dpxdc: Altered Flight Paths
Danny Nightingale moved to Gotham (not bad end, but Vlad gets killed, trying to help Danny escape Amity Park, after de aging Dan and Ellie.) The Fenton's, in their confusion and anger, make it even more unsafe for Danny to live there. They want to be the first people to document what Danny is as halfa. also the G.I.W are always still around. Fortunately, Vlad made Danny his heir awhile ago, and in leaving, Amity closed their portal and Vlad's. Vlad is a full ghost now and is attached to Danny. So now Danny is a runaway parent that moves to Gotham, whether it be before the Wayne murders or after. They meet Dickie until a few years into living in Gotham.
He sets up a bakery/cafe near crime alley with his apartment on top of it and lab in the basement. He also owns a warehouse that he uses as a storage and training zone and bigger lab. He never makes homeless people pay, and if you can, it's a dollar. Even ghosts show up. He gets to know batman starting out and even maybe starts to court him as batman after healing after a fall near his place. They don't officially date until after Catwoman reject his proposal, and Damian is permanently with Bruce.
Danny, while not at the circus prior to Grayson's' murder, sees an escaped juvie Grayson and is able to calm him down, even gets him to speak with the Grayson's again as they have attached themselves to Dick. Danny with the help of Lady Gotham threatens Zucco into fearing for his life with a curse. He doesn't bring him back to Juvie but manages to save Dick's things and important paperwork. They declare him missing despite being in witness protection. Bruce wants to care for Dick but he doesn't have the same connection to Dick and sees Danny as his own Alfred, when B parents died. Danny raises Dick with a little help from Bruce.
Cannon events also happen, so Two-face and Joker get ahold of Dick for being near Batman and get beaten and shot. Danny brings Dick to the Far frozen and they heal him and he ensures to Two face/Joker that he will feel the same pain as what he has dealt to Dick and almost kills Joker but gets left with a warning for going near his child or any other one.
Court of Owls actually loses Talons to Danny and are his and his kids' bodyguards now while trying to learn how heal them. Unfortunately, Bruce pulls back from the relationship with Danny, and this hurts the relationship.
Then, when Jason (Catherine is attached to him) is on the streets, he sticks to near Danny's place and eventually gets adopted, too. Dan helps Jason bond with his new family and is surprised that Bruce is back to dating Danny again. (Which hurts Dick feelings because Bruce only came back for Jason after Dick was hurt.)
In this scenario, Shelia reaches out to Jason for bribery reasons, and when Joker shows up, Danny is having none of it. He kills Mr. J crushes his soul and brings Jason to the Yeti, where he flatlines and gets to become a halfa instantly. This time, Danny is the one that pulls from Bruce as he never found out where Danny took Dick and now Jason to heal. So in the 6 months Jason was in the Zone practicing, Bruce took the worst of it and thought he was dead, but in reality Jason in the zone training with his powers and Dick helps out with his enhanced liminality. What seems like a death to Bruce is a loss of mobility for Jason. Bruce just assumes he's dead because he treated Dick and Jason like his sons.
Dick grows up to be either a gymnast instructor or a social worker. Jason would be studying for literature or justice reform or go into non profit. Dan is a mechanic under someone who would later give Dan the shop. He works part-time at the cafe and helps with branding and making the sweets. Jason, Dick, Jordan, and Ellie also help in the shop. Stephanie is a part timer.
Tim, during one of his photoscapedes, gets caught, and Danny and/or the kids save him and bring him to Danny. Tim, while dealing with years of parental neglect, stays with them, or Danny notifies Bruce of this. Either Tim stays with Danny, and despite Drakes having more money and power, Danny's scary accuracy of their misdeeds (thanks to ghosts) freaks them out and they decide to allow Tim to be estranged or similar to cannon, Bruce adopts Tim.
Bruce, by the end of this, officially only has one or three kids: Damian, Cass, and/or Tim.
[I don't know if I want the boys into vigilante. It seems hypocritical for Danny to say no to vigilantism,but in another reality to this one, Danny says yes to the boys being vigilantes]
Hilariously, Danny and his kids show up to a Gala as Masters Heirs.
Jazz moves to Gotham to go to college to either be a social worker, psychologist or work in Arkham. She lives in the dorms with roommates.
Sam, while trying to leave her parents grasp, goes to college for social reform or environmental management. For personal reasons, her parents threaten to cut her off from her inheritance unless she shows up at important events or Galas to support the Manson name.
Tucker is a techie and also moves to Gotham, but it is a bit of a recluse, but he takes an interest in teaching Babs, Dick and Tim in Hacking. He is an IT guy for his own company Foley Tech.
