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[danny-with-a-y]

There’s no way that they would do this without clowning on Bruce as well.

Red Robin, recording Batman during patrol: Suspect is the biggest hypocrite in the history of superheroes when it comes to not replacing sleep with caffeine.

Spoiler: Suspect gives out lectures on dating villains, despite having long-term relationship with at least two.

Nightwing: Suspect dodges therapy better than he dodges healthy relationships!

Robin: Suspect constantly lectures me on the value of life and not killing villains, but will leave a man in a coma for the rest of his life for jaywalking.

Red hood: Suspect thanks all criminals should be arrested punished, but lets me go free despite the fact that I’m a murderer. All over his own guilt.

Signal in the background: Okay, maybe these are getting too hurtful.

The Batkids doing that "Suspect" tiktok trend where they take turns filming each other running and say increasingly personal and deranged shit to make each other laugh.

Spoiler, recording Red Robin: *in a confused voice* Suspect listens to Green Day and Enya, like my guy pick a struggle

Nightwing, recording Red Hood: Suspect died once and made it his entire personality

Red Hood, recording Robin: Suspect has a superiority complex that is way too big for someone his size

Robin, recording Nightwing: Suspect has been engaged at least twice and married never

Red Robin, recording Spoiler: Suspect thinks assaulting people with bricks is a legitimate flirting strategy (Spoiler: It worked on you!)

Signal, who came out at night solely for this, recording Red Robin: Suspect can't come up with an original name and keeps stealing everyone else's

Red Hood, recording Nightwing: Suspect is actually a huge asshole but hides it behind that cheerful demeanor so everyone thinks I'm lying about it

Robin, recording Red Hood: I'm going to let the Suspect keep running because he needs the exercise

Signal, recording Red Hood: Suspect acts tough but has read every Jane Austen novel at least six times

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Two truths and a lie with the Batfam would absolutely go hard.

Tim: I saved the universe by playing baseball.

Tim: I’ve unsuccessfully tried cloning before.

Tim: Wonder Girl once carried me over her shoulder through 7 miles of jungle.

Jason: I can do magic shit.

Jason: I still have some of the shrapnel from the warehouse lodged in my chest.

Jason: I won in a fight against Lady Shiva.

Dick: i’ve been given the alien equivalent of a phone number by multiple flirty female aliens and I just don’t have the heart to tell them. I have no idea how to use it to communicate with them.

Dick: I once hiked 10 days across a desert with minimal supplies, carrying a baby to safety.

Dick: I fought a full-grown lion once as Dick Grayson and won.

Bruce: I fought of a great white shark underwater while handcuffed.

Bruce: I blackmailed Darkseid by threatening to blow up his planet unless he returned his captive.

Bruce: One of Scarecrow’s early formulas led to me seeing him and his goons as dozens of copies of my parents. I had to attack my dead mom and dad over and over again just to survive.

Damian: …

Damian: I was literally born and raised to become an assassin and yet I do not think I could best any of you in this game.

Dick: Come on. It’s not about who has the best stories, it’s about guessing the lie.

Damian: Then you identify which stories are lies out of this menagerie of insane tales.

Dick: 😅 Okay fine.

The bats just forget to tell their friends/family important things about their life and having to dump it on them during random times with 0 context will forever be one of those tropes that sit rent free in the tight shelves of my miniscule brain. Like, Jason and Tim have so much going on, and it's just occasionally mentioned? If it ever is??

This trope could be applicable to Dick, too. Dick, Jason, Tim. Hell, add Bruce into the mix at this point because who even knows what kind of dadlore this bat suited man is hiding??

Like, Dick what do you mean you've worked with Deathstroke??? Jason's the chosen one of a magic cult????? Tim, where the hell is your spleen?????

Idk, I just feel like none of them ever tell anyone about these things, and that should be talked about more.

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Consider: all of the above happens early in Tim’s Robin era so all of the dead kid trauma is super fresh for Bruce.

It would make sense why Bruce was being extra pushy about Danny having a safe place afterwards because of how close he came to dying/dying again. And why he was completely ignoring the extremely obvious signs that Danny did not appreciate the stalking, no matter how affectionate.

So when they’re unable to catch the kids before they duck into the infinite realm. Bruce takes it pretty hard.

Fast-forward a few years, Jason’s back, all that drama happened and now he’s got an okay-ish relationship with some of the Batfam. They’ve also got Damian, Duke, Cass, and Stephanie on the roster as well.

And I know this is OOC but let’s pretend Bruce actually goes to therapy so he’s only slightly emotionally constipated.

There’s a rumor going around that someone is trying to summon the ghost king. Constantine is of course, losing his mind trying to explain how bad this is.

And it’s even worse because the person trying to summon him is Ra’s Al Gul. (Not sure how much he knows about Maddie and Danny, but he definitely does not know Danny is the Ghost King.)

Skip a few scenes and when the summoning works, Danny cannot decide whether he’s less happy to see the Batfam or his maternal family which seems to be lead by an even bigger fruitloop than Vlad.

After Danny quickly takes care of the league of assassins (lethally or not depends on his mood) he turns to The BatFam.

Phantom: Some of you have bathed in those disgusting waters. I hope you understand that you are no longer human in the eyes of the law. You have less rights than a lab rat and anyone caught assisting you will be arrested and jailed.

Batman: The Anti-Ecto Acts were removed and almost all of those involved in the inhumane treatment of ecto-entities have been tried and jailed.

Phantom: …oh, so I guess you’re good for something besides stalking a freshly vivisected and traumatized teenager.

I’m not sure where to go from there if anyone wants to pick this up, feel free.

Danny Al Ghul... but differently

Instead of the classic Demon Twins, what if Maddie Fenton was an Al Ghul? Talia's older sister, maybe.

She's trained in martial arts, which could come from the League. She has pretty loose morals, dedicating her cause (science) above anything else. And her work is focused around the scientific study of ectoplasm (or Lazarus Water).

In this AU, I imagine Maddie was exiled from the League for trying to study Lazarus Water. Ra's views the water as holy (I love the idea he made a magical deal to get it), and so the idea of using it for anything but its intended purpose is sacrilegious. She's cast out, but on her way she steals some samples, which is the basis for the Fenton's research before the portal is opened.

She used the word ectoplasm to disguise what she's really researching to hide from Ra's, because he would definitely kill her if he realised she continued her research after leaving. She connects ghosts to ectoplasm because she's heard stories about Pit Demons. This is also where the assumption that ghosts are non-sentient and harmful comes from; Pit Demons are fueled only by Pit Rage. (In reality, Lazarus Pits are just corrupted and diseased, and the ghosts coming through are only mindless for as long as it takes them to overcome the illness.)

She never dates Vlad because he's too much like Ra's, with his pride and wealth and schemes. Instead, she marries Jack, a man smart enough to be useful and devoted enough to follow her lead unquestioningly. She mimics Jack's mannerisms, mirrors his own affection back to him, and learns to fit in by attaching herself to him. She learns the value of being underestimated, of being dismissed as the town kooks.

When Danny is revealed as a halfa, she uses these assumptions. She tells him she needs time to think and adjust, and she gears up to catch him. She loves him, sure, but the scientific opportunity she's been given is too valuable to give up for sentiment's sake. Jack's more apprehensive, but she's been manipulating him for decades, and she tells him Phantom killed their son. Jack is enraged, and now on board to catch Danny. They succeed, and every time Danny screams and begs and Jack wavers, Maddie talks him back into it.

Eventually though, Danny gets through to Jack. The Fentons heard about a ghost attack in town, and Maddie left to hunt, leaving Jack alone with Danny. They talk, and Jack finally realises he's in the wrong. He releases Danny and tells him to run, knowing he can't, physically or emotionally, stop Maddie. Danny runs, and ends up homeless and injured in Gotham.

Jack, meanwhile, goes to Sam, Tucker and Jazz, to explain, apologise, and figure out how to help Danny and make amends. They're angry and suspicious at first, but eventually agree to work together, for Danny's sake. Jack is learning a lot about what ghosts are really like, and it's blowing his mind how wrong he was about them.

Danny, meanwhile, gets noticed by the Bats, and they see his Al Ghul resemblance. With his black hair and blue eyes, they assume he's another blood son of Bruce's, and scramble to catch/adopt him. This is largely unsuccessful, because the Bats are government affiliated, the Waynes are rich fruitloops, and Danny is very good at not getting caught. They're also busy trying to figure out if he's a threat, and trying to get a DNA sample to prove their assumptions. They track down his hideout just in time to see Maddie recapture him, and they realise Danny was never the LoA assassin threat they were worried about, Maddie is.

Before they get enough information to launch a rescue mission, they get flagged down by Jack, Jazz, Sam and Tucker. The Amity Parker's information on ghosts and ghost tech is invaluable, and when they point out the Anti-Ecto Acts, the Bats riot (internally). The rescue goes ahead flawlessly thanks to their combined knowledge.

Now, however, there's the issue of Danny's custody. Regardless of guilt, Jack had a hand in his torture, and might face jail time for it. Danny might like the Bats a bit more now, but his trust issues won't let him move in with strangers. The Waynes are even worse, his billionaire trauma removes them as an option, especially with how they were stalking him before. Maybe he gets an apartment with Jazz? But I can't imagine the Bats being ok with leaving two traumatised teenagers alone after all that, especially while they're still working on getting the Anti-Ecto Acts removed.

Regardless of where Danny ends up, he's going to get stalked by the Bats. It's their love language. Regardless of good intentions, Danny is not feeling the love. He's feeling very cornered and threatened. He knows they've seen he's not human, and now they're intruding on his half-life, waiting for him to become a threat so they can take him down. Danny tells his friends and family, and together, they run.

This could go a few ways from here. Maybe they bounce from city to city, dodging heroes who heard about the family from the Bats and are just trying to help. Maybe they get caught by the GIW in a final push as the laws are being overturned. Maybe they run to the Infinite Realms, and are only found again years later when Danny summoned as the High King of the Dead. Or all of these could happen.

[danny-with-a-y]

DC Super Hero Girls has given me many things. But by far my favorite thing is they have the best incarnation of Bruce Wayne. And I say that not as like oh this is 10000% who Batman is.

No. I mean they have the best version of billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. Better than even the movies have gotten for one sole reason;

I want you to take one look at this bougie himbo, one fucking look,

And tell me who in their right mind would believe this man is the goddamned Batman.

He is too pretty. Too well put together. Too big a himbo. Too covered in fucking camera crews and groupies to ever pull it off. No one would ever even fucking consider this gem of a man could do it!

But he does and it works so fucking well.

And, oh my God, it's my new favorite thing.

[danny-with-a-y]

What I don’t get is that everyone always assumes that old Vlad was telling the complete truth about Dan’s origin. Normal Vlad is already known to be a liar and a manipulator and old Vlad immediately tries to kill Danny after telling him the whole sob story.

I don’t buy it. Danny did not immediately go evil because of grief after his family and friends’ death. Plus when Danny was split with the dream catcher thing, his ghost side was even more heroic so he wouldn’t have turned evil from being split. It really just doesn’t make sense in the context Vlad gave for Danny to wipe out most of the earth’s population.

I have a theory in my head about what really happened.

My best guess is that Danny was experimented on by Vlad for a long time before being split. (Maybe hoping to bring Maddie back as a half ghost?) And instead of Danny’s ghost half trying to absorb Vlad’s ghost half it was the other way around, but Danny was just too strong as a ghost and Vlad got overwhelmed and eaten more or less.

I think after a few decades/centuries of hardcore therapy and community service that gets smashed into a span of about a year, thanks to Clockwork, I could get behind him getting a redemption arc.

[danny-with-a-y]

It’s a lighthearted meal, everyone is just chatting when Tim starts teasing Dick about the original costume not having pants. Dick laughs about it, knowing Tim is just teasing and decides to explain the origin of both his costume and his hero name to everyone.

Damian has an existential crisis realizing that the birthright he was obsessed with his entire life was based on the last little scraps of his family his father brother was able to keep after losing everything.

Even Jason’s stomach turns a bit, remembering how he originally thought Robin was just a moniker and a dumb color palette. How hurt Dick was when he realized Bruce had torn away such a large piece of him and given it to the next charity case that caught his attention.

Hell, even Bruce’s eyes were shiny with tears as he compares the happy memory of Dick telling him this story the first time to the crying screaming fight they had when Bruce just casually gave it away.

Realizing he brought the mood down, Dick tries to make a joke and steer the conversation in another direction but he’s interrupted by Damian abruptly standing up, walking over to him and wrapping his arms around Dick so tight that it barely counted as a hug.

With the good mood officially gone, Dick let out a long breath and returned the hug.

“Don’t worry about it baby bat, Mama and Papa Robin would have loved to fly with you and they’d be so proud of how far you have come.”

He pulled back a little to try and get Damian to look at him.

“And you know how I know that? Because I’m proud of you.”

*at dinner after a case closed the night before regarding a murdered gymnastics couple that hit a little too close to home*

Dick: yknow

Dick: I think Mapa and Papa Robin would've loved you guys

Everyone else: ???? Who

Dick:

Dick:

Dick: My. My parents?? Y'know the ones who Robin was named after?

Jason: what.

Dick: surely B told you about the origin of the name

*silence*

Dick: B...

Bruce: I can explain-

[danny-with-a-y]

During the peak Fortnight dance era, Damian finishes tying up a random goon but is stuck waiting a minute.

Bored af, he looks the goon dead in the eye and starts flossing flawlessly.

After a moment he stops and leans in close to the now terrified goon.

“No one will ever believe you.”

I think more people need to play around with Damian's speech. Don't get me wrong, I love the antiquated Victorian child style of speech, but also he's a teenager that swears plenty in the comics. We really need more scenes like:

Damian: Father, I regret to inform you that I have been assigned in-school suspension for the next three days.

Bruce: What, why?!

Damian: My classmate Kevin was disparaging a female classmate for turning him down, so I called him 'a rizz-less, basic-ass neckbeard bitch' and said I was going to fuck his mom and give her a son she'd actually love.

Bruce: *is completely speechless*

Damian: That is all I needed to tell you. If you will excuse me, I have homework to complete before dinner and patrol.

[danny-with-a-y]

Danny is definitely getting verified in over a dozen dimensions.

Phantom makes the mistake of creating a Twitter account. The problem with this is that his new phone (which he made himself out of spite to be indestructible) was powered by ectoplasm and had the ability to communicate in the Infinite Realms.

What Danny didn't plan was for it to be able to access the Twitter of all dimensions and realitys through the Infinite Realms. He was having a nice rant to Red Huntress over Twitter (anyone who interacts with his posts can be seen throughout the multiverse too) when this guy called Nightwing got all concerned and started asking wierd questions like, "Your pelt?!?!?" "Who is your mentor?" "Why can't we track you?" As if that one wasn't concerning and "What do you mean you've never heard of the Justice League?!"

Needless to say everyone in the DC universe is concerned and desperately trying to find these little vigilante children before they get themselves killed.

Phantom has taken to sharing pictures of Amity Park and his enemies and explaining things on his Twitter and every time he does it gets worse and worse. Danny is taking sadistic glee in tormenting them with the terrible reality of his afterlife.

[danny-with-a-y]

Commander: So you can survive in space unassisted but just decided it wasn’t important enough to mention this?

Danny: I’m sorry.

Commander: You’d better be! We’ve wasted so much time we could have been building specialized rockets for you that would cost less, be much easier to build, and could go much farther!

Commander: There’s so much we could learn about the universe with you bypassing the need for safety equipment.

Commander: I bet someday you’re going to meet Neil Armstrong and he’ll want your autograph.

Short DPXDC prompt:

Danny achieves his dream of becoming an astronaut, on his first trip to the ISS however, he spots an injured Superman floating outside the station. Without thinking, he goes on a space walk to pull the injured kryptonian inside. Too late, however, he realized he didn't even open the airlock or put on a suit.

He has some explaining to do.

[danny-with-a-y]

Does it make anyone else crazy when ghosts either in canon or fanon are running away from a hunter (ie. Someone who can’t phase) and they don’t just phase through the ground and hide out for a bit?

[danny-with-a-y]

To clarify: Everyone is justified in being pissed at Alfred and to a minor extent, Bruce.

But damn poor Dick.

If Batman wasn’t aware of the extent of Alfred’s abandonment of his family, then Dick definitely didn’t know.

His “crime” was finding comfort in an adult (Alfred) who was genuinely caring after his parents were brutally murdered.

Plus Nightwing’s armor is a lot lighter than Batman’s so he can do all his flips. He definitely got hurt worse than Batman when Danny did that. All of this is on top of the fact that Danny could have pulled his shoulder out of its socket or torn some tendons swinging him around like that.

Danny only realizes that he might have gone overboard a couple days later when Dick shows up to a gala in a sling

So Dick finds a tray of homemade fudge on his kitchen counter the next day. Half of it is missing.

The note reads:

Sorry you got the worst of my anger the other day. I saw that you were in a sling so I made you fudge.

I found out you’re a cop so I ate half the fudge.

ACAB :P

Jack: What do you want Alfred: Son, please- Jack: Not your son. Not since you walked out on Mom to go to jolly old England. How's that going, by the way? I heard you walked out on your daughter there, too. Alfred: I know I wasn't the best Father, and you have no reason to forgive me, but this is a matter of life and Death. Jack: Oh, big surprise, good old Dad only comes around when he needs something. How about some tea and biscuits while we're at it? Alfred: Please listen. A few hours ago, the Justice League was compromised. Batman was able to send me a coded message that they were being mind-controlled by ghosts before he was captured. You and your wife are the only known contacts for Phantom. The world needs his help before the Justice League goes on a planned massacre. Jack: ....Fine, but only because thousands of innocent people could get hurt. *Turns to shout up the stairs* Danny! Can you come down here?! Alfred: We don't have time for your kids. We must move before- Jack: Unlike you, I always have time for my kids, but no, this isn't just a moment when you met your grandson. You need Phantom, don't you? Alfred: Yes? Jack: Then you need Danny. Danny: Did you need me, Dad? *looks at door* Who's this? Jack: The man who would rather be a butler/nanny to someone's kid than be a decent Father. Also, your new teammate for the upcoming battle. We're going to punch Batman in his dad-stealing face. Danny shifting into Phantom: FINALLY.

[danny-with-a-y]

I love fake dating PitchPearl so, so much purely for this and for Danny’s parents having to figure out if they should capture Phantom and receive the son’s wrath or accept that 90% of their research on Ghosts is wrong and they might have a ghost for a son in-law.

I don’t know if anyone’s made this joke yet

[danny-with-a-y]

I kinda want a more serious but comforting ending.

———

Flash stared at him. “… so you know when all of us die too?”

Phantom nodded. “Yep. Anyone and everyone.”

There was an uncomfortable silence as everyone stared at him.

“You all saw me bring out the book right? I don’t know where off the top of my head. I actually refused to check on my teammates because otherwise I would drive myself insane trying to prevent the inevitable.” Phantom said with a shrug.

Everyone was still staring at him, various levels of discomfort on their face.

“How…” Captain Marvel started, sounding very much like a scared child. “How are you so calm about this?”

At this Danny smiled and shifted to a resting position at eye level to the heroes.

“Death is inevitable. No matter how immortal, no matter how ancient, death comes for all and even I can’t stop it.”

He turned that reassuring smile to Captain Marvel. “But what I can do is ensure your safe passage to whatever’s next. If you end up a ghost, I will gladly accept you into my fraid and guide you there. If you wish to move on, I will personally facilitate your safe passage.”

Phantom’s expression shifted a bit, his eyes hardening as this all brought up old memories.

“No one, no matter how powerful their magic or how intelligent their plans, will be able to interfere with your souls once death has claimed them.”

Can you do one with petty Ghost King Danny where, when people really piss him off, he tells them when and how they die to screw with them mentally.

Phantom's eye twitched at the annoying man that was screaming in his face and spitting all over him with vitriol as he raged and ranted about his broken car or whatever.

Superman and Flash were starting to look at him in worry, also surrounded by angry citizens, but no one was as vicious as the man in front of him.

Phantom grimaced.

He'd have to take out the big guns. In a smooth motion, he took out a book from his abdomen and then started flipping it. He looked up when he finally identified the man and his family, who was looking red and purple in the face from being ignored.

Phantom then gave a small, mild smile. "Your father will collapse in three days from a heart attack. His heart surgery won't be successful and he'll die in exactly 6 days at 5:34 PM."

The man stared at him, pale faced and bug eyed.

Phantom turned around with a beaming smile. "Does anyone else want to know yours or your loved ones' fortunes?"

The raging citizens all quickly scattered.

The Justice League eyed Phantom with wariness.

A little less than a week later, they were staring at him in horror.

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"Phantom," Batman asked one day. "Are you cursing citizens?"

Phantom blinked. He was in the middle of eating chocolate muffins with Flash. "Whaddya mean?"

He wiped away the crumbs from his mouth.

"The deaths that you've been predicting.... youve predicted several people's deaths so far and they have all been exactly accurate. Are they because you're cursing people?"

Even Flash turned to look at him.

Phantom shook his head and said, "No, I don't do much magic. I know when they die because it's part of my powers and jurisdiction when they cross over."

Flash stared at him. "... so you know when all of us die too?"

Phantom nodded. "Yep. Anyone and everyone."

There was an uncomfortable silence as everyone stared at him.

Phantom just blinked. "What?"

————

Green Lantern was being a nuisance again. He seemed to be in a particularly teasing mood because he kept bothering Phantom.

After the seventh comment about his height and "adorableness," Phantom had enough.

He turned to look him in the eye and pulled out his book again.

Everyone in the meeting room froze with wide eyes.

Phantom then began, not even reading the book.

"You will begin to cough in seven days..."

Batman smacked his face in exasperation just as Green Lantern started screaming amidst Phantom's cackling.

[danny-with-a-y]

The differences are going to blow the batfam’s minds.

Dan (Dick): the aggressiveness is pretty par for the course with younger Dick but when his sibling mentions him being on probation everyone just blue screens.

Jazz (Jason): Dan has to take a (Fenton) gun away from her and chastises her about even touching it with how terrible she is at aiming.

Danny (Tim): He conks out immediately which is understandable for a multiverse counterpart to Timothy “borderline narcoleptic” Drake-Wayne. But when he wakes up, Tim tries to interact with him a bit by discussing some cold case with him. Danny bluntly explains what really happened in detail and when Tim asks how he knows that he shrugs and says, “I’m a medium. I just asked her ghost.”

Danielle (Damian): Damian hates how carefree Danielle appears to be and Danielle is trying to get Damian to take the stick out of his ass.

Fenton siblings are alternate bat kids.

Some villain has a scheme that involves dimensional technology leading to multiple of the bat kids being caught up in. The technology brings Dan the alternate of dick, Jasmine the alternate of Jason, Danny the alternate of Tim and Dani the alternative Damian.

The bat family needs to get all of the fentons back to their dimension because they are civilians and must be scared. They should have asked more than jazz.

 the fenton siblings on the other hand are barely being held back by jazz to cause their dimensional others psychological damage.

When the bat family's back was turned, Dan had already knocked the villain unconscious so they wouldn't try and shoot one of them again. Jazz is trying to figure out the Situation. Dani  has already pickpocketed  at least three of the bat family members and Danny has decided to take a nap as the Dimensions heroes are handling it. He deserves a nap.

[danny-with-a-y]

So in DP, even strong concepts can develop into ghosts, right?

What if after Jason was revived, he left an impression in the Infinite Realms that slowly took on more bits and pieces of personality from each Robin (Dick included).

Since 4/5 Robins were black haired boys, ghost Robin takes on a few subtle traits of Stephanie while overall looking like all of the boys at once.

Because ghost Robin is literally Robin as a concept, he takes on his normal colors with a combo of the different Robin costumes. (No green, scaly booty shorts though. But Maybe there’s a patch of that fabric on his leg as a nod to the Flying Graysons.)

Danny ends up running into him in the Infinite realms and mistakes him for the dead second Robin. (Don’t ask me why Danny is chronically stupid because idk.) He offers to take ghost Robin to Gotham and to help him find Batman.

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If he ended up with full control of the ceremony, he’d insist on everyone being super serious about it, but would still replace everything.

Instead of chanting in Latin, you have to recite the script for the fitness gram pacer test backward.

He somehow incorporates everyone having to do a dab in there just because he thinks it’d be funny for super serious cult members to dab.

Instead of drawing the summoning circle in blood it has to be done in Mountain Dew Red^TM. (Batman has since stolen the recipe for the original and has a trusted ally make it for him. The ally is horribly confused why Batman needs Mountain Dew Red that badly.)

The final requirement is for the main summoner to shout something untranslatable in Ghost Speak. It is in fact, Danny’s favorite yo mama joke.

When Danny is summoned with this by the Justice League for the first time, he wants to cry because he forgot to make it a requirement to record the whole thing. Now he has no proof Batman did the Hokey Pokey.

Strange Summons

Dpxdc Prompt #40

The Ghost King cannot simply refuse a summons, by taking up the position through right of conquest, the ghost agrees to help the denizens of the zone in their time of need.

The Ghost King can make certain requirements for being summoned, though it is a painful process to remove them—a reminder to not add them lightly.

This is the only reason Danny hasn't completely gotten rid of all of Pariah Dark's summoning requirements. He's only successfully gotten rid of the human sacrifice portion of the summoning, and even that kept him in his human form for weeks.

It gets a little more urgent when the Justice League wants to keep contact with him as an ally and their only way of meeting him is through summoning, the only way he can't run.

It isn't Danny's fault Pariah made so many strange requests! except for everyone participating in the ritual having to do the hokey pokey, that one was danny

[danny-with-a-y]

I kinda want Duke to be the first of the outliers to realize that Dick genuinely quit.

They have a deep conversation about corruption, police brutality, and how “good” cops either quit, get fired, or go bad.

Duke feels a little bad for not believing him about changing jobs and not having taken the chance to get to know him outside of being a cop and being Nightwing.

Because of this, the two of them start talking more and become better friends. Nightwing even takes on some day patrols with Signal if he’s in Gotham and in-between jobs. The other batbirds see this and assume Duke just stopped being so firm about being anti-police.

Later, when the majority of them finally realize Dick wasn’t lying, Duke is offended that they think he’d be nice to a cop.

Headcanon that Dick's siblings (-Tim, he knows everything) have no idea that he has a new job every time, and think he's still a cop.

Like Dick every time they mention his police job and he says "I'm not a cop anymore, I'm..." and he names something different every time, they think he's lying.

Jason: Isn't it ironic? One brother is a cop and the other is a crime lord.

Dick: Although I'm not a police officer anymore, I'm a gym teacher.

Jason, thinking he's being sarcastic: Yeah, and I'm not a crime lord anymore as well.

Dick: Good for you.

Damian: Richard, why aren't you in the office? I thought this was your working hours.

Dick, who went to pick up Damian from school: Now I work in the afternoon and at night, I am a bartender.

Damian, doesn't believe him because Dick is Nightwing at night: hm...

Steph, on the phone : Dick, do you think you can get me some reports from the office? There's a case here in Gotham and I think it's spread to Blüdhaven, they probably have them there in the records.

Dick: Steph, I haven't been a police officer for months, but I'll see if I can get through an ex-colleague for you. I'll call you later, I'm in the middle of a photo shoot.

Steph: ok, thank uuuu.

Steph, hanging up the call: If he didn't could help me right now he could say so, there was no need to make up that excuse.

Cass: He might be in an undercover job right now.

Steph: Maybe you're right.

Duke simply refuses to talk to him anymore because he still thinks he's a cop.

Tim: You've been in this job for two months, I think that's a record. Do you like it?

Dick, hanging upside down in the cave: Something like that? I just don't know what I want to do now and I don't want to be unemployed until I decide.

Tim: Hmm... I don't think you want to be in an office again, do you?

Dick: I'm not going back to WE, once was enough for a lifetime.

Tim: Fair enough. Can I at least ask you for a photo shoot for a season to promote the new line?

Dick: Sure, it was fun being a model for a while.