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Good parents Jack and Maddie crying as their baby boy goes off to college. They've turned off the portal and are in the process of correcting their initial findings so everyone in town tries to avoid them otherwise you will be subjected to the new findings which mark ecto entities as sapient and therefore deserving of rights or gushing about how Danny is off to college since his small business pays so well. He did so well he rejected the scholarships from Gotham University because he said it would be better going to someone who needs it and they did such a good job raising him because look at how successful and generous he is!
The business in question is more of a cheat since being king of the infinite Realms means he is fluent in any language to exist. Safe, dead, or extinct the status of a language doesn't matter to him. With Technus's help he sets up and online portal where people can submit pictures or copies of stuff for him to translate at a premium price. He refuses to take any money from the fruit loop and the money he learns will go towards his clone's schooling when she gets to that point. Right now she is using it for her travels and sending them postcards.
People who claim his translations as their own get black listed with a huge fee coming out of their bank account for the breach of contract. He is trying to keep his business on the down low so those breakthroughs that get on the news are not what he is looking for. His main demographic is rich snobs with private art collections. What Danny doesn't know is that his main customers are the Justice League.
There are some clues but he kinda ignores them. Like when a document submitted is a summoning ritual he sends back a partial translation since the summoning is not good (there are worst beings they could summon but it will still be a hassle) however revealing knowledge of the banishment is harmless.
Gotham cultists hate him because they know he can translate the whole document/book but all of their attempts to trace the sage of tongues (trying to give invisobill kinda vibes) they find a dead end. They try submitting from different computers, locations, routers, anything, but just end up giving Danny more money lol
The Justice League is almost in tears because the jusyice league dark could not agree on the translation of the banishment ritual and everything they tried before had failed.
His favorite translations are the stories that give alien vibes. They talk about certain structures (he thinks it might be structures) as if they are common knowledge. Unknown to him those are Kryptonian fairy tales that Lois submitted. She didn't want to give Jon a funny accent so Clark can read them in Kryptonian while she does the English.
Duke having a hard time with an assignment, sends an inquiry asking if he offers homework help (he wouldn't be using it for career advancement which is against the terms of service BUT he would be claiming it for points so he asked) and that is how Tim finds out about this sketchy website that can translate anything. Danny feels the sincerity and sleep deprivation in the inquiry so he replies back "I admire your courage and will do you a solid but only if your promise to sleep a minimum of 8 hours. I'll know if you don't and snitch so go to sleep 😴" The translation is attached and already in the format his teacher requested.
Steph: How is he gonna know?
Duke: Idk but he is a life saver!
Tim: Duke, did you just sell your soul for a homework assignment?
Duke: Let me sleep and then we'll see what happens 🥱
Tim is driven crazy because he needs to know who is behind the website. And also because Constantine was kinda in the area and said no. Duke has his soul even if he doesn't sleep, lucky bugger.
Tim feels like the world is conspiring against him when it sends the cutest distraction in one his gen ed courses. He will date the cute guy AND solve this mystery out of spite.
I head canon that the more liminal people become the more they notice Phantom and Danny are the same person. Ecto works as a natural camouflage for Danny (only his colors and outfit change so why hasn't anyone aside from Wes connected the dots ya know) so only his friends who where there at the time of his accident and Jazz are in the know at first. His parents are in protective gear 24/7 despite their terrible lab habits, so they don't see it.
The rest of the town gradually begins to see it and slowly change how they treat Danny and "Phantom". Nobody says anything, they just change how they behave. Slowly phasing out the bullying, extending due dates on assignments, redo's on tests, discounts when he eats out or extra appetizers on the house.
He is the towns secret hero so they will try to protect him since they already failed him once by letting him die. How else would he be able to turn into a ghost hero if not because he died at least once. He dies every time he does hero business and gets shot at by his parents so the town adults have become very protective.
When the Justice league shows up they give them the runaround because Phantom hid as soon as he registered who the visitors were. They leave after giving some autographs (the towns folks collected them for Danny/Phantom from the alien heroes because they know how much he likes space) but then the Bats come into town and the town is surprised when the Bats immediately identify Phantom as Danny. The natural ecto camouflage doesn't work on them since all of their deaths and/or contact with the pits made them liminal.
"We don't want to fight heroes-"
Batman correcting them mid speech. "Vigilantes."
"-but we will if you want to hurt Phantom." Adults armed with anything and everything from novels to pitchforks.
"This is all a misunderstanding, we came here to check in on him and offer a fellowship for young heroes." Red Robin who has a crush on Phantom for his determination and on Danny for his engineering and would definitely like to see more of him.
Dani brandishing a spear Pandora gave her just for these occasions "The red one wants to marry Phantom! get em!"
Danny blushing because he accidentally saw the face under the mask and Red Robin is very handsome. He would also like to get to hang out with other heroes is what he says when he intercepts the Dani incited mob trying to scare off the Bats
Post season three, Eddie sees Robin Buckley looking a bit banged up, occasionally hollow-eyed, and even more separate from her peers because of the weird energy she's been giving off, and decides to adopt her as one of his sheep.
Robin is having none of this. None.
She likes Eddie just fine, but she is not interested in playing DnD or hanging out with a bunch of smelly boys in a dank room. It's one of the things she likes best about Steve, how fastidious he is. She never has to worry if he's washed his hands after using the bathroom. She once watched Eddief eat funions out of a bag he found on the bleachers.
But Steve is lonely and sad when she's at school. The two of them are still looking for a job that will hire them both, so Steve spends most of the afternoons alone. Eddie skips most of his classes anyway. As far as she's concerned, it's a match made in heaven.
Robin tells Eddie to meet her at the diner after school to make her a character. He's honestly pretty stoked, Robin is cool and he was starting to think she would never join.
He gets there, but she doesn't show. No, instead Eddie looks up to see an overdressed Steve Harrington shimmy into the booth across from him.
Steve gets so injured in season 2 that he ends up having to go back for one more semester of senior year. He drives the party to school together most mornings. Eddie Munson is happy to welcome a group of freshman into hellfire once they prove their worth in a campaign. They do, easily, and they have shirts and invites to sit together at lunch only for Dustin to pipe up with: “We’ve got a friend who doesn’t get D&D but it’s cool if he sits with us too right? He’s a loser super senior like you, Eddie!”
Steve Harrington pops up out of nowhere and rustles Dustin’s hat, “who you calling a loser, Henderson?”
Eddie stares, glares, tries to talking himself out of flight and into fight. Harrington had in the past been more of a do-nothing stander-by but if this was him deciding to take a more active roll in his arrogant bullying, Eddie wouldn’t let him get away with starting with his freshmen.
To his surprise Dustin just rolls his eyes and makes room for Harrington at the table beside him. “You. Absolutely you, Steve.”
Somehow Steve Harrington is the friend. And he sits with them with his neatly packed lunch like it’s the most natural thing in the world, and Eddie, for once, spends lunch saying nothing.
Steve pulls him aside when they all break for class. “If this is too weird I can find somewhere else to eat. I know I haven’t always been - “
Eddie cannot believe he turns out to be such a sucker for the earnest charms that make up Steve Harrington. “No such thing as too weird for Hawkins High’s resident freak. You’re a super senior loser now, aren’t you? We belong together, big boy.”
He loses his mind a little more when Steve seems just a little bit pleased by that. Wtf 😳
Sports Journalist Shane AU
Plot Bunny!
Shane gets injured, so badly injured that he has to quit hockey, before 2008 and therefore never meets Ilya at World Junors.
Shane decides that since he can't play hockey, he'll write about hockey. He goes to university, gets a degree in Journalism, becomes a sports journalist.
He ends up being the only journalist who can get anything out of Ilya Rozanov. He'll bring a recording device and tells Ilya; "if you have trouble answering in English feel free to answer in Russian I can translate later". Ilya is like; hot guy with freckles is talking to me, yes more!
Y’all need to get aboard the language barrier bloodymary train!!
To Simon, Grace is speaking the equivalent of Shakespearean English. Not to mention, Simon’s language is probably some sort of pidgin of English and other language(s).
Imagine, you’ve been stuck in a murder submarine for god-knows how long, and you’re finally saved— but this saviour is speaking a dead language. One you’ve had very little exposure to, due to a likely limited education. Sure, some things are understandable, but the majority is gibberish.
And from Grace’s perspective, you meet another person, after years of thinking you’d never see another human. But this guy speaks some language you’ve never heard of. The computer is of little help despite containing most of humanity’s knowledge. He uses some English words, and even a few from other known languages, but the rest is nothing you can make sense of
DP X DC: A Minor Drinking Problem
Phantom is a relatively new member of the JLA, but it's been a few months, and things are settling in well. He's shy and polite but is a master of the snark with villains.
Before a big mission, the all hands on deck kind, everyone is talking about scars and the crazy stories behind them to distract from the coming fight. Danny, finally feeling like he can join in the conversation with all these adult heroes, pulls off his right glove to show a pretty gnarly scar on the back of his wrist. “I got this one when I fought a guy from the Revolutionary War a few weeks ago! Didn't think he'd charge me with a bayonet.” He shares a couple more stories and scars, but only the ones that he can easily show off.
Because of stories like that and some historical depictions of Phantom from different time periods, they think he's this ancient and powerful immortal that just looks like a teenager, it wouldnt be the first time. He's powerful enough to go toe to toe with Superman, so there's no way he's actually a kid. He even sometimes has the haunted, world weary eyes that their most hardened members only get after experiencing too much. Danny, being our lovable, obliviously dense idiot, has not realized that they think he's an ancient being.
After the mission concludes -it was a rough one-, the JLA celebrate their victory with a couple drinks back at the watch tower. Danny is understandably uncomfortable with this whole situation and keeps asking, “Are you sure I should be here?” They reassure him it's fine as they pass around beers, which Danny politely declines several times. Danny eventually sees this as the perfect chance to pad his blackmail folders on his inebriated coworkers.
Anyway, as the night goes on, they have a good time, but Phantom still hasn't gotten a drink like the rest of them, and Green Lantern (or hero of your choice) really wants their shy friend to come out of his shell. So, he slams an open beer bottle on the coffee table in front of Phantom. “Come on Phantom! Let loose a little. Celebrate!”
“Dude! What the hell?! I'm 16! That's illegal!” Phantom squeaks in shock.
“We don't care how old you were when you died. It's how long you've been a ghost that counts.” Flash slings an arm around Danny's shoulders from where he’s sat next to him on the couch. Flash can't get drunk, but he also thinks it would be fun to see their uptight new member drunk.
“That's even worse! You'd be giving alcohol to a two year old!” Phantom is horrified that his coworkers are so casually breaking the law.
“But you said you fought in the Revolutionary War this morning!” Green Lantern said with his eyebrows knit in confusion.
“No, I said I fought someone from the Revolutionary War. As in, the ghost of someone from the revolutionary war!”
“You can't pull that on us. There's murals and stuff of you from thousands of years ago.” The Flash waves off with a laugh.
Phantom’s finger presses painfully hard into Flash’s chest. “I do not need to explain time travel to you of all people. My mentor hates you, and I'm STILL sent on missions constantly to clean up your messes.” Phantom's clear and low. Flash liked it better when he was shouting and not staring him down like a predator with narrowed eyes.
(This random idea popped into my head. It made me laugh, so I thought you might, too. Here you go!)
