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crossover 😜

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A commission for @nocturn02 of a scene from Phantom at Pride by TourettesDog on ao3 :D!

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Dannymay day 4 - Eyes

Tumblr hates me and does NOT want me to upload this and idk why :( why does the fps keep getting fucked up 😭

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I’ve been waiting since March to post this...

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So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.

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Clark and Danny having a mentor/mentee relationship that’s not fatherly but instead two parties who both deeply admire each others morals, skills, and what they do for humanity, and both strive to better each other and be he world around them.

Danny can wail the frequency of Jimmy Olsen’s watch gifted to him by Superman and Superman has memorized Danny’s summoning sigil that he can easily carve into anything or whisper the summoning chant and they both would be there for each other in microseconds.

I’m talking a bond that transcends time and space. Clark time travels a LOT as well as dimension travels because that simply is a common instance as a hero and no matter what; Danny will be there by his side when called.

Has he informed Justice League Dark? Absolutely not. He didn’t expect it to be that big of a deal, Phantom is simply a long time friend, colleague, and mentee that is strong enough to assist in Superman level battles and a ghost. He didn’t expect the magic users of the team’s faces to pale when he described his friend after a brief casual reference to the halfa.

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you are 16. you are talking with a gay man in his 50s or 60s, a friend, huge and gentle with a scarf and short fluffy curls of gray hair, who has directed you in two plays staged in your mid-size artsy town. (he has not yet asked you to be in his production of The Laramie Project which will change your life. this conversation will also change your life.)

he is talking about theatre. he is talking about theatre when he was younger. he says, "of course, it was AIDS then." in the pause, you ask him. clumsy and quiet and 16 and "straight," you ask him. what was it like.

he takes a moment in which his face is not like a person's face. "there was a time," he says, "i'm not sure how long, years. when i went to a funeral every weekend." he tells you about two funerals in a day, and choosing between friends when you couldn't make it to both. he does not look at you, he looks at them. his wet grey gaze is so clear that you start to see ghosts. it will be years before you understand why it feels like your grief too. why the ghosts call you family.

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Happy Pride!

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hey guys check it out I can do a frontside 180 with my stomach haha

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Mhmm..

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When Dash breaks his leg, the Casper High football team reaches out to Danny Phantom to ask for him to replace the quarterback in the upcoming game.

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Danny reminds me of my orange maine coon cat and no I really can't explain.

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Danny uses his enhanced strength (and tactile telekinesis) to hold up a piece of building from falling on top of a group of people. In his human form.

"Are...are you like Superman?" One of them asks.

"Uhhhhhh no," if he admits to that there will be too much power overlap between that and Phantom, and someone's gonna make the connection. "I'm Atlantean. My family was banished like, what, two or three generations ago. I didn't really pay attention to it too much."

"Oh! I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to bring up bad blood."

"Nah, it wasn't anything super bad, but having an affair with an unmarried Royal will get almost anyone kicked from any country with a King or Queen."

Danny is, in fact, pulling this entirely out of his ass, basing it off of some historical lesson Clockwork had insisted on giving him.

Danny is also correct, and that's a real thing that happened in his family history; his father is the bastard brother of the previous Atlantean King. Not the current one and his brother, but the King before them, which makes Danny and Jazz their cousins, and Jack their uncle.

By saying this outloud, like it was no big deal, to someone he didn't realize was livestreaming, he's started the beginnings of a political upheaval in Atlantis.

There's a few people who still have issues with their current choices for King, and crave a different choice.

Different choices that don't know anything about any underwater politics and are impressionable teenagers, or a man that appears to be an absolute moron.

People, options, they think they can easily manipulate.

They did not take into account the sheer baggage that comes with Danny and Jazz's existence, or how neither of them particularly want anything to do with Atlantis at all.

They also aren't prepared, at all, for Jack Fenton.

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Technus made a VR headset! It's being sold to ghosts, as a ghost-only product, and Danny is very excited.

It's powered by the users ecto, and has been peer reviewed by not just Point Dexter, but also Walker and Ember and the Box Ghost. It's not a trap!

It's just Technus raking in payment in the form of old and new tech from across all dimensions for his lair in return for one of the headsets!

Danny makes sure the anti-ghost system in the house is off, that his door is locked, and slips on the VR headset in preparation for something phenominal. So far, there's only one game, but it's very popular among ghosts.

[Welcome, User P H A N T O M. Please select a sigil to determine your starting point.]

Danny selects the picture of...hmm. What to choose, what to choose.

He chooses...the lightning bolt.

Danny blinks and he's staring up at a strange woman.

Danny very quickly finds out that while this game is super popular with ghosts, for someone like Danny, who's half living? Kind of boring.

Because it's a life simulator.

It's like if a bunch of orcs and wizards played DnD, but the game was about working in an office.

In this particular simulation, he's the son of a single mother, who he apparently takes after; black hair, blue eyes. When he grows up he isn't gonna look any different from how he does IRL.

Sooo...no character customization. Damn.

He gets named Daniel, because obviously?

His life is painfully mundane; he has no powers, he's just an average human. Which is a pity, because in this world/server there's other heroes with super powers, and he would have loved to have been able to join in on their shenanigans.

He wakes up. He plays. He eats. He goes to sleep.

Then he gets old enough to go to school, which. Ugh. Not again.

New routine. wake up, school, go home, snacks, homework, sleep.

He makes a few friends, but not really. It's hard to be friends with NPCs, after all.

Then he hits ten, and uh.

He has a power?

Super speed. He has super speed.

His mother breaks down crying when she sees him disappear and reappear on the other side of the room.

He's the second Flash's son, who said man has no idea exists.

After that is a whirlwind of trying to pretend he doesn't have powers, slipping up, getting involved in a fight, outing himself, getting him and his mom absorbed into the Flash family by osmosis, and after about five more years, he's essentially forgotten that this is a VR game.

Then his dad is about to take a hit, and Danny dives in front, tanking it.

Danny dies in his father's arms, only for the oncoming peace of death to be interrupted with

[GAME OVER. ONE TIME USAGE COMPLETE.]

Danny bolts upright, hands on his chest, panting.

Wait, game over? Right, right, the VR headset.

No, wait...one time usage?! What a rip off!

Danny hides his grief at losing his NPC family behind the rage of the one time usage, and pretends the tears leaking out of his eyes are from fury.

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Wally clutches the broken body of his son, trying so, so hard not to snap.

He'd only had Danny for five years.

Five fucking years. He'd missed most of Danny's life, and...and because of one stupid fucking mistake, because he hadn't been good enough...

Wally feels his body begin to distort, the Speedforce responding to his rage with an otherworldly indifference to what rules of reality his body is supposed to obey.

Danny has to be alive, in at least one reality.

Wally is going to find him, consequences be damned.

TLDR; Technus makes a one time use headset for ghosts to get to live another life, and neglects to mention that it's actually temporarily removing their consciousness and placing it into people who otherwise wouldn't be alive.

Danny thinks it was just a game.

To his grieving Speedster father he gained in that reality, however, it very much was not a game, and the man is currently on his way to Danny's home reality after going on a grief bender that would make Batman blush.

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Greyghost my beloved <3