For a while D. was going to be an alien rather than a reptilian mutant. His name was Scab, he got the name from Iki/Mutt in this version as well.

Tbh he didn't have much of a personality in the original Meatpunk. I wanted to have a big monster dude protect a small lady. That's as far as i had the premise fleshed out...

Him being a bodyguard of sorts was set from the beginning. I struggled with his design a lot, he always felt too inhuman for the story to work. Probably cause i hadn't given hima a purpoise beyond "protect girl".

The story was also too focused on Mutt/Iki overall, it didn't start coming together till i shifted the focus from Iki to D. He serves as the audience avatar, being flung into a foreign world, trying to make sense of it all.