I'll have to think into HOW he would go about trying to gather info/spy and ask what he could get through those methods. Probably not much if anything at this point, but he'd at least try.

He's gonna panic so bad. Things are starting to go exactly as bad as he thought they would, and he suspects it's only going to get worse from here.

Also, leaning toward having Danny start taking on the Phantasm persona as a way to hide it when he helps out anyone working with the Society.

And I'll admit it's partly because I think the idea that he'll keep stubbornly refusing to officially register a codename and costume for the Alliance, while happily taking them on to help people in The Society, is kinda funny.

I think they're also a good chance it's gonna come back to bite him in the ass if he becomes enough of a problem and gets caught, but that's a problem for future Danny.

Jason joined the Society last month!

Yeeessss! I saw that

I think Danny would be jumping ship over to them all together if he didn't feel like he could be more useful as someone on the inside of the Alliance.

Awww

He was literally trained for this shit

Is Jason open about being part of the Society? Or is only Red Hood open about that?

He's only dealing with guild stuff and meeting the guild officials as Red Hood. His civilian identity he's trying to keep away from since it's another way to trace him back to the BatFamily

kay, i thought i saw you say that but my memory is not to be relied on.

It's cool!

Also, on a lighter note, of course a carnival gets announce while Central City is in lock down.

dandywonderous i'm sitting here debating with myself over if it's in character for danny to offer to help jail break leo from quarantine. I don't know if that's even something we would be allowed to do. or if leo would be down for that.

but i got a scenario in my head of having danny basically do a check-in text (because leo is the closest thing he has to a friend right now outside of Jason, and with everything going on, he would be concerned).

Just like, "hey, so, I know there's A LOT going on right now. you doing okay?" and have that turn into "we should figure out how to break you out of there and do something stupid and hopefully fun"

Bart has been gathering what he can since day one.

I love that Bart's been spying, too. And he's in a much better position to do that. I really want to get these two to interact and it would be cool if they could work together.

Hmmm...Thinking over the idea of somehow bugging Fantastic. To try and find out his general patterns and if he is working for someone else. Emphasis on TRY.

But Danny doesn't really know much about making tracers/bugs, only how to use them, recognize them, and dismantle them.

angriestbird I'm tempted to have him ask Jason if he knows anyone who could make one or if Batman ever taught him how to make them. If he doesn't he might be able to talk Danny out of what will probably be a big mistake

because even if Danny pulls this off, I'm willing to bet there's no way Fantastic won't eventually notice he's been bugged.

But Danny's kinda panicking, with the whole mandatory tracking of super mutants, and people openly trying to recruit for a coup/seemingly attacking civilians to get Fantastic's attention. And he has no chill, so I might be setting him up for a big mistake.

Jason does know how to get bugs and he'd be willing to talk to Danny on if this is a good idea or not

Because hoooo boy. There are so many ways this could go wrong

awesome! I'll have Danny shoot Jay a message at some point today. And yeah, it's not a great plan, it's really barley a plan at all.

oh whoop I missed this
leo's been going around within central so he hasn't been quarantined too hard but they can def sneak out and do something fun!

Danny, pretty sure this is all a terrible idea.

This might be one of the rare times Jason will want Dick involved

Jason would have to bet he one to contact him about it, because Dick doesn't even really know that Danny is around.

Bart joined BECAUSE the organization was sus.

dandywonderous: sweet! i'll have Danny drop a message to Leo today at some point, too then

angriestbird: Danny: "You ratted me out to Dick?! "

litshard: Love the idea of Dick finding out Danny's here by being told the kid's about to do something incredibly dangerous and stupid XD

Just like old times!

Jason: Look, it's not like I make a habit of it. Besides, Big Bird would be mad at me if I let you go off alone like that

angriestbird: Danny: -pouts harder-

Jason will absolutely rat him out to Dick with no regrets

Bugly42: same with danny. he's just been dancing around actually doing anything to put himself in a good position for it because it also opens him up to being used by them. and whether he likes to admit it or not he's got some trauma connected with being used by shady government agencies.

Dick will absolutely facepalm, but it's kinda to be expected.

angriestbird: as he should, frankly!

Just realized Danny never actually told anyone he wasn't living in Central City anymore. Whoops! Technically it's in character for him to not think to tell anyone, so it works out, but I also just forgot to have him do that I good at RP

Pfft

Actually, with the way things are going he'll probably end up ditching his foster family, since they're Guild affiliated and most likely Alliance affiliated in particuler. He actually might end up just sneaking back in to Central and go back to living on the streets. Because he at least knows Central City and already scouted it out for places to hide out.

Oh no. Jason will understand but oh no

Not even sure if he'll tell anyone about that either because he hates the idea of anyone feeling responsible for him. He might tell Jason depending on how things go with the current conversation but that's a big maybe.

After reading over more of the plotting stuff, with Alliance members being the first to be rounded up for the "new housing", Danny would definitely tell Jason that he'd started living on the streets again when that starts happening. Just so he knows he wasn't taken by them.

Still not sure if he would think to tell anyone else, but Jason would at least know.

Jason would understand a kid choosing to be homeless over shady housing considering his own experiences

One more reason for the better family accomodations.

True!

Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I don't know if Danny would let anyone take him in if they offered him a permanent home.

Like, a temporary shelter while shit's fucked, he would have no issue with.

He'd probably even be okay with a situation where it's like "you can come stay here whenever you need a place", and he feels like he can easily come and go like a stray cat.

But if someone actually offered him a HOME...I feel like even if he took them up on it, he probably wouldn't stick it out. He'd just have this constant nagging feeling that he's a burden they're putting up with out of pity or obligation. And "he can totally take care of himself", so what's the point in troubling other people?

...God, it's all the same stuff that drove Dick mad with him before.

To be fair, that last bit def wasn't helped by his time with the Titans. Dick outright claiming they only took him in out of pity MIGHT have given him a bit of a complex.

The difference between then and now is he's gone from "I can totally take care of myself, I don't need you losers!" to "There's no way in hell they honestly want me around this much, I'm gonna get myself kicked eventually. I'll just leave on my own terms."

Basically still "I don't need you guys!" but with a hefty helping of self-pity smeared all over it

What's the opposite of character development? Character backslid?

Character status quo.

Yes! XD

Same shit, just with some new added shit on top of it.

That's an excellent way of describing that!

Fun fact! In the Games universe that Danny is from, people have pointed out that Batman actually replaced Jason with Tim even faster the then in the main universe

Jason's body would have been barely cold!

Because, I could be wrong, but Games basically happens when Titans Hunt should have. And I think at that point in the main verse Tim was still just a twinkle in someones' eye

It's really not a good look for Bruce

We need to figure out a way for Danny and Bart to cross paths.

Oh my god. I forgot how fast Bruce replaced Jason in that one

Bugly42: yeeeessssss! Danny's going to probably be homeless in Central as soon as he hears about Starfallen being rounded up. Maybe they could meet in Central somehow?

Jason's getting so mad on Danny's behalf. KIds getting hurt is such a trigger for him but them being friends makes it so much worse

angriestbird: YEAH! Danny has options about Bruce, but he's trying to keep that to himself for now. He doesn't know exactly how Jason feels about the man

Messy and wants to punch him in the face. Repeatedly.

angriestbird: Also, I'm loving Jason getting pissed and Danny just like "It is what it is man".

He's not really used to people getting angry on his behalf

He just, doesn't NOT know what to do with this

It's not right, dang it!!

Me: -whispering to myself- no one but me knows that danny is unconsciously parroting faraday in this conversation again, because that scene between them only happened in my head

One day I hope I get an excuse to have someone see the memory of Faraday "recruiting" Danny to go back to the Titans with him

Bart will definitely be around Central more because he has safe places to sleep where the Alliance can't necessarily find him.

Bugly42: That could be a good place for them to run into each other then. Would Bart be staying with friends or does he have other hiding places in Central, too?

Friends

-nod nod- hmmm, will he still be doing any heroing? or is he keeping his head down?

Bart is pathologically incapable of ignoring things he could help so still heroing.

But it's never been unusual for him to be in more than one of the hub cities in a day.

Bugly42: hmmm, maybe they could run into eachother when Bart is trying to stop crime? Danny is going to be dropping his "I barely have any powers" shtick after the Jinx plot (or possibly earlier) . And he'd be way more likely to step in and help now.

Sure

I can work on a post for them this month set after the Jinx plot if you'd like. any kind of crime in particular that you'd be interested in them dealing with?

Could be an accident instead, even a further collapse from Jinx damage

Ooo! That's a good idea! I'll set up something with that for them