Anyhow, I'll get things started with a character I feel almost no one has truly done justice in the world of fanworks: Raymesis. Many people just use him as the evil Rayman who's basically Mr Dark's equivalent to Metal Sonic. However, while I think that could be an interesting part of his story, I feel there is so much more that can be done with him! So this will be talking about Raymesis's creation, how he feels about Rayman and other characters, and how he formed his own team of mostly anti-heroes. Also, to keep this from being waaaaay too long, I'll split this one into parts. Didn't think I'd write this much about him...
PART 1
After the events of Rayman 1 (which, in my mind, combines certain elements of the original game with most of the stuff from Rayman Redemption), Mr Dark realized the potential of a dark clone of the Glade's hero and used his dark powers to evolve Bad Rayman. He swapped out the "insta-killing mindless clone" aspects for sentience, fighting skills and agility that matched Rayman's, and a hatred for the limbless wonder.
Between the events of Rayman 3 and Rayman Raving Rabbids, Mr Dark had finished turning Bad Rayman into Raymesis and sent him out for his first fight against Rayman. It was a long and difficult brawl for the two of them, and the fight ended with both getting KO’d at the same time, resulting in a draw. After the fight, Mr Dark used his dark powers to take control of Raymesis and bring him back to the lair by force. Raymesis didn’t want to be Mr Dark’s puppet for numerous reasons, one of which was that it kept him from fighting Rayman again. So, he escaped from the lair and searched for someone who could help him break this connection.
This is when he first encountered the First Grand Minimus, or the First King for short. While the rest of the Glade believed that he was just another one of Mr Dark’s creations that had to be vanquished, the undead Teensy’s many years of wisdom told him a different story. He could sense that he wasn’t just pure darkness - he could tell that he was about as much as a person as everyone else, with his own goals and morals. When Raymesis told him about his predicament, he said that he wanted to break free from Mr Dark’s control. While he figured that would be the best thing to do, the Teensy could also tell that he wouldn’t always fight for good like so many others of his kind; that just wasn’t what he wanted to do. Eventually, the First King reasoned that if the Cloak of Darkness had control over him, he could become a serious threat to the entire Glade, so he used his magic powers to break his chains and free him from Mr Dark’s control. This earned him Raymesis’s respect, and the First King would go on to be a trusted ally of his and, whether he liked it or not, a mentor to him.
From there, he went his own way and spent a long time trying to get stronger than Rayman so he could take him out - not kill him, just defeat him. He figured that in order to accomplish that goal and any others he’d have in his life, he'd probably need allies like the First King to help him.
Thank you for reading! Part 2 will be coming tomorrow!
Noseless Rayman is canonically not Rayman: you play as the actual Rayman throughout the entire Spooky Raymansion series, making Noseless another twin like Tarayzan, Bad/Dark Rayman or Raymesis! 
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