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Out-of-Character Information

Name: Michelle
Are you over 15?: no
Time Zone: GMT
Personal Journal: none.
Reliable Method of Contact: plurk: colouredby / aim: colouredbyred
Other characters in the game: Furiae (stillawoman) - Drakengard
Red (silentchamp) - Pokemon
Link to slot request if 6th, 7th slot: none.

In-Character Information

Name: Leon Kuwata
Game/Series: Dangan Ronpa
Teacher/Student/Other: Student
Canon Point: After the first trial
Age: 18
Grade Level/Class Taught/Job: Junior right
Dorm or Living Arrangement: Dorms.

Personality: The Super High-School level baseball player. Blessed with an absolutely phenomenon skill at the game, it's made him highly regarded, a young man given attention for what came so naturally to him.

What resulted from such attention was a teenager with a big head, selfish and self-centred. He's not a guy who likes to do what he doesn't want to. Much like his disdain for practising in baseball, Kuwata didn't enjoying the whole studying thing either, admitting that one of the quirks of playing baseball was getting offered scholarships based on his gaming skills than his brain.

He can be described as a lazy guy- if it's not about having fun or a good time, Leon's hardly interested. He doesn't like to get his hands dirty, and if you want to get him to do something he's not keen on doing, you better be good at sweet talking or being a girl. Especially be good at being a cute girl. Back at his old school, his admits that his coach would have to personally come to speak to him to convince him to play in the baseball games, a fact he complains about like it's a drag.

Being so easygoing with school, Leon's attitude gives an idea of a guy who's probably been able to get away with a quite a bit in life, such as being an uncooperative punk to the rest of his baseball team. All he wants to be is to be cool. Sure, he might already be cool thanks to sports, but being cool for a game he doesn't like isn't the same. He wants all the honeys to like him, and he'll try for anything to go for one he might reeeeeally like.

Actually, that's probably where we'll see Leon take an interest in trying for something: when he thinks it'll get him into a girl's knickers. He goes to Hope's Peak Academy to try and become a musician, all because a cute girl at the hair salon he goes to said she likes musicians. And he thinks it a good enough reason to want to become a musician. He's serious about giving it a go though, and even considers becoming an actor if another student at the school, Maizono, is into those types.

But anyway. Let's not get the wrong idea that Leon's a hard guy to get along with if you're a bloke. Oh no, let's leave that snobbery profile to the heir Togami (not that being a girl will do you any better with him either). Though he's an uncooperative butt to his coach, when meeting people, he gives off a casual and friendly enough atmosphere - or so he does in Dangan Ronpa. He introduces himself to the protagonist Naegi with no problem, and admits to him his personal feelings about baseball right off the bat ehe. The baseball player isn't the kind of guy who looks like he has anything to hide, and doesn't keep everything he's feeling and thinking to himself a secret.

The only times he does this, is when he happens to surprise even himself. This comes about when he confesses to Naegi about wanting to play baseball. He skirts around the topic at first though- asking him to play with him, acting like it was a joke, strongly denying when Naegi calls him out.

That's not to say he doesn't have secrets though, or he'll be the sort to give his game away easy. He keeps his involvement with the first murder a secret right until he's found out, acting cool-headed during the prior investigation period before the trial. There's other things likely tucked away in Kuwata's closet too, given his reaction to his DVD (which each character was supplied with, a motivation provided by Monobear to push them to kill).

All in all though, not counting the whole being part of a murder game, Leon Kuwata is a pretty normal high-school guy. Digging the chicks, digging not paying attention in class, digging himself. He doesn't know what anyone's got to hate about him other than how successful he is for a guy his age, and hey - haters can hate aalll they want.

'Cause Leon Kuwata will just be batting all night regardless, if you know what he means.

Backstory: Leon Kuwata, the Super High-School Level Basebell player. His skill at the game gave him a good life, one where compliments and acknowledgement of his talent made him an important figure -- and granted him to receive a big head from the attention it got him.

He never had to even practice at it to ensure a victory swing, and his gifted ability at the game ensured that eyes were on him from all over from schools, girls, and professionals. It was helped him to receive a spot at Hope's Peak Academy, a school famed for taking in the best of the best. It was just the kind of place Leon was looking for, and he accepted a spot at it, gaining the titled given to students of the school - of a Super High-Level student.

Maybe one would think that for such a great player of a sport, they'd want to keep on with it and reach further success. Leon did want further success, but it wasn't for the game: it was as, he hoped, a musician. In reality, Leon didn't care about the sport- it was tiring, made him exert himself more than he liked to, got him sweaty and dirty. He was Leon Kuwata, he was cool! What was cool about going out onto a field? It got him the girls that he wanted, but ehhh.

But at this place, he could go on to become whatever he wanted. He had never tried to start a band before, and his true reason for going down the route was to catch the attention of a hairdresser. But hey, what was so bad about that? It was time to go for something new, to put behind that sport he didn't even like and do what he really wanted to.

So, when Leon awoke in a locked down school with no exits and a black and white teddy bear head master telling everyone that they should go and kill each other, the guy was not the most thrilled at how his enrolment had apparently turned out! It was already weird enough how they'd all woken up and found themselves in that place, but killing each other? Was it a joke?

But as the students went looking around for some way out of clues as to what was going on, they found nothing. Nothing but a creepy bear, each other, and a bulkhead that wasn't budging open one bit. The whole situation sucked hard.

The headmaster bear assured, no no no. This is very much not a joke. So, please! Kill each other!

Yet you can't just get people to kill each other without much reason. Or maybe you could. But their new headmaster decided to present to the group of students with an object that would help to give them a nudge into the right direction- the direction it deemed right, anyway.

What it gave were DVDs, each showing something private and personal to each of the students there. They were were personal enough that many of the students refused to share the contents of the movies with each other, and Leon was no different. That someone could have something like that on him...! While it's never found out what was on his, it's enough to send him back to the locked down door, trying to find a way out. When Naegi, the main protagonist of the game, approaches him when looking for another student who ran off after viewing hers, the baseball player snaps at him and vehemently refuses to share the contents of his DVD, accusing Naegi of trying to act innocent to get them out of him.

Others suspected the footage to plant seeds of suspicion and doubt into each other. Prisoner's dilemma, as explained by one student; but while Leon was there to hear it, he was unable to let go of the thought that someone would try to go for him. Who could be trusted? Why any of them? He didn't know any of these people!

His doubt of the others and what they would do wasn't enough for him to go and look for a victim, but it turned out it was worth having.

The next day, a murder was announced.

It was Maizono Sayaka, the Super High-School Level Idol. She was popular, pretty, a sweet. She had been the most openly troubled by the footage they had seen, and then she was found in the shower room of Naegi Makoto, stabbed into a bloody mess.

Naegi explained that they had swapped over rooms because Maizono had been scared, but the suspicion was on him. A gathering was called forth by headmaster Monobear, who explained the rules of the school (and of murder). To murder someone meant one could graduate - they could leave. This was explained before by him, but now that a murder had happened, he explained further what one had to do to graduate.

Not be caught.

A trial would be held, and people would be allowed first to gather evidence, then question each other in a makeshift court located deep under the school. Then, if the killer was caught, they would be executed. If they picked wrongly, then everyone else would be murdered and the actual killer would be let go free.

The seriousness of their situation grew, and it did so even more when another student there, Junko Enoshima, was killed after attempting to attack Monobear.

It shocked everybody, and they all decided to do the only thing they could do - try to survive. People went and explored to find evidence that would help lead them to the culprit to ensure their lives, though suspicion was heavily on Naegi. They had so much time, and then, they were called to hold a trial.

The trial was set down in a makeshift courtroom, the faces of Junko and Maizono sitting on stands with large X's crossed out on them in spots in the center of the room where everybody were made to stand. With everybody in their place, a debate began to try and make sense of what had happened.

They went through the details, Naegi correcting anything that didn't match up with what was known. Some were willing to pin the blame on him given what was known - that the idol's body was in his shower room, Touko and Leon being two of the first to speak up of this.

But there was more to it than that, and it was brought up as the trial moved on. The knife that had been taken from the kitchen that was used in Maizono's murder was done so not while Naegi was there, but by Maizono herself, concluded by its disappearance during the time Aoi and Sakura were drinking tea in the cafeteria.

Still, that didn't take the blame off of Naegi - but what did was the state of the room. Though a struggle could be seen, the room had been cleaned up entirely of hair; not even Naegi's own was present, despite it being his bedroom.

There was also something else, more questioning than the last. The door to the shower room had been unbolted, but Naegi's own mini DIY set (given to every guy) had been left untouched. It had been messed with likely due to the culprit being unable to open the door, despite it not being locked (none of the male bathrooms could be locked), only jammed - a fact Naegi knew.

So, the person who opened the door was likely the one who went after Maizono.

As the debate went on, more and more evidence came to light. A scrap of cloth found on the floor by the school furnace, locked behind a steel gate that only one person had the key to, doujin artist Yamada. Broken glass was also found shattered inside, once being a ball belonging to the fortune-teller Hagakure.

It was used to hit the switch, thrown at an amazing distance, and there existed only one person likely to make such a throw amongst them.

A Super High School Level Baseball Player, for instance, like Leon Kuwata.

Once the blame was pinned onto Leon, he argued back incessantly - why the hell would it be him!? It was Naegi's room! But as points were made more and more against him, his refutes became nothing but a continuous stream of insults at everyone until the final bullet of evidence was shot against him (GET IIIITTT). There was no way to deny it, no more he could do - suspicion had long since moved from Naegi to Kuwata.

Plus there was the whole thing where Maizono had written 'LEON' on the wall beside her, just upside down. That was a total biggy (though it was actually the whole DIY set that was the final thing brought up but let's pretend I didn't just muddle up the order, okay).

Thing is, in the end votes were cast and the majority voted Leon Kuwata as guilty - and guilty he was. Maizono had invited the Basebell Player over to her room, switching the nameplates over so they would go to Naegi's room instead. Then, when he entered, she attacked him with a kitchen knife. He defended himself with a fake sheathed sword, breaking her wrist and causing her to drop her weapon onto the ground. She fled into the bathroom to hide herself and Kuwata, in a state of panic over what had just happened and the fact he'd been chosen to be murdered, unscrewed his way into the bathroom.

His possible intent didn't matter - a story showing his side explained that he wanted to tak to her, a struggle taking place (the knife still in possession of the pop idol) and the murder being an accident as a result. Either way, the knife had been in Leon hand. Maizono Sayaka had been killed.

And Leon Kuwata was to be punished.

And punished he was.

Anything Else?:

In-Character 1st person sample: What's up with this place? It's no competition to the last place I got stuck at, but I can't keep ignoring how weird it is around here!

Y'know what I'm on about, right? The walking, talking animals around here? They're everywhere! Are they for real? Seriously? Is it some kind of big joke?!

It wasn't so bad, not 'til I saw that giant bear thing dressed like a dinner lady in the cafeteria! What the hell? Do we have to get served by that thing?!

It's really, seriously got to be a joke, right?

Geez...! This is too much for a guy like me, after I've all been through... I had to put up with some crazy stuff before, y'know, and now this... nothing's ever goin' to be normal again.

In-Character 3rd person sample: The baseball field was empty, like it was hardly used. Well, not that it was all surprising to Leon Kuwata; it wasn't as if he was a guy who wanted to go on it much - it'd just been an easy ticket to budding fame and popularity.

... 'least, that's what he thought, anyway. About the sport, that was - popularity with the girls had been plenty enough. They all seemed to love a guy who was good at something, no matter what it was. They never cared much about the game itself, most didn't even get the rules, but when a guy made hitting a ball look as good as he did and attracted the attention of the big shot league officials, that translated well and good for any cutie to know that Kuwata was The Shit.

But the girls weren't on his mind right then though he missed the days of his old school. And damn, did he miss it: the love, the attention, how easy and normal it all was. Yeah, that hadn't left him. Not in the slightest.

It was the itch for the game right then in his fingers, the one that distracted him often. It should've been a good distraction, better than anything else in the crazy hell of a school this place was supposed to be, but with the longings that he'd once denied having, there was a cave in the pit of his stomach, a feeling he'd barely experienced than at the trial that decided whether he got to live or die.

Haha, shit, was is this? But even when he asked himself that question, Leon knew exactly what it was.

It was the trial.

It was the chains, the immobility.

The -- what the heck is one of those things called that shoot balls hold on lemme google