Board Thread:King for A(nother) Day Discussion/@comment-29980193-20190927013936/@comment-71.161.206.170-20191013040548

Post of the day. When someone doesn't know a source well, I'm in charge of the list. Leave it to me!

Basically, the Psyche-Locks just have to relate to any sort of deep secret or hidden weaknesses/sore spots a character has. That's kind of why they unlock victims' psyches in the series, via pressuring them about really personal things, they're parts of themselves they 'lock away' and need to be unlocked to cause them to break down and reveal themselves in the series. Surprisingly deep stuff for a series where clowns, probably gay chefs and parrots are witnesses. >_>

Some ideas I have for things that would make good choices for Psyche-Locks would be: (please be aware of plot spoilers for source material)

Ajit Pai: His death to Thanos and DEFINITELY the fact that his case was overruled. There's other things that his opinion was overruled on on Wikipedia, but they don't seem too big a sore point for him and those two are DEFINITELY the big ones.

Off the Hook: Each of them actually does have something. For Marina, it's her defecting from the Octarians to become a pop star, as well as her actions designing weapons for the Octarian Army. It's actually one of the reasons she's so shy and sticks to the background so much, is because she's afraid she'll be found out and either ostracized by the Inklings or branded a traitor by the Octarians. For Pearl it's the fact that apparently, she can't actually sing and her singing voice is fucking awful, that's why she raps instead and puts on her spunky abrasive persona, as also it's the fact she was so damn rich and out of touch she didn't really have any friends growing up and in fact Marina's the only friend she's ever had, she's just always covered that up with her spoiled brat demeanor and by throwing her dad's money at her problems. And for Paruko, while next to nothing is pretty much known about her canonically, judging by both her position in the group and some of their lines in the first King for a Day, it would most likely be the fact that The Chirpy Chips will NEVER be as popular as Off the Hook and she will always be overshadowed by her much more popular partners, and you can kind of vaguely see her insecurity in their victory quote against Pitbull with her quick-backtracking so as not to offend her partners. It's also implied Pearl kind of ignores her and may possibly treat her like just an intern as shown in their vs. quote with Will Smith, even if that is just a funny shout-out to Fesh Pince.

Pitbull: Not much really, however, I think he may have had bad dealings with a couple of artists, unsure though. He's also fiercely protective of his ma, although that's more out of pride than anything bad happening, he's hella proud of his Cuban heritage. He even had his ma move into his mansion with him so he could care for her.

ZUN: Probably unsuccessful games or partnerships. The most glaring would probably be the one[] referenced by Reggie in their clash quote. It's Metacritic score was 38 and most reviews called it 'repetitive and dull' and said the controls were shit. Nintendo Touhou releases have a... poor history anyways, they only started recently, and PC has always been considered the best place to play it, and failing that the PlayStation.

Will Smith: Even though he's not based on his Fresh Prince version anymore, his character still seems to combination of Willard Carroll Smith Jr. (the actor) and William "Will" Smith (the character) in which case he has two things on his mind. Frivolous spending of his money following his first breakout hits as The Fresh Prince actually caused the IRS to come after Will Smith for owing 2.8 million in tax debt. This was actually what CREATED The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, as he made a deal with NBC to make a show based around him and his friend Jeffery Lownes stage personas in exchange for a cut of the profits. The show became a smash hit of course and successfully allowed him to pay off his debt, after which he learned his lesson and never spent frivolously again, so I'm pretty sure would be an old shame of his. However MOST importantly is Lou Smith. Lou is the fictional Will Smith's father who actually walked out on the family when Will was five, and his appearance after 14 in-universe years in the episode "Papa's Got a Brand New Excuse" was actually one of the show's most emotional episodes, involving him explaining he wasn't ready to be a father and became a trucker instead, Will is skeptical but lightens up after spending the day at a fair with him, they then promptly talk about going on a trip to Maine together before he gets a new assignment and just straight up leaves then and there, prompting Will to actually have an emotional breakdown and rant at the door. :/ yyyyeaahhh Despite it's goofy humor The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actually did get into a lot of heavy-handed topics in it's later seasons like interracial marriage (remember it was still the 90s), somebody having a stroke and Will feeling responsible for it. parental abandonment, and even Will getting shot during a robbery, it was actually pretty revolutionary for it's day.

Thanos: The death of Titan and his people's failure to warn him. That and also the constant failure of his minions to get the Stones, but that's more of a frustration.

Wario Bros.: Waluigi's is kind of obvious. Failure to get playable in Smash, failure to have his own game, being even MORE overshadowed than the character who's KNOWN for being overshadowed who had two games of his own and a third on the way and even his own ENTIRE YEAR DEDICATED TO HIM. Luigi's success in general really, and it's implied in the much earlier 2000s sports games Waluigi was also jealous at Luigi, because of a love triangle with him and Daisy before her character was entirely rewritten to be more tomboyish and less of a Peach clone, but all that has been thrown by the wayside. For Wario, considering his main motivation is and always has been greed, the biggest loss for him would be going through the entire plotline of Wario Land: Shake It! and doing all kinds of heroic things he didn't really want to to get to the Bottomless Coin Sack and then finally getting to and taking it, then LITERALLY having it stolen from him in the last couple seconds of the game. That and also being humiliated by Mario and quite literally kicked out of his castle in his debut appearance, although considering their constant appearance together in spin-offs, I'm sure that one's healed kind of over the years, either that or more likely he forgot about it.

Solid Snake: MANY things actually, Snake's a man pretty much BUILT upon angst. That's the whole Metal Gear series in a nutshell, is having conflicting morals and 'I did what I had to do.' Where do I even begin. He nearly killed his team because he unknowningly became a vector for the pathogen FOXDIE intended to kill them all, the realization that he's actually the genetic clone of a guy who betrayed his entire team and sold secrets during the Cold War, betraying his country as well, he saw the closest thing he had to a brother, Liquid Snake die in front of him, he was considered a war criminal and had to go against his own morals to do what was right, and many many MANY others, the pretty much ought to have like EIGHT Psyche-Locks by now after all he's been through. War is hell indeed.

Don't want to make this TOO long so I'll get to the newcomers next post. I'll do all the newcomers next time, I surprisingly didn't have THAT much for the veterans, as a lot like Reggie have good lives and don't really have anything to hide or be regretful about, a lot of the newcomers like Adam Levine are like that as well. Some like Dedede/Robotnik don't really have anything else besides constantly getting beaten, but Dedede kind of gave up being the villain anyway. And then there's characters like Professor K that just... don't have anything much at all really. Not to mention the three mechanical characters, HyperCam, HOBaRT and Nico Nico, even if HyperCam's not a contestant anymore. .--. Do they even have any thoughts or do they just run algorithms? HyperCam seems to have a personality, but it's kind of unknown in the case of Nico Nico since it's Mojo entry explicitly states it talks in voice samples, thus making it's true thoughts unknown. And then there's HOBaRT, is that thing even alive?

I guess we'll see. Sorry for getting into a lot of depressing topics I guess, just goes to show how surprisingly deep a lot of characters can be and I looked at a couple of the newcomers and they're actually the same, some characters no matter how comedic or abrasive often have a bit more to them, consider this a character study I guess, as even characters like Johnny Bravo and Off the Hook can have deep reasons for why they are the way they are. >_> That's kind of why I actually think making this into a CCC/Danganronpa/Ace Attorney styled YouTube series would actually be pretty neat if SiIva wasn't already kind of giving us character studies with the ringside interviews. Shows us character interactions, things happening offscreen, how different characters would all react to the same event, and also allows Ace Attorney investigation parts to give some easter eggs and references to their serieses and even Danganronpa-styled animations, I don't know much about that game I keep saying, but one thing is that the cutscenes seem to be pretty slick. But hey, it's still a little bit more fun to do all this ourselves, more engaging than just watching a series where we may not look up things like in all the original tournament's vs. quotes and dialogue. Hope you all have a good night, I'm heading off to head after typing and reading all of this. ;-;