Danny Herrera

### Relationships

Achillean Kyber (enemy, formerly; best friend), Andy Vivid (best friend; life conduit), Mara Moran (ally, friend), Lucan (rival, formerly; uneasy ally), Raegan Teech (employer, formerly; enemy), Pat Donovan (ally, friend), Miles Kyber (friend, formerly; enemy), Jaime Payne (enemy)

## Other Information

### Appearances

The Runner, Meet the Paynes (mentioned), The Kyber

### Debut

The Runner

Danny Herrera is a fictional character created by Alejandro Pineda. He played the role of a major character in the short story The Runner, and an antagonist in The Kyber Realm.

## Appearance

Danny is a young man of somewhat tall stature with short sandy-blond hair that frames his face, light skin, and sea green eyes described as having a fiery look in them. He wears a grey, sleeveless hoodie with a flame pattern on the bottom over a purple shirt with light purple spots on it resembling a cow pattern, as well as blue jeans and plain shoes. He was described to have rather mismatched clothing..

## Personality

Danny is often described to have a very fiery personality, being rather belligerent by nature and having an open lust for battle and killing. He is incredibly hotheaded, and tends to address matters based on opinion, or place his matters before those of his faction or country. He usually does whatever is in his own best interest, even neglecting to do his job as a city guard and going as far as to flat-out betray Achillean in order to aid Jaime and Spencer Payne in stealing the World Map, and later doing the same to the two of them when their efforts no longer suit him. He has very little regard for his actions, and sees what he does as necessary and justified with little care for the harm he does or the people he kills. However, this was shown to not always be true, as he revealed to harbor a great amount of guilt over killing innocent people, driving him to the point of being suicidal. He even made a vow to only kill when he was threatened or opposed. He also shows a deep care for his close friends, and feels a great amount of respect for them. While impulsive, Danny is also incredibly intelligent, showing a heightened sense of tactical thinking matched by very few, and observational skills that enable him to detect even the slightest detail with very little effort. Danny was the tritagonist of the Runner, a secondary antagonist in the Kyber Realm Season 1, the primary antagonist of The Greyville District Arc, and a major antagonist in the Kyber Realm Season 2.

It was stated by Alejandro Pineda that Danny's D&D alignment is Rebel Impure.

## Abilities

**Tethered Lifeline**: Danny possesses a very unique trait out of all of the members in the realm, being that he can only lose a life if killed at the same time as Andy Vivid. This enables him to die while maintaining all of his three lives in any other case, which was a shared request of theirs upon joining the realm.

* **Conditional Immortality**: Due to their dependence on each other, Danny and Andy are protected from many forms of lethal injury. The pair are both immune to most forms of fatality such as from blood loss or stabbing unless in the heart or if completely cut in half or decapitated.
* **Infinite Lives**: Due to their shared biology, Andy and Danny both have the unique ability to ignore the three-lives system in the Kyber Realm to an extent. Should either of them be killed individually, they will be revived without any side effect. The two of them must be killed at the same time in order to properly lose a life each. Following their defeat at the hands to Lila Frost and Nico Spruce, the two decided to remain on separate continents for as much time as possible in order to avoid repeating the same mistake.

**Immense Regeneration**: Even without his abilities as a Higher Rank, Herrera possesses an accelerated healing speed due to his connection with Andy, and can repair even severe injuries such as deep cuts and seemingly fatal wounds in very short time. This spares him from very severe wounds, and gives him effects similar to those of potions without needing to consume them. This was displayed when his legs healed after being slashed by Nico Spruce, and when he took an extended period of time to finally die from a blow to the neck despite losing a significant amount of blood.

**Weapon Manipulation**: Like Andy, Danny has the capacity to control both his netherite swords telekinetically after throwing them, allowing him to use them to return to him and attack opponents from behind if he needs to. This ability was displayed when he threw both his blades at Nico Spruce and had them returned shortly after without needing to retrieve them. However, this ability is used very rarely, and is presumably somewhat limited in range. Regardless, Danny also possesses the ability to control the slashes that he forms with the Knockback effect, even being able to replicate them and attack several enemies in different locations with them, a technique he uses alongside Vivid's arrows.

**Immense Durability**: Like Achillean Kyber, Andy Vivid, and Ian Herman, Danny possesses an inhumanly durable body, particularly around his neck. This was evident when both Lila Frost and Nico Spruce tried it, barely being able to break his skin and leaving only minor cuts in his flesh. Furthermore, when the pair attempted to aim for his head later on, it took the two of their blades combined in order to get through, along with the activation of the Effect Manifestation mark on Lila's part.

**Immense Speed and Reflexes**: Due to an immense amount of training and physical discipline, Danny possesses a level of sheer speed and agility that outmatches even that of the Warriors. Like most hyper humans, he is capable of moving in bursts of speed akin to teleporting, being far faster than the human eye can process. He was easily able to keep up with Nico Spruce, the fastest running Warrior, in close combat, even sometimes out-speeding him and landing blows without receiving any in return.

**Immense Strength**: Due to his training as a hunter, Danny is incredibly strong, displaying superhuman levels of physical strength during his battles with both Achillean and with the Crystalland fighters. Before becoming a member of the Dozen, he was capable of contending with the likes of Achillean Kyber, one of the strongest fighters of his time, in several close battles, and even played a leading role in the Hunters' offensive in their numerous encounters. After taking his position as the Sixth Rank, he was able to clash head-on with Nico Spruce, a member of the Warriors with a notably large and muscular build, make Lila cough blood with a knee to the stomach, and launched her through wooden buildings at high speeds. He was also able to send Spruce flying a considerable distance with a single kick.

**Tactical Intellect**: Danny is incredibly smart, showing a heightened sense of tactical thinking despite his impulse. His ability for analysis and fighting comprehension both allow him to stay a step of even those stronger than himself, and help him come up with the best solutions during conflict. He is a very dangerous and unpredictable hunter, often due to his mixed traits and actions that usually contrast each other. He is also very keen and observant, being able to uncover and simultaneously act on his opponents' weaknesses, as shown when he identified and damaged Nico Spruce's dominant hand during their fight. He later attempted to take out his left eye to weaken him further, finally being able to stab Jaime Payne when he jumped in to help because of this action.

## Fighting Style

### Archetype

**Strike Poacher**: Strike Poachers are usually fighters that score victories out of the slightest possibilities, usually staying within only meters of the primary focus of the battle and occupying the opposing side's strongest for the bulk of the fight. They are also able to quickly counter and cancel out enemy attacks while attacking in very critical ways from slim opportunities. Danny excels in this role while playing as a second striker on the battlefield, usually for Herman and later Achillean.

**Multi-Weapon Proficiency**: Danny is an incredibly skilled and talented fighter, proving to have an extensive proficiency in fighting. He has displayed expertise in several different forms of combat, including dual blade, axe, bow, and crossbow usage, as well as the use of any of these with a shield. He has particularly shown an interest in the Knockback enchantment for its ability to keep opponents at a distance without the use of considerable physical force. His particular favorite is dual-sword fighting, which he incorporates at the primary focus of his fighting style. He is able to even throw his swords like boomerangs by angling the blades in such a way that they curve in the air. This ability was amplified by his Hyper Human Style, enabling him to telekinetically control his blades in the air to make them extensively more deadly.

**Object Manipulation**: Danny's Object Manipulation revolves around the use of his offensive motions combined with poisonous effects. Danny's fighting style is chaotic, animalistic, and ranged, making him an incredibly dangerous opponent to face in a one-on-one fight. He combines the sweep effect with the extra punch from his blade, as well as the Harming effect, allowing him to launch his own slashes at the opponent simply by altering the angle of his movements, propelling them forward a considerable distance and making up for any lack of movement he has when facing multiple opponents. This causes his slashes to take on a dark red hue, and are capable of killing anyone they touch with even a scratch within a few minutes, and only a matter of hours if they possess immunity to regular effects, only being stopped by using using soul fire.

## Techniques

* **Predatory Pounce**: Danny releases several sharp and durable blades made of his slashes by swinging his swords.

* **Unyielding Lunge**: Danny unleashes a storm slashes with the Knockback effect, propelling the sweeps forward into the opponent to push them back.

* **Rampant Surrounding Slashes**: Danny surrounds himself in a flurry of slash-shaped blades that take the form of a round cage by swinging his swords repeatedly, defending from oncoming attacks and decimating his surroundings.

* **Funneling Tornado Onslaught**: Danny rotates both his arms in a circular motion while swinging his swords, creating two funnel-shaped torrents of sharp blades around them. This can be extended for a decent amount of time and can even be released after Danny is beheaded.

Techniques