Daiya Owada

## Character Backstory

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

Daiya Owada was the original ruler of Japan's largest biker gang, which was called the Crazy Diamonds. He was the older brother of Mondo Owada and sought to protect him. Mondo challenged Daiya to a motorcycle race during his retirement party and, after Mondo almost got ran over by a truck and Daiya rescued him, Daiya died and left Mondo to rule the biker gang by himself. Mondo blamed himself for the death of his older brother and kept this secret for as long as he could. That was until Monokuma threatened to reveal this secret to the others in the Killing School Life, which was enough to motivate Mondo to kill another student.

## Character Card Abilities

### Primary Active: **Bro Watch Out**

* As a free action, target two characters for Bro Watch Out.
	+ Daiya cannot use Bro Watch Out on the same targets twice in a row.
* If any lethal or potentially lethal actions/uses were used by anyone, Daiya is brought out and informed of them.
	+ Targeted characters are then brought out to trade items.

### Secondary Passive: **Bro Hold My Beer**

* Only Daiya can talk during Bro Watch Out trading and the targets may immediately and privately change their night actions/uses.
* If you draw an item of the same color as an item you already possess, draw 1 extra card (with a maximum of 1 per day).
* Once per night, you may trade an item of the same color for a protection or avoidance item.

## Character Card Notes

### Primary Notes:

* Lethal or potentially lethal examples include Ignite and Douse.
* Daiya is informed exactly what type of elimination it is but not told if it will be immediately lethal.
* Roleblocked attacks do not trigger Bro Watch Out.
* Daiya's items do not trigger protection trials.

### Secondary Notes:

* Daiya cannot trade before drawing each day.
* The protection/avoidance items received from Bro Hold My Beer must be red, blue, white, or purple items.

## Strategy

If Daiya decides to perform Bro Watch Out and is not brought out, that assures Daiya that there was no potentially lethal action taken that day. If Daiya *is* brought out, all Daiya can do to influence that result is to persuade his two targets (as they cannot speak during Bro Watch Out) to either swap protection items as needed to protect important characters or reveal their inventories to prove their innocence (as only Daiya will truly know which potentially lethal action was selected that night). Bro Hold My Beer both gives Daiya more cards to work with and allows him to trade an item for a protection item once per night.

Daiya can have quite a bit of control over a game, whether he's on the side of hope or despair. Bro Watch Out can either help prevent potentially lethal actions or be used to occasionally falsely incriminate characters if Daiya is the blackened. The occasional extra card and ability to trade for protection items provided by Bro Hold My Beer can be valuable regardless of if Daiya is on the side of hope or despair. A clever puppet master Daiya may even be able to help exonerate the blackened before a trial without drawing too much suspicion to himself by carefully using Bro Watch Out.