Name: Daniel Bolton
Gender pronouns: he/him
Age: 33
Occupation: Firefighter / Derry’s Pub Manager
Hometown: Gaia Cove, Virginia
Amount of time on the island: Always
Face Claim: Chris Hemsworth
Bio: (Triggers: Mental Health, Suicidal thoughts )
Daniel was always a free spirit, so an institution like a school didn’t work much for him, he suffered from ADHD, so it made him feel trapped. He was always skipping classes, going out to skate, surf, and have fun around the town. It was a bit surprising that he actually finished high school, but then again deep down he knew how to make things work for him and was smart, he just wasn’t interested in spending a whole day sitting on a chair listening to a guy that had probably never left their town to see the world.
Right after he finished high school, he immediately got himself to work, he wasn’t interested in getting into another prison-like college, he was all about winning as much money as he could, to leave Sonoma and travel the world and so he did.
He quickly took a backpack and made his way from the coast of Virginia, to California and down to beyond the border, and worked his way from Mexico to La Patagonia.
It was in Mexico that he met what he was certain was the love of his life Adriana when he first met her he thought she was just a middle-class girl he met at a bar while he was working, she taught him how to speak Spanish, how to dance. But things changed when his bar closes down, he was left on the street, that he learned the truth when she gave him a place to stay and found him a job as a kitchen helper in one of her dad’s hotel, things didn’t change much around him it seemed like the more time they spent together the closer they got.
That’s when he also realized that his dream job was to cook for other people, to create dishes, learned about new countries’ food, so that’s when he asked Adriana to join her on his trip, but things got complicated and eventually Daniel left Mexico without her, but they stayed friends, and he was always emailing her, sending her photos about the food he learned to cook, the beaches he had surfed and the people he met.
Right, when he was preparing himself to move his journey to Europe he received an urgent call from his family, asking him to come back, after his father almost lost his life on an emergency call.
He didn’t know just how broken things were at home until he came back to his home to find his dad’s life hanging, his brother suffering from a bad drug addiction, their mom having to deal with everything, having baby sister to be kind of the rock of everything when she should just be enjoying her youth. Daniel felt guilty for leaving his family, and just not being there for them, so he forgot about his dreams, rolled into the Fire Academy like his dad had always wanted, took most of his father’s responsibility at the bar, and just did what he thought would make his parents life a little better and relaxing.
Daniel was trying to be the perfect son, the perfect brother, but living that way trying to make everyone happy but himself, has affected him emotionally, making him very depressed and angry but hiding it very well from everyone. He hit a very dark moment in his life, where he thoughts were strongly affecting him and thinking about ending his life. He force himself to find professional help before he ended up making everything worst for his family due to his silent mental illness, after months his therapist suggest to get a emotional support animal, that’s when he got Arya, most of his family members and everyone around him, just think of her as his beloved dog that he takes everywhere, but deep down, she’s there as part of his therapy progress. And even when she has helped him, Daniel was still suffering quietly from the anger, depression and frustration.
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