Damian Hintch
| No. 77 – Tallahassee Typhoons | |
|---|---|
| Position | Swingfur |
| Species | Otter ( Mustelidae ) |
| Gender | Male |
| Nickname(s) | |
| Sniper, Spot, Archer | |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
October 19, 2002 Dayton, OH, USA |
| Listed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
| Listed weight | 185 lb (84 kg) |
| Shoots | Left-handed |
| Career information | |
| School | Ohio State Mammalian University |
| FBA draft | 2024 / Round: 2 / Pick: 45th overall |
| Selected by the Tallahassee Typhoons | |
| Pro playing career | 2024–present |
| Career history | |
| 2024 - present | Tallahassee Typhoons |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Contract information | |
| Contract year | 2024 |
| 2026 Salary | $1.5 million |
| Player Contacts | |
| (IC) Agent | Derek Waterson |
| (OOC) Creator | Derek Waterson (Up for Adoption) |
| (OOC) Actor | Unknown |
| (OOC) Usage | Ask me before any use |
Biography
Damian was born as quite the Army brat. His father is in the US Army, having graduated from West Point and currently holding the rank of Major, and his (biological) mother was a civilian contractor working alongside the Army Signal Corps. It was due to his military upbringing that they moved around a lot, with Damian never really having a place to call home. He once described his run-around home life to an interviewer in college, stating: “For the first ten years of my life I had lived in six states, traveled in moving boxes over 7,500 miles all across America, and have been in so many school systems I was worried my credits wouldn’t transfer from second grade to fourth. But I was never without a house, even if I never had a home. We always had a good thing going on, and I loved my parents for that.”
Moving from place to place meant moving schools a lot, which meant Damian found himself without many lasting friendships, ostracized by the many friend-groups and cliques of public schools. Moving from Ohio to California, to South Carolina, to Colorado, to Kentucky, then back to Ohio, left him mentally scattered. And it only got worse when his mom and dad got divorced when he was 13. Damian began to lash out at his teachers and classmates, becoming known and reviled as the class bully. He skipped school and, in eighth grade, got a truancy suspension that led to him being moved to a different school with his step-mom, where he made a connection with what was once tangential and soon became integral to his life: basketball.
He had always had a small connection to basketball. His mom played in high school and he enjoyed watching the sport more than any other sports. He saw kids playing at recess in elementary school and joined in, finding a natural talent for long, faraway shots that left kids and teachers alike utterly mesmerized by his accuracy and consistency behind the arc. But he always seemed to see it as a trivial skill, a party trick he could pull out to wow his friends, never as a viable career opportunity. He saw himself as being nothing more than a soldier after high school, but one fateful day changed his entire course in life, in a way so randomly complicated it seemed to suggest providence. Of the incident, Damian stated:
“I was just blowing off some steam in the park after school. I had just gotten suspended for skipping class and got in the middle of a fight on the way to the courts in Hudson. That’s when some preppy kid came out with his dad and they started watching me instead of playing. Apparently they had never seen a kid hit threes as consistently as I could, and they were like ‘You wanna come to Carrollbrook? I’m the basketball coach there.’ I was like ‘I ain’t got Carrollbrook money I don’t think,’ and he said ‘We’ll think about it.’”
He would get recruited to Carrollbrook Academy on a basketball scholarship that month, where he would start by getting in trouble, finding himself in the middle of a raging party with the rest of the team and getting snitched on when the cops were called for underaged drinking (despite never even having a shot.) The coach gave him an ultimatum: Either you give me 2,500 pushups and 40 miles ran by next Saturday, or you lose your scholarship. Not letting his team’s disloyalty and lack of character bring him down, he got to work and took care of his punishment (especially after his teammates began to help him with it, finally recognizing that the game was a team effort.) His audacity and stubborn-gutsy mentality got him a freshman Varsity Starter position, where he clinched a playoff spot (which his middling team would lose in a blow out in round one.)
For the next three years it was more of the same. He was a star player on a mid team, but OSMU noticed him (probably from more expressions of enjoyment from Kaz, who also commended his work and drive after his “punishment” made the news.) He was offered a scholarship, which was accepted handsomely (declaring himself an accounting major because he was good with numbers) before making a ground-breaking decision to not join Ohio State’s ROTC. He didn’t want to join the Army anymore. He wanted to break free from his family lineage and be his own star. His father gave him his utmost blessing, and he was off to OSMU to play for them for four amazing years, with a 3-point shooting game that led to an FCAA dance appearance and plenty of fan support.
One thing that also may have added to his fan support was his overall superstar appearance. He looked to have never spent a day out of the closet, always with well-styled outfits and well-groomed appearances. Well, out of the closet he came in 2023 when he opened up about dating a guy, a fellow otter computer science major and basketball player named Jasker LaGuardia, whom he had been seeing in secret for several months in what was basically a fanfiction come to life. In 2024, he and Jasker, never ones to do anything separately, put their names in the FBA Draft Hat in hopes that they can both make it into the big show.
Personality
Damian is well-known for his respectful nature even in the most scathing of situations, with his ability to keep a polite visage whilst dropping the most venomous barbs at his enemies.