Danny has a bad habit of falling asleep in places he shouldn’t, while also in forms he shouldn’t be in.
And recently he’d taken to dozing off in space, while in his more…Ancient form.
Look, how was he supposed to know a natural portal would send him careening into the side of a worryingly large space station with tiny humanoids now trying to fight him?.
John Constantine had made deals with a lot of creatures, for a lot of things, and not all of these deals ended well for him. It was because of this that the Occult detective had a list of ‘Who not to fuck with’, essentially.
Number one on this list just so happened to be the only—seemingly—human on there. One S. Manson.
Danny, understandably, hangs out with ghosts more often than people after leaving Amity to live in the Realms, and the only problem with that is his tendency to sometimes forget how to…human…properly.
And after agreeing with Boston—an odd ghost that sometimes brought along an annoying sorcerer with him—to help out with a threat in his realm, this became a little more obvious to him.
Maybe he should have checked to see if he had the normal amount and proportions of eyes and limbs before following..? Well, too late now.
Or: Danny goes to the DC world without reining in his eldritch aspects, some people take it better than others.
Every time I think of early Dan, like right after he was made into a mash of opposing ghost halves, all I can picture is something like a badly paired gem fusion from Steven Universe.
Imagine one or more of the flashfam were running through the Midwest for whatever reason and just smacks right into an invisible barrier around one Amity Park. This happens to be how the JL find out about the Infinite Realms, the Speedforce’s connection to it, and the Anti-Ecto Acts in one fell swoop.
Or: All Speedster’s are basically liminal and can’t pass Ghost Shields. This leads to secrets being found out.
The disasteroid couldn’t be stopped in time, and Jazz forced Danny into the ghost portal at the last minute so he would be safe and wouldn’t do anything reckless. The least she could do was protect her little brother after all he’s gone through.
With the connection to such an Ectoplasm rich planet lost so suddenly, the Infinite Realms latched onto other worlds tighter, pulling as much Ectoplasm as she could to keep all the Realm’s citizens stable.
In the DC universe this catches a lot of attention, not only is magic being severely weakened, but the Lazarus Pits have all been mysteriously drained.
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It was Constantine and Captain Marvel that provided a potential cause during the JL’s emergency meeting, an inter dimensional space that housed the dead and the Neverborn.
They also shared that the last time something like this happened, it was right before the Ghost King, Pariah Dark, tried to take over the multiverse. So they either needed to prepare tor war, or try to cut it off and hope they could get the old Tyrant back into forever-sleep.
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Meanwhile, a still mourning Danny is being told by the Observants that he’s the Crown High Prince, and as such, it’s his responsibility to fix everything that’s gone wrong in the wake of the Realms losing a tethered world.
And just when he thought he couldn’t get anymore stressed, a portal opens up and a large group steps out, demanding to see the High King.
Danny is no stranger to curses, he’d been on the receiving end of many.
Being cursed into a doll and thrown through a natural portal was new though, and very much not enjoyable.
When he was thrown out of the portal and into a dark attic, he thought he’d finally be able to calm down from the initial shock and get home to fix this.
And he might have, if not for his powers not working.
And there were a lot of footsteps coming too close for comfort, so he decided to take a page from Toy Story, stay as still as possible and hope these people didn’t visit the attic regularly enough to notice a random porcelain doll the size of a toddler. Yep, totally an easy thing to miss.
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The Wayne Manor’s attic was a disaster.
With as many kids that have lived there, it was filled to the brim with old keepsakes, toys, and weapons.
Every year or so, the family would all make a game of sorts out of it, cleaning the attic. They’d keep what they didn’t want to part with, restore weapons they had renewed interest in, and donate most of the old toys.
This just so happened to be Duke’s first time doing it, and Dick and Tim already warned him about some of the stuff in here, like Damian’s weapons and Jason’s book collection that didn’t fit in the library. No one told him about the glowing marionette puppet looking doll though.
Well, technically it wasn’t glowing, but it was glowing to him, and considering it was coming from some creepy doll?.
It only took his siblings to agree that they’ve never seen it before for him to decide that, no, he was not cleaning the attic today. He’d rather never see that doll again, thank you.
So why on earth is Damian carrying it with him to dinner like it’s an actual child.
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Danny goes full eldritch mama cat on the batfam after they somehow end up hurt in the Infinite Realms. Absolutely enormous and completely nonverbal, just chirps and static filled purrs as he wraps his tail around all of them to make a nest.
Trying to escape the nest only leads to getting picked up by the scruff and gently put back.
Bruce was always telling Tim that he needed a new hobby, that photography and skateboarding weren’t keeping him from overworking enough.
So, to get back at Bruce for nagging so much, he decided he’d start studying magic. Only a week after he told Constantine that magic was banned from the manor and cave.
He already knew about magic, they studied anything that could be a threat. He never practiced it though.
It really only started out with a charm or two, something to soothe physical pain or to ward off malicious spirits, just a joke to get on B’s nerves.
But then Jason mentioned that the calming charm he made had actually worked on the pit rage, that while it didn’t take it away, Jason actually had control.
So it took off from there, he eventually learned how to cast simple spells and summon something called a “blob ghost”. He didn’t actually know how to send the little thing back, so it just followed him around like a lost puppy.
Ironically, it was that same blob ghost that was responsible for saving his life.
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Danny is caught by the Fentons including Jazz, who never found out his secret and starts believing their parents.
In an attempt to keep his human half intact after the experiments, his core de-ages him for an easier escape.
Now it’s up to Ellie to keep her little big brother alive and well until his core heals enough to turn back.
She’s hiding them in a grimy city called Gotham to try and mask their Ecto-Signature and let Danny rest when some creepy clown finds them.
So, she’s off again, now with bats and birds after her and Danny.
And really, could she have known that her claws were sharp enough to kill humans, they barely scratched other ghosts.!
Or: A stressed Ellie is on the run with a de-aged Danny. They have the Fentons on their tails, and are currently “laying low” in Gotham of all places. To make matters worse, Ellie has no clue how to take care of a toddler!.
The Drs. Fenton had finished their portal project earlier.
It wasn’t a fourteen year old Danny that stepped into the machine that day, it was a fourteen year old Jazz.
No one knew about her secret other than Danny, who was eleven at the time, and saw the whole thing.
She would use her new powers to help ghosts and humans, while also dodging her parents attacks.
Danny mostly keeps their parents distracted and ruins their inventions before they can get back to Jazz.
Until they nearly catch her one day, and Danny jumps in the way to protect her.
The blast hit his right side and knocked him out, but the Fenton parents didn’t once stop to see if their son was ok.
It was the last straw for Jazz, she took Danny and left.
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And that decision left them both here, in a questionable apartment, dodging bats and birds from one direction, and an adoption obsessed billionaire in the other.
But Danny was safe, and was making friends in school.
And Jazz had made friends too, her, Babs, Steph, and Cass got along like a house on fire. And hey, if she put in some extra effort to look nice when she hung out with Cass, that was her business.
It was also oddly easy to fake their paperwork, but maybe that was just because they were in Gotham.
Now if she could just get Danny to stop fist fighting the damn rogues…
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I actually wrote this for the art, not the other way around lmao.
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Two ideas, one Danny has to deal with how sometimes the superfam is often strong enough to just break physics like Superman closing holes in reality with his static cling.
Two, Cujo and Krypto are best friends often spending entire day playing and both have dug holes deep enough in the Kent land that Danny swears he sees lava
Oh yeah, for the first idea there could easily be some angst too.
If Dc and Dp are the same universe, Dan had killed the Justice League. Even with everything his adopted family and everyone else could do, he still killed them.
Danny probably makes a list of things to End him for Clark to inter into the League’s database, and as concerned as Clark is, he just gives him Black Canary’s contact so he can talk when ready.
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Oh, while Krypto and Cujo would definitely be the best of friends and cause chaos, they aren’t alone.
Yeah, Cujo definitely introduces Kryto to more Kryptonian animals.
Jazz works for the JL and co. as their primary psychiatrist, and was proven to be very good at her job.
Bruce tries to put this to use with Robin, and is surprised when his youngest actually seems more calm afterwards.
Later, if anyone noticed that he went on to add an optional visit with her for all of his children, they didn’t say a thing.
Or: Jazz is liminal and has minor empathy abilities, she uses them to help the heroes work through their problems. The Bats and Birds were the hardest, but definitely the most rewarding.
Instead of the Batfam adopting Danny it's the Superfam, and due to Kryptonian biology they're sort immune to ghost possesion and the fact that ghost powers aren't really magic. Imagine Vlad getting close to end Danny but then sees a pissed off superman standing in front of Danny.
Ooh, this is good.!
I’m dealing with writers block rn, so let’s see how bad this turns out, eh?.
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Dc x dp submitted prompt
Vlad had officially lost it.
Frostbite had went into what happened to ghosts who lost their obsessions before, but it couldn’t have prepared him for this.
Vlad and him had fought plenty of times before, but the froot loop had never actually been trying to End him then.
This…was different, and Danny didn’t really think he was going to make it out this time.
He should have never left Lois and Clark’s apartment, they were only trying to help him and he got upset. All because he was bitter over his parent’s deaths.
And now he was going to die too.
He could see Vlad flying towards him now, the wail that had sent the man flying back was his last ditch effort, and it drained all of his remaining energy.
He was getting so close, Danny should really try to fight. Ancients, he was tired though, his vision was even starting to blur.
He could just imagine Clark’s worried eyes, like when his stitches ripped in his first week at the apartment.
But he was losing a bit more blood now, than he was then.
Oh, wait.
Those actually were the same worried eyes looking at him, without the glasses.
Huh.
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Lois told him that Danny needed his space, that the kid was still grieving his family.
And he understood that. Really.!
He just didn’t want a repeat of Conner, he didn’t want to make another kid feel unloved.
But he’d pushed too hard, and Danny stormed out of the apartment. He let him go, he figured if he wasn’t back for dinner he could go look for him.
He regretted that decision now, as he looked at Danny’s broken form.
The man responsible was a few feet away, unconscious inside a small crater.
He could deal with him after he made sure Danny didn’t die a second time.
When Danny became the “High Prince”, Clockwork had oh so conveniently forgotten to mention that he’d have to learn magic.
Magic that could, apparently, trap him inside of his core and catapult him through space-time to be found by a child.
He probably should’ve waited for Princess Dora to come back before touching the magic glowing books…
Honestly Danny wasn’t sure how long he had been stuck in his core for, but he was tired of being used as a glorified talking crystal ball.
Even if that is technically what he was at the time.
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It was particularly annoying that this kid just carried him around everywhere, showing his core off like he was a new toy. Maybe he was just bitter, but dammit, he wanted out of this weird magic mess.
Hopefully Clockwork would step in and help him.?
…Probably not.
“Are you collecting rocks now, Jon.?”
Oh, there’s someone new now. Joy.
“Kon, hey.! It’s not a rock, I mean, unless it’s an alien rock or something.”
Oh how he wished his core was sent into space instead of wherever this was.
“Yeah. It can talk.!”
One mistake of opening his—currently nonexistent—mouth and he’s being stolen by the human equivalent of a golden retriever puppy.
Suddenly Danny feels deeply for the poor turtle that wandered onto the playground when he was in elementary, passed around like and showed off to every student in the vicinity.
“-aybe we should tell Dad.?”
Oh, the kid was still talking to the…larger kid? Seemed Jazz’s age.
“Nah, give it here and I’ll pass it off to Tim to test. They’ve got more resources, with all the bat-tech.”
“I’m staying with Damian tonight, I can give it to them then.! I wanna see if I can get it to talk again.”
Oh look, he’s being shoved in a jacket pocket now. Just the literal core to his entire being being shoved in with the lint and candy wrappers. No big deal.