Adeuce

A-Deuce is the slash ship between Ace Trapolla and Deuce Spade from the Twisted Wonderland fandom.

Canon
Initially, Ace and Deuce didn't get along with each other very well. Deuce often found Ace too annoying and loud and wished he would take the situations occurring around them more seriously, while Ace found Deuce to be no fun. Through time and progress, Deuce and Ace started to get along with each other better, and form a sense of solidarity. Although Deuce still scolds Ace at occasions for misbehaving, they still get along well and are friendly rivals.

Prologue
Ace and Deuce met in chapter 12 of the Prologue. Ace bumped into Deuce while trying to run away from Grimm, since he was trying to skip cleaning. The MC screams to Deuce to try to stop Ace, and after thinking a little and wondering if he should either freeze his legs or restrain him, Deuce decides to create something heavy to stop him, and he ends up creating a cauldron. The cauldron falls into Ace's head, who gets hurt, and Deuce says that he didn't mean to overdo it and didn't expect to make a cauldron to hurt him. He asks him why he was running away, and Ace replies that they were cleaning the windows as a punishment for charring one the great seven statues, the Queen of Hearts.

Deuce is not impressed that they got in trouble for that, and he introduces himself. Ace doesn't remember him, despite being his classmate, but he remembers that Grimm was not presented in the conversation. He got away while they were chatting. Ace mispronounces Deuce's name, calling him Juice, and he says that he should help them find Grimm since he was partly responsible for what happend. While trying to catch Grimm, who was hiding in the chandelier in chapter 13, Deuce makes Ace float with his magic wand. His strategy didn't go well, and they end up breaking the chandelier in the process.

The Headmaster caught them, saying that they should be expelled from the school after seeing the result of the mess that they created. Neither Deuce or Ace want to get expelled, so they decide to go help fix the chandelier by finding a Dwarf Crystal in the mines. In chapter 14 and 15, while they are in the mines, they start blaming eachother for what happend, and they get interrupted by a faceless monster. Deuce decides to fight it and Ace gets in his way.

They get out of the mines, and both characters start to fight again. This time, they get interrupted by the MC, who says they should work together. They end up beating the monster using the cauldron spell again, getting the crystal in the process. The MC says that they are starting to getting along together now, and they both deny it. They speak to the Handmaster who is impressed by their teamwork, saying he never saw two students going hand in hand to defeat an enemy. Ace and Deuce misrepresent this by thinking that the Handmaster said they hold eachother's hands. In the end, neither get expelled from the school. At the last chapter of the Prologue, MC/Yuu says that they might be a good combo. In the official english translation, however, he says these two are made for eachother.

Episode 1
In episode 1, they meet again in the dorm. They are not pleased to see eachother again, and Deuce says that he heard from the other residents that Ace stole the dorm's leader tart. Ace asks him if got angry because of that, and Deuce says he just looked a bit irritated. Deuce says that Ace should apologize for the dorm leader. They met Cater right after and he makes them paint the roses in the garden. In chapter 5, they are working together in a class of potions, then in the sports field, and finally they decide to catch a break. Ace decided to get a chocolate croissant and Deuce offers a deal if he gets him an iced coffee from the cafeteria. In the following episodes, they still spend time together in the school. They explore the botanical garden together, and challenge Riddle later on the episode. Ace ends up punching Riddle, surprising Deuce. In the last episode, Cater mentions the white roses, who they forgot to paint, and calls both of them Acey and Deucey.

Episode 2
They meet Cater again, who calls them "A-Deuce Combo". Ace asks him why he named them that, and Cater replies that their names both end up in "ce", so he combined them. In the english translation, he calls them "Hunting Season" and "Ace Deuce", in reference to poker, and Deuce replies that he shouldn't give them couple nicknames. In the following episodes they agree to help finding the culprit of the magical shift tournament. In episode 16, Riddle mentions that in accordance of the Laws of Queen of Hearts, they were trying to dress as pink flamingos in the school. In episode 18, Ace mentions that Deuce's flamingo attire looked amazing, teasing him.

Quotes
"How about we have Deuce stay over in Yuu’s dorm, too, to help keep an eye on Ace."

"The hedgehog couples and the flamingo couples get along very nicely. That’s good."

Fanon
Adeuce is considered one of the most popular ships in the Twisted Wonderland fandom. It gained a considerably amount of attention since the prologue. Many fans of this ship like the development of their relationship, and all the teasing and funny arguments that they have over eachother. They also like the color constract of the duo, and their design resembling a set.

In Poker, Ace is the highest card in the deck; whereas, a deuce is at the bottom of the card rankings. A pair of Aces always beats a pair of deuces – or any other pair, for that matter. But there are times when the lowly deuce – or another small card – is far better than the elegant Ace.

Ace often gives names to Deuce, like Mr.Serious, Juice, and also calls him a Bad Boy. Deuce is surprised at how Ace seems to think of his delinquent side as “normal”, he is supposedly a more morally good character than his redhead counterpart, so a sight of his delinquent side would come as a surprise to a lot of people, but not Ace himself. All those facts make their dynamic is compelling and fun, thus making them one of the ships with most fics on AO3 and artworks on pixiv. On Twitter, AceDeu (エスデュ) day took place in January, 1, 2022.

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Trivia

 * They are from the same hometown, but didn't know each other until they were admitted to NRC.
 * They are Classmates (1-A) and seat partners (Deuce is No.24, while Ace is 25).
 * It is implied that they are also roomates.
 * There is a cardboad game called Acey Deucey.
 * On twitter, the commonly used emojis for the ship and both characters are ♠️♥ and ♥♠︎.