Darnell
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Darnell
Darnell, Lit Up, and 2hot
Blazin'
Blazin' (Old)
Also known as
Relationships
Pico (friend)
Nene (friend)
Ghettobots (enemies)
Überkids (enemies)
Affiliation
Daddy Dearest (boss; formerly)
Occupation
Contract killer
Pyrotechnician
Musician/DJ
Biographical Information
Species
Human
Gender
Male
Pronouns
He/him
Age
Physical Description
Eye color
White
Hair color
Black (Pico series)
Byzantine purple (Friday Night Funkin')
Appearances
Created by
Origin
Debut
Darnell Plays With Fire (1999)
Character Icons
“To me, nothing is more stunning than the luminous glow of a burning city.”Darnell is a young man with dark skin and a tall, sloped purple flattop that swipes up in a sharp arc in the front and curves up and outward slightly in the back. Above the front and back curves, the hair extends upward and outward slightly, with the front extension curving up very slightly and the back one being flat. The slope rises slightly more steeply from the back before falling a little toward the front. He has white eyes with no pupils. He wears a purple hoodie with yellow sleeves and drawstrings, dark gray trousers, and white sneakers with yellow shoelaces, purple midsoles, and blue outsoles. The outsoles have the number "99" engraved on them, as shown in his kicking animation. A pair of bluish-gray headphones rest around his neck. He holds a blue lighter in his right hand and a bluish-gray microphone in his left hand. His idle animation has him tapping his left foot while bopping his head, and he wears a determined grin. All of his singing animations, except for his up pose, have him extending his little finger out, and all of them have him producing a flame from his lighter. He is drawn in a chibi style.
During Blazin', his idle animation is a fighting pose instead of a dance, and he no longer has his lighter or microphone. His expression is also more serious.
During Week 5, Darnell's appearance is simplified and brightened, looking similar to how he appears in the Pico series. His hair is black, and he wears a purple shirt with yellow sleeves as well as red sneakers with pink shoelaces and soles. His animation has him bopping his head while keeping his arms crossedDarnell
Darnell, Lit Up, and 2hot
Blazin'
Blazin' (Old)
Also known as
Relationships
Pico (friend)
Nene (friend)
Ghettobots (enemies)
Überkids (enemies)
Affiliation
Daddy Dearest (boss; formerly)
Occupation
Contract killer
Pyrotechnician
Musician/DJ
Biographical Information
Species
Human
Gender
Male
Pronouns
He/him
Age
Status
Alive
Physical Description
Eye color
White
Hair color
Black (Pico series)
Byzantine purple (Friday Night Funkin')
Appearances
Created by
Voiced by
Origin
Debut
Darnell Plays With Fire (1999)
Character Icons
“To me, nothing is more stunning than the luminous glow of a burning city.”Darnell originates from Darnell Plays With Fire, a short Flash movie created by Tom Fulp in 1999 as the first entry in the Pico franchise. The movie involves Darnell demonstrating his pyromania by exploding and burning down large buildings in a city as he teaches viewers about fire.
Personality
Darnell is a trigger-happy person who is characterized by his pyromaniac tendencies; he loves setting things on fire so much that he even goes as far as to burn down buildings to watch them burn for his own pleasure, giving him a near sadistic nature. Darnell is very intelligent and has a high intellect, as he is able to understand many things with little effort. Like Nene, Darnell appears to have some degree of selfishness, attacking his own friend Pico for the sake of money.
History
Prior to the events of Week 3, Daddy Dearest hired Darnell, Nene, and Pico to kill Boyfriend. When Pico failed to follow through with the task, Darnell became angry with him.
During Week 5, Darnell is one of the many spectators of Boyfriend's rap battle with Daddy Dearest and Mommy Mearest at the Christmas Mall, appearing in the background of Cocoa and Eggnog.
While Darnell does not physically appear in Week 7, he is one of the assassins hired to find Boyfriend's body and confirm that he is dead. Upon discovering that he is still alive, Darnell is very happy, as he has the opportunity to finish his job and kill Boyfriend.[7] However, Pico ends up sparing and saving Boyfriend. Due to this, Daddy Dearest ends up not paying any of the contract killers, leaving Darnell and Nene in a financial crisis and prompting them to seek revenge.[5]
During WeekEnd 1, Darnell is spray painting on a wall after he and Nene had taken apart A-Bot to sell parts of him and use his hydraulic fluid to burn down some nearby buildings.[8] Pico runs into them and is challenged to a rap battle against Darnell with Nene watching. During 2hot, Darnell also kicks spray can bombs at Pico, which the latter shoots. After rapping, Darnell and Pico get ready to attack each other, but Pico is out of ammo, and Darnell's lighter is empty. They end up settling things with a fist fight instead, which gets increasingly violent until the two reconcile, saving their friendship. They walk away together happily before collapsing on the ground from their injuries.
Abilities
Darnell is an experienced pyrotechnician who enjoys experimenting with explosives and fire. Although its canonicity is debatable, Darnell Plays With Fire supposedly demonstrates his skills in rigging explosives and burning large buildings down, which is also an indicator of his intelligence as a supergenius. In the movie, he states that he makes his bombs with ammonium nitrate fertilizer and blasting caps.
Darnell's original animated sprites in the Pico series depict him holding a pistol and a knife, indicating that he has experience with these weapons. In Pico 2, Darnell uses a gun to shoot down the Ghettobots' UFO. Additionally, Darnell is interested in music, as he owns a DJ turntable and a set of headphones; his musical expertise is further shown in Friday Night Funkin'.
Relationships
Pico
Darnell and Pico are close friends. In Pico 2, Pico quickly works toward stopping the Ghettobots upon learning that they're threatening Darnell's life, and Darnell invites him to come to his house to practice on a DJ turntable. However, in Friday Night Funkin', Darnell and Pico fistfight each other after rap battling, due to the latter breaking the contract they had with Daddy Dearest to kill Boyfriend, which left Darnell in financial ruin. Afterwards, he and Pico shake hands and reconcile.
Nene
Darnell and Nene are friends. While the two were never shown interacting in the Pico series, they team up in Friday Night Funkin' to assassinate Boyfriend then attack Pico for failing them.
Boyfriend
Darnell is hired to kill Boyfriend without having a clue of who the target actually is, but he remains determined to get the job done regardless. He fails to find and assassinate him since Pico gets to Boyfriend first. Darnell learns of his identity by Week 7 but is unable to locate him in time once again. Darnell loses interest in assassinating Boyfriend after reconciling with Pico.
Daddy Dearest
Daddy Dearest hires Darnell to kill Boyfriend, offering him money to do this, which he accepts. Their relationship is purely contractual only for Darnell to unwillingly fail him twice. Daddy Dearest is displeased with Darnell and revokes any and all payments promised
Created Aug 6
Updated Aug 6
Published Aug 6