#danny hebert

[downadura]

Concept: Danny hears his old friend Alan Barnes complain about the hit on the gala, and he gets curious enough to google this new group of villains.

Apparently, these 'Undersiders' are a group of teenage supervillains who've been active for the past few months, doing some petty crime, only recently going for larger-scale stuff, and who helped against Bakuda's attack on the city. And two of them look extremely similar in build to Taylor's new friends.

Taylor, who got these new friends out of nowhere.

Taylor, who was hurt in Bakuda's bombing.

Taylor, who has been skipping school recently.

Taylor, who started running a few months ago, and has been distant since the locker incident.

Taylor, tall and lanky, with curly hair remarkably similar to that of one Undersider.

Danny sits back in his chair, feeling like the rug has been swept from under his feet. He covers his face with his hands, and groans. Because he may not be the most attentive of fathers, but he wasn't stupid. And the signs were pointing towards only one, clear conclusion:

His daughter was Regent.

And by god, he would do whatever he could to support her. It's the least he could do, after he failed to help her before.

[travelers-gaming]

is it possible that Danny Hebert and Marquis had like. briefly met. obviously they're not best friends or anything but. 1. Danny has been the Union Rep for the dockworkers since around the time taylor was born, which was when Marquis was still in Brockton. 2. Danny's wife was part of Lustrums whole thing, which means he at least incidentally has a reason to think of supervillains as people rather than as always evil. 3. In a seaside shipping town like Brocton Bay the dock workers union is probably like. fairly high up in terms of people you want to be on good terms with while doing organized crime and 4. they're both feminists so I think it's not out of the question they've like. had a business discussion or something. I guess what I'm trying to say is that when Marquis saw that Skitter was unmasked his reaction might have been "Hebert? Like the union guy?"

[junebugtwin]

okay actually i need to ramble about taylor and her dad for like a bit cus its sooo much.

like okay listen listen listen: Danny wakes up early and he cooks breakfast maybe and then he goes to work and he does his job- and he's great at his job, in any world but this one, in any other brockton bay, he'd be able to afford to take taylor out of winslow or fix their broken step- maybe get her her like a dog or something (which btw would fix her) and y'know pay the bills and shit. but he can't in this universe because in this universe kaiju attack every 2 seconds and one specifically doesn't like people existing on coasts and like he's a dockworker or whatever so! so. so he works all day tirelessly just to not get his crew jobs or better pay because no one is going to sponsor the people working on a non-existent dock like its literally a graveyard! who would pay for this when there's an actual dragon man running around the city burning buildings down and an entire neo-nazi contingent of super-cunts nobody is going to do that. But this is his life. And he's stubborn and things had been better before so maybe they can be good again and he hates change and he doesn't want to have it all been for nothing and this is what he does. So he gives it his all. He stays late and he really only hangs out with his coworkers and he does have to pay the bills so its not like anyone could blame him. So he slams his head into the brick wall hoping it will break before his skull will and he misses so fucking much of what is going on in his daughters life! but it goes by so quickly, too quickly and by the time he's begun to figure out just how deeply and irrecoverably she's changed its way too late to just swing back in like nothing happened. He can't actually! They've both closed themselves off totally, her even farther than he has. but they're both stubborn, so stubborn and they think that if they can just hold on a little longer then things will be okay because things have to be okay because this can't be the rest of their lives! And Taylor really is her fathers daughter because she sees the way he bloodies his head on that wall and says fuck it all do you one better: this brick wall is going to break or i am! and if i do then i won't be around to care about it! And she's skipping class and spending nights somewhere else, sneaking out and of course he knows about it- of course he knows! What is he going to do though? confront her? and then what? what justification could he possibly have for that? to demand answers from her when she should be the one demanding them from him? he let her go back to the same school that nearly killed her! he let her drown without him when his wife died- didn't notice when emma broke her heart, didn't notice when she stopped loving english class or trusting adults or speaking without thinking 'stupid!' at herself reflexively. or worse- he did notice and chose not to do anything out of cowardice and habit and procrastinating guilt- like his daughters mental health was homework he hasn't handed in. But they both feel better, when they don't have to talk about it- and there's nothing morally wrong with skipping school or dropping out entirely but taylor used to like school but having an actual conversation with her about what exactly is happening in her life is something he takes half a zillion words to work up to and by the time he actually does he has to lock them in a goddamn room together- not because it's a good idea- if he knew more about taylor he'd know its a surefire way to freak her out- but because that's what he needs to talk to her.

and it just...deflates. she leaves and drops out of school and doesn't really talk to him again until brockton bay is like halfway underwater. there's no catharsis with him finding out she's Skitter, its not satisfying, not even in an angsty way- 'luke i am your father' -at least that's properly dramatic! It's just sort of an. oh. okay. fuck.

i dunno. this wasn't going anywhere. i just...man. they'd both kill for each other, i am confident in that much, but both seem to struggle pretty hard with the 'living for each other' part.

[snazzyscarf]

an old wip i made early on in my wormread that i never got around to finishing

[thepariahcontinuum]

Invidiak - Chapter 09: One Last Scare

Concluding the story and showing some of the fallout of Taylor's attack on the Wards at Winslow.

FF Net

Ao3

[goblin-sword]

I do think it’s very funny that Danny has such a problem with texting while driving but he’s extremely casual about drunk driving. Actively drinking a beer saying “it’s ok i’ll go slow.”

Father Moment

[aruliart]

Atrocious Fancast Pt. 2

[imnotverybright]

actually union membership is bad because it can lead to your daughter being so pro-union she violates millions of people's autonomy in order to launch a mass attack on god

[ganurath]

Danny would probably run for mayor to help Taylor with the bullying. Well, it'd be to get the ferry reopened, but it'd be the bullying that pushes him from working within the system to staging a takeover of the system through established processes. The guy needs to broaden the list of school options available to her.

While he'd start out with a single issue agenda, things would broaden rapidly as support piles on for a candidate who isn't a sock puppet for the feds (Christner,) a turncoat to the administration she's part of (Padillo,) or a Bond villain's front company (Grove.)

Naturally, this results in heightened opposition as well. Coil becomes convinced that Danny is a cape when the attempt on his life is thwarted by a swarm of ravenous spiders.

[skitterstan]

In honor of how many times I mistake Danny Fenton for Danny Hebert, my crossover pitch headcanon au where Danny took his wife’s name

Danny finds all the spiders in his basement

[travelers-gaming]

I think that Danny Heberts problems could very easily have turned him into Sphere and eventually Manniquin because like. he objectively fails as a father. and he knows it and it just makes him worse and worse and he tries to pack all of his emotions tighter and tighter

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

For the character bingo: Danny Hebert?

i admit to having embarassimgly few thoughts on danny but ough. tragic man...

[ducktapeal]

God, the scene where Danny confronts Taylor about not going to school hits. Just so many great facets to it.

He locks her in, when he's been incredibly careful to not push her boundaries before, because he feels like he has no choice. Like Taylor, he isn't willing to accept defeat easily and is willing to abandon long-held convictions for a greater goal. Which like, it's fucked up! It's a fucked up thing to lock someone in a room when you _know_ that she has an extreme reaction to feeling backed into a corner. He doesn't know the details, but he does know how big a deal this is. And fundamentally, he's wrong, but the commitment to do something fucked up when he thinks it serves a greater good clearly extends into Taylor.

He doesn't shout at her. We know from his interlude that the fact that he can't help Taylor make him feel powerless and angry, and that his temper is extreme. And the only moment when he shows something like anger is when he grabs her arm before she leaves in a desperate attempt to not lose her.

Likewise, we know from the interlude that he does his best to not show Taylor his anger, even directed at someone else, someone that deserves it. And while Taylor gets angry in this scene, we can see that she doesn't have the anger that he does, that as much as he feels like he failed as a parent, he _succeeded_ at showing Taylor that anger wasn't a good or useful emotion to let control you. She does a ton of fucked-up stuff in this story, but she keeps her temper _astonishingly_ well for someone who is repeatedly abused. And when she thinks of hurting someone in anger, her feeling is generally to reject that impulse, because she knows it's wrong. The fact that Taylor's bullies didn't get spider'd her first day back was because Danny wasn't a complete failure like he thinks he is.

When it's clear he can't get a total win, Danny shifts into secondary objectives. Ideally he'd get Taylor to tell him what's up, but he _needs_ to know she's okay. That she's not being coerced, not into drugs, and that whatever she's doing, she's going to be okay. You can feel in his tone when she tells him that, that he's admitted defeat and knows she isn't staying. But he knows what he needs to be able to sleep.

And when she finally leaves the house, he gives the line that defines the both of them: "You have to understand, I didn’t have any other options.  You were avoiding me, not talking, and I can’t help you until I get answers." He has to help. _Has_ to help. It's not possible for him to sit idle and just let things happen, not helping will eat at him like nothing else. And he gave that to her as well, that unending sense of justice, that no matter what happens, they have to help.

Which ends up being his own downfall, given the previous conversation with Coil. The city has failed Danny for years, and Taylor has seen that no one in power is willing to do what needs to be done to bring jobs back to the Docks and give people there the support they need. And she _has_ to help. So she sees that she has the chance to help in an unorthodox and untried way... and she does it. And Danny's heart is never the same.

Danny's relationship with Taylor is messy, but like a lot of things in this story, it's messy in a way that feels real, like the kind of person Taylor is feels like someone who grew up with Danny as a father. That they have similar faults, even though they're very different people.

[sweaterregrets]

something a little different but it was fun!! please listen to scorpion hill by pup and then come talk to me about the amv u saw in ur minds eye

[dw-flagler]

a little known fact about the world of worm is that due to a clerical error, danny's last name is legally Herbert