He sat quietly in class. Every now and then he glanced up at the teacher, but spent most of the 2 hour lecture emptily thinking about this and that. He sporadically took notes and exchanged a whispered word or two with the classmates around him. He wasn't top of the class. He wasn't failing. As in all other aspects of his life, Daniel Alexander was extraordinarily average. If your gaze happened to fall upon him, it wouldn't stay for long. A typical young white male, Daniel was the owner of a mop of dull brown hair, a pair of flat brown eyes, and pale, boyish features. He was 5'10'' and not athletic, in fact he was involved in zero extracurricular activities. Apart from music. Even in this one interest Dan did not particularly excel. He was enrolled in the music industry and recording arts department at Lumen Community College, the equivalent of a refugee camp for the post high school academia who had not managed to make it out of their suitably average hometown of Lumen, Florida. In an attempt to persue his vocational interests/better himself/spend less time at home Dan had uncarachteristically joined a club of sorts, the electric and digital ensemble band who had nicknamed themselves "The Lumenators". They worked exclusively with digital and electric media and had a playful rivalry with the acoustic ensemble, who preferred their music au naturale, or as the Lumenators called it, "uninteresting". Amid the Lumenators, Dan did succeed in making a few friends. His very best friend, and one of the only ones he had retained from high school was Brian Lippe. Brian was the pot-smoking, scruff having, good looking keyboard player in their rag-tag band. And even though Dan didn't smoke pot, couldn't grow a decent beard and wasn't handsome, they had grown up together, and so what they lacked in shared qualities they made up with in shared experiences. Included was a new fellow they both met upon joining the ensemble, Tate Johannson. Tate fit in easily with their easygoing and sarcastic ways and was held in high regard by the both of them from the beginning because of his undeniable skills behind the drums. It was the only acoustic instrument the band allowed themselves and he put it to good use. Tate fit in well enough with the pair, but out of the three he was by far the prime example of the average Lumen teen. According to Dan and Brian this meant being slightly more backwoods and more-than-slightly patriotic and family oriented. But to Tate, if wearing wife beaters to class and playing stars and stripes cornhole and his Aunt and Uncle's house with the rest of his family made him "hick", well then that was just fine. He had no qualms with the kind of person he was and was perfectly proud to do the things he liked with the people he loved and paid no attention to Dan and Brian's infrequent teasing. All in all the three of them made quite the complementary group and their chemistry shone through in their music.