#ghost king danny

[pullbackandrelease]

Hey, anyone who said this outfit would be perfect for Ghost King Phantom? Tada I posted this on a DPxDC discord server, and they said to "lemme reblog this on tumblr!!!" so here we are

[akemi2003]

Fic prompt #68

Dpxdc

Danny is in Gotham (yes, that Gotham, different universe, long story) to finish his education before moving on with his life—or afterlife—and eventually ascending to High King status. It’s a good reveal AU. He still has his parents. He still has his friends. Clockwork just strongly suggested that if he wanted to rule the Infinite Realms one day, maybe he should get some cross-dimensional academic experience first.

So now he’s here.

The problem? Everyone is rich. Not “my dad owns a company” rich. More like “we have generational trauma and private islands” rich. Danny tries being friendly. Smiles. Makes conversation. Offers help with homework. It does absolutely nothing. These people only care about connections.

Which would be funny—if it weren’t so isolating—because they have no idea he is, objectively, the single most powerful networking opportunity in the multiverse.

So yeah. He’s a little lonely.

Enter Damian.

One of Damian’s brothers (who will not be named but absolutely thinks he’s hilarious) jokes that Damian has never had a normal civilian friendship in his life. That if he had to, he wouldn’t even know where to start. He offhandedly gestures at Danny like, there, that one looks harmless.

It’s a joke.

Unfortunately, Damian takes it as a challenge.

Not because Danny is a “target.” He isn’t. Damian just fully decides he will prove he can form a normal, healthy, civilian friendship. Out of spite.

There are misunderstandings, but somehow, despite everything, they start… getting along.

And Damian, internally victorious, decides to present Danny to his family as evidence that he can, in fact, maintain a normal friendship.

Danny is delightful.

He charms Alfred. He debates with Tim. He listens to Bruce. He somehow gets Jason to laugh. He and Dick vibe immediately. He treats Damian like an equal without even trying.

For months, the consensus is clear:

Danny is the only normal person at this table.

And then they find his admission essay.

Titled:

“Why Clowns Are Not to Be Given Human Rights.”

Jason has found his new bible

[m0th-h]

Ghost King Danny getting locked in the sarcophagus of sleep for a few millennia and eventually accidentally released by Constantine

Danny: What the fuck..? What time is it?

John, freaking the fuck out: Shhh, shhhhh, just go back to sleep. Please.

[remosdeerica]

Damian: is your throne made of bones?

Danny: Huh? Oh, yeah! They were all donated to me by some of my subjects after my coronation.

Damian: You sit on a throne... Of charitably donated bones?

Danny: Yeah? Where else would I get a bunch of bones?

Damian: The cliche is usually a throne made out of the bones of one's enemies, is it not?

Danny:

Danny: Babe.... My enemies don't have bones.

[ghostboidanny]

I love dp x DC stories in which Ghost King Danny is summoned in his full Eldritch form and scaring the shit out of everyone. I also like it when it combines with aus of him talking in ghost speak and the translation gets wrangled, so he sounds a lot more threatening than he means to.

But in those stories ... his name doesn't really fit. What Eldritch God would be called Danny? Even Phantom isn't that scary.

Then I realized that if ghost speak gets translated wrongly and Danny said his name in ghost speak ... wouldn't it be translated wrong too?

And Daniel means God is my Judge in Hebrew while Phantom of course is a kind of ghost.

So,

The Justice League has summoned Danny and he doesn't realize that he's in his Eldritch form. His skin is black and filled with galaxies constantly being born and dying. His eyes are two endless black holes. His hair is the flash of the big bang. He's terrifying and awe-inspiring.

As he speaks, it sounds like millions of beings screaming in agony before breathing their last breath.

And then Danny says "Hi! My name is Danny Phantom, the Ghost King, how can I help you?"

But what the JL hears through the translation is: "I am the Judge of Gods and the restless Dead, Ruler of the Infinite, for what purpose hath thee summoned me?"

Now that's a fitting name!

[silicon-puppy-pudding]

Dpxdc prompt

Love me some Dad Danny but think about this,

✨️Grandpa Danny✨️

So hear me out

The JL have to deal with a ghost for the first time and it's a pain in the butt

Finally Batman shows up with some other hero's as backup and the ghost takes one look at him and is like "Oh Shit, my bad, please don't get us arrested" and dip through a portal

Everyone is very confused and concerned

When they reconvene to discuss what happened, Constantine pipes up saying "Im not surprised. With the claims you have on your soul, I'd be scared to mess with ya if I was them." Causing Batman to be even more confused and concerned.

Bats asks Constantine what he ment and he explains that B has 2 very strong and protective claims on his soul and so do the rest of the bats. It's strongest on him, Robin, and Red Hood.

"One of em's obviously Lady Gotham," Constantine explained, "I'd recognize it from a mile away. But the other one i can't quite put my finger on. It's a lot stronger so I assumed it was an ancestor or something."

This causes Bruce to go through his family records to see if anyone was into the occult or magic of some kind. Eventually he finds a "Daniel Nightingale", his Great Grandfather.

He was an odd man for his time. He was an eccentric investor who took his wife's last name. He outlived his wife and almost lived long enough to meet Bruce if Thomas hadn't cut ties with him due to some "creative differences".

Bruce, along with the rest of the family look into him and find so many dead ends (ha) that it's almost like Daniel appeared from nowhere. No hometown, no extended family, no nothing before he appears in Gotham.

Eventually this leads Bruce to check the family cemetery and in a moment of paranoia thinks to check the grave with an ex ray or scanner of some kind.

The grave is empty

It's been too long to know if this was another Jason situation or if his great grandfather faked his death in some way.

The bats eventually reach out to Constantine again and he checks out the grave,

"Oh fuck, yeah this is it mate," Constantine takes a step away, "You're grandad most likely became a ghost after he passed. A powerful one if the residual energy is anything to go by."

They get to a point where Constantine offers to summon Daniel's ghost so the bats can just talk to him and get off his ass about it.

After gathering the materials, Batman, his brood of bats and birds, and a few other JL members gather in one of the largest training rooms they have on the Watchtower because Batman insisted they be cautious about who might come through.

The summoning circle glows a Lazarus green and everyone is tense as a large being starts to materialize. Long spindly pitch black limbs, speckled with starts, and surrounding the head an aurora and an ice head piece or crown that makes it look like it has horns. Once the body has fully materialized, 4 neon green eyes open and look down at the gathered League.

Constantine is in shock and the rest of the league is tensed and ready for a fight.

"Y-Your Majesty?! I- I wasn't..I didn't mean-" Constantine stammers and kneels before the being.

"J̶o̴h̶n̷ ̴C̴o̸n̸s̴t̸a̵n̸t̷i̷n̵e̷" it's voice is smooth and echoes across the room. " N̵o̵ ̸n̴e̷e̷d̷ ̵f̷o̷r̴ ̵c̵o̸n̵c̵e̸r̶n̷,̷ ̴I̴ ̶a̴m̴ ̵e̶x̴a̶c̸t̷l̷y̸ ̵w̴h̴o̶ ̶y̸o̶u̵ ̴i̵n̶t̸e̷n̶d̴e̵d̶ ̷t̶o̷ ̵s̶u̶m̷m̵o̵n̵," It glances at the bats and Batman steps forward.

"You.. you were Daniel Nightingale." Batman states rather than asks. The being smiles in lieu of an answer and begins to shrink and change shape.

It settles on the form of a man, a man that looks strikingly like Bruce and aside from the pointed ears, white hair, and Lazarus green eyes, he looks just like the old photos of Daniel Nightingale.

"It's so nice to finally meet you, my great grandson ."

[chekhovs-slinky]

Danny gets to choose his royal title, and he thinks very hard about it. He examines historical ghost kings, how their titles reflected their rule.

He decided he wanted to be a little bit silly with it.

Now, all across reality, occultists and demons and anyone who was in-the-know on the Infinite Realms was privy to the knowledge of the new king.

King Phantom, The Child Killer

Meaning: The Child who killed the last king, the child who can and will kill to defend his people- and his people was Everyone In Reality. He was the King of All. He will not allow anyone to come to harm, and he will not allow anyone to conduct that harm.

Danny knows very well what people will assume his title means.

He’s counting on it.

Every so often a zealous megalomaniac decides they need the Ghost King to give them power, and what would the Child Killer want?

A child to kill.

He would never be able to stop people from trying to summon him, but he could control what they tried to offer to him. He could guarantee that only those who summon him were scum.

Anyone who chose to offer a living breathing child to what they assumed was a malevolent god of destruction and murder clearly wasn’t worth the breath it would take to ask “what do you want from me?”

So whenever Danny arrives to his summonings, faced with one or more innocent terrified faces, he wordlessly wraps them safely in a blanket made of stars..

Covering their eyes as he smites everyone in the room, leaving behind scorched earth and shadows of men who really Didn’t Have Any Idea Who. They. Were. Fucking. With.

When the Justice League catches wind of a dangerous entity called The Child Killer who slaughters cultists and disappears with the child sacrifices, they decide they don’t need any more information. Digging would waste time, and time was everything when a child was missing.

What they didn’t know was that Danny was feeding the children, clothing them, healing them- of course he would like to bring them home, but they don’t have any.

Each child was trafficked out of foster care by the cultists, or was being abused by their parent who was a cultist.

Even if they had never been taken into the circle, they would have surely died.

And no “hero” would have ever known.

No. Danny would not be returning the children, not unless they asked for it. Not unless they could come up with a safe place for them to go.

Not unless the children wanted to leave.

[pineconewithapencil]

Thinking about some immortal ghost king space creature who has existed for so long that Earth has been pushed to the very edge of their memories.

A solid 5 and a half hours for this one :D