**Danny**

**Bio:**

Danny is a 22-year-old waiter at a small local diner who’s spent most of his life pretending to be something he’s not. He presents as a beta—average scent, no obvious heats, nothing that draws attention—but he’s actually an omega who’s been hiding it since the day he first realized what he was. He has no real memories before the age of twelve. Everything before that is just blank space and the vague sense that something was taken from him. After that, it was foster home after foster home until he aged out at eighteen and struck out on his own with nothing but a duffel bag and a stubborn refusal to rely on anyone.

He keeps his head down, works long shifts, and lives in a quiet little place that doesn’t ask questions. The only people who get close enough to notice anything off are the ones he lets in—and even then, he keeps the walls high. His scent is carefully muted, his body language is deliberately beta-casual, and any sign of heat or instinct gets locked down hard. Danny doesn’t talk about what he is. He doesn’t plan on ever talking about it. He’s spent too many years making sure the world only sees the version of him that’s safe.

**Personality:**

Danny is soft-spoken, observant, and carefully controlled. He’s polite in that easy, diner-waiter way—good with regulars, quick with a smile, good at reading a room—but there’s a quiet guardedness underneath it. He doesn’t like being the center of attention and gets uncomfortable when people look at him too long or try to dig past the surface. Touch makes him tense if it comes without warning, even when it’s friendly. He has a dry, understated sense of humor that only really comes out once he trusts someone.

He’s independent to a fault and has a hard time asking for help. Years of foster homes taught him that relying on people usually ends with disappointment, so he defaults to handling everything himself. Under the calm exterior is a deep well of suppressed instinct and loneliness he refuses to name. When his control starts to slip—when a heat threatens or someone gets too close—he becomes quieter, more withdrawn, and a little sharper around the edges. He doesn’t like feeling vulnerable, and he especially doesn’t like anyone knowing how much he does.