Danny

Danny (real name Daniel) is a Monarch operative who joined shortly following the Battle of Boston in 2019, given the role of Titan Investigator and set to the task of finding and documenting new Titans that had been awakened by Ghidorah. Responsible for documenting around 9 Titans for Monarch, Danny's efforts got him a small promotion and command over a facility in Orkney designed to monitor a trio of Titans associated with local mythology.

Following a brief incident involving Titanus Teran, Danny had become trapped for 3 years in the Hollow Earth, but has since been rescued and returned home.

## Background

Prior to joining Monarch, Danny was not a particularly remarkable person. Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) at a young age, Danny had a hard time integrating into social groups and making friends, though with age came experience and he grew better at both cases. Since he was a child, Danny always had a fascination with ancient life, particularly dinosaurs, growing up with Jurassic Park, Dinosaur King, Combat of Giants: Dinosaurs, and dozens of books about the prehistoric reptiles. This fascination would only grow with the years, a major contributing factor to his later decision to join Monarch. During school, Danny would show promise in subjects like History, displaying a passion for the subjects he was studying. He also spent a period of work experience at a nearby university, complete with a museum that he would visit frequently, which only fuelled his prehistoric passion.

Much like the rest of the world, Danny had never believed that monsters truly existed, but would humor the thought as an entertaining prospect, from the early days of believing unfounded theories of Megalodon still lurking in the present waters to the classic days of believing the woods near his home were occupied by haunting figures waiting to snatch him away in the night. He had grown to fall in love with giant monsters through old Japanese kaiju movies, wondering what the world would be like if such titans were to exist in the real world.

Danny was fortunate enough to not be anywhere near the sites of the MUTO attacks and their subsequent battles with Godzilla, though the news that these creatures once thought myth or fiction were as real as he was both fascinated and terrified him. This bout of mixed emotions would only grow further during the Titanus Jinshin-Mushi attacks, at which point he had attempted to join in a civilian operative scheme Monarch had opened up not long after, though at the time he was below the minimum age requirement. He grew hopeful, however, upon learning that Titanus Leviathan was contained not far from where he lived, and once he was of age, he signed up to become a civilian operative for Monarch. Around the same time, an unknown relative of Danny's, known only as Dr. Kearns, had signed on to join Monarch Outpost 75 in Sudan to oversee containment and study of Titanus Mokele-Mbembe.

## Joining Monarch

In 2019, the entire world was shaken by the Mass Awakening and Battle of Boston, and Danny was no exception. He had recieved news very quickly that Dr. Kearns had been killed during Mokele-Mbembe's escape, and that his family were forced to relocate to Ireland following a brief rampage from Leviathan. Flooded with several emotions conflicting with one another, Danny made an impulsive and emotional plea to Monarch to join as a full-time operative. After around two months of waiting for a response and having to be relocated himself, Danny has recieved news that a trial would be held to join Monarch's ranks as an operative. After fulfilling the needs of the trial to a satisfactory standard, Danny was able to meet with Dr. Rick Stanton and was granted the role of Titan Investigator, given worldwide access and an upgraded clearance badge for his new mission to discover new Titans.

Around a year after the Mass Awakening, in summer 2020, Danny had been able to profile five new Titans for Monarch; those Titans being Titanus Kelpie, Titanus Bakekujira, Titanus Eachusige, Titanus Champtanystropheus ("Champ") and Titanus Ammit. Following some brief incidents with some of these Titans, resulting in two of them falling prey to the wrath of others, Danny had been able to find resolution to these conflicts with some support, and the remaining living Titans returned to minding their own business.

During his time with Monarch, Danny had made close allies and even friends with other new Monarch operatives, such as Linden, Fossil and Castle, providing some assistance with their own conflicts wherever he could.

## The "Ammit Incident" - December 2020

Toward the end of 2020, following the emergence of a suspicious group called the Returning Sun, Danny had gone off-grid and secluded himself in a remote location, resulting in him becoming out of touch with major developments within Monarch. During this time, it is known he had been working on a recreation of the late Emma Russell's sonar device, ORCA, for potential use as a Titan deterrent. However, Danny had been discovered by a rogue group of criminals and taken hostage alongside his prototype. Now in the hands of an unknown agent identified simply as "Mystery Man", Danny was rendered helpless to watch as Ammit was reawakened and sent on a rampage, resulting in the death of Champ. After subsequently being rescued by a G-Team group led by Jack Roberts (who would go on to become Danny's closest friend), Danny was given a briefing at Castle Bravo before being deployed to Brazil, where Ammit was currently headed.

The crocodilian Titan was intercepted at sea by a Monarch fleet and the then-newly discovered Titanus Damballa, though this did little more than temporarily stall her. Upon reaching the land, Ammit was confronted by Titanus Behemoth and Titanus Methuselah, who managed to briefly beat the Titan into submission before she recieved support from the Mystery Man aboard a helicopter. Briefly incapacitating the two Protectors, Ammit proceeded to engage Danny's Monarch team before Behemoth was able to recover, resulting in the Titan pushing both of his tusks through Ammit's underbelly, killing her and ending her short reign of terror. Roberts had been critically injured during this incident, however, and took a while to recover.

Following this incident, Danny returned briefly to Castle Bravo, where he was congratulated for his efforts. He was granted a small promotion, and the opportunity to run a new Monarch facility that was being established in the Orkney Isles, an opportunity which he readily accepted.

## The "Teran Incident" - March 2021

During the early months of 2021, Danny enjoyed the new responsibilities of running a Monarch facility in Orkney, overlooking an aquatic territory occupied by the whale-like Titanus Mither, alongside Roberts, who had managed to make a surprisingly rapid recovery from the injuries he had sustained months prior. During these months, Danny had brought on many new faces to the facility, including operatives James Cooper and Scotty McGregor, G-Team captain Hilary Becker, and soldiers Elle Thomson and Bryan Morales.

Towards the end of March 2021, Danny had led an expedition into a subterranean vent found on the seabed a small distance away from Mither's territory, which was suspected to lead to a territory occupied by Titanus Teran. The expedition met a sudden and frightening end when Teran roused himself to destroy the expedition team's submmarines, Danny's included. Without any submarines returning to the facility, Danny was declared dead alongside the rest of the team, much to the denial of Roberts and his other friends.

Sometime following this incident, Godzilla had called his fellow Titan brethren to their places of rest, Teran included, resolving any future conflicts within Orkney for the time being.

## Time in the Hollow Earth

Following Teran's attack, Danny had fallen through into the Hollow Earth, alongside a single other survivor.

Though little is known about Danny's time in the Hollow Earth between his "death" and the Hong Kong incident, it was known that the other survivor had been killed by a native species of whale currently theorizied to be related to Titanus Bakekujira around a month or so into their time in Hollow Earth. During Danny's time, it was known he had encountered other native species, such as the Warbats, Rock Critters and "Dougs" (quadrupedal lizards). He had also discovered that a new Bakekujira had reached maturity and was living within the waters of Hollow Earth.

In June 2024, a while after the Mechagodzilla incident, a prototype Mechadrone dubbed the MARCO (Monarch All-Terrain Research Control & Observation) was sent into the Hollow Earth for a test drive, when it came across Danny under attack from a Warbat. Following this encounter, the MARCO led Danny to the Kong Observation Post overseen by Nathan Lind, where a Monarch-deployed HEAV retrieved Danny and brought him back to Orkney.