Dane Swan
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Early Life
Dane Swan was born March 3rd 1872 from a French mother and African father in the town of La Charité-sur-Loire, France. Dane was born into poverty while his parents originally lived in France. Both of his parents had plans of moving to America to start anew as their small town was not sustainable to live in as they were trying to take care of him. As they garner up enough money to travel. At the age of 4 Dane and his parents had move to New York City.
At the age of 12 Dane was going to school in the lower Manhattan area and his parents were working at two different places. His mother was a seamstress and father was a man who dealt with the stocks of food meant to be distributed to the local stores in the city. Eventually over time their jobs had started to gain traction as they attempted to save up money and create a new venture that could be deemed useful. Dane's parents eventually created a local business' that was 2 floors tall. On top was where you could get your clothes tailored and done if you needed it or purchase already made clothes made by Dane's mother. Or you could get goods in terms of food and get in talks of getting food supplies for your store by Dane's Father.
Dane's life was starting to change as his parents started to gain a lot of popularity from their businesses and eventually opened up a department store named Swan & Co. This would be the place to get all your needs in terms for clothing, goods for food and even other business ventures and advice as the local people needed help with their businesses to grow too.
Over time at the age of 17 Dane's parents parents became incredibly wealthy and their societal status completely changed in over a couple of years. The Swan Family had created an empire spanning all over Manhattan. As with wealth over time problems started to occur that would soon put Dane's family to risk. His father started to gamble his wealth at underground gambling tables all across Manhattan. Constantly taking out huge loans from a local loan company associated with Swan & Co to gamble money and not to waste the fortune that him and his wife had accumulated over a span of 5 years growing their business'. In exchange Dane's father helped to bring more customers to the loan business as a mutual agreement in partnership with the company.
Due to Dane's father's rampant gambling addiction and reckless behavior of taking out loans from the loan company. The owners secretly planned on dealing with their business partners heedless behavior in another way. They came up with a diabolical plan of wanting to exit the contract they made with Dane's father by some form of "accidental death" to occur to this null and void the contract. Dane and his family we're going to see a local theatre play in lower Manhattan. During this time local street gangs and thugs were causing trouble around the local theatre making it difficult. But due to Swan & Co's success in New York. They managed to recontrol and lower the crime that was happening in that area by hiring security for the theatre. During this time as well Dane had a girlfriend by the name of Bella that he also brought with him to the theatre. This was also Dane's first true love.
After the play concluded and everyone started leaving an unknown man appeared from the shadowed alleyway next to the theatre and attempted to kill Dane's father. But due to the messy nature of the man's attempt. His bullet ended up hitting Dane's girlfriend Bella accidentally. As the crowd ran into chaos trying to get away from the gunshot to safety. The man runs back into the alleyway and Dane is covered by his father and mother trying to protect him when he sees Bella bleeding to death in front of him. He screamed as he called for help but much later the police came. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
A two years later at age 19 Dane was working alongside his family's business and occasionally checked out Manhattan and New York City as they expanded further. One day as Dane decided to return home he arrives to his wealthy and established family mansion with tons of people across the street and police surrounding his house. As he arrived at the front gate he mentions to the officer that he's the son of the established Swan Family. The Officer informs Dane that as he was away there was a attempted robbery of the mansion and that his parents were shot dead and murdered by unknown assailants whom got into the house and stole personal possessions before exiting in a hurry.
Swan as heart broken and in shock as he was had comprehended that eventually something like this would happen as he had gotten older and started to learn more about the family business and his father's gambling addiction thankfully he wasn't even home that day. Swan eventually had the situation investigated by the local police to find that the description of the assailants whom had robbed his house and murdered his parents was due to a person they worked with revealing that had "done a robbery" from a "wealthy family". As they were brought in and investigated further after being detained they revealed they were associated with the same local loan company that was associated with Swan & Co.
From there all evidence had pointed to the same business owners whom had conspired to murder Dane's father to get out of their contact with him and the company. They had hired street thugs at the time that knew the area well when there was going to be a play and that Dane's father was going to be there too. But since the thugs attempted to plan to murder his father when they left they ended up shooting the wrong person. Returning back to the owner's to notify them. 2 years later after things calmed down and the incident had went unsolved. The loan business owners had planned to hit their mansion so as to not make any mistakes this time around. They hired the same local thugs that were there that one faithful day and to "finish the job". The loan business owners alongside with the street thugs involved and their entire gang was conspired to murder. And spent time in New York's Penitentiary.
Years later Swan had temporarily transferred the Swan & Co business to other family members that were trusted enough to keep the business afloat. Dane decided to travel far away from New York to the crossing to start over again and with this time he seen a interest in wanting to protect the ones he loves as he felt hopeless after his first love Bella was murdered in front of him. So he joined up with the local Crossing Sheriff's Department and thus begins the story of Dane Swan.
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