Akito Yamauchi

Akito Yamauchi is a student at Hope's Peak Academy, attending under the title of SHSL Game Developer.

Appearance
Akito is an 18 year old high school student with spiky pink and purple hair, and bright bright blue eyes.

Personality
Akito is a hyper individual, doing many things with a smile on their face, and a bounce in their step.

They also suffer from some form of kleptomania, which they refer to as 'their itch'. Like most itches, they become irritable and frustrated if isn't relieved - in their case, stealing things. They do this often in the form of taking odd trinkets that they think the owner would not miss. While Akito claims they return these items, their car's trunk is full of stolen goods.

The SHSL Game Developer is very detached from reality, believing it (and life) to all be a game that everyone is trying to win - that winning being survival. This view of life can be quite amusing to witness, as they often act based on video game logic. However, when pressured they can reveal a somewhat sinister attitude: they will do just about anything to win the game.

Powers and Abilities

 * Game Developer - Akito is quite adept at developing board and video games, releasing one or two great games a year. These include Delta, Six Months of Darkness, Order and Chaos, and many more. If someone in the Danganronpa universe has played games, it would not be unreasonable to assume they've played Akito's games, or at least heard of them. As part of being the SHSL Game Developer, Akito is quite skilled at many of the things related to game development: Animating, Art, Gaming, Music, Programming, Writing, and more. While they  are definitely not good enough at these things to rival the respective Ultimates of each part, they are still better at them than most high schoolers, as well as at bringing them all together.
 * Thief - Akito has developed many skills related to thievery over the years - lock-picking, pick-pocketing, and stealth. While the way they act makes it seem like they shouldn't be able to sneak, they often seem to disappear into thin air or appear from nowhere.

Weaknesses

 * Bad Fashion - If there is one thing Akito cannot do, it is dress well. Due to their strange view of the world, they dress themselves based on the stats they claim that clothes give them. Therefore, their outfit choice can be quite loud and garish.

Before SSPD
Unloved and unwanted by 'her' family, Aya Yoshino was kicked out at a young age. Wanting to distance themselves from their family, and their raising as a female, they soon changed their name to "Akito Yamauchi". Forced to fend for themselves, the newly christened Akito took to stealing everything they needed: Food, drink, and clothes.

Despite this being a rough period in Akito's life, they were able to find their escape from the harsh realities of life in a game store. They visited several times a week, watching people play the demos, playing the demos, and especially enjoyed the people who came to play Dungeons and Dragons. While this certainly made dealing with their situation easier, they began to take their escape too far. If these games made things fun, why couldn't everything be a game? And thus, Akito began stealing not just for necessity, but for fun.

One fateful day, young Akito broke into the house of a game developer they had come to admire. His house was absolutely filled with the games they knew and loved - including some they had never heard of. They became engrossed looking at the wonderful collection, until the man came home to see a street urchin playing his games. The man, far from being angry, was quite amused. The game developer took pity on Akito, and adopted them as his child. He enrolled them in elementary school, and took care of all their needs. Unbeknownst to him, Akito continued to steal things for fun.

Wanting to help others escape the same way they did, Akito started to make their own board games and started to learn how to make video games. By the time they got to high school, they were very skilled at making games, selling enough copies for them to leave their father figure's arms - albeit they took to living out of a car rather than a house.

Due to the quality of their games, Akito was scouted by Hope's Peak Academy and recruited as the SHSL Game Developer. They had risen past the challenges of their youth, but continued to do whatever they wanted for fun whenever they wanted...and to win the game of life.

Quotes

 * “Ding ding! Correct! Your glorious prize - nothing! Only Akito gets prizes."
 * "Just because nobody is trying to kill me doesn’t mean I don’t have to survive! I will prove it to them! I, Akito Yamauchi, will survive and win!"


 * "You should’ve seen the despair on his face when I teleported! Oh it was amazing! Akito never thought they’d enjoy it so much!"

Trivia

 * Akito has many references to Nintendo. Their last name, Yamauchi, is based on Fusajiro Yamauchi, the founder of the company that would become Nintendo. On top of that, their former high school, "Heaven's Luck" is a reference to the translation of Nintendo, "leave luck to heaven".