History Fanfic / WhatYouAlreadyKnow

* NightmareFuel:
** Unable to stop a Kull warrior through physical force, Daniel [[spoiler:burns it alive inside its indestructible armour]], and is horrified that he was capable of something like that afterwards.
** When Daniel [[spoiler:wakes up from his period of self-imposed suspended animation and learns that he was assumed to be dead, Jack inspires disturbing thoughts when he brings up the idea of Janet performing an autopsy on Daniel while he was still alive, and Janet makes it worse when she graphically describes what might have happened if someone had started the procedure]].
** As Daniel’s powers grow, the idea of him being taken as a host by a Goa’uld becomes this to the rest of the SGC; in the course of the series, [[spoiler:Osiris, Ba’al and Anubis]] each try to take control of him.
*** [[spoiler:Anubis uses this fear when he infiltrates the SGC, taking control of General Hammond and issuing a fake order that Anubis has taken Daniel as his latest host so that Daniel is now being hunted by his own allies]].

* TearJerker: Earth’s victory over Anubis should be a happy one, but [[spoiler:SG-1’s joy is marred by Daniel’s apparent death; Teal’c returns to his quarters to meditate and mourn, Jack has a brief violent outburst in his office and then just slumps into his chair in despair, and Sam retreats to Daniel’s office and spends the next few hours crying in grief, the team only being roused to normal when they learn that Daniel isn’t dead]].

*** To a more minor degree, [[spoiler:Sergeant Bates is victim to this when John Sheppard suggests that Daniel have a 'training session' against Bates as payback for the way he treated Teyla during the recent investigation, with Weir acknowledging that Bates at least owes Teyla an apology even if she feels that the idea is a bit extreme]].

* DemotedToExtra: From a certain perspective;
** The [[spoiler:Wraith; they are still a threat in the Pegasus Galaxy, but because Daniel was able to pass on a warning to John Sheppard not to kill an alien woman he’d encounter, the Wraith aren’t woken up en masse as they were in the original series, meaning that they pose a far less significant threat to the Atlantis expedition]].
** [[spoiler:[=RepliCarter=]; she still takes command of the Replicators, but stays away from Earth as her inherited knowledge of Daniel’s abilities meant that she knew he’d see through any attempt she made to trick the SGC, and thus she only has one confrontation with Daniel before the Replicators are destroyed as in canon, save that Daniel escapes without her killing him]].

* InternalReveal: The SGC, the Tok'ra, and a few key Jaffa all learn about Daniel's abilities very early on, but after that, the majority of their offworld allies and enemies are only aware of Daniel's 'alias' of Dan'yar without knowing that Dan'yar is one of the Tau'ri. Key exceptions to this discovery are as follows;

** Thor inquires about the stories he has heard regarding the Jaffa Rebellion's new ally of 'Dan'yar', and Jack takes the opportunity to introduce Daniel to Thor as Dan'yar in an overly dramatic fashion.

* TeamDad: Jacob keeps this unofficial role in his interaction with SG-1, but it becomes a bit more explicit with Daniel after he learns about the archaeologist’s feelings for Sam
** There is also a semi-weird moment where Jack acts more ‘Team Dad’ than he ever did in canon [[spoiler:by observing that Daniel is the only one of Sam’s potential partners who would have passed Jack’s ‘boyfriend test’ if Sam had been his daughter, which neither Sam or Daniel are sure how to react to considering Jack and Sam’s former feelings for each other]].

** While Sam lies to herself about her feelings, and Daniel accepts her rejection, Jack, Janet and Jacob each express approval at the idea of the two of them forming a relationship.

** Sam essentially does this the first time Daniel admits that he has feelings for her, but soon admits to her father and Janet that it’s more that she doesn’t want to have feelings for Daniel than that she has no romantic feelings for him at all, and [[spoiler:eventually realises she was lying to herself and she’s been in love with him on some level for years]].

* LoveRevelationEpiphany:
** Despite having shared a kiss over a month ago, as well as a few intense emotional moments since then, Daniel only realises that he’s in love with Sam about a minute after he learns she’s dating someone else (although Jack had guessed this a couple of weeks ago).
** Likewise, while Sam begins to acknowledge that she has feelings for Daniel after his own confession, her own self-denial due to her [[CartwrightCurse ‘black widow’ status when it comes to relationships]] means that she only consciously realises that she’s in love with Daniel [[spoiler:after he’s downloaded the contents of the Ancient repository into his brain and may die in the next few days]].

** [[spoiler:Of all people, Oma Desala demonstrates this; once Daniel gives her the chance to punish Anubis, she incinerates his once-again-mortal body completely]].

* TheConscience: Daniel remains this for the SGC even after he gains his powers, with Jack and Hammond musing more than once that they’re glad it’s Daniel who developed his abilities rather than someone else.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: The returned Fifth, as in canon

* SensorCharacter: Daniel’s psychic powers allow him to be aware of any potential threat to him or his friends, ranging from [[spoiler:immediately identifying an assassin sent by Kinsey to ‘recognising’ Anubis in a new body; [=RepiCarter=] even avoids going to Earth as she did in canon because she anticipates that Daniel will sense her true agenda no matter what lies she tries to tell the SGC]].
* ShipTease: While it doesn’t come to anything, Doctor Janet Frasier ends up hitting it off with Doctor Carson Beckett when she travels to Atlantis to examine Daniel after he goes into a kind of coma

** While Sam lies to herself about her feelings, and Daniel accepts her decision, Jack, Janet and Jacob each express approval at the idea of the two of them forming a relationship.

* CantHoldHisLiquor: Daniel, as demonstrated during the New Year’s Eve party in ''Heroes'', made more extreme because Feretti was slipping him vodka as a ‘joke’
* CartwrightCurse: The main reason that Sam resists the idea that she might have feelings for Daniel; even though she acknowledges that it’s unscientific and stupid, she has trouble getting past the fact that every man she’s ever expressed an explicit interest in has died, to the point where she muses that Jack was ‘safe’ because she never actually told him how she felt. [[spoiler:This reasoning comes to a head when she finds herself tearfully telling the seemingly-dead Daniel that she loves him, privately vowing as she cries in his office that Daniel will be the last man she lets herself have feelings for, only to do a complete 180 when Jack reveals that Daniel isn’t dead]].

* AGodAmI: Specifically ignored; Daniel has to go to great lengths to avoid the Jaffa setting him up as a new god.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sam basically has one of these in ''Lost City'' when she finally accepts that she's been in love with Daniel on some level for years after he's downloaded the Ancient knowledge and will likely be dead in the next few weeks, unsure how she can tell him the truth about her feelings under these circumstances (even if part of that is her own fear about her apparent CartwrightCurse).

* FamedInStory: SG-1 were already famous on their own, but Daniel’s reputation as Dan’yar develops so quickly that Thor is asking if SG-1 know of ‘Dan’yar’ just a couple of months after Daniel developed his powers

* GoodCounterpart: Daniel essentially becomes this for Anubis to a greater extent than in canon, as they both gained great power through their efforts to ascend but Daniel has only ever used his powers to help others in contrast to Anubis’s desire to conquer

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite having received a dose of ‘propaganda’ from Kinsey, President Hayes patiently listens to all of Daniel’s counter-arguments to Kinsey’s attempts to portray the SGC in general and SG-1 in particular as incompetent idiots. While Kinsey continues to try and press his anti-SG-1 agenda, Hayes ends up forming such a high opinion of Daniel that [[spoiler:he arranges for the archaeologist to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and even muses that Daniel would receive the Congressional Gold Medal if it wasn’t for the inconvenience that the entire Senate would need to be told about the Stargate program. As the series concludes, Hayes also agrees to Daniel and Sam’s request that, as a reward for the SGC’s victory over the Goa’uld, he grant Jack and Janet special dispensation to pursue a relationship despite Jack now being Janet’s commanding officer]].
* SecretIdentity: Daniel ends up getting one of these; the Jaffa as a whole take to referring to him as ‘Dan’yar’ after learning about his powers, with only some of the SGC’s closest alien allies, such as Bra’tac, the Tok’ra, Thor, and Rya’c, aware that Daniel Jackson and Dan’yar are one and the same until [[spoiler:the final defeat of Anubis]].

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Played with; a few of Daniel's earlier premonitions are of things that mostly end up happening because of his actions (such as Sam almost getting killed in a Goa'uld attack that only posed a threat because Daniel and Teal'c left the SGC and ended up on that planet to rendezvous with Jack and Sam), but in general it is soon established that Daniel's visions are of what would happen if he did nothing, with the SGC using the accompanying foreknowledge to prevent these futures from happening.

* SelfFulfilingProphecy: Played with; a few of Daniel's earlier premonitions are of things that mostly end up happening because of his actions (such as Sam almost getting killed in a Goa'uld attack that only posed a threat because Daniel and Teal'c left the SGC and ended up on that planet to rendezvous with Jack and Sam), but in general it is soon established that Daniel's visions are of what would happen if he did nothing, with the SGC using the accompanying foreknowledge to prevent these futures from happening.

* MonumentOfHumiliationAndDefeat: Metaphorically, anyway; [[spoiler:after Ba’al is defeated and captured by a Jaffa army led by ‘Dan’yar’, Daniel not only takes Ba’al prisoner, but forces him to walk out in front of his enemies and Jaffa soldiers completely naked barring a red bow tied around his waist, with the story of this defeat inspiring further doubt among the Jaffa who hear it that the Goa’uld are gods]].

** When Daniel [[spoiler:wakes up from his period of self-imposed suspended animation and learns that he was assumed to be dead, Jack inspires disturbing thoughts when he brings up the idea of Janet performing an autopsy, and Janet makes it worse when she graphically describes what might have happened if someone started making an incision]].

* SecretIdentity: Daniel ends up getting one of these; the Jaffa as a whole take to referring to him as ‘Dan’yar’ after learning about his powers, with only some of the SGC’s closest alien allies, such as Bra’tac, the Tok’ra, Thor, and Rya’c, aware that Daniel Jackson and Dan’yar are one and the same.

* SensorCharacter: Daniel’s psychic powers allow him to be aware of any potential threat to him or his friends, ranging from [[spoiler:immediately identifying an assassin sent by Kinsey to ‘recognising’ Anubis in a new body; [=RepiCarter=] even avoids going to Earth at first because she anticipates that Daniel will sense her true agenda no matter what lies she tries to tell the SGC]].

** At the story’s conclusion, [[spoiler:Daniel is visited by Kasuf and Skaara, who each assure him that they are happy at his new relationship with Sam and believe that Sha’re would be happy for him as well]].

* StoryBreakerPower: Played with; Daniel’s abilities make things easier for the SGC, but the headaches and other affiliated side-effects stop him from making things so easy that his team can basically send Daniel out as a one-man army every time things are going really wrong.

* TookALevelInBadass: The whole series is basically Daniel doing this, but [[spoiler:he takes it a step further during the final confrontation on Dakara, when he ascends to a level of existence above even the other Ascended. This grants Daniel the power to destroy Anubis and deal with all other Goa’uld single-handedly, while the other Ascended can’t stop him from interfering because Daniel is operating on a level where he has more power than them and some of them (such as the people of Abydos) recognise that they don’t have the right to stop him since he got there on his own]].

* SensorCharacter: Daniel’s psychic powers allow him to be aware of any potential threat to him or his friends, ranging from [[spoiler:immediately identifying an assassin sent by Kinsey to ‘recognising’ Anubis in a new body]].

* UnseenCharacter: [[spoiler:With Ba’al dead]], it is never explicitly revealed what Goa’uld took over Anubis’s forces after his apparent ‘death’ in the Battle of Antarctica, [[spoiler:although it is probably safe to assume that the usurper was killed once Anubis returned]]

* InternalReveal: Apart from the Tok'ra, a few key Jaffa, and the SGC, Daniel's new abilities are linked to his new 'alias' of Dan'yar for most of the series, although Thor, [[spoiler:Rya'c, Ishta and Maybourne]] are told the truth; as for the Goa'uld, [[spoiler:Osiris learns about Daniel's powers before he has developed a more 'public' reputation as Dan'yar, Ba'al discovers that Daniel is Dan'yar when he is captured, and Anubis also learns the truth but never uses that information directly]].

* MomentKiller: In contrast to the original Lost City, when Daniel and Teal’c unintentionally interrupted a brief moment between Sam and Jack after he experiences the Ancient download, in this version of events Jack and Teal’c interrupt a rather intense make-out session between Sam and Daniel and Jack all-but-explicitly-states that he knows what was going on

* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain: It is often stated that Daniel’s powers involve him tapping into the normally-dormant portions of his brain

* StoryBreakerPower: Played with; Daniel’s abilities make things easier for the SGC, but the headaches and affiliated side-effects stop him from making things so easy that his team can basically send Daniel out as a one-man army every time things are going really wrong.

* BackFromTheDead: It’s a long series that focuses on Doctor Daniel Jackson; it would be unusual if he didn’t ‘pull another Lazarus’ (as quoted in-story) at some point

'''What You Already Know''' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/512261/MaureenT MaureenT]] is an AU of ''Series/StargateSG1'', starting mid-way through the seventh season and progressing from there until the end of the eighth season. As a result of biofeedback therapy sessions being given to the SGC, Doctor Daniel Jackson learns that he has returned from his Ascension with an array of psychic abilities, including telekinesis, pyrokinesis, psychometry, and the ability to see the future, among a few other abilities he develops later. With these powers, Daniel develops a reputation in the wider galaxy as the powerful and mysterious ‘Dan’yar’, and goes on to play a particularly key role in the war against the Goa’uld.

!!''What You Already Know'' contains examples of:

* AbhorrentAdmirer: McKay serves this for Sam, both due to his arrogance about his own abilities and his dismissive attitude towards Daniel (before he learns about Daniel’s abilities)
* AdaptationalVillainy: Doctor MacKenzie was just fixated on his own theories and hastily diagnosed Daniel with schizophrenia in canon, but here he is clearly portrayed as an agent of Robert Kinsey, attempting to support Kinsey’s agenda to get Daniel removed from the program by conducting a ‘psychiatric evaluation’ focused entirely on presenting Daniel as psychologically unstable with a god complex where another psychiatrist attended the same interview and diagnosed Daniel as being perfectly sound mentally

** On a lesser note, Rodney McKay is subject to teasing from Daniel with the aid of the archaeologist’s psychic powers for his often-condescending attitude towards Sam, and even his colleagues in Atlantis feel that McKay deserves it.

** [[spoiler:RepliCarter; she still takes command of the Replicators, but stays away from Earth as her inherited knowledge of Daniel’s abilities meant that she knew he’d see through any attempt she made to trick the SGC, and thus she only has one confrontation with Daniel before the Replicators are destroyed as in canon, save that Daniel escapes without her killing him]].

** Daniel speculates that his evaluation by MacKenzie was part of Kinsey’s attempt to get him out of the picture by arranging for Daniel to be declared unstable so that he could be dragged off to a psychiatric hospital and left drugged into a near-comatose state so that he can’t do anything about Kinsey’s plans

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Jack worries Daniel’s going to cross this line when he suddenly goes after Ba’al after remembering how the System Lord tortured Jack while Daniel was Ascended, [[spoiler:but Daniel avoids actually hurting Ba’al and just completely humiliates him, even if MacKenzie tries to use the fact that Daniel took pleasure in that action as ‘proof’ he’s unstable]].

* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: As in canon, RepliCarter falls victim to her own arrogance, [[spoiler:despite having enough sense to stay away from Earth because she knew Daniel’s powers would help him realise her true agenda]].

* RashomonStyle: In a sense; Doctor MacKenzie conducts a psychiatric evaluation of Daniel Jackson and concludes that he is developing megalomania and frequently derives pleasure from using his powers against others, where Doctor Eliza White attended the same meeting and concluded that Daniel was a mentally stable man who only used what force was necessary to achieve his goal, proved his stability [[spoiler:by choosing to publically humiliate Ba’al rather than torture him]], and was relatively controlled considering his history with MacKenzie, with Doctor White sending her report on to another psychiatrist who agreed with her assessment. Granted, MacKenzie was all-but-explicitly identified as being a pawn of Senator Kinsey in his plan to get Daniel out of the picture, but the author has established Mackenzie as an incompetent psychiatrist in other stories where he would have had no reason to be Kinsey’s agent.

* ChekovsSkill: While [[spoiler:Daniel can’t regularly access the Ancient knowledge in his subconscious]], he is able to tap into it if he’s careful, once even [[spoiler:recreating the generator Jack built to give the Stargate the boost needed to dial an eight-chevron address, allowing the SGC and Atlantis to create a set of similar devices that they can rebuild as needed to dial back and forth]].

* CrowningMomentOfDespair: Earth’s victory over Anubis should be a happy one, but [[spoiler:SG-1’s joy is marred by Daniel’s apparent death; Teal’c returns to his quarters to meditate and mourn, Jack has a brief violent outburst in his office and then just slumps into his chair in despair, and Sam retreats to Daniel’s office and spends the next few hours crying in grief, the team only being roused to normal when they learn that Daniel isn’t dead]].

* ShipperTorpedo:

* AbhorentAdmirer: McKay serves this for Sam, both due to his arrogance about his own abilities and his dismissive attitude towards Daniel (before he learns about Daniel’s abilities)