Daddy Dearest

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Evil-doer
Full Name	Dearest (full name unknown)
Alias	Daddy Dearest The Father The Dad
Origin	Friday Night Funkin'
Occupation	Rockstar (formerly)
Powers / Skills	Demonic powers Singing skills High intelligence Manipulation Charisma Improvisation Intimidation Fighting skills Stealth Enhanced strength Voodoo combat Marksmanship
Goals	Kill or defeat anyone who desires the love of his daughter. (succeeded this far) Kill the Boyfriend for dating his daughter (ongoing).
Crimes	Unlawful imprisonment Mass murder (implied) Psychological abuse Hostage taking Blackmail Torture
Type of Villain	Protective Archenemy

Daddy Dearest is the main antagonist of the rhythm game Friday Night Funkin'.

He is a demonic ex-rockstar and the father of Girlfriend, husband of Mommy Mearest and the arch-nemesis of the Boyfriend. Despite Girlfriend and Boyfriend earnestly loving each other, Daddy Dearest disapproves of their relationship and repeatedly tries to humiliate and have Boyfriend murdered as a result.

While having no true voice, his audio samples were provided by Kawai Sprite.

Biography

Before the events of the game, Daddy Dearest was a rockstar, met a pop-star which he would marry and then have a daughter with, which is Girlfriend. Fourteen years before the events of the game (and thus when his daughter was five), Daddy Dearest would imprison a man inside the Girlfriend's favorite dating simulator for unknown reasons, and it's also implied he did the same to many others.

Later on, his daughter would start dating the Boyfriend, which Daddy Dearest and Mommy Mearest would not welcome. After some practice, Week 1 happens, where the Boyfriend faces off against Daddy Dearest during the songs "Bopeebo", "Fresh" and "Dadbattle" and wins. Not accepting the fact he lost, Daddy Dearest sends the mercenary Pico to assassinate the Boyfriend. However, Pico turns out to be the Boyfriend's ex, and does not want to kill him. This leads to the events of Week 3 where Pico instead challenges Boyfriend to a rap battle and loses.

Around Christmas during the events of Week 5, Daddy Dearest and Mommy Mearest take the "mall Santa" hostage so they can have another stand-off against the Boyfriend in the songs "Cocoa" and "Eggnog", this time singing together. However, the party is crashed when the Monster appears and twists everyone's perception, letting everyone except the Boyfriend and the Girlfriend escape, including Daddy Dearest. The Monster faces off against the Boyfriend, but loses. Later on, the Girlfriend and the Boyfriend decide to play the former's favorite dating game. Daddy Dearest notices this, and out of spite throws both of them into the game, letting the events of Week 6 happen. However, the duo manages to escape, but not before encountering the man Daddy Dearest imprisoned years ago, now simply a spirit.

Despite Week 8 not being currently released, the creators confirmed that Week 8 is canonically before Week 7. In that week, Daddy Dearest and Mommy Mearest would have another unsuccessful attempt at killing the Boyfriend by taking him and the Girlfriend on a "vacation", with Daddy Dearest sending out Pico to kill the Boyfriend once more. The week would take place on a plane. Eventually, the two suddenly fall out straight into the Tankman's restricted battlefield, letting Week 7 happen. In the final song of the week, Pico saves the Boyfriend from being killed by the Tankmen and the entire trio ultimately survives. Girlfriend gets angry at her dad for lying to her.

Angered that Pico had once again defied him, Daddy Dearest hires his former classmates, Darnell and Nene, to execute him.

Appearance

Daddy Dearest has lavender/iliac skin, black horns that he hides underneath his hair, purplish grey hair that he styles into a horn-shaped pompadour, black stubble, red glowing eyes with black sclera, and a prideful grin. For clothing he wears a leather jacket with a exposed chest, matching pants and dress shoes, a belt with a gold buckle, and a grey watch.

In Week 5, he wears a green version of his outfit, resembling that of an elf's.

Personality

Daddy Dearest is selfish, cruel and uncaring, as he has attempted on multiple occasions to kill Boyfriend without caring about the consequences it will have on his daughter. He also appears to be somewhat petty, as he hires Pico to kill Boyfriend after the latter beat him in Week 1. However, he is not as ill-willed as his wife Mommy Mearest, who has been confirmed to be far worse than Daddy Dearest.

In "Smile Good, Boyfriend!", he let Boyfriend enter his home, just to use a voodoo doll of the same to torture him just for fun, showing he enjoys the pain of others, or Boyfriend in this case.

Gallery

Daddy Dearest with his wife in Week 5.

Daddy Dearest's unused character icons (old, with danger).

A unused sprite of Daddy Dearest kicking.

Daddy Dearest getting hit in the chin by the Boyfriend's microphone.

A unused sprite of Daddy Dearest snarling.

Trivia

• Daddy Dearest is one of two characters who lack a "danger icon", the other being The Senpai.
  • However, his danger icon can be found in the game's files.
  • During a Twitch stream, when asked if Daddy Dearest or Senpai will ever receive a losing icon, PhantomArcade responded by stating he didn't even realizing that they lacked any, and made a note to create some for them later. As of the Pitstop 2 update, Senpai and Spirit later now currently have danger icons.
• Daddy Dearest and Mommy Mearest have purple skin, yet their daughter has white skin.
  • This is because lavender is their natural skin color, and in reality their daughter has lavender skin as well, but her skin is white because she's trying to appear as close to a human as possible out of her love for BF while her parents embrace their natural demonic nature.
• Due to the popularity of the game, many game modifications have spawned and featured more original characters. In some mods, Daddy Dearest is responsible for those characters to become antagonistic to Boyfriend and Girlfriend, such as Whitty, who was humiliated by him and Tabi, who was turned into a floating skull with an invisible body all for dating Girlfriend. All these actions would make his modification version worse than the original version to the duo.
• According to ninjamuffin99, Daddy Dearest is the strongest character in Friday Night Funkin', and could easily take on other antagonists such as The Monster.
• As of yet, Daddy Dearest is the closest the game has to a main antagonist.
  • A majority of the game's plot is driven by Daddy Dearest, and is responsible for why most of the characters in the game became antagonistic to Boyfriend and Girlfriend in the first place.
    • He has some form of influence in every single Week, even if not directly.
  • He is also prominently featured in most of the promotional art, usually along with Mommy Mearest or as a giant looming shadow over Boyfriend and Girlfriend.
  • Daddy Dearest is also the reason why the game took place in the first place, making him the Big Bad of the story.
  • He is also the arch-nemesis of Boyfriend, and is one of the most recurring antagonists in the entire game alongside his wife and the Monster.
  • In a canon comic, he even shows how he enjoys the pain of Boyfriend.
• It's been confirmed that Daddy Dearest's character is based off of experiences that PhantomArcade (the game's main artist) had gone through while dating.
• Daddy Dearest apparently does not feel pain, because when he stabbed himself with a knife, he was surprised (because he thought he stabbed the Boyfriend doll), but then he slapped his head and didn't seem to care.
• Daddy Dearest may be immortal, because after being stabbed by multiple sharp objects in his head, he was still fine but angry.
• Daddy Dearest doesn't drink any sort of beverage whatsoever.
• He didn't play any instruments during his career, as he was only a vocalist.