David McMayvid

David McMayvid is a main character of A Normal Day and is a member of The Chaos Council.

## Background

David McMayvid is one of the six main characters along with Dom, Omar, Nick, Marc, and Timmy. David first appeared in Season 1 Episode 1, "The Pilot", along with the 5 other main characters. In the episode, David helps Dom and his friends try to hijack The School's orientation to announce the formation and goals of The Chaos Council. Since then, David has been one of the more extreme and complex characters throughout the series. Episodes that focus on David usually take place outside of school and the main group, instead centering around his dynamic and conflict with his family, mainly his father. When compared to the other characters, David's stories focus more on how his home life affects him rather than how his school life does. David is usually quiet and reserved, but he is most infamous for his outbursts of rage both at school and at home. Despite David's evident dislike of social settings and being around people, he's still a somewhat valuable member of the Chaos Council. In Season 3 Episode 1, Dom's Origin Story, we learn that David was one of the first kids to join The Chaos Council along with Omar, Nick, and Marc. David's unsociable and ill tempered personality is usually the driving force for stories that center around him.

## Personality

There are two main sides to David's personality. Usually, David is seen as anti social, reserved, and often quiet, but also very ill tempered. These traits are more noticeable when he is around the louder members of the group. Despite David being part of The Chaos Council, be thinks he doesn't have any true friends, but he also doesn't really care. David would usually rather play his videogames in his room than do anything else. In Season 1 Episode 3, "David the Crazo Kid", David is surprised when Omar invites himself to his house. But while at David's house, he learns about the other side to David. David is very quick to anger, usually when things he values are threatened. In the same episode, David's dad smashes David's computer, causing David's quiet personality to fade away. David completely freaks out and poors an entire container of Koolaid into the pool, but then gets kicked into the pool by his Dad. When episodes focus on David and his family, freakouts and outbursts like these aren't uncommon. But David's outbursts aren't exclusive to his home, and they also happen at school too. In the same episode, some kids led by Ginga begin making fun of David when everyone's grades are posted in the hallway. In response, David has another freak out and sets the entire poster on fire. These incidents may be prevalent and random throughout the series, but they are almost always reactionary and have a reason. The most often reason is because of David's videogames, another major part of his character. David is a definition hardcore gamer, and all he really ever wants to do is play videogames alone in his room, to do the distain of his father.

David isn't exactly a leader, but he's not a follower either. He will help Dom with his schemes, but isn't seen getting manipulated like Timmy or Nick. Unlike characters like Dom and Omar, David doesn't have many strong opinions about the school or the social hierarchy. He doesn't really care about that kind of stuff, and would rather just be playing his videogames. David is a unique character because of his lack of interactions with the main cast when it comes to allies or enemies. David doesn't have a definite best friend and no real arch nemesis when it comes to the other students, likely due to his antisocial nature. Instead, David's conflict lie within his homelife and struggle with the education system. David has been called "addicted" to videogames by his parents, and their not exactly wrong. David plays videogames instead of doing schoolwork because he believes that school is useless, causing him to get below average grades. This creates a rivalry between him and his father about David's future. David wants to become a professional gamer, but David's dad doesn't believe in him and thinks that he will never be successful that way. But David doesn't listen, so his father takes the more violent approach to teach him a lesson, usually destroying David's possesions. This is what causes David to retaliate and have his notorious mental outbursts.

In addition to his anger issues, David also has a weird and slightly disturbing side to his character. David has never shown romantic interest to any real people throughout the series, and instead he has a "waifu". Despite being referenced in episodes like "A Tale of Two Simps" and "Nick's Prom Problem, it's only until Season 7 Episode 3, "David's Body Pillow" where David's friends learn the extent of his weirdest personality trait. In the episode, his friends learn that he has a life sized pillow with a picture of a cartoon character that he calls his "waifu", and David is in love with this character despite her not being real. At first his friends are severly weirded out by this and insist David should like a real human, but David insists that he only likes fictional characters because they can't hurt him in the way a real person could. After a plan to snap David out of this fails, David explains that in 1st grade, he used to like one of his real classmates, but things went horribly. He explains that he promised himself to never fall in love with a real person again, and that that's why he now has a "waifu". David's friends feel bad for him, but they realize that him having a "waifu" isn't harming anyone and is actually helping him despite making David out of touch with reality.

Despite David's antisocial personality, deep down he is still a somewhat good kid. David will help out his friends whenever they really need him, like when he helped Dom with his scheme in Season 4 Episode 9, "A Tale of Two Simps". In Season 6 Episode 6, "Marc vs The Popular Girls", David is one of the only 2 people to help Marc take on The Popular Girls when everyone else is trying to preserve their reputation. In Season 1, David sided against Dom and helped to stop him when he believed that Dom was going to far, showing he does have a somewhat intact moral compass. Unfortunately, David struggles with forming bonds with other people in the group because of his reserved nature. Besides Omar, David is the most distant and on/off member of The Chaos Council. In Season 10 Episode 3, "David the Traitor!", David defects to The Traitors, his reason being that he thinks his friends don't really value him that much. Later in the episode, David is proven wrong when The Traitors kick him to the curb after finding out who he really is.