Daryan Crescend

"Daryan Crescend"

- Say "hi" for me, OK? Oh, and "screw you".

Daryan Crescend was the second guitarist of the Gavinners, and a detective for the international division of the Criminal Affairs Department.

Crime

 * Main article: Turnabout Serenade

Incuritis is a disease only curable by a potent antidote from the Borginian cocoon. However, this cocoon can also be used to create a deadly poison and thus it is illegal to export them. In fact, such an act is so serious that, in the cocoon's home country of Borginia, the penalty for smuggling Borginian cocoons is death. Because of this, when the Chief Justice found that his son had contracted the deadly disease, he resorted to desperate measures to save his son.

The Chief Justice made a deal with Daryan Crescend to have him smuggle a cocoon into the United States. To this end, Crescend contacted Machi Tobaye, the pianist of the Borginian singer Lamiroir, and had him obtain a cocoon while Crescend's bandmate, Klavier Gavin, was visiting the country. Tobaye stashed the cocoon inside an acoustic guitar that Lamiroir gave to Gavin as a gift. He also planted a small incendiary device inside, which could be remotely detonated to destroy the evidence if they were caught. Since Gavin was using an evidence shipping company that was exempt from customs, the cocoon soon found itself in the United States.

Crescend then stole Gavin's keys in order to open the guitar case, but found himself unable to retrieve the cocoon as the guitar was sealed in standard evidence wrapping. Adjusting his plans, he instead planned to take it out after the upcoming Gavinners concert, in which Gavin was to use the guitar for his performance of "The Guitar's Serenade" with Lamiroir and Tobaye. Unfortunately for Crescend, Lamiroir's bodyguard, Romein LeTouse, revealed himself to be an undercover Interpol agent and confronted Crescend during the performance of "The Guitar's Serenade". Thinking quickly, Crescend had Tobaye destroy the cocoon using the remote incendiary device he had planted inside the guitar and then killed LeTouse by shooting him in the shoulder with the agent's own powerful .45 magnum.

Although Tobaye was put on trial for the murder, the entire plot was eventually uncovered by defense attorney Apollo Justice, who had been present at the concert during the murder, and Crescend was revealed as the true killer.

Personality
Crescend is usually very serious and collected, but can be easily provoked. He can also be very condescending, showing great confidence in his own abilities and wasting no time in relishing in the apparent failures of others. Despite his attitude, there are indications Crescend had some form of moral conscience. As well as being a part of law enforcement, his crimes were in aid of a desperate father not the black market- even LeTouse's death could have conceivably been an accident as he was only shot in the shoulder. He appears very perceptive and intelligent and usually keeps a cool and professional demeanor, becoming increasingly infuriated and desperate when he is cornered.

Name

 * "Mayudzuki" comes from "mayu-suki", which means "likes cocoon" in Japanese. It also contains the kanji for "moon".


 * "Daryan" reflects his Japanese given name "Daian".


 * "Crescend" likely comes from "crescendo", a musical term meaning "to get gradually louder". It may also be a reference to the kanji for "moon" in his Japanese surname (as in a "crescent moon").

Development

 * Crescend's clothing appears to be shark themed. The collar is lined with what can be assumed to be zipper teeth and the inside of his clothes is red. This gives his collar a look similar to the mouth of a shark. The pull tab on the zipper seems to be similar to the tooth shape of the prehistoric megalodon shark.


 * Following the shark theme of his clothing, his white-tipped hair may be a reference to the oceanic whitetip shark, a particularly aggressive species of shark. The jutting shape of the hair also resembles the long snout of a goblin shark.


 * Shu Takumi recycled Crescend's name from a list that he had previously prepared when trying to come up with names for prosecutors.


 * During Tatsuro Iwamoto's early days at Capcom, he drew a character with two eyepatches, and he wanted to use him as Daryan Crescend, but Takumi rejected the design. Thus, the current design was used. The eyepatches were later implemented onto Shi-Long Lang's design, though here they were X-shaped sunglasses instead of eyepatches.


 * His guitar, nicknamed Geeter, appears to be a Gibson SG.