Gundham Tanaka

## Character Backstory

**Warning:** The following contains spoilers for Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.

Gundham Tanaka, if nothing else, can be seen as very... eccentric. He holds a close relationship to his four Dark Devas of Destruction (hamsters). Other than losing an earring and finding it under the floorboards during the investigation for the first murder of the Killing School Trip- which would end up being crucial evidence to the trial, Gundham's involvement in the Killing School Trip mostly exists during the events in the Funhouse. Being forced to choose between killing a student and starving, Gundham was the only student to choose killing a student. After learning the crucial detail from the Funhouse, his plan was to set the clocks backward so that the alarm would go off later than usual, meet Mechamaru in private to challenge him to a duel, press his "good night button" to incapacitate him, tie him to the door at the top of the elevator shaft, lower the elevator, leave Mechamaru to his fate, destroy the controls for the *other* elevator, and return unseen to leave no evidence to be used against him at the trial. If it wasn't for Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu foiling the last step of his plan, he could very well have gotten away with the murder.

## Character Card Abilities

### Primary Active: **Dark Devas**

* Reverses the following target character's actions:
	+ Eliminate/Weapon -> Protection
	+ Protection -> Protects only Gundham
	+ Information item/ability -> The target only gets information on Gundham instead
	+ Roleblocks/Mind control -> Roleblock/Mind control himself/herself
* Additionally, the target is also forced to talk to Gundham.
* You can't use Dark Devas on the same target twice in a row or to a Sealed player.

### Secondary Passive: **Warlock Seal**

* At the start of the game, place a seal on a target which will prevent the first elimination of that target regardless of effects.
	+ Warlock Seal only protects against night time direct/indirect eliminations and lasts until it's broken. (You can't use Warlock Seal on yourself.)

## Character Card Notes

### Primary Notes:

* Dark Devas can't be prevented/modified/affected by Short Circuit.
* Both of Gundham's abilities bypass/ignore redirections/boosts.
* Dark Devas will only turn "locked in" weapons into specific counters. For example, Bomb becomes Defuser.
* Dark Devas has no effect on Bombs or Poisons that have already been applied.
* Dark Devas can force the target's outgoing protection/self-protection abilities/items like Fortify to change their target to Gundham.
* Dark Devas does *not* force incoming protection effects landing on the target or passive protections to change their target to Gundham.
* Dark Devas forcing a player to roleblock/mind control himself/herself bypasses catch-22 restrictions.
* If a target is immune to roleblocks/mind control, is untargetable, or can't do the action they're mind controlling somebody to do, Dark Devas has no effect on his/her roleblock/mind control action.
* The talk/trade that the target is forced to do with Gundham as a result of Dark Devas is performed in addition to the target's locked-in action.
* Dark Devas does not cause protection trials and has no effect on passive protections/attacks like Sakura's Ogre Strength or the puppet master's NO U.

### Secondary Notes:

* Gundham cannot place Warlock Seal on himself, nor may he target the one with the Warlock seal with Dark Devas.
* Gundham is told if the Warlock Seal is broken and can reuse Warlock Seals that were placed on a blackened target after a trial.
* Warlock Seal lasts the entire game until the Warlock Seal is broken, even if Gundham is eliminated.
* If your Warlock Seal successfully protects another character on night 1 or 2, a protection trial occurs.

## Strategy

At the beginning of the game, Gundham chooses one person to place a Warlock Seal on, protecting him/her from the first elimination attempt regardless of the effects of Sledgehammer or Flashback Light. As Gundham is the only person who knows who has the Warlock Seal, this alone provides a great advantage to Gundham. On top of that ability, Gundham has an active ability that allows him to change the actions of his target. Using Dark Devas, if his target is attempting to perform a lethal action, it instead becomes as protection, thus making it nonlethal and saving the life of the blackened/turncoat's target. If his target is performing a benign action, it's simply modified a little bit. The only potentially unwanted consequence of this is that Gundham *must* talk to whoever he targets with Dark Devas, potentially revealing to the target that his/her actions were modified by Gundham.

Gundham can use his Dark Devas ability for good or evil, depending on if he's fighting for hope or is the puppet master/blackened. Dark Devas can force a puppet master/blackened character to not kill for a day, which alone is worth a lot. However, he can also use this as the puppet master to prevent a character from protecting another character, potentially opening up an opportunity for the blackened to kill without incriminating Gundham. In general, Dark Devas can cause a lot of confusion, so it's best to only use it when necessary.