Daryl and Matt

Daryl and Matt is a friendship and sibling rivalry in Carter Corp.

## Overview

Daryl and Matt is the recurring sibling relationship between Daryl Ortega and Matt Ortega.
Daryl and Matt have a complicated relationship with a long history, but ultimately do love each other which is why they still put up with each other. Matt and Daryl were orphaned as children and raised by their grandmother, and they got into so much trouble that they were called the Tornado Twins.

When they got older, they got into shady business as Daryl became a drag racer and Matt joined a fight club, and Daryl and Matt both became used to patching him up. Matt left all the shadiness behind though and moved on with his life while Daryl stayed in it, and still continues to street race and associate with shady people which worries Matt. Matt is constantly having to help Daryl get out of trouble or pick him up from the hospital when he gets hurt which frustrates him, but he is still there for him nevertheless and even attends some of his parties at his villa.

One of the most impactful moments in their history was when Matt accidently "killed" his at the time girlfriend, Lana Escobar, in a motorcycle accident which they went on after he won a street race, which also hospitalized him for a while. When Matt woke up in the hospital from the accident, Daryl was the one that had to break the news to him that Lana was "dead". Daryl tried to help Matt get through the grieving process, and did in his own way which was when Matt decided to leave street racing and fight club ordeals for good due to how dangerous it was. Matt and Daryl's relationship was probably strained after Lana "died" due to the trauma, but it's obvious that Matt doesn't blame anyone but himself.

When Lana came "back from the dead", as in revealing that she was never dead in the first place, Daryl was frustrated with both her and Matt due to Matt seeming tore between her and the player, and Lana screwing with Matt's head, and getting in between his relationship with the player. Daryl would often have to bring Matt back to reality for the sake of the player. But seemed to support their relationship despite having feelings for her himself.

This isn't the only time that the two had an intense relationship in Matt's route however. Both Matt and Daryl had feelings for the player which caused animosity between the two, and Matt seemed annoyed anytime Daryl was around (especially in season 1). Their relationship got worse when Daryl pretended to be Matt in season 1 and made out with the player who thought he was Matt. When Matt found out, he wanted to beat Daryl up and was furious with him for doing that to the player. And when Daryl and the player almost kissed in season 2, Matt was so mad that he almost fought Daryl but Lana had to calm him down.

Depending on the which ending you read in Matt's season 2, Daryl will not attend Matt and the player's wedding due to being hurt that seeing the woman he loves is getting married to his brother. This is an understandable reason though, but Daryl shows more courage and love for his brother if he does attend the wedding, even if he is quiet the whole time.

Matt was able to help Daryl with Giorgio Maccini in Daryl's route though due to him being worried about him and the player. During their first interactions there, all they did was fight and Matt seemed to be annoyed and mad at Daryl for putting the player into so much danger since he cared about her, but didn't realize that it was actually the player putting Daryl in danger for her brother Jason. Matt seemed to be disappointed in Daryl in the bad ending but understood that Daryl needed to be alone. The two still have their complicated relationship in Daryl's route but don't fight nearly as much.

The only people who seem to really know of their relationship besides the player is Colin Spencer and Joe Kicks, as they often give the players brief summaries on how they are and why they are the way they are. Colin often doesn't like Daryl for how much stress he brings onto Matt, while Joe is having to break the two up from arguing a lot. Matt and Daryl's relationship is so strained in some routes that the main characters and even Lisa Parker do not know that Matt has a twin brother which is shocking since they are 2 of Matt's best friends, which proves that Matt doesn't like people from his life to know about Daryl unless it's necessary or accidental.

Matt and Daryl's relationship is complicated as mentioned before, they aren't the best of friends but not the worst of enemies either, and they are often more alike than they let on or would ever care to admit. But regardless, it's evident that two love and understand each other greatly and sometimes can't live without each other. With one Ortega brother, always comes the other.

## Trivia

* They are the first set of sibling to appear on screen together, the only pair of male twins in Is it Love? and are the only set of siblings to both be love interests in the same story route.
	+ Because they're twins, they're both Scorpios.
* They are both designed after Ian Somerhalder.
* Daryl is the second love interest in Matt's route, and Matt can be considered as the unofficial 3rd love interest in Daryl's route.
* They both appear in secret images from the other's story route.
* They both have extra love scenes with two different main characters. (Matt with his and Gabriel's and Daryl's with his and Matt's.)
* They are both possibly right handed.
* They both have books about them. (However, Matt's was an original written by Claire Zamora that was adapted into a game and Daryl's was adapted into a book after his story route by Cali Keys.)
* They share many of the same enemies.
* Daryl's formal outfit (the first outfit he was ever seen in) was meant to contrast with Matt's casual outfit, the outfit he wore when they were on screen together for the first time.
	+ Matt wears a black hat, jacket and pants with a white shirt and Daryl wears a white hat, jacket and pants with a black shirt. This was meant to show that the two are quite opposite and didn't get along.
* They both used to be on the cover of Matt's story route (until it was updated).
* They are only in 2 secret images together, both of which Daryl is wearing his white suit.