David F. Masuda

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## David F. Masuda

* Illustration
* Sprite

## Status

### Fates

Executed
Suffocation via women

## Fangan Info

### Voice Actors

Naoki Kobori (小堀直紀)

**David Fitzgerald Masuda** (*増田・F・デイビッド Masuda F. David*) is a main character featured in Danganronpa TheAfter, made by Kurono Pencil. He is the **Super High School Level Onmyoji**.

## Official Description

イギリス人と日本人のハーフ。彼の「マジナイ」の効果は良くも悪くも 必ず効果があると言われている。根暗で皮肉屋な性格な上に、
少し趣味が変わっている。**- Official Profile**

## Appearance

David is quite tall, standing at 177cm. He has a pale skin tone with pale purple eyes. His hairstyle is a long, neat blonde hairstyle with a part of his hair touching his right shoulder. On his ears, he sports green Magatama shaped earrings along with black square shaped glasses.

His attire consists of a white shōzoku with dark magenta accents. His shōzoku's sleeves are torn, revealing his dark magenta inner sleeve color. His hakama trousers are purple colored and is complimented with black boots. He also sports a gold, star shaped necklace along with a black fingerless glove with a green, diamond shaped gem on it on his left hand and a gold thumb ring with a small circular red gem on it on his right hand.

## Personality

David is a calm and collected person, but is oddly too calm even though he is put in the Killing Game to the point he is unbothered by the motives. He is quite eccentric compared to his classmates, he has gynophobia and can't stand being next to women and will have skin rashes when he gets touched by one. He would threaten to put curses on people he does not like and so far has only put them on two people. He mixes English in his Japanese speech and addresses his classmates with the English honorifics "Mister" and "Miss", instead of using Japanese honorifics. He speaks and refers to himself in third person, he sometimes calls himself Dave.

## History

### Early Life

David is half Japanese and half British. Born to a family with a British mother and a Japanese father.

### Killing School Life

David was one of the 14 students who waited for Konoe Shimatate to wake up in class. Much like the other students, he also woke up in the classroom. Shortly after Konoe has woken up, he and the other students introduced themselves to each other. He was the 5th character to be introduced to the protagonist. After the introductions are done, everyone notices an anonymous announcement made on the monitor directing the students to go to the gym to start their opening ceremony. Upon their arrival, they were horrified to see blood all over the gym and learns that they are all held captive by an animatronic bear named Monokuma and the academy's A.I state-of-the-art program Hold Nova.

After the revelation about the situation they are in, the students were understandably shaken about it. The students decide to spend the few days investigating and exploring the place as well as bonding together. Monokuma eventually gets fed up waiting for the students to murder and decides to show everyone a video for a motive. That all of them have been replaced by Hope's Peak with new students with identical talents and the students trapped with Monokuma are labelled as missing. One thing that David finds odd about the place is that he sees a lot of spirits there.

A day after the motive was revealed, David and other the students in the dining hall realize that five people are missing. The remaining students including David decide to go back to the dorm hallways to get the five students. David was notified off-screen that Yukime Ryō's body has been found and gathers at the crime scene with everyone else. He and the remaining alive students witness Tachihaki Hatami's and Konoe's feud where she was held knifepoint. After the feud, everyone investigates Yukine's body and the crime scene for the class trial. He and Miruku Hishimeki suspects Chisa Kōmyōin because Miriku found a pocket knife that belonged to Chisa. He briefly quarrels with Konoe about Chisa's innocence before Monokuma's announcement interrupts them, informing everyone that investigation is over.

David was an active contributor during the class trial and has helped find the culprit for Yukime's murder, as he was the one to make the connection between the picture of the boy in Yukime's notebook to Issei Amagaya because of the images he was given back from the prologue and eventually identified Issei as the culprit for her murder. Issei got executed shortly after.

After the class trial, David notices that Konoe was losing consciousness and lets her lean on Chisa instead of him to prevent any symptoms of his gynophobia. Konoe and Chisa befriends him despite his arguments over Chisa's innocence back in the class trial. He was the one who suggested the two to visit Yukime's room after the trial because he says that her spirit is crying.

### Second Motive Reveal

A day after the class trial, many people are left feeling dejected. David seems to be one of the few unaffected by the events of the trial. After breakfast, he and the other students investigate and discover new places on the academy. In the day following that, Chisa asks David to get out of wherever he was before but witnessed her run into the shower room and waited 20 minutes for her to get out, though, she explains after she got out of the shower that she wanted Dave to guard the shower room door from evil sprits but he still obliged since he's the only one who can do that. The three hear commotion coming from the dining room and decided to go there to see what is happening to see that Koin Hatoyama has taken something from Tachihaki that reveals his actual talent. Tachihaki falls down attempting to leave after taking back what Koin stole from him and David thinks that a curse that he placed on him days ago is finally taking effect. Tachihaki feuds with Ryōhei Seki and shortly after the feud, he gets taken away by Miriku.

Not long after the event, Monokuma and Hold Nova announces a second motive. He introduces the Bad Talk Box to the students, it plays audio collected from the security footage on the bad things the living students has said about each other privately. Koin presses the button that reveals Kinji Ueda's recording. Kinji snaps after hearing it and presses it three more times, revealing the recordings of Seiha Arumada and Konoe. Before Kinji could press it another time, Ryōhei gets very overwhelmed and begs Kinji to stop playing the device. Retsu Matsuoka destroys the Bad Talk Box and Monokuma leaves out of disappointment, reminding the students that someone will commit a murder soon. Once everyone leaves the dining hall, a recording plays of one of the students in the building planning to kill a male student.

### Receiving a Threatening Photo and His Plan

David and the other boys hear about the girls having a slumber party and was told not to interfere with it, he understands this and complies. At an unknown point but before Miharu arrived at David's room, he receives a letter from her telling him to meet at the library at 11:30 PM, to which he did go and learned about the "Super High School Level Misfortune" murders. He went back to his room at an unknown time after 11:30. Minutes later, Miharu Kirigiri abruptly arrives at David's dorm, telling him about a new feature of the Electric Student ID Card that lets you share and take pictures. She shares a photo of an unconscious Chisa and Konoe to him and informs him that she made them "temporarily unconscious" and threatens him to comply with her and Ryōhei's plans otherwise the girls will get hurt.

While walking around the school, he witnesses Tachihaki get out of the male locker room and goes in to check without him noticing. He sees Miharu set up to be killed and checks if she's still alive, to see that it is the case. He remembers the threat she gave him and kills her to save Chisa and Konoe. Without his knowledge, she secretly took a photo with his hand in it moments before she died. He punishes himself for murdering Miharu by removing his ability to see spirits. Unbeknownst to him, he has ruined Ryōhei's plan on framing Tachihaki as the culprit for Miharu's death by finishing her off.

Nobody had suspected David at first, as Tachihaki was the biggest suspect of the murder case due to several incriminating evidence, his past and a recording played by the Bad Talk Box that depicted him talking about murdering an unknown male student. After hearing from Tachihaki, the students discovers that Ryōhei has masterminded the whole murder with Miharu being the assistant to it. Ryōhei reveals his true colors mid-trial and the recording mentioning a murder from the Bad Talk Box turned out to be him planning to kill Tachihaki. But despite being figured out as the mastermind of the whole murder, he didn't directly kill Miharu. Which led the students at a dead end and Tachihaki becomes the main suspect again. Everyone was almost convinced that he was the murderer but Konoe manages to convince everyone to discuss Miharu's Student Watch. It was then that they found an image in her watch that shows the culprit's hand with a mark on it. They also find out that the images was mirrored and that the time in the clock of the picture almost matches her time of death. They check everyones' hands and find that David has the exact mark on his left hand.

### Fate

Once it is revealed that his hand's mark matched the one in the photo, he explains that he checked on Miharu after he saw Tachihaki get out of the male locker room and Chisa points out that he may have gotten the mark from Miharu touching his hand. He was mostly honest and composed about his testimony but still defended himself and claimed he wasn't the murderer. Konoe is unable to provide more counters against David as she wasn't majorly involved in the case and entrusts Hatami to expose David and how the murder happened. He does and pieces together everything that happened and reveals David as the murderer of Miharu.

Everyone votes for him and got correct, meaning that he actually is Miharu's killer. Ryōhei gets extremely exasperated because he found out that David has ruined his scheme to get Tachihaki voted and killed for Miharu's murder, he finds out shortly after that Miharu had betrayed him during the plan. He shares to his classmates the details of he and Miharu's partnership and reveals to the students that the heels Issei wore actually belonged to one of the headless ghosts he saw and a previous killing game's participants. David tries to pretend that his motive for killing her was because he wanted to get out, but Monokuma exposes him and reveals that he killed Miharu to protect Chisa and Konoe and to avenge Miharu for Ryōhei's betrayal. Shortly before he gets executed, he curses Ryōhei with a specially tailored curse that will make him live the rest of his life in fear. This has yet to take effect.

### Aftermath

Because of the events of the second trial and the revelation that Tachihaki is the "culprit" behind the Super High School Level Misfortune killings, Tachihaki eventually opens up about his previous killing game experience to everyone currently alive in the next chapter. Konoe thinks about how, if she didn't befriend David, she wonders how the outcome of the murder and trial will change.

## Talent and Abilities

### Super High School Level Onmyoji

David practices Onmyōdō, meaning the way of Yin and Yang. His talent allows him to sense and see spirits as well as understanding and hearing them, but he cannot talk to them back. He is very popular with the ladies because of his talent. Ironically, he has gynophobia and cannot stand being next to one. His talent is to protect a place from evil sprits and has the ability to put curses onto people, though, it is currently unknown if his curses actually work or not.

## Creation and Development

TBA

David's Design Sheet

## Relationships

### Konoe Shimatate

Konoe befriends David after the class trial in Chapter 1. He has gotten closer to her and Chisa since they befriended each other. When Miharu threatens him with an image of an unconscious Chisa and Konoe, he put aside his gynophobia to save them by killing Miharu. Konoe deeply respects him for it and thanks him for helping her and Chisa make amends and for being her friend.

It's been implied that his feelings towards her was romantic from a pink text summary of the trial of chapter near the end of the chapter. But this has yet to be confirmed or denied.

### Chisa Kōmyōin

Chisa seems to know David well from what she knows online and has asked him for an autograph. Once she hears about David's dislike towards women she starts to question why he's popular within the ladies. He and Miriku initially saw her as the culprit for Yukine's murder because of evidence and testimony by Miriku but they eventually find the actual culprit after she managed to clear her name. She befriends him after the class trial.

She befriends him after the chapter 1 class trial. When Miharu threatens him with an image of an unconscious Chisa and Konoe, he put aside his gynophobia to save them by killing Miharu.

### Kinji Ueda

David and Kinji are in good terms. In a Free Time Event video for Chapter 1, Kinji watches David ask Miharu to exchange rooms for a night. He was surprised to see this interaction and asks David why he swapped rooms with her. He tells him that he switched rooms with her because he felt the presence of "Lady" and has no interest in human girls. While he mumbles on about "Lady", Kinji hears from Konoe that he's into ghost women.

### Miruku Hishimeki

During the investigation in Chapter 1, David hears Miriku's testimony from the night the murder has occurred and learned that Chisa has walked to Yukime's room moments before the murder and a weapon was found that belonged to her. He pairs with Miriku to find evidence against Chisa to prove that she's the culprit but after they hear her side of the story, they both realize that somebody has disguised as her and together with the rest of their classmates find the true culprit of Yukime's murder. After Chapter 1, they barely interact with each other. When she found out that David was the culprit behind Miharu's murder, she was upset by this.

### Tachihaki Hatami

He and David has not interacted outside of the Chapter 2 class trial. David knows about the Super High School Level Misfortune murders because of a note Miharu left on his door but manages to ask and hear more about the case near after he was voted for.

## References

1. ↑ **Danganronpa TheAfter:** David's Character Profile