Ace

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Ace
Kana/Kanji	エース
Romaji	Eesu
Role	Knight of Hearts
Game Debut	Heart no Kuni no Alice
Residence	Heart Castle (Heart, Clover, Joker, Twin) Train Station/Diamond Castle (Diamond, Mirror)
Voice Actor	Daisuke Hirakawa
Personal Information:
Gender	Male
Height	185-190cm (adult) 155-160cm (child)
Age	23-26 (adult) 12-14 (child)
Blood Type	O
Weapon(s)	Sword

Ace (エース) is the Knight of Hearts and is Vivaldi's subordinate. He is usually seen wandering outside the castle due to his bad sense of direction. He is also one of Julius Monrey's few friends. Ace is a warden in Joker's Prison, although he dislikes this job and says that it gets in the way of the work that he does for Julius.

Appearance

Ace has tousled, light brown hair and red colored eyes and can almost always be seen sporting some kind of smile. His attire consists of a red trench coat, black shirt and black boots with gray accents along the coat and for his gloves. Buckles also adorn his arms and legs while his sword hilt and buttons are gold.

On the occasions of meetings, he can also be seen sporting a red tie and white shirt instead of the black one.

While working for Julius, he wears a light beige cloak that is usually stained with blood and a small mask that covers his eyes.

Personality

While Ace has a "bright and fresh personality," his darker side is revealed when the land moves to Clover and Julius is not present. Ace can be kind a warm one moment and then, without losing his smile, try to kill a person the next moment. He will even seriously threaten Alice/the heroine when he cares about her. Because of this he is described as a yandere. He is more insightful than he looks, and he enjoys twisting other people's words, particularly Peter's and Alice's. Despite how often he insults Peter and Vivaldi, he never loses his polite tone and manner of speech, always remaining respectful even when what he says is rude. Ace enjoys fighting and likes to provoke other people to fight him, especially Peter and Gray; he always calls this "training." even when fighting the bloody twins he also calls it training. There is only one time that he does not smile, and that is when Alice is in serious danger. He is really scary without that smile.

Trivia

• Ace tries to avoid doing things that aren't "knight-like," which can result in him twisting words and ideas to suit his purposes if he wants to do something anyway.
• Ace actually hates rabbits, except as meals; along those lines he very good at cooking, several types actually, as long it can be done outdoors. He's been shown to cook things over spits.
• In a Clover chibi shot, its shown that Ace is actually good at memory games.
• In Japanese, Ace refers to everyone with the polite honorific "san" except for originally two people: Alice and Julius. This appears to be due to a desire to keep everyone possible at a distance, for "san" implies some distance between people relationship-wise; it's unfortunate that this is lost in translation.
• Ace likes to play dumb, especially if it gives him the opportunity to irritate Peter White or Vivaldi. Or if he doesn't want to answer Alice's questions.
• Ace is one of the best fighters in Wonderland. The only one who can defeat him is Gray, but if Ace is feeling stable due to Julius' proximity, he will usually still win.
• In the games, Ace rarely instigates any of the fights he is involved in, though he has no problems finishing them. He is the instigator in his spars with Gray.
• Like Alice, Ace can hear the doors calling out to him. This signifies that he is truly lost.
• Ace doesn't want to go through the doors because they might bring him to Julius.

Quotes

• (To Alice) "I don't want to hand you over to anyone. I want to monopolize you. Even if you die... I don't want anyone else to have you."<ref>Heart no Kuni no Alice: Ace B Ball Event</ref>
• (To Alice) "As a knight, I can't refuse an invitation fro a lady like you."
• "Life is about the journey-not the destination."
• (After swearing at Pierce) "Oops. That wasn't a knight-like thing to say."
• (To Alice) "You're always so nice, Alice. So someone like me can take advantage of you."
• (To Alice) "You'd have to be the nicest girl in the world to stay with someone like me."
• (To Alice) "I'm disgusted by anything that can't be replaced."
• (To Alice, with his hand around her throat) "Hey, Alice. When you're scared, your pretty little heart really starts to pound. Don't you think that's kinda hot?"
• (To Alice) "I like it when you get depressed or worried because of me. I don't mind being lost if you're here with me."
• "Getting a guide would make things too easy. That's no fun. I like to learn a thing or two on my life journeys."
• (To Julius) "Take it from me. Sometimes, it feels good to be the idiot that fights back."
• (To Julius) "Alice's home is something she gets to choose for herself."
• (To Nightmare, regarding Alice and Julius) "I love them both. I won't get in the way."
• (To Alice and Julius, who realized he was watching them) "Aw, you're stopping? I was thinking of joining in if you went any further. Oh well."
• (About Julius) "Even among the ones with duties, I like him a lot."
• (To Alice about having duties) "I want to be free, though. Which makes me despise my duties... and clocks."
• (To Peter about Alice) "I don't like her all that much. But that doesn't mean I'm not interested. Okay? So you have to share."
• (To Peter) "I already have a habit of taking things by force."
• (To Alice about Peter) "He's honest and driven, so he doesn't get caught up in a lot of moral gray areas. I envy him in that."
• (To Alice) "If I took off my clothes, could you leave? Maybe I'd try to stop you. Maybe I don't want you to go. Maybe I love you, Alice."
• (To Alice) "I envy you. I want to be an outsider."
• (To Alice) "If I stay with you, maybe I can change."
• (Regarding Julius's fondness of Alice) "I'm so jealous... I think I might kill you."
• (After murdering his attackers in front of Alice) "Your sweet sentiments might just get you killed in this world, my dear Alice."
• "Peter must really hate my guts. It's a shame-I don't hate the guy personally."
• (Threateningly) "Right. She should be more careful. Because everyone loves precious Alice, right?"
• (To Boris) "She's an outsider. She's entitled to her opinion, but it won't change this place. It is what it is. And it's not about to change just because she showed up."
• "Everyone keeps fussing over her. It's... interesting. In fact, it's so interesting... it gives me an idea. I'll kill Alice. Then we'll see what happens next."
• (To Boris) "She'll cry if you kill me. But if you don't kill me, I could kill her. This is like one of your riddles, cat. How can you save the girl? Let me break her heart... or let me break her neck..."
• (To Boris) "Don't be naive. Now you and alice are pissing me off."
• (To Alice) "I thought I could change if I stayed with you too. But I haven't changed. And now I feel more lost than ever."
• (When Alice refused a drink) "But... booze is life, Alice!"