DANIEL CARTER.

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biography.

|| Note: As with canon The Boys characters, this is meant to be a parody of other superheroes, and Daniel is mainly inspired by the Winter Soldier, with some influences from some other superheroes. I do not claim to own those ideas, nor do I intend to profit off them lol, I'm just here to write him as a hobby and have fun. ||

Daniel was born in 1915, in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James and Lillie Carter. Dan's parents were a wealthy couple, with James being a prominent industrialist owning half the steel mills in the state. James was a typical case of toxic masculinity, and while he and Lillie started out as a happy couple, once Daniel came into their lives, their differences was only magnified by their disagreement on how to raise their child, causing some friction in their relationship. James wanted to raise his son with a strict hand, while Lillie felt her husband was too harsh on their boy, and would often come to Daniel's defense. After all, he was just a kid, and still learning. Despite their difference in parenting, Lillie got pregnant with their second child. At only four years old, Daniel was initially not happy with the idea of a younger sibling, however Lillie managed to convince him it would be a good thing, and Daniel became more excited to meet his baby sibling as the birth drew closer.

The excitement was short-lived when the day finally arrived. While Dan's baby brother, Benjamin, was brought into the world without any health issues of his own, Lillie did not survive giving birth to him. Something broke in their father at the loss of his wife. What had already been a cold and strict father figure turned neglectful and verbally abusive. Daniel was not allowed to talk about his mother. James spent more time at work, and away from home, finding himself blaming his youngest son for Lillie's death, and feeling the need to be away from him as much as possible. When he was home, he would express his pain through verbal abuse, mainly towards Benjamin, although Daniel would also suffer it from time to time, especially when trying to stand up for his little brother. Daniel himself became depressed at the sudden and unexpected loss of his mother, though after a couple of years when he had become a little older, he made a silent promise to look after Benjamin for her, like she had done for him, as she no longer was there to do so.

While still in school, their father would eventually send Ben away to a boarding school, leaving Daniel alone with their father. The verbal abuse lessened when Ben was away, and it became evident that James' main issue was with Ben, not Daniel, something Daniel couldn't help but feel bad about, even if it wasn't his fault. Finishing high school, Daniel joined the military in 1935. About four years later, the second world war in human history started.

Daniel was part of the US Military during the war, and helped fight against the Axis powers. Unfortunately, he would never return home, and become one of the many soldiers who was classified as MIA. As his father was notified of this, he could only further look upon his youngest son with disdain when he found out that Ben had become a supe, as in James' eyes, Daniel had served and likely died for his country and for the world like a "real man", while Ben, who had taken an experimental drug and gained superpowers, had, in James' eyes "cheated".

However, Daniel was still alive, taken captive by enemy forces who sought to replicate the US' creation of a super soldier. Having gotten their hands on some of the experimental Compound V from a contact within Vought, they injected Daniel with it, and as a result, he gained super abilities; increased strength, reflexes, speed, durability, agility, senses, slowed aging, fast healing, although with limits as he can't heal lost limbs. Decades of being put through experimentation, physical and psychological torture and brainwashing later, Daniel has been molded into a sleeper agent / assassin. Any memory of his past life has been pushed so far into his subconscious that they deem it no risk of resurfacing, and he has been programmed to carry out orders without the capability to resist if given specific commands. As such, he has been given two new identities; one for when he is not on an active mission and needs to blend in with the public; Daniel Lewis. And one for when he is on an active mission, forced to carry out orders by his captors, which has been given the alias Phantom Sniper.

Who his captors are remains a mystery. All that is for certain is that they were not on either side during WWII, but fought for their own, shady causes, seeking to ultimately bring down the current powers across the world, to further their own agenda.

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