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Name:
Daniel Vaughan
Age:
24 (January 14th 1948) - [up to date with end of rp]
Face Claim:
Cole Sprouse
Height:
5'11
Accent:
Bronx, New York
Affiliation:
Porter
Role/Occupation:
Drug dealer, works in The Lomax nightclub
Skills:
Conversationalist
Sleight of hand
Mental maths
Swimming
Hosting guests
Planning & throwing parties
Likes:
Drugs
Parties, clubbing
Alcohol
Independence
Staying up all night
Insects, birds and cats
Movies
Politics
Card games, casual gambling
Deep chats
Being outdoors
Thunderstorms
Meditating
Making people happy
Grand gestures and surprises
Dislikes:
Uptight people
Boring conversations, small talk
Mornings
The comedown
Anyone trying to spoil his fun or control him
Housework
Meat - was raised vegetarian
Personality:
Danny is a socialite and an open-book: his friendly disposition, generosity and general interest in people means that he usually makes friends easily and he is always eager to find people to share things with, be it food, drugs or a deep conversation. Even when he lived with his parents he was a free spirit and so now enjoys living by his own rules. It is important to Danny to ensure that everyone around him is having a good time - he always tries to be considerate and sympathetic, and takes pleasure in spreading joy to other people. Having said that, he isn't submissive and won't bend to the will of somebody else if it means going against what he believes or contradicts who he is as a person. In general, Danny walks through life with confidence in his stride and wants nothing more than to live life to the full. However, as an avid drug user, his behaviour has been affected somewhat: his memory is not the most reliable and he has become rather absent-minded over the years, often losing track of an on-going task or forgetting to do it altogether. As an egalitarian, Danny prefers to speak to everyone the same way, so his communication skills are not always as professional as people expect, which has so far affected his ability to hold down a job.
History:
Danny always had a positive relationship with his parents growing up. They were beatniks: his father was a poet, his mother a singer-songwriter, and both of them were about as liberal as one could get. They never bound Danny by rules, instead encouraging him to be independent and explore the world on his own terms. The Bronx wasn't the safest place for a child to roam free, but his parents had a large network of close friends that often stayed at their house during the week, so in a way he had a few dozen parents all raising him at once and looking out for him. During the 1960s, his parents and their friends began taking hallucinogenic drugs and encouraged Danny to experiment with them. He took his first tab of acid at the age of 13 and it marked the beginning of a life-altering journey for him. He didn't do too well at school - his parents, being more the creative types, didn't care much about academia and so never pressured him to do well in his studies, believing that life, books, art and psychoactive drugs could teach him much more than an educational institution ever could.
While Danny's social background provided him with love, support and the freedom to express himself, it didn't set him up very well for the outside world. Shortly after leaving school at the age of 16, his parents and most of their friends joined the Hare Krishna movement and gave up drugs altogether. Danny respected their decision but knew that he didn't want to follow in their footsteps. His parents respected his decision, too, and so came their time to part ways. In 1969, his parents moved to Bombay, India, leaving Danny behind to start a life of his own. At first he floundered without them, and he was fired from almost every job he managed to get for his general lack of professionalism - turning up high, late, or not fulfilling tasks set. With his parents having abstained from drugs and moved away, Danny had ended up in closer contact with his dealers and eventually came to be good enough friends with them that they offered him an opportunity to work alongside them. Higher up in the chain of operations was Alistair Sawyer, leader of the East Harlem gang. However, since Danny only worked on the streets as a dealer, he never got to meet his superiors. The job kept him busy and kept him outdoors; he met a lot of interesting, often dangerous characters but he was efficient and made a lot of money for the gang.
One day after meeting one of his regular customers, Gwen Bryant, in a quiet side street in Manhattan, he was approached by a man, someone he had never seen before. At first Danny thought he was a cop, but with nowhere to run, he could only do his best to act innocent. It didn't work, of course, because the man had been watching the exchange he had made with Gwen, and proceeded to beat him up. He made a deal to Danny: to stay away from Gwen and never sell drugs to her again, and in exchange he would hire him to work as a dealer inside his nightclub, The Lomax. If he ever came back short, then it would be obvious that he had stolen drugs or money - the man made it clear that breaking his trust would have severe consequences. He offered three times the payment that Danny was currently receiving, so he accepted the deal. Danny's change in affiliation of course angered the East Harlem gang but they never went after him, knowing that it was the Porters who were really to blame. It has now been six months since he started working for the Porters and he has earned enough money to rent out a small apartment in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan.
Syd Porter - Boss
Gwenneth Bryant - Former customer
Owen Yu - Roommate
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