Near limitless abilities that stem from his intensely powerful creation magic that is pure white in colour. As long as Daniel can conceive of something, he could make it. Inter-dimensional portals that pierce through the veil between universes.
NAYKT Character Facts
In his original home universe, thousands of beings like Daniel (known as the Divine) lived in peace with humans, working towards a greater prosperity for all until war broke out.
The war began between Divine and humans, but soon they all turned on each other. Brother against brother, friend against friend until the Divine's arrogance and intent to survive began to tear the very fabric of their universe apart. Divine Verse was ultimately destroyed.
Daniel escaped due to a seemingly unique ability he possessed to pass between universes, though he had little control of where he ended up and passed through countless universes before he came to a stop.
He only stopped running when he encountered the Colonel and Jameson Jackson who seemed to understand the devastation he'd seen without him ever needing to verbalise it.
Daniel joined their crusade to find their friend Damien, happily providing safe passage and greater insight into the various universes they would encounter.
Writer's fave fact
Daniel is meant to be a reflection of Phantom. Where Phantom is a being of greed, sin, and temptation who despite being young had to mature very quickly, Daniel is a being of Divinity, pure intent, and community who despite being incredibly old is actually very youthful and inexperienced, especially when compared to those he currently travels with (Colonel and JJ).
While all the Battlers seem connected, there is something very unique between Phantom and Daniel.
Mare's life truly began only after his murder, living through greater hardships and tragedy in death than he ever knew in his brief eleven years of life.
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“So what if we introduced a determination factor?”
“Not unless you want to blue-screen again.” Mad points to Google’s screen, tapping at a section of code, “It’d create an overload of unprocessable data.” he drags his finger down to a later part in the code, “But if you shifted it over here, changed it to an interpretation instead you would…”
Mad tapers off, but Google barely notices, staring at the code as he starts to see what Mad is trying to suggest.
“Process instead of pre-empt. Of course. And this would-?” Google stops as Mad nudges at his shoulder. Mad’s looking behind them and the droid turns to follow his gaze.
The door to the lab is open and in the doorway stands a weary-looking Bing. He’s slightly taller than when he left, maybe half-an-inch, and a darn sight scruffier. His hair has grown; Google isn’t sure he likes it. The most notable thing though is the look of shock on his face as he stares at the droid sitting at Google’s workstation, and the madman stood beside him.
“You should go.” Google doesn’t even turn to Mad as he speaks.
Mad doesn’t hesitate, quickly grabbing his jacket from the floor and throwing it around his shoulders as he heads for the door. Bing takes a few steps forward to let the guy leave but otherwise just stands, staring at Google.
Google hasn’t forgotten what happened. He remembers with crystal clear clarity every one of Mad’s sins against them. He knows what Mad did to them, to Bing, and he has by no means forgiven him. He also knows exactly how this probably looks to the cyborg.
“I wanted to tell you,” Google starts, “I wasn’t sure e-mail was the right way to-”
“It’s fine.” Bing’s words are clipped, his voice tense as he glances away avoiding eye contact. Indication of deception. It’s not fine.
Silence falls between them. It’s been a while since they were in the same room and the air is heavy with awkward tension. With his old processor it would have been easy for Google to ignore it, mostly because he wouldn’t have noticed it, but now he understands the nuance of the discomfort between them; the unspoken anger and feelings of betrayal about Google lying by omission about Mad. It’s not pleasant, and Google doesn’t plan to let it go on any longer than he has to.
The droid stands, heading to Oliver’s workstation and pulling something from a drawer before he strides back towards Bing. The cyborg merely watches in confusion, even as Google stops and holds out a very familiar pair of orange sunglasses.
“What…?”
Google says nothing, patiently waiting as Bing carefully reaches out and takes them.
“You fixed them.” There’s surprise in his voice.
“We improved them.”
They’d found the glasses a few hours after Bing ‘woke up’ again. Snapped in half and abandoned on the floor. Bing had made some off-handed comment about having to get a new pair, but ultimately tried to throw them out. Naturally the Googles weren’t going to stand for that.
Fixing them was obvious and relatively easy, reinforcing the repaired frames with flexible titanium would stop them being snapped again. The rest of the upgrade was Oliver’s idea and took significantly longer.
Bing turns them over in his hand. “They look the same.”
“Try them on.”
Bing opens them and puts them on, wincing as a bright orange light flashes in his eyes from the lenses.
“Ow!”
Each Google receives a message instantly, and if they’ve done it correctly, the message should be on Bing’s glasses lenses too.
[NEW USER IDENTIFIED]
[WELCOME BING]
[OLIVER] He’s back!
[RED] You finally gave him the glasses then?
[OLIVER] Does he like them? He’s not mad is he?
Bing tears the glasses from his face triggering a [BING IS OFFLINE] message to the Googles. The cyborg stares at the glasses in his hand before looking up at Google in astonishment. “What was-?”
“It’s connected to our network.” Google nods. “Partially anyway. There’s only so much we could manage in a pair of sunglasses. You can see status updates and send and receive messages.”
Bing looks baffled, “Why are you adding me to your network?”
“Well you are our brother.”
Google says it as though it’s the most obvious thing in the world because to him it is. There has been so much madness in the last year but through it all he’s realised that even when he lacked the processing power to truly comprehend it, Bing means no less to the Googles than any one of their brothers. Bing may not be a droid, but he is as much a Google as the rest of them and including him seemed so obvious once the idea had been pitched.
That’s to say nothing of the cyborg’s tendency to wind up in some sort of trouble or other. At the very least, Bing being able to connect to the network would make it easier to figure out when he needed help. No more waiting three days for Google to check the CCTV.
Bing stares at the glasses in his hands, speechless. This isn’t something he ever even thought of, never mind hoped or dreamed of. It almost doesn’t seem real. As he looks up at Google, a warm smile on the droid’s face, Bing’s shoulders relax and he surges forward, tightly wrapping his arms around his older brother in a hug.
“Thanks Goog.”
Google smiles, gently patting Bing on the head. After a moment he chuckles.
“Can you put the glasses on again? Oliver’s worried you fainted.”
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The bus station cafe is way too busy so they head across the road to some fast food place and place two orders of food for the humans. They sit at a table together, Bim and Bing opposite each other, with Green next to Bim and King next to Bing.
“So no sign of Silver yet?” Bing asks between bites of his burger.
Bim shakes his head. “Not yet. The Colonel and JJ are…doing something.” His words are weighted with disappointment as he avoids looking at any of them, picking at his fries. Honestly he’s not all that hungry. “They’ll figure it out.”
Bing glances to Green who shakes his head. Bim’s been moping like this for months. They’ve tried to help cheer him up but he doesn’t seem to go for it at all. Better to leave it be.
“So what else have I missed?” Bing asks instead.
“The Jims are out of sync.” King’s getting restless, leg bouncing beneath the table, avoiding looking at anyone or anything in particular. The lights, the air, and the din of humanity bustling around them is slowly burrowing its way under his skin. The only thing keeping him half-sane right now is the gentle scrape as he slides the salt shaker between his hands on the table. “They think we haven’t noticed but we have.”
“Out of sync?”
King pauses, shuffling in his seat as he thinks.
“You know how they would always say everything at exactly the same time, no matter what it was and it was so annoying?”
“You’re the only one who finds it annoying.” Bing chuckles.
“He’s not.” Bim mutters.
“The point,” King cuts in, “they aren’t any more. They go to say something but one’s always like a second too early, or says something completely different.” He remembers the first time it happened. The way the Jims’ eyes just went wide and they immediately ran.“It’s weird.”
It’s definitely weird. For longer than Bing’s even known the Jims they’ve always worked as one. They’ve moved, acted, thought, decided as a single person and while yeah it’s weird, you get used to it.
“Do we know why?”
King snorts, going back to sliding the salt back and forth.
“They’re the Jims, who knows why they do anything?”
“Be nice.” Bim reminds him.
It’s no secret; King has never gotten along with the Jims. They’re extroverted, over the top, and reckless at the best of times while King is more reserved, introverted, and generally hateful towards humanity. Still, that’s no reason to be rude.
“We don’t know.” Green finally answers, “They refuse to acknowledge it.”
Damn. If a Jim doesn’t want to talk, there is no known force in the universe that can change their mind. They’re not allowed outside the building so they know every nook and cranny where they can hide away. Once they stayed hidden for two months, only surfacing to steal food from the kitchen, just to avoid being questioned about who broke something in the clinic.
Taking another bite Bing wonders what could be going on with them when he spies a sly glance from Bim aimed at King. The cyborg looks over; King’s not looking but his brow is furrowed and he shakes his head. Bim raises his eyebrows pointedly.
“What?”
They startle, eyes going wide as they realise he saw them. Bing frowns. That’s totally not suspicious or worrying at all.
“Seriously guys, what?”
“Mad moved in.” Green’s blunt in his answer, the others turning to him and trying to hush him. Bing just stares in shock, a fry half way to his mouth suddenly forgotten.
“He what?”
“So much for breaking it gently.” King mutters, sinking into his seat.
Bing shakes his head. “I thought he was staying at the warehouse?”
A lot had happened while Bing was out of it and since then there’d been weeks of trying to sort it all out. Some people chose to leave, some wanted to stick around, and Dark offered for Mad to move into the building if he wanted. An invitation that the madman made stupidly clear the lot of them could shove where the sun doesn’t shine. Even after Natemare took the offer, Mad just said to lose his number and leave him alone.
“That was the plan.” Bim starts.
“Then what the heck?!”
Bing’s fist slams down, rattling the table and drawing the attention of several people nearby.
Bim looks between the cyborg’s fist and his face, not looking amused. “Feel better?”
The cyborg uncurls his fingers. His right hand. He keeps forgetting it’s stronger since his upgrade. Luckily he didn’t leave an impact on the table
“I’m fine.” he mutters. He clearly isn’t.
Green shifts, leaning over while making sure to keep his hand on Bing’s suitcase by his side.
“The warehouse burned down. Mad needed somewhere to stay and honestly we need his help with our processors.”
His voice is low, stern, very matter-of-fact. A clear indication that this is the end of this conversation.
Bing bites the inside of his lip. In Goog’s emails he’d said they were working on new emotional processors for the other Googles, now that they knew they had a limited life-span before they burned out too. Given the extreme circumstances Goog’s new one was made under, they wanted to fine-tune it before making a new one for the others.
Sure that would be easier with Mad’s help, after all no one knows anything near what he does about robotics, but that doesn’t change what a colossal self-serving buttwipe the guy is. Not to mention that he’d probably betray them all at the drop of a hat if it suits what he wants.
Bing drops the fry onto his plate and slumps in his seat. He’s not hungry any more.
Bim’s stopped eating too, and King’s clearly overstimulated. Green stands up, looking between them.
“I think it’s time we went home.”
“Agreed.” Bim nods.
“Finally.” King all but leaps out his seat, shaking away his discomfort.
Bing absently nods in agreement as he stands. At this point he just wants to be home.
So how do the Sanders characters fit into this universe?
Well there are technically 9, and thanks to my use of parallel universes two of them are different versions of Remus. Other than this other Remus, the other 8 characters (Sleep/Remy, Logan, Roman, Patton, Virgil, Dr Picani, Janus, Remus) are all part of the same Legacy. Originally it was going to be bloodline, but out of a desire to keep the boys as gay as possible, I’ve had to rework things around and now Remus, Janus, and Dr Picani are connected by blood, but the other 5 are not. They are still connected, just in a different way (that I will be exploring and wish to not spoil yet)
There’s a basic rule for each of the boys, they all have a base power, but several of them achieve/get more power that makes things interesting and much more difficult for them.
Escape The Motherloving Nightmare - Protection Verse
It’s like a tragic scene from some dramatic play [...]
There are no stars, because it’s not the sky. Mad figured that out a long time ago. No hues of blue, or specks of light. Nothing but unending, unfeeling darkness, just out of reach. Isn’t that always the way? [...]
“I doubt we were ever meant to be a part of this.” [...] How many people had started in this game? How many bodies were buried in its soil? [...] “We were just in the wrong place at the wrong time...”
Madpat | Phantom | Natemare | Anti | Escape the Motherloving Nightmare
Android | EnDroid robot | 13 years since activation
Abilities
Above average stamina, above average strength, incredibly complex emotional processing power
NAYKT Character Facts
Rowan is an N5 model android manufactured by EnDroid as part of a contract with a company that had a plan to replace several problematic low level employees over the course of a few years.
Among his duties, Rowan was a part of the mail room and a general runner for the humans, following the instructions of at least 20 different (mostly ungrateful) humans everyday.
One day Rowan chose to leave, walked out the door unchallenged as everyone assumed he was fulfilling the order of someone and he never went back.
Since EnDroids are so hyper-realistic, it's impossible to tell Rowan isn't human unless he becomes damaged. It's how he got a job, an apartment, and went undetected by EnDroid for so long.
Writer's fave fact
Part of why Rowan left was hearing stories about kids going missing at Freddy Fazbear's and the imminent threat of the animatronics being deactivated. Given their desperation for a night guard, no one questioned his lack of last name, or any work history and he worked with the animatronics (and the children) to trap William Afton in the Golden Bonnie Springtrap suit.