Deuce Spade Character Sheet
(Voted 19th-most-popular-character on the jpn server in a combination of seven different character-ranking surveys held throughout 2021)
It is insinuated that Deuce was a type of delinquent known in Japan as “yankee”, a term that game-creator Yana uses to describe him outright in the image below (no relation to the sports team), although this term obviously does not exist in the twst universe. The comparison is even more obvious in the manga adaptation, where this illustration is from.
Deuce had an unstable childhood and believes that enrollment at Night Raven College is an opportunity to reinvent himself, put aside his past mistakes and prove himself to his struggling single mother.
He attempts to do this by adopting the facade of an “honor” student, going so far as to say phrases like “This is what an honor student does” completely unprompted, and much to the confusion of his classmates. He is not gifted academically but well-accomplished at sports, winning prizes (along with Jack) at the National High School Track and Field Championships.
Despite his best intentions he was nearly expelled from Night Raven College during his first day of school alongside Ace, Grim and the player character. Once provoked—a very easy task—Deuce becomes instantly violent with whomever is in the immediate area, be it classmate or upperclassmen, only to sober up just as abruptly and become filled with regret.
He is wholly aware of his habit of acting before he thinks, bemoaning to Idia in his birthday vignette that it is an issue he longs to overcome.
Translation of the illustration notes above (clockwise from left to right): “Ha…” - “Ahaha. A mild smile.” - “Mean” - “It seems he only makes this face occasionally, but…these are expressions where you can see the yankee influence” - “Let’s do this” - “Super angry” - “Angry” - “Eh” - “He seems temperamental and reacts strongly to sudden happenings”
We learn that, when younger, Deuce felt so inept and useless that he decided to stop trying at anything at all. He got involved with neighborhood gangs, fought with teachers and drove recklessly on his magical wheel as the simpler alternative to working harder in school. It is possible that this lack of a general education early in life is what has resulted in his present-day naïveté, leading to situations like the famous scene where he presumes that store-bought eggs have the potential to hatch into chicks (and keeps trying to fight people over not apologizing to the unborn chickens).
The catalyst for his change of heart was one day seeing his mother cry while discussing him on the phone with his grandmother. We later learn in an in-game event that his mother wished upon a star for her son’s health, and that he would stop getting into fights. Deuce is very fond of his mother, and we learn that he often helped with household chores such as laundry, cooking, fixing broken household appliances and shopping, in contrast to his more unsavory activities. His mother makes him an omelette over ketchup-rice (a dish in Japan known as omu-rice) for his birthday every year.
In the Dance and Wishes event it is explained that, in his hometown, he was once accused of a serious crime of which he was innocent but did not seem out of character, given the borderline criminal activities he was known to take part in. The only people who believed in him were his mother and a neighborhood police officer, and the officer was ultimately able to track down the actual criminal. This incident—combined with a desire to have a career of which his mother will be proud—lead him to decide to go into law enforcement after his graduation from Night Raven College. He uses movies and TV shows featuring police officers as study materials to learn how he should run and even key phrases to use when making an arrest.
In Malleus’ lab wear vignette we learn that Deuce is known throughout his class for having a talent for fixing appliances and machines, in thanks to his history of helping his mother at home and his love for magical wheels. He attempted to create a magical wheel appreciation club upon his enrollment to the school, but was denied.
On weekends he engages in physical training, sometimes with Jack and sometimes with Epel. Deuce prefers doing track and field with others rather than alone, saying that is helps him feel “twice the sense of accomplishment”.
Floyd refers to him as “Saba-chan” (Mackerel), while Rook calls him, simply, Monsieur Spade. He looks up to Trey as someone who is both knowledgeable and dependable. During the New Year’s holidays, he worked part-time at Sam’s shop.
Through Deuce we learn that it is believed the limit’s of one’s magic power in the twst universe are determined at birth, but he then says, “but there is no limit on how much effort you can put in”.
Deuce has a habit of summoning cauldrons in battle. When raising his magic level in-game, he says “Maybe one day I will be able to summon something besides cauldrons”, implying that they may be the only thing he can summon at all. In the novel, when asked by Ace why he always goes to cauldrons, Deuce explains, “It’s all I can ever think of in the heat of the moment—when I think of mages, I think of cauldrons.”
Some great artists for Deuce fan-art and more (SFW, no story spoilers)
・Deuce and Ace
・Deuce and many others
・More Deuce and Ace
・Pre-NRC-Deuce
Voice
Deuce is voiced by Kobayashi Chiaki (小林千晃), whose other work includes Fu Yao from Heaven Official's Blessing, Parrot from ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.'s OVA movie - Regards, Langa Hasegawa from SK8 the Infinity, Edamura Makoto from GREAT PRETENDER, Hiroto from Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise and Tony Freed from Wise Man's Grandchild.
More information available here.
Citations・ciatr.jp・ yulilog.com・ dic.pixiv.net・Twisted Wonderland Fan Book・Twisted Wonderland Game Guide: Magical Archives・YouTube
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・Malleus Draconia ・Lilia Vanrouge・Silver・Sebek Zigvolt
⚠️WARNING⚠️Book 5 Spoilers⚠️(nothing to do with the story though)
Deuce's unique magic is “Bet the Limit” (In Japanese: “Retaliation / Tit for Tat / Payback”), and specifics are still vague as he has only used it twice as of this writing (22/6/2), and both times he immediately forgot how he did it. The spell enables him to "pay back" the damage that he has incurred during a fight back onto his opponent. It is still unclear if he merely magically strikes them with equal force to the amount of damage he has taken from them, or if the force of the damage is multiplied.
