I’ve been sitting on these panels for a while. Really love the idea that Danny’s ghost form gets further and further from humanity whenever he transforms. He’d definitely hide it from anyone close to him which would be easier as time goes on and the less he looks like himself 😈
Inktober 2025 Day 3: Crown — “Be not afraid, or whatever”
Just having fun playing around and being a little silly with my favorite spooky boy for the spooky season!
Going extra spook with eldritch abomination/Ghost King Danny. Specifically, loosely inspired by all “Justice League summons the ghost king” fics including Be Not Afraid (or Whatever) by @inthememetime, but not totally based on any particular one. Just my own take!
I wanted him to still look like a teenage boy, but also be spooky and definitely not what you want coming out of a summoning circle. Mostly spooky but a little hint of frost and space with his thick fur cloak that’s an inverted space pattern, where the stars glow like black holes. Also a little ice core in the middle! Boss monsters always gotta have a weak point, right?
Guys, he’s looking so friendly. So come-in-peace-y. I don’t know how much more explicit he can be, he’s doing the Vulcan salute (because ghost speak is incomprehensible and does psychic damage)! Oh, what, do his claws not look Vulcan enough? This is discrimination😤
Also v1 vs v2, where I added a lichtenberg scar and some little ice chunks on his crown?
Danny's while a ghost and flying has a tail right?
And we have headcannons of Danny purring of making and animalistic sound humans assume is purring. We also know that Danny has the inate desire to protect everyone. Why don't we have Danny's ghost basic form is something like a Naga. Half snake half human. His tail is so much longer and has black obsidian scales. With or with out a white underbelly. The underbelly shows how eldrich he is. White is very.
Danny having eyes that are Pure neon green, no pupil, and being bioluminecent. Danny while standing as a Naga similar to how walrus do is 8ft. Danny with snow white hair that's almost blinding to look at. Danny that eats other much smaller ghosts for ecto. Danny randomly protectively wrapping his body loosely over people when he needs to protect them.
Whay happend to the headcannon where ghosts could eat other ghosts. Obviously not their cores and seeeing how ecto is just their bodies and they can regenerate, its not the same as cannibalism. He eats blob ghosts and other smaller ghosts. Remember that prompt that he could eat Deadman after he accidently possessed him but because he is much weaker than Danny it didn't work and danny is just trying his best not to eat him even though he really wants to.
In other words
Jason one day wakes up to find his eldrich ghost wifesband a giant snake being.
He is curled around wes, wes thought it would be a good idea to go and pull and Olsen during an attack he's fine but danny doesn't want to let him go.
Batfam: watcha got there
Jason with a curled up wes in his lap and a huge inhuman being curled around them like a protective barrier while hugging jay: a smoothie
Danny sleep deprived and hungry. Randomly grabs a half a dozen blobs ghosts and eats getting blood on him and forgetting to make his non human features normal.
I LOVE when jhon constantine interacts with Danny phantom. But add in 'Eldritch danny!' And 'lost in translation' tropes and I am giggling so hard. It's just perfect. And when an author gives you both sides!!!! 🙃
(Top is what Danny says, bottom is what the JL hears btw)
This one is Translations Lost To The Void by JoyLess_NightSky
Dp x Wreck it Ralph: Yes I'm a normal game yes yes (for @stillnotalive)
Danny was rough housing with Technus, the small tussle ending up going into the ghost zone; only for Danny to yelp as he was pushed into an arcade, and phasing into it- which was weird.
"I'm gonna get you for that Techy!"
Danny called out, his voice all bit crunched; Technus looking apologetic, "Sorry ghost child... But it's for the best"
"What - Do you mean?"
Danny asked, and when he tried to get out, he was stuck- how- what?
And before he could question it, time froze, Clockwork appearing soon after, waving his staff to carry Danny within his new body into a different universe.
"I hope you make good friends young prince..." he whispered, placing Danny between older games, having some aid with another ancient that could rewrite memories for this conversion to go through seamlessly.
Clockwork dissapeared, time going back into pace...
[-before Litwak's Arcade, 1974, January 3rd-]
Danny was more than confused. He was in an arcade cabinet- and in a video arcade.
A group of teenagers noticed him, pointing and running over, one holding up a quarter and inserting it into the slot.
It felt odd, but not uncomfortable, and the game he was started up, Phantom's Requiem. Which- he'll give points for Technus calling him that.
And- he realized he could control the game...
Oh this will be fun...
[6 Years later(1980)]
Danny took notice how less and less people visited, knowing it was dawn of the age of home consoles and gameboys, he started to worry; what will happen to him? Will he get thrown away? Or put in some warehouse to rot?
It was Christmas eve- Ancients he still hated Christmas, the hate was still there dispite so many years.
He remembered his first few years, trying to escape the machine but soon giving up on freeing himself...
He heard the door opening, his screen flickering on, illumiating the semi dark arcade.
The group looked to be two young men and two young women.
He watched as they all smashed the arcades, stealing leftover quarters, spray painting on them.
He- he felt mad- he had to get them away! somehow!
He focused closely, slowly and steadily creating a body that extended from the back (like this, I love the design).
He felt a tail whip arouns, and made his screen glow brighter, and hissed- which was very crunchy sounding, but terrifying to the poor young adults.
They dropled their items and loot, running screaming; having destroyed a heafty chunk of the machines, Danny sighed, going back to his spot and shutting off for rest of the night.
[----]
By morning he was being loading into a moving truck along with the other few other surviving games... Well it was a good few years.
Shutting off...
[-in Litwak's Arcade-]
Danny powered back on, taking in the new surroundings of the different arcade, seeing it was closed for the day, he went away from the screen (which he discovered before the break in from the last arcade)
Danny looked different, more alien-like to say, blue skin, pointed snout, white mane, black horns, and still retained his classic black and white outfit.
He noticed a little train station area floating nearby, approached curiously, hopping in, he felt the carts jerking forward before moving.
"wow..." he muttered, watching as colors of many sped by, slowing down to a stop.
As he got out, he went up the steps and into...
WELCOME NEW ARCADE! TO THE CENTRAL GAME STATION!
in all bright flashy colors- "That's one way to welcome someone..." he muttered, looking around at all the various characters from each respective game. Some chatting with others from different games, others heading to a game called "Tappers".
Some of the other characters noticed him and all trotted over, extanging greetings which he did so back- it felt- normal? Like getting a brand new job where everyone is freakishly talkitive and friendly when the last one felt like office work.
They complemented his design, which he thanked them for, and was given into the whole loop of things.
Litwak's Arcade was one of the rare arcades where the characters decided to up and leave their games when the time is right, aka after hours, Sundays, and holidays where the owner of the place, Litwak, is gone visiting family.
"Well I actually came from another video arcade- we didn't have anything like this so- it was really really lonely..." he chuckled nervously, them asking what happened.
"Well, a group of four young adults came into the arcade- and started smashing and stealing quarters from the machines" the others around gasped collectively, "I- was one of the lucky few..."
[-End Ig-]
In a nutshell Danny gets Cabinet man'd again but not dpxdc.
There an au for DC X Do of Danny being a cat and Damian beloved pet
In your opinion how would the battam be if they realize that they have an eldrich horror as a pet in a shape of a cat?
Honestly? I'm surprised that no one has done the reveal that they had in the Captain Marvel movie in the avengers series.
The family is stuck in a dangerous situation as civilians with no way out unless they reveal their secret identities as vigilantes. In comes Danny, being held protectively by Damian. He opens his mouth, releasing a plethora of tentacles, grabbing a gun or something from the villain and eating it whole. Everyone is standing there, in shock, as this creature they assumed was a cat let's put a disgruntled burp and curls into Damian's chest. The villains decide that it isn't worth it, if there is a risk of being swallowed whole as well, and they take off. Leaving the bat family to grapple with the aftermath of having some sort of Eldritch monster (or alien, we don't know Bruce!) as Damian's beloved pet.
Damian, on the other hand, is quite pleased with this turn of events, and is wondering how hard it would be to teach Danny how to do that on command. Patrol would be much more entertaining.
💬 33 🔁 1003 ❤️ 2787 · DpxDc #19 · Call of the void.
(shorter than my usual, but a funny thought. Also, little drawing at the end)
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Danny meet the King of Atlantis before anything serious (besides him becoming a ghost) happened. He was still new to the ghost thing and didn’t know how to properly control his powers and Aquaman had offered to help him. He protected their city with his presence from anything that could pose a threat and he got training and food (offerings) all day long. He learned that this form he had came from his father’s side. His dad apparently was a descendant of one of the last Leviathans and because of some unknown reason Danny was able to access the abilities of one.
Danny stayed with them for a week before he made the decision to go back home, ancients know how pissed Jazz would be if he disappeared for any longer than that. Sadly he hadn’t had the time to say good bye to his new friends and the unfairly attractive teen he had been planning to court, but that’s okay, he could always visit.
That’s what he told himself, and it would have been true, if not for the fact that everything went to shit afterwards.
Spectra showed up, Vlad got worse, Ellie happened, there was Pariah Dark, Danny becoming the high prince (and later crowned as king on his 18th birthday) and all his schoolwork on top of all of that and trying to keep his grades up while being the only thing keeping both sides safe from each other that he never got around to having the time to go back.
Unfortunately, things didn’t get better from there. The day of his 18th birthday was spent strapped down to a dissection table in their basement. He doesn’t know how long he was down there but eventually Jazz realized something was wrong, he hadn’t been calling or texting her to see what she was up to in college so she booked a ticket back home. She was the one who found him and distracted his parents long enough for him to free himself and flee. All he knows was that he went in some random day he didn’t even remember as a 17 year old boy and came back out 18 and crowned king.
He fled back into the ghost zone where he recuperated for however long it took him to heal and then he was back in the land of the living, looking for the girl he had claimed as kin.
When he finally found Ellie she had been in the middle of destabilizing, she hadn’t had proper access to ectoplasm and was on the brink of being ended by the GIW when he found her. He could only do so much by the time he reached her, he was able to keep her alive but she had been reverted back to what her chronological age.
Danny longed for the sea, for space, for freedom, but he would give it all up in a second for his family. So, he did.
He fled with Ellie to a little hole in the walls area in Gotham. It might not be the best place for a kid to grow up but it sure as hell was a good place to disappear and that’s exactly what they needed then.
He created fake identities for them, got them a not too bad apartment in a decent part of town, enrolled Ellie into a good school, got a job, and even though he never really got over that handsome teen he had met when he was younger he continued to work for a life for his daughter. And he did. He hand made a life for them there, from scratch. Only for it to be ripped out from under his grasp when the GIW located them and got to Ellie.
Danny hadn’t expected them to have gotten that much stronger, the last time he had seen them they had been laughably easy to deal with but this time he had barely escaped with his life. And his daughter was in their hands. So he did what any other distressed ghost parent would do and caused a 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞.
When he realized doing so out in the open could potentially put his daughter at more of a risk he forced himself to calm down and look for a better… option.
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“There’s been a breach.” Superman said, standing up from his seat in the debrief room, young justice had had a situation on their last mission and had a close call, thankfully all of them were alright but it was too close for comfort. Batman obviously agreed if his brooding had anything to say about it.
As soon as those words left his mouth the alarms started blaring, solidifying his statement. The lights flashed red as Batman pulled up a live camera of the watchtower to find out where their intruder may be.
The flash appeared behind Batman before tilting his head in confusion. “The cameras are out on the observation deck.”
“What do you mean the cameras are out? They are one of a kind, made by us for us! There is almost nothing out there that can penetrate our technology.” Wonder Woman pointed out.
“Typically that is the case, yes. I wonder what they are doing to corrupt our footage.” Flash muttered, half to himself before jumping up and exclaiming, “Well! No time like the present to figure out what threat we are facing!” He sped out of the room quickly followed by the rest of the team.