the one bones

[theonebones]

Soo just found out humans can glow in the dark but it's so faint it can't be seen by the naked eye. BUT what if a certain vigilante (in the DC verse)that wears yellow is active in daytime and has light and shadow based powers could see that light? Sort of like the "Byakugan" from the Naruto verse. Since we now know he can see weak points in his opponents and if you combine the two you get a Byakugan

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I HAVE AWOKEN FROM MY SLUMBER HUMANS

So we all know that Batman's number 1 villain will always be joker right? That got me thinking who would be Duke's number one villain (In my opinion) be

And I came to the conclusion that aside from joker or Ishmael it would be Dr Light just because I would find it amusing to see a light based supervillain who is afraid of the dark fight a light based hero who can control the very thing he fears. So yeah I NEED these two characters to interact

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To the person who made this wonderful creation

THANK YOU.

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Aight hear me out

I'm sure y'all heard about absolute Batman

Now listen to this

Absolute Signal

Or absolute Robin's + Batgirl's

Like give me an even more flexible/borderline Meta Dick Grayson

Not sure about Jason tho (sorry)

Give me Tim with a spleen and a healthy sleep schedule

Give me a Cass that kills

Give me a slightly more serious Stephanie

Im also not sure about Damian

BUT give me a Duke with a slight power up like hardened light or travel at the speed of light or shadow constructs/soldiers

Just something I had in mind for a bit

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[theonebones]

Look at what I found

https://the-hatch.fandom.com/wiki/Duke_Thomas

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List of people Duke would fight on sight (cuz I was bored)

Gnomon: cuz his shity dad tried to make him join him by giving him an unwilling army of Meta teenagers and for being an absent father

Ishmael: cuz he literally tortured him, Duke ain't never letting that slide

Riddler: because Duke literally trained himself to fight him when he was nine

Joker: do I even need to explain myself on this one? He literally jokerised his mama, that's enough to make anyone want to fight him on sight

David Cain: because he hurt his favorite sister ( Cass) and his favorite aunty (it's Shiva)

Karma: he gave Duke massive PTSD (Duke then proceeded to jump him with the help of Cass)

Victor Zsasz : he slashed him across the chest when he was just starting as a vigilante

Hal Jordan/green lantern: he's still salty about getting picked up like a kitten after he dropped kicked him in their first interaction

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I like the fact that Duke's romantic interest is Izzy, I really do....BUT the fact Riko's chance was right there pisses me off. Now don't get me wrong Izzy is wonderful sure BUT Riko in my opinion is a better option and I will die on this hill

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Since we all know that Duke is Shiva's favorite I can already imagine a situation in which Duke gets injured by the joker and is critically injured, then Shiva finds out

The next time anyone sees joker he's tied up in a warehouse with his hands cut off , alive but barely

The message was clear to the other rouges do NOT touch The Signal

Tell me what y'all think

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[theonebones]

THE FUCK YOU MEAN DUKE MARRIED CLAIRE???!??

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I would love to see a custody battle for Duke with the Al-ghoul's and the Cain's cuz like hear me out

Ra's want's him for his potential right and Thalia wants him because he actually gets along with Damian very well

Shiva wants him because of his potential and he gets along very well with Cass (there's the added plus that Duke is her favorite) and David?.. I'm sure he just wants to just to have a son or something like that (I will admit I don't know shit about David Cain aside from him being a shit father)

And I want Damian and Cass to find out and actually try to help their parents get Duke to join said family . And I just want to see the batfam getting into a civil war over it

Team Ra's: Damian,Jason

Team Cain: Cass, Steph

Team bats: Dick, Tim

It'll get to a point where even the Gotham rouges have picked a side

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Ghostbuster Duke Thomas fanfic

Gotham had a ghost problem, it shouldn't come as a surprise really since it has the highest murder rate in the world. The problem is that Gotham's only daylight protector CAN see the ghosts and makes it his lives mission to give said ghosts peace

Like he would find a murder victim and makes it his lives mission for today to find the killer with the ghost tagging along with him

And or he will find an aggressive ghost and just forcefully give him peace with his light if he refuses to comply

AND I NEED him to talk to Martha and Thomas Wayne when he's in crime Alley so that

1. Give them peace

2. Bring them to Wayne Manor

3. Have them give him dirt about Bruce that only his parents could have

And I want the other batkids to lose sleep on how Duke is solving all of these murders so fast and accurately

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For those that like my earlier post:

https://www.tumblr.com/theonebones/783291046470746112/every-time-someone-writes-a-batfam-fanfic-and-they?source=share

YOU'RE MISSING THE POINT

Why would Duke be with Santa annoying darkseid instead of helping Bruce in an all hands on deck break out of Arkham?? He's the first one already on his bike going after them

Why would Duke fight/befriend Cthulhu in a batfam game night when he should be with Dick and the rest of his siblings absolutely destroying them in Uno

Why wouldn't Duke shadow teleport out of the fight against the entire rogue gallery just to help Jason with his "pit madness"

Why would Duke let Cass (his favorite sister)be sad about David Cain being a shit father when they both can go on their shopping spree with Shiva

Why would he let Steph be sad about Clue Master when Duke already has the mans location so both he and Steph can jump him

Why would Duke allow Tim to wallow in his misery after the breakup when he could be with Tim promising to annoy the person with the sun during his patrol after daring to break up with his brother

Why would Duke allow Damian to feel sad over not being a "normal" kid because of his assassin upbringing he would be with the rest of the batfam making him feel better (and also getting the names of the kids who made him feel that way)

THE POINT IS when you write a batfam fic include Duke... please

Tell me what you think

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[theonebones]

Every time someone writes a batfam fanfic and they "forget" to add Duke to it. I write a cool adventure about Duke doing his own thing

Oh Bruce has an all hands on deck situation after a mass Arkham breakout without Duke? That's okay he's with Santa helping him annoy darkseid and he gets to be permanently out on the nice list (Duke could commit genocide and still be on the nice list) and he gets to drive the sled

Dick is forcing the batfam to do a movie/game night and Duke's not there? He's with justice league dark fighting Cthulhu (he somehow befriends him and now has an eldritch patron to vent to)

Jason has another episode of "pit madness" and the entire batfam is there to help him out with it except Duke? He's fighting the entire rogue gallery on the other side of the city (and he's winning)

Cass is feeling down and having flashbacks and panic attacks about David Cain and everyone is trying to make her feel better but Duke's not there? He's having a shopping day with Shiva because he's her favorite and she decided to spoil him for today.

Steph is sad that cluemaster escaped again and the entire batfam is there to comfort her but Duke is conveniently left out? He gets put on Harleys and ivy will for helping a very specific plant have the appropriate amount of sunlight

Tim is in the dumps after a bad breakup with the batfam trying to comfort him and Duke is nowhere to be seen? He was recruited a couple of hours ago by an arch angel to fight in the holy war alongside some dude they called the demon slayer he later got to use his cool shotgun on a demon, and after they won he got the title of light's wrath and his very own cool shotgun (Bruce was perplexed on why Diana calls Duke light's wrath she's said it's a little he earned but doesn't elaborate)

Damian is struggling with being a "normal kid" because of his assassins upbringing and the batfam is trying to make him feel loved and Duke is yet again missing? He is trying to stop an intergalactic war from breaking out between two alien civilisations (it ends with him being the godfather of the prince and princess children of said civilisations, and the groom's sister having a small crush on him)

Tell me what y'all think

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[theonebones]

I would kill to see Duke just chilling with his siblings watching some anime and seeing the cool moves the protagonist of said animes would do

Like when he's injured and surrounded by goons he would say "it's time to end this" and he'll start screaming while manipulating the light around him to make him appear like he's going Super Saiyan and for extra effect he puts his hands together to mimic the Kamehameha. The goons were already on their knees in surrender once he started going Super Saiyan but they pass out in fear at the Kamehameha.

Or when he mimics shikamaru's shadow possession jutsu or Narutos shadow clones jutsu or try to make a rasengan out of shadows

Or when Superman gets mind controlled (again) to fight the league he heads over to Gotham only to see the The Duke of Gotham in his yellow armor staring down what is essentially a God to normal people with his fingers crossed 🤞

Then Superman is filled with dread as he hears the words "Domain expansion, infinite void" he is suddenly very much mortal as his connection to the sun is cut off then proceeded to get beaten up half to death but Signal (he stopped getting mind controlled mid beating but Duke didn't want to take any chances and because he was enjoying it, Bruce was proud of him when Duke told him) when Duke finally stopped all of Gotham saw their daylight guardian standing over the bloodied form of Superman. Which quickly becomes a meme and the Gothamites use to prove their superiority over metropolis

Tell me what y'all think

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[theonebones]

I like to think about the fact that with Duke's future seeing power he's able to keep up with Cass during their sparring matches (though he mostly loses cus it's Cassandra fucking Cain he's sparing against) and it scares the rest of the bat fam

Like picture this: Bruce, Damian,Tim, Dick, Jason and Steph all come back to the cave after a night out in Gotham. Alfred is there waiting for them as usual, they ask Alfred where Duke and Cass are. He replies that they are currently sparring (because Bruce had to bench them both because they REFUSE to take a break)

So the rest of the bat fam go over to see them and just find Duke and Cass in the middle of an intense sparring session, like they are both covered in sweat and are small puddles of sweat on the mats . Alfred says they have been at it for hours which makes the others more dumbfounded since they themselves can only last a few minutes against her.

So they watch in fascination as Duke holds his own against Cass. After another hour Cass feights a leg sweep making Duke jump up which earns him a kick to his side effectively ending the match

Bruce is proud and slightly terrified

Dick is terrified since he knows Duke is still sore about the rooftop incident

Jason is equally both proud and terrified

Steph is not terrified perse but is definitely more wary of Duke

Tim is filtering that information for later but is too sleep deprived to think much

And Damian is seething because Duke just demolished his record against Cass

They refuse to ever bring up the fact that Duke could probably fight them and win

Tell me what y'all think

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[theonebones]

Okay ladies and gents and those whose genders are bent. Lend me your ear's

We have established that Duke's father (sperm donor) is an immortal being/god and I recently read a fanfic about Duke, Constantine and Zatanna going to Japan for some justice league dark mission and it got me thinking

What if Duke could use magic. Now hear me out, in future state he can use magic, he's got that metal arm that lets him do magic and the soul taker.2 sword infused with the spirit (stan) of Black Lightning

So imagine if you will,with me

Constantine drops by the cave to talk about Batman about some mission stuff, he sees Batman hunch over the bat computer and goes towards him BUT before he can take another step he gets drop kicked in the face by The Signal (infinite blood and all). So he's just there on the ground wondering why a godling dressed in yellow just laid him out like that.

And he just sees Duke looking down on him radiating magic like a signal (pun intended) and because he can think about it he asks "do you want to learn magic?"

Bruce doesn't even get to process what just came out of Constantine's mouth before Duke agrees and they leave Bruce stupefied on the batcave

Duke later returns home with an arsenal of light/Shadow based spells and is rocking a yellow wizard cloak with enchantments weaved into it (imagine the dark part of the cloak has his original Signal armor and that the back of the cloak has a black bat weaved into it)

Gotham's daytime already has a low crime rate (thanks to Duke being a shadow eldritch abomination) but now it hits single digits. And if he's seen out and about at night?! Goons just pack up, why? Because he was already bad enough when he was out at night, now he has magic?! Nope. They don't want to deal with the bat that is begging for them to give him a reason to cast fireball

I'm thinking of writing a continuation of this but with the rest of the batfam in it

Tell me what y'all think

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[theonebones]

So we established that Duke CAN see the future (with his bullshit powers that make no sense to me)

So I was thinking let's say when he joins the batfam Bruce opens up an account for him that all the other bat kids have right? Duke being the shy new sibling that he is ( for now) doesn't really touch the money

BUT as soon as he discovered his future seeing powers and knows that he can see the future he uses the money in his account to do stock trading and shit

Nobody notices at first but when Bruce is going through all of his kids financial records(because let's be honest he will do it)he is DUMFOUNDED to find Duke's account to have slightly less money than him (10 million dollars less than him to be exact)

Bruce doesn't say anything at first and is trying to act normal (like Duke isn't now the second richest person in the world) but then THEY find out

Duke and Bruce are patrolling tonight alone as a father and son bonding experience because crime is slow (thanks to Duke being an eldritch abomination by day) that just leaves a very bored brood of teen aged batlings in the cave

Tim finds Bruce open tap of the bat kids Bank account and decides to make a game to see which of the batkids has the most amount of money

Tim is in the lead so far because he basically runs Wayne tower at this point

Then is Jason because crime boss money and is actually responsible with money

Then Cass because she's Cass she only ever spends her money on food and shopping with Steph

After Cass is Steph because I think by now she's in college and can handle her own money

Then Damien became he needs to ask Bruce to use his card because if he didn't he'd buy multiple zoo's

At the very last place is dick because I believe he would be severely irresponsible with money

But then they get to Duke's account they think his account would be somewhere between Cass and Steph's but no Duke is a billionaire

Jason, Cass and Steph are laughing

Tim is in absolute shock right now

Dick is sobbing on the floor

And Damian? Damian is trying to figure out how it happened

And Alfred always knew because he's Alfred

When Bruce and Duke get back to the cave they notice the others acting weirdly (because they want to see where Duke is going with this) but they pay no mind

As for Duke and his reason for being a billionaire he wants to fund the We Are Robin movement to an actual vigilante group and make people like slightly less miserable

Tell me what y'all think

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