Diesel

* Normal
* Pre-Timeskip

• Big D (Blair)

• Deez (Helga)

76 Years Old (Post-Timeskip)

> "Diesel can't sing or play instruments but Diesel can very much cook, yes?"
>
> - Diesel

Diesel Terrifang is the Guardian of Strength, being around during the guardian era. He is the loving husband of Kako Terrifang and is the father of Helga Terrifang. His birthday is celebrated as the day of harvest and general blessings but only exclusively celebrated in the Southern Land of Entertainment. Although very stubborn, Diesel is a powerful tank; having ridiculous durability the likes of a boulder and he is even able to increase his own body heat in order to burn things and his powerful axe.

## **Appearance**

Diesel has a very overweight build. Something he is fine with admitting. He is a tyrant, so he has red skin, yellow sclera with red irises, natural black hair and matching red ram horns. Unique to him is his fangs that resemble buck teeth, having a large unibrow and a rather square/rectangular moustache.

In the guardian era, he wears a short sleeved chef uniform with green pants and matching shoes.

In the post time-skip/Calamity War era, he has a beard and a goatee. His slick back hairstyle is now much longer and is made into a braid on the backside. His chef uniform now have green colorations, notably his collar, sleeves and a badge that resembles the guardian's gear logo. His pants and shoes are now black and he now wears a green apron. Finally, he wears a headband that has his name inscribed onto it.

## **Personality**

Many see Diesel as a big lovable doofus. He tends to speak in third person and ends most sentences with "yes?" when he asks for a opinion on something. However he is far from absent-minded. He is a extremely smart chef and is very much quick to the point. Plus he is regarded as the Hero of the Mines, since he single handily saved the Mythical Mines from falling down after a earthquake. Showing that he is very brave.

However he can be somewhat stubborn, naïve and picky. Especially when the subject matter is food or cooking. For example, he WILL point out that meat is raw and needs to be cooked. Or if something has too much salt or butter. He also disllikes simplified meals intended for tea times or parties and will likely help with preparing better meals, asking politely of course. Showing that all of this tends to be his weakness.

### **Sekitano**

The name of his axe that also counts as a frying pan. The original became Helga's weapon after it was modified but Diesel always carries spares, just in case. The axe can turn into a burning axe when Diesel burns it up to 1000 degrees, which makes it capable of cutting almost anything.

### **Burning Harvest**

Besides burning his axe, he can burn himself to be used for offensive and defensive matters. The amount of burns he gathers is represented by a red aura around him and he also sweats heavily.

* **Exploding Flambé:** Diesel can cause a red-hot explosion around him by heating himself to the point of combustion. This usually leaves him covered in black ash. He does a extremely powerful version when ascended.
* **Spicy Dish:** Diesel makes a spicy dish that's so spicy that it causes the person who ate it to fire a large flamethrower from their mouths.
* **Ascension: Giga Volcano:** Diesel's ascension when his body reaches a certain temperature. He grows extremely large and will cause a powerful volcanic explosion that's almost as strong as the sun. After this, he goes back to normal. Making this the only ascension that's just simply a powerful attack and not a full transformation.

## **Biography**

### **Backstory**

Diesel was born and raised in the Mythical Mines, a homeplace for the Tyrants. Prior to the events of the Guardian Era, Diesel would notably save the mines from a earthquake. It's where he would discover his companion for life, Steel the Dog, after he saved him from the collapse.

One day, Diesel was contacted telepathically by Chikyū to go meet Gregory after the Grimdark took away Boss, Grace and Ragnaro. Leading him to the Pyramid of the Desert Winds. Gregory was currently with Pyro and Blair at the time. It's there that he says he was called by Chikyū to arrive here and everyone immediately liked him due to making a good impression, joining the team in saving Khamson from the Grimdark's control.

Diesel would be in middle of Pyro and Blair falling out and the more Blair displayed her somewhat imperfect but deadly magic, the more Pyro worried. The two would, at one point, get in a argument that makes Pyro think that Blair isn't helpful at all and that she is evil. Diesel, being the only sensible person, tries to fix this argument but was ignored by the two and Blair states that she wants to prove that the many things she does can be used for good. Diesel was the first to realise that Blair was just simply trying to make it up to Pyro. The aranea draco accepts her forgiveness and the team would eventually fight and defeat Khamson's possessed self alongside his new friends and peace was made in the Pyramid of the Desert winds.

As a gift, Khamson offered one of the 4 team members eternal youth. Diesel declines because he simply thinks that being young forever would affect his career as a chef and he wants to be known for his deeds. Blair and Pyro decline too for their own reasons. That leaves Gregory, who agrees on it and since that day, Gregory was given eternal youth.

Diesel would happily continue on his journey with the other 3 and he will do anything to help them in defeating the grimdark once and for all. When the team were resting at a inn, Diesel was preparing a meal and the team would eat the lunch made by him, Diesel was about to prepare the desert but was met with the Grimdark barging into the inn to kidnap him, Blair and Pyro. Leaving Gregory behind in a similar fashion to Boss, Grace and Ragnaro. Speaking of those three, Diesel meets up with them alongside the other two in the Grimdark's prison. When Boss reveals that they are friends with Gregory, Diesel says that if they are friends with Gregory, then they are their friends as well. Diesel would try to cut the bars of the prison via his axe being turned to 1000 degrees but surprisingly it doesn't work. He states saying it's under some kind of magic, making it unbreakable.

After Gregory goes through the events where he saves Ragnaro's siblings, his new friends would be kidnapped, again, in a similar fashion to his other friends being kidnapped. Diesel kindly interacted with these new members of the team. After saving the others, Gregory and the others eventually lead to them defeating the Grimdark, who was currently possessing the first ever hero of legend, Terios. When the Grimdark was released out of Terios, they would eventually possess Chikyū, who was with the team the entire fight. With the Grimdark now possessing his sworn enemy, Gregory and the others would yet have to go back to square one, going on another journey to take on a more stronger Grimdark. They succeed and save Chikyū but this leads to the Grimdark to say they might have defeated him, but his hatred will return again one day. Chikyū would then use her magic to reform the Grimdark into a better person, as it is the only way to stop him. This resulted in the birth of Kako. Diesel notably helped Kako when she was created, as her body was weak and she needed to rest. Diesel offers to keep Kako at his cottage until she gets better. After their victory, Chikyū would accept the guardians as the new protectors of earth. With Diesel being titled as the Guardian of Strength.

Since then, the Guardians disbanded to go do their own things for now. For Diesel, he spent most of his time at home and helping Kako recover. Chikyū would visit Diesel's cottage one day to check on Kako. The confused female tyrant cannot see properly, that's where Chikyū decides to create glasses for her and it works. Diesel would go up to greet her with a breakfast meal he's made for Kako, which is a fried egg, four apple slices and some milk. While she eats, Chikyū would ask her how she feels. This leads to her saying she is confused about everything and she starts to question why she is here. Chikyū says that she is born to live a happy life as a friend of hers and the guardians. However right now, the guardians are disbanded for now, leaving her to bond with Diesel since he asked to take care of her due to being a tyrant like her. Later on, Chikyū would leave to spend time with her family, leaving Kako with Diesel.

Diesel would guide Kako around the world to learn about various locations and they would bond very well to the point of loving each other. The two would later become married and they lived happily together. When the guardians reunite after a long time, everyone was surprised that Diesel would go on to be in a relationship with Kako. But Blair said "knew it" after the announcement. Implying that Blair knew they would get together. Later on, Diesel and the guardians would eventually go to and successfully conquer the Tower of Despair after reports of powerful grimdark spawns still roaming despite the Grimdark's defeat. When they reached the top, the Guardians are met with a extremely strong spawn, who according to the Bloodstained era, is in fact the first instance of Dare. Scarab, being who she is, rushes in without a plan and goes to attack the spawn with a drop kick but is interrupted by Grace getting in her way. And as a result, Grace is met with the spawn grabbing her legs and crushing them. Breaking them as a result. When the spawn is finally defeated, peace was made but at the cost of Grace's legs being broken for the rest of her life. After this, Diesel would occasionally visit Grace in the hospital to give her presents and such but most of time at this point was spending time with Kako and continuing his career as a chef.

Diesel would eventually learn that Grace was infected with the grimdark virus by Frewil, this prompted a emergency meeting about this. Diesel would go to the meeting and the guardians go into a agreement that they would go to war with Frewil, prompting Diesel to prepare for this war. At home, he says to Kako that he won't be home for a while due to taking part in the Calamity War and advices that Kako stays here safe. When he leaves, Kako goes to the kitchen to see a well-prepared meal made by Diesel with a letter saying that he'll be fine and she shouldn't worry about him. The battle raged on until the Calamity War ends after Frewil gets sealed away by Gregory. Diesel would quickly return home and is met with Kako hugging him while crying, being very happy to see him again and saying she missed him. Diesel comforts her and confirms everything that has happened in the Calamity War to her.

Time passed and Diesel would die a very tragic death which he thought was because of terminal disease but the Grimdark, who was haunting Kako in secret, confirms it to her. The Grimdark purposely infected Diesel with the Grimdark Virus presumably when she was conceiving Helga. To this day, Helga mentions that her father was a doofus but was someone she looked up to greatly. That's why she supported her mother as much Diesel did, as a way to pay respect.

## **Relationships**

### **Kako Terrifang**

Kako is Diesel's loving wife. He took care of her when she was knocked out for days when she was reformed. The two fell in love since then and eventually got married. During the calamity war, Kako was notably depressed. Not only because of the grimdark traumatising her with nightmares but because Diesel wasn't around. Confirming that she doesn't feel safe without him. When he returns, Kako immediately embraced him while crying her eyes out. When he eventually dies due to the Grimdark virus that the Grimdark himself injected onto him when Kako was conceiving Helga, she became severely depressed until Helga came in to comfort her.

### **Helga Terrifang**

Diesel only knew his daughter as a child but he was the source of Helga's sense of confidence. She states that her father was a bit of a stubborn hardworking doofus but was still lovable. She uses his axe as a means to pay respect to him. Despite this, when Helga became a pre-teen, she would always refer to his dad by his actual name and sometimes calls him "Deez".

### **Steel**

Steel is Diesel's canine companion. He saved the young dog during the earthquake of the Mythical Mines. Meaning that Steel is currently a very old dog right now. Diesel owes everything to Steel, as he was the reason why Diesel became a hero in the first place.

## **Trivia**

* Diesel's name comes straight from the concept of diesel train engines. The name was first used for his Pokémon team tazmily counterpart. Who is a Coalossal, and with the name referring to the Pokémon, Rolycoly, potentially evolving into a train inspired Pokémon. This didn't entirely become the case but the name stuck so it led to his Wowlife counterpart also having this name.
	+ His last name, Terrifang, comes from a pun on the word "Terrifying". Which was a name originally associated with Kako, back when she was created as a villain.
* Like some of the other guardians, Diesel was featured in a DND session as a Tiefling. He looks exactly like he does in Wowlife. Making him the only one who looks almost the same when he was carried over to Wowlife.
* Diesel was one of the three guardians who appeared in the original Team Tazmily Video as an actual cast member. Though he was a Rolycoly. In the video, he was the first Pokémon Wooper Gregory and Gardevoir Grace meet when they first go to Galar. He was shy and was used by Gregory as a ride that ends up crashing down and making a huge crater. This personality wasn't given to Wowlife Diesel, making Grace the only character of the three that carried their personality over.
	+ Team Tazmily was created before Pokémon Sword and Shield was released. As a result and similarly to Eon, Diesel wasn't seen in the cut credits image but was brought into the actual video as a last minute addition.
* His likes consist of:
	+ Many types of Food
	+ Cooking
	+ Mining
* His dislikes consist of:
	+ Badly prepared meals
	+ Sweat
	+ His ascension
* In DND, he had the middle name "nuts". This was supposed to be a reference to the "Deez Nuts" meme popularised by Welvin da Great, as Diesel's first name can be seen as "Deez". This was changed.
	+ However, Helga does call him Deez. So the reference is still there.
* Diesel himself is factually Con Air's skin in the game, Minecraft. As it makes sense, since Diesel is known as a miner and can cook, two of the many things possibly in Minecraft.
	+ Mari was originally the skin but this was changed.
* Diesel's ascension makes him, by far, the largest character in Wowlife. Even larger than Melancholy Frewil. Even normally, he is the largest guardian.
* The way he speaks is a reference to how most Khajiit speak in the Elder Scrolls games. Being in third person and ending most sentences with "Yes?".
* His face is supposed to be a reference to a Tengu mask. With the red skin, moustache and pointy nose.
* Since Helga was originally a science experiment similarly to Grim Susie, Diesel never even existed back then during development.
* Being a guardian, his theme is based around a celebrated holiday. For him, it's Thanksgiving. Although a holiday Con Air doesn't celebrate due to living in the UK, it's the only holiday he can find that's mostly food related and even his ability is called "burning harvest", which is related to Thanksgiving Harvest Festivals. The exclusive holiday is also exclusive for Diesel, as his birthday is only celebrated in the Southern Land of Entertainment, but mainly to those who aren't his friends and family.

## **Gallery**

Diesel's Default RenderDiesel's Pre-Timeskip Render.Diesel's Guardian Render.Diesel's Versus RenderDiesel's Reference Sheet.Diesel's Pre-Timeskip Reference Sheet.A Early Sheet of Rolycoly Diesel's parts used for the Team Tazmily Video.Diesel's Early Icon, made for a DND session.