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==Before Era==

 

=== Childhood and Adolescence ===

When Daniel was a toddler, Daniel was said to have been playmates with his neighbours [[Dog Arc|dog]]. Despite this, In one of his TikToks, Daniel indicates that he murdered this dog. As he chased the dog around, it jumped over a spiked fence to which it eventually impaled itself due to not being able to jump over it in time.<ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@averagelarsonian/video/7196410748418018606</ref> While Daniel obviously was not the one who killed the animal, this small anecdote was most likely the starting point of his violent tendencies.   

However, claims of Daniel being neglected is confirmed by multiple people, even by his own classmates.<ref>[[Katie Elise]]</ref> And allegedly, Daniel's father forced him to smoke cigerettes as punishment.<ref>[[Spiddlekick Interview]]</ref>

This is evidenced by the fact that, at about age 13 to 14 (or presumably at a younger age), Daniel was taken away from his mother by the State of Colorado due to allegedly being neglected and facing abuse,<ref name=":0">https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/16juf15/discussing_his_childhood/</ref><ref name=":1">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsAGVvnzbms&t=1298s</ref> which Daniel and a later news report affirm. Due to this, Daniel claims that he bounced between 10-15 foster homes. This is also evidenced by leaked documents the DDRC sent to potential fosters families/host homes. What is interesting about these documents is that it warns families that Daniel, "has a history of [[7/11 incident|property damage]], [[Dog Arc|kicking animals]], [[August 29th Meltdown|self-injurious]] behaviour, and verbally threatening or [[December 10th Incident|hitting providers]] when he's upset". Which also corroborates claims of Daniel being extremely violent, even in childhood.   

He was then put in various foster homes<ref name=":1" /> before his grandmother, [[Nancy Shimer]], took legal guardianship of him, including the Tennyson Centers housing program. Despite her kinder treatment of Daniel, Nancy was known to be enabling of his bad habits, according to both of Daniel's parents,<ref name=":4" /> who claimed she rewarded him with M&M's after he painted on her house's walls rather than punishing him.{{Citation Needed}} Due to this enabling, Elisabeth and Travis attempted to gain respective custody of Daniel, before ultimately failing as Daniel was played under Nancy's care. When Travis attempted to file for custody of Daniel, Nancy refuted it by saying that Daniel, "didn't even know his father", which heavily calls into question what their relationship was like. Because of this, Travis grew to have an extreme dislike of Nancy, calling her a bitch and claiming the only reason she had obtained custody of Daniel was due to her financial situation.<ref>[[Spiddlekick Interview]]</ref> Even so, Elisabeth was eventually given access to see Daniel once more.   

Daniel would in the [[Tennyson Center|Tennyson Center for Children]], an assisted living facility for schooling, rehabilitating, and assisting children with intellectual disabilities, due to Daniel facing troubles. At this school, he met his mentor, [[Bob Proctor]], via a reading buddy program wherein they played board games and read together.<ref>[[Spiddlekick Interview]]</ref> Even after the program concluded, Daniel and Bob still remained close.   

Daniel even made it on the news, evidenced by a [https://youtube.com/watch?v=jyCZEd11Hdo 2012 news report on KWGN]. While not entirely focused on Daniel, it would would document his time at the [[Tennyson Center]], where he lived for 1 1/2 years, as well as a small interview with his grandmother.  

Just like his childhood, his time in school was wrought with alleged claims of mistreatment and bullying. Daniel claims that the Tennyson Center was a "very violent place".<ref>[[Spiddlekick Interview]]</ref> According to Daniel, the Tennyson Center had a brick room only lit up by a single window, dubbed the "Timeout Room", where they'd place Daniel on several occasions. His reasoning for being thrown in these rooms for reasons such as excessive crying, and not cooperating with teachers. Other students would be physically restrained due to being violent, however, this seems to have never happened to Daniel. Daniel recalls a time where the whole school was shut down due to one of these instances, with the students instead being forced to have their recess inside the gym.

 

Additionally, when in school, he claimed that children would tease him by calling him "[[wikipedia:Danny_Phantom|Danny Phantom]]", a nickname derived from the fictional character of the same name. Though, this seems very unlikely, as according to a classmate of his, Daniel barely reacted to being called this nickname, and even more, he was so reserved that people barely ever paid attention to him.<ref>[[FlyingFoxandwings AMA]]</ref>   

Sometime in 2014, Daniel started attending several musical theater programs. It is unknown who set him up for these programs, but it can be inferred that his grandmother was the one who introduced him to it. Daniel's mother could have also introduced him to it, as she is documented to have liked to sing (evidenced by the multiple song covers she has made), [[Music Career|just as Daniel would later into his life]].   

Daniel is known to have played in at least 8 musicals, although very rarely getting leading roles - the only time in which he did was King Triton in The Little Mermaid Jr. This would set the groundwork for his desire to be famous.  {{#evt:

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Daniel would start attending [[Sobesky Academy]] in 2016, the year it opened. It should be noted that Sobesky, while having a large population of children with special needs and behavioral issues, was not a special-needs only school. This was due to Sobesky being an [[wikipedia:Alternative_school|alternative transitional school]], which aimed to rehabilitate difficult students and help them sort through their issues to attain academic success.<ref>[[FlyingFoxandwings AMA]]</ref> Due to him never being reintegrated, there are questions surrounding the validity of his high school diploma.

 

Daniel's time in Sobesky is mostly unknown, as Daniel seemingly hasn't talked much about his high-school years, opposed to his time in the Tennyson Center which he seems to hold in higher regard. Though, according to [[FlyingFoxandwings AMA|one of his high-school classmates]], Daniel, even in highschool, had an escort, which implies that Daniel had violent tendencies even then.

Despite being reserved, he would occasionally [[Self Harm|hit himself]] and have [[meltdowns]], which would result in him being put in "close and lock", much akin to the Punishment Room. The reasons why he is so much worse now compared to his time in school could be due to Daniel being heavily medicated when he attended Sobesky and Tennyson, opposed to nowadays where he almost always refuses to be put on antipsychotics. He was often described as someone who was quiet, a "[[FlyingFoxandwings AMA|total wallflower]]", and "pretty normal".

Daniel, despite being [[Intelligence|unable to do basic math,]] to a point where a classmate described him as having academic retention, took math up to Algebra 2.

Daniel would graduate from Sobesky Academy at the age of 19 in 2017. The fact that he's around 19 at the point his graduation photo was taken but looks ~14 really shows how likely it is that he might have been born with fetal alcohol syndrome as it's known to cause slower childhood development.{{Citation Needed}}

In 2019, Nancy passed away from cancer when Daniel was 21, according to Daniel.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyZ_iYN19sY</ref> Before her death, she sent Daniel to a [[First Housing Arc|state-run group home program for the disabled]].{{Citation Needed}} This disability service for the group home also gave him a job at a thrift store in the summer of 2019,<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/139sc49/comment/jj3gtox/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3</ref> where he allegedly had $500 stolen from him via a gift card scam.