Darcy Harper

> *"He tried. He tried so hard. To be perfect. He never could be. Someone else was always better.*
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> *I'll never be a good person...*
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> *Some fellows look and find the sunshine,*
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> *I always look and find the rain...*
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> *She didn't have a happy ending either, Darcy.*
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> *It's funny how the people who give the world so much end up dead anyway in the end.*
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> *Dead, dead, dead. And people will forget her too.*
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> *They'll forget you too."*
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### Aliases

Kowai (Moonling)
The Atsushi Family's Secret Love-Child (Dorky)
Darce-Farce (Sawyer)
Dace (Sawyer)
Darth Vader (Sawyer)

### Affiliation

Sawyer Laurens (Best Friend, Crush)
Sutaraitsu Umemoto (Acquaintance, Flirting Victim)
Mika Uyehara (Acquaintance, Flirting Victim)
Kubo Atsushi (Enemy)
Miyako Hiroto (Enemy)Mei Akamatsu (Former Crush, Enemy)
Idris Kallikrates (Boyfrien- I'm just kidding, Frenemy)
Lucian Arbred (Acquaintance)
Akari Xenauta (Friend?)

## Physical description

### Height

5'7 1/2 (Probably even taller, since his boots have heels)

## Appearances

### Debut

Prologue

Darcy Harper is a male character in Danganronpa: Blood and Water. ...this is a work-in-progress.

## Personality

Darcy is a person who typically acts playful and flirtatious around others, always just enjoying the moment and doing what he wants. However, it turns out that this was a blatant facade on his part, and he feels a deep need to conform to society and to the values that he was taught. It seems Darcy desperately longs to break free from these shackles, but finds himself unable to.

If it is safe to say that Sawyer is trapped in fantasy, in Darcy’s own words, he’s trapped in reality. It causes him to feel deep distress, commonly falling to melancholic tendencies. Darcy is extremely perfectionistic about himself, always feeling like he needs to be the best. But he doesn't seem to want this.

It seems Darcy deeply envies Sawyer, and secretly longs to be that optimistic about life, acting very imitative of his behavior. However, Darcy also seems to be excessively annoyed by Sawyer’s philosophy, and even concerned about it.

He has a tendency to be very blunt and sarcastic at times, although it seems for the most part, Darcy is incredibly accommodating towards others. Perhaps his Tsundere-ish behavior could be due in part to all his suppressed bitterness from his upbringing.

Darcy seems to deeply idealize being in love, and to want to be in love, but also to be terrified of love. It also seems he’s deeply fearful, and care a great deal about not being forgotten.

It’s possible that Horatia and Kaoru’s death, and Mei’s behavior, have caused them to crack open the way he has, or perhaps Darcy doesn’t feel the same societal pressure here (or doesn’t want to), to pretend that everything’s okay.

He's a deeply emotional person, and can be impulsive at times, although he’re not nearly as impulsive as Sawyer and would probably stop them from doing stupid things.

Darcy is notably suicidal, and turns to harmful coping mechanisms such as drinking or doing drugs. It seems he have something to hide from, that he can’t forgive themself for.

## Fun Facts

* Darcy is canonically bisexual, and open to both monogamous and polyamorous relationships.
* He smells like sugar, cocoa powder, chocolate, and chocolate ingredients.
* Let's be honest, he is similar to Aubrey from *OMORI*.
* Darcy is exceptional at various types of cooking and baking, though most noteworthy is his ability with baking chocolate.
* He has a great eye for aesthetics, and knows how to make things look appealing.
* Darcy actually deeply cares for Sawyer and feels protective of them. However, the two have a complicated history.
* Darcy was raised in a very strict Christian household. It seems he reacted differently to it than Kaoru did, however.