I know "Clockwork is the ghost of Kronos" is a popular DC/Danny Phantom crossover connection, but I would like to suggest the flip possibility as more likely: Kronos stole a piece of Clockwork's power, and Clockwork will get very annoyed and huffy and indignant if you say anything to suggest that in life he used to be Kronos, although he does claim the guy's family because "they deserve a decent father/grandfather watching over them"
The portal accident killed him years ago. The Fentons buried their son, mourned him, and somehow managed to move on.
Then a dimensional breach brings Danny Phantom from another universe into the DC Universe.
At first, nobody notices anything strange. The Justice League just sees another teenage meta helping during crises. But eventually reporters get clear footage. Facial recognition software finds a match.
Danny Fenton.
Deceased.
The boy buried years ago.
Now Maddie, Jack, and Jazz are forced to watch news reports of their dead son flying alongside heroes, So they chase him wanting answers.
And Danny is stuck trying to explain something impossible:
"No, I'm not your Danny."
The worst part?
Nobody believes him.
Because how do you tell grieving parents that their son really is dead... and you're just an alternate-universe version who happened to survive?
It has been alittle over a year since Danny was chased out of Amity after a bad reveal with his parents. They tried to convince everyone that he died but far too many people saw him running away from their shots. They were avoided before but now they were dispised. Tucker moved away not long after that, his parents didn't think the town was safe with the Fentons. Jazz went off to college.
They keep in contact, still trying to look for Danny. Trying to avoid Vlad, the GIW, and the Fentons.
Now Sam is here, at a gala, with her parents trying to introduce her to older, richer families and their children. Like the Wayne's, with their trillions of dollars, and many single kids.
That's when she sees him, with the Wayne's, their newest adoptee Is Danny.
Thinking quick she says something she never thought she'd say. 'Hey mom, I'm gonna go flirt with one of the Wayne's.'
Her mom stared, wide eyed. Then handed her something and said 'The Wayne's are trillionares. Go be a rebellious teenager and have some fun.'
It was a condom. Her mother just handed her a condom. She didn't even ask which Wayne! From the 12 year old Damien to the 29 year old Richard! Just "be rebellious and have fun"!
You know that DPxDC Aus where Danny and Sam are the reincarnation of Thomas and Martha Wayne but like gender reverse (basicly Martha is now Danny, and Thomas is now Sam)
WHAT IF
In the DPverse they are and a deaged Dani (who destabilized again and they used Sam's DNA to save her) is that universes 'Bruce'.
What if during a Fenton experiment (nothing bad, it just went a little haywire when Danny was visiting his parents with Sam and Ellie), the three accidentally get sent to the DCverse (it spits them out maybe in Wayne Manor?! The Batcave?! The freaking alley they died in?!?!)
When they are found by either Batman or one of the birds they are taken aback just how similar the three look like a young Martha, Thomas, and Bruce!
Oh but what if they really are alternates? That means Martha was the Phantom of the DC universe and Bruce was her clone. She retired though and married her rich goth childhood friend (the Wayne’s have a long history in Gotham but maybe Thomas grew up in Amity park for a while to get away from publicity?) and went to live in his city to raise her clone child. Only for her and Thomas to meet their fateful end shot down in that alley.
So basically, why just give Bruce the trauma of witnessing his first worst memory repeat itself when you can also turn his entire worldview upside down?
Wait- I’m a clone? I’m a half ghost?? Mom was a vigilante???
Kitty and Johnny13 are alternate versions of Martha and Thomas Wayne. They died in their universe in an accident way earlier, but seeing them in Gotham is giving people heart attacks.
A younger version of the murdered couple rushing through the streets on a motorcycle Alfred knows Martha made Thomas sell when Bruce was born.
You know what would be really awkward in a bodyswap soulmate AU with Danny?
A bodyswap soulmate AU with corpse AU.
Just imagine Danny trying to bury his own body, the shovel is his hands throwing mud and dirt over the hole with a clear view of his corpse; when suddenly he gets bodyswap with his soulmate.
That would be pretty hard to explain, especially to a vigilante who now is probably in panic that their soulmate just murdered a teenager. Should they help hide the body? That is their soulmate so it should be for a good reason their soulmate just killed someone, right? RIGHT?
Even more awkward if Danny swaps when the vigilante is in costume and now he is freaking out about the misunderstanding that is about to happen.
Bruce and Vlad freaking hate eachother. Its a known, very public fact. Bruce doesn't even slip into his Brucie persona to deal with Vlad, thats how much they hate eachother.
Danny is Vlad's heir, mostly against his will. Danny only says mostly because he did eventually agree to the situation, but only after Vlad threatened to make Dani his heir, which would tie her down and steal her freedom. So now, Danny has the "fun" job of learning how to run a company, and invest.
Tim is Bruce's CoCEO, and its pretty well known hes more than likely going to take over the company at some point. He already did at one point, he was already a CEO, he had a large quantity of WE's shares, and Damian, as he grew and matured, seemed less and less interested in being CEO once he saw all the paperwork, and morons Tim and his Father had to deal with daily.
Do Danny and Tim share the VladCo vs WE feud? No, its quite the opposite in fact. Everyone with eyes can see how fond the two young men are of eachother. As much fun as the Bruce v Vlad verbal brawls are to watch, watching Danny and Tim dance around eachother like twitterpated sparrows is even more fun to experience.
But, Bruce and Vlad are quick to yank the two young men away from eachother. And its heartbreaking for everyone to witness, and or read as the two young men are kept apart by their stubborn bosses.
Basically, Romeo and Juliet but if it was Corporate, Gay, and the dead guy is only half dead.
When Jazz Fenton moved to Gotham with her new son—formerly her teenage brother, not that anyone knew that—she decided to start up a parent group to have some people to vent to, and also perhaps be able to help other young parents along the way.
She did not expect Brucie Wayne to join the group, as a new father to a 9 year old boy from the circus.
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all of these happen because bruce is calling jazz in a panic
bruce: jazz! how do i get dick to stop swinging from the chandeliers?
jazz, currently trying to rock a baby!danny to sleep while on 2 hours of sleep herself: bribery
bruce: jazz! was it impulsive of me to adopt a kid that stole my tires? I don't think he likes me very much
jazz, attempting to help kid!danny get his hand out of the wall as he is sick and his intagibility is being uncooperative: give him an alfred cookie, he'll warm up eventually
bruce: jazz! tim won't sleep, i think he might be developing a coffee addiction
jazz, who just had to throw out all the coffee in her house because it got ecto-infected and is having withdrawls: him and me both really
bruce: jazz! a kid just showed up on my doorstep claiming to be my biological son, he called me short T-T
jazz, who knows that danny is now taller than bruce as of his latest growthspurt: ...there there
Are there any DpxDc stories about Danny finding Jason very soon after he first crawls out of the grave, before the LoA snatched him up? And Danny(whos older) doesn't recognize Jason as Jason Todd and thus adopts him and works with Frostbite to get him his memories back, and his soul re-tethered, though that takes a while?
You know that video of that girl finding Omega-3 vitamins in her boyfriend's bathroom and she makes a joke about her boyfriend being a Omega and he might go into heat because he missed his suppressants or something?
I need that for Dead Tired but a little different.
Like Tim sees the vitamin bottles when he is really, really, really tired so Danny, his boyfriend who he knows fled from another dimension, being an Omega and his dimension having been an Omegaverse world makes perfect sense to him. Especially when coupled with the fact that Danny seemingly vanishes consistently for almost a week every month, he has a very sensitive nose, he can purr, he always smells pleasantly sweet, he likes giving Tim things that are vary obviously marks of possession(like Danny's shirts or hoodies), and Danny likes leaving a lot of hickeys and kiss marks around Tim's neck.
Fully certain in his thought process, Tim sets out to read as many Omegaverse stories as he can, because while hes vaguely aware of it due to a case he solved(don't ask), he's not very knowledgeable outside of the basics, but he'll be damned if he doesn't study up and learn everything there is so he can help Danny in any situation!
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Except; they're just normal Omega-3 vitamins, Danny goes for tea in the realms regularly once a month but one day in the Realms is just shy of 5 days for this version of the Living world, Danny's always had a really good sense of Smell and it became better after becoming a halfa, Danny's core buzzes when hes happy/content and it sounds like purring, Danny wears a special perfume so he doesn't smell like ectoplasm and can't be tracked by the LoA who are kinda after him because he(Phantom) got rid of their Lazarus pits, Danny's just really possessive its partly a ghost thing but mostly just a Danny thing, and finally; Danny just likes marking Tim up. Danny isn't an Omega, he doesn't even know what that is, much less what the Omegaverse is.
Unattended Children Will Be Adopted and Taught To Kick Ass
DpxDc prompt
Baby ghost are supposed to bond to parents both for protection and for their cores to properly develop. It’s a deep and meaningful connection that all ghost parents wish to feel for the rest of the lives and all ghost children hope to feel for as long as possible. Both sides gain strength from their connection, can reach out and feel nearly anything that has to do with each other can just Know when they are needed and what the other feels. Danny is a baby ghost. Danny is absolutely Not Dealing With This Nonsense. Maybe Clockwork already Yoinked the position of Worlds Best Dad, or maybe Danny being closer to Maddie in life made his Core search primarily for a mother figure, regardless his Core is trying to get him adopted by any and all mother figures he has.(he tells Frostbite, Clockwork and anyone else that asks the reason his Core doesn’t bond with Maddie is because she’s already his human mother and he’s a halfa and halfas are weird. Not even he believes it.)
He doesn’t want to bond with some weirdo adult who’ll coddle and care for him like some defenseless baby! He’s a MAN. He can take care of himself. He has Been taking care of himself. He’s fought ancients, saved the world and/or universe a dozen times over, single handedly routed armies and so much more. He’s perfectly fine on his own. If only his Core would get the message and stop going “If not Mama why Mama shaped?” every time he’s in the presence of an even somewhat competent women he feels no romantic attraction to.
But it’s fine, if his Core won’t stop trying to reverse adopt a mother figure for him any time he spends time around a women who he could potentially view as a mother. He’ll just never spend any time around women who seem like they actually care for him and want him to both feel and be safe and happy! Problem Solved! It’s not even hard, there’s no one in his life who really qualifies to begin with. He keeps telling himself that’s a good thing like if he says it enough he’ll believe it.
Then he joins the Justice League and everything falls apart.
Phantoms hasn’t really been a member of the League for all that long. But despite being recruited less than a year after his debut in the modern era and having been a member for even less time the amount he’s accomplished is almost staggering. A heavy hitter that can keep up with Superman, master of technology, stealth and infiltration expert, healer, nearly immune to magic and capable of ripping through even the strongest of spells and more. With thousands of years worth of combat experience to boot. The full hazmat thing he’s got going on is kind of unsettling at first but anyone who’s spent more than 30 seconds in his presence will tell you that his power is easily rivaled, or even outshone, by his kindness. The thought and effort he puts into minimizing collateral, the care and gentleness he shows every civilian he saves, the compassion and forgiveness he offers every villain, there’s (nearly) nothing bad anyone can say about him.
Nearly.
There is one thing. Just one tiny problem. He’s sexist.
He at least try’s to keep it to himself and hide it, but he’s really bad at hiding it. Avoids all the female hero’s like the plague, comes up with excuse after excuse to avoid working with them, trades monitor duty shifts(even taking on extra ones) to avoid being in the same room as them, damn near refuses to do training exercises with them, comes up alternative plans in the field that just so happen to not involve him having to fight along side them. And when he does he can’t seem to make up his mind on whether or not he wants to ignore their existence or act like they’re made of glass and need to be rescued every other second. Seems damn near insulted any time a woman has the gall to help him out in a fight. It’s really starting to get in the way in the field, which means it’s time to sit him down in a meeting and make him figure it out.
So. Danny’s “never be in the same room as a responsible adult” plan has Not been working as well as he’d hoped recently. Primarily because he joined the Justice League. Genuinely kind + competent + emotionally intelligent + responsible == a pain in Danny’s neck. He did a grand total of 1(one)(singular) monitor duty shift with Black Canary and now any time he’s even slightly emotionally overwhelmed or stressed his Core screams at him to go talk to her, he can’t fight around any of the female hero’s without his Core going “oh no, Danger! Hide behind Mom!” and he can’t ignore it without outright ignoring them or overcorrecting and not letting them fight at all. Wonder Woman saved him one time, just one, and he still can’t be in the same room as her without getting drowsy because his Cores losing it’s shit over finally having someone he knows will keep him safe while he rests. He’s not even bonded with any of them and it’s driving him nuts.
If he does wind up bonding with one of them? If Black Canary gains the ability to feel if he gets a panic attack, wakes up screaming or just needs to talk? If Wonder Woman can just know that he’s injured or in danger? He’ll never half-live it down. Unacceptable. Nuh uh. No. He Will Not let his Core bond with Anyone. Unfortunately he’s got a meeting coming up with literally every female member of the League, and (hopefully) a few of the male members that he’s already skipped twice but they’re still insisting he needs to go to. Hopefully it’s just quick and easy and he’ll be able to get out dodge before Hawkwoman starts asking if he needs any help vanquishing his enemy’s again.
I initially imagined this prompt with a FullHazmat and NoOneKnows AU so that the league thinks he’s a grown ass man/several thousand year old guardian spirit who’s “from a different time” but really anything works.
For extra Angst you could flip it and have his Core on the hunt for a father figure with his age and identity not being a secret, resulting in the League having an underage vigilante with a creepy uncle for a nemesis who seems absolutely terrified of being alone with any adult men, flinching at the slightest move and damn near hyperventilating and bolting at direct physical contact. They come up with some mildly incorrect conclusions and Vlad wakes up at 3:00am blearily looking around his room while blinking sleep from his eyes only to see the Entire Fucking Justice League looming over him like sleep paralysis demons. Batman’s wearing Ghost Gauntlets, Superman’s floating ominously with eyes Glowing Red and Wonder Woman brought a Shovel.