Yo, this has been on Ao3 for a while and people seem to really love it, So I thought I’d post it here! Chapter below the cut.
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Category: Gen
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
Relationships: Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne, Natasha Romanov & Damian Wayne, Clint Barton & Cassandra Cain, Tim Drake & Peter Parker, Peter Parker & Tim Drake & Duke Thomas, Pamela Isley/Harleen Quinzel, Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent, Dick Grayson/Wally West, Roy Harper/Koriand'r/Jason Todd,
Characters: Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Barbara Gordon, Justice League (DCU), Alfred Pennyworth, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton, Thor (Marvel), Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, Alfred the Cat (DCU), Bat-Cow (DCU), Goliath (DCU), Selina Kyle’s Cat Isis, Kate Kane (DCU), Duke Thomas,
Additional Tags:
Batbrothers (DCU), Avengers Meet The Batfam, MCU/Batfam crossover, Crossover, no beta we die like robins, rated T for Jason’s language, I bleeped it out though. Just to be safe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, canon? What’s canon?, Deaf Clint Barton,Deaf Character, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Happy Batfamily (DCU), Birdflash and joyfire are implied/referenced,
Summary:
The Avengers find themselves in an alternate universe where none of them exist. Instead, there is a different group of heroes: The Justice League. They decide to work together to get the Avengers home. But not not everything is instantaneous, so the Avengers need a place to stay. The only place available is Wayne Manor.
Que Batfamily shenanigans!
Multi-chapter fanfic, with some one shots that go along with the plot thrown in.
Notes:
This is my first time writing anything with the Avengers - especially a deaf!clint - and the Batfam, so I apologize if anything is doc. Constructive criticism is appreciated!
This is mainly comic DCU with Movie Avengers (Set after the first avengers movie, plus Spiderman, cause I can ;-)
First time writing DPxDC (or really anything) in like 2 years 😭 So cut me some slack, I beg of you. Inspired by the fact that in the show, after being possessed, humans are still affected by the desires of the ghost that possessed them.
Anyway, Danny has no idea what's going on in this dimension. One second he's fighting Skulker in the Ghost Zone, the next he's in an alley. Changing back and stepping out reveals he's somehow arrived in a picturesque city. The sun is shining, people are smiling and walking dogs, and there's sky scrapers everywhere he looks.
He can feel a headache coming on already.
Going ghost with a sigh, he phases straight through the ground and down. He needs a moment to think. Unfortunately, he doesn't get one, as he quickly phases straight into what appears to be a lab. Thankfully invisible, he starts wandering around and getting a feel of the place. To his knowledge, most buildings don't have secret labs underground.
Then again, maybe this is a pharmaceutical building?
Nope, that's a child in a test tube.
Dammit. Well, it doesn't look very developed. Not enough to come out, at least. Danny can bide his time before he saves the kid clone thing, or whatever it is.
Looking around and shuffling through papers and unattended desktops reveals a couple details. Firstly, the kid was created by a "Lex Luthor". Secondly, the kid isn't human, but rather a "Kryptonian" (Whatever that is?) and this Lex Guy. Third, apparently this "Superman" guy doesn't even know the kid exists.
Major Fruitloop Vibes here.
Time to torment an old man.
Cut to Danny at the top of LexCorp Tower, invisible, hovering over this man's shoulder as he argues with someone over the phone. He can't help but grin as he gets a fantastic idea. He's gonna be here awhile. May as well settle in and see just how crazy he can drive this man.
Now Lex isn't stupid, to say the least. But all men can be driven mad with enough dedication.
and Danny? He's dedicated.
Just a little overshadowing here, a little nudge in the right direction there, and he’s got Lex questioning his sanity.
Why is he getting all these parenting tip ads? Because Danny spent the past hour whispering, “Diapers. Fatherhood. Children. Parenting tips” Into his phone to get all the targeted ads.
Why is he suddenly wanting to look up local schools? Because Danny overshadowed him briefly to do just that.
Of course he’s been stressed recently, but he didn’t think he was visiting the labs in the middle of the night while sleepwalking. He didn’t believe his secretary until he saw the security feed himself.
Danny’s gonna make this guy care about his clone son if it’s the last thing he does, dammit.
It is too convenient that only the Supers and some of the Bats are in the Watchtower when they break in, but that's the exact reason why they're doing this right now. Ghost informants are probaby the most accurate out there.
The two young heroes he had picked up when they arrived fall asleep easily in Phantom’s arms after being exposed to Nocturn’s mist, and he hears the mad scream from Batman, asking what he has done to them. He does not really need to try to avoid the various attacks from the other Bats, simply turning intangible. He had expected some ghost weaponry. That was the only reason why the Fright Knight was with him. This is a little too easy.
He notices Superman, Supergirl and Supernova gritting their teeth as they try to fight, despite how human they must feel when exposed to the Infinite Realms’ magic.
Maybe it is cruel, but Danny is more than a little desperate here. He is past the point of being kind.
Danny thought he would be able to deal with it. He just had to keep an eye out and protect his people from the GIW. He had been doing well. Even if someone was captured, he had been able to get them back before anything could be done to them.
He had hoped that campaigning with the other teens, and the few adults who joined the cause in Amity, would be enough for the anti-ecto law to be repealed. And once that happened, he could keep his people protected.
He was wrong.
Lunch Box is missing. She has only been gone for 12 hours, but Danny is pretty sure those are the most important. The only thing he knows is that she still exists, thanks to the perception being the Ghost King gives him. But that is all. He cannot find a trace of her. She is just an infant. She's still so much younger than she was when Danny first met her in the future, and now she is missing, and Danny knows it was most likely the GIW.
He will not be able to find her soon enough. He does not know what the GIW will do with her. He can make an educated guess, but he is not sure. What he does know is that he needs a lot of people acting now, and that the JL has not been reacting in any way to all the chaos.
So yes, when he sees the absolute terror in Batman’s and Superman’s eyes as he kidnaps their youngest, without giving them any chance to react, he knows he may be a bit cruel. But the kids will be okay with them. Lunch Box may not have the same luck.
“The conditions are simple. If you want your kids back, you will have to give ours back. You have three days.”
-_-_-
The JL is panicking. They had not even known Infinite Realms beings existed, yet the King and his knight appeared out of nowhere and took their youngest sidekicks. They cannot even touch them.
The JLD is doubly panicking. Why do they have a law that is basically declaring war on the Infinite Realms? And they need to get that Infinite Realms neverborn saved immediately, from whoever these GIW agents are. Neverborn infants are rare and highly treasured. If something were to happen to that child, it is not just Robin and Superboy they will have to worry about.
The JLD spends longer than they think they should trying to get the JL to understand that their best shot at getting the kids back is to comply with the demands. The Infinite Realms beings are powerful, but they have pride in their word. The kids will be fine as long as they have the neverborn in time.
Secrets he'd take to his grave a second time if he had to.
But to think one of those secrets would be about the fact he had a secret family.
And the only reason the Batfam found out was because apparently their secret (grand)daughter/sister-in-law Jazz/Jasmine was in labor and their (great)grandson/nephews Danny (Daniel) and Dan (Dante) called him while on a Red Hood job with the rest of the Batfam to panicky tell him their baby sister Ellie was on the way early.
Red Hood books it away from the fam to his bike while asking to put Kori or Roy on the phone.
“Demon Twins” but they're actually demons [Danny and Dan Todd AU Prompt]
It all starts when a freshly turned Halfa Jazz, carrying Danny and Dan's cores in hers after a war against the GIW, is sent by Clockwork to the DC Universe via the Lazarus Pits.
The LOA believes Jazz is some kind of Pit Demon, and Jazz doesn't bother to correct them. She's welcomed with open arms, and is even adopted by Ra's he already let the Detective get away, and there's no way in hell he's letting that happen again.
She and Jason click, but since Jason was still suffering from side effects from his dip in the Pits, he ends up putting his revenge before his relationship with Jazz.
Oh Jason, you poor sweet summer child.
Turns out their last encounter was so emotionally charged that Danny and Dan's sleeping cores were like: “This. This is the moment”. And as a result, Jazz got pregnant.
Danyal and Dante Al Ghul-Todd are born: Dante has memories of his past life, while Danny remembers bits and pieces as he grows up.
Here I use my "Canon is my playground" trick card, messing with the timeline and making the twins older than Damian— making them Damian's bodyguards by default.
Things happen within the League, and their mothers decide to send the three of them to Gotham with their fathers.
Here, the three have different plans:
Damian wants to prove himself worthy of being Robin, and thinks having bodyguards would make that difficult.
Danny wants to explore the other cities this universe has Aliens, but he also doesn't want to leave Damian alone (the quirks of being a guardian spirit).
As soon as Dan set foot in Gotham, he had a "Fuck you, get off my garden!" "I'll shit in your fucking garden!" ahhh situation with Lady Gotham, so now he doesn't want to stay out of pure spite (but deep down, like Danny, he doesn't want to leave Damian alone. Stupid core and stupid fraid bonds).
And on top of that, even though Jazz has nothing but wonderful things to say about Jason, the twins can't help but resent him a little, and therefore, they don't want to meet him yet (well, just Danny. Dan has already marked Jason as a deadbeat dad, and you can't change his mind).
So the three of them, behind their mothers' backs, make a deal. The twins will drop Damian off in Gotham and then go off on their own under the following conditions:
1) All three will have hidden phones with only their numbers, and they will have to "check in" (which is actually chatting) daily through them.
2) They will meet in person monthly at a neutral location.
3) If Damian needs them, for whatever reason, he has to call them (either by phone or by summoning them).
And so, their paths part.
Damian joins the Batfam without too much trouble (thanks to socializing with the twins, he's more tamed than the original: like, he doesn't try to kill Tim, but he does have beef with him). And the twins, for their part, wander around for a while under the identities of Danny and Dan Nightingale, and then settle in Fawcett or Metropolis.
And from here, how the Batfam discovers the twins can vary, but here are some specific scenarios:
• Tim discovers Damian's hidden phone and secretly hacks it with Babs's help. The thing is, a misunderstanding arises because, due to Damian's way of chatting, the Batfam thinks the twins are his older brothers.
• The Batfam, after a while, decides to investigate why and where Damian runs away from home monthly.
• The Batfam is kidnapped by a cult to be used as sacrifices, and Damian hijacks the summoning ritual to summon the twins.
Yea, It took so dang long cus I couldn’t decide between colored or mono color (I wanted to make an actual comic style, but I already colored the skin. So… I did both, lol—)
And one more thing
LOOK AT THIS!!! FRICK THE SKETCH FOR ED WAS SOMETHING. Can I be in love with my own drawing? Cus I think im experiencing a celeb crush with my own sketch, this one particular sketch, There’s just something in the eyes…
A little scene I might expand on. Context: Dead on Main is engaged, neither Danny nor Jason has the best relationship with their families.
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"I think we should elope."
"What?!"
Of all the things Jason might have expected Danny say to in response to "Who should seat next to who during our ceremony" it was not this.
Jason stare back at him in blank shock, but Danny continued.
"We should elope. Just you, me, Jazz and whoever you want to be your witness."
Jason could tell he was entirely serious. What he couldn't figure out was why.
"What about having the ceremony? The reception? We've already started planning?" Jason asked, not accusatory simply confused.
"Yes," Danny agreed. "And your already stressed out of your mind trying to arrange power-proof venues and planning managing your guests and making sure nothing goes wrong. We haven't booked anything yet so it's not-"
"But that's just how its supposed be, isn't it?" Jason butt-in, starting to feel anxious. Did Danny not want a wedding?
"Jase, your wedding shouldn't have to be about you worrying that the wrong guest will say the wrong thing to the wrong person or that someone will get drunk and damage the venue. It shouldn't have to be about you catering to people who you can barely tolerate for the sake of appearances. It should be about you," he paused to take Jason's hand, "about us, being happy to officially spend the rest of our lives together."
Jason felt the knot in his chest loosen. He didn't realized Danny had noticed.
When Jason Todd, the Red Hood, the second Robin, announce he getting married the caped community assumed they'd be involved. People he hadn't talked to in years started asking about the ceremony. Titans he remembered barely tolerating him asking about if he'd chosen Dick as his best man or if B would walk him down the aisle. He had capes requesting not to be seated near exes and informing him of dietary needs. As if it was a given he'd be inviting them all by virtue of them knowing the rest of the Bats.
Oh and don't get him started on the Bats. The first time Bruce had called him since slitting his throat was to ask if his fiancé knew about his identity. Alfred had sent him a gift basket with wedding pamphlets and questions for when he should book fittings. Babs had asked for a wedding registry. As if they cared what gift to get him, when they barely even cared to checked on him when he was recovering.
Danny had been the one holding his hand through nightmares and doctor's appointments. Danny, who loved him enough to propose. Who recognized when he was stressed over planning a wedding for people who barely cared. Who suggested they elope.
He leaned forward resting his forehead on his fiancé's.
"What about your family?"
Danny grimaced slightly, but continued to speak strongly and reassuringly, "You know I'm not in the best place with my parents, yeah? Jazz is all the family I need. And soon you will be too."
Jason felt himself flush, pulling Danny into a hug to hid his red face.
"People are expecting a wedding."
"I am not getting married for them. I am getting married for us."
Danny pulled back, taking Jason's face into his hands. "I just want you to be happy Jase. It's okay if you want them there. If you want a big wedding with all the bells and whistles, we can do that. But I don't need all that. I just need you."
He looked Jason straight eyes. His gaze was steady and unwavering. No matter how hard he looked Jason could not find a hint of doubt in those eyes.
Jason inhaled sharply.
"How about next weekend at East Municipal Courthouse?"
"Sounds perfect," Danny smiled, leaning in to kiss him.
Danny has quite a few unique abilities, and they all help him not to die...permanently.
He decides to use this to his advantage.
Ghosts in the Zone who died violent deaths, who were murdered, need their murderers brought to justice.
Usually, it's due to a lack of evidence that they aren't.
So Danny uses himself as bait to get the evidence required, letting the murderer "kill" him as an unidentified John Doe, and then disappears from the morgue after the autopsy (turns out that while autopsy's sting a bit, it's like getting a few cavities drilled; if he's patient and doesn't fall asleep, it's over before he knows it, and he's free to go).
Danny is letting a corrupt cop "kill" him this time, but it's a bit more violent than he intended, because in the middle of the cop's speech one of the local vigilantes showed up.
The cop panicked.
The cop went outside of their MO and stabbed Danny in the chest.
Now Danny has a vigilante ignoring the cop, who is getting away, in favor of trying to save Danny.
"It's fine, stop," Danny groans, trying to ignore the blood coming up his throat. Gross, he hates this part, ew. "I'm already dead."
Naturally, hearing him say this does not help the vigilante calm down.
So there he was, bleeding, in a laboratory. Some costumed weirdo hovering over him. Literally, she's hovering. Like some kind of bug. Her outfit is black and yellow, with some white fluffy accents. Her hair is black with yellow highlights, and the curls make the yellow look almost like lightning.
"Did you at least catch the guy?" Danny propped himself up on his elbows to look at the people digging around his insides.
One of them tried to put a gas mask on him.
"No, no." Danny ducked and dodged the mask. "Answer the question."
"You can't be awake during surgery." One of them claimed. Falsely, seeing as Danny totally is awake.
He sat up fully, holding his guts with his hands. "Look, don't worry about me. This guy's killed before. Do you know who he was? Where he went? He needs to be cought. It's important."
"Sweety, your continued existence is important." How is she even debating this? He's fine.
Danny accidentally dropped one of his kidneys. It was dangling off the table by a... whatever kidneys are attached with. Gooey rope?
She didn't like that.
12 days. 12 DAYS! That's how long they wanted to keep him there. Obviously, he dipped (into the floor when no one was watching), but this Bumblebee, as she called herself, is relentless. Not only did she find him again, being held at stabpoint by the same guy. She tended to his wounds again! Instead of watching the guy!
"You know what would really help me? If he were in jail! Or prison! Then this couldn't happen again." Danny scolded while one of the doctors held his trachea closed. "Better yet, throw him down a really deep hole. Then he can never do this to anyone again, but NoOOooOoo." He dramatically raised his arms above his head, splattering everyone with blood. "I had to get stuck with Watson when I asked for a Sherlock. Do me a favor. Stop saving my life, and just solve my murder."
...
So it turns out the things you say can be used against you, even when you haven't committed a crime.
That's how Danny found himself in a meta human mental hospital. Who knew the power dampening collars worked on ghosts? Or is it because he's half human?
On an unrelated note. There sure are a lot of vengeful ghosts here.
I used this random superhero generator, which gave me Bumblebee, I know very little about her. Just teen titans and young justice.
Might need to draw Bumblebee from this description.
*Trying to explain that he can't let himself be attacked to solve a crime just because he can handle it. That's what the heroes, police, and detectives are for*
*Danny:*
😑🤨
*Looking around at the enraged ghosts that only he can see because of lack of healthy ecto*
And you're doing a FABULOUS job so far!
🙃😌
Tell me, have you caught the ones who attacked me yet or have you just shrugged and called it a cold case?
😃😇
*Suddenly a boy who looks like Danny's twin walks in*
Dante!
😍
HELP these people SUCK at solving crimes and they won't stop saving me in order to CATCH THE CRIMINALS!!!!!!
😭🤬👿
*Danny's eyes flash noticeably Lazarus Green, even with the dampener on, to the horror of the hero*
And they've stuck this stupid collar on me THAT SOMEHOW *WORKS!!!!!!!!!!*
*Dante:*
*Bypassing the fact that his twin has let himself be attacked, to the shock, horror, and confusion of the hero and listening officers*
😳
How'd they pull THAT off?!
🤯
*A frustrated Danny:*
I DON'T KNOW!!!!!!
🤬🤬🤬
*By now the hero, who is relaying the twins discovery and that they don't know about meta dampeners revelation to the other heroes, and officers has put together that the twins have never come across meta-dampening equipment before*
The villains (lets say they locked him, temporarily, in Arkham Asylum for lack of a better place and that it's the few places that can handle metas) are watching this like it's a television drama.
That and they can sense ... SOMETHING in Dante that makes them instinctively think 'ONE OF US'.
Joker is LOVING the vibe coming off of him. Like he had one HELL of a Bad Day in the past. Joker, and the other villains, NEEDS to find out what.
"Does this at all look familiar to you?" Karen interlocked her fingers under her chin.
Rita looked half guilty, half proud. "Mine never tried to kill himself."
Karen turned ever so slightly to her teammate.
"Well, not publicly. Have you tried signing him up with the teen titans? That worked wonders for Gars will to live."
"Danny isn't my son."
"There's always adoption, honey." Rita suggested as she had countless times before. "Teenage boys are a treat. They practically take care of them selves. And when you get horribly and grusamly murdered along with your whole family on live national TV. He'll find a way to bring you back to life." Rita smiled her cute sweet star smile.
Note to self: check Garfeild into therapy. "You can't just keep random boys you come across."
Rita stared at her, confused, the way a filthy rich white woman would.
"Well, I can't just keep random boys I come across."
"If you're worried about space, don't. Steven and I kept ours in the cellar, sometimes for days on end."
Note to self: get Garfield away from the Doom Patrol. Karen turned back toward the young boy, only to find he was gone. She snapped to the guard. "Where'd he go?"
"Mr Fentons twin offered to bring him his PJs. Mr Fenton said he wouldn't need them, as he would be sleeping in the ocean tonight. He's been taken to a padded cell."
"Damn," Karen thought. So she would be keeping the boy.
The police and heroes vow to keep an eye on the twin, as he was EERILY calm about his brother's words the whole time. And when Daniel spoke of "sleeping in the ocean" Dante simply NODDED in understanding!
The Police and Heroes realize they MAY have made a mistake when the twin, Dante, walks into the Ocean and, before any of them can react, transforms his legs into a shark tail. (I see Dan leaning twords sharks if he were to have a merperson tail.)
This misunderstanding (they now think the twins are Atlanteans and that Danny is simply suicidal/has a few issues. They DID cross off drowning as part of the suicide attempts though, given the new evidence.) is NOT helped when Danny breaks down one day, bawling that he wants to go to the sea. (Danny learned that there may be alien tech in the sea from past invasions.)
Danny just starts claiming that Dan is hogging everything for himself through his tears. He just KNOWS IT!
Danny never clarifies what his twin is hording and now the staff thinks that he really misses his family and is starting to ramble out some of their habits.
Danny then sobs that he misses his parents' cooking and that this food doesn't fight BACK. (Further fuelling the belief that the twins are Atlantians and OBVIOUSLY their food fights back, THEY HUNT FISH and other creatures from the sea!)
What if he also manages to talk about Dani's wanderlust and her nack for getting into trouble that she got from him yet she still gets away with things because she's just so young.
And then comes a rant on Jaz' tendency to psychoanalyze anything (good for hunting with recognising the behavioural pattern of prey) and Danny's just creating a whole mess through his increasingly puffier eyes.
Kidnapper: We have your son, and if you want him back alive you will do exactly as I say-
Bruce: Hold on. One. Two. Three. Four. Five....okay I just counted and all my sons are right in front of me.
Kidnapper: Don't think we're bluffing Mr. Wayne. We took the boy right from your gate! Don't believe me? Listen to this.
Danny: Hello?
Bruce realizing they have a small child: Hi buddy. My name is Bruce Wayne. Whats your?
Danny: My name is Phantom
Bruce: That's an interesting name. Can you tell me-
Kidnapper: Alright, that's enough. He's unharmed, as you heard, but that could change at any time. Unless you wire one million dollars to the following account.
Bruce: Let me grab a pen and paper. Im terrible with numbers and address.
Tim: Bruce said the code. Everyone start tracing the call!
Damian: Scream louder, Drake. I don't think the kidnappers heard you.
Bruce: Okay I'm ready. Where should I send the money?
Kidnapper: The account is-WHAT IS THAT!? *Group of men screaming*
Bruce: Hello? Hello?
Danny: Hello?
Bruce: Phantom?
Danny: Yeah
Bruce: Phantom what happened?
Danny: Well I was sitting in my cage, minding my own business while they finilized the sale, when out of no where this gaint crocodile man just popped out of the sewer and ate the people who kidnapped me. He then ripped open my cage, told me to go home and jumped back into the sewers.
Bruce: Killer Croc...
Danny: Yeah he was cool. I'm gonna follow him.
Bruce: No! Stay there! Nightwing is on his way.
Danny: Nah, I like crocodile man more. I'm gonna ask him to be my dad. Funny enough I was at Wayne Manor to find my actual dad!
Bruce horrified: What?
Danny: Yeah. I guess his name is Richard Grayson, and the mother of this body said he lived at Wayne Manor. But it doesn't matter, because I'm going to be Killer Croc Jr. Bye!
Bruce: Wait-!
Dick: What's wrong B? Are you alright?
Bruce: Everyone suit up, my grandson is in the sewer! We got to go!
It was like the universe hated to give Danny any kind of happiness. Vlad saw this a bit different, he had finally found out what his actual obsession was, Family. So when Daniel got caught he tried to help free him and before both knew what was happening there was a strange wirring sound and next thing they knew they fell down and landed in water.
Getting Daniel out of the net and swimming to the surface was easy. They found themselves in a pool, being stared at by a man and an angry looking teenager.
Vlad would like to have it mentioned that he tried to get back to their dimension, he even built another portal with the help and resources Lex gave him. And so what if he took a bit more time to take breaks and talk with the frankly fascinating man? Daniel seemed fine as he was busy learning about space in this dimension.
So when one evening Vlad didn't go down to keep building the portal but spent his time on the couch with Lex, Conner and Daniel watching a movie he was only mildly surprised that he felt his obsession being fulfilled.
Daniel stared at him for the entire next week at every chance before Vlad caved.
"Speak or stop staring, Daniel."
"I've been thinking..."
"You tend to do that, yes, what about Badger?"
"You like being here. And you like Lex." Vlad waited a few seconds too long it seemed before sipping from his coffee.
"And?"
"Stay." Raising both eyebrows in surprise Vlad watched Daniel fidged. "I mean... you seem happy? Happier than back home. Keep building the portal thought, I want to go back home."
Vlad had thought about it before, a few times actually.
"I want to. Stay, I mean. But we both know we can't."
"Why not?" Both turned in surprise as Lex walked up to them, reaching around Vlad to get himself a coffee. If both ignored the hand brushing Vlad's back that was their problem.
"You both like it here, Daniel is doing well in his online school and I did see a space camp flyer in your room the other day. I have more than enough money and Vlad does have such a brilliant mind for unconventional inventions."
"Keep the flirting for when we're not here..." Conner mumbled as he plopped down next to Daniel.
"We have to get back to our own universe." Vlad tried to protest.
"Where you get hunted? You're safer here. You have all the freedom to just build what you want and Daniel seems to thrive more here than your own universe from what you told me." Lex lingered next to Vlad, nobody said anything about it.
"I miss my friends." Daniel frowned.
"Did you not have a phone that reached through dimensions?" Lex was a bit amused by both of their surprise visitors suddenly freezing and making big eyes.
"I... I forgot the Fenton phone!" Daniel proceeded to reach into his thigh and pull out what looked like an amalgamation of a headset with a display attached to it.
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Lex interestingly liked having more people in his house. Conner was reluctant at first, but they did get onto common ground and suddenly there was Vlad and Danny, both powerful and comfortable in their power. And Vlad... the man was intelligent and cunning and Lex had never felt his interest turn to obsession as fast as this, even Superman suddenly seemed less interesting in prospect of learning about this man.
So what if he had less plans to take down Superman? He had a halfa to impress and somehow get to stay in this dimension. Danny himself was intelligent, resourceful and obsessed with space. He also had that pesky hero complex but seemed to stick to Conner when out and about as Phantom.
It was nice to discuss problems with people who understood him, Vlad seemed to get his worry and Danny seemed to think it was good to be prepared. Lex himself was not proepared for Danny to talk about an evil self but it was nice to be proven right. Even Conner couldn't argue with that.
Sure, Danny got him to stop attacking Superman, but that was fine. Big Blue could fight with other people while Lex was busy with his new family.
It got even better after Danny connected with his friends and sister again. It seemed to ground Danny quite a bit to be able to talk with his friends, even more so when Lex, Vlad and Danny sat down together to build a tablet with a camera that was able to let the teen videocall his friends.
Thanks to the portal they could visit during the holidays.
It was chaos. Somehow five teenagers managed to not set anything on fire. Instead when he came back from LexCorp with Vlad he found his garden overgrown with all kinds of different plants and his home was suddenly sentient.
"We improved it!" Tucker said as he beamed and had a slight manic glow in his eyes, he also seemed to spark slightly.
"You better take care of the plants! Some are important to Conner." Sam frowned at him, he saw a vine slowly crawl up from her collar.
"I'm impressed the house still stands, thank you for reigning them in Jasmine." Vlad adressed the redheaded teen sitting on the couch.
"Well I decided to stay, so it better be standing. Danny needs me, and frankly so does Conner. Ellie is on the way, she just wanted to get Cujo first."
"Well, there is enough room for you." Vlad gave off the slight glow he got whenever they did family related things or someone complimented the children.
Lex mentally adjusted that he would need more groceries. This was so far away from what his own life had been like before as well as his own childhood. And yet... he couldn't help but feel good.
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Conner watched Tim stumble for the fifth time, getting caught by Danny again as they danced.
"Subtle, he is not." Sam drawled next to him, Tucker was busy hacking Oracle in one of the powder rooms from what he heard last and Jazz had fun psycho-analizing every guest of the wedding.
"He's going to start stalking him." Conner was maybe, mildly, regretting introducing his new brother to his best friend. Tim had taken one look, blushed his soft pink and then proceeded to stumble through his introduction. Danny was painfully oblivious. It was a bit sad to watch.
"Ah. That's going to be an interesting... situation." Conner turned to Sam, dressed in her deep purple dress with black lace and a black veil she looked fit for a funeral more than a wedding. But seeing as both grooms were dressed in white suits and Vlad had insisted on a cape that made him look way too dramatic he guessed nobody would mistake her for a bride even despite the veil.
"What do you mean?"
"Ghosts have very interesting courting customs." She smirked and took a sip from her drink.
"Oh god..."
"Good luck."
"I just got a brother!" Sam pat his shoulder in sympathy as he groaned into his hands.
"Well, I'll have Jazz give you the ghost courting talk later. Now, excuse me while I find out if that cute lesbian couple is open to a third." Conner glanced at Sam, followed her eyes to Cass and Steph and just closed his eyes.
"What is my life?"
Man this turned a lot longer than I intended... I was just going to write a prompt and got carried away... well, anyway.
Promp-Idea: Vlad and Danny have a good relationship. Vlad and Lex are together/married and Danny is Kon's step brother. Tim meet Danny, Tim very much falls for Danny and Kon has to live with his best friend being into his new brother.
Feel free to add to this or take the idea for yourself :D
SYNOPSIS: Birds and ghosts; in which Dante is Dick's closure to the talons. In which Dick is now something Dante is interested in.
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Dante stared at the man in front of him… So this was Nightwing… in all honesty, the vigilante was pretty good looking. Easy on the eyes, a charismatic energy that he couldn't help but be reminded of… erm… Danny? In a way. More so the joking but Dan could feel that repressed energy of an eldest child—similar to Jazz. That was to be expected. Nightwing was, after all, Batman's eldest kid.
Said kid who was apparently a Talon candidate…
"You wondering about the Talons?" Dante could see the tension of Nightwing's posture. It was clear as day at this point. "They're doing good."
"The… the talons?"
"Yeah. What? You think I slaughtered the little birds?" He snorted, grinning at the wary look the other gave him. He saw the way Red Hood stiffened as well, but less so than Nightwing. After all, Red Hood was the one who was perfectly fine with killing.
In all honesty, he'd thought about it. Kill the Talons, be rid of those abominations. But then… then he thought of how they were just kids. Abducted, brainwashed, tortured, and broken kids. Maybe he felt some kinship. Maybe he finally had a conscience. But one thing was for sure—the Talons were just kids who never got to grow up.
Undead children.
Even the Ancients were concerned with how those souls managed to keep themselves stable—barely. The Talons were revenants, ones worse than Red Hood. The Ectoplasm they fed of was… well, the court of Owls was an interesting bunch.
Dionesium was a weird substance. An insane demon god created the substance that would later be called Dionesium by three scientists that worked for Wayne Enterprises. The incident of it's creation was…
Well, least to say, Clockwork was not pleased when Darkseid created that little demon. Barbatos was funny. Danny liked to have Ellie chase after it with a sword and scream about having bat for dinner.
But he digresses. Dionesium was a form of Ectoplasm. Specifically Ectoplasm that Barbatos attempted to replicate and ended up creating a perverted version of it. Not his problem—it was Danny's. Considering Clockwork and the Observants have been hounding the little king's ass about the Lazarus pits. Those waters would most likely be more Dionesium than filthy ecto from the sewages.
"Quite scaring him already." Danny rolled his eyes, floating to his side (surprising since his brother's been sticking to Red Hood an awful lot lately).
Dan could only laugh, grinning at Nightwing. "Fine, fine. None of the Talons except the big bad birdie was killed. They're more on our jurisdiction—cause, y'know. They're undead."
"Revenants." Danny clarified, then pointed to Red Hood. "Like you, but like… worse."
"So you do know about—"
"You smell rancid, Red." Dan scoffed, "Like dipped into the nastiest batch of Ecto."
"Pretty sure he was…" Danny murmured, "D'you encounter any of the Lazarus Pits?"
The two Bats (birds?) glanced at each other—wary again. Seriously? Again? Dan was going to get bored quickly.
"What's it to you?"
"Hm… So you did." Danny grimaced but his mask his it. "I'll explain it to you later. That discussion needs a PowerPoint. And a couch. And food. And maybe a very extensive history lesson—"
"Yeah, let's handle that later. And again—the rest of the talons ain't dead. They're… being rehabilitated."
Nightwing grimaced, "How so?"
"I don't know. What do you usually do to undead children who were ripped away from their lives and turned into mindless weapons?" He flatly replied, raising a brow at Nightwing.
The vigilante awkwardly scratched the back of his head, cheeks turning a little pink while Red Hood coughed into his palm. Seems like there was some history in that question… maybe regarding the fact that Red Hood was a revenant. Ugh. Dan, stop. It was the "Danny" in him. Gross.
"Now that's done, what'd you need from me, birdie?"
Nightwing fidgeted, "Can we talk in private? Like… one on one?"
Dan grinned, leaning forward. "You want a heart to heart with me, darling?"
(He heard Danny gag somewhere, along with the almost audible way Red Hood cringed.)
Nightwing mirrored his expression, "If you'd like it to be like that."
Well wasn't that nice. He glanced at Danny, who still looked utterly disgusted. Little shit indeed. With just a flick of his wrist, Danny grumbled and walked off, grabbing Red Hood by the wrist.
("Wait, are we seriously leaving them alone?"
"D'you wanna watch them flirt?"
"Nevermind.")
Dick fidgeted the moment Wraith led him to a more… secluded area of the cemetery. He was sure it was more secluded cause the crime lord quite literally was waving off cold air—which Dick assumed were ghosts.
"So… What'd you like to say, birdie?"
Birdie—was that cause he was Nightwing or because he was a potential Talon? He's not sure about it, in all honesty. It was a pretty uncomfortable thought.
"About… About the Talons. Uhm… Electrum, specifically. Have you done any research about that?"
Wraith tilted his head, "You people call it's origins… Dionesium. A substance that allows you to reanimate the dead and heal the living." He waved his hands, like this was something he recited everyday. "To ghosts—"
Ooh, they were actual ghosts. Got it.
"—it's a perverse form of our natural energy. What's the lore you know about it?"
"Erm… from our research, it's a substance made by Barbatos, the bat demon."
Yeah, that was ironic.
Wraith snorted, "That's true. However, for us of the realms, Barbatos is a heretical bastard. Now, us ghosts don't have a specific religion but we respect and sorta worship emotions. Now… imagine you're… I don't know, Christian? Let's take that as an example. Imagine you're Christian and someone went and fucked around with the Bible. That's what Barbatos did by creating Dionesium. It's a perverse form of Ectoplasm."
Well wasn't that interesting. Dick has vaguely heard about Ectoplasm. It was spiritual energy from what he knew. If a demon god decided to take spiritual energy and make something else out of it… that was complicated.
"And the Talons?"
"Think of it as someone basically turning Lazarus water solid and stuck it in your mouth as a tooth. You die, you don't stay dead so long as it's in you." Wraith shook his head. "I want to rehabilitate those poor kids. But I don't like thinking of the fact that Electrum is the one thing that they need to stay 'alive'—or at least a grotesque version of being alive."
"Why not remove the electrum?"
"I've got no idea what that'll do to their souls."
Wraith's honesty was a little jarring, in all honesty. Dick wasn't even sure as to why the Crime Lord was giving him this information. Was it pity? Was it a scheme? Was it for a favor? He's not sure but god damn—he's so fucking thankful.
Dick has never liked the Talons. He did not like their mere existence. That thing that stained the amazing memories he'd had of the circus as a child. Every single one of them felt like a thorn on his side that kept reminding him that the people he grew up with would have set him up to be like William Cobb.
"Any other questions?"
"Erm… not really. I just… I just wanted some closure on this case. The court's been—"
"A group of shitheads." Wraith bluntly cut off.
Richard blinked, a short, startled sound catching in his throat—half gasp, half laugh. His shoulders twitched, the corners of his mouth tugging upward like he was fighting it, but the fight didn’t last long. The laugh slipped out, sharp and breathless, then another—until his chest was shaking and he had to brace a hand on his knee.
Wraith watched him intently, red eyes shining behind lenses of the same hue. It was amusement, something even akin to fondness. Dick felt his chest tighten, blinking away the tears that welled up when he had kept laughing. Fuck, his sides kinda hurt now. He was almost embarrassed with how fucking open he was with Wraith.
What the fuck was this guy doing to him?
"Did I give you your closure, birdie?"
Dick choked out another laugh, "Yeah… Fuck—yeah. You did. Thank you. I… Take care of those kids for me, won't you?"
"I ain't doing it for you, Nightwing. Those kids got their lives stolen for them and I can't give it back. But I can at least try to let them live the rest of their undead time a little happier."
Dick nodded quietly. Yeah… yeah, you couldn't take back the time stolen from those children. Fuck…
"Anyways…" Wraith cleared his throat, "You ever need help or… I don't know, maybe an update on the Talon Rehab progress, just have Hood go looking for Phantom. I'm sure those two will like the excuse to meet up."
Well wasn't that true? He couldn't help but snort, shaking his head.
"Sure… Wraith?"
"Yeah?"
"What if… I wanna… hang out with you?"
"You asking me out, birdie?"
Dick raised his hands in surrender, "That's up to you, big guy."
Wraith inspected him quietly… then…
"Just jump from the tallest building of Gotham, Nightwing." Wraith chuckled, "I'll catch you."
He blinked…
Oh fuck…
I say fuck you to the messy plot of the Court of Owls and their lore and make it my own. Dionesium is now artificial ecto and the Lazarus pit is made of rank artificial ecto. Canon? What canon? The fuck is canon to DC? Guys just correct me if I'm wrong. I actually did research on the Talons, the court of owls, Dionesium, and Electrum to be as accurate as possible but what the fuck was all that??? Srs what is Barbatos? Anyways, they're a creation of Darkseid here cause a source said so and it's good for the plot lol.
Hello every one!! It's been a hot minute. I've been lurking but not posting xD. I am currently too sick to move around d and do stuff but not sick enough to be able to nap the day away and still sleep at night so I have decided to try and write out the next bits of stories and prompts I got. I apologize for ramblings and errors I still have a fever right now. THIS ONE IS LONG ALL. IT GOT AWAY FROM ME!
I was trying to string some of my stray prompts together and got this:
the events of DP happened minus PP. Danny age 20 has settled everything with his ghostly rogues and now no longer goes out heroing as phantom. He is the ghost prince as he is not fully dead (and is planning on living his full human life first).
In order to get a new start, he moved to Gotham (it has the second highest ecto-system in the world after Amity and Lady Gotham was thrilled to host her future king) and spends his days doing volunteer work to help settle his primary obsession, and does work part time at the Gotham observatory to feed his secondary space obsession.
He has finally balanced his life between both worlds, his parents know and accepted him (though he did change his name to nightingale to get away from the Fenton notary), he is dating the two loves of his life (is it really long distance if he can teleport?) The GIW was officially disbanded a year after he graduated. Our boy is thriving!
The rest of team Phantom (and Fentons)on the hand went the other direction. Either full-blown heroes or antiheros/villains. And unfortunately to the outside world look like they are having a four-way fight over a civilian Danny who ran away from his villain parents/ex-lovers.
Back when they were younger, tucker with the unintentional help of Technus, managed to create a server that used the ghost zone as its base point. It is untraceable, relatively undetectable, and has service so good that it can literally reach different dimensions. So, when things ramped up during their third year, all communications, chat rooms, photos as well as accounts viewing other online sites went into this server.
This worked wonderfully for team phantom as "dead zones"(ha) and worries of hacking suddenly became almost nonexistent and the Fentons who had recently cut off all work with the government after Danny's reveal were looking for new ways to hide their (to be revised) life's work from the prying eyes of the government.
Danny, who had recently gained a huge spike in power due to him taking the crown of fire in preparation for his upcoming coronation as crowned prince, chose to drop out of high-school mid year due to the GIW being able to track him much easier anytime he left the house. While not ideal this actually worked out well for Danny(He switched to online school and finished with high honors)
Sam, Tucker, Valerie, and the Fentons seniors on the other hand were very VERY unhappy that their son/ex/boyfriend/friend was basically being put on house arrest for existing and began their individual plans to fuck with the government. (Jazz is also not happy but is currently at Yale studying to be a psychologist for children with abusive/dramatic upbringings and is stuck avoiding talking about anything out of the ordinary as she needs to use a normal phone to talk with Danny without a way to charge her Fenton phone. Jazz has also changed her name to nightingale, while her parents were a bit hurt, they did understand wanting to make a name for yourself without being compared to your already doctor parents)
Tucker has started to hack the government through GIW servers. Spilling out government coverups and trying to cause as much of a media government conspiracy shit storm for them as possible. He chose to go under the code name Pharoah, making a name for himself in the underground as a hacker as formidable as oracle themselves. He, after everything, moves to Star City to begin his own very successful tech business.
FRAIR Inc. Took market's by storm showing to be one of the most promising up and coming tech companies spanning everything from cyber security to edge cutting medical tech. To the outside world, his employees were practically ghosts (litterally in some cases), slowly creeping up on giants like Wanye enterprise and Queen Industries. Hands down one of the best places to work for, even if the CEO was occasionally found near some shady things,Mr.Foley was proven innocent every time, and his very loyal employees were getting sick of other companies trying to compare him to creeps like Luther. (Tucker still kept an ear on anything related to Danny on the normal human servers in case the GIW reared thier ugly head)
Sam, much to everyone’s surprise reached back into her rich roots and makes the name Manson something to fear. She finally sits down with her parents, and they talk it out. All of it, her hurt, their hurt, the fights. It takes more than one conversation, a lot of tears, but they do work it out. Because her parents at the end of the day do care about her. They want their baby to be safe and happy and successful in what she does, and after talking about the GIW and how they have been targeting her and her friends, she is clearly not safe! Her parents agree to teach her all they know about throwing their weight around in high class social circles and how to tear apart "untouchable groups" financially and socially so thoroughly that there was no hope of recovery. Sam for her part agreed to her some of her parents requests as well, she would start representing the Manson name and act like a lady in public settings, attending more high class social gatherings and parties (with the stipulation that she would get to dress and be herself, she could be both goth and high class! her mother agreed admitting that she did secretly love her Gothic prom dress she had made two years ago) she later takes over leading their largest company in metropolis spreading her reach into outreach programs and environmental protection. She is slowly becoming metropolis' most beloved socialite generally making life miserable for both Lex and Superman.
Lex because the anti-ecto laws were passed under the radar during his stint as president and superman because while it may have been proven that the JL was not in fact ignoring their calls for help, she is still hella salty about all the shit team phantom went through and is petty. Also, their fights keep causing pollution and property damage! Danny got that shit under control a year in and without training! Step the fuck up boy scout!
The Mansons are thrilled to be able to brag about at galas with how much their company has grown since Sam took over and how proud they are of their "little girl" and "how much she cares about the environment and the less fortunate" all pink and fluff with sparkly blinders on, all the while Sam is standing slightly behind them, quite, dressed to the nines in a Morticia Addams-esc dress, smirking like she would eat you alive in a board room if you so much as breath wrong.
The Fentons senor really didn't change to much. They did cut ties with the government and instead have moved to selling self-protection devices that protect against humans and ghosts! They are still researching ghosts but have taken down as much of their published works as possible for revisions. They have instead turned from wanting to catch ghosts to wanting to meet any ghost willing to talk with them about ghost culture and biology.
They also start to "accidentally" target any GIW that comes within 100 feet of them, claiming how "oh I though we fixed that bug" or "sorry our gun seems to be malfunctioning". This leads a lot of Amity to realize how often the self-defence gadgets could "malfunction" weird how they only seemed to do that around GIW agents.
Valerie was the only one to go the official “hero” route. Having put the pieces together in second year after meeting Dani. Finally working up the courage Valerie had confronted team Phantom about Danny being Phantom. All the lies were aried out from both side, both sides working out thier problems and apologizing. Team phantom for not telling her the truth after Dani, and Valerie for her now admittedly unfair blaming of danny for her lifes problems. Having spent the past year coming to terms with herself about what she was truly angry about. The betrayal from her so called "friends" the A-listers, the life changes she was not prepared for, watching her dad slowly wear down as bills built up. She had needed an outlet, a scapegoat, and at the time, it had been easier to jump on the Ghosts are evil then to accept that this was her life.
During third year, Valerie buckled down on protecting what was really important to her. Taking a job under Manson incorporated Valerie took over as Sam's "body guard", slowly taking over the "physical threat" of things for team Phantom. Angry about being ignored by the JL Valerie (with the help of some vindictive ghosts and Dani) was able to track down and interrogate one John Constantine.
Apparently due to several misunderstandings Amity had been marked no entry to any JL member but JL dark, (which fair, Valerie also did not wish to deal with a possessed superman) but due to Phantom having been seen throughout history (damn vlad for stealing the infamap) Phantom had been mistaken for an accident protecter spirit.
Which for anyone versed in magic, you don't mess with that uninvited. It would be like walking into the home of a God and telling them to thier face, "I don't think your good/strong enough to protect your home, move and let me do it", which is a really fast way to get killed. You don't enter there unless you are invited by the spirit or a follower of the spirit on their request. Most humans don't understand that, so while the calles were listed and JLD was put on alert, unless danny called himself, they would not enter.
After hashing out that that Phantom was not in fact an ancient, and that yes kids who had called them were followers asking on his request , a very panicked JLD meeting was called with guest Red Huntress acting as a mediator for what needed to be done.
Working with the JDL the Anti-ecto laws were destroyed in just under a year and a half and the Red Huntress being given an offical spot on JLD as a ghost expert/excorsit learning under both Zatanna and Constantine. (Much to the amusement of most of team Phantom and the begrudging acceptance of Sam)
For her civilian life, Valerie still works with Sam as her head of security. They are pretty much best friends but they fight like cats and dogs about everything (to them it is friendly bickering with a limial edge, to others these two look like they are about to throw down). No one understands how Sam has not fired her or why she has not quit, but they are almost infamous for both their "fights" and for being an absolutely terrifying team to fight against. Lex learned the hard way not to interrupt one of their fights.
You may be wondering how this becomes a known problem. In true Danny luck he has run into a bunch of different bats as civilians.
damian volunteers at the same animal shelter and is put with him every time due to danny finding his "fighting spirit" cute instead of intimidating. Damian has an odd respect for "Nightingale", and will sometimes ask for his opinion on matters. "I don't need advise, I just wish to see it from a different perspective"
Tim (under the name Alvin) ran into him at the park when he was having a bad day and somehow wound up talking with Danny because "sometimes it helps to talk to someone who doesn't know you, gives you a non-biased opinion."
Danny lives in crime ally. It's cheap and he feels at home with all the gun shots. Red hood is worried AF about the really nice and helpful guy who gives snack to his street kids and takes the working girls out on "dates" genuinely treating them like queens. The resonce "oh my parents weapons used to "mis-fire" all the time when I was a kid" was not what he was expecting to hear after noticing how calm he was after a gun fight broke out on his block.
Eventually, the bats realize that the person each of them have mentioned is the same guy, panic thinking that he is actually someone sent by an enemy, only to find out from. Oracle that no technically THEY are the ones stalking him because he was there long before they started showing up and they kept going back.
The bats settle only to panic again when oracle revealed that when double checking he background that he seems to be a run away from his crazy villan parents who are still calling him despite him not answering for three years and changing his name to get away from them. (danny keeps reminding his dad to use the "phantom network"to make calls. He keeps forgetting.)
There are multiple signs that her rival Pharoah seems to be stalking the guy all across his very limited social media, and after digging more she is pretty sure her guess on him being the CEO of FRAIR Inc. Tucker Foley Is true. More horrifying based off the very old social media that she found, Danny used to be very close friends with both Tucker and the ruthless Sam Manson who has been slowly causing both Lex Luther and Superman a media shit storm like never seen before.
After talking with some of their old classmates, it was confirmed that both of them were VERY possessive of Danny before he ran away.
Even more concerning, it seems the rumors of him having a very passionate fling with the red Huntress were true. Nightwing (because for some unexplained reason Red Huntress has serious onesided beef with the origanal members of the JL) had almost lost his head when he tried to casually bring it into conversation with her.
Saying about how if they so much as sniffed around Danny as thier hero "fursonas" she would personally see to it that the Wayne's suffered a long list of unfortunate incidents. She had left Danny to keep him safe and had enough trouble watching the "other four" that she didn't need and bats sticking thier noses where they didn't belong and dragging him back into the crazy.
Dick had come home shaken and with a new perspective and respect of the level of commitment Red Huntress had in defending her old flame. Like getting a job just to keep an eye on his other crazy exs and parents. Commitment. And maybe a bit obsessed holy shit, he thought the bats were bad.
The only safe one seems to be his sister, who left a year before he did, making daily phone calls and messages trying to convince he beloved little brother to get away from that crazy town and come to stay with her. She seemed to be the only one who Danny still talked to. (Ecto can make emotions more volatile, and as a therapist, jazz wanted to keep as many outside factors far away from her patients, meaning she still can't charge her phantom phone, its normal phone calls or nothing).
Danny is obviously to all of this 😀.
I may add small snips to this as it was a way to tie small scenes together. But yah. Again sorry for mistakes I wrote these on my phone! And fever is still a thing...
As always feel free to borrow/add on to this! Love to see where stories go, just tag me if you start a new post so I can read it please!!!
I am honestly just writing to get these out of my head and was not actually expecting my post to get attention. Thank you?!
this AU keeps getting away from me. this one is long Y'all.
Fun sized and Feral - A World Unseen.
Have you ever just had a moment where the world just decides to hit you over the head with some new fact you never bother to pay attention to?
Gothamites were stubborn, ok? they had to be. Life in Gotham never stopped pushing, and if you stuck around, most people had two options.
One, you let Gotham push you over and get buried. Or two you plant your feet and push back.
A few people in Gotham had a third option. Screw sanity, take life by the fucking throat and demand Gotham get out of your way.
This option however was mainly restricted to the Vigilante/Villain population.
Apparently the Fentons didn't get the memo.
Gotham was no stranger to quirky people and weird coping habits. Especially on the less legal side of things.
(So long as you did your job, what you had to do to get it done is your own business)
Most people learn to see, shrug, and move the hell on. The thing was the Fentons weren't from Gotham. (Make no mistake they were THEIRS now. They had claimed them and apparently even the fucking Joker wasn't going to change that)
The Fentons were from Amity. It was "a nice place to live". A little town in Illinois that had cringy ghost themed attractions and a near negative crime rate.
How in the hell did a family as nice as the Fentons from a town as peaceful as Amity look at Gotham and go "This seems good, I'm gonna live here now".
They had brushed off the quirks as "non-Gotham" behavior, thanked what ever half-baked deity tricked them into coming here, and did their best to look after the small bit of peace the family and store brought with them.
After the feral incident the regulars at Dead End Cafe had started to keep a little closer tabs on the little "quirks" the family had.
It was ... jarring honesty. Many of them simultaneously felt closer to them knowing more about them (how well they really fit into Gotham's underbelly) and farther away seeing all the things they missed.
They were still the funny, overly caring family that had barreled their way through Crime Ally's walls a year and a half ago. They didn't even hide the odd things they did. If you asked and they were willing to answer, they did it truthfully. (This actually led to more questions than answers)
People had just... never paid attention to it. but now, now they couldn't un-see it.
A few groups began to compile list of the facts they knew. (They were curious, how did they fit in so well, why? Did their family need to hide somewhere no one would look? Did they need help?)
Tucker was built like a tank. He moved like someone who had a history of trained fighting despite saying he never did sports or martial arts.
He was a wiz with any kind of tech. Helped anyone with issues for free, often leaving it better then when they first got it.
He was designing a video game apparently. Many of them were exception a new shooter but were surprised when he said it was a horror RPG based in Ancient Egypt. Apparently, he had old family roots there.
(They looked the other way when his Hieroglyph tattoos seemed to move, or the way the sand that was always there followed him.)
Bill (one of Penguin’s) had seen him throw a handful of darts one day and hit the bullseye with all of them. Bill asked Tucker where he learned. Tucker had laughed before replying " we found out when Sam got kidnapped once. Apparently, I have great aim with just about just anything thrown or shot. If I had hit my growth spurt before senior, I may have had a chance on a school team.
Bill had followed up by asking about who kidnapped Sam and if they should keep an eye out. The answer was no, because, he quotes "honestly by the time Danny and I got there to help, she had already staged a revolt with the guy's sister, and they over threw him together". (Sam then helped her take over the "family business"? Bill shook his head. Honestly, good on her.)
Sam was honestly the most intimidating of the Fentons. While the respect/fear for Ma Fenton had definitely gone up. Sam was still more likely to get into a fight.
5'11" before adding the heeled combat boots Sam struck a pretty intimidating figure. (The fact that she had sent the three guys who tried to mug her to the hospital definitely added to this.)
Despite her looks, she always seemed to have a group of children she was teaching. If Tucker was the go-to for technical and planning advice, Sam was the one for all things green and health related.
She was constantly teaching the children about what plants could be used for aches and pains and which were easiest to grow.
As time went on, she began to bring back bundles of herbs to show how to make "special brews". (There were few people that had enough trust to get a Gothamite to try a "homemade remedy", but after the first few said they did actually feel better it became pretty common to order a "special brew" in the cold season)
It had been a shock when after a lesson, someone had asked "why they couldn't go in the back of the green house" and "why do you draw funny drawings on your pots?".
"The plants in the back are highly poisonous". Sam had replied. Face completely serious. "I am immune, you are not. Please do not go back there without me". She picked up her stuff before adding "the symbols keep bad things away". She then left to the kitchen leaving a group of wide-eyed children (and listening adults) in her wake.
(It was later confirmed that the symbols were actually wards against evil intent, a few of them having worked with magic users in the past. Everyone pointedly ignored how the plants on the walls would occasionally turn to face Sam like the sun.)
Ellie was the least changed. She was still the snarky, happy child that they had come to know and love. The only thing was the comments.
Originally, when they found something odd, they would ask Ellie. It was more for fun then anything. Ask a random question, get a made-up kid's answer. After the incident they were no longer sure how "made-up" some of the answers were.
Like the pin board.
It was a cute thing at first. A little pin board near the door that had "Square up or square down" along the top.
There was an assortment of square pins below it with random words (in sparkly gel pen) that made a list. For the longest time, no one could figure out what they meant. The pins on the board stayed the same, changing order about once a week.
Whenever a word went to the top, a second pin would be added beside it with the word "souped" on it. (Sometimes, two or three words would have this, always at the top)
This board remained a Fenton mystery until shortly after the incident. When a new square sitting right at the top in glittery green read "Joker". (The board now seemed a lot less cute, knowing that the pins like "Boxy" and "Skulker" were not words but names)
After the third time Jokers name had been moved to the top (and that was a nightmare on its own) Jason Peters (stinky man according to Ellie) had bravely (stupidly) asked her why Joker never got the "souped" pin when he moved up.
Ellie had taken a look at the board before saying, "He still has all his bones." Jason (and a good everyone else around them) had stared at the girl for a moment. "Could you explain that one to me, please Bity?" Jason asked, not really sounding like he wanted an answer.
Ellie had huff before putting down her drawing and facing the man. "He has all him bones," she repeated. "The other ones lost their bones, so Mama made them soup." The man looked like he regretted life as the kid continued. "He can't be soup. You need to give your bones to be soup." Ellie held Jason's gaze until he nodded to her. The kid took that as he understood before going back to her coloring. (No one had the guts to ask the older Fentons for clarification)
Ma Fenton was definitely the hardest to readjust to. He was still sweet, still gave off a calm feeling, still made them good food. (He knew their favorites. he smiled at them like people.)
It was mostly little things. Like how he didn't have trouble picking up things that really should be too heavy. How He moved without making sound. He always knew your name. (Even if you don't remember giving it)
The hardest part was trying to figure out what set him off. No one wanted to pick a fight with Ma. It felt wrong to attack someone so nice to them. (He was terrifying when mad.)
Danny just seemed to flip on a dime. The second he knew Joker (or any others on the board) was within a few blocks of Dead End. (And he always knew.)
He would suddenly tense, get a smile on this face that didn't look quite right (too wide, too cold). He would excuse himself, call Tucker or Sam to take over, before grabbing a kitchen utensil (it was mostly the pan, but sometimes a rolling pin, it had only been a steak knife once.) Before moving the Joker pin to the top of the board on the way out the door before doing a dead sprint in a random direction.
No one had figured out how he always knew where the Joker was, but batman should take notes.
They had been walking on eggshells for a bit before Alvin Peter (Jason's younger brother) had asked Tucker why Danny reacted so bad to the Joker.
The guy apparently wanted to meet Ma after seeing him throw down with Joker in the bank. It had been the first Ma vs. Joker fight to happen off Fenton territory and the only one ever caught on film.
Red Hood and Red Robin had been there, but after the SHRIEK™ had been heard, Red Hood had all but hauled Red Robin out of the way and waited till it was over. (It had been the same level of feral as the first. Fists and teeth before Ma had grabbed Red Robin's bo staff and had used it like a bat, then made his escape through the vent.)
Tucker told them they had nothing to worry about.
"Death leaves a mark, whether you cause it or are just around it, it clings to us." Tucker had said it so nonchalantly, like he had long since come to terms with it. "Fentons know death a bit differently than most. We see it frequently. It stopped bothering us a long time ago. We don't judge. It is part of life, a balance. " Tucker's faces had been uncomfortably blank.
"Joker has no balance. He should have died a long time ago. He was brought back and now takes more than was his to take." Tucker turned back to Alvin, ignoring the pale faces around him.
"It makes Danny angry. The unbalance. It is very, very hard for a human to reach that level of death. There often isn't anything left of the human by then."
Tucker then pat Alvin on the shoulder, smile coming back like normal. " I can promise you no one who comes here can match the Joker in unbalance. the only way you are making the list is if you ask to be on it like the others."
That conversation had been as unsettling as it was oddly comforting.
As the two-year mark for Dead End Cafe arrived, Crime Ally had once again settled around the Fentons.
They were still quirky, still nice. If they occasionally did things that were a bit intimidating, well, fewer people would want to bother them, right?
Everyone at this point had begrudgingly accepted that there was no stopping Ma Fenton from throwing down with the Joker. (The area that the fights were happening in was slowly expanding past "Fenton territory," bets were being made on where the next ones would be.)
Somehow most of the Bats had not figured out where the Fentons were yet. apparently, video had a hard time picking up Fentons and so far, both Red Hood and Red Robin looked the other way when they heard the SHRIEK™.
It was good. Their small bit of peace was still intact (if a bit more feral), the bat was still chasing circles. (Crime Ally did their best to help with that, as previously stated the Fentons were THEIRS). All in all, things were back to how they used to be.
At least until the Fenton In-laws showed up to visit.
I will probably do the Fentons senior (and jazz) visit and possibly one from Ellie's poi t of view because girl needs more screen time and I want to mess with Jason.
After that it will probably just be so snips of shit the Fentons have pulled In gotham xD
I can't remember who, but someone had asked if danny is Mama and sam is Papa. Who is Tucker? Tucker is dad/daddy. Depends on the day.
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Pariah Dark: The human you mated with? I mean the boy has your white hair and teenage frame, but those round eyes and pointed nose must have come from somewhere?
Clockwork: Ancients Pariah, Danny's adopted! There's no blood relation. I have custody, not blood rights.
Pariah Dark: *looks over at Danny who is looking annoyed while talking to an Observant, right before pointing them in the wrong direction on a wild goose chase and smiling smugly, pleased with himself*
Pariah Dark: Uh huh ... are you SURE???
Clockwork: I mean the rift did rewrite his DNA, and I WAS present at that moment. It could be that his DNA latched onto the closest source of ecto energy, me, and copied its structure to retain stability. Resulting in some of my traits and features being incorporated into his being.
Pariah Dark: ...
Clockwork: Holy shit he's my kid...
Pariah Dark: Are you going to tell him?
Clockwork: Probably not. It's more fun letting him figure things out on his own.
Oh no, no,no, instead Danny is Martian Manhunter and Batman's clone.
CADMUS got Manhunters DNA from his brief time living in a lab and they got Batman's...from somewhere, there's an actual clone (multiple probably) of him in canon so it does happen somehow.
And there's an interesting difference between reactions.
Where Superman reacts negatively, Manhunter is fricking thrilled.
He's no longer the last of his kind! He has so much to teach this kid! And the kid loves hearing his stories about space and life on Mars, also Miss Martian and Danny get long like a house on fire.
Danny won't go anywhere without Connor so Manhunter gets two sons for the price of one!
He doesn't know a lot about Kryptonians but what he did know he'd share with Connor, and what he didn't know, Batman will find a way to know.
Bruce gives Superman a chance to step up with Connor, a chance he doesn't take so Bruce goes "my kid now"
Dick is happy to teach his two new bros how to swing from the chandelier and the art of giving Bruce grey hairs.
Danny now has shape-shifting powers... He is going to cause SO much chaos. Of course his default human form probably looks just like Bruce in small. Which gets him SO much flak. But he doesn't mind. But when he learns to change his default? Hey Bart? Wanna play twins?? What about you Cassie?
Danny is also very happy with his new family. Sure they are ALL insane. Absolutely bonkers. But it's fine. J'onn is GREAT! Also, Danny can totally cheat. BatDad can't keep his emotions hidden forever! Clearly he just needs an emotion translator! BatDad HATES it when Danny verbalises his emotions for him. But his siblings love it. So. Win some, lose some.
Connor has a not-twin. Who is fiercely defensive of him. And it's really, really nice. It helps that Danny keeps helping him identify his feelings. As well as J'onn. He doesn't get frustrated so easily any more. He knows what's causing the build up. And can deal with it. Or at least use it productively.
Kon and Danny end up splitting their time between J'onn's, Bruce's homes and the YJ tower in San Fran.
Needless to say J'onn enjoys having two children of his own again but he's very confused by the fact that he keeps getting called down to the school whenever either of them try and stand up for someone else. Bruce just sighs when he gets any of those calls.
Danny and J’onn getting into shape shifting wars. They have bets to see who can cause the most chaos before someone notices they’re not the person they’re impersonating. Barry should’ve known that Bruce would never smile at him.
Whenever Danny translates you have a moment where Bruce looks mildly uncomfortable. And then just sighs in defeat. Because it has made his kids happier. The fact he sometimes does it to his siblings? Generally without even realising? Makes Bruce smirk at Danny's poor victim. See how the brats like it!
Ohh! J'onn taking Kon and Danny flying, and into space. Sometimes with M'gann. Sometimes not. They do love their cousin. She's fun! They get to spend time doing aliens living on Earth bonding activities.
Alfred absolutely uses the fact they have super strength against the rest of the family. You get injured? You are going to have one of them as your babysitter till it's healed. If that means they have to pin you to the sofa? So be it.
He also does this because it's super effective. Tiny baby Danny with watery eyes and pout. Begging them to stay in bed? Most of the time he doesn't even have to use his strength.
Danny: Please rest! I don't want you to get hurt! If be sad!
And it works, every, damn, time. Kills them. Too cute. Oh fuck! This shouldn't be legal! Alfred is most impressed. Well done Master Danny! Connor loves using it to prank the teen hero team. All of the heroes are aware of this now. J'onn and M'gann join him. Once they realise how effective it is? All bets are off. If the Martians want something? They are going to get it.
I vote danny makes his default have some of Connor's traits bc Connor felt self conscious about not looking like his brother and Danny's like 'I can fix that' and BAM danny and Connor share cheekbones or something XD
Maybe his jaw line and eyebrows as well. And it also helps him look less like a Bruce clone. Connor of course has some pretty big feelings about it. And Danny just hugs him.
Danny: We are brothers. And I want you to be happy. Comfortable! All the good things!!
Connor: I want you to be happy too. Thanks. For... Everything.
Megan already goes to school and Danny needed her to get used to him powers / the crowds, etc. meaning they don't go to school in Gotham
To avoid questions for Brucie Wayne, to which he didn't have a good answer about why he has new children and that he's co-parenting this time, etc., Bruce is the second father here under the name Matches Malone
Because of course Malone can and will keep his secret children away from Gotham. He wants to keep them secret and safe duh
I think this could open the door to some funny situations.
This leads to The Light thinking that Matches Malone is Batman's civilian identity. It would totally explain how he gets his info, plus why he goes after certain villains with more prejudice than others - they must have crossed him or be interfering with his operations somehow.
They can totally respect the hustle - moonlight as a hero, so that nobody questions or dismantles your criminal empire.
Plus, if all of the kids have a Malone cover identity, then the kids would match up with the Robins and other vigilantes...
Malone disappears from the public eye for stretches of time constantly. So that must be when he's having to put work towards his Batman persona, or when he's off injured from the latest big fight.
If we start with the entire Batfam having all Malone equivalents...
that would make Martians seen as part of the family by marriage/co-adoption and the twins secret children who obviously want to stay out of the family business being seen as white sheep from the point of view of the Gotham mafia or at least Cobblepot, who feels like denouncing Malone, who would pass on photos of the new forbidden individuals and for the protection of their own mutual white sheep, there would already be a sort of unspoken immunity rule for the very rare truly white sheep in the Gotham mafia families
Which would give a sort of immunity to kidnapping to the twins when they go to Gothamthe Batfam only realizes the phenomenon of non-kidnapping very late except perhaps Jason, no one would know the why and how and the latter found it so obvious that he never spoke about it then decided to watch his family put forward the craziest theories and start a betting circle, decided on this silence
Danny's facial change without any legal trace of surgery would also be easily explained by the fact that; of course, Malone would be in contact with one or more rogue cosmetic surgeons who would do this under the table / without legal traceability
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