King Parker

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## King Parker

* Current
* Debut

### Nicknames

* Kingsly (Dallion)
* Brat (Dallion)
* Kingy (Apollo)
* Kingin (Holly)
* Uncle King (Inola and Inari)

## Personal Status

### Chosen Family

* Remick Banderas (father)
* Arvak Banderas
* Leon Cairo Acker
* Apollo Sasuke

## Media

### Debut

Chapter 3

**King Parker** is the True Guardian of World 7.

## Appearance

King is a sturdy, outwardly male Guardian with soft peach colored fur. His hooves, nose, chest fan, and mane are a slightly darker orange and drape to his knees with stray hairs flicking out atop his head. He has a prominent Adam's apple, and his eyes are a pale aqua. His tail is severed near the base and a fabric tag with bead and tassel replaces it, as was custom on World 7. His back left leg is lame due to an injury and a large surgical scar for it is present under his hip.

During Chapter 119, Spike Goodall began sewing a vibrant pink jacket with white accents for King, with the unique feature of a sling that can rest his disabled leg. This was completed and begun to be worn regularly by Chapter 121, allowing King more mobility and ease.

## Personality

King is a kind and gentle soul riddled with anxieties from his past life on World 7. He craves the attention and approval of those around him, particularly authority figures, and struggles to find his own self-worth without it. He has a hard time expressing himself and his own interests, fighting against the molds and expectations ingrained to him as the former, yet unwilling ruler of Darumala. Recently, however, he has begun to finally heal and is slowly discovering his own identity, whatever that might be.

## Relationships

### Apollo Sasuke

When they first met, Apollo only saw King as weak and naïve, and oftentimes belittled him. Due to his position as a former king himself, King would strive, yet fail, for Apollo’s approval. This all comes to a head on June 6th, 2020, when King finally lashes out at Apollo, changing Apollo’s disposition for the better. When Apollo begins to turn around and finally shows some affection for King, King finds himself falling for Apollo even while he struggles to overcome his emotions after losing Arvak and Leon. On the night of the 30th of July, King finally seeks, and receives, the approval from Apollo he always wanted while explaining his past with Dallion. Before the fight of September 5th, King and Apollo agree on a “Friends with Benefits” relationship. King would come to find intimacy and comfort in Apollo, and occasionally with Kinca who approved of their relationship, before finally asking Apollo to officially date during their time on World 4.

### Holly Sarah France

King was scared of Holly thanks to Orizon’s words, however, he realizes he has nowhere to go and no one to trust, and follows Holly home. After his previous life, King was slow to trust, but has come to rely on the comfort and care provided to him by Holly, their shared love for physical contact bringing the pair much needed consolation through their day to day lives.

### Dallion Parker

Dallion was King’s birth father, a member of Darumala’s ruling council prior to King’s birth. Embittered by losing his authority to King, he dumped King into the care of Remick Banderas alongside his own son as revenge for Remick opposing him in the past. When an older King would move back into the palace to assume his position as ruler, Dallion would refuse to let King address him as his father and the two remained on a fist name basis aside from Dallion’s mocking and ill-willed nickname for him, Kingsley. Dallion would use King’s need for affection against him, holding basic affection above his head as a way to regain some control over him, and through him, the kingdom. This pattern would only get more intense and cruel over time until the abuse would render King beyond repair just like his father, both simultaneously needing and killing each other at the same time, a cycle that would repeat for the rest of their lives. This treatment would leave several scars, both physical and mental, that would haunt king well after his rebirth on World 8.

### Arvak Banderas and Leon Caird Acker

King’s consultants from Darumala, whom he would develop crushes on over time. Arvak would often assume a more parental role over the trio, more aware than his counterpart of Dallion’s treatment of King, and helping King cope when things got tough. He was not without his own fears, however, and only kept himself together knowing that King relied on him. He begged for King to go to court against Dallion, but King refused, even keeping Leon in the dark to prevent him getting worried as well. Leon was the more optimistic of the trio, and while less aware of Dallion’s actions, his constant positivity helped hold the others together. He would also help King with day-to-day matters, doing his best to make things easier for him.

### Remick Banderas

Some days after the birth of his son Arvak, Remick would receive a shocking visit from none other than Dallion, requesting that with the disappearance of his mother, Remick should also now raise his soon to be ruler son King too as revenge for previously trying to bring him down, not caring to raise the boy himself. This however backfired immensely, as Remick and wife Gemma adored him, now finally having the family they had longed for for so many years, and the duo would go on to raise them in a loving home until adulthood, when the palace staff arrived to take them away.

### Diaz Dior

During his visit to Calyblanc, Diaz finds himself utterly enamoured by King, admiring his similar jacket and in general beauty, when he is given the chance on the night of the gala to help King find an outfit, he leaps at the opportunity and enjoys the brief time in his company. In the morning though he finds himself in a dilemma between letting Mina’s absence be discovered by the guards, or pretending King is indeed her to keep her safe, to which reluctantly he understands he must save his friend over making a good impression with King, and volunteers him to take Mina’s place for the gala’s closing song act. The two though still manage to share some duet moments in the song before the world begins to crumble, and Diaz begs in confusion for King not to leave him, to which the latter with no real idea of what else to do, hugs Diaz and ensures him everything will be okay soon, and though it’s not the type of freedom he deserved, he will be free nonetheless.

## History

### Pre-Series

Born in the kingdom of Darumala, Kyten, he was his mother's accidental pregnancy brought about by a one night stand with Dallion Parker. Before he was born, his mother was told by Ecalypse that her son would be the True Guardian. She decided to name him King due to this, unaware at the time he would be end up an actual ruler. Due to a timing mishap during his birth, he was born on the steps of the Darumala palace. Because of this, his title of True Guardian instantly became public knowledge, and was crowned near immediately as the future ruler of the kingdom. King’s tail was docked upon birth, a standard of the religion of ‘Luck’ most on his world followed, and was decorated with a fittingly lucky tag. Sometime soon after his birth, King’s mother disappeared without trace. Dallion, not caring to raise the boy himself, left him with an old rival ex-nobleman named Remick Banderas to bring him up instead. Though this was done with ill intent to put burden on the man, he loved the child as his own. King was raised alongside his own son, Arvak Banderas, and another child in his care, Leon Cairo Acker.

After becoming old enough to move back to the palace, King officially took over ruling of the kingdom. This rendered the previously ruling council, which included Dallion, effectively powerless. King never saw himself fit to be ruler, though great expectation was put upon him as the TG that would eventually save them from Orizon, his work was hard and relentless. Though he did care deeply for his people, and more than often would overwork to ensure the kingdom ran smoothly. The pressure got to him over time and anxiety would begin to tear him apart, only finding real solace in his two consultants. On top of this, Dallion’s hatred for his son’s theft of ruling power lead him to do anything to make King’s life hell. While still the details he shares of what happened to him are scarce, it is undeniable his father is the primary cause of the trauma he exhibits in present day. On one infamous night, King is pressured to the edge of the palace balcony whilst trying to escape Dallion, instead becoming faint from the mental stress and anxiety. He falls limply over the balcony, resulting in his hip being impaled on a decorative roof spike. Even after surgery, he sustains permanent nerve damage to his left hind leg.

At the end of the world when Orizon finally attacked, the people cheered for King knowing he would save them as their religion foretold. Though, beaten down from the life he’d lived until that moment, King knew he could never win the fight. In his last moments he confided in this with Arvak and Leon, the only people that would truly understand, and they believed him. King then entered the Stardust Realm hoping to perhaps reason with Orizon, though was killed in short time by the god crushing in his chest.

His revival was a rainy night in February 2020 on Custos Isle, and like in death he attempted to reason with Orizon that he could never bring himself to kill this world’s True Guardian. The god attempted to attack him once more in frustration, though Holly Sarah France, who had been watching the situation, jumped in to scuffle until he eventually lost interest and left. Though wary of her at first, King eventually accepts her offer to take him back to her home with the others.

### Series 1

King’s extreme nervousness continues throughout the events of series one, especially initially as he spends his first few months revived tormented by Apollo, despite immediately feeling a need to appeal to him. He tolerates this for several months gradually growing more attached to Apollo as his façade begins to break down and he feels it easier to sympathize more with him, though inevitably one night following a misunderstanding he snaps and scratches Apollo’s face, bringing about his true change of heart. After reconciling the two start to form a closer friendship, until one night Apollo awakens to King’s blood on his hands and the latter is rushed to hospital only to discover said blood is that of a period, and he is in-fact intersex. King continues to struggle as the reality of the group’s dire situation sets in, now mixed with his uncertainty surrounding his identity, though on the dawn of their final Orizon fight, a heart to heart with Apollo gives him some consolation, and the two agree to some form of relationship even if they’re unsure of what exactly at the time. Post-battle in the closing chapters of the first series, King seems somewhat more at peace and much closer with Apollo, now regularly joining him at Kinca’s house to sleep as a trio. Though his anxiety is far from gone, his new life is now long free of the horrors of his previous one, and for the first time he is fully surrounded by people who love him.

## Trivia

* King is the only True Guardian with a docked tail.
* King is a strict vegetarian and pacifist.
* King would be approximately 22 years old if he was human.
* King loves spicy foods and food with lots of flavor.
* King prefers being warm over being cold, and bundles up in layers during the winter despite having a thick fur coat.
	+ King really likes scarves, having had one on World 7 that he misses.
* He also loves warm baths.
* King is fluent in six different languages from his home world aside from Standard Guardian, and is actively learning English.
* King is a good cook.