Short DPXDC Prompts #601
Danny hides most of his ghostly traits in Gotham and decides to throw off the GIW’s trail in a more creative fashion.
He limits to using specific ghostly powers and traits, (i.e: super speed, flight, immortality, pale white skin, glowing eyes, inhuman movements, fangs, batform(?), ghostly magic that look akin to spells, etc.) and does his best to pretend that certain items are weaknesses to him (i.e: running water, silver, garlic, holy water, or crosses).
To hide in plain sight, he pretends to be a vampire.
It wasn’t intentional at first, but once it started it was just too convenient. With the GIW looking for a ghost, the best way to hide in plain sight was to just be anything but a ghost! He had set up in gotham for it’s rich ectoplasm levels, being part ghost means he can pretty much subsist on ecto alone if he needed to, and with a good old filter to gather ecto from the air it was easy to settle down without having to worry about food expenses. Danny has to admit though, the fact that gotham’s ecto is blood red is a bit unsettling, but with the ambience of dark emotions it can’t be helped. Especially when he is bunkered down in crime alley which is absolutely saturated with red hot rage for some reason. So with the food situation taken care of and a vacant apartment settled down in, Danny heads out with a thermos of ecto to get a lay of the town. The thing about drinking straight ecto though, is that it tends to bring out the more inhuman features of a halfa. He first notices after a few sips when his fangs clink against the rim of the thermos, it isn’t too bad though, fangs can be explained away. It begins when he is passing through an alley and gets cornered. He is a little more energized than normal with the fresh ecto in his system so when he fights off his attackers he is faster, stronger and more inhuman then he intends. One manages to knock the thermos out of his grasp as he is evading and it rolls down the alley spilling open. Right on time for the fight to end and a bat to drop down to investigate. What the bat finds is a thermos spilling out what suspiciously looks like blood and a pale fanged teenager wiping blood from the corner of his mouth. (cause you know Danny was still sipping his thermos during the fight, just cause he was being attacked doesn’t mean he isn’t gonna finish his meal) Danny whips around and hisses when he senses movement behin him, his eyes flashing, not full green but an icy blue. only to stop short. holy shit that is batman...
Ok but hear me out: Danny genuinely wanting to bite Jason. Or better, just straight up doing it. Just jumping the guy one day.
Because if Crime Alley is saturated with ectoplasm and heavy emotions, Jason pings on Danny's radar as a goddamn all-you-can-eat buffet.
Just imagine how that would go over with Jason, either as a civilian or as Red Hood. Just a random dude trying to bite him out of nowhere. Or this suspected vampire Batman found, who is seen in every interaction to be either following him with his eyes constantly or trying to avoid him as much as possible.
Danny is having such a crisis over it, said crisis depending if there's the whole cannibalism part of Ghost Hunger in this. I think not involving it would be the funniest though, he's just freaking out for how much that One Dangerous Guy registers in his mind as Grade A Food and he doesn’t know why.
Also I would 100% make it dead on main cuz yeah, gotta make that whole twilight shebang happen, sorry not sorry
Yes YES Also if you add the headcanon that the lazarus pits are just fermented ecto, like a fine wine that can make ghosts ecto drunk. Jason would be a literal delicacy! Danny just can’t help stalking him, I mean it isn’t everyday you can get ecto fermented for centuries outside the ghostzone. Danny wants a sip, and maybe also to ask where jason gets his juice. Cause man you cannot keep that all to yourself! Maybe this is the timeline where there is a lazarus pit in the batcave, who knows? the bats could wake up one day to maybe vampire sipping there pit up through a boba straw!
This is the first time I've heard of lazarus water being like fermented ecto and you know what? Yes.
Corrupted Yucky Ectoplasm is out, Fermented and Finely Aged Powerful Ecto is in.
Jason is like that bottle of fine wine that you get from a Rich Buddy for your 50th marriage anniversary, simply delectable added to the fact that it's been stewing on the sheer angst and rage that poor man lives with.
Danny uncovers him as Red Hood just by meeting him twice, once as him passing by on the street and Danny distractedly following the Delicious Smell, and then once again during the night finding Red Hood lmao.
Hell, even when Dani drops by once she's stunned by the sheer quality of the guy.
Damn and if Jay is like fine wine, imagins Ra's lol
Ghosts be wanting to take a bite of that guy just by seeing him lol
Consider, Jason starts to bleed during an Arkham breakout, and vampire dude shows up like "if I help can I have some?" While gesturing to Jason.
What if Jason discovers that he likes it when Danny drinks his ecto-contaminated blood? Maybe it helps taper off the edge of his Pit Rage?
The reason Jason still has Pit Rage is because his body cannot get rid of any excess Ecto, causing his own anger to become all out Rage. Having his own vampire to remove it would do wonders for him! He might not fight as hard as he should against a vampire...
Jason is the only person that the Batfam has ever seen being bitten. Danny did it deliberetly to A: Get a taste of the good stuff and B: Sell the vampire thing. He even dresses a bit more goth (thank you Sam!).
What really sold it for Bruce was Danny or 'Nightingale' muttering about 'Vlad' being a pompous ass. Having fought Vlad Dracula before, he figures the 2 knew each other during the Dark Ages. This gives Danny an excuse to gossip about Vlad and his stupid cape and how he needs another cat. Batman doesn't know how to tell him that Drac is dead. Kinda akward.
I bet once Danny realizes the vampire thing he'd fully commit with the outfit. Something more classy then Vlad has. If he's doing the same thing Danny is at least going to be better then the Frootloop at it.
ok but this could happen somewhat! ghosts adapt to their environment (see all those aus where danny becomes fishy from being in the ocean), their appearance depends on how they see themselves, and it could make sense that as a halfa danny is more able to change his needs and looks to better survive in different situations, and if being like a vampire is helping him survive, then his echo will see that and go “ight bet” and commit to the bit!
