Steve/Danny

Pairing
Pairing:	Steve/Danny
Alternative name(s):	McDanno
Gender category:	Slash
Fandom:	Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Canonical?:	No
Prevalence:	very popular
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Steve/Danny, also known as McDanno, is the slash pairing of Steve McGarrett and Danny "Danno" Williams in the Hawaii Five-0 fandom.

Canon Overview

Steve is ex-marine, more specifically the Navy SEAL, who returns to Hawaii after the murder of his father and meets the police officer haole – foreigner in Hawaiian – Danny who wants to investigate the case. The two don't get along well at first, but after Steve accepts the Governor's offer and creates the Five-O task force, they start to work together and their animosity develops into a great friendship. Several times on the show their friendship can be seen by some as a romantic relationship.

Fandom

Reaction gif featuring the McDanno pairing

Due to the great animosity that turned into friendship and companionship between the two characters, fans quickly ship them. McDanno is considered to be the fandom OTP, with the majority of shipping and gen fanworks focusing on this pairing. The most common tropes are:

• Hurt/Comfort: Hurt Danny with Steve giving the comfort appears to be slightly more popular than the opposite
• Episode Tags: related to, or the aftermath of, specific episodes
• Futurefic: often where they are in an established relationship
• Urban Fantasy: in a modern setting, but containing fantastical elements are a small subset of fanworks. They may include magic, mystical creatures like merpeople or dragons, or other elements like seeing ghosts, and communicating with the dead or Sentinel AU
• Post-canon: these are often fix-it fics where they realize what they mean to each other and decide to be together.

Fanworks

cover art by Lorraine Brevig for Hawaii Five-Ohhh! zine

ALOHA! Magazine, a fictional issue manip by Bluespirit

Fan Art

• McDanno by yu_pi96/yupi-mcdanno-blog, authorized repost at h50europe
• McDanno commission by geeky-sova
• In Star Wars universe by lintares

Fanfiction

For a full listing of McDanno fanfiction on Fanlore, see Category:Hawaii Five-0 Steve/Danny Fanfiction

• (One Thousand and) One Night by armillarysphere
• Moving In (To Every Single Aspect of Danny’s Life, Including the Boring Bits like Dry-Cleaning) by westgirl
• Danny Baiting by Creed
• Darling, It's Better Down Where It's Wetter by AndreaLyn
• Down the Shore Everything's All Right by thehoyden
• En Route by verasteine
• Fine by reflexian
• The First Step in Bonding is Crashing into Each Other by temperance_k.
• This Thing of Ours (It Needs a Better Name) by leupagus
• A Lot Like Yesterday, a Lot Like Never by leupagus
• Sacred and Should We Believe by stellarmeadow
• Semtex, séances and something else by moonstootired
• Toi que je veux by allheadybooks
• You put the lime in the coconut (and add the pineapple) by sirona_gs
• You Can't Carry it with You (If You Want to Survive) by dogeared
• Fork Me, Spoon Me by stellamidnight
• Glimpses by dawnchsr
• Hakai by siluria
• Halema'uma'u (or, The New Tattoo) by springwoof (Highlander crossover)
• Hit the Ground Running by stellarmeadow
• Hold on to your heart (is this all you've got to break my fall) by theellibu
• How to Keep Your Mouth Shut by primetime
• Hurricane Grace by JeffreyAlan
• I Knew When We Collided by dogeared
• Indecent Proposal by Indehed, Las Vegas AU
• In These Arms by nicolaethegray (2011)
• Into The Enemy's Country by verasteine
• Invitation avec by frikatilhi (2010)
• I would not just leave you without a kiss by armillarysphere
• If It's Not with You by thismuchmore
• Why Don’t You Try Me by azziriafic
• Thirty-Six hours and Fifteen Minutes by leupagus
• Making It Right by sanguine2
• Kiss Me Before You Go by verasteine
• Jersey City, New Jersey by screamlet
• Just Like the Saturday Morning PBS Kids Lineup by moonythestrals
• Later by quadratur
• Lend Me Your Heart by andrealyn (2011)
• Let’s Dance Like We Used To by andrealyn
• Lonely People Do Stupid Things by waketosleep
• Look At This Stuff, Isn't It Neat? by leupagus
• Love's a Battlefield (And the Navy Did Not Train Steve for This Shit) by cyerus
• Ma'ane'i No Ke Aloha by elise_509
• Make It Real by Brumeier
• Make a Move ('Cause I Ain't Got All Night) by stillane
• Mamo's Books and Music by mermaid
• Meanest Feeling in the World by madscribbles
• Men Don't Make Passes... by waketosleep
• Not Tonight Honey, I Have a Headache by kho
• Painting the Boy Blue by minou_demimonde
• Pour My Life into a Paper Cup by annieke
• put your mind at ease by eleanor_lavish
• Pō Pouli 'A'aki (A Night So Dark It Bites With the Teeth) by Zolac_no_Miko
• Ringtone Jamboree by Azrael
• Rough Patches by stellarmeadow
• Rules to Be Broken by torncorpse
• Same As It Ever Was by robanybody
• secretly a reef rat by templemarker -- crossover with Inception
• Soft As You Fortify (With Armor Spent) by verasteine
• Some Things to Think About When You Decide to Be an Asshole by sutlers
• Steve And Danno’s Excellent Adventure by annieke
• Steve McGarrett Never Really Was That Observant by creedcascade
• Take Me Apart (Just Don’t Break Me) by withoutwords
• They Said The Past Won't Rest by AndreaLyn
• Throw Away the Flowers by audrarose
• Welcome to Hawaii! or, The Delicate Art of Crisis Negotiation by sutlers

Fan Vids

For a full listing of McDanno fan vids on Fanlore, see Category:Hawaii Five-0 Steve/Danny Vids

• The Adventures of Steven and Daniel
• Are We Real?
• Cupid's Chokehold
• Dirty Sticky Floor by JoeEva
• Grenade y kjcharmed.
• He's Killing Me by jacquelin825
• Love can do Miracles by delre4
• miles from where you are by jacquelin825
• Nothing compares 2 U by merlenhiver
• One Week
• ships in the night
• Say You’ll Wait by zap99nad
• The Story Of Steve & Danny by Gaby Evermore

Podfic

• Bespoke (Hawaii Five-0 podfic) by painted_pain

Archives and Links

• H50 Directory Masterlist, a fic rec list by h50fanficdirectory
• Steve McGarrett/Danny "Danno" Williams tag at Archive of Our Own
• Steve + Danny at FanFiction.net
• Tumblr Tags: Steve/Danny McDanno
• Steve Danno Slash