pairings have included but are not limited to:
orisis,
nayra,
teeth,
s.r.,
leslie, and one of my friend's characters, who i'm not going to link
anyway for some yummy lore on daniel he's the bastard son of the tyrant king of the city in the sky, but he's tortured by his father and made to fight in a gladiator-style arena because his father's desperately trying to kill him by any means possible (he can't kill daniel directly). canonically, daniel's completely illiterate and doesn't even know how to speak. in modern aus or aus where he'd know how to read, he's just extremely dyslexic and has a stutter. anyway!! sometimes he ends up rebelling and killing his father and escaping the city where he meets nayra, who's basically a socipathic forest hermit, who teaches him how to talk and survive on his own and yknow live on a level better than an animal in a dungeon cell. she's... weird, though, like tie you up with animal guts and threaten to skin you like a deer but mean it lovingly weird, and for some reason daniel's just. okay with it?? he doesn't know anything else so i guess it's not his fault- anyway he thinks it's true love and nayra definitely does not feel the same way. she just likes having him around because he's strange and novel and will eagerly do menial tasks for her. anyway she grows bored of him at some point and kicks him out, so he wanders around for a year or two just completely lost and depressed and for some reason orisis picks him up? daniel is way below his typical standards but for some reason that psycho just liked him so he took him home and put a collar on him- orisis tries to teach him culture and stuff and tame him like a pet but daniel had enough of that in the city so he's kind of bitchy to orisis but orisis does eventually end up breaking daniel through a lot of torture of various types and turning him into the perfect obedient little pet who'll take anything for him which is kind of the end of the story in that timeline unless he gets smart and runs away and gets with my friend's character who's actually nice to him what wholesome gay men real????
anyway!
so the ship with leslie is actually a modern setting au where they're all human, and it's typically a poly ship with orisis, who's not a literal psycho but is dangerously protective and has a lot of funny little orange bottles in this one- anyway that one's typically with daniel and orisis being pre-established since they were teens or something and then they meet leslie who's just like this tiny scared little emo boy and their stupid lustful selves decide he's cute, he's their boyfriend now, and they're having soft tacos later. anyway leslie's like super religiously traumatized and his parents are bitches and sometimes orisis kills them and sometimes he kills daniel's dad and sometimes he kills all three and sometimes he goes to jail and is executed for that<3 anyway daniel and leslie are basically orisis's kept boys they're lazy freeloaders that are just there to share a bed but it's okay because they all love each other
anyway
ugh teeth. i dont have much lore for teeth yet, i'm still working on their ship, but it's a modern setting au- i'm not sure if it's typical daniel or human daniel, it could be either, but i think teeth is either drunk and just kinda picks daniel up off the street and decides that he owns him now but like,,, wholesome? like this is daniel who's right out of the city or right after nayra broke up with him so he's desperate for contact and teeth is giving it to him- or he just straight up viciously kidnaps daniel and does awful things to him until he's broken (orisis-core). either way daniel ends up adoring teeth even though their relationship is so disgustingly unhealthy like teeth is a serial killer don't let that man drag you into his abandoned warehouse geez- anyway daniel gets beat around a bit and he loves every second of it ew
last one i promise
him and s.r. is a purely fluff ship yes s.r. is also a psycho who steals, collects, and sells people's souls and has committed many genocides, but he loves daniel very much and it would never hurt him ever. like they're just so cute let daniel cuddle with his giant eldritch boyfriend (sucker for love /jjj) in the sunshine he's happy so im happy let him frolick through a meadow full of wildflowers and have his every wish and desire granted (spoiled brat alert)- but yeah they're just cute together and honestly it's so boring give me that angst give me the viscera make that man suffer-
oh and sometimes he's shipped with lysander who's just a background character without a set design, he's just there if i want another guy
yes daniel does like women by the way i just dont like writing straight relationships because i don't know how so they're all gay deal with it
anyway that's a shit ton of words i'm so sorry but hey you asked for it (if you want to know more please please please feel free to ask i love yapping about these critters though it might be a little tough because they are not pg-13 thats ok though 🫶)
oh and they all have playlists too but it's like 20-40 songs on each so im not screenshotting all that