Leon Kuwata

## Character Backstory

**Warning:** The following contains spoilers for Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.

Leon Kuwata was the first to kill another student in the Killing School Life, making him the first to be found guilty by his classmates and punished by Monokuma. Leon was led to kill Sayaka Maizono after she swapped rooms with Makoto Naegi, prompted Leon to visit Makoto in his room, and attacked Leon until he killed her in Makoto's bathroom. Leon also used his skills as the Ultimate Baseball Star to throw a crystal ball through the bars of a gate and press the button on an incinerator on the other side, burning some of the evidence to Leon's misdeeds. Despite all his efforts, he wasn't able to outsmart his classmates and became the first of a few murderers in the Killing School Life.

## Character Card Abilities

### Primary Active: **Batter Up**

* Select 2 targets.
	+ Whatever happens to your first target happens to the second target instead.
* You cannot Batter Up the same targets twice in a row.

### Secondary Passive: **Fly Ball**

* You are told the amount of players from both the upper and lower parts of the class that targeted your first batter up target.

## Character Card Notes

### Primary Notes:

* Batter Up has the fastest speed.
* For example, a tazer hitting Leon (who is using Batter Up to redirect it away from himself) does not roll to see which is faster; Batter Up would always occur first.
* Batter Up does not cause protection trials.
* Targets are not informed their effects are redirected.

### Secondary Notes:

* For the purposes of this ability, split the class in half.
* For example, 1-6 would be the "lower field" and 7-12 would be the "upper field".

## Strategy

Batter Up quite simply redirects all actions that would happen to your first target onto your second target. If Leon uses Batter Up, targets player A as his first target, and targets player B as his second target, any player- be it Leon, player A, player B, or any other player in the game- targeting player A with any other actions instead target player B without his/her knowledge. Leon is the only person who knows who Leon targeted with Batter Up, but Leon does *not* know which actions that targeted his second target were originally meant to target the second target and which were meant to go to his first target. However, Fly Ball can give the *number* of characters that targeted his first target and can even help narrow down characters that could have targeted his first target before the actions were redirected to the second target.

Batter Up can both protect a character from danger while also causing confusion for trials. By selecting a first player with Batter Up, he/she is guaranteed to be safe so long as Leon is not roleblocked on the same night. Leon may therefore want to choose *himself* as the first target of Batter Up so that even if one attempts to roleblock him it will be redirected to Batter Up's second target. If Leon- working on the side of hope- happens to choose somebody as a second target for Batter Up and find him/her dead the next day, it's up to Leon to convince the rest of his class members that he used his ability to help investigate whether the attack was meant for the victim or Leon's first target. Despite how easy it may seem to obscure information as a blackened Leon, suspicion could be drawn on Leon if it's discovered that Leon's claim of using Batter Up is proven *wrong*; If Leon claims to have targeted somebody as the first target of Batter Up, all it takes is for that person or a person who targeted him/her to prove he/she had an ability/item successfully used on him/her to prove Leon wrong and make Leon suspect #1 for the blackened for that trial!