I don't know why Danny Phantom is trending but here have one of my favourite scenes in the series

Random hero after hearing all that: Are you sure that you are a civilian.

Danny "Commit to the bit" Fenton while literally replacing Superman due to some sort of an emergency: Yes.

Submitted Prompts #5

After Danny became the Ghost King, the entire magic community learned that the King was available for summons again. Slight issue: Danny is different from the previous King. His summoning circle has completely different requirements that everyone is rushing to figure out for their own purpose.

the circle’s gotta be drawn in ketchup from one very specific burger joint and the chant is entirely in pig latin

the sacrifice is a smoothie or milkshake flavour that the king has never had before. no repeats, it’s always gotta be a new one

also no one tells you this but unless you give him a very specific sendoff ritual he’s free to hang around however long he likes and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. You summoned the King? Great. Now figure out how to Unsummon him, or you just go a new roommate.

"So for sacrifices you have to offer a moon rock, a smoothie from a fast food restaurant, tickets to a Humpty Dumpty concert, and an autograph from Carl Sagan," said Constantine. "At least this one doesn't require us to kill anything. We have all that?"

"Yes, but that's not the problem; it's the circle," said Zatanna.

"What's wrong with it?"

"The circle must be made of glass tubing containing liquid sucrose at 99.99% purity or greater at 200°C. Not only does the new king not want to be summoned, he's also a nerd."

"Why?"

"Sucrose doesn't melt. It decomposes before it can melt at that temperature. You can't get it hot enough to melt without it breaking down into other molecules, so even if you could get it into a liquid state, it couldn't be pure."

"So he literally made a summoning that's supposed to be scientifically impossible to set up."

"Looks like it."

Theres a new mom and pop coffee shop in Gotham that's doing pretty well. The place has a casual playful vibe but it only ever has one employee, which has lead to it having a bit of a urban myth status.

He's there through all the opening hours and no one ever sees him come or go, only the lights switching off and the teen disappearing.

It probably doesn't help that the shop has a ghost themed name.

His name tag reads, "Nightingale" and he always has a polite smile, but the few who dare to act out in his shop notice his eyes flash a particular shade of green and are suddenly overcome with the feeling that they're being stared down by a large apex predator and a sickening sense of dread.

Needless to say people behave in his shop.

Whats more is that his store shows up on county records just fine, but if you try to look into anything your computer glitches out and you can't find anything. Obviously "Nightingale" can't be the owner, he looks only 15. Some say he's a vampire, others say he's a zombie like Red Hood.

Tim doesn't care what he is because the first time he entered at night as Red Robin the guy immediately started making a coffee were he could see, made it exactly how he liked it and gave it to him before he even had the chance to order. Then he refused his money, saying it was on the house.

None of the people waiting in line argued or were upset and Tim was unsure if that was because he was a well known Gotham vigilante or it Nightingales reputation protected him.

Either way the coffee was delicious.

Tim didn't know how to feel when he found out his family was investigating the "possible runaway" who worked at the coffee shop.

Thinking about this dumb show again

I can't write but I have a piece of an idea and I want to put it out there in case someone who can write sees it and runs with it.

Danny is de-aged and winds up in gotham, don't know how don't know why. But he was found by Red Hood and adopted after much trial and tribulation (and some biting, and 'damn are all little kids teeth that sharp'). They've been together for a while and Red Hood has been keeping him secret from the batfam. I imagine cause deep down he's worried that Bruce will try and take him away. Billionaire who has successfully adopted multiple children VS one criminal vigilante from crime Alley, he knows who would win that custody battle. And it all comes to a head one night when the emergency alarm that he had given Danny went off and he goes running back to the apartment to find the entire building on fire. He doesn't even slow down and swan dives through his window. Some of the bad fam are with him when they see him take off and jump through the window of a burning building but they can't follow him so they're running around the outside of this building trying to get him out. Red Hood finds Danny in the bathtub where he had gone after he hit the panic button, he was too afraid to leave via ghost powers because he didn't want Jason coming to find him and not being able to. So Red Hood wraps him up in a wet blanket and they're able to get out and land on the roof of the next building over. So now everybody is yelling at him for jumping into a burning building to retrieve whatever guns or explosives or whatever he had obviously gone to get. And Batman walks up and says "there was nothing in that building that was worth your life" right before Red Hood pulls the wet blanket off of Danny. So now the whole family is looking at this tiny sopping wet kid who looks up at Red Hood with tears in his eyes and calls him dad.

Shazam, hyping himself up to meet the King of the Infinite Realms because he is a responsible champion of magic and this is what responsible champions of magic do and he’s totally not scared at all: >:T

Shazam, halfway through dinner with the Ghost King, Realizing the King of the Infinite Realms is also Danny the Thermos KidTM, who is famous among the homeless community in Fawcett for randomly appearing to beat petty criminals up with a thermos before disappearing into thin air: .o.

Idea: Danny has a dual obsession, Protection and Space. Because of this, he decides to visit the Justice League’s Watchtower. They were really cool after all, even if they never came down to Amity.

He didn’t account for the metas, though. He kinda thought he’d wander around invisible and undetected before leaving, his curiosity sated.

At first the JL is ready for a fight, thinking a hostile just infiltrated their HQ, but then they hear he’s a ghost and “oh my god he died a kid!” plus the fact that apparently, he’s been protecting a small town from other ghosts while everyone tries to re-kill him and suddenly it’s a fight for adoption/mentorship.

Danny is mad about this because one, it’s HIS choice, and they’re trying to force it, but two, he isn’t actually all the way dead yet, and that would rip him away from his friends and family, the half of him that was still alive.

The first member of the JL to figure out why was Constantine, actually. He met Danny in human form while investigating Amity and then met Phantom. And he realized that they were the same person. They both had the perfect balance of Life and Death, after all.

Reporting this to the rest of the League just makes it worse, really. After all, Phantom is hunted by the Fentons. It just made the desire to adopt all the more frantic.

You guys know all those prompts where Bruce adopts Danny. Well I raise you this Bruce's dead parents adopt Danny this turning him into the weird uncle for all of Bruce's wards. You can even throw in ghost king Danny to make it more interesting.

Dc x Dp Prompt #5

Sam has to go to Gotham with her parents for a business meeting that she has no interest in going. But her family agreed that she could bring a friend so she wouldn't be so miserable. Of course she brought Danny, why not? Sure Tucker was upset with the possibility to see Wayne Enterprises, but they promised to bring him lots of photos and other souvenirs if they could. The meeting seemingly went on without a hitch and Sam and Danny got to explore around Gotham to the best of their abilities. Sadly, Sam thought, she hadn't gotten the chance to meet Poison Ivy and get an autograph. But that didn't mean there wouldn't be a next time. Everything seemed to be going well until they caught a glimpse of one of Gotham's Newspapers. A photo of her with Danny made it to the front page as they were exploring Gotham, though with Danny's face turned sideways, they couldn't see fully it was from a distance. The heading Wayne Family Member and Potential Partner Seen in Outing is what caught the most of her attention.

Bruce on the other hand, was wondering which one of his sons was dating this girl and how he didn't know. While all the Robin's were discussing which one of them it was in the photo.

The HC of Danny’s hair gaining white streaks but with him being in Gotham.

He keeps dyeing it back to solid black, because he doesn’t want to attract attention by resembling a rouge or vigilante. He has to touch up the roots every 3 weeks so absolutely no one knows.

At some point Danny ends up running out of dye and his roots start to show through so he makes an emergency stop out of his usual way to pick up more dye.

Danny ends up literally bumping into a man that sets off a light version of his ghosts in the hair dye isle, he hadn’t run into anyone that set it off in Gotham yet and ends up having no idea how to react. After a few minutes of uncomfortable staring and silence Danny just awkwardly asks the guy the first thing that came to his mind, basically asking the guy if he’s buying dye to cover up the evidence of his death too.

Jason is now panicking because this scrawny kid just:

1. Thinks Jason died (the kid is right, but he shouldn’t know that)

2. Admitted/thinks that he died (the kid either did die or thinks he did, both are concerning for very different reasons)

3. Has evidence of white in his hair just like Jason (the kids eyes are blue, so his bungee jump back from death’s probably not related to the pit. Hopefully)

And 4. looks like someone Bruce would kidnap off the street and put in a colorful costume (probably the most worrying. The kid looked like a strong wind would blow him over, he wouldn’t make it as a bat or bird)

(The whole thing about ghosts and liminals having fast metabolisms and resistance to chemicals, making Danny have to take way higher dose of things like medications, caffeinated drinks, and other substances for them to even do anything.)

Danny’s in Gotham and goes to get coffee from a random cafe. He asks the barista what the caffeine content of their strongest drink is and lets out a disappointed sigh when they tell him. (It wouldn’t do anything to him and would just taste super bitter)

Danny proceeds to order some super sweet and sugary drink with multiple pumps of flavored syrup and drizzle on it. And when Danny gets his drink he takes out a canister of white powder and dumps a whole tablespoon of it into his drink and stirs it.

Danny after drinking some of it and being more awake he realizes that most of the shop saw what he did and that an unknown white power in Gotham is usually something illegal. Danny knowing his luck doesn’t want to risk even the slightest chance someone decides to do something about the teenager with a container of unknown white powder just straight up tells everyone it’s pure powdered caffeine.

This somehow causes an even more dramatic reaction, after all no normal human can survive that much caffeine.

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Tim who both saw the whole thing and ordered the strongest drink they made: That’s like 75 cups of coffee… should I order caffeine powder?

DPxDC prompt

Team Phantom all have an inside joke where they refer to Dani as Danny’s daughter, while also calling Vlad an absentee mother who doesn’t pay child support.

Eventually Danny’s at the Justice league space station and hears some of the senior members talking about how the current Robin has attempted to stab a multiple people.

Danny curiously asks them about Robin and eventually they tell him he’s 11 and he just accidentally blurts out that his daughter’s around robins age.

The league members, stare at “eternally a teenager” Danny and go through mini existential crisis about the member that looks like a child having a child of their own. One of them asks if his daughter’s adopted and Danny says that she’s biologically his.

They ask about her mother or other parent and he says that if his daughters “mother” paid child support then he could have a say in things.

Eventually the conversation gets to Batman’s ears and he corners Phantom, not for learning sensitive information about Robin, but for parenting tips.

Now Danny’s giving Batman advice on how to treat/care for a surprise ex-assassin child with an absentee criminal “mother” who obsesses over their child’s father.

Dc x Dp Prompt #8

Old news to Danny: Since becoming Ghost King, he has ghost speak that makes all those in the Ghost Zone listen and follow his commands, even if he doesn't like using it that much.

New news to Danny: The person didn't have to stay dead in order for his ghost speak to work on them. All they had to do was died momentarily or even be in touch with death for it to work.

Good news for Danny: Danny was able to meet some of his favorite heroes and sidekicks! Sure it was during a ghost fight that got out of Amity, but he'll take it no matter what!

Bad news for Danny: Apparently a good amount of superheroes have died or have been in near death experiences because when he tried to use ghost speak to get the ghost to go back to Amity, he noticed a good portion of the heroes stopped what they were doing and seemed to be under the same affect as the ghost.

Worse news for Danny: The heroes now believe Danny is now a villain with the ability to control others with his voice. Which he isn't by the way!

People don’t use that Danny is a ghost king enough in Bat/DC crossover fics, more specifically what it entails.

I wanna see Ra’s try to mess with him only to have Danny demand him to bow and he has no choice but too.

I wanna see Damian feeling inclined to respect Danny as soon as he sees him.

I wanna see Jason get therapy and help from Danny for his once upon a dead ass.

I want Billy and Danny team up to cause confusion and chaos with deep understandings of each other’s struggles with powers.

I want the aliens from dead and gone planets to see their species in the Infinite realms and realizing that it’s not all lost, and that the younger ones can make a connection with their origins.

I want him and the Justice league team to team up and destroy the G.I.W for their horrible laws.

I want the Justice league to realize that while it may break their world view and minds, they are talking to a child, one that died and came for help.

I want ghosts with humans to trade things that make them happy. I want their obsessions fulfilled with little to no damage caused to the ones around and them.

I want Danny to realize he has options to leave if he feels unsafe, I want amity park to feel seen for their problems.

I want any dead lifeform to feel inclined to either respect him, or baby Danny because they sense that he’s a essentially a ghost toddler.

I love OP eldritch horror Danny as much as anyone. But I gotta say, in over his head Danny who's absolutely batshit feral in a fight and wins his battles by the skin of his teeth holds a special place in my heart.

Cause he didn't ask for any of this. He didn't ask for powers that have backfired on him almost as much as anyone else. And at this point in his life he's been beaten down, only to get back up and spit in someone's eye so many times he could write three autobiographies about it. And he did it all as a scrawny highschooler. No team of heroes with funding and training to rely on. No mentor to tell him how to do things.

Danny and co are the ultimate McGuyver squad/ductape saves the day type of superheroes.