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[dcxdpdabbles]

Alfred: Hello?

Pa Kent: Good morning Alfred. Are you busy today? Ma and I are in Gotham for that fancy art gallery Clark is writing about. Did you have some time to meet us for lunch before the event?

Alfred: Oh, sorry, Pa, unfortunately, I have my hands full with the latest shenanigans of the children.

Pa: Oh? What happened?

Alfred: Master Dick, has discovered he is a father.

Pa shocked: Dick has kids?

Alfred: Yes, we believe they're from the same place as Mister Bart Allen.

Pa: Oh. That makes sense. How is Dick handling everything?

Alfred: Very well. He's ecstatic to be a father. It's his children who are....reluctant.

Pa: What do you mean?

Alfred: Hold on. Let me send you a picture of the children when Master Dick told them he was thier father.

Danny/Dan/Dani:

Pa: Well....they certainly resemble Dick. He looked the same when I asked him to help me birth a calf. How old are they?

Alfred: Master Dan is the oldest; he's twelve. Master Daniel is the middle one at ten, and Miss Danielle is the youngest at eight. They're sweet children, but they do not seem interested in being brought into the Waynes' home. They've negotiated with Master Bruce to get them rooms at the most expensive hotel in Gotham, in exchange for not running away. It took us months to even corner them.

Pa: Wow that sounds so stressful. I understand that your busy we could reschedule-

Ma taking the phone: Alfred, let Dick handle his kids. You deserve a day off. Join us for lunch, wine and dine at the art gallery with us and if the night goes well, let us get you naked between us.

Pa scandalized in the background: That's too forward!

Alfred: What time and where are we doing lunch?

Bruce sitting across from Alfred and overheard everything: Now Clark will know the pain of the butler dating one's parents. Let's see him laugh now. I hope he suffers.

Dick lying face down on the floor: My kids called me unnatural for being in shape, and now my grandpa is getting more action in one night than I've had in the past six months. This is it. My life has no more meaning.

[cryptidstatusbreached]

[cryptidstatusbreached]

[dcxdpdabbles]

Alfred: Hello?

Pa Kent: Good morning Alfred. Are you busy today? Ma and I are in Gotham for that fancy art gallery Clark is writing about. Did you have some time to meet us for lunch before the event?

Alfred: Oh, sorry, Pa, unfortunately, I have my hands full with the latest shenanigans of the children.

Pa: Oh? What happened?

Alfred: Master Dick, has discovered he is a father.

Pa shocked: Dick has kids?

Alfred: Yes, we believe they're from the same place as Mister Bart Allen.

Pa: Oh. That makes sense. How is Dick handling everything?

Alfred: Very well. He's ecstatic to be a father. It's his children who are....reluctant.

Pa: What do you mean?

Alfred: Hold on. Let me send you a picture of the children when Master Dick told them he was thier father.

Danny/Dan/Dani:

Pa: Well....they certainly resemble Dick. He looked the same when I asked him to help me birth a calf. How old are they?

Alfred: Master Dan is the oldest; he's twelve. Master Daniel is the middle one at ten, and Miss Danielle is the youngest at eight. They're sweet children, but they do not seem interested in being brought into the Waynes' home. They've negotiated with Master Bruce to get them rooms at the most expensive hotel in Gotham, in exchange for not running away. It took us months to even corner them.

Pa: Wow that sounds so stressful. I understand that your busy we could reschedule-

Ma taking the phone: Alfred, let Dick handle his kids. You deserve a day off. Join us for lunch, wine and dine at the art gallery with us and if the night goes well, let us get you naked between us.

Pa scandalized in the background: That's too forward!

Alfred: What time and where are we doing lunch?

Bruce sitting across from Alfred and overheard everything: Now Clark will know the pain of the butler dating one's parents. Let's see him laugh now. I hope he suffers.

Dick lying face down on the floor: My kids called me unnatural for being in shape, and now my grandpa is getting more action in one night than I've had in the past six months. This is it. My life has no more meaning.

[garabato0s]

did they look like these? @dcxdpdabbles

[dcxdpdabbles]

OMG LOOK AT THEM!

Yes that's exactly how they looked they are horrified and its hilarious. Thank you!!!

[nerdpoe]

Bart likes to go fast. Bart also gets distracted easily. Bart gets lost a lot.

He'll be running from Point A to Point B when he, sometimes, finds himself in Kool-Aid land. It's bright green and has purple doors and angry people that try to chase him and it also has Uncle Danny, who's always like

"Bart, again? How do you keep showing up here?"

and sometimes he'll spend weeks in Kool-Aid land but only two minutes passed on Earth, but that's fine.

So when Young Justice gets involved in stopping a cult from summoning the High King, Bart knows exactly who the guy that was summoned is.

He can't help himself from snarking.

"Uncle Danny, again? How do you keep showing up here?"

[hdgnj]

Danny couldn't help but laugh at Bart. The little brat had finally managed to get him back. He sent him a sunny smile and winked. The other heroes looked confused, only making the situation more amusing. Not to mention how off balance the cultists seemed.

Danny: Oh you know me speedy! I was just enjoying lunch with my sister's as well! Are there the friends you've told me about! Hello!

Cultist: ... My lord! We summoned you..

Danny waved a hand impatiently at the cultist. They always wanted the same things. And he always said no. You would think they'd learn.

Danny: I'm going to cut you off there! The answer is no. I don't know why you people bother! Had the news knot got out yet that the new Ghost King doesn't give riches, eternal life, glory or great power gotten out yet? It's been 150 years for crying out loud! Now hush! I'm speaking to young Impulse!

Danny greatly enjoyed the affronted look on the cultists faces. Always such a joy. And this circle was so weak! Insulting! Danny tapped the circle, shattering it instantly. He stepped over and froze the cultists in place on the way to give Bart a hug. He fondly ruffled the boys hair. Then turned to the other young heroes with a beaming grin.

Danny: So! Who knows where I can trade good for this dimension money? They I can buy you all lunch!

Bart: Wait! You can spend the afternoon with us!?!?

Danny: For my favourite trouble makers certainly! Anyway! Do you want help moving these idiots somewhere? Or do you have minions for that?

Red Robin: Uh... We called the police, um, your majesty?

Danny waved a hand at the title.

Danny: Nope! No need for that! You aren't one of my subjects! And even most of them don't use it. You can call me Danny. Or Phantom, that was my hero name before I became King.

Bart: Yeah! Uncle Danny was a hero before meta humans existed! How cool is that!

Superboy:... Wait! Phantom! Like, saved the world from the Infinite Realms Phantom? The guy who forced a peace treaty to stop a war Phantom! First hero?

Danny felt a flush grow up his cheeks. And he rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.

Danny: Aww shucks. I didn't think that was all that well known. But yes. So, pawn shop? I don't have mortal money anymore. But people keep peering me gold for No one and stuff. So I have plenty of that.

Wondergirl: ... Our mentors are gonna be so jealous! Yes! I know a place! Then food! Lots of it!

[isaactheautobot]

[hypewinter]

Hal adopts Danny. However when Danny proves to be a little chaos gremlin that he can't properly guide on account of being in space half the time, he decides to do the next best thing.

Or Hal sticks Danny on a team full of little chaos gremlins aka the Young Justice in the hopes of mellowing him out.

[hdgnj]

Hal arrives at a meeting with a grumpy looking teen following him.

Batman: Hal?

Hal: Right, this is Danny. He has powers and keeps heroing. I wanted to throw him at Young Justice so he could have, you know, friends and training.

Batman: Why is he displeased?

Danny: He is right here. And He is displeased because I've been doing this solo since I was 14 and don't need help.

Hal: Kid, your only just 17 I know I've only had you for 6 months. But please.

Danny: I'm here aren't I.

Batman: I will call up Red Robin.

[tanglepelt]

Joining the young justice did not mellow him out. Danny stayed the same chaotic person he is and always will be.

Try and keep him as back up.

Yea. Ha. No.

Danny does not follow orders. Does not listen. Want him to fall back. No he just freezes the villains looking annoyed and bored.

The only way to get him to listen is bribes.

Brand new doom game? Sure he’ll stay back and do rescues instead of front line. New telescope? He supposes he won’t just charge ahead.

Don’t get the team started on the sudden influx of pranks. How was this guys just making pies appear to smack them in the face. Nightwing and Robin can’t even dodge or sense them coming. That was not in the bats training.

Why did the speedsters see him having tea?? With a age changing entity.

Danny was feral and uncontrollable.

Slowly the team has to adapt to keep up with him. Pranks, puns all coming to a head. Until the entire young justice were even more feral then before.

[lolottes]

JL: Hal, did you find this child!

Hal: so it's quite a story…I don't know where to start

Danny appearing, nobody knew he was there or how he got there: I was going to space to complete my rock collection

[hdgnj]

Batman: Seeing him makes me glad mine don't have powers.

Superman:.... Understandable. He got Robin and Superboy 2 involved in the latest prank war. My kid is... Difficult to deal with now.

Wonder Woman: Perhaps I could work with him? See if we can channel some of his excess energy?

[transparentgayprotector]

Itd be funny if the only one he listens to is Wonder Woman because she reminds him of Pandora.

But only sometimes.

[daemonlogical]

Clocky also reminds Danny to play nice with his adopted niece.

Clocky didn't say anything about anyone else though.

[hdgnj]

There's also the fact that she absolutely approves of his mischief. She might scold him publicly. But she will also give him a detailed break down of where he could do better. So long as his chaos is towards a good end? Diana approves.

[clockwayswrites]

A Hill to Die On, ch11.p3

masterpost discord voted on Hill, I got very fatigued before the vote was even done, but tried my best. Please no editing or concrit <3

“Come in,” Bruce called, and Jason was pushing them in before Tim had a chance to react. Bruce leaned back, head slightly tilted. “Hello boys.”

“Don’t seem so surprised, old man,” Jason said.

“No Danny,” Bruce explained.

They really were all weird about communicating, weren’t that? Tim held back the little giggle that threated to bubble and instead answered, “He’s sleeping. The others are with him in case he wakes up.”

“I see,” Bruce said. He reached out and turned off his monitor, his way of showing that they had his full attention. “Is everything alright?”

“Yes, no, I mean yes, but there’s…” Tim sighed heavily. He didn’t know how to start this. Everything since he was taken seemed to just hang in the air of the room. It was oppressive. He still hadn’t been briefed. He hadn’t given a report. He didn’t know who or why… they didn’t know who or why. Right now, that was the important part: they. Alvin and Caroline were part of this too. Right then, they were all that mattered. “There’s something about me that you should know. I was going to… I would have liked to tell you when I chose to, when we chose to…”

Bruce blinked. “Did you and Danny elope?”

Tim blinked back. “What?”

“It was simply that—it’s nothing,” Bruce said. “Danny was just a rather sudden announcement.”

“Oh. No, he’s… well, I would have liked to tell you when we chose to about us dating also, but no,” Tim said. He picked at one of the bandages on his hand. Jason reached out and smacked at Tim’s hand. Tim smacked back and instantly regretted it as his hand stung smartly.

“Boys,” Bruce sighed.

Tim slumped back into the wheelchair and crossed his arms. He stared at the bookshelf behind Bruce. In between books and occasional heirloom were photos of the family. Damian scowled sourly next to Jason. Tim trapped under Dick on his bed. Duke and Cass, covered in glitter and grinning. Dozens of photos that Bruce had taken on his phone and cared enough about to print out and frame.

There was one of Dick, Jason, and Tim at a gala. Or had they been more Caroline that night? She’d been the first of them to properly meet Bruce, back when Tim had been too afraid of attending a gala. Bruce had know Caroline for longer than he’d known Tim. He cared about her, even if he didn’t know that he did.

It had to be okay.

“Can you… can you just promise to listen, but just not really say anything? Not until you do your research.”

“I… yes, if that’s what you would prefer,” Bruce said. His voice was gently dipped down. It wasn’t his talking to a victim voice but more… how Bruce talked to Damian when the other was struggling. Tim supposed that was fair.

It didn’t make it easier.

It had to be okay.

“There’s something that… I’ve realized recently. Well, recently to me. And don’t worry, I’ve been talking to my therapist about it and stuff, so that’s all… good. It’s good, just really weird and a little hard,” Tim said. He kept his arms crossed to avoid the urge of picking at his bandages. Jason squeezed his shoulder gently. “I have DID. There’s three of us. They’ve been… I used my alias to think about the others since I’ve been older, so there’s Alvin Draper and there’s Caroline Hill. She’d actually be the first one of us you met. I don’t really like galas.”

“Okay,” Bruce said after a beat.

Tim snorted in disbelief. “Okay? That’s all?”

Bruce smiled softly. “You told me not to say anything. But if you want more right now, it’s alright, Tim. I still love you.”

“Yeah, alright,” Tim said. He roughly cleared his throat, hoping to alleviate how it was tightening with tears. “Thanks.”

[artstaeus3600]

Writing time!

Another Gala setting with DcxDp

With Tim x Danny

Tim bored out of his mind at this Gala like any other Gala that gets hosted, Danny running into Tim, Tim immediately being star struck but this Stranger he's never seen before thinking love at first sight.

Tim: "Wow you're so pretty.."

Danny: " thank you but I'm actually running from my godfather right now, he keeps trying to show me off to other "Heirs"."

Tim: (thinks about how much Bruce has been bothering his siblings about getting married and having grandkids)"... Just how badly do you wanna get away from your godfather?"

It's not very long but I thought it was funny lol, I'd imagine Tim and Danny are like 18-20 years old

[meridien313]

[mkarchin713]

Jason: I object, Roy and I are basically married meaning I provided the first grandchild via Lian. Suck it Replacement

[glowinggemma28-fangirl]

Tim: key word being *basically* meaning legally Liam is Oliver’s grand child not Bruce’s

[mkarchin713]

Jason: she can be both

[hdgnj]

Tim: Emotionally sure, but legally, I win.

Danny: So, how worried do I need to be about your Dad spoiling my kids? Because that looks worryingly like Dani is trying to scam a pony out of him...

Tim: She will have a pony by the end of the week yes. B will also be digging from whatever thing is equal to her love of ponies to give to Dan.

Danny: *sigh* Better than Vlad having any legal claim to them at least.

[di-loves-coffee]

Guys, hear me out. Dead tired. Roommates. Both in university together, not currently dating but everyone assumest they are. Tim’s still Wayne Industries CEO [and the Drake bussiness, but let's be honest he has someone else running that place]

Tim is REALLY bad at taking care of himself or the house because he’s got CEO stuff and also vigilante stuff so Danny picks up what he can around the house.

He cooks meals.

He makes Tim lunch every day.

One day, Tim forgets his lunch

Danny marches into the Wayne Industries building, fresh out of a lab at Gotham U, holding an embarrassingly cute lunchbox.

He shocks the receptionist when he says, “Hi, I’m looking for Tim Drake? He forgot his lunch at home.”

[uniasus]

Tam leans against the door jam to Tim's office. He's on a call, and can't visibly react to her, but he can feel her eyes. Judging. Teasing. Calculating.

He wants to shove his lunch box into a drawer, but the EMEA lead is chatting about the roll out of satellite internet to the region and Tim actually cares about that.

There's a ping from his personal phone. Then another.

Tim risks a look at Tam. She's grinning at him, her phone balanced on her cheek. Oh, she did not.

A third ping.

His phone vibrates from a call. Tim shoves it off his desk, the carpet absorbing the sounds.

The last 10 minutes of the call are agonizing. Tam's still staring at him, ignoring her own work to torture Tim. When they finally finish, Tim slams down his laptop to reduce distractions and looks at her.

"What?"

"A cute boy brought you lunch in a cute space bag and you ate all of it."

"Danny's a good cook."

"He implied you live together."

"We do."

Tam slams her hands on his desk. "Why haven't you told me you have a boyfriend you live with? I thought we were friends, Tim."

"Danny is not my boyfriend, and I have mentioned him. He's my roommate at Gotham U."

"Tim, roommates don't usually make each other lunch and hand delivery it."

"I've good food issues, he's got food issues. This works for both of us." On the floor, his phone vibrates again. "What did you do?"

"Sent a photo of the lunch bag and you eating to Dick."

Okay, could be worse.

"And the photo of Danny from the front desk. He still had his googles from lab around his next. He's perfect for you."

"We're not dating!"

"Yet," Tam calls, already leaving his office. She's texting something. It better not be to Dick.

Tim's phone rings for a third time. He scrambles to pick it up, but it's not Dick calling. It's Danny. He picks it up.

"Hello?"

"Hey! At the store. What do you want for dinner?"

"I'm being teased at work," Tim offers.

"Comfort food it is then. Pizza and beer."

Meal planning is one of those coupley things too, isn't it? And Danny knowing his comfort foods.

Tim looks through his open door, to where Tam is sitting at her desk, frantically texting.

He has a feeling he needs to ask Danny out before someone does it for him.

[bluerosefox]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Demon Twins AU where Danny and Damian meet at a Gala party after being separated but the two refuse to acknowledge the other despite the fact they are clearly twins and everyone is trying to get answers.

Like image it for a second.

[bluerosefox]

You know how in some ghost stories sometimes its not a person or a land that's haunted but the items?

Well what if, when looking for a mother's day gift for his mom, Danny is looking around a pawn shop and finds a necklace, it's missing some pearls but it's just enough to pass off as a decent gift. Danny humms but decides against it and goes to leave it....

That was until he gasped out blue frost and spots a ghostly woman appear out of the necklace with a somber smile. She isn't as seeable as the other ghosts in Amity though, meaning she doesn't have enough ectoplasm on her own (that might change the longer she's in Amity and around Danny though) and that right now only Danny can see her.

And Danny well... hes been doing his hero gig for a bit now, might go and ask if there was anything he can do to help.

And later Danny's good deed... bites him back. Oh boy. Because now he has the Bats looking into Amity Park... Wait what do you mean Martha is now strong enough to be seen?!

[hdgnj]

#Martha Wayne necklace#her ghost got stuck to it in her panic of being dead#this piece of necklace was the one cops took for evidence and was meant to return to Bruce#but lets say crooked cop decided to.... pawn it off#so it got lost before Bruce could even try to track it down#he found other pieces and replaced the lost ones but still#Martha soul has been attached to the pearls for years now and has kinda resigned herself to this fate#she knows her son is doing well from the stories shes managed to hear but not everything#she also knows at least Thomas is with Bruce#but what she didnt except after all these years for a boy who looks so strikingly like a teenage version of Bruce to come help her#Danny is gonna help... only to have it bite him in the butt#because once he delivers the necklace to Bruce it might turn his sights to Amity#Martha is the one that tells Bruce about Danny after finding out he's Batman btw#the kind ghost boy who has ghost hunter parents and the giw and the creepy godfather who cloned him and-#Martha is a mother. remember that.

Ohh, Danny is going to rush her to Frostbite first though. She's bound to an object, and has been starved of ectoplasm? She's visiting the yeti while he plans his road trip with Tucker and Sam. And giving us a convenient reason for why she knows so much about the current situation.

Then of course, during the trip? Danny wears the necklace so she can feed off his stores of ecto. While chatting to these kids. Asking questions, so she knows what kind of danger she's in. So she knows what to avoid doing, of course! Team Phantom have an adult shaped person who is listening! Offering good advice! They tell her everything!

As soon as she's handed over? Well, she waits to be taken to the cave. She knows her boy is going to test the necklace. And then she appears. And tells them everything she just learned. Feeds her husband the Ecto Frostbite handed to her for Thomas. Then it is time for her to smother her family in so much love!

[plotwholls]

I was envisioning chaos

[kaidatheghostdragon]

Thomas tells martha to give the ecto to jason. He needs it more. Lady gotham has sustained thomas this long, he can wait a bit longer.

Batman is tracking down danny (gotham is waylaying him to prevent him from leaving) before he leaves town while jason is getting smothered (affectionate) by his adopted grandmother. Sure, she drenched him in weird-feeling lazarus water, but pieces of him are settling that he had been resigned to always be in chaos.

[hdgnj]

Danny gets swept away by Batman and dragged back to the cave. He is very confused. Then sees a very smug looking Martha. Who grabs him in a hug. After all, he can't escape her.

Martha: Now dear, you tell them everything you told me. We are getting this sorted!

Danny: Ok Miss Martha. Are you sure it's safe?

Martha: My boy would never have allowed this had he known.

[bluerosefox]

This, this is what I mean by Martha is a mother. She just gives off doting mom engry. Need a hug? Go see (Gran)Mama Martha. Need a kiss on the forehead? Go see (Gran)Mama Martha. Need help destroying your enemies with political power or navigate high social events with ease? (Gran)Mama Martha can teach you (small headcanon, Martha was the financial/high society brains of the Wayne family, Thomas was decent at it but his smarts were with being a doctor and medical knowledge)

Also...

Martha: And Danny, I told you and your friends I don't mind the nickname you gave me, no need to call me Miss Martha. Now come this way. -moves him to the medical cots in the cave so he can sit and explain-

Danny: It's a little weird to call you Mama M in front of your grown son though... Also what in the name of the Ancients happened to you dude, it feels like you and your core took a bath in sewage. -looking at Jason whose on a cot being treated by both Alfred and a ghostly but not seen (but Jason and those death touched are starting to) Thomas Wayne-

[hdgnj]

Danny notices Thomas and starts sending him some spare Ecto he's absorbed. All nice and cleansed. So everyone is starting to see a shadow take form. While Danny is just stuck on the medical cot being poked as he whines. He has a Dr dammit! He doesn't need your primitive human poking torture devices!!!!

Danny: Mama M!! Can't I just summon Frostbite!! Please?

Martha: Oh dear. You really don't like needles do you?

Danny: Neither would you after seeing what your own parents have planned for your ghost....

Martha: Ah. Oh sweetie. I'm sorry, I didn't consider that aspect. Of course. We can pester Frostbite for answers as well.

Bruce: Mom? Who is Frostbite!

Martha: Oh! He's the Cheif of the Yeti tribe. And the head researcher into medical matters. At the very least in that portion of the Realms.

[bluerosefox]

the moment Frostbite is in the cave, he B-lines to Danny and Jason. Does a quick check up on his main patient (Danny already did his main one when he brought in Mama M to see him a few weeks ago) tells him to ease up on spending his self-ectoplasim to much (feeding some to Mama M and now on Thomas, he does send a small look of 'And you too' to the shadows of the room as if looking at someone else, its was Lady Gotham he's being respectful with not calling her out since this was her territory) before turning his attention to Jason and getting to work.

Frostbite: Great One, if you ever find the ones that made this little one's core the way it is, make sure send them my way. Whoever thinks it perfectly acceptable to just toss a reverant in those so called 'healing waters' needs to be reeducated on proper healing methods!

Thomas: Interesting. Dr. Frostbite can you tell me more about-

Both Frostbite and Thomas go into medical mode. Ghost friendships unlocked.

Meanwhile Mama M is busy fussing and taking care with Alfred over the kids and Bruce. She knew the moment Frostbite would be introduced to her husband that was going to happen. She sits down and takes time to get to know each of her grandkids, coos and cups faces and peppers kisses on forehead and cheeks before doing the same to Bruce and telling him how proud she is of the man he is, scolds him for being a little reckless when he's Batman and she has laughed at his Brucie moments she's seen in the news, but still proud of how strong her son has become despite her or Thomas able to lead or raise him. She gives Alfred a kiss on the cheek as a thank you for raising her son too.

[menolly5600]

Here for the popcorn 🍿

You know how in some ghost stories sometimes its not a person or a land that's haunted but the items? Well what if, when looking for a moth

Thomas isn't just a guardian spirit. He's a doctor, a healer. It was his calling to heal others and his city even before he died.

Thomas pouring his energy into his family is a good part of why and how his son and grandkids have managed to survive injuries that should have killed them. His efforts to heal them is why their injuries haven't left them crippled or with limited physical capability. His energy and Lady Gotham's power boost is why they heal up so quickly and cleanly, without debilitating complications.

Keeping them safe and in decent health is exhausting for a spirit. Even with Lady Gotham's help, he's still been barely more than a shade as all his available energy goes towards his living family.

Martha herself was fractured for so long, scattered among her pearls. She was barely a shade until her pearl necklace got to Amity Park and started absorbing ambient ectoplasm. When Danny had first seen her she'd been glitching and faded like a stuttering film reel. He'd struggled to understand her at first, which is why he rushed her to Frostbite.

With good clean ecto and time soaking in the Zone she stabilized and could manifest more fully without glitching. But not enough to appear to normal people yet. Frostbite explained she needed her anchor object, the pearls, to be unified and whole to gain her full strength.

Martha could sense them, and get faint glimpses of the surroundings of the missing pearls. The rest were all in Gotham. A good chunk were at Wayne manor. Between that and Martha wanting to reunite with Thomas and Bruce, and the grandkids, of course Danny would help her get home.

Road trip to Gotham City! Sam has always wanted to go. Tucker wanted to see Wayne Enterprises. And even if not, they're all Ride and Die with each other. Weekend road trip let's go! Sam even has her license and Danny can drive almost anything even if he's only got a learner's.

Danny wears the pearls under his shirt, against his skin, to maximize the ecto Martha can absorb. It helps let her manifest during the trip. And not just because Danny takes every opportunity to literally dramatically clutch his pearls as a joke.

Once Bruce takes the necklace to place safely with the pearls he'd managed to safekeep, then Martha has enough of her anchor reunited to manifest to Bruce and all her grandkids. She's still a little fuzzy on the edges and not fully corporeal. But they can feel her touch even if faintly. The more pearls collected the more solid and present she becomes.

And oh, when Bruce finds out his parents, his wonderful loving proud of him parents, that he just got back in his life; and the kids that did so much to reunite them; and his big little boy Jason, are considered non-sentient by law? Are at risk of being hunted down like vermin and experimented on? And when the Batkids find out? Oh ho.

[bluerosefox]

I have no words ugh omg. I love all of this.

Goodness can you imagine the emotions Bruce goes through when Danny and his friends show up with her pearls or do you think they leave it at the front gate, wave at the camera and book it to the car (Lady Gotham has made plans to keep them in Gotham the moment she felt Martha, her wounderful, kind, and badass when needed to be Martha, return home. She knows her Knight will want to meet with Team Phantom thus she plans to stall them within her city self)

Then the emotions he feels when his mother appears fully, after getting the rest of the pearls, and she explains everything and then lightly touches his batman suit and says "Thomas dear come on out." And she gives the extra ectoplasim she's been storing since Amity to him and he appears and they're both so happy to see each other. And Beuce and the others just watch as the two reunite after years of being apart. And ugh the feelings when Thomas explains he's been protecting his son and grandkids with Lady Gothams help as best as he could with his limited power.

Bruce's need to protect goes into overdrive, for his parents, for his own kids (cause a lot of them would be in danger from the GIW, especially those whose died), and those kids that gave him his mom's pearls back as well. And well... the GIW will have NOTHING left to its name or power.

UGH THE FEELINGS.

[hdgnj]

I have this image of an oversized Martha, her ghost form is big for cuddles ok. Just picking up Damian and Tim. These are the babiest birds! She's gonna cuddle! Neither quite know what to do. Help! Mayday! They are being squished! Cheeks pinched! She keeps cooing at them! Danny is just laughing. Yeah, ghosts be that way. He says in ghost form, tail wrapped around Sam's shoulders. Hugging Tucker's arms. Thomas wrapped around Jason and Cass, with Dick on his back. Steph curled up by his tail.

Bruce day at the computer going through the information Tucker sent him on the situation. Martha's tail around his waist. Duke is lying down, cold compress on his eyes. A hand from someone running through his hair. Giving him head scratches.

Dick: So! I can expect more hugs then!!!

Tucker: Oh yeah. Ghosts be clingy. When Ellie visist she about lives on this one's shoulders.

Martha: Oh! Your little clone who had to run for her safety!! Tell her to come here! Me and Thomas can look after her!

Danny: Thank you Mama M. She's poking around Metropolis right now. So she should be here in an hour or two!

Sam: Ellie deserves a proper home. If he was already a ghost I'd kill Vlad for how her treated her!

Danny: So... I may have talked to Clockwork. He's setting up a trap for the fruitloop.

Tucker: Huh. He's getting shut away then! Properly!

Danny: Like Dark Dan yeah. Therapy dimension type thing. Can't be free till not evil type deal.

Sam: Good!

Jason: You have access to therapy dimensions that trap people till their fixed? Can we set them up for humans?

Danny:... I'd have to ask? Like, they keep them there as long as needed. So uh, Joker would definitely die before freed.

Jason: But it wouldn't kill him right? Just, life imprisonment?

Tucker: In theory? If we can make them human safe yes?

Jason: If I'm not allowed to kill the bastard. B, that's a good compromise right?

Bruce mulling it over. And yes. Yes it would be.

Bruce: Can we call this Clockwork to ask?

Danny: He did take a phone after I pestered him about it. So yeah! I'll text him! Oh, and Jazz. Ask her to damage to portal. Now we have help.

[bluerosefox]

Been thinking about this AU again.

When Ellie shows up she is instantly flying her way to Danny and hanging off his shoulders, giggling and telling him all about her time in Metropolis. How she was hard pranking that fruitloop Lex Luthor, how some ghosts around the guy told her about the clone Superboy and how she took great fun getting revenge for a fellow 'failed' clone. Even pranked Superman for a while too. (Nothing too bad, just some harmless and humiliating pranks as payback for when he was a grade A jerk to Superboy) Before she talks about her other recent adventures, such as finding some assassin cult worshiping some Realms sewage (the Pits) or the last time she was in Gotham she made friends with a Solomon Grundy, a cool zombie guy, who promised to introduce her to THE Red Hood who turns out to be a Reverent the next time she was visiting.

Ellie doesn't filter herself at all.

She then notices she's in the Batcave with Batman and his brood. She goes 'eep!' and makes herself invisible for a moment. This makes the Phantom trio laugh while Martha and Thomas are instantly charmed by the little free roaming ghostling.

Cue Martha going into mother mode for Ellie.

[dcxdpdabbles]

Danny: *Gasp*

Jazz: What?

Danny: Remember how I told Ghostwriter I was going to write a novel just to shut him up?

Jazz: Yeah?

Danny: Well, I actually did it.

Jazz: Really? Danny! That's huge! Writing can be so hard!

Danny: Thanks, it was a lot of fun.

Jazz: Of course. Did you just finish writing it? Is that why you gasped like that?

Danny: Oh no, I finished it weeks ago. I just got an email from Queen Publishing that they want to be my publishing company

Jazz: *spits out water* WHAT?!

Danny: I know! I didn't even submit it!

Jazz: Oh....it might be a scam.

Danny: Oh. Yeah. You're right. That makes sense.

Maddie bursts into the room: It's not a scam! I found your manuscript while I cleaned your room and sent it in! Oh, Danny, it was a wonderful piece!

Jack right behind her carrying a rainbow cake: On a unrelated note, you know we love you right? No matter what?

Maddie unzipping her hazard suit to reveal a t-shirt with the words Be Who You are in rainbow: WE SUPPORT YOU CHILD

Jazz: Ummmm??

Danny: The book is about the holidays personified as gay men who come to Earth and fall in love with humans. I based them off the Bats from Gotham.

Jazz: Ah. Yeah that explains the parents but not why you choose the Bats.

Danny: Simple. Batman is Halloween because his big and scary. Nightwing is Valentines because of how bubbly and loving he is. Red Hood is ground hog day because-

Jazz: You made Red Hood into a gay personification of Ground Hog Day!?

Danny: Its makes sense in the plot

Jazz: HOW!?

Danny: You can read my book and find out. Queen Industries will have the first printout by late November.

Jack in the background: LOVE IS LOVE. NO MAN'S HEART IS SAFE FROM THE FENTONS!!

Maddie: RAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Danny: I can't tell if they want me to fight other men or date them

Jazz: I think it's a little of both. Ignore them. How do I pre-order your book? I have a lot of questions about the plot that need answering.

[dcxdpdabbles]

Jason: You know I was married once.

Bruce: You were what?

Jason: Yeah back when I lived on the streets. I had a husband, his name was Danny.

Dick: Wait, this was before you died? Before Bruce took you in!? You were a child!

Jason: Yeah it was a street marriage.

Alfred: What is a street marriage Master Jason?

Jason: Well you know how gangs have control of certain areas but leave some bubbles of gray areas alone?

Steph: Of course.

Duke: Those are my favoirte shade of gray.

Jason: Aren't they the best? Anyway those gray areas are call Street Neighborhoods and you could only get one if you were A. Strong. B. Well liked by all parties or C. Married. Street marriage is a partnership far beyond romance and flowery feelings. Its more about bringing your strength together and having someone as your sworn shield. Gangs respected that.

Damian: Sworn brothers or sisters in arms are a global honor I see. Good.

Jason: Well sort of, it was still considered a marriage. Back then gay marriage wasn't legal yet so it was respected by gangs to stick it to the government but it was also a means to controll us. Danny just realized it was our best bet as two scrawny kids out on the streets.

Tim: What happen to you Street Marriage fraud husband?

Jason: One day Danny got offered a job with a big time gang. He was so excited about the extra money but when I refused to join too he filed for divorce. *Pulls up shirt* See this stab scar? That was the court being in his favor.

Bruce: He STABBED you!?

Jason: Only lightly.

Dick: How does one stab lightly!?

Damian: They do it quickly, dont twist the handle once they breach your skin and leave the knife in.

Jason: Yeah. And they don't aim for anything deadly. Anyway Danny left the gang recently and reach out to me so he's coming over for dinner-

Bruce: WHAT!? NO HE IS NOT!

Alfred: Master Bruce, I didnt raise you to be homophobic.

Jason: Yeah Bruce, this isnt how you were raised.

Damian: How shameful of you Father, to hold such prejudice when everyone at the table is a member of the LGBT community.

Dick: What? I'm not-

Damian: Everyone.

Bruce: Thats not why! Also I'm not a member of the LGBT-

Damian: Everyone

[indieplight-blog]

Jason: *opens the door, a little nervous all of a sudden but hides it* Danny *nods*

Danny: *tilts his head clearly checking out Jason* hey gorgeous

Jason: *remembers how awkward his flirting used to be vs now* hey-hi uh, yeah *internally screaming*

Danny: *lifts up hand to show a "bouquet" of yellow dandelions and daisies*

Jason: *snorts* thanks you remembered my favorite *takes them*

-

Bruce and Dick: *watching from around the corner*

Bruce: you've got to be kidding me *sounds scandalized enough to clutch his non existent pearls*

Dick: yeah .. ugh that's actually kind of cute *small smile*

Bruce: *gives him a look*

Dick: *makes a face* I never said it was- don't judge me!

Jason: *in front of them* you can meet Danny with everyone else at the table

Dick: *shrieks and backs away*

Bruce: jay-lad... *Pained tone*

Jason: shoo *makes motion*

Danny: *still standing by the door, amused*

Once they leave..

Jason: so flirting and flowers can only get you so far. How do you plan on making it to the table? *Raises brow*

Danny: a kiss? *Makes a kissy face* Like, an actual first kiss not the one we had from before heh *bites his lip*

Jason: *ears red* yeah? What makes you think I'll allow that

Danny: eh *shrugs* worth a shot-

Jason: *leans in and kisses him*

Danny: *kisses back just as quick*

Jason: *pulls away after a moment* yeah okay come on in Danny *small smile* I missed you *takes his hand to lead him to the dining room*

[dcxdpdabbles]

Alfred: Hello? I received a summons?

Danny from the shadows of a dark secluded cave, out of sight: I sent a summons for the immortal man, heir to King Arthur.

Alfred: Which is I.

Danny: ... no offense, but I thought an immortal would look younger.

Alfred: A common misunderstanding. It just means I age much more slowly. I am currently 113 years old.

Danny: And you don't look a day over 70.

Alfred: Thank you. May I ask who has summoned me?

Danny: The Ghost King

Alfred: I figured as much. My ring of servitude glowed when I opened the letter. How can I be of assistance, Your Highness?

Danny steps into the light: I need a human place to hide in.

Alfred:....

Danny defensively: Take a picture, it will last longer.

Alfred: I apologize for my unsightly gawking, Your Highness. You look younger than I expected. It caught me by surprise.

Danny: Yeah, well, I'm fifteen

Alfred: And you don't look a day past 5.

Danny: I had a magical accident while running away from the government, and now I look like a little kid, okay? Look, can I hide out with you until the heat goes down?

Alfred instantly realizes the Ghost King is younger than him: But of course. You can pretend to be my newly discovered son and live with me at Wayne Manor. Its the safest place in Gotham.

Danny: As your kid? Wouldn't people think it's odd that someone of your advanced age has a child?

Alfred: Not at all. In fact, I have a long list of open invitations to bed chambers. It wouldn't be out of character for one of my past flings to pop up with a child.

Danny: Damn, old man. Respect.

Alfred: Thank you, Your Highness. My last name is Pennyworth. I changed it over fifty years ago, when someone realized that I wasn't aging and that pretending to be my own son wasn't working. What first name would you like to go by?

Danny: My name is Danny. Danny Pennyworth.

Alfred: Very good. Shall we head out? We have a long drive ahead of us. We can hash out the details on the road.

[emacrow]

Danny going to be commit to the bits with the whole pretending to be a naive toddler, especially when half way through the drive, alfred get him space theme toys, clothes and a nasa blanket that he cling to closer than a barnacle.

Bruce is going to have to brain aneurysm when he see his father figure bring home a baby(in Bruce's vision, that a lil baby instead of a toddler), saying this is his father figure's youngest son.

Bruce.exe is crashing and rebooting at least four times while the batfam see the bruce who usually collective and not easily distract stuck in shock worse than a computer blue screen of death.

But considering what worse, Alfred's being a renew father or the fact Alfred still in the game as a silver fox.

[nerdpoe]

Tim is...thirsty. Like, literally, he can't stop drinking water.

He has no idea what's going on.

He went to the doctor for his civilian persona, went to trusted doctors he used as his Red Robin persona, and there's nothing wrong that they can find.

But he feels like he's dying of thirst all the time. He's waking up every two or three hours to chug water like a man dying, he's tried to resist but he feels like his skin literally starts to crack and peel.

However when he went to the local magic users, even pestering Raven, they swore up and down that he wasn't cursed.

He's resorted to carrying multiple water bottles with him at all times, and it's as he's walking down the street in his civvies that he bumps into a teen girl who has just as many water bottles as him.

She blearily looks him over and groans.

"You too, huh?"

"...Wait, it's not just me?"

"I mean, technically water cores are rare, but that's no reason to get Main Character Syndrome. Hate feeding a developing one, though; it's a bitch."

"What."

"Uh, your Water Core? The-do you not know you're dead?"

"What."

"Yeah, for like, two years it looks like."

"Two ye-? Ra's."

Or; Tim is developing a Ghost Core with a Water element, because Ra's lied when he saved Tim from bleeding out. He wasn't successful. Tim did die. He was placed in the Pits, and...did not emerge awake? He came back to life with not a single trace of pit madness in him, peacefully sleeping and breathing in Lazarus Water like it was air. Ra's had his spleen surgically removed, because he really, really needed to find out how Tim did that so he could replicate it later.

[isnt-that-grape]

[hdgnj]

Tim now has the ultimate guilt trip power over everyone. He TOLD them all B was alive. And he DIED to get B back. The fact he never realised is unimportant. He can just act like he knew the whole time. He was just saving it for the most impactful moment. Obviously. In the mean time? Excuse me random ghost girl? What's your name? And can you answer ALL my questions? I honestly didn't know I was dead. Ellie? Is so confused. But sure. why the Fuck not.

[hdgnj]

Thinking about it? It's likely either next time Jason gets violent about something. Or the next time Bruce does. Just waits till they get nice and angry. Then bam. Hits em with the death card. To Bruce? "I did NOT die dragging you back to the present for you to act like a prick!" . To Jason? "God Jay! I died too! You don't hear me banging on about it!" . Chaos. Total and utter chaos. Excuse them what now? What do you mean died? Clearly you got better, but...?

Tim: Got better? No? I'm literally just too stubborn to move on?

Ellie is probably having a blast getting to be a mentor for once! She can teach him ALL the things! And he's so clever! He learns so fast! It's great. He's fun too. Sarcastic and sassy. Just a bit cruel when pissed off. He's great. She can't wait till he's had enough practise to go to Amity and meet her family. So she can show off her protege!!! She has a protege!!! Danny, Dan and Jazz? Have heard of nothing else since she met her student. All three think it's fantastic. They also desperately want to meet him. He sounds like he needs better fraid mates. Jazz might be plotting how to ghost adopt him. Danny and Dan are down for another brother. Tim is low key looking forward to the trip. Amity Park sounds wild. Plus he can finally visit the ghost GP.

[secrettreestuffidk]

"clearly you got better"

Tim, having learned Just Enough ghost powers to be fucking hilarious: "nah, not really" [fades from visibility]

[hdgnj]

Dick: Wait? You're a meta now?!?!

Tim(Still invisible): No. Being a ghost is a medical condition, dumbass.

Ellie appearing from nowhere, as she does. Tim was late for their practise session. Floats above them and pouts at Tim.

Ellie: You didn't do the pun! You're meant to do the pun!

Tim: I refuse. It's stupid. Too stupid. Just... No!

Ellie: Bah, spoil sport! Anyway! You're late! Stop making your family even more traumatised and get a move on!

[bianca-hooks123]

Ellie says that and the Batfam start freaking out a little, thinking she’s some kind of reaper trying to get the ghost of Tim to “move on” to the afterlife. 😂😅

[hdgnj]

It's fine. Ellie sees the panic on Dick's face and waves all friendly like.

Ellie: Hi! I'm his ghost teacher! Since he stuck around this side of the veil? He didn't get found till I stumbled over him! Call me Phantasm. My big bro Phantom is taking us to practise. I'll have him back in a few days . Bye now!

Then she also turns invisible and Dick can't see it hear either of them. But... She did seem to be truthful. Tim didn't disagree. Also, he didn't even know Tim was a ghost. So, he has to unpack that first. Tim being gone for a few days might be good actually. So he can have a screaming meltdown without Tim seeing. Cause, well, he was the one in charge. And Tim died doing what he should have done. And ohh, there's the melt down. Yeah. He's just gonne, lie down and crh.

[ailithnight]

Ellie lets it take just long enough to get out of there that Tim gets to see the first few seconds of that.

Because she knows how much it used to hurt Danny that no one grieved for his death because he was still there. She knows how much it's hurting Tim, even though he won't admit it even to himself.

She doesn't really understand it. It's more of a True Ghost thing. That is, the spirit of a dead person thing. And Ellie's a neverborn. She was made dead. So she doesn't really get the whole 'mourning the loss of life' thing. She doesn't get it, but she's seen the way it affects Vlad and Danny and now Tim.

So she figures sneakily ensuring he gets a peek into that grief can only be good for him, right? Remind him his family loves him and his death hurts them.

[hdgnj]

Ellie is being SUCH a good ghost mentor! Doing all the things! She's gonna take him to the shrine she set up with her fraid. Offer him a spot. If he wants one. Sam, Jazz and Tucker maintain it for their ghosts. Hmm... Oh! She can totally get Jazz to like, swing by while she trains Tim! Get her to help Tim's family! Teach them some things so Tim doesn't have to!!! *Frantic texting begins* Sucess! Big sis is on her way to Gotham to help Tim's family!!! She is NAILING this! Booyah!

Tim is uh, he's having feelings. So he knows as a ghost? He kinda needs to learn to like, be one with them or whatever. Ellie and her fraid? As well as their GP Frostbite? VERY clear about that. But ah, well, that right there? Is a big tangled ball of nope. He will deal with that later never. So, hey oh best of mentor's available? We should totally got to Atlantis. I have a friend there. They would probably enjoy meeting you. Also, we can practise our hydrokinesis. With real life Atlanteans. After the scheduled practise of course. But we should plan that right?

[themantea]

An idea: Tim and Dani are able to manipulate water/liquid (I assume) to a certain degree (Tim obviously a beginner tho) and the Lazarus Pits are liquid.

Now imagine: Tim tells Ellie (and Dan and Danny, why not get the whole family in on it while Jazz therapies the rest of the batclan) about the Pits and how messed up they are and how the guy who "owns" them stole his spleen. Of course Ellie is down to help her mentee against his own Fruitloop! She understands how it is!

Ra's wakes up the next morning to all of his Pits mysteriously empty and Tim's spleen gone with no trace of who did it.

Tim decides to bury the pickled spleen because it's both really creepy knowing how it was taken and pickled and also as a way of having a physical part of him to bury in a grave rather than having just an empty grave (it is also heavily booby trapped in case someone *cough**cough* Ra's*cough* tries to steal it again)

[hdgnj]

#I like to imagine Alfred learning about Tim's desire for a grave and offers him to have one on the Wayne family plot near Bruce's parents'#Just for both family fluff and maybe a smidge of angst#And while this is Tim centric I also want know if this will actually bring Tim and Jason closer#but also the hilarity of Jason realizing Tim stole his dead-but-not thing too#he doesn't even have that anymore either#jason: what next you gonna steal Red Hood from me too????#Jason: can't have sh!t in Gotham

Jason is absolutely going to gripe about Tim stealing this as well. Tim however? Is a halfa. Not a revenant. He's still dead. He's just also alive. Jason? 100% alivr. Fully brought back. Tim stole his bit, and then did it better. Which he will say, loudly, to his face. Tim does drag him to Frostbite though. Revenants are highly Liminal after all. Jason is not a healthy revenant, so ghost GP it is.

Ellie would do that. Time for vengeance Tim! Petty, petty vengeance! Let's Fuck up this Fruitloop's operations! Make sure he can't continue to be a problem! Move all his furniture one inch to the left! (That one really fucks with him. His furniture has been in the same place for centuries!)

Alfred puts the grave next to Jason's. After all, they are brothers. They need to learn to share. (Said sternly, with mirth and grief in his eyes). Tim cremates his spleen. It can go in the grave. But he's not leaving it intact for someone to steal. He's not an idiot. Bruce I predictably taking this incredibly poorly. Jazz is suppressing the urge to cackle gleefully. The Wayne's are so interestingly damaged. She could write SO many articles on them. Liminal and ghostly healthcare? Has never been so interesting to teach!!

[rosemaryhoney27]

Meatloaf Mayhem

The first rule of living in Amity Park was simple: never trust Jack Fenton in a kitchen.

Danny had grown up with that rule. So had Jazz. So had the neighbors. So had the mailman.

Frankly, the ghosts probably knew it too.

Jack Fenton was a brilliant inventor, a loving father, and a man who could build a portal to another dimension… but the moment he picked up a spatula, reality itself seemed to take offense.

So when Jack proudly announced, “Before I leave my boy alone in Gotham, I’m making him a home-cooked meal!”

Danny had smiled.

Because he loved his dad.

Because this was the last night before he started classes at Gotham University.

And because refusing would break Jack’s heart.

The kitchen had looked like a war zone.

There had been smoke.

At one point the blender had screamed.

Danny was pretty sure the oven had briefly turned green.

But eventually Jack presented his masterpiece with a proud grin.

“MEATLOAF!”

Danny stared at it.

It looked… wrong.

Not burnt exactly. Not raw either. Just… aggressively suspicious. The surface shimmered slightly like it might bite someone.

But Jack looked so proud.

Danny took a bite.

It tasted like sadness, motor oil, and paprika. He wanted to puke the moment it touched his tongue, but he choked it down. He could literally feel it traveling down his throat and feel the splash of it hitting his stomach acid. Thank the Ancients for his iron stomach.

Still, he smiled. “Great, Dad.”

Jack beamed like he’d just solved world hunger.

Later, after Jack had finally left Danny’s small Gotham apartment—after the bone-crushing goodbye hug and at least five reminders to call his sister—Danny stood alone in the quiet kitchen.

He opened the fridge.

Inside sat the remaining meatloaf.

It twitched.

Danny sighed.

“Yeah… no.”

He picked up the plate.

The alley behind the apartment building was dark, damp, and smelled like garbage.

Which made it the perfect place to dispose of whatever that was.

Danny walked toward the dumpster, ignoring the faint growling coming from the meatloaf.

He had grown up in Amity Park.

A slightly alive dinner barely ranked in the top twenty weirdest things he'd seen.

Halfway to the dumpster, something echoed behind him.

A loud, manic cackle.

Danny stopped.

He slowly turned around.

Standing in the alley entrance was a pale man in a purple suit, green hair slicked back, lips stretched into a wide, unsettling grin.

In his hand was a crowbar.

“Oh this is perfect!” the man laughed. “Fresh little college kid wandering into my alley—”

Danny blinked.

“Oh,” he said flatly. “You’re the Joker.”

The Joker twirled the crowbar.

“Congratulations! You win tonight’s—”

Danny didn’t even think about it.

Pure reflex.

He threw the meatloaf.

The meatloaf hit the Joker directly in the face.

For half a second nothing happened.

Then the meatloaf screeched.

Eyes burst open across its surface.

A mouth split wide.

Teeth appeared.

And the ball of possessed meat launched itself at the Joker with the fury of a thousand haunted meat grinders.

“WHAT THE—?!” Joker screamed.

The creature latched on.

It bit.

It clawed.

It shrieked.

The Joker fell backward, thrashing wildly as the horrifying meat creature tore into his face.

The screams echoed through the alley.

A moment later three figures dropped from the rooftops.

Black cape.

Red armor.

Brown leather jacket.

Batman. Red Robin. Red Hood.

They froze.

Because in front of them—

The Joker was being violently murdered…

By a meatball.

Red Robin blinked slowly.

“…Is that… meat?”

Red Hood lowered his guns.

“…I’m not interrupting that.”

Batman said nothing.

Because honestly… what was the protocol here?

The Joker’s screams faded.

The meat creature finished its work.

Then, like someone had flipped a switch, it simply melted.

The eyes disappeared.

The teeth dissolved.

The whole thing collapsed into a dark, tar-like puddle that stopped moving entirely.

Silence returned to the alley.

Danny walked over.

He picked up a stick from the ground.

He poked the Joker.

Once.

Twice.

Definitely dead.

Danny sighed.

Under his breath, he sang, “Dumb ways to die.”

There was a pause.

Then Red Hood lost it.

He doubled over laughing, loud and unrestrained.

“Oh my GOD—!” he wheezed. “Bats— BATS— did you see that?! The clown got taken out by meatloaf!”

Red Robin covered his mouth, trying very hard not to laugh.

Batman stared at the puddle of former meatloaf.

Then at Danny.

“…What,” Batman said carefully, “was that?”

Danny shrugged.

“My dad’s cooking.”

Red Hood started laughing even harder.

[hecate-hollow]

Tim, trying to get the spotlight off of him when Bruce starts asking what all he did during Bruce Quest: DICK TRIED TO LOCK ME IN ARKHAM!

Dick: I SAID YOU SHOULD GET THERAPY!

Tim: no I heard the words “Tim” and “Arkham” in the same sentence so I had to leave before you could do this!

Dick: WHY ARE YOU LYING!

Bruce sighing into his hands knowing damn well he’s not going to get anything else out of either of us kids tonight

[hecate-hollow]

Tim “Jason is My Robin” Drake about to take one for the team so that Jason gets out of a nonsense lecture by Bruce: I smuggled enough money through the batarang fund to buy my team their own Batmobile!

Bruce:….what?

Jason: how?

The plan backfired because now he’s being interrogated by both Jason and Bruce. Jason staying because he’s impressed and also “damn just had to one up me huh. Couldn’t just try to steal the tires like the rest of us.”

Bruce because now he’s stuck questioning everything and is realizing he did not pay enough attention to Tim in his Robin Years.

[hecate-hollow]

Tim and Damian have been staring at each other in intense silence for the past 5 minutes as everyone in the cave waited for the tension to break. Bruce had yet to return from patrol, but was on his way.

No one actually knows what happens, but Damian and Tim responded to an alert near the docs and by the end of the night two whole warehouses had been up in flames.

They were expecting some kind of Blame game over whose fault it was, but the two younger siblings already knew that it would result in both of them getting scolded so they were trying to come up with something else. They needed a way for the other to take blame.

FinallyDamian cracked.

Damian: I’ll tell Father you haven’t slept in 3 days.

Tim: i’ll tell him where you really got those two peacocks from (Damian had stolen them from a rich bloke who def didn’t have the papers to own them and was also treating them poorly).

Damian: I’ll send father the recordings of your time with the league.

Tim: first of all how do you have those, second of all, I’ll send him the video of you and Jon stealing a ship to go on an unctions mission in space.

Damian: like you’re one to talk, or does space baseball not ring any bells?

Tim: I was a part of a league sanctioned team, and it’s their fault they didn’t watch us closely enough.

Tim decided it was time to switch tactics

Tim: take the blame and I’ll convince Bruce to keep whatever stray you bring home next.

Time smirked, noticing the minute shift in Damian’s expression. He won, the other just had to admit it.

Damian: any stray?

Tim nodded.

Damian: deal.

To the shock of everyone else except for Tim, Damian immediately beelined to a box sitting next to his Bike that no one had noticed. It had holes in it, clearly housing an animal. He pulled it out and walked back holding a baby Capybara.

Damian: keep you end of the deal or I’ll tell father you’ve been sliced by a rusty pipe and he’ll bench you again for two weeks:

Tim just nodded, already pulling out a laptop to set up permits to rehabilitate exotic animals.

Dick: where did you find a Capybara!?!?

[hecate-hollow]

Cass and Tim were having some kind of silent conversation when Bruce arrived in the cave. You’d think as the literal Batman he might be able to understand the subtle shifts in body language that seemed to display and entire conversation between the siblings, but nope. Bruce had no clue what was going on.

It was Cass who first noticed him and immediately bee lined over with Tim scrambling to catch up.

Cass: my fault!

Tim: oh hell no! This was my fault and you know it!

Cass: No, I’m to blame!

Tim: Bruce it was me. Blame me. Cass had nothing to do with it!

Bruce just watched on as they each tried to take the blame for…something.

Bruce: and what, exactly, did you do?

Both of his kids froze, shared a look, and immediately disengaged.

Cass and Tim: Nothing!

They both fled the scene after that. Bruce still had no clue what they’d done, and if he was lucky, he never would.

[dcxdpdabbles]

Alfred: Where are you going at this hour, young man?

Danny: My friends and I are going to the opera!

Alfred: Terrible excuse. Tell me the truth.

Danny: I....I am going to the opera.

Alfred: Young man, I know teenagers do not go to the opera on Saturday nights, and especially when they sneak out dressed like that. You cannot fool me. I have raised many young people, and I know when visting friends are in town, you do not take them to the opera. Where are you really going?

Danny: I really am going to the opera! I'm just going to get changed at the hotel with Sam and Tuck. I always wanted to go to an opera. Sam and Tucker are excited, too. It's a vampire romance: Sam lives the vampire life, and Tucker is a romantic. Honest!

Alfred: Oh, I'm sure. You claim you're going to the opera, and next thing I know, I'm getting a call from the police because you were arrested at a party for underage drinking! Or robbed a store. Or bite someone's neck and rip out a chunk of flesh. Or you joined a cult. Or running in tights and a cap. Or you killed Santa Claus!

Danny: Alfred, how have you survived raising the Waynes????

Alfred: It was not easy, but I have always kept a sharp eye on goings on within the house, and thus I know you are NOT-

Danny: *Holds opera ticket*

Alfred: *Gasp* You're normal? A well behaved normal boy?

Danny: I ugh-

Alfred, getting teary-eyed: Finally, Master Bruce brought home a normal child. Do you have enough pocket money for your outing? Do you need a ride?

Danny: Ugh, no, I'm good. I ordered a driver through an app.

Alfred: Alright. Have fun. Be safe. Please don't kill a magical figure of a holiday.

Danny closing the front door: My foster family is as weird as Animal Farm.

Alfred shouting from within: Master Bruce, you'll never belive this! HE'S NORMAL. UNLIKE YOU AND THE REST HE'S NORMAL

[knightshade86]

Alfred is going to be so sad when he finds out the boy is anything but normal

[grimoiregirl633]

No, no, Danny REMAINS the favourite, because despite being physically the least normal of the Wayne household he REFUSES to be anything but the most normal person there unless he absolutely has to.

He is NOT joining the night life, or the vigilante scene, he did enough of that as a kid with no help and by all the Gods, Ancients, and EVERY OTHER HIGHER POWER he is NOT getting dragged back into the Caped community please and thank you. No, not even if you try to guilt him into it. He's done, out of it, hung up his suit preferably for good, and by Clockwork he's getting his degree and being a normal person for the first time since he was fourteen.

No, he's not getting out of bed to go patrol Gotham. It's NIGHT TIME, he has CLASS in the morning.

Maybe he'll pick it up again temporarily if someone like Vortex shows up. Or the Fruit Loop. Or Pariah Dark if someone's stupid enough to pull him out of Enforced Magical Nap Time again. He'll deal with the problem then. BUT THAT'S IT. World ending catastrophes minimum. Not a bunch of improperly cared for patients, mortal gangs, and people turning to crime because they're struggling to get by.

Danny complains to Alfred about it, once his secret comes out - it feels like he's being pressured to pick up the hero mantle again, despite his clearly stated wishes to do otherwise, because the rest of the family keep asking him to join in on hero work and he's finding it hard to say no because they're not respecting that. He wants to be normal. It's his second biggest dream after he ended up Phantom - only just behind being an astronaut - to have a normal life, as much as he could. And that dream is being pushed out of reach by a pack of well-meaning but ultimately condescending vigilantes who can't seem to understand Danny doesn't want their kind of life and never did.

Even his friends are relatively normal despite their experience helping Danny during his teen vigilante/hero work - as Alfred understands it, young Miss Manson is passionate about the environment but is still fundamentally a somewhat normal heiress rebelling against her parents' ideals (he's seen plenty of those at various galas), and young Master Foley might be a technological genius but he's channelling it into normal things like cellphones and computers instead of whatever Master Tim is attempting this week.

...Alfred has a stern word with the rest of the family, after this. He will not be losing the only normal person in this family to their chaos one way or another, and if they want to get back in Alfred's good graces then they will respect young Master Danny's wishes. Danny is cemented as Alfred's Favourite, not least because he didn't bat an eye about walking in on Alfred servicing one of his pistols and instead asked if he wanted any help keeping Bruce out of the room until Alfred was done.

[nightingale-prompts]

Danny: *Standing over an elderly dog*

Bruce: What are you doing in our house? Who are you?

Danny: Working. Can't you see I'm busy. Alright you old pup, I need you move on to great and glorious already. That rainbow bridge is waiting and so am I.

Damian: Are you trying to kill our dog?

Danny: No, I'm reaping your dog and he is stubborn. Superpets are special collections so I had to come in person. Sort of like a retirement from service thing. gets a send off when he goes but he's not leaving his post. You're going to need to tell him to stand down.