Daniel Carsley

**Daniel Carsley**, aka **Crystal Eye**

## Appearance

### Civilian

Daniel has pale skin, bright blue eyes and dark, near-black hair. His outfit typically includes a blue tank top, sometimes with a red-and-blue plaid shirt over it as well, and basic jeans.

### As Crystal Eye

When in his super form, Daniel's eyes become fully blue: His sclera turn light blue and his pupils turn dark blue, as well as shift to a more diamond-like shape. Crystal Eye's super suit is black, covering him from head to toe save for an opening around his eyes. Most prominently, he wears a teal scarf around his neck, and has a pair of blue gloves at mismatched lengths - his right glove short and his left glove long, going all the way up his arm - both bearing a blue ring and diamond at their ends. He also has a blue diamond on his left side, a blue belt loose around his waist, and blue boots with purple soles.

## Personality

Crystal Eye is typically very stern and protective, having grown rather stony over his many years acting as a superhero. For better or for worse, he's all but mastered burying his feelings; though he doesn't come off as completely stone-cold, it's extremely rare for the public to catch him upset or emotional. He often sees the world as more black and white than he'd like to admit, and isn't always the most forgiving nor trusting sort, even if he'd like to be able to give the benefit of the doubt. Once he's made his mind up on a matter, it isn't easy to change his mind.

When he's off-duty, however, Daniel comes off as far more laid back, especially around those he's close with.

## Relationships

### Klaus Melfton/Lightning Dust

Crystal Eye has been protecting Klaus ever since the boy was a baby, due to his constant capture at the hands of the various monsters plaguing the city. Crystal Eye does get frustrated with Klaus's attitude rather often, as the boy has only become more hostile towards the hero over the years, but despite this Crystal Eye does still care very deeply about him and is determined to keep him safe.

Daniel met him more properly as his civilian self when Klaus was a little older through the pair's mutual friends, Andy and Kailey. Though Daniel hit it off with Klaus right away, he chose against telling Klaus his secret identity, as the young boy was already rather hateful towards Crystal Eye, and Daniel worried it would risk their friendship. Even as his civilian self, Daniel remains fairly protective over Klaus, but comes off much more relaxed on the matter than usual. He's taken to a brother-like relationship with the boy.

When Lightning Dust first came on the scene, Crystal Eye took issue with him almost immediately. Lightning's reckless, cocky nature and lack of regard for the damage his powers could cause rubbed Crystal Eye the wrong way, and the young super's constant need to pick fights with Crystal only made matters worse. The issues peaked when the heroes' rivalry spiraled into an all-out fight, and Crystal Eye's distaste for the young hero turned briefly into fear when he unexpectedly lost to Lightning Dust - even worse, Lightning learned Daniel's identity in the process. After taking some time to recover, however, Crystal Eye and Lightning Dust later talked things through and reconciled, learning to work together in their fight against Josh Sharman. Now, Crystal Eye is slowly growing more fond of the young hero as he helps to train him properly - and similar to his relationship with Klaus, Crystal Eye has become somewhat of an older brother to Lightning Dust, albeit unintentionally.

As of now, Daniel is unaware of Klaus's identity as Lightning Dust, and is also unaware that Klaus knows his secret identity as Crystal Eye.

## Skills

* **Crystal Manipulation:** Crystal Eye can summon and manipulate blue crystalline stones at will.
	+ **Crystal Shield**
* **Super Strength**
* **Flight**
* **Heat/Laser Vision**

## Trivia

* Daniel is bilingual: Aside from English, he's also fluent in German.
	+ Despite German being his native tongue, his accent is barely noticeable anymore - though it becomes more evident when he's actually speaking the language.