Danny Richardson

Danny Richardson is a DMS agent in the Video Games Division. He is a creation of PoorCynic.

Appearance
Danny is 6'1" and thin as a rail. He has short dishwater blond hair and brown eyes. He dresses quite formally for an assassin, favoring a black v-neck over a dress shirt and tie. Additional images of Danny can be found here.

Personality
Unlike his firebrand of a partner, Danny is level-headed and diplomatic. He prefers to act only when a suitable plan has been laid out beforehand and will continue to lay out possible strategies up until the very last moment. Danny is also fairly laid-back and isn't above taking a few good-natured pot shots at his companions. He does, however, have an extremely low tolerance for errors in spelling and grammar. He also hates poorly justified death as a literary device used to improve the status of the hero or heroine.

Danny is a literati through and through. He enjoys nothing more than finding a quiet spot in PPC headquarters and holing up there with novels thick enough to crack walnuts with, which is a bit strange considering his presence in the Video Game Division. The subject of literature is a favorite one for him and he enjoys suggesting good titles to other agents.

Danny is a habitual smoker, calling it a nasty little habit that he acquired in graduate school. He also enjoys Bleepka tonics and bar-centric activities such as billiards or poker. This sometimes puts him at odds with Laura, who is a strict teetotaler.

The weaponry Danny uses on missions tends towards heavier fare. He favors shotguns in continua that will permit them and war or sledge hammers everywhere else.

Agent History
Danny fell through an unexpected plothole into the PPC in 2010 HST. After a few minutes of pure terror at having his view of reality rocked, he was able to adapt and applied for a position in the Department of Mary Sues. He is reluctant to talk about what he did before arriving in the PPC, calling it "a much less interesting existence." Some people have suggested that he was something along the lines of an English teacher, based on his dress code and intense dislike of grammatical errors.

He was sent to the Video Game Division and partnered with Laura Dukes. The two of them were also given the intern Rachel Calendar for training purposes. Both he and Laura received praise for dealing with several noxious Left 4 Dead parodies. In mid-September 2010 HST, they were temporarily transferred into the Department of Improbable AUs as punishment for prematurely exorcising a Mass Effect parody. Their new DIAU supervisor was Cornelius, an artificial intelligence program. This arrangement lasted until November 2010, after which they returned to the DMS.

In May 2011, Danny helped defend the International Academy of Hetalia Fanfiction from a Mary Sue invasion. He was awarded the Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Mochi (GCMG) for his assistance.

Danny is a member of the Pennacook Club, the PPC's only private bar.

General Timeline

 * 2010
 * May - Fell into PPC Headquarters; transferred into the Department of Mary Sues and assigned Laura Dukes as a partner.
 * "Prelude - Player Two Has Joined the Game"
 * "You Want Nobody to Love"
 * "Dead Weight"
 * June - Laura and Danny take on two missions involving the notorious Sandwich!Stu.
 * "With a Side of Chips and a Soda"
 * "Night of the Living Stu"
 * July - "DIA: Introductions" (cameo appearance)
 * Early September - Prematurely ended a Bad Parody mission before taking a week off to visit the Airbenderverse.
 * "A Night at the Movies"
 * Mid-September through November - Temporarily reassigned to the Department of Improbable AUs under Agent Cornelius as punishment for "vacation;" recorded missions include:
 * "Buy Victory Bonds!" (first mission with Cornelius)
 * "A Failing Grade"
 * "We Were Sailing Along..." (final mission with Cornelius)
 * 2011
 * April - Took Intern Rachel Calender into the field for training purposes.
 * "Stus. Stus Never Change."
 * May - Assisted in the defense of the IAHF during an invasion of Mary Sues.
 * June
 * "Free Time - Whose Game Was Empires" (interlude)

Mission Reports
The following mission reports are not necessarily in chronological order. To read the stories in their proper order, please consult the timeline above.

Home: Video Game Division

Partnered with Laura Dukes

 * "Prelude - Player Two Has Joined the Game"
 * Laura gets transferred into the DMS and decides to give her rookie partner Danny a quick video game quiz.
 * "You Want Nobody to Love" (Kingdom Hearts)
 * Organization XIII throws a pool party to welcome their new Mary Sue members. Guess which two assassins decide to crash?
 * "Dead Weight" (Left 4 Dead)
 * Laura and Danny head into the Left 4 Dead continuum to deal with a Survivor!Stu.
 * "With a Side of Chips and a Soda" (Left 4 Dead)
 * A mishap with the Words results in a bizarre Stu, an irritated Danny, and an incredibly amused Laura.
 * "Night of the Living Stu" (Left 4 Dead)
 * The Stu from Mission 003 is back, so it's up Laura and Danny to rebury him once and for all.
 * "A Night at the Movies" (Mass Effect)
 * Laura and Danny are promised some time off provided they take care of a scriptfic from the Department of Bad Parody.
 * "Stus. Stus Never Change." (Fallout)
 * Laura and Danny take Intern Rachel along on a training run into the Wasteland to take out a rather odious Marty Stu
 * "Free Time - Whose Game Was Empires" (interlude)
 * Danny kicks back with a cigar, a drink, and a little high-stakes gaming.

Partnered with Laura and Cornelius

 * "Buy Victory Bonds!" (Kingdom Hearts)
 * Laura, Danny, and DIAU agent Cornelius find themselves in the middle of a wartime romance between Vexen and Marluxia.
 * "A Failing Grade" (Kingdom Hearts)
 * It's back to school for the DIAU crew as they try to save three Organization XIII members from a gang of Sues.
 * "We Were Sailing Along..." (Kingdom Hearts)
 * An Axel!Sue (yes, Sue) is by far the least frightening thing Laura and Danny are forced to face during their last mission with Cornelius and the DIAU.

AU Stories

 * "Five Stages" (interlude)
 * Five short AU stories in which agents attempt to cope with grief and loss.