𝚁𝚄𝙱𝙸 𝙸𝙽𝙱𝙾𝚇;
May. 27th, 2023 07:10 pm
Daryl Dixon, 53
It's Daryl, say what you gotta say.
Daryl was dealt a losing hand at birth. His mother was an alcoholic who died smoking in bed and burned the house down around her when he was just a child. His father was a violent drunk and Daryl is covered in horrible scars from the physical abuse he was subjected to for years. Beaten, tortured, and neglected, he was lost in the woods for over a week when he was nine and had to learn to survive all on his own. To Daryl, family had always meant pain. He has an instinct to protect children and the innocent because he was never protected himself.MERLE'S INFLUENCE
His brother, nearly a decade older than him, was no better to him. Merle left home at seventeen and left Daryl behind with the father he knew couldn’t be trusted. When Daryl grew up and finally started following his brother around after Merle got out of prison, his older brother was nothing but a crass, violent influence on him. For years, Daryl thought he was only worth being belittled and taken for granted. It took losing track of Merle during the apocalypse and finding his feet with another found family for Daryl to finally grow beyond him.MEETING RICK'S GROUP
Daryl would not be the person he’s become without having Rick to follow and Carol to believe in him. Being needed and respected and liked by Rick and his people, having a positive role model and people to love him were things Daryl had never experienced before and the changes began immediately after the disappearance of his brother – he became a protector and self-sacrificer, an honourable man in a world of broken people. Thanks to them, Daryl finally learned how to belong.GLENN'S DEATH
The same way Rick and his people had opened Daryl up to the world of human connection, Glenn's horrific murder closed him off to it. He still blames himself and continues to take on more than his share of responsibility and guilt in his everyday life, a pattern he’s never shaken. He has seen the very worst humanity has to offer, suffered the worst losses, and is distrustful because of it. Despite all the good he's done, Daryl feels like he'll always be on the hook for his mistakes.RICK'S DISAPPEARANCE
Another thing Daryl blames himself for is Rick’s disappearance and the fact that he was never able to find and bring his body home. He'll never forgive himself for doing his part to get Rick on that bridge and Daryl carries Rick’s leadership and brotherhood with him every day and holds his place in the world by remembering what he would do and enacting it. Daryl might not be a natural leader but Rick was, and so Daryl has learned to pick up the mantle and lead in his place. It’s the least he can do for the man who gave Daryl a real life at the end of the world.
A Chupacabra-influenced classic werewolf, Daryl experiences a nasty yet slow transformation that increases his size, strength, and endurance and heightens all of his senses to supernatural levels of acuteness. Like the American iteration of the Chupacabra, his pelt is thin and mangey-looking and he develops a crested spine, claws, and horrible razor-sharp fangs used for draining blood. His snout lengths, he grows a lashing tail, and his shoulders hunch in a grotesque, hulking way. In full transformation, his cock also develops the classic werewolf knot.
INVULNERABILITY | His tough skin and fur eventually render him nearly invulnerable to ordinary weapons, even bullets and blades, but Daryl will rarely be able to resist his primal canine urges of sex and violence long enough to reach his most dangerous state of transformation.
HYPNOTIC BITE | No matter his stage of transformation, Daryl's bite has quasi-hypnotic effects on his victims – they feel bonded to him in return (to varying opt-in degrees, of course) and want to be near him and/or submit to him the way a pack member would its leader.
SUPERNATURALLY HEIGHTENED SENSES | Daryl can hear and understand the changes in someone's heartbeat, smell their emotional state, taste the recent history of objects (or people), see extremely well in the dark and feel the vibrations of prey miles away.
Daryl’s monster is born both from his deep connection to the wilderness and his inherited anger and pain that he tries to keep buried. His wolf-beast is a manifestation of both these aspects. His instincts are just as geared towards building a pack and protecting his territory as they are roaming and hunting. While in the middle heights of his transformation, he’s obsessed with marking and claiming those he’s managed to bond to. He’s easily driven crazy by pheromones and in this form will heavily affect anyone else sensitive to them as well. In his early stages, just placate him with a snack or a scratch or a cuddle. Then run.