Shay Daniels (Earth-10)

* Blue

 Daniels, Shay. January, 2024. I’m calm, steady. Slept well, 8.2 hours, no bad dreams. I am... Ready to go. Ready to do my job to the best of my abilities. I am focused only on the essential to the exclusion of all else... I will make only pragmatic decisions. I will not allow myself to be distracted. I will not allow my mind to linger on that which is unimportant... I will not rely on anyone or anything. I will not be vulnerable to mistakes. Resting BPM is 57, submit.
—**Shay's** daily psych evaluation to SPACECOM.[src]
## History

### Early Years

Shay James Daniels was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, to a decorated astronaut named Elliot Daniels and renowned journalist Jennifer Daniels. Elliot would agree to pilot a mission into a wormhole placed next to Mercury by believed intelligent lifeforms shortly after Shay was born. However, when Shay turned eight, Elliot was presumed deceased as NASA had lost contact with Elliot after he entered the wormhole.

Deeply saddened by this, Jennifer focused on work and her son but ultimately fell in love and remarried to Detective Patrick Knight, and his son, Jordan Knight, became Shay's step-brother. While his mother moved on, Shay still believed that his father was alive in the cosmos and began studying astronomy to one day follow him into the great beyond and bring him home, developing his quiet mantra: "Ad Ultra.".

#### Leaving Las Vegas & Joining NASA

During high school, Shay met Jane Harper, Ren Carter, Tyler Price, and Ford Easton. While Ford was the oldest, he was the family doctor of The Daniels and became close with Shay. The group would eventually disband shortly after graduating high school, with Jane and Ren moving to San Francisco to pursue careers in music and art. At the same time, Tyler and Jordan stayed in Vegas, becoming a lawyer and detective, respectively. Elsewhere, Shay moved to Manhattan and enrolled in Columbia to become an Astrophysicist, and Ford gained a residency in Manhattan to keep an eye on Shay at the behest of his mother and step-father.

Shay would graduate from Columbia with a Ph.D. in Astrophysics and a master's in Aerospace Engineering, doubling his course-load and fast-tracking his academic career with his intelligence. All in part due to a professor he grew close to named Desmond Vide. However, for his post-doctorate research fellowship, Shay joined an on-campus research team that specialized in creating a material strong enough to survive reentry but light enough to be worn by people or robots. This group was called the Astro Project, as the material was nicknamed Astro. Here, Shay met his fellow researchers, Leslie Malcolms and Thomas Sakai.

The Astro Project successfully created the material along with the Astro robot and proposed it to NASA, which granted the group jobs within NASA for their work. Now, having achieved his first goal of working for NASA, Shay set his sights on the astronaut program to fulfill his second goal of finding his father.

### Ad Astra

By 25, Shay had become an astronaut and worked closely with the United States Space Force but ultimately, when in space, responded to SPACECOM. However, Shay would be specifically recruited by SPACECOM to be one of the resident engineers and physicists for a classified mission called Ad Astra to begin to colonize the moon quietly. Shay accepted and was given the rank of Technical Sergeant in the USSF, which equated to his work at NASA.

The first Ad Astra mission consisted of fifteen people establishing a base of operations and sitting tight for a month before switching out with a coming crew in a month. Shay was on the first mission, and for the month, he studied the stars until he picked up cosmic radiation from near the base. For the rest of the month, Shay studied the radiation intensely and sent daily reports back to SPACECOM and NASA until it was time to come down from the moon.

However, on the last day, Shay stepped out of the base and stared toward where the wormhole would be. He thought about his father and how close yet far he was. Then, Shay boarded the ship to go home, mumbling his mantra. In passing, Shay would meet Woods, who was coming onto the lunar surface for the long haul, as his mission would be several months to years on the lunar surface.

### Dark Future: Mythos

After returning to Earth, SPACECOM brought in Shay for a debrief, and his research on cosmic radiation proved fruitful. While Shay was on the Moon, SPACECOM searched for similar radiation types on Earth and found a connection between Shay's notes and his father's before the Quarantua Missions. Shay was one of the experts on this radiation, so they recruited him to participate in an observational experiment with what SPACECOM discovered when searching for similar radiation on Earth.

Shay resided in Colorado Springs for a few months, reporting to work at the Peterson Space Force Base for the experiment. Unfortunately for Shay, he was studying a Zinchari Spider who he determined was part of a race of other spiders affected by the cosmic radiation of a meteor from the Cretaceous extinction event. However, near the end of the experiment, one of the safety precautions malfunctioned when Shay was doing some late-night research on the base.

Oblivious to this, Shay went to the cafeteria for some coffee, where he was cornered and then eaten by the spider. During the scuffle, the spider knocked out the cameras within the cafeteria, and ultimately, Shay woke up at home the following day with no recollection of the night before. Shay learned of his powers and what had happened when he went to Peterson Space Force Base for work and accidentally broke a pipe.

### Drill Music In Zion

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### Wasteland, Baby!

After the experiment was deemed a failure, Shay returned to his job at NASA in Manhattan, specifically the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Harlem, to study cosmic radiation and analyze the information sent from the current Ad Astra mission on the Moon. Sadly, during this time, Shay's stepfather would become gravely ill. Shay returned to Las Vegas to be with him for his final moments, and his stepfather told him an adage, "Don't start nothing, won't be nothing," telling him that he needed to use his intelligence for the good of humanity. Shay would bury his stepfather in Vegas and return to Manhattan to use his newfound spider powers to further his work. Here, Shay met his co-worker, Sapphire Blackwood, with whom he became close.

However, during an analytical session, Shay would encounter a much older Woods from the dark future who knew he had abilities. Confused but willing to help, Shay helped Woods, Tyler Price, and Lizzy Stark locate a villain they were trying to find named Sadia Lokidottir. Though Woods and Tyler would force Shay to ascend to the hero, they knew him as in their dark future by giving him Web-Shooters and bringing him to Liberty Island.

Forced to become something Shay didn't know he could be, Shay assisted the heroes in defeating Sadia and preventing disaster and, ultimately, joined Woods' team known as the Ronins. However, at the end of the fight on Liberty Island, Shay saw the Slater Observatory in the distance and saw a man standing there, watching the battle. While Shay thought nothing of it, this would become a haunting moment for the Man on the Moon.

### I Wish My Brother Jordan Was Here

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## Attributes

### Powers

**Zinchari Biology:** Shay developed incredible spider-like abilities after being eaten by a Zinchari Spider within the sublevels of Peterson Space Force Base during an observational study gone wrong. While his blood has never been officially studied or tested, Shay has dabbled in researching his blood and discovered that his cells are mutating. Whether or not this is a good thing is unknown, but Shay is a unique Zinchari Avatar. He has the base abilities of all Zinchari Avatars, but his Spider-Sense has been profoundly heightened.

* **Retractable Talons:** Something is fascinating about how most Zinchari Avatars have talons and/or fangs. Shay can unsheathe five talons on each hand, protruding from his fingertips. Each talon has a tensile strength of one ton and is sharp enough to cut through various metals up to Chromium and break multiple layers of skin. Because of this, he can attack viciously but historically chooses not to. These talons allow Shay to cling to walls and achieve a sense of "wall-crawling" with them. For some reason, his talons are subconsciously unsheathed and are connected to his Spider-Sense. If his Spider-Sense is triggered, his talons will unsheathe and be ready for fighting. More recently, Shay's talons have become more durable after he came in contact with Woods, as he has shown the ability to leave scratches on his T.O. Virus claws, which was never thought possible.

* **Superhuman Physiology:** Since the incident in Colorado Springs, Shay developed a highly enhanced physiology that is widely considered superhuman. His physical strength was tripled, allowing him to lift seemingly several tons as he has thrown cars, trucks, forklifts, and more with relative ease. Interestingly, Shay had to consciously learn how to handle his strength after gaining abilities, forcing him to pull punches and kicks and manage objects with more attention to care, as Shay could easily break things. He was sufficiently strong enough to break out of Tyler Price's chains, which were considered unbreakable. His durability has also increased to where Shay's external skin is more challenging to damage than an average human. He can withstand significant impacts and survive much larger falls without injury or worry. His stamina, agility, and speed have also been heightened to allow Shay to exert himself for days without rest, perform complicated aerial maneuvers and parkour, and run fast enough to catch up to speeding cars. The enhancement also extends to his equilibrium and reflexes, allowing Shay to react more quickly than even the most sensibly trained individuals. In conjunction with his Spider-Sense, this creates a "stick-and-move" approach to combat.

* **Spider-Sense/The Messenger:** Like other Zinchari Avatars, Shay has a supernatural precognitive sixth sense that allows him to detect danger around him in a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree field. Over the years, Shay has honed this ability to detect a problem with things that aren't dangerous, such as space shuttles and other forms of space-intended machinery, along with seeing where complex mathematical equations went wrong. However, this ability being honed for his life as an Astrophysicist, has also unknowingly mastered the ability to detect danger much more significantly than other Zinchari Avatars, as Shay can determine, calculate, and create an estimate on how dangerous an attack or object is near him. Shay has fine-tuned this down to the point of being the first Zinchari Avatar to be able to stop the pain that comes with detecting high levels of danger, allowing him to react much more quickly while other Zinchari Avatars are momentarily crippled. However, the fascinating aspect of his Spider-Sense is that it gifted him feigned telepathy. When he gained his abilities, Shay was given a vision of the Zinchari Conclave, and a disembodied voice called him "The Messenger." Due to this, his Spider-Sense can sync with another individual's brainwaves and transfer his knowledge on a specific subject, topic, or memory over to a person with perfect clarity and detail. While he cannot read minds or speak into other minds, Shay's transference of knowledge is what the Conclave meant by "Messenger," as he is, across all realities, the leading expert on the Zinchari Spiders, only second to Dr. Daniels of Earth-30.

* **Accelerated Healing Factor/Longevity:** Shay is an interesting case regarding his healing factor and longevity. While all base Zinchari Avatars are granted a healing factor and some form of longevity, Shay is unique as he is "The Messenger" of the Zinchari; thus, he is needed more than a typical Zinchari Avatar. His healing factor functions the same as other Avatars, but ultimately, it is how his healing factor works in conjunction with his longevity. He stopped physically aging when he turned twenty-five, and his youth will only begin to decline (albeit slowly) when he is around eighty. Due to this and this other factor, Shay is technically a functioning immortal. While he can be wounded significantly and be out of commission for anywhere from one day to a week, depending on the injury, Shay can't really... die. He can die, but his healing factor will resurrect him as he, claimed by the vision of the Conclave, "needs to instruct and guide the others." Thus, as long as there are Zinchari Avatars, Shay will return to life, but depending on the wound that killed him, it has been theorized that Shay can stay dead for an hour to decades or centuries even, on the high end. But Shay can be killed.

### Abilities

* **Gifted Intellect/"Astrophysicist Supreme":** While the title of "Astrophysicist Supreme" was given to Shay as a joke, it isn't that far off from the truth. Shay is a brilliant individual who specializes in the field of astrophysics. He graduated at the top of his class at Columbia University and has assisted NASA with much of its space program, often cited as NASA's most incredible researcher. His work on the classified Montreal project allowed him to become an astronaut and help start the colonization of the moon and begin work on theoretically colonizing Mars underground. His knowledge of the cosmos, planets, and astronomy is massively extensive. Though his Astrophysics work overshadows everything else he does, Shay is a highly gifted Aerospace Engineer. He has designed several aspects of the current shuttles and has the uncanny ability to determine what goes into something just by looking at it. Shay showcased this unique ability when he first gained the Web-Shooters and mentally broke them down, even to how they operate and are utilized without prior knowledge of them or training in how to use them.

* **Capable Combatant:** While far from being as proficient as his contemporaries, Shay can handle his own using his abilities. His fighting capabilities stem from being trained in CQC when prepped for the early Montreal missions, which resulted in him gaining a basic understanding of combat. However, now armed with his powers, Shay can be considered a dangerous opponent as much of his fighting is a freestyle and a "stick-and-move" approach.

* **NASA-Trained Pilot:** Much like CQC, Shay was trained to pilot spacecraft and other ships in the event of an accident. He passed the NASA flight simulators and handled brief flight missions while training but has never flown any missions before. Regardless, Shay is still a licensed pilot for commercial, personal, and space vehicles.

### Weaknesses

* **Sulfur Trioxide:** For all intended purposes, Shay is just a guy with some of the abilities of a spider. He can be killed, but there is one ultimate weakness that connects all Zinchari Avatars, and that is Sulfur Trioxide. It is a chemical compound that, for some reason, affects all Zinchari Spiders and Avatars by removing their powers for twenty-four hours. If liquidized and injected, it can potentially remove an Avatar's powers indefinitely.

* **Feigned Telepathy:** As stated, Shay's Spider-Sense allows him to transfer knowledge of something to another person. However, there are caveats to this. Shay cannot read the minds of others nor talk into their minds. Furthermore, the transference of knowledge is only possible if both parties consent to it. It will only work if the other person is willing to accept the information.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

* **Web-Shooters:** Woods gave Shay a set of Web-Shooters, who received them ten years ago from Shay's future counterpart as a gift. While they do have advanced technology because, at the time, Future Shay owned a company. However, they are easily accessible and simplified, only able to release Web-Balls and Web-Swing. They are modeled as wrist-bands that extend out whenever tapped together.

### Transportation

Shay was given Web-Shooters by Woods from his future counterpart and uses them to get around the city.

## Notes

* Shay Daniels (Earth-10), and by extension, Legacy exist outside of mainstream Marvel Universe continuity. Themselves, their stories, and other characters are unrelated and not connected to the Marvel Multiverse and exist within solely within The Donuts Multiverse.
* This version of Shay is a callback to Morpheus' first draft of the Shay Daniels character back in 2020. The original version of the character was a military worker for SPACECOM in 2105 who ended up being eaten by spiders from Mars. Thankfully, Morpheus gave this character another pass through and we have Earth-30 Shay as a result. However, this is a more condensed and streamlined version of the draft which has references but is much more tame.

## Trivia

* Shay is a fan of Blade Runner. However, he adores Samurai films.
* Shay's favorite album is, ironically, Donuts by J Dilla.
* Shay has claimed that Tyler Price's cosmonaut suit is pretty accurate to actual cosmonauts.
* Hilariously, Shay has Arachnophobia, which is seemingly a multiversal constant.
* Woods has stated that out of everyone he has told about the dark future, Shay took it the best and easily understood it.
* Shay suffers from ADHD.
* Shay is currently in his late 20s, with Woods stated that Shay is 29.
* According to Shay's psych evaulations, his heartrate has never been higher than 80 BPM and this was later confirmed by Cardinal Graves.
* This alternate reality version of Shay's father is named Elliot Daniels. Whether or not this rings true for other versions of Shay Daniels is unknown, chief among them Earth-30 as that Shay has a similarly deep connection to his father that is unknown.
* According to Shay's record, Shay is GS-13 Step 8 which essentially means that Shay is paid $116,063 a year.

## See Also

* 5 appearance(s) of Shay Daniels (Earth-10)
* 1 minor appearance(s) of Shay Daniels (Earth-10)
* 5 image(s) of Shay Daniels (Earth-10)
* 1 quotation(s) by or about Shay Daniels (Earth-10)
* 1 item(s) used/owned by Shay Daniels (Earth-10)

## Links and References

### References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Mona Lisa FM #1
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Sprawl #41
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Montreal #1
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Montreal #2
5. ↑ Montreal #3
6. ↑ Sprawl #42
7. ↑ Sprawl #43
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Sprawl #40