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Part XVI of Danse Macabre is nearing completion. If not tonight, then tomorrow, and then it will be time to kick off my fic submission for the John Winchester Challenge atpoorboyshuffle. I'm hoping it can double as a prompt for my spn13 claim.
Against my better judgment, I waded into the "Does Danny Seek Out Abuse?" thread on Talk. Some posters make valid observations, but too many people trot out the tired excuse that Danny is a selfish brat because everyone abandons him, and no one is "there for him."
I beg to differ. Danny is one of the most cosseted characters on TV. Flack drops everything to offer a buddy-system. He did it unasked in "On the Job," and all he got for his pains was the tacit accusation that he was out to get him just like Mac and the Brass. He was there in "Run Silent, Run Deep," and again in "...Comes Around." Flack has consistently acted as the fulcrum upon which Danny re-establishes his teetering equilibrium.
And then there's Mac. Admittedly, Mac's support of Danny was spotty and dubious in S1, and he badly mishandled Danny in "On the Job," but he could've investigated Danny after Sassone's insinuations in "Tanglewood" and didn't. In the aforementioned RSRD, he goes above the call and braves lung cancer to exonerate Danny in the face of damning circumstantial evidence of his guilt. This is especially significant when one considers that Mac's father died of lung cancer, and thus, Mac might have a genetic predisposition to cancer.
So there's Mac and Flack. What about Aiden? She clearly cared for Danny enough to invite him for dinner even after she was fired. She valued his friendship.
Or Lindsay? Yes, I know Lindsay is motivated by a desire to taste the world-famous Messer Trouser Steak, but she is also a rival for Mac's stingy approval, and she could have gone straight to Mac when his DNA turned up on that butt, but she didn't. She gave Danny the chance to tell Mac himself.
What about Louie? It was tough love, but he loved Danny enough to steer him away from the Tanglewood Boys and sacrifice himself to keep Danny's straight life alive. But I guess that doesn't count because the "being there for him" didn't come in the package he wanted it.
Danny has abandonment issues out the yang and sees abandonment where it isn't. Flack didn't get himself blown up to cause more existential angst for Danny Messer; it was a hazard of the job, and it chaps my ass when fans list the bombing in "Charge of This Post" under Bad Things That Have Happened to Danny Messer. The same can be said for Aiden's murder. They were tragedies that assuredly affected him, but they didn't happen to him, and there is a difference.
Look, any way you slice it, Danny Messer is a bad friend. He abandoned Flack in the hospital in COTP to take Lindsay home. At best, he ran because it was too much too soon after Louie. At worst, he was horny. Either way, it was All About Him, and it was disgusting. If you want good friends, you have to be a good friend, and Danny isn't. If he were a better friend, he might have noticed Aiden was in over her head. Unless he found crime lab decor and creepy candids of D.J. Pratt sexy, in which case he needs more help than fandom can give him.
In short, Danny has friends who would gladly support him, and often do. He chooses not to see it because it's easier to make excuses and play the victim, and I have zero sympathy for him. That's all right, though. The rest of the fandom apologists will more than make up for it.
crack_impala, a fact which makes me giddy. Someone named Ivy was also kind enough to point out flaws in my timeline, and I have since corrected them. Because of her, my story is better. Yay!Part XVI of Danse Macabre is nearing completion. If not tonight, then tomorrow, and then it will be time to kick off my fic submission for the John Winchester Challenge at
poorboyshuffle. I'm hoping it can double as a prompt for my spn13 claim.Against my better judgment, I waded into the "Does Danny Seek Out Abuse?" thread on Talk. Some posters make valid observations, but too many people trot out the tired excuse that Danny is a selfish brat because everyone abandons him, and no one is "there for him."
I beg to differ. Danny is one of the most cosseted characters on TV. Flack drops everything to offer a buddy-system. He did it unasked in "On the Job," and all he got for his pains was the tacit accusation that he was out to get him just like Mac and the Brass. He was there in "Run Silent, Run Deep," and again in "...Comes Around." Flack has consistently acted as the fulcrum upon which Danny re-establishes his teetering equilibrium.
And then there's Mac. Admittedly, Mac's support of Danny was spotty and dubious in S1, and he badly mishandled Danny in "On the Job," but he could've investigated Danny after Sassone's insinuations in "Tanglewood" and didn't. In the aforementioned RSRD, he goes above the call and braves lung cancer to exonerate Danny in the face of damning circumstantial evidence of his guilt. This is especially significant when one considers that Mac's father died of lung cancer, and thus, Mac might have a genetic predisposition to cancer.
So there's Mac and Flack. What about Aiden? She clearly cared for Danny enough to invite him for dinner even after she was fired. She valued his friendship.
Or Lindsay? Yes, I know Lindsay is motivated by a desire to taste the world-famous Messer Trouser Steak, but she is also a rival for Mac's stingy approval, and she could have gone straight to Mac when his DNA turned up on that butt, but she didn't. She gave Danny the chance to tell Mac himself.
What about Louie? It was tough love, but he loved Danny enough to steer him away from the Tanglewood Boys and sacrifice himself to keep Danny's straight life alive. But I guess that doesn't count because the "being there for him" didn't come in the package he wanted it.
Danny has abandonment issues out the yang and sees abandonment where it isn't. Flack didn't get himself blown up to cause more existential angst for Danny Messer; it was a hazard of the job, and it chaps my ass when fans list the bombing in "Charge of This Post" under Bad Things That Have Happened to Danny Messer. The same can be said for Aiden's murder. They were tragedies that assuredly affected him, but they didn't happen to him, and there is a difference.
Look, any way you slice it, Danny Messer is a bad friend. He abandoned Flack in the hospital in COTP to take Lindsay home. At best, he ran because it was too much too soon after Louie. At worst, he was horny. Either way, it was All About Him, and it was disgusting. If you want good friends, you have to be a good friend, and Danny isn't. If he were a better friend, he might have noticed Aiden was in over her head. Unless he found crime lab decor and creepy candids of D.J. Pratt sexy, in which case he needs more help than fandom can give him.
In short, Danny has friends who would gladly support him, and often do. He chooses not to see it because it's easier to make excuses and play the victim, and I have zero sympathy for him. That's all right, though. The rest of the fandom apologists will more than make up for it.