself, in the end, rather than becoming someone who not only isn't Hajime Hinata (in the literal sense!) just for the sake of someone else's dream, is a lot more important, especially when it comes to forming the future.

"This... is a reality that could not be more different than my usual daily life."

First and foremost, Hajime is a realist. He looks at things from the perspective of a young Japanese teenager who does not believe in the supernatural or anything that may seem abnormal. However, even with this in mind, that does not mean that he crushes peoples' dreams; in fact, he's willing to play along with what his friends say or do if he has to. However, this mindset causes him to be not only a little cynical, but somewhat of a skeptic as well, as he's not the type of person to just blindly believe something just because it was shoved in front of him. He always tries to dig a little deeper and understand them.

Friendship, to Hajime is important, but how Hajime earns that is by attempting to understand his classmates. He's willing to listen to their problems and lend a helping ear when necessary and it honestly confuses him when he just cannot comprehend or understand the meaning behind a person's actions. One of the things he wants in a relationship, friendship or otherwise is mutual understanding of one another.

"I don't want anyone else...to be a sacrifice."

Hajime himself is rather pragmatic and when it comes down to it, murder is something that he would rather avoid. When it comes to making choices, he tends to use his head over his heart. And while he does care about his friends a lot to the point where he'd do almost anything for them, that isn't to say that he isn't selfless. At the beginning of the game, when he's first given the option to murder someone, he actually seriously thinks about it ("In truth, after I was forced to hear that dumb rule, 'You can't leave unless you kill someone'... I realized there's a part of me that really wants to get off this island...") but is actually too much of a coward to actually act upon it. He even outright says in chapter four that he would rather starve to death than to kill one of his friends; while this may be an act of cowardice, it also shows just how much he cares about them.

The fact that he cares plays a huge role in how he shows his emotions. In fact, Hajime does not show anything subtly, rather, he's an open book of emotions - when he's happy, he shows it. When he's outright upset or angry, his expressions twist immediately in a cold snap. Throughout the game, he's shown to be prone to rash decisions and tends to get angry when he's put under a lot of pressure. For example, in chapter four, he decides to go to the Final Dead Room as a last ditch decision because he wants to get out; he absolutely hates the idea that he's being called a traitor just because he can't recall his talent. He can get rather emotional rather quickly and isn't afraid to show it. For example, in one of his free time events with Komaeda, Hajime outright tells him that he's scared to leave him alone because he just can't comprehend his actions. He's honest about his feelings towards others and shows absolutely no shame towards that.

Of course, this all changes when it comes down to girls. As Hajime has no romantic experience in the slightest bit, he gets rather flustered seeing girls in swimsuits to the extent where he actually has to run out of the room just so he can avoid them. Nevertheless, he's no stranger to innuendo and is actually a rather normal high school boy; he can flirt with other girls if he ever wanted to, but he's just awkward about it.

Another thing to note is that Hajime is a terrible liar. Since his expressions show pretty easily on his face, he's pretty much telling the truth all the time; in fact, he's told the truth nearly the entire game. The only times when he doesn't are when he's dodging questions or answers, which is lying in a sense, but it's not him actually telling a lie. He's just not saying anything, period.

"Tricks aside, logic aside... Is she really capable... of doing something like this?
Could it be... I'm the one making a mistake?
No, in fact... it'd be so much easier if I was wrong... If I have this much doubt about someone I've spent so much time with..."

Trust, to Hajime is something that's rather vital; it's an attest to his bonds and further shows how much he cares about others. Because of the situation he's in, however, he not only has to trust others, but he has to distrust others. He's the only one, sometimes, who is able to find the the truth behind the murders that happen on the island and while he doesn't want to do it - he absolutely hates doubting his friends - he has to. He doubts his friends and pursues the truth because he really, truly wants to believe in them.

"Until now, I never wanted to admit how painfully ordinary I really am."

A big portion of Hajime's personality revolves around a single word: denial. More specifically, self denial. At the beginning Hajime perceives himself as some great and amazing guy - he's finally achieved becoming a student and has finally become someone important, someone with some amazing talent. And of course, he believes that he's just forgotten it. However, that isn't the case; in fact, Hajime himself deceives himself into thinking that he's special, when he's actually not in any sort of way. While he eventually does get over his denial of the truth and decides to face forward, his denial shaped him into the person he is today.

Hinata has a huge fear of being seen as not only 'ordinary', but even more than that, he has a fear of not being seen at all; disappearing. In the final chapter's trial, when the idea of losing all their memories of the time that they spent on the islands, he automatically goes into a panic, worrying about they won't remember about the one person whose existence relies on the time spent on the islands. But even more than that, Hajime is afraid of losing himself. To Hajime, his personality and sense of self is rather vital to him, and the idea of becoming anybody else just outright scares him to the point where he visibly tenses up and goes into a panic.

"All that will be left is the different personality constructed by Hope's Peak, Izuru Kamukura. No room for the human known as Hajime Hinata."

The idea of him being Hajime Hinata is important more than anything, and it cannot be reiterated enough. When it's revealed that he is not only the protagonist, but the antagonist of the story, as he is the Izuru Kamukura who placed the Junko AI - he automatically rejects the fact that Izuru Kamukura is him, and that he is Hajime Hinata. There's no possible way he could be anyone else, and his outright refusal, even in the end shows that. He even outright says at the end of the game: "Even so, I will keep on living. I will keep on living as Hajime Hinata. My future...lies here." And it goes to show that he wishes to keep himself as he is instead of brute forcing a change. Because he truly wants to move on from his past and forge a new future as Hajime Hinata and not Izuru Kamukura. Because he has faith in the future, and doesn't plan on dwelling in the past.

Abilities:


Hajime is a normal human being in all senses of the word. While he has gained skills during his time as Kamukura Izuru, this Hajime is the 'avatar' that was in game and not his actual physical self, meaning that he does not currently have all of the knowledge or skills that were forced onto his brain. That does not mean that he cannot reobtain all of those skills, if he somehow recalls everything. The skills that he has as Kamukura are basically any type of skill or talent that any ordinary human could have, brought up to the best it can possibly be. For example, he would have perfect cooking, singing, etcetera.

Other than that, Hajime himself is rather intuitive; he's good at piecing things together when he's given the pieces as seen in multiple trials. Another thing to note is that he's a rather good listener, too and is also known for having a rather harmless face that is easy to talk to. Hajime is also rather perceptive as well, as seen when he sees through Monokuma's trick to force them all to graduate through using the fake Makoto Naegi.


Alignment: Piphron. Although he is the protagonist of a game where the main ideals derive from the black and white ideals of hope and despair, Hajime in the end chooses neither. Hajime himself wants to trust his friends; in the many trials that he deals with, he goes through the struggles of trusting and distrusting to the point where he has to distrust others in order to find out the truth and to figure out if his trust was worth it.
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⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
Sample: Test drive thread.


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