Character page for Virtual Distress.
Aelois Du Drejall
Super High-School Level Duelist
House Drejall, currently headed by Marquis Alexander du Drejall IX, is known for being one of the few noble houses to survive the French Revolution. Aelois du Drejall is the youngest daughter and is well known for having duels to first blood at the drop of a hat. Her recent transfer to Japanese schools have done little to curb her aggressive streak, instead cementing her status as the Super Highschool Level Duelist. She personally believes her invitation to Hope’s Peak is the obvious outcome of her skills and bloodline.
- Try to Fit That on a Business Card: Aelois du Drejall, Third Daughter of House Drejall.
Eiji Oshirou
Super High-School Level Show Host
Eiji is the star of the show and always has been! Ever since he was a little kid, he has always loved the sound of his voice. He was scouted at an early age, giving advice to a close friend of his father’s, who happened to be a Show Host himself. When he brought ideas to the table, this eccentric busybody decided to get his hands on his own show, which he did! Now, in Tokyo, the ‘Eiji O Show’ is all most regular teens watch after school! However, wishing for a normal school life, Eiji decided to call it quits for school when he got the letter. Wow, HE obtained a letter from THE school? Who would have thought? Still, he was as willing to go as those who accept him were willing to do that much. Everybody line up: The show is about to start~
- Love Confessor: To Aki in the third chapter.
Hoshi Eto
Super High-School Level J-Pop Idol
Hoshi Eto, or ‘Shooting Star’ as she’s known by thousands of fan girls internationally, started her life as the daughter of two polyglots working for the government. Their natural talent saw them teach their daughter, Hoshi, many languages from a child, and she was brought into the public’s’ eye in children’s beauty pageants, singing in multiple languages. Never losing this talent, her fame on Youtube rose to such heights that a prominent record label nabbed her when her voice settled, and she was named the lead singer of the j-pop idol group ‘Starry Nights’, which is uniquely known for their ability to perform their own songs in multiple languages, thus leading them - and Hoshi, to become international superstars. Her natural talent, as well as her drive to improve, saw Hope’s Peak snatching her up when she came back from a year-long international tour.
- Attention Whore: Hoshi is a large ham, and enjoys being in the center of everything.
- Four-Girl Ensemble: The Starry Skies, Hoshi's idol group, consists of three others and herself.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Hoshi is roommates with Aki, one of the tallest in the class at 6 feet, 3 inches tall. In comparison, she is only 4 feet, 8 inches, with over a foot and a half gap between them.
- Mystical White Hair: Hoshi has pure white hair streaked lightly with silver.
- Omniglot: Hoshi can both speak, write, and translate Japanese, English, Mandarin, French, Chinese, and Spanish, perfectly.
- Stage Names: Hoshi's stage name is 'Shooting Star'.
Kohori Izumi
Super High-School Level Dubstep Artist
The name Kohorin first appeared on music sharing sites a couple years back releasing dubstep remixes. While there was nothing special to them, when original synthesized dubstep beats were released by the same name, all eyes turned to her. Her first live appearance under the name Kohori Izumi drew more attention to her, and even more so when it was learned that she was a high school aged girl. Nonetheless, she continued to lay down the sick beats.
- Relationship Reveal: In the second trial, Hoshi says that she knows Kohori doesn't have any bruises on her person because they slept together. Kohori is furious that she revealed this.
Machi “Makio” Yomohiro
Super High-School Level Aggressive Inline Skater
Starting out as just a street-bound skater punk, Machi “Makio” Yomohiro rose up from being a skater on the streets of Kobe to becoming not only an internet skating sensation, but a champion at many different skating competitions across the globe, including X Games Asia three years running. The nickname “Makio” is a testimonial to Machi’s position as the “Makio Master;” Machi’s Makio grind has been trained to perfection to the point where Machi can perform it perfectly immediately after doing several different grinds, flips, and other daring stunts.
- Ambiguous Gender: Purposefully invoked; Machi identifies as female but cultivates an androgynous appearance and doesn’t like to disclose her gender to others immediately due to the nature of the aggressive inline community.
- The Stoic: Although she does not take well to Minerva voting for Alexei in the beginning of the second trial.
Minerva LaFleur
Super High-School Level Charity Worker
For the past three years, the face of “Mother Minerva” has been a prevalent one among the Juggalo subculture. Starting only as a nickname to young Minnie La Fleur, the persona of the Juggalo Mother Theresa has become a much greater symbol to those familiar with the Insane Clown Posse, for her existence embodies the symbol of peace among clown brothers and a raising arm against the violence occurring among the fans. However, even to those who may not follow the horrorcore band, it is difficult to deny the presence this young woman has on culture with both her peace movement aimed towards Juggalo gangs and her efforts to aid in several charity drives to improve the good name of a Juggalo. Such was what lead to her invitation to Hope’s Peak Academy.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: After the first trial, she stops speaking in her forced accent.
- Royal "We": Minerva uses this to speak on behalf of the Juggalos.
Robin Tsukada
Super High-School Level Statistician
Raised in a male-dominated household of one dad and 4 rough-house brothers, Robin hoped to beat them at something. Being competitive by nature, a lot of their childhood was getting into scraps with their brothers constantly only too turn out the (sore) loser. It wasn’t until their later middle school years that they discovered a knack for- a gift of mathematics. Specifically with finding the probabilities and likelihoods of events happening. Robin exploited their talent as much as they could, calculating things from the weather forecast to the chances of any of the brothers acing their exams.
It got to be Robin took their gift to a more seedier practice: gambling. In order to show up their brothers as much as possible, they’d stalk around various places- high school meets, bars, stadiums. Making bets was a cinch for a majority of the time, and Robin came home feeling a rush of euphoria whenever they showed their brothers the money and the items bought with it. It only came to pass that Hope’s Peak Academy heard of the kid’s potential, and upon receiving the letter, this too was rubbed in the brothers’ faces.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: They have become quite good at determining a person’s tendencies and abilities at a glance over the years.
- Good with Numbers: Can crunch large numbers in their head and figure out the probability of something with about 80% accuracy.
Sumi Yamazaki
Super High-School Level Sprinter
She started swimming at an early age to treat her asthma, came to enjoy most sports and eventually specialized on sprinting. By the time she was thirteen she had already won a few regional and national competitions for her school. Her left leg was injured at train wreck when she was fourteen and as result she had to stop running for a year. Many believed her career to be over, but she went on to win golden medals at the 100 and 200 meter sprints at the World School Games in Spain and the Summer Olympic Games of Youth in Brazil and break the 100 meters speed record for female junior runners. She’ll be competing for Japan in the 100 and 200 meters races in the upcoming Olympic Games.
- Curtains Match the Window: Sports orange hair and orange eyes.
Zeta Umbriel Subaru Kurokawa
Super High-School Level Horror Mangaka
Born to a horror movie makeup artist and a renowned scream queen, Zeta Umbriel grew up surrounded by all things macabre and grotesque and developed quite the affinity for them. Like her parents, she has devoted herself to using her talents and love of the horrific to send chills down the spines of the Japanese public. However, while his parents have chosen to work with the silver screen, Zeta has embraced pen and ink as his medium of choice. She was able to begin regularly getting her work published in comic magazines under her chosen alias while still in junior high, attracting glowing praise from readers for her bold blending of psychological terror with spine-tingling and visceral scenes of horror, and her first full-length work, Ill-Starred Girl, is currently being optioned for a film adaptation. Initially, Zeta attempted to stay out of the public eye and obfuscate his true identity in an attempt to add to his mystique. However, after a persistent reader discovered that the horror mangaka was actually a high school student and attempted to publicize her findings, she chose to come forward to the public at large herself, a move that netted her both a rush of media attention and an invitation to Hope’s Peak Academy.
- Creepy Good: Zeta looks and acts creepy as hell but is generally a pretty good-hearted person.
- Nightmare Fetishist: If it's bound to terrify or squick out anyone else, Zeta is probably super into it.
- Pen Name: Goes by the one she created for herself almost full-time. He’ll respond to his given name if addressed by it but prefers not to give it out freely.
- Scary Teeth: Sports a mouthful of inexplicably pointed teeth, further contributing to her creepy image.
