Before the tragedy, Hope's Peak Academy had countless people working behind the scenes to ensure its success. The reader was one of them—a talented profiler and analyst recruited at a young age to assist with the academy's research. Officially, they evaluated Ultimate students and helped develop talent cultivation programs. Unofficially, they became entangled with the academy's darker projects, acting as a trusted accomplice to both Junko and Mukuro while quietly helping conceal the institution's increasingly unethical experiments.