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[⚜] Name:Daniel Melton
[⚜] Alias:Generically called 'Danny' as a nickname from his friends, or occasionally from his siblings.
[⚜] Age:34
[⚜] Gender:Male
[⚜] Romantic Interests:Daniel is kinda dense with love, having a hard time on picking up clues on where people like him or not unless they're really blunt with it. Having no problems on which gender is trying to take a bite on him, he doesn't mind having a fling with someone or having a short-term relationship with someone for the spice of life. It doesn't matter who he's dating either as long as they're willing to enjoy a little fun for the time they are together.
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[⚜] PantheonGreek
[⚜] Godly Parent Apollo is Daniel's divine parent, the God of a bunch of things... like music, poetry, art, oracles, archery, plague, medicine, sun, light and knowledge. (Which is a mouthful)
[⚜] Powers● Cultural Assimilator ●
Daniel has the ability to understand the practices of wherever he goes, understanding the region that he is in and people. Having the capability of knowing a general culture, or targeting certain practices in certain regions. He easily interprets the culture of wherever he is and essentially knows their everyday lives when he travels to different places. Easily assimilating to his surroundings without a hitch but with his own unique twist. Allowing him to learn languages without much difficulty and its various dialects from different populations. He will never make an offensive mistake wherever he goes, and will simply seem like he's one of them as if he'd lived there his entire life.
● Social Singularity ●
People just... want to get to know Daniel and get closer to him for some reason, it's just this 'air' around him that draws people in. Whether it be a physical attraction or an attraction to understand who he is better, he just has this pull to him. Having an amazing voice and a personality that is just addicting to be around, it's like drowning is warm honey. With the kind of warmth to him that makes him comfortable to be around, you kinda get the feeling that he is a man you would admire even or at least want to be friends with so you know him some more. Like his presence being rays of sun that tickle your cold skin that makes you shiver delightfully that you simply can't gen enough of. You just get the feeling that he is 'the one' that you really want to try and catch before he slips through your hands, causing the shy to have a little more confidence, the arrogant to become bashful, the cold-hearted to give a second glance and cause an array of interesting situations.
● Personal Awareness ●
Daniel has the general feel of how things are going to play out when he sees them and is able to plan around them or go through it successfully. Only able to see what is happening to himself, it plays out by the moment as what he calls intuition or a gut feeling on what is going to happen. Like the tension in the bar with two people arguing loudly that will ignite a bar fight between the entire room or avoid turning down that street that he is going to get mugged in. This ability can also just be called an enhanced survival instinct that is simply helping him avoid things that may potentially harm him or worse. He cannot see what happens to others but if he's in the group, he can feel if something bad is going to happen soon as if it was a sixth sense and can also apply it to everyone else.
[⚜] Fatal FlawA person who will never settle down, his life will be full of friends from around the world but will be forever lonely as he travels alone. With his personality so bright and attracting that draw people close but always fleeting endlessly. Desired yet unreachable as people cannot hold onto his light before it disappears from their world, like a shooting star which brings upon an unknown wish of joyful wonder and awe but so quickly gone. He will unknowingly leave a trail of tears behind him from those that he has met, those whose path come so ever close to his and intertwines for so short before breaking off. With a painful smile from those he met that waves him goodbye before he leaves once more to who knows where he is going,
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[⚜] Personality:Daniel is an outgoing person and certainly adventurous person, who is always seen moving from one place to another. Looking at the world in the first person, it has always been an interesting experience for him during his travels. Being a charming person, he always has his stories to tell to the people that want to listen or give them to his classes to motivate them in culturally learning more about things that they have little or no experience on. Outside of class, he's a talkative person with a bundle of charity to those who need or deserve it. Other times, he's known to be a fun and flirty guy just socially which lightened everyone's day from his remarks.
His trips that he always went on had a plan paired to them in which he stuck through thick stormy parts and thin rough times but he did have a sensible side to himself. Knowing when something is much too dangerous for even for him, and will be cautious about such situations. Making sure to always have a few plans for backup in case he ever needs to pull one of them up for when something unplanned ever came along. Settling down once, he's at his destination or cannot travel any further, its just rinse and repeat after that until he decides to go back home to the States.
Outgoing, Adventurous, Sensible, Calculative, and Willful
[⚜] Skills:Daniel is a certified teacher, a job that may not seem interesting at first glance but it's the experience he garnered from it that makes it interesting. Teaching all grade-levels, his most often position that he teaches is either in High School or College level classes. Having a Masters Degree in both English and Spanish as well which he can fluently speak and write in, which he teaches those two classes interchangeably. However, he also knows French fluently and is certified for ASL with a few other of its families as well. With his credentials, he never stayed within the United States as he always left to explore the world. Taking all of his savings from his job and used it to travel, whether it be on foot, plane, bus or any mode of transportation. He has experienced the world and rarely has settled down in a country before moving on, some places he been to were Columbia, Spain, Mexico, Greece, France, Italy plus many more places in Europe, Central America, and South America. So he has been everywhere, gliding around from place to place for several years before moving on to the next place that he has planned for.
Outside of his work, he likes to keep himself occupied with various activities like reading when he has the time free or exercise but he rarely has time for the latter. However, the road trips have made sure he stays in shape during the long road that he always has planned for himself. It does help keep him in shape as he eats well considering that he makes his own food to save money and more efficiently along with being secretly great at cooking since he was a kid but relatively has no one to cook for except himself. During his time somewhere, he usually spends most of his time helping out the community that he's in and seeks to improve it during his time there.
[⚜] History:Daniel was born in America, raised by his father, Matthew Melton, who never married but always was in a steady relationship for long times. Raising him to be a good son, he in return was a good father as well who worked hard to support himself, Daniel and his sister Judith. Growing up in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood, they grew up learning Spanish to get the gist of what their friends were talking about and quickly learned. Together, they were the school's unique siblings who knew Spanish and were completely white which was an entertaining fact that would carry on into their adulthood. However, things were not always comfortable as they reached rough patches whenever something unexpected happened, but it was nothing to worry about. As they brought the three closer together, confiding in each other for support as they walked forward in life. He grew up going to school being a remarkably smart child, despite not looking like it and so did his sister who was older but wasn't as academically talented instead athletically superior. Together, the two grew up to be an intimidating duo who weren't to be messed with as they moved from place to place, always being known as the two new kids.
Sailing through High School, he passed as expected along with his sister and went to college on an academic and artistic scholarship for his grades and his interest in languages such as Spanish which he knew already. His sister on the other end earned herself an athletic scholarship which allowed her to go to a college which she could enjoy herself but split the pair apart. With him going to school for the Arts, while she went to do her own thing it was the first time they were apart. An uncomfortable event that he would get used to, he would earn his degree quickly as he would juggle around a few jobs and shave a few months off his degrees. He always knew he was uncannily smart but it was more apparent during college.
Taking night school, he went to take classes as he taught as a teacher and eventually got his next degree in English after some time moving around in the States. Moving from the central part of the states to the east coast and then shortly after a few years to the west coast. He then decided to push his Spanish degree into a Masters and got a scholarship to go abroad to teach in Columbia for adults which he gladly took. Allowing him to experience the culture around him and understand the people down there, making some friends with the students there. He spent a year down there before going back to the States to get his Masters and an infatuation to see more. Causing him to become what he is today, becoming a traveling teacher who taught once he got low on money as the traveled the world. Experiencing so many things that burst his tiny bubble from inside the States, he learned many things and met many interesting people as he went from place to place. Sometimes his trips took him back to America as homesickness called, in which he sat down for a few years before uprooting once more and leaving again. Leaving behind an impression on those who he taught and met, his infectious personality and his interest had rubbed on their person.
He eventually got a reputation from a few newspapers that talked about him traveling the world and teaching people, which had caught the attention of those who paid attention. Being interviewed along with his family, it was nice exposure for a short time but it would help build a stable foothold for jobs as he went on his trips once more. Teaching and spreading his stories in his wake, he was an interesting person no doubt and a marvelous teacher which awed the students with his teaching.
[⚜] Family:Matthew Melton (Father) – His father who raised him since he was a kid and did valiantly so, now is a retired man. Always worrying where his baby boy is in the world and Daniel's phone calls never help when describing some of the places he is living. The two have a strong relationship built upon the struggles of their younger years. He is still currently single.
Judith Melton (Half-sister) – During their younger years, the two were protective of each other and as they grew older that never changed. While she may not see Daniel often anymore, she sure still worries about him and constantly calls him every other day to see hows he doing for her own sake and Dad's. The two as siblings are close and never hesitates to offer anything should either one needs anything.
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Notes:Inspired by a few people I know in my life, hopefully he's unique!!!