Danny the Piano Player

Character Name: Daniel Jason Andrews

Nickname: Danny

Hometown: Curtisville, Indiana est. 1859

Occupation: Farm Hand, Pianist, Guitarist

Age: 20

Relationship Status: Unwed

Appearance/Face Claim: Zac Efron

Personality: Kind and Serving. Warm Heart. Naive, due to inexperience in life, but not totally gullible. He is a Dreamer. He takes after his mother in regards to being kind and nurturing to others. She was the driving force in him being the person he is today. She taught him to play the piano, and also was the person he always went to when he had a problem. She taught him to read, write and some basic arithmetic. She was also the one that talked with him about spiritual matters and things he had to work through emotionally growing up.

Desires: He desires to explore the country, and see some of the world outside of the cornfields of Indiana, hoping to find excitement, adventure
and love...while making some money on the way!

Secrets: Secretly growing up in Indiana, he never even kissed a girl, there were none around, it was just him and his family.

Fears: He is scared of snakes, he is afraid they will bite him and he will die of the poison.

Biography: Danny grew up on a farm in Curtisville, it had a community fo 50 people. It was all farmers spread out. There was a local church he would go to on Sundays. His mother taught him to read and write and play piano, and his father taught him to play guitar. When he was 16 his brother got called off to aid the Union. Daniel lost his oldest brother Jonathan who went off to fight in the Civil War for the Union. After he died it made Daniel re-evaluate his life and he decided to leave home to see the world his brother died for. His brother was one of 24,000 people who died for the Union in Indiana. Before leaving the farm he only once left Curtisville, and that was to travel to Indianapolis when his mother got sick. He couldn't believe how big it was. He decided the farm was not something he wanted to do anymore. He was raised with strong moral values from the church, he's never seen a saloon.
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Why did he choose to come to Cimarron Railroad:
He was looking to travel and he found out that the Cimarron Railroad had a saloon but needed a pianist. He found this as a good opportunity to explore and venture out further from home, but have something stable that would pay for room and board and give him a chance to see something of the world other than the mundane cornfields of back home. He comes to Cimarron Railroad with the hopes to see a new landscape, meet people that travel from all over the country, maybe even the world and live vicariously through their stories and experiences as he enjoys a new life there.