Celeste Ludenberg

## Character Backstory

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

Even before the Killing School Life, Celestia Ludenberg- nicknamed "Celeste"- made a name for herself as an excellent liar. Even her name, Celestia Ludenberg, is a lie; her real name was Taeko Yasuhiro. All this information came up during the third trial of the Killing School Life when her plot to work with Hifumi Yamada to kill Kiyotaka Ishimaru and blame it on Yasuhiro Hagakure was unraveled, revealing her as the one responsible for the murder of both Kiyotaka and Hifumi.

## Character Card Abilities

### Primary Passive: **Full House**

* Not trading during the day allows you to discard your fronthand then draw up to 3 cards (with a maximum of 1 full discard).
* You are not able to discard unused cards during the night.

### Secondary Passive: **Professional Gambler**

* Choose 2 players at the start of the game.
* If those 2 players are murdered by a player or graduate by the end and you are alive, then you win with any faction.
* Anyone, hope or despair, can use your weapons to eliminate but you may not out them if they eliminate your requested targets.

## Character Card Notes

### Primary Notes:

* During the entire night, your items cannot be modified by others.
* Before/During/After Full House is used, cards cannot be traded/gifted from or to you.
* Celeste must discard her entire fronthand if using Full House.

### Secondary Notes:

* You cannot use your drawn weapons, blackened trade for weapons, or use Magic Hat to bypass weapon restrictions.
* Your win conditions- and weapon restrictions- are not removed when you are suppressed.
* If Celeste is the puppet master, she wins only with despair.
* If Celeste is the blackened, she wins only with despair.
* However, if a blackened Celeste graduates and her win condition is complete, she instantly gains a personal win.

## Strategy

Full House allows Celeste to discard her entire hand and draw 3 brand new cards, which is great if none of the cards in Celeste's fronthand are worth keeping/using or if Celeste's fronthand is already empty. The only condition to using Full House is that cards cannot enter or leave Celeste's front hand on the day she used it. Even so, if Celeste is willing to use any of the items she drew with Full House that night, using Full House shouldn't interfere with the game for her very much. The first part of Professional Gambler gives Celeste a chance to win even if her faction fails, assuming the player playing as Celeste knows enough about the game to make a good prediction. The second part of Professional Gambler can help her manipulate the game in her favor for the first part of Professional Gambler, or it can be used to control/track the moves that other characters may make.

There isn't much strategy involved in using Full House; it's best to use it when your fronthand is filled with cards you don't want or no cards at all. Professional Gambler, however, requires a whole lot of strategy to use. Celeste may attempt to influence the people who receive her weapons into killing the people she needs to die/graduate to win, but Celeste never really knows if the person she gave the weapon to killed her target(s) and isn't able to reveal what she knows if she does. Winning with Celeste's personal win condition requires a lot of knowledge of the game and/or the players she's playing with. Although Celeste can select herself as one of the 2 people who need to die/graduate to achieve her personal win condition, she can't complete her personal win condition if she's dead and can only graduate if she's selected as the blackened by the puppet master.