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This was dp but batfam has taken my brain over and has a lot more canon to chew. DP will sometimes show up. All my ideas are a free for all for a game of 'yes and'.

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Dpxdc crossover where the world is just ending. Heat death of the universe sort of thing, inevitable march towards the end of everything. Just reality collapsing in on itself because it cant hold up it's own weight. So the Justice League comes up with a plan. They'll take their universe and collide it with another that can hold up that weight. They're trying to limit casualties, so they spend almost too much time finding a universe facing the same problem, because colliding the universes will cause many people to stop existing or get switched with each other if they're too close.

The morning after, Danny Fenton, late 30s, regular life as much as he can get with his clone daughter and his two life partners, walks out of his room and down his stairs. A weird amount of stairs. And into the kitchen to blearily wait for the coffee pot to work. A blurry kid, Dani he has to assume, approaches him through his sleep haze and starts talking. It sounds like a report almost. The kind Jazz had taught him to give so that he could rattle off injuries first and freak out later. Telling him what differences they noticed with the collided universes, places their memories are being weird, etc.

He reaches forward, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes as he gets a better look at his kid. Blinking a few more times to make sure he's seeing things right.

How many kids did this one say he had?

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Cant remember for the life of me how long Ive been watching danny phantom for. 4 years? 5? And i cannot believe that i just now realized that Amity Park canonically named their gorilla after a bible story

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During a mission Batman gets de-aged, keeping his memories but having a hard time keeping track of them, and kidnapped by the leader of a trafficking scheme who'd just barely gotten away when Batman shut down the rest of his group. The only way to get to Batman is with an invite, as he plans to make Batman pay for ruining his plans.

Que Batkids showing up to try to win the bidding and rescue their friend.

Red Hood is waiting on Dick's request, having been promised that Batman would get rescued and then he could shut this entire thing down as violently as he wants.

Tim had needed some backing his other ID's dont have and had called Pru to help him rescue Batman (and also get him some LOA clothes) Damian had tracked down his old uniform and come as well. The two recognize each other and agree to pool resources to save Bruce.

Dick had found out about the auction when Deadpool had broke into his appartment and left a dufflebag with his old costume and an invite on his couch, apparently his respect for him extended to Batman. He'd gotten ready and Renegade had made his reappearance with a speech about how Batmna had 'stopped him from avenging his family and needed to get what he was owed'.

Small, emotionally distraught Bruce had taken one look at his son, thought Slade was forcing him to be Renegade again, and started crying partway through the speech.

Renegade wins just for that, and now Tim and Damian are trying to figure out how to get Bruce back from someone associated with Deathstroke.

(Jason gets a call from Barbara after he'd finished decimating the place, also assumes that Dick's plan had failed/Renegade had gotten to him first, and joins in on the chase.)

(Meanwhile until Red Hood shows up where Dick has hid them, Dick had no idea it was people he'd known chasing him. He's been trying to figure out what Ra's or a splinter group wants with tiny Bruce so badly)

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Apparently I didn't put down an old idea I had for a crossover, or at least I can't find it?

I have it more refined now so it's not going to match up exactly. Due to a Rogue on the loose, someone from the Infinite Realms, characters in DC are getting switched with their DP counterparts, soul/mind-wise at least. However, it's only happening to those that were in Clockwork's tower. Dan and Clockwork were first, switching with Dick and Ra's (poor Dick is in the thermos now, luckily for the Realms, Clockwork is actually pretty much under arrest, he's just good at finding loopholes, so Ra's can't do much for the moment). Sam is next, and is the Batfamily's first sign that something is wrong, as partway through battle Poison Ivy collapses. When she comes to she has no recollection of them, or anyone else. She's not exactly willing to stick around either.

Danny and Dani are next (and maybe last) having been following Sam. Danny wakes up as Damian in the medical area, just in time/after Bruce's explanation that someone is swapping people from another universe with them. (Damian was actually injured, so the Batfam don't realize he collapsed like Ivy did). For now, he figures if he gets locked up or something else happens, he decides to keep things to himself and just pretend to be 'Damian', as he figures Dani has things under control back home. (She does not, Dani just woke up as Superboy and is having issues).

Having this be with Damian still being really prickly towards everyone, but starting to warm up, and also way before Dan's change of heart. As far as Dan can tell, he's just got a second chance at life, and the most likely people to ruin this for him is this body's 'family'.

(for extra angst, could have the original character still in their bodies, or just stuck outside as 'ghosts'. So poor Dick is watching this guy absolutely planning to hurt his family and ruin his relationships, and Damian has someone who's so much like him, but so naive about it)

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Found my WIP for this and have been considering poking at it again.

Dick gets caught by a cult when he storms off from the manner angry, it's that he's angry that he's able to be recognized as the right sacrifice. The cult is under the impression that Dan would be able to save their world, purge the evil from it etc. They're not against heroes or anything, but believe that once the current ones fall that may be it for heroes.

Dan had just escaped the thermos when Danny and Dani were in the clocktower, he flees through the portal that forms and Danny follows after him just as Dani fires the thermos. She assumes that she caught Dan (she caught Dick, who had just been flung through), and Clockwork follows the boys through, telling her to keep the Observants out and watch the tower.

Dan kills the cultists as soon as he's free, quickly doing his best to figure out how he's supposed to be and how to fool everyone. He learns that he's the eldest in a family of detectives, and notices that the 'Robin' following him around is getting suspicious the fastest. As soon as they're alone on patrol he stabs him and shoves him into the harbor.

Danny wakes up to a weird version of his dad, calling him Damian and saying that he'd gotten hurt. He's missing some of his memories due to most of his energy going to the stab wound, and assumes someone had changed the timeline. He decides to keep his head down (he does not want one of his parents to try to vivisect him again) and figure out where and why it got changed. If only this eldest brother of his wasn't such a jerk. (Damian is still there, he's essentially comatose for a bit before he wakes up and suddenly Danny has a voice in his head, which throws a kink in his time shenanigans theory).

(Jazz eventually comes looking for Danny, just after Dick has broken out of the thermos. They can't bring him through the portal or he'd start destabilizing since Dan's in his body. She gets the run down on his family and recognizes herself as Jason Todd when she wakes up, halfway through patching up a healing up gunshot wound. She doesn't know where Danny is, or that he's Damian, but instinct overrides her when she finds Robin caught by the scarecrow, and lugs her little brother to their safehouse.) (Jason wakes up pretty quickly, they swap whose leading the body sometimes and he's not sure he likes this therapist being in his head).

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happy tim drake new year

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Holiday Knights The New Batman Adventures

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Apparently I didn't put down an old idea I had for a crossover, or at least I can't find it?

I have it more refined now so it's not going to match up exactly. Due to a Rogue on the loose, someone from the Infinite Realms, characters in DC are getting switched with their DP counterparts, soul/mind-wise at least. However, it's only happening to those that were in Clockwork's tower. Dan and Clockwork were first, switching with Dick and Ra's (poor Dick is in the thermos now, luckily for the Realms, Clockwork is actually pretty much under arrest, he's just good at finding loopholes, so Ra's can't do much for the moment). Sam is next, and is the Batfamily's first sign that something is wrong, as partway through battle Poison Ivy collapses. When she comes to she has no recollection of them, or anyone else. She's not exactly willing to stick around either.

Danny and Dani are next (and maybe last) having been following Sam. Danny wakes up as Damian in the medical area, just in time/after Bruce's explanation that someone is swapping people from another universe with them. (Damian was actually injured, so the Batfam don't realize he collapsed like Ivy did). For now, he figures if he gets locked up or something else happens, he decides to keep things to himself and just pretend to be 'Damian', as he figures Dani has things under control back home. (She does not, Dani just woke up as Superboy and is having issues).

Having this be with Damian still being really prickly towards everyone, but starting to warm up, and also way before Dan's change of heart. As far as Dan can tell, he's just got a second chance at life, and the most likely people to ruin this for him is this body's 'family'.

(for extra angst, could have the original character still in their bodies, or just stuck outside as 'ghosts'. So poor Dick is watching this guy absolutely planning to hurt his family and ruin his relationships, and Damian has someone who's so much like him, but so naive about it)

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Also, I am a big fan of the Batman Caped Crusader cartoon. The main criticism I've seen of it is that Bruce is mean/uncaring to Alfred, and while he does start out dismissive of him, there is actually character development? Like there's an entire episode the emotional plot is essentially both of them being unwilling/unable to be willing to lose each other. Like. This Bruce is really messed up from his parents' death, and this show does a really good job of getting that across. While also showing/hinting at the bits we're missing, like his and Alfred's relationship improving, Thompkins trust of him and praise of his character, describing a Bruce that we as the audience didn't see much of until that episode. I really enjoyed it and liked the way it didn't show us his entire characterizations at first and am looking forward to how he continues to evolve as a character.

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My favorite portrayal of Bruce (usually in fanfic tho I'd say I've run into a few cartoon episodes that do this (Mainly the new Batman Caped Crusader Series)) is when there's an outside pov or someone who's just met Bruce or Batman, see this huge scary person and assume the worst, meanwhile Bruce/Batman is just hyperfocused on trying to get a kid/his kid to safety so he doesn't realize how ominous he comes off as.

Love when Batman (made his entire vigilante persona to be frightening) doesn't realize or is surprised that he comes off as frightening.

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please and that’s not even a hc it’s something that’s happened before!

I forgot which issue but I think it was with either cass or barb that they shoved him out of a room on a flooding ship and got stuck 😭

I’m not exactly sure how he got whichever one of them it was out but he had to do it against water that was rushing in and already like chest level but when he did he was like “never do that again that’s my job to leave last”

Him💜💜💜

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Cant remember the exact issue (one of the detective comics) but it was Cass (after the whole gotham got cut off from the rest of the country and then reintigrated time). And Bruce did get so mad that she rescued him and left herself, telling her that it was his job, but had to get the other survivors out. And at that point he was like, i know you can get out of this. I need you to get yourself out. Because if i get you out youre going to keep trying to sacrifice yourself like this. (If i remember right Cass was dealing with a lot of guilt on whether or not she could be a hero with her past and was low-key wanting to do a sacrifical act)

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Blurb from later in the ghost protection program fic

“Dick?” Jason asks as Cass and Steph wander into the room, pausing at the tension before they start loading up their plates.

Dick heaves a deep breath, placing his palms on the table. “Commissioner Gordon called me last night.” He answers quietly, “A heads up. With no leads for a month, Bruce is being declared assumed dead and his will is going to be read.”

Jason snarls, spearing another egg, watching the yolk spill. “Greedy bastards.” He mutters.

Dick heaves a sigh, setting a hand on his shoulder. “Bruce went over it with me a few times.” He admits quietly, “How to do the bills, the company, and what was in the will.” Another deep breath, “Bruce put me down as the next of kin to take your guardianship, if something happened to him.”

He can hear Tim barely smother a gasp.

“You, Tim, and Cass.” Steph still lived with her mom, even if she did bounce between the two houses a lot.

“Just until we find Bruce.” Tim takes his hand away from his mouth, something hard in his eyes. “Right, Dick?”

He stumbles on the words, feeling them get caught in his throat. He can still feel the ice in his chest, if he pays attention, has caught Jason collapsing against the wall. Dr. Thompkins has looked them over at least once a week now and hasn’t spotted a thing out of place. He almost seethes with jealousy, when he realizes that only him and Jason had the horrible feeling of certainty.

“Tim.” Jason starts out gently. “When that rift closed, it killed everything that had come from it. Bruce isn’t waiting somewhere on the other side. He’s gone.”

Tim’s eyes dart from Jason’s to his own, turning to look at Barbara, and then the girls, searching for support. “No I- we can’t just give up on him.” His fork clatters as it falls from his hand, the chair skidding as he stands, “You can’t just give up on him.”

“Tim…” Dick starts, trying to figure out how to explain it without sounding mad. How to explain the cold feeling when Jason died. The same feeling now that Bruce is gone.

“No!” Tim seethes, eyes cold. “I know Bruce isn’t dead.” He stomps to the doorway, pausing to look back at them. “He’s not gone and I’ll show you. I’ll prove it.”

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<.< I'm starting to write for the ghost protection program au again

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I've also been planning to dip my toes into the omegaverse aus (platonic omegaverse my beloved) and as I keep planning it out it's like, hmm. this kind of feels like an allegory for being trans. Guess that's one way to get out my emotions.

ANyways, what I have so far is that, mainly alpha/omega matches up with male/female. Probably about 10% or so don't mesh up or are betas. So even tho logistically that's a huge number, it's pretty well ignored by most of society. Along with this is my old idea (that I think I posted on here?) that because Gotham is treated so separately from the states, they ended up developing their own culture around a/o. In Gotham, it's actually fairly progressive in that matter, when most of their socialites and mafia families don't match up exactly, there's not really the option to diss an alpha woman or an omega man, as that could get back to the wrong person easily.

Meanwhile in most of the western world, in order to avoid stigma and lower violence rates, not going on suppressents and blockers is extremely discouraged. This doesn't work particularly well, as whenever someone is outed they're then seen as mainly their dynamic, and assumptions are made based on personality leading to unbalanced treatment.

Combining this with assumed alpha bruce, as well as the league having specific training that teaches omegas to be extremely violent during heats in order to keep there from being any vulnerabilities.

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Little story idea I keep circling around to, probably because i really like the 'Another Mirror' AU verse and all those stories related to it (lots of sensetive themes btw, watch the tags if you go looking for them). Is the idea that, the entire Justice League, or at least the main hitters, gets swapped with their alternates from a universe where they're evil/the injustice league/the justice lords/etc. All of them, except for Batman.

So the story takes place with the Justice League finally managing to get back home, to swap back, and absolutely relieved, even knowing that there will be so much damage they have to undo. And they can't find Batman.

Not at first. Not only is most of the world scared of them and their seemingly change of heart, but they can't find Batman. Diana and Clark can't find their best friend.

And when they finally do find him, or rather he finds them, it's because the League of Assassins had just sprung their last trap for them, and Batman is with the LoA, standing alongside the Al Ghuls.

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Going through every single fic in the 'canon divergence attack on titan tower' tag looking for a specific fic because i want to read it! I think im about halfway through. If this fails ill start looking just in 'canon divergence'. (It was a fic where Jason goes to attack Tim at Titan Tower, only to find out that he already had. Shapshifter/LOA? Agent was pretending to be him to attack Tim.

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I finally found it! Gave up looking for it and ran across it in bookmarks

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31215413

Its called gemini by greeneyedfirework and peri_2

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Was trying to figure out a bit that I needed to happen with Tim to have a Fraid bond between him and Bruce, and I've decided to go the angst route and Joker Junior is now a canon event in Ghost Protection Program, except that Joker doesn't die after that (yet)