alright trans ppl we're returning to the fucking sea until shit gets better lets go everyone
Ok so, angst. Dead on main, and demon SIBLINGS not twins. Soulmate AU where only you know the name of your soulmate and it is guarded jealously.
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Danyal is the 1st son of Bruce and Talia was deemed too much like his father, so they had Damian to replace him as the true heir, Danny became his guard.
Danny dies protecting Damian in an attack on the league, before he dies he tells Damian the name of his soul mate and asks him to give him his love if he ever finds him and tell him sorry he couldn't be there.
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Danyal gasps through the hole in his lung, blood pours out of him. But he did it. He did his job. Damian was safe. He killed all the intruders after him.
He drags his feet toward Damian room, he has to be sure he's ok, then he can rest. Alarm bells ring in the back of his head, soft and incessant. Danyal ignores them.
Pain pulses from the many punctures and slices on his body but he makes it. He pushes the door open.
"Ahki!" A small voice cries out, Damian only seven looks terrified. He rushes over and Danyal looses the fight with his body to keep upright. He collapses in the middle of the room with Damian supporting his head.
"Ahki?! Please we need to get you to the medics or or the Pit! You've lost so much blood." Small hands press on his wounds trying to staunch the bleeding.
Danyal suddenly realizes he's dying. The blood loss and what he now realizes is poison are extensive. He's not going to make it. Mother won't waste the Pit on a failure, but at least he'll die with Dami.
A though strikes him, one last selfish request, then he'll rest.
"Dami-" His voice breaks and he coughs up a bunch of blood. Damian mutters at him to - shut up you're fine, stop talking you're making it worse.
"Damian, please, I have a request." Distantly Danyal registers this is the first time he's seen Damian openly cry.
"A-anything Ahki, but you'll be Fine!" He sobs pressing harder on his chest. Danyal feels the edges of his vision fading.
"My soulmate-" Damians eyes go wide- " is named Jason Todd, if you meet him pass on my love? And tell him... I'm sorry I couldn't....... meet him. "Danyals struggles to focus on Damians face, he can't hear his sobs anymore, all he can see is Damians bright green eyes,
"ahibuk....akhi."
And Danyal knew no more.
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Years pass, damian goes to Bruce's. Damian realizes Todd is Danny's SM. He also realizes hes not going to want to talk to damian, so he lures Todd to the manor. He uses his skills to restrain Todd in the dining room. While everyone freaks out, he kisses Jason on the cheek. Everyone freezes.
Damian whispers " Danyal is sorry he could not be here to meet you, he sends his love through me, he died an honourable death."
Jason is stunned and Damian walks away.
Jason had never told anyone his soulmates name.
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AN: I had ideas to keep it as he died or that he becomes Danny phantom but this is all I have energy for rn.
The Origin
(X means unfinished)
(All of these are connected but can be read as stand alone)
Meeting the phantomily:
Crack meeting the batfam :
Part 1| Part 2| Part 3| Part4 | Part 5 the final!
Hide @ dick’s apartment :
Part 1| Part 2| Part 3| Part4 | Part 5 the final!!
You can’t bench me! :
Part 1| Part 2| Part 3| Part4 | Part 5| Part 6| Part 7| Part 8 the final!!
ice cream| intermission | bonus
The Batburger saga : X
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3| Part 4 | Part 5| Part 6 the final!
(Ask are always open!)
Fav DPxDC trope?
ships in the AU?
First hug?
What about other villains?
Good goons!
Explosions!
I've recently been in the dpxdc fandom, it's awesome af and I just had an idea, a weird prompt.
We usually see Danny is or ends up as part of the batfam: Damian's twin, the new adoptee, something like that.
So how about Danny being Talia's older brother? Ra's favorite and the one who set all the standards that Talia, and later Damian, have to reach?
The original idea was: Danny left the LoA when he was young enough to never get to meet Bruce, so he never knew his sister had a son and thus that he was an uncle, he never knew his nephew was a hero nor that his nephew's father and his family were heroes.
So when an adult Danny, Phantom since 14 and High King of the Infinite Realms since 18 (or whatever age you feel like, I feel like that experience makes him very indifferent to a lot, and his morals are more similar to those of ectoentities than living things), met the JL and more specifically the batfamily, he felt the pits in RH and more slightly in Robin, and knew they were on some level involved with the LoA, so he just asked
"So… How did you get dad to let you use the pits?"
To which the batfam responds with "YOUR DAD!"
Then a second idea, derived from the og, was:
JL and JLD found out that the Ra's al Ghul was trying to summon the King of the Infinite Realms, so they go to stop him but fail to do it in time, then Danny in ghost king form appears.
He sees the scene, sees that his father is the one summoning him, and goes
"Oh hey dad!" as he transforms from his eldritch form to human form "You know you can call me right? I have a phone, no need for all this crap" .
Everyone, even Ra's, is shocked.
Idk sounds funny in my head
Feel free to make a fic out of this and sorry if I sound too formal or if there are mistakes, English is not my first language and I'm learning it
It is also my second time publishing something and I don't know how to use tags
While Tim was working with the Ra's and the League of Assassins he learned that Damian had a twin that went missing a few years before Damian came to Gotham. This is information he took a mental note of for later as he was more concerned with find Bruce at the time.
It's something he honestly forgets about though, and it isn't until months had passed after the time stream incident that he even recounted it. When he does Tim decides that maybe finding out what happened to Damian's twin would help mend their own relationship.
Thinking that maybe the reason Damian is so angry is because he never got to properly bury his, at the time, assumed dead brother. Only Tim doesn't find something that needs to be buried; he finds Danny Fenton.
Now Tim knows that he should probably go and inform Damian and Bruce that their brother and son respectively is alive. But that would ruin the surprise reveal he was already planning out in his head so he doesn't do that. Instead, Tim travels to Amity Park with one goal in mind: Convince Danny to come back to Gotham with him.
A cult summons the ghost king. Except they don’t. Instead they get these tiny white-haired triplets of toddlers blinking at the summoning circle looking confused.
They’ve gotten the ghost princes and princess instead.
The very young princes and princess who are none too pleased and going to cause problems on purpose for both rogues and heroes alike. As godlings de-aged into their ghost age are like to do.
Meanwhile in the Realms, Pariah is staring down at where his trio of ghost toddlers that Clockwork had handed him when he had first woken up and was still groggy just disappeared from. He looks over at Fright Knight, his dearest brother, who looks just as shocked.
Clockwork is going to kill them both if they don’t get the kids back now.
The form he's stuck in is a merman form. But it's not, like, a typical merman form.
He'd been trying to see if he could reshape his ecto while he was in human form, and he had! But he'd also gotten overenthusiastic in experimenting, added too many features unique to his ghost form, and now he can't shift into either form.
Human or ghost.
He's stuck.
He's stuck as a merman with his human features, his ghost-form eye color (it glows), his human form hair (tinted with glowing green-ish white), deep blue scales on his tail that fade into that seem glowing greenish white, and fully functional gills.
He also cannot use his ghost powers. He knows that they're there, but for some reason his current form will not allow their usage. Maybe...maybe he's using too much ghost energy to keep up the transformation?
Regardless, he got captured by some sleezeball and thrown into a traveling freakshow. Highly illegal, and he's slowly losing hope that he'll be able to escape, because he just. Can't. Shift. Back!
Then the sleezeball makes a stupid mistake; he puts the freakshow up in Metropolis.
Danny goes to sleep one day closer to a mental breakdown.
Danny wakes up to Superman floating in front of his tank, in the process of restraining Aquaman from quite literally murdering the sleezeball.
album of memories untold by aevum; (Ongoing), Rated: Gen; Pairings: Joongdok & SPOD; AU where the OD is like KDJ's version of SP, and they have a little talk during the scenarios and then shit goes down.
A Sudden Surprise by Amethyst_9158; (Complete - 10,939 words), Rated: Mature; KimCom gets a scenario to travel into the past and watch Kim Dokja grow up.
The Kids Seem Alright? by Anonymous; (Ongoing), Rated: Gen; Kim Dokja is nine when his favorite novel becomes his new reality.
Pistis by Azrain; (Ongoing), Rated: Mature; Plotja; In a scenario that pairs up incarnations and constellations to pass it KDJ and SP team up.
Reading Again by Eternity_Epilogue_9158; (Ongoing), Rated: Explicit; Pairings: Plotja, Joongdok, KDJ/other YJH Regressions; AU with Esper/Guide and A/B/O dynamics
Oracle Companion by FlorQuinnUwU; (Ongoing), Rated: Teen; Pairings: YJH/LSW/KDJ; In which tls123 decides to try writing KDJ in Ways of Survival, and KDJ the character becomes the primary role model of KDJ the reader.
It'll Be Over Quickly by Frill; (Complete - 186,177 words), Rated: Teen; No Pairings; KDJ has been reading TWSA since he was 5 years old. When he is 18 years old the apocalypse starts.
Skill Malfunction by Frill; (Ongoing), Rated: Teen; No Pairings; When KDJ used 'King of No-Killing' for the first time, he came back to life as a confused kid that didn't seem surprised to be amidst the apocalypse.
you will survive by Frill; (Complete - 15,555 words), Rated: Teen; General/Minor Joongdok; Kim Dokja's not a regressor but they surround him.
Apostrophe by LiaLox; (Ongoing), Rated: Teen; Pairings: Joongdok & Doksoo - Post-canon fic where KDJ still has the Oldest Dream powers.
1864 by Liu_Su_Mian_Hua (Dragonica_the_mini_dragon), SnowballTheLittleFluffball; Multi-chapter, Rated: Explicit; Joongdok/Plotja, KDJ/other YJH regressions; What if instead of becoming an Outer God, 1863rd YJH regresses instead?
ascension, love, and the ever present pull-and-push by LostOnMyRoad; (Complete - 16,963 words), Unrated; No Pairings; Post-canon - Kim Dokja gets de-aged as a result of a mishap with an artifact. Uncomfortable truths come out.
Don't Let The Thousand Nights Disappear by NurikoEsuki; (Complete - 26,280 words), Rated: Teen; Pairings: Joongdok, Plotja, SPOD; AU where YJH remembers his sponsor.
Kim Dokja and the fun adventures with the Kkomas by QuelMaisQuel; (Complete - 343,604 words), Rated: Mature; Pairings: Plotja, Joongdok, KDJ w/ other YJH Regressions; A comedic rewrite on the events that follow after SP kidnaps KDJ after the Apocalypse Dragon scenario.
The Axe and the Frozen Sea by realfakedokja; (Ongoing), Rated: Teen; Pairing: SPOD; SPOD re-write AU, in which the scenario starts 1 regression sooner. The 1863rd round accompanied by a child who both adores and fears him.
Spoke to God and He Had My Name by spoonks; (Complete - 5,605 words), Rated: Teen; Pairings: Joongdok, KDJ/other YJH regressions; KDJ, after a certain “rest” period, he could be summoned back into the scenarios, if only for a moment. Normally he only woke from his slumber for no longer than a handful of heartbeats—just long enough to recognize when that stupid fucking stigma was activated.
The Secretive Plotter by Sterblichkeitswahn; (Ongoing), Rated: Mature; Pairings: Plotja & Joongdok; KDJ chooses SP as his sponsor. SP's POV of the events of the 1864th Regression.
A Circle to Your Square by Waltzfor-Zizi (azro_zee); (Complete - 26,866 words), Rated: Teen; Pairings: Joongdok/Plotja; Funny how YJH dated a man who was a diehard fan of a webnovel protagonist with the same name as him. But the fun quickly evaporated when that very webnovel became reality and his boyfriend was nowhere to be found.
[Private Scenario - What were your experiences with Kim Dokja] by Whoknowz; (Ongoing), Rated; Teen; No Pairings (implied that all the KimCom adults have feelings for KDJ); Reaction Fic - KimCom get a scenario to watch important moments with KDJ and KImCom members through the KimCom's members' POVs.
After Kim Dokja wakes up by Amethyst_9158; Series, Rated: Mature; Story 1 (Complete - 14,207 words) and Story 2 (Complete - 9,206 words); Pairings: Joongdok & Kkomas YJHs/kkomas KDJs; Post-canon - Kim Dokja wakes up and gets showered with love & Every kkoma YJH gets a kkoma KDJ companion!
orv cub raising au by creaphen; Series - Story 1 (Complete, Rated: Teen - 53,198 words) and Story 2 (Complete, Unrated - 5,690 words); Pairing: SPOD; In which Kim Dokja learns to hate reading, but he still manages to find his protagonist.
shoot for the stars by jokebear; Series, Story 1 (Complete - 2,653 words) & Story 2 (Complete - 6,655 words), Rated: Teen; Pairings: Plotja/Joongdok; SP is chosen as KDJ's sponsor.
us, one more time by Anonymous; 1,485 words, Rated: Gen; Pairing: Plotja; It is not the scenarios that take Kim Dokja away, it is the story he loves.
Would be it so bad if I stayed? I'm just a ghost out of his grave. by aynchent; 6,140 words, Rated: Teen; Pairings: Joongdok & Doksoo; KDJ gets a scenario penalty that makes him have to tell the truth.
Legally Blonde by cylnire; 1,709 words, Rated: Teen; Pairings: one-sided KDJ/KimCom adults; Modern AU - KDJ dyes his hair blond and has his friends to questioning their sexuality.
Non-Fiction by Enigmatree; 4,377 words, Rated: Gen; No pairings; SP takes OD along to get his mother out of that house and take her with them.
Stay for the Night, I'll sell you a Dream by GwiYeoWeo; 5,701 words, Rated: Mature; Pairing: SPOD; While investigating an unknown portal that appeared in his realm, SP finds himself in a strange little shop — a shop belonging to a Constellation who may be more mystifying than Plotter's own modifier.
Garden of the Dreamer by idlemurmurs; 2,893 words, Rated: Gen; Pairing: SPOD; Fantasy AU - After a long journey spanning decade, of warmongering, of resolution, the heroes returned to where they came from. A home, long forgotten, protected by the one they cared for the most. Their one and only dreamer.
the reward from the journey's end by kimagura; 4,141 words, Rated: Gen; Pairings: SPOD, OD/other YJH regressions; OD doesn't understand why his family suddenly decided to prepare a treasure hunt for him, but he might find the answer to that after it's over.
object of desire by pssstos (sylkechi); 5,637 words, Rated: Teen; Pairings: Joongdok, Plotja; The kids are interested to learn more about Fables and how access them. When doing this KDJ finds a Fable called "Plotter's Object of Desire".
The secret unknown even to the plotter by tipofthepencil; 1,636 words, Rated: Gen; No Pairings; An extended reunion scene between SP and OD.
Aftershocks by Waltzfor-Zizi (azro_zee); 3,184 words, Rated: Gen; No Pairings; OD is feeling side effects from KDJ taking his place as the reader of the worldlines.
Old Debts by your__isgayrights; 6,058 words, Rated: Teen; No Pairings; KDJ is saved from a subway terrorist by grandpa 0th turn YJH. YJH proceeds to follow him home and teach him life skills.
[The Story 'Life and Death Companions' is continuing.] by your__isgayrights; 12,626 words, Rated: Teen; No Pairings; YJH dies in the 3rd regression. In an alternate universe where KDJ is in all the subsequent regressions as well, YJH becomes just as detached from him as everyone else. The feeling is not mutual.
Down to the Riptide by Goushen; ORV x PJO; Multi-chapter (Ongoing), Rated: Gen; Pairing: implied: Percabeth; Percy Jackson wakes up the subway in Seoul, Korean during the First Scenerio.
Why Does Jesus Want to Be My Constellation Sponsor- A Question Asked By Percy Jackson by novarei; ORV x PJO; Rated: Gen, One-shot (Complete - 2,846 words); No Pairings; Percy at the Constellation Banquet with KDJ & YJH.
proofreader by isadorator; Red Candy AU; Multi-chapter (Ongoing), Rated: Teen; Pairing: Joongdok, KDJ is both a reader and a spy.
holding out for a miracle (knowing it will never come) by almostprimary; Hunger Games AU; Multi-chapter (Ongoing), Rated: Teen; Pairing: Joongdok, YJH is a volunteer from District 1. KDJ is a volunteer from District 12.
the stars, the earth, and everything in between by NFx; ORV x SCTIR; Rated: Explicit; Pairing: YJH/KDJ/HYJ; Yoojin is transported into ORV-verse during the events of Peace Land.
let it grovel madly after by whathappened; Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun parody AU; Multi-chapter (Ongoing), Rated: Teen; Pairing: Joongdok, A comedy fic for if KDJ & YJH met during their school days.
Raltsing Your Way Into My Heart by plunderheavenblind; Pokémon AU; One-shot (Complete - 2,195 words), Rated: Teen; Pairing: Joongdok, YJH has just started his Pokémon journey when he comes across strange Pokémon shaped like letters.
Universe 1059 by emberKat22; Pokémon AU; One-shot (Complete - 4,617 words), Rated: Mature; Pairing: Joongdok, YJH & KDJ reincarnate as Eevees.
Little star's favorite
It all started when Talia came to Gotham with a gift.
The gift in question was a twelve year old boy.
Bruce stared at the boy who was almost the exact replica of Damian if not for the blue eyes and longer hair. He looked utterly perplexed at the sight of Bruce, tilting his head before frowning at his mother with a visibly displeased look.
"Beloved, may I introduce you to Danyal, our Damian's twin brother. He was... Away... On a mission until recently." Talia hummed, a hand on Danyal's back.
"You... You didn't think to tell me about him when you told me about Damian?" Shutting his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose. He looked down at the boy who looked a little more like him than Talia and felt himself softening. "Hello Danyal."
"Hello."
Talia smiled, before her expression fell. "A little warning, beloved. The twins do not get along. Damian is quite the competitive child and Danyal... Well, he's the nicer one if I must say." She shrugged, running her fingers through her son's hair before pressing a kiss to his forehead. "Go on now, Najmi As-Sagheer (my little star)."
"Ummi... Must I join them? I am perfectly fine with remaining in the league." Danyal muttered, eye twitching but his expression was quickly schooled into neutrality.
"Yes, Danyal." She sighed, "I have no intention of letting father keep you."
Bruce raised a brow at her words.
"That is a conversation for another time, habibi." Talia lazily insisted, gently pushing Danyal towards Bruce.
Bruce, for all he's lived, immediately recognized a feral cat in the form a child. Yep. Another Damian. That was seemingly the nicer one.
But he was scruffy little thing who was being called little star by his mother. Bruce blinked, offering his hand to Danyal (like how a person would do by letting a cat sniff his hand to see if they were safe).
Danyal, more twitchy and annoyed than his brother, looked at the hand like it had personally offended him.
And that is how Batman brought home another child while holding him by the scruff.
(Danny hated everyone except for Alfred—both cat and butler)
Danyal was a much quieter person compared to Damian. Unlike his brother who had practically came into their lives guns blazing and declaring that he was the rightful heir to the bat, Danyal mainly ignored them. He would glare, snarl, and scowl, but not in the way Damian did. The kid was obviously threatened by them, but more for his own safety rather than inheritance.
He avoided them like the plague, only welcoming the company of Alfred and occasionally Cass.
He didn't join in on the vigilante business, opting to stay back with Oracle and just quietly direct them on their missions. It was strange in all honesty.
They didn't know much about Danyal, aside from the fact that his mother called him little star for his natural love of space. That he liked to tinker with gadgets and make his own weapons. That he really liked fudge.
Aside from that, the kid was quiet and was usually hiding out in his room.
Tim wasn't particularly thrilled to have another demon brat in the family. He avoided Danyal as much as possible expecting for the boy to be just like his brother and attack him.
But apparently not.
It's one of those unfortunate times that Tim's sleep deprivation and overload on energy drinks gets him benched by Alfred and not Bruce. No one particularly wanted to argue with their beloved butler/grandpa so Tim was stuck in place. It was a much quieter night than usual, almost peaceful (as much as Gotham can get).
Babs was relieved of her duties to have a night off, rest and relax and such, while Tim manned the bat computer in Oracle's place. He almost didn't notice the mop of black hair that suddenly appeared beside him.
Tim didn't want to admit it, but he flinched at Danyal's presence and how he was quietly standing there with a tray of coffee and cookies. Blue eyes blinked at him, silently pushing the tray forward to offer Tim the lone cup (most likely for him) and the plate of cookies.
Suspicious, Tim narrowed his eyes. "Alfred wouldn't make me coffee after benching me for this kind of thing."
Danyal shrugged, "Made it myself. Thought you'd need it since the others will be gone for a while."
"That's poisoned."
"It's not." Danyal frowned, immediately taking the cup and taking a couple sips himself before once again offering it to Tim.
Now, Tim wasn't stupid enough to ignore the possibility of Danyal having some tolerance to poison. But Tim was also tolerant to a lot of poisons so might as well.
When taking one sip, he was already feeling weird. One, there was no poison. Two, it was actually pretty good.
Danyal just sat there and stared at the screen, munching on cookies and pointing at the screen whenever Robin started to stray from the patrol route. Tim had a lot of fun reportingtattling to Bruce about it.
Eventually, it became a routine.
Danyal always sat beside Tim. Quiet and just offering random stuff, either food, some little gadget he made, or just the most bizarre stuff he found while at school.
Tim learned many things about his weird little brother. How cameras go crazy around him. How he had his reasons for not being touched. How Danyal was more silent than Cass. How Danyal vanished and reappeared at times.
(The glowing green eyes were the most concerning.)
He never really took notice of how Danyal started to gravitate to him. Always with him, barely without.
(Tim refused to admit that he was just the same.)
"Can I go on patrol with you?" Danyal asked, tugging at his Red Robin suit with a curious look. "I wanna meet Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn."
And Tim didn't really see much of a problem with that. Danyal was a highly trained assassin that Ra's apparently trusted to go on a solo mission while Damian had to be whisked away from the league. It wasn't too absurd for Tim to just shrug and let his kid brother tag along.
He was also very sure that his baby brother was an eldritch being with how the shadows seemed to rise around him. Yeah, the baby was a cryptid amongst a family of supposed cryptids. Very fitting.
It's a nice night. With Danny running amok with Tim, clearly having fun. But that one looks of sadness didn't escape Tim when Danny paused and looked to the sky with longing.
Tim remembers how Danny rambled about the stars in their shared moments, where it's just them.
Tim remembers how Danny would describe the sky in Nanda Parbar and how he often snuck out just to see it.
Tim remembers how much his little brother likes space and turns to the cloudy sky of Gotham that hides the stars.
Tim remembers how he was often depraved of the brotherly love he wanted. How he didn't get the full experience of having an older brother.
"You okay, little star?"
Danyal snapped his head towards Tim, eyes blown wide and flashing green (he knows that wasn't normal but he ignores that in favor to the way Danyal visibly softens at the nickname).
"'m okay, akhi." Danyal muttered, following after Tim after adjusting his own hood.
And it's like his heart stops.
Yep.
Tim has had Danyal for barely a year and he was willing to throw hands with Ra's, Talia, and Bruce for him.
"C'mon, qalbi(my heart). Batburger's still open."
He barely noticed the shift after that. But others think it's a glaring change that often made them stop and stare.
Danyal went to Tim whenever he needed anything.
If Danyal wasn't in bed, you'd find him snuggled up to Tim.
Danyal hated it when people touched him... Except for Tim.
Danyal liked Tim the most.
The day Dick thought it was a good idea to call Danyal 'Danny' (a nickname that was only used by Tim and Alfred), he almost got stabbed. Well, that's where all the stabbiness went to.
Safe to say, Tim was Danny's favorite.
And Danny was Tim's.
"Drake! What have you done to my brother?!" Damian pointed a katana at Tim, who lazily glanced his way before turning back to Danny who was comfortably snuggled up to him and watching Blue while Tim scrolled on Tiktok.
"I haven't done anything to Danny, demon brat. Now shoo!" Tim's irritation could be heard from a mile away, shamelessly shooing Damian away with a flick of his wrist. Then the next second, he was combing his fingers through Danny's hair and listening to his younger brother make a purring noise.
(Another point of investigation because that is not fucking normal, Tim. Cute though!)
"I refuse to believe that Danyal would prefer you over me!"
"You're just salty that he stabs you like you stab me." Tim waved him off again, watching as Danny yawned and continued to ignore everyone else.
The click of a camera immediately alerts him and he's tugging Danny down before the much younger boy lunges at Dick.
"Woah! What's up with him?" Dick nervously asked, instinctively raising his phone above his head.
"Delete that!" Tim snarled, pulling Danny closer and guiding his brothers face to his shoulder. "You know he hates it when people take pictures without consent!"
(Tim doesn't tell them that something goes every wrong with the footage if Danny was ever in the picture.)
"Dick." Tim warned, effortlessly picking up Danny, because yes, his seemingly cryptid baby brother could become weightless, and snatched Dick's phone. Yep. Instead of Danny, there was a very strange figure, a glitching silhouette of black and green. He deletes it immediately.
Dick was pouring, "I don't have any pics of Danny—"
"Don't call me that, Richard." Danny scowled, clinging to Tim like a koala. He was strangely more child-like than Damian, muttering about annoying people who interrupted bonding time. (Dick was just forced to pout.)
"Danyal." Damian crossed his arms, scowling at Danny who was still comfortably cuddled up to Tim. "It is not appropriate to cling to Drake in such a way! You will embarrass our mother and father if you are seen acting like a petulant child!"
Tim wanted to argue that no, he wouldn't embarrass Talia and Bruce by being a kid, but Danny just grabbed a cookie from nowhere (note to self, add possible teleportation powers to cryptid baby) and shoved it into his mouth.
Danny just yawned, fixing Damian with a lazy glare.
"Tuhali, can you shut up?"
Damian stood stock still, while Jason and Bruce choked on their own spit. Jason slapping a hand over his mouth and Bruce just staring at his twins like the apocalypse was about to return.
"What did you just call me?"
Danny yawne again, "My spleen."
Tim knew what Tuhali meant. Of course he fucking knew Arabic! But to think that his cryptid baby brother was straight up calling Damian his spleen?
The spleen that Tim doesn't have.
The spleen that's important to the immune system but you can survive without it?
Tim grinned, grabbing his cryptid baby and made a run for it.
Yep.
Danny was definitely his favorite.
Credits to: @strangergraphics for the dividers used.
[Here] Reincarnation never guarantees your freedom
[Here] To be free is to take matters into your own hands (wrapped around a sharpened blade)
[Here] Point of convergence
[Here] We meet again
AKA "Danny moves to Gotham and records TikToks with absolutely deranged captions. He films Get Ready with Me in Gotham videos, fit checks, and even A Day in the Life of a Ghost in Gotham! Except everybody is freaking the fuck out in the comments" prompt idea!
No, you don't understand, I'm obsessed. Like, what if Danny's idea of "safe" is just... anything that doesn't actively try to kill him? So Metropolitians, Star City, and Central City citizens are literally biting their nails and sweating bullets every time he posts, because what if he gets merc'd by the "Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag" Red Hood?? And that's one of the nicer villains in Gotham. And Danny's just like wow, this place is niiiiiice, I haven't even been murdered yet!
Maybe Jazz took a 12-year-old Danny to Gotham to escape their parents. Gotham's cheap, dirty, and doesn't ask questions: it's the best place to go to disappear because damn near half the city's population are either super villains, hostages, dead, or vigilantes. She gets a job at an understaffed hospital as a clinical psych intern. She enrolls Danny for online schooling because she's scared a public high school would be too easy for their parents to track.
Which leaves Danny alone for hours. He makes a TikTok account called "Danny Phantom" because, c'mon, he's a kid. And, like most kids, he doesn't really comprehend the idea of a digital footprint or that his account is public, accessible by literally anybody.
He's also a little shit. So, the first TikTok he uploads is of a man getting carjacked, but the caption reads: love to see people helping each other. remember it's always okay to ask for help! it's okay, I don't know how to parallel park, either :)
And you just see this guy in a mask shove a businessman away from his car, gesturing with his gun, before getting into the driver's seat. Except the car is parallel parked so the carjacker just slowly inches back and forth between a Prius and a Honda until he can wedge himself out of the parking space. And then gets stuck in stand-still traffic. The TikTok goes viral. It's talked about on the Gotham news and Gothamites are losing their shit, pointing out the exact moment you can see the carjacker start to soundlessly cuss through the car's windshield or the way the businessman is just... standing on the side of the road, watching with a deadpan look.
Danny doesn't know about it being on the news, but he sees all the comments, likes, reposts, and feels something. He wonders if this is what Ember feels every time people listened to her music. So, he keeps posting. Usually, it's short three-second videos of a hilariously unexpected situation with an even more deranged caption. But then he's accidentally caught in the reflection of a store front while recording and doesn't know, posts it like he always does; only for this TikTok to go viral, too. Because "Danny Phantom" is a child??
He doesn't notice the shift in his comments, but the public opinion quickly changes from wow, Gothamites are just like that huh lol to what the FUCK, kid, get inside!!! anytime he posts.
Except Danny never gets hurt. Even in the most dangerous situations, when you'd think this kid is a goner for sure, he's just happily yapping in the background. He's so different from Gothamites because he lacks that dead-eyed, despair-inducing aura of someone who's lived in a hellmouth their whole lives. (A couple people post that Danny kind of reminds them of Golden Boy Brucie Wayne, all air-headed and unrealistically optimistic, and suddenly there's memes of "what happens when you've never gotten shot in Gotham" or "how i act when Commish Gordie accuses me of shoplifting again" with them side-by-side.)
And then Danny's posts go viral again and again. Danny doing a fit check with a blond-haired woman with a checkered outfit, she ruffles his hair and kisses him on the cheek. A picture of him wearing an old jean jacket with a bright red lipstick smear on his cheek is trending for weeks. Spoiler, fully suited up in an all-purple vigilante attire, and him shoving gas station hotdogs in their mouths. He even has videos of him clearly in Killer Croc's lair, with comments of are you in the sewers??? DANNY??? and he responds, no, i'm in mom & dad's basement :) (Waylon Jones is actually sitting behind him in one of the videos, intently watching a TV show on an iPad.)
Everybody adores Danny - Rogues, Gothamites, even the Bats. (There's at least six videos of Nightwing teaching Danny how to do backflips, handstands, and other acrobatic moves. Even the youngest Robin has been caught on camera quietly talking with Danny, a shocking lack of violence that left half the city's population suffering from cuteness aggression for the kids.)
So, yeah, Danny belongs to Gotham.
But the internet is widely accessible and Danny made it so, so easy to find him. Jazz obviously didn't know he was posting videos of himself publicly; she was too tired after back-to-back 12 hour shifts at the hospital that she hadn't even checked social media in months. Otherwise, she would've told him to be careful, to never show his face or post his real name on the internet. Then again, Jazz would never have expected all of Gotham (and Superman himself, totally endeared by the kid after Kon and Jon showed him a couple TikToks) would beat the absolute shit out of anybody going after Danny.
Imagine GIW's surprise when they track down Amity's former residential Ghost only to find an entire city frothing at the mouth to protect their Phantom.