My all time favourite across all the predator universe, is Dachande, Broken Tusk. Jungle Predator hooked me into this world, city hunter and his ‘family’ (elder, guardian, boar, shaman, etc..) piqued my interest to look for more, but Yeyinde made me fall in love with it.
I absolutely loved the graphic novel(still remember buying it off the shelf of my longtime comic bookshop, after saving up for months and months), it showed us the humanization (that the right word?) of the Yautja, their culture, how they choose hunting parties and planets to hunt, etc.. Basically showed the predators in a whole new different light.
With regards to Dachande, I believe no other hunter is more honourable and he also treats humans with respect(esp those who deserve it) and some as equals. Never played the AVP games, so not sure how he measure up to dark in terms of fighting prowess, but I’m sure it’s pretty high up there as Elite Yautja goes. Novel shows how calculated all his moves are, with Machiko comparing it to (IIRC) dancing gracefully.
Yeah, love, love, love Dachande, and i’m gonna model my Yautja’s BG story to his in terms of how honourable, dare I say, kind, he is. It’s like he lives his life with the Bushido code.
It’s eight virtues: Righteousness (義), check. Courage (勇), check. Benevolence (仁 ), check. Respect (礼), check. Sincerity (誠), check(?). Honor (名誉), definitely. Loyalty (忠義), not to the young hotheads/murderers he killed, but to the code of the hunt. Self-Control (自制), check.
