Daddy Dearest

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**Future! Daddy Dearest** (Daddy Dearest for his full name) is a demon character and the titular main antagonist in Future Night Funkin' and the overarching main antagonist in its spin-off title, Future Night Funkin': Above the Future. He's often portrayed as a main, major, supporting, minor, cameo or mentioned character in other FutureNF spin-offs, Future Night Funkin': Alternate Future, Future Night Funkin': Below the Future & Future Night Funkin': Beyond the Future.

Like many other Dearests, he's a famous demonic ex-rockstar, Mommy Mearest’s husband, Girlfriend’s father and Boyfriend's attempted victimizer/killer and will try to victimize his nemesis by any means possible because of how much he doesn’t approve of him. In Future Night Funkin’, Dearest returns as Boyfriend's long-going-arch-nemesis, who's willing to kill him because he married his daughter plus how much he doesn't approve of him and try to send out many characters to kill him.

He's voiced by Issac “Kawai Sprite” Jacob Garcia in the base game, however, he's not voiced by anyone as of now in Future Night Funkin'.

## Physical Appearance

### Body

Daddy Dearest is a tall lavender-colored demon with black eyes, glowing red irises and white pupils and grayish-lilac hair vaguely shaped like a demon's horns. His face is shown to have more wrinkles and possesses a beard around his mouth and unlike his original counterpart, he is buff. He has sharp teeth around the side of his flat teeth and has hair on his chest, packs and pubic.

### Attire

For attire, he wears a lion skin cape attached to a gold circle shape and a skull shape with horns and sharp teeth and underneath, he has golden buttons attached to beads of the same color on the front of it over a black trenchcoat-length tailcoat gold-button-up suit with diamond shapes at the back, dark gray vest, black button-up long-sleeved shirt, black jeans held by a belt with a demon skull-shaped golden buckle, black boots with black straps held by a gold button, gold collar and diamond shapes around the back; and a gold watch on his left wrist that has a demon-skull-shaped clock and a gold ring.

## Personality

### Original

While he’s shown to be weirdly prideful and condescending as a performer and a popular model amongst his fanbase and the world itself, Daddy Dearest is a selfish, cruel and uncaring figure, as he has attempted on multiple occasions to kill Boyfriend without caring about the consequences it will have on his daughter, making him an hypocrite as he sent Girlfriend into a video game once without realizing that dying in a video game could kill a person in real life as well. His selfish and cruel deeds also makes him overprotective because of Girlfriend. He’s shown to be intimidating as shown in Week 5, he was shown holding a Santa hostage by a gunpoint.

Despite his cruel image being shown to the public, Dearest is still popular till this day like his wife. While he is cruel, he also appears to be somewhat petty, as he hires Pico to kill Boyfriend after the latter beat him in Week 1. Dearest has hatred towards Boyfriend and because of how much he’s resentful towards his daughter’s partner, he gives him pain in such sadistic way, like the way of how he have his own enjoyments about torturing and seeing his victims in pain and yet, he can be easily annoyed when it comes to Boyfriend. However, he is not as ill-willed as his wife Mommy Mearest, who’s far worse than him, willing to keep Girlfriend safe.

### Future Night Funkin'

In Future Night Funkin’, Dearest still has his old personality but with add-ons and differences. For this version of Daddy Dearest, he is highly manipulative, and uses this trait to get Boyfriend tricked by his lies (because of his intelligence), and has a flamboyant demeanor due to his rich life, making him greedy at the same time. This would explain why his family’s outfit is at an expensive cost. While being intimidating towards other people, he always threatens his henchmen but the most specific he threatens is Boyfriend, his arch-nemesis. Because his son-in-law is his arch-nemesis, he hates him so much like how he hates him in the original game and as each year passed by, his hatred towards BF became more and more intense, to the point where just talking about him is enough for him to have explosive bursts of anger, much to his annoyance.

Currently, Daddy Dearest has hard times tricking Boyfriend into his traps since he grew intelligent, yet he's still a hypocrite as he would send Boyfriend into a video game alongside his grandchildren and his daughter without realizing it. He’s shown to be getting tired of trying to kill Boyfriend as well, leaving him slowly purposeless due to his failures of attempting to separate his sworn enemy from his daughter, however, Dearest wouldn’t seem to give up at all, making it debatable whether he’s starting to lose the sworn purpose or not.

## History

### Pre-Future Night Funkin'

Dearest’s past is shown to be the same as his original self, an active rockstar meeting up with a pop star during their music business and later marry the latter then have a daughter, imprison a man inside GF’s favorite dating simulation game when she was 5 years old, found out that she has a boyfriend and doesn’t appreciate him very much; leading the two to have a sing off but loses and despite his repetitive defeats, he’ll keep trying to kill Boyfriend.

### Future Night Funkin': My Demons

10 years later, Dearest discovers Boyfriend and Girlfriend’s upcoming marriage, which in fact, doesn’t feel welcome at all and tries to drop their marriage plans, however, Boyfriend was able to win and walked away from the stage while thinking when he will start his honeymoon and leaving Dearest in rage.

## Powers and Abilities

Dearest’s powers remain the same as his original self, an incredibly powerful demon with music expertise skills and immortality. While he’s powerful, none of his specific abilities were shown in the original game, however, in Future Night Funkin’, it’s shown that he can be empowered by anger.

### Canon

* **Music Empowerment:** Dearest can be empowered by music and the more he uses music, he becomes stronger, however, it depends on the genre that represents human emotion and while other genres can empower him, Dearest can be more empowered by his favorite genre.
* **Immortality:** Like his original counterpart, Dearest is said to be immortal as shown in Smile Good, Boyfriend!, he was surprised about how he stabbed his hand but didn’t seem to care at all. He even got stabbed multiple times by Mearest but was shown fine and also angry.

### Retconned

* **Anger Empowerment:** Dearest can also be empowered by anger and the more he becomes angry, he becomes stronger, however, using too much of his anger would lose control.

## Trivia

### General

* Daddy Dearest still retains all of his facts from his original self as this version of Daddy Dearest is the future version of the original Daddy Dearest.
	+ While this Dearest is the future version of his original self, it’s shown that he has the ability to empower himself by anger. This would imply the fact that he was a Wrath Ring resident before entering Earth, making him an alternate futuristic version of Daddy Dearest.
		- However, Dearest as the Wrath Ring resident and being a Wrath Demon was retconned.
* Dearest’s old design is based on Jotaro in his Stardust Crusader design, however, his scrapped design no longer matches Jotaro. This was later changed after Timeout didn’t like the scrapped design and came up with a new design that would be based on Jotaro again.
	+ Dearest’s new design is based on Jurard T Rexford from Hololive, who debuted as the 3rd gen member of the Holostars EN branch, ARMIS, on November 17th, 2023.
		- The beard design is based on his D-Side’s variant beard design.
		- Dearest’s lion skin cape is based on Thragg’s Battle Beast cape after his successful kill on the former.
	+ Unlike how his watch was meant to be placed on the left wrist, his watch is placed on the right wrist. This may be an artistic error as TimeoutArtist didn’t notice the correction that Dearest was wearing the watch at the left wrist rather than the right wrist. The error was fixed afterwards.
	+ The word “DAD” on his buckle from his scrapped design refers to his title.
* Originally, Dearest was meant to be connected with Tabi but this was scrapped and Tabi would later be moved to Above the Future.
* Dearest’s render being based on his idle pose in Deathmatch from Corruption is purely a coincidence.
	+ Dearest’s new render is based on Jotaro’s render from Part 6, Stone Ocean.
* From his original design, Dearest didn’t wear a ring on either his left or right hand but in his FutureNF look, he has a ring on his right hand. Coincidentally, Dearest’s design from another Sonic.EXE mod, Undying Phoenix, depicted the character to wear a ring on his right hand but unlike FutureNF’s Dearest who had his ring on the tip on his finger, Undying Phoenix’s Dearest had his ring at all the way to the top of his finger.

### Daddy Deaerst

* If Dearest met alternate versions of himself, he would discuss together about their feelings towards Boyfriend and how do they want to torture him, however, he wouldn’t appreciate about how would one of them discuss about being an abusive father than being the overprotective and should be a bit kinder towards Boyfriend than being tortorus. However, this could be a subject to change as Dearest might receive a change of heart in the future of his character.

## Gallery

### Images

#### Scrapped

Daddy Dearest's scrapped designDitto, but the second design
#### Teasers

A teaser image for Daddy Dearest's Future Night Funkin' designA teaser image for Daddy Dearest's Future Night Funkin' scrapped design
### Videos

Friday Night Speedpaint- Redesigning Daddy DearestDaddy Dearest's redesign speedpaint videoFriday Night Speedpaint- Designing Daddy DearestDaddy Dearest's old design speedpaint video