Frederick Rixham

"Greetings all, I am Frederick Rixham the Ultimate Historian! Tally ho, audience! Prepare to see a historian at work! Making friends and capturing the hearts of those at home! Alll in one! It's the Ultimate Historian's job to—" —Danganronpa: Sink or Swim, Frederick's introduction in the theatre

Frederick Rixham, is a participant on Sink or Swim's 22nd season, and apart of the killing game featured in Danganronpa: Sink or Swim. His title is the Ultimate Historian. His reasons for appearing on the 22nd season seem to be the want to "make history and end the game from the inside". What is meant by that is unknown.

Prior to Sink or Swim
Frederick Rixham was born and raised in Plymouth, Massachusetts, though his child life lacks much documentation and therefore is hard to find much information on. His historian talent seemed to stem from when he was only in early middle school, and not much else. Frederick lacks much documentation until about late elementary school, as he seems to have been home schooled prior to that.

There isn’t anyone but the small group of his followers that might know Frederick, he tends to stay away from modern tech yet fathers a YouTube Channel titled “The Father of Time” where he gives history lessons. Said videos can range from five minutes to two hours. His longest video is a broken down,in-depth timeline of the Revolutionary War that is a total of three hours, twenty-two minutes, and forty-seven seconds.

Accomplishments-wise, Frederick graduated a year early from UMASS Amherst, and is the first student in US history to ever achieve a perfect score on the APUSH, AP European History, and AP World History exams. He seems to give high schoolers speeches on why they should study for and do well on their AP exams. He also has published an auto-biography titled “The Life of Rixham”, though it mainly talks about already public information, and hardly mentions his home life all too much save for small quips.

Though his personal Instagram and Twitter are hardly active, Rixham keeps updated profiles for his pack of huntings dogs found @TheDogPack on both sites.

Introductions in the Theatre
Once Octavius gives him his cue to introduce himself, it seems Frederick goes off the rails and plays up a rather big front of showing himself off to the audience at home. He swings his strange cane about wildly, and attempts to go on a tangent, however he is interrupted by Octavius pushing him away. He is the only member of the cast to be interrupted.

False Alarm
Later on the first day on board, Octavius called the entire cast to the ship's bow as if the ship was sinking. Before knowing it was fake, Frederick was rather panicked and "seemed as if he was going to pass out". Even for a moment after learning about the falsity of the event, it seems that he'd still been shaken up, yelling that they were going to die. Once realizing that Octavius was lying, Frederick was incredibly relieved. His cool head was kept once entering the theatre for the safety demonstration, proclaiming about it being a matinee. Though not vocalized, from his physical actions it was clear to see that after learning about the bounties he was rather anxious, and left immediately.

First Motive
After learning of the first motive, Frederick seemed to be rather unphased, proclaiming in the groupchat that this would not take them down, and that they must rally together to take down Octavius. Though, he seems to be keeping himself in his stateroom, even if the sickness is not spread from person-to-person. He spoke briefly in the groupchat with Naoko Hoshino and Sora Takahashi about the motive would not "tame the bull moose".

Name
Frederick is a masculine name meaning "Peaceful Ruler", and is an English form of the German name "Friedrich". Rixham has no documented meaning.

Appearance
Frederick is a rather tall man of an average build, he has fair, clear skin save for a mole directly on his chin. On his head is platinum blond hair, usually tied back with a small braid hidden in his ponytail with a green bow, a small cowlick dipping into his forehead and fluffy sideburns creeping up on his cheeks. When not tied, hair usually falls to about his mid back. Daily he wears a few layers, the very first being a white button up with not one, not two, but three different cravat styles of ruffling flowing down from Frederick’s neck. Over that is a brown buttoned vest, a dress chain draped from one pocket on the left to the other on the right. A green high-folded collar jacket rests on top, bronze epaulets matching the accents on his coat. The lapels are a tan that match Frederick’s folded cuffs, with six buttons up and down each one on either side. Pinned on his right pec is a feather that the historian often uses for a quill pen. Running down to about his knee sock-covered ankles are the tailcoats trailing from his waist, colored the dark green of his coat’s interior. Brown pants end halfway down his calf with small ruffles, socks bridging the gap between them and cream, ornate buckled high ankle boots. On his nose, Frederick wears pince-nez glasses that attach to his jacket’s collar with a bronze chain, and in cloth gloved hands is usually a staff topped with a functioning hourglass.

Personality
Frederick can be seen as a very confident person who definitely sees the good in all, not just in people alone but their actions and words as well, seemingly twisting the narrative into a positive. He does this rather frequently, and seems to be aware of it, voicing it multiple times as he does with most things. In the public eye, his smile hardly falters and persists instead, where it truly is rare to see Frederick down, moping, or spewing negativity. To others he may come off as more cocky than confident, however it seems that he doesn't mind this, and truly does love himself and everything that he does. Though, it's easy to mistake his outward kindness to all as naivety or foolishness, as it seems Frederick is rather intelligent with books, though more clumsy with emotions. He has a one-track mind focused on himself, and seems to see that others think like him, even forcing opinions on others. Not only does he think his way of thinking is the best, but he thinks all should think like him, and that the world might become a better place if everyone was as intelligent and kind as he is.

When speaking about history, it's clear that Frederick gets incredibly excited, and tends to ramble on about topics others do not care about, assuming that they might be interested in said topic. Even if they voice that they aren't, it's rather difficult to get him to stop once he's going, and will take any opportunity to give a mini lesson. He has a childlike wonder when speaking of topics of the past, and seems to be well-versed in most forms of history, including but not limited to American, European, Ancient, Modern World, Art, Music, and more, however his physical appeal and speech can be mainly taken from American History. Speaking of America, Frederick is incredibly proud of his country and origin of birth in Massachusetts, and isn't afraid to speak of it, often proclaiming it is the best country in the world. Though, he states he's aware of its faults. Even if he is kind and respectful of all cultures and origins, Frederick is still stubborn in his roots and is very nationalistic, however it is shown he will not overstep his boundaries and tread on other countries downright.

As an all around "history nerd", Frederick is very smart with an extremely good memory for even details on rather uncommon topics. He is very open about his goals to take down Sink or Swim from the inside, and incredibly transparent with his goals in life. There is a lot of things the historian would like to do, many places to visit and many experiences to be had, though he states he "never wants to forget his roots". His passion of history comes from interest, however it can be interpreted as wanting to keep his history of his home life dear to his heart, and never have it "be lost to history". It is seen Frederick has somewhat of a "hero complex", where he plays himself up as the savior to all and one who will save the day. This grand thought can also be derived from his glorification of historical heroes of the past, and how he wants to be the "best president of the United States". Though, in the end, Frederick can be considered rather cowardly, and panics at the mention of ghosts and other immediate dangers, though mainly the former.

Overall, Frederick Rixham is very kind, though there can be times where he is a little too much and pushes others' patience, no matter thick or thin.

Talent
Frederick Rixham is the Ultimate Historian, and it is a title he wears ever-so-proudly on his head. Ever since early schooling years, it seems he'd grown a large fascination with the topic, and said fascination has never stopped since. Everyday he practices his talent, honing by speaking on video sharing sites like Youtube, and other social media such as Twitter and Tumblr. Though, his crowning achievement is his AP exams scores, perfect score achieved on multiple tests and a year of college skipped thanks to all the credit he'd received from these courses. Graduating a year early with a double major in history and education, it's unclear what Frederick's sight was set on before Sink or Swim, for he'd stated before he plans on becoming a teacher, a professor, an art curator, the Best President in US History, the Next Face on the $20 Bill, and a "National Treasure with a legacy no one can top". Though he seems to have strange views of where he is going, Frederick's talent in all of the facts, dates, and historical documents he has memorized is undeniable, granting him the title of Ultimate Historian.