Daniel Safety

About
Daniel Safety was the son of the Apostle Abert Safety and a founding member of the non-magic user rights group Ice Flame.

Daniel was born at an uncertain point in the past to Abert Safety and an unknown mother. Daniel's mother was the most recent in a long string of women who his father had chosen to test whether or not they met his ideals for a woman and were worthy of serving. While the exact details of Daniel's mother's trials were unknown, she was driven insane by them shortly after giving birth to him, leaving him without a mother. Though Abert was unfazed by her death, he became fond of Daniel and chose to take him along on his travels to find the ideal woman. Daniel loved his father immensely and enjoyed traveling by his side, but, unaware of his nature as an Apostle, became concerned when he remained the same age physically while he himself grew. Believing his father to be sick with an unknown disease, Daniel began training himself to become a doctor in hopes that he would someday be able to find a cure for him.

Later in his life, Daniel settled down with a woman in the magic kingdom of Zeth and began to present his father, who was physically much younger than him, as his son. Soon after settling in Zeth, Daniel joined the anti-mage organization the Pentagon, where he quickly became a member of the 8 Knights, the eight highest ranking people within the group. During this time, he formed a close friendship with the Planeis family. Over time, however, the once moderate Pentagon began to shift into a more extremist direction under the orders of its mage-hating leader Nelson Server, leading to its members engaging in highly violent and dangerous operations. Dissatisfied with the direction the group had shifted in, Daniel, along with the members of the Planeis family, broke away from the Pentagon to form Ice Flame, an organization created under the same principles of attaining equality between magic and non-magic users that the Pentagon was founded with.

Not long after Ice Flame's founding, however, Daniel, his wife and the Planeis family were caught in an ambush set up by the Zeth Security force while attempting a large scale rescue mission. Daniel's wife was killed in the massacre, alongside his comrade Billferme Planeis and his parents. Though Daniel managed to escape with his life alongside the Planeis' daughter Urza, he was left severely injured while the trauma of witnessing her family members' deaths caused Urza to lose the ability to move her legs. Saddened by his wife and friends' deaths, Daniel swore to protect and care for Urza as if she were his own daughter, hoping to help her regain the ability to walk again while also dutifully assisting her in leading and managing the remnants of Ice Flame. Unbeknownst to Daniel, the entire incident was the result of his father Abert's manipulations, as Urza had caught his eye and he had wanted to test her willpower by putting her through severe trauma.

During the events of Rance VI, Daniel's father rescued the warrior Rance from the slave arena of Zeth's secretary of education Radon Alphone. Daniel disliked Rance's perverted and aggressive behavior, believing him to be a danger to Urza, but allowed him to become a part of Ice Flame per Urza's wishes, assigning him to the White Corps, the group's main offensive faction. After Rance slaughtered the entirety of the White Corps, an angered Daniel was forced to acknowledge his exceptional power and organized him his own squad to lead known as the Green Corps. Daniel continued to support Urza with running Ice Flame by assisting her in organizing missions as well as sporadically providing additional members for the Green Corps.

Following the deactivation of the Maginot Line and the invasion of the monster army led by the Dark Lord Kamilla into Zeth, Ice Flame's headquarters became overwhelmed by monster forces. As a final act of protection, Daniel gave the still-paralyzed Urza a chance to escape while he held off the attacking monsters. During his final moments, Daniel thought back to the time he had spent in his youth traveling with his father, his decision to become a doctor to help him, and how he had used what he had learned to protect and nurture Urza, feeling only pride in the face of death. After the base had been completely cleared of the invaders, Daniel's body was found atop a pile of monster corpses, with a calm, content expression on his face. Daniel was buried atop a small hill in the forest bordering Ice Flame's headquarters alongside Urza's brother and parents, with the children from Kimchi Drive's orphanage regularly paying their respects to him by placing flowers on his grave.

Personality and Appearance
Daniel was an old man with a large, imposing figure and a serious expression on his face at all times. He wore a simple purple shirt with a lab coat along with a small pair of glasses and had a long white beard and a bald head. In his youth, he was shown to closely resemble his father Abert, possessing soft features and wavy silver hair.

A brooding man who was deeply concerned for the future of Zeth, Daniel had lost nearly everything that was important to him to tragedy throughout his life, resulting in him carrying himself with a level of somber severity that caused him to appear to be aloof and intimidating to others. He was highly distrustful of outsiders and expressed concern whenever Rance forcefully recruited an unknown person into Ice Flame without either his or Urza's permission. He seemed to dislike mages in particular due to the unimaginable amounts of anguish they had caused the second class citizens of Zeth, but he nonetheless chose to follow along with his organization's belief in an eventual peace between both magic and non-magic users, resulting in him tolerating the presence of mages within it. Despite these qualities, Daniel was above all else a compassionate and caring person who put the safety of others far above his own and consciously chose to put on a stoic and unfeeling persona in order to avoid worrying his allies. His compassion shone through in his final moments, where he gave his life to protect Urza and the other members of Ice Flame without hesitation. Daniel had an extremely close relationship with Ice Flame's leader Urza Planeis. While he had been close friends with Urza and her family when they were all involved with the Pentagon, their relationship reached a new level after the two of them became the sole survivors of a massacre that killed their respective families. Unable to have a child with his own wife, Daniel came to see Urza as his own daughter and devoted the remainder of his life to taking care of her in her weakened and traumatized state. Daniel was rarely ever seen far from Urza's side, acting as an advisor, a confidant and a doctor all at once to her and expressing extreme concern for her well being whenever he believed she was in danger. When Urza was required to leave Ice Flame's headquarters, Daniel would carry her on his back in a device of his own invention. Daniel's final act was done to ensure Urza's safety, and it was because of this sacrifice that Urza was finally able to overcome her previous trauma and regain the ability to walk, showing just how deeply it had moved her. Daniel's relationship with his father Abert was somewhat complicated. While Daniel deeply loved and respected his father, to the point of training to become a doctor in order to discover a way for him to be able to age normally, Abert frequently manipulated him without his knowledge in order to assist in testing the women who he believed fit his ideals. It was a direct result of Abert's actions that Daniel lost his wife and friends and Urza was left disabled, though as Daniel was unaware of this he remained respectful towards his father, to the point of nostalgically thinking back to their time together before his death.

Daniel held a firm dislike of Rance due to deeming his rude and unpredictable behavior as a potential threat to Urza's well-being. While he reluctantly acknowledged that the warrior's excellent strength was vital to assisting Ice Flame in achieving its goals, he made careful efforts to keep him away from Urza as much as he could. Despite this, Daniel seemed to have a strong understanding of how the warrior's mind worked, and took advantage of his perverted nature by advertising lessons on Zeth history and society as meetings with a cute girl, much to Rance's frustration. Over time, however, Daniel began to acknowledge that Rance's efforts were largely responsible for Urza's condition improving substantially, causing him to gain respect for the other man.

Abilities
Daniel was a highly talented and very versatile man who possessed both a strong mind and body. He had a high Level Cap of 39, which he had successfully reached by the end of his life, and a large and powerful physique that allowed him to remain a formidable and deadly fighter even into his old age. His skill as a warrior was highly regarded by all who knew him, with even Rance expressing hesitance in approaching Urza initially out of fear of having to fight him. Daniel's great power was proven during his last stand defending Ice Flame's headquarters from invading monsters, where he left a literal mountain of corpses in his wake before finally falling.

In combat, Daniel was a skilled practitioner of kenpo, a powerful martial art that allows the user to redirect attacks back at their enemies. In addition to his kenpo ability, Daniel's extensive knowledge of physiology due to his medical background allowed him to instantly pinpoint the weak points of his foes, resulting in him being able to completely immobilize and defeat a monster in a single strike. Besides his close combat fighting ability, Daniel was also extremely talented at throwing objects with both precision and power, and always carried a series of small metal balls with him to launch at his enemies. While the balls were small in size, the strength and accuracy with which Daniel threw them resulted in them being able to pierce through bone, making them highly potent as weapons. During his final battle, Daniel was able to of fire a barrage of these balls from all directions at once without losing any of their effectiveness, further proving his skill with them.

Outside of his fighting abilities, Daniel was an accomplished and talented doctor. While he initially entered the world of medicine in order to find a cure for what he believed to be a disease that was keeping his father from aging, he would go on to use the skills he developed to assist countless second class citizens who had been injured due to the cruelty and corruption of the upper class. He was also quite skilled as a teacher, as he shared his medical knowledge with several volunteers who would go on to make up the ranks of Ice Flame's Black Corps, such as Prima Hononoman. His most notable patient was Urza, who he diligently watched over and took care of to ensure that she would one day walk again.

Trivia

 * Daniel was very likely the only offspring of an Apostle to have ever existed, as most Apostles are singlemindedly devoted to their Dark Lord master, and Dark Lord females are naturally infertile.