DaiDieDark

**DaiDieDark** (デイディダーク) is one of the founders and Guildmaster of the Billion Bullion Guild, one of the top Guilds in YGGDRASIL, helping oversee the Eternal Vault Andvari along with the other members of his group. He is the creator of King Kaching and Gwendy Vere.

In the New World, his guildmates run the auction house in the Slane Theocracy, with DaiDieDark collecting or stealing artifacts and rare objects while under the guise of an adventurer, with the ultimate goal of becoming the major shareholder of all items and resources in their new home, establishing themselves as a major power.

## Appearance

DaiDieDark's appearance, although clad in armor, is that of a human being in his early 20s, rugged and overbearing in presentation. While wearing his armor, he dons a set of heavy armor that is commonly associated with the Warrior Class, with several custom-made alterations made with data crystals, giving off a very menacing appearance. Consisting of multi-sectional armor plates, with a horned helmet, DaiDieDark uses an item in the form of a white skull mask to hide his face. In addition to the metal, he wears a brightly colored sash around his waist and other textile flourishes around his lower body in a combination of free movement and flair to his ensemble. To complete his visage, Dai carries his main sword along the left side of his waist for quick use.

When adventuring or not in combat, his human appearance takes after his avatar in YGGDRASIL in the form of a tall, tan-skinned man with shoulder-length, spiky white hair sticking up in all directions that partially covers his face, with his eyes being blue with yellow rings around the pupils. With a muscular build unlike his body in the real world, Dai uses a white coat with lining extending from the lapel down to his shoulders and bottom portion of the double breasted closure, keeping his chest bare and exposed to further illustrate his physique. To match his coat, he also wears white pants tied with a black sash, donning knee-high boots.

## Personality

Even with his change in circumstance, Dai is still a banker at heart, often using his business sense and ethics to make decisions based on profit and loss, using his years of experience to maneuver his way through the New World by either eliminating any obstacles in his way or negotiating terms that favor him or at least place him at a bigger advantage, using whatever means are available to him. As a result, Dai often resorts to throwing money or items at his problems rather than immediately resorting to violence for the most part, which at times gives off the impression of a spoiled brat whenever things don’t go his way due to his appearance. Proactive and assertive with an analytical eye for detail, Dai measures success and profit in equal parts, seeing no distinction between the two; unless there’s something to gain from his efforts, anything else and anything less would be wasted effort he could have used on more fruitful ventures.

Having worked in an environment that fostered ruthlessness and animosity among the large conglomerate of corporations for many years, Dai knows his way around office politics and managing a large company. When it came to lending and borrowing capital from his bank, he developed a keen sense for judging people, able to ascertain to an extent the content of their character or circumstances from the simplest things; from the way they dressed, posture, to the smell of cheap cologne, all for the purpose of keeping a record on who he could use later. It was this very mindset that allowed him to scout out members of Billion Bullion who fit his exceptionally high standards.

Valuing natural ability and resourcefulness, Dai has been known to keep a tentative eye out for potential talent he can exploit for the sole purpose of Billion Bullion, doing whatever he can to place them in a favorable position, even if it meant associating or aiding those he thought were beneath him and his compatriots. Even going so far as to establish themselves in the Slane Theocracy, a country known for promoting human supremacy, taking advantage of the fact that most of his guild consisted of Humanoids. Running a tight ship in similar fashion to the bank he owned, he only applied said expertise to the guild, keeping everyone else at arm's length. For much of his faults, Dai does genuinely care about the wellbeing and prosperity of Billion Bullion and all of its residents, often acquiring the admiration and fervent loyalty of the NPCs and the trust of his guildmates for his continued rule.

As a player, Dai spent most of his time in YGGDRASIL collecting items and resources, coveting the rarest of items and spreading them out to the members of their guild. Using his immense capital to buy in-game items with premium currency, Dai was very much pay-to-win, often taking part in PVP as a pastime and the main activity used to raid other players' bases for their items. His obsession with owning items didn’t simply include Cash Shop items, but extended to everything one could buy using YGGDRASIL gold, often buying items up to 99 copies and letting extras sit in his Item Box for later use, just for the simple reason of not needing to repeat the process again. As a result, Dai is an avid collector of all manner of weapons and equipment without using them, earning his nickname as “penny pincher” Dai.

Dai isn’t above using cutthroat methods to further his own agenda, going so far as to kill, cheat, and lie if it was convenient enough, even putting others in harm's way instead of himself. Tallied with his life experience, it was his foresight and caution to danger that allowed him to plan ahead of time or adapt to any changes in his surroundings, making him a brilliant strategist. Combined with his sense of battle imparted to him by his new body and mentality, it gave Dai a sensational battle sense and keenness for violence that was otherwise unfounded in his old life. This was only further exacerbated once he was given the chance to exert his abilities on the residents outside his guild.

As a side-effect of arriving in the New World in his avatar’s much younger body, his newfound youth tends to override his better judgment with the brashness and hotheadedness of a young man at times, often overwhelmed by the extraordinary power he has at his disposal. In certain instances, Dai has been known to lose his temper when thoroughly irritated or frustrated, lunging himself into a tirade or physical outburst that destroys everything in his immediate vicinity. Being full of vigor, Dai has an appreciation for combat that stands at odds with his role as tactician, losing himself in battle. Bordering on arrogance, his temperament is kept in check by hIs personal NPC and bodyguard Gwendy, but is conversely egged on by King Kaching.

When acting his actual age, it creates a paradox that severely contrasts his appearance, often reprimanding young men by calling them "boy", or calling grown men “kids”, since chronologically he was an old man before arriving in the New World, giving him the airs of a stern grandfather. With tastes suited for elders, Dai has little to no patience for young upstarts and those with arrogant dispositions about them, a trait that stems from the sheer annoyance of having to humor the whims of self-conceited and egotistical brats belonging to his clients back when he was a bank owner.

Even with this new pension on life, Dai has a great distaste for extreme and needless violence that borders on the sadistic side, finding the need to kill for pleasure as “unprofessional” in his line of work, preferring to keep his hands as clean as possible even when taking a life. Killing as proficiently and cleanly as possible are one of the hallmarks that he takes pride in, going so far as to take great pains to be efficient in the act.

## Background

### In the Real World

Born in the upper crust of society, the man that would become DaiDieDark, Mishima Taiga, was a model student, able to afford to go to school thanks it part to his parent’s prestige help fund his academic pursuits, going to a university at 18 years old and eventually becoming a graduate with a master’s degree in business and economics. Having spent 8 years doing as he likes, Taiga used his education to become a young entrepreneur at the age of 27 in the year 2112, founding the Mishima Banking Union using his parent's inheritance to help fund his business. Starting it from the ground up, Taiga used his superior knowledge and experience to garner favor among the large corporations in Japan, handling most of their capital to help fund their exploits.

Taiga didn’t become a player until 2131, at the age of 42, after one of his employees mentioned that DMMO-RPGs were one of his favored pastimes. Comfortably established with a firm grip on the market, it was during this era that Taiga had an abundance of free time on his hands, and with the immense finances he had at his disposal, he could take part in any hobby to his heart’s content, easily able to throw as much money as he could. Given the state of the world, and very little interest with anything outside it, Taiga experimented with DMMO-RPGs himself, going through a wide assortment of games before coming across YGGDRASIL, a game that very much struck a chord with him, suiting his palette for conquest.

### Founding of Billion Bullion

When Dai first began playing YGGDRASIL, he sought to overcome the extreme disparity between the game’s difficulty at higher levels by grouping together with other like-minded individuals, mostly those that spent an exorbitant amount on the game and were heavily pay-to-win, much like himself. At its inception, Dai started his party of six, allowing them to tackle most quests together while slowly accumulating their combined wealth, pooling them together until it required them to create what would later be their guild.

With the growth in notoriety, specifically in PVP due to their abuse of Cash Items and combined abilities, they drew the attention of players interested in joining their group, with Dai’s group officially establishing the Billion Bullion after recruiting 10 members. It was after they had firmly established themselves that they took on their first dungeon, taking over 8 hours to beat, rewarding them with what would later be called the Eternal Vault Andvari. Shortly afterwards, Dai led several members out to scout for more promising members that caught their eye, eventually completing their guild with the 29 Golden Lords.

### Exodus of the Golden Lords

By the year World of 2138, at the elderly age of 49, Dai became a paraplegic, losing the use of his legs from degenerative nerve damage, requiring him to stay bedridden for the majority of his days. It was during this time that he let his second in command manage the finances and business side of his bank while he stayed at home to handle the paperwork. With nearly no ability to walk or move, Taiga spent more time in YGGDRASIL than he ever had in the past, providing him the freedom to walk and move in his avatar’s young body, living vicariously through the game whenever he had the chance. With 12 years active, Billion Bullion had suffered a steady decline in members, with most either leaving or not logging, with the remaining members just active enough to keep up with the guild’s upkeep, consisting of only 6 out of the original 29, with the remainder being the most loyal and avid players in YGGDRASIL.

## Trivia

* DaiDieDark's name is a reference to the titular protagonist of the series The King of Braves GaoGaiGar*.*