So if you didn't see my community post I wrote a 1300 word, 4 page, 7 paragraph essay with intro and conclusion paragraphs as well as properly formatted quotations. All on why En should not be assumed to be a bad person (which I disagree with). I did this all in 45 minutes and the only thing driving me was my need to prove my best friend wrong. So uh yeah. Enjoy? Idk writing this made me wanna jump out a window.

Hope the one person who actually wanted to read this is amused and my suffering is worth it.

Also it's showing up weird on my device so i apologize in advance if the font is way too small

"The house always wins." Such strong words from a powerful individual.  Enton "En" Underson is the sixteenth student introduced as a member of Hope's Peak class US2.  As the Ultimate Dealer, or more formally the Ultimate Casino Dealer to avoid misinterpretation, they are not only skilled with cards but also the art of reading people, proven in Chapter Three when protagonist Sophie O'Reilly's mind is practically read by En.  Unfortunately, before the reader can gain much insight into En's personality and backstory, the dealer winds up the second victim, as graphically shown in Chapter Eleven.  So why is it that the readers assume En is a bad person when they don't even have enough time in the story to prove it?  Well, in Danganronpa: Game On, En Underson cannot be proven to be antagonistic without the proper evidence that the story lacks.

To truly understand what role En plays in the story and how they play said role, one must examine the evidence provided in Danganronpa: Game On, or DR:GO for short.  En is first introduced in the story's third chapter, when the class is meeting up at the central island and ultimately learns about the deadly killing game they have fallen into.  While Sophie does remark that En seems to be judging here, there is nothing wrong with doing so.  En also has the right to become slightly irritated with Sophie when she not only makes the mistake of assuming they are a drug dealer but also when she critiques their ultimate talent, even though she does not do so out loud and instead has her expression read by En.  En does appear to have a bit of an ego, as shown when they describe their skills as "unmatched by even the best players" as well as the way they were lured in by Ultimate Veterinarian Ryn Everfell's note mocking their abilities, but once again, this is reasonable for someone who holds the title of the best card dealer in the world (35). 

Continuing forward, the next time En is even mentioned is when Dana suggests a dinner party, and rather than critique her idea, En offers to make appetizers.  Given En was not the one to poison a dish- or rather beverage in Ultimate Wilderness Survivalist Rori Andrade's case- it can be concluded that there is no evidence that En had any other intentions besides simply wanting to cook a dish for the class.  This action, if anything, is generous as opposed to the selfishness a majority of the audience argues in favor of.  En also takes part in the investigation, once again proving they are willing to help out, and even scolds Ultimate Geologist Furfur Jaye for making a joke out of their situation.  Unfortunately after this, En is only given one more scene, where they are performing card tricks for a small group of their classmates and say their iconic phrase, "The house always wins" (94).  While this phrase can be interpreted as ominous, there is no real evidence in En's actions to back it up, as the dealer is found dead two chapters later.

The biggest argument that En is an unkind character is when it is revealed in Chapter Thirty-Seven that they had previously attempted to blackmail Ultimate Flautist Iris Pineborough using his mental instability as leverage.  The blackmail involves some harsh and belittling phrases, but that is common for blackmail, otherwise the victim wouldn't be obligated to agree to the conditions.  It is important, though, to bring to light two important notes.  The first is that Iris was, in fact, a very dangerous individual to the rest of the class at that time.  By potentially exposing Iris rather than putting the blame on an innocent, En would have been bringing to light another serious issue anyways.  The second thing to note is the reason En would wish to escape the island in the first place: to get home.  There is no doubt that everyone else in the class possessed some kind of longing to return to their families, so why is it different for En?  If anything, this motive is almost exactly the same as Ryn's for why she killed them.  She wished to know what happened to her brother, meaning she would have committed a murder for less.  The implications of the offer meant her brother could be dead, and it held no promise of her seeing him, and yet she went for it anyway. 

One last argument in regards to the main story is that the other students will refer to En in a negative manner.  Even Ultimate Combat Pro Stolas Urusa claims "En was a bit of a prick" during the second trial (132).  But all one has to go off of is their word, so who's to say En's classmates are fair judges of character?  None of them specialize in psychology or anything remotely similar, so chances of them exaggerating or trying to find the best word to fit and failing are rather high.  On top of that, En is even insulted long after their death, when Iris claims "they did always look like they had jaundice" without the dealer able to even try defending their honor (322).  With this joke comes the reasonable explanation that the rest of the class may have been teasing, belittling, or exaggerating about En the entire time.  Even if it does not, however, it still shows that maybe the characters aren't as reliable in that sense as the audience thinks them to be.
In regards to Game Over: The Ghosts of Game On, or more commonly known as "the ghost fic", it is true that En has a larger role in it.  However, the author expresses clear bias against En in the first place, even jokingly adding in a warning for "ultimate dealer pricks".  So despite the questionable actions, thoughts, and words of En, they may not even be accurate to the character as the story is purely how the ghosts can be imagined interacting during the killing game as opposed to being comatose as they were stated to be in Danganronpa: Game On itself.  So the ghost story can be regarded as fanfiction in this situation.

Ultimate Dealer En Underson is a character just like all the other students at the end of the day- one who is trying to survive.  They may have made a questionable choice in Danganronpa: Game On, but there is no true evidence to prove truly ill intentions.  Most of En's "cruelty" and "evil" is simply how the audience has chosen to shape them, and so it has become the common view of them.  But at the end of the day, there is an important detail that readers may miss: all of the students are in high school.  They are teenagers, even if some- like En- are at the very end of that time period.  En is a teenager, and teenagers are infamous for making questionable decisions due to their underdeveloped minds.  The National Institute of Mental Health states that not only do teens respond differently to stress than an adult might, but that the prefrontal cortex- the area in the brain that is responsible for good decision making- is still in development as well.  So En cannot be blamed for the way their brain may function as it works the same way any other teen's might.  It's important to note that the reader doesn't even get a look inside any character's mind besides Sophie's and Ultimate Poet Azrael L'Olonnais's, so it's unclear what anyone else may have been thinking during the high-stakes killing game.  There is one thing the reader can know for sure, though: En is human like anyone else, and the emotions they feel or the way they act cannot prove the monster everyone claims them to be.