Danny Rand

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Background

Danny Rand in the son of New York billionaire industrialist and philanthropist Thomas Wendell Rand and his mysterious wife Hima. Danny never really applied himself to much of his youth, mostly due to the influence of his friends Ward and Joy — the children of his father's right-hand man and business partner, Harold Meachum. Though lazy, rich, and spoiled, Danny was still a good kid at heart — something his mother constantly tried to realize.

When Danny was eight, his family private flight to Asia for a family vacation. However, near the end of it their private jet went down quickly, disappearing over the Kunlun Mountains, Surviving the wreck when his father and the crew did not, Danny got a serious wake-up call when his wounded mother dragged Danny out and the two trekked the last hundred miles to their true destination: the mystical city of K'un-Lun, for which the mountains were apparently named.

As they waited at the gates of K'un-Lun for the city to appear, as it only does for one lunar month every decade, Danny's dying mother revealed to her son that she was an Iron Fist, the sacred champion of K'un-Lun and it was her duty to bring Danny to the city for his training due to some ancient prophecy that concerned a chose child and Hima's role as that child's mother.

Danny was not sure what to think, but he was forced to believe in magic real quick when K'un Lun magically appeared before him, just as his mother gave her last breath. Danny was taken into the city and disappeared from our Earth for the next decade. During this time which Danny says is too sacred for him to discuss with outsiders, Danny was trained and ultimately became the next Iron Fist, the champion of K'un-Lun.

When K'un-Lun next appeared, a trained Danny came out, eager to finally investigate what actually happened to his family's plane.

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Danny is scary good master of K'un-Lun's martial arts style, K'un-Lun Quan. However, he still claims he is little more than a "bumbling amateur" compared to the true masters of the style.
* Apparently K'un-Lun Quan is not the martial art that the Iron Fist has studied. I guess the mystical city that disappears and reappears every decade has imported masters of all manner of fighting disciplines in order to compliment their won fighting techniques. Other styles which Danny has studied and mastered to some degree include Shaolin Kung Fu, Zuiquan ("Drunken Boxing"), Judo, Aikido, Karate, Tai Chi, Muay Thai, Boxing, Jiu-jitsu, Taekwondo, Capoeira. Yeah, "bumbling amateur", my ass...
* Danny speaks his native English, but he also seems to have mastered Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Tibetan, Thai, and speaks passable Japanese according to Colleen. He also speaks what sounds like gibberish to me, but Danny assures me it is the language of "Shoulao", the language of K'un-Lun — I guess.
* Overhearing some conversations between Luke and Danny, I've gather that Danny has faced no shortage of racial discrimination in his life on account of his being the son of a white South African father and an Asian K'un-Lunese mother. I cannot be sure whether this was during his childhood in New York or his training in K'un-Lun. But I'm guessing it was both. The world's got no shortage of ignorant assholes.
* I think Danny bleaches his hair blonde as part of an Iron Fist ritual (somthing about the champions of K'un-Lun adorning their heads in a "mantle of golden light"), but there are people who think Danny does it to make himself look more like his father to dispute the claim the real Danny Rand died ten years ago.
* I will admit, I was also skeptical when I heard the billionaire boy was back from the dead, but I've ran his fingerprints. He's legit.

### Notes

* Danny Rand resides in Subsidiary-Reality M, within Murum Locus.
* Iron Fist is a character originating from *Marvel Comics*.
* Danny Rand being of Asian-American descent is an Earth-27 M original.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Danny Rand

1. ↑ KnightWatch: Danny Rand