Daewi Jin

**Daewi Jin** (진 대위 *Jin Dae-Wi*) is a student of the Neo Hope's Peak Academy's second-year class and a participant in the Killing School Internship featured in *Neo Danganronpa: Exhibit B.*His title is the **Ultimate Webcomic Creator** (超高校級の「漫画家」*Super High School Level Cartoonist*).

## Appearance

Daewi is somewhat short in comparison to most of the other male students. He has slightly greasy black hair that reaches halfway down the back of his neck with tousled bangs that veer toward the left of his face. He wears a lavender uniform jacket with dark green buttons over a bright green t-shirt with a speech bubble logo on it, along with beat-up grey sneakers and a pair of tan cargo pants held up by a black belt. He wears a black drawing glove on his right hand and carries three writing utensils that stick out of his cargo pockets: two black technical pens in his left and a blue mechanical pencil in his right.

## Personality

Despite the popularity of his comics, Daewi still feels his work is not as good as other artists in the field. He has notable social anxiety and is struggles with conversation with unfamiliar people, a trait he frequently pokes fun at in his comics. However, as self-critical as he can be, it is mainly because he always strives to improve himself and his skills, no matter how skilled he is already. He also has a habit of making puns as a coping mechanism.

## Talent and Abilities

### Ultimate Webcomic Creator

As the Ultimate Webcomic Creator, Daewi is particularly adept in writing and drawing comics intended for digital publication. He started by writing short, comedic strips about his thoughts and experiences, quickly branching out into numerous, more involved stories. In spite of his talent, he can only make so much progress on his own, particularly when drawing is involved. Due to these limitations and the sheer volume of content he creates simultaneously, he only draws two of them himself aside from his original self-focused strip, collaborating with other artists tasked with illustrating the others. While only around half of his comics have been greenlit for sponsored publication, each and every series has developed a significant following within the webcomic community.

## Trivia

* Daewi's English voice actor, Justin Briner, previously voiced Ryota Mitarai in *Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy*.
	+ Daewi shares numerous similarities with Ryota, including their timid/workaholic natures, tendencies to be hard on themselves, English VAs, visual storytelling-based talents, and deep-seated admiration of the mediums they work in. This was admittedly unintentional, as the writer had not actually seen the *Danganronpa 3* anime nor known who the characters were during the creation of *Exhibit B*.
	+ In spite of the similarities, Daewi's potential character arc within the story is intended to differ from Ryota's, being more rooted in his lack of self-worth and confidence in his talent.
* Daewi's birthday is a nod to that of SnaiLords, one of OPZoroark's favorite artists on Webtoon. He is known for creating the series *Snailogy, Nightmare Factory,* *Freaking Romance,* andthe upcoming *Kill Me Before Lunch*.
* Daewi's practice of writing several comics and collaborating with other artists to assist with the sheer magnitude of illustration was inspired by Merryweatherey, a writer on Webtoon known for creating twenty different series since his debut on the site. Some of his most well-known series include *Winter Moon, Stalker x Stalker, Everywhere and Nowhere,* and *Clinic of Horrors*.
* Daewi's name is a combination of Mori Jin and Daewi Han, two of the main characters from the webcomic *The God of Highschool*.
* While the two have never met, Masahide Osaka is an avid fan of his work and actively follows him on social media. He prides himself on having read almost all of Daewi's comics and plans to read the ones he has yet to in the near future (should he escape from the Killing School Retreat, that is).
* Daewi is allergic to cats. As a cat person, learning this fact was fairly disheartening for him.
* He has trypanophobia (fear of needles). He can't look at one coming near himself or another person without having to fight off a panic attack.
* His greasy hair is more due to it greasing quickly than improper hygiene. Though he is occasionally prone to forgetting to shower for longer than he should when he gets sucked into projects.
* His favorite smell is bonfires.
* His favorite boba flavors are milk tea, strawberry, and passion fruit.
* He usually listens to music while working. He has a playlist full of background music with multiple songs chosen to fit the various moods he is trying to write or draw.
* His personal favorite genres are comedy and romance. His comics of the same genres are among his most highly-acclaimed.
* He has looked into the work of various Ultimate alumni who were scouted for their artistic talents, including Hifumi Yamada. He was not a fan of the lewder content, though he did find the art quality itself to be impressive.
* Strangely enough, he enjoys drawing hands. He finds the potential range of expression through them to be fascinating and has gotten particularly practiced in utilizing it in the comics he draws himself. It's the one thing he has consistent confidence in drawing.
* He dislikes horror and serial drama. In spite of this, his comic *Rituals Under My Bed* was his first to be greenlit for sponsored production. He admits he only created it as writing practice in the first place and didn't expect it to actually turn out nearly as well as it did.
* Though he keeps traditional illustration tools on hand, Daewi prefers digital illustration. However, he finds it easier to proportion traditionally, so he typically creates initial sketches in pencil before completing the images digitally.