[buoyoy]

That summer, I wanted nothing more than to save your life.

It was my most selfish desire.

I just kept clinging onto the belief that if I saved you, you would somehow save me too.

[my-insanity-is-an-artform]

An au based in Epic: The Musical where the entire Trojan War is derailed before it even starts because instead of Paris 'Horny Teenage Boy' of Troy, Odysseus 'Next To My Wife' of Ithaca is chosen to arbitrate the Golden Apple argument.

However, Odysseus reads the words 'For the Fairest' and is immediately halfway back to the Palace to gift the apple to the gave-birth-that-day Penelope before anyone can explain the rules to him. No thoughts, not even to justify his choice, just Wife.

And to be honest, none of them can really be mad at him for it.

Hera, Goddess of Marriage and Queen of Gods, saw Loyal Husband Odysseus immediately chose his wife and Queen even against divinity.

Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, saw So-Down-Bad Odysseus pick his heart's desire in an instant.

Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, saw her student pick what was probably the wisest choice of picking your wife when asked who is the most beautiful person you know.

By picking Penelope, Odysseus somehow picked what all three Goddesses stand for and incredibly, that's satisfaction enough for them. (At least, that's how the stories will go. In reality, loving-husband new-Dad and likely sleep-deprived and super-stressed Odysseus was given the apple, told "you must judge who deserves this apple." and heard nothing else.)

(No one is going to mention how his choice is incredibly biased for fear of starting the argument anew.)

Meanwhile the Fates are wondering who the fuck messed with their tapestry that much that an entire WAR meant to kill off most of the contemporary demi-gods got averted.

(I know it's OOC but my heart says Hades. Dude took one look at the plan, realised that once again his siblings' bullshit was gonna make him deal with all the consequences, and decided to say 'Fuck That.' He's dealt with all the others causing shit, let him have a shenanigan. He deserves it.)

[suzie-bee]

he was just 14

[demonic0angel]

Phantom Family Outfits (click for clarity)

Can you believe that all of this started because I wanted to draw Jazz in shorts… orz

Extra notes:

+ In their Hero Fits, since Jazz couldn’t find herself a motorcycle-using, literature-loving, sweet-on-the-inside and cool-on-the-outside baddie (yet), she had to become one herself 😔 Her helmet is wolf-themed.

+ In their Career Fits, I really liked the post that talks about how Danny is kind of meant to be an artist amongst his scientific and mathematical family, and I really liked it (if I find it again, I’ll link it). Both Dan and Danny are inspired by that idea, but I believe that Danny would’ve been able to accomplish his dreams, while Dan would’ve found his calling in being an artist. However, it isn’t Dan’s only job and he takes on a whole bunch of side jobs that change everytime someone asks, so it always sounds fake lol

+ With the Summertime Fits, I genuinely lost years of life because men’s fashion is so boring.

+ In their Club Fits, the idea for both Dan and Danny was ‘slutty emo’, while Jazz and Dani’s was supposed to be a little more fun and casual (not sure if I really accomplished this).

+ With the Funeral Fits, Vlad purposefully faked his death to get money from insurance and tax fraud, but he also wanted attention from Maddie. After discovering this, the Phantom siblings crash his funeral >:)

+ With their Usual Fits, Dan and Jazz both usually wear formal wear. Danny wears a whole bunch of hoodies on the regular, while Dani wears clothes inspired by the sporty/clean girl aesthetic.

[drawinggheys]

someone help jazz.............................

[angelicteeeee]

When you're the eldest and gotta lock-in while your younger siblings just ...

(Click for Higher Quality!)

[nerdpoe]

"Your days of villainy end here," Wonder Woman declares, leveling her sword at Phantom.

She's heard from the locals that, while Phantom favors the form of a young boy, he is far older than even she. There are records going back centuries of his existence.

Phantom, however, looks confused.

"Villain....? Oh! Okay, you want to fight Dan! Yeah, lemme just go call him real quick."

"...Who?" Wonder Woman asks, now sharing the confusion.

But Phantom already has a phone out and is calling someone, promising that it won't be but a moment.

"Hey, so...yeah, I know you don't wanna talk to me but...no but someone wants to fight you...gimme a second to specify and I'll....Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman wants to 1v1 you."

Phantom holds the phone away from his ear as what can only be described as a triumphant war cry almost breaks the speaker.

Then it's just a dial tone.

Phantom smiles at her.

"Okay, he'll be here in like, four-"

"Fight me!" Another ghosts interrupts, landing in front of Phantom.

He's huge; bigger than Superman, with fire-like white hair and excited red eyes.

He looks very, very ecstatic for the opportunity to fight her.

And, well...Diana does love a good fight.

Very well!

She will fight this 'Dan' instead!

[ailithnight]

Danny hangs around to "supervise" because Dan still has trouble remembering to stop some times.

[keepsdrifting]

After the fight, as Dan is panting and laying in a crater, Diana looking down at him as he raises a shaky thumbs up. Danny is also looking down at him from the edge.

"You good down there, buddy?"

"Reminds me of my villain era."

"Dude, fighting any hero would remind you of your villain era. And your villain era doesn't exist anymore, so you can't be saying stuff like that around people who time travel on a semi-regular basis. Time doesn't like it."

"I hate when you use Time's name like that. He's scary."

"He's only scary to you because you spite him all the time. He's just cryptic to me because he keeps trying to teach me stuff."

"Ugggghhhh! Don't remind me! His lessons sucked. And they still suck."

"Dude, you're the one who keeps earning them! Just, take after the part of you that's still me! Chill out."

"'The part of you that's still me,' mye mye myeh."

"Very mature."

[britcision]

Diana, now very confused but definitely still under the impression that Phantom is the mastermind behind all this

(And has a… very… informal relationship with this large and enthusiastic henchghost)

Does her best to hide her own battle damage, levelling her sword at Phantom again

“Now… you. No more will you terrorize the good people of this town!”

Phantom cocks his head and blinks at her, looking mildly confused (and concerned)

“You… still want more? Terrorizing… oh! You mean Dani!”

And out comes the phone again, Diana feeling a rising sense of dread

The conversation goes much the same as the first only instead of a triumphant battle cry, there’s a diabolical cackle coming from the speakers instead

This time when space rips it’s a small girl with long white hair and the exact same feral green eyes as the other two, cracking her knuckles and grinning

Beginning to regret coming without backup, Diana steadies her grip on her sword and prepares to pounce

She of all people knows not to underestimate her opponent based on size

(When she’s done fighting Dani too, Danny declares a break and brings them all out for protein shakes. Diana mildly suspects poison, but who can poison a demi-goddess?

She has her own league-supplemented protein mixes anyway, although a little less boosted than the ones for the Flashes

Dan is In Awe and begs for her seller)

[eternal-watcher]

I love how the phantoms are all Wonder Woman fanboys/girls in this

Also, I think Diana is beginning to catch on that things aren’t exactly as she believed.

But also it’s Danny’s turn to fight her and he seems so excited for it. The entire break his siblings had been teasing him for being last.

(She thinks they are siblings anyway. That would fit with how that interact and she had heard them refer to each other primarily as siblings, but also as cousins and at one point both the older boy and the girl had semi-jokingly called the called the younger boy mom. She was not one to judge tho, she is used to the family trees of the Greek gods after all.)

Anyway as she and the younger boy Phantom prepare to square off she takes in his stance. It’s familiar, the others had used variations of the same stance but it wasn’t until now that she no longer saw them as enemies (and when did that happen?) that it really clicked. They were using an Amazonian fighting stance. At some point these three had learned under one of her sisters. Likely one of her fallen sisters given the ghostly nature of her opponents.

Testing her hypothesis she said “come let’s see what my sister has taught you”

The boy widened his eyes and his stance noticeably improved as he was now aware he was being evaluated. If that wasn’t confirmation she didn’t know what was.

[britcision]

(Okay but Danny stopping and squaring up harder with the threat of “what if she tells Pandora on me” is giving me LIFE)

The only thing I need at the end of Diana and Danny’s fight is her whupping his butt so good (because obviously he’s not bringing out the Wail or god tier ghost powers, the collateral damage is a bitch) that he turns back to human form

And then Diana’s just. Staring. At a very normal looking human boy grinning sheepishly up at her and asking her not to tell Pandora he threw in a spinning kick

1) Pandora? Like.. Pandora Pandora? She has Questions

2) she asks when he learned to imitate a human form

In a move she is now very familiar with, he stares at her in confusion for a moment, then grins

(If he pulls out his phone again she will scream)

“Oh! This is my original form. The ghost one takes a lotta energy, and we had a really good fight, so I gotta rest up”

Diana is. Suspicious. But she does have herself an unaging human form, so she can also commiserate

She compliments him on how well he can imitate modern teens, given how much has changed since he lived. After all, her life would be much harder if she had to constantly keep up with teens instead of adults

Danny once again stares in confusion

Then snickers

“Okay I know we joke about trends going in and out in a week but three years wasn’t that long ago”

3) Diana is going to kick the shit out of whoever compiled the records on Phantom

[ailithnight]

At no point in this has Danny concluded that Wonder Woman doesn't know exactly what she is talking about. He keeps assuming that he's the one who doesn't understand her. It never even seems to occur to him that her information is wrong.

Because that would basically equate to her being wrong.

And Wonder Woman is a strong, competent, adult hero. One of Pandora's kin and a member of the Justice League. Wonder Woman wouldn't believe lies or make bad assumptions.

Surely Wonder Woman couldn't be wrong about something.

No, Danny must be misunderstanding her. That's all. He just needs to shift his perspective around until he figures it out.

[wisecloudnightmare]

[merchantziro]

Eventually when all is said and done, the tallest of the trio of ghosts smirked at the boy she originally challenged, and puts a hand on his other arm's muscle.

"Hey squirt, can you do me a favor and grab some Ecto Injecto? Kinda overdid it a bit."

The second eldest, a ghost she had just learned was apparently 3 years old, looked confused for a moment but nodded happily.

"Ah sure Dan, could kinda use the juice as well after that fight."

He began flying off with the younger female, Wonder Woman looked up at them confused before looking back at the eldest spook, Dan.

Diana immediately noticed the smirk at his two siblings that slowly faded into a frown, until suddenly a shadow seemed to cover his icy blue face as he turned to look at her more directly.

Only the red glow of his eyes pierced through that darkness as they glared at her directly, his arms crossed as he looked casual but ready to fight at a moment's notice.

The Amazonian seemed to recognize the hostility and went on guard, only to earn a sigh in return.

"...I know what you came here for, be thankful that HE doesn't." Dan said almost too calmly.

Diana looked back to where the two younger ghosts flew off, recognizing who the older brother was talking about.

"My apologies, there seemed to be a lot the Justice League wasn't told... As well as inaccurate data regarding his age."

Dan chuckled with a menacing grin, "Yeah... Time Travel shenanigans will do that. I should know after all... Considering I AM HIM after all."

Diana seemed to have the gears turning, "Then you and him are... But why are you...?"

The ghost's smirk fell in response as he looked away, his face a bit more visible as Wonder Woman could see a hint of regret and pain... Bad memories.

"Let's just say he and I walked VERY different paths... And mine wasn't exactly the most happy one. Not when I burned my Earth down due to anger born of grief and loss."

The Amazonian seemed surprised by the response before frowning as she looked away, unable to look the ghost in the eyes.

"I see... Did the Justice League...?"

Dan looked over a bit before looking back away as his grip on his shoulders tightened with a sigh.

"Many didn't even stand a chance... They were ill prepared when I struck hard and fast. You probably came the closest if we're being honest, if only because I won because I powered through with sheer rage from a comment."

Wonder Woman looked back. "I... I see... What type of-"

"You, along with the rest of the world, called me a villain. You blamed me for the death of my bio family, my friends, and... Well my teacher. The people I lost and started it all for." The ghost cut her off, a small tear crept down his eye. A clear look of regret and resignation on his face.

...

Diana rubbed her arm uncomfortably, "I..." Only for Dan to raise a hand.

"Save it, I don't hold it against you. Nor would it mean anything if you did apologize for her actions as you are not the Wonder Woman I fought then. She's been long gone at this point, along with everyone else from my Timeline..." Dan looked back.

Suddenly his eyes widened a bit as red flaming smoke came from his nostrils he looked over and saw his siblings in the distance. "Look... Do me a favor, don't tell him alright? He doesn't need to know your real intentions for coming. After all..."

Dan looked back at her with that same dark look in his eye as he glared at her under the shadows, his tone now certainly more threatening.

"...It would certainly almost break Danny's Core if he found out the very heroes he looked up to had been contracted to bring him in by the GIW.

The same GIW who is trying to hunt our kind down just to rip us up molecule by molecule because legally they say we're not sentient nor do we feel pain and the Metahumans Protection Acts don't apply to us.

The same GIW who have consistently proven to be a bigger hazard to the people's safety than the damn ghosts running around causing trouble, even attacking an innocent high school student just on the assumption he MIGHT have been Phantom.

The same GIW who have attempted to nuke an entire dimension and almost accidentally destroy not just our universe, but potentially every universe in existence in the process."

Diana felt her blood freeze in response, like a deer caught in headlights. The ghost got a little closer to her face as he snarled.

"So... Next time you or any member of your little gagglefuck of Superfriends comes here, it better be for much friendlier terms with Danny. Because that kid..." He pointed towards the two approaching "...has gone through so much in 3 years without any guidance on how to be a hero while living with ghost hunting parents actively hunting his alter ego. Especially since he and I both don't want him to become me. Understood?"

Diana quickly nodded before Dan relaxed and smirked again when the second eldest, Danny, finally returned as he tossed something to Dan a needle containing a green liquid. Dani meanwhile landed off to the side with a grin at Diana.

Dan injected the Ecto Injecto into himself as he flinched for a moment before taking a sigh of relief, "Thanks. Really needed that."

"No problem, what were you two talking about anyway?" Danny asked tilting his head innocently.

Wonder Woman didn't really know what to say, only for Dan to speak instead, lying so casually without skipping a beat.

"Oh I was asking her why she was here and apparently she came here and accidentally mistook you for Vlad. Though she was also meaning to evaluate your skills as a potential recruit for the Justice League or one of its teen subsidiaries. Right Miss Diana?"

The Amazon could only gulp at his silent glare before faking a smirk and nodding, "In-Indeed. I would be sure to put in a good word for you when I return to base and talk to the others, Young Phantom. I apologize for the misunderstanding."

"Ah don't worry about Vlad, he's currently on his own redemption thing and we're working things out. But it was certainly nice to fight you... I'm sure Lady Pandora would love to hear about it too." Danny smirked before and icy mist left his mouth as he looked over. "Welp, duty calls. Bye!"

Danny flew off as Dani chased after him, "Hey no fair, it's my turn to fight!"

Dan smirked, "Oh and... One more thing."

Diana noticed a toothy grin, "I look forward to the rematch."

He flew off after the two.

Meanwhile Diana simply looked down at the ground, needing to process a lot at once from just one conversation alone.

"I think... I think I finally understand why Constantine is always drinking..."

[luminanightfall]

#danny fenton#dani fenton#dan fenton#dan phantom#dani phantom#dpxdc#diana of themyscira#wonder woman#< previous tags

[jackalspine]

Commission for @metalotaku-da ! For their fic Christmas is here! Check it out!!!

PS. You were lovely, thank you for your patience and for trusting me with your work :)

[amberautumnfaebrooke]

a magical sword can only be pulled from its anvil by a maiden of purest heart. a young knight visits the anvil daily to make the attempt, crushed each time he cannot do the deed, yearning for a sign from the universe that he *is* in truth what he yearns to be. for the world to plop the gift of identity into outstretched arms. but of course, it never does. until one day, he has a chance encounter with a nymph of the lake who was once an ordinary squire, and he learns from her that maidenhood will not be given to him, that he must be brave and choose it for himself. and so the knight changes her name and reintroduces herself to the world and employs the greatest miracles of modern science to become the maiden she had always dreamed of being, and this time, when she revists the sword, she only can't pull it because she's kind of an asshole.

[dead-dyke]

You wrote about murder?? Murder is illegal?? You wrote about this dude killing someone and you didn’t even say ‘murder is bad’ at the start of the book, wht wtf, wtf is wrong with you? I can’t believe you condone murder, I can’t believe you’re pro murber, oh my fucking God don'ttalk to me when ou literally kill people, freak. I’m calling the cops, what the fuck, I’m shaking and crying.

[finemeal]

DP x DC Prompt

Danny was sent to the DC universe to save him from the GIW and the Fenton's by Clockwork

Doesn't know what to do here, but as an Experienced Vigilante:tm: he takes note of all the INexperienced vigilante's causing more danger than they realize.

Danny takes it upon himself to act as a low level villain so he can secretly train these vigilante's to be stronger. One day, a Bigger Villain decides to Fuck Around and Find Out.

All his "enemies" realize Danny could've folded them anytime he wanted when he effortlessly defeats the Big Bad.

[whimsicalchaosgarden]

When he first saw these so-called vigilantes, Danny was not impressed. Rampant property damage, people left in unsafe situations, bad prioritization, and easily getting distracted from immediate threats by smaller ones. It's honestly a miracle that no one has died yet, though plenty had gone to the hospital when they shouldn't have needed to.

Danny tried to talk to them, give them some pointers from someone who learned the hard way, but they very rudly told him to mind his own business. Danny knew when he wasn't wanted.

That didn't mean he would actually butt-out. It just meant a change in tactics

It was surprisingly fun to design his villian-sona. A dramatic cape and some bright green accents, and of course a mask. Danny looked pretty good, if he did say so himself. Now, the more important part was how to get them to be better at damage control without being obvious.

The first night Danny went out, he decided to work on people first rescuing. A quick run through the city, shutting down some minor crime and one other villian, left the night open for his heros to focus on their lesson.

Danny grabbed a man who was harassing a few ladies and hoisted him and his car up to the top of a building. Carefully, he set it so it looked as if he was the only thing keeping it from tipping over the edge of the roof and began a loud villain speech and monologs to the night. Nobody noticed.

Danny was starting to understand why his rouges had been so flashy and loud.

He asked the terrified man in the car if he had a cell phone. The man mutely nodded, and Danny told him to call 911 and gave him the address for the police to find them.

Soon, the police arrived with lights, sirens, and firetrucks. They tried to get in the building and onto the roof, but Danny had made sure there was no roof access. They tried to negotiate with him, but he wasn't interested in what they had to say. He was waiting for the heroes. 20 minutes later, they showed up. Danny heard the policemen on the ground groan in annoyance when the flashy bunch arrived. He added a mental note to have a stealth mission for them in the future.

They shouted and immediately attacked, with no regard to the man's safety or the fact that Danny was holding him onto the roof. The car started to teeter on the edge, and he had to break away for a second to "accidentally" bump the car back on the roof a bit. He heard the sigh on relief from the men and women on the ground.

The only thing these kids seemed to be able to do right was fight. They attacked well and didn't get in each other's way, and even had a few attacks that combined their skills. But they all attacked. Not one broke off to rescue the man.

How to get them to focus on the rescue..... Danny tried to feign an attack towards the car, but they simply kept fighting him as they had before, not even trying to redirect his attack. He declared that they would never be able to take back his hostage and they just yelled back that he would never take a hostage again once he was in jail. He even whispered a quick "the hostage is in danger!" To one of the teammates, but they just gave him a weird look and kept attacking. Honestly, nothing was getting through, and the longer they fought, the harder it was for Danny to keep the damage to a minimum. Finally, he decided to be as direct as he dared.

"Look at you, you pathetic losers! You can't even rescue a single hostage! To call yourself heroes when you chose violence over saving a civilian in danger. It's disgusts me! I am Exposé, and I am here to reveal all the failings in the hero system!"

Danny had planned this speech out before, but he felt kinda uncomfortable with how close to the truth it was. He sounded villainous. But as long as no one was hurt and the heroes learned to be better and safer, he would keep that image. But he sure hoped these kids were quick learners.

As soon as Danny finished speaking, one of the heroes darted off and carefully flew the car with the man inside down to the police waiting on the ground. Good, it was about time. He kept fighting a minute longer but then pretended to take a hit and run off in defeat. They chased after him, but Danny easily lost them.

Over the next few months, Exposé made many appearances. Each time, he would shout about whatever failing Danny was focusing on that night, and the heroes would be determined to prove him wrong and fix it. They started to remember previous lessons and became semi competent. They even began working with the police and not in spite of them. Danny was very proud of the progress they had made, especially since they were handling their other villians better, too!

But the day HE showed up, Danny knew he needed to step in. This wasn't the ordinary goon with powers and a gimmick. This was a serial killer with powers and a dangerously high IQ. At first, Danny tried to act as unseen support, letting the heroes do their thing. But each trap he found was more dangerous and more tailored to each hero. Each battle the kids got into ended with them running for their lives covered in scrapes and burns. The only reason they were still alive was because this villain was playing with them. And Danny wasn't sure how long that would last. He wasn't going to find out.

The next time HE showed up, Danny was waiting.

Upon finding Danny blocking his path, the villain began a speech.

"Exposé! I have heard of your efforts to bring heroes failing to light. Do you come to witness their biggest failing yet? To fail to save this city they claim to protect? Do you wish to join me in their downfall?"

Behind him, Danny heard the kids show up, still limping from the last battle.

"Don't listen to him, Exposé! He'll just betray you and kill you later! He's too strong, you'll just get hurt!"

Danny was touched that they were worried for him. But it was time for all this nonsense to end. Honestly, the Justice League should have been here to handle this, not leave someone on this level for kids! Maybe he will have to help them learn some hero manners next. But that was a future Danny problem, now it was time to take care of this trash.

Without speaking to either side, Danny flew up and smacked the villain out of the air. He proceeded to

W A I L

at him till HE passed out, and then neatly froze him. One mentally unstable criminal to-go. Danny even froze a little bow on top just because he could.

Behind Danny, there were whispers as the heros peeked over the edge of the building, looking down at the 2 of them. He grabbed the frozen villain and flew back up to them. The kids backed up to give him spaced, unsure of what to do.

"Thanks.... " the leader said, on guard in a way they hadn't been scince Danny's first week fighting them.

Danny nodded and just set the villain down. He gave them instructions to have him moved to the meta cell in jail and under the highest security, and that HE would thaw in an hour. The kids took the frozen person and eventually turned to go. Then one turned back and asked,

"Why haven't you beaten us? You obviously could, you took that guy out is seconds, and have obviously been hinding some of your powers. We are literally no match for you. Why?"

Danny just replied,

"How would you learn if I just beat you? And we are doing under water rescues next week, so if you haven't thought to prepare for that before now, you had best get on it."

And then Danny disappeared.

[a-gil-rebel]

Exposé didn't have to stick to one city for long. While his public image was that of a villain on the run after being beat a few too many times, whispers started to travel through young heroes. Was he a villain, or the strangest anti-hero they'd ever seen? None of his hostages were ever hurt thanks to his careful planning, but in a way no one could notice until after he fled. Some heroes ignored and doubted the rumors making their way through the grapevine, and they were the hardest to teach, but Exposé did anyway. Even switching up his fighting styles on occasion to keep them on their toes.

He learned a lot about this new world this way, too. About the Meta gene and the acts that protected them, the public image of Meta's that rose and dipped dependant on if a new Meta hero showed up, or a villain.

He had no real reason to show up in places like Superman's city, where the hero was never more than a moment away. He did test some of the surrounding areas and was glad to find some minor heroes and vigilantes that used Super as a template, making sure to show up fast, and call in bigger guns as needed. He spent some time with them working with the natural tech-blackout properties his ghost half granted him, showing them they could take bigger fights than they thought.

Eventually, he made his way to Gotham, but he knew better than to go in bat swinging the hornets nest like usual. Or... bringing a flashlight to a cave? But some of them were birds, not bats....

Regardless of the anamalia kingdom the heroes hailed from, he realized after a few days of flying around undetected that there wasn't much these guys weren't good at. Most of them seemed older, which helped, but there was definitely one child on the team, and two or three he suspected were young enough to be in high school or college. And yet, it seemed like at least two of his three concerns were out in full force every day. Signal at least have a daytime shift most of the time, so Danny gave him a pass. Maybe he had online classes. But with how often all of them were on patrol, he had to do Something.

He couldn't go in as Exposé though, this city was protected by "The World's Greatest Detective" who probably already tracked his path to have Gotham next on his list. The only question was, did the whispers reach Gotham's protector, or was he unaware of Exposé's underlying goals?

A good excuse arose when one of the first teams he fought had a transition of power; a new leader stepped into the light as another moved on. Gotham could wait a moment as Exposé came back to exact his revenge on a team already struggling with new dynamics. It didn't take long to get them settled in, though, after more experienced teammates convinced their new leader of his intentions. Three weeks later, he got himself cornered on a building overlooking an outlet to sea, and baited a hero into sending him sailing over the side. He felt a bit bad at the look in the teens face at what they'd done, so he retracted his mask a bit, enough to give them a wink, before falling the rest of the way to his "doom" during an unfortunately inconvenient blackout, so it took time for anyone to try and dredge up his body. They never found anything, of course. Danny had given a nice dramatic death but not dead excuse for himself as he tucked away one villain persona for another. It was time to take on Gotham.

By the time he arrived, it was nearing finals in the local colleges and standardized testing time in school, and he trailed the heroes for a few more days as they became frantic, trying to study on patrol. This was ridiculous! Batman had the largest team of heroes of any one city, even if many rotated out to other areas. Surely he could let some of his team members take a few days off for school.

This would take more planning than just a different type of rescue every few days. He would have to hit hard, from as many angles as possible. It was at this point he realized he may be testing Batman more than any of the younger vigilantes. If the Bat was in charge, he had to take accountability for his team, in and out of patrol.

So he tossed his villain-sona to the side, temporarily. He had to throw the Bat off after all, and instead started recruiting some low-level street thugs to help cause some chaos, and start whispers of someone new gathering power. He hit targets and committed crimes relevant to what he could overhear them studying on patrols.

A regular break-in at the Gotham Museum? Gotham PD can handle it. Just kidding, have this riddle on how to diffuse the bomb based off your history flashcards.

City wakes up to gas tanks mounted outside of the police building set to release with no way to diffuse? What a coincidence they're clearly labeled with what chemical is inside, and the vigilante just learned that misting them with regular H2O upon release will render it harmless!

Sudden challenges like these kept appearing, the team theorizing who was behind them. Riddler? Baffler? Cluemaster?

(Danny was embarrassed by the naming conventions the rogues took on in this city, and he used to fight people called The Lunch Lady.)

All the while, regular crime ramped up. Non-violent, as per Danny's anonymous request, but it put stress and surpise on the team. Which mundane crime report over the scanners would be a cover for something more sinister?

He decided to bring everything together two nights before Finals started (he had to give them at least one good night's sleep before testing started). He left clues and crimes all over the city, eventually getting the smallest Robin separated from the rest, even for a moment. The kid was exhausted even if his snappy attitude argued otherwise, and he kept muttering historical facts about notable scientists. He was easy for Danny to take out, even with the sword. (Who gave this kid a sword!?) He removed any trackers from his suit and set his earpiece by the ledge where he had snagged him from.

He didn't physically hurt the kid, just used a trick he learned from Nocturn that could temporarily put him to sleep. The kid needed it anyway. By the time he woke up, Danny was back in his Exposé costume and patiently explained his plan to the stab-happy Robin. He had him tied up and hanging over a piece of live, evil looking machinery in a warehouse. This city was weird.

He had left an extra line of a the puzzle to each crime he caused that night that would lead the kid's team straight to them, but without trackers on the kid, it may take some time for them to realize they were clues. So after showing Robin his portals and explaining he was in no danger, he went over some flashcards with the kid, thinking up a few mnemonic devices to help him remember arbitrary dates and personal facts.

Eventually, Danny felt someone step on the property and hid himself away. Hell, even Robin played along, starting to writhe and fight at the ropes, which quickly started fraying. Red Robin was first to burst into the room and reassure the young Robin, followed by the Bat himself. He had placed a few grunts around the site to make this convincing, so he assumed that's where the others were. As soon as Red Robin rushed to the platform to save their smaller counterpart, Danny started speaking. Keeping himself hidden in the shadows, he barked orders from the catwalk above.

"Ah-Ah Ah. Careful. That's not how this game goes tonight." Their attention shifted to him. "You break the rules, he gets dropped. You've played my game enough to find this place, so you best behave."

"You kidnapped one of our own, and yet still hide in the shadows. This game is over." Batman challenged him, so he pushed back a little bit. A push of the button on the control panel next to him lowered Robin toward the machine. Even if he somehow swung out of the way of the moving parts, the drop was too far for someone with no grapple hook or place to grab onto, and they were still too far from him to catch him. Robin stayed stock still as his rope slipped just a bit more off the hook at the moment, and Red Robin spoke up.

"Okay, we get it. What is your puzzle? Or should we say Riddle?"

"Hm? I suppose you could call them riddles, sure." He turned on a spotlight that hid himself more against the contrast, and illuminated three vats of chemicals. Each had a valve on the bottom to open onto the rope Robin hung from.

"Two of these are filled with very real, very caustic chemicals, that will burn through that rope before you can say 'Hero'. The third is a chemical that can't exist, and therefore empty. You choose which vat to open, and whether Robin lives, or dies." He gestured to the second control panel before them.

Batman immediately tried to use his tech to solve the compound equation written on each lever, only to find it fizzle out thanks to Danny's natural EMP properties, chanelled directly at them.

"Ah-ah. Thats cheating~" he taunted, lowering Robin a tad more, who gasped just audibly. Nice touch.

Red Robin stepped up next, running his fingers across the compounds. "How long do we have?"

"Hm?" Danny actually hadn't thought of that. "Oh, I suppose until I get bored. Does that help?" He inched Robin a tad closer to death, and Red quickly grabbed a nearby abandonded pad of paper and pen, scribbling out which compound could actually exist as written.

Danny yawned dramatically; other vigilantes had made it to the warehouse, but not inside yet.

"There!" Danny glanced down at the young hero who had solved the compound.

"Are you sure?" The vigilante's lips tightened, doubting himself only a moment. "Then pull the lever." Danny taunted, and a look passed between the two vigilantes as Red Robin gripped the lever corresponding closest to Robin. They still had no outside comms, no backup had found them. It was just down to this choice.

Red Robin pulled the lever, and an alarm sounded as the machine whirred to life, opening the valve.

Which promptly flodded their vision in bright green.

They both raced to try and reach Robin, but his screams were drowned by the rushing liquid following his dissent toward the machine below.

Danny, of course, opened up a small portal last minute, and just like he was told, Robin righted himself and went board-straight to fit through it. That wasn't what Batman and Red Robin saw, though. Danny carefully caught Robin as he came through the other side of the portal, setting him down while they were still distracted.

"Kinda feel bad." Danny started, leaning on the railing with the littlest bird, who really just seemed to be his age. "I mean, the kid was technically right."

Robin turned to him, waiting for his word to be able to move back to his team. "You rigged it? That is not as honorable as you claim to be." Danny just shrugged, making sure his Exposé mask was in place.

"Tomato Tomato." Exposé ducked as a batarang flew over his head. They were after him now that they couldn't find Robin. "Shall we?" He handed back the boy's grapple hook, who quickly rushed down to them, and the others who had finally made it up to the platform.

"Robin!" Batman rushed to his youngest vigilante, who assured him he was fine.

"How did you escape!?" Red Robin exclaimed.

"He did not."

All eyes turned to Danny as he flew down to meet them, touching down on the metal and taking a few steps to catch himself. Their weapons were drawn, but it didn't bother him.

"Robin fell because of your mistake, I simply didn't let him suffer for your actions."

"Why." Batman's voice was so deep he practically growled the word.

"Wait, I know you. You're-" Danny cut off Signal with a theatrical bow.

"Exposé, at your service. And you all have failed terribly this past week."

"You set all those traps, those bombs!?" Exposé nodded ad Red Robin. "Why!?"

"Because you are all great vigilantes. But your mentor has let you down by giving you all the wrong priorities."

Batman growled again. "What priorities, exactly?"

Danny threw his hands in the air comically. "Three of your team members are in school!!! They have finals coming up and they're still out on patrol! The little one was so tired I almost put him down for a nap waiting for you all!" Robin tutted at this, but Danny just put his hands on his hips at him.

The team was rightfully thrown off by his explanation.

"I go around, testing and pushing young and inexperienced vigilantes to know their limits, learn to work as a team, and get more people saved than killed. There's nothing along those lines I can teach you.

Batman though, you should be ashamed. Red Robin has been studying compounds during patrol for the last week and couldn't-"

"You were following us on patrol?" Signal asked incredulously, and Exposé sorta shrugged his shoulder noncommittally. Focusing his attention back on Batman, he jabbed a finger his direction.

"You should be ashamed. These kids are in school, they should not be beating people up on a weekday! And why does that one have a sword!"

The group looked to each other awkwardly at his little rant, some obviously agreeing through body language.

"You put the lives of Gotham at risk because of this? Those gas tanks-" Batman started

"Had such a strangely coincidental timer corresponding to that shoddy sprinkler on the corner." Red Robin blinked, and Danny saw something click in his head.

"The bomb, the museum would have lost-"

"Yeah, that wasn't even a real bomb. Did you even notice that? They were saran wrapped bricks of cream cheese. All of the officers on site were hired goons who lost the evidence the moment you left. And yet you let Robin deactivate it based off a question from his upcoming history test." That got a snicker out of Spoiler, and more than a few shot her a look.

"Face it Batsy, you've gotten irresponsible with your team. I pushed you all harder and harder and instead of letting them take the back seat because they have their own lives to take care of, you let them keep fighting to the point of exhaustion, which was the only way I was able to get Robin in the first place."

Batman was silent, but Danny didn't really care. He didn't mind if he didn't get a confession or apology. He'd be watching for changes anyway. But it was getting kinda awkward.

"So, do better." He patted his chest and gave them a peace sign before walking away, quickly getting a rope tangled around his wrist.

"Where do you think you're going? We aren't just going to let you walk away without facing justice."

Danny sighed at the bat, turning around.

"You are, actually. For several reasons." He walked toward them. "One, because I didn't hurt anybody. Two, because you let Robin fall. Three, because you can't touch me." He lifted his wrist and made it intangible, watching Batman's face as the metal rope fell through him to the ground.

"If you think being a Meta makes you untouchable in Gotham, you're wrong." Danny admittedly stumbled a bit when a collar clamped onto his neck, shot from one of the other teammembers who were slowly closing in.

"That would be true, if I was a Meta." Once again, he turned on his intangibility, this time for his whole body, and kept it.

"Do you want to know why I do what I do? Why I go around, antagonizing children who run around in spandex and call themselves heroes?" Danny stepped toward Batman again, and the others raised weapons, ready to strike at his word. Raising his hands to his mask, he slowly, dramatically, removed it, showing his sickly green skin, litchenberg scars creeping up his neck to his left temple.

"I do this because I was a hero, once. A child. And. I. Died. Not even you can arrest a ghost, Batman."

The horrified looks in the room gave him confidence that the message would be heard. Putting the mask back on, he walked straight through Batman before dissapearing from sight.

[hdgnj]

Danny went right for the weak spot huh? Ooft, when the rest find out what went down? All of them will feel awful. Also, highly confused with why Damian isn't more angry about being grabbed. (He was impressed by the planning, also Expose was nice enough to explain himself.)

When Bruce eventually tells Clark and Diana about it. After he's sufficiently suppressed his emotional response. They are not going to be happy. To know a teen was out tere, somewhere, alone. Then died. This will likely prompt them to reach out to more teen heroes.

[thestarsofpines]

i was inspired

[missternine]

This was perfection

[themainspoon]

I remember seeing images back in the day from a Japanese English textbook focused soley on how swearing and profanity work in English. It spread around a little because it contained many pictures of anime girls telling eachother to fuck off and calling things shit, but in otherwise weirdly formal English. I wish I could find it, but when I look it up none of the books that come up are the one I'm thinking of.

[themainspoon]

I found an image from it:

[themainspoon]

Using reverse image search I was able to find the cover on a Chinese form site called t17:

まりたん 集中 ドリル かいへい2ねんせいよう

Maritan syuucyuu doriru kaihei 2 nenseiyou.

Mari-tan's Focus Drills (for 2nd year students sailors*).

*full honesty I posted this completely forgetting to include the word sailor, this is my best guess as to where it would go in English, I'm still a learner and I'm far from fluent so take any translation I do with a big grain of salt.

[themainspoon]

Once you have the name finding shit is easy:

I also looked up Maritan in English and found this information on her:

[djkoenig-deactivated20140905]

(◡‿◡✿)

(ʘ‿ʘ✿) “what you say ‘bout me”

(ʘ‿ʘ)ノ✿ “hold my flower”

[chronically-ill-dandy]

✿＼(｡-_-｡) “Kick his ass, baby.  I got yo flower.”

[kahguyaht]

i found it

the original post

i found it

[eviesrealitychangesdaily-deacti]

this should have the opportunity to be on everyone’s blog. 

[allons-ynumberten-deactivated20]

*tour guide voice*

and here on the left ladies and gentlemen, you see one of the posts before everyone went batshit crazy

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[peachdoxie]

Everyone here is dead.

[memesnotwelcome]

[klappert-art]

It's the heat haze day

[musings-from-mars]

[musings-from-mars]

This has gotten so many notes… I’m so glad I’m not alone in my excessive polyshipping derangement…

[nachosforfree]

does your car/your family's car have a name

yes (what is it)

no

neither I nor my family have a car

Voting ended onJul 19, 2024

[guerra-0912]

Meet Phoenix that truck that was resurrected after nearly a decade

[all-encompassing-villain]

People who draw Samus Aran as a 5 foot nothing girl with an hourglass figure, flawlessly smooth skin, perfectly applied makeup, absolutely no musculature, and a bubbleheaded smile are cowards. That woman has been put through the ringer and should look like it. Give her towering height. Give her absolutely chiseled abs. Give her terrifying scars snaking across her skin. Give her weird feathers and scales covering her body. Give her a scowl that could shatter glass. Give her a massive co-