Driver

* Villain
* Outer

**Driver**  (드라이버; *Deulaibe*) is an administrative villain of the Gadam Vilzone. He is the former boss of the Gadam Vilzone before he willingly yields his position to Cassian, the protagonist. He is friends with Crow and Red Eye and potentially has a growing friendship with Cassian. Driver is very infamous, even among the most powerful and dangerous villains, due to being the only one who fought Moran and made it to return alive.

Although Crow flirts with him, he does not reciprocate. He is a year older than her and is in his mid twenties.

Driver is a business associate with Winterbell.
He runs the Corporation MDC (Mark'D Corporation) as its president.

## Appearance

Driver is an adult male, over twenty. Around 168cm tall, give or take a few centimeters depending on the panel.

He always wears a pink visor with circuits visible on the right side. His hair is a slightly curly shade of a mixed hickory and caramel brown which he ties up into a high ponytail.

His normal outfit consists of a mauve coverall with orange and black lines below the waistline as well as a singular orange pocket on the upper left thigh area. Over his coverall is a darker purple jacket with pockets that is accented with orange, detailed with black, and has a patch or grey over the pocket on the left handed side with a white line. He is shorter than the average villain.

In his civilian form, he has his hair untied, He wears a comfortable suit with the coat hanging off his shoulders. He has a wrench earring on his right ear and a chain necklace with his signature screwdriver hanging on it. He wears metal frame glasses with circular lenses that reflect light off it that do not show off his eyes.

Driver's debut.Mostly front panel of DriverDriver, 3/4 back view.
## Personality

Driver is generally a friendly and easygoing guy. He smiles often and warmly.

Driver has a particular habit of pausing before he reacts. Then when he does, he comes across as an odd combination of a level-headed machinator and a giggling maniac. Although, in awkward situations, he scratches at his cheek. He doesn't react to Crow's open advances toward him.

He takes pleasure in scaring off the bullies while he makes his entrance and was going to help Gangu before he realized Gangu had it covered. He threatens Gangu to scare him away from the vilzone's territory. He sometimes shows off his hidden depths of being a threatening villain.

As the leader of the Gadam Vilzone, Driver is serious and authoritative when necessary. He is part of the villain faction that follows the rules, and he doesn't hesitate to punish those that break them. Driver knows he isn't too charismatic and wants Cassian to be the boss as he believes Cassian can make the vilzone better. Driver is the boss of the vilzone as he feels it is necessary to maintain order and that he is responsible for the villains and civilians alike so as to allow them freedom to be themselves as long as they do not hurt anyone.

He takes his reputation as a villain very seriously. When he was initially considered the primary suspect of being the serial killer he offered Cassian his complete support in order to catch the villain who was killing innocent people to stop the murders and to maintain his reputation clean.

## History

An indeterminate time before the main story, Driver builds an unmannned rocket to Mars.

5 years ago, Driver took part in fighting Moran, and was the only one to come back alive.

Three years before the main events start, Driver beats up Toymaker. Around 3 years before the story, he told Blue Serpent to not mess around and warned him, even partnering with Butler Yun before he entered Blue Serpent's employ.

Sometime between then and Cassian's entrance, Driver meets with Barracuda and the two other bosses of the four Seoul vilzones. Barracuda proposed that they all unite, but Driver and the other two bosses decline. The scene closes with Driver threatening Barracuda.

Driver enters the story as a suspect. The gossip chain at Gadam Highschool whispers about a highschool girl being murdered, maybe by Driver for an experiment.

## Abilities

Driver is a techie first and foremost, but also a formidable opponent in a fight. Taking a position as an "invincible" vilzone boss and the No.1 of Gadam demands considerable combat prowess. His rule is shown to be strong, but he himself states that he's not charismatic enough to be leader.

Driver is shown to be feared by most Villains of the Gadam Vilzone as "invincible" and he is able to fight Moran and come back alive, though the details of what transpired are unknown. His reputation puts Python, who dared to pick a fight against Don King and gave him a good fight though he lost, wary and unsure of his actual chances of victory.

Driver is shown to have considerable intelligence and fighting instincts as he was implied to be holding back a lot in his initial battle with Cassian. He was able to guard against Cassian's charged up punch while being pushed back a few metres. A single leap from Driver is shown to propel himself upwards to the height above the roof of the buildings of the Gadam Vilzone. He is shown to be slower than Cassian when holding back and outmatched for Cassian's superior fighting prowess and training. It is unknown why Driver's smash did not harm Cassian or match up with his leap into the air.

Driver is a curious person by nature, and pursues knowledge. He is perpetually tinkering and looking to refine his mechanical designs. And after Driver is impressed by Cassian's fighting technique, he mimics a few kicks to improve his own combat prowess.

* Driver's drones and cameras can direct live feed to his monitor wall.
* One of Driver's drones.
* Driver gives Cassian a phone and GPS tracker that can link with one another.
* Red Mask using Driver's fob linked to a drone.
* A top-down view of a drone stationed outside the arcade.
* Driver shows off a new subminiature drone.
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While keeping an eye on his people doesn't demand mass surveillance, Driver has about one hundred drones with his initial scattered around Seoul, and various cameras stationed at the borders of his own territory. It's through one of these that he first spots Gangu. Driver is shown to be capable of building his mechanical devices and is implied to have built the Gadam Vilzone's facilities.

Driver later improves his drone design and develops subminiature versions.

During the raid on the Northern Vilzone, Driver demonstrates an ability to hack all of their rival vilzone's cameras, map out the area, and slip in a drone that locates a prisoner.

Driver gives Red Mask a fob linked to one his drones. This is used to locate the prisoner: the fob lights up and beeps when Red Mask gets close.

### Magic Points

Driver is B+ Ranked with 1100 magic points.

Upon lifting his limit, Driver's magic becomes unbound, resetting to it's true value at an S+ ranking.

### Giant Screwdriver

Driver's Gigantic Screwdriver is a weapon that can be summoned by Driver at will in his villain form. It's frequently seen in use either as it's compact normal sized screwdriver or enlarged. Driver uses the giant version as a mace/club, a focus for his skills, and for his larger mechanical projects. It is capable of levitation and air travel if Driver wills it.

It is noted to be heavy but an enhanced swing was easily able to be grabbed by Cassian's gauntlet.

It should also be noted that it held at least one artificial magic crystal inside it, possibly allowing it to be powered by them and not Driver's power.

### Driver's Visor

It is shown many times to be notorious for it's multiple uses such as scanning magic points capacity. While scanning a target, a six tipped circular mechanical crosshair appears over one eye, sending feedback to Driver.

From Driver's point of view, it is shown to be sending him multiple messages from different sources, and calculating numbers appear randomly while looking at Cassian. The crosshair also shows up if it detects a disturbance and then allows Driver to zoom in multiple times to see circumstances from several rooftops away clearly. It is able to send and receive data.

### Skills

#### Generate Driver (드라이버 생성)

This skill is implied to summon Driver's screwdriver normal sized or enlarged and does not seem to drain much magic power when used. It can also enlarge the Screwdriver to allow the handle end to hold Driver Crow and Red Eye simultaneously.

#### Summon Weapon (무구 소환)

Driver transform his small screwdriver into his giant screwdriver, bludgeoning weapon of choice.

#### Generate Magic Tools (마력공구 생성)

This summons tools that Driver needs to fit the situation. It is unknown if his Visor is part of this skill. Driver demonstrates using mechanical tools other than his Screwdriver, such as his mechanical drill, screens, and screw turrets.

During the raid on the Northern Vilzone, Driver summons two hovering screw turrets to energy blast through a hanger door off the wall. After his limit is broken, Driver can maintain four at once.

Driver's drill can generate piercing drill bits that spin and pierce through defences and his targets.

In various situations, Driver calls up screens, styled in the same manner as Moros's analyses.

While shoring up Gadam Vilzone's defenses, Driver uses a holopad.Driver wraps a screen around his direct field of view while hacking into the Northern Vilzone.During a Gadam Vilzone executive meeting, Driver pulls up a screen.
#### Driver Smash (드라이버 스매쉬)

This skill allows Driver to smash his giant screwdriver with enhanced blunt power that radiates off in the form of electricity in Driver's signature purple colour. It's effects are not shown clearly as Cassian either dodged them or grabbed it with his gauntlet. With an enlarged screwdriver, he can easily smash through reinforced defences.

#### Driver Beam (드라이버빔)

* Driver charges up the cannon end of his giant screwdriver.
* Skill: Driver Beam (드라이버빔) A massive, brilliant laser fires.
* A massive explosion results when Driver's beam connects with Cassian's Shadow Slicer shield.
* Instead of a devastating attack, Driver can shoot a classic rose instead.
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Driver's giant screwdriver unfolds and charges up. At his discretion, Driver can release a lot of magic power as an uncondensed energy blast from the opened up cannon hole at the larger end. The beam fires in a straight line towards his target, exploding and releasing a bright damaging blast the size of a few buildings.

It should be noted that it's effects were not seen as it's main target of Cassian was blocked by Cassian's shadow slicer and reacted violently to Cassian's energy.

He can also fake out and fire a rose instead of a beam.

#### Goggle Beam (고글빔)

This skill allows Driver to fire off a linear red beam towards where he is looking from his eyes or visor. It's effects were not seen as Cassian was already expecting it from Moros' scan. It seems to drain a lot of magic power as Driver was shown to use it as more of a last resort than a finishing move.

#### Machine Hand (머신핸드)

This skill allows Driver to send out a giant mechanical charged gauntlet version of his gloves with the crosshair outline to attack his opponent with heavy smashing force however it's effect is not seen clearly as Cassian's shadow slicer barrage overpowered it.

#### Remove Limit/Limit Unlocked (리미트 해제; Limit Release)

Driver is one of the very few villains who can place a limit on his power. While limited he is more able to make rational decisions, and he is less prone to cave to villainous desires and impulses. It can be removed at will. However, lifting a limit always has aftereffects... His after effects include a crazed desire to research electronics, disregarding the needs of the Vilzone to take electronics and power for his own to build whatever he wishes. His aftereffects are enough to warrant panic amongst the Gadam Villains as they necessitate tying him up to stop him.

## Trivia

* Before Driver enters the narrative proper, he's shown as a dark silhouette in Episode 5 as a potential enemy to be made, had Cassian been truly disregarding rules for no reason.

* In an early episode, when Driver activates his visor, the Matrix appears behind him.

* Driver refers to Chaeha Yu as hyeong-nim, an honorific for respected older males in the original Naver version to coax Chaeha into giving him discount prices.
* His eyes are a popular point of contention amongst the Fanbase, and Fupin and Eunji has promised that they will be revealed before the story ends.

## References

1. ↑ Episode 63
2. ↑ Author Tweet
3. ↑ Episode 10
4. ↑ Episode 73
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Episode 52
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Episode 11
7. ↑ Episode 27
8. ↑ Episode 34
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Episode 8
10. ↑ Episode 54
11. ↑ Episode 38
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Episode 17
13. ↑ Episode 30
14. ↑ Episode 20
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Episode 48
16. ↑ Episode 15
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Episode 46
18. ↑ Episode 9
19. ↑ Episode 33
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Episode 13
21. ↑ Episode 26
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Episode 12
23. ↑ Episode 42
24. ↑ Episode 45
25. ↑ Episode 36
26. ↑ Episode 5
27. ↑ Naver Episode 26