Makoto Sahara (狛枝 凪斗 Makoto Sahara) is one of the characters featured in Super Dangan Ronpa 2: Farewell Despair Academy. He has the title of Super High School Level Good Fall (超高校級の「幸運」Chō Kōkō Kyū no "Kōun").
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Appearance
Sahara has a long dark green coat that goes down past his knees. His coat has red squares on his right shoulder, and a red number '55'. He wears a plain white shirt with a strange red symbol on it. His pants are typical black jeans, and has a long chain that attached from the back to the front of them with a small skull charm attached to it. His shoes are brown, and they appear to be zipped up rather than being tied or using velcro. Sahara has messy shoulder-length white hair, light gray eyes, and he usually has a smile on his face.
Personality
Sahara first comes off a polite and kind boy, but during the first trial he is revealed to be borderline insane. After showing off his true colors, he begins to ramble on about how hope is the most important thing in this world, and hope that is created from beating despair is the most amazing feeling that one could have. Sahara also doesn't really care for his own life, in fact he encourages the other students to kill him as long as someone feels hope from it. He also considers himself worthless when compared to the other Super High School Level Students, claiming that his talent is pathetic and that he was born a talentless person who will never be considered anything special. Later, however, he finds his luck to be incredible and tells the other students to believe in themselves and Sahara's own luck.
He is slightly alike to Furuhata, their names are alike, looks are slightly similiar, and the same skill of Luck, even though Furuhata's was changed to Hope. The only backfire to this theory is their personalities.
Ironically, despite his absolute belief in the concept of ultimate hope, it's heavily implied that he has no hope of his own. He has no family or friends, drifted aimlessly through life before arriving at Hope's Peak, doesn't believe he could ever amount to anything, and any chance he might have at actual happiness would be cancelled out by his cycle of good and bad luck.
History
Pre-Despair Incident
Sahara's life has always been a turn between 'good luck' and 'bad luck'. The earliest known occurrence of this is when parents were killed before his very eyes after a meteor crashed into a hijacked airplane they had been on, letting him inherit all their fortune and become free to do whatever he wished, as he had no other relatives alive. After his parents' death, during middle school, Sahara was kidnapped by a serial killer; although he was released after the police found him (it was implied that the killer let him go after they found out nobody would pay ransom), in the garbage bag the murderer kidnapped him in, Sahara had discovered a lottery ticket. It was a winning one for three million yen; in that situation, the lottery ticket was the only good luck received. He has stated that his cycle of good and bad luck had worn him down to the point where he drifted through life without purpose, waiting to die.
At some point before the events of Super Dangan Ronpa 2, he presumably fell to despair along with everyone else.
Island Life of Mutual Killing
Sahara begins off by acting polite and kind towards everyone, until the day Hyoudou suggests the party. He pretends that he was unaware of the whole situation, and through his "Good Luck", he picks out the lot to be the one who cleans the old lodge. He makes use of this opportunity to set up and ensure that someone would die during the party, but was eventually discovered by Ishida. During his plan when the lights went out, just as when he was about to target Hyoudou, he gets pushed away by the latter and Hyoudou gets killed by Ishida, who was targeting Sahara, instead.
He reveals his plans during the trial, causing everyone to start distrusting him. Sahara was not present to investigate the new Island in Chapter 2, and the reason turned out to be that he was tied up by Human Derby person and Human Derby person 2 to avoid the same incident from happening again. After the news leaked out, people were assigned to provide him with his meals.
During the events of Chapter 2, he convinces Kaiji to play the Twilight Syndrome game and helps him figure out that everything that happened in that game was going to happen. Because of this, Kaiji, himself, and Nishio are able to deduce that Mikoko killed Ichijou.
He relies on his exceptional luck to orchestrate his own death in Chapter 5 in an effort to expose the group's traitor. However, this fails; after it was determined in the trial that there was no real way to determine who killed him, the group of alive students voted off the traitor (who had outed themself), relying on Sahara's luck to save themselves.
Relationships
Itou Kaiji
From the start, Sahara noticed that he and Kaiji were similar somehow, as if they were both bystanders in something that didn't concern them. Prior to the chapter 1 trial, Kaiji was the closest thing Sahara had to a friend -- though his amiability may have been false, the connection he felt to him wasn't. After revealing the part he played in the case, Kaiji felt betrayed and terrified by Sahara, whom he had previously trusted and thought to be a good friend. Sahara remained fixated on Kaiji even after he was revealed to be a talentless reserve course student, especially evidenced in his dialogue directly preceding the chapter 4 trial. In chapter 5, Kaiji's understanding of Sahara is what thwarted his plan.
It's implied that Sahara's feelings for Kaiji are romantic in nature. Several times throughout the story, it's shown that Sahara feels a genuine closeness to Kaiji, such as when he claimed he doesn't like being around him when under the influence of the despair disease in Chapter 3. It's indicated that the reason he feels this way is because that despite knowing what kind of person he is, Kaiji still tried to understand him. In his fifth freetime event, he poured his heart out to Kaiji, then quickly slammed the door on their relationship by falsely dismissing what he had just stated as lies. Due to the wording in Japanese, Sahara's last line in particular is heavily implied to be the beginning of a love confession that he decided to rephrase at the last second. His usage of "ai shiteru" also reflects this notion, as it's an incredibly strong phrase that even some married couples are hesitant to use.
It also should be noted that in the final Dangan lsland event, Sahara had a very hard time asking Kaiji to be his friend, to which the latter agreed to.
Trivia
Sahara's ElectroID states that he likes "beautiful things" and dislikes noisy places.
His name in an anagram for "Na-e-gi Ma-ko-to da", which translates to "I am Makoto Naegi."
After the death of Kazuya Hyoudou, he cut off his left hand and attached his in its place, though it cannot act as a functional hand.
Sahara's Free-Time Events reveal that he was diagnosed with lymphoma and a severe form of dementia.
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