Ketchup

Ketchup is a male contestant in THREE, and the winner of that season.

### Allies

-Thermometer (best friend)-Physalis (best friend)-Emerald-Acid Barrel-Mr Remote-Radar-Blackout Cake

### Enemies

-Everyone else. His personality doesn't make him a social butterfly, and the contestants who don't know him tend to avoid him.

## Competition Information

### Team

**THREE:** Blackout Burners, Supernova Rebellion, Heroes, Blackout Bromance, Blackout Rebellion

### Placement(s)

**THREE:** 1st (Winner)

Aggressive, tough, snarky and quite tsundere. Doesn't like to be around annoying people. He was a gangster, but he threw that life away for reasons that won't be revealed quite yet. He tries to hide that fact from others. He is socially anxious, that's why he comes off as rude to others. Despite his personality, deep down, Ketchup is really sweet, and he also tries to hide that. He doesn't like to show weakness. He's in this game to win, not to make friends. ...But is he that tough when he's alone? He bursts into tears. He hates his life. He hates the fact that he was respected as the leader of a gang, but chose to abandon that life. He doesn't want to show his weak point, so he is agressive to others. But that's not how he really is. Throughout the camp, Ketchup is seen as a very rude, disrespectful and antagonistic character, even though he is quite clever. The way he deals with his social anxiety issues can hurt people around him, and that is why he doesn't have a positive relationship with most of the contestants, specially the ones that are not on his team. His teammates are supportive towards Ketchup, even though he gets annoyed by them with ease. It doesn't look like it, but Ketchup is really proud of his team.

### Extra

Before coming to Fivia to compete in THREE in hopes of getting the prize and live a better life, Ketchup was living in a poor neighbourhood where drug dealing was the only way to get good money. The only thing he liked to do in his life was taking care of his two cats.

### Development and Gameplay

In the beginning of the camp not much is known about Ketchup, other than the fact that he's always pushing himself to his limits and being aggressive towards people. He didn't have much of a good reputation back there. In episode 9, when he visited jail to draw a sketch of its architecture, it's revealed that he leaded a gang, and the previous members were angry at him for abandoning them.

Before his team disbanded along with the other teams after the first phase of the game, Ketchup started to gain some empathy when Physalis sacrificed himself to save him in episode 11. After that, Ketchup told Physalis and Thermometer he'd be more cautious and think before his actions.

Ketchup shows to be against his old team disbanding and isn't willing to cooperate with his new one at first, but after episode 12, he starts to open up to his teammates, and vice versa. This was mainly due to Phys convincing the others (especially Chargery 7.71) that Ketchup only acted that way because of his own insecurities.

When Thermometer was eliminated in episode 14 Ketchup's good mood instantly faded away, and he blamed R.O.S.E. for that. This'd have an impact on the next challenge.

In episode 15 Ketchup proved his value to his teammates by strategising with Moonrise Squad to glide both teams to safety, to make R.O.S.E. lose after they eliminated his friend. This worked, however, one of his old teammates was eliminated because of that, which made Ketchup even more anxious.

The same thing happens in episode 16: He wins the challenge because of who he really is: even if it involves stealing. His team finally snatched the first win of an upcoming winning streak that lasted until the very end of the second phase. He apologizes to R.O.S.E. for blaming Thermometer's elimination on them, which helped him gain even more empathy towards people.

However, in episode 17, he has a huge argument with his best friend, Physalis. Phys believed Ketchup's personality was a burden to the team and that they were better of without it. However, he was proven wrong when Ketchup built their room from scratch. that was the episode where Ketchup finally smiled of happiness. He was proud of himself, and he knew Physalis was too. Then, he headed into the forest to fight against a shady villain called Dusk. Not much is known about this fight until episode 22, where it is revealed that Ketchup almost won, but Dusk escaped before Ketchup could severely damage him.

Ketchup revealed his whole backstory when Nilly, Parasol's daughter, died later that night: *Ketchup gets up from the couch and walks up to the competition host. He holds Parasol's hand.* "I know nothing about parental love. I grew up on my own, with the "help" of a drugged biker that lived on my street. He didn't teach me bright things, and I didn't like him very much. So, I let negative feelings enter my body. My life went downhill really quickly. I was forced to trick people near the most infamous Casinos of Las Vegas, my hometown. Getting money for my "dad" to spend on alcohol. Because otherwise, I'd have no one who would feed me. I couldn't afford regular school, so I went to a school in the suburbs with high crime rates. Kids would get robbed or beaten up everyday. The biker taking care of me beat me up whenever he felt like it. My life was pretty much down the barrel, and I started to think about ending it. I was bullied every single day, without fail. Until I discovered an illegal Karaté dojo. Apparently, the sensei didn't have a license to be there. But I didn't care. At first, I ignored it. But one day, I finally managed to sneak it. 10 minutes in, and I was already the best student of the class. I let all my anger out. The one I was (and still am) holding after all those years of living with that loudmouth. Karaté was everything for me. I even won a lot of local tournaments, and almost won the american karaté championship, losing in the finals. It was an outrage for me, losing at something I really dedicated my time into. When I came back home from that tournament, the biker knew where I had been for the past few months and why I always arrived home late. He had a steel baton with him. After inexplicably taking care of me, he was... Trying to severely injure me. I used my karaté skills to steal the baton, but I accidentally..." *The scene plays again in Ketchup's memory* "... Killed him. Of course, I had to run. The police was after the murderer, and I couldn't run for much longer. I had to abandon everything. Even karaté. I used it to toughen up, and it helped me. But I was at stake. I had to escape. ...one day, I was found by a criminal organization who specializes in dealing many kinds of drugs in the big vegas. I worked my way up, and became the leader after 7 years, despite my rather young age." *A tear was shed from Ketchup's eye.* "Knowing that Nilly was gonna have good parents and a bright future... She wouldn't live in same the environment I lived in. And that is heartwarming enough for me." *For the first time in a while, Ketchup bursts into tears, but still keeps his smile.*

Ketchup didn't understand why he was picked for the heroes team in episode 18, and working with so many new people was inconveninent for him. However, he got to know everyone better, especially Brush Pen, who he developed romantic feelings for. The heroes won in the end, and Ketchup grew closer to the contestants. His agression was starting to disappear.

Not much can be said about episode 20, since it's a movie challenge, therefore Ketchup's actions were an act. The most notable event was Blackberry Cake's arrival to the team one episode before.

In episode 22, the teams disband, and Ketchup is left on his own. When he sees the eliminated contestants being terrorized by the disease, he feels the need to save them, despite his inner rage. He did what his inner self thought was good, in hopes of redeeming himself. He successfuly saved everyone from the disease, and that got him the win.

Ketchup builds his own karate dojo in episode 23, and intends to live on Fivia permanently. He got attached to this island, and decided that he'd live here to get away from the constant anxiety he was living with in Las Vegas.

Ketchup has to fight Dusk again in episode 24. Yekun, a demonic blue flare, was accidentally summoned by the red bottle. The fire casted by this demon burned earth to its core. The only way to revert all of this was a fight between Ketchup and Dusk, that would end in one of them dying. Yekun showed Ketchup visions of his gang, dojo, house, friends, cats and aspirations burning. That triggered the rage Ketchup was keeping inside of him. Unexpectedly, it is revealed that the devil was the cause of Ketchup's anger. Lucifer returns to hell, after being imprisioned for so many years. Ketchup falls on the ground, unconsious. He sees the biker he killed in his dreams, but Dusk took over them, turning the dream into a nightmare. Ketchup woke up, and finished Dusk off. Yekun reverted the effects of his flares, before joining Lucifer in hell. The two of them planned to destroy everything on earth again, in hopes of disbanding the perfection cult.

Ketchup saved the world, and his aggression was mostly gone now because Lucifer left his body (Ketchup didn't know about that part yet). The rest of the contestants and Fivia residents gained respect for him.

In episode 26, a missing part of his backstory is revealed. The perfection cult, leaded by an unknown figure, tried to summon the devil in someone's body. Then, they'd kill the person with the devil inside, eliminating imperfection from the face of this world. That person was Ketchup. Luckily, he escaped after the "surgery", and Checky, who is secretly one of the cultists, couldn't kill him. Ketchup has no memory of those actions, hence why he never talked about them. The devil managed to escape Ketchup's body with the help of Yekun, his most loyal servant, who came to the living world and completely wrecked it. However, the perfection cult believes the devil is still inside of Ketchup. The leader ordered Checky to end his life.

This plot is expanded in episode 30, where Ketchup starts to be affected by schizophrenia and see things created by his own brain, like the soul of his dead father. He sees himself consumed by blue fire, and feels uneasy the whole time. He decides to quit the game for the sake of protecting everyone, but, in the end, he decides to stay to protect them anyways. He finds a tape on top of his desk, and plays it. It was recorded by his biologic family. He finally got to meet them.