AU Tim wereswan

Danny ends up a doctor like his parents, just not the type of doctor they were expecting.

Danny becomes an archeologist.

He couldn't help it! Most of his friends were dead people, some from as far back as ancient Mesopotamia! He automatically knew every dead language by virtue of being a ghost! The way his friends talked, he wanted to know more about their lives. So he goes looking and makes a name for himself.

He becomes a well known archeologist. As a grad student, he works for the Drakes, even babysitting their son, Tim. He goes to Janet's, and later Jack's, funeral, offering to take Tim in, which the boy is grateful for but declines in favor of a bio-uncle. Eventually, Danny discovers the remains of an ancient cult in the Middle East.

Ra's learns that the remains of the original League of Shadows has been uncovered by a group of archeologists. Originally visiting the dig site to ensure the group doesn't discover any traces of the modern-day League, he finds himself intrigued by the young Dr. Fenton leading the dig. He's smart and bright and the first person in 400 years that can speak Ra's birth language. He becomes fond of the good doctor, even more so when he discovers that Danny's a conservationist and is skilled with a Xiphos (all Pandora's doing). How strange that their spars often end up with them retreating to Danny's tent to be alone...

And then Danny invites Tim Drake to visit, worried about the boy being a teen CEO with no breaks. Tim agrees.

Tim: you know he's evil, right?

Danny: Timmy, you shouldn't accuse people of being evil, that's rude. Besides, evil these days is subjective anyway.

Tim: no, I'm pretty sure he'a actually evil, not like corprate or political evil, like actually evil.

Danny: *pats Tim on the head* sure he is, buddy.

Danny at a Bar: Hello.

Dick turning around on the bar stole: Hi!

Danny: Are you the most wanted man I'm looking for?

Dick smiling: That line usually works?

Danny, holding up a wanted poster from the ghost zone: Not a pickup line. You're under arrest.

Dick: What?

Danny: You have the right to a peaceful death. Everything you are can and will be used against you. You will have court before the King in three days. Get in the bag.

tim who was also in the bar by chance and trying to determine if Dick was a hallucination or not: this time if it seems really elaborate… maybe I should call Bab' to check?

Frightful Misadventures and Missteps

Fright Knight had, to put it lightly, gone through a number of ordeals while in service. The Conquering King was now overthrown by the much kinder Reluctant King. As his King was discussing the many comings and goings within the realms, he felt his interest pique in a certain discussion between his king and one Lady Gotham.

"My knights do try so much, I adore them, really. Love them like no other." And blah blah unimportant words blah blah things Fright Knight won't care about blah blah..."

Knights she says? Were they as loyal as he? As devoted as he? As capable as he? Only one way to find out.

So Fright Knight, after ensuring that the Royal family will be safe in his absence, without notifying anyone, makes his way to Gotham. He must test these supposed knights capabilities.

Clad in his 8 ft disembodied armor glory, steed in tow, Fright Knight is now in Gotham.

Fright Knight in all his glory on Nightmare: …. they are… not knights! where are their mounts!!!

he does not recognize and refuses to recognize the vehicles because they are soulless machines!

Damian ends up showing up on batcow or goliath and ends up being recognized as the only true knight of gotham

Tim wonders if asking Kon to come and ride on his back would get him validated as a knight

Not Coming

Bruce Wayne’s newest adoptive son shouts at him with worrying certainty, especially considering the turn this kidnapping incident has turned into. What, with the falling burning plane all around them.

“Superman can hear-“

“No, Bruce. That’s just some stupid marketing ploy the Justice league uses to deter crime.” Danny sighs bitterly, (tiredly, hopelessly) as his shoulders slump slightly.

tim whispering to himself: not anymore

The bats have so many folks around, even if they aren't always working together. Enough that folks like to joke/write about Danny just kinda showing up acting like he already lives there. He just kinda blends in.

I'd love to see more magic motivated versions of this. Some kind of spell that affects the bat's perceptions of the past and present, making them actually miss that this boy wasn't with their family too long ago. Maybe it changes their understanding like it's a time line shift, maybe it fogs their mind just a tad and makes them glaze past something like it wasn't even there. I like the second if only because I feel like that would make it more likely for the bats to realize a spell was a foot.

Imagining this from Danny's side, hes terrified this whole time of getting found out. He knows how and when he showed up here and maybe even how flimsy whatever magic is in place is. Imagining a Desiree wish that was either very carefully worded or Not so carefully worded. Maybe he placed himself with the Wayne family with the expectation that he would quietly mooch of some rich idiot until he was ready to be on his own. Or maybe he wished himself to be a part of the batclan, taking up a mask and patroling with them as a bird that Doesn't Exist.

Ofc eventually the spell has to be broken, leaving the bats confused worried scared angry probably even amused, and a billion other things. WHY did this teenager decide to adopt himself into the Wayne/bat family? Who the hell is he and where did he come from. Someone call Zatanna, there is some magic Fuckery going on.

Danny; alone, scared, suffering, tired; waits for his parents to go upstairs for the night and finally does the one thing everyone knows not to do in Amity Park. Delirious and exhausted and thoughts too slurred to lawyer his words to extreme specificity -it's fine, no outcome could be worse than this- he wishes. He wishes his family would just accept him for who and what he is.

Green mist and magic wrap around him like a snake. It should feel choking, but really it's nice to be held. Familiar words echo from empty air. They should fill him with dread, but he can only feel relief. Green and black wash across his vision and Danny lets it take him away.

The next thing Danny is cognizant of is a softness beneath him. A quiet beeping keeping perfect time with his slow heart rate beside him. His wounds have been tended to and the screaming agony in his body has been replaced with a dulled ache. There is a slight pinching in the crook of his arm, but otherwise Danny is as comfortable as he could be. This is wrong. He made a Wish. Desiree should have done something to it. Twisted it into something else. Something dangerous. Danny jolts to alertness, trying to put himself in a defensible position in preparation for whatever wicked trick Desiree had pulled.

"Whoa, whoa, easy there, Baby Spooks! You're safe. We've got you." A blurry, black gloved hand reaches for Danny and he can't stop the full body flinch that comes of it. The hand freezes. Danny's eyes flick around, trying to see, to understand. But whatever is being pumped into him via the IV in his arm must be extremely potent to be dulling his pain and keeping his thoughts sluggish.

Finally, his eyes focus, honing in on the hand still outstretched towards him. Too big to be Mom's. To small to be Dad's. Some kind of fabric, not hazmat rubber. With blue fingers not present on any of his parents' suits. He lets his gaze follow the blue, trailing up a lithe but muscular arm to a broad chest where the blue lines become a familiar blue symbol.

"Ni-win?" There's a soft chuckle, somewhere between rue and relief, that snaps Danny's gaze up to Nightwing's unmasked face. Why is Nightwing unmasked? Aren't vigilantes supposed to guard their identities with their lives? Aren't the Bats supposed to be notoriously paranoid and banal about threats to theirs? "Wha-"

"There you are, Danny. Careful now. You took quite a beating last night." Nightwing knows his name. Nightwing is unmasked in front of him, staring at him with such relief and concern and trust. Like he knows Danny. Cares about him. But there's a certain emptiness in the hero's eyes. A way his gaze glazes right over Danny's bandaged injuries. Not questioning. Not even quite acknowledging. Just accepting.

Acceptance.

That's what Danny wished for. Acceptance for who and what he was. Nightwing called him Baby Spooks. So casually. So endearingly. Like he knew what Danny was and was okay with it. Acceptance from... family?

A door opens and Danny can't fight the instinctual way his eyes slide over to it. Holy shit, that's Bruce Wayne. Holy shit that's Bruce Wayne in The Batman suit.

"Good morning, Danny. How you feeling, son?"

Holy shit, Bruce Wayne, Batman, thinks Danny is his son. Desiree made the Bats Danny's family. And made them accept him. By not questioning it. And clearly implanted memories that they know him. But Danny doesn't know them. He knows of the Bats. And tangentially knows a tiny bit about Bruce Wayne because Tuck adored Wayne-tech. But Danny doesn't know these people. And they think they know him. Think they trust him. Enough to reveal their identities. Because they think he's family.

Danny's head is spinning and his breathing stuttering and his heart rate climbing and all he can do is stare, terrified and bewildered, at the unmasked vigilantes in front of him. Holy shit, he's so screwed.

I want more of this so bad. How does danny react? What should he do? Does he fess up immediately or play along?

Can he pretend he has memory loss? (Does he have a head injury to make it believable?) If he asks how he got here, will they have implanted false memories or a suspicious lack of knowledge? Maybe faking amnesia isn't a good idea if asking questions draws attention to the situation.

But he doesn't know them well enough to determine how they'll react to the truth, dammit. Maybe he can just... not speak unless spoken to, and if they ask anything of them, claim he isnt feeling well.

He should probably call tucker, see if his memories were altered and how, and have him look up the waynes to see if recent their history had been altered to accommodate danny's presence. Oh god what if desiree had altered reality so danny had always been part of the wayne family and had never met sam and tucker? Shit. Shit shit shit.

Nightwing is trying to get his attention. A breathing exercise? Oh, danny's panicking. Right.

Danny is, if nothing else, a magnificent bullshitter. He would almost call bullshitting his way into and out of situations to be his greatest strength, if it weren't for the whole saving people thing. He doesn't know these people. Not the way they seem to know and accept him. But that doesn't mean he can't bullshit like he does.

He takes the time of Nightwing leading him through breathing exercises to come up with a plan. Or at least the approximation of a plan.

Things he knows: His parents cut him open last night, so even if he were to leave the Batcave (Batcave!!) he wouldn't have anywhere else safe to go. And he's still badly injured and in need of medical care and time to recover. Care the Waynes seem willing to give, though he doesn't know how much time he has.

If Cass comes back from whatever she had to do for plot reasons (Mission in Hongkong? Ballet thing?), she'd see immediately that Danny doesn't really fit in, how unsure he is with their dynamics like he doesn't actually know any of them, but also the massive guilt he feels, like he thinks this situation is his fault to begin with. Would she be hit with Desiree's magic as well and wonder why, or would she come home to a new kid in their midst drowning in guilt while everyone acts like and thinks he was there for a long time, with her not having been hit with the spell because of distance?

Either way, I think she would see his desperation and that he's not a threat and probably try to get to know him and his side of the story to figure this out. And then just help and reassure him and not say anything until either Danny decides to tell them or the Batfam figure out something is wrong, but still be on Danny's side and help him explain to the Bats when the reveal comes. And the Waynes know that Cass is basically the best to see if there is sth iffy going on, and if she didn't say anything, then he really isn't a threat. After they did their own interrorgating and research, of course. It was still some magic bullshit that gave them a new kid with no one even noticing or questioning, and the Bats are, after all, notoriously allergic to magic. Especially B.

So:

1) Desiree ain’t a tech ghost, and she likes discrepancies to make the bats work out the fraud faster. Tim’s physical records all reflect a new sibling - his digital records don’t, and no matter how he tries, there’s no evidence he was hacked

(This makes Danny look like a more powerful magical opponent)

(Bonus points if physical records record at least 3 different ways Danny “joined the family” from different time periods, and none of the bats remember the same ones)

2) Danny’s with the bats because Bruce made a dumbass remark at exactly the same time while Desiree was spinning the globe for Danny’s new family and said something joking like

“I wish just one of my children would accept a hug”

Plot twist bitch one new touch starved child coming up, we love a combo deal

ok but if Bruce notices the discrepancies first and somehow figures out that him wishing one of his children would accept a hug was the beginning of this without realizing Danny's end of this, what do you think he'd do? Would he assume that Danny is the wish granting reality warper in this situation. Does he prefer the doctored memories and addition to the family over if one of his children had their personality altered to accept hugs? Does he think that's what happened to Danny and his discomfort is the result of mind alteration counter to his nature, what with how he definitely accepts hugs but that there's something wrong. Does his knowledge of Danny come with the bit about his history of being mind controlled? How much guilt do you think Bruce would be racked with?

or Bruce (or Tim) realizes there is a problem and after some searching, he finds Danny's old identity and thinks he (or Bruce) has accidentally magically kidnapped a child

but while searching for Danny's identity, he also finds the Fentons' articles, which really sound like specist mad scientists. Then taking a look at the history of their telephone line realizes that they ignore almost everything they call and another sign that they have hyperfocus problems. He could find reports to the school CPS which have mysteriously disappeared/ignored. A government contract with an agency he didn't know but which is 100% shady.

The contact-hungry behavior may be due to his former family life…

Bruce/Tim therefore understands the situation but decides to keep the child/brother unless the child requests otherwise. Given Danny's behavior he must at least suspect that something is wrong.

Meanwhile, Duke sees Danny's ghostly aura but shrugs his shoulders: this family was already weird, a little more or a little less ¯|_(ツ)_/¯

Submitted by @taffy-laffy

Tim could lose Peter, then find him without being noticed. Then climbing onto a roof in ambush would be easy for Tim, and at that height almost anything falling on Peter's head will knock him out or worse

And again it's tim, jason would have attacked peter with the tire iron.

Poor Peter

Piplup Danny!

It all started when Danny was turned into a tiny Pingiun after he was hit by a new invention by his parents. And if that wasn't enough, Danny was then hit by a portal mishap.

His ghostly powers manifest differently in this realm, and he had new, water-type skills.

At least it didn't take long, as he was found by a man who called himself Pinguin after a few hours, who then helped him.

And after he saw the tiny new species, Oswald was very happy.

But imagine Oswald's surprise as he learned it was a Meta who could turn Pinguin.

He found his perfect sidekick; Batman has Robin! Pinguin has Nestling take care of Iceberg Lounge when he is captured or in prison.

Danny has a Piplup form and a human form in both he can use his powers And he is the most adorable Meta Gotham has ever seen!

Okay but I want Tim and Jason to be the ones to investigate, and immediately lose their shit because this meta just turned into a Piplup

Fuck, ideas under cut, but it is now their sworn duty to get this Piplup-meta to evolve into an Empoleon!

If we start with a Danny who can evolve, I propose that his final form is a like form of Hisui and months before the revelation of the new game. Just to imply that Pokémon is a parallel universe just as valid as the "ghost zone"

now the duo must find a way to get there and have their pokemon journey

try to be poor Pinguin. That Robin's always try to evolve his meta Pokemon!

Tiny Piplup is much better! Only later he should grow up.

And not that fast!!

Stop feeding him Candy!! He won't level up that way!

Danny didn't play Pokemon because it was part of the media banned by his parents because there was the "lie" of the nice ghost. So he doesn't understand the implication behind the candy.

On the other hand, he wonders why they always give out batches of 15 candies and change the recipe each time and… why do they give candies to a weird penguin??? ok he's not really a bird… but THEY don't know that.

Afterwards he doesn't really complain about it, he likes sweets.

tim and jason thoughts: we will eventually find the recipe for super / rare candies (mouahahaha)

Tim's mafia tried to overthrow him one time, he's a kid! They can do better! Then he pulled out a weird looking dog whistle...a kryptonian dog whistle....

Tim using his scary dog privileges is hilarious to me. Krypto isn’t even his dog but he’ll still come at follow orders bc Tim gives the best belly scritches.

Tim’s mafia on the other hand is terrified of what other people Tim has the privilege to call upon to handle his dirty work. They’re probably suddenly remembering the bat, speedster, and super on his payroll and count themselves lucky to only have to face/die to Krypto

Krypto didn't kill anyone bc Tim didn't want him to stain his coat, but it definitely sent a message

His boys thought he was lying about the bat the speedster and the super...but now? Now they aren't sure

They thought that "the super maintenance budget" or "the speeder's food budget" was a strange and humorous means of embezzlement…

There are also more than one who realize that super heroes are expensive

Batman Tim comes from one of the darkest future timelines...

betrayed by coffee and Batman at the same time

hard time

Dinah Drake

I just learned that the last name of the first black canary was drake.

How is this not used in fanfics anymore?

why am I learning this so late?

Did you remember the thread where we learn that Tim is from princess dora's family? let's add dinah to the mix

Tim is researching relatives so that Bruce can't adopt him when he finds out that he's related to the Black Canary.

Faced with the choice of Bruce or the girlfriend of Oliver Queen... he invents a new uncle.

when the truth comes out:

Tim: in addition to being green arow's girlfriend, she is a psychologist! she would have made me talk about feelings, I had no choice!!!

Batfam: nods in understanding

Dinah: can't you all be serious!?! In addition, I respect the patients-family separation rule!

Tim with a hint of hope: … that means I wouldn't have had to come see you like the rest of the young justice?

Dinah raising an eyebrow: no that means I would have sent you to someone else so that person could talk to you about feelings

Batfam: Uneasiness

Dinah: I'm going to start making a list of colleagues for you. See you soon Tim~

Tim whispering: is it too late for you to help me fake my death?

Jason: sorry, even I'm a little too afraid of her to help you

Short DPXDC Prompts #579

Tim doesn’t know what’s going on. His teeth are growing sharper, his eyes are turning green, he can jump farther, run faster, and has quicker reflexes than ever before. It’d be interesting to study if doing anything and everything didn’t hurt so damn much.

———

Danny can hear the telepathic cries of a baby ghost changing from Human to something Other. The baby ghost that’s without a Guardian. Said caretaker is essential to this stage of their development so they don’t wither into nothing from their newfound power. He needs to find this youngling and he needs to find them fast.

What really tips Tim over from quiet paranoia into a crying session is his hands going intangible and dropping his coffee cup for the thrid time in a day

Ultimately its not the aches that led him to a breakdown. Being a vigilante and public figure meant that something always hurt since he only really got enough down time to heal if it was serious (or he was forced to). Everyone Batman adjacent was used to healing wounds and strains, it just meant when you fought each other you took care of not to target those places. So the constant dull ache that never seemed to go away, the occasional bright flashes of pain? That was easily ignored, a mental note to stretch more at most and to take a painkiller mix later if it flared up.

The first time Tim dropped his mug, he chalked it up to exhaustion. He was well aware that he tended to hyper fixate, but until he saw more negatives than positives he wasn’t going to change it. But dropping a mug for a reason he couldn’t remember, really it was a blink and it was on the floor, was a good enough reason to go to bed.

The second time could not be excused by exhaustion but by bad luck. He was working at the bat-computer and went to set his mug down off to the side. It seemed to slip from his fingers and landed awkwardly on the edge tipping over with a clatter. Annoying but easily chalked up to an accident.

The third time, was more of a series of incidents within the same day. The leads he’d been following suddenly all went cold or became dead ends. The board decided that he suddenly wasn’t capable any more and was blocking him on everything. Tam was on a (well deserved) vacation but also wasn’t there to buffer and her temporary replacement was useless. And he had back-to-back meetings with Lex Luthor and Vlad Masters, who not only obnoxiously self-absorbed but also talked down to him as if he was a toddler.

Add to the fact he had a blazing headache and full body aches, the fact that he had now dropped his coffee 3 times, just trying to pick it up from his personal machine. Coffee was everywhere. Even the comfort high end hot chocolate for days he needed to unwind, ended up on the floor.

It was too much. Everything that had happened that day would’ve been fine by itself or with a few other incidents but everything at once was too much. Tim gave a brief grateful thought to to blackout glass that hid his office as he sat down on the ground, uncaring of the mess and cried.

Awww~ Tim needs a timeout and a coffee.

Clockwork if you have any decency you will stop time and give him a hour and help get his coffee fix... after all it could be what stops him from going villain in this timeline

give one of his unbreakable mugs with double handles for people with motor disorders to this teenager! preferably filled with cafffé or hot chaicolat sweetened with honey (for throat irritation after crying)

one day Tim gets shot in the shoulder. The bullet goes straight through so he doesn't bother anyone about it. He hates bothering people with his injuries when there's people more in need than him. He goes home and collapses in bed, he'll deal with it tomorrow.

When he wakes up though, he finds that someone has already come and fixed him up while he was asleep. The area surrounding the bullet wound has been completely numbed too. What the fuck?

There's a flattened bullet hanging from his neck, and Tim wonders if it's the same bullet that went through him. It must be right? Why else would whoever fixed him up give it to him?

The bullet hangs on a shiny gold chain, and Tim stares at it in the mirror. Rubbing his fingers over it and coming to the conclusion it must be real gold. He'll check, just to make sure.

God, somebody make this a Danny Phantom crossover, the Ghost King has too much money, let him lavish it on his poor little meow meow.

It would be funny if Danny watched and took care of all the teenage heroes but Tim is such a disaster that for him Danny has completely abandoned subtlety…

Then along the way falls in love with this disaster, HIS human disaster now!

And that's why he repairs the cup even if it has nothing to do with heroism

Incorrect Batfam Quotes

Tim: Nothing to see. I wanted to know if you really read the books we offered you

Dick: ...

Jason who gave Dick books regularly: looks suspiciously

Dick: Sweat

'Note to self' Tim thought as he stared up at the different shades of greens and black shifting sky above him as he ignored the aching his body was in from the rough landing he had to take 'Make sure to give Bart and Kon the slowest and mind-numbing missions for like a week once I get back.'

Tim often forgot his parents used to be accomplished archeologists before they died. (He really didnt, he just really didn't like acknowledging the fact they'd rather dig up buried things from ages ago over being in the same country as him for most of his life)

It wasn't until, as he and his old team ("Yeah! Young Just US together again. Time for a new insane adventure! Hey remember that one time with-" "Shh!!" "Ooohhh right... Forgot. What happens in YJ stays in YJ...") were assigned a new mission that he was reminded of this fact.

The mission was to locate a forgotten relic that apparently could open 'doorways' into different Realms, and one of them was a Realm of powerful undead that if controlled would be unstoppable. They were meant to find it before "insert 'creative name' cult of the week here please" Who planned on subjecting the world to its power.

Now knowing about the relic and finding it was two wholly different things. Tim and the others managed to uncover just enough about the artifact that Tim had manged to narrow down the last city it had been last recorded to be seen in.

And the city's old name was something that Tim thought sounded familiar.

It wasn't until they were digging into the countries archeologist permission records, meaning the people who were given the okay to dig in the historical site, that he found out why it sounded familiar, his parents names were some of the last to have been granted permission before their deaths, and it was then Bart had jokelying said

"Hey what are are the odds Robs parents stored the relic away ages ago! Would be a tiny bit funny if this all powerful item is just collecting dust in some warehouse."

And although it was meant to be a joke. Tim stared at the description of the relic and couldn't help but question perhaps there was some merit to it. Tim, for the first time in years, opened up his parents archeologist records and went to looking.

And low and behold they found out. Still sitting in a warehouse outside of Gotham, as if his parents were going to trust Gotham with important and priceless relics unless it was in their house to study later.

So in short, retrieving the relic should had been easy enough, get in and remove it from storage. Lock it away so the cult looking for the damn thing couldn't use it. Simple.

But trust Bart goofing around with Kon and accidently bumping into Tim when he was inspecting the relic and turning it on.

It apparently opened a glowing green portal... a portal that opened under Tim and dropped him into an entirely new dimension of the Undead... Great, just great.

"Ooo a visitor, we don't get breathing guests here all too often." A voice spoke out behind him, it held an echoing in its tone. He turned around and was meet with glowing eyes and snow white hair. "Although you should probably find a way home or else Walker will find you, knowing him he'll toss you in prison for just breathing, and I'm not joking."

The one who found him was Box Ghost, who immediately after saying that takes a glance at Red Robin's hands and sees the Square Shaped Artifact that brought him there.

"Oooh, a Box! And it's a Magical Box too! Oh, my wife gon a love this!"

He takes it from Tim, and suddenly another Portal opens. It Sucks the Box Ghost in and now Tim is left alone in the Realms, with his only way out having just been stolen by a Box Obsessed Ghost.

Tim trying to gather some information about this strange new dimension finds that islands weren't the only thing floating in this green abyss!

So he goes on trying to find a library thus meeting ghostwriter.

It was initially a little rocky, with Tim invading the ghost's lair and stealing his books

But Tim was able to leave with a copy of 'INFINATE REALMS:FOR LIVING 101 EDITION' , directions to a place called Amity Park, (" Its near the brat king's castle, you can't miss it.") and many papercuts.

Can I just say, the idea of Tim being a feral thing that sneaks into GW place to steal books and GW hitting him a broom is now stuck in my mind and need more hijinks of Tim bring a human meance (like his time during Robin) until he is finally caught by one of the Ghosts and brought to Danny while hissing "TAKE HIM"

And Tim starts the second greatest prison riot in Walkers prison.

EXACTLY!!!

Before being handed off to danny, Tim:

-Of course started a riot in Walker's prison, befriending Wulf along the way.

-Collaborated in a world dominating scheme with Technus, obviously it didn't actually succeed Tim's still a hero, but it caused the GIW lots of problems (dp & dc are separate universes here)

-Played the 'most dangerous game' with Shulker, first with Tim as the prey and then Shulker as the prey.

-Took an apprenticeship with the Far Frozen

-Started a cat-and-mouse game with the Ancient of Dreams

-Became an actual Drake

-Also ate at Red Robin's (the restaurant) when hopping through portals trying to find his dimension

Make it worse.

Tim steals Walker's hat before leaving the prison (and was so happy to help Wulf escape he forgot to ask the Ghost for a ride home before he left him)

Techus and Tim are now friendly enemies in the world of tech now (Techus brings up about the fact a human is stuck in the Realms when he goes to Tucker for their annual tech-off fight.

Tucker: "Wait... a unknown human is stuck somewhere in the Realms?!"

Techus:"I......I should had brought the chaotic monster with me huh..."

Team Phantom: "YES!")

Skulker thought Phantom and his techy friend were a menace, he was never ready for a guy who managed to outsmart an immortal assassin leader creep not once but twice. Tim totally hijacks his suit and rides it around for a while (think Link in TotK on the robot thing later in the game)

And is getting a brand new spleen after Frostbite offered to grow it since he's missing one!

Tim Vs Nocturne is a fight we need written out. Tim dodging sleep attacks and swearing to find a way to get rid of his need to sleep forever (their rivalry continues even after Tim goes home)

He stumbles on Aragon trying to usurp his sister, finds his talk about "putting her in her place" and "women can never be leaders" very bad (look he knows a LOT of badass ladies, he drinks his respect juice now that he isn't a dumb young teen anymore) steals his amulet and really enjoys being able to become an actual dragon, it feels right.

He takes a picture of himself with a Red Robin statue and in front of the sign dressed in his RR suit for laughs.

Ok so you know how Undergrowth has Sam and sometimes Clockwork has Danny right??? 👀👀👀👀👀👀

What if after some time, Nocturne decides that he wants to patron Tim

Congrats B, you're now co-parenting with the ghost king AND a primordial dream deity.

Nocturne: This one -holds Tim up like Simba- Tim: NEVER! I REFUSE TO SLEEP -hisses like a feral wet cat and tries to escape- Danny: He's like a rabid raccoon. He's perfect.

Nocturne negotiates with Tim: You won't have to sleep if you feed on other people's sleep~

You're a hero, right? If you steal a minute of sleep from someone, they won't notice. But if you do this to anyone in a heavily populated area YOU will see the difference for yourself. And even your protector gains, one or two minutes less sleep in exchange for a hero who is always well rested.

Everyone wins~

New Twin?

ok so we know Bruce got lost in the time stream right?

And Tim saved him bla bla bla...

Ok so I'm reading a fanfic rn and it's giving me an idea for a dpxdc crossover.

Its 'TWINcognito mode' by nerdpoe

Ok so I'm thinking it's not safe for Danny in his world so clockwork pulls some strings and sets everything up for Danny to be Tim's non identical twin (theyre similar enough to pass) and he just appears in wayne manor right after Bruce gets out of the time stream.

Like I'm talking he has a room that's 'been lived in for years', he has memories of them and growing up with tim, he's acting like nothings new ect.

So he's all like "dad your back!" And they're all looking between tim and his double like "tim??? NOT tim????" And they come to the conclusion that Bruce fucked with the time stream and he spawned in.

They all feel guilty that they 'forgot' him even though they never knew him. Especially Tim, he would feel so bad if there was someone that went through what he did with their parents neglect and they only had each other, but Tim doesn't remember who this is.

He could be fully aware and is pretending so he's safe OR clockwork thought this would be for the best so he altered Danny's memories so he genuinely believes he's Tim's twin.

For the second option I like the ideas that he doesn't remember anything/he doesn't have access to his ghost half (either he has to heal from something his parents did or he can't handle the full power that comes with being ghost king) and he won't unlock his memories/powers till he dies again.

Which if he genuinely believed they were his family, and then they tell him he wasn't real a few days ago, that would probably fuck with his mind.

Okay but even if he genuinely remembers living with the Batfam

Fenton or Wayne, “so weird multiversal time shenanigans happened”… isn’t weird for either of Danny’s potential families

And even if he doesn’t actually remember any ghostliness, the potential of Danny just

Immediately being chill with it

Would fuck everyone else up so much worse

Tim awkwardly explaining that as far as he knew, he never had a twin brother…

Danny blinks, cocks his head, has the vague urge to punch a clock for no real reason, then just nods. Yeah, that tracks for his life

Tim, who has reason to believe he and Danny shoulda had a pretty fucking similar life: ??????????????

This convinces all bats immediately that Danny is one of them, despite his near total lack of bat training

Y’know what Danny is though?

Danny’s “lucky”

(Subconsciously using ghost powers he doesn’t know he has only at completely deniable moments/in great peril)

Danny’s attempts at actual stealth? Fucking laughable. Might as well be wearing neon paint.

But then it’s 3am and Cass is hanging out in the ballet room and spins right fucking into Danny who was not there a second ago and he’s just as confused as she is, cuz he was just sleepwalking and didn’t see her either

Danny’s aim with the grapnel? Pretty good actually, better than average even if not bat-level, it’s like watching their baby days swing around the gym

And then he nearly falls off the top of the wall by accident and you could swear he actually flew for a second as he swung to safety

Danny’s combat skills? Pathetically below bat average (not bad for random dude) but he’s just… weirdly hard to hit once training gets intense

He’s clearly civilian trained at best, a mass of bruises after gentle sparring, but the one time Damian gets pissed and decides to teach Danny a lesson after one flippant comment too many… suddenly not a single hit lands

No one believes Damian, they just assume he was tired/crankier than he thought and threw himself off… until Tim decides to go a little harder. Just to see

And the second he actually wants to bruise his brother, it’s like Danny knows exactly where he’s going to hit. Or… like Danny can move through him

Cass is persuaded to go for an “affectionate” family sneak attack and 10000% dives straight through his torso one night

Danny struggles to lift a 30lb weight around until he and Duke are caught in a rogue attack and Danny you just caught a fucking car

Danny, meanwhile, assumes this just means all this training they clearly think he has is kicking in, they already want him to do some impossible shit, maybe the time stream has left him jet lagged?

It’s giving Danny accidentally haunting the mansion, it’s giving the bats becoming increasingly concerned of what the hell they’ve let into their home, it’s giving eldritch horror on a drip feed… or it’s giving Scooby Doo 👀

Both is good

Bruce is going grey trying to figure out what is up with Danny. Bat paranoia is at an all time high. Is Danny actually Tim's twin? A clone with implanted memories? Something else taking advantage of the timeline confusion to infiltrate the family? What is he? Why is he here? What does he want?

And Danny...

Well.

It's not that he isn't hurt by all this. What feels to him like being forgotten, being unwanted, being untrusted by his family. It leaves this frozen ball of feeling deep in his chest, aching and pulsing with an undercurrent of betrayed betrayed betrayed betrayed betrayed.

So, yeah, safe to say it hurts pretty bad. Danny is not fine with it.

But he does understand it.

After all, Danny isn't sure he trusts himself either. He may not be up to Bat standard, but he's clearly had some training from somewhere. And that training, from wherever it may have come, tells him instinctually that something isn't adding up here. He knows something isn't right. Even as a grandfatherly voice in the back of his mind tries to soothe him that everything is as it should be.

Something weird is going on here. Something hinging on but separate from Bruce's misadventures through time. And as much as it sucks being the object of their scrutiny, Danny doesn't blame them. He can't. He gets it.

This is family after all. Bruce can't take risks with his family on the line. Danny doesn't want him to. Danny loves them too. So he'll tolerate the suckishness of the whole thing. He'll let the Bats poke and prod and test and experiment to their hearts' contents. And maybe once they have their answers, even if it's not what they're hoping for, if he's been good, maybe there'll still be a place for him upstairs when they're done.

Ok, let's add some more stuff to this glorious dumpster fire.

Danny was experimented on before. His parents/GIW didn't get to disecsion yet, just in case such a valuable specimen gets irreparably damaged after/during it. We also all remember how Vlad had done different experiments on him a few times. The boy has Trauma about the whole thing.

Anyway:

Danny knew something like this was coming. He didn't know why he knew. However, the harsh whisper at the back of his mind never ceased reminding him that he was different in one way or another.

And his Different never bore a good reaction. His Different was dangerous. It was painful. It was scary. It was riddled with unexplained night terrors and phantom feeling of wounds that were always absent on his skin when he woke up in panic and silent tears.

His Different was something he missed

It was something he feared

It was something he longed for

It was something he hated.

It was a forgotten part of him

Forgotten, just like he was by the family he had called his own and loved dearly.

His brothers looked with hidden mistrust.

His twin spoke with awkward, strained friendliness usually reserved for his slightly more delicate cases.

His sisters tried to hide their anxiety at his unnatural presence.

His father refused to spend much time together. He missed their stargazing night outs...

His family was a family of detectives. They searched. They tested. They pushed. He knew that. He, too, was picking up a lot more than he'd ever let on.

"Hey, wanna come down for a bit? I got a few things I wanted to look through. Bruce wanted your help."

That's why he was not at all surprised when Tim came to his room and, with faux cheerfulness, called him into the batcave. A flatter of hope that this was actually just an invite to the area he grew to love but was barred from recently died down the second it reared its head. No.

It just came to what his every cell dreaded.

Their normal searches were fruitless. They needed to take the look at the source of their headache.

"Sure."

The walk there was long and foggy. He did not remember most of it. He didn't know why he felt this way painpainpainpainpainpainpainpainpainpain but it was ok. He wanted his family to calm down. Besides, it wasn't like his family would hurt him. They loved him even if they forgot.

It's not like his first one

----

Tim led Danny into the Batcave, sending him another worried glance. Something happened when he called Danny into the cave. A switch was flipped and Tim didn't know what will come after. He wouldn't engage in a conversation. He hadn't blinked in 5 minutes. His stare was never focused but he never tripped.

"B, Danny has gone unresponsive..."

Bruce looked up from the files on his computer. They got some clues to what might've happened and were going to inform Danny about their findings. However, this lost child now stood in front of him like a soulless statue waiting to be guided somewhere.

"Danny?" The kid focused his gaze on him. "What happened?"

"....?" tilted his head questioningly.

That was unnerving. During the while time Danny was with them, he was always full of emotion. He never hid them and was honest to a fault. Cass had confirmed so time and time again.

"Hey, what's wrong, Danny," Dick, already in costume ready for patrol, came up to the teen and placed his hand on instantly tensed shoulder.

"....m not Star.... not anymore" he heard a muffled whisper.

"What was that?" He prodded gently.

"Nothing. I'll be quiet. Sorry."

They were left in heavy silence filled with some kind of unspoken expectation radiating from the new family member.

Until eventually:

"When will you start experiments?"

"Huh?"

"...hn?"

"Will I be allowed to keep my clothes? Can move around the cell? Will I have a cell? Can-"

"Danny, what are you talking about? Why-" Tim tried to intergect into the increasingly frantic but soft questions.

"-I be sedated? Do I have to be conscious?"

Danny's breathing became erratic as many, many questions of the same kind poured out into the air directed at the increasingly more and more disturbed family.

----

Anyway idk what's next.

Danny continues to work himself further into a panic, seemingly oblivious to the mounting horror of the assembled Bats. As Danny's panic builds, a strange pressure builds in the cave and a sound on the absolute edge of human hearing builds with it; a static hum mixed with a mechanical whir mixed with a very distant, haunting scream that sounds suspiciously like a prepubescent Tim - a prepubescent Danny.

Finally, after a long moment of bluescreening, Tim reaches out for his. . . twin? Twin. However Danny may have come to them, he was Tim's twin now. Until Danny proved himself to have ill intent -a possibility that had already been deemed improbable even before bringing him down to the cave- Tim would continue to regard him as nothing less.

So Tim reaches out for his twin, intending to calm him first, then maybe try to ask what the hell spurned this. But as soon as Tim's hand makes contact with Danny's, Danny freezes. The pressure peaks and the sound crescendos and for one fraction of a fraction of a second there is a flash, a flicker of light around Danny's chest, centered on his heart. When the light vanishes, so does the pressure and the sound, though the space they leave behind is just as oppressive.

Tim looks his twin in the eye. He watches that hazy, dissociative fog deepen. Then Danny blinks. Once, twice, three times. And the cloud seems to lift. Danny's gaze darts around the cave, rapidly observing and analyzing in his first display of true Bat-standard behavior. Surprise, then confusion flashes across his face, making it apparent that he recalls nothing of the last several minutes. Tim can't decide at the moment if that's a blessing or a curse. Then, in a manner all of the Bat's have come to associate with Danny's bizarrely easy acceptance of every wicked curve ball life decides to throw at him, he shrugs it off.

"Sorry, I think I spaced out. What's up?"

For a long moment, no one answers. No one has answers. Just a lot more questions and several more extremely concerning theories.

Ohhh I can suddenly see them chalk up all the confusing actions of Danny to him being tortured, experimented on or something so now he's like that. Stuck with a mental block. Danny was also probably part of the night life but isn't anymore! Now that reality has been warped to give them Danny, they just don't remember what he's probably been through with them. And neither does he because his mind must have repressed all of it! It's probably why they had a lot of notes, that they don't remember taking, about making sure Danny attends therapy no matter what!

It would explain why he seems to suck and not know about anything relating to the vigilante business but it's like he has muscle memory of it! In their Perspective, he really doesn't remember!

It would explain why, in what Danny tells them of his memories, Tim has always been an overprotective big brother! Or how each of them didn't want him to fight crime with them "in the past"! Because something probably happened! But because they fucked up the timeline, they don't remember why either! (Honestly, CW probably set all of this up)

Idk if y'all get it lololol I'm bad at explaining, especially now since I have a huge headache

Do you know what very traumatic event linked to torture could be linked to Tim's brother Danny?

Junior joker

One of the ways to make Tim obey, joker was electrocuting Danny. This is where the scars come from (which makes the censored version of the final events very ironic where Jokers dies electrocuted by a wrong move on his part)

At least that's what the report says (report read late because no one wants to rethink junior joker)