Chaplin Sukegawa

Masaru "Chaplin" Sukegawa is an MtF transsexual who sees herself as a bright figure in Sector G, and who is also an announcer for most of the Carnival Corpse duels. She is often seen around Minatsuki Takami, Itadaki "Masu" Kazuya and Hitara. She is a Deadman. Her card is Peacock and her Branch of Sin, Peacock Peak (ピーコック・ピーク, Pīkokku Pīku), allows her to create what appear to be bramble-like constructs that can be used to trap opponents.

History
Before being sent to Deadman Wonderland, Sukegawa lived as a gay man. She had a boyfriend, but he was seeing a woman or several women on the side. One day, Sukegawa left work early and walked in on her boyfriend having sex with another woman. Her boyfriend admitted that he was only using Sukegawa for her money and that he wasn't even gay (indicating that either Sukegawa had not realized she was transgender, or that she had realized it but not told him), and the woman taunted her by saying that since she wasn't a woman she could never really find love.

At that point, Sukegawa used her Branch of Sin for the first time, impaling the woman and killing her. At some unknown time after being sent to Deadman Wonderland, she started living as a woman, adopting the name "Chaplin".

Gender identification
Although many characters in the series refer to Sukegawa as a gay man, she has stated on several occasions that she is transsexual and sees herself as a woman. It is possible that she only adopted the identity of a woman because of the verbal abuse she received from the woman she killed; however, this is not congruent with most real-world transgender identities, and even after coming to terms with that trauma in the battle with Uzume Sumeragi she continued to refer to herself as transsexual, so this theory is not likely.