Rio Tsukatsuki [Blue Archive]

Description

Rio Tsukatsuki (調月リオ in Japanese) is one of the characters in the 2021 roleplay game Blue Archive who studies in Millennium Science School and wields a Handgun. She is the the president of Seminar, the student council of Millennium, making Rio the overseer of all of Millennium. Despite being president, she has a not-so-decent reputation among Millennium students due to her paranoid-like behavior, always calculating every single possibility. Due to her behavior, she built a whole city as a way to prevent the destruction of Millennium and Kivotos, the place where the game's setting takes place, as a whole. She originally played as the main antagonist of the second chapter of the second volume, "Clockwork Flower Pavane". Although she had good intentions during this chapter, which was to protect Kivotos from its demise, her method of doing so was deemed wrong as she needed to kill the protagonists' friend in doing so, when there are other possible methods. After her defeat, she disappeared before returning again in the final volume, "Where All Miracles Begin", where she played as a supporting protagonist during the third and fourth chapter after realizing her wrongs.

Appearance

Rio is a tall, beautiful woman with long black hair that reaches her thigh with blunt bangs. She has a fair skin complexion and red eyes with white. Rio has a metallic halo with two red curved lines opposite of each other within. Her uniform consists of a three-buttoned black blazer and a white long-sleeved turtleneck sweater as well as a black knife-pleated mini skirt with a black opaque pantyhose. She also wears black stiletto heels, a holster with two belts tightly attached to her right thigh. On her left chest is a Millennium ID card. Additionally, she uses A Millennium logo hairpin and a square watch.

Personality

As previously mentioned, Rio has a paranoid-like personality. She is always alert and calculating for every possible outcome, looking for the most rational method to obtain the best outcome according to her. Once she sets her goals, she is willing to go to great lengths to achieve it, even letting herself be deemed as a villain in doing so. She refuses to acknowledge others' opinions if they even slightly contradict with Rio's plans, which makes her disliked by pretty much everyone in Millennium. However, it was revealed that she behaves like this because no one understands her intentions. She often mentions about the "trolley problem", an ethical dilemma where one must choose to sacrifice one for many, or many for one. To her, the most rational choice is to let one die to save many. However, she failed to realize the vagueness of the question, which was brought up by the main character of Blue Archive, the Sensei of Schale, who said the question itself is wrong, and that they'll choose to ask for help when the question is presented to them.