Decim

**Decim** is the main protagonist from the *Death Billiards* anime film and *Death Parade* anime series.

A mysterious, emotionless man who works as an arbiter on the fifteenth floor. Speaks in a very detached tone, and doesn't like bringing personal feelings into his work. He's professional and respectful towards guests. In his free time, he likes making mannequins, and makes world-class cocktails.

In the AWA fics, Decim is set to appear in a future AWA storyline.

## **Appearance**

Decim is a tall, lean man, with pale-colored skin and bright blue eyes. His white hair is messy, with most of his long, uneven bangs covering the right side of his face.

He wears a bartender uniform consisting of a white long-sleeved button shirt, overlaid with a black vest and a red bow tie. On the bottom, he has black pants, with a black apron over the top, and a pair of black leather shoes. He puts a pin on the left side of his vest.

## **Personality**

Decim appears to be emotionless and serious during his job, unless something out of the ordinary or shocking happens. He is very detached in his manner of speech, and would rather not bring personal feelings to the table. He takes pride in his role as an arbiter, and is always respectful towards guests, especially to those who lived their lives to the fullest. Even though Decim has been an arbiter for five years, he still lacks understanding of human emotions, and still shows incompetence at some parts of his job. He has a hard time understanding Machiko’s feelings during her trial, and after Onna explains to him her opinion, he becomes shocked and feels ashamed of his decision, as well as being an arbiter. There was also a time when he was supposed to cancel the game because he didn’t receive the memory of one of his customers, but he still continued anyway, much to Nona’s irritation. However, throughout his years as an arbiter, he still developed an ability to care for his customers in ways such as cracking jokes in unusual moments which doesn't really work, or hugging them when they're desperate, congratulating them for their hard work in their lives. He tries his best to do the right things from his point of view, and doesn't hesitate to learn from his assistant's point of view either.

He takes his job as an arbiter seriously, believes everyone can and should be judged, and that, as an arbiter, he would judge them. This was also shown when he felt ashamed of his decision of sending Machiko to the void, saying he failed as an arbiter in that case.

He also doesn’t like violence, as he covers his eye when Nona attacks Ginti, or how he states that he never usually engages himself in a brawl against the more volatile Ginti, who seems to have attempted to fight him before. However, this also shows that he can become angry if someone insults those close to him, and that he is protective of those he truly cares for.

## **Abilities**

**Threads:** Decim can create threads and use them to restrict rude customers from moving, or use them to hang things. They are strong enough to stop a person in their tracks and swing them hard against the wall. Some of the more offensive aspects of these strings were seen in Decim's battle against Ginti, where they were strong enough to stop the water balls Ginti threw at him, despite their speed and strength, and could grab Ginti's wrist and swing with enough force to throw him across the room and smash through the water tank. He was even able to use them to carry many chairs at once and throw them swiftly and strongly against Ginti.

## **Trivia**

* Decim's name seems to be derived from his bar, much like the other named Arbiters.
* He collects the dummies of those who have visited his bar and have lived a fulfilled life, as proof they existed, despite of, or because of, the fact that arbiters periodically forget the people they judge.
* His name may also be a reference to the name of one of the Fates from Roman mythology, Decima. Decima measured the thread of life, which may also refer to the threads that Decim occasionally uses to restrain people.
* Decim is an abbreviated form of the word *quindecim*, the name of Decim's bar, which in Latin means *fifteen*(the floor that he works on.)
* Nona says he makes the best cocktails, and Quin has complimented him on this skill.
* He has only been an arbiter for five years.
* His bar is a more modern, English style bar, as compared to Ginti's classic, Japanese bar.
* Decim's games usually involve pain and/or body parts.