DanTDM

Daniel Robert Middleton (better known online as DanTDM) joined the Shady Oaks SMP on January 25th 2021, and is one of the founding members.

Background
He was born on November 8th, 1991, and is one of the most subscribed YouTubers from the United Kingdom. He created his channel "DanTDM" over 9 years ago on July 28, 2012. He specializes in video games, and is mostly known for playing games such as Minecraft and Fortnite.

Personality
Dan has shown to have a more chaotic personality as he came up with the idea to hide ThinkNoodles dog and trapped iBallisticSquid in an obsidian box while he was AFK. He likes to pull pranks, hence the obsidian box prank on Squid, and dabbles in gambling. Dan is willing to take risks to get what he wants.

Story

 * Dan volunteers to be the guest to tour the viewers around the Shady Oaks Retirement Home.
 * In the first few episodes, Dan lived in an underground base located in a desert with E-BOY and Gamestop.
 * His base was covered in buttons and signs with various absurd messages by iBallisticSquid. There was also a sand block trap he set up in an attempt to kill Dan, but it failed. Dan vengefully covered Squid in obsidian and cobwebs when he was AFK, with a sign that said "Don't try and kill me again :)"
 * In order to prevent Squid from realizing it was him who trapped him Dan framed ThinkNoodles by planting his diamond pickaxe at ThinkNoodles' base.
 * As Dan came to rescue Squid, he planted fake evidence at ThinkNoodles' base.
 * Dan and James(Thnxcya) hide ThinkNoodles dog. Later when ThinkNoodles logs on he can hear his dog but can't see him which leads ThinkNoodles to believe his dog is invisible.
 * Dan decides to build a tower for him to live in, which would also act as the headquarters for his gambling business.Later Squid comes and adds googly eyes to Dan's tower. Squid also shows him the new billboard advertising Kraken's Hollow.
 * Dan takes a quest from iBallisticSquid to get Kindness and works with Thxcya to get Kindness and put a curse of vanishing on it.
 * Dan and James(Thnxcya) succeed but Squid tells Dan that he broke the rules, so Dan and James are banned from Kraken's Hollow and are considered enemies.
 * Dan answers the door for iBallisticSquid with a burned arm and asks Dan for help without being mad at Dan after what he did.
 * Dan cures iBallisticSquid in his 3rd attempt to make his arm back to normal. However, Kindness later controls him with a goal to kill Dan.
 * Dan won iHasCupquake but lost to iBallisticSquid in the second round of the Horse Race.
 * Dan traded 2 diamonds with Eckosoldier for an enchanted book with Sweeping Edge III.
 * Dan owes Eckosoldier a favour after Eckosoldier offers him bones and traded stacks of iron for stacks of bones from Thxcya.
 * Dan's windows were broken during a stream due to Thxcya breaking out of his house when stealing an enchanted book with Unbreaking III on it.
 * Dan gives the Unbreaking III book to Squid and gets unbanned from Kraken’s Hollow
 * Dan named a white fox "Panda" because he accidentally called the white fox a panda
 * Dan accidentally killed a chicken named "Debbie" using an iron sword during quest day when he teamed with Thnxcya and won.
 * Dan hosted a tour for CaptainSparklez on his first day together with Thnxcya
 * Dan lost his items after drowning in lava in the Nether for Quest Mondays when he teamed with Thnxcya again. Saddened by his loss, he kills himself once more with fire near the Kraken's Hollow.
 * Dan completed a raid and got Hero of the Village.
 * Dan was in Team 1 together with CaptainSparklez in Quest Mondays: Team Edition. There, they raced other teams to get specific blocks from the overworld, the Nether and the End. In the end, they lost to SB737 and Eckosoldier.
 * Dan found chickens in the casino which Eckosoldier admitted to.
 * Dan was in Team Inferno together with SB737 and YammyXOX for Quest Mondays: Team Edition, where they won.
 * Dan participated in Quest Mondays: The Gauntlet together with Eckosoldier, SB737 and CaptainSparklez. He lost due to SB737 ending him.
 * Dan crafted iron bars and placed them around to mark out his empire.

Quotes
"I had different plans today but it looks like this is about to get a whole lot longer." - Dan as he prepares to trap iBallisticSquid in an obsidian box.

"Blame someone else? Oh I plan to." - Dan when Squid asks why he's trapped in a box.

"How dare you slay the Captain like that? Disrespectful." - Dan when Phantoms killed CaptainSparklez.

"Look at me! I'm a pin cushion!" - Dan after getting shot by skeletons.

Trivia

 * Dan is the first ever person to be killed by Kindness
 * Dan used the Mario Kart countdown theme for the Horse Race.