Mondo Owada

## Character Backstory

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

Mondo Owada is most known for being the leader of a biker gang known as The Crazy Diamonds. He's one of few characters in the Danganronpa series who curses frequently, adding to his tough guy persona. He has a personal policy against harming women and will refer to people as "dude" or "chick". During the course of the Killing School Life, he becomes very close friends with Kiyotaka Ishimaru, and the two refer to each other as "bro". He grew a close bond with Kiyotaka, which unfortunately is cut short after Mondo's punishment for the murder of a classmate.

## Character Card Abilities

### Primary Passive: **Knuckle Sandwich**

* Roleblock and knock out a target.
* You cannot Knuckle Sandwich the same player twice in a row.

### Secondary Passive: **Aftershock, Bully**

* As a free action, Mondo may target the Knuckle Sandwiched player with a suppression or lethal item the next night.
* Once per day, you may bully someone to give you an item.
* If they refuse, you can destroy it without seeing it.

## Character Card Notes

### Primary Notes:

* Knocked out players are unconscious in their dorms the next morning and must be woken up by another player, else the game master will awaken the knocked out player when the next draw phase/trial starts.
* Knockouts have no immunity limit, but after 2 roleblock effects a target is immune.
* Knockouts are not "fakeable" and can be confirmed by the game master.

### Secondary Notes:

* Mondo must be blackened to be able to use a lethal item for Aftershock.
* Mondo must claim he is specifically Bullying a player to be able to destroy a card upon refusal.
* Mondo cannot steal cards from a player's backhand.
* Players may not place a card in their backhand after- nor in response to- being Bullied.

## Strategy

Mondo is able to knock out *and* roleblock targets, forcing all of that person's actions for the night to be cancelled. This can either be used to prevent somebody from doing harm to another or to open up the opportunity to kill the target. Aftershock gives a blackened Mondo the opportunity to suppress/kill a target the following night as a free action, giving him a chance to create an alibi for himself if he can successfully kill his target without drawing attention to himself. Whether as a way to gather protection cards or a source of potential weapons, Bully allows Mondo to increase how many cards he receives every morning by stealing them from other people.

With a combination of despair trade, cards received from Bully, and Mondo's free action gained from Aftershock, Mondo can make for a difficult blackened to catch. One major tell of Mondo preparing to make a kill is the use of Knuckle Sandwich the night before. However, without an investigative item such as Hidden Mic to indicate what specifically was used to roleblock and knock out a person, one could frame an *innocent* Mondo by using another ability or item (such as Sleeping Pills) to roleblock and knock out a victim and killing them the next night. When Mondo is one of the characters in a game, it would be wise to use protection abilities/items (such as Fortify) on the night after being roleblocked and knocked out in case Mondo is using his abilities to set up a sneaky murder.