DCxDP Prompt

There are a series of unspoken rules on the watchtower and one of those rules is no unnecessary usage of powers.

Which makes sense when you have to pick up the several dozen scattered papers that are sent flying whenever a speedster dashes past!

But the issue is, Phantom's default state is floating separated from gravity, he has to consciously focus to stay on the ground and stay within gravity's control. It gets harder and harder the more he has exhausted his powers or the more tired he is.

There has been more then on occasion in which he either lost focus or fallen asleep and began to float only to scolded as if he was still in high school! He has tried to explain it to several heroes, that he isn't technically using his powers when he was floating but it hasn't really stuck.

It probably wouldn't go well either if he also mentioned tangibility and visibility were also not his default state of being…

I mean, I know ghost speech is only fanon, but it would be funny if he just started using it, or using Esperanto like Wulf, just out of pettiness, so not only is he invisible and intangible, they can't even understand him.

It would also be funny, if there are no magic users in the vicinity, the only way they can "hunt" him down if they want something from him, if they started searching for cold spots.

I also like to think that even Superman wouldn't be able to figure out where he is, since Danny is no longer in the mortal plane, and he also stopped his heart and breathing. I have read a few fanfics where there are a constant humming sound around him, but the Watchtower is filled with humming machinery, so even that doesn't help their case.

Maybe Batman or a member of Justice League Dark could scold whoever was chastising Danny. Anyone aware of Deadman would understand that a ghost’s default state of being isn’t the same as a living person’s.

and if it's not Danny but Deadman who throws a tantrum about this discrimination:

he and Danny were quietly chatting while looking at the stars when someone told phantom to stop floating, verbalizing it in terms that denounced that this really really isn't the first time this member has said that to the literal ghost child. The same exhausted ghost child that Deadman had all the difficulty in the world to encourage him to take this break so that he could recharge by looking at the stars. Phantom had barely relaxed enough to indulge in the natural ghostly weightlessness not 5 minutes ago!

Dick Grayson grew up within Circus Gothica. He didn't know what was worse: watching his parents die, or watching Freakshow use their ghosts to force them to continue performing.

Freakshow: It was in your contract: If you die in your costumes, we enlist your ghosts (if they form) to continue the show

The worst part is that it was actually black and white in the contract and that Freakshow had nothing to do with the deaths of the Graysons.

Freakshow is a big asshole but apart from the moment when he asks Danny to get rid of Sam, there's no indication that he's a killer

At least Dick was still free and could visit his parents as much as he wanted… Hey, is there a new number? A teenager on a tightrope without nets?

You know who else died in a costume? Deadman. But as it is a magical and not ectoplasmic ghost which responds to slightly different rules…

I propose that Freakshow did not keep it because: Not visible + insensitive to the scepter + he does not want problems with his patron deity without doubts supervisorhim. Ok deadman could be good but not THIS good

DPxDC Prompt

Danny leaves his body behind when he goes ghost.

He keeps getting mistaken for a spirit possessing an innocent civilian so he drops his unconscious body to the 20th hero who tried exorcise him and rolls his eyes. He'll go pick it up later when they realize it's basically braindead without him in it.

what if he does this to Constantine and Deadman?😈

John: We can do this the easy way or the hard way Spirit! Danny who's had 2 hours of sleep: (rolls his eyes with a sigh and drops his body) Have fun I guess, I'm going to sleep John running to the body and pales when he checks it over: Fuck, the soul is missing! Danny who is still in earshot muttering: oh no, I wonder where it went /s

hum, I was thinking more about Constantine who makes the empty body like free estate and insists Deadman to go in and use it

Afterwards I don't know if Dead Man would really do it, but as long as the other spirit is absent and we haven't found the soul of this body, we have to monitor it and keep watch, right?

No constantine, this is not the occasion to drink from that, it's the body of a child!!

DPxDC Prompt

Danny leaves his body behind when he goes ghost.

He keeps getting mistaken for a spirit possessing an innocent civilian so he drops his unconscious body to the 20th hero who tried exorcise him and rolls his eyes. He'll go pick it up later when they realize it's basically braindead without him in it.

what if he does this to Constantine and Deadman?😈

Constantine gets a pet Blob

So! Constantine is just doing a job one day when he comes across a little Blob Ghost.

He doesn't think much of it, just feeds it some physical Emotions he had in his pocket (magic stuff idk) and walks off.

But the Blob follows him. So he walks faster, and it follows faster. So he runs, and the Blob is now chasing him. Eventually he loses it by hiding around a corner, waits for it to pass, and peeks out to see if it's still there.

Its not, so he walks back out and opens a Portal back home. He takes one more look behind him, sees nothing, and walks in. Only to be met with the Blob floating in the center of his living room.

He figures after a while that he can't get it to leave, so he just names it "Blobby" and lets it hang around him whenever he leaves for a Job.

Turns put he is actually really helpful on Jobs, his ability to sense emotions was more powerful than even John's best spells. It's makes it really easy to solve missing persons cases when he can just have Blobby search for the person's emotions.

He's also really good when Constantine in making deals. Blobby is great at detecting when a Demon is trying to swindle him, even if he always catches it without his help.

Thats really it, I just wanted to give Constantine a Blob Ghost Sidekick

blobby: Constantine looks like a dad, he's MY dad now!

also blobby: deadman has the shape of a starving baby, it's mine now <3

blobby: Constantine you are a grandfather now!

Constantine who doesn't understand the chirps and who is already tired of blobby's excitement: Yes yes I love you too blobby and I am happy that deadman is visiting too…

elsewhere

demon: so according to my spell of detection constantine has her first grandchild??? What do we do?

Heads-up to all you lovely dpxdc folks that the Batcave canonically has ecto-detectors.

This is from Nightwing Year One: Deadman Talking, published in 2005 but set at the time when Dick (aged, I'd guess, seventeen or so) had first left home under a cloud and Bruce was on the point of taking in Jason. The guy overshadowing Alfred is Boston Brand, aka Deadman, ghost and member of the Justice League (and/or Justice League Dark). Bruce asked him to spy on Dick because he… well, you know what he's like.

I'm sure something can be made of this in one of the many AUs where Bruce takes Danny in without knowing about his powers, or where Danny tries to sneak into or gets taken to the Batcave.

Bruce in semi-civilian attire in front of the batcomputer: hello deadman

Danny freaking out: I don't know what you're talking about, I'm totally a livin boy sweats (like :

Bruce: …how did you get here danny?

Danny: …I was looking for the toilet and I got lost?

Teenage Dad Tim

An idea I am having right before my flight back home starts... I will expand on it more once I am home tho but for now hear me out please.

Teenage Dad Tim. We got Bruce, Dick and Jason taking in Danny but do we have Tim taking him in?

Like deaged Danny (reduced to a toddler because of his Ghost age) suddenly appearing before Tim with white hair and Lazarus green eyes, clearly a meta kid too in Tim's eyes. And Tim just goes... yep that's a toddler with pit madness, let me just forge some papers real quick and then I can investigate my new kid.

No B, you can't have him. Danny is mine now. See the papers. He is illegally mine now.

"reduced...ghost age" "clone" hmmm random idea what if whatever made Danny that young also made him unstable and Tim was the first person to touch him that was compatible and Danny's body yoinked some DNA. Or maybe being that young unnaturally makes his human form unstable (if you're going a less angsty route, usually he's deaged bc there's not enough of him left to be bigger maybe this one is ghost shenanigans or clockwork interference for the best outcome etc) it remembers how it Should be and Tim's DNA fixes some of that, by speedrunning cells to toddler growth, basically a reset and fast forward. And he couldn't be alive until then. Awww I can see it like imagine: Tim has brought Danny home, where ever that is, and he's been phantom bc it takes time to assimilate and rewrite DNA give his body a break! Eventually, after food etc, he falls asleep and Tim picks him up to go to bed and on the way there he transforms, oh! he looks like a tiny me...

A new fave hc of mine, is that if Danny was younger when the portal happened it might not have stabilised. That he wouldn't have enough "life" I guess to act as a sacrifice/energy to let it stay open and if he was Young then it would open long enough to kill/revive/kill/revive/ki- him then explode and it would either send him Elsewhere or be like radiation and ecto-contaminated everyone in a certain radius. Oh! Something happens to the portal and Danny is linked to it or was nearby and it fried him again and it made him his ghost age.... Okay I've rambled enough, I look forward to seeing what you've thought up!

‘Well this wasn’t ideal’ Tim thought to himself.

Bright green eyes stared up at him and Tim blinks back. He looks down the alley and back behind him. No one. No parents calling for a lost child. No stroller just laying around. No clues to help him figure out where this child- toddler came from.

He looks back down and the kid is making grabby hands at him now. He’s not even Red Robin right now, he just needed to grab some food on the way home.

The white hair is suspicious, as is the slight green glow coming off the child, but what’s really bothering him is those toxic eyes that remind him a little too much of Jason’s when the Pit Madness gets to him.

Tim contemplates picking up the kid. Should he just call Bruce? He wasn’t really in the position to be- oh, the kid floats.

Apparently the boy got impatient and decided to go to Tim. That’s fine. Everything is totally normal. He sees this on a daily basis.

He adjusts the carry out bag in his hand to accommodate the pint sized child settling into his arms like they did this all the time. The boy weighs… nothing. Literally like holding a balloon. He has to wrap his arms tighter so the child doesn’t fly away.

“Um, hi?”

The boy doesn’t respond except to snuggle closer, shoving his face into Tim’s neck like he wants to merge together.

“O-kay… where are your parents?” Is the logical question.

Tim knew the child was young, but he could still talk, right? How old was he? Like two? Three?

Maybe he should try an easier question.

“So my name’s Tim. What’s yours?”

He looks down and gets a face full of white hair for his trouble. He blows it away from his mouth and looks around again. Who was he kidding? This was a meta kid that was probably dumped in a dirty ally and might get trafficked if Tim doesn’t-

OW!

Did he just-? Did this toddler just bite him? On the neck? That liquid running down to soak into his collar was most definitely his blood.

Shit, is this a vampire child? Is he gonna turn into a vampire now?

Best bet is to get back to his Nest and wait it out, see what happens.

Oh. Good. The kid fell asleep.

It didn’t take long to get back to his safe place with a strange glowing child clinging to him and blood sticking to his skin.

His internal panic was to the point he was calm and rather collected. Tim had no other problems setting the toddler down on the couch for the rest of his surprise nap and head to the bathroom to wipe off the blood from his neck wound made by little baby fangs. They were actually kinda cute if he didn’t think about the fact they were used against him.

Tim casually ate his take out while watching the kid doze out the corner of his eye. That’s probably the only reason he witnessed what he did.

A bright white light engulfed the toddler suddenly, and after blinking several times he was convinced he was still blinded by the light show. The boy now had black hair like his and a healthy complexion, any hint of glowing gone.

The kid squirms in protest and then slowly blinks open very familiar blue eyes. Wait a minute. Did his face change too? Minute details seemed to have shifted just a bit to look more like… well, Tim.

Blue eyes meet matching blue eyes. They blink at each other.

Then the toddler sees his fork full of Chinese noodles hovering in the air where he froze. The boy slips off the couch and totters over. Clumsily, he climbs up into Tim’s lap (with no help from the vigilante) and sits down with a huff. An itty bitty hand grabs his own and pulls the fork until the boy can eat his food.

Rude.

And then they proceed to have a little disagreement about who’s food this actually was. Spoiler: they compromised and shared the container. It wasn’t like Tim was going to eat all of it anyway, it was a reasonable and mature decision not at all swayed by the cute pout and angry eyebrows.

Turns out the kid isn’t a vampire, he was just taking a sample to copy, because that’s the only reasonable explanation. That’s the good news. In other news, Tim is a dad now to a toddler that now shares DNA with him.

After thinking through a thorough plan on the kid’s soon to be identity and paperwork and an airtight background story to tell Bruce and the rest of the crazies, Tim does what he should have done thirty minutes ago. He calls Kon.

Tim wanted it known for the record that he did not know that the toddler could bite through Kryptonian skin, or speedster skin, or demigod skin, or Martian skin, or what ever we wanted to classify Beast Boy as’s skin.

Also Tim had invited Connor, had no idea why Conner decided to bring the whole team with him.

At least now Tim had a reasonable excuse for where the kid came from.

Fine Greta, where Danny came from, how she got naming rights Tim will never know.

Danny: *babbling in Baby Ghostspeak*

Greta, also a Ghost: Danny, is it? And you're from where exactly? Ah, I see. Don't worry, well take care of you, little blob ghost :)

The rest of the team:

I love how he just accepts that this is a thing that happened and he is now a dad to some clearly supernatural changeling baby.

If he stole all their DNA? He's gonna get some fun new additional powers in varying degrees too. YJ clone baby? Of course we are gonna co-parent him! NO! You lot can't take him away from us! We are his Mom's and Dad's! Look at him! He's baby! So cute! Look at his little face! Doesn't he look so much like Tim! With little hints of the rest of us!

what if he gives Danny the (temporary) superhero nickname “mascot”?

They should have been able to call it something that doesn't scream "we have a cute and vulnerable baby" to everyone

They turn up at the watchtower after Tim has in fact checked Danny's blood. And he is genetically a match to all of them. So he does in fact have 'proof' Danny is a 'clone'. This means no one can disprove his well forged backstory. This means Young Justice now get to shock their mentors. Tim is hoping to make B get a migraine. And he knows Kon feels the same about Supes.

They set up the meeting Tim arranged and put Danny in the hastily created play pen. Not that it can hold him. But he has toys to keep him occupied and Beast Boy is in there as a kitten. Danny himself seems to have picked up on shifting far too quickly. But not complete shifts. He has managed his ears and eyes. Which is... An inTeresting look on a toddler.

The older heroes walk in. Tim sees several do a small double take at the sight of Danny. He's pretty sure Wonder Woman just melted a little. Either way, it's time to lie their ass of to keep the baby. And he can. He's already forged the teen dad paperwork. And filed it. Legally he is the guardian.

Ok. But... If Lazarus water is ecto, corrupted Ecto in this? And meets Jason first. Before any other relatives? We all know baby boy is gonna bite. And eat the ecto. He can filter it after all.

Which is gonna lead to a 'shit, did baby adopt a new Dad?'. Followed very quickly by Jason flipping onto the sofa laughing.

Jason: He ate the pit rage!!!! Where did you get this fucking kid?

Tim:.... Found him in an alley way. Then he bit me and uh... Adopted me. But the rest of the team. Now he's out love child.

Jason: Never do anything by halves huh? And yeah, of course I'll help you hide any bodies!

Kon:.... Could we maybe raise our son around less murder talk Tim?

Greta: Oh he'll be fine! Don't worry so much!

Bart: So. Baby are the pit rage. Does that mean baby is gonna have pit rage!? Or that he can somehow filter it?

Tim:.... Guess we get to find out?

Baby had a sugar rush and the team + Jason doesn’t know where he is………and when they DO find him, he’s on top of a pile of kryptonite.

Eating kryptonite.

And started vibrating in place-WHY IS THE BABY VIBRATING?!?!?!

Danny eating the kryptonite as a part Kryptonian? Means he will have like, a mild allergic reaction. In the way where your mouth tingles. And your throat. And you feel a bit off but dont know why. not till someone points out that it isn't meant to do that.

Danny just vibrating from the tingles candy! It's so good! But he feels funny! But it's so good!!!!

He's crying while eating it. Like kids like something but it's too spicy for them

Bart runs up to snatch the baby away from the the bad candy.

Bart: Honey! No! You can't eat it! You're allergic baby! It will make you poorly!

Tim and Cassie quickly work on boxing it all up and hiding it. Because ooft. They need to get him home. So he can sleep this off. Poor baby is going to be so unwell!

It does make him sick. But, like, lactose intolerance sick. Stomach aches, indigestion, and diarrhea. He's absolutely miserable a few hours later.

And, like some many lactose intolerant people with ice cream and good cheese, he will absolutely do it again.

Danny spends the night extremely miserable. The team are frantic. At least it's just intollerance? But he's so sad! Look at his face! Smother him in love! They add it to his file. And discretely dispose of the rest of the kryptonite. Not keeping that around the curious toddler! Nope!

Their efforts certainly hinder Danny's capacity to eat Kryptonite. But they can't fully stop him. Danny has decided he likes eating the funny green rock. Not even Batman can permanently keep him from it.

It makes him just as miserable every single time.

He does it again at every opportunity.

They scold him for it every time. But Danny has his new parents wrapped around his itty bitty fingers. Even knowing it was 100% an informed decision on Danny's part; they see him languishing in post kryptonite misery and can't help but coddle him through it.

It's fine! He's clever. He eventually figures out the amount he can 'safely' eat. So as not to ruin his whole day.

None of them are happy about it. But at least they know now? And it only affects him if he eats it. so he should be safe from most kryptonite weapons in the future. If he becomes a hero. He might not! So long as he doesn't go full villain they will support his career choices.

If danny has his space/atars obseesion here he'll 100% be spoiled everytime he makes himself miserable with kryptonite. like here you go little one heres your milkway blanket and solarsystem pillow.

they also get him clothes with their hero designs on them because he would look so cute in them. "Look at him in the little red robin goodie and his speedster sneakers"

they each tey to get him to admit their hos favorite hero only for him to turn around and be like "the aliens my favorite"

Kon or m'gann thinking its them: "Me!? youre my fav-"

danny: "no the other one"

kon, distraught:"Superman!"

danny: "no!"

everyone finds out dannys favorite is in fact martian manhunter. M'gann is happy for her uncle but also "but danny im a martian too why am i not your favorite"

danny, lil shit that he is: "you can be favorite number 3"

everone is scrambling to find out who favorite #2 is... there is no #2 he's keeping that spot open (they dont know that tho)

The older League members hear about this. One day when Danny has clung onto J'onn? He just leans in. And does his best to whisper the secret.

Danny: I don't HAVE a second favourite. I just think they're being silly!

Okay but... what about OTHER shades of kryptonite? Like those folks who can't eat cows milk but CAN digest goat's milk? Both milk!

I just.... I wanna see baby Danny drooling on the infamous Pink Krytonite? The Chaos. The confusion. Danny getting a snacky treat.

Everyone is going "gay baby?!" And "you BETTER accept that gay baby!" And "but it's the Kryptonite! It's a well documented effect!" Only to be met with "but maybe he IS a gay baby! We have to let him know we love and support him! Didn't think about THAT, did you?" And "guys! GUYS. He's a BABY. He doesn't even HAVE an orientation yet! Remove the RADIOACTIVE ROCK from the INFANT, PLEASE! He got SICK last time!"

All while baby Danny is just :Y *munching, crunching, elevator music playing behind the eyes.* heck yeah~ Pink Flavor is TINGLY. Like spicy doritos. But rock candy. Om nom nom~~

Because he has learned NOTHING from his last encounter with the Forbidden Delicious Treat. He did it once, he'll do it again. All ABOUT that crunch life. It tingles.

Oh no! They come for his snack! *chews faster*

Red flavour? Non nom nom!

Mass panic. Oh fuck. Baby got the red kryptonite!!!! wait.... He's not angry. How? What the fuck? Is it cause he's only maybe 1/5 Kryptonian? Is it the Martian blood? Why is he.... Sleepy? Red Kryptonite gives him a rash on his face. And makes him sleep. Of course it does. Great.

I'm late but I propose Jaro as second favorite and when he meets Starfire, he tells M'gann that she is demoted to being fourth

You know who would be funny too: danny puts deadman AND constantine in fifth grade to the great despair of his teenage parents

@plotwholls you. Keep talking.

ok so I love the idea of a strong visceral reaction but, 1., that would make them suspicious, 2., they’re alive

Having said that, anyone who’s been dipped in the jesus juice probably has some level of reaction to it, because shit’s rank, and probably doesn’t register the same way as regular ectoplasm— so all that nasty gone-bad sourdough starter we’re supposed to call Lazarus Waters is probably trying to give them a reaction.

Problem: they are alive

And what does your body do when it experiences something and is like “oh Oh oH No That Is Not Supposed to BE HERE”?

Introducing, the solution: allergies

Give them allergies like it’s pollen season and they’re in a goddamn flower field

Either Clark is allergic to Ivy’s flowers and so he takes the Kryptonian equivalent to Claritin before he comes to Gotham, or he’s allergic to All The Pollen and is therefore Used To It

You Cannot convince me he wouldn’t act like he was dying if this was his first experience with allergies. Look me in my virtual eyes when you lie to me. 👁 👁

I am Beholding You and you’re so right. This man doesn’t really know pain that isn’t magically induced or fighting. He’s never experienced allergies before, he has a superhuman constitution.

Allergies hit him HARD. It’s not super super terrible allergies either, he’s simply never experienced hay fever so it SUCKS for him

when Constantine learns of this, he is torn, he so wanted to use it against them, but… but he would never risk Deadman

DPxDC Prompt: Ghostly News Update

One day John Constantine finds a letter on the table in the House of Mystery addressed to Deadman. He calls for the ghost, and they open it together and are shocked to read the following message.

"Dear Mr. Deadman,

Since you reside primarily on Earth you most likely haven't heard the news. Pariah Dark has been defeated in one on one combat, and his title of king has been passed on. Long may reign the new King Phantom, Ruler of the Infinite Realms.

Unlike his predecessor, Phantom has no interest in conquest nor does he aim for more power. He is also quite fond of humans, and is even known to protect a small town in the United States of America, despite with the Anti-Ecto Laws the local government has passed (Claiming any being containing ectoplasm to be non-sentient thus has no rights. It is recommended you stay out of Illinois for this reason).

Keep up the good work in the Justice League Dark, and if you have any further questions feel free to call us at 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx."

The message is typed out, except for a hand written addition at the bottom.

"P.S. If you could get the JL to do something about those laws that would be great :)

-Phantom"

For some reason the mental image popped into my head off Deadman being a fan boy and just clutching the letter to his chest like a Victorian maiden going "Phantom knows who I am?"

Oh my gods it's adorable <3

Because of deadman's attachment to the letter, constantine made a photocopy of it rather than bringing the original. It's 98% sure that they'll keep it forever otherwise.

When the first thing Batman does is scan the letter and run it through various analysis programs, he tells himself he did well.

(Contantine may be an asshole, but he likes Deadman and wants him to be able to keep the little things that make him happy, to hell with JL and Batman)

Batman is HATED by Ghosts

With all these dp x dc crossovers appearing on my fyp all I can think of is that most if not almost all ghosts that know of the Justice League must despise Batman. Okay, before I get bombarded; stick with me here.

I hardcore head-cannon for this crossover that in the GZ everyone knows all of the hero’s secret identities, like a lot of people know Batmans’ cough League of Assassins cough identity; superhero identities get revealed all the time but the person who knows usually conveniently (for the revealed superhero) die (Do you start to see the issue?).

I mean, if I die and made a ghost friend I would tell them about the shit I’ve had to put up with when I was alive (LoA Assassin: So my boss was Batman’s crazy ex-girlfriend, and had a secret son.) (I WAS RIGHT! THE BUTTS DID MATCH!!). Taking the secrets to the grave is fine, but anything after is Free Game. Especially if you were a hero’s enemy why would you keep the secret?? I can easily imagine that it’s the ghost zones version of keeping up with the Kardashians. lmao.

Danny can fit into two versions of this spectrum; where he knows and keeps quiet because he understands secret identities or my personal fave that he DOSENT know because he only hangs around the GZ’s Misfits (That wouldn’t care about JL) or Powerful Ancients (That wouldn’t care about JL)

So then, why would Batman be Hated??

It’s established in the crossover fandom that Red Hood would be Danny’s favorite hero/vigilante because he’s an avenger. Morality over killing and death is very wonky to a ghost; especially when you consider that: if Jason killed a baddie and a ghost that refused to pass on because they were worried, that the baddie might hurt someone else finally found peace with the baddie’s death (It’s just an example, I know that’s not how DP ghosts work).

Now consider, The Joker. When Dick killed The Joker, Bruce brought him back to life. This for a storyline is a fantastic exploration into him as a character; but as a real-life situation, it’s something horrifying to even consider. The Joker is one of if not THE MOST WELL KNOWN Villain in the DC universe (To Us Readers) and his direct and indirect kill count isn’t small.

Like IF I was a ghost killed by the joker (Or know/ met someone who was), and then found out that Batman had the chance to revive someone, while I would be jealous that it wasn’t me, I personally would understand if it was his recently deceased son (If I could resurrect just one person, I would also choose a loved one first).

But he didn’t. He revived his son’s murderer, taking the blood off his other Sons’ hands. He cheapened death to keep a clinically insane mass murderer alive (I know he revived Joker multiple times). To me? As a Ghost? That seems like Batman Didn’t care, I put my trust in someone coming to save me but my rescuers were too late. That happens sometimes and it’s no one’s fault; But this? He Brought A Mass Murderer back to life multiple times and now that the Joker is immortal? I would be fully ready to haunt That Bitch, Obsession Be Damned, I Can Multitask.

Though that would be a hilarious prompt: a ghost sees Bruce and tells him that “I don’t blame the rogues for my death, I blame you. Blaming the clinically insane is pointless, however… self-centered bat furry ‘Saving’ monsters hoping that they can reform only to be surprised as they kill again. It’s people like you that get innocent children murdered. I hope you are happy for every person they’ve killed is a person you murdered. There’s a lot of ghosts hoping that your obsession with being right is enough to bring you back as a ghost – well you and the rouges; we’re stronger and no longer have to fear death”. Let that be how Jason finds out that Dick killed the Joker. lmao.

JL: How do you know about that?!

Danny: I thought you knew, dead men tell ALL the best tales. 

Danny: 'Dead man tell no tale's is a ridiculous lie. We have nothing better to do than tell tales. Do you realise how long eternity is?!?!?!!?!?

dead man is almost jealous, as a magical and non-ectoplasmic ghost, he never went to the ghost zone. He missed all the good gossip! '3'

But it's ok. He can swap all the current living world gossip with Danny. So the JL will find Danny and Dead Man in corners chatting away randomly.

or rather they see Danny conspiratorially chattering and giggling in a corner alone since they mostly don't see deadman.

as much to say that the justice league do not have peace mind.

Batman is HATED by Ghosts

With all these dp x dc crossovers appearing on my fyp all I can think of is that most if not almost all ghosts that know of the Justice League must despise Batman. Okay, before I get bombarded; stick with me here.

I hardcore head-cannon for this crossover that in the GZ everyone knows all of the hero’s secret identities, like a lot of people know Batmans’ cough League of Assassins cough identity; superhero identities get revealed all the time but the person who knows usually conveniently (for the revealed superhero) die (Do you start to see the issue?).

I mean, if I die and made a ghost friend I would tell them about the shit I’ve had to put up with when I was alive (LoA Assassin: So my boss was Batman’s crazy ex-girlfriend, and had a secret son.) (I WAS RIGHT! THE BUTTS DID MATCH!!). Taking the secrets to the grave is fine, but anything after is Free Game. Especially if you were a hero’s enemy why would you keep the secret?? I can easily imagine that it’s the ghost zones version of keeping up with the Kardashians. lmao.

Danny can fit into two versions of this spectrum; where he knows and keeps quiet because he understands secret identities or my personal fave that he DOSENT know because he only hangs around the GZ’s Misfits (That wouldn’t care about JL) or Powerful Ancients (That wouldn’t care about JL)

So then, why would Batman be Hated??

It’s established in the crossover fandom that Red Hood would be Danny’s favorite hero/vigilante because he’s an avenger. Morality over killing and death is very wonky to a ghost; especially when you consider that: if Jason killed a baddie and a ghost that refused to pass on because they were worried, that the baddie might hurt someone else finally found peace with the baddie’s death (It’s just an example, I know that’s not how DP ghosts work).

Now consider, The Joker. When Dick killed The Joker, Bruce brought him back to life. This for a storyline is a fantastic exploration into him as a character; but as a real-life situation, it’s something horrifying to even consider. The Joker is one of if not THE MOST WELL KNOWN Villain in the DC universe (To Us Readers) and his direct and indirect kill count isn’t small.

Like IF I was a ghost killed by the joker (Or know/ met someone who was), and then found out that Batman had the chance to revive someone, while I would be jealous that it wasn’t me, I personally would understand if it was his recently deceased son (If I could resurrect just one person, I would also choose a loved one first).

But he didn’t. He revived his son’s murderer, taking the blood off his other Sons’ hands. He cheapened death to keep a clinically insane mass murderer alive (I know he revived Joker multiple times). To me? As a Ghost? That seems like Batman Didn’t care, I put my trust in someone coming to save me but my rescuers were too late. That happens sometimes and it’s no one’s fault; But this? He Brought A Mass Murderer back to life multiple times and now that the Joker is immortal? I would be fully ready to haunt That Bitch, Obsession Be Damned, I Can Multitask.

Though that would be a hilarious prompt: a ghost sees Bruce and tells him that “I don’t blame the rogues for my death, I blame you. Blaming the clinically insane is pointless, however… self-centered bat furry ‘Saving’ monsters hoping that they can reform only to be surprised as they kill again. It’s people like you that get innocent children murdered. I hope you are happy for every person they’ve killed is a person you murdered. There’s a lot of ghosts hoping that your obsession with being right is enough to bring you back as a ghost – well you and the rouges; we’re stronger and no longer have to fear death”. Let that be how Jason finds out that Dick killed the Joker. lmao.

JL: How do you know about that?!

Danny: I thought you knew, dead men tell ALL the best tales. 

Danny: 'Dead man tell no tale's is a ridiculous lie. We have nothing better to do than tell tales. Do you realise how long eternity is?!?!?!!?!?

dead man is almost jealous, as a magical and non-ectoplasmic ghost, he never went to the ghost zone. He missed all the good gossip! '3'

DPxDC: Accidentally Aliens

Team Phantom (Danny, Dani, Sam, Tucker, Valerie, and Jazz) end up having to flee Amity and Earth (maybe the anti ecto and the GIW tries to nuke Amity) and the Fenton parents (who know about Danny) shove them into the Spector Speedster tell them that they love them all like their kids and shove them through the portal shutting it behind them.

The last thing that the kids see is the portal closing behind them and a flash. All of them have powers and are liminal to some extent. Jazz even has her own transformation and they all don't look human.

The Specter Speedster bursts through dimensions and ends up in DC. The JL sees a space ship pass the Watchtower and a few people are dispatched to check it out and possibly welcome the people.

They open the pod and it's a bunch of what look like very inhuman kids in protective suits of some type. When they go to wake them the two that look the most similar babble at them in a very nonhuman language and Green lantern is sent in to get a universal translator going. Because of the ecto and the differences at earth, the kids mostly use infinite realms terms and concepts (this will be important later)

The kids tell them that their Home "Amity" was at war and that the enemy was using what they called "ecto-nuclear fusion weapons" and the last thing that they saw when they were shoved into the "speedster" was the "Phantoms" parents trying to protect them and a flash of blinding light.

The Kids are introduced as "Phantom", "Phantasma", and "Specter" all of one family. With blinding white hair and Green eyes for the younger two and the eldest had bright green hair and purple eyes. She blushed green when asked "I took after Mom, my little siblings took after dad."

The others are "Huntress" who has light purple skin unlike the Phantoms and has a green set of armour apparently under her skin, "Nightshade" with pale green skin and bright purple hair and eyes, that touches the earth in almost awe and is immediately wrapped in plants "Some of them feel almost like home." And "Dullman" who the others called "Tuck" and they wouldn't explain where the nickname came from who had what looked like hieroglyphics (but wrong somehow) in gold on his light purple skin.

When asked if Huntress and Dullman are related they both looked disgusted "Is it because we have the same color skin? Just because we're the same race doesn't mean we're related. We're actually in a haunt with Phantom both of us and Nightshade."

When questioned on what a haunt is they look startled. "Do you not have haunts here? What about frights? It must be so different if you're a loner species!"

"I believe that it's an error in translation. If you would be so kind as to explain." Batman was gentle they were in fact children. It was Specter who stepped forward

"So you have your 'lair' which is the place you belong to where you find your 'frights' and usually your 'haunts'."

"Sounds like a town or maybe home?"

"Your fright is the group of liminals you belong to, usually including your parents, guardians, adults, any same (with that she gestures to her siblings) chosen sames, and your closest liminals. All of us are part of the same fright though some of us belong to multiple."

"So similar to a family and friends but the concepts might be broader and more mixed."

"And finally your haunt," she smirked teasingly at her younger brother, "Are your chosen, the ones that are infinite, a choice and a constant demonstration. Many people only haunt with only one or two others my little ghost got three." Phantom is blushing green and the others of the 'haunt' are also flushed as they curl around each other. And the JL members notice what they hadn't before, that Nightshades plants reach out to the other three, that each of them except Dullman have what looks like kiss marks in gold on their knuckles, that each of them has a little hair pin with constellations they don't recognize, and the way they stand close together.

"I believe that a haunt is their way of saying a close relationship, likely romantic."

"Our parents haunted with our guardian Plasmius off and on, but our other guardians didn't haunt with them. That's not common, usually you raise your frightlings with your haunt and any additional members of your fright, but your fright is always flexible."

When asked about their fright their responses varied

"My grandmother and plant father" Nightshade "and these problems, plus Draconess Dora and the Phantoms parents."

"My parents and Phantoms parents, some of the tombs frightlings, and maybe Technus. Plus my darlings."

"My father, maybe Technus and Skulker, Plasmius, the Mad Phantoms and these dorks."

Phantom started listing off "Mom and Dad, and Plasi no matter how much I'd like to deny, Dorathea, Auntie Pan, Frostbite, Clock-pops, maybe Ember and Kitty and 13. Those are a pair, and of course my sames and my haunt."

"My list is different." Phantasma stated "I just turned 3 so mines a bit less. My dad Plasmius, my mom Mad, my papa Jackie. Plas always said that Jackie made everyone look at him, I never found out if that's because Plas found him attractive or the way he would bust down any wall in his way. I have my sames, though I'm a mirror born so I'm closer same with Phantom than Specter. Um Uncle Nightmares likes me too!" Phantom smacked himself and let out a word that needed no translation

"I forgot about Frighty. And Pariah. Is he fright?" Specter shrugged

"Technically. I mean you're set to inherited his throne so as his successor he made you fright."

Basically all of them info dumping in a way that makes them seem really alien. And confusing the entire league.

The league eeventually figures out that Haunt and Fright mean something like chosen and born family. Although they have yet to figure out much more. The lantern ring is having trouble translating certain concepts. Luckily Phantom and Dullman seem to have a knack for language. Dullman, it appears is used to coding in varied languages for technology, and Phantom speaks many of his home planets. Phantasma is also picking up on their language with admirable speed. The others are getting there. But it is going to take a while. And they can't really let the kids off the watch tower until they can reliably converse with the locals.

Phantom has been spending time in the land as well, looking at how different their tech is. He seems to have a strong grasp on engineering, and has managed to give them a decent idea of different items they could use.

He and Phantasma have also been gleefully throwing themselves into sparring with the Young Justice crew. Red Hundreds has also gleefully jumped into sparring alongside her Fright. They are a well oiled team. The Young Justice have all learned a few good manoeuvres. The younger team are enjoying the new ward's company. Spectre has taken up fussing about all of the terms on the tower. She is very protective of anyone younger than her.

She seems to know when one of the kids is hiding an injury, or when they are distressed. Spectre is very good at getting the kids to relax and talk about what's happening. Perhaps too good. She has already thrown down with a few of the kids mentors for their actions. Bruce has never seen someone body Superman and make him move before. Kon looks at her like she is an angel. Bruce privately agreed with what she is doing. Even if it does mean he gets whapped on the back of the head and told to 'communicate you pride idiot'.

Dullman has taken to their code language all too well. He managed to hack into the tower before they even knew he could. He has been working with Red Robin and Oracle to upgrade their security since. And Nightshade? Well, she has been tending to plants and growing new ones. One of which she gifted to the medical wing. It emits a calming fragrance, which is useful. They have to have them all tested for safety first. But she is very mindful of their different biology thankfully. She has been spending a lot of time with the atlanteans. Given her plant powers it is no surprise that she is into conservation. They cannot let her meet Poison Ivy. just, no.

Dan is too aggressive still. So he only gets let out when it's just them. Does he mope about it? You bet. But it's the rules of his parole so he's gotta suck it up.

So far the fraid was enjoying this new universe! They had human rights! And the heroes were happy to teach them what they needed to blend in. Apparently they had tech that could cover them in a human disguise. But that was hardly needed. They all showed how they could morph to a human enough form. None of them could hide the eyes, ears or teeth. But the rest was easy enough.

Now they just had to learn the language fluently! The they would be given a chance to slowly integrate into this new world. They were sad they had to leave. But they all knew it was necessary. And this was a world they could live in peacefully.

Sure Danny, Ellie and Val wanted to join the hero team. But that was fair. Jazz was more than happy to learn medicine and psychology so she could join their medical team. And Tucker was already being offered an internship and funds to do computer science for them. Sam of course was gleefully throwing herself into botanical science.

The three fighters were also looking at education. Ellie was thinking of journalism. As it would allow her to travel. Danny looked at the engineering in this universe and was hooked. Val just wanted to helped. She was looking at paramedic training. And the Justice League were more than happy to help these kids with those goals.

J'onn was their closest mentor. As the one with, more similar, abilities. As well as their more similar circumstances. Their small instances of mischief just made him all the fonder. He would be buying a house near his for the small unit. They were at the approximate age to be college students. And he would be nearby to help them if they needed. But not being over bearing.

now we still have the "problem" of the JLD

through young justice zatana encounters them first and realizes that they all have death magic + something else for some. But for her extraterrestrial and extradimensional are quite close. There's nothing about them that made him question the judgment of the JL

Constantine avoids them on the basis of the principle: it's not My problem! So don't touch it and don't talk about it! tm

dead man is curious about them but looked at them from a distance a dani/ellie happy to see an adult ghost approaches him first and ends up adopting him. She found it now it's hers! Plus since he's invisible all the time, he has the best gossip!

As dead man and Constantine are friends (in a way) dani/Ellie ended up forcing himself on Constantine's side as well. The latter, reluctantly, likes the little spirit of travel and succeeds with the help of the other two to ensure that the rest of the JLD has followed the plan: not to say anything to the JL! and if they end up bringing up the subject, act stupid!

I’m tired of Danny being annoyed with Constantine with him constantly selling his soul. I want Danny to fucking love it. Danny is a little chaos gremlin and nothing would bring him more pleasure than fucking with demons and whatever else Constantine sold himself to. It would be the highlight of his week when doing paperwork because 50+ whatever entities come in to complain and Danny can just go “damn, sucks to be you I guess :)”

Danny fully intends on claiming this man's soul the moment he dies, just to watch the chaos ensue. He won't even care about punishing John or anything, just let's him go back to the Mortal Realm as a ghost to hang out with (annoy) his hero friends.

Deadman visits the palace to gossip with him about what Constantine's been getting up to, and Danny gives him a power boost so he can survive on the mortal realm for longer.

Now there is a door connecting deadman's "living" space to the house of mysteries and one of the private boudoir of phamtom castle for their ecto tea and gossip session on saturday

And for more chaos: Phamtom makes Constantine (on his death) one of his diplomatic ghosts (because everyone knows him and recognizes him, he's a talent with him appearance quite commonplace for kingdoms) and royal notaries (he got you all with his contracts so he's better than you, I want him by my side) giving him the diplomatic immunizer and a portal power (which he already had in another form so just a power up I guess)

just imagine the mouths of the various demons and co skimmed, yum, they can't even contradict Danny's arguments. Not because it's a particularly good argument, but because it would be insubordination. This is the first time he has recruited a soul outside of his group of liminal friends. No one wants to mess up their first real mortal soul claims (it's like a baby's first steps (for a demon))