"I will not back down, for this curse is a gift."
Dean tends to stay to himself, partially because he lives in his box (explained in history) but also because of him ability. He doesn't feel when people touch him, he just feels the energy he absorbs. He doesn't make friends on his own- but when he does make friends, he loves them as if they were family. He highly dislikes people who think that they are better than others.
The second he was born his parents gave him to the circus. He had spent everyday of his life since then as part of the Carnival. At the age of eight, he nearly escaped.
Two of his only friends ever- Alex "Rockman" Richie and Johnny "Ohm" Davidson, trained him to escape. Ohm could project electrical energy from his hands and Rockman was the carnival's strongest man alive. Back when the carnival had their train to change location, they used to ride in the same car and one night they planned to escape. Ohm used as much of his electricity as he could on Dean and Rockman beat him almost into a comma. Dean stood up almost falling over as Rockman then destroyed a wall. Dean was pushed out onto the rocks and dirt on the side of the track as the other two jumped out. Dean stood- his skin already healing itself and fixing itself and now nearly diamond like in hardness- and shot the largest blast of energy he ever had, destroying the engine and causing a giant explosion.
After retrieving the escapees the Ringmaster invented Dean's Box, a glass-like trailer which redirects his energy blasts back at him. The other monsters that planned the escape were killed. Dean hs never forgiven the Ringmaster for destroying his family.
He is a sort of "helpless romantic", he has always liked Dryad from afar but never been able to act on his feelings. He dreamed if he could ever escape to try to act on those feelings and protect her from the world outside of The Carnival. She was the closest person to his age who had been there for approximately the same time as he had spent there.