Daryl and Lisa

Daryl and Lisa is a friendship, former romantic relationship and "semi" rivalry seen in Carter Corp.

## Overview

Daryl and Lisa is an occasional relationship seen mostly in Matt Ortega's story route and sometimes others such as Ryan Carter's, Gabriel Simons' and Colin Spencer's. Their relationship status varies depending on the story route they're in.

The story route where they first meet and where they interact the most in is Matt's. In season 1, Lisa never met Daryl and only heard about him through the player. Despite never meeting him in season 1, she thought he was problematic and didn't like him due to him coming in-between the relationship of Matt and the player. She gets over this though after they meet and realizes that he's a good guy and begins to like him.

They first officially meet in season 2, chapter 1 at The Half Five. When they met, there was an immediate attraction to one another and the two flirted with each other much to Matt's shock and the player's fury. The two would continue to talk and casually date and meet at places such as Starlite and Daryl's Villa. After they began to see each other, Lisa would always talk very well about Daryl and seemed to be head over heels for him, but didn't talk about him that much as the player didn't like to hear about their relationship and wasn't supportive of it.

Despite becoming romantically involved with each other, Daryl still did put Matt and the player first. When Lana Escobar first reappeared back in Matt's life at Daryl's party, Daryl later asked Lisa to leave politely as he thought it was a private matter and didn't want her involved. When Lisa found out that Daryl and the player almost kissed, she was sad but wasn't mad either, as she had suspected that Daryl still had feelings for the player and proved to be understanding. When the two finally did get psychical with each other, Lisa had a tough time doing it and didn't enjoy it, because to her it felt like she was doing it with Matt which made her uncomfortable, but it also saddened Lisa because she really did like Daryl and wanted it to work out with him.

They were the only 2 characters that consistently never liked or trusted Lana, and would always back the player up when Lana Escobar would accuse her of stuff or try to intervene in on her and Matt's relationship, and calling Matt out on being brainwashed by Lana's lies. The two did get along very well and did seem to genuinely like each other, but they decided to call it quits and break up in the middle of the season, but wanted to remain friends.

They had multiple reasons of breaking up, but none of them involved disliking each other or fighting, they could have worked out if they had met each other at a different time in their lives. Some of the reasons being, Lisa knew that their relationship made the player mad and jealous because she still had feelings for Daryl and was upset that Lisa tried to get involved in their love triangle, and was worried that she would possibly want to get with Matt. Daryl also still had feelings for the player and wasn't fully ready to move on and give Lisa the respect in a relationship she deserves. Lisa is also very close to Matt and sees him like a brother, and Daryl reminded her too much of Matt when they were together, making it feel like she was doing it with Matt rather than Daryl. And Lana was getting into everybody's heads at the time as well. The two had too many obstacles in their relationship and had too much respect for Matt and the player to continue on and Lisa ended their fling before it go too serious which Daryl was okay with. Despite it being a mutual agreement, they both seemed sad at the fact that it didn't work out.

In Daryl's route, Lisa once again never meets Daryl but doesn't like him at all because of what he had the player do to make money and for causing Matt a lot of problems. She doesn't have anything god to say about him, which is ironic since Daryl's route premiered a while after Matt's season 2 ended.

In Ryan's season 2, Lisa didn't even know Daryl existed since Matt never told her about him, and she once saw him at Starlite on the night of the player's bachelorette party and went up to him, thinking he was Matt, and told him to leave which left them both confused when revealed that he wasn't Matt.

They do finally meet in Ryan's season 3, Gabriel's season 2 and Colin's season 2. Their relationship in those routes are all pretty much the same. They meet, get along, have a casual friendship and Daryl seems to be attracted Lisa but she's not interested. However, in Ryan's season 3, Joe Kicks began to like Lisa and Daryl was supportive of him trying to pursue Lisa and them be in a relationship which shows he trusts her to be with one of his best friends.

The two do care about each other and are attracted to each other, but are mostly a "what might have been" situation. The two have a lot in common and Daryl seems to like the friendship between Lisa and Matt as he sees that Lisa is a loyal friend to him even at times when she doesn't like him. Lisa also seemed to like the thrill of being with Daryl and the danger that came along with it, and Daryl seemed to like being with a girl who was beautiful, fun and adventurous that could take his mind off the player, but it sadly didn't work out and is a wonder what would have happened if it did.

## Trivia

* Daryl was the first side character that Lisa ever had an interest in and dated (which has now caused a spiral of them).
* Daryl was the first love interest to ever date a side character and Lisa was the first side character to date a love interest.
* This was the very first side love plot involving two preexisting characters.
	+ Matt was the only character that was supportive of this relationship.
* Both of them have art featured in the Is it Love? Art Book.