Daniel Goldberg

### Abilities

* Can survive in space for brief periods of time via Camera Guns, namely All-Seeing Lens
* Camera Gun user
* Skilled Emotion Manipulation
* Energy projection via Camera Guns
* Flight
* Hypnosis user
* Immunity to Hollywood/Narcissist-based bullying tactics
* Invulnerability
* Levitation
* Levitation in outer space
* Manipulation of human thoughts
* Master Illusionist
* Multiverse Travel
* Peak level energy manipulation
* Peak level to near God-Like perception magic user
* Power-matching
* Summoner
* Time Magic user

## Weapons and Equipment

### Weapons

* All-Seeing Lens
* Beauty and Ugly (Camera Guns)
* Defamation Guns
* Distribution Center (DC) Busters
* Infringement Lens
* Lens of Anti-Harassment
* Paranoia Lens
* Pickin' Guns
* Pixis
* Transition to Demonology Lens
* Verum Vita
* Vicarious (Perception)
* Zoology Lens

### Equipment

Mind-Eater Suit, Perceptive Mark, Countless Ninja Gear, Magicians Cloak, Various Tripod stands, Various camera holsters

**Daniel Goldberg** is a character created by Damon Avent (Khaliq Trevor X) and is one of the Rage Knights.

> "*Hi, I'm Daniel. I like to expose the flaws of considerably bad people and make society socially aware that they too, have problems. I always think it's important to examine oneself like a camera lens examines a moving object.*"
> ― Daniel Goldberg
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## Backstory

Goldberg was born in Sunset Valley, Virginia to a photo technician father and cinematographer mother. The family lived a peaceful life across the street from the parents of Jessica Bree and her family. When his grandfather became gravely ill, the family decided to move away. This was a major decision which caused Daniel to refuse and stay behind with Bree and her family. The two would see news broadcasts of the Dark Prince and his demonic forces as well as aliens. This prompted the two best friends to break out of their comfort zones and decide to explore the world and use Goldberg's grandfather's inheritance to travel. The two both in pursuit of their Hollywood dreams.

During the trip, Daniel brought along his grandfather's ancient heirloom camera lens 'gun', the "*Verum Vita*" (meaning: 'True Life' –– Despite mainly being a camera his grandfather used in small budget movies in the 1950s to 1960s, it appeared to be more reminiscent of an old revolver. With the Vita, Goldberg was granted passive and active abilities that allowed him to wield illusions and the arts of perception magic. Including redefining the meanings of beauty and ugliness, which would come in handy during both his and Bree's adventures inside Queens Mane, VA where on several occasions, Daniel fooled the law enforcements into letting them in during the investigation into Dark Prince following his initial attack and being recruited by Hades whom sought out the usage of the Verum Vita.

As mentioned, Prior to his help in defeating the Dark Prince, Daniel and Bree were approached by Damon Bradley and Midlore West-Stein initially, whom were in pursuit of healing a weakened Hades due to the Verum Vita's powers. Believing his lens could yield enough power to restore Hades, especially into his base crimson pure God form even after the sudden appearance of more Diseased, Daniel decided to join Bree in the adventures with Bradley and West-Stein.

### Powers and Abilities

Goldberg can bend, distort and alter reality through the use of his camera guns. He can also create reflective walls of light which can project forcefields, emit concussive blasts and explodes around targets.

Goldberg is proficient at transforming himself as well as other targets. He can create powerful illusions in addition to transforming them and granting them with an extended duration of different powers and abilities in each illusion.

* **Survival in Space**: Can survive in space for brief periods of time via Camera Guns, namely All-Seeing Lens

* **Camera Gun user**: Daniel Goldberg is an active and frequent user of various Camera Guns, deadly pictorial weaponized devices that can project, alter and create illusions while casting various forms of perception magic.

* ***Emotion Manipulation***

* ***Energy projection via Camera Guns***: A basic ability, in which Daniel can project various energy beams via the usage of his camera guns. He can also "borrow" elements of the other Rage Knights' Life Force energy and have his camera guns project their individual energies i.e. white magic, red magic and Midlore's own kinetic energy that is typically shot from his drumstick weapons.

* Flight

* ***Hypnosis user***: Daniel can put targets to sleep via Camera guns or by blinking his eyes in some cases. Brief incantations can be focused to put some targets into slumber for longer durations of time.

* ***Immunity to Hollywood/Narcissist-based bullying tactics***: Due to a dislike in superficial people

* **Invulnerability**: He has shown to be invulnerable during many bouts. Being able to survive being attacked directly by swords and stronger forms of black magic.

* **Levitation**: With his Camera Guns or by casting perception magic, Daniel can "float" and levitate along gravity for a short period of time.

* **Levitation in outer space**: With the help of his survival in space rate, Daniel can levitate for even longer periods of time, allowing him to effectively reach other planets as well.

* **Manipulation of human thoughts**: Daniel can manipulate many thoughts of unsuspecting targets. Usually in the form of mind-reading, Daniel can reshape the human mind into negative or positive thinking.

* **Master Illusionist**: Daniel can create countless copies of not only himself, but his friends, allies and even his adversaries. By doing this, he can accurately give these copies physical attributes such as the specific illusion having the original's strength, weapons, attacks and abilities.

* **Multiverse Travel**: With certain Camera Gun lens such as All-Seeing Lens and even the help of Pixis itself extending its' powers, Daniel can travel throughout the vast and infinite Multiverse, where he was able to encounter strange, deadlier and alternate realities of himself, the Rage Knights and many others throughout his life.

* **Peak level energy manipulation:** Daniel can create manifestations of energy via his perception magic usage. He is capable of even shifting and reshaping human beings at their will, down to their very cellular level.

* **Peak level to near God-Like perception magic user:** Goldberg's level of perception magic is heightened to the point of being able to induce illusions to entire states and countries. Upon his elderly years, this power becomes close to God-like, with Daniel being able to even create living entities and environments from his camera guns and even his own eyes to ensnare deception onto his targets. He also reigns over more basic perception magic attacks such as Ugly and Beauty.

* **Power-matching:** Goldberg can match the power of his enemies or slightly counter their abilities with his own to withstand their power and avoid injuries and defeat. This leads to an almost invulnerable state that can be maintained for a limited time.

**Summoner**

* **Time Magic user:** Goldberg can control elements of time such as Age and Decelerate.

### Personality

Considered one of the more poetic Rage Knights, Daniel enjoys adding his insights into things and considers what "should be" instead of what is. His gentle disposition has led him to not taking charge often, and keeping distance but has shown a profound kindness even in his supposed ruthlessness. As he ages, he becomes increasingly wiser, making many decisions that corresponds to his intuition. Though this method is questioned at times, because his decisions can come as costly effects in the present time. He gets along greatly with Ragorias.

## Nomad the Lost to Attack of Erugi Arc

During the time Damon Bradley returned to Earth as Nomad Bradley, Daniel had apparently been deceased for years though this wasn't the case and that he had gained an incredibly strong perception magic power that allowed him to bend and extend both his age and physical life force for years to come. He spent long periods of time inside the Illusionist Woods, where he reshaped the forest to his own desires and used it to travel the universe, even expressing that he could now create deadlier forms of perception magics if he chose to. He was reputed as an amazing magician as well as cinematographer, responsible for giving his expertise to many gifted filmmakers, screenwriters and others for the purpose of creating substantial film that would prove to outlive the state of affairs in a post-superficial/social media world influenced by the magics of The Dark Prince Lucifer.

When he is seen during this era, he's matured considerably and wanders from distant lands and worlds with the use of his two camera guns, Curse and Blessing and an advanced AI cosmic weapon artifact that was created in High Heaven Council, known as Pixis. Following events in the Aphrodite-Bushra Eureka war and the reign of Dr. Hans Grippe, Daniel was tracked down by Nomad who was in pursuit of him to reenlist him into the Rage Knights and battle the Magistrates of Muck, including their Multiverse-wielding Infinite Army headed by Grippe himself.

## Relationship with Others

Due to his friendship with Jessica Bree, he is often together with her. The two friends' closeness often resembles a romantic relationship as the two would often rely upon one another for various insights, advices and even battle tactics later. Daniel tends to keep to himself and his own priorities. He doesn't like Aaron Harold nor Dill Clay, most notably during the formation storylines as the former would often *hit on* Bree. Which resulted in Daniel becoming more protective over her well-being and at times, standoffish against Harold.

 ***Technology*** | Black Runes • Instru-Mon • Projector Boots • Storage Capsules • Summon Runes

## Trivia/Notes

* Like the other titular characters of this series, *Daniel Goldberg* has the real name of the series' creator listed under his creation. Others include Hades, Alternate Future Damon, Jessica Bree, Hangi Bell, Midlore West-Stein, Damon Bradley, Aaron Harold, Dill Clay, Ragorias and Nomad Bradley.
* March 2020: First major edit of important character biography since 2019.

**Disclaimer***: To whom this may concern, the characters in their entirety, while they borrow inspiration from events, ideas, themes and other sources from the original author's life, are incredibly different and fictional entities inside the Rage Knights Red God and under no circumstance are they expressing a real person's actual views, ideologies, names and likeness to cause harm or defame them. The Rage Knights Red God is a work of fiction and for solely entertainment and educational purposes. Please note, the series does not represent events that have happened, nor events to come. Nor does it condone or promote the very human evils the series is meant to advocate against.*