So the Ghost Zone counts as its own domain right? Then I propose foreign exchange student Danny Fenton.

He's very quiet and very smart but more importantly, he's pretty dodgy about his country or origin. He's never given a straight answer about where he comes from. Only saying things like "oh we're big on combat sports" or "technically we're a monarchy but there hasn't been a king since the last one was locked away for being a tyrant". It's to the point where students have made a running bet to see who can figure out Danny's country of origin first. And Tim plans to win that bet.

I read through the reblogs and I’ve decided to do my own thing. So hear me out. Danny’s from a parallel Earth. So anything ghost related doesn’t exist in the DCU Earth. Clockwork came up to Danny one day, asked him if he wanted to have an adventure, and Danny wasn’t busy so he decided “what harm could it do?”

Turns out, no harm, but a lot of confusion.

So foreign exchange Danny. He does this in human form bc it’s easier than explaining why he looks like an alien. And there ARE aliens on this planet, he was very interested in finding that out. He also has a lot of research to do.

The problem starts when he realizes that this Earth is almost nothing like his. So he’s severely outdated on what passes for “normal” on this Earth. (Thus the comments on the OP’s post make sense to him but not to the people of this Earth.)

Enter Tim. Danny’s academic rival. Where Danny excels in math, science, and chemistry, he fails at things like geography and history. (Not even the country lines are the same, you know? Danny is very confused and very lost.)

Tim catches Danny muttering in an unknown language and records it to try and figure out what he’s saying. Turns out though, that this language isn’t from Earth. (Ghost speak.) so now the mystery deepens.

If Danny isn’t from this planet, which one does he come from?

AU where Danny has spent a very long time in the Infinite Realms for one reason or another (time travel work for Clockwork, Ghost King business, fled Earth for some reason, decided he didn't jive with living under capitalism, realized he wasn't aging, whatever).

On his first trip out to the living world where he actually interacts with living people, he drops into a reality where the Justice League exists and gets curious about the Watchtower. It's definitely Earth technology, but it's way different than anything he's seen them build before. How cool! He has to check it out.

He gets intercepted. Danny's first introduction to the Justice League is Green Lantern, Superman, and Martian Manhunter. They're friendly enough when they realize he's just curious.

In the course of talking, his abilities come up. Danny talks about his ice and the time powers Clockwork started teaching him after AGIT.

Then one of them says something along the lines of "and you can fly."

Danny gives them a weird look.

"...and I can walk?"

Which is about the moment that they realize that, not only has Danny assumed that flight is normal for them (since all of the people he's met since showing up are capable of it), but he could have any number of abilities that he considers not worth mentioning.

What if we add some ✨spice✨ and say this dimension knows NOTHING about ghosts. Not even Constantine knows shit. So to them, Danny (in his ghost form) is a completely new species with unknowns. Enter Danny forgothowtobeahuman phantom, who looks nothing like humans with the exception of his bipedal stance. With time and ice powers, pale blue skin, white hair, toxic green eyes, and pointed ears and teeth. Yep, the humans are definitely wary. Good thing he’s friendly.

The heroes get him talking. He mentions a few other abilities, and they’re sweating. Danny casually being a part of the most powerful species they’ve ever heard of and friendly? They hope the rest of his species is friendly.

Fenton? You mean Phantom?

Everyone that was anyone, knew to not go near Jack Fenton. Even after he walked away from the underbelly of the darker side of humanity. He was someone that always got the job done without question. From the most would be considered a suicidal mission, he would return the following day without much of a scratch or laughing over how easy it was.

Many assumed he was a meta, non-human or something! Anything to explain Jack Fenton himself.

Nothing.

So when he walked away, many felt more at ease with this. Now there were more jobs on the docket for themselves. Albeit, the death rate has risen.

For Jack, that's all in the past. His college is paid off, that wedding he promised for Maddie was done to her liking. A tour around the country visiting the most haunted places. Finally, buying off a home in the most hunted place they could find, Amity Park! Whatever was left, went into their research!

Perfection.

It was perfect....

"Ah, Bruce Wayne... Yes, I know that's you behind the mask. What do you want?"

"We need Phantom."

"...Myself or my son?"

"Both."

Jack smiled as his son zoomed around the Watchtower with the utmost glee. Despite the situation at hand, his happy that Danny-Boy showing such emotion at the moment. Much better than finding out his father is a former hire for kill...

That was one heck of an awkward situation to say the least. He thought Danny confessing he's Danny Phantom was awkward, but telling him that he's Jack Phantom. To think the both of them have horrible taste in names for their alter egos. Either way, both are at odds, but more towards Jack's past than anything else. Can't blame the kid.

"Manhunter! Dad!!!! DAD, DAD DAD!!!! IT'S THE MARTIAN MANHUNTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Heh... he's a major fan. Look! It's The Question!"

"WHERE????"

Oh, well, I guess it's now genetic: Himbo Fenton boys under the name Phantom.

A hire for kill: Jack Phantom

A town hero: Danny Phantom

A famous traveller: Ellie Phantom? (Inherited, literal Family name)

A timeline destroyer: Dan Phantom?

Now we just need Maddie to have a secret past and for Jazz to accidentally take on her name

So they end up as a family of five (six if Vlad is redeemed) with 2-3 names between them

Working in the field with more than one of them at a time is a nightmare (it’s even worse if it’s Danny and Ellie cause Ellie still occasionally goes by Dani)

Code Name: Spectre

Maddie was a sort of private investigator/bodyguard. She grew bored and needed a new hobby as her parents would used to say to her. Normally she wouldn't do such work, but her parents were not amused over her choice of studies.

So she took on the work of a bodyguard after saving some billionaire bimbos by the names of Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen. After that, she fell into the underbelly of both sides of the law. She grew to have questions and she wanted answers.

As a bodyguard, no one paid her. Thinking she's just a pretty face and just as empty of a mind. Not knowing she's using all the information they say aloud is only incriminating themselves. It was all fun and games until some merc attempted to kidnap one of her clients.

Maddie was more interested in this supposed Phantom than doing her own job.

So what I’m hearing is Jack and Maddie had an epic enemies to lovers story arc.

Well, not actually enemies, they were just professionals on different sides. (I just don’t know what the right term is.) So on the times they had to work against each other, they had a mutual respect of the other’s skills which led to a mutual attraction.

Wow, Vlad did not have a chance in this AU. Because if they were both doing this to pay for college that means they would already be dating when he meets them. Was he just oblivious to their relationship?

Or actually new idea! I know technically Vlad got his money after he got his powers. But what if in this AU he already came from a rich family.

So Vlad is the heir of the Master’s family, Maddie is hired as his bodyguard, and Jack is hired to kill him!

What if this is Jack’s last job? I mean he’s only doing it to pay for college. So cue a hectic blend of spy versus spy shenanigans mixed with a romcom. And somehow the whole thing ends up with Vlad buying off the hit on him and offering to help fund Jack and Maddie’s tuition as long as they go to the same college as him. For the next few years, they are inseparable until… well we all know the accident already.

I feel with this background eventual redeemed Vlad joining Jack and Maddie’s relationship is the most likely ending.

Also the moment Jack and Maddie figure out Danny is Phantom they immediately shift from amethyst ocean to Gray Ghost shippers. Like “Aww she’s hunting him. That just like how we met”

(For more angst maybe the reason Vlad thinks Jack caused the accident on purpose was because of their past.)

i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because: 

my white friends that have reblogged this give me life

4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP

If ur white and like this post I fux with u

^absolutely

5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.

i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this

6. They’re usually really fucking funny and don’t perpetuate stereotypes that will ever affect me economically, politically, or cause me any true harm, let alone create risks that “justify” my murder and/or death

Waits for my white mutuals to reblog😌

yesyesyesyes

As a white person, I wholeheartedly agree with all of this👆👆👆

I recognize that even tho I’m actively fighting to fix the fucked up system,

unfortunately

I

am

still

benefiting

from

it

Why yes, please do make fun of us. It makes me happy in lots of colorful, beautiful ways XD

This post. All of it. Just. Yes.

white people who reblog this are just really cool people

Ngl love hearing ‘white people when you tell them there will be cheese at the function’ because i am just that

7. Sometimes I make jokes that are accidentally offensive to others. I don’t mean to and I’m trying to get better.

I have autism, but I’m also white, so I sometimes don’t fully get how the other races feel—I made a horribly insensitive joke at work last week, not even thinking about the racial bias behind it—luckily said guy took it well and didn’t get offended. It wasn’t until the other white girl on my shift (were the only two white girls on this shift everyone else is POC) told me the ramifications behind the joke and I was mortified and apologized like 100 times to the dude. He just laughed at me and told me it was ok.

Most heroes have merch that gets sold of them. Phantom is no exception.

However, Phantom also is not known outside of Amity. He only ever helps if Amity is in danger in some way, and doesn't go to other cities or assist other heroes.

(It's because Danny never wanted to be a hero in the first place and he doesn't want the headache that comes with something like the larger hero community being able to call on him. They have things handled anyways, so fuck it.)

As such, Phantom merch is only sold in Amity. Tiny dolls and hoodies with his logo and lunchboxes sold on Etsy and Facebook Marketplace, and no sales outside of the city.

Phantom, as a hero, is kept a secret from the Justice League and the Justice League Dark, entirely by circumstance. Just the way he likes it.

Then Dash Baxter, self-proclaimed #2 Phantom Phan (Paulina beat him in hand to hand combat and won the title of #1), went to Gotham University and became the roommate of one Damian Wayne.

Dash, who Does Not Stop wearing his Phandom merch.

Damian was told to at least try the typical college experience, to do dorm living for a semester to see if that could kickstart him gaining friends in college, only to find a freak of a roommate who wears merch for a hero he's never heard of.

For lack of anything better to do, he decides to investigate.

Going with "all of Amity Park is somewhat liminal" AND "Damian is liminal from the PITS" Dash is a great roommate for Damian! He can understand all the nonverbal cues, he understands Fighting as bonding (love that Paulina beat him out in hand to hand for the title of number one phanboy/girl) and Damian has a grand information resource to start with right there! Dash can even fit him out with Spector deflectors if he wants to go explore Amity, could even get Damian into Amity if the city is an entity that keeps outsiders out

But the real question is...

Would this end up as a "And they were roommates" kind of situation?

As in they either do end up together. Or it's just that how liminals tend to socialize means that the Bat's and Damian's other non-Amity friends, all assume they're dating.

Love the idea that due to liminals being more passionate (at the very least, but sometimes outright obsessive) and possessive in general than the typical person, means that even just totally platonic friendships between two liminals can end up looking like a romantic relationship from an unaware outsider pov.

Like with liminals you've got one of three things when it comes to non-romantic relationship, you're enemies, you're irrelevent, or you're ride or die besties.

There is no being just casual friends with a liminal, you're either best buds or you're a random stranger they've been forced to share proximity with. Which means more often than not you end up as enemies.

Anyways, adore the idea of Damian just going full liminal cat-like behavior and constantly sprawling all over Dash, or even just demanding Dash carry him around once they get comfortable around each other.

I want them to be totally platonic besties who the batfam is just convinced are going to just turn up married because they felt like eloping one day.

Damian is still lean and dash is built like a wall. Meaning we can have damian dangling and hanging from him and dash goes around like its a normal day - not impeded in the slightest.

I want (at least once!) Damian to have fallen asleep drapped over dash's shoulders, and dash goes to class like that. Damian doesn't wake up bc he's feeling safesafesleeeepppyyy vibes. And dash makes sure no one wakes him up bc 'he's been up all night lately. Let him sleep.'

okay but like what does this mean in term of Damian's research.

Like don't get me wrong, lovelovelove damian&dash, no matter what happens i want them to be such besties.

but like. he goes to amity, and then what.

"my people.." softly? or "what the fuck" swears for the first time?

what does this mean for phantom. what does this mean for the a-listers. what does this mean for the phantom gang!!!!

A-lister centric AU maybe?? accidental "ive been inundated into some sort of cult, father, but it is harmless and i can handle myself." phanclub member Damian???????? does he wear the merch??? what if he accidentally love squares it with danny/phantom, and what does that mean for his best friendship with Dash?? does dash wingman for him??? for who??? fenton??? phantom??? why does it feel like losing no matter which side he supports for his new bestie???

inquiring minds want to know!!!!

(me, i'm inquiring minds!!!!)

“Father.”

“Damian, what are you drinking?”

Damian holds a glowing green cup. “A smoothie.” He takes a long, slow sip.

“Damian.”

Damian continues to drink, making constant eye contact with his father.

Bruce’s eye twitches. He makes a move to slap the toxic beverage out of his son’s hand.

Damian hisses, and climbs up Dash’s tall frame like a feral cat. “If Dash can have ecto-smoothies, so can I,” Damian shouts. He punctuates this by slurping his smoothie loudly.

Bruce tries to grab Damian. His son evades him, switching to Dash’s other shoulder. Damian continues drinking, using his free hand to flip off his father.

Dash gives a good natured smile. “If your dad is hungry-“

Damian scoffs. “It’ll probably kill him. We grew up in separate households.” Dash nods in understanding.

Bruce does not nod in understanding. He does not understand. He is very confused, actually.

“Cool to meet you Mr.Wayne. I’ll bring Damian back in a few hours. We’re going to meet up with Jon at the arcade.” Dash confidently walks away. Damian is still perched on Dash’s shoulder, smirking spitefully at his father. He attempts to slurp from his smoothie cup, but it’s empty.

//-\\-//-\\

Damian and Dash move in perfect sync, connecting against eachother in a non-brand-specific-dance-based-rhythm-game (or NBSDBRG for short)

Jon looks on in awe. Damian always made fun of his lack of skill at NBSDBRGs. To be fair, Jon is distracted by the cool lights and sounds. This time, watching the two dance is absolutely mesmerizing. Damian and Dash have laser focus on the game.

Jon pulls an eraser out of his pocket and flings it at Damian. Damian dodges without looking away from the screen.

Jon plans for how he can best prank Damian without ensuring the wrath of his best friend. He sneaks behind Damian, and blows just a bit of his freeze breath down his friends neck.

Damian jumps, ruining his streak. “Jon! You sabatoeur, how dare you.” Jon cackles. Dash hoots in victory.

“I would have won had Jon not intervened.”

“Sneak attacks happen all the time. Not my fault you’re not prepared.” Dash argues, grabbing the pool of tickets pouring out the NBSDBRG.

Damian scoffs. “The whole point of a sneak attack is to catch people unprepared.”

“I’m always prepared. I’m prepared in my sleep.” Dash playfully shoves Damian away from his pool of tickets.

“How is that even possible?” Jon asks.

“Bear traps. Not just good for bears, you know.” Damian nods sagely at Dash’s wisdom. Jon just blinks in response.

“Still, your performance would have been far worse if you were fighting off a combatant while playing.” Damian points out.

“Yeah right. I’m great at multitasking” Dash says.

“Wanna bet?” Damian asks with a dangerous gleam in his eyes. “You against Jon, while I attack you with this.” Damian brandishes a marker. “Three strikes from me, and I win. I have until the end of the match to defeat you. Meanwhile, you have to beat Jon. You win if you evade me during the match and beat Jon’s abysmal score. Winner gets all of today’s tickets.”

“Oh it’s on.” Dash cracks his knuckles unnecessarily.

\\-//-\\-//

Dash pours the last bucket of tickets into the collector. A combination of Damian’s spending money, Jon’s enthusiam, and Dash’s mad gamer skills led to a very large winning haul.

Damian had overestimated Jon’s competence at the dancing game. Dash examined the prize counter.

He laid eyes on the vigilante merch. It wasn’t great: the Robin plushies had brown hair for some reason, and the Batman’s ears were longer than his entire torso. There were some plush versions of different heroes: Wonder Woman, Flash, Superman, Hawkman.

But there wasn’t any Phantom merch.

“They’re missing the best hero.” Dash complained.

“Which one? Superboy?” Jon asked.

“Phantom! Danny Phantom, the ghost hero. He’s way better than all these underpants wearing clowns.”

“I’ve never heard of Phantom.” Jon said.

“He’s the local hero to Amity Park, where Dash grew up.” Damian explained.

“Hometown loyalty, I get it.” Jon nodded. He’d be loyal to Kansas heroes, if there were any.

“It’s more than that.” Dash argued. “Phantom is like, the strongest hero ever. He could beat any of these Justice League guys, no contest. He could probably take them all out at once, if he really wanted to.”

“No way.” Jon argued. “Superman has so many different powers. Some small town hero I’ve never even heard of could never defeat Superman.”

“You’re crazy.” Dash said, selecting a Batman plushie that had nipples for no discernible reason. He chose that one, along with a very large dog plushie, and a chew toy for dogs, and paid with their haul of tickets. The dog was nearly the size of Damian. Dash carried it with expertise.

“No way. Phantom probably couldn’t even beat Superboy. I would know about any heroes that powerful.”

“I would agree with Jon.” Damian said. “Superman is a lot more powerful in person. Your hometown bias is likely swaying your viewpoint.”

“Bet. You get Superboy down here, I’ll get phantom, the two fight. Whoever wins gets nipples Batman.”

Jon didn’t want the Batman with Batnipples. But pride was on the line here. “You’re on.” Jon said.

*wordless incoherent screaming*

DASH WAIT, DASH DONT, DASH PHANTOM WANTS TO LAY LOW--------

nipples batman

Reblogging again to add in a comment—

Danny does it soley for the nipples Batman. Is has nothing to do with his pride. Nope. Not a thing.

So Superboy and Danny Phantom meet. At first, Jon is confused because yes, Danny exists, yes, he’s dead, and yes, one punch from Danny was enough to break his nose. Even with Danny profusely apologizing, Jon is now apprehensive. He also has a call to make, because if one punch from Phantom is enough to break his nose, what could he do to Superman? Was it Jon’s half human genes making him weak enough to be hit, or was Phantom that strong?

Damian is…conflicted. He also makes a call to John Constantine. He needs to know more about the supernatural.

Most heroes have merch that gets sold of them. Phantom is no exception.

However, Phantom also is not known outside of Amity. He only ever helps if Amity is in danger in some way, and doesn't go to other cities or assist other heroes.

(It's because Danny never wanted to be a hero in the first place and he doesn't want the headache that comes with something like the larger hero community being able to call on him. They have things handled anyways, so fuck it.)

As such, Phantom merch is only sold in Amity. Tiny dolls and hoodies with his logo and lunchboxes sold on Etsy and Facebook Marketplace, and no sales outside of the city.

Phantom, as a hero, is kept a secret from the Justice League and the Justice League Dark, entirely by circumstance. Just the way he likes it.

Then Dash Baxter, self-proclaimed #2 Phantom Phan (Paulina beat him in hand to hand combat and won the title of #1), went to Gotham University and became the roommate of one Damian Wayne.

Dash, who Does Not Stop wearing his Phandom merch.

Damian was told to at least try the typical college experience, to do dorm living for a semester to see if that could kickstart him gaining friends in college, only to find a freak of a roommate who wears merch for a hero he's never heard of.

For lack of anything better to do, he decides to investigate.

Going with "all of Amity Park is somewhat liminal" AND "Damian is liminal from the PITS" Dash is a great roommate for Damian! He can understand all the nonverbal cues, he understands Fighting as bonding (love that Paulina beat him out in hand to hand for the title of number one phanboy/girl) and Damian has a grand information resource to start with right there! Dash can even fit him out with Spector deflectors if he wants to go explore Amity, could even get Damian into Amity if the city is an entity that keeps outsiders out

But the real question is...

Would this end up as a "And they were roommates" kind of situation?

As in they either do end up together. Or it's just that how liminals tend to socialize means that the Bat's and Damian's other non-Amity friends, all assume they're dating.

Love the idea that due to liminals being more passionate (at the very least, but sometimes outright obsessive) and possessive in general than the typical person, means that even just totally platonic friendships between two liminals can end up looking like a romantic relationship from an unaware outsider pov.

Like with liminals you've got one of three things when it comes to non-romantic relationship, you're enemies, you're irrelevent, or you're ride or die besties.

There is no being just casual friends with a liminal, you're either best buds or you're a random stranger they've been forced to share proximity with. Which means more often than not you end up as enemies.

Anyways, adore the idea of Damian just going full liminal cat-like behavior and constantly sprawling all over Dash, or even just demanding Dash carry him around once they get comfortable around each other.

I want them to be totally platonic besties who the batfam is just convinced are going to just turn up married because they felt like eloping one day.

Damian is still lean and dash is built like a wall. Meaning we can have damian dangling and hanging from him and dash goes around like its a normal day - not impeded in the slightest.

I want (at least once!) Damian to have fallen asleep drapped over dash's shoulders, and dash goes to class like that. Damian doesn't wake up bc he's feeling safesafesleeeepppyyy vibes. And dash makes sure no one wakes him up bc 'he's been up all night lately. Let him sleep.'

okay but like what does this mean in term of Damian's research.

Like don't get me wrong, lovelovelove damian&dash, no matter what happens i want them to be such besties.

but like. he goes to amity, and then what.

"my people.." softly? or "what the fuck" swears for the first time?

what does this mean for phantom. what does this mean for the a-listers. what does this mean for the phantom gang!!!!

A-lister centric AU maybe?? accidental "ive been inundated into some sort of cult, father, but it is harmless and i can handle myself." phanclub member Damian???????? does he wear the merch??? what if he accidentally love squares it with danny/phantom, and what does that mean for his best friendship with Dash?? does dash wingman for him??? for who??? fenton??? phantom??? why does it feel like losing no matter which side he supports for his new bestie???

inquiring minds want to know!!!!

(me, i'm inquiring minds!!!!)

“Father.”

“Damian, what are you drinking?”

Damian holds a glowing green cup. “A smoothie.” He takes a long, slow sip.

“Damian.”

Damian continues to drink, making constant eye contact with his father.

Bruce’s eye twitches. He makes a move to slap the toxic beverage out of his son’s hand.

Damian hisses, and climbs up Dash’s tall frame like a feral cat. “If Dash can have ecto-smoothies, so can I,” Damian shouts. He punctuates this by slurping his smoothie loudly.

Bruce tries to grab Damian. His son evades him, switching to Dash’s other shoulder. Damian continues drinking, using his free hand to flip off his father.

Dash gives a good natured smile. “If your dad is hungry-“

Damian scoffs. “It’ll probably kill him. We grew up in separate households.” Dash nods in understanding.

Bruce does not nod in understanding. He does not understand. He is very confused, actually.

“Cool to meet you Mr.Wayne. I’ll bring Damian back in a few hours. We’re going to meet up with Jon at the arcade.” Dash confidently walks away. Damian is still perched on Dash’s shoulder, smirking spitefully at his father. He attempts to slurp from his smoothie cup, but it’s empty.

//-\\-//-\\

Damian and Dash move in perfect sync, connecting against eachother in a non-brand-specific-dance-based-rhythm-game (or NBSDBRG for short)

Jon looks on in awe. Damian always made fun of his lack of skill at NBSDBRGs. To be fair, Jon is distracted by the cool lights and sounds. This time, watching the two dance is absolutely mesmerizing. Damian and Dash have laser focus on the game.

Jon pulls an eraser out of his pocket and flings it at Damian. Damian dodges without looking away from the screen.

Jon plans for how he can best prank Damian without ensuring the wrath of his best friend. He sneaks behind Damian, and blows just a bit of his freeze breath down his friends neck.

Damian jumps, ruining his streak. “Jon! You sabatoeur, how dare you.” Jon cackles. Dash hoots in victory.

“I would have won had Jon not intervened.”

“Sneak attacks happen all the time. Not my fault you’re not prepared.” Dash argues, grabbing the pool of tickets pouring out the NBSDBRG.

Damian scoffs. “The whole point of a sneak attack is to catch people unprepared.”

“I’m always prepared. I’m prepared in my sleep.” Dash playfully shoves Damian away from his pool of tickets.

“How is that even possible?” Jon asks.

“Bear traps. Not just good for bears, you know.” Damian nods sagely at Dash’s wisdom. Jon just blinks in response.

“Still, your performance would have been far worse if you were fighting off a combatant while playing.” Damian points out.

“Yeah right. I’m great at multitasking” Dash says.

“Wanna bet?” Damian asks with a dangerous gleam in his eyes. “You against Jon, while I attack you with this.” Damian brandishes a marker. “Three strikes from me, and I win. I have until the end of the match to defeat you. Meanwhile, you have to beat Jon. You win if you evade me during the match and beat Jon’s abysmal score. Winner gets all of today’s tickets.”

“Oh it’s on.” Dash cracks his knuckles unnecessarily.

\\-//-\\-//

Dash pours the last bucket of tickets into the collector. A combination of Damian’s spending money, Jon’s enthusiam, and Dash’s mad gamer skills led to a very large winning haul.

Damian had overestimated Jon’s competence at the dancing game. Dash examined the prize counter.

He laid eyes on the vigilante merch. It wasn’t great: the Robin plushies had brown hair for some reason, and the Batman’s ears were longer than his entire torso. There were some plush versions of different heroes: Wonder Woman, Flash, Superman, Hawkman.

But there wasn’t any Phantom merch.

“They’re missing the best hero.” Dash complained.

“Which one? Superboy?” Jon asked.

“Phantom! Danny Phantom, the ghost hero. He’s way better than all these underpants wearing clowns.”

“I’ve never heard of Phantom.” Jon said.

“He’s the local hero to Amity Park, where Dash grew up.” Damian explained.

“Hometown loyalty, I get it.” Jon nodded. He’d be loyal to Kansas heroes, if there were any.

“It’s more than that.” Dash argued. “Phantom is like, the strongest hero ever. He could beat any of these Justice League guys, no contest. He could probably take them all out at once, if he really wanted to.”

“No way.” Jon argued. “Superman has so many different powers. Some small town hero I’ve never even heard of could never defeat Superman.”

“You’re crazy.” Dash said, selecting a Batman plushie that had nipples for no discernible reason. He chose that one, along with a very large dog plushie, and a chew toy for dogs, and paid with their haul of tickets. The dog was nearly the size of Damian. Dash carried it with expertise.

“No way. Phantom probably couldn’t even beat Superboy. I would know about any heroes that powerful.”

“I would agree with Jon.” Damian said. “Superman is a lot more powerful in person. Your hometown bias is likely swaying your viewpoint.”

“Bet. You get Superboy down here, I’ll get phantom, the two fight. Whoever wins gets nipples Batman.”

Jon didn’t want the Batman with Batnipples. But pride was on the line here. “You’re on.” Jon said.

*wordless incoherent screaming*

DASH WAIT, DASH DONT, DASH PHANTOM WANTS TO LAY LOW--------

nipples batman

Danny with Jazz Like the final colors

Me: what could be so bad that it warrants the use of that image?

The end: *happens *

Me:

im begging you watch the whole thing

WHY

Me: what could be so bad that it warrants the use of that image?

The end: *happens *

Me:

im begging you watch the whole thing

WHY

Ok ok so hear me out Twins au. Danny and Damian are twins. And you know the whole story. Danny gets "killed " moves in with the Fenton's and becomes phantom. Ad Damian doesn't know that. Well the magician summoning Damian's dead brother to enact his revenge on him has a very bad timing

I love how they completely ignore the fact that Damian’s brother is a ghost criminal.

Like I’m guessing they just mentally shrug and go “yeah that makes sense, he’s the demon brat’s brother, of course he would be a ghost criminal if they exist”

Danny was kind of scared of what Damien would think of him. Like, this was a seriously bad impression. Dami, Robin, the Bat's son, who works with the Justice League, heroes, enforcers of the law, has just seen his brother get summoned for doing ghost crimes... Yeah, that is actually kind of funny.

So, distraction! If Danny can get away from the fact that he is technically a criminal, then he doesn't need to fight his brother! Again...

"You're Robin now?!" Distraction plan numero one: get him to talk about himself.

"You're a ghost criminal?!" Plan foiled! Distraction plan number dos: make it not a big deal (cuz it kind of isn't a big deal in all reality)

"Well, yeah. But only because I like hanging around the living, and Walker hates that. But come on man! The living have things like video games!"

"Walker?"

"Yeah, this guy who just makes up rules that everyone has to follow, doesn't tell anyone those rules, and then captures and imprisons those who break the stupid rules for insane lengths of time! It's completely insane! Like, he literally wrote down a rule in his book as a reason to take me for something I just did! I was just trying to get the thing back to the living world, but apparently being in possession of a 'real world item'" He air quotes that, "is a punishable offense for a thousand years. I'm not doing that."

"That does seem absurd." Damian lowered his sword. Plan successful! And he didn't even have to lie!

"Anyway..." He started messing with his cuffs, while intangibility doesn't work, that doesn't mean that he wasn't trained to escape handcuffs and other types of bondage from a young age. He slipped out of them using a sleeve trick and a little bit of flexibility. "Want me to help you take down that guy?" He pointed his thumb to the magician dude who was slowly backing up throughout this conversation.

"Gladly."

The demon twins fell back to their old style of fighting. They worked together like a well oiled cog, when one twin had a weakness, the other covered. When one twin made an opening, the other capitalized on it. All of this to say that the magician went down quickly and anticlimactically.

"Sooo..." Started Nightwing, looking between them. "You never told me you had a twin! Who's older?"

Damian just looked affronted "Well I clearly-"

"Well it matters how you count it." Danny interrupted.

"Huh?" Red Robin asked, looking somehow more tired than he did before, which is a feat.

"Do you count how long we lived, or who was born first?"

All the bats looked stricken. They were probably thinking about the fact that Danny is a ghost for the comment on how old he was, and he is a ghost, but that's not what he meant. Danny came out of Mother first, but he was stillborn, and needed a quick dunk in the Lazarus pit, so he technically was alive after Damian, who was out and breathing by the time Danny came up. It was always a big fight over who is older because of that.

Danny still stand by the fact he is older, after all, if someone's heart stopped temporarily, you don't shove their birthday back a bit. Damien is firm in the belief that aging doesn't start until the first breath though.

"Um, who was born first." And just like Danny planned, they avoided the life and death question.

Danny proudly pointed to himself, "that makes me the elder brother!"

Damien just had to ruin he momen, "You were stillborn, I took the first breath. You needed the Lazarus."

"I was still born first, which means I'm older" he glared playfully at his younger brother. (Yes he did the stillborn pun on purpose, no he wouldn't apologize)

Damian just glared at his dead twin brother.

Danny successfully distracted his brother from ghost crimes, and also the fact that 'hey, your brother, you know the one you killed, yeah he's a ghost now, and he's right in front of you.' granted, the Lazarus pit did heal him from the dead a second time, before he had made his way to America. Man, three times dead in this life... Wait no, four! His birth, at the end of his time with the league, his first death to be a halfa, and a second time after the whole thing with Desiree. (He's not counting every time he shifts between human and ghost for the sake of his sanity)

Th argument escalates so Damian tries to playfully shove him (or at least, ‘playful’ for Damian who was raised by assassins.) and normally, this would evolve into a spar between the two brothers just like old times. Except Danny is a ghost now so the hit just passes right through. Damian tries again and again and gets more aggressive with his hits.

Damian: Will you just. Stay. STILL!

Danny: Naaaah nanana, nana, nana, can’t touch this, Naaaah nanana, nana, nana can’t touch this~!

Meanwhile the Batfamily is staring at the interaction in absolute horror.

(via @meowalpaca6359-blog)

Oh Bruce and the rest of the Batclan’s perspective is going to be so angsty. Except for maybe Jason.

That being said a family of crime fighters and detectives are going to pick up real quick that this Walker making up rules on the fly and enforcing them can not actually be legal. They are going to be conflicted with the urge to grill Danny about ghost law and trying to not scare him off.

They also probably think that the one ghost law that is actually real is that the dead aren’t supposed to be interacting with the living.

Anyone want to try writing that out? @confusedshades @dragonsrequiem @evilminji @ghostbsuter @hdgnj @hypewinter @kizzer55555 @zylev-blog @zeestarfishalien

“So the dead aren’t supposed to interact with the living? Is that a made up rule?” Batman asked.

Danny was about halfway through making a joke when he had been interrupted. “Well, no, it’s not made up.” He frowned as he thought that over to give them the best answer, “The ancients actually started that rule thousands of years ago, because of Pariah Dark, but it’s not super important.”

Yeah I know we all want to see the bat get Batshit when he learns that Tim lost a spleen but have you ever considered he just having a big dad sight™ closing his eyes and saying:

"... Of course he did." while he holds the bridge of his nose and following up with. "Let me see the scar."

"What happened to it. Where's it?"

"So Ra's-"

"Don't finish that sentence."

“But you just said—“

“I know what I said. But when Ra’s is involved, I don’t want to know.”

Damian is de-aged to a baby and lost in Gotham. A magic user hit him with some kind of spell. His legs don’t work as well and he has trouble walking. That’s when a man appears and squats down with a tilt of his head.

“Yea, you are definitely not supposed to be out here, little guy.”

Damian glares at the man, early twenties, stubble along his jaw, ragged clothes, and dark bags under his eyes.

The man turns his head to look at the brick wall.

“Are you sure?”

And now he was talking to a wall. Curses. Of course he would be found by a crazy person.

Damian is physically two and mentally fourteen when Danny has another encounter with the Bats. The next encounter ended much like the first, with several broken bones and a concussion for Bruce. Danny is not happy in the slightest.

Danny was beginning to think this was another cloning situation. Perhaps Batman had been cloned, and Batman was trying to neutralize his clone. He wouldn’t stand for that, and he would make sure he protected his son from anything a vigilante could throw at him.

Damian is three when Danny meets Superman. Superman is all smiles, but Danny sees right through him. They move houses that same day.

Damian is four when he is approached by Wonder Woman. He’s tempted to talk to her, but before he can even get a word out, Damian is scooped up by Danny and they move again.

Somehow, they never leave Gotham. It’s safer for them here, even with the Batman threat, Danny had told Damian. He didn’t know what was worse: his old family hunting him, or something out there was a bigger threat to Danny than the Bats and the Justice League.

Damian is 8 when he’s approached by Talia. Danny is tempted to kick her out, but he decides to hear her out. Somehow, Talia had a time head medallion and that won Danny’s trust.

Damian is 8 and a half when the Justice League no longer hunt him. He can see the bats in the distance sometimes, but they never approach him.

Damian is finally allowed to be a child and be free.

#10 dcxdp

John constantine brings Danny up to the watch tower so one of the Hero's can watch him as he dose a mission

John appears in the zeta tube dragging a grumpy looking teen behind him. He pushed him into the meeting room in front of the other heroes and the kid sunk into a seat sulking.

John: Right, can one of you lot watch the brat. He likes to follow me ta work. An I wouldn't mind most of the time. Cept Danny and demons do NOT get on.

Danny: they wanted you to sell your first born! Of course I ate it!

John: Yeah, and then got a fever cause of the competin magics! You were sick in bed for DAYS!

Danny: Ok, so next time I'll just rip em apart! It's a demon, you don't make deals with them!

John: Stop tellin me how to do my job brat!

Diana: Ahem! Boys! I am willing to watch the young one. And John, I didn't know you had a ward?

John: 'S recent. Danny got kicked out cause o' his powers so. Considering he's got death magic in droves I took him in to help train im. Forgot how bad the Realms lot get on with demons. My own fault.

Diana: Death magic?

Danny: It's not magic! It's species specific abilities! He keeps saying magic like its some sort of spell. It's not!

John: Just cause your species use it instinctively doesn't make it less magic than it is!

Danny: He won't even teach me real magic. Say I have too much power as is.

John: Cause ya do!

Diana: Alright. Perhaps save rehashing old arguments for home? Danny can come with me. We can perhaps spar?

Danny: That sounds fun.

John: Right. I'd say be good...

Danny: But you don't want to be a hypocrite?

John: Brat! I'll see you in a few hours.

Danny: If I have to come save you I am teasing you about it forever!

Diana: Danny, would you like to visit the viewing deck?

Danny: You have a viewing deck? Yes!

#'eating the demon is a valid tactic' danny#vs#'sold my soul yet again' john

Diana had to admit, to herself alone, that she hadn't expected to actually like John's ward. With how prickly and irritating the warlock could be? She expected Danny to be, difficult, to talk to. So she was pleasantly surprised to find him sweet and funny, if not chaotic and mischievous. Not that she had any issue with those particular traits.

Somehow Damian overhears that bit about him. Now he’s conflicted. On one hand, he has approval from his grandparents on Bruce’s side. On the other, he’s considered cute

Superman definitely heard their chat and is muffling a laugh. Batman just stares at him for a moment.

I would love John to come back to pick Danny up from being babysat and give the kid a cool trinket that’s like super cursed just for the JL to watch the keep EAT THE CURSE RIGHT OFF THE TRINKET!

Add to the brain broke™ moment. Diana, Wonder Woman herself, likes this kid. John's kid. What the fuck kind of being did John adopt!?!?!

Oh, so when Danny tries to eat a Demon, it's all "The competing magicks will make you sick!"

But when John needs a curse conveniently destroyed, it's "Here's a snack for ya, kid."

If Danny didn't know better, he'd be suspicious that John just doesn't want him fighting demons.

(He doesn't. He really doesn't. Do you know how much of hell works off Right of Conquest principals? Like, all of it. He's just fortunate that first one was such a menial thing that when the magicks stabilized inside him, the kid was already too OP to realize he was comparativly infinitesimally stronger. Also it made him sick. That was a much stronger dose of foreign magic than what's in these artifacts. It's like the difference between a shot and a full bottle of liquor. Of course a whole Lesser Demon made the kid sick.)

Danny's still going to be a gremlin about it. If Danny was nice to him? John would check him for mind control. That's just not how their relationship works. They banter, sass and tease each other. Kindness is shown, not said.

The Justice League are so thrown by the change in Danny too. Like, around them? He was fairly polite, a lot calmer, quite a nice young man. Around John? He's an absolute menace. Is he going to be like that around them once he's comfortable? Ah fuck.

Reverse Robins AU where everyone is their canon ages but Bruce gets them backwards

And Sooner, thus smaller