ghosts and ghouls

Danny phantom, Beetlejuice

[emkeyh]

One jacket, but completely different characters from completely different sources.

[brittandbiscuits]

That’s it, he’s going in the Soul Box.

[leafyeyes417]

Prompt: It worked?!

Danny is in Gotham for college, and during finals month the Joker goes on a spree. After the Joker breaks out of Arkham for the THIRD time Danny in a fit of sleep deprived pique does a bit of research, breaks into Arkham, and swaps prisoner transfers so that the Joker is taken to a prison out of state.

It’s only after finals are over, and he has slept for two days, that he calls Tucker to check on his half brained plan, to find out it worked? Somehow it worked. The Joker is now at a different prison where he has no corrupted guards etc to help him breakout and is now stuck there.

The bats only find this out when their paranoia of “why hasn’t the Joker broken out yet?” kicks in.

[nelkcats]

Klarion's new interest

Young Justice was busy recently, this was because Klarion had been extremely active, attacking continuously. When they asked him about it in one of their battles, he said that the Order of Chaos had found "The key to immortality and absolute power over the dead" something that really did not interest him, so he distanced himself from the matter.

Young Justice forgot to inform the Justice League of this event due to how exhausted they felt. They remembered it at the moment that the Order of Chaos appeared again in a warehouse, although this time they seemed to have a hostage.

Danny had only spent 5 minutes with the cultists for the week and he was already getting tired. Cultists had a weird name and were complaining about a "failed spell", something about them wanting to attract someone very powerful and he coming instead, which, rude, but he wasn't going to correct them either.

Danny wondered if it was worth getting out of the chains, but that would probably tell them he was more than "a normal teen" so he didn't, either way Clockwork would probably warn him if he was in danger. He yawned, bored with all the talk and met the gaze of a boy with his hair in the shape of horns watching him carefully, he looked great. The halfa greeted him happily and the boy looked doubly confused.

Danny also noticed the people in colorful costumes on the roof but he didn't care much. The cultists seemed to come to terms and led him to the center of the circle, Danny raised an eyebrow as they performed the spell again. It didn't seem to work, as he vanished for a few seconds and reappeared in the same place.

"You're not very good at magic are you?" Danny asked with amusement, Klarion took a little more interest in him.

When all the heroes descended and most of them stopped paying attention to him, Danny looked at the cool haired guy (the only one staring) and grinned with all his fangs, winking at him (with his toxic green eyes) before disappear from sight.

[iamheretoconsumeandsharethatisit]

[hdgnj]

Klarion was confused but also excited. Who was he? The other boy had been interesting! He was clearly not human. But he played the part so well! He tools the Order of Chaos. Klarion wanted to find him.

He saw the mischief in his eyes as he showed Klarion he had fooled the other. He wanted to track him down. He wondered if they could play! He looked like so much fun!

[ashoutinthedarkness]

Klarion dives into the search for spicy eyes boy with no luck. He can't find a trace of him anywhere. Its like he popped up out of nowh-...oh....

The cultists are upset to find their book and notes missing

===

Danny finds himself being summoned again a few weeks later.

He resigns himself to more boredom but when he arrives in the circle, it's to a star lit sky and cool-hair dude standing in front of a picnic set up.

[hdgnj]

Danny grinned and performed a theatrical bow. Klarion knew this boy would be fun! He ushered his guest over and presented a selection of tasty looking finger food.

Danny: Hullo again. I'm Danny, it's nice to meet you. So, I take it you found the ritual the boring guys used?

Klarion: Yes! I'm Klarion. How come they think you are just a boring human?

Danny: That would be due to my excellent disguise! Also, those cult types are so boring. So, so boring. It's easier to play human and be able to leave.

Klarion: So. Are you really the key to immortality? How does it work? What do you do for fun?

Danny: Key to immortality? Really? Urgh no. Why would I ever grant that? I'm a ghost. Why would I ever cheat death. That's such a boring ask. I like pranks. And I like travelling! And engineering! What about you?

Klarion: I love chaos! And pranks! And, well. There's this superhero team. And they are fun to play with.

Danny: Oh my Ancients. Are you a villain? Did you become a villain just to annoy a team of supers?

Klarion: No! I want to play with them! I'm so bored! All the time. It's no fun playing by myself.

Danny: Oh! So why choose me?

Klarion: You were bored. Not scared. Not angry. Bored. That's interesting! And you his your powers somehow! I want to I now everything!

Danny: Huh. you know. If I invited you to my dimension. So long as you didn't hurt or kill anyone. I bet you could learn loads. And the Infinite has so much cool stuff! My GP is a yeti.

Klarion: Wait. you're from the Infinite? Oh wow. I've read about that Realm. Oh oh. And all in have to do is not hurt people?

Danny: Yeah. Well, the humans. Lots of the ghosts and other Ecto entities will be happy to play rough. We are really hard to end. So e tend to fight hard even for fun.

Klarion: I won't need to bother the humans at all if I can play with others like us!

Danny: You do magic right? Know any good beginner books? My human friends want to learn but I don't know any magic. I have innate abilities so...

Klarion: Oh! Me and Teekl can help can I really visit?

Danny: Yeah! I can introduce you to Jonny 13 and Kitty. They love making trouble too! And Ember!

Klarion: Yes! I knew this was a good idea!

[ashoutinthedarkness]

Danny reached out to shake his hand with a grin. "I believe this is the start of a glorious friendship"

[hdgnj]

The second Klarion took Danny's hand he felt a flare of power. Danny felt his grin widen as he tugged Klarion forward and into the portal he opened. Time to show his new friend a new world. Klarion giggled as he realised what Danny had done. His new friend took him off guard and tugged him into a Realm he had only ever dreamed of being able to visit.

He could see green is every direction around. Floating masses near and far. He was so excited. There would be so much mischief and chaos coming. He held onto Danny's hand as he was tugged through the air. This felt different from his own magic aided flight. But so much fun.

Danny was grinning in a way he knew unsettled humans. But Klarion's was just too much fun. He knew just where to take him first! Ember, Kitty and Jonny had settled down from causing problems in the human realm since he became King. But, the four of them got together and played and fought sometimes. He just knew Klarion and the gang would get on!

[agentsquirrelsgotrobots]

Omg Klarion and Sam would be amazing disaster friends together

[hdgnj]

They really really would. Sam is going on one of her rants. Klarion immediately smells chaos.

Klarion: Want help with that? I'm sure we could find a spell to help?

Sam: Gimme!

Tucker and Danny share a glance and decide to let them have their fun. They can deal with the fallout later. And hey. Klarion made a *deal* to not kill. He might not have realised it at the time. He was delighted when he realised though. No one tricked him that way before.

[angryraptor13]

Meanwhile, Young Justice were tearing their collective hair out. Klarion had *disappeared*. As had the summoning instructions the Order of Chaos were using. What was Klarion UP TO?!

[hdgnj]

Klarion is currently busy teaching magic to some extremely talented beginners. As well as travelling the Realms and getting into, and out of, all sorts of chaotic mischief. He is having the best time! And uh, he doesn't feel the need to leave. The Infinite Realms are well, Infinite. There is always something new to do or learn.

Maybe he should send the Young Justice a letter? Nah! He's sure they won't care!

Bart: We haven't seen the Witch Boy in 6 weeks! Clearly he is plotting our imminent doom!

[babbling-babull]

Deadman passes along a message through Constantine, which passes through Batman to Robin who tells the team that

"I found a new friend"

[hdgnj]

Klarion hadn't even meant for it to be a message. He was just so happy right now! And he might have gone and bothered some of his villain allies. Bragging about Danny and getting to visit the Infinite Realms. And how he wasn't being treated as evil for being chaotic.

Dead man was observing the meetings. And ended up giving all the information he learned to Constantine. Who laughed till he cried. And then passed the message on. Because yeah, Infinite Realms? That's a great place to stash Klarion actually. He's not gonna be a problem from now on. Not often, or unless his buddy wants to join.

Now, this sadly means Tim is paranoid about a team up with a powerful spirit. And so he begins hoarding information on spirits and how to combat them. Just in case.

Danny, Sam and Tucker? Are interested in DC. Klarion had the best stories. They don't want to like, fight heroes though. They just kinda want to observe them. New and interesting and shiny! It's cool! The heroes of they spot them with Klarion? Absolutely think this is his new team. And are incredibly wary.

Misunderstandings abound.

[babbling-babull]

You know what would be even funnier? If Klarion was taking them shopping in a completely mundane manner, sees YJ and goes "lookie, friends!" While gesturing to the Trio like a child to their parents

[isnt-that-grape]

The funniest thing is, they’re all the same age as Klarion. So completely (seemingly) normal and Klarion is acting like an exited golden retriever puppy. Look! These are his new friends!!! We have goth magic mom, awesome hacker dad, and human ghost dad who’s given him the best gift he’s ever received. These are his friends/family now!!!

Young Justice have no idea how to react to such an adorably happy Klarion

[stone-in-the-woods]

Now, it's three months after the last time Klarion was seen. Young Justice is still paranoid but being a Hero means they cant stop with one villain while the rest is still causing chaos destruction, so fhe investigation about what happened doesn't go much further.

Anyways, the team ia fight whatever villain(idk who they tend to fight), when Superboy hears Klarions voice:

"And to your left you see the regular sight of a speedster taking a break during a fight to eat"

Alarmed Kon looks around to find the Witch Boys newest prank but he sees the chaos lord... with three teens? In a Safari Jeep? Thats flying and has writen 'Hero Safari Tour' writen on the side?

Ok so maybe Kon should have lnow better then getting distracted, but at least Sam got a great shot of him getting punched into the ground?

[iamsomeonehere]

Danny has started living in Gotham. He enjoys it. Sure he almost gets mugged like twelve times but he doesn’t have to worry about ghosts here.

Danny is having a good time until one day he witnesses someone spray painting something on a wall. He plans to ignore it until a vigilante jumps down and instead of running the guys points at him and says.

“He did it.”

This has started a trend of people blaming stupid crimes on Danny forcing him to run from various bats.

[augundy]

Eventually, this escalates when one of the vigilantes blames Danny for something. I think it'd be funniest if the vigilante in question is one who wouldn't normally do this, like Cass or Damian. Barbara could work too, but whoever it is should be there in person so they can literally point the finger. Later, in one night, two separate vigilantes, each unaware of the other's actions, blame Danny for two separate shenanigans that took place at the same time at opposite ends of the city, such that Danny could not possibly be guilty of both unless he can be in more than one place at once. Even later, when the bats learn about Danny's duplication, and/or about Dani and/or Dan, they can suddenly wonder if actually Danny was the real culprit all along.

[code-name-rain]

I know the post is going for humor, but... reading this, all I can think of is angst.

Even if it's funny the first time, or even the first few times, being a scapegoat isn't fun. Being blamed for every small crime and having a swarm of vigilantes apparently believe it enough (or be eager enough to blame you) to hunt you down, stalk you, treat you like a suspicious person? Even when they saw for themselves that you're not to blame? Even when it would be impossible for you (a supposedly normal person) to commit the crimes? And now they're making up accusations themselves, just for an excuse to treat you like a criminal?!

That's got to be frustrating at the bare minimum.

Danny already has experience with people blaming him for damage and harm outside of his control. People calling him scum and a menace. People who loudly declared to anyone who would listen that he deserved to be torn apart, even though he was just trying to help people and get through life. That was a lot of his experience being Phantom.

Having an entire city do that again, and now the heroes that he might have looked up to are joining in on it?

I wouldn't blame Danny for losing it.

Maybe he leaves Gotham. Maybe he decides that if he'll always be the villain, he'll stop trying to be a hero, and actually start committing some crimes.

Or. Or. Maybe ghosts, including half-ghosts, are beings of emotions. And now Danny's literally slowly dying with every accusation, because now he can't brush off the scapegoating and public attitude towards him as just ignorant, anti-ghost views. It's clear he's just doomed to always be hated by pretty much everyone, no matter where he goes. Maybe he really is scum – at least that would explain it.

[augundy]

I could totally see the bats thinking Danny's in on the joke when actually he isn't at all even a little bit. I'm thinking maybe Danny throws a blizzard about it and turns Gotham into a permanent winter Narnia situation. Chaos, big problem for everyone, but also not hurting people on purpose/actually going villain. (Also maybe has some silver linings, like washing some of the smog out of the atmo, and looking pretty.) Then, after they somehow figure out what happened, someone has to go on a big dramatic apology quest, uphill both ways through a snowy, icy, supernaturally-cold Gotham.

[seraphichana]

Eternal Winter likr Narnia or like Frozens Elsa?

Because hes being blamed for things he didnt do and cannot control, and getting chased and attacked over it. Then, then he MAKES a safe space to be alone and they still come and blame things on him? Poor Danny. Poor little ice prince(ss).

[augundy]

Tbh, in the initial draft of my post I at first put "pulls an Elsa about it" instead of "throws a blizzard about it", but then I was thinking about it, and I decided I don't like that the first thing I thought of was Disney. Like, I remember Frozen as a good movie (and I bet I would still think so if I rewatched it), but they also marketed it into the ground when Frozen 2 came out; it felt like it was everywhere, and so now I feel uncomfy with the fact that it is so top-of-mind, if that makes sense. Like, with the fact that they (with Frozen) seem to have attained a sort of popular consciousness primacy re. the idea of characters with winter powers (and maybe re. the idea of well-meaning characters losing control of their magic too), even though they didn't invent the concept and there are lots of examples. The evil witch in Narnia isn't someone I'd compare to Danny. But I was thinking more of the feeling I got from reading those books as a kid, I think. The magical, frozen winterland. The lone lamp shining on the snow in a dark grove. The cozy feeling given by the hospitality of the talking animal inhabitants. Everything still, and muffled quiet by the snow, but with that everpresent sense of danger behind it. I was looking at a frozen Gotham in my mind's eye, and the one I imagined felt like that kind of winterland, more than like Elsa's. At least to me, Elsa's winter didn't have that kind of ominousness, or that kind of sense of place to it, like Narnia did. Elsa's blizzards felt joyful and not really threatening, even though logically they were still dangerous. The snow was beautiful, but in a simpler or more cheerful way, and the beauty of Narnia's winter felt like it meshed better with Gotham Gotham-ness. Maybe what I'm actually saying here is nostalgia + tired-of-disney-ness took over my brain? Since Elsa is definitely a way better comparison, character and plot-wise. I could even see Danny just going FUCK IT and letting it go like that. I guess it depends if this goes more like: 1. Danny snaps, and in a "laugh so you don't cry" kind of way, he goes full joyful fruitloop, and he builts an elaborate ice palace on top of Gotham harbor (on the actual water, frozen over, rather than the docks). He kind of tries to make it fit the Gotham Aesthetic, but he's also kind of trying to just make it cooler than Pariah's creepy old keep (that he inherited but doesn't know what to do with). And also he's just messing with people and not fucking hiding anymore. *... post to be continued momentarily! because I hit the character limit I guess, oops

[augundy]

*...ahem*

Or more like: 2. Danny is depressed as hell, and he feels cold and all alone in the world and hopeless for the future, and he doesn't notice when the floor starts to freeze under his feet, or when gathering clouds darken Gotham's already dark sky. His crappy apartment door freezes shut, and he doesn't notice. Then his neighbors' doors (better hope they have groceries, or a means of breaking supernatural ice).

On the street outside, cars slip on unexpected ice; some crash, others just slow or stop, cautious. But then when they try to start their cars again, the wheels won't turn. They climb out and try to chip them free, but the ice is as hard as the asphalt, and it's so cold. Nobody's dressed for this.

The Arkham rogues were planning a breakout already, obviously. And hey, the guards' shift change is late. The ones that are there are uneasy and impatient, and they keep leaving to stare out the window. The prisoners hear there's snow outside (actual snow. It's been so long since they've seen snow), and air that's almost fresh. So… now seems a good time. Scarecrow sees a city full of sittings ducks.

Harley is trying to be helpful this time, and trying to break ice with her hammer. But she's worried about the hyenas. She wonders if she can get them sweaters. Their paws must be freezing. One of them stepped in a slush puddle already. And Pam's upset; some of her plants won't survive a flash freeze like this.

Meanwhile Danny is unaware of all of it; he's a sad blanket burrito. Maybe he can sleep. He wants to sleep. ---

Or 3. He could be in somewhere between these two states, or oscillating between blanket burrito of sadness and Let It Go ice magician king. I also really like your idea:

"Then, then he MAKES a safe space to be alone and they still come and blame things on him?"

that he makes the castle as a safe place. Like making a blanket fort out of ice. Comfy ice though, to him.

[leafyeyes417]

Prompt: Danger? Where?

Danny joins Young Justice (how idk but I would guess chaos) and due to being in constant excessive danger due to all the ghosts, hunters, and his previous home security, tends not to notice things below a certain danger level.

Example:

Danny: *walks over a trip wire, around a pressure plate, ducks under a laser, and continues on completely oblivious*

YJ member behind him: *trips on the wire, causes a cascade of activated traps and barely makes it out* phantom! Why didn’t you tell me about the trip wire?!

Phantom: There was a trip wire???? *genuine confusion*

M’gann: I can tell you are genuinely confused but how did you miss the wire? *baffled*

Danny also forgets to warn his teammates of certain things, like a laser being shot from their flank etc.

[meridien313]

[satoshy12]

Ghosts, Death, and Magic:

Klarion followed the new but powerful magical aura he had been feeling; it had already been a few years since he noticed it. But never had time to search for it.

It was Death Magic = a Necromancer!

It took him not long to find it; the city was full of it! But the core was this tall boy.

+

Danny was interested as he saw what his abilities had attracted to Amity Park. Klarion the Witchboy didn't cause any harm in Amity Park, so he didn't attack him.

The same was true for the rest of Amity Park. They don't seem to care that a famous villain was in their town, and then again, they all hate the Justice League. After five years of being ignored, it does that to them.

He was kind of cute, as Danny then showed Klarion around.

+

Klarion had no idea what happened; one moment he was in this city and found the necromancer. Next thing he is taken out to dinner date and people don't fear him? I mean, he is pretty famous in the world for his attacks, and his face is in the news.

The Necromancer's parents hugged him without fear and gave him a room to stay in.

The Necromancer whoes name was Daniel could talk in a languages that had died out; it had been a long time since he spoke Latin with someone. Even if it was more flirting.

+

And this was how Klarion used Amity Park as a vacation spot where he could just chill.

A few times he used magic to help them, and he is liked in Amity Park more than any other hero.

[hdgnj]

Klarion and Danny sitting snuggled together in a squishy chair. Having been watching some comedy horror.

Klarion:... Babe. Why don't people here fear me?

Danny: Cause we suffered ghost attacks daily for like 3 years until I beat it into their heads to stop? Now it's just my idiot friends. Also the government tried to kill us all.

Klarion: And the Justice Losers never even noticed?

Danny: Babe. The Justice Losers ignored our calls. So long as out of area villains don't start shit we don't care. Plus, they know I can beat anything or anyone that comes through!

[mkarchin713]

Okay now Klarion was pissed

It was one thing to mess with his fun and be all around spoil sports.

It’s a total other thing for the Justice Losers to make his Danny sad.

Klarion wasn’t messing around any more

He was going to be serious and when Klarion got serious he got very

VERY

VERY

petty 

[esmeralda-anistasia]

#Klarion is going to be the most petty little shit in the universe#if the JL thought he was bad before they have never seen Klarion petty#bones heal. humiliation can last life times#Klarion has a ghost proof phone and is not afraid to post this shit

[hdgnj]

The heroes have no idea why Klarion suddenly became so much worse. And when his answer was just Amity Park? Well. Looks like they had some research to do. If only so the damn pranks would stop.

Danny and Amity Park? Love watching him on his bullshit. Best TV show ever. They have a top five fails poll every week.

[akemi2003]

Fic prompt #56

Dpxdc

Danny was really starting to hate the Justice League.

Not for the obvious reasons. Not for the “ghosts aren’t real” bullshit, or for the years they ignored his calls back when he was a teenage vigilante desperately holding his city together with duct tape and trauma. No—those were old wounds, scarred over and mostly forgotten.

The real problem showed up ten years later, when Danny had finally fixed almost everything that had ever gone wrong in his existence.

For some fucked-up reason, the Justice League discovered that the King of the Infinite Realms had changed. And instead of doing the sensible thing—like minding their own business or being afraid—they decided, like a pack of overconfident idiots, to summon him.

At first? It went fine.

Danny played the part perfectly: calm, distant, ancient in the way only immortals could be. He negotiated cleanly, secured an alliance that overwhelmingly benefited them, smiled politely through the skepticism, and then went home to sleep for the first time in three days.

He genuinely thought that was the end of it.

Maybe—maybe—if Earth was ever on the brink of total collapse, if reality itself started screaming, they’d call him again. That would have made sense.

Instead, it turned out they had absolutely no idea ghosts were real.

Worse, they didn’t realize he was the king.

His Phantom form wasn’t taken seriously—too young, too human, too familiar. So they started calling him. Every single fucking day. Strategy meetings. Governance seminars. Moral lectures. Thinly veiled attempts to “guide” him.

Teach him how to rule.

As if a handful of Earth-based heroes could explain leadership to someone who governed infinite afterlives, hostile dimensions, eldritch entities older than language, and entire realms that didn’t obey linear time. As if he hadn’t been putting down rebellions before some of them were born. As if he hadn’t personally rewritten laws of death because the old ones were inefficient.

After a month of patient explanations—of calmly stating that he was not a child, not a student, and certainly not their subordinate—Danny stopped being patient.

Because at that point, it wasn’t ignorance anymore.

It was disrespect.

And Danny Phantom, King of the Infinite Realms, was starting to remember that declaring war was not only an option—

—but historically, it was extremely effective.

[apatheticsunday]

Google Searches to Put You on a Watchlist

AKA "Homeless-Danny-in-Gotham trope but he doesn't realize the Gotham Public Library is not as secure as Tucker's network. The Batfam are... concerned about Danny's search history." DPxDC prompt idea.

Okay, so I keep seeing tropes where Danny gets stuck in Gotham for whatever reason - Clockwork shenanigans, portal accidents, dimensional travel, etc - and immediately finds the Gotham Public Library. Which is great. But I give you this: Danny's best friend has an internet network more private than the Fortress of Solitude. Danny, Sam, and Tucker have practically admitted to war crimes via Tucker's secure line. So, it doesn't really cross Danny's mind that using the public internet at the library would be traceable.

Thus Barbara Gordon, otherwise known as Oracle, comes across several strange inquires during her periodical browser history checks.

Guest user: where is got ham

Guest user: where is gottham city

Guest user: gotham city nj to amity park il

Guest user: amity park il

Guest user: Link selected: r/AskReddit/missing-cities-in-america

Guest user: Link selected: r/AskReddit/What-To-Do-When-Flash-Changes-The-Timeline-And-My-City-No-Longer-Exists

Guest user: who is flash superhero

Guest user: Link selected: Wikipedia/Justice-League

Guest user: how to contact justice league about possible dimensional travel??

Guest user: how to undo dimensional travel diy wiki how

So... that's kind of suspicious. Barbara checks the cameras to find a black-haired and blue-eyed kid sitting at the computer that matches the IP address for the Google search history. Then rewinds the cameras, from the time the kid sat at the computer to the time to when he came in the library entrance; she picks through city surveillance footage until she sees the kid falling face-first through a Lazarus-green portal into an alley.

Welp.

(Cue the batkids frantically paging through Batman's thick binder of "What-If" scenarios, trying to find the "Dimensional Travelling" section before Bruce's adoption senses start tingling.)

[nerdpoe]

still not for tiktok y'all's scalpers still don't have permission to rip my shit

Danny's been cornered by the worst kind of villain imaginable; reporters.

Okay, well, more like he's trapped in the same room as them and one of them is just asking random questions to keep him calm while they free him from one of Vlad's new and improved torture cubes. Some Metropolis vultures, a big farm dude named Clark and a sharp scary woman named Lois.

"You're a ghost, right?" Clark asks, straining as he tries to, according to him at least, hold open a panel for Lois to get into. "Do you have any living family you'd like for us to reach out to?"

Danny...Danny decides to give the craziest, bullshit answer he possibly can.

"Not in the normal sense; I'm a failed cloning attempt that was a mix of Superboy and Red Robin."

Clark seems to twitch, and Lois chokes on air.

"But you uh...are, what, only a few years younger than them?" Lois asks when she regains composure of herself.

"I mean I was adopted by Kronos, the timestream is a bit optional, so..."

The cube straight up cracks in half, and Danny shoots into the air, laughing.

"Thanks! One second this won't take long!"

Danny leaves the two reporters, unaware of the shitstorm he's left behind.

[chekhovs-slinky]

Danny gets to choose his royal title, and he thinks very hard about it. He examines historical ghost kings, how their titles reflected their rule.

He decided he wanted to be a little bit silly with it.

Now, all across reality, occultists and demons and anyone who was in-the-know on the Infinite Realms was privy to the knowledge of the new king.

King Phantom, The Child Killer

Meaning: The Child who killed the last king, the child who can and will kill to defend his people- and his people was Everyone In Reality. He was the King of All. He will not allow anyone to come to harm, and he will not allow anyone to conduct that harm.

Danny knows very well what people will assume his title means.

He’s counting on it.

Every so often a zealous megalomaniac decides they need the Ghost King to give them power, and what would the Child Killer want?

A child to kill.

He would never be able to stop people from trying to summon him, but he could control what they tried to offer to him. He could guarantee that only those who summon him were scum.

Anyone who chose to offer a living breathing child to what they assumed was a malevolent god of destruction and murder clearly wasn’t worth the breath it would take to ask “what do you want from me?”

So whenever Danny arrives to his summonings, faced with one or more innocent terrified faces, he wordlessly wraps them safely in a blanket made of stars..

Covering their eyes as he smites everyone in the room, leaving behind scorched earth and shadows of men who really Didn’t Have Any Idea Who. They. Were. Fucking. With.

When the Justice League catches wind of a dangerous entity called The Child Killer who slaughters cultists and disappears with the child sacrifices, they decide they don’t need any more information. Digging would waste time, and time was everything when a child was missing.

What they didn’t know was that Danny was feeding the children, clothing them, healing them- of course he would like to bring them home, but they don’t have any.

Each child was trafficked out of foster care by the cultists, or was being abused by their parent who was a cultist.

Even if they had never been taken into the circle, they would have surely died.

And no “hero” would have ever known.

No. Danny would not be returning the children, not unless they asked for it. Not unless they could come up with a safe place for them to go.

Not unless the children wanted to leave.

[ziziziziboom]

16-year-old Danny Phantom (member of the Justice League Dark) approaches 25-year-old Red Robin.

Danny: Would you like to go on a date?

Tim: I'm sorry, you flatter me, but I think you're too young for me.

Danny: Sorry for the confusion, it wasn't a date with me, but with my gentleman.

Tim: your knight?

Danny: Yes! Technically, he's an adult, so there wouldn't be any problems!

Tim: Technically? How old is he?

Danny: Um... How old is Halloween?

Tim: ...

Danny: Look, I know it's weird, but he's been alone for a long time, and he really loves the way you psychologically terrorize your criminals and how cool you look doing it!

Tim: um...

Danny: And if you don't like it, you'll have a favor from me, you can ask me for anything.

Tim: Whatever I want?

Danny: Whatever you want.

Tim: Deal.

Danny: Great! Fright Knight will come looking for you tomorrow night! Good luck, bye!

Danny disappears.

Jason, who observed the entire interaction: Tim... Did you really just agree to go on a date with a guy who's over three thousand years old?

Tim: Sure, you heard Danny, the guy hasn't been on a date in a long time. I'll get that favor from the king of infinite kingdoms by the end of the night, you'll see.

After the date with Fright Knight.

Tim enters the Batcave: ...

Jason: How did your date go? How bad was it?

Tim: I have two pieces of news, one good and one bad. Which would you like to hear first?

Jason: The bad new?

Tim: I won't be able to get that favor from Danny.

Jason: And the good new?

Tim: I got a boyfriend

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Part 2

[akemi2003]

Fic prompt 69

Dpxdc

Do you all remember that episode of Danny Phantom where he finds out the “last male” purple gorilla is actually female and basically saves the entire species? (Yes, you do).

So. Consider this:

What if after that whole incident Danny realizes it wasn’t a one-off. It wasn’t just ghost empathy or a fluke. He actually understands animals. Like—full comprehension. Not vibes. Not guesswork. Actual body language processing.

At first he thinks it’s just ghost-adjacent nonsense. Some weird liminal side effect of being half-dead. But then he starts noticing patterns. Birds arguing about territory. Stray dogs giving eyewitness accounts. Rats with municipal-level gossip networks.

And once he severs ties with Amity Park (because let’s be honest, that town does not deserve him), he doesn’t go full broody hermit. He does something smarter.

Sam absolutely clocks the ethical implications immediately.

“Danny, this isn’t just a power. This is regulatory leverage.”

So with her pushing him (and probably handling the paperwork because you know he would not), he goes legit. Registers as a consultant. Animal behavioral analysis, ecological assessment, investigative audits. Zoos. Factory farms. Research facilities. Private estates.

Except he’s not analyzing behavior.

He’s taking testimony.

And suddenly exposés start dropping. Facilities shut down. Conditions improve overnight because word spreads fast in human spaces when a meta-human can walk into a building and say, very calmly:

“The tigers would like to discuss your ventilation system.”

He becomes a little famous. Not flashy Justice League famous. More like whispered-in-elite-circles famous. The kind of person corporations get nervous about.

Which is how he ends up in Gotham.

Cut to:

Danny standing in front of Wayne Manor after speaking to one of the Wayne pets.

He’s polite. Unbothered.

“Hi. So. Your bats asked me to visit.”

And somewhere deep in the Batcave, several hundred bats are absolutely losing their minds because FINALLY someone is listening.

Bruce is suspicious. Obviously.

Danny is just there like, “Sir, your microchiroptera community has notes. Mostly about the acoustics. Also one of them thinks you’re emotionally constipated.”

And honestly?

That’s how the Wayne family gets a consultant who doesn’t need hacking skills to uncover secrets.

He just asks the wildlife.

[livinghalfway]

The Debt Has Been Paid

If Danny had been paying even an ounce more of attention to his surroundings he would have noticed a figure poking out of the alley way in front of him. He wasn’t though, so Danny was completely caught off guard when said figure pulled him into the alley, knife being pressed against his skin with demands that he hand over his wallet. 

This honestly wasn’t that big of a deal to Danny; more of an annoyance if anything as the only thing he wants to do right now is go home and eat his takeout. Before he can make that known though with a snarky comment another person, Red Robin he notes, is dropping from the sky and pulling the mugger away from him. 

The altercation is over before it even begins, saving Danny his energy, time, and having to reheat his food. 

The whole event was put behind him by the time he woke up the next morning. Danny probably wouldn't have even thought more about it if it hadn’t been for the fact that a week later he found himself in the JL space station due to a summoning for the Ghost King. 

At first Danny thinks that maybe his run in with Red Robin somehow led to them connecting his human side to his ghost side. Luckily, that wasn’t the case though and they were only needing some help with a ghost that was causing problems in one of their cities. Which he was gladly and easily able to help them with. 

The only point of conflict is when the JL refuses to accept a “free favor” from him, and demands that he ask something from them. Danny really doesn’t want anything from them though, and so in a moment of genius locks eyes with Batman and tells him. 

“The debt has already been paid; send Red Robin my thanks.” 

[that-one-weird-cloud0]

I have a ghost king headcannon for Danny that he’s not yet old enough to possess ALL of the Ghost King powers, HOWEVER, he CAN do anything once a deal is made. For example:

The Justice League asks Danny to destroy an alien army so earth will be safe:

Danny: cool yea I can totally do that but I’m gonna need you to do something for me in return

JL: huh?

Constantine*immediately catching on: yea sure whaddya want?

Danny: I don’t fucking know a sandwich?

Constantine: done.

*creepy evil green handshake to seal the deal*

JL: 0-o

Danny: *power boost* Sweet!! Welp, off to destroy some spaceships!! Yay space!! :D

[radiantworm]

Danny is an engineer at the watchtower, and it is everything he ever dreamts of

sure he's not on the moon, but he's in space! he meets and talks to aliens on a daily basis! he can just go out of the station, fly around and come back in! he is very happy with his job.

so when danny went back in the watchtower after fixing a panel outside, finding out that everyone was being mindcontrolled, and danny is the only one who was not affected because he was outside-

well, the only thing he could really do is put the watchtower on a lockdown, and hope someone from the outside notices something before it's too late.(no matter how slim the chances of that are, afterall, almost everyone in the justice league was present in the tower, some kind of urgent meeting)

they don't want a mindcontrolled superheros flying around afterall.

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or: extremely depuffed engineer danny fenton is stuck alone in the watchtower with mindcontrolled superheros, he needs to save the heroes before it's too late, with only his invisiblity, minor ice powers, flight, and night vision in his arsenal, anything else would be too draining and risky, he doesn't have any ectoplasm here to support him afterall.

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the first person danny tries to break free from the mind control is the red robin

"why me? why not batman, or superman?"

"you're the only one who I realisticly could pin down long enough to break the mind control..."

"....."

"oh uh-and of course because you're the smartest-"

"save it..."

danny has acquired an ally!

[ghostboidanny]

I love dp x DC stories in which Ghost King Danny is summoned in his full Eldritch form and scaring the shit out of everyone. I also like it when it combines with aus of him talking in ghost speak and the translation gets wrangled, so he sounds a lot more threatening than he means to.

But in those stories ... his name doesn't really fit. What Eldritch God would be called Danny? Even Phantom isn't that scary.

Then I realized that if ghost speak gets translated wrongly and Danny said his name in ghost speak ... wouldn't it be translated wrong too?

And Daniel means God is my Judge in Hebrew while Phantom of course is a kind of ghost.

So,

The Justice League has summoned Danny and he doesn't realize that he's in his Eldritch form. His skin is black and filled with galaxies constantly being born and dying. His eyes are two endless black holes. His hair is the flash of the big bang. He's terrifying and awe-inspiring.

As he speaks, it sounds like millions of beings screaming in agony before breathing their last breath.

And then Danny says "Hi! My name is Danny Phantom, the Ghost King, how can I help you?"

But what the JL hears through the translation is: "I am the Judge of Gods and the restless Dead, Ruler of the Infinite, for what purpose hath thee summoned me?"

Now that's a fitting name!