When i was in junior year of highschool i broke four metatarsals five fricken years ago. And to this day that foot will Ache at the slightest fricken provocation. Oh you steped down wrong? Not only will your ankle roll but the gosh darn metatarsals will feel like they're bruised! Or cracked! Its infuriating! I did a little yard work and popped my toes! Why are you bitching, foot?
A DpxDc prompt because I <3 all of you but am too shy to talk in the discord.
The Subnautica au I promised! (I might make two of them)
Okay, so Danny is around 14 or 15 in this. He is still a halfa but the portal has been temporarily closed for plot reasons. So the portal is closed and Danny has no clue what to do now. Due to the portal being closed Danny's grades have improved exponentially enough that he gets an work offer from Altera (ignore the child labor it's the Giw/Altera's shady business practices fault)
Danny is ecstatic because he's finally getting the opportunity to go to space! He knows if he waits the portal will be reopened and he'll never have a chance like this again so he takes it. In less than a month Danny has been trained and is shipped off to the Aurora. He's heading towards planet 4546b with very little information on the planet itself.
The crash happens and Danny doesn't use his powers to save the ship because something around the atmosphere was preventing full accessing his powers in full. Danny scrambles to the life pods and ends up being the only one in life pod five. The whole life pod scene happens with Danny being knocked out by the panel flying off the wall.
He wakes up with the life pod on fire and quickly uses what he can of his ice powers to put it out not realizing there's a fire extinguisher. Danny exits the life pod and realizes that a lot of people he talked to on the ship not even a day ago were probably dead. Judging by his inability to go ghost, he wouldn't be reuniting with them in the ghost zone any time soon.
He is devastated but goes about exploring and trying to find any other survivors. His hope of finding survivors near the crash zone dies when the ship explodes and starts leaking deadly radiation. Danny of course rushes to try and fix this. It's easier for him to get there because he can stay under water for an inhuman amount of time and has a built up immunity to radiation as a halfa.
Now to the DC part of this. Let's stick with only the batfam existing in this universe. The entire batfam are classified as leviathan's. All of them have two forms with one of said forms being semi humanoid mer like appearance. They are still pretty big in this form, think 7-8ft at the smallest (aka Damian) The other form is something I like to call
Big f-ken fish™
Which is full on terrifying reapers (we'll decide what each of the fam specifically look like later) and a lot of them are chilling in the crash zone when Danny is fixing the Aurora's reactor. Danny has not yet been spotted by the reapers.
Now they're already pissed off because a big arse ship just crashed into their planet and destroyed a great deal of it. They don't exactly know what a space ship is but they do know that the technology is advanced and the only thing remotely close on their planet is from the precursors who were a bunch of pricks.
Before the explosion the fam kept an eye on the weird creatures that crawled out of the metal eggs They watch them almost immediately start dying from predators or Kharaa. They were there when the ship exploded and started leaking radiation and killing the local wild life much to Damian's despair.
So the Fam are pretty pissed off at this point and are circling the ship. They immediately noticed when the ship stops leaking radiation and spot Danny swimming away from the reck quicker than any of the other ones that crawled out of the eggs.
Granted most of the other ones from the eggs immediately died and didn't have faces (the wet suits looked weird and Danny refuses to wear them no matter how much easier they would make things >:(
They start watching him because obviously there's something odd about this thing it looks kinda like a much smaller version of their smaller forms. Danny is getting pretty ticked off that his PDA keeps making false alarms of leviathan's. Duke, and tim are the ones monitoring Danny in the safe shallows. Jason and Dick in the crash zone. Barbra and Stephanie in the kelp forest. Cass and Bruce are patrolling the grassy plateaus.Damian is by himself at the quarantine gun/ sunbeam landing sight.
Danny sets up base near the quarantine gun™ because for some reason even though he's not infected he can't turn the damn thing off. So Damian is the only one currently capable of watching him. Damian has a theory that he 100% sure is correct. As a 1600 year old leviathan he's not a baby he's almost an adult and doesn't remember being a baby. This thing crawled out of an egg and is super tiny so it is obviously a baby and a very smart one at that. While it didn't have the claws, gills, tail, or scales they had it was super fast, could freeze things, had super strong hands despite looking dull and frail, it could take useless scraps and rocks and turn them into complex structures. It was obviously a new type of leviathan the ship carrying eggs. Danny was the smallest of the babies but he was also the strongest, and smartest; surviving long enough to have eyes and hair. This baby was young enough that he still needed to surface for air he needed to be protected.
Danny has no clue he's now being stalked by a group of reapers that decided he was their new baby brother/son
In terms of ghostly side of things, I imagine the precursors bs is at fault. And that the quarantine gun doesn't fully recognise him as human So as danny finds out more about the precursors and follows that plotline, he finds the ecto dampener or what not and turns some of them off, giving him access to more of his abilities (mostly still in human form)
This is taken as confirmation of Damiens theory.
Maybe danny has an eldritch form (that this incident unlocks ?) And when he breaks the last of whatever is blocking his powers, he auto expands into his eldritch form.
Immediately leading to all of the bat fam greeting him in full
Big f-king fish
Mode, given he is now at the same scale although not a fish. But hey, nobody's perfect.
Yooo this is great! I was thinking it would be cool if the Kharaa did some funky stuff with ectoplasm. Maybe its some weird form of contaminated ectoplasm that the precursors was fucking around and finding out about.
The Kharaa interacts with Danny’s ectoplasm strangely though, it doesn’t make him sick but changes him which could tie in to Danny getting an eldritch form. I really like the idea of the precursors having some sort of ecto dampener. Maybe by turning the dampener off it not only gives him his powers back but also begins to change his form. It could even be just changing his ghost form so he doesn’t even notice until he finally turns it all off, changes into his ghost form only to find out he’s now a
Big f-king fish
or at least looks like one.
He freaks out, going out into the ocean only to run into Damian who is delighted to see his little brother growing so well and now Danny has to try and dodge all these leviathans who seem to come out of no where trying to catch him while getting the stuff for an escape pod ship.
Luckily with his new ghost form he can dive down deeper than he could as a human and it is smaller than the other leviathans who are chasing him. So he continues on trying to escape the planet while getting used to his new fishy form and dodging these crazy leviathans who continue to chase him but almost seems like they’re trying to communicate with him.
I’m a little rusty on Subnautica and this might be spoilers but if I remember correctly there was a leviathan who would cure the Kharaa or something like that, maybe with Danny’s Kharaa it unstabilized his form or something or it appears he is becoming unstabilized. Just that added pressure for the DC leviathan fam to catch their sickly baby or something like that.
There’s just a lot of ideas floating around with this one.
Okay, Hopefully I’ve scared off the people who don’t want spoilers (Why don’t you want her? :( she’s awesome ) Were going mostly off what I know from the first subnautica game and only taking bits and pieces of what I’ve heard of the second game.
It’s the sea emperor leviathans were the ones who cures Kharaa a lot of them died when Kharaa showed up on the planet because it killed off a lot of their food source. The only living ones we see in the first game is the adult who is held in a precursor facility researching a cure for Kharaa. The other ones are the five babies we help hatch and free them before the mama dies.
The Sea emperor leviathan are immune to the Kharaa Bacterium due to their natural production of enzyme 42. They are the only source of enzyme 42 on planet 4546b. Precursors studied the last remaining sea emperors hoping to find a cure to Kharaa but due to mama’s old age and or illness it was not a usable source of enzymes 42. The enzymes Mama produced were unstable only reversing symptoms temporarily The precursors couldn’t find a way to hatch Mama’s eggs naturally. They experimented on Mama and her eggs dissecting and killing at least two of them and artificially hatching at least one. Baby sea emperors that were hatched artificially didn't produce suitable enzymes either leading to the precursors setting the remaining eggs up in a incubator to keep them alive while they searched for ways to hatch them. After this the research facility is destroyed releasing Kharaa into the planet when previously it was contained in the disease research center. Precursors had brought Kharaa to the planet searching to create a vaccine or cure. they went about this by experimenting on the local wildlife infecting them with the disease and studying their reactions (ya know Like arseholes would do)
Anyways the Research facility is destroyed by a sea dragon (Different from the sea emperors) Who attacked the base trying to save it’s stolen baby. Unfortunately you find the skeletal remains of the poor parent near the base :(
This is what unleashes Kharaa onto the planet decimating the ecosystem and leading to the eventual emergency quarantine of the planet. From what I remember pretty much everything died from this I think there was a plot point of everything on the planet already being infected. This event was a thousand years or so before the Aroura crashed.
( An explanation of what I know of Kharaa. It has 143 billion confirmed kills This number is a thousand years old by the time you read about it; I'm unsure if it’s only counting people. Kharaa can Kill rapidly, the infection rate varies as seen with the medical officer of life pod 12 where It’s recorded that he showed visible symptoms of Kharaa in merely three hours while our game protagonist and other crash victims took much longer to show symptoms and eventually die of it. Not all creatures show visible signs of Kharaa (I.E glowing green cysts that grow larger and glow stronger as infection progresses) This includes all the other leviathans but it’s implied if not stated that some of the leviathans and larger fauna produce digestive enzymes similar to enzyme 42 giving them resistances. It causes flu like symptoms, skin irritation and an increase in aggression. There are 4 stages of infection 1: Incubation period 2: Immune system suppression 3: Mutations to the hosts biological structure 4: Complete shutdown of of executive function, aka u dead. It spreads through the skin and respiratory system and maybe eating infected meat.)
Now! After Kharaa breaks loose from the Facility Mama manages to get the peepers to carry around her unstable enzyme 42 to the surface through vents. This allows life to survive on the planet by suppressing infection and in some creature making it dormant.
That’s the Subnautica info dump completed!
Now back to the Dpxdc Bits
I don’t think we should just slap already existing leviathans onto each and every member of the batfam but I do think we should stick to the theme of them being asymptomatic carriers if we create new ones or modify old ones. The increased aggression would fit with the prompt in a Kharaa sense and a trauma sense. Each and every member of the Batfam were alive for the whole precursors being dicks Damian might’ve been to young to remember everything. But they were there when all the food practically died out, for the experimentations and they were and still are there for the horiffic infection that is Kharaa!
They protected each other the best they could from the precursors and stuck together as a pod when things were tough. Overall Bruce, Dick and maybe Jason were the only ones who were around before the Precursors touched down on the planet. They’re protective as hell towards everything and did not take to kindly to the crash especially when they find out about the baby. The Fam think that despite him being the the last to hatch and how unbelievably little he is Danny was the strongest out of all the babies. He was also the least blood thirsty and mean. This hatchling was fast and shy from what they could tell. He always flitted away into hiding before any of could even get close enough to croon at him. Their hatchling was obviously much different than any of them but he’s still too young to be out of the nest >:(
As for the Kharaa bit... Maybe Kharaa variant of ectoplasm? Like something allows it to become hyper condensed to the point no ghost can form and it starts to effect the living to grow stronger. It could explain Danny being Immune to Kharaa since getting blasted by the entire infinite realms is as condensed as condensed ectoplasm could ever get. Maybe the precursors experimented for an easier power source and mixed in some genetically altered bacterium to some ecto not knowing how rapidly it would mutate, Maybe Danny produces his own version of enzyme 42 and Danny’s body is kind of directing the Mutations to be stable and more beneficial towards him? It that’s the case is it his core a big part of it. Do the mutations effect his human form a little too?
Because having a core that is maybe one to two years old at max decide your new appearence doesn’t exaclty make him look any less baby to the giant death reapers that are stalking him.
Did you know that the human body continues to physically grow and develop well into your twenties (25-27)? And continues to mature mentally and emotionally until your late thirties to Early forties
You read that right the human brain does not finish maturation untill 36-42 years of age. ( Note females mature on average closer to 36 and males closer to 42. Even trans people follow this trend with trans men maturing closer to that which is expected of a cis male then that of a cis female. this is also true for trans women, maturing more similarly to a cis female then a cis male.)
Quick reminder that the only reason the federal age of majority is 18 was for the draft, and in fact it has nothing to do with physical or mental maturity.
The citizens Sayed "if he's too young to vote, he's too young to be drafted."
So the government said "fine 18 year olds can vote."
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