David Chiem

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> **ATTENTION:** This is **not** a page for CANON David Chiem from Danganronpa Despair Time. This is for an iteration of David that was played in a **longterm killing game roleplay**. For information about canon David, please check the official Danganronpa Despair Time Tumblr.
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**David Chiem** is a participant in the cancelled killing game roleplay *Danganronpa: Lifeline*. He is known as the Ultimate Inspirational Speaker. If Lifeline were to continue, it is unsure what exactly would have happened to him.

## Personality

As an inspirational speaker, David is optimistic, motivational, and loves encouraging those around him. He becomes embarrassed whenever people express adoration for him, but still appreciates the support he receives. David doesn't like conflict very much, and will try to find the quarrelers a common ground and bring them together. Despite appearing very outgoing and a people-person (which, in a way, he is), the thing David really likes the most is having plenty of time to himself after a job well done.

Under the cheerful act, however, David is really grouchy, lazy, and pessimistic. Usually this will be displayed through his inner thoughts when he is out of his room, and more vocally when alone. He sometimes even shows active distaste for certain participants, and despite treating them nicely on the outside, his internal dialogue speaks the opposite.

Even though he is truthfully not who he seems, David's priorities appear to be set on pleasing other people, even at the cost of his own mental health. Otherwise, he would really have no need to put up the happy persona at all. Even when he must encourage people to pursue trivial goals such as revenge - something he internally mentions is a concept he's unsure about - he still provides motivation for the sake of making his conversation partner (Fawful) happy.

Although this is more of a joke that is suspected to have spawned from the longterm, David supposedly has a (currently) inexplicable hyperfixation with wanting to be seen as nothing more than a "normal" person, and will become internally irritated or nervous whenever he isn't treated as such.

If he had taken the route of becoming a killer or antagonist, David would have become much less filtered; displaying nihilism, rude behavior, and a clear disdain for the other participants in the killing game.

## History

### Danganronpa: Lifeline

#### Prologue

David is woken up by Nurse Bell in his room, since he had slept a bit later than the others. She explains the killing game and purgatory situation to him, and while unsettled by it, he remains strong. He's a little dizzy, however, so Nurse Bell helps him to the lounge. At the lounge, David meets Warden, Nicholas, Naoko, Kaede Aihara, and Rise. He introduces himself as the Ultimate Inspirational Speaker, all while still in his hospital gown.

When Nurse Bell calls the cast to her office, David helps Naoko realize that they're leaving, and ushers her into coming along. Nurse Bell introduces the cast to not only the memory loss motive, but also the upcoming 10-participant death game. David is fortunately not chosen for the game, but states that he will be praying for those that were selected, and motivates them to do their best. Kaede Akamatsu, Brandon, Chihiro, and Yusuke begin to discuss remaining positive, and David jumps in to agree with them, complimenting the group on their determination. After this, he returns to his room to sleep.

#### Chapter 1

David sleeps in the following morning. When he wakes up, he realizes he's still wearing the hospital gown he woke up in, and decides he needs to take a shower and change his clothes. While getting up, he notices a strange letter has appeared in his room. It's unsure what the contents of the note are, but David appears very confused while reading it.

While going through his closet, the broadcast announces that Kea had passed away in the hospital. David nearly exclaims "what the hell", before instantly stopping to go look in the mirror. He's about to jump in the shower, when suddenly, a mysterious second note shows up in his dorm. He seems more worried about this letter than the first, and places it next to his bed.

David goes to the waiting lounge, where he finds the gaming group planning a Monopoly game, where the loser has to do whatever the winner says. He seems ecstatic about friendship-building activities, but in the end, chooses not to participate in the game. He instead goes to the dining hall to get breakfast, meeting up with Lexi, Yusuke, and Kaede Aihara. He accepts some of Kaede's strawberry risotto, just as Reiko shows up. David is excited that Reiko knows him, until she states that she was often unimpressed with his speeches. Although a bit crushed, he still smiles, and assures himself that his speeches aren't for everyone.

The gaming group shows up to the dining hall, and David is happy to hear that Kaede got a hug from Natsumi out of the Monopoly game. As more people begin piling in, David decides to leave. He considers going back to his room, before he remembers Mikoto. David goes up her elevator, hoping to have a conversation with her, but Mikoto says he caught her at a bad time, and shoos him away. So, he returns to his own dorm to take a nap.

After waking up, he tries going to Brandon's dorm instead. He had a desire to speak with Brandon again ever since he expressed positivity at the motive introduction, but unfortunately for David, Brandon isn't accepting visitors. David is concerned, but brushes it off. He descends the elevator, and comes across Natsumi in the waiting lounge. Natsumi tells David that it's quite obvious that the death game is simply a scare tactic, and David finds himself agreeing with her. He notices Natsumi's more kind and sisterly behavior when conversing with Naoko, and it confirms his belief in her being a nice person. He ponders about her most likely being through a lot in her life, and uses it as a way to justify her ruder behavior. After this, he leaves to go to the dining hall.

Fawful is in the dining hall, and David correctly assumes it's because he wants to escape the crowd in the lounge. David gets oatmeal and sits down to discuss the new "fear tactic" idea that's been brought to his attention by Natsumi. Fawful only really expresses mild concern over the memory loss motive, and the idea of being dead, while David is bothered by all three of the strange motivations presented by Nurse Bell. He doesn't like the idea of someone dying in the death game, since it means there will be one less person for him to believe in, and one less person that will achieve their dreams.

Fawful mentions the Mushroom Kingdom, and David asks him to elaborate on it. He explains that he wants to take revenge on two red and green guys for defeating him, and David realizes he's never had to motivate anyone to pursue revenge before. Despite this new experience, he encourages Fawful anyway, and fills him with hope that when they get out of the purgatory, luck will turn in Fawful's favor. After that, David decides to give Fawful some space.

He had never been to the spa, so he goes there to check it out. Right as he is about to leave, Kira shows up. She says she doesn't know what a spa is, so David educates her, saying it's a place people go when they want to relax or get beauty treatment. Kira slightly misunderstands the explanation, asking David if he is at the spa because he is stressed and thinks he is hideous. David, in a panic, replies negatively, at least to the "hideous" portion of her query. Even so, Kira gives David a white lily as a gift, saying it represents beauty in everyone and everything. Kira briefly refers to him as beautiful before leaving, and the suddenness of such a comment makes David extremely flustered.

David goes back to his room, and begins writing advice to himself so when the memory loss motive has more of an effect, he has something to refer to. However, he has trouble coming up with any memories worth writing down. He assumes it's just because of his hazy memory, and goes to sleep, deciding he'll continue the next day.

On the following day, David takes a day off by himself and stays in his room, writing down the memories of the people he met in the killing game. At the night, David takes a shower. When he wipes off the fogged mirror after the shower, he gets frightened by his own reflection, since he nearly doesn’t recognize his own face - either due to the motive, or due to the fact that he’s so used to seeing himself smiling and bright-eyed rather than messy-haired and dead-eyed. After that, he goes to sleep.

***[ Everything beyond this point is speculation, due to the roleplay being cut short. ]***

### Possible Fates

There are currently 3 ways David's character could have ended up in Lifeline.

1. David would have been the Chapter 3 killer, and died via execution. He would have killed either because he had gone insane in the purgatory and decided he needed to "free" people from it by killing them - or because he was planning to win the trial, but not accept the offer to return back to the living world, simply because he wanted his afterlife to be quiet and alone and without any people, coupled with the fact that he was comfortable with being dead.
2. David would have died during one of the events.
3. David would have gone on to become an antagonistic character who, unlike the other participants, didn't want to escape the purgatory at all, and believed since he was a terrible person and ended up here, that everyone else must be just as awful and are probably here for a reason, thus tanking their rightful punishment. He likely would have opposed Mikoto the most, according to some conversations. In this scenario, he probably would have made it pretty far or maybe even survive.

## Quotes

*"What the he-..."* - exclaimed in his room after learning about the passing of Kea Luevano.

*"Blabber on about something until they believe you...did I seriously just describe my job?"* - said internally to himself during a conversation with Fawful.

*"...oh! W-Well, that's-...that's fine! Honestly, my speeches aren't really for everyone, so I understand, haha..." - said to Reiko after she expressed that she never found David's speeches impressive.*

*"Ah, yes, it's very beautiful. Just like-...wait- h-huh-?" - becoming embarrassed after Kira calls him beautiful.*

*"That's...not normal. ...ah! Ahaha, no. It is. It is normal. I am normal. That's right, how could I forget?" - context unknown, found in a single-message screenshot.*

## Trivia

* Despite it being canon to Danganronpa Despair Time that David is Bisexual, this roleplay happened before his sexuality was confirmed. As such, David was roleplayed with the intent that he was a homosexual man. Everyone celebrate, it's canon. Rejoice, skittles squad.
* This longterm is suspected to be where the "David is Normal" joke came from.
	+ One of the most popular creations from this joke is the ":normal:" emoji, which is a zoomed-in image of David's default sprite. There are other variants of the same emoji on other servers, such as ":imsonormal:" for Doorknob hell, and ":white:" on the Killer's Research server. It is usually utilized, ironically, as a way to express anger or be threatening.
	+ Another popular joke stemming from the normal jokes is, of course, his association with certain songs from Will Wood's *The Normal Album*, most typically the songs *I / Me / Myself, Suburbia Overture,* or *Love, Me Normally*.

* It is questionably canon that Warden managed to get David to wear a *Hatsune Miku* outfit.
* When alone, David usually takes naps.
* Due to his ahoge, people on the Lifeline Server liked to make jokes about David being the protagonist. Suburbiia, however, assures them that he's not fit to be a protag, and had a pretty high chance of dying.
	+ To go along with this, Suburbiia had a beta execution written for David, but has really only shared the execution with one other person due to fearing it was way too triggering and/or uncomfortable to talk about with other people. However, in one of his own personal projects, Suburbiia vaguely references this beta execution - coincidentally, to execute David himself. Though, in this iteration, the execution ends up failing and David does not die.