Nanae Ouno, Ultimate Contortionist
first of all. im sorry but her original design is SOOO ugly. von prompted "contortionist" and the ai gave back average gym goer. i wanted to give her a different outfit so that anybody who hasn't seen tetro before actually has an inkling that she might be circus-related
about her writing, chapter 1 was probably the best written chapter. it only went downhill from there and thats honestly a shame because there is so much missed potential. ouno probably had the strongest motive to kill so if i had to rewrite the death order i would probably keep her and akiba as chapter 1 killer and victim
her backstory is where i start having major problems. its like trauma is a competition and von is the referee. i definitely think trauma and other things like that can definitely be utilised, but it gets to a point where it's literally just torture porn… ouno unfortunately suffers from this. i wanted to keep the part about her teen pregnancy but aged her up to 17-18 when she had maria (a lot of the trauma especially sexual trauma is retconned or changed because while those stories can be told i definitely don't think von had pure intentions when giving this trauma to literal 13 year olds) so at the time of the killing game she is 20 years old. i also removed the cult stuff because it honestly felt like random fluff to give ouno more trauma
her rewritten backstory in full:
Nanae Ouno was the third eldest child out of six siblings. Her family had been very poor, so they worked in the Getsurin no Circus, as it provided shelter, food, community, and income. Thus, Nanae was raised in the circus from the day she was born. From a young age, she had noticeable flexibility, and was trained in contortionism by the other acrobats at the circus. Nanae performed many stunts and even did escapology from time to time. Briefly, she dated one of the stilt walkers, a boy named Aoto Harabayashi, but the two fell out of love, and Aoto later left the circus. However, it was unknown at the time that Nanae had become pregnant with Aoto's child, and later gave birth shortly before her 18th birthday. Due to her young age, Nanae's parents decided to raise her daughter, who she named Maria, as her sister, so that Nanae could focus on her circus career. Nanae does her best to be involved in her daughter's life anyway.
