I've had this plot point in my head where Wraith, Dani Phantom is summoned as the representative of the kings court and is asked to fight something, by some superhero group and just as a Neverborn perpetual trickster child, keeps passing on everything that's offered including but not limited to, cookies, blood, home cooked meals, treasured items treasured memories stuff like that but she keeps denying the offerings until someone frustrated says "what do you want our souls?!' And then she just *grins viciously says "Yes." and disappears from the circle and is then heard and seen fighting the big bad.
Carnage over she reappears in the center of a circle and with a malicious mischievous smile and laugh she disappears and everyone quickly realizes that she took all of their shoes but only the left ones.
snippet of my fic "what thing worthy of love can be found in me?"
“Wait, wait. Let me see if I’m getting this right. Danny, part time bartender at the Twilight Zone Bar and Dinner, presumed college student, occasional memory thief, is also the King of Cups and has been waging a secret war against the United States Government, presumably contained to Ghost County, for unknown reasons and for an unknown period of time?” Zatanna asked, bewildered.
“The president is Lex Luthor, Zatanna.” Bruce points out.
“Having hobbies is good for a lad his age, I reckon,” Constantine added. “When I was his age I was learning dark magic and doing drugs, so.”
“John, when you were his age cell phones hadn't been invented yet."
Do you have any headcanons for is John Constantine had a sidekick?
John Constantine with a kid headcanons
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I don't necessarily see John having a sidekick???? Like I think the man is just not vibing with a kid at all, not that he'd be mean to a kid ofc he'd just be absolutely horrible with them.
So riddle me this. A whole Odyssey/Trojan War vibe. Johns whole thing is killing demons, but heaven forbid he meets a child that is part demon. He knows he should get rid of it, because if he doesn't, the demons will find the kid and there will just be another demon that will kill as many humans as possible on the loose. But the kid just looks at him with so much fear as he's about to do it. All he could see was himself looking back at him when his father was around. In the end, he can't do it.
I think it will be very messy. John 100% isn't fit to raise a kid.
John: "Please stop climbing up the bloody cupboard."
Kid: *Gremlin noises*
John: "That doesn't mean go hang from the damn lights!"
Some demons live for a very long time and said kid has the genes of a demon who lives a long time, so they are only about 100, but that equals maybe 7 in human years??? So they are VERY curious about the human world around them.
John: "Stay. Put." John says as he places the kid down, who just looked up at him, head tilted.
Kid: *Follows behind them.*
John: *sigh, with a snap of his fingers, there's a magical hand just holding the kid's tail in place and for a good 20 minutes they just tried gnawing at the magic hand till they fell asleep.*
The kid always had developing powers, so random shenanigans did in fact happen and John had to teach them to understand and control their powers.
When the kid got older, John helped them perfect spells to help with cloaking their more demon appearance.
Everything may have been really messy, and the kid came home multiple times to see a drunk John or a drunk John passed out on the couch, but you bet the MINUTE he found out his kid was getting bullied, he pulled up.
Kid definitely matured at an early age once they figured out how to be "human." Having to fend for themselves sometimes it felt like. This probably led to a lot of fights.
John wouldn't let them fight with him, he wouldn't risk it.
They snuck out to help him fight.
They were in fact grounded.
It's messy but there is a lot of love.
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Hope this is okay. This is my first time doing a headcanon request 😭
ANOTHER IDEA HAS APPEARED!!(I have a reporting and an exam tomorrow but this is more important😃)
A John Constantine daughter/apprentice who got teleported in the marvel/supernatural/invinsible universe (I can't pick between the three) due to a her making a mistake in spell casting or maybe she was experimenting with a new spells which leads to her being sent in another universe.
Reader can see ghost of course and she's an orphan (it'd be fun if there's a twist on who her biological parents are). Reader goes to school like any normal kids does, she gets to attend school due to being on a scholarship. It depends on you on what age she meets John Constantine. At first, John Constantine doesn't really see anything special on the kid except she's a bundle of sunshine who likes to keep a positive outlook on life despite living in Gotham. She slowly wiggles her way into John C. Heart like a worm then they slowly formed a bond like that of a father and daughter.
Reader is more of an adventurous gal who's always curious about things, always eager to learn, and would always try out or experiment on spells despite John C. Told her not to. Most of her failed attempt weren't really bad since she'd only sometimes set something on fire, accident summon a demon (I mean, who hasn't done that before? Just another Tuesday), accidentally sent herself to Sahara desert, accidentally turned all of John C. Outfits into color pink (we don't talk about it.. John C. Had to wear those pink outfit for weeks while he was working) and other stuff but those weren't really bad (readers words, not mine). It was another day where reader was doing another experiment but this time.. She got sent to another universe with no knowledge on how to get back and no way of contacting John Constantine. Que to John Constantine going all Father mode and looking everywhere for reader while reader is just curiously checking out the place she got teleported to and curious of what new spells she could possibly learn.. (I feel like if she's in marvel, she'd ask Wanda or Dr strange to teach her some spells or something)
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And you know he rocked those pink outfits- I also think he was gaslighting anyone who said anything about it :))
You gave the backstory, so I'll just start, and I'll actually go the supernatural route, around 1979 after Dean comes back from the boys' home-
Btw- if anyone knows how Wendy Gos came to look like that- the deer head with antlers when the natives are saying they look more similar to the ones in Until Dawn- let me know, I'm dead curious.
Is it because some white film director decided they aren't scary enough? Was it a white man's fear built from seeing a traditional ritual, kind of like we have cu Capra, where we dress up as a makeshift goat and dance and sing?
I was actually thinking of going the John W. found you first, but I'd like the other way around better- So, clearly, John W was out on a job, probably hunting a Wendy boy(I am a very superstitious person so I'm not playing with full names, I already have bad luck, thanks- I'm also watching creepy stuff on youtube so that clearly isn't helping) so let's say the wendyboy got the upper hand, knocked the gun out of John's hands and as he scrambles for the weapon he hears a voice speaking a language he is too adrenaline fueled to understand.
When he turns to look back at the monster, gun aiming right at its head, he sees you standing next to the creature, who was frozen midair. "I always wanted to see one close up. They look so much like a strigoi, it's crazy!" He can only stare at you as you pull out a sleek camera and take multiple pictures of the monster.
It takes a moment for him to lower his gun and find his breath. And it takes you looking at him and smiling to realize you're a kid, around Dean's age. "If you're going to fight creatures like these, it's better to not be alone. OR you know... use magic."
"Do I look like a witch?" The man was still in shock, groaning as he got up. "Thinking only women can be witches is such backwards thinking- My dad's one and he'll have plenty to say about your 1980's way of thinking." He huffed at your words, sputtering as he tried to backtrack, stopping as soon as he noticed your amused look and as the year you said registered.
"It's 1979." Your smile twitched as your shoulders dropped. "I am beyond grounded when he finds me."
John W wasn't planning on taking care of you, not after finding you're from the 20xx's, but finding out your father is a skilled demon hunter does change his mind. That's how you found yourself in the same motel as him and his boys.
Was it a bad idea to follow a grown man to his motel? Yes. Will your John have an aneurysm when he finds out? Yes. Did it end well? Yes! Sammy is a sweetheart, and Dean has been nice, if a little quiet. Honestly, you could feel the tension between him and his father from miles away.
But the boys loved having you around. John W seemed so much more- soft? ...Tender? Different. Not as mean or rough, he stayed back more, spent time with them more- Sam thinks it's because he's starting to realize the shit he pulls and is trying to be better, Dean knows it's because he can't say no to you.
It would be funny if it didn't hurt. And Dean doesn't hate you, he can't. You don't know what John W is truly like, how mean and hurtful he gets. How he almost left him to rot because he just wanted to feed Sammy.
Dean gets his lick back by shily making you ask his dad to do the stuff he has always wanted- in that sibling way of "But tell him YOU want to do that". It hurts that it works, not even with Sammy would he have been able to pull that, but as you laugh with his younger brother, spinning as fast as those cursed carousel tea cups could go, he can't be mad.
After a while, Dean thinks you're lying about your John coming for you, but he doesn't say anything. He hopes the man doesn't, if he exists. It'll keep you in their life, it'll keep his dad as fatherly as he once was. He likes you, Sammy likes you, John W likes you.
To the boys, you've become family in the two weeks spent together, and John sure as hell isn't correcting Sammy when the boy calls you sis, not that you do either, you can't when the teen looks at you like you hold the sky. And on the third week, Dean was sure you were bound to stay.
John Constantine had a horrendous month, starting with Batman hammering his head about a possible yellow-eyed demon being connected to people burning under mysterious circumstances, continuing with finding the book he told you not to read wide open on the floor, and you nowhere in sight.
But it did end when he found you in South Dakota- well, he found two grown men muttering to themselves over some old magical books. You found your dad holding John's W own dagger to his neck, eyes glowing with fire from the depths of hell, as you walked through the door with the boys right behind you, Bobby's gun aiming right at him.
"Oh, hi Dad. I made new friends!"
John's C mistake was relaxing as he saw you just fine holding an ice cream, John W took the opportunity to headbutt the man.
Constantine isn't happy about any of this- he wants out faster than you can say Hellblazer, alas, the oldest Winchester may know something about the yellow-eyed demon that's been wreaking havoc in your world.
Sigh... Bats owes him a good bottle of scotch.
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Something that I had in mind to add, but it didn't go the way I initially wanted it to:
You leave Sam and Dean two necklaces, half of a coin each. If something big happens that they need help with, they'll need to connect the coin, and a portal will open right to them, allowing you to come and help.
Up late watching some old movies from when I was a kid, and I'm watching Casper Meets Wendy (1998) and...dudeee...
AU where John Constantine is Wendy's dad
HEAR ME OUTTT!!! I'm cooking here a little bit
Okay so if nobody is like...extremely old like I am /j/j/j
Wendy The Good Little Witch is a comic book character from the 60s who comes from the creators of Casper the friendly Ghost and Ritchie Ritch.
She's a cute little witch girl raised by her 3 witch aunts. Wendy unlike her aunts is a good witch and prefers being helpful and kind than mischievous and mean.
And maybe I'm just like...too Hellblazer brained but like
I think John could slot into the universe, or vice versa. John helping Wendy <3 John being a DAAADDD
Idk I NEED him to be a father right now
"Stranger, can you get to the point?”
“Ghost is in reference to the echo of the dead, the part of their soul that stays while it should not. They are not part of the material plane any longer and hurt by staying here. They are transient and therefore volatile. Spirit is an animating force. Like when you say “school spirit” or “that’s the spirit of the thing”, et cetera. Deep intention, sense, and purpose, or courage and vigor, or mind.”
“So you’re suggesting that I look for.. an intention?”
“Perhaps.”
“And intentions glow?”
“Maybe.”
“And it can fly, feed off energy, open portals, animate objects and possess the impossessable?”
“Who’s to say?”
Zatanna felt a nervous tic starting in her eye and rubbed her face aggressively. “Stranger… You! You should say! I’m asking you!”
“Sometimes asking the right question is more important than any answer, Zatanna.”
“You’ve been hanging out with the Question too much, the Stranger.”
“Who?”
“Ugh, forget it. If you take any books and you don’t give them back, I’ll turn you into a rabbit and pull you out of my hat!”
"Terrifying."
(Zatanna freed herself from my grasp and went to hang out with the Stranger, things are getting out of hand...)
Lost Letter 4:
Dear Jason Wayne,
Jesus Christ, bro.
This was a bit of a charged one. I’m not sure how to respond. Wow.
XOXO
Phantom,
PS: What kinda nickname is Boy Wonder? So lame LOL
CHAPTER NINE OF "what thing worthy of love can be found in me?" IS OUT NOW ON AO3!!!!
I just finished writing the most inspired thing I have ever written in my entire life and it's for a danny phantom × dc crossover fic based on the vibes from hellblazer (the pacing, the absurd bullshit etc) with a dad!john constantine-centric plot... I don't know how to process this...
random paragraphs from this absolutely insane fic:
It starts on the tip of your toes and it works its way towards your solar plexus. This feeling. You’re standing at the edge of the cliff, you realize. The wind is howling and wiping around your body, the waves crash against it with needless violence, hand-like water reaches towards you as you inch closer towards it. You look towards the dark water, where rock and nothing melt into each other and you can feel that fear burning in your lungs as the Atlantic tries to eat you whole.
You remember sitting by the telly at night when you were young. Your father laid passed out on the couch and Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcok playing. The movie had come out not long after they had learned how to broadcast colour and, while you had had colour TV for a while, Judy’s terribly green dress had made an impression on you. There was something about Kim Novak in that scene…
Standing in the lab you feel the urge to scream. Your hands shake and your eyes start to water and you’ve never felt so much anger, so much… Your chin trembles and you bite your lip, you dig your nails into your arms and you blink to scare away the tears. Your entire body is on fire. You are so angry, so frustrated, so tired. So much so that there is no space for it in your chest, no space for it in this room, no space for it in this house. Your knees start to go weak and you bend over, curling into yourself.
