Daryl and Lana

Daryl and Lana is a rivalry seen in Carter Corp.

## Overview

Daryl and Matt is a rivalry between Daryl Ortega and Lana Escobar only seen in Matt Ortega's story route. The two don't have as big of a history or relationship as Lana and Matt do but there is a very obvious tension between the two in the story.

Like Matt, Daryl believed that Lana was dead for many years after she faked her death and was very shocked to see her return to his villa and try to get back together with Matt. Daryl was mad at Lana for faking her death and making Matt grieve over her which made it almost impossible for him to move on since he believed that he killed her, and possibly even make him grieve too since the two were once friends. Even after Lana provided an explanation as to why she faked her death, Daryl still didn't trust her and was mad at her for coming back anyway and wanted her to remain faking dead for Matt's mental health, as her come back really messed with his head and his relationship with the player.

Throughout the story, Daryl never trusted Lana and never bought into her lies which seemed to frustrate Lana. Daryl always seemed annoyed whenever Lana was around and was mad at Matt for believing Lana over the player sometimes, and Daryl had to comfort the player when Matt should have at times. In fact, Daryl and Lisa Parker are the only characters who never liked or trusted Lana throughout the story.

Lana also caught Daryl and the player almost kiss to which Daryl angrily told her to leave after she did. Lana then told Matt that the two almost kissed (which he didn't believe at first until the player confirmed it) and Daryl was mad at Lana for once again causing a riff between Matt and the player's relationship. Lana however, is the reason why Matt didn't beat Daryl up that night as she was the one who calmed him down, but that was more than likely to get on Matt's good side rather than looking out for Daryl who she didn't seem to have a lot of respect for.

Daryl helped Matt take Lana down and get her arrested after she kidnapped the player and tried to kill her. Lana swore vengeance on all 3 of them and when Daryl and the player saw her at the police station later, he looked disgusted with her and was dismissive of her, and didn't even want him or the player to look at her.

Daryl actually seems to hate and despise Lana, he never had a good thing to say about her and was happy to see her get locked up and was constantly defending the player from her. Lana at first seemed to want to have Daryl on her side and probably thought that he would be happy to see her since she was shocked that he didn't welcome her back with open arms and was always suspicious of her, which made her come off as very defensive whenever he would call her out. After she probably realized that he would never be on her side or believe her lies is when she started to get aggressive and disrespectful to him, but she also didn't think much of him either, which he didn't seem to care about since he doesn't like her.

The two were friends at one point and Daryl was sad about her "death", and for having to break the news to Matt about it, but Daryl eventually saw Lana for who she was when she made her big return and came to hate her which was probably easier for him to do since he never loved her like Matt did. Lana not having Daryl's trust might have been one of the biggest reasons why she inevitably led down fall, as no matter what she does or planned to do, Daryl will always be in Matt's life and protect him from bad people.