Prompt 200

Danny has found himself reincarnated, for fun! While waiting for Tucker to reincarnate. He’s uh, found himself as a clone now- thankfully stable! But he was apparently also an accident, and overheard some of the people talking about termination, which no thanks?

So apparently he wasn’t exactly an accident per se, they did mean to make a clone, so thank fuck for that! They had apparently grabbed the wrong blood, which he almost snorts at. Kind of hard to do in a tube full of liquid though. 

Oh well, he’ll just be leaving now… after he destroys this lab and steals all these files on himself, thank you~ Now, does he want to go on an adventure or find his unwilling donors first…

I see this line and think that Danny accidentally plays the "Lab baby discovers world for the first time" role a little bit too well.

Especially if DC is like more technologically advanced than DP then yea.

As soon as Danny heard people approach, he tried to hide. He wasn't ready to be dragged away somewhere yet! He didn't want adults poking and prodding him dammit!! Sadly the woman had a glowing rope thingy. It was stupid strong and he couldn't break free. Danny knew pouting was a ridiculous reaction. But he was physically give right now. It felt appropriate!

He quickly becomes their child and they all love him, no one in the Justice League doesn’t love him. Except for Constantine because he was there that one time Supes was nearly killed and Danny got so mad that a bit of ghost leaked out and Constantine doens’t thinky anything has buisness being that powerful,

I want this to be pre Kon. Because this allows Clark to have his free out early. Well before meeting the child created from his DNA. And well, the kids five! He's a baby! That's going to change how he perceived the situation. This also means the Justice League will have a basis for how to deal with our sudden clone child. It also can lead, to seven year old looking Danny! Calling seventeen year old looking Kon his baby brother.

Diana is having the best time with thos. The baby is a smol version of her closest friends. Who doesn't have the training to hide his feeling yet. Which means she gets to see how they would have looked. Then use the knowledge to tease them mercilessly. It helps that he is a sweet child. Caring and helpful. As well as being far more emotionally in tune. She especially enjoys when he oh so, innocently points out if Bruce or Clark are being 'mean' to their co workers.

Oh it is definitely pre-Connor. Which actually, now that I think about it, would mean Kon wouldn't be called Kon. Clark would not allow Kara to name him abomination, and would be utterly aghast. Like, hello?? NO??

Robin!Dick era Teen Titans are his older siblings. So he has Raven, Starfire, Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy. At the very minimum, ready to commit war crimes for this new baby brother. Danny of course, is equally down to hurt people to protect his new family. Not that anyone knows that. He is after all, smol, chubby cheeks, pudgy baby hands. Just adorable. Couldn't scare a thing.

Danny asks the titan to get together, at the towers, enters the room, declares that he has a little brother now!, then with a big excited smile pulls a slightly blushing Kon into the room by the hands (although dick probably already told them, they're playing along, teasing the new super is just a bonus)

Idea.

The look on people’s faces when Danny (9+) introduces them to his baby brother Køn (16).

Connor: You do know I'm 16 right?

Danny: Only physically. I was created years ago! I AM older than you. So i get to be the big brother.

Can you imagine Danny wanting to be a part of Kon learning how to better control his powers?

Baby Danny, who has learned the difference between "Bones are Powder" squeezing and a good hug, goes to hug Kon, and gets hugged in return, until Kon slips and puts too much force into it by accident.

Danny is in no way troubled, but the other kid heroes would be squished too much.

Except, instead of Batman's carefully measured admonishments and encouragement, or Superman's Boy Scout instructions, Danny leans back, and pretends to be a sickly Victorian child, loudly proclaiming increasingly ridiculous stuff, like "Oh no, the baby is dead" or "poof, bones be dust!!!"

Kon will never live it down, but it certainly helps him learn more easily, since it means he's not stuck dwelling in his frustration.

Danny, meanwhile, is living his best childhood ever right now. All the hugs, a new big little brother, and many adopted siblings to play with him!

Does he get stuck in the ceiling when he gets the zoomies? So the others have to climb up there to get him back down?

That is the BEST way for him to help him learn as well. Goes straight to irritation at a sibling instead of self loathing or frustration. Connor adores him big little brother. But he is SUCH a damn brat! He is also being treated as a collective younger sibling. Danny is firm. HE is the older brother. Connor is the baby. Everyone plays into this. It's hilarious.

I can only imagine Lex is SUPER pissed to find out he wasn't the first to make a Super clone. And that his perfect weapon now has an older clone brother who can teach him everything. He has no leverage.

Okay, no one's pointing out? If he's Pre-Kon? The HE is setting the precedent in Clark's mind!

Clone kid's? That equals "Small innocent child, who is not evil, and was born a victim of other people's terrible actions against? Me and MY BEST FRIEND."

As in NOT HALF LUTHOR.

That a mini-batman! A baby bruce!

Is he upset? Yeah. But he can look at his best friend, at this five year old trying so SO hard not to squash the pretty bugs... and seperate that upset from this kid. Can step out to take a moment when he needs it. Look up resources if he has too. Has Bruce right there with him.

Cause the kid is FIVE.

Small and they wanted to kill him. Teeny tiny little hands and Bruce's nose and his eyes. Can't hold a spoon to save his life, with out bending it like clay. Fascinated by everything. Especially the stars. Krypton.

It helps him build those emotional pathways in his brain. So the next time it happens? He reacts with a "it's going to be okay." And a "I know you must be scared, it's a lot" instead of anger.

Makes a difference, I'd imagine.

Oh yes. Plus, his baby boy, his little firefly was so excited to have a sibling. Danny very promptly spitting out 'baby brother'? Also helped. Cause he's right isn't he? Forced aging and implanted memories aside, Connor IS in fact younger. Is a baby. So that's now his babiest boy. Never mind that he's nearly the same height. Baby. He could have done without the teasing from his beloved wife. About him constantly bringing her step kids home. Said with a wink to his boys at that. Insinuating he would ever cheat! The nerve! He's taking the boys and staying at Bruce's. Just watch him! Oh no says Lois. Going to crash at your baby daddy's house? How will she ever live down the shame. Danny and Connor are helpless against the giggle fits.

Can't help but wonder how this is gonna domino into Damian's introduction and arc.

I can't imagine Talia/Ra's is gonna be instilling any good ideas about clones in Damian. They're probably filling his head with fucked up shit like clones are inherently lesser beings -possibly not even truely people- and he, as the 'natural' blood son, is superior in every way.

When Damian gets there, I think he'd either fixate on Danny first instead of Tim to claim the title of Blood Son, or else ignore Danny entirely like he's just less than nothing.

The thing is? Damian in certain runs isn't even a natural born kid. Talia wasn't pregnant. They grew Damian in a Lazarus womb thing. Damian is exactly as much the natural blood son as Danny in this. Which Danny would use mercilessly. If Damian spouts off about being the natural heir? Danny has loads of ammunition. One, Danny is also a test tube baby. And his other Dad? Is Superman. You Mom is an assassin. No comparison. Two, Bruce didn't marry Talia. Damian is as much a bastard child as he is. Three, Bruce doesn't give a fuck. Tone your ego down or get squashed little man. Four, None of us are Bruce's heir. He hasn't decided yet. And that's HIS choice. If he chooses you? Then that's his choice. But for now? The Bat has many potential heirs. And you are starting at a disadvantage.

Danny I going to be Damian's hated rival until Damian calms down. Tim will be able to happily avoid all that drama. Damian has an older brother to displace. A Blood Son is a bigger threat after all. Even if he IS half alien.

Prompt 200

Danny has found himself reincarnated, for fun! While waiting for Tucker to reincarnate. He’s uh, found himself as a clone now- thankfully stable! But he was apparently also an accident, and overheard some of the people talking about termination, which no thanks?

So apparently he wasn’t exactly an accident per se, they did mean to make a clone, so thank fuck for that! They had apparently grabbed the wrong blood, which he almost snorts at. Kind of hard to do in a tube full of liquid though. 

Oh well, he’ll just be leaving now… after he destroys this lab and steals all these files on himself, thank you~ Now, does he want to go on an adventure or find his unwilling donors first…

And now they have to try and coax the feral baby home. Good luck!

here's the thing, I fully believe that Alastor is aroace, but I also believe that he would commit to dating someone if he thought that doing so would be really entertaining. like absolutely Al hates Vox, but if he discovered that calling Vox "babe" made him consistently short-circuit and fry any other nearby VoxTek, I think he would seriously consider starting to call Vox "babe" just to get to see him bluescreen and wreck his own tech

Alastor for once in his life taking notes from Angel Dust who is ecstatic to help because sabotaging the Vees is a win any day, giving Alastor the raunchiest material and they bond over practicing. Alastor's so aroace it literally doesn't feel unprofessional and Angel Dust gets to enjoy part of his job, enjoy the confidence in his own skill he's built up over the decades, enjoy teaching and speaking in detail about things he's thought about as a performer that any client would never care about. He never has to worry about Alastor, another powerful Overlord, getting wrong ideas. Alastor probably enjoys the theatrics of it all, getting the tones and such down.

Only to fucking Hit Vox With It one day and watch the fucker dissassemble like Lego. He doesn't even have to date him. It also does wonders for his PR

Danny gets bullied a lot. Everyone knows this. The town knows this. Danny knows this. Hell the ghosts in the zone know this. But what most people don’t know is that the bullying doubles as like, a secret protective service for one Daniel Fenton.

Daniel, who grew up in a small town and knows his classmates intimately because they have all grown up together. Danny, who despite the sometimes harsh treatment, never says no when someone asks him for help with math or science. Who has more than once taken apart and repaired someone’s phone at the cafeteria table. Who helped secretly distribute small ecto weapons that he put together in his room for his classmates because they deserved to feel safe and be able to protect themselves.

Danny is a good dude, and Vlad gives everyone the ick. Despite Amity being a small town, there is a significant number of incredibly wealthy people who live there. The Mansons and Paulina’s family being ones of notice. So like, they know wealthy people are kinda Essentric , but not Vlad essentric.

Vlad who they regularly hear Danny complain about (wants to kill my dad marry my mom and turn me into the perfect son). Like all the red flags have been waved. Full steam ahead boys, good kid Danny is uncomfortable and possibly in danger and no one fucks with out emotional support tutor/mechanic.

It’s a whole system. Secret tech genius Star creates a tracking app that specifcally tracks Vlad sightings. Everyone in the school has it. You have to be invited to even download it.

Once Dash shoved Danny in a locker conveniently before Vlad walks down the hall because he’s the mayor and doing a surprise inspection of the school.

Paulina forces her dad to pull over when she see’s Danny arguing outside a limo that the mayor is definitely sitting in. It’s pouring rain and Danny clearly wants to be anywhere else. Paulina calls out to him asks if he wants a ride to the nasty burger because they decided to do the homecoming planning there instead because the weather is trash and they’re all hungry. Danny’s not on the committee but he nods and hops in the car with a grateful smile and says if they need his help with anything to let him know. He could probably modify some of his parents tech into harmless laser lights if they wanted something cool.

All and all, there is a system, so when Bruce Wayne shows up in their little city (because wtf?) with a letter, medical records of dna matching (also wtf how did he get Danny’s dna?) and a declaration that he’s Danny’s biological father, they are ready to add another billionaire to the system.

I mean, the first time Danny got cornered by this dude with a “son I just wanna talk,” the kid literally jumped out a second story window to get away.

Paulina and Sam share a look because they recognize a rich boy mask when they see one and it’s suspicious. Star and Tucker do a bit of digging because millionaires with interest in Danny have always been super sus. Danny is panicking because he knew he was adopted but fat fucking chance it’s Bruce Wayne. Not to mention he knows he’s the bat. Clockwork has sent Danny on enough time stream correcting mission caused by the flash family that he sorta figured out all the JL secret identities.

No fucking chance Bruce “I’m Batman” Wayne just happened to discover a long lost biological child. Nu uh. That vigilanti is not getting Danny to no secondary location because the secondary location is probably the GIW’s dissection table.

Meanwhile Bruces kids are fucking howling because somehow this kid is giving actual Batman the fucking run around. Oracle because she’s a tech goddess, knows that this entire high school of teens has a system around protecting Danny from suspicious billionaires, which is weird that this is apparently a normal thing.

These teens are running Bruce ragged. Danny’s walking down the stairs and Bruce is waiting to try to talk to him when one of the drama kids runs up and loops their arm through Danny’s. “Omg, Paul broke his arm yesterday because he got caught in the GIW’s crossfire with a ghost yesterday and he was out lighting manager. I hate to ask this of you, but could you stand in for rehearsal today?” She asks already dragging Danny back into the school.

Bruce talks to Danny’s parents and is waiting for him at home when half the football team comes barging in behind him. “Danny is tutoring us for the test tomorrow and if we don’t pass then we won’t be able to play next weeks big rival game.” And then don’t wait as the drag Danny to the ops center where he usually hosts tutor sessions.

Danny himself just disappears when Batman tries to approach him as phantom or flys into the ozone, like try to follow me up here you dark furry.

The reason Bruce knows about Danny at all is because the GIW branched out and ended up in Gotham where they target Jason Todd/Red Hood and Batman was not gonna let that slide. He originally showed up in amity for investigative reasons but he clocked Danny as a literal bruce Wayne teen look-alike and his suspicions led him to confirm for himself via DNA that yeah Danny was his. Completely by accident he assures, but also why the fuck does this keep happening to him? Are there more secret children in the world?

Anyway, Bruce has no plans to like, remove Danny from his life. His adoptive parents safety  parameters are questionable at best, but it’s clear they love both their kids very much (this is a good Fenton’s au). Mostly he just wanted to get to know him, see if he wanted to visit Gotham every now and then, and let him know that financially if he ever needs anything that Bruce will 100% foot the bill.

Instead he’s spent a month being misdirected by the teenage secret services and avoided by Danny Fenton/Phantom (because Bruce connected the dots the first time he saw Phantom fight let’s be real).

Not to mention Vlad Master’s really really doesn’t like Bruce. Danny Phantom (before he realized Bruce actually knew his identity) gave Bruce the Spector deflector and said never take it off. Ghosts will possess you and you have money they will take.

The shift in perception happened when Bruce clocked Vlad across the face in a solid punch that probably left the mayor concussed. No one knows what was said, but their was murder in Bruce’s eyes and the low growl of his voice was terrifying.

Literally the next day Danny shows up in his hotel room all smiles. “Any Enemy of Vlad’s is a friend to mine and my own.”

not yall slandering my girl sam 🤬🤬🤬(you are completely right)

@ourrechte-blog that is absolutely something Tucker would say, and exactly how Danny would respond

Someone please draw this I’m willing to pay

Paulina: bye mr. Lancer! Thanks again for letting us use your classroom!

Lancer: think nothing of it miss sanchez, I’m always happy to provide a space for fellow book club enthusiasts!

Paulina: welcome everyone to Operation: Stranger Danger, aka Prevent Danny From Being Abducted, aka the Fenton Protection Program

Paulina: everyone should be familiar with procedure, if you need a refresher you can ask either Tucker or Star for a copy of the manual

Paulina: we are here to discuss strategy specifically for dealing with Bruce Wayne. Before we begin, does anybody have any questions?

Wes: yeah, uh, I still don’t understand why I’m here.

Dash: you’re the only person with actual experience stalking Fentina, dumbass.

Sam: aside from the GIW and Vlad, and there’s no way in hell we’re asking them for help

Star: we need someone used to thinking like a nutcase in order to stop this one

Wes: please, phantom doesn’t need any help avoiding stalkers.

Paulina: you would know, creep

Sam: oh you really wanna go there, sanchez?

Wes: and this is Bruce Wayne we’re talking about! How do we know he’s even a threat

Everyone:

Everyone:

Tucker: I mean, it’s not like we have a documented history of millionaires in this town being out for Danny’s blood.

Tucker: right, Sam?

Sam:

Wes: *blue screening at the implications*

Danny gets bullied a lot. Everyone knows this. The town knows this. Danny knows this. Hell the ghosts in the zone know this. But what most people don’t know is that the bullying doubles as like, a secret protective service for one Daniel Fenton.

Daniel, who grew up in a small town and knows his classmates intimately because they have all grown up together. Danny, who despite the sometimes harsh treatment, never says no when someone asks him for help with math or science. Who has more than once taken apart and repaired someone’s phone at the cafeteria table. Who helped secretly distribute small ecto weapons that he put together in his room for his classmates because they deserved to feel safe and be able to protect themselves.

Danny is a good dude, and Vlad gives everyone the ick. Despite Amity being a small town, there is a significant number of incredibly wealthy people who live there. The Mansons and Paulina’s family being ones of notice. So like, they know wealthy people are kinda Essentric , but not Vlad essentric.

Vlad who they regularly hear Danny complain about (wants to kill my dad marry my mom and turn me into the perfect son). Like all the red flags have been waved. Full steam ahead boys, good kid Danny is uncomfortable and possibly in danger and no one fucks with out emotional support tutor/mechanic.

It’s a whole system. Secret tech genius Star creates a tracking app that specifcally tracks Vlad sightings. Everyone in the school has it. You have to be invited to even download it.

Once Dash shoved Danny in a locker conveniently before Vlad walks down the hall because he’s the mayor and doing a surprise inspection of the school.

Paulina forces her dad to pull over when she see’s Danny arguing outside a limo that the mayor is definitely sitting in. It’s pouring rain and Danny clearly wants to be anywhere else. Paulina calls out to him asks if he wants a ride to the nasty burger because they decided to do the homecoming planning there instead because the weather is trash and they’re all hungry. Danny’s not on the committee but he nods and hops in the car with a grateful smile and says if they need his help with anything to let him know. He could probably modify some of his parents tech into harmless laser lights if they wanted something cool.

All and all, there is a system, so when Bruce Wayne shows up in their little city (because wtf?) with a letter, medical records of dna matching (also wtf how did he get Danny’s dna?) and a declaration that he’s Danny’s biological father, they are ready to add another billionaire to the system.

I mean, the first time Danny got cornered by this dude with a “son I just wanna talk,” the kid literally jumped out a second story window to get away.

Paulina and Sam share a look because they recognize a rich boy mask when they see one and it’s suspicious. Star and Tucker do a bit of digging because millionaires with interest in Danny have always been super sus. Danny is panicking because he knew he was adopted but fat fucking chance it’s Bruce Wayne. Not to mention he knows he’s the bat. Clockwork has sent Danny on enough time stream correcting mission caused by the flash family that he sorta figured out all the JL secret identities.

No fucking chance Bruce “I’m Batman” Wayne just happened to discover a long lost biological child. Nu uh. That vigilanti is not getting Danny to no secondary location because the secondary location is probably the GIW’s dissection table.

Meanwhile Bruces kids are fucking howling because somehow this kid is giving actual Batman the fucking run around. Oracle because she’s a tech goddess, knows that this entire high school of teens has a system around protecting Danny from suspicious billionaires, which is weird that this is apparently a normal thing.

These teens are running Bruce ragged. Danny’s walking down the stairs and Bruce is waiting to try to talk to him when one of the drama kids runs up and loops their arm through Danny’s. “Omg, Paul broke his arm yesterday because he got caught in the GIW’s crossfire with a ghost yesterday and he was out lighting manager. I hate to ask this of you, but could you stand in for rehearsal today?” She asks already dragging Danny back into the school.

Bruce talks to Danny’s parents and is waiting for him at home when half the football team comes barging in behind him. “Danny is tutoring us for the test tomorrow and if we don’t pass then we won’t be able to play next weeks big rival game.” And then don’t wait as the drag Danny to the ops center where he usually hosts tutor sessions.

Danny himself just disappears when Batman tries to approach him as phantom or flys into the ozone, like try to follow me up here you dark furry.

The reason Bruce knows about Danny at all is because the GIW branched out and ended up in Gotham where they target Jason Todd/Red Hood and Batman was not gonna let that slide. He originally showed up in amity for investigative reasons but he clocked Danny as a literal bruce Wayne teen look-alike and his suspicions led him to confirm for himself via DNA that yeah Danny was his. Completely by accident he assures, but also why the fuck does this keep happening to him? Are there more secret children in the world?

Anyway, Bruce has no plans to like, remove Danny from his life. His adoptive parents safety  parameters are questionable at best, but it’s clear they love both their kids very much (this is a good Fenton’s au). Mostly he just wanted to get to know him, see if he wanted to visit Gotham every now and then, and let him know that financially if he ever needs anything that Bruce will 100% foot the bill.

Instead he’s spent a month being misdirected by the teenage secret services and avoided by Danny Fenton/Phantom (because Bruce connected the dots the first time he saw Phantom fight let’s be real).

Not to mention Vlad Master’s really really doesn’t like Bruce. Danny Phantom (before he realized Bruce actually knew his identity) gave Bruce the Spector deflector and said never take it off. Ghosts will possess you and you have money they will take.

The shift in perception happened when Bruce clocked Vlad across the face in a solid punch that probably left the mayor concussed. No one knows what was said, but their was murder in Bruce’s eyes and the low growl of his voice was terrifying.

Literally the next day Danny shows up in his hotel room all smiles. “Any Enemy of Vlad’s is a friend to mine and my own.”

I never clocked young Bruce traveling the world learning his craft as the lothario. Nor as one to go without a condom.

I mean, to be fair, it could be any number of situations that Danny came about. Like he could've had a traveling companion, and the contraceptives could've failed. Said companion gave up the child. He was with Talia for a bit when he was in the league. He could've had other companions.

The Mall Grinch

Danny dislikes Christmas normally but being allowed to dress up as the Grinch in a mall in Gotham city when he got a holiday job at least made things interesting that year.

Getting to beat up a rouge as the Grinch in character was just the icing on the cake, at least he made one of the bats laugh.

It was going to be a long day, surrounded by “Ho Ho Ho” and fake snow and screaming children demanding hundreds of dollars in toys while their parents tried to keep them from lingering to notice the reminders that not everyone was able to afford a coffee, let alone a new game console.

On the bright side? He got to be the grinch. No, literally. He’d had a classmate from his Intermediary Statistics for Mechanical Engineers course inform him that with as much as he’d been scowling at all the holiday decor springing up, he could probably earn a little pocket money taking over the guy’s Grinch role since they’d asked the guy to take over the register for people paying for their darlings to sit on a strange man’s lap and lie about how they hadn’t done anything wrong ever in their whole lives.

So here he was, in green costuming with padding and a Santa suit so Grinch wouldn’t be running around “naked”.

A little kid ran up to him as he got in position and tried to kick him in the shin. He let his legs go intangible just long enough for the little darling to swing as hard as he could, whiff, pull a 360 and land on his tush.

“Hey kid, the old dude’s right there, and just in case he missed that, I have no problem telling him you like kicking folks without even saying hello.” He smirked down at the pudgy face that was quickly going redder.

“MOMMY! HE HIT ME!!!!” The boy screamed and ran up to his mother, who had been standing nearby with her back turned while she played a game on her phone.

“Darling, play nice with the other children or we’ll go home and you won’t get to tell Santa what you want for Christmas.”

“But Mommy, the Grinch hit me! I was just standing there and he hit me! Used that big old candy cane and hit me!” The kid gestured at a nearby decorative candy cane that was firmly screwed to the plywood flooring underneath for safety.

With an outraged squawk, she shut the game off and stormed over. “How dare you hit my little Eric?” She hissed in a way that reminded him of the feral ghost geese he’d let loose in Vlad’s manor as a birthday present to himself.

“Your brat’s a liar and should work on his aim before trying to kick strangers,” he informed her with an amused smirk.

“I demand to speak to your manager!”

“Sure thing; he’s right over there. You’re welcome to wait in line, but no phones are allowed once you get in line,” Danny announced politely, pointing with his thumb at the line waiting for Santa.

“Impertinent! As soon as we get there, I’m going to demand you be fired! You cannot hit children! Especially not with prop pieces!”

“Ma’am? If you can lift up whatever I supposedly hit your child with- which basic security footage would clearly clear me of the story- you are welcome to take a swing at me with it.”

She was trying so hard to lift the cane, her face was turning red. Just then, a scream began at a nearby store, the sound echoing and replicating by other shoppers. It was accompanied by the roll of fog and a definitely crisp drop in temperature.

“Everybody freeze!” Demanded a voice as Mr. Freeze walked in. Danny rolled his eyes. “Dude, that blue lipcolor is not a good look for you.”

An eagle eye glare met his jokes as Danny intentionally drew the rogue’s gaze to himself so that others could sneak away.

“Sorry to tell you dude, but those pants with that top? That look is not hot. A cooler look would make a better impression, I think,” Danny added.

“Still, not to be a Grinch, but Santa doesn’t leave gifts for folks on the naughty list.”

“That’s alright,” Mr. Freeze responded, “I would rather have coal. Highly pressurized, like this.” He held up a 2.5 karat diamond. “Obviously I can’t find too many large bits of ice like this, wbut I happen to have use for much smaller ice chips to fuel my research.”

His goons started spreading out to rob the surrounding stores and Danny thought fast, freezing their feet to the tile.

“What is wrong with you idiots? Your contract is quite clear on this- if you refuse to work then I am not obligated to pay.”

Danny found this patently unfair. “Dude, icy you don’t believe in using your eyes. They are clearly stuck. Iced in, if you will.”

“I have had enough of your lip, boy,” Mr. Freeze snarled before firing a freezing ray. He ducked and it bounced off the mirrored column behind him that was part of the mall’s permanent decor before returning back in the exact aim of how it was fired thanks to the positioning.

As the beam hit the weapon and began to be covered with ice of its own making, Mr Freeze dropped it before it could reach his hand and then charged for Danny.

“Don’t be such a Grinch- that’s my job!” Danny called out cheekily as he ducked under the villain’s arm, sticking out a leg to grip his opponent.

He carefully monitored his own moves, making sure to only stick to fighting tactics he had learned in this realm. He refused to let a hotheaded attack on the frozen fellow be what outted his extra training with the Amazonian Ambassador of the Infinite Realms.

“You’re green, boy. Only a fool fights me.”

They continued their punishing battle, and only paused when they realized Nightwing was hanging on to Red Robin’s shoulder to stay upright, tears leaking from behind his mask as he cackled helplessly.

“I’m not quite sure which of you I’m supposed to shoot, so my answer is going to be the next one to make a pun,” a modulated voice growled from another location, where Red Hood seemed to radiate confusion and agitation.

“Everybody freeze,” Batman yelled as he broke the skylight and jumped in.

“Best. Day. Ever.” Red Hood perked up immediately.

.#dpxdc#danny gets a holiday job#mall grinch#more than one Robin is smiling that night & Bat better thank his lucky stars it was ammo intended to maim & pointed wheee it would just hurt#Alfred and the others would give him so much shit otherwise#but he warned them and Batman should never tune out comms

The Mall Grinch

Danny dislikes Christmas normally but being allowed to dress up as the Grinch in a mall in Gotham city when he got a holiday job at least made things interesting that year.

Getting to beat up a rouge as the Grinch in character was just the icing on the cake, at least he made one of the bats laugh.

Idea.

Danny fights the Mall Santa

The Mall Santa is actually Joker in disguise.

Danny was unaware of this fact.

Nightwing: How'd you know he was the Joker?

Danny: The who?

Nightwing: The crazy killer clown?

Danny: I got to beat up Santa AND a clown? I'd say it's a Christmas Miracle, but then I'd be legally obligated to fight myself for the blasphemy.

Nightwing: So your plan was just to beat up a random mall Santa?

Danny: Santa knows what he did.

Tim who's been subbing for Santa with the yj team for years at this point: 😅😅😅

Tim: Boy, oh, boy. have I got some good news for you! Santa's dead, and I've been delivering presents for the past three years with my friends.

Dick: you killed Santa??????

Danny: Santa's dead now? Excuse me, I need to go to the Infinite Realms and fight his ghost now. *whistles for Cujo*

Jason: *laughs as though Danny is joking, only for the laugh to get cut off as an Eldritch tear opens up in the ground, and a giant green beast bounds through*

Jason, Tim, and Dick: what the fuck??

Danny: Good boy, Cujo! Good boy! Come on, we're hunting down a ghost together!!

Cujo: barks in excitement, picks Danny up with his teeth, then leaps back into into tear in reality, which closes up quickly behind them.

Batman, over comms: *already in research mode, creating contingencies.

Steph: *finally realises what Tim said earlier* Wait, Young Justice is Santa? Young Justice KILLED Santa???

This is where I'd like to remind everyone that Danny is dressed up as the Grinch for his part time job and does all this in character. So what the Batfam sees is a Green fur covered costumed Grinch, his eyes go from blue to glowing green as he beats up the Joker. Proclaims he has a grudge against Santa and then summons a demon dog that pulls him through what seems to be a hell portal upon finding out Santa is dead to go hunt his ghost.

All this while he's dressed and acting in character as the Grinch. It must feel like a bloody fever dream for the batclan

I found a picture of Danny, drew Danny,then grinchified Danny the best I could,hope everyone likes Danny as the grinch

@traitorousarsonistpartner

Basically, Danny, being a broke college kid,went looking online just before the holidays were beginning, sometime just after Thanksgiving, around the time Christmas music begins playing even though it's still November, looking for a job that pays well. You gotta look for a job as early as you can before the good part-time holiday jobs get taken, the early bird catches the worm and all that.

So Danny is looking through jobs at one of various job sites, getting frustrated as supposed job links lead to other websites for jobs or are asking for ridiculous job qualifications, (really,a college diploma just to be a part-time barista?) When Danny stumbles across Gotham Mall job listings for a mall santa. Danny grimaced,but he was tired of looking at a computer screen,so he quickly started looking up the information he needed.

When he read that he would have to have a Christmas spirit he grumbled and clicked out of the search engine he had been using at a local library just as the timer on his computer usage session ran out. He stretches while grumbling about the Christmas music already playing softly from a nearby person's head phones.

When he was done stretching he collapsed bonelessly into his chair, letting his head loll back as he acted dramatically. It was then his eyes saw a hand drawn Grinch poster on a wall near the children's section of the library. It sparked a idea, he had seen people dress up like the Grinch on various video sharing platforms, once even seen a guy in a Grinch costume at what looked to be a mall.

Thinking quickly,Danny logged in for another hour long session and got to work researching what he he hoped was a actual job.

(side note, Gary,he vetoed being the newest and latest Grinch , didn't want any music from the illumination Grinch movie playing, can't stand the minions, and says the illumination Grinch is not his Grinch)

Danny gave his best Grinch impression on the spot,"well now ,this is right up my alley". With a wicked grinchy grin,Danny set to work applying to each and every Mall Grinch job listing he could find.

Danny found out that the Grinch was trademarked,so unfortunately no photos with the grinch could be monetized,a reason why there were so few job listings for being the Grinch. Why have a mall Grinch you couldn't monetize when you could have a mall santa and charge money for that all you liked? It seemed there were some die hard Grinch fans for there to actually be some job listings in Gotham city.

Danny saw on one listing where there would be a selfie station,and best of all a Max the dog would be played by a shelter dog anyone could adopt if they wanted to. There were multiple dogs looking for forever homes so it was a way to advertise them by having them play as max, if one was adopted ,there would be another 'max' to replace them. Danny liked that job listing.

Danny got in touch with one of the people looking for someone to be the Grinch for a twelve hour shift who was willing to wear the costume , while also being willing to be in character the entire time, and on occasion wander the mall as a living advertisment for the mall santa. They were even willing to pay Danny $150 an hour if he wore the costume for 12 hour shifts.

Danny was stunned at the offer until he learned that apparently good professional Santa's were able to make anywhere from 150 to 300 a hour during their shifts, with Santa's with real beards making more than that. Danny was surprised the guy (Gary) hadn't already been drowned in applications.

That is until he met Gary ,who was a particularly dedicated and passionate fan of the jim Carrey Grinch live action movie. You see, Gary, why, he wanted a realistic mall Grinch, wanted to spare no expense for this year, he wanted a hyper realistic Grinch and he didn't want to settle for a lazy party city or spirit Halloween Grinch costume. No, he was a avid make up artist and he was going to make Danny into a Grinch for the job.

Danny was really glad the guy wasn't a villain ,Gary had those vibes, so, Danny haggled for a little extra money, promising he would willingly let Gary use him as a living canvas to turn Danny into the Grinch for the mall if he would add another 100 to what they offered to pay him, he would come early each day, dance like their monkey to their tune,then do it again til the season was over, if they would be generous and pay him 250 dollars a hour, he'd eat glass like the Jim Carrey Grinch, he'd eat onions, he'd even tolerate Christmas music all day long without a complaint, if they payed up.

Gary was agreed on the spot rather than arguing with Danny, apparently he was eager for a living dress up doll and wouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth ,so he hired Danny, gave Danny his address and told him to arrive at dawn.

Danny wondered what he had gotten himself into later on the morning he met Gary in person. Gary was dedicated to his job at the mall,and after many years begging for a mall Grinch for his mall the owners had givin hin the green light.

Gary went the whole nine yards, made a latex half mask, made a high quality costume, got some green face paint and make up, got really really into it, he has practiced long and hard leading up to this moment as the Gotham Mall event Director, and Danny would be the best grinch in Gotham by the time Gary was done with Danny.

Danny sat through what must have been forever (really just 4 hours or more) while Gary worked his makeup artist magic upon Danny.

Gary had Danny placed in a body cast to make a mold of Danny's body, even his head and face, leaving Danny breathing out of a tube. It was kinda scary,like being in a sensory deprivation situation, Just when Danny was ready to scream,Gary announced that he was finished setting.

Danny then had the startling realization that he would have to be cut out of the cast when Gary pulled out a mini chainsaw,"don't worry,it automatically turns off if it touches human skin", Danny was kinda scared of that.

Finally,after another thirty minutes,Danny was helped out of the cast of his body, leaving him to pull off his hair cap and the modesty cup he had had to wear, Danny felt like a butterfly freed from a human cocoon,it was hella freaky being unable to move for 5 hours give or take some time or so. Though he did cheer up when Gary forked over his pay for the day, "since you were willing to sit through that for me I'll throw in a bit extra,it's worth it to have someone willingly let me use them as a living canvas ", Gary said with a grin as he handed over $1250 dollars to Danny.

Danny,a broke college kid, took the money with a grin,"I get paid in cash,and daily at that?", he could buy eggs, milk, and used furniture with this cAsh, Danny pulled his clothes on quickly and shoved the money into his pocket, grabbing Gary by the hand to shake it vigorously ,"I'll be more than willing to go through that again if you pay that way every time".

Gary laughed joyfully,"don't worry about that Danny,now that I have a cast of your body all that is left is making the costume, the early hours of your shift will have us putting makeup on your face to turn you into the Grinch, which,if all goes well will probably take up to 2 hours to 3 or so to do the make up, and your after shift hours will take around an estimated hour or 2 to get the stuff off your face". He guided Danny to the door,"you get a going now,Danny, the costume will take at least three days to finish, and until then,we can have you come in to practice and get used to moving around in makeup for hours at a time"

Danny grinned as he waved good buy, eager to go spend his money, he imagined he had dollar signs in his eyes"

Gary welcomed Danny into a conference room in the back rooms of the mall,he had a edited script of everything the Grinch had ever said in the 2003 Grinch movie along with descriptions of how the Grinch moved,and there were pictures of the costumes the Grinch wore, a TV was in the room,a huge flat screen HD version with built in surround sound along with a rather highly comfortable looking office chair,it had two cup holders,what looked like the ability to massage,vibrate,and heat or cool ,with lots of nifty buttons on it,it looked like something straight out of Japan.

Gary shoved Danny into the chair,pushed the script into his hand and turned the the Grinch on,"you know you're very easy to move around Danny", Gary said as he settled into a less tricked out chair. Danny blushed sheepishly," it's nothing I'm not used to, my friends and family did it all the time back home".

They settled in to watch the movie, Gary was a daft hand at sketching,he was seemingly sketching ideas for the set of the Grinch meet in greet. Gary was very gungho about getting to be in charge of this event,said it was like a dream come true.

The idea seemed to be to have the meet and greet to draw in crowds to shop after they got photos with the Grinch and pay for photos with Santa and sit on his lap,Danny absentmindedly thought as he watched a the Grinch lift the sleigh above his head.

He had forgotten just how strong the Grinch was ,it was good to know.

After the movie was over Danny was asked to practice some lines ,try to get his voice as Grinch like as he could. That he didn't have to be perfect just close enough.

"After you feel comfortable with that could you come up with things the Grinch might say after the movie is over and he has settled into a life among the who's"?, Gary asked with a smile after a few hours of studying the Grinch.

"you're going to let me do that"?, Danny asked with surprise. He glanced at the time and saw what time it was,he had been having so much fun time had flown faster than he thought just had he was handed his $1250 earnings for the shift.

Gary grinned as Danny stared at the money in awe."I trust in you,I mean,you are going to be wearing a costume for possibly 12 hours straight,it's going to be miserable I admit, so I should at least give you some control over what you're doing ".

Danny grinned," the holidays are always miserable,at least you're honest about the job being the same". They both laughed good naturedly as they left the conference room for the day.

While Danny was home relaxing elsewhere in Gotham things were in motion.....

In the dark and dreary Arkham asylum, the orderlys were handing out Christmas song booklets and getting those willing to sing and who had been on their best behaviors up on a stage.

As hard as it was to believe,joker was one such well behaved patient. Joker wouldn't miss this for the world, he wanted to mess with this choir got to a certain song.

Joker was eager to escape but he had to keep singing til a certain song came to play,and he grinned as widely as he was able when it did.

Else where in the room a big Christmas tree was being decorated,some of the goons he had paid off a while back had smuggled in a rocket. They had decided on decorating the one man rocket as a Christmas tree, cause how often would you check a tree of all things as a rocket, joker didn't care,just as long as he was able to use it to escape he could do what he wants.

"jingle bells, batman smells,robin laid and egg, the batmobile lost a wheeeel",

he sang as he dropped the booklet, casually walking towards the goon he had hired, taking the tree topper with him as he climbed the tree singing out," and the joker got away",as he put the tree topper on his head and climbed on to the hidden seat and wrapped his arms around the tree.

The tree Rocket fired up before shooting up towards a dusty old skylight, smashing through as he laughed in victory as he flew over Gotham.

The rocket had been programmed to head to a location with a vehicle containing a change in clothing, and had written notes on opportunities to make a quick buck or two.

The landing wasn't the smoothest but joker had dealt with worse,he dusted himself off after landing and tossed away the Christmas topper. He dressed himself up to his style and flipped through the notes, hemming and hawwing over what his goon had noted down.

He grinned when he saw a charity event planned to take place with a professional Santa, with a festive finger foods, pictures with Santa, a raffle set up with various prizes. And a note about a free selfie station where you could take selfies with the Grinch for the people unwilling to pay for interacting with the mall Santa.

"300 a hour just to be a professional Santa Claus! That sounds like a fun jig to crash,a chance to rob the piggy banks on legs while I'm at it", he mused with a wicked grin.

Joker climbing into the vehicle,a old ice cream truck ,and headed off towards the mall,plans percolating with in his mind.

Jesus fuck this is long.

Ok! So! DC canon! Santa is real, he's like one of the powers, you can't really kill him off. He reforms every year to bring new Christmas cheer to everyone. Across the universe. Provided you are a good boy or girl.

Except Darkseid.

Every year he easily gets through all of the shit on Apokolyps to drop off a lump of coal to Darkseid. Because he's never good.

DCxDP Fanfic idea: Wrong Number

Bruce prides himself in keeping all of his networks secured. If he didn't make it himself, he had the funds and connections to get him the best working on his systems.

He had backup plans in case the systems were ever hacked, of course, but he had yet to encounter a cyber attack that wasn't beaten away by his firewalls or his team.

Babs and Tim were far more feral when booting out unwanted guests. The level of protection was also transferred to his other systems that weren't Batman-related, just to make sure the connection between Bruce and Batman was never made.

Screenshot from Ao3

Bus to Nowhere by foldingfacets

Chapter 16

Normally I don't screenshot people's works, but this was too much of a mood to not share

“Cats are good. Half in, half out anyway.” ~ John Cat-stantine

This is it. This is my new reference photo for when I write John Constantine

In the Danny is Damian’s brother trope what if instead of Damian not telling the family about Danny wasn’t because of grief or shame or any of the more commonly used reasons for his silence. What if it was because he heard about how his father talked about Jason after his death, focusing and exaggerating the negative. That he was violent, angry, never listened to orders but in some iterations and popular fanon is that Jason was a cheerful and studious Robin.

What if while compiling info and researching the former robins during his tumultuous introduction he saw what kind of robin Jason was, good with kids and victims. Talking about his favorite books while on patrol and similar. Reminding Damian of his most Beloved brother.

Then he finds out about how Bruce talked about Jason after he died. Using him as an example as what not to do, erasing his good traits and just using him as a cautionary tale of what happens when you don’t follow orders. Just like what Ra’s said about Danny.

So he didn’t tell the family, not out of guilt or grief. But because his father stripped away Jason’s positive traits after death, the son he chose, adopted and loved. Who when he failed because he was a child led astray by his mother. What would he do to his brother, who loved the stars and excelled in stealth, who was quite in his kills but had no lust for killing.

Whether or not Bruce would do this to Danny’s memory doesn’t matter. B’s actions are gonna affect how Damian views his father even years after the initial actions. Because Damian will protect his brothers memory from being twisted even by their father.

@obvious-bot-is-obvious wait for real? This adds even more angst. Yum!

Damian can safely say he hates how his family treats the dead. His mother said his brother was weak to die. His grandfather called it a disgrace to his lineage. Then his father disparaged his soft older brother as a violent teen when Damian saw each record of Jason skipping patrol to study and being gentle with victims and far more invested emotionally than Dick or Tim or even Father. Tim followed Father’s lead in disparaging Todd, calling him weak like Mother did Danyal, or ‘not enough’ when he knew Todd was more than enough.

Father was the failure between the two. Father chose being Batman over Todd’s justice.

Just as Mother chose Grandfather over Danyal’s memory.

Babs spoke of Todd as impulsive, immature and unready for the very mantel Grayson fathered out of his own desire to kill his parents’ murder.

If anyone was the violent, angry Robin, it was Grayson. Grayson may claim otherwise, but Damian is fully aware of his stint with Deathstroke and the times Dick killed someone only to revive them or leave them to fates worse than death. Of the times he fooled Gordon and poor Kori into both dating him. Of the times he interrogated his civilian girlfriends instead of comforting them.

If anyone was the soft, gentle Robin? The emotionally intelligent one, not the manipulative one? The one whose laughter inspired a feeling of safety rather than menace? That was all Todd.

And Todd is achingly similar to Danyal.

Too emotional, too kind, too caring. Someone soft and petty in the mundane ways rather than murderous. Someone who loves the varied fictions of the world. Danyal fell in love with languages and the stars. Todd adored the written word and theatre.

Damian wondered if things were different, if it was Danyal who survived, would Todd have taken him with him on his journey to become Red Hood and removed him from Mother’s care sooner?

He had a feeling Danyal would have met Todd and ignored Mother’s orders to leave her pet project be.

Damian didn’t think much when Brown, who he thought was safe, called Jason wreckless.

He loudly left the room with a glare at everyone but Todd. And when Grayson tried to talk to him Damian aimed where Tim often did.

Grayson crumpled.

“Damian!”

“Shut up Angry Robin!” Damian snapped. “You were the one seeking vengeance, not Todd. You sought to sow fear into heart! Not Todd—And you were the one who let them trample his death into this farce of superstitious tale!”

He missed the others creeping up.

“You lie about Todd the same way Mother does Danyal! Don’t say you care when you manipulate and lie just like her! Stop saying you and father are different when you act the same about your dead children!”

Damian stormed off, out of the Manor and kept going.

Todd found him at his own grave. A luxury Grandfather refused to allow Danyal after the Pitts took him.

Todd didn’t speak, but lifted his arm. Damian refused to acknowledge that he glued himself to Todd’s side or that he was close to tears.

“I am not apologizing.”

“Don’t have to.”

“Good.”

The silence should have been awkward.

“ ‘m not going back,” Damian grumbled into Todd side as time stretched on.

“Cool. You’re staying with me for now then.”

Damian nodded into Todd side, rage still threatening to boil over again.

“And thanks for sticking up for me and Danyal short stack.”

Damian huffed. “You are too cowardly to do so yourself, and Father and Grayson refuse to see beyond their own reasons to become vigilantes.”

“Yeah, yeah, our big strong hero,” Todd dismissed as he lead Damian to his motorcycle. “Want to make an altar or something at my place? Not the most familiar with League funerary rites and stuff.”

Damian nodded against Todd.

“Cool. And if the Bats try anything, we got Bat Repellant measures. And Harley and Ivy.”

Damian rubbed at his eyes as his vision blurred. “We may have to employ their aide.”

“Already got their okay to screw with the Bats if they get a mile within my territory for three months. Now, how about we go to that Ethiopian place we both like and work out what to do for Danyal?”

Damian nodded weakly against Todd. “Thank you.”

Todd shrugged. “It’s what big brothers are for.”

Damian distinctly noted Grayson failure to do the same for Todd and his memory. Perhaps Grayson only knew how to be a ‘brother’ in the same way Mother only knew how to shut her affections out of her heart on Grandfather’s command.

At least he could leave Danyal’s memory something truer to him now.

A smile crept into his mind’s eye.

“He liked stars and language. Learning about other cultures and subcultures even moreso. It made him the best at gathering information and stealth.”

I love how Stars, Language and Cultures do intersect with Travel, Dani with an Is fannon obsession/ love.

Ngl i love the idea of danny falling out of love with cultures after dying in the loa and instead being curious about how people are PeopleTM or just a mild obsession with human behavior patterns outside of psychology—one example being most cultures get an objectively Silly Hat/Headwear with Big Cultural Meaning.

And Dani, his clone, getting his old fixation with Culture, her adoring languages for how it shapes people and perceptions and her loving how people are people being mirrors to who he was in the league but less violent (her form destabilizing with combat is a personal HC of mine, so she is disabled by GZ standards where a part of ghost communication IS combat. Her fixation on earth (and later space cultures) being in part her able to fully participate in their basic communication standard is something i never see explored that far.

And Danny being combat capable but refusing to use league forms as his own form of rejecting them after dying? His ‘raccoon’ style as a trauma response and him falling in love with engineering and safety protocols while ignoring his own safety (as why does it matter? He died so many times already and no one noticed. No one cared. They forgot and ignored his deaths so why should he care about his safety when no one else will ) is great angst material and shows how the al Ghuls affected him.

Hell, Danny could have a tendency to listen to cult survivor podcasts at lunch with Sam as one of the reasons they ended up on each other’s radar in middle school and became friends in this au.

And Dani just. I love Danny seeing who he could have been in her while knowing she’s her own person and his treatment of her being healing for them both.

Damian and Jason making Danny a Grave of sorts? Alters his behavior as Someone Cares to Remember Him after dying. To acknowledge and honor it and his memory.

And him being a bit better at self care—for him using armor and safety protocols he ‘forgot’ applied to him? Him hesitating on visiting his own grave until another ghost sits his ass down, gets the memo he should visit and possible said ghost tearing other ghosts a new one as ‘multiple unacknowledged deaths for the apparent baby ghost, not an ancient.’ Would cause WavesTM in the GZ community that interacts with Danny the most.

Dani as a neverborn halfa just. Not getting the grave thing. Happy for Danny and visits with him and they get caught with Dani looking the age Danyal died at while Danyal is Damian’s age as halfas age and grow.

Dani acting achingly similar to League Danyal during the quiet moments before becoming a mischief monster and deciding Jason is Her Human Friend NowTM.

Meanwhile Danny/Danyal? Is touched and confused and has Big Ass Emotions over this. As does Damian who is also not telling Bruce about his apparent baby sister/niece as You Disrespect One Brother’s Death, I Refuse to Trust You With the Deathborn Mirror Of DanyalTM.

Just. Let them be a little weird family together. and let Jason as the Actual Magic User/AllBlades user, and Damian as a kid interested in magic… with his supernatural dead-and-not twin and deathborn sister-niece.

As that can be a fun combo if you let it ^^

Oh how I love misunderstandings galore ajsjxjdjjd

I love seeing how this perceptions of Damian are created, and I love angst too

If anyone wants to up it a bit, you could have Damian, having heard of supes treatment of Kon (I'm personally not a fan of the 'kon means abomination' misconception, but idc if anyone uses it, and there's still lots of angst in rejecting what's essentially an unwanted pregnancy) and how Bruce not only let that happen, but sometimes justified it, and now he knows his little sister/niece, who reminds him so much of how his brother used to be while being unequivocally different at the same time

If he were to tell his father, would he try and isolate dani too? Would he reject her and treat her as a risk just because she was made with bad intentions?

Add on from earlier—damian and Jason’s attempt at a memorial includes combining aspects of various mourning and gravesites.

Note: Ra’s al Ghul, ans by extension Talia and Damian, are from a MIXED chinese-arab ethnic group in some continuities, and i’m using that here as a base for their mixed death practice memorial for Danyal.

Damian was the one to tell Jason to leave out white flowers in a vase, that Ivy has since propagated during a visit and Harley suggested Damian paint something Danyal would like. Damian painted the aurora lights and the summer night sky from the Cradle, with all the colors the nightsky was robbed of on the east coast.

Burning ‘ghost money’ was Jason’s idea, and something they do every now and then for Danyal. Damian had a habit of burning origami stars made of joss paper. Danyal always loved those. He made small star maps some times, others he painted things Danyal would find funny. As per their rule, Jason was allowed to see any painted offerings before hand. The painted memes regarding NASA made Jason chuckle. Jason would, sometimes, write out a text chain he found somewhere regarding a linguistic joke. Damian had to approve before those were burnt. He did not enjoy the ‘i got your mail’ ‘i fucked your wife’ one, but knew Danyal would laugh at it and call it ‘phoneme memes for the century’.

Incense became common in Todd’s apartment while Damian stayed. The smell changed frequently, but something was always going if one of them was in.

The picture of a paler kid with more of Bruce’s cheeks and a wider, softer look with a lopsided grin and shiny baby blues remained in display. When Jason studied it, he noted thar Danny had Talia’s build sure, but he had more of her nose and clearly got her eyebrows as Bruce’s were bat-shaped.

Food was often left by the picture, small offerings. Whatever he had he left a bit for Danyal. Damian told him to keep toast away—a texture thing—and Jason tended to swap out offerings when he had a new meal.

Damian was the one to insist on keeping an orange nearby—one of Danyal’s vocabulary fixations apparently. Others included tea (Damian prepared a few. dried lime tea and sage were common, but usually marjoram or z-hourat) that Jason and Damian would share, sometimes chocolate or coffee was left for Danyal. A mini taxi was added for novelty and near universality of the word across languages. A clay tomato and pineapple sticker joined in Danyal’s little memorial.

Damian put a small telescope by the frame one day. He insisted on a simple frame since his brother didn’t get any proper rites.

Jason had hummed at the time. But now? He had a habit of adding more small sticker packs near the memorial. Often silly ones featuring multiple languages in cartoon form, sometimes a slew of constellations that were accurate, a few of Oppy and the late space animals. Then there was the sets on engineering and lab safety thar Jason had a compulsion to buy one day.

Damian allowed it, as science was ‘a rare near universal language like Math. But symbol aspect varies and—‘ Damian had tuned out his brother’s rant at that point and now desperately wished he hadn’t. But he allowed the stickers to stay.

A few months in and both Damian and him had noted a distinct chill in the air at times, one that was dissipating as they left. Jason had a feeling it could be a restless spirit and shared a drink with Constantine over it.

Connie told him the kid’s spirit may not have moved on and is likely drawn to the memorial given the lack of a grave. These things helped settle spirits, and Danyal may actually be starting to settle in Gotham’s spirit hellscape or be readying to move on.

Damian caught a girl identical to the late Danyal minus the white hair, eyes and skin tone. A girl crushing Jason’s off-brand fruitloops with a harried ghost with the same coloring and Damian’s age whispering-yelling “Dani stop being rude at my grave!”

The girl was unrepentant and plopped the crushed cereal on the offering plate with a grin before stating “if I’m not allowed to fight him for you, symbolic enemy defeat! Happy soul splice day template!” Before the girl was chased out by the green flushed spirit that hadn’t noticed Damian, or refused to acknowledge him at any rate.

Jason and Damian concluded that they might be two versions of Danyal (soul splits are far from unheard of for lingering ghosts) or something else. Constantine’s hungover ass only asked if they were showing signs of aggression (Damian argued symbolic destruction of an enemy should count. Jason did not agree on the crushed fruitloops being violent to anything but his wallet.) ans when told no, informed them the child souls were likely nothing to worry about, just curious. Benign haunting at worst in all honesty.

Danyal was caught at his alter smiling at the flowers and tracing the stars on the pot.

Jason didn’t say much, just lit the incense, today cinnamon, and moved to fix himself (and Danyal, and Damian his portion when he got back from baby Manbat and his’ playdate) something to eat.

He did put some coffee into Danyal’s cup, and noted the boy scrunching his face. “Still don’t get why anyone likes the stuff.”

“Helps us on this side stay awake. Didn’t get enough sleep when dead.”

Danyal, if Jason’s guess was right, relaxed at the acknowledgement. Sometimes that’s all the dead wanted. To be seen and remembered, sure. But acknowledged for existing.

“Dude, botched revival is worse. You need sleep but have too much dead guy shit to do your living side stuff. Negative thousand over ten, do not recommend.”

Jason filed that away. Danyal had not resurfaced when his body was put into the Pitt. His spirit and body could be split, hence Danyal and Dani. Which, not unheard of, but more Zombie Halloween than Jason’s variety.

Damian did freeze when he saw Danyal floating over Jason’s shoulder as he made soup, asking “but it isn’t supposed to be sentient—how does new mom’s always do that then?”

Jason shrugged.

Damian almost tackled Danyal’s ghost.

Danyal paused, smiled and waved before hesitantly hugging Damian.

Jason watched. The two clung to each other.

Damian’s clothes had contact wrinkles though. From Danyal. Who should not be as tangible enough to do that—oh he’s going to grab Connie and make him check this out.

Jason would love and hate to find out if botched revivals is another thing he and Danyal share. Besides being Damian’s brothers and dying, that is.

DCxDP Fanfic idea: Wrong Number

Bruce prides himself in keeping all of his networks secured. If he didn't make it himself, he had the funds and connections to get him the best working on his systems.

He had backup plans in case the systems were ever hacked, of course, but he had yet to encounter a cyber attack that wasn't beaten away by his firewalls or his team.

Babs and Tim were far more feral when booting out unwanted guests. The level of protection was also transferred to his other systems that weren't Batman-related, just to make sure the connection between Bruce and Batman was never made.

(Chanting) ancient cheese with a deadly disease ancient cheese with a deadly disease ancient c

CAN WE STILL EAT THE FUCKING BOG BUTTER?

Fellas we’ve got ourselves 2 outta 3 ingredience for a legendary Grilled Cheese

Grilled cheese!!!!

HELL YEA BAYBEE WE DONE IT !! GOD HERSELF GONNA GRILL US A CHEESE

Tonight we dine like kings

This is still my favorite post on this whole site

I’m here for the fossilized tomato

Prehistoric dinner here I come

DpxDc #5

Everywhere but home.

The Anti-Ecto Acts applied only to North America.

The USA and Canada both permitted the capture, experimentation, and termination of ecto entities.

One night, after weeks of being constantly hunted down, Danny decided it was time to leave the continent.

At first, he was terrified. 

He didn’t even need false documentation, since the GIW wasn’t looking for his human identity, and Jazz helped him get everything he needed.

He… didn’t even have to buy a flight or something, since his speed could get him anywhere.

So, a bit anxiously, he traveled down to South America.

He had a pretty good time!

People were friendly and welcoming, excited to share the beauty they had with them and Danny found himself so much more interested in other cultures.

Being surrounded by languages, Spanish, Portuguese, and even some Indigenous ones became much easier to learn.

Traveling around wasn’t a problem, he often found people happy to take him in for a shower and a meal.

It wasn’t safe all the time, but it wasn’t because he was a ghost, which was somehow nicer.

With much less anxiety, he started to travel even more.

Africa was the obvious choice since it was the closest continent.

The main cities were rich with people and modern buildings, making him feel a bit out of place like he was in a cleaner version of Hollywood.

Going away from touristy sites, everything started to become more bare, the people still welcoming, but weary of noisy strangers. Wich was understandable, so next came Asia, then Europe, Australia, and Antarctica.

By the time Danny was in his twenties, he had pretty much visited almost every country on Earth. 

He was having fun, he really was, but in every new country he visited, he was reminded how much he wished he was waking up in his bed, spending the days with his family and friends.

Once, he met a guy in London, whose soul looked like Swiss cheese, that he helped with some ghost stuff. He was recognized as from America, so he explained what he was doing all the way in England. Apparently, the guy had connections with the Justice League and promised to help.

At several spots, he even met with Dani. Every time they saw each other, they remembered that, even if it was so diverse, the World was still very small.

He was in South Italy when his phone rang.

It wasn’t hard to keep in touch with his friends and family, sending them photos or even packages of stuff he found traveling.

He answered Jazz, as she started to cry happily about the Anti-Ecto Acts being revoked.

He… hadn’t actually believed Jonh.

His mind was blank, with her sister excitedly talking over the phone.

After five years.

He could go back home.

I shouldn't. I really, really shouldn't....

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John Constantine knows full and damn well that Phantom isn't a thousands year old ghost.

He knows because, in the middle of a fight against a deranged warlock, Phantom let out a small, warbling chirp in response to getting hit.

He'd quickly covered it up, but Constantine knows that that chirp is.

What if no ghosts respond to Phantom because the cry doesn't register as a cry to them? Because he's a halfa.

Sure, he can make the sound, and it sounds correct to human ears. But the flesh muffles the core resonance that accompanies the sound. Without that core resonance, to other ghosts, it sounds like mimicry.

Maybe it triggers an uncanny valley kind of response, where it sounds like something other trying to lure you in by pretending to be a baby.

And with Halfas being so rare and/or the Realms still in such disarray since Pariah was originally sealed (having lost the centralized knowledge and archives of a unified people as various smaller, independent factions arose in the High King's absence), no one knows about this unfortunate interaction of flesh and core in Halfas. If anyone ever did, that knowledge has long since been lost.

(Consequentially, this would put Vlad in basically the same boat here. No wonder he's so desperate for family. He's abandoned too.)

hear me out what if the ghosts that DO hear him make this noise think he’s trying to lure them into a false sense of security (uncanny valley train of thought here) and get mad??

Mad, or creeped out, cuz they think Danny is a lure for a ghostly angler fish. They all believe they're fighting a part of a larger being that's targeting ghosts near the Amity Portal.

Still thinking about this concept because i love the idea of both Danny and the ghosts from the Zone fighting to protect their home. Danny thinks the ghosts want to terrorize Amity Park, and the ghosts think Danny wants to consume the ghost neighborhood after being stuck in the human realm for centuries. No wonder he can defeat them all!

Constantine would have an uphill battle proving Danny is young, and not just a young mimic ready to eat someone.

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Catch a ghost ride?

In the USA, picking up a ghost in your car, often happened when hitchhiking was still legal, but that doesn’t mean it’s no longer a thing.

Getting a ghost in your backseat, looking at your rearview mirror, and finding out they are no longer there.

Then why THE FUCK won’t this ghost leave him alone?!

Tim found himself on the outskirts of Colorado (for a mission) on a mild spring evening when he spotted a teenage guy at the side of the road with a backpack on his shoulder, looking like he had just come out of a shredder.

He didn’t even think about it, his foot pressing automatically on the brakes and letting the guy on, receiving a quick “thanks.”

After about half an hour, his eyes glanced at the mirror, and the guy looked passed out and... transparent?

After several hours of driving, the guy woke up, looked over himself, looked at Tim, and decided it was a wonderful time to start a friendly conversation.

Yup. He was giving a ghost a ride.

A chatty one at that.

This except when Tim picks Danny up, he looks completely normal. it is as they are driving that Danny's wounds open up and his powers start to fritz. Danny doesn't realize it because he is so out of it from whatever drugs the GIW used on him before his escape that he is spouting off random Space facts to keep from losing consciousness.

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I never post, but I crave suffering.

Danny has been working for the JL for a while.

Specifically, not for the group as a whole, but popping up to help heroes with their individual rogues every once in a while.

None of them, when meeting him for the first time, really appreciated an unknown meta kid throwing himself into danger, but after a couple of times of that happening, they managed to speak to him calmly and find out about ghosts.

Not only ghosts, but their culture, the categories, and about obsessions.

That's how Phantom, the kid, explains to them that one of his obsessions is protection and why he tries to help the heroes. Apparently, his haunt rejected him, labeling him as a villain and forcing him to leave.

From that point on, the heroes try their best to make Phantom fulfill his obsession without getting him involved physically and risking things getting out of hand.

Batman, in particular, instructs him with jamming machines and electrical stuff by just... staying there, invisible.

One fateful night, something goes wrong, and Danny finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time during a Scarecrow attack.

When the fear gas fills the air, Bruce watches as Phantom's invisibility turns off and he hits the ground, his muscles tense in what looks like the bad start of a seizure.

Batman can't help him, as they're surrounded, but as soon as the battle is over, he runs towards him.

Phantom's body is shaking violently, but he's not unconscious. His eyes are wide as he's throwing back his head, mouth gasping for air.

Then he hears it, a continuous whisper from the little air he manages to get:

"Mom, dad... Please, pl-ese stop—"

An already dead child frozen in fear because of visions of his parents hurting him.

I'm also just thinking of Amity Park getting overrun by Ghosts. Not the chaotic rouges Phantom would chase out. Nope. Some pretty violent Ghosts that love to treat humans like toys, or don't care if they hurt anyone. When Ghost Hunters and the GIW come to fight, they are thoroughly decimated. Most are killed or are overshadowed and used as meat puppets. The Fenton's barely make it. The portal is starting to go out of control. The town is barely surviving behind ghost barriers. (Jazz was almost taken by Johnny and Kitty. Who figured they may as well try to get her out the blast. But she didn't take that well, given the situation.)

Phantom blowing the whistle on what used to happen in his hometown gets the JLD there, only to discover the apocalypse starting. Which means Danny shows up and saves everyone.

When he goes to leave the teens of the town, the ones who seemed to survive the most, begged Phantom to come back. To not let more people die. To protect them.

While the adults blamed Phantom for leaving in the first place. Probably telling the other Ghosts to go wild. Obviously if he was a real hero, he wouldn't have left. Especially if he had know this would happen.

And the heroes that grew close to Phantom after all this time chew them out.

Meanwhile, Danny's has enough. He goes to Fenton Works, tears off the door, and points to the people he used to call his parents.

"These are the people you should blame! They opened a portal to the Infinite Realms! This is their fault! If they had been better people! Better parents! None of this would have happened!"

Danny transforms back into his human state. Gasps follow up on reality hitting everyone. Maddie and Jack are astonished and full of regrets once they realize that Phantom hadn't killed their son, but was him.

"Their negligence killed me! Their machines killed me and attacked me every day after that! Their research left me to be raised by my older sister in a house filled with inter-dimesional radiation that brought the food to life! I literally had to kill to eat every time I was in this house! They filled thus hell hole with guns and programmed the walls to shoot me! And I'm the villain?!?!"