I Dunno What All The Triggering Warnings Here Are. But Expect That There Will Be Uncomfortable Scenes

Part 2

I want the whole non-ghost Phanfam to be either at least liminal, have powers or have specialties(like Tucker being technopath, Sam being able to control plants like Poison Ivy, Jazz having a power where she can influence other people with persuasion easily, Maddie is a super skilled martial artist with many expertise and Jack is just like super strong). They would be at first be underestimated by the Bats, but as the time passes by, they became one of the top Gotham Rogues

I think the Waynes will be on edge because of the new influx of villains and with Danny being suicidal. Bruce wouldn't listen to Tim as to why they need to let Danny go back to his family. The title of being the most difficult child of Bruce is no longer Damian/Jason. Dick? Well, he's at his breaking point and will probably be much more vicious whenever he's in the mask, demonizing the Bats even much further. He's probably secretly resenting Bruce and Danny. Cass probably won't return to the Manor due to the stress and tension when she visited the Manor for like 3 days. Damian will probably be neglected or feel neglected as Bruce spent most of his time with being Batman, or "trying to fix" Danny, Damian will also spend his time being Robin as he feels like he needs to prove to his father to not replace him. Duke, as time passes, became guilty and would try to be accommodating to Danny and he would be the first one to discover that Danny is dying because of what they've done. He almost fess up to the Phanfam on where Danny is, but the boy is loyal to Bruce... for the time being. Steph and Barbara is always targeted by Danny whenever they visit the house or the cave, so their visits in the manor became less. Alfred, in this au, is complicated. He tries real hard to make sure that Danny is well-fed and cared for and on one hand, he's really tired with how every time Bruce fucks up, he is always called to persuade Danny, who is much MORE stubborn than Bruce. With Bruce's top priority is Danny, Alfred is left to deal with the rest of the family. Alfred doesn't have the chance to get to know Danny more because 1) Danny doesn't give him a chance and 2) Alfred is bombarded with other things to have time. At one point, Alfred snaps and shouts at either Bruce or Danny and he nearly quits (or whichever in the family you may prefer), prompting Bruce to probably take action to fix the problem that he's done. Cause if Alfred's already having a breakdown, then that means the problem probably already festering faster than he thought.

Jason, oh Jason, in my mind he would be a full blown asshole, taunting and insulting Danny when he's visiting the Manor or when he captures Danny unsuccessfully trying to escape. Jason dislikes Danny at first sight and thought that he was just being an attention seeker with his suicidal tendencies. Reasoning: he thought that Danny didn't look like someone who gave up at life. Danny looked like who would harm himself just to torment his oppressors and make them squirm, Danny looked like someone who wanted to live. And that the reason why Danny is locked into the house and wanted to escape every chance he gets is to return to his family(to the Fentons, not Talia, Jason). He thought that Danny was raised by Talia, making him a much more sadistic and suicidal version of Damian(except that Danny doesn't attack Tim). He wasn't really told the true reason why Danny is here, cause he would probably go PTSD, go ballistic at them and his relationship to the family will be strained again. Which he did, don't worry, when Tim and/or Duke clues him in on what's really going on. And he would never be able to shake the guilt of what he's done to Danny, of how Danny almost died in there, even after Danny returned to the Fentons. He would sometimes look at Bruce, Dick and probably even Alfred with the betrayal and/or heartbreak when he remembers the emotional damage they've done to all of the others, just because they thought that they know what's right.

The only person who I think is at truly at fault here is probably Bruce, he's like the parent who thinks they know what's best to their child and would probably listen to their complaints but won't give it a second thought.

I will do a continuation much, much later because my creative thoughts are exhausted.

Hey, who wants a really dark and morbid prompt filled with angst? Well buckle up or scroll away cause I'm about to hit yall with a hammer. You have been warned.

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Danny had slowly come to hate his human side. Well, humanity in general usually left a poor taste in his mouth, so as the weeks passed and the end of his sophomore year inched closer he made a decision. He was going to live his afterlife in the ghost zone. Probably go so far as to fake his death.

Things go south when his bio-dad showed up and he would have been stoked to learn his bio-dad was Batman if it wasn't for his insistence on "fixing" him. He wanted to be less human not more. Geez.

Turns out his bio-mom was that one lady with the long dark hair and green eyes that would smile at him from the shadows while he was patrolling as Phantom. He liked her. Sometimes she waved at him. He liked her a little less for siccing Batman on him. She had called him in out of worry for thier "son"

As it turns out, the reason she did that was because the source of his power (he pointed out it was called a core) was absorbing too much power too quickly and was at risk of overheating and having a meltdown, something akin to a nuclear reactor. He didn't like where this was going. Frostbite had said everything was fine at his last check-up, but no one was listening to him (another thing he hated about being human. As a ghost he was respected, or at least listened to) "So, what? I'm going on vacation?"

The "adults" looked at eachother. "Something like that." Nightwing gave a reassuring smile that only seemed to unnerve Danny more. They were hiding something and Danny had a bad feeling that it was going to end up making him miserable in some way.

He made sure that his friends and sister (meeting his bio parents changed nothing. She would always be the best big sister he would ever have. The only big sister!) knew where he was going and for how long and to raise holy hell if he wasn't back on time. After that we went willingly with Batman onto the batjet.

This turned out to be a mistake as he woke up nearly two months later completely human. Well, ok. Not quite. His eyes still glowed green whenever he was angry or distressed, like now. But his core and all his powers were gone.

Batman had stolen his powers from him. He had stolen Phantom from him. Everything he ever worked for. All the treaties he had made and signed in preparation for his coronation to the Ghost Zones throne, all the grueling training Pandora and the others gave him to controlling his powers, every flunked class and detention from having to run out and deal with a ghost, his shattered dreams of being an astronaut, everything he had done and sacrificed since the accident now meant nothing.

All because of some rich megalomaniac billionaire wanting to control him. Figures. He had the audacity to act suprised when he blew up at him. His powers where such a huge part of him. It was one of the few parts of himself that he actually liked. And Bruce had the nerve to give him the "superpowers aren't everything" speech. How condescending could someone be?!

The insinuation that he could be one of his flightless birds (oh God he would never fly through the nights sky again would he?!) and should be greatful about it was frankly insulting.

So he did what he did best. Escape. Except they caught him. Every. Single. Time. Was this a mansion or a prison? Honestly he wasn't sure anymore. Where was Jazz and his friends?

He cursed aloud when he realized they didn't have any way of tracking him without him being a ghost. He really was on his own with his kidnappers huh. And they were trying really hard to inflict some Stockholm syndrome, but didn't like it when he made the insinuation out loud.

They tried everything in thier power to keep him there "until you're better" and he couldn't tell you how many times they've busted down the door to reach him before it was "too late". Many locks throughout mansion were removed because of this. Too bad for them there was a lot of ways a normal human could "Go Ghost". It was a reoccurring joke that was slowly driving Bruce insane. Good. Suffer.

He really wished Nightwing would stop coming into his room at night to hug him though. The hugs were long and uncomfortable and he kept trying to talk to him. Weird. He acted like death was something to fear.

Too bad he wasn't going to make it easy for them. He had managed to slip away from the purple girl long enough to set two of the libraries on fire (a fact the estranged Wayne child was later furious about when he found out) and make a run for it. He actually managed to steal the batmobile and get a few miles out of the city before he was caught and recaptured. Danny never gave up though. He always found a new way to raise hell and escape.

He was going to become a ghost again.

One way or another.

I would like to think that maybe Maddie worked with the League for the Lazarus Pits/or her family's connected with the al Ghuls, and that Ra's kinda see her as the same like Bruce minus the detective part. And that Tim is really just a clone of Maddie and probably one of the assassins in the League where Maddie ended up running away with the baby. She was unable to take care of Tim because she was on the run and she knows that the baby did not deserve this life of fear and paranoia. Maddie was probably young (maybe 19-ish) when she escaped the league with the help of her now not estranged sister, Alicia. Maddie and Alicia tried to find the possible best family for her son. They found one seemingly the best couple for Maddie's son, its just that they requested to never contact them or the baby ever. Which Maddie is fine with really. Really. It sucks that she never would have expected them to have sucky parenting skills, which is probably none. And the rest is history.

The prejudice of Maddie against ghost actually makes sense here. She probably sees what happened to the people dipped in the Lazarus Pit thinking ghosts are just the same if not worse, and because PTSD. She thinks that the ghosts are as sadistic, full of rage and feels no pain just the same as the people unfortunately bathed with the Lazarus waters. But Maddie is a good mom here cause as soon as she knew that Danny is a (half-)ghost, that he is Phantom and that THEY are the reason why he is that, she was ready to throw away their weapons, sell away their lab and destroy the portal with her own bare hands. And if she discovered that someone tried to kill Tim, she would make sure to threaten and scare them, even at the cost of the al Ghuls finding her again. She would probably make up for the lost time with ALL her children, and that includes you Dani you lovable clone you.

Maddie is Tim's Bio Mom

Source: #ghosts-and-bats

A

GUYS

GUYS

SK

What what

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A

WHAT IS TIM IS BIOLOGICALLY MADDIE'S SON????

SK

Omg

A

He's older than Jazz and Danny, having been born before she married Jack

Because Jack and Janet totally seem like the kind of parents who would adopt for appearance's sake and then be horrible parents and pay off CPS

This is a Good Parents Jack and Maddie Fenton only story

L

Yeah, wouldn’t that suck to find out as Tim tho

A

Right?

Maddie only knows who adopted him, so she knows he's Tim Drake, but she's not allowed to make contact and has no clue anything is wrong

He finds out when going through some of his parents’ old papers

He's rattled, but curious

So, he reaches out to them, something about touring their lab and a potential business partnership

And so, they meet

SK

And he finds out he has younger siblings who could definitely use his help?

L

I have so many ideas but brain no translation

EP

Danny: This guy looks like me, but has posh manners and is talking about becoming business partners with my parents, despite everyon thinking they're crazy...Oh no, did the Frootloop make a stable clone?

Danny: Look, he may say he cares about you and he's a good man, but he's not. He's a rich basket case who can't let go of the past

Tim: I know, but he's trying his best

Danny: He really isn't

(neither realizing the other is talking about a completely different one percenter)

A

Tim is a little confused as to why his little brother is trying to sabotage his relationship with Bruce

Like

What could he hope to gain by this?

another thought

Maddie totally tracked down a Lazarus pit to study for her thesis

She met Talia

For that single summer they started a fierce rivalry

L

I like where this is going

A

Tim has to call in his Mom due to a ghost problem in Gotham (this is post reveal, she's better with ghosts now)

And the Wayne's sit there and watch her kick butt

Damien is unexpectedly quiet and wary around her

"That's my Mom," Tim brags with a smirk after she finished and starts clean up

And Damien hisses

"you're related to MADDISON???"

He steps back and gives Tim a long, considering look

Then nods

"Acceptable, Fenton"

Then he leaves

He refuses to call Tim a Drake again

SK

Lol yes I love this so much!

A

This is especially good because I'm pretty sure it's canon that Maddie is a black belt in at least one martial art

She is fully combat capable

She's a genius inventor

She is every inch Talia's equal

What she lacks in lethality, she more than makes up for in ingenuity

SK

I love Talia and Maddie being enemies, but please also consider:

What I'd they're exes?

A

how did you read my mind????

What if Talia still misses her???

What if Damian has to call him brother now?

SK

Perfection✨✨

A

Talia joins the "let's kill Jack" club with Vlad

Danny was excited to fight ninjas at first but now they're boring and such a bother

Why does everyone want his dad dead?

Jason is impressed and deeply intimidated by Tim's Mom

He's heard stories about her at the cradle

She put the fear of God into Ra's

SK

This keeps getting better

A

And when she finds out about what happened during Brucequest...

She might need to go visit the old man and see how he's doing 😁

Pru calls Tim after it's over and absolutely gushes about his Mom

She has a new goal in life

Be Maddie Fenton

Ra's is so upset he let Tim get away in the end

What do you think is Maddie's maiden name? Or did Jack take her name?

SK

I kinda like the idea that Jack took her name

A

Right?

Damian is very wary of her and looks like a cat whose fur got rubbed the wrong way when she's around

He finds her very unsettling

Dick is in awe

This woman can get Damian to do things with minimal fuss

“Teach me your WAYS!” He cries.

Cass likes her a lot and is very curious about her homemade equipment

Jazz isn't sure what to think about this whole thing

She sure did get a big brother out of it

It's very disorienting for her tbh

She's not quite sure how to process the whole thing and it keeps taking longer because stuff just won't stop happening

Poor Danny is being worn thin and just wants a nap

Then he realizes that neither Vlad or Talia have blackmail on him

So, he tattles

And Maddie is very upset that there are people trying to kill her husband

SK

She protecc

S

Talia gets a very angry phone call

A

Vlad is flat out cut out of her life

She gets a restraining order on him for her entire family

She pulls obscure League lore knowledge out of her back pocket and declares a personal war on Talia in a way that makes Damian pale and Talia shocked

Ra's has already "stepped down due to health reasons"

So, she's essentially challenging Talia for control of the league over the crime of trying to kill her husband