Daniel Mitchell

"Daniel is going to be at my house next week and I have no cranberry juice whatsoever."

--Caleb on Daniel's obsession with cranberry juice.

Daniel Aaric Mitchell is the youngest brother of Aaric Mitchell, Conley Mitchell, and Caleb Mitchell. He also possesses the mark of Molecular Manipulation much like his older brother, Conley. His mother died after giving birth to him, leading to Aaric and Aaric's ex-wife, Mason Mitchell, raising him. Daniel was also born deaf.

Early Life
Daniel was born on December 21, 2433. Shortly after he was born, his mother was killed due to child birth complications. Before taking him home, Aaric and Mason realized that he was deaf when he didn't respond to any sound that was made.

At some point, Daniel had a hearing dog, a rare black Golden Retriever named Connie. Daniel was very close to Connie and was devastated enough that after she died, he didn't want another hearing dog. However, when he was 16, his girlfriend at the time, Hayden Zachariah, convinced him to get another one. This led to him getting a Siberian Husky, a now rare breed of dog, named Artic.

Appearence
"While he was deaf and most girls found that unnattractive, he was muscular and good-looking and, above everything else, he was kind. He was a lot like Jensen, in fact. And his eyes were what made her melt. She could never get his deep blue eyes out of her mind."

--Hayden on Daniel's physical appearence.

Like his older brothers, Daniel has jet black hair and pale coloured skin. Unlike his brothers however, he has deep dark blue eyes, something that people find odd.

As noted by Hayden, Shade, and Jensen, Daniel is noted to be very attractive. However, girls typically don't talk to him due to him being deaf and not knowing how to talk, speaking only in Sign Language. Like his older brothers, he is commonly called Pretty Boy.

Unlike other males who are marked, Daniel does not possess the large cross on his back that looks like a tattoo. While not common, Aaric stated that it has happened before on rare occasions.

Personality
"This just got personal."

--Daniel's angry personality seen for the first time by Aaric and Hayden.

Being deaf and unable to communicate with other kids at school, Daniel was naturally shy and preffered being alone as opposed to having a number of friends. He is, however, a very confident person as he refused to go to a school for the deaf and wanted to go to regular school.

When he and Hayden began dating, he was shown to be very concerned for her well-being such as when she accidentally touched his hand in class and he was afraid he might have accidentally froze her.

When the storm demon managed to kill Jensen and Shade, Daniel's angery personality was seen for the first time ever by both Aaric and Hayden upon discovering Jensen's body. During this time, he ruthlessly killed the storm demon without feeling any shred of empathy.

While initially unable to stick for himself and Jensen always defending him, Daniel later learned to be able to stick for himself. He was also very forgiving as he was able to forgive Ashton for years of bullying and the two later became friends.

When the topic of Daniel being deaf is brought up, he is usually unmoved by it. But when people ask why he doesn't have a corrective surgery to be able to hear, he immediately feels both offended and insecure as he explains that no corrective surgery currently avalible works.

The Boxes of Lucifer
Daniel Mitchell: "It bothers me because I feel like people want me to change. Everyone expects something of me. No one seems to be happy with who I am."

--Daniel and Hayden discussing why he doesn't have a surgery to be able to hear.

While Conley got ready to go to work, Daniel had overslept through his alarm due to glitches that were causing the wires to freeze. Even though he was late to school, Daniel still decided to go for his other class rather than staying home.

During the half hour break, the school counselor wanted him to meet a new girl who was just starting at the school, Hayden Zachariah. The counselor then explained that Hayden knew Sign Language and that she thought it would be a good idea for them two to meet. Upon first meeting her, Daniel found her incredibly beautiful and was glad to know that their schedules were exactly the same.

While showing her to her locker, Daniel and Hayden were confronted by Jensen Alistair and Shade Masters, the former deciding that he wanted to be friends with Daniel, and their own little group formed. While Jensen didn't know much sign language at the time, Shade and Hayden translated for both of the two boys until Jensen learned how to sign fluently enough.

After their last class ended, Daniel sat with Hayden in the front of the school while waiting for Cas, Conley's girlfriend, to pick him up and while Hayden waited for her aunt to pick her up. It was there that Hayden had accidentally brought up the procedures to give deaf people the ability to hear. Daniel then explained that none of the procedures worked and that he was glad they didn't because he didn't want to change for anybody.

Later on, when going to tke a shower, Daniel accidentally froze the water, shocking him and then immediately scaring him. While having a panic attack on the bathroom floor, Conley came in and comforted him, telling him that it was okay.

Later, ir was decided that Daniel would stay with Aaric to better control his mark. During class that day, Hayden had accidentally touched his hand which caused him to worry that she was going to freeze. When she didn't, he was relieved.

After being picked up by Aaric, the two were confronted by a group of vampires along with their Alpha Vampire. After a short exchange, he and Aaric engaged the Alpha and his vampire group, unknown to him that Jensen and Shade had seen Aaric's sunlight while driving up the mountain side. Just as the couple had pulled up, they witnessed Daniel killing the Alpha, killing every vampire he turned as well.

Immediately after the fight, Aaric welcomed the couple in and explained everything that happened. To Daniel's surprised, Jensen also had a Mark, the divine essance of angels, with Jensen's being Sound Manipulation. He later learned that they both could see sound as color, though they worked differently; while Jensen saw every sound possibly made as a color, Daniel only saw certain sounds. And while Jensen's was due to his mark, Daniel's was due to what was presumed to be Chromesthesia, a conversion disorder caused by the loss of his sense of hearing and then mixed with his sense of sight.

While Jensen fell sick due to the sickness that was followed by the awakening of a mark, Jensen slept in Daniel's room on an extra bed so that both he and Aaric could keep an eye over him. A couple of weeks into the sickness, Daniel noticed that Jensen was beginning to have a hard time breathing and that his body temperature was fatally high. As Jensen began to die, Daniel began to panic as Aaric was gone.

Taking the risk of accidentally freezing him, Daniel managed to use his mark to cool Jensen's body temperature down which in turn returned his breathing to normal, effectively saving Jensen's life.

A couple weeks later, while Jensen was recovering, Daniel, Shade, and Hayden all decided to go to the community pool to hang out. It was here that he and Hayden finally confessed to each other that they had a crush for one another and shared their first kiss, with Shade spurring Hayden to make a move.

While getting ready to leave, the community pool came under attack by a storm demon who used red lightning to destroy not just the community pool, but the entire block as well, destroying many historical buildings. While Daniel, Hayden, and Shade managed to come out of the event with minor injuries, most of everyone else in the building died either from the crumbling building or from the lightning striking the water while people were still inside.

A couple of weeks later, while Hayden, Shade, and Jensen were sleeping over, a marked woman named Becka broke into the house while they slept. While Daniel didn't notice, Hayden did and woke him up. After Becka and Aaric exchanged a brief conversation, Daniel and Aaric attacked her, leading to a fight breaking out.

The fight eventually awoke Jensen and Shade, leading to them two and Hayden joining the fight against Becka. To Daniel's surprise, the three of them and himself were able to breifly keep up with Becka, despite being completely untrained to handle such a situation. However, Jensen and Shade were quickly incapacitated and Becka delivered an attack that was meant for Daniel but hit Hayden, angering him.

Daniel then tried to freeze Becka while she felw across the room, no longer needing to be touching his target, but only managed to freeze her arm. While it wasn't enough to kill her, it was devastating enough to drive her to borderline insanity. When she went to deliver the killing blow to Aaric, Shade, and Jensen, Daniel managed to stab her in the back. Though this still didn't kill her, she escaped and the group presumed that she eventually bled out or she froze internally.

The next day, he and Hayden went to see her aunt off of her plane and learned that Hayden's other aunt, Bray Zachariah, was also deaf. The two then convinced him to getting a hearing dog, a rare siberian husky whom he named Artic.

Later one, Aaric and Jensen found a strange black box with a red inverted pentagram on the bottom in Becka's messenger bag. Through reasons not specified, Aaric had the group go to the family manor to search it for another box. While Jensen searched the basement, Shade searched the middle floor, and Aaric and Hayden searched the third floor, he searched the attic.

To his surprise, he found the attic filled with mountain piles of junk, something he considered unusual for Caleb seeing as Caleb was a clean freak. He then noticed that everything seemed to be shifting and that the piles of junk were just an illusion. He then awakened a new power to force molecules back to their proper spot, getting rid of the illusion, which was used in conjuction with his long-term power to see how molecules react in different environments.

Upon doing so, he uncovered another box and ran down to the third floor to tell Aaric. There, he could see that molecules were being forced out of place though he couldn't see in what way. Regardless, he was able to get rid of the illusion that Hayden and Aaric were seeing. After getting rid of the illsuions the box had produced all throughout the house, he later returned home.

When he and Hayden and Artic went with Aaric to the grocery store, the four of them ran into Aaric's ex-wife, Mason Mitchell. During the night of the Winter Formal, he and Hayden went together along with Shade and Jensen. While they enjoyed the Formal, they decided to leave a little bit earlier than everyone else.

While driving Shade and Jensen home, he could see the two of them getting into an argument with Hayden being upset at what they were arguing about. Though they never revealed what happened to Daniel.

A couple of days later, Daniel went with Aaric to the Bennet Family Home in search for another box. When he used his new power to get rid of an illusion the box was producing to make itself appear invisible, he suddenly felt extremely tired and Aaric had to help him back to the car.

Later that day, he began bleeding from his eyes, ears, and mouth and his breathing was dangerously shallow. With the help of Cas, Conley's now ex-girlfriend, he soon recovered after a couple of weeks.

Shade then called Aaric telling them to come over along with Hayden. Upon arriving, with Jensen following, they found a metal safebox similar to all the other ones the boxes were being held in. Before the group could react, a red lightning bolt struck the middle of the house, creating a massive explosion that separated him from Aaric and Hayden.

When Hayden and Aaric unburied him, they began searching for Jensen and Shade, Daniel discovering Jensen's dead body. While he was initially deeply devastated, he then noticed a necklace that Jensen wore, a purple crystal wit two metal bands twirling downward to wrap around the crystal, that closely resembled the black crystal Daniel commonly wore.

Daniel then stated that the storm demon just made things personal, showing a darker side of him that was enough to intimidate Hayden and even Aaric.

When the three of them left the ruins of the house, they found that the entire neighborhood had been destroyed by the storm demon. He and Aaric then fought a witch who had a group of demons following her. After they managed to successfully kill her, they managed to leave the neighborhood and noticed six red lightning bolts shooting up into the sky.

After he and Aaric realized that each bolt represented one box as one by one, they began to disappear, Daniel convinced Hayden to return to Aaric's house so that she would be hurt anymore than she already was from the explosion.

When he and Aaric made their way to the last lightning bolt, they witnessed a witch and a few demons begin to fight the demons guarding the last box. During the battle, they were joined by Mason, who was carrying a violin with her, and Bray and her hearing dog, Bruno. Bray then left when Aaric explained that Hayden had returned to his house.

Once the fight was over, the three of them went to recover the last box but were confronted by the storm demon and a large group of demons. As the demons were about to attack, they were joined by Caleb, his girlfriend Alex, the witch Kristen, Conley, his friend Marcus, Marcus's son Kenny, who was also marked, and a demon named Cain, whom Conleuy had befriended.

When the demons all attacked, Daniel witnessed Mason's mark when she began playing the violin and opened the ground up in front of them, swallowing he demons, and then closing the ground back together, effectively killing the storm demon's remaining demons. When the storm demon himself went to attack, he was quickly subdued and pinned to the ground by Conley, who was about to deliver the killing blow.

Aaric however stated that Daniel should do it since the demon had killed his two best friends. Daniel grabbed the storm demon's throat which froze his entire body. Daniel then slammed his foot down on the demon's frozen head, shattering it and killing the demon.

After the fight and returning home, he and Hayden decided it was best to break up though the two remained very close friends.

During his 17th birthday, he then became friends with longtime bully Ashton Brennen.

The Ephemeral Line
At the end of The Marked, four months after the events of The Marked, Daniel is seen going to the Elenwood Nation University with his hearing dog, Artic.

Marked Abilities

 * Molecular Manipulation: Daniel was born marked but for whatever reason, he didn't suffer from the sickness that followed upon awakening it. While initially believed to have Chromesthesia, a conversion disorder caused by the loss of his hearing sense, it later turned out to be part of his mark, the ability to see how molecules react in different environments. He also developed the ability to slow molecules down to where they lose their kinetic engery and crystalize, creating ice; he can use this ability through touch or remotely. He was able to control this ability more to where he could lower Jensen's body temperaure without killing him. When used in conjunction with his ability to see how molecules react to different environments, he also developed the passive abililty to force molecules back to the correct state if they are being forced out of place.
 * Molecular Vision: While unknown to Aaric and the rest of his family, Daniel had awakened his mark at an extremely young age, his first aspect of his mark being Molecular Vision. While initially thought to be a form of Synesthesia, it was later revealed that Daniel was seeing how molecules reacted to sound. Due to years of passively using this ability, this is considered his strongest ability yet.
 * Knife Fighting: With his older brother, Conley, being the Executive of the E.N. Security, Conley taught Daniel how to fight with a knife. This skill was later used more after awakening his mark. Aaric has noted that Daniel's skill with a knife was on par with that of Conley's, who was considered the best knife fighter at the E.N. Security building.
 * Sign Language: Due to being born deaf, Daniel naturally does not know how to speak though he has tried to learn to no avail. As such, he is very fluent in sign language and is his native language.