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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Daniel "Danny" Chase
Age: 14
Canon: Dc Comics, "New Teen Titans: Games" Oneshot
Canon Point: The end of “New Teen Titans: Games”, after the team's talked about how they'll rebuild the tower.
Character Information: {His history in the main verse can be found here: Link
The 'Games’ universe follows it exactly, up until right before “Titans Hunt”, where Games branched off in to its own events that can’t be fit in to the main Pre 52 universe. I’ll write out a summary of that here starting from after Danny was kicked out of the Titans (as the linked summary leaves out the point where he was homeless and the one shot picks up from that point), because there are no written summaries that I could find.}

After being dismissed from the Titans, having never managed to get in contact with his parents, and refusing to go back to the CBI (who had cut all ties with him), he was on his own and homeless for a good two or three months. During this time Danny became impulsive, and determined to prove to the Titans, or at the very least himself, that he was still worth something. His actions became increasingly desperate and reckless, from breaking directly in to CBI databases to gain information, to joining the Royal Flush Gang in hopes of bringing them down from the inside all on his own. After his encounter with the Royal Flush Gang he finally just went quite.

The next time the Titans would hear from Daniel it would be after Faraday came to them dragging the boy in tow. The elder CBI agent informed the group of a man called the “Gamesmaster”. Faraday claimed he was a writer/game designer formerly hired by the CBI to create war simulations that regular agents wouldn’t think of. As he started to become more paranoid and unhinged, supposedly Faraday fired him, causing the man to have a personal vendetta against him. When attacks started taking place that resembled attack plans the Gamesmaster had created (which were largely mistaken for terrorist attacks), he started leaving messages directed at Faraday, and sent him a “Game Manual”. His main goal was to get the US to close its self off from the rest of the world, by causing mass destruction that could have come from any of the several terrorist organizations clawing to take credit for the attacks. His reasoning seemed to be that by having the US close its self off completely from all other nations, it would be safer. After revealing the Games Master intended to destroy New York in his next attack, Faraday tried to claim that the only way to stop him, would be to kill him. Refusing to be used as mercenaries, the Titans insisted they would find him, but they would only capture him. When Faraday refused to accept their need to take him in alive, he was forced to leave, Danny following close behind and the older Agent threatened “This isn’t over”. 

Apparently his threat wasn’t empty. Over the next few days all of the Titans started receiving threats from the CBI in some form or another. They or their family members citizenships were being looked in to, or their families were being audited, or their backgrounds/companies were being looked in to. The only one that went untouched was Dick Grayson, whose connections with Bruce Wayne made it nearly impossible for the government to touch him without going through the billionaire first. 
Unbeknownst to the Titans, as this started happening Danny began an investigation in to Faraday, breaking in to CBI’s database in an attempt to find out why he was going to such extremes, and to find proof that he didn’t have the authority to use CBI resources to go after the Titans. Upon being caught, and having Faraday give vague threats that he or his family would face consequences if he didn’t stop looking in to him, Danny (being the charming child he is) basically told him where he could stick it. He also insisted that so long as he made life hard for the Titans, he would continue to find ways to make life harder for him in return. Eventually Faraday gave in, and agreed to give Danny and the Titans the full story. 

The next time they went to the Titans, Faraday showed them the “Game Manual”, and the Gamesmasters card deck. The card deck was a deck of what looked like regular trading cards, only they had the pictures and personal information of every Teen Titan, living or dead. The information on the cards were beyond even what the CBI had on them, and according to the Game Manual, the Gamesmaster intended to use this information to make an attack on someone close to the Titans. With that information, all disputes about working together were pushed to the side. Faraday put the family and friends of the current Titans under surveillance, but it was Daniel who recommended that they be taken somewhere secure. It was while everyone was scrabbling to inform loved ones, and get them in to protective custody, that the Gamesmaster made his move. 
Sarah Simms, a physical therapist who worked with children who were adapting to prosthesis, and a very close friend of the Teen Titan Cyborg, was the one he targeted. While taking a group of her patients to the Renaissance Fair, it was discovered there was a bomb attached to the bus they were riding in. While the children were safely evacuated Sarah was killed.

The Gamesmaster had several “playing pieces”; all lackeys he had released from metahuman prisons that were under CBI control. They were all unknowingly infected with a chemical that would disintegrate them from the inside out and explode as soon as they were no longer useful. All of them were moving in to place across the city, setting up for the larger “game” to take place. The one who set up the bomb on Sarah’s bus and several other bombs across the city, would be shot by the Gamesmaster (after it was reveled Sarah was never supposed to die in the explosion), and would be set up as bait for the Titans. After another explosion went off that was meant to lead the Titans to him, they found a disk planted on his body before the man, who was still barely alive, would be killed by the chemical in his system. 

As the Titans went over the disk, they found it filled with puzzles and clues to where other attacks would be taking place. Danny was set to figuring out what the majority of them meant along with Jericho and Nightwing, pointing to where it was they needed to go. Each Titan would be sent after someone the Gamesmaster had handpicked to work against their abilities. All of them were eventually forced to leave the tower, leaving Faraday alone in it. 

Danny was sent to stop a bomb hidden in the United Nations building, clued in by a photo of a security panel within the building that he had helped his mother install. When he found the panel, it had been tampered with, and while he was attempting to figure out what had been done to it, it exploded.
The explosion was small, merely knocking him out, and leaving him dazed and in pain when he woke up. Waiting to great him when he came to, was one of the Gamesmasters playing pieces, Spyware. With his head hurting from the blast, his telekinesis was weakened, leaving him vulnerable enough for Spyware to easily over power him. Even though she was apparently only supposed to blow the building up and leave, she took her time expositing and gloating to the boy as she gleefully kicked him around the building, taking shots at him. It wasn’t until she went for the kill shot that he finally mustered the strength to fight back effectively. Using his telekinesis to slam her in to a wall when her guard was down, and knocked the wind out of her. Keeping a hold of her with his telekinesis, he carted her around the building with him as he searched for the bomb. When he found it, it was unlike any kind he’d been trained to defuse, and one set to go off if he used his powers on it. Knowing he had no way of neutralizing the bomb, Spyware taunted him. Right when she insinuated she knew something about his past that he didn’t, the fail safe in her system killed her.

While he continued to try to disarm the bomb, the rest of the Titans managed to defeat, or at the very least survive, the various attacks committed around the city. When Nightwing contacted him to make sure everything was okay on his end, he confessed he couldn’t disarm it. With Danny refusing to give up while there were people still trapped in building, Danny made an attempt to dampen the explosion by surrounding it in a telekinetic shield at the last second.
The shield worked, but the explosion nearly killed him, and cost him his arms. 

As all of the Titans gathered at the hospital, with Starfire and Danny in critical condition, unbeknownst to them, a force field powered by Titans Tower was forming over the city, and slowly began to crush it as it lowered. 

Having figured that Faraday had been the Gamesmaster, after speaking with Raven, and a recovering Danny, Dick and Cyborg lead an attack against the rouge CBI Agent. Managing to capture him alive, the only way to stop the force field from destroying New York was to blow up the Tower. Which apparently Faraday had not expected they would actually do.
After the disaster was finally quelled, Faraday was put in to the custody of the CBI, where his fate was uncertain. 
Danny recovered in time, and  was provided with prostheses and physical therapy at a physical rehabilitation center dedicated to Sarah Simms, as Cyborg started work on designing a new Tower. 

Personality:
First impressions are not Danny’s forte.
For that matter, seconded impressions aren’t always so great either. For an enthusiastic kid who can be so quick to act openly friendly, he is just as quick to turn in to a snide, condescending, little know-it-all, who will make snarky quips and comments at every given opportunity. He also has a bad habit of being a nosy little thing with curiosity that abounds, and an inability to put a very good leash on it, even when he knows he should. Understandably this can grate on most people’s nerves pretty quickly. Even though most of the time he isn’t actively trying to upset anyone or tick them off, by god, he sure does have a talent for it.

Whether he means to be abrasive or not, his attitude, nosy nature, and ego have been his own worst enemy during his time with the Titans, and that is a fact that he’s slowly starting to recognize and come to terms with. Over the last few months of his life he has been abandoned, or severely neglected, by a vast majority of the people he’s cared about and/or trusted, as well as having one of these people try to kill him. This has caused more than a few abandonment and trust issues to surface, and though he hides it well under all his over confidence, sarcasm, and bravado, he’s become a lot more insecure about his own self worth. Even before the Titans had kicked him out, he started to question just what it was that was wrong with him that made people not trust him, or want him around.
While trying to stop the bomb that would end up taking his arms, he expressed doubt that the Titans would even want to morn him to the extent of bothering to give him a memorial statue like they had their other fallen members.

Generally he acts as if he couldn’t care less about what anyone thinks of him, but it’s pretty obvious that he does crave attention and approval, no matter how much he may deny it. Often, before he was kicked off the Titans, when Nightwing extended him approval or played along with him, Danny would absolutely bask in it, and on occasion responded with brief disbelief. But since Danny's removal from the team, he’s become a lot more cynical of what approval he receives, still accepting it of course, but he’s not quite as quick to get excited over it. More likely he’ll shrug it off, or turn it in to a joke. He’s also not as quick to seek it out, or try to make people like him. Though, he does still have a competitive streak, and some need to prove himself, even that has mellowed.

Part of Dannys social issues likely stem from the environment he grew up in. Having been raised by spies and government officials admittedly hasn’t done the growth of Danny’s social skills a whole lot of good. The majority of his life has been built off of carefully constructed lies that must always be upheld as the truth, constant paranoia, and distrust of everyone, even those close to him. Threats have always been ever looming, and death happened often enough that numbing one’s self to it was pressured as a requirement. Cleverness and observational skills are regarded with far more favor than a way with niceties. Social skills and the understanding of them, are only favored as far as understanding them enough to exploit them. And since this is the only kind of life he’s ever really known, ‘normality’ is just an obscure concept that he has only ever really witness as an outsider (most often in the form of fiction, time spent with his Uncle’s family, and in short bursts when he was forced to go to public school while living with the Titans). Outside of occasionally interacting with extended family, he was never given much opportunity to intermingle with people outside of his immediate family or the CBI. Before the very short lived and long distance friend ship with Jason Todd (Robin II) he had never even had a real friend that wasn’t an adult, or someone on the cusp of adulthood.

There are times when it can seem like Danny is acting the way he feels he is expected to act, either as an agent or as a child. These two acts having been the majority of his life (having to work with the CBI and act as a professional, or to act as a child to uphold his parents cover), he relies on them heavily, and not always consciously. Though not necessarily insincere, there are times when the two acts can feel off: when he doesn’t know which is required or expected of him, sometimes the two acts can clash jarringly, or can come off as forced. It’s very rare when he will drop both of these faces and just speak honestly, even when he’s alone. And the more upset or unsure he is, the more he will lean on which ever feels like more of a comfort. Because of this he can occasionally come off as being cold, or apathetic to the feelings of others when he doesn’t mean to, or can be immature at inappropriate times. This problem isn't helped by the fact that he just flat out doesn't seem to be very good at reading people, or predicting how they will react when he's actively socializing with them. Often he seems to just assume that every one has similar sensibilities of those who work for the CBI. There has been several times where he honestly didn't seem to understand when someone was upset, genuinely angry at him, unamused, or just wasn't interested in what he was saying.

Growing up under Agent King Faraday (the CBI agent who was in charge of him and his parents) probably didn’t do the molding of his personality any favors, in and of its self. The man is about as blunt, coarse, and lacking in tact as one can come, and you can see that in Danny as well. From what interaction has been shown between them, and what little Danny has said about their past together, it seems they always had a shared animosity that was likely what kept Danny from being too much like him. But what similarities there are between them, and the influence he’s had on his logic, are hard to miss. During the events of “Games” while Danny was being attacked by one of the villains ‘Spyware’, she talked about how ‘The Gamesmaster’ (who would later be revealed as King Faraday) hated him. And the bomb he had set up for Danny to find, was specifically tailored to not only work against his powers, but to cause him as much pain as possible in the case that it didn’t kill him. In the story there isn’t a chance to show how this affects him emotionally or psychologically, if it does at all.

Another effect of having grown up in the environment he did, is his lack of trust. Trust is not a thing he extends easily, at least not when it comes to information about himself, the CBI, or his parents.
On one hand, if you find yourself in need of information on a place, or someone he has no personal attachment to, he’ll probably be happy to oblige (as he has quite a fondness for info dumping), so long as he even slightly likes you. But on the other hand, try to pry and wheedle a little too far in to his head, his past, or the topic of his parents, and you might end up finding out just how observant he can really be, and how well he can pick up on the weaknesses and insecurities of others. For someone who usually only takes silly pop-shot insults at people, he can be surprisingly personal and cruel when he’s angry enough, whether it’s warranted or not. Something his team mate Raven had unfortunately found out after merely trying to comfort him after the argument over Jason Todds death, and trying to ask about Danny’s inability to get in contact with his own parents at the time.
It’s rare when he will willingly give useful information about himself and his past, especially when it comes to his work with his parents and their organization. What information he does freely give away is mostly vague, or is said in a moment of extreme stress. There are never any real specifics, and there is rarely emotion attributed to them. Anytime someone tries to question too much in to it, he can get edgy, or tries to derail the conversation. The one time someone revealed they knew about his past with the CBI (and suggested they knew more about it than he did), he reacted with what seemed like a mixture of outrage and fear. The only time he has willingly gotten even slightly personal about his past or inner thoughts, was with a fellow Teen Titan, Jericho; who had a past similar to his own. Even then, despite opening up about his feelings toward the Titans, and how they felt like family, and his fear of any of them (Changeling in particular) hating him, he still kept what parts of his past he did talk about very vague.

The only times any clues are given as to why this may be (outside of the instilled lack of trust that comes with his families occupation), are when he had what seemed like a panic attack (though it’s never really confirmed to be one) after he hurt his leg and the blood caused him to have a break down. He spoke about having seen other agents get hurt, and seemed less frightened of the wound its self and more terrified by the feeling of the blood (at least at first). The other time was when he was speaking to Raven about Jason Todds death, and he revealed that he’d had to deal with death so many times that he had been taught not to react emotionally to it.

Often it can be hard to remember that Danny isn’t just a normal kid, and keep in mind the kind of conditions he grew up in. Under normal circumstance Danny comes off as being fairly laid back. Constantly making snarky jokes (in particular, at the expense of his team mate Changeling). He’ll gab about video games, comic books (he used to own quite a large collection before they were blown up along with the rest of the Titans Tower), and cheesy B horror movies. He’s easily bored or frustrated by “menial tasks” and can overlook them or outright refuse to do them, even when they are necessary. If he does go through with doing them (unless it’s a serious enough situation, or it’s for someone he really likes/respects), he’ll likely be whining, and griping through the entire process, so that everyone around him knows exactly how much of a horrible inconvenience it is. Most of the time, you would never know he was considered any kind professional at all, even when he’s consistently trying to remind everyone.

5-10 Key Character Traits:
- Overly inquisitive
- Distrusting
- Intelligent
- Snarky and immature sense of humor 
- Outwardly arrogant
- Secretly has issues with self worth
- Blunt
- Protective
- Socially Awkward
- Self sacrificing

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