Kaida the Dragon

on a dp x dc hyperfixation

[fantasticstoryteller]

Ra's smiled as he looked at the young Detective. He was trapped. If he did not acquiesce to Ra's's demands, then his new friend would perish. The other boy's shirt was already soaked with his blood.

The other boy did not look concerned by the fact that he was losing blood in the slightest and Ra's wondered where Timothy had found someone too stupid to realize their mortal peril.

"Well," said the other boy as he stretched--wasn't that the arm Ra's had cut off? "It's nice to know that the whole 'elderly Froot Loop' who wants to force a teen into being his protege is something that transcends dimensions."

Timothy looked at the other boy. Then his eyes moved to the ground, where the severed arm was still lying. "No shit," he asked.

"Sadly, no. Ugh, I'm covered in blood again." The other boy--flickered. That was the best way that Ra's could describe it. The blood then fell through his body to land on the floor. "That's better."

"Oh, that's good. You must save a fortune on cleaning."

"You'd think so, wouldn't you?"

[betrayalandbetrayed]

Gold from the replies

[hdgnj]

If he can do that to print? He can do it to anything. Ra's with his fancy layered outfit with beautifully detailed embroidery? Used to show how rich, skilled and suave he is? Danny takes offense. He's here in rough jeans and a slashed t-shirt. No more fancy details for you fruitloop! Tim is highly entertained by his random civilian acquaintance. Best kidnapping buddy. Ra's looks so confused and ruffled. Danny out here being petty and a terrible hostage.

[a-pan-with-pots]

He has limits but things like graphic tees where the printing is on top and not dyed into the fabric is definitely possible. Meaning he could just steal all the thread holding Ra's fancy outfit together and it falls apart and Ra's is just there in whatever underwear he prefers.

Danny goes from best kidnapping buddy to worst kidnapping buddy real quick in Tim's mind upon finding out whether Ra's wears boxers or briefs first hand

[taco-rambles]

It's so much worse than boxers or briefs. Apparently, Ra's has an affection for less. He's left standing there as the rest of his clothes disintegrate around him, wearing only a banana hammock.

Or less .. dealers choice. Tim and Danny are both wanting brain bleach please. This has gone from fun to horrifying in the most hilarious way. And it's nowhere near as simple to re make the clothes as it was to take them apart.

[hdgnj]

Danny grabbing Tim and throwing him over his shoulder. Time to flee new friend!! Things can never be unseen. But if we flee now? We do not have to see more!! Danny and Tim are gone. Vamoosh. Bruce and co arrive to find the LoA base Tim was taken to in chaos. Tim has already escaped with the civilian. Now they have to track them down in the local mountain, and clean up the mess they left behind.

.... Why is Ra's looking so pissed? He usually looks far less irritated. As if all is within his calculations. He looks completely thrown. What the FUCK did Tim manage this time???? What do you mean it was the 'civilian' that managed that?

By the time they track down Danny and Tim? Danny has most of his arm regrown. Since he melted down the previous one and absorbed the remnant ecto. They are both still covered in blood from Danny's wounds. Neither seem bothered except by the fact it's not entirely dry.

Bruce: Report.

Danny: Wow, your Dad always like this?

Tim: How did you? No, one of your bullshit powers let you know?

Danny: Yeah, he's radiating care-concern-love-worry-anger-relief etc. Classic parent type stuff.

Bruce: Hhm?

Danny: It's probably a good thing I'm mildly empathic or you would come across as being uncaring and cold. Normal people must find you terrifying. I totally get the news and stuff online now.

Tim: Danny has Martain Manhunter's power set pretty much. As well as elemental manipulation. Ice and Electricity right? Oh, and he can't shape shift as well. He managed to confuse the fuck out of Ra's and got us out in the chaos.

Danny: Yeah, then there's the knowledge of engineering and stuff that I can use with my powers to target weakspots. Ice in the wrong place, or an overload of electricity? Work wonders on my enemies!

[kaidatheghostdragon]

Alternatively, while still being held hostage

Danny: ive decided i dont like him. What should i remove?

Tim: wha...?

Danny: old man fruitloop over there. What should i remove? You thinking the embroidery on his robes? Tooth fillings? Left kidney?

Tim, very spitefully: spleen. Revoke his spleen privileges.

Danny, with a psychotic grin: consider them revoked!

[soulrox]

DPxDC #10

The teenagers of Amity Park are their own army.

A ghost is attacking Gotham. The bats and birds, unable to even touch the ghost, call in backup from the JLD. Before any backup comes, a glowing green portal opens on the ground. The Batfam and the rest of Gotham hope there aren't more ghosts.

A group of teenagers with seemingly cartoon weapons come through. The teens immediately divide and conquer. Tucker forces himself into the Bats coms. (He has techy powers)

Tucker: "Sorry for the delay our rogues aren't typically able to leave our city, so tunning our portal gun to their ecto-signal took a bit. *whispering to himself* and Phantoms in a meeting. (Ghost King meeting)

Tucker: Call me Pharoh.

The list of questions the bats have triples with that one sentence. Oracle can't even find how they got in the system nor is she able to backtrack Tucker.

Tucker stayed back in Amity and is running coms. The cheerleaders set off to make a first aid area. The football players are going around helping anyone trapped under rubble. Random other classmates are making a perimeter, or filming the scene for Tucker. Sam is using her latent plant powers to rescue trapped people.

Wes is the one to make physical contact with the Bats. (Tucker sent Wes cause he knew he'd be the most chaotic choice) Wes of course knows the Batfams identity and makes sure to subtly hint at that.

Valerie goes to fight the ghost. In record time the ghost is souped. (Tucker timed it, it is a new BP for Val). All of Batmans' kids really want her hoverboard.

The bats have been able to hear their coms chatter the whole time, and it's militaristic, with exact and concise directions, and intermitted remarks about missing lunch for this. Batman is concerned about how a group of high schoolers are seemingly nonchalant about something that could be a world-ending event.

[chaos-bringer-13]

I love bamf amity parkers

[spacessomethingxdcsideblog]

Okay, but touching back on the whole, Batfam wondered why the kids were so chill with a possible world ending threat.

Just imagine them explaining that they didn't even bother interrupting their heavy hitters meeting for this.

Or that they only brought a portion of their usual team, and only even bothered with them because they were going to be operating outside of Amity Park.

Just have Batman realize that this is them on a routine cleanup with the minimum manpower to meet protocol. Not any sort of show of force at all.

Also, you said that the portal opened on the ground, and I can't get the image of the GAV, clearly an armored troop vehicle of some type, shooting out of the ground like a breaching whale. Then the Amity Parkers all climbing out.

[kaidatheghostdragon]

Batman: the fuck just happened

Justice league: this is how we feel every time you and your kids sweep in to save us.

Rest of the bats: is that really what we look like to everyone else?

Justice league: lets see... the flawless military organization of a bunch of teenagers with casual comments interspersed, the frankly insulting amount of competence, giving oracle herself the oracle treatment, allusions to to a guy in charge that is the heaviest hitter but this wasnt a big enough problem to bother him with - further insulting the first responders that were out of their depth. They even got down the surprise arrival in a souped-up homemade monster vehicle and weird niche tech explicitly designed for this exact scenario.

[soulrox]

DPxDC #14

Amity Park has been irrevocably changed due to the portal. The town is seeped with ectoplasm. The citizens have become liminal.

Amity Park has gained sentience, gained its own city spirit. Lady Amity, Lady Amy for short. Lady Amy has made sure that the needs of her people are being met.

Liminals need enrichment. So she created a coliseum, named Necrosis Arena. Citizens can fight whenever and whoever, even those from the realms. There is even a monthly tournament, open to all. The winner receives a weapon or something of equal value. In the yearly tournament, however, the winner can get anything they want (within reason) from the Ghost King.

Necrosis Arena has a leaderboard of the top 50 list of all fights. And a dedicated stats board for the top 10.

Talks about the coliseum break containment of Amity Park and reach the ears of the JL/JLD. Several people are sent out to investigate.

When the league gets to the coliseum they see something they never thought they would. There on the leaderboard in the number 5 spot is the name Jason Todd-Wayne - Red Hood, Knight of Lady Gotham. And coming in at number 25 Damian Al Ghul-Wayne - Robin, Knight of Lady Gotham.

[kaidatheghostdragon]

There are so many ways this could go!

Batman is more concerned about the fact that they arent number 1 and 2. Clearly, these are powerful entities if his own children aren't able to consistently defeat them. The fact that jason is consistantly defeated by a bunch of gangly teens (sam, jazz, valerie, ellie - tucker prefers sabateur over one-on-one fights, and danny isnt allowed to compete because he's the ghost king and always wins) is both impressive and terrifying. (Damian is 25th because the season just started and rankings at the beginning are calculated from clout of previous seasons, and this is damians first entry, so he has no clout. He's already catching up to his brother pretty quickly, going from like rank 200-something to 25 in only the first few rounds.)

Batman freaks out over their identities being completely open. He's even more concerned about how blase everyone is about it. In fact, it seems like a lot of people dont know much about the waynes of gotham and havent made the mental connection that this is them. (And those that have are like, 'yeah, billionaire vigilantes putting everything into helping their city, good for them' and just... move on.)

Batman was already investigating and knew about it before the justice league. This is all old news to him, the town is self-contained and not a concern - if it was, his kids would have already taken care of it. In fact, he's thinking of joining the tournament next season.

Batfam are long-term liminals and friends of team phantom, literally all of them get the invites to fight in the tournament every season, jason and damian are the only ones to accept during the current season. In fact, bruce recommended it to damian to get him to loosen up a little.

Justice league crashes the tournament, jason and damian are upset that theyre gonna get pulled out (whether by the rules of the tournament because their allies interrupted the competition, or by batman for joining a fight club and exposing their identities), but lady amy and/or danny just turn around and ask if the leaguers want to join. They can pause the competition and have a few honorary rounds with the league members for funsies, and any of them that want can join officially in the next season.

[murderandjam]

Daniel Fenton is the top expert in his field.

(Copy of my post from the DPxDC community.)

That field happens to be paleoxeno anthropology - the study of dead alien and/or interdimensional people and cultures.

The thing with becoming the top expert in a field of study, is that you often don't set out to become one. Danny just wanted to understand where his parents got the idea that ghosts aren't sapient. So, he read their research.

(Cut because this got long.)

And then, when that didn't answer things (because apparently they'd stopped citing their damn sources after college), he asked his parents what references they used. Which lead to reading those research papers, and looking into their sources.

And the deeper Danny went, the more he learned, the fewer offshoots the rabbit hole had. He started recognizing when authors were citing each other in a loop, when some researcher was plagiarizing a specific other researcher, and he eventually got good at cutting through the "as everyone knows" to the root "I've never read anything except X crackpot's work, but if I say that, you won't take me seriously."

Along the way, he learned that a lot of "ghost" research was cross-contaminated by other fields - aliens, gods, demons, elemental spirits, and basically everything else that wasn't "of this Earth" all got dumped into the same area of "pseudoscience."

Except, aliens were real. There were even alien super heroes - Martian Manhunter was very openly a non-human person from Mars.

So, why were all these papers swilling the same backwash?

Well, Danny found what he was looking for - the ultimate source of his parent's prejudices - a "research paper" commissioned and published to support a proposed law against "illegal aliens." Specifically, a law that would criminalize super heroes who couldn't prove they were born on Earth - Superman in particular.

It was all bullshit. Years of "professionals" were ultimately referencing a single biased "study" into the ability of anything not human to have conscious thought. It was all based on fucking xenophobia.

By this point in his research, Danny had entered college and majored in anthropology - since he was doing the research anyway, he'd may as well get credit for it, right? He'd written several papers on known alien cultures, talked to experts in the field of interdimensional communication (read: magic users), and generally become a known entity in the study of dead non-human and/or non-Earth-based people.

And if he maybe popped into the Ghost Zone to talk to a few "primary sources" for his papers, well, that was why he specialized in specifically dead cultures.

By the time he'd actually graduated, he'd written a (very well received) paper on the inherently xenophobic prejudices present in what he was calling the field of paleoxeno anthropology. He laid out his very well-sourced arguments, heavily referenced established research (and the sources for said research), and ended it with a list of the known crimes of Lex Luthor - the primary source of everything his parents had based their work on.

All in all, Danny was rather proud of the work he'd done. He'd upended the entire field of ecto-biology, started a few debates on the merits of interdimensional cultural exchanges (the idea of Christmas Truce was immediately adopted by the people of Gotham), and gotten a few prejudiced laws challenged.

His parents had copies of his papers on ghost culture proudly displayed throughout the house, and had been overwhelmingly supportive of the new ideas he had brought to their field. Jazz had a newspaper article about the legal changes he'd instigated framed in her office in Arkham - a surprising number of her patients weren't legally human, and were already receiving better care and accommodations now that they were being recognized as people.

But the thing that really made Danny realize he was not just an expert, but the expert, was Superman showing up at his door with a copy of his examination of Krypton's lost subcultures and fringe social practices.

"A few of my family members have entered their "rebellious teenager" phase. On the recommendation of my colleagues, I came here, hoping you could help them "rebel" in a way that helps them feel closer to our people."

[merchantziro]

Now I'm imagining Danny giving a public interview with a few alien ghosts, and by sheer dumb chance accidentally chose Jor-El, M'yri'ah J'onzz, and Abin Sur.

Jor-El and M'yri'ah were chosen because they were among these present for the last days of their species and seemed to be the most knowledgeable sources Danny could find on what exactly went down.

Abin was chosen because he wanted to also have a Lantern who could give insight into different alien races with their line of work and how the Green Lantern corps handles accommodating for so many different cultures.

One can only imagine how Clark, J'onn, and Hal might feel when they find out who were being interviewed by one Dr. Daniel Fenton.

[murderandjam]

Danny: Tell me what your day-to-day life was like, in the days leading up to the end.

Jor-El: I just wanted to get my son to safety. I knew there wasn't much time, but (horrifying story about who knew, who was in denial, how normal some people tried to act). I hear he made it, though! I'm so proud of my son, and the good he's doing for his new home.

The Justice League, watching Superman silently crying: What the fuck.

[ordinarysnake]

[mirigold-mayflowers]

Imagine Jason sees this and just.

Danny is minding his own business, doing whatever in his house, and there's a knock at the door?

D: *opens door, to find the Red Hood* uhhhhhhh

J: ....you don't happen to have a minute, do you...?

[kaidatheghostdragon]

Even if danny isnt the ghost king in this au, he's still involved enough in ghost politics that he could totally get hood an Official Certificate declaring hood's sainthood or something. Just whatever tangible evidence jason can gleefully shove in bruce's face the next time he tries to start another moralistic argument.

[magicpiano]

DCxDP AU: The Ultimate Enemy + The Flash

One of the speedsters (doesn't matter which really) is one of the few survivors of the apocalypse and he just figured out who Phantom is. He can save the world, all he has to do is go back in time and kill Danny Fenton.

Which seems like a great idea, right up to the point where he finds Danny and realizes he is just a 14 year old kid......

[kaidatheghostdragon]

I think this would be even more hilarious if this is an entirely different event from ultimate enemy, or if it *is* ultimate anemy, the speedster landed several weeks after everything had been done and resolved.

If its a different event, the only way danny would have a second bad future is if he was mind-controlled, cause there's no way he'll ever allow himself to become dan. For the speedster's first plan to be to kill danny, clearly they dont initially know that mind control is involved.

If it is the ultimate enemy, then clockwork interfered and forced the speedster to land a few weeks late.

Either way, danny's first response is gonna be "again?! I just cleaned up this mess!" Or "wonderful, *another* time traveler sent to kill me that ends up adopting me."

Speedster ends up working with a very genre-savvy danny who is fully compliant in preventing a bad future. Clearly, danny's life is just as bullshit as any hero's, and he would benefit from having access to the jl support network. (And, hilariously, the jl benefits even more from the arrangement because danny is such a heavy hitter.)

[the-stove-is-on-fire]

[Image ID: A very confused, and slightly horrified looking Danny Phantom holds the Little Baby Man version of himself that is hugging his hand and purring. /. End ID]

So here's a fun thought: Consider a situation in which LBM is NOT, in fact, a tiny Danny, but a mimic blob ghost that has adopted his image as a form of Batesian self defense. Then imagine Danny's reaction to seeing some fucked up little uncanny valley cat version of himself with zero warning or context.

Per Wikipedia: "Batesian mimicry is a form of mimicry where a harmless species has evolved to imitate the warning signals of a harmful species directed at a predator of them both."

[kaidatheghostdragon]

This gives me so many thoughts, especialy from the other reblogs.

If its mimicry, that implies that other strong ghosts also have blob mimics. Danny is freaking out about this weird blob, takes it to frostbite, who just congratulates danny for achieving a perfectly normal milestone for a ghost - being strong enough to be mimicked by a blob.

Then danny freaks out about how this is definitely not a good thing, he absolutely cannot have blobs wandering amity. Angst potential of bad fenton parents, could you imagine how dissecting a blob mimicking phantom would reinforce their theories, or how awful it would be for danny himself to witness it? Conversely, humor potential with good fenton parents who insist on collecting every phantom-mimic they encounter until theres an army of them living in fentonworks.

I propose a functional pathway that causes this to happen: ghosts are made out of ectoplasm, and common headcanon that ectoplasm is made of and 'programmed' by emotions. The stronger the ghost, the stronger the imprint they leave on the surrounding ambient, 'claiming' the area as their haunt/lair/etc. 'Patrolling' the territory also helps reinforce this.

Danny regularly patrols amity, and semi-regularly visits allies in the zone. If we think of 'claimed ecto' like a lingering smell, amity park and the fenton portal are drenched in phantom's, as well as decently-upkept paths from the fenton portal to each of danny's allies.

Enter the blobs, who have no strong self-identity and probably very limited intelligence. Perhaps there isnt even any intelligence at all and theyre literally just amorphic blobs of goo. They come across the programmed ambient ecto of a stronger ghost and, if its strong enough, it causes a cascade change over the blob, imparting the traces of lingering programming onto it. This isnt just visual - the ghost's actual ectosignature is involved, and the blob will mimic it the best it can from the ambient sample it just absorbed. This is good for the blob, as other ghosts will struggle to differentiate the blob from the original ghost. It wouldnt be successful mimicry otherwise.

With this function, we can infer a few things. First, lets assume that the blobs are sapient enough to have a self-preservation instinct. They dont even have to start out with this as it could come prepackaged with the programming they absorbed. Once a blob has encountered an ambient ecto-signature strong enough to change them, they are incentivized to remain within the territory of the signature they are now mimicking. That incentivization is further strengthened by the 'programming' left behind by the other ghost, especially if we're headcononing that ghosts are naturally territorial. The blob's presence is also beneficial to the host ghost because the blob's wandering about the territory also helps maintain the ecto-signature in the ambient ecto, making the host appear much more present and vigilant in their territory from the perspective of an outside ghost wandering in.

Now lets add that wandering ghost, who may have entered the territory for a number of reasons, from just traveling through to making a deliberate challenge for territory. If the wandering ghost is stronger than the host ghost, they have a chance at turning the blob. There will probably be some resistance no matter what, as the self-preservation programming of the ecto will create some degree of resistance to outside influences. But ultimately, we've created a scenario where blobs naturally congregate in the territories of the strongest ghosts over time.

In order to create a stable ecosystem of blob migration, there needs to be contrary forces countering this instinct. Id imagine a lot of smaller things add up:

1. Blobs naturally wander, even with instinct keeping them in the mimicked territory, sometimes they still get lost.

2. Outside forces of random chance and environment disorient and knock the blob out of a territory

3. While blobs resist changing while in a mimicked territory, when outside any territory, its best to lose that mimic as fast as possible, as entering a new territory with the old signature can be misinterpreted as aggressive behavior of the mimicked ghost and attract danger to the blob (especially if the defending ghost is the 'attack first, investigate later' type, which is generally more common for weaker ghosts that depend on an element of surprise to punch above their weight class)

4. Ghosts can deliberately abduct blobs from the borders of other territories, bring them home, and induce them to turn for the reasons stated above. Stealing from larger territories with higher populations of blobs is easier than stealing the singular micro-managed blob of a weaker ghost, creating a counterbalance to the strongest and largest territories that scales with them.

5. Blobs can be given and gifted to allies as a point of culture, something akin to the cat distribution system. Stronger ghosts can 'bless' weaker ghosts with a boon of several blobs, for example. Neighbors can trade blobs with developed behaviors that clash with the way they run their territory but would work better for their neighbor. (Ie, the more wandery blob goes to the neighbor with a more enclosed territory, and the more aggressive blob goes to the neighbor with fewer natural boundaries and higher risk of aggressive claims against them.)

Okay thats pretty much all the thoughts i have about this. I just really love this idea.

[ghostreblogging]

Ngl this is a short one.

So Danny comes to Gotham. Down on his luck. But lo and behold, he still has access to the kingly vaults! He doesn't have to worry about money!!! He can just buy a small apartment and live out his miserable little life In luxury!

But then he is stopped on a horrible and a dark stump in his plan. How in the 7 hells is he gonna explain it to the IRS ??????

Money laundering????

Can't he just say he found a mysterious big pile of gold and be done with it?

No, Danny . How are you gonna explain the fact that you keep finding mysterious little gold files to the tax man . Jazz says emphatically through a video call . Which is a multi dimensional cuz I can't explain why sam wont just give him the money. And btw the just assume that the vaults has a magic function to give the money to him in the local currency.

Sso from that day onwards Gotham had a new little cafe in a quiet little nook. The prices are super cheap. And it by far has the best fudge in all of Gotham. If you exclude Alfred's.

The gothamites love it. It's a favorite college hangout. Everyone is pretty sure the cafe is a front. Everyone is 100% sure of it. But in this economy who the hell cares. At least it's not nfts.

People can actually benefit from this because we can get like a whole breakfast for like 4 dollars ( an au where like Danny's 2000s world is like super cheap compared to the modern Gotham city and nobody taught the poor boy common prices of this world. Danny's thinking like how do I keep accidentally going into these rich people stores with their ridiculous prices, Ughh guess I'll have to buy this I don't want to go farther) and the quality is good too. The scrawny little twink owner sure as hell does not know much about ingredients prices or did the bare minimum study of business.

Anyway when the bats came sniffing (the scrunkly little guy was innocent blame Fenton luck) and we'll tried to interrogate the owner people actually chained themselves to the front like the worlds most confused save the trees activists.

[kaidatheghostdragon]

I see the replies saying danny is a small-town boy with no concepts of expenses in the big city, and raise you that this is a deliberate image he is projecting. Lots of headcanons abound that jack and maddie scare away the irs. Danny would learn from them. Sam and tucker probably learned from them. Sam would be interested in finances because its the most straightforward way to uncover corruption. Tuckers hacking skills would give sam a way to access and investigate any suspicious organization.

Jack and maddie are engineers and good with numbers. Jack is often headcanoned to be autistic, which i think is where the headcanon comes from that he'd be an excellent rules lawyer. Translate that to finances, they would definitely be smart enough to recognize how to enact the most common types of fraud, and how to improve on it to mask it well enough to get away with it. Do they actually employ and fraud strategies? Eh, probably only against Acceptable Targets(tm).

Point is, danny has a buttload of money that he wants to circulate without looking suspicious. That's essentially the prime goal of money laundering, and he knows all the tricks of the trade courtesy of his chaotic-good aligned parents teaching him What Not To Do With Finances (Unless He Can Get Away With It).

Essentially, you own a business, in which you inject money alongside legitimate income, then as the owner of the business, you make a profit from both the real and injected income, which you can spend as clean money because the source is traced to the business.

1. Underpricing goods sold is a common strat. Danny can pad the numbers with a few extra bucks of his own, so they look like normal prices in the financial record.

2. The homeless population eat free, as long as they dont scare off paying customers with their smell and grime. They're still wrung up, but danny pays the entirety of the bill with the 'dirty' money.

Some of the paying customers complain about the smell and uncleanliness of the homeless patrons, so danny ends up building a community shower in one of the back rooms so he doesnt have to turn anyone away. Danny's from the midwest, where trucker stops are common, so his cafe is designed around that sort of concept: showers and self-care in the back, ready-made to-go meals and snacks out front, sit-down cafe to one side, overpriced souvenirs on the other.

3. Community showers are free, but the number of uses is logged. In the financial record, they are a paid service with associated expenses. Danny logs each use as a transaction, in which he pays the bill with his own 'dirty' money.

4. Danny starts a pay-it-forward wall filled with prepaid receipts for various food and drink items that anyone can use or donate to. 90% of the receipts are paid for with 'dirty' money as anonymous cash donations. Any spoiled food can additionally be paired to a pay-it-forward receipt, so nobody actually ate the spoiled food, and his budget doesn't look like he's selling more stock than he's ordered. The paired receipt can be thrown and replaced with a new donation.

Back to the self-care portion, it eventually expands into a thrift store laundromat combo, where the homeless can clean their clothes and trade them in for something more comfortable. Donations are appreciated, but danny just finds it easier to buy out the clearance rack at all the nearby stores.

Old clothes, if they're safe to burn, pad out the fuel for the barrel fire in the alley out back during winter. Is it exactly safe? Probably not, but surviving one more night is generally higher on people's priority lists than saving the environment, and the clothes would probably either end up in a landfill or get burned in an incinerator anyway, so danny considers it a wash.

5. The laundromat is treated the same as the showers, functionally free but financially paid for by danny.

6. The thrift store is treated as a non-profit side-venture, which, by its simple existence, allows danny a ton of tax write-offs. Trade-ins that are too worn out to resell are treated as a cash donation (again, danny's money), which is used by the nonprofit to buy out the clearance racks of nearby stores, legitimizing the charity. Danny makes money via the tax write-offs on the cafe business for financially supporting the nonprofit.

Inspectors are the worst. Every last one of them in gotham is corrupt, demanding bribes before passing inspection. Counterfeit money is common in gotham, and danny accepts it because he can trade it out for his own money, though he carefully records where it came from in case anyone comes asking. The counterfeit bills, instead of being tossed, pay the inspectors' bribes. They wanna work outside the law, danny is happy to oblige.

7. Any counterfeit money that is replaced by his own is essentially doubled. Using it to pay illegal bribes makes it much less traceable, as the inspector is not going to declare illegal income. If the inspector is caught with fake money and outs danny, danny will out them for bribery. Its mutually-assured destruction, in which danny is confident he'll come out on top because at least he's genuinely helping people, which he's certain is all the bats really care about considering red hood's whole deal, and the bats are pretty much the final say in gotham.

[nerdpoe]

AU where Amity Park is an offshoot of Gotham, and is Gotham's own little Florida.

Instead of "Florida Man" it's "Amity Man".

The Gotham villains tend to avoid Amity Park because the residents there are more likely to throw hands than comply. Joker doesn't go there because of an incident he still refuses to elaborate on.

The buildings fix themselves. It has actual ghosts. Like, for real. The people who live there long enough get weird powers and glowy eyes and kinda unnecessarily aggressive.

But yeah Amity Park w/ titles like this

"Amity Man caught driving ‘Boo-ey Patrol’ truck facing charges"

"Amity woman calls for Death Ray Appreciation Day at board meeting"

"Amity Teen says high-speed police chase felt like ‘Grand Theft Auto’ video game"

"Shirtless Amity Man found climbing tree ‘like Tarzan’ after police chase"

"Amity Woman tries to bring ’emotional support Box Ghost’ on plane"

"Ghost vs Human wrestling, ‘evading arrest’ obstacle course, and Scientific Weapons of Mass Destruction for Children; The new Amity Park Fair Games and Events announced"

None of the vigilantes touch it because issues in Amity usually resolve themselves. Besides, it has it's own dead vigilante, it's fine.

This is only reinforced when one day the entirety of Amity Park disappears, only to reappear twelve hours later with news of defeating Pariah Dark, of all beings.

[kaidatheghostdragon]

If we're going for nightvale vibes, i want phantom in this to look extremely eldritchy to the bats. Maybe he looks that way to everyone, or maybe the more liminal you are the less eldritch he appears, so amity just sees a glowing ghost teen on the cusp of uncanny valley, gotham sees something thats kind of adjacent to 'natural', the rest of the world sees black-void-nightmare-fuel.

But despite appearances, phantom is super-duper nice. Literally just always complimenting and offering to help. He's just a good eldritch boy sunshine child. Can do no wrong. The old amity park ladies pinch his cheeks right after he just rescued them kind of vibes.

So the bats avoid the amity park district like the plague. WE even spent the money to give amity their own emergency infrastructure so they can handle their own 911 calls without getting mixed with the rest of gotham and wasting time on questions like 'is this in the amity district?' Amity park is self contained and everyone has gone to great lengths to keep it that way, even the parkers themselves.

But occasionally, a bat wanders into that district. Even when their equipment throws out alarms when approaching the boundary, it just happens. Losing mindfulness of location during a chase, injured and disoriented with damaged equipment, escorting a parker back to their district after a night on the town and getting a little too wild for the gothamites (!), etc, etc.

Point is, the bats might avoid amity like the plague, but they have a good relationship with phantom. Sure, he's a little freaky, but he's nothing but cordial! He's helpful, patrols his own borders, keeps his rogues contained, doesnt intrude, and offers to help during all-hands-on-deck emergencies. He's a terrifying powerhouse that can singlehandedly end an arkham breakout in two minutes flat, but also when he does something like that, there are zero injuries, so clearly he's got extreme mastery of his powers, and he always asks for a bat's permission before operating in their territory.

But the thing is, through batman's career, gotham proper has gotten weirder and more supernatural over time. Pre-batman, it was a hellhole den of thieves and murderers where the mafia had a stranglehold on the city. Now theres meta rogues, undead wandering the streets, a legitimized goonion, genuine magic and sorcery, and even a sewer gator.

Gothamites insist this is bleedover from amity. Phantom claims he's seen alternate realities where amity is over a thousand miles away and gotham still evolved the same way. The bats arent really sure what to think, except that the once clear boundaries between amity and gotham are increasing blurrier. It was a sunny day in gotham when batman and phantom teamed up in batman's early career. Nowadays, phantom is essentially a bat in all but name, regularly teaming up and patrolling with the various batkids. If batman is batdad, then phantom is the fun chaos-enabling uncle.

Pre-batman, everyone except amity believed that phantom was A Thing No Mortal Eyes Should See. Nowadays, opinions on phantom's appearance form a rough gradient measured as distance from the amity park district to the farthest opposite corner of gotham, ranging from glowing teen to 'something trying very hard to look like a glowing teen.' Outside of gotham, most of earth still sees black-void-nightmare-fuel, with a vague understanding that gothamites are built different and see something else.

[magicpiano]

A lot of DCxDP AUs use the idea that the Lazarus Pits are just slightly fucked up Ectoplasm. I love this idea, but it does make me wonder what would happen to Ra's.

So, AU where Ra's dies, and they are confident he is going to stay dead this time. Yay! Except... Ra's turns into a ghost because of all that Ectoplasm.

It takes a while for them to realize this because he is keeping it quiet at first, gathering resources, planning, ect. Plus the bats don't really know anything about ghosts. (Yes, DC has ghosts, but they are like a different breed of ghost or something.)

Maybe they think there is a new player on the scene or something, but they don't think it is Ra's. They don't realize the truth till his plan is already in motion. Maybe he even overshadowed Damian?

Dying has somehow made Ra's into a worse enemy because this time they don't even know how to fight him. Luckily, the ghost hero Phantom is willing to help.

[kaidatheghostdragon]

Ra's and vlad become nemesises. Vlad is like ra's lite, and what he lacks in cunning, he makes up for in ghost experience and raw power. Ra's is smarter but a pathetically weak (full) ghost because he's made of lazarus water instead of ectoplasm. He's also used to manipulating humans, and that psychological warfare just doesnt transfer well to ghosts.

Both think the other is trying to usurp themselves. Its on sight with both of them, which vlad wins because he's more powerful. (At least in the short term.)

However, compare vlad to the average gotham rogue. He's basically a human meta with extremely advantagous abilities and slightly higher than average intelligence - he's mediocre compared to the regular roster. Sure, he has similar powers to what ra's now has, and at a much higher power level, but he still has human needs and motivations, which means human psychology works on him, which is like half of the bat's weapons arsenal. The fact that he's not as intelligent and much less patient than ra's? Makes it downright easy for the bats to corral and manage him, even before they've made anything that could neutralize - or at least counter - his powerset.

All this to say, phantom shows up outta nowhere and offers to do tradesies on their rogues. (Im imagining this convo happens with tim specifically.) Danny will take the pathetically weak ghost, which has a means to permanantly detain, and the bats can take the partly-human wannabe vampire and his mindgames. Phantom will even provide the gear they need to fight him, he is just So Tired of vlad's bullshit. At least with ra's, phantom can just soup him and hand the thermos over to clockwork. No amount of brains or cunning is gonna get him outta that.

Ra's is gonna be so upset when he's defeated by timothy drake lite. Kid is clearly intelligent, but nowhere near drake levels, and clearly prefers to solve problems with his fists over his brains. (Nobody deigned to tell him that the podunk teen that humiliated him is the upstart prince. Best not to give him any ammo.)

Vlad is defeated by doppelganger danny (tim/red robin, i imagine he figures out the bat's identities early and easily. Unfortunately, that provides him no leverage against an army of bats prepared for any scenario.) Tim is everything vlad wants to mold danny into - cunning, high class, business major, willing to go to any lengths to achieve his goal. Unfortunately and infuriatingly, he is not maddie's son or half-ghost, and that makes tim utterly useless to vlad. Tim is a despised distraction that just simply wont give vlad a single free moment to focus on danny. (Tim will not settle for anything less than vlad's total ruination, probably folding vladco into WE when all is said and done. He'll make danny the largest shareholder of whatever he salvaged from vlad's empire.)

[corkinavoid]

DPxDC Al Ghul Twins Quick Thought

Jason, visiting the manor the first time after Damian showed up: *does a double take* Where's the second one?

Damian, stopping in his tracks and looking him dead in the eye: Dead.

Jason, rolling his eyes but dropping the subject: Alright.

The entire Batfam:

[binery-code]

[kaidatheghostdragon]

Is this a reincarnation au where danny was reborn as damian's twin, or was he half-ghost before he met the fentons and the portal accident just made him stronger?

Or we can go with a secret third option where we scratch out the twins part of demon twins, make danny an older adopted sibling because he caught talia's eye, and escaped the league (or put a 'destroy the league' plan into motion) the literal minute after damian was out and safe.

[nerdpoe]

Dan, redeemed but still with a chip on his shoulder, is on a mission.

Getting shoved into a teenage version of his body had been annoying. Growing up again had been a pain.

But.

He'd made it.

He's now an adult at the mature age of twenty, has the same terrifying stature his ghost half has, and has decided what he wants to do with the next few years of his life, at least.

He's going to confuse Batman.

See, when Dan had destroyed the world in his own timeline, there were two heroes that posed actual problems for him; Batman and John Constantine.

Of those two, Batman had been the worst.

He'd been the hardest to get rid of, stuck around the longest, and came up with a contingency that had damn near actually taken Dan out.

To be fair, Constantine had gotten way closer to deleting Dan's existence, but that had been more of a one and done fight, not a million annoying little things.

Batman had been a thorn in his side so much that even redeemed, Dan still has a grudge against him.

But.

He knows who Batman is.

More specifically, he knows who Batman's butler is, and that man is the picture definition of "overworked". Said butler also, sometimes, bemoans taking care of such a large Manor by himself on a forum just for Butlers.

A forum Dan has been frequenting, replying to those complaints and slowly endearing himself to Mr. Pennyworth. Exchanging tips. Getting advice on how to Butler. Talking about not really getting a chance to apprentice because people are "scared" of him.

(Okay so that one is true, Dan's got a plan and he wants to do it well, but there's literally no rich person that would hire him as an intern Butler. They all say he's too "intense" or whatever.)

When Oracle had traced back to Dan's computer, she'd only found normal usage and nothing suspicious. Because that was what that computer was used for, and only that.

When Mr. Pennyworth had finally asked if Dan would like to train under him as a replacement, Dan had taken a long while to stop laughing.

Dan, built like a competitive weight lifter and taller than Superman, shows up at the steps of Wayne Manor fully prepared to Fuck With Batman.

~~~~~~

Alfred's apprentice is freaking Bruce the hell out, and it's getting to the point where he's not afraid to acknowledge that.

[hdgnj]

#but i want a huge beef muscle wall being the intern butler#dan only intends to stay long enough to drive bruce up a wall#ends up staying longer#cass adores him right off the bat#she can tell he's playing and she thinks it's funny#dan is the only household worker to never get kidnapped#kidnappers take a look at him and just turn around#nope#nah#not doin it#dan is intentionally creepy as fuck around bruce#slowly driving his paranoia levels through the roof#one time a villain finds out and attacks the manor#he gets as far as dan's hand#as in dan places a hand on his head and casually describes in visceral detail the sound human heads make when crushed#bane end up facing off with dan and dan just says “oh i remember YOU. let's have some fun again.”#gets scolded afterwards for getting blood on his suit by alfred#“if you are going to lay down the law please keep in mind that clean well fitted clothes are a gift. treat them accordingly.”#“sorry Alfred.”

Look, Alfred needs him. Needs the help. Is in fact, the BEST old man to ever old man. Out here validating Dan's petty actions. Definitely knows Dan is doing this on purpose. But the young Masters and Misses like him. He does a good job. Good apprentice through and through. Besides, Master Bruce needs to be humbled now and again. It's good for him. His apprentice shall stay right where he is thank you very much.

[kaidatheghostdragon]

Cass has decided that dan is her blorbo, actually, and spends as much time perched on one of his shoulders as she can get away with. (Dan pretends he doesnt like the attention.)

Damian has tested dan's reflexes and situational awareness and has determined that he is a worthy battle butler. (Dan thinks damian is an adorable little murder child.)

Jason took one look at dan, turned around, and walked away. He is now haunted night and day by some white-haired green eyed eldritch girl that claims to be dan's sister. (Dan took one look at jason's whole thing and decided it was above his paygrade, so he sicced dani on him to help filter out the weird ecto infection he's got.)

Stephanie spent every spare moment she had for a solid two weeks pestering dan, asking a million questions and annoying the hell out of him. Then she just... stopped. (Dan figures he passed some sort of bullshit detection test.)

Duke avoids dan almost as much as bruce does, because he's 'hard to look at.' (Dan would be offended if he didnt already know the twerp could se his ghost aura.)

Tim is convinced that dan is a demon of some sort. The only reason he hasnt confronted dan is because cass is utterly convinced that he's "reformed," whatever that means. (The fact that dan can drug tim's sealed energy drinks to knock him out has not helped in this matter.)

Dick acts like he's blissfully unaware of anything weird whatsoever, but the way he hovers gives away how acutely aware he is of each and every one of his younger siblings' concerns. (The hovering toned down quite a bit after that one time dan thwarted a kidnapping attempt on one of dick's precious baby siblings by merely entering the room and glaring down the perpetrator.)

[1001aus]

Danny's senior class at Casper High School goes to STAR Labs for a field trip. A tour, a small demonstration, some networking—perfect for students interested in multiple fields.

It just so happens the demonstration goes a bit wrong. The collider explodes and almost takes out the scientists working on it, including one Barry Allen. Surviving STAR employees show signs of newly activated meta abilities.

One could be forgiven for making the assumption that the extremely ecto-exposed among the high schoolers—like Valerie and Sam and Danny—also received their powers from the accident.

They aren't exactly in a rush to correct that misconception.

[kaidatheghostdragon]

What if like half of danny's graduating class ended up joining the justice league? Could be an interesting diversion point. Most of them are fine with team phantom being the active heroes, but they all have quick reflexes and non-baseline abilities, making them shoo-ins for various "civilian" jobs running the organizational and upkeep work.

And if a large percentage of the justice league back-end is amity native, then it makes sense that amity park would be the initial base of operations.

Im just imagining the early justice league trying to put of an image of seriousness and trustworthiness, juxtaposed on the chaos of amity park just occuring in the background.

[tatzelbookwurm]

I am begging the Warrior Cats, DC comics, and Danny Phantom fandoms to learn the difference between "rogue" and "rouge."

Normally I don't really care too much about misspellings on the internet. Language is fluid and use changes conventions, bla bla bla. This is a pet peeve I'm apparently never gonna get over, though.

The letter combo "ge" often makes a soft "j" or "zh" sound. Like in beige, garage, general, gouge, etc. But because English has borrowed things from many languages, this rule isn't consistent.

The letter combo "gu" results in a hard "g" consonant. As in guerilla, Prague, dialogue, penguin, guess, etc.

As an aside, this is how you know how to pronounce the two different Gs in "language" because they follow this rule exactly.

Therefore, "rouge" is pronounced "rüzh" and refers to a red color, typically a cosmetic for one's cheeks (aka blush). Also the name of the DC villain Madame Rouge.

Conversely, "rogue" is pronounced "rōg" with a hard G and refers to an independent, uncontrollable, aberrant individual who acts outside the strictures of society, often in an unlawful manner. This is the word I most often see misspelled.

So please remember, if the G is in front of a U you don't need to *guess* how it's pronounced, but if you get mixed up you might end up blushing!

[kaidatheghostdragon]

My impression of the fandom is that somewhere between a third and half of its members speak/write english as a second language. But maybe i have confirmation bias and it's not that high. Also, some members of the fandom can potentially be pretty young, like middle-school aged. (Please dont state your real age, especially if you are under eighteen!)

In both of those cases, common spelling and grammer mistakes can be a case of incorrect inferred assumptions that simply haven't been corrected yet. Also, dont forget that fandoms are a place to practice writing, and not everybody has a proof-reader. This is not a professional writing space, so genuine typos (in which the person would recognize the mistake but just didnt catch it) will abound, on top of the poor grammer and spelling.

There are also a number of reasons mistakes can be made, even for someone with perfect grammer and spelling:

Switched letters, like rogue and rouge, may be occurring because of muscle memory. "ou" is a more common letter combo in english than "og" or "gu." This particular case might slip through often because both are proper words and grammatically interchangable.

Skipped or repeated words/letters may be the person's brain working slower than they type, or self correcting in the middle of the mistake. For example, in the previous point, i caught a mistake where i wrote "maybe be" instead of "may be." Another example, i had to correct "were" to "where," skipping the letter h, which happened to create a real word, and caught because it was underlined as incorrect grammar.

Double letter mistakes, like "of" and "off" can be an input mistake where the keyboard or screen doesnt register the correct number of presses/taps (usually missing a second tap instead of doubling a single, in my experience).

Substituting a similar sounding word or homonym can be a symptom of writing phonetically and/or relying on autocorrect to guess the right word. (Autocorrect is usually good with homonyms, but ive noticed when im typing fast, i almost always type "youre" despite knowing the difference between "your," "you're" and "yore," and "theyre" instead of "there" and "their," and only catching it when autocorrect underlines it. I have to rely on autocorrect to figure out which "its/it's" to use because i can never remember.)

Syntax mistakes - you may have noticed that ive skipped a lot of apostrophes and capitalizations. Both are more tedious on a texting app than they are on a keyboard, and generally, their absence doesnt make the writing unintelligable, so skipping them is a common shortcut.

Neighboring letters on the keyboard, especially when texting, can create typos. Im constantly correcting "if" and "of" because i and o neighbor each other on the qwerty keyboard and my fat finger is always hitting the i instead of the o. (I am curious if that mistake is more common for left-handers, as i and o are on the right side, requiring a farther travel distance -and thus less precision - for the left index typer to travel)

Mispelled names can be the texting autocorrect hyper-correcting (not everything is typed on a physical keyboard) replacing an unrecognized word with one the writer uses more often. Also, if something is mispelled the first time it's used, texting autocorrect will perpetuate the mistake. (I see Vald instead of Vlad and Sam Mason instead of Sam Manson a lot. Btw, you can delete learned words by tap-and-hold, or turn off autocorrect completely if it's driving you crazy like it does for me.)

Dropping or adding suffixes, like -ed or -er, especially if the word ends in e like "write" or "create," can be a mix of muscle memory and the brain having to parse complicated tense structures.

Misspelling where the vowel changes (like creator) can be a mistake of the brain parsing the base word plus suffix, without recalling that the final word has a spelling change.

Hypercorrect tense ("writed" instead of "written," "hurted" instead of "hurt," etc) is usually indicative of lack of experience (youth, uneducated, or secondary language)

There are probably dozens of other sources of mistakes, but ill stop here. Remember that all of these sources of mistakes will be compounded for people that: type extremely fast (inconsistant typos, autocorrect mistakes, homonyms), are younger and/or less educated (phonetic/poor spelling, homonyms, poor grammar, excessive slang or accent in misspellings and word use), speak/write english as a secondary language (awkard sentence structure, wrong-but-similar words, incorrect tense or gendering), or are using a less familiar form to write (example: i text posts on my phone, but type stories on my computer with a keyboard, and i have a bluetooth keyboard to connect to my phone if i want to work on a story when my phone is the only thing available, which is more compact and feels a bit awkward).

And even though i tend to proof-read my own posts two or three times before posting, i almost always have one or two mistakes i notice literally right after posting.

Lastly, patience is key. This is a safe space where we want everyone to write as much as possible to feed our hyperfocus addiction, so unless someone blatantly asks for constructive criticism, dont be listing their mistakes on everything they post. Even then, be polite, informative, and concise, and end with a compliment of something you think they did correctly that you enjoyed. Also, keep it private, in a pm or ask, so you aren't broadcasting their mistakes and embarrassing them.

[nerdpoe]

Danny doesn't just lose his parents. No, he loses his world.

The GIW tried to nuke the Infinite Realms, only to tear open a hole in reality so great that there was nothing Danny or the other ghosts could do to save it.

His world was devoured.

Everyone on it was turned into full ghosts if they weren't already halfas.

Said halfas can't stay on their now ghost-world; their human halves wouldn't survive it. They need to branch out to other worlds and fine a place to settle down.

Danny, in his desperation not to become Dan (even though Dan is reformed, stop talking about him like he's some unfortunate fate fuck he already apologized), takes to popping into other dimensions to help.

Vlad, Dan, and Dani settled in one particular world that they keep egging Danny on to take a chance with, to just sit down and take a breather. It's a world with other heroes that step in, so that the halfas can just do what they want without having to play hero.

Which like. That does sound pretty nice.

But.

Danny cannot do that. If he stops moving, he thinks about what he lost. If he thinks about that, he'll grieve. If he grieves, he'll turn into Evil Dan.

He continues to travel, dimension to dimension, in the name of helping people. So he can put off realizing what losing an entire world means for just a few more seconds.

But he does visit the world the Masters set up shop in. He visits it a lot.

Just....not always to see them.

There's a farm, to the west of where they've settled. There's a real nice older couple on it, too.

He likes to go see if they need help.

They tell him they have a son, but he's never able to be around at the same time their son is. Which is fine, he's not sure how awkward that would be.

He just likes how...how calm it is. He finds himself spilling some of his worries, which shouldn't make sense to normal people. Except that this couple not only seem to understand where he's coming from, but when he mentions losing his entire planet, literally, they become particularly insistent on him meeting their son for some reason.

Which, alright. Fine. He'll go.

He just needs to go help a few more people, after he visits some family.

Danny's flight to Vlad's stupid mansion is wobbly at best, drunken at worst.

He collapses in the road just outside of Vlad's gates.

~~~~~~

Vlad, who settled in a lovely place called Gotham, where he can do all the shady business deals he likes and, provided they aren't overtly evil, the local vigilante won't care, is thriving.

He bought the mansion next to local playboy billionaire Bruce Wayne, settled in with Dani (he's still trying to buy her forgiveness) and Dan (who has decided he's Dani's protector). He swindled his way back into billions.

He steers clear of Bruce Wayne's fortunes, though, because possessing the lover of Batman is a very bad idea.

He's trying, per his promise to Maddie and Jack, to get Daniel to settle down and pick up normal life again.

The boy is going to wear himself into the ground and become a true, full ghost if he does not take care of his human half.

Sure enough, upon one visit, the idiot passes out in Vlad's driveway. Well, not passes out. He's still in ghost form, still at least partially awake.

But still, rude.

In front of the neighbors, too!

Vlad laughs it off, picks Daniel off of the ground, waves at the guileless expression on Wayne's face as the idiot watches from some fancy car, and takes Daniel inside.

He's going to ensure the little idiot survives, whether he wants to or not.

~~~~~~

Clark gets a call from his parents; the malnourished kid, the one that they're sure is an alien, hasn't been seen in weeks.

This is unusual.

Clark knows of this kid, of course. He's seen the news; Phantom is a superhero. A teenager.

His skillset, or what he's showed so far that has been documented via the news, is almost exactly what Clark's is.

But Ma and Pa have one more thing to say, one that ramps Clark's concern to paranoia.

The kid, Phantom, had mentioned his world being "destroyed". Had mentioned that there were "no survivors".

Had said that his family were in the "Zone", but that he couldn't stay there. That he had to leave the "Zone" and go find another place to live.

The last thing he'd told them was that he had to go visit family.

Clark feels like his heart is slowing down in his chest.

Like it's trying to stop.

This can't be another Chris situation.

But why would Ursa and Zod stop with just one child?

What if Chris was the second attempt?

What if Phantom was the first?

What if there's a portal opened, permanently, to the Phantom Zone? That would be beyond disastrous.

But Clark has no idea where Phantom went. No idea where to start looking; the kid had gone beyond the clouds before picking a direction, and Ma and Pa have no idea where he could have been heading. On top of that, it's been weeks, and there's not been a single Phantom sighting in the news, from any country.

He needs to find that portal, he needs to find Phantom, he needs...he needs Batman.

If anyone can find a needle in a haystack, when the needle is made of wood and the haystack is as big as a barn, it's him.

[kaidatheghostdragon]

"Danny, in his desperation not to become Dan (even though Dan is reformed, stop talking about him like he's some unfortunate fate fuck he already apologized), takes to popping into other dimensions to help."

Omg i vibed with this so hard, i have to go on a tangent.

Like, Danny has this nebulous fear if "if everything goes wrong and i lose everyone i love, ill become an irredeemable monster that kills everything."

Meanwhile, said nebulous fear has self-actualized into a self-sufficient entity with its own hopes and dreams. But despite being his own person with his own (presumed) redemption arc, dan still represents danny's potential to go off the deep end.

How do you deal with that? Watching your own worst nightmare come to life as its own separate entity who just... tries to move on?

Dan is his own person, but at the same time, he is a version of danny in which one of danny's worst nightmares occurred. He is and will always be a reminder of what danny could have been, but at the same time, he is his own person.

How do you deal with that dichotomy?

I wonder if the reason danny could forgive dan (assuming he has as part of dan's redemption arc) is because he wants someone (or even just himself) to forgive the part of himself that could have become dan.

And just as danny has to grapple with the fact that dan is a version of himself that snapped from grief and is trying to heal, dan has to grapple with the fact that danny is a more innocent version of himself that cant fathom the idea of snapping from grief in the first place. Danny is afraid of dan, but dan is probably envious of danny.

Even post redemption, where both have accepted the other, those lasting emotions are going to have long-term consequences on their potential relationship. To an outsider who believes they are siblings, i wonder if it would look like dan had done something to hurt or betray danny which caused a rift in their sibling relationship that both have acknowledged but never fully recovered from.

I feel like there's more to pull out of this, but im not sured how to express it without getting repetitive. I'll just end the tangent here.

[vm-haunts]

King of Curses

So Danny finally got on JLD's radar, but not because of summoning, or ghost attacks, or anything like that.

No, he got noticed by pure accident, walking on the streets.

Why? Well it might have something to do with the baker's dozen of Ancients level curses wafting off of him.

Seriously this guy should not be remotely alive and kicking, what the fuck? Nocturne's mark alone would have sent him into unwaking slumber why is he up and around buying groceries???

...

In other words, Danny traded a bunch of claims with his ghostly friends and foes, intentionally or otherwise. Some of those are good natured, some not quite. But at the worse those just cause minor inconveniences. To him, that is.

Our beloved ghost boy might have failed to realize the ghosts are actually eldritch gods to the rest of the world... And he is half of one too.

[kaidatheghostdragon]

So i tried to look up a list of classical curses to generate ideas for this prompt, but it was surprisingly kind of difficult. I ended up using tvtropes page "this index is cursed" for ideas.

Since the prompt is about how danny appears cursed, but the actual curses are helpful, that's what i tried to do. I listed the curse trope, the source of the curse (if i could think of an obvious one), and the actual effect that danny experiences:

Bad luck (johnny's shadow) - causes negative events in danny's vicinity, that would have happened anyway, to be attracted to danny, who is more durable than anyone around him, saving those around him from potential injuries.

Barred from the afterlife (self) - part of his halfa status, prevents him from being transported to some afterlife every time he goes ghost

Curse that cures (self) - being undead is considered a type of curse, but being undead is also the source of danny's healing factor

Domestic appliance disaster (technus) - technus's influence on danny's appliances, to an outsider, feels like a malevolent force settled into them, it actually just keeps those appliences from gaining sentience via ambient ecto because the ecto in them is already tuned to a specific entity

Doom magnet - like bad luck above, it attracts negative events to danny's inner circle of friends/allies, all who have the experience necessary to handle the issue with minimal injury

Gone horribly wrong (self) - his halfa state might feel like this to outsiders

Gypsy curse (desiree) - anything from desiree will have this flavor, maybe danny has a lingering whiff of this because its how he got his insignia

Hereditary curse (ancestors) - something lingering from the fentonightingale line, idk

Involuntary shapeshifting (perhaps pandora?) - allows danny to maintain ghost form if knocked unconscious, preserving his identity

The jinx - typical fenton luck, exacerbated by all the other curses living in danny, keeps him just clumsy enough in human form to mask his ethereal grace.

Magnetic medium - the ghosts are always seeking out danny by design: they have to get his permission to remain on the mortal plane (and follow his rules while visiting)

Midas touch (royal artifacts) - danny is actually teleporting an item straight to the royal treasury for safe keeping while simultaneously summoning a gold replica from the gold in the royal treasury to its place to "pay" for claiming the item (good for removing cursed artifacts and sending them to a team of royal secretaries that will safety-proof the item before storing it away)

Tome of eldritch lore (clockwork or frostbite?) - danny has one (its a phone book, and/or answers any ghost culture/law questions he has)

Unholy ground (self) - amity park feels like this to anyone phantom doesnt like (because its his territory)

Who wants to live forever (self) - counters the undeadness, allowing danny to return to human form (yes, mages can sense both 'undead' and 'immortal' on danny. They are very confused)

[nightingale-prompts]

Danny lives in a horror movie-DC x DP prompt

Based on my favorite book series "tales from the gas station"

Its not everyday a mission requires the league to travel to middle America in to obtain a highly cursed artifact but it certainly today.

Locating the Seal of Silent Ashes was a task usually given to Justice League Dark but Constantine was currently busy. So that meant it was left to the poster boys to get this done. They dressed in civilian attire to investigate the last location of the seal starting with the first building on the edge of town. A small dusty gas station near the wood.

The inside had an awful smell, like death and cleaning fluid. The lights gave off a greenish-blue tint. Rats could be seen out of the corner of your eyes. Most of the chip were offbrand and crappy.

Behind the counter was the teenage boy chewing gum. He looked up at the group before going back to reading his book. He had clearly seen better days but didn't show signs of caring about the state of his hair or bags under his eyes. He drank coffee.

The air felt off.

"Hey kiddo, do you mind giving us directions?" Clark started.

The kid narrowed his eyes as he popped his gum.

"Your not from here. That or you're from that cult in the woods. Listen I'm not joining. Seriously cosmic nihilism and fatalism sounds doomed. Hey wait-" the teen checked his notes " No, the cult killed themselves in that mass suicide 2 weeks ago. I forgot."

The teen didn't say anything else as he went back to his book.

The horrified look of the adults shared was almost hilarious. At least to the teen if he looked up.

"Oh, and stay out of the woods. I don't want the police to come back and ask about who saw you last. Seriously if whatever is in there tears you apart I won't feel bad. I put those signs out forever ago and if I get one more girl covered in blood running in her screaming about her dead friends I'll get a headache." The teen shrugged turning the page.

"What do you mean?! Why would-?! Who's killing people?!" Barry asked frantically as Bruce serched for more reports of missing people in the area.

"I don't know. Why would I know? If you want to go in the cured forest go ahead. I mean that's how they all die. It isn't my job isn't to stop you. My job is to sit here and watch this store." The teen huffed in annoyance.

Before anymore questions were asked the signal of the radio was disrupted and a demonic howl screeched through the radio.

"God damnit. That cunt is back. Stay here." The teen growled as he grabbed his bat from under the counter and walked out the back door. "String bean! Get off the fucking roof you bastard! You know that radio is all I have here!"

A chattering laugh like a death rattle was heard and the sound of 2 sets of feet was heard on the roof then they lept down.

"Come here so I can beat you to death!" The teen ran around the building towards the front of the gas station chasing-what the fuck is that!

It was like a human that was twisted to crabwalk on all fours backwards. Its face was contorted into a black stretched out smile with no teeth. It had no eyes just black sockets. All its limbs were stretched out to an extra meter in length. It was a skinwalker of some kind with chalk-white skin. It was skittering away from the teen who was swinging his batat its head.

"Stop running! I told you before what would happen if I found you fucking with me again!" The boy meant it as he finally landed a hit and began wacking it over and over it.

The skin walker screeched and tried to run for its life but couldn't.

After reducing the monster into a black puddle the black-stained teen came back inside to sit back down not paying anymore to the monster blood he was covered in.

"Sorry about that. Most of the freaks around here have learned to stay away from this place. That one is new and he doesn't listen. You'd think they'd learn but Sting Bean thinks he can torment me. Petty bastard." The teen sighed "anyways are going to buy anything or are you going to waste what oxygen we get in here with this shitty ventilation.

Diana couldn't help but admire the boldness of the boy. He had no hesitation or fear against the beasts of this area even if was crude.

"Does Constantine have a cousin or something? Just a more angry one" Hall whispered to Hal.

[cryptid-crow-writing]

I love how the teen in question is left unspecified. No name or anything. Just the description of looking exhausted, male, and being a teenager. This could literally be any amity park boy depending on which variation of amity park it is. The fact that it’s likely Danny? it’s a given. But what if it’s actually Tucker? Or one of the foot ball guys? The thought is entertaining.

[ladyquestion]

What if the teen is Wes? That would be, like, hilarious! Him hitting the creature and telling some people String Bean keeps coming back but they don't believe him until they see it too

[nightingale-prompts]

Wes is just your average Amity Park teen. He just so happens to be one of the ones stuck working at the gas station. One of the worst spots at the edge of town.

The worst part is it's not the only place like it in town. The amusement park, library, motel, diner, and that shack in the woods are also hella cursed with monsters, killers, and demons.

[madbunnyrabbit]

Let’s make it even funnier. All the part time creepy jobs are Danny’s. He can duplicate now. (Someone needs to pay for Dani’s trip around the world or hell him just get his own place) So the Justice league keeps see the same tired teenager over and over again and Danny is just done with them and god damn string bean.

[kaidatheghostdragon]

The other teens in town are so annoyed by danny because he's monopolized every minimum wage job that'll hire teens and they cant find work.

[hypewinter]

Firefighting hadn't been the first job on Danny's list but it was surprisingly well suited for him. Toxic smoke and blazing fires were nothing to a guy who didn't need to breathe and could phase through anything after all. Plus it gave him a way to feel useful without catching the attention of the big bat himself. At least.... it was supposed to. But Danny supposes that ship has sailed considering Batman is standing in front of him at this very moment.

[kaidatheghostdragon]

Danny "its a lie im not a ghost" fenton verses batman "i just want to confirm that this is your signature on the investigation report and ask a few questions about it."

Ie, bats was totally just seeking him out hoping he witnessed something that didnt end up in the report (a fire investigation report, required for every fire the fire department responds to, to determine the cause) that might hold a clue for batman to follow (ie the the fire incident was part of a larger investigation and he's running out of leads).

Would be cool if danny has gone through all the training to be the guy that investigates the fires and determines the cause. That training takes a couple decades to complete, which would imply that danny is at least in his 40's.

It can be anywhere in the batman timeline. If theyre the same age, then it can be spirit halloween.

But i think this would be a great prompt to make danny older than batman, who is early in his career, still (mostly) works alone, and hasnt quite perfected the art of detective work yet. In this scenario, danny is either a) retired because he solved all the problems he was needed for, b) had to quit vigilanting because the government was gunning for him, so he took a civil service job and pretends to be normal for his own safety, c) phantom is still an active vigilante, but outside of gotham, and lives in gotham only as a civilian, d) phantom is still active, but unlike the previous option, operates on the down-low and is as much a cryptid as batman is in his first few years - people know about him, but actual knowledge is muddied with rumors and theories without lots of hard facts or evidence to lean on.

Whichever option for danny's background, batman digs it up and compares it to the exemplary career danny has had as a firefighter. Maybe danny is the only unbought fire investigator in gotham and no amount of bribing or assassination attempts have succeeded in removing him.

At any rate, it would be a cool prompt where batman kinda-sorta adopts danny as a mentor, going to him for advice about vigilante problems.

Also, danny would totally be the kind of guy to get every certification he can get access to - scuba diving, helicopter rescue, wildfire management, the dozens of emt certifications, you name it.

[redsparrow12]

Danny "I know a guy" Fenton

[darkmodepls]

While young Danny would definitely jump the gun and assume Batman was there to arrest him, a more mature Danny would keep a level head.

He might be slightly nervous at first, but would probably relax once he figures out what Bruce wants from him.

Batman probably wouldn't even notice because there are a lot of people who are spooked when they first meet the bat.

If Danny does have all these rescue certifications and manages to keep his cool, Bruce may consider him a resource the way Commissioner Gordon is.

[kaidatheghostdragon]

Youre totally right! Older danny would be more level-headed. I started with one idea and ended with a different one. This is what i get for night-blogging, lol.

But gosh darn it i want that reaction so bad! What if danny's heightened senses (and extra senses like ghost empathy) allow him to track his surroundings really well. Danny would have a reputation of being immune to jump scares because he can sense everything and everyone around him.

The first time he meets batman? Batman totally snuck up on him.

Batman trained in the loa for a bit. He learned to be stealthy. He's also explored the world and knows that strange things and the supernatural exist (early career is when meta humans, aliens, themyscera are still more myth than fact, and superman is considered more of a mythical guardian angel, if he's even debuted yet), so he's trained himself to defend against telepathy and how to be "mentally silent."

(In one of the dcu movies, batman pegs john jones as a martian and his weakness to fire because he's well read into every conspiracy theory he can find, "just in case." There's a wicked mic drop scene where batman tells j'onn that he spent tens of thousands of dollars on a green rock to make contingencies for the alien in metropolis, and for j'onn, he only needs ten cents for a box of match sticks.)

Danny is snuck up on in probably the first time in over a decade. He is very rightfully startled. He probably doesn't say something like "its a lie im not a ghost," but he does probably accidently out himself as a non-baseline human (i dont think the term meta is widespread at this point in the timeline?) from an instinctive self-defense move, like a quick ice bolt to freeze batman's feet to the ground.

And danny is continuously wrong-footed through the whole encounter. If batman is still a cryptid, danny is probably half-convinced that he's a ghost. Seeing the guy now, he realizes batman is baseline human. He's cautiously optimistic that batman is a vigilante like he is/was, and immediately apologizes and removes the ice.

But beyond all of danny's senses pointing to batman being baseline human, he cant get a read on his emotions, because batman knows how to make a mental shield. To danny's pov, batman is totally unperturbed and dives straight into his questions about the investigation danny just signed off a few days ago. Doesnt ask about the powers at all. No, those are the subject of another confrontation a few days later, *after* batman has done a full background check on danny and is confident that he's found everything he can and properly prepared for any potential outcome.