Honestly, in-game, Ascot's more discouraged by this than his loss against Joshua. Out of game, I'm much less discouraged; let's just say that Ascot's first loss against J. Tamashii (the character) made me...feel very badly.

Honestly, though, even though Ascot may get character development in the future, it'll never count against Satoko, Joshua, Xahsouj and Necro, because Joshua's better at writing fighting than me, that sort of thing wouldn't change, or it would have changed now.