Dark/Relationships

## Family

The relationship between Dark and his family can be considered rather non-existent, with the exception of his grandfather. The entire family does not see Dark as anything important and considers him both a waste of space and a possible obstacle to remove in order to secure the Giga fortune. His cousins see him as a loser, and even someone they should kill both in-game and in the real world. The only person that ever cared for him was his grandfather, Han Gun-Jae.

### Han Gun-Jae

Han Gun-Jae is Carter's grandfather to the general public, but he is really Han Gun-Woo's father. Han Gun-Woo loved his grandfather very much and was the only person that did not speak to him formally, which sometimes shocked the other family members. Their closeness could be seen when Dark was pulling on his grandfathers hair and chastising him when they finally met in Leaf Dungeon. Han Gun-Woo was the first family member that used Lucid Adventure and Han Gun-Jae even applied a VIP code to him when his character was created.

Han Gun-Jae was the only person to care about him and look after him when he was growing up. After Han Gun-Jae fell ill, Han Gun-Woo skipped school and visited him in the hospital so much that he joked about his Uncle locking him up in the hospital. He even spent his 14th birthday in the hospital just so he could be close to his grandfather.

Carter was present at the hospital with the rest of the Han Family when Han Gun-Jae told them he will make his will online before falling into a coma. Since then, Han Gun-Woo has been trying to get stronger in order to see his grandfather again in Lucid Adventure. It is due to their closeness that Dark was banned from playing Lucid Adventure and he kept being killed everytime he logged into Lucid Adventure.

Han Gun-Jae created a hidden ending after The PvP Round finals in order to see his grandson one last time. Before he died, Han Gun-Jae told Carter hhis will for him. He wanted Carter to live the life he wanted, make a lot of friends and be happy. When Han Gun-Jae died, Han Gun-Woo was left distraught and could not speak or move for a while.

He was present during his granddaughters funeral, looking gloom. Sam Han tried to get him to stop playing Lucid Adventure in order to not compete for the Giga Chairman position but Han Gun-Woo refused as Lucid Adventure was the only thing his grandfather left him.

### Grandma Han

Not much detail about their relationship has been revealed if there was ever one. She gave James Han a baby Han Gun-Woo, ordering him to move abroad to study while looking after him.

### Han Sung-Hyun

Carter Han's deceased adoptive father. Not much has been shown about their relations but Carter respects him as he quickly apologized after Han Sung-Hyun scolded him for interrupting his grandfather's talk. After Han Sung-Hyun attempted to kill Carter and died, Carter thought of him just like the rest of his family.

### Han Sung-Gong

Carter Han's uncle. Not much interaction has been shown between them but unlike the rest of his family, Han Sung-Gong seems to acknowledge Carter's existence. When Han Sung-Gong requested Carter to stop playing Lucid Adventure and that he will be provided for the rest of his life after doing so, Carter denied it and told him that this is grandfather's last gift to him so he will not stop playing it. Han Sung-Gong respected his answer but told Carter he would have to provide for himself now.

Two years later, Han Sung-Gong still acknowledges Carter, saying that he never shows up in family gatherings.

### Han Sung-Joo

Their relationship is unknown but it can be assumed that Han Sung-Joo treats Han Gun-Woo in a similar way to the other family members.

### Han Gun-Ho

Carter Han's adoptive older brother. There has been no interaction between them but it can be assumed that Carter Han's existence is non-existent to him and treats him in a similar as his family.

Two years later, however, after Carter Han made his own kingdom and became the captain of the Four Union, Han Gun-Ho had acknowledged him saying that he always makes the first move unlike his father, Han Sung-Gong.

### Han Soo-Ah

Their relationship is unknown but it can be assumed that Han Soo-Ah treats Han Gun-Woo in a similar way to the other family members. When Dark saw Han Soo-Ah in The Combat Market, she did not even acknowledge his existence.

### Han Gun-Soo

Carter Han's adoptive older brother (Light). In the beginning, Carter Han was afraid, bullied, and has been insulted by Han Gun-Soo as inferior and trash on multiple occasions. However, soon enough with his team, Dark finds the courage and strength to stand up to Light, even attacking and beating him in order to protect his grandfather during a war.

Two years later, the two are still on very bad terms but they still acknowledge one another's power.

## Dark Land

### Sora

Dark and Sora first met in Dragon Mountain, when Heart Heater introduced Dark to Hardcore Leveling Warrior. Dark and Sora had very little interaction except when Sora was protesting Dark's behaviour towards Hardcore Leveling Warrior.

Two years later, Dark reunites with Sora for the first time in two years when she saves Dark Land from Gurland's Nightmare Servants attack. Dark was surprised at how powerful Sora had gotten and wondered what she did to get strong.

### Heart Heater

Heart Heater is one of Dark's underlings and respectfully refers to him as 'boss' (보스, boseu). The reason for Heart Heater's absolute loyalty to Dark remains a mystery, but Heart Heater says that "they go a long way".

### Rim

Rim, just like his Master Heart Heater, refers to Dark as 'boss'.

Rim is worried that Dark is not taking his role as king seriously and did not approve of his quick stamp on documents he needed to approve.

### Werewolf

Dark and Werewolf both contestants in the last ever Combat Tournament. Despite being in the same vicinity with one another, they had no direct interaction with each other. After the Combat Tournament concluded, Werewolf joined Dark Land along with her party. On their first ever interaction, she rebuked Dark for calling her short, citing that he himself was not tall.

Over the next two years, they developed a strong friendship. They both joined Lucid High and are in the same class and assignment group. Their friendship is strong enough for Dark to tell Werewolf about his loss to the Current Rank 1 player. She is aware of how powerful he is and knows when he is not fighting properly. She is not afraid of reprimanding Dark, like when she rebuked him for wanting to ditch Chota for being late, calling him a 'selfish bastard' (Korean: 이기적인 놈). Their closeness means Dark can sometimes get teased by her such as she giggled when talking about the reason for his hairstyle change.

### Chota

Dark and Chota are both students of Lucid High and are in the same class and assignment group. Werewolf and Lu Bu invited the new student, Chota, to join their assignment group because Dark insisted on having one more person. Dark tried to ditch him after he was late to the group meeting, despite Dark himself being late to the same meeting. Dark believed the nickname 'Chota' was weird. Chota told Dark that he thought he was a nice guy for letting him join the group, which Dark thought was cringy. Dark acted coldly towards Chota at first but warmed up to his bubbly nature.  He was worried about Chota after his body was take over by Gurland and was glad he was okay.

He enjoyed the praise he got from him. When Chota got nighmarised by Gurland, Dark was worried about his class mates safety.

## Yopi Land

### Yopi

Dark and Yopi have always seem friendly with one another. When Dark had his birthday, Yopi issued a quest as a reward for saving Pooh Upooh and even offered a 10,000 experience points for whoever gives Dark the best gift of all and gave him the King's Token. When Dark lost a bet to Akira and was banished, Yopi told Dark that he'll talk to Akira and the others about it but Dark told Yopi that he'll respect the bet and leave.

Two years later, it is unknown whether they are still on friendly terms. Dark said that Yopi turned over a new leaf and allied with the worst kind.

### Pooh Upooh

Dark's mentor. After Pooh Upooh appointed herself as a mentor, Dark exclaimed that she isn't his mentor and that he'll do things his way. After Dark and his group retrieved her wand, Pooh Upooh told Dark to keep it since the wand belonged to his familiar. When Dark found Pooh Upooh's ghost and asked her about his job upgrade, she told Dark that he was just like Hardcore Leveling Warrior, his own interests came first.

During the PVP Round, Pooh Upooh was shocked and surprised to see Dark using advanced black magic, asking him where and how he learned all that to which Dark replied that he had a pretty good teacher teach him all that.

### Tac

Dark and Tac started on good terms as Tac also celebrated Dark's birthday. Their relations turned sour after Giga's invasion and the two got into an argument. When Dark told them that he wanted to see how Yopi fought, Tac denied their request and said that he only tried to get along with them for Yopi's sake and that their request was too much. Soon after, Dark called him 'petty' and asked whether they were always like this before Akira interrupted them.

### Akira

Akira and Dark started off bad. After Dark and Tac's argument, Akira berated Tac for letting Dark get to him. Akira then challenged and told Dark that if he lands a hit on him then he'll tell everything about him and Yopi's Combat Tournament to which Dark agrees to.

Once their duel started, Dark was confident and thought he could land one hit, he was surprised however when Akira was just standing still and thought he was underestimating him. Dark fell for the feint and lost the duel.

Two years later, Akira soon joined Dark Land after his fight with Yopi. Dark denied his request at first because he was suspicious of Akira and told him that he still hasn't forgotten their duel and asked for why Akira wanted to join. Akira told him his reason to which Dark quickly accepted his request to join Dark Land.

### Lime

There wasn't much interaction between them. When Lime saved Dark and his team, Dark asked Hardcore Leveling Warrior who she is. They are assumed to be on good terms as allies.

## Giga

### Secretary Kim

Being a part of Giga, Dark already sees Secretary Kim as an enemy as does Secretary Kim to Dark.

### General Manager Park

Being a part of Giga, General Manager Park is an enemy to Dark. They started off bad as General Manager Park tried to kill Dark in the Elimination Round.

## Others

### Hardcore Leveling Warrior

Dark was first told by Heart Heater that Hardcore Leveling Warrior was strong. They were introduced to each other by Heart Heater in Dragon Mountain. Dark offered Hardcore Leveling Warrrior 3 billion Won (*Line Webtoon*: $3 Million) to help him level up, to which the former Rank 1 Player agreed.

Dark was sceptical about Hardcore Leveling Warrior's strength and wanted him to prove himself in a fight with Scallion Head. Dark was somewhat convinced by Hardcore Leveling Warrior's strength after he defeated Scallion Head in the legal PK but was left less than impressed with his method of victory.

After the 'Miso Corporation Stabbing Incident' was made public, the general public believed that Hardcore Leveling Warrior was dead, but Dark still did not give up hope. He was frustrated because he did not even get to pay him for helping him level up. Dark gave up the chance of having the power to see the future and chose the power to see the past in order to find him

Two years after The Hardcore Leveling Warrior's disappearance, Han Gun-Woo is still searching for him, not believing that he is dead. It appears he has picked up a few traits from The Hardcore Leveling Warrior, such as his spiky hair and also using the phrase "I'm back", whenever he logs into Lucid Adventure.

Dark has become so desperate to find Hardcore Leveling Warrior, that he almost put his country at risk when Gurland attacked Dark Land. He tried to capture him without killing him which led to Gurland's Nightmare Servants alost attacking Dark Land.

After Dark put all of Hardcore Leveling Warrior's Lucky Coin pieces together, he was transported to The Realm of Souls by his personal attribute and saw Hardcore Leveling Warrior's character in a red sea. Dark was elated to see him and tried waking him up but he was quickly returned to the normal Lucid Adventure world by his personal attribute when a mysterious entity appeared. Before being taken away, Dark proclaimed that he would defeat the entity and vowed to save Hardcore Leveling Warrior no matter what.

Dark was distraught he coudlnt ave Hardcore Leveling Warrior who was right in front of him but he was more determined than ever before.

### Lazie

Dark and Lazie were close friends. They started off as enemies in the Black Magic Dungeon where Lazie acknowledged that Dark, buffed by the Goblin Pendant, can put a decent fight with him. They proceeded to have a fist fight until Dark almost loses until Hardcore Leveling Warrior intervened. In the end, Lazie became Dark's own familiar, sealing him inside the ring.

They became close friends throughout their journey, with Lazie tutoring Dark in physical combat and demon magic and Dark giving Lazie back his horn and a powerful pair of horns as well. When Lazie betrayed him, Dark exclaimed the times they fought together and asked whether the connection he felt between their souls was all a lie to which Lazie said yes and told him why he even bothered serving Dark. After Dark got his body back by beating Lazie's heart, he had told Lazie that he won't punish him since Dark really thought they were friends for a while and that he'll release him after the PVP Round. Their friendship was not a lie after all, as Lazie protected Dark in the final round and jokingly called him a kid.

During the two years after the PVP Round, Dark had released Lazie but had asked him to teach him Bear Hunt to which Lazie agreed. Soon after, Lazie left for the Demon World and that they'll meet each other again after Dark completes his training. When they fought for the last time in the Demon World, Dark was very determined to bring Lazie back to his senses and to his family. However, when he saw how deeply corrupted he was by Nightmare and Lazie himself saying that there's no salvation for him, Dark was extremely distraught. Dark honored Lazie's final wish and battled him for the last time.

### No Name

Whilst they met on multiple occasions, Dark and No Name didn't have much interaction. No Name had told Dark to stop talking about how Hardcore Leveling Warrior and Taoist Kim's relations. Dark was surprised by this but proceed to just say to Hardcore Leveling Warrior that they'll talk about it later. During the PVP Round, Dark had asked why No Name was being confident after he and his team had defeated No Name's teammates.

Two years later, they are now enemies and Dark was surprised and excited to see that No Name had joined the war with her New Nightmare Guild.

### Helen

Carter Han's babysitter and one of the two people that he cares about in Giga. They were close friends as after Carter departed from Giga, Helena joined him. Carter was worried about Helena joining him to which Helena reassures him that it's fine. Carter clearly cared for Helena as he was broke down when Helena was captured by Giga and panicked when she went offline as he tried to rescue her. Soon, Helena's username disappeared from his friend list and he was devastated by this. He vowed to take revenge against Giga for her after he was done grieving.

### The Hohoians

The Hohoians and Dark are on very good terms. Dark saved them when they first met in the Hohoian forest from the Beard Gang. Dark supported their tribe as king, to which the Hohoians returned the support by building the foundations of Dark Land and became Grabert Dragon Riders to protect Dark Land from invaders.

### Lu Bu

Dark and Lu Bu were opponents during the Siege Round of the last ever Combat Tournament. They did not have any interaction until Lu Bu breached Team Hardcore Leveling Warrior's castle. Dark tried to slow him down with a few spells and undead orcs but Lu Bu escaped and thought he was weak. Dark thought Lu Bu was a monster after experiencing his Heroization.

 During the two year time skip, Dark and Lu Bu fought each other multiple times.
Two years later, Dark and Lu Bu are class mates in the Lucid High Class four and are part of the same assignment group.

When Dark was running late to thew group he thought to himself that Lu Bu, who he refered to as a 'That son of bitch' (*Korean*: 그자식) would complain. Lu Bu refers to him as a 'Silver Spoon' (*Korean*: 금수저) due to his background as a Giga heir. Despite this, they both seem to have some sort of friendly rivalry. Lu Bu thinks he's a pain in the ass but his talent is undeniable. Lu Bu was critical of Dark for not finishing off Gurland and tried to intervene but Dark pleaded with him.

### **Stone**

Stone handed Dark his first and only loss in ranked matches. At first Dark thought he was ordinary swordsman but he was defeated. After defeating Dark, Stone mocked Dark's hairstyle, saying that they were "dorky" and the reason why he lost. There is a rumour that Dark changed his hairstyle because of it

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Episode 75
2. ↑ Episode 21
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Episode 32
4. ↑ Episode 121
5. ↑ Episode 100
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Episode 6
7. ↑ Episode 11
8. ↑ Episode 168
9. ↑ Season 2 Episode 17
10. ↑ Episode 76
11. ↑ Episode 26
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Episode 4
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Season 2 Episode 3
14. ↑ Season 2 Episode 4
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Season 2 Episode 5
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Season 2 Episode 1
17. ↑ AE 7
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Season 2 Episode 14
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Season 2 Episode 2
20. ↑ Episode 3
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Season 2 Episode 41
22. ↑ Episode 83
23. ↑ Episode 84
24. ↑ AE 3