Thread:Shado supreme/@comment-25600892-20180308232135/@comment-26059868-20180429192515

I think I've come up with something:

Just like in RID, Deadlock use to be a theif working for Shadow Raker, alongside all those other goons from the "Drift Samurai Showdown" book. Deadlock had a conscience attack after being forced to kill someone, and left, changing his color scheme and adopting the name "Drift" in case they tried to follow him.

The person Drift killed was Dai Atlas, and had left a young student named Swagger. Drift saw that Swagger's desire for revenge would get him killed, and Drift passed himself of as one of Dai Atlas' friend who would continue to train Swagger.

The big kicker here is that Swagger doesn't know Drift killed Dai Atlas.