Sapphire Tennoji

"Tch, stupid. You have to stop seeing the situation only from your point of view. We barely know each other, are you really sure someone is not going to start the killing?"

- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.

Sapphire Tennoji (天王路 サファイア) was a student at Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th and participant of the Killing School Life. As a very successful young model, she received the title of Ultimate Fashionista (超高校級のギャル, lit. Super High School Level Girl).

Appearance
Sapphire was a very beautiful girl with a slim body in a hourglass figure. She had long, straight blonde hair with pink and blue tips. She also used a bow black tiara in her head and had deep, blue eyes; her nails were painted pink and light cyan. She wore a white, long sleeve shirt with buttons and a small blue tie; a six buttoned black corset, dark blue ruffled skirt, high black socks and leather boots with black shoelaces.

Personality
Sapphire was presented as a very arrogant and spoiled girl who believed to be the most beautiful between all. She was quite biased, egoccentric and considered herself as a goddess, demanding that everyone in her class adore her. Being that the main motive to be hated by everyone, specially Kotaro Koshimizu (although it is confirmed that he holded some feelings for her and apparently she was unaware of that fact).

Although she was very disgusting, she still had some power of persuasion and could force anyone to do whatever she wants as Sapphire lived like that her whole life. Before being forced to kill and then commit suicide, she showed a level of sensitivity as she saw Ryo Fukukado and Enju Otsuka's deaths, seeing that what Monokuma said about the Killing School Life was all true.

Talent and Abilities
Sapphire was well-known across the world as the most beautiful woman ever and was invited to Hope's Peak Academy because the Steering Committee was interested in how her talent would work in school and they wanted to study that. She appeared in many magazine covers and used her beauty many times to gain whatever she wants whenever she wants, just like she did to Yuichi Hayase.

Early life
Sapphire's father is Scottish while her mother is Japanese. Both are from rich families and are very arrogant and confident about their abilities, beauty and assets, characterist that Sapphire inherited. As she grew up, she learned all about acting and modeling and started appearing in magazine covers at a young age. She used to attend Royal Dawn Girls Academy (王立天明女子学園), she was invited by Hope's Peak Academy to attend as the Ultimate Fashionista.

Killing School Life
Sapphire was imprisioned inside Hope's Peak Academy alongside her fifteen classmates. She apparently woke up at the dining hall with Anna Kiryuin and and told her to make her tea. When Yukio Shizukane and Amaya Hayama arrived at the dining hall, she was surprised that they did not have an exaggerated reaction about her being the Sapphire Tennoji and cursed them as she noticed that they didn't care about her. She was there when Monokuma presented their eternal life at Hope's Peak Academy and almost kicked him because she wanted to live outside.

After Ryo and Enju's death, she was very shocked as she did not believe Monokuma at all at first. She stayed very silently in her place at the Class Trial and just made a commentary here and there in the most arrogant and crude manner. When they came back from the trial, she changed her personality a little as the shock didn't pass yet. She sounded desperate when she learned that monokuma knew her darkest secret. At some point, she was hypnotized by Mayumi Kirisaki's singing and invited Yuichi to come to the girls' locker room at the second floor. There, she killed him and commited suicide quickly, making a locked room mystery as both doors were locked by the two corpses.

Creation and Development
Miika wanted someone with a foreign name as every Danganronpa game had one. That is how Sapphire's background was created, based on her wish to make someone foreign with a Japanese relative and such, with an overall rude and arrogant personality, somewhat similar to Byakuya Togami from the first original game. In the original game, the Fashionista, Junko Enoshima, is the mastermind of the original Killing School Life, but this was an almost new game with new characters and such, needed another approach; actually, Rei Kindaichi was created first and then put as the mastermind for the Killing School Life.

Her surname (天王路) means "heavenly royal path", while her first name is a precious gemstone with the same name and also makes references to her blue eyes. Miika wanted to make her name written with kanji (緑輝, "brilliant green") just like the character Sapphire Kawashima from Sound! Euphonium by Ayano Takeda, but she found out that didn't match up with Sapphire's appearance, so she wrote in katakana instead.

Trivia

 * Yukio's first impression about Sapphire was as follow: "Too arrogant as well as treating others like rubbish, I liked it, no, wait. Jokes aside, I think she will not be like that for all the plot (if she is alive, of course), but I was surprised by her personality, even more with her 'royalty' way, well, another one I hope to be able to do some free time events."