#danganronnpa despair time

[review-anon]

Oh, speaking of Ace, thoughts on him?

Ace Markely is a interesting one that's to be sure. At first glance he seemed to be a fusion of Kazuichi and Hiyoko, someone who talks tough, bullies others and is a coward. Yet Chapter 2 manages to deconstruct him a fair bit.

He goes through some negative character development, rather then become a better person, he becomes worse as his thanatophobia is so great that he is willing to kill to avoid death. He goes for Eden first because of how small and weak she is after but Arei moved up many people's tier lists, he switched targets and decided to go for her.

Ace is a deconstruct of the annoying coward nobody likes because the fact everyone thinks he's stupid, that he's a coward and nobody likes him, has pushed him into a massive corner. Nobody stopped to think he was okay, and the one person who did, was revealed to be a sociopath who never cared for Ace because he doesn't care for other people.

In addition his bullying of Nico, and I do wonder why because is it because Ace thinks they're pathetic? It isn't because they're an enby as the bullying started before Ace found out and all of all the things he could do, being a bigot isn't one of them. At least he has some standards. But he pushed Nico to their breaking point which is why they tried to kill him. And this convinced Ace, especially how apathatic everyone was to him almost dying, that he needed to kill. This was someone pushed into a corner and lashing out.

Veronika made a very good point and warning that Ace needed to tone down his behaviour but the problem is its Veronika, so she says it in a very creepy way which means the actual message doesn't come across.

He's also in the stereotype of not only a male athletic that kills but one that hates his talent as horses scare him and its the fear of them trampling him that drives him. We do find out the reason why he's so scared of dying is because he saw a friend of his die at a young age. But if we don't get confirmation on who that is or someone else I might do some tweaking of my own~

While Ace being the culprit kinda came out of nowhere the main fault was really how focused everyone was on the secrets. Believe me when Part 2 of my Chapter 2 Despair Time Review comes out, I will really rip the secrets apart as they are the worst part of the Chapter.

The big moment was ironically one of his last as when Teruko told him to destroy MonoTV and when it resulted in her being attacked, and Levi blocking the shot, Ace knew the only way to save Levi was for him to die, then the lifts could work and Levi could get medicial aid, and so he faces his death.

I saw a Ultimate Jockey execution when the victim was tied behind a horse and literally dragged behind it and torn to shreds and if that was where Ace was going I would have complianed massively but thankfully they focused on his character and his fear of death by having him face death scenario after death scenario until he literally has a fear induced heart attack and dies. This could actually happen irl and its why exposure therapy can be quite bad.

In addition I have some very interesting plans for Ace. But I am waiting for his bonus video to come out first since they could ruin my plans. Overall I feel like Ace is a compelling character and a harsh reminder why you shouldn't push someone to their limit.