Hanako Fujimaru

Hanako Fujimaru (藤丸花子) is the main protagonist of Seiko 2: Abandon Hope. Hanako is a noble and the daughter of House Fujimaru.

Her past as a young teenager is explored in the novel series Seiko/Fujimaru as a captive and the participant of Absolute Zero along with Taeko Mizuiyama.

Appearance
Hanako has the appearance of a young woman in her early-mid teens with a slender physique, soft skin, and green eyes. She has "finely textured" blonde hair that seems "as if sprinkled with gold dust." Her face shows some signs of naivety and displays elegance. She is more muscular than someone like Risu, leading her to believe her body is unappealing, but Hanasaki believes her to be very feminine. She normally wears shining armor with an old styled dress, made from old-fashioned blue cloth, underneath. In Seiko 2, she just wears her casual dress. Though she lived as a man most of her life, Hanasaki and Risu describe her as beautiful instantly upon seeing her. Despite her armor being unrefined and unaesthetic, Hanasaki describes Hanako as being beautiful enough to make the steel clanking of her armor seem like the chiming of a bell.

Personality
Hanako is an optimistic hard worker. As a leader type with a firm character, she has a strong will and doesn't hesitate to take action; her notable character trait being her strong sense of belief in herself and others. She is a strong-willed young woman who usually speaks truthfully but is willing to lie if necessary. She is courageous, determined in order to escape in any situation she is in.

has a kind personality that makes her think about others before herself. Because of this, she is unable to immediately suspect people, as demonstrated in the demo by her going as far as faking an alibi out of her trust for Kiyo, with no rational basis for his innocence. She is willing to lie for good reasons, but appears uncomfortable while doing so and is quite bad at lying. Like the other protagonists before her, she has a very sensitive nature and listens to other people's troubles.

Hanako can also be frivolous, not serious about things. Despite the fact that she is in a critical situation, Hanako tries to find time for fun, and does not like when Ryuji "...always work work work (⋟﹏⋞)".

While a kind and friendly person, Hanako is shown to have a quite firm, sometimes even rather easily angered personality as well, as she tends to lash at others when they annoy her enough. When Ryuji panics after they first met, she yelled at him to shut up in order to calm him down but also appeared quite annoyed by his nervousness, and later slapped Ryuji upside his head when he wasn't responsive for a short amount of time. She tries to be patient with Minako, but occasionally snaps back at her whenever she gets fed up with her insults, once even angrily telling Minako she has "nasty cow udders" after Minako repeatedly called Hanako's breasts tiny. During the investigation, she tells Risu to be quiet and shut up multiple times, having no patience for her nonsensical and unnecessary talk about magic during such serious situation. She is also rather firm with Sen, bluntly telling him when she dislikes his behavior and what she thinks about him, such as believing he just wants attention and or is delusional, to which Sen responds by stating that Hanako really seems to know how to stand her ground. At one point, she scares off Kiyo by yelling at her to shut up. She is also rather firm about illegal actions, scolding Hanasaki for cheating and Minako for wanting to use drugs to get high.

Later, it is revealed that Hanako's memories had been altered by the virus act to make her act like a person with a completely opposite personality. In reality, Hanako was a person who hated people, having difficulties with trusting others and openly stating with a disturbingly bright smile that she had no faith in humanity. Though, it should be noted that it is left unclear whether or not this is true and it could have been a lie made by Kiyo, as pointed out by Ryuji.

Files, Memories, Abilities, and Noble Title
Hanako's memories were messed up by the virus, making her act like a person with a completely opposite personality, which was she is a very optimistic person but the real script says that she who hated people, having difficulties with trusting others and openly stating with a disturbingly bright smile that she had no faith in humanity.

Her memories were fabricated by the virus, making her as a very optimistic and firm noble and knight. It was revealed that her core memory keeper, the file called hanako.mem has been rewritten and that's why she acts like one. Hanako found out about this but she never believed it, even if it means to stop the dangers of the world and take down Kiyo, the mastermind. She and the group also found out that Kiyo was behind all of this, the game's corruption and the altering of the memories using the virus but it wasn't even the virus at all.

Her fabricated memories as a noble follows:

She was born in a noble family called the Grand Illustrious House Fujimaru. She was taken care deeply and her parents are overprotective to her, not letting her wander around by herself in the outside world. After she was taken as captive and forced her to participate in a killing game, she refused to give and tried to escape. Although she survived, she lost someone very dear to her because of that killing game, which angers her. As a result, that developed her firm character.

For being the only survivor of Absolute Zero, she was given the title "Noble Survivor" but not only her has that title. Many killing games has occurred in the country. The people who survived with other people were just called "Noble Escapist". According to Ryuji, he was also a Noble Survivor.

In other languages
Hanako's Noble Title as it appears in official translations of Seiko material.

Enhanced Hearing
Hanako has super powerful hearing. Even in complete darkness she is able to tell whose voices belong to who and in which order the people spoke. Even from far away, she can still tell who was the one who spoke.

Enhanced Strength
When Ryuji saw a axe stuck in a wall, Hanako tried to take it since Ryuji can't take it off. Because of this ability, she was able to take the stuck axe. She was also able to move a heavy closet over just by pushing it away without any help.

Ryuji Kusakabe
Ryuji seems to strongly believe in Hanako, reassuring her and telling her that "if it's her, she can do it". Ryuji's presence appears to comfort Hanako, due to his status as a detective, although she admits that he seems unreliable. She attempts to help raise Ryuji's confidence by giving him pep talks.

At first, Ryuji admitted to not completely trusting Hanako when murders occur, which disappoints her, although she does accept this since she believes he can solve the case. However, this changed drastically after they began investigating the school together, as he came to admire her for her determination and put much trust in her. He offered to help Hanako numerous times in Chapter 1, even bowing to Minako at one point, merely because he saw Hanako doing so. They also shared a rather intimate moment in a classroom, in which Hanako held Ryuji's hand. She is fully aware that his fear of uncovering the truth prevented him from using his title as the Noble Detective properly, so she encouraged him to hold his head high and promised her to face the truth no matter how painful the result would be.

During the affection fantasy event, Ryuji had the role of Hanako's boyfriend and they celebrated their first anniversary. Hanako seemed upset because he didn't call her "sweetheart", but by her name, instead. In the original Japanese, Ryuji was asked to call her with her first name instead of the way he usually refers her as "Fujimaru-san." However, after Ryuji tried to call her 'sweetheart' for the first time, they both find it hard to regain their composure and especially Hanako is shocked. Slightly worried, Ryuji asked her if she is okay and called her Hanako again by habit, causing her to point out in slight annoyance that he went back to calling her that. Ryuji apologized shyly, but Hanako answers it's fine and a bit shyly admitted that she really likes his passive side. Ryuji blushed at this and became quiet, causing Hanako to tell him not do that and point out that she got very embarrassed too. Out of blue, Hanako hugged Ryuji and they fell down on the bed. Ryuji began to panic, but Hanako asked him to hug her even tighter. Hanako admits that Ruji's heartbeat is her favorite tune and that if Ryuji encourages her, she can do anything. Finally, Hanako asks if Ryuji will "do it with her" and he pulls her closer to him without saying a word. It's heavily implied that Hanako and Ryuji had sex afterward.

In Seiko/Fujimaru, it was shown that Ryuji and Hanako had already met at that point. They work together in order to survive although Ryuji wasn't an official participant. Hanako's ally, Taeko, has been seeing that Hanako kept having affections with Ryuji, making her jealous. That explains why when Ryuji first met Hanako in Seiko 2, he asked "have we met before?", in that scene where Hanako also stayed silent, examining his body. Back in the novel, after the disappearance of Ryuji, Hanako implied that Ryuji is dead because they never met ever since until she started to slowly forget about him but it was said that Ryuji still remembered her. For Hanako to remember him, he delivered Hanako a stuffed animal, which was her favorite toy. She saw the tag there said "Ryuji" but Hanako still doesn't remember but she kept it anyway. Until now, at the prologue of Seiko 2, Hanako said that the stuffed animal was still with her until now. She kept cuddling with her stuffed animal until Hanako and Ryuji finally met. Although Taeko kept seeing Hanako with Ryuji, she still worked with her but Taeko doesn't wanted to work with Ryuji since he "doesn't belong here", which disappoints Hanako then Taeko apologized sadly. After the death of Taeko, her memory with her is gone but she still tries to remember Ryuji because of the cause of her amnesia. Ryuji kept giving her stuffed animals to let Hanako remember him.

Chisa Kirisaki
Chisa and Hanako aren't really close but appears that Chisa has been admiring her for her determination and by calling her "Fujimaru-sama" even she was higher rank noble than her and holds the title Noble High Militant. Unlike Hanako, Chisa has been a coward lately and said that she might not even deserve the title as the Noble High Militant anymore because of her cowardly actions.

After Chisa kept clinging to Hanako, she started hating Chisa by yelling at her that she was a coward and a waste of life. As a result, Chisa started leaving Hanako alone, realizing that she's not supposed to do that to a high militant.

Finally finding Chisa, she saw Chisa's hanging body inside an empty room. She kept blaming herself that it was her fault that Chisa committed suicide by calling her coward and waste of life. As a result, her hallucinations of Chisa haunts her. In Chapter 6, it was revealed that it was Kiyo's doing. Kiyo brainwashed Chisa into committing suicide, which angers Hanako.

She kept saying sorry to Chisa for leaving her and insulting her that lead her to Kiyo.

Minako Kobe
Hanako and Minako's relationship can be a bit negative at times, as Minako has a tendency to insult her just like she insults everyone else, and specifically calls her "Hanaidiot" (Bakamaru in Japanese) and keeps calling her breasts tiny. However, while Hanako can be a bit annoyed by Minako's rudeness, she feels sympathetic and protective of her whenever she shows her weaker side.

In Chapter 1, when Hanako begs on her knees for Minako's help, Minako appears uncomfortable despite her usual arrogant behavior. When she agrees, the former grabs her hands in joy and causes Minako to sweat.

In Minako's second Affection Scene with Hanako, Hanako appears worried about Minako, because it seems like she has never had any friends, and wishes to help her to become better at communicating. However, even Hanako is tired after talking with Minako in an attempt to help her.

Minako appears to feel some attraction towards Hanako. During their first Affection Scene together, Hanako has finally had enough of Minako's rude behavior and she tells Minako that her breasts are actually pretty big. Minako then wants to rub her to make sure, saying there's no problem because they're both girls, but Hanako is uncomfortable and smacks her a little in order to defend herself. If Hanako gives her a gift she really likes, Minako blushes shyly and wonders if Hanako is really into her, possibly explaining how she knew what to give Minako. Minako then returns to her arrogant mood and laughs that of course a "flat-chested idiot" like Hanako would fall for a brainy, busty beauty like her.

Later, in Chapter 3, Minako also tries to see if the wax figure of Hanako that Risu made is wearing any underwear.

Sen Kurosaki
Hanako was confused by Sen's childish personality and his unusual Noble title. She believed he was like a mischievous child messing around and constantly lying for attention. She was rather firm with him, openly stating her annoyance with him out loud, to which Sen once responded with a relaxed, seemingly genuine smile and appeared slightly impressed as he stated that Hanako really seemed to know how to stand her ground. While Hanako considered him part of the group and thought they should all work together, she generally had no patience with him, and at times he acted very intentionally annoying in her company. During the beginning of his second Affection Scene with Hanako, he ran around screaming that Hanako was about to murder him but he was just pretending and having fun, and he tried to trick Hanako by claiming that Risu was behind her with a knife. He claimed he would never turn down an invitation from Hanako and then obnoxiously said he lied, clearly immensely enjoying the irritation it brought her.

For Sen, Hanako appeared to be one of the students he was a bit more interested in, as he appeared to have fun while talking with her and he sometimes seemed to turn more serious and enigmatic while they were talking alone, which seemed to indicate that he had some form of respect for her. At one point, he mischievously teased her by asking how far she's gone with Ryuji, and then claimed that he simply meant to ask how far they have searched the area. He then explained that they're strangers, so he really doesn't care what she and Ryuji do, and then pointed out that even friends don't share everything with each other. Sen explained that he is more nervous around friends who share too much than strangers, which confused Hanako and turned her silent with a slightly worried expression. Later, when Hanako rushed to stop the fighting in the cafeteria, she could stop to talk to Sen and ask him why he wasn't there to stop it if he knew about it. He reminded her that the time limit was very near and asked her that who was she to stop people who feel the need to take action to survive. However, he then grinned and said that by the same reasoning, who was he to stop her and then encouraged her to go stop them and said he believed in her.

Later during their second Affection Scene, after noticing how Hanako had fallen for many of his lies so far, he warned her that she'll be the first one to die if she continued to be such an easy mark. He tried to ask her to join his organization and be a cover agent pianist, but she believed all of it was just Sen's delusions. He then explained to her that the definition of common sense varies depending on person and asked her why she thinks her definition is the right one. He then told her that he is only warning her because he actually cared about her, but also told her not to come crying back to him if things didn't go her way. Considering his words nonsense, Hanako did not appear to truly listen to him.

Risu Tajima
Risu is one of Hanako's closest friends. They were able to quickly form a rapport with each other, despite Hanako trying to kill Risu in their first encounter, as they're enemies under the rules of the Holy Grail War. Hanako and Risu are able to agree with each other on how to best course of action during the war, such as in Seiko/Fujimaru when they agree not to attack Hirasaka Temple after they and Hanasaki failed to eliminate Kiriko and her Master, Kiyo Matsuzaka.

In Seiko 2 when they first met, Risu ran at lightning speed towards Hanako and hugged her, which made Hanako uncomfortable. Despite Hanako's amnesia, Hanako remembered the times with Risu after she hugged her tight. In the Affection Scenes with Risu, she told Hanako once they got out of this place, they would go and have sex together using magic. After Hanako hearing that, Hanako slapped Risu and quickly apologized to her but Risu said it was just a joke. Then after that, Risu told Hanako to play tag and Hanako disagreed and not in a situation but Risu didn't hesitate and started running then Hanako started chasing her.

Ironically Risu is jealous of Hanako's beauty, believing she lost as a woman when she first saw her. She also displays jealously in Seiko/Fujimaru, accusing Hanasaki and Hanako of flirting with each other in the good ending. Also during Sekai Paradise, Hanako becomes a target of Risu's teasing like Hanasaki, poking fun at Hanasaki and Hanako's feelings for each other. In Re:Place though, Hanako treats Risu with hostility since Hanasaki didn't partner with her beforehand. They never get a chance to become friends during the route, as Hanako is defeated and corrupted by The Curse, becoming Hanasaki and Risu's enemy for the remainder of the route.

Hanasaki Kamii
Hanasaki and Hanako never met before until when they met each other in the place they were now. Her first expression to Hanako that she looked reliable, which made Hanako disappointed and kicked her. Hanako mentioned that she never wanted anyone to rely on her since they can't do anything if they kept relying to her. Hanasaki understands what she was saying and asked if she could go with Hanako.

In the Affection Scene with Hanasaki, she asked Hanako if Risu is lesbian. Risu suddenly interrupted them and reveals that she was strictly lesbian, which Hanako never expected to be. Because of that, Risu told Hanako that she always wanted to marry her and that proves it. Still she doesn't believe it so Risu tried to do manly stuff towards Hanako for her to believe that she's lesbian, which made Hanasaki uncomfortable and pushed Risu aside. If you gave the gift that Hanasaki really liked, she will blush and asked if Hanako's cheating on Ryuji but Hanako remained silent and suddenly said "as friends". This shows that Hanasaki is also lesbain, not only Risu. Hanasaki being lesbian was revealed to Hanako in their 5th Affection Scene.

Hanasaki always wills to give something "precious" to Hanasaki, which was a diamond ring. In Chapter 4, Hanasaki finally gave the ring to Hanako and of course she accepted but "as friends", which made Hanasaki sad.

In Chapter 6 is the time that Hanasaki was killed by those entities. Risu kept blaming herself that it's because of her that she was killed because Risu promised Hanasaki that she will protect her but Risu witnessed Hanasaki getting attacked but she didn't do anything but instead she watched while the entity eats Hanasaki. Because of Hanasaki's death, Risu always gets traumatized when seeing the "red things".

Teruko Umesawa
Teruko and Hanako are best friends in Sekai Paradise. Although Teruko is a commoner, Hanako treats her like a noble because "they're friends and that's what friends do to each other". That was the reason why some nobles doesn't like her for taking care a commoner like a noble. Teruko told Hanako that she always wanted to become a writer and a noble too, so Hanako sometimes call her Noble Writer.

Hanako and Teruko always play with each other, even when Teruko is very annoying, she still supports her no matter what, even if means the other nobles will insult her for being a pathetic noble that loves commoners. Hanako always protects Teruko from other nobles even they were nice because they are still nobles. Sometimes she even protect Teruko from herself because there are some chances that she'll need to hurt Teruko. Hanako made a underground hatch for Teruko's protection shelter. Hanako adds everything that Teruko liked, for example:


 * Shelves full of books
 * Tables and chairs to read
 * A writer's office
 * Empty notebooks for writing

Adding these things made Teruko so happy. Teruko's family always also wanted to become nobles but they can't since they are poor and that's exactly the reason why she wanted to become a writer since you can become famous. Hanako and Teruko writes together every other day since Hanako still needed to protect Teruko from herself because she's a noble.

Akito Harukawa
Akito and Hanako's relationship is unknown but it appears that Akito always tries his best to show some respect to Hanako.

Akito only does this since she's a noble but in reality, he's a merciless murderer who disguises as a innocent person by respecting nobles like talking to them politely and giving them something valuable, like what he's doing to Hanako.

Taeko Mizuiyama
At first, when they meet, Taeko was very surprised that someone that young was a detective. During chapter 1 before starting the case, Hanako tried to warn Taeko that something was wrong and suggested to leave, but, seeing the three men walking ahead in front of them, she whispered that she couldn't "leave them to die" and decided to stay on board. Later when staring the case, Taeko was very suspicious of Hanako due to her being the only one alive after all the detectives have died. However, after discovering the true culprit, Taeko apologized to Hanako for being suspicious of her.

After resolving Sirius Astronomical Observatory Murder Case, Taeko and Hanako got to know each other even more and became close friends even getting to know her grandfather. Taeko also invites Hanako for a Christmas party held in her school. Taeko gives Hanako a present, Rose In Vitro, which Hanako is very pleased with. Hanako asks Taeko if she sees Hanako as a replacement to her sister, which Taeko denies. Hanako is Hanako, and no one can replace her dead sister, Taeko says. While Taeko is grateful to Hanako, Hanako also says that she is grateful to Taeko for believing in her during that murder.

During the events of Seiko/Fujimaru, Taeko is seen as Hanako's accomplice. Taeko thinks that Hanako is cute and admirable. She insists that Hanako call her oneechan (お姉ちゃん; "older sister" in a familiar, affectionate tone), but Hanako calls her Taeko-oneesama (お姉様; "older sister" in the most honorable yet emotionally distant tone).

As said previously by Taeko, Taeko doesn't see Hanako as a replacement for her younger sister, still, she cares deeply for her and seems to be very protective of Hanako. Taeko's love for Hanako is most notably seen in the third volume. During those events, Hanako disappeared along with her grandfather. Taeko was very worried about her disappearance and never gave up trying to search for clues related to her disappearance.

Saber
While Hanako and Saber have little interaction, Hanako stated that she does dislike Saber and cannot trust him due to his unorthodox behavior. Saber does save Hanako from being attacked which shows he may care about her wellbeing.

Natsuki Fujimaru
Little is known about their relationship, she only stated that they were just family and nothing more. Natsuki left her when she was a little girl and Hanako stated that he only used her mother's death as an excuse so that he could leave the house and that she didn't really know him as a father because they never really spoke to each other much during their days together. However, it was Hanako's grandfather who encouraged her to hate her father and in reality Natsuki left the family because Yuta showed no care when Natsuki's wife died.

When Hanako found out that her father died in the facility and found his skeleton, she didn't show any feelings towards his death. But Ryuji, who was looking at the remains of her father instead, noticed that she didn't even look in the box. Ryuji thought that somewhere in her heart she must have thought she was wrong and guilty about her father's death.

Kie Fujimaru
Kie really loves Hanako and sometimes she's overprotective towards her. Kie kept giving everything she needs even though Hanako doesn't need it anymore since they can be still used in the future.

After the death of her mother, Hanako thinks thus was an excuse so Natsuki can leave the house but in reality, Natsuki left the family because Yuta showed no care when Natsuki's wife died.

Mari Fujimaru
Hanako is very close to her sister. Mari as the Noble Detective, she taught Hanako how to become a detective along with her grandfather. During their free time, Hanako and Mari always search for murder locations and investigate there while Yuta watches over them to avoid trouble. Even though Mari has forgotten about their mother's death because of her "always busy" teaching Hanako, she still loved Mari no matter what. After Mari's disappearance, Hanako was afraid that she might be already dead and tries to search everywhere.

Mari's disappearance was caused because she was held as a Captive since Hanako loved her so much.

Hiroto Fujimaru
Little is known about their relationship but Hanako just takes care of her brother, nothing else. Because of her brother loving their father instead of their mother, she can't interact too much with him because she doesn't like it when she kept loving Natsuki.

After Hiroto's death, Hanako started caring about him since he's still her brother but hates him at the same time.

Yuta Fujimaru
Hanako is very close to her grandfather, who taught her all she knows about being a detective, and protected her from anything he deemed a threat. However, he was also very strict about raising Hanako as his heir and told her she is a detective before anything else, causing some of Hanako's emotional issues. He also didn't allow Hanako to see her dying mother and encouraged her to hate her father.

Nevertheless, Hanako loves her grandfather dearly, which is confirmed by the fact that he became a Captive along with her sister.

The thing that she really hates about that she only became a Noble Survivor instead of a Noble Detective, making her began to hate people and doesn't show faith in humanity for not giving her the title she always wanted.

Kiyo Matsuzaka
Even Kiyo was the mastermind of everything what happened, Hanako still cares for her because unlike Hanako, Kiyo is a real person while Hanako is just a game character being controlled by Rue Kirigiri. Even after Kiyo understands Hanako, Kiyo continued to kill her because Seiko is a curse, she has to eliminate that game to prevent other users getting brainwashed by this game.

Hanako loves and hates Kiyo at the same time since she's behind the occurring of the virus and the "deaths" of the 46 developers of Riku Games.

In Sekai Paradise, it was shown that Kiyo is with Hanako and Teruko having a picnic. Kiyo told her adventures from the outside world to both Hanako and Teruko. As a result, they wanted to know more about the outside.

Trivia

 * Hanako means "flower child" while her surname, Fujimaru means "wisteria" (藤) and "round" (丸).
 * It was revealed that Seiko Kamichiro and Hanako are just otherworldly people like Seiko is Hanako and Hanako is Seiko but from another universe. According to Eiri Saotome, the same personality was made as a hook to Seiko fans due to the lack of promotion materials pre-release of the original version of Seiko 2 in 2012. Eiri wanted the fans to speculate that somehow Seiko and Hanako are connected in a way.
 * In her demo, her name wasn't Hanako Fujimaru instead her name is Rin Kimura (木村凛).
 * Her name was Rin Kimura so fans will think that Rinko and her are connected but it was changed into Hanako instead because "she isn't even real".
 * In STAY ASLEEP, Hanako doesn't have a name but instead you'll have to name her.
 * Hanako as Rin Kimura was supposed to have to same voice actors as Seiko but it was changed so people won't understand their connection that easy.