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Danny: Mom! Dad! W-what are you doing here?
Maddie: Your father and I knew that you were disappointed to miss out on the family reunion because of your husband's surgery, so we decided to skip it this year and come give you some support in caring for him!
Jack: As well as giving you a break. You must be under so much stress taking care of him and the kids!
Danny, having been lying about his marriage for the past two years to get out of family obligations: Wow... that's so sweet of you.
Maddie: I'm so excited to meet everyone! When you said you were moving to a new Earth, I knew communication through the Ghost Zone was going to be rough, but only being able to connect audio calls once every four months was much harder to endure than I thought it would be.
Jack: Not to mention traveling here. We had to do so many pit stops to fix up the Spectator Speeder and let me tell you, some of those floating rocks were hard to land on. Sometimes makes me wish we had your ghosts powers.
Danny: Yeah....you both went through so much effort. To vist me. In a different dimension.
Maddie: We three! Jazz is here too.
Danny: *gulps* The whole family is here.
Jack: Oh, don't make that face. The Fenton Reunion happens every four years. We'll see your aunts, uncles, and cousins next time. You're much more important to us, so no need for guilt.
Danny: I- right. Of course. Um, have you guys eaten? I can treat us to some dinner before we go back to my place. My, um, husband is at a doctor's appointment with my eldest while I did some work. I'm going on emergency family leave but I had to fill out the paperwork at the office today. Yup yup, thats why I'm here. At my workplace.
Maddie: You alright sweetie? You're sweating a lot.
Danny: I'm fine!
Jack: You work here? This office building is so nice. What does Wayne Enterprise do? I know you have a management position but I never really understood what department exactly.
Danny, who works in the mail room: Um, Wayne Enterprise does a little of everything. I'm in... communications.
Jack: But what exactly does communications do-
Danny: Excuse me for a bit. I have to let my husband know I'm going to be a little late.
Maddie: Oh! Don't tell the kids we're here. We want it to be a suprise. We brought gifts for all of them! Jazz is actually wrapping them up in the Speeder now!
Danny: Ha ha ha ha of course! Excuse me! *walking away pretending to be tapping a contact on his phone* shit shit shit. What do I do???
Damian appearing from the shadows: You told falsehoods.
Danny: Agh!
Damian: ....
Danny: Mr. Wayne Al Ghul! I-ugh- hello! I mean, good afternoon, sir. I ugh-
Damian: Silence
Danny: Yes sir.
Damian: I heard everything, and while I normally find lies distasteful, I find your parents endearing. It could benefit my family. I shall give you aid in your facade.
Danny: What?
Damain: My father recently had surgery on his right hip- a accident on our extreme skiing trip- and refuses to listen to our family doctor. He will not get the proper bed rest he's been ordered, but he would if you acted like his very upset husband with visting in-laws.
Danny: I- Mr. Wayne would never agree to that.
Damian: You seem to believe Father has a choice.
Danny: I-
Damian: I messaged Richard about the plan. He's gathering my siblings' support as we speak. When you arrive after dinner with your family, Father will have no time to deny anything. We shall trap him in social expectations. By the way, you are Timothy's safe queer adult who was there for him in the early years of his self-discovery journey and now he wants to help you. Its how we guilt trip father.
Danny: I can't lie to Bruce Wayne like that!
Damian: It's too late. Timothy already made a shirt of your face with the words "My Gay Yoda" on it. Your path has been chosen.
Danny: What-
Jack: Danny? Who's this?
Damian holding out his arms for a hug: Grandfather, I am Damian, Father's and Dad's youngest.
Jack: Damian! Its so nice to met you. Call me Gran-papa! *crushes him in a bear hug*
Damian in the most monotone voice ever: Gran-papa, I can not feel my arms.
Maddie: Aren't you just the cutest! Danny used to say the same thing at your age whenever his dad hugged him. I'm your Gran-mama, by the way! JAZZ COME MEET THE BABY!
Danny in a horrified whisper: Did my boss trap me in my own web of lies?
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Roy: yeah my dad doesnât like being around me and he has me take suppressants
random guy who just sat down next to him on a park bench who reminds him of Jason: hey maybe your dad sucks
My personal Top 10 Batfleck moments (So far and in no particular order)Â
Feel free to add your own. I know i missed a couple. :D
What about a fic where Dick has been given the okay by Bruce to reveal his identity to the yj team in season 1, but he decides to have fun with it. He just starts dropping little hints that should have them all connecting the dots, and he enjoys watching them try to piece all the clues together.
âI wonât be available for training on Tuesdays and Thursdays the next few months,â he says one afternoon.
âWhy not?â one of his teammates asks.
âThatâs when I have baseball games after school. Tuesdays are away games, so I donât get home until late. Also I have practice Monday, Wednesday, and some Fridays, so Iâll probably be late those days if B lets me come here afterwards.â
âYouâŠplay a sport?â
âYeah, I even made Varsity!â
That was hint number one. He thought it was fairly easy to figure out who he was after that; heâs the only freshman on the Gotham Academy Varsity Baseball team. Artemis never puts two and two together.
Hint number two he thought was a lot more obvious, but no one took the bait. He also thought it was pretty generous, seeing as it became two hints for the price of one.
âI have to leave by 5:30 tonight. Agent A is starting to get annoyed when Iâm late for dinner.â
âWhoâs Agent A?â
âThe butler, if you want to be technical about it,â he says with a shrug.
ââŠYou have a butler?â
âTechnically, B has a butler. I donât employ him. Because Iâm 13.â
ââŠRight. And you live with Batman?â
âWhy wouldnât I?â
âWhat about your parents?â
âThey died when I was little.â If he says it nonchalantly enough, he can pretend it doesnât still hurt to say. He also steadfastly ignores Connerâs muttered Is he not still little? How tall is he? âIâve lived with B ever since.â
âDid he kidnap you?â
âNo!â Dick huffs. âHe adopted me! Jeez!â
Now heâs annoyed, and he decides to go home early. They still donât figure it out, and that annoys him even more.
The third hint may as well be his secret identity handed to them on a silver platter.
âI canât come to the movie marathon on Saturday,â he grumbles, dragging his feet. âB is making me go to some stupid gala thing.â
âA gala?â Someone asks.
âLike for rich people?â Someone else scoffs.
âYeah, itâs some charity thing,â he mumbles. He doesnât want to go. Vicki Vale has been extra annoying lately, and he doesnât want to have to avoid her questions all night. He doesnât know who Bruceâs latest paramour is, and he certainly wouldnât be blabbing about it to her gossip rag tabloids in the first place. âI think itâs gonna be on TV or something.â
They donât watch the broadcast. Which is a shame, because they may have figured it out if theyâd seen the interview of Bruce and Dick together.
The next one he does just to screw with them.
âCan you believe B is making me take tennis lessons?â he scoffs, stomping into the room. âItâs gonna be so lame!â
âWhere are you taking tennis lesson in Gotham?â Artemis snorts.
âThe Bristol Country Club,â he tells her, falling back into a chair and putting his feet on the coffee table.
Artemisâ eyes nearly bug out of her head.
âDo you have to pay extra to get tennis lessons at a country club?â Mâgann asks.
âI think itâs included in the membership or something, I dunno,â he says, waving a hand.
âBatman goes to a country club?â
âYeah, we go for dinner there like once a week. The steak is pretty good.â
âYou and Batman get dinner at a country club? Weekly?â
âIf we can, yeah,â he says, waving a hand. âB likes the golf course there.â
When they still donât figure it out even after Dick Grayson posts on social media about going to the Bristol Country Club to play golf with Bruce Wayne the very next day, he finally gives up on them.
âYou guys are so thick,â he says, sounding so offended as he stands in front of them with his arms crossed and a frown on his face. âI gave you so many hints! So many!â
They all canât stop staring at him. Mostly because heâs not wearing his mask. Or his sunglasses.
Dick Grayson is standing before the team, supremely disappointed in them.
âB finally gives me the go ahead to tell you my secret ID, and then he makes a bet with me about how long it would take you guys to find out for yourselves! And I believed in you! And now I have to do the dishes and take out the trash and clean up after Ace without complaining about any of it for a month!â
âWhoâs Ace?â
âOur dog!â
âDonât you have a butler to do all that?â
âHeâs not a servant,â he says, now even more offended. âI still have chores. Iâm not a total spoiled brat, jeez. But I usually at least get to bitch about it! And now I canât for a whole month, you guys suck!â
ââŠdo you not have a dishwasher in your giant mansion?â
âItâs a manor,â he corrects. And then his voice gets a little shrieky as he whines, âAnd it still sucks having to load and unload the dishwasher! Do you know how nitpicky they BOTH are about how dishes have to go in a dishwasher? Itâs like the worldâs worst game of Tetris! Shit!â
âAnd you donât get to whine about it at all for the next month,â Bruce teases him, poking his head around the corner. âPleasure doing business, chum.â
Dick snaps his head towards him, only to turn back and glare at his friends.
âI could have gotten out of tennis lessons instead, you absolutely shitheads. Ugh!â Then he stomps off.
After heâs left, Conner turns to the others and says, âI thought he was fucking with us about the tennis lessons.â
Just had a slightly unhinged idea for the JL figuring out Batman has kids
Bruce gets sent to an alien planet for whatever reason, and he leaves Dick (now Nightwing) behind. Dick is 16. He is, for the most part, in charge of his younger siblings while Bruce is gone.
Jason is 14 and Red Hood. Tim is 13 and Red Robin. Damian is 10 and Robin. They are NOT allowed to patrol more than one day a week, and they can only go on patrol if Dick is with them.
Alfred is much older but comes to visit from England to stay with them while Bruce is away. He is very much the doting grandpa.
And during this time, Nightwing is invited to join the JL. Dick assumes they all know heâs Batmanâs son, thinks itâs their weird way of checking in on him for Batman. Or maybe they think they need a Batman replacement while heâs gone, and so his oldest child is the next best thing.
Either way, Dick joins.
He thinks all of his dadâs coworkers are weird as hell and also very stupid, because he realizes they donât know heâs Batmanâs son. He decides to fuck with them because of it. For fun.
Bruce comes back a few months later and sees Nightwing at the welcome back meeting and just goes, âWhat are you doing here? Where are your brothers?â
âTheyâre with Grandpa.â
âOh good, good,â Bruce puts a hand on his heart, relieved. He momentarily forgot he asked Alfred to come stay with the boys. He was afraid Dick was here to drag him back to a chaos riddled Gotham and to tell him his other sons all went apeshit without any adult supervision.
But then he remembers heâs seeing his first born after months away from his kids and the softest smile spreads across his face, and it freaks everyone out when he just hugs the newbie super tight and tells him, âI missed you so much, chum.â
âI missed you more,â Dick mumbles into Bruceâs shoulder. âYour kids are insane and I demand compensation.â
Bruce just chuckles, squeezing Dick again before pulling back. Then he realizes everyone is staring at them and he gets offended.
âWhat? Youâve never seen a dad hug his kid before? I havenât seen him in months!â
âOooooh, heâs your kid!â someone says.
âI was afraid you were dating or something,â another mentions.
Dick has a visceral reaction, and he shimmies away from Bruce to shiver and gag and try to shake out all the heebie jeebies that one sentence just gave him.
âWait a damn minute,â Bruce barks, and he stomps over to the group that was left mainly in charge. âUnderage heroes need a release form signed by a parent or guardian! And I know for a fact I didnât sign anything for him to join before I left!â
âHe - he mustâve signed something saying he was an adult!â They try to say.
They had wrongly assumed Nightwing was over 18. Dick never corrected them.
Dick tries to sidestep away, but Bruce turns back around and grabs his shoulder while Dick whines.
âI just drew a little bat like when we forge your shit for the commish,â he whines, putting his pointer fingers up to his head like the ears of the batcowl. âI thought they knew I was your kid! At first. It quickly became obvious that theyâre dumb. But I did nothing wrong! Theyâre the ones who accepted it!â
Bruce groans, throwing his head back, then sighs and puts a hand over his eyes.
âWhat else happened while I was away?â
âWell I was your perfect most well behaved child as always,â Dick says, holding a hand to his chest. âI got straight As in all my classes, I took care of Gotham for you, I went out as Batman as necessary for patrol to keep up appearances, and I raised your other three gremlin children to the best of my ability and kept them reined in without setting them loose on the poor unsuspecting idiots of Gotham, with Grandpaâs help. I helped baby bat with his homework and got him ready for school every morning, and I made sure Red always remembered to take his lunch to school. I did my best with Hood, he is an outlier and he is not to be counted.â
âWhat did he do?â
âHe failed his math class and has to take summer school.â
Bruce sighs, but puts a hand on top of Dickâs head and ruffles his hair a bit.
âThank you for being a good big brother and holding down the fort while I was gone.â
âIt was miserable and terrible and I miss being an only child.â
âAs you remind me so very often.â
âBut you know what would make it so much easier to bear?â Dick asks, a big grin on his face.
âWhat would that be?â
âMy very own Batmobile,â Dick says, holding out his hands. âIt could be blue, for Nightwing! We could call it the Wingmobile! It would pair nicely with my Wingdings, donât you think?â
âIâll think about it.â
âI was you!â Dick insists. âFor seven months! Thatâs well over half the school year! I deserve a car!â
âYou have a car already. You got it for your 16th birthday.â
âI deserve a vigilante car!â Dick whines. âOr at least a motorcycle! Come on, please?â
They leave not long after that. And thatâs how the Justice League finds out that Batman has children. And they accidentally recruited one.
And that they should really screen the paperwork from new members better, because he really did sign everything with a doodle of a batblob.
phm time travel aus are always hilarious but I don't think I've ever seen one from rockys perspective before. imagine being rocky, suddenly just an engineer again and no longer hero of erid, trying to be like um. so. um. imagine. um. there are tiny tiny tiny dots in space. way tinier than astrophage. and they are like. evil. I think. and what if they get through the ship. and like. hurt us. and kill us. I think we should prepare for that possibility.
rocky would be sooo bad at hiding he's a time traveller. half of his habits were born from being with grace. he would crack and tell adrian within just a few months who immediately believes him because rockys been acting insane
i really like the concept of damian not being handed over to bruce, and rather being dropped off near him and then told to go make his introductions alone, because fuck it opens up the possibility for the funniest misunderstanding ever.
au where Jason was supposed to make sure Damian gets to Bruce safely but gets sidetracked by his crime lord/Joker revenge arc, and so on the night he was supposed to take Damian over to the manor he gets called away and tells Damian to just go over there alone, except Damian happens to spot Batman and Robin on patrol anyway and figures he just go and meet them there instead. which he does, and he goes home with them, and he settles in as a Wayne boy, eventually inheriting the Robin mantle from Tim, and itâs all normal and fine except for one thing.
Bruce has no idea Damian is his biological son.
Like, from Bruceâs perspective he just happened upon a small child with dark hair and an odd desensitisation to crime/violence with no other place to go and an interest in becoming Robin. that is literally how he acquired every other child he has adopted, this was Not unordinary behaviour from him. on Damianâs part, he had presumed that Talia would have alerted Bruce that he existed before sending him to Gotham, so he was under the impression that Bruce already knew Damian was his kid and this didnât feel the need to overtly mention it. he just kinda showed up in the middle of Batman fighting a group of muggers, helped take them down, said he no longer had another home (he forgot the code to Jasonâs apartment building and is too stubborn to ask for it again), and followed when Bruce told him to get in the batmobile.
i think Tim, Dick and Bruce would just assume that Damian is the product of some kind of trafficking ring/other horrible background that led to him being homeless on the streets with a decent hand to hand skillset, so they probably just. assume that Damian doesnât want to talk about it. thinking that Damian will come to them when heâs ready to talk about where he came from, they just ask that heâs safe and nobody from his past is going to come for him. but the thing is, Damian knows from Jason that Batman and the League of Assassins donât see eye to eye, so he presumes these questions are just about the probability of Damian meaning more league members are going to pop up in the Batmanâs territory. so Damian, being honest, just goes âno- well unless you count Red Hood, but he defected so iâm not sure that countsâ
so now Bruce not only has no idea heâs accidentally adopted his own fucking son, but he is under the impression that Damian is on the run from the Red Hood. and Damian is just increasingly confused by his familyâs reactions to -in his mind- normal scenarios.
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Bruce: and do you have a surname that you can remember?
Damian:
Damian, squinting: isnât it⊠Wayne?
Bruce:
Bruce, tearing up as he prepares to contact his lawyers about adopting a child with no legal identity: iâm so glad you feel the same way.
Damian: ?
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Bruce, the night they met Damian: and here is a guest room you can stay in for now,
Damian: thank you, Father.
Bruce:
Tim: that was quick. not even Dickâs at that stage yet.
Bruce: i know.
Tim: donât expect that from me, buddy. iâm still kinda mad the fake uncle trick didnât work.
Bruce: i know.
Tim: and i mean Dick left for Bludhaven, Jason ran for Ethiopia, i didnât originally want to be adopted; itâs about time you found a kid who actually likes you-
Bruce: Tim shut up and go to bed.
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Jason, interrupting them all on patrol: oh hey, you let the kid be Robin, cool.
Tim and Dick: *instantly jumping in front of Damian to shield him*
Dick: you arenât taking him, Hood!
Tim: heâs free from you now and we wonât let him go, understand?
Jason:
Damian:
Jason:
Jason, side-eyeing them suspiciously: âŠaight. anyway, kid, you left your hoodie at my place. here.
Damian, catching the hoodie and sending Tim and Dick weird looks: thanks�
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i want this to go on for so long. like, i want Jason to be back in the family and him and Damian still not realising none of the bats know Damian is Bruceâs actual kid. i want there to be a really bad incident involving the JLA where Bruce gets poisoned/magicked in some way where the only cure that will save his life is blood/DNA from a blood-related donor, and everybody is freaking the fuck out because Bruce has no siblings and his parents are dead, so they have no options.
meanwhile Damian and Jason are like ??? fucking baffled at the panic, and Damian just starts rolling up his sleeve and turning to the JL like âok, well, i dunno what theyâre crying about, but do you wanna take my blood then?â and the Justice League genuinely have no idea what the fuck is going on because Bruce said this kid was adopted.
"Where do babies come from?"
It's a common question asked by children all over the world with varying answers from the stork or finding babies under a cabbage leaf but in Gotham, parents came up with the much more local version. Where do babies come from? Batman brings them, obviously. The Robins? Children that couldn't find their parents in time so Batman kept them. And bad children? Where do you think all the Bats in Gotham come from?
So I imagine Bruce being on a rooftop one time and a little kid gets the drop on him, tugging his cape and Bruce is all like, "can I help you little guy? Also, why are you awake?" and the kid is all "look, don't turn me into a bat but I want a brother, so cough up?". And Bruce is just confused as fuck until the kid explains calmly, that his mom told him that Batman brings babies and he wants a brother, not a sister and yes, he's technically breaking his mom's rule about getting out of bed but he's brought some fruit so don't turn him into a bat, please and thank you? Bruce just nods and insists on bring the kid home and for years after he's completely confused by the exchange until Tim, freshly Robin, breaks it to him. "I left you chicken bones and a can of Coors Light for a month straight because wanted a sibling," gesturing to Dick, "It kind of worked?"
Inspired by this post. What if Danny completely derails Injustice.
âThis is sooo not fair!â Danny huffed while dramatically falling in his bed âitâs like no one around here ever watched a heroâs fight on TV. Every time I show up itâs either an emergency and I have to save Sam the Cat from a tree he climbed before the poor thing falls or the ghost hunters are going to be on scene already and start shooting on sight! I never get to do my evil villain monologue. Lord of the Flies, I only managed TWO evil laughs EVER! And one of those times my voice cracked in the middle, which sooo embarrassing! Whatâs the fun of being a supervillain if the heroes wonât even let me give a proper monologueâ Danny pouted while turning to lay face down on his pillow.
âThere, thereâ Tucker patted his friends head in solidarity, âthereâs still a lot of fun to be had anyway. Remember that time we raided the GIWâs HQ and put neon orange paint on their laundry soap? Their looks of despair and cussing for the month it took to replace their clothes was priceless!â
â⊠yeah, that was funnyâ Danny answered muffled by the pillow.
âRight! And besides itâs not your fault no one knows villain x hero etiquette around here.â
âYeah, but itâs like they are singled me out!â Danny said turning his face around âevery other ghost gets to do their monologue. Box Ghost starts to give a monologue and everyone just listens politely before fighting him! It canât even be âcause Iâm a halfa or they wouldnât let Vlad do his evil speech. Moby Dick, even FREAKSHOW gets an uninterrupted evil speech and laugh, the guy isnât even a ghost! Just some random creep with more time than senseâ Danny groans.
âBeing a villain means you donât have to adhere to the conventional rules and can just do whatever thoughâ Sam remarked from where she was laying on a nearby puff âI say let the heroes worry about being âpoliteâ and just do your thingâ she gave her two cents.
âYeeaahâ Danny groaned long suffering âbut what I wanna is to give my monologue. I got it all wrote out and memorized, even got my act down to a T in the mirror. Itâs just⊠I worked so hard on it, I spent more time and effort in this than on all my lit homework from this entire year combinedâ
âThatâs not something you should be proud ofâ Jazz remarked dryly from the open door as she passed the hallway.
âIt just Frankensteins so much I donât ever get the chance show it up!â Danny finished as if he was never interrupted in the first place.
âSounds like itâs the heroes who are the problem-â
âAs alwaysâ Sam interrupted Tuckerâs musing.
âSo⊠what if you tried another hero? One who would follow basic courtesy like letting you talk before the battle?â
At that Danny sat up to look at Tucker in interest âyou mean like make another hero, like me and Cujo got Val to become Red Huntress?â He seemed to give it some thought before shaking his head âno, with Val it was a âright person at the right placeâ kind of thing, I canât just go around trashing peopleâs places and works to hope one of their kids takes up a cape and is more polite than the rest of the town heroes, thatâd be rude.â
âWell yeah, but what if you just went up the territory of another hero? Like, you can swing by Gotham and put a âkick me sticker on one of the Waynes or something, thatâs bound to get Batmanâs attention and everyone says the guy is super polite and a great listener! All the goons and officers-â
âYou just said the same thing twiceâ Danny chimed in and high-fived Sam.
â-who appear on interviews always talk about how the bat does everything in silence and how much attention he pays to details. The guy would be delighted to have a new villain in his city, Iâm sure he is starved for new material as far as villain monologue goes.â
âABSOLUTELY NOT!â Sam immediately shot down âGotham is the most gothic city EVER! I will NOT, have either of you visiting it without me, so not until summer vacation, which will take forever!â
âGOTHAM IS ALSO THE SECOND MOST CRIME-INFESTED CITY ON THE COUNTRY AND I DONâT WANT MY BABY BROTHER WALKING AROUND THERE UNSUPERVISED!â Jazz shouted from her room across the wall.
âOh yeah, that too I guessâ Sam agreed.
âFine, so not Gotham. Central City?â Tucker proposed.
âAre you crazy? The Flash is the fastest hero EVER-â
âThatâs debatable-â
âItâs really notâ
âHe will not even give me time to open my mouth before we start to throw hands! Star city?â
âI mean, Green Arrow seems like a total Moby Dick, not sure he wouldnât immediately start shooting. Cost City?â Sam countered and proposed.
âI mean⊠isnât Green Lantern like a space cop?â Danny scrunched his nose âthatâs like a super GIW, right?â The three thought for a second and shuddered at the image.
âRight⊠so moving on, how about Metropolis?â The three thought for a bit.
âI mean, Superman is an alien, right? Iâd love to meet him!â
âMetropolis is supposed to be the unholy child of a Hallmark movie and a cartoon for little kids where everyone is polite and sweet and stuff, you can keep that to yourself and please do not include me on it.â
âThe main villain there is Luthor, so no worries of stepping on another personâs toes. To heck with that guy, he puts paywalls on EVERYTHING.â Tucker grumbled.
ââŠâ Jazz said nothing, which is close enough to agreement for them.
âSo itâs decided, Iâm going to Metropolis monologue to Superman!â
âYeah, the Boy Scout wonât know what hit him!â
â⊠wait, do you think he was an actual Boy Scout when he was a kid? âCause thatâd be pretty coolâ
âNah, there werenât boy scouts back when the old time heroes like him were kidsâ.
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Danny made good time to Metropolis. As a ghost he could turn intangible to avoid any air resistance or drag while also reducing his mass to zero. And, as he is creating his own propulsion by just thinking it, that means he could travel much faster than sound without worrying about causing problems for anyone. Really, his biggest issue is that if he goes too fast things get kinda blurry and itâs pretty easy to overshoot your target, so he had to stop to get his bearings and backtrack more than once, but he still made it to the city!
Upon arriving Danny took some time to go sightseeing as he likely wouldnât get the chance during his fight. Took a few photos sat upside down upon the globe of the Daily Planet to put on his twitter, ate a hot dog, went intangible to Lex Luthorâs office and pantsied him right in the middle of a meeting, you know, normal tourist stuff. Feeling good about himself he decided to move to the harbor as itâs far away enough that his fight with Superman shouldnât get in anybodyâs way.
He then did some (unneeded) stretches and jumped a bit to loosen up, then did a few quick voice exercises he wrangled from Ember so his monologue would go perfect.
He was just about to kickstart his fight by doing the most heinous villain act of his entire career that would be sure to get Superman down ready to throw hands. He carefully picked the wrapping of his hot dog and was ready to throw it (on the street! Not the sea, heâs a villain, not a monster) when he heard a crash from behind him. He turned curiously to see the reason and- WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK!
If asked later, Danny would freely admit that this was the fastest he ever flew because that was Superman and that was a pregnant woman he was punching in the air, the heck-
He fortunately managed to cross the distance in no time and overshadowed Superman harder than he had ever overshadowed anyone before. Immediately upon entering the body he felt a foreign wave of terror slam into him with such an intensity that it almost made his vision wave before he gritted his teeth and forcibly threw it at his core to convert in more ecto. Now in control he wasted no time in flying up and scooping up pregnant lady gently.
âOh man. Lord of the Flies, what! Who just- dude, yeah, pregnant woman scare me too since that bio class, but- What- Who does that! Thatâs- thatâs messed up Sups. Thatâs a pregnant woman, dude you canât just- the HELL!â Danny panicked while he felt the conscience of Superman in the back of his head gradually get his bearings with growing horror.
âOkay, okay, thatâs- thatâs not fine. She needs a medic and- Frankstein, this looks bad. I never saw someoneâs guts before, but- okay, calm down Fenton, keep it together. A hospital is not fast enough I will just-â now actively throwing his own anxiety and fear at his core on top of Superman to keep from panicking (too much) Danny took a deep breath and laid his hands on the womanâs side over her ribcage.
Being in Supermanâs body is disorienting and frankly an experience Danny could do without. He was already used to holding back his own strength, but his was kinda a âmind over matterâ deal with him being as strong as he could believe himself to be, Superman though⊠it was like there was no resistance whatsoever; air, flesh, bone, it all gave the same minimal resistance and if Danny wasnât used to going intangible he was sure he would have already crushed this womanâs chest by pressing too far. His vision was all wrong going too far and under the skin with the flex of muscles he didnât have and it was too loud and-
Deep breath. Itâs⊠fine. Send the panic attack to core, we have no time for panic now. âNot the first time you had to get used to powers mid-emergency Fenton, keep yourself together!â. With a last deep breath Danny focused back in the pregnant lady on his arms. He never saw anyoneâs inside before, but he could take his cues of what is around the bruised spots and that didnât look right, her heart also seemed to be beating too slow from what he could hear and there was blood and-
âRight!â He took another deep breath âmy vision is changing so much I might as well be blind and she is so close to death that no doctor would be fast enough to save her. Thatâs⊠fine, Iâve beaten worse odds. If Frostbite can be a doctor I can heal her. Letâs just⊠stitch her up⊠from the inside. Thatâs⊠fineâ.
Without knowing well what to do Danny awkwardly sent some ectoplasm on the womanâs body and âfeltâ around organs until he came upon what felt like a misshaped closed fist growing and shrinking in uneven intervals, figuring that might be the heart he used his untrained telekinesis to press and pull it in a somewhat regular interval. Since his sight wouldnât help him anyway with how it couldnât choose what to look at nor how closely he closed his eyes and tried to block all his senses, focusing solely on his ectoplasm.
He felt a second kind of energy running through Supermanâs body besides his own. One that was warm and strengthening for a lack of other words. In impulse he tried to divert some to join the flow of ecto going to the womanâs body, but it resisted being diverted, whatever it is itâs course was too rigid for it, different from his own free-flowing ectoplasm. Not willing to just give up Danny directed some of his own energy to âdipâ on Supermanâs and collect some before re-joining the flow, which⊠worked? Better than expected even as the heart he was forcibly pumping seemed to all but soak on the warmth infused ecto and start mending up.
âRightâ thought Danny âI can do thisâ a determination that seemed to echo his host as he could feel a wave of decisiveness from him and what felt like him deliberately trying to pull himself back to be as unobtrusive as one could be on their own body.
Now with a route in mind Danny got to work, using his ecto âtouchâ to try to feel around the womanâs body from the inside and awkwardly make things work however felt right. When he felt a pool of what he assumed to be blood outside the veins he telekinetically scooped it up and pushed it back where he felt a burst or sliced vein before stitching it up with a thread of ecto he then solidified inside the body. Bone was pulled back in a form that felt right-ish, torn muscle awkwardly pressed back together, still-
âI canât see!â He cried out âI canât see what Iâm doing, where things are how bad it is, how-!â
In the middle of his latest panic he felt a flash of determination from his host and a sudden focus razor-sharp and intense focusing on the eyes. It did nothing against his overshadowing, but the message was clear nonetheless.
âYou want to control the eyes?â Danny asked dubiously âyou are not gonna laser beam her down are you?â The presence recoiled aghast and then turned back to trying to control the eyes âthis is a terrible ideaâ, but despite his best judgment Danny still relented and pulled back his control over the eyes, Superman immediately took over, opened them and did⊠something? Like pulling a muscle and relaxing another while focusing somehow into a certain depth and suddenly Danny could see the bones of the woman and the surrounding bits of muscle and organs consistently. Not looking a gift horse in the mouth he proceeded to direct his ecto to put those back in a somewhat right way, now with a lot more confidence and knowing better what he is doing.
On the on they went, looking for parts that seemed damaged and putting those back together, the ecto keeping things in place and the warmth making the body heal much faster, when they got to fixing the damage to it. The fetus in particular seemed to soak up on the warm ecto like a sponge to the point that Danny had to spend more time ensuring it hadnât eaten up his previous work than actually fixing it. At many times Danny had to redo his earlier work now that he could see where he messed up, but gradually they got the womanâs body back in one piece that looked right-ish. In the end of the impromptu procedure Danny cautiously let go of the hold he had kept on her heart pumping it and it kept beating, albeit on a different rhythm than the one he guessed.
Finally, with a sigh of relief, Danny disentangled from Supermanâs body, figuring the local would have a much better idea of the best hospital to take his former victim(?) than Danny. For a moment the three stood floating there without knowing what to do. At some point what looked like Wonder Woman and Green Lantern had flown to stand near them, but thankfully hadnât interrupted. Now that he wasnât actively blocking out outside stimuli to concentrate anymore he could even spy what looked to be Batman on the ground near what looked like the cross of a sports car and a tank âprobably the Batmobileâ he reasoned.
He could see Superman gearing up to say something, so he spoke first.
âRightâ Danny clapped his hands in front of him âso, I did what I could, but Iâm really not a medic, or a nurse, or - strictly speaking - good at biology, so⊠you should probably get her to a doctor asap. I would recommend mine, but he doesnât really come to this dimension a lot, so-â
âThank youâ Superman cut him off quietly, a deep and sincere look of gratitude on his face âI was under the effect of Scarecrowâs fear gas, it almost made me kill her. I donât know what I would have done if I- just⊠thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Today you were a true heroâ at that Danny groaned.
âNot againâ he whined âI already get that from miss Albrey for that time rescue her cat from a tree and from mister Smith for not letting his son be run through, and- not important. Look dude, Iâm a supervillain, not a heroâ Danny explained.
For some reason all the heroes, even Flash who had just arrived, looked baffled by this.
âBut⊠you saved my wife? And⊠you just said you saved kids and cats, and⊠just⊠how come you think you are a villain?â Superman seemed to be genuinely confused by the concept despite him fighting villains every other day. Also, pregnant lady was Supesâ wife. Huh, good to know, but back to the matter at hand.
âWell, yeah? This was an innocent civilian woman you were beating the daylights out of like me ripping into Skulker, I couldnât just⊠leave you to it? Thatâd be horrible! Iâm a villain, not a monster, no matter what the GIW says and- wait, Iâm getting ahead of myself.â Danny shakes his hands walking on air from one side to the other.
âGIW? Look son, I donât know who that is, but you shouldnât believe everything people say, especially if itâs about you. Nothing you just described sounds like a villain to meâ The Man of Steel said to Dannyâs indignation.
âExcuse me!â He turned pointed a finger at the startled alien âI will have you know that Iâm a villain and a very cool one at that! I regularly raid bases of the government every time I hear about them having captured another person or ghost to experiment on! N-the scientists who opened a rift to the world of the dead in their basement so they can vivisect ghosts minding their own business call me the greatest menace their town has ever known!â Danny crossed his arms and filled his chest in pride.
âAl- right. So you are a⊠villain?â Superman said raising his hands placating.
âAnd a dang good one at that! I mean, a dang terrible one! Terrifying one? Well, Iâm scarier than Box Ghost, so there!â Danny pointed triumphantly, before shaking his head in consternation and pouting âI had this whole monologue ready for months, about my evil plan, why Iâm evil and stuff, but none of the heroes in my town stay still long enough for me to say it! I had come here so we could fight and I could finally get to give it, I had planned to litter in the street so we could fight and all⊠but now the moment is gone. And you should really take her to the hospital I think? I guess I can come back in a few days and we can have our epic showdown. How does Friday sound to you? This way I can stay up late-â
At that Danny seemed to realize something and looked up in alarm.
âLord of the Flies!â All the heroes jumped âitâs almost my bedtime! Moby Dick, Iâm going to be in so much trouble, oh no, oh no. Bye Sups, see you Friday, gotta goâ and then he flew up at top speed back home. The baffled heroes still reeling from the surreal experience and with more questions than answers. Unnoticed by Danny a cameraman and reporter nearby had captured the entire conversation.
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In the aftermath Lois is (finally) taken to a hospital and makes a full recovery. Their baby (Iâm tempted to have Clark and Lois name him Danny instead of Jon as thanks to Danny for saving him once they learn his name) is born healthy if somewhat liminar (your pick to what effect - if any - this has), Danny shows up later for his promised fight, he is received with a delicious homemade pie courtesy of Ma Kent and the heroes sit patiently to hear his entire monologue, which is great! They give him reason for his actions instead of fighting upon hearing his speech of how the anti-ecto acts are terrible and the GIW deserves having their bases messed up, which is less great. They then proceed to publicly claim he is a hero and the GIW are the actual villains, which is terrible! At least the anti-ecto acts were recognized as a blight that should never have been allowed to exist and scrapped, which, silver linings?
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My first post. Accidentally pressed the âcreate pollâ button and now donât know how to fix it, soâŠ
How can anyone be this bad at tech?
Could happen to anyone.
His plan to litter and then deliver his whole "evil" monologue. đ„ș The heroes listening politely and him swearing in book titles like his teacher because he's late for bedtime.đ„ș
Just my small take on it.
OR...
Danny arrives on the scene to start his journey to true villainy. That is until he sees Superman, the boy scout, Big blue himself, rocking the shit of a pregnant Civilian woman. His obsession goes into overdrive and he isn't thinking straight. Mind you, the heroes are far away, while news crews are live capturing the truth of a superman. Lex is celebrating because everyone is seeing 'Superman'
Danny bulks up and grows from a 5'5" to 6'5" hunk. His crown comes into view and his armor is visible. He speeds in between Superman and Civvie (Civilian- Lois) and shoulder checks him, sending the man of steel flying backwards over 10 blocks. He opens a portal to the Far Frozen and hands the civvies to frostbite and tells him ti treat her immediately.
Once the portal closes, he turns towards Superman and floats over to him. Superman comes up from the ruble and in his maddened haze, tries to go after Danny. Danny catches Superman's face in his palm amd smacks him down. Standing over him, he punches his face multiple times and is actually hurting him.
Danny: "How dare you! I was going to offer you a simple brawl, an honest show of power, but upon seeing this atrocity, I am appalled by the heroes of this Earth. I came here to see what you were like, to see if you were worth working with, to decide if I would go to the UN with a declaration of war or to negotiate the anti-ecto acts.
The American government has called me and my people monsters and villains, even though I'm the only thing standing between my town and the afterlife. And now, I see a so-called hero beating a heavily pregnant woman. I refuse to be associated with you any longer. You better pray that woman survives because her survival determines the fate of this country."
Right as he is done, he flies up and zooms through a portal. Just then, the Justice League arrived and gave Superman the antidote to the toxin. They lift him out of the rubble and rush back to the carrier. As they leave, they are pelted by stones and pebbles. Anything the people could get their hands on. They rushed back to see what they could do in terms of damage control. They were royally f*cked.
Danny was fuming, but at least he protected the lady. It took her 3 months in a healing chamber to regain consciousness and another 2 months to start talking. She could still communicate, so they asked her name, her next of kin, how far along she was, and what she could remember. She wrote her name, her husband's name, and the last thing she remembered was greeting her husband in the morning when he went off to work.
Danny sat by her and held her hand gently.
Danny: "I don't know how to say this gently, so I'm just going to rip off the band aid, but you have to promise to stay calm."
Lois nodded, or as much as she squeezed Danny's warm hands.
Danny: "Alright Lois, I found you 3 months ago, getting the shit knocked out of you by Superman. No one could recognize you as your skull was caved in. Your arms and right leg were broke and bent wrongly while your left leg was torn off. You were paralysed from the neck down, and your left lung was punctured.
I guess it was your resilience that let you survive long enough for me to get to you. Similarly, your baby is just as resilient as you. Despite everything, the baby survived. However, for you to live, you had to become something else. You are no longer fully human. You're like me, sort off."
Danny took a deep breath. He was hyperventilating and it took Frostbite rubbing his paw on his back and calming him down to focus again.
Danny: "I used to be fully human until a lab accident killed me. I died and was revived multiple times and jn a short amount of time. It turned me into something else. I am still me, but I am so much more now. I am a hero. I protect both humans and beings beyond the veil. I keep the balance of order and chaos. I duelled to protect my town, the earth, and our universe safe from a tyrant. I am still underage, but I have done my best so far with the great powers I have.
For you, I made you like the people of my town and Gotham. They have been ecto-infused since birth and for living in places with high ambient ectoplasm. For you to survive, you had to be made a high liminal. However, that makes you a target for the American Government, more specifically the GIW, due to the AEA. I am sorry for taking away your right to choose, but your life and that of your unborn were at stake.
Now that we've covered that, I need to ask some other questions. What is your spouse's contact, and would you like for me to call him. Also, we believe your child is due in about 1 month. We could deliver them here, or have you returned to the United States, via the United Nations. I have to meet with them anyway."
Lois writes down her thoughts.
Lois: I don't want you to contact my spouse. I'll do it when I can speak again. Just stay with me, please. Also, could you deliver a letter for me after i give birth? That will be all.
Danny does just that. Over the next month, they get close as friends. Lois is the favorite aunt and elder, while Danny is the sassy nephew and youngling. She chooses to have her baby in the Far Frozen. She moves to Amity and recovers there. Since Danny's retirement (after beating Superman), he closed the portal and built a deflector (basically, no one can read his ectoplasm levels, and it reads as low or negligible, like his parents).
Danny is often found at Lois'place and is like her helpful nephew. He buys her groceries and necessities, while playing with his little cousin/nephew (they'll figure it out as they go). Lois has been getting therapy, as her memory started coming back to her. It made recovery hard, even though she was physically okay. On really hard days, Danny would stay over at the apartment and care for both her and the baby.
After 3 months, Lois was able to care for the baby and look at the baby. She and Danny kept talking, and after a while, he decided to move out of his parents place, as usual, they did not notice his absence. He moved in with Lois and switched to online school. Without ghosts, Red Huntress, the GIW (who have been suspiciously quiet), Vlad, or worrying about his parents, Danny was able to prosper.
He might be 19, but he couldn't pass, so he focused on getting his GED. He did that and got into university, though he took his courses online. From time to time, he meets up with Tucker to liberate Vlad of some of his negligible wealth. Just enough to pay for school, Lois' apartment, grocery and utilities for all 3 of them, and to keep Lois stable without working.
It took 6 months post-partum for Lois to tell Danny what happened. He was pissed, regardless of the circumstances, but he held himself back. Lois didn't need any more fear or anger in her life. It took 1 year for Lois to be ready to reach out to Bruce. Danny flew her and baby, Samuel Dante Lane (Samuel for Lois' Dad, Dante for Danny, and Lane as his surname), to New York.
They waited for Bruce in Central Park, and when he arrived, Danny collected the baby from Lois while she walked up to Bruce and gave him a clean hit in the jaw. When he looked back up, she slapped him. Then she started hitting him (it did nothing but let her vent her anger), after a while, she stopped and Bruce hugged her. She cried and kept on crying for a while. In the meantime, Danny fed Samuel, changed him, and rocked him to sleep.
Once Lois stopped crying, her and Bruce spoke for a while. She told him her baby's name and told Bruce that they'd see her at the UN meeting. With that, she walked to Danny, and as soon as she held his hand, they disappeared. They went to a hotel and booked a room, while Danny went over his speech for the UN. Lois posted from her official social media accounts that the hero who saved her is back to make good on his promise, he will be at the UN in two weeks for the case to begin.
The world was in an uproar...
This is as much as I've gotten off the top of my head.
Danny: You're very wise, like an old owl.
Bruce: Ugh, thank you, but please don't compare me to an owl.
Dani: Why?
Bruce: I prefer to be wise like....a fox.
Danny: No matter how much you try to manifest it, you will not grow up to be a silver fox. That's Alfred's title and no one can challenge him for it.
Alfred: Thank you Master Danny.
Bruce: No that's not the reason. I just don't like owls.
Dan: Is this about Owlman?
Bruce nervously: Ha ha who?
Dan whispering to his siblings: In an alternate universe, Bruce goes crazy and dresses up as Owlman.
Danny whispers back: In comparison to the sane decision, of dressing up as Batman?
Dan: Owlman liked to murder people. Batman just likes to hit them
Dani: Who's Batman?
Danny/Dan: What? We've been living with Batman for the past eight months. I mean, he doesn't know that we know, but we know.
Dani: Stop talking at the same time. It's creepy. That's how you wind up at the orphanage. Bruce can barely stand that we're posing as triplets and I dont know about you idiots, but I am not going to be a eight year old orphan in a Gotham Orphanage.
Danny: Oh bo-hoo you got de-aged four years, I lost six! I was two years away from a driving license!
Dan: I was twenty four. And now I'm eight. But honestly, I kinda like it. My back pain is gone.
Bruce: Kids? Why are you whispering under the table like that?
Danny/Dan/Danny: I was just telling them how much the nannies at pick up go wild whenever Alfred walks by.
Bruce: .....
Dani: Why are you silent? Was it the weird three voices speaking at once thing? I told them not to do that anymore. We are open to an exorcism if you think it helps.
Bruce: No. I just had flashbacks to when Alfred would drop me off at shcool. So many nannies that were.....excited and verbal about thier excitement.
Alfred smug: I still got it.
Danny: Ya you do, Silver Fox Man!
Picture this: a scenario where the JL doesnât know Batman & Robinâs secret identities yet. Maybe they donât even know if Robin is real or just a rumor online. And theyâre discussing a time for their next meeting when Batman just interjects:
âSaturday wonât work for me. My sonâs baseball team is having a bake sale.â
The entire room goes silent, because no one realized Batman even had a kid. Or went out in the daylight.
âWhat?â one of the others asks, still shocked.
âA bake sale,â Batman says slowly, like theyâre all a little stupid. âItâs a fundraiser.â
âI know what a bake sale is! But since when do you have a kid?â
âHave you not met Robin?â he asks, sounding genuinely surprised. âHeâs been to the Watchtower several times now.â
âRobinâs your kid?â gets asked first, followed closely by someone else asking, âRobin is real?â
âCanât you just drop him off?â Superman asks, trying to calm the situation.
âWell Iâm also the coach, so that probably wouldnât be setting a very good example for the kids, Superman.â
âYouâre the coach?â Someone asks.
âYes.â
âOf a little league team?â
âYes.â
âAre we in the Twilight Zone?â Hal whispers to Barry, who shushes him.
âWill Sunday work?â Superman asks quickly, wanting this to get resolved.
âSo long as itâs over with by 4pm.â
âWhy?â
âI told Robin Iâd take him to the Gotham Knights game.â
Everyoneâs heads are spinning. Batman is actually acting like a normal guy with a normal kid. This is not at all what they imagined he was like outside of the cowl. Some of them didnât think he ever actually took the cowl off at all.
That Sunday, Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are seen on TV arriving a little late to sit behind home plate at the Gotham Knights game. Dick, 9 years old, looks very grumpy about being late until Bruce gets him a giant ice cream to make up for the fact that his meeting ran long. It still takes a few years before the JL find out Bruce Wayne is Batman.
Everything in these panels is so good. Dick doubting whether he can fill Batman's role as well, the Wayne legacy getting physically obliterated, the shattered cowl showing his face (so much like Bruce, and nobody would know the difference), and one of Batman's classic rogues telling him he's messing up.
Gates of Gotham (2011)
I know people make much of Dick calling Jaybin "Little Wing" that first time but we have to acknowledge the absolute funny truth to it. Dick was still pissed off at Bruce, Jason didn't tell him his name and Dick was for sure not calling Jason "Robin" so in his head, he must have ran through each of these points and also went, "fuck you Bruce. If you can pick up a random kid to be your sidekick, I can do it too. This is Little Nightwing."
Dcxdp
Dan/Danny/Dani 2/5
Dan raising Ellie and Danny in Central City
Due to the GIW interfering and almost killing everyone, Danielle was destabilized and Danny was almost completely ended.
Dan, who had been doing community service with Clockwork, was now saddled with his younger self who was now a baby, and his younger selfâs clone, who was now a toddler, both of whom had very little memories of before.
Due to Vlad and the GIW, being dicks, it wasnât safe for Danny or Ellie to remain in Amity while the fighting was going on. So, clockwork decided that Dan, for the rest of his parole, was going to raise both halfas in the immortal world, since staying in the infinite realms was not good for them.
Thankfully, clockwork and Tucker created a fake identity. He was now Dante times, a single father of a girl named Eleanor and a boy named Danny. Clock work even lined up a job for him as a mechanic at a shop in Central city.
He even had a slightly odd friendship with a guy named Roy, a single dad who lived in Central City due to some problems with his father, and had an adorable little girl named Lian.(Ellie and Lian were best friends from the moment they met, and both girls doted on baby Danny.)
Wally hadnât expected much when he found out Roy was living in Central city. It was a well-known fact that he had been feuding with Green Arrow for a while, and the Flash Family had agreed to let Roy hide out here. What he wasnât expecting to see was the guy who Bart had warned them all about, the guy that had taken out all the heroes, including Batman, in his nightmare future, talking to Roy over coffee while a girl who looked exactly like him play dolls with Lian. He especially wasnât expecting to see the man Bart described as a sadistic monster soothe a crying baby boy who looked almost exactly like him.
Wally got the feeling they would have to have a Flash Family meeting soon, and started debating on bringing Roy.ïżŒ
The tags mentioned assumed sa with Dan actually meaning that Vlad was once a part of him, he made him, and he hates that. But I'm going to add in that he also sort of likes it because I headcanon Vlad having an obsession about family and Dan likes feeling protective of his kids. This, of course, gets misinterpreted.
And then I make it worst by having Ellie refer to her wanting to be the perfect daughter but saying it like Vlad was grooming her. So uh, this is your warning.
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Wally was texting Dick that if Wally didn't respond in the next hour, he'd call back up. Then, he heard the muffled sobs.
He froze for a moment outside Dan's door. Was it a good idea to knock? Probably, probably not. He could lockpick it or even just go through the door. His current clothes weren't made for that type of thing, but that didn't really matter right now.
Then he thought about why he could hear him so well.
He looked to the side, and just as he expected, a window was open.
He moved to stand beside it and started to really listen.
"-can't just not think about it, Jazz! I can't even- I hear him. I could hear him in my head, and I hate it. I hate it I hate it I hate it!"
Heavy, wet gasps of air fill the silence as the other person, Jazz, responds to that.
"No! No, I don't like- I never wanted that to happen, I-I wanted some form of reassurance! I wanted everything to be okay even if it was never going to be, so I asked him for help. I asked him, begged him and- and he had that voice, that voice, Jazz. That stupid fucking voice that somehow makes me shiver in fear but also relax."
Wally heard him let out a manic laugh. The words that Dan was saying were connecting dots. Dots he didn't even know existed. Dots he didn't want to exist.
"But he was nice..."
And Wally wanted to scream that no! No, he wasn't! Whoever that man was, he took advantage of you, Dan!
"I don't... I hate him. I hate his voice, but I love them. I love them like he did me. He went- it was a bad idea but I... I asked for it. That was my fault that I ended up this way. This was all my fault and I don't know if I hate that I'd do it all over again! I'd change a few thing, I would, but I'd go to him. I'd still go to him..."
Oh shit-
Dan was in love with his rapist. He blamed himself for getting raped. For having gone through that twice, possibly more times.
Wally's hand covered his mouth and his eyes teared up.
Fuck, he hated when he heard things like that. As a hero, he doesn't have to really go into it to help. The family and friends of the victim would seek it for them in his stead.
But this was Roy's friend. A friend that was becoming a friend to the Flashfam. They couldn't let him think this way. They could let him think he should go back to that bastard.
"Dad...?"
"Ellie! You're- you're supposed to be asleep."
"You're crying. Is- is it him again?"
"... It's nothing bad."
"He's always bad, though."
"He loved me, he loved you and-"
"But he hurt you."
"I asked him to."
"I thought I wanted it too."
Wally's eyes went wide.
"What?"
Dan didn't know. That gave Wally the slightest peace of mind, but he still felt sick to the stomach.
"Not- not like you. But I wanted him to like me. So I played dress up and did what he told me too. He didn't do anything like he did to you, but he still hurt me. Is it ok if I asked for it too? That I wanted it?"
Wally heard the chair scrape the floor and fall over. With a small peek, he saw Dan hugging Ellie tightly.
"No. No, it's not ok. It's never ok."
Wally decided to leave. He got more than enough intel to know what was going on with Dan.
No, he didn't know what happened to his family that made him evil in the future.
But he knew that he was sexually abused and that his daughter was too. He doesn't think that Ellie had lost her virginity. He really hopes he's right.
All that was enough for him to decide that they have to help Dan. No like he was before. Yes, they'll support him as a single dad, but they'll also help him get away from that monster. Ellie mightâve already got him to, but there's no guarantee that he wouldn't make a deal with the bastard if pushed to a corner.
Wally won't let him get to that point. And if Dan did get backed into a corner, then he'll make it so that Dan turns to Roy or any of the Flashes, even the Bats or Supers or- or whoever! He won't let him go back to that hellhole!
Wally stomped off, texting Dick that he was fine and went to the Flashfam group chat.
Dcxdp idea #2
 so I have an idea. Danny ends up in some sort of cloning body in Cadmus. but instead of you know being Amazed by the bunch of Heroes and aliens and such he is terrified. not because they're Heroes and such but because his powers are locked up and they're scrutinizing him. He is confused and disoriented and he is not explained what the Justice League is because to everyone else it is common knowledge and they forget to explain it. So from Danny's point of view he is just being moved to a different facility. I think Danny does not realize he is in a different body for a hot minute because he was disoriented. I imagine Danny going along with whatever people are telling him because his experience with everything isn't exactly good.
Everyone would be so used to everyone automatically going into heroism that Danny wouldn't really get a choice in it. Everyone would be trying to help Danny But they're not helping with the right things. I think Danny would be seen as a natural at heroism and make it seem like it was something he wanted to do. Danny wouldn't try and show off a bunch of his powers because he is trying to have a few tricks up this sleeve. I think that his natural response to being quippy when in danger or scared would be seen as his normal personality and because no one knows him they wouldn't see anything wrong with how he is doing.
 I imagine there would be a lot of angst when they realize that Danny doesn't know he can say no. He would get really injured and maybe try and hide it or he would literally get up off of a medical bed or ask about other missions and that is when other people start to realize something is up. I imagine if their telling him to rest then him being like I haven't needed rest before and that's when they realize Danny wasn't not injured , he just didn't think he was allowed to be. I think it would cause angst for the heroes because they then realize Danny did not know he was safe and the friendliest they thought he was exuding was really him just trying to be on his captors good side. especially if they don't know Danny was Danny outside of the clone body.
I can totally imagine when on some mission with either Jonn or M'ggn where they are using their telepathy powers to communicate to each other because coms can't be used for some reason and like alot of things, they forgot to explain it to Danny. So Danny accidentally broadcasts his current thoughts. At first it just sounds like pre-mission nerves but as he continues to ramble on his thoughts, those who he doesn't realize he's mentally connected to start to hear and maybe even feel(idk if that's a thing I'm not fully sure how their powers work) how scared Danny is constantly, how worried he is about what they might do to him if he screws up the mission and if one of them approaches him, they can hear him coaching himself on how to respond in a way that pleases them.
Also, correct me if Iâm wrong, but didnât Conner get his name(s) from Superman and Pa and Ma Kent (Kon-el and Conner)?
So wouldnât they assume Danny doesnât have a name? What if they give one to him?
They think theyâre giving him some sense of identity and personhood, helping him, but all theyâre doing is hurting him further.
And then Danny never tells anyone that he has a name. He hides it as itâs one of the few things they canât take from him or control. He responds to the new name and pretends to love it, trying desperately to please his captors.
And it isnât until after the whole reveal happens and he is slowly realizing heâs safe that one day, one of them calls him by his fake name and he quietly asks them to not call him that and reveals his real name, Danny.
Also, when does it happen? Because i dont think you can put him into a clone body before he's a full ghost. Now immagin its centuries after the end of the show so Sam, Tucker, Jazz and everyone else is a ghost too. And then, from one moment to the next, Danny's gone. They keep searching everywhere but they dont find him. Not even
Meanwhile, Danny joined the team(probably jung justice, but idk) does missions with them. I think if we go with he doesn't think he has a choice then maybe he thinks the reason they never explicitly say something bad is because they are public figures and want to keep there image(maybe something like in the boys, but idk, didn't watch it)
So at some point the ghost find the dimension where Danny is and just start to kinda invade while searching for him if hes the Ghost King, else its probably just a squad of powerful ghost that seem the attack.
Oh and then the ghosts/his old friends finally find him and all the heros are gearing up to throw down, when Phantom breaks away as fast as he possibly can because SAFETY. FREEDOM. Is right there and those are his friends he missed them so much, they came to retrieve him. Heâd almost given up hope but they came for him.
Heroâs are definitely like, wtf Phantom??? Then add in Phantom explaining to the ones who came for him what all had been happening to him from his perspective while the âheroâsâ are still there, perfectly within ear shot, and the JL realizing their run of the mill mentor a newbie is that poor kids psychological horror story.