If there's anyone who could adapt to the shenanigans field emitted by Doof it'd be Xanatos.
Probably, but I´d still consider telling him of the Inator worthwhile as to make the "David adapting to things" as smooth and mutually-beneficial as possible-
TBH, that one was pretty obvious from the start.
Ha! I just love the way Xanatos said that.
Also, damn it Magica! Running a business is one thing, but its another thing entirely to make a deal, get paid, and then just make another deal with someone else! I hope you at least refunded Xanatos' money.
If she got any sense for proper business behaviour ("ex-gratia payments", anyone?) and common sense (better not piss off Davind Xanatos if you aren´t *roughly* in his weight class politically and economically)
David Xanatos, thinking: Ah, Marco Diaz, 'Cazador'. And friends, I see. Intriguing.
Xanatos: ... any fool would suspect foul play, in this situation. But then, a fool would let slip that they are untrusting. At the risk of sounding immodest in my own estimations, I am no fool.
Xanatos: What I am is the man who is going to hire four-and-a-half bodyguards for the price of one. Cha-ching~
To be fair, only Marco is actually getting hired here. Janna et al just decide to...loan out themselves to someone their actual employee got a relatively good business relationship with for the time being outta mutually-assured self-interest.
But yeah, Xanatos is pretty much the opposite of an idiot, while Doofquest!Doof is slowly becoming a Good/Benevolent Counterpart to 2nd-Dimension Doof, with him being a damn endearing goofball yet frighteningly competent at times.
You know how David Xanatos spins most any odd happenstance into his favor somehow?
And somehow favorable odd happenstances spin us around most any time we take a turn?
"We really do complete eachother Xany boy. You with your competence. And me with my . . . things that happen around me . . . that are good . . . ness? . . .
what I'm saying is this should be a real casablanca type moment here, see. A beautiful friendship or some such" - doof and xany at the airport, after Doof's RetroPulpInator goes off causing all successes to crit dramatically and all failures to crit dramatically
Trust me, a freakishly lucky "Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass" teaming up with a memetically intelligent Chessmaster is a *terrifying effective* combo and - if halfway equal an endearingly weird friendship...and yes, I see our relationship with David having the potential to blossom into a genuine friendship even David might get blindsided by for a moment.
After all, him genuinely falling in love with Fox (instead of their marriage being simply a smart move, like he planned) was something he didn´t expect either...so as smart as he is, Xanatos still has a pronounced blindspot towards people´s and even his own potential for goodness.
Alternative universe time
David Xanatos, thinking: Ah, Marco Diaz, 'Im Cazador'. What a nerd.
David probably thought of BOTH comments just in case
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So, even before we warned him of the prophecy, Xanatos already was battling Demona for some magical artifacts. That implies that him "winning" the Gargoyles plotline happened at some point after his already shakey alliance with her fell apart completely...good to know.
But yeah, even if so, us implicating her as causing the Magical Masquerade probably caused him to double down on his emnity with her.
And now, when the final confrontation with her draws near, some operatives of his friend/colleague/rival Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (who showed himself as astonishingly helpful and competent once vaguely steered in the right direction) just so happen to drop onto Davids turf in search for a friend Xanatos wants to enlist as a merc to combat Demona...weird how things play out.
Also completly in his and our best interest to join forces (again, since us two *kinda* fought together at the auction already) against Demona here.
Oh, and Doof was *kinda* right to suspect Xanatos of having pre-bought that mystery item at the auction. David *intended to*, but Demona threw enough money at Magica to outbid him at the last moment. So, whatever it was, it was one half of a set and both Demona (to complete the set) and David (to *keep her* from completing it) were engaging in a bidding war over it - in addition to whoever else would have bid for it normally (possibly ourselves included)...very interesting.
