Dan

Species - Human

Combat - Bare Hands and Spear

growing up feral in the woods, they fight like an animal with claws like a bear and would go for the eyes first then heart next, otherwise crushes a beings head by smashing against something hard. if he's not fighting close combat, he's firing his spear or other hard and sharp objects to kill his enemies or prey.

Description

a feral warrior. was found during one of lifehacker's missions and was brought in after a fight. he is to rehabilitate into society or decent humanity so he can live a decent life, unfortunately due to his throat scarred and not healing correctly, he can't speak yet with him put under writing and sign language lessons with Zool 26 for language and D.G. & Bookala teaching him writing. he still has his animal instincts and joins in hunts with the wild one like Merida 83 and claws 96, Merida makes sure to keep his communication teachings stable with simple words and drawing words with pictures. dan has slowly shown a domesticated and calmer side since entering while slowly trying to communicate to others in a weird friendly way with pictures and actions.

Dan has gotten close to D.G. (Destruct Gunpowder). after having D.G. help them with their writing and fight training, Dan has gain respect and admiration for them and will do anything to protect their new small friend. D.g. likes them as a friend and happy to have someone who also has to write for communication too.

Backstory

The Feral Caveman… Dan was just a baby with his family on a vacation to snowy landscape, but the plane crash landed on a batch of woods in a mix of tundra and coniferous forests. In a week, a rescue team began to find survivors of the crash with Dan’s parents rescued, but not Dan himself. During the crash, a dire wolf picked up Dan and took it back to its pack. The wolves surround Dan, some tempted to eat him while others show parental care for the small baby. The leader crawled forward, staring down the baby, and howled loud to warn those who dare to hurt the child shall suffer by the leader’s teeth, and Dan was a part of the pack now as the new pup. 

Dan was never found by the rescue team and was declared dead. But in reality, Dan grew up with the Dire wolves, learning to crawl like one, to hunt with his teeth and hands, to howl loud and proud like a wolf. But at the age of 7, the Dire wolves were going extinct with only the leader left in old age. The leader tried to stay as long as possible to make sure Dan was gonna be ok but its time was coming with weak howls, gentle bites, and shaking body. As Dan rode the leader in the woods, they met a sleuth of brown bears. The biggest of the bears came forward, standing tall over the two as if intimidating them. The leader growled as much strength and volume they could, but it wasn’t enough to intimidate back. But Dan stood on the wolf and roared his loudest at the bear and stared straight into the bear’s eyes. The two stared with glares of pride and menacing dominance, neither would back down until the other folded. As the two continued their stare of dominance, the leader couldn’t stand any more and collapsed to the dirt in a coughing growl. Dan fell off but quickly shifted to the wolf’s side, shaking the wolf in hopes the leader still had fight left in their body, to keep standing strong… but the wolf only laid down, whimpering as it licked Dan’s face before resting forever… Dan clung to the wolf and cried, losing his guardian right in front of him as the bears surrounded the two. The bears circled Dan and the leader, ready to maul and claw, but the enormous bear roared and pushed all the small bears away. The big bear saw how depressed Dan was, and took in Dan out of respect for never backing down.

Dan soon lived with the bears for a while; eating fish with his bare hands, fighting for territory, and preparing for winter. Dan grew to stand more on his legs with the bears and used more of his hands to grab and build with it. Discovering new motor functions, Dan grabbed many things and either threw them around or place them elsewhere… until he discovered fire, but throwing a stone containing metal at a boulder of flint and sparks lit from the friction. Dan was curious and smashed the rock at it again, seeing sparks once more. The sparks flew to a patch of dry twigs in the sand, creating fire that made Dan’s eyes lit up in its founding. The river soon put it out by a splash on shore, but Dan grabbed the rocks and brought them to the cave of bears. Dan showed his discovery of fire, using twigs and the stones and igniting the flames that shone in the den. The bears were amazed with the leader sitting down and a paw on Dan’s back. Dan smiled while sensing a feeling of pride and honor from the leader, but Dan’s eyes flew to the stone formations that were covered in paintings. Cavemen writings covered the dim walls as Dan studied them and learned from the visuals. Dan learned to use the fire as a tool for warmth, cooking fish and meats, and forging tools. With ancient knowledge passed to Dan, Dan and the bears grew higher on the food chain and conquered the forest with Dan riding on the leader and roaring loud like his canine ancestors of his old pack.

Dan was in his teens when he was prowling the forest with a selective group of bears… Until a clan of mountain lions circled around the bears, creeping up in formation to feast on their prey. Dan saw the felines and threw his spear with piercing force, sniping one straight through the skull. The rest pounced, bears clawed and stood strong, as a bloodbath of dominating forces battled for survival and food. Dan fought back, but got clawed in the throat, limbs, and face with lasting scars. With a voice fleeting away, bears falling with the pumas going for necks, with one last ounce of strength, Dan roared his ounce of sound before losing his voice. The cougars fled, but many bears had fallen in battle… Dan felt rage and a rising sense of vengeance, he tracked the lions and followed them back to their main clan… finding the dry boulders they claimed their territory on surrounded by dry bushes and giant trees…

The Mountain lions watched Dan approach… holding his spear of metallic stone and his other hand holding a flint stone… Dan stomped towards the boulders and with his sore throat, roared once more with thundering volumes and rough, broken audio from his throat being slashed at… the lions charged at Dan and the fight began, teaming up on Dan… Dan threw them off and stabbed with his spear straight threw them in fatal blows; their heads, their hearts, their necks… Dan wanted to avenge his fallen bear brothers and wanted blood… the leader lion charged at Dan with the two clashing claws for glory… blood splattered, fangs bared and knocked out,  and a bloody spear thrashing through the air and skin… the leader Cougar came running up to Dan. Dan scratched the flint on the spear and sent fire onto a small patch of leaves. As soon the fire started, Dan stabbed his spear into the fire then pierced the feline once it got close and the stone was burning hot… The spear covered in crimson and a dying beating heart at the tip, Dan defeated the Lion roared in victory. Unfortunately, there was no time for glory as the fire began to grow further and hit the dry bushes and trees… a forest fire had started, as the pumas began the run away from the flames… Dan saw the flames coming and ran to his bear sleuth… despite his efforts, the flames were faster as it engulfed the forest, burning everywhere and everything in sight. Animals screaming, trees dying, creatures fleeing… the fire took without any mercy to give… Dan managed to find his den but it was covered in fire with a few bears dying and burning. Dan kept running and trying to save his bear family. Suddenly a tree came crashing down towards Dan. Dan attempted to escape, but caught his foot in fallen branches and struggled. Before the tree could hit Dan, the leader bear came in and pushed back at the tree and slashed at the branches trapping Dan’s leg. The leader bear was limping from falling branches during the fire, but had enough strength to pick up Dan and run towards the edge of the flames and to a field of common white clovers and corn poppies. The leader soon stumbled and fell to its side, Dan clinging to the fur and massive form until they both lay on the grass together. Dan got up and crawled to the face of the bear, seeing the face panting and torn by burning branches… The bear was in critical condition with limbs weak and shaking, a few burns on the body, inhaling so much smoke as it even burned to breathe… the light slowly faded from the bear’s with Dan beginning to shed tears. Dan hugged the bear’s head and kept holding until the bear’s last breath… 

The forest fire was slowly dying, as firemen and other emergency forces came in with all-born vehicles to put the fiery beast out… a helicopter soon found Dan and the dead leader and called in reinforcements… As firemen came close, Dan growled whatever sense of noise out before coughing and clinging weakly at the leader bear’s body. Dan was apprehended for a moment as medics looked at the bear. Many individuals pinned Dan’s limps down as Dan could struggle and whimper. Dan couldn’t understand what everyone was saying as he kept struggling, needing to be by the leader’s side, to not lose his only guardian left… Dan snapped, and threw everyone off of him and began crawling on all fours out of the area… Dan ran fast to chase them off… Dan soon climbed the trees and saw his guardian being taken away by a helicopter… Dan whimpers before breaking more of his voice to roar out in sorrow and pain. The volume reached levels that were thunderous and booming to the treetops and mountains as even wolves howled back in volumes to echo the sorrows that day… 

Dan managed to lose the humans, as word of a feral caveman rumored around the towns and cities surrounding the forests Dan lived in… and soon word got to someone other worldly… a being of horns, a tail, and wings traveled through the forest. It was lifehacker as they were on a mission for a feral caveman to be taken away from the realm and relocated… Lifehacker kept walking and flying close to the trees with their Ace eyes of life to find the caveman, but there were only traces of animals and souls belonging to the realm… Lifehacker landed and began to channel magic to their senses for anything human and anomalous. Lifehacker could sense a human by smell and sound, but nothing different from the realm’s conditions which confused Lifehacker… if this was a caveman from somewhere else, then why couldn’t it be sensed?... That's when a figure came running up to Lifehacker and stabbed a spear into Lifehacker’s wing. With quick thinking, Lifehacker used their tail to grab Dan and summersaulted Dan into the ground. Grabbing the spear out of their wing and instantly healing it, Lifehacker flew up and examined the figure… They examined Dan and saw how tethered and unkept Dan’s body was with the pelts on his body, rotting and causing rashes on Dan, as scars covered Dan deeply with both fresh and healed hatching his skin. Lifehacker pieced everything together and realised this was the caveman that was rumored to be here. Lifehacker used their eyes to read Dan’s soul and saw the suffering and struggles Dan went through. Dan  kept trying to attack Lifehacker while Lifehacker scanned with their eyes. As Dan threw a claw at Lifehacker, they caught it and pulled Dan into a hug, comforting Dan with purrs and noises to communicate that Lifehacker was a friend than a foe… Dan hears comfort… safety… familiarity… security… a sense of family as Dan began to whimper and cry… as if bringing times of old when Dan was a young toddler with the wolves… with the leader dire wolf… 

Dan goes limp and clings to Lifehacker, whimpering sobs as his grip practically crushes Lifehacker and Lifehacker needing to heal with bones while shapeshifting into something more squishable so Dan can release his emotions… After that, Lifehacker took Dan in and began Dan’s reinstallment into society… at least the bare necessities. Dan was so feral at the Home I2, The Newbie Grounds, that Kalin and Caelan had to tag team him to just stay still and not claw at others. Bookala struggled to teach Dan any sense of writing after Mason 49’s examination and medical reports showing significant damage to Dan’s throat and vocal cords… So Bookala decides on an idea to get another mute individual to help with Dan’s literacy… Bookala brought in D.G. to communicate with Dan. Dan and D.G. fought at first with Dan thinking D.G. was a mouse and needed to defend his grounds. But D.G. used bombs and fire which scared Dan back. Dan learned D.G. has fire and began to back down, but still kept his guard up. D.G. led Dan back to writing and began to teach Dan slowly with simple words. Dan learned small words like “cat” and “Wolf” and later learned verbs and conjunctions so Dan could learn simple sentences. Dan learned how to speak through writing as he kept writing to D.G… the two talked with literal words as Dan learned to get along with others and to stand more on his legs than all fours. He learned that not everyone is dangerous, he learned that fighting for territory wasn’t needed anymore, he learned… This was his pack now… and learning new things he never got the chance to… he has learned to respect and admire many with most towards D.G. and high respect to Lifehacker… Dan found his den, and never wants to lose another to a disaster ever again.