Dan

'''Please note: this is not supposed to be the same person as/represent the YouTuber or the character he plays in any new roleplay. Any differing information is due to being an alternate universe.'''

Appearance
Dan appears in the story to be in his early twenties. He has chocolate brown hair with a swept bang that partially covers one of his eyes, which are sea blue. His ears are pierced with black earrings.

His normal day clothes are a mix of casual and formal attire - a white collared shirt, teal tie, blue denim jeans and a black hooded zip jacket with side pockets, which he is always shown wearing unzipped and with the hood down. The cuffs of his shirt stick out slightly from his jacket. Between his shirt and jeans, a brown belt with a yellow belt buckle is visible. On his feet he wears brown laceless boots.

Over top of his jacket and jeans, he wears yellow elbow and knee pads with brown straps, and he also wears a pair of black goggles with light blue lenses, which are his most prized possession. Normally they are on his forehead, but at the end of Chapter 10 he puts them on his eyes like intended, and has them on until halfway through Chapter 11 when they are broken and he does not wear them at all for the rest of the duration of the story, but keeping them on his person.

During the first and last scenes in the story, he wears pyjamas instead - a light grey t shirt with a diamond ore icon printed on it and light blue shorts. This reveals several bruises up his arms and legs in various stages of healing, which he got through accidents in stunts.

Personality and background
Generally, Dan is a laid back, cheery and kind person with an optimistic outlook on life. He has a thirst for adventure, but he is content with staying inside partaking in a hobby or taking a nap if there isn't one to go on. This usually works out well enough, he usually does something to fufil his daredevil streak (usually cart riding) then gets tired and does something less energy intensive like gaming or playing the guitar.

To his closest friends, he is incredibly loyal, protective and empathetic. He would drop anything he was doing to help and comfort them if they got hurt or sad - nothing matters more to him than who he loves. His main show of affection is hugs, soft words, and nuzzles. Dan rarely gets angry and nine times out of ten his friends being in danger is what causes his anger to rise.

Becoming a scientist was something that happened more out of chance than something he specifically chose to do, but having a fair amount of intellect and his natural curiosity makes him well suited for it. While initially not taking it too seriously, at the current point the story takes place in he has grown genuinely invested in it, and studying for a degree is something that's often on his mind, though he worries if he's good enough for it.

One of Dan's strongest skills, but one that doesn't come up unless absolutely necessary, is his offensive ability in close melee battling, usually with his sword. He fights with strength, passion, and emotion, which constrasts with how laid back he usually is.

Sometimes, the aspects of what make up Dan can go too far, which is his most noticeable flaw - he could nap too much one day, or become too reckless while cart riding and injure himself. He can not worry about studying at all on any given day and then panic about it and overtire himself the next. This also applies to his emotions - he can get too excited over something, let panic overtake him, or, in the case of his protective side, become aggressive - although this usually works in his favour.

Character relations
Dan is a lot of things towards Trayaurus. They are co workers, best friends, and by the end of the story, have admitted to loving each other and starting to be boyfriends. There is nothing Dan wouldn't do for Trayaurus - nearly all of his more drastic actions in the story are after he believes to have seen him die at the hands of Denton, causing him to lose his compassion and become what he later describes as 'a monster'. wip

Dan is very affectionate towards his dog Grim, and is also protective of him due to the circumstances that Grim has died before in Trayaurus' faulty cloning machine. Grim is often on the receiving end of one of Dan's hugs in the same way Trayaurus is, and both are called his 'buddy' or 'little buddy'.

Near the end of the story, when Dan believes they have both permanantly died, he feels beyond heartbroken and like he has no purpose and nothing left to make him happy, to the point he refuses to even get up. His nightmare in the epilogue shows him an emotional wreck without them.

Dan and Trayaurus both have a bad past with Denton and are described as being each other's arch nemesis. While they've had conflicts and scuffles of varying degrees of severity before, the events in the story are the peak of their unfriendly rivalry and eventually escalates into Denton, without mercy, dumping who he thinks is Trayaurus into a vat of lava to win the conflict and dispose of him.

This, in turn, leads to Dan revenge killing every one of the clones and Denton himself in a fit of powered up rage, believing Trayaurus to be dead. When this is revealed to him to not be true, he doesn't exactly regret killing Denton, but he doesn't feel right for not doing it for the reason he thought he did.

The first time he saw Finn, Dan went along with what Denton had said about him being his assistant, and wonders out loud how crazy he could be to work for someone like him. This comment stays in Finn's head for most of the story, and he begins to make a twisted, cold version of Dan in his head who wants to kill him.

However, at the end, the difference is like night and day - after hearing about what really happened to Finn, Dan becomes as willing to give him hugs and comfort as he is with Trayaurus and Grim and treats him like a real friend.

Despite Chryssie's comments about him being a dork and the silly name of 'specs' referring to his goggles, Dan is happy to ally with the pigs and persuades them to let him and his friends see their crystal shard. He finds their antics and battle strategies funny and, after their own persuading, trusts them enough to go with Trayaurus to find other shards without him.

There is an incident at the end where Chryssie and the other pigs refuse to believe Finn is no longer working for Denton, or even wanted to in the first place, unusually becoming even more aggressive towards him even after he returned the necklace. This makes Dan assertively tell them off for this. The pigs immediately apologise, but he doesn't seem to trust them anymore because they were only sorry due to his intervention.