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Some ideas I came up with for what a playable Daryl might look like

Puppet: You don't actually control Daryl, but rather a guard who fights in his place. Maybe more than one, with slightly different abilities kinda like the Mage Sisters from Kirby

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword: Rather than conventional weapons, Daryl lives up to his title as the King Of Groundwork and beats people up with office supplies a la Eri from Yakuza 7

THE CHAIR! GIVE HIM THE CHAIR!: needs no further explanation.

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The Knightverse

So because @xrd made the mistake of encouraging me, I will now subject all of you to yet another AU, tentatively titled the Knightverse. It, at its core, is a roleswap type of AU, with different characters taking different roles, though there is also some miscellaneous changes I made for fun because I do what I want.

It’s still definitely a work in progress since I have a lot of characters undecided still, but I’m happy with what I have so far

Swapping Sol and Ky

-Sol is a hotheaded, dogmatic human who is the initial second-in-command of the holy order due to his very versatile fire magic and constant drive for victory. He despises gears at first, but gradually learns to settle down and respect all walks of life, while also softening his more reckless and antisocial traits.

-Ky is a 150 year old scientist who worked on the original Gear Project back in the 21st century, until, of course, everything went terribly wrong. Transformed into one of the first Gears by his former co-worker and dear friend, he has been living as a drifting vigilante for decades until beginning to settle down. He has a levelheaded if stoic demeanor, but overall has retained his compassion and hope for a brighter future. Despite his past traumas he remains open-minded and cares deeply

Swapping May and Johnny

-Captain May Gregoria is a mature, confident woman leading a pirate gang of adopted orphans and constantly living on the run from the law. She’s incredibly skilled in hand-to-hand fighting and is capable of hauling massive amounts of weight with her bare hands. She can be a flirt (with people of any gender) but never forgets that her adopted family is priority #1. Captain May rarely if ever comes across as surprised, and usually has a contingency plan up her sleeve, though she’s also perfectly willing to get her hands dirty if situations go south, especially if it involves the safety of her kids

-Johnny is a teenager adopted by May who is constantly trying to impress her and win her affections. He’s skilled with swordplay but tends to externalize his insecurity by seeing everyone who so much as meets May as a romantic rival, though he is rarely if ever taken seriously by them or by May herself. Is constantly trying to seek out and understand the true meaning of ‘maturity.’

Swapping Faust and Bedman, kind of

-Bedman (known as Dr. Matthew Morpheus) is a jaded child prodigy and medical practitioner. While brilliant, he is incredibly antisocial and struggles to get along with others due to a lack of people skills. Following the death of his beloved sister, the mental strain resulted in him developing immense psychic powers and leading him into a bloody rampage. Following the incident, he recovered his sanity and resolved to use his new abilities to heal, though his demeanor has arguably worsened due to his guilt. He has a Compelling Voice, giving him the ability to control an individual's mind, but his main use for it is keeping patients from experiencing pain during field surgery.

-Faust is a man abducted by a shadowy organization at a young age due to his immense magical powers, with the goal of converting him into a human weapon. In fact, his power was so great that he managed to teleport out of the facility completely on accident, and has been on the run ever since. As a result of being kept captive for multiple decades, his powers have been honed to perfection but his social skills are lacking, though his affable and earnest nature still make him friendly and endearing to many people. Despite his treatment, he remains very tenderhearted, with the sole goal of using his magical abilities to help people. His prized possession is his sticker collection.

Swapping Baiken and Anji

-Anji is a traveling street performer and assassin embittered by the loss of his home as a young boy. He has developed a manipulative personality laden with polite gestures for the sake of lowering others’ guard around him. He uses his dancing skills to schmooze his way into high-profile locations before killing and/or extorting people in power for information. His ultimate goal is to find the person behind Japan’s destruction and murder them.

-Baiken is a battle-scarred drifter who lost an eye and leg in the siege on Japan that opened the crusades. Though she mourns the loss of her homeland, over the years she has become very tranquil and easygoing, traveling the world mainly for the sake of getting into swordfights and meeting new people. She still has a massive sore spot for her past trauma, but tends to keep it to herself instead of externalizing it towards other people.

Swapping Slayer and Sharon

-Sharon is an immortal and the founder of the Assassin’s Guild. Due to her condition she was originally more misanthropic, with the guild being more a doomsday cult trying to figure out what kind of weapon would be capable of killing her, even if it wiped out the world as a whole in the process. The guild ultimately became more focused on paid assassinations, but Sharon amicably left after meeting her now-life partner, Slayer, who helped her rediscover a joy for living. She enjoys frequently going out and getting into fights for the sake of it, and has a fondness for life’s simple pleasures

-Slayer is a dandy himbo vampire who chases his wife around and calls her pretty

Swapping Daryl and Leo

-King Leo Whitefang was formerly Sol Badguy’s rival, who could never measure up to his abilities. Years of being overshadowed and seeing Sol’s abilities lauded have made him a shrewd, at times ruthless man who sees honest methods as inherently flawed and will use deception or more pragmatic tactics to get results

-King Daryl is a peculiar fellow, and the least known of the kings. He is the only one of the three that was not a frontline soldier, instead being a war medic and cavalry swordsman. He is deeply empathetic, if somewhat bombastic, but is frequently written off by the Illyrian public as a ‘fake soldier’ that can’t make aggressive policies

Swapping Nagoriyuki and Giovanna

-Nagoriyuki is a secret service agent for A Country, regarded as one of the nation’s finest (though he repeatedly gets cited for uniform violations. In his defense, he would like to dress properly, but the shirts aren’t built for someone with his...features, and the top buttons keep tearing off) He has a very professional personality, and is known for his thoughtfulness and temperance. While typically very composed and even-tempered even in difficult situations, he has a gigantic soft spot for his puppy-sized spiritual companion Rei, whom he spoils.

-Giovanna is a vampire with a giant sword. Disenfranchised and orphaned on the street as a youth, she was saved by and taken in by a vampire who taught her to fend for herself. She sticks to a code of honor, but maintains a very sarcastic personality- even though by her introduction she is manipulated and forced into working to try and cause mass harm, she will openly complain, mock, and insult her ‘employer.’

Axl Low, I-no, and Raven all have no distinct swap, but instead incorporate different aspects into something new

-Raven is an immortal from old Germany that has lived for hundreds of years due to his ability to regenerate from wounds. He has used this ability mainly for personal amusement and is constantly testing the limits of it. He has developed an upbeat, rather Dionysian worldview and lives a life of constant drunken benders and capriciousness in pursuit of his own amusement. When not utterly wasted, he is somehow even more unbearably chipper and friendly

-I-no (Sheena) is a time traveler ripped from her otherwise perfectly normal life. While trying to stop whatever force is causing her to experience time so abnormally, she is studying her new abilities in an attempt to change the timeline and bring back her dead wife, Marlene.

-Axl is a bitter and constantly annoyed straight man for Raven and Sheena, who views the former as insufferably sunny and the latter as simpering and helpless. He has been in Sheena’s position in the past, and as such eventually develops a bit of a soft spot for her, but otherwise most of his time is spent making it very clear how much he hates everything and anything that goes on around him.

-Dizzy is similar to her canon personality, but she is significantly more monstrous, appearing more like a draconic version of Justice. She hides in the forest out of a fear of accidentally hurting someone from her large size, though Testament becomes her caretaker and she later befriends several others.

-Testament is Kliff’s adopted son, converted into a Gear during the war. As a human, he was immensely pompous and bloodthirsty, constantly striving out on his own in an attempt to overshadow his father’s legacy. He has taken his conversion as an opportunity to reinvent himself, becoming a caring, gentle, outspoken person with a love for pastel that seeks to make everyone happy

-In this universe, Commander Gears are self-propagating. Justice made Dizzy singlehandedly, as did Dizzy with Sin.

-Because of this, Sin is distinctly more of a draconic humanoid, with wings, back scales, and a tail, but is more reasonably human sized than his mother since he’s not technically a Commander, classified instead as a (far smaller) male drone.

Is Happy Chaos somewhat kind of reasonable? It is kind of surprising that Daryl is willing to take a gamble at negotiating with him to release him and the other hostages, although I feel that Chaos could've shot them down for the sake of his amusement.

Keep in mind that King Daryl is also a master at negotiation and preparation.

He would not take a gamble unless he had a means to win, given how pragmatic he normally is.

On the flipside though, Happy Chaos can adapt to virtually any situation he is in with ease.

Even despite being "tricked" in to getting kicked out of the White House via an escape pod, he actually "wasn't tricked", and had actually swapped himself with a body double (one of the Secret Service Agents under his control).

Based on his actions, he could have killed a great number of people if he so desired, but that does not mean he is by any means reasonable.

His actions still had consequences, and those still resulted in the deaths of several civilians and soldiers during the incident, not to mention countless injured.

Furthermore, his purpose meant he was willing to risk his life and more in order to kill Asuka even just to obtain access to the Tome of Origin, even if that caused a war on an international scale.

On the outside, it might seem possible to negotiate, but on the inside, he simply goes with the flow of events, adapting as he goes, even doing unexpected things as if they were a means to his objectives.

Even Nagoriyuki questioned his randomized behavior, as much of what he did was full of detours and contradictions.

This is also why Chipp Zanuff seemed to have a better sense of intuition on how to deal with Happy Chaos: because he knew the man was immortal, so nothing he did (or didn't do) would affect his mission or objectives.

Rather, it would be easier to simply adapt to Happy Chaos' random actions and counteract them than to simply try and predict what he will do.

In the grand scheme of things, I don't think King Daryl could've done more than he already had in the face of Happy Chaos' actions.

Doing so would've put himself and others in jeopardy. Like biting off more than one can chew.

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I did these for both pride month and to mark the first anniversary of my DarylVeno story. Since then it’s become a rarepair with a small following, one that I am thankful for.

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