Dylan

* Dylan
* The Watcher

## Personality

Dylan is a hard worker, always ready to give a hand to those in need. He's a simple guy that doesn't ask for much as long as he and those he cares about are living safely, otherwise he'll do everything in his power to make sure everyone's alright. Having been forced to grow up faster than ideal, Dylan is more mature than most people his age and even some older, being able to fully take things seriously and from an objective point of view and oftentimes being the head of reason in arguments. He's also very caring and supportive, deeply worrying about his loved ones.

He's a generally relaxed person who preffers to stand on the sidelines when things get crazy but doesn't mind hopping in once in a while, as there's nothing he likes more than to watched his loved ones being happy. Despite appearing so chill, though, Dylan isn't affraid to be intimidating if he thinks he's doing the right thing.

Despite being on the quieter side, Dylan has mastered social interactions to an art. He knows pretty much everyone in the capital since he works as a Handyman for anyone willing to pay and as such, he makes sure to always keep a smile when he's outside in order to gain popularity and not make any enemies.

At night or whenever he has "work in another city", Dylan is The Watcher: An elite bounty hunter who people are more than willing to pay whatever necessary to have working for them. His title was given to him by the people of the kingdom, almost like an urban legend. While most people haven't actually seen him, those who do are either glad or deeply regretful.

Even if he's able to do very cruel acts when he dawns the cloak, he still has mercy on the deffenseless and has a strict "no child victims" policy and doesn't aid in any kidnappings or murders of innocent people. Even if he will execute people for a higher fee, most his victims are street criminals and gang leaders, the others being people the Queen wants to get out of her hair.

At the end of the day, though, Dylan's just a tired man. He works day and night to make sure his sister is as confortable and possible and spends all his time caring about others and not really himself. A good night's sleep wouldn't be enough.

## Creation

Dylan started out as a Mario recolour created out of necessity for DP to have an online identity, since simply going by "Fire Mario" would have been way too bland. And so, the character of "DP Mario" was born: a simple pallet swap that consisted of the Fire hat and the Ice shirt/overalls. This was the case for a while until a bit after DP joined the Smash Editors community - deciding that he shouldn't just be seen as a recolour, he decided to remove Mario's mustache and colour his gloves according to the powers, because in his eyes that was as original as it gets. Eventually he realized how dumb that was and so began...

### The great redesign trial.

**December 30th, 2019-** The first attempt at an original design was very cleary inspired by Atlantic Ray, another one of DP's characters. It had a red mask above the eyes, an umbrella weapon and what apparently was flaps connecting the sleeves to the torso of his shirt.

**June 7th, 2020-** The seccond attempt took the flaps and turned them into what people already thought they were: a cape. In addition to that, the mask became orange and it was the first time his hat had the initials "DP", now officially standing for "Dylan Powers" in an attempt to let go of the mario aspect. However, by then he was still a Mario OC.

**Octover 14, 2020 -** Dylan briefly became a walking elemental for Mutania (then Mutationtale). A simple fusion of a snowflake with a flame wearing an orange mask and brown shoes as well as small ball-like hands.

**November 7th, 2020-** The third real attempt was when DP started to detatch their characters from the Mario series. As such, Dylan no longer bared overalls or cape (now replaced by an orange shirt and blue jacket, both with the "Doublo" logo) but kept the Mario-like hat. His hair was made curly and he had burn marks on his face. This was also when the idea of Dylan being a Handyman started being implemented.

**November 29th, 2020-** Second attempt at redesigning Dylan for Mutania. He was now a humanoid fire elemental wearing a suit of armour with ice crystals on it.

**May 22nd 2021-** First Crew Crashers redesign in an attempt to no longer be associated with Mario at all. Dylan was now dressed for the winter with a thick jacket and heavy boots. His hat no longer had anything on it and he had a lance made out metal.

**Jully 30th 2021-** Second Crew Crashers redesign. This time Dylan only controlled fire and had a purple-ish colour scheme with lilac accents (either that or Blue and Cyan cuz the author is colorblind). He wore a hoodie and his mask was replaced by a visor; he also had a metal chest plate and kept the lance.

**January 6th 2022-** After over a year without a "main" redesign, Dylan was finally redrawn. He lost the "DP" mark on the hat and the Regalon gem is now an emblem or his jacket, his shirt turned into a polo and his jacket changed colour. His hair was no longer curly and red and blue gloves were now metallic gauntlets. In addition, the Watcher was born.

## Abilities and Weapons

#### **Thermokinesis**

Dylan has the ability to freely control the temperature of his hands and of whatever he touches. As such, he's able to freeze or combust the air around him to create bursts of ice or fire respectivelly. While this is all he shows in public, in private he's been training in order to learn how to trully manipulate the elements to his will, being able to do more elaborate attacks than basic bursts whenever he takes the identity of The Watcher.

As such, some of the moves he's able to do consist of:

* Engulfing his hands in flames for a stronger punch or a terrifying kind of torture;
* Freezing anything just by touching it;
* Manipulating the shape and direction of fire at will;
* Creating ice structures to use as projectiles (usually sharp spikes or big blunt blocks) or slight protection (ice walls);
* Provoking burns or frostbite in others without direct contact;
* Changing anyone's internal body temperature if they're within enough proximity. Can be used to keep someone warm during a particularly cold night or to make them die of hypothermia in the middle of a summer day;
* Melting the floor under anyone's feet, essentially replacing it with lava;
* Creating near-unbreakable ice barriers. The denser the longer it takes to create so they work better as makeshift prisions rather than shields;
* Making any flamable gas explode without any kind of trail;
* Leaping absurdly high by making a trail of hot air under him.
* Making a smoke screen out of of extremelly hot steam.

## Trivia

* Despite the coicidences, Dylan's original designs weren't made with the Clap Trap Doll from Rhythm Heaven in mind, nor did DP know who the hell Todoroki from My Hero Acadamia was when he created the powers.
* Dylan tends to only feed from his dad's old records, VHS and retro games. Opposite to what Patty says, he does not eat said objects.
* Dylan and Mari own a pet bunny named Deepie.
* Dylan's favourite genre of music is old school rock (in our modern view it'd be 70s-90s).