Learn via this hell site that simon from iron lung was born on mars, and i'ld liké to note that the author of project hail mary also wrote the martian , a book about a biologist stuck on mars for about a year that was also adapted into a movie, as well as Artémis a book about a woman on a MOON colony , therefore, this crossover is entierly possible if you décidé that they are either;
in alternating timelines liké most people like to imagine
Or , what i've been thinking about : that this is all one timeline starting with the martian then the full colonisation of mars , then iron lung and earth got the whole sun dieing info but mars died cause closer to thé sun so they send people to deal with it first, this would imply that the project hail mary is at least the second try , a last change when thé first didn't work. Posibly along the same time or a few years after starting to colonize thé moon in Artémis, this way thé timeline.
Grâce whould no remenber the colonisation of mars because a, hé's never been , b.he doesn't get flashbacks form his time before being a teacher and c it's funnier if simon is the reason hé remenbers.
(I would also find it funny if the planet i saw iron lung bé in is the one thé sun eaters and their predators are from)
Note: i have yet to see iron lung , or read Artémis , the whole part about ironlung in this timeline is fully there because i belived it bé described to me as a tragedy so if i got anything wrong do tell thank you :D
Aditional note : the people on here keep making them adopt Laïka and call them all the patron saint of journeys form wich you can never return and that great and all (have a few tought on thé paralels of Laïka and grâce both thinking they where safe just to réalisé they where gonna die in space) one thing I never hear you guys talk about is the patron saint of doomed returnes french cat minete that cat that came back from space enscared and was cut open to figure out how
I learned recently that Simon is actually from Mars, and I just knew Ryland would become the BIGGEST fucking nerd about that if he found out. Meanwhile Simon is sitting there wildly confused at how Grace doesn’t know that humans colonized Mars?? Like a while ago??? Grace aren’t you a scientist??? (They still haven’t figured out they’re from different timelines yet)
Just for extra info , the author of project hail mary also wrote the martian , a book about a biologiste stuck on mars for about a year that was also adapted into a movie, as well as Artémis a book about a woman on a MOON colony , therefore, this crossover is entierly possible if you décidé that they are either ;as the tag say, in alternating timelines or that this is all one timeline starting with the martian then the full colonisation of mars , then iron lung and earth got the whole sun dieing info but mars died cause closer to thé sun so they send people to deal with it first, this would imply that the project hail mary is at least the second try , a last change when thé first didn't work. Posibly along the same time or a few years after starting to colonize thé moon in Artémis, this way thé timeline become more neet.
Note: i have yet to wach iron lung so tell me if anything makes this impossible, but i have wached both project hail mary and the martian , however i did not yet get the chance to read Artémis
I think if a Russian woman and a australien men had a baby and it's god parents where a german woman and a florida man we would all die due to thé gêné and history mix there recreating a bigbang , luckly these are all lands far away from each other, enfortunatly the internet
Cult Casper High schoolmates, but make it deaged Danny
Danny's entire class slowly figures out that Danny=Phantom but, with the exception of some outliers (Wes), they all agree to keep Danny's secret. One of the A-listers--Dash has definitely been hit by one of his parents before--brings up the idea of what could happen if Danny's parents find out and no one is there is cruel enough to put Danny through that.
Until one day, the Fentons shoot down Phantom and haul him back to their lab.
It only takes the class a few hours to mobilize, but in that time, Danny has already been vivisected like a frog and because of the damage, he retreats into his core, and comes out Ghost age, ei that's a toddler now.
That's their toddler now.
Obviously they have to escape Amity Park, because this is dcxdp and the GiW aren't happy about them "defending" a ghost, so they get the hell out of dodge. Gotham is the most obvious choice, Sam explains with a powerpoint, due to low cost of living, most careers not requiring ID and are willing to pay under the table, and high ectoplasm interference. To save money, they buy a run down building together and the whole class says under one roof.
Everyone likes baby Danny. Everyone wants to take care of him. Some of them are weird about it.
Or, the Bats investigate a new cult that popped up, only to find out that their object of worship is a toddler.
It doesn't work, he is masking his chaos *too* much, and they can sense it like blood hounds that he is trying too hard to act normal to actually be a friendly to their cause of "raise their child king/God/friend because he is a baby now" and they can also tell he's leaning too much into the willing to be in a cult act, because they didn't start a cult, they're just raising Danny, but this guy acts like he knows something.
Meanwhile Cass has been observing and eventually managed to learn that this "little king" they worship is a toddler, and this "den mother" is a stressed young adult trying to care for all these teens and this baby maybe God. And has decided to observe without telling the bats, and unlike Duke, they can tell she vibes
YESSSS or other potential idea , as they running from giw see meta kid adopt meta kid who also seem on thé run and now duke has a grosery list and a babysitting chart , hé ends up just as stressed ,
But on cass it'll bé funny that because she reads ppl so well and is prob also ecto something form the pits they just kinda see her as kin after a bit because Danny can sense her looking and she end up steping in and helping jazz after a bit :) honorary cult mom
Cult Casper High schoolmates, but make it deaged Danny
Danny's entire class slowly figures out that Danny=Phantom but, with the exception of some outliers (Wes), they all agree to keep Danny's secret. One of the A-listers--Dash has definitely been hit by one of his parents before--brings up the idea of what could happen if Danny's parents find out and no one is there is cruel enough to put Danny through that.
Until one day, the Fentons shoot down Phantom and haul him back to their lab.
It only takes the class a few hours to mobilize, but in that time, Danny has already been vivisected like a frog and because of the damage, he retreats into his core, and comes out Ghost age, ei that's a toddler now.
That's their toddler now.
Obviously they have to escape Amity Park, because this is dcxdp and the GiW aren't happy about them "defending" a ghost, so they get the hell out of dodge. Gotham is the most obvious choice, Sam explains with a powerpoint, due to low cost of living, most careers not requiring ID and are willing to pay under the table, and high ectoplasm interference. To save money, they buy a run down building together and the whole class says under one roof.
Everyone likes baby Danny. Everyone wants to take care of him. Some of them are weird about it.
Or, the Bats investigate a new cult that popped up, only to find out that their object of worship is a toddler.
I literally never considered the whole Batman being called 'B' and then reporting back to 'A' but now that you've mentioned it, I'm obsessed with the idea. I mean, imagine meeting Batman, seeing him in the field, how hard he fights, only for him to report back to 'A'. Especially if you hear how people who've met A talk about him, like:
Batman: I'll give you each 10k if you don't tell A that I busted my shoulder
Nightwing: Sorry B, you're on your own
Red Hood: Hell no cheapskate, I wouldn't do it for 100k
Superman: I don't want to get on A's bad side :(
there's things that the JL have "heard" about A that only make him even scarier (some of these I compiled from the other post):
uses lethal force even when B won't
never leaves Gotham, like some kind of mafia don
has the ability to punish B and/or remove him from active field service
A's urgent requests take priority, even above the JL. B zetas down to Gotham without asking a single follow up question, he just goes
"You think B is bad about [thing], A is even worse." -- a sentence said jokingly by many a Batkid, over the years
jason todd who progressively lies more and more as to explain how he came back to life
Tim: How the fuck did you win Uno 19 times in a row
Dick: Yeah you used to suck at this
Jason: Yeah actually that entire excuse that Superboy Prime punched the universe was a lie. I actually just called Death a bitch and challenged it to a game of Uno that lasted six months and won
Tim:
Dick:
Jason: :)
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Damien: Mother should have never allowed you to heal in the Lazarus Pits.
Jason: Actually I healed because when I was dead I was a ghost and like. Haunting Gotham as one does and then realised my dumbass body somehow left the grave so I had to find it and imagine how pissed I was when I found it in the Chernobyl pool
Damien:
Jason: Ghosts can't really hitch rides okay, I had to fucking walk
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JL: He came back... Wrong
Jason: Actually B lied that I died. I left to a boarding school and found my true passion, unicycling, and decided to unicycle over Eurasia and B was so embarrassed that he just started telling people I died
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Roy: So... How was death?
Jason: I fist fought St. Peter and fucking won he had to send me back
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Bruce, present for all of these: How did you actually come back to life, do you know? Have any theories?
Jason: The worms refused to eat me because I was so skinny and Mother Nature herself called me a disgrace and kicked me out
So what I'm hearing is Jason was in the Ghost Zone.
Once he graduated/escaped from Ghost 101 school, he unicycled through the eurasian section of the infinite realms to get to Phantom's Keep where he fist fought the gatekeeper St. Peter to let him in to challenge King Phantom to a game of Uno for his life back and won.
Phantom asked the Ghost of Worms and Wormholes to eat Jason to transport him home, but Wormhole refused because Jason wasn't appetizing so he had Undergrowth chaperone Jason to the living world because he was already heading there to talk with Swamp Thing or Poison Ivy.
But then Jason insulted Undergrowth so instead of bringing him straight to his body, Undergrowth called him a disgrace and left him as a ghost in the living world to find his body all on his own.
And all that and finding his body took six months.
It’s known that animals can sense death. Instances where pets gravitate to someone on their death bed and dogs barking at ghosts. Danny already knew this from before he half died, so he was expecting animals to rat him out with their sixth sense or become aggressive or cower from him. Instead, they all behaved the complete opposite than he anticipated.
Stray cats come running to rub against his legs, dogs nearly pull arms out of their owners sockets to get close to him, birds bring him trinkets, raccoons lead him to trash cans full of food, and even squirrels and rats get close to just sit on his shoulders. It’s… weird, but not unwelcome. He always loved animals.
Danny had come to semi-trust the animals that come to him. They know where the good food is and drinking water, they know when to steer away from a certain area right before something happens, and they always know when a person is bad or okay. So when an animal leads him somewhere, he follows. Sometimes they need help and he’s the one they go to. He’s helped plenty of raccoons out of garbage bins and cats out of gutters to have a good relationship with the animals of the streets.
What he isn’t expecting is to be led to Robin again and again.
The first time it was a cat. A mangy old Tom cat that rubbed against his torn up jeans and looked back with - Danny swears- a raised eyebrow. Danny follows and soon enough he finds himself standing a few paces away from Robin who is kneeling down to give clean water to the momma cat and her three kittens.
Robin freezes and so does Danny. They stare at each other.
“Um, hi?”
Robin straightens immediately, leaving the water on the ground where the cats can drink. Tom cat swaggers over to guard them.
“Civilian. Is there something I can assist you with?”
The dude is probably a year or two younger than Danny himself and he has to suppress a smile at the formal tone.
“Oh, uh, no? The cat just led me here.”
He can see Robin glance at the Tom cat who was now licking himself.
“Is that so?”
“Yea. Sorry to interrupt. Animals just like me for some reason.”
The three kittens one by one all totter over to him on unsteady legs after they had their fill. The orange one starts trying to climb his pant leg with its short and sharp claws digging into the jean material.
“They really like me.”
He carefully sits down crossed legged so the others could also climb all over him. Robin watches for a moment silently and when he sees Danny react well to the little pricks from tiny claws, he seems it safe enough to return to patrol.
The second time it’s a couple of rats that lure him away to find Robin fighting off more thugs than he probably should by himself. So taking the rats’ movements as encouragement, he takes the closest thing, a piece of plywood, and hit the nearest guy over the head with it. The guy crumbles like a wet sock and Danny is moving on to the next thug.
They sweep the floor with these guys with only a few splinters and a twisted ankle.
“It was dangerous to intervene,” Robin tells him. “I had it handled.”
“Yea, I know.”
The vigilante didn’t seem to be expecting that response from his stunned silence. He straightens as much as he can with bruised ribs.
“Well, I’m glad you know your mistake. Don’t let it happen again.”
Danny neither agrees nor disagrees, just shrugs and allow the rats to climb up his leg to his shoulder. Robin looks at them curiously. Danny gives a salute before leaving. Robin gives him a nod.
The third time it happened the roles are reversed.
Some people from the local gang are bullying the lonely, homeless teen to run drugs for them. They don’t seem to understand the word ‘no’. It gets to the point where Danny finds himself with his back against the wall and all his exits blocked with a guy shoving him again and again.
“Stop it!”
“I’ll stop if you agree.”
“I’m not doing it!”
Frank the raccoon and his buddy Bobby launch themselves at the guy’s ankles. The guy shrieks and pulls a gun.
“No!”
Before Danny can dive for it, a projectile comes out of nowhere to knock it out of his hands. He can’t even process what happened before the three are running away, two raccoons chattering at their heels before coming back to crowd him in worry.
Danny looks up to see Robin with a sword out threateningly, staring at where the three fled. He sheaths the sword after a few seconds.
“Are you okay?”
Danny realizes he’s breathing a little heavy and slows down a bit as he leans over to pet the top of the two heads.
“I’m- yea, I’m okay. Thanks for the save. Those guys were jerks.”
“I’m inclined to agree.”
Robin is staring at the raccoons and it takes Danny a long moment to piece things together.
“Did- did they lead you to me?”
Robin doesn’t answer right away.
“You have loyal friends.”
Danny smiles at the weird compliment. Looking down at the two heroes of the evening Danny is also inclined to agree.
The fourth time is funny in a way Danny doesn’t know how to describe.
It was the pigeons. They were at fault of course for how Robin’s secret identity was outed. By pigeons.
The grey birds swarmed Danny and settled in a cloud of feathers. One holding something in its beak before plopping it down in his lap like a golden retriever. It flaps off as Danny picks up the obvious wallet clip holding quite a bit of cash and a student ID. The card says Damian Wayne from Gotham Academy. Just then Robin comes skidding around the corner, clearly out of breath and freezes.
Danny looks down at the clip in his hand and back up at the vigilante. He looks at the crazy amount of birds around him and again at the vigilante.
Said vigilante straightens and approaches like he called Danny there.
“If I could have that so I could return it to its proper owner.”
He holds out a hand with false arrogance, but Danny can see the nervousness in his stance. Danny looks down one last time before putting the clip in the outstretched hand without a word.
Robin nods once, pockets the ID and money, and immediately leaves.
The fifth time just cements what Danny had already figured out.
He was at the park. Not Ivy’s park of course, the one where people actually like to go. He was helping the squirrels find and hide acorns when he’s nearly knocked over by a massive black dog.
“Titus!”
The end of the Great Dane’s leash is a familiar face. Damian Wayne’s eyes widen in recognition as he finally sees who Titus was so excited to get to.
“Uh-“
Danny has to close his mouth quickly or else the massive tongue on his face would have turned into a French kiss.
“Titus! Heel!”
Danny laughs at the embarrassed blush on the other’s face, obviously not used to his companion going off the rails like this.
“It’s alright. We both know how animals like me.”
Damian narrows his eyes to analyze the teen. Danny wasn’t about to pretend and Damian looked like he was debating whether to follow his lead or not. There was literally no one within hearing distance.
“Have you told anyone?”
Danny thought about redirecting, but thought better of it. He actually liked Robin and what he did.
“Nope. I haven’t and I won’t. I swear.”
Damian tilts his head and then looks down at Titus. He seems to come to a decision before looking back at Danny.
“You’re homeless, are you not?”
Didn’t think they were being that direct but sure.
“Yea?”
“I will pay you in food and shelter to take care of my animals.”
Danny blinks. Then actually considers the offer.
“What kind of animals? How many we talking?”
Damian grins.
The family finds out pretty quickly when a teen they’ve never seen before walks into the Batcave with two pails of food for the bats, Titus at his heels and Alfred the cat perched contently on his shoulders.
Duke stares and Bruce short circuits.
“Um, who are you?”
“Hi! I’m Danny. Damian employed me to take care of the animals.”
“O…kay?”
“And where is Damian?” Bruce sounds like it physically hurts to ask and Danny does not envy Damian’s position right now.
“Upstairs. I think he said he was going to his art studio.”
Bruce marches past the boy to the stairs before stopping abruptly and turning to Danny and Duke.
“Don’t touch anything. Watch him.”
Duke and Danny blink at each other for a moment as Bruce disappears up the stairs.
Danny, retired vigilante himself, probably picks up on enough stuff that he realizes it's a family thing but just Damian. However once again he thinks they're telling him and really whatever they said wouldn't have meant a thing unless he already knew about Damian.
So yeah, funny reveal scene.
Ok but that has to be a funny reveal scene, potentially a double reveal but I'm thinking Damian and Danny both think that the other has let the others know that Danny knows about their night life but you know, they don't.
Also somebody needs to come up with a snow white/Disney princess themed nickname for him. Snow White would be funnier once they see his ghost from and his white hair.
This would be so cute!!!!!! Danny just handles all the animal-meta rogues because they all always listen to him. Waylon decides to reform so he can spend more time with his new Pal.
"I've never really had a friend before... Not like this... Nobody ever wants to be friends with a monster"
Danny, gently patting his hand, "I know. I understand how you feel, I used to get bullied all the time at home. But there's always a way to make friends! You just have to be... Croc without the "Killer" part. Maybe if you didn't call yourself a monster, you'd find that a lot of people love reptiles! In fact, you remind me of a ghost friend I have."
"Really? You think I could make friends? Even looking like... This?"
Danny beams "I'll be your first friend! Just make sure you still remember me once we start making you popular, okay?"
Waylon, sniffling, "I'd like that, small human. I'd like that."
So. Apparently immortality does in fact exist. And is apparently very easily accidentally achieved, if the fact an entire city has it now.
The GIW will be waiting a very long time to be able to drop that ghost shield, because the city doesn’t seem to be dying out anytime soon. Or at all actually. It’s been several generations now.
They might need to request assistance. Maybe before others start to investigate now that vigilantes are becoming a semi-common thing.
Had a thought- if the ecto would normally disperse, and is being kept in by the shield, if it reaches a certain amount could it condense like water and start raining? Be absorbed into the ground until the soil is oversaturated so it sits on top?
The ground is green, the streets are filled with condensed ectoplasm and its like walking through water constantly. It starts flooding their streets, their homes, so they rebuild their homes on top the old ones or on stilts. The ectoplasm is slightly corrosive, and eats away at the ground, so even as the ectoplasm levels get deeper, it never actually rises above the bottom edge of the GIW ghost shield.
Amity park is now a city built in the largest lazarus pit unknown to earth.
Oh now there's an interesting thought, and I absolutely love that as a concept. They're all floating on top of a literal pit like some sort of swamp village (or like Venice Italy) but it's an Ecto pit.
Like Lazarus Pits are stillwater usually, or like hotsprings (hence the bubbling) while Amity is the equivalent of a Mangrove Forest.
Ghost animals start slipping in with the ecto and the animals that wander in get too ecto contaminated to leave, creating a literal Lazarus Ecosystem.
I was initially thinking like Venice (and the fentons workshop ping the cars into boats of various types, selling fenton-paint (which can't be corroded by ectoplasm), etc) but now I can't stop thinking of Amity park becoming a city in a mangrove forest as the trees and plants absorb the ectoplasm and grow and it becomes a wild mess in areas, and a... tamed(?) wetland in other areas as the residents manipulate how the trees grow to form bridges and platforms
I'm amused that the GIW think they still have control of the barrier? As if the Fenton's and Team Phantom didn't already kick them out of the system and make their own better one decades ago. They just went full hidden village with it. Since Amity Park is now essentially part of the Realms? It needs to be properly protected so humans can't get in.
Which means if the Justice League rocks up to scout the place? They are going to be bounced back by wards no one knows exists. Only to have Danny and co rock up. "Wait, you aren't the Idiots in White. Who are you?"
Any magic user starts cursing, because it probably looks like some sort of Fae village that idiots found and decided to mess with.
That is if the Justice League Dark even exists. It could also be far earlier in the League's creation where it's still a semi-small thing too.
Everyone in Amity is cooing over the 'itty baby heroes' all the same. Except for Wonder Woman who they gossip with about things most people do not know or remember or experienced for themselves.
Hades: Everyone eventually enters my domain, why should I care when it happens?
Hades, pointing to a midwestern town in the middle of nowhere: Except for that place, that place has all my favorite blorbos who get to live as long as they want to because they baby <3
Hades a nd Pwrsephone who struggle to have kids due to their opposing domains. And definitely adopted Team Phantom. Co parenting with th Fenton's. What this town? Well, humanity have up on them? Of course we claimed them! We didn't want the babies to be sad! Diana! Meet your cousins. Also, your Grand Father had chilled out. We still have him on a leash just in case. But he's doing better.
Amity Parkers just living their lives. Some stick in Amity. Others wander the Realms. Some have learned portals and have been sneaking through the barriers to other countries to trade. Absolutely not bothered by the barrier the GIW thought was so good and effective.
okay but when they are eventually found, and they will be, the league will be salivating over this place. So will we have content of Ra's and his assassins being absolutely bodied by some toddlers when they interupt playtime? Or will it be more serious with team phantom protecting the place? Another direction could be treating it like a tv show, streamng it to the realms and Amity.
"Heeeeere comes another assassin challenger. They managed to beat our previous champion, Miss Linda from the Daycare and her army of Toddlers. He's getting to the edge, he's reaching in for the water. He's nearly there ..... but Mr Jackson our favourite mechanic outside of the Fentons bodyslams him out of the way. Another win to the natives people, keep watching to see how our next challengers fair"
That's assuming the LoA would even be able to get through the barrier in the first place, lol. Cause wouldn't they also be liminal enough to have the barrier affect them??
I mean, given how long it's been? The shields have definitely been taken over by the town. Probably reset to allow Liminals in. If only so they can keep them safe from outsiders. The GIW ones sit outside their own shields. Which means once they are in Amity? there is no escape. And they are being dragged one by one to the Far Frozen for medical. What did you do?! Bathe in a sewer???
Then they realise just how brainwashed these poor fucks are. Welp, of to therapy! Good luck avoiding your new carers!! They will not let you go till you are deprogrammed! See you in a few years! Maybe?
Ra's eventually just stops sending assassins. He keeps losing good agents. It's not worth it. Whatever these being are? His people can't win against them clearly. No, it is time to sit back and observe again.
This is such a fun idea! I always love the prompts where Amity Park becomes basically their own Country, I think @evilminji would like this.
Just the image of a Venice/Mangrove City in a Lazarus Pit thay stretches for Miles. Similar to Sabaody in One Piece, entire Cities built on the roots of Giant Mangroves, Lazarus Waterways crawling with Boats, Bridges, and even people just swimming.
I like to think of it like, they used the Mangrove Trees as a basis for the City Itself, buildings are intercut with Branches and Roots, trees are sticking out of buildings, the Bridges are built on top of the most Sturdy Roots. They managed to control the Tree Growth enough so that the Canals are roughly in a straight line, and the City Blocks are mostly intact.
Also there are actually patches of Land in the Liminal Zone (aka what the residents started called the Shielded Section of the world, outside of Amity itself), but they are just where there used to he Hills and Mountains. But it's more common to find Land on the Floating Islands.
Yup, after enough years Natural Floating Islands started to just appear in the sky. The Amity Parkers took advantage of course, and now those are Luxury Homes, Research Labs, and Watchtowers to make sure the GIW Stay out of the Liminal Zone.
@bet-on-me-13 *dramatically throws open the door in one of those feather lined robes blackwidows wear* *intricate murder Plots for my Tradgicly passed Late WIP can be seen in the background, who probably died in a Hunting Accident, what're you a cop?* YOU CALLED~? Also, you didn't see that!
And YES! Yes I DO find this very interesting! Cause you know what no one's mentioned yet? Giant, city-spanning, DAY GLOWING, neon-ish green Domes of Energy?
Pretty hard to hide.
In fact? Impossible to hide, from the locals. Elmerton knew what's up pretty much immediately. Towns further down the roads, too. You can SEE it. From your second floor. Your porch. The roof.
As you drive down the highway, there it is.
The town that used to be Amity.
Off ramp aggressively blocked off by shading Goverment types that seem... trigger happy. You keep your mouth shut. Try to call your DnD buddy again. Your Bible study friend. Your cousin. Girlfriend. Dad. That person you knew just ONE TOWN OVER.
Silence.
Terrible, terrible, silence.
You sit in your parked car, at home, and cry. There is no Justice League yet. No super Heros. No Heros at all. You're just some country kid, who knows something is WRONG. But... but when has the government ever cared about that? Cared about YOU?
What can YOU do? Against some sort of sci-fi alien dome?
You cry. You get out of your truck. Go inside. And none of you talk about it. Not over the dinner table, not at work, not on the news. You all know to keep your mouths shut.
The green of that dome looms like a Threat.
Every night.
Remember your Place, Citizen. Don't ask questions. You might be next.
And as time passes? As you spread out? Go to colleges. Marry. Travel. Move away? You carry it with you. Those silent scars. That fear.
A rocket touchs down in a far off town. A baby inside. And the whole town remembers a dome they don't speak off. So... no. No that boy's be here the whole time. Congratulations, Martha. Here's your paperwork. We see nothing.
We'll continue to see nothing.
And when that outer dome falls away? Revealing something... GREENER. Human, inhuman, like us but wrong? Well. They always KNEW that the government had done something to them. And there are plenty of bit o folklore around here.
We'll all adapt.
Now, come on kids. Time to go see Great-Grandpa's Dnd buddy! We can sit at the border and have a picnic! There are benchs!
That's actually really wholesome like imagine the parkers finally get the outer shelldown it's all good your expecting some maybe agents at the edges but instead you get a bunch of families
Old friends who didn't just forget about you old family who had thought about you and bought you gifts for all the years you were gone old church friends who prayed every night for your safety
Instead of guys with guns they are met with people form their past who never forget who hoped despite the odds for their safety
Family who remembered and tried to help
People who never forget who finally finally get the opportunity to see them again
Something strange, beautiful, and yes... perhaps even terrible has happened to us. But when we reach the other side? We find We Are All Still Human.
THAT'S the pack bonding instinct that makes humans so powerful. That magnificent EMPATHY. And survival of hope in face of the uncaring horrors.
Like? Imagine how BEAUTIFUL it would be.
It... it NEVER works out. It's always some secret evil or terrible tragedy waiting to happen. Never "and then we survived, overcame, and got better. We healed." For DC. But HERE? Out in the middle of NOWHERE?
Hope.
They are JUST... strange. Changed by what happened and that's IT. There is no burning hate. No vows of vengeance. Just? "Look! It's great, great grandpa!" *Holds toddler up so what looks like a 19 year old can see them, toddler giggles*
There are parks. An aura of peace and protection.
Every invading force that comes anywhere NEAR here DIES SCREAMING.
Okay so I haven't read this post in a WHILE and I swear I read Ra's Al Ghul just. moved to Amity???
well. it's not in this thread at least, so l shall be the one to add it.
Ra's lost too many assassins and after observing for A While, got too curious and went himself. Maybe he brought Talia too, maybe Talia is just straight up born in Amity (maybe Damian is?). Idk how to work that into canon bc at least Talia gotta be able to leave at least (to meet Bruce? idk what else tbh), and Damian once he's born. But LISTEN
LISTEN
it's our au <3 Talia and Damian can leave once the Dome falls!!
(I just want a sort of redeemed but still absolutely crazy batshit insane feral unhinged Al Ghul family now being Amity Natives. just chilling and vibing with their new friends)
Also? Ra's is already immortal, and so if the Amities now, so obviously it's no hurry for either of these parties to meet.
But can you imagine if Ra's moved to Amity? He's enough known for it to be Noticeable and raise Questions, but maybe it's?? I dunno, I really like the idea of Talia being born there now actually. I think it would be a lot of fun!
I raise you : talia's was born in thé domé but they left before it was lifted, her moters is still thera and it's thé reason for thé LOA and why rals wants to bé imortal (hé's still creepy tho)
and sometimes maybe Talia (and Ra's??) will return to the Dome. Know her Mother is inside and wait for one day to meet her. Maybe Talia takes Damian too? Ra's takes Talia, and Talia takes Damian.
Actually 👀 it was said earlier in the thread some people found a way out for Trades outside of The Dome, maybe we could spin away with that for the Al Ghuls too? an Amity Native found their way to the desert where they met Ra's Al Ghul????? that person from Amity becomes Talia's mother? (I will say here, I do not know the lore for the Al Ghul's other than Assassins League In The Middle Of The Desert and Something About Demon Head and Ra's Is Villain In DC. that's essentially it.)
If Talia's mother is from Amity, and one of the ones who left for Trades, perhaps it's like those tropes where the characters meets several times via the Business and slow burn Fall In Love? but those from Amity always has to return to Amity?? (unless enough Ecto is found elsewhere, or enough ppl from Amity leaves to the same place????? idk what I'm trying to say here lmao)
YESS and that would (canon is a painted by officiels and i have sidewalk chalk) Why they're so obssesed by lazzarus water! It's sligtly unpure recto sence it does not come directly form the realms but ra's is still trying to make it écto rich for his beloved !
So. Apparently immortality does in fact exist. And is apparently very easily accidentally achieved, if the fact an entire city has it now.
The GIW will be waiting a very long time to be able to drop that ghost shield, because the city doesn’t seem to be dying out anytime soon. Or at all actually. It’s been several generations now.
They might need to request assistance. Maybe before others start to investigate now that vigilantes are becoming a semi-common thing.
Had a thought- if the ecto would normally disperse, and is being kept in by the shield, if it reaches a certain amount could it condense like water and start raining? Be absorbed into the ground until the soil is oversaturated so it sits on top?
The ground is green, the streets are filled with condensed ectoplasm and its like walking through water constantly. It starts flooding their streets, their homes, so they rebuild their homes on top the old ones or on stilts. The ectoplasm is slightly corrosive, and eats away at the ground, so even as the ectoplasm levels get deeper, it never actually rises above the bottom edge of the GIW ghost shield.
Amity park is now a city built in the largest lazarus pit unknown to earth.
Oh now there's an interesting thought, and I absolutely love that as a concept. They're all floating on top of a literal pit like some sort of swamp village (or like Venice Italy) but it's an Ecto pit.
Like Lazarus Pits are stillwater usually, or like hotsprings (hence the bubbling) while Amity is the equivalent of a Mangrove Forest.
Ghost animals start slipping in with the ecto and the animals that wander in get too ecto contaminated to leave, creating a literal Lazarus Ecosystem.
I was initially thinking like Venice (and the fentons workshop ping the cars into boats of various types, selling fenton-paint (which can't be corroded by ectoplasm), etc) but now I can't stop thinking of Amity park becoming a city in a mangrove forest as the trees and plants absorb the ectoplasm and grow and it becomes a wild mess in areas, and a... tamed(?) wetland in other areas as the residents manipulate how the trees grow to form bridges and platforms
I'm amused that the GIW think they still have control of the barrier? As if the Fenton's and Team Phantom didn't already kick them out of the system and make their own better one decades ago. They just went full hidden village with it. Since Amity Park is now essentially part of the Realms? It needs to be properly protected so humans can't get in.
Which means if the Justice League rocks up to scout the place? They are going to be bounced back by wards no one knows exists. Only to have Danny and co rock up. "Wait, you aren't the Idiots in White. Who are you?"
Any magic user starts cursing, because it probably looks like some sort of Fae village that idiots found and decided to mess with.
That is if the Justice League Dark even exists. It could also be far earlier in the League's creation where it's still a semi-small thing too.
Everyone in Amity is cooing over the 'itty baby heroes' all the same. Except for Wonder Woman who they gossip with about things most people do not know or remember or experienced for themselves.
Hades: Everyone eventually enters my domain, why should I care when it happens?
Hades, pointing to a midwestern town in the middle of nowhere: Except for that place, that place has all my favorite blorbos who get to live as long as they want to because they baby <3
Hades a nd Pwrsephone who struggle to have kids due to their opposing domains. And definitely adopted Team Phantom. Co parenting with th Fenton's. What this town? Well, humanity have up on them? Of course we claimed them! We didn't want the babies to be sad! Diana! Meet your cousins. Also, your Grand Father had chilled out. We still have him on a leash just in case. But he's doing better.
Amity Parkers just living their lives. Some stick in Amity. Others wander the Realms. Some have learned portals and have been sneaking through the barriers to other countries to trade. Absolutely not bothered by the barrier the GIW thought was so good and effective.
okay but when they are eventually found, and they will be, the league will be salivating over this place. So will we have content of Ra's and his assassins being absolutely bodied by some toddlers when they interupt playtime? Or will it be more serious with team phantom protecting the place? Another direction could be treating it like a tv show, streamng it to the realms and Amity.
"Heeeeere comes another assassin challenger. They managed to beat our previous champion, Miss Linda from the Daycare and her army of Toddlers. He's getting to the edge, he's reaching in for the water. He's nearly there ..... but Mr Jackson our favourite mechanic outside of the Fentons bodyslams him out of the way. Another win to the natives people, keep watching to see how our next challengers fair"
That's assuming the LoA would even be able to get through the barrier in the first place, lol. Cause wouldn't they also be liminal enough to have the barrier affect them??
I mean, given how long it's been? The shields have definitely been taken over by the town. Probably reset to allow Liminals in. If only so they can keep them safe from outsiders. The GIW ones sit outside their own shields. Which means once they are in Amity? there is no escape. And they are being dragged one by one to the Far Frozen for medical. What did you do?! Bathe in a sewer???
Then they realise just how brainwashed these poor fucks are. Welp, of to therapy! Good luck avoiding your new carers!! They will not let you go till you are deprogrammed! See you in a few years! Maybe?
Ra's eventually just stops sending assassins. He keeps losing good agents. It's not worth it. Whatever these being are? His people can't win against them clearly. No, it is time to sit back and observe again.
This is such a fun idea! I always love the prompts where Amity Park becomes basically their own Country, I think @evilminji would like this.
Just the image of a Venice/Mangrove City in a Lazarus Pit thay stretches for Miles. Similar to Sabaody in One Piece, entire Cities built on the roots of Giant Mangroves, Lazarus Waterways crawling with Boats, Bridges, and even people just swimming.
I like to think of it like, they used the Mangrove Trees as a basis for the City Itself, buildings are intercut with Branches and Roots, trees are sticking out of buildings, the Bridges are built on top of the most Sturdy Roots. They managed to control the Tree Growth enough so that the Canals are roughly in a straight line, and the City Blocks are mostly intact.
Also there are actually patches of Land in the Liminal Zone (aka what the residents started called the Shielded Section of the world, outside of Amity itself), but they are just where there used to he Hills and Mountains. But it's more common to find Land on the Floating Islands.
Yup, after enough years Natural Floating Islands started to just appear in the sky. The Amity Parkers took advantage of course, and now those are Luxury Homes, Research Labs, and Watchtowers to make sure the GIW Stay out of the Liminal Zone.
@bet-on-me-13 *dramatically throws open the door in one of those feather lined robes blackwidows wear* *intricate murder Plots for my Tradgicly passed Late WIP can be seen in the background, who probably died in a Hunting Accident, what're you a cop?* YOU CALLED~? Also, you didn't see that!
And YES! Yes I DO find this very interesting! Cause you know what no one's mentioned yet? Giant, city-spanning, DAY GLOWING, neon-ish green Domes of Energy?
Pretty hard to hide.
In fact? Impossible to hide, from the locals. Elmerton knew what's up pretty much immediately. Towns further down the roads, too. You can SEE it. From your second floor. Your porch. The roof.
As you drive down the highway, there it is.
The town that used to be Amity.
Off ramp aggressively blocked off by shading Goverment types that seem... trigger happy. You keep your mouth shut. Try to call your DnD buddy again. Your Bible study friend. Your cousin. Girlfriend. Dad. That person you knew just ONE TOWN OVER.
Silence.
Terrible, terrible, silence.
You sit in your parked car, at home, and cry. There is no Justice League yet. No super Heros. No Heros at all. You're just some country kid, who knows something is WRONG. But... but when has the government ever cared about that? Cared about YOU?
What can YOU do? Against some sort of sci-fi alien dome?
You cry. You get out of your truck. Go inside. And none of you talk about it. Not over the dinner table, not at work, not on the news. You all know to keep your mouths shut.
The green of that dome looms like a Threat.
Every night.
Remember your Place, Citizen. Don't ask questions. You might be next.
And as time passes? As you spread out? Go to colleges. Marry. Travel. Move away? You carry it with you. Those silent scars. That fear.
A rocket touchs down in a far off town. A baby inside. And the whole town remembers a dome they don't speak off. So... no. No that boy's be here the whole time. Congratulations, Martha. Here's your paperwork. We see nothing.
We'll continue to see nothing.
And when that outer dome falls away? Revealing something... GREENER. Human, inhuman, like us but wrong? Well. They always KNEW that the government had done something to them. And there are plenty of bit o folklore around here.
We'll all adapt.
Now, come on kids. Time to go see Great-Grandpa's Dnd buddy! We can sit at the border and have a picnic! There are benchs!
That's actually really wholesome like imagine the parkers finally get the outer shelldown it's all good your expecting some maybe agents at the edges but instead you get a bunch of families
Old friends who didn't just forget about you old family who had thought about you and bought you gifts for all the years you were gone old church friends who prayed every night for your safety
Instead of guys with guns they are met with people form their past who never forget who hoped despite the odds for their safety
Family who remembered and tried to help
People who never forget who finally finally get the opportunity to see them again
Something strange, beautiful, and yes... perhaps even terrible has happened to us. But when we reach the other side? We find We Are All Still Human.
THAT'S the pack bonding instinct that makes humans so powerful. That magnificent EMPATHY. And survival of hope in face of the uncaring horrors.
Like? Imagine how BEAUTIFUL it would be.
It... it NEVER works out. It's always some secret evil or terrible tragedy waiting to happen. Never "and then we survived, overcame, and got better. We healed." For DC. But HERE? Out in the middle of NOWHERE?
Hope.
They are JUST... strange. Changed by what happened and that's IT. There is no burning hate. No vows of vengeance. Just? "Look! It's great, great grandpa!" *Holds toddler up so what looks like a 19 year old can see them, toddler giggles*
There are parks. An aura of peace and protection.
Every invading force that comes anywhere NEAR here DIES SCREAMING.
Okay so I haven't read this post in a WHILE and I swear I read Ra's Al Ghul just. moved to Amity???
well. it's not in this thread at least, so l shall be the one to add it.
Ra's lost too many assassins and after observing for A While, got too curious and went himself. Maybe he brought Talia too, maybe Talia is just straight up born in Amity (maybe Damian is?). Idk how to work that into canon bc at least Talia gotta be able to leave at least (to meet Bruce? idk what else tbh), and Damian once he's born. But LISTEN
LISTEN
it's our au <3 Talia and Damian can leave once the Dome falls!!
(I just want a sort of redeemed but still absolutely crazy batshit insane feral unhinged Al Ghul family now being Amity Natives. just chilling and vibing with their new friends)
Also? Ra's is already immortal, and so if the Amities now, so obviously it's no hurry for either of these parties to meet.
But can you imagine if Ra's moved to Amity? He's enough known for it to be Noticeable and raise Questions, but maybe it's?? I dunno, I really like the idea of Talia being born there now actually. I think it would be a lot of fun!
I raise you : talia's was born in thé domé but they left before it was lifted, her moters is still thera and it's thé reason for thé LOA and why rals wants to bé imortal (hé's still creepy tho)
