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It’s a redraw 🕺

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Who do you LOVEE??!!

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Well, yes

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DANNYMAY DAY 31: Free Day

Day 30 • Day 01

⟢ FREE WE ARE FREE! WE DID IT! Every prompt of Dannymay. I can’t believe I actually did every single day. Whoa! I was running behind, but that’s totally fine!

⟢ I hope you all enjoyed this little adventure with me! Guys, give Danny some love. He deserves it! ♡

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DPxDC Ask Around in the Morgue

Most times, Tim is not a fan of social interaction. If he can acquire the necessary data from literally anything written in text, without the need to actually talk to people, he does that. It's the logical thing to do, come on! People lie, or, even if they don't, they take ages to get to the point, and you can't put them on pause or set aside to return later. Some written resources lie as well, but that is, at least, way easier to prove by relying on several of them instead of a single one.

That saying, he can work in a team — Young Justice is great proof of that. Batfamily, not so much, but then, none of the Bats like working together. Because they are all hypercontrolling, manipulative, and paranoid.

And yet, keeping all that in mind, right now Tim is about to go and speak — using his mouth and words — to a GCPD mortician whom he's never seen or met before in his life.

All because of this report.

More precisely, because of the line 'pls come talk to me if u r a bat' that was inserted right into the file, just between the description of contents of the victim's stomach and the rather unappealing photo of the same thing. Tim supposes the placement was intentional — most people skip over that kind of information, jumping straight to the cause of death. Which is a homicide, by the way.

Not that it's anything unusual in Gotham.

Tim walks through the hallway, keeping his steps silent. Daniel Nightingale, the mortician, more accurately a pathologist, works graveyard shifts — very ironic and no less convenient — and most days, he does so all alone, so Tim is not expecting company. He is just keeping quiet out of habit.

And yet, as he gets closer to the autopsy room, he hears it. The chipper, amused voice from inside.

"You can't just make that shit up, I swear," it laughs, "Oh, Minerva. You were way too old to pull it off." There's a pause, and then it starts speaking again, filled with hidden laughter, "You don't say?"

The door is, thankfully, already half-open. Tim takes a quick look inside, hoping to figure out who's the other part of the alleged conversation, but the only person there — erm, the only alive person — is a guy in a gray uniform and a lab coat. Supposedly, Mr. Nightingale. There's also a corpse of an old lady on the table in front of him, of course, but Tim doubts she can hold up the conversation. A phone call? Or maybe he's just talking to himself?..

The guy raises his head briefly, turning to the door.

"Come on in, lurking in the shadows doesn't suit you," he calls, almost cheerful, and Tim pauses.

He's pretty sure he hasn't made a single noise.

Oh, well. Maybe he did. Maybe the pathologist has an alarm system in case of a zombie apocalypse. Maybe he sees the future. The possibilities are endless.

Tim steps inside.

"I'm here about your note," he says, cutting the greetings and niceties. The pathologist hums, his eyes still on the bare, skinless ribcage of the woman before him.

"Cool. Which one?" He asks without missing a beat. Tim stares; the guy looks entirely too nonchalant, given the circumstances, but that's not the only reason. Daniel Nightingale is way younger than Tim expected — twenty, at most — and he is... well, if Tim had a type, which he doesn't, he would definitely check all the boxes. Most of the boxes. A lot of boxes.

Okay, he's just good-looking, what is he even thinking about, this is getting sidetracked.

"There was more than one?" He asks because that's the logical, reasonable thing to ask. Daniel glances up at him. A tiny strand of hair escapes his pinned down bangs, and the guy huffs, shaking it away from his face. Shouldn't he be wearing a hat?

"Yeah, I put the bat alert in at least five reports I've written. Only two recently, though, so, if you could specify?" He asks. The loose strand of his hair moves all on its own, brushing itself up over Daniel's head. Then, one of the bobby pins comes out, hanging in the air briefly, and goes back into Daniel's hair, securing it from falling again. "Thank you, Minerva," the guy smiles politely, casting a glance to the side.

Tim is not sure what's going on but he has a hunch.

"I'm speaking about John Doe from last week?" He attempts, but Daniel only hums.

"Unfortunately, that doesn't narrow it down," he turns back to the table, looking down into the old lady's open abdomen with a critical eye. "Darling, do you think you'll be fine here all on your own while I speak with our dear guest?" He asks, almost demurely, and Tim is not dumb. Minerva is definitely the name of the lady on the autopsy table. The question is, has the GCPD hired a schizophrenic man during such dire times, or is the guy really some kind of ghost-whisperer?

The chances are, honestly speaking, 50/50. It's Gotham.

There's no response that Tim can hear, but Daniel straightens back up and takes off his gloves before turning to the other side, still away from Tim. "Mind cleaning up?" He asks again and then throws his gloves into the nearest bin. They don't land, but just as Daniel huffs and goes to retrieve them, the gloves float up from the floor like someone invisible picked them up and dropped them into the bin.

"Ah, thank you, Minerva," the pathologist smiles.

Tim feels an uncomfortable chill run down his spine.

"How many ghosts are in here?" He tries for casual, but fails spectacularly, judging by Daniel's chuckle.

"Five," he answers without any pause, "Six, if you count the nonverbal kid that's hiding in Page's cold locker. Anyway, John Doe?.."

A few of the instruments Daniel has used float up from the table and start moving towards the nearest sink.

Tim takes a deep breath.

Either he's gotten himself a new contact in GCPD forensics or a very alarming new meta. 50/50.

But Daniel's smile is 100 percent going to be a pain in his ass.

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super quick style experiment and whatnot

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DANNYMAY DAY 30: Hot Dog

Day 29 • Day 31

⟢ AAAAAHHHH ONE MORE PROMPT TO GO! And I’m so excited to finish it! I never draw dogs or animals in general. So, I was struggling—but that’s okay! Took me 3 hours this one, so that’s not bad! I had no idea what to do AGAIN for this prompt, so thank you to the person that gave me some kind of idea!

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Happy Pride Month! I drew this last year but I think I remember I was partly inspired by Phantom at Pride by @tourettesdog, which is a really sweet story about Phantom going alone to a pride event. It has a nice mix of good and bad stuff that happens which makes it feel realistic. I recommend it!

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Dannymay 2025 Masterpost

Day 4: Eyes

Day 6: Transformation

Day 7: Blood Blossoms

Day 8: Lost

Day 9: Underground

Day 10: Family

Day 11: Thermos

Day 12: Cables

Day 13: Truth

Day 15: Stars

Day 27: Dream

Day 28: Favorite AU

Day 31: Free Day

I had a lot of fun participating in Dannymay for the first time! It was a good excuse to finally finish and post some stuff I've had in my WIPs for a while (transformation, lost, family, truth, and free day) and make some cool new stuff too. I think my favorites were the blood blossoms and the drawing I did for lost.

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Dannymay Day 28: Favourite AU

for this prompt i drew ghost and human danny from @artistfingers undercover phantom au! i love a lot of aus, but this is absolutely one of my favourites. the character design, art, storytelling and dialogue are all top notch! i enthusiastically suggest checking it out if you haven’t already :)

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Day 31: Free Day

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My brother saw the wip of this and insisted I save it as 'danny phantom at the met gala.' Inspired by this post by @tired-all-the-time22 and also my day-late Dannymay 2025 day 31 free day fill.

Augh.

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DANNYMAY DAY 28: Favourite AU

Day 27 • Day 29

⟢ I tried to rush this, but still did wildly 6 hours on this. Dude, for real. Sometimes I just hate my brain. And I feel like I can’t draw today. So, I’m sorry if the anatomy looks a bit off xD.

⟢ Okay, so. Favourite AU! Does all of this technically count as an AU? Pitch Pearl, Ghost Hunger, probably Ghostnip too. Danny’s not fourteen anymore, he’s eighteen and still aging. He’s depressed, has PTSD, major identity issues, and yeah—Phantom talks to him in his head. It’s kind of like Dissociative Identity Disorder, but ghost-coded. Momma’s boy label, but it’s drenched with betrayal—because she helped carve him open. Literally. Captured by the GiW, and his parents finished the job. Vivisection. Dissection. Like he isn’t even their son, because they think Phantom is a parasite that’s clinging to Danny, and Danny is Phantom’s host—Phantom possessing Danny. Vlad being Danny’s biological father. Yeah. That should be it, I think.

⟢ Poses are inspired by a pin I came across on Pinterest!

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too early

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Dannymay: Dragon

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DANNYMAY DAY 27: Dream

Day 26 • Day 28

⟢ Aaaaahhh! 9 hours spent on this one. Nocturne is watching Danny’s dream. 4 more days to go, and we are DONE! Danny is dreaming about their date from back in the day, wishes it was all okay, that they’re were still together. (More under the cut)

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Dannymay Day 31 - Free Day

The Squip squinted at him. I can see by accessing your memories that somehow you ARE Phantom. I was not programmed for that scenario. The Squip seemed to stutter, like a glitch in a video game. It then settled and gave Danny a confident smirk. Rest assured, I will still be able to help you.

From Chapter 5 of Be More Ghost

This is one of my favorite scenes from the fic I wrote last year! Be More Ghost is a Be More Chill AU where Danny gets a computer in his brain called a Squip that tells him how to be cool.

I thought it was funny that Danny says Mr. Lancer looks like George Clooney in Parental Bonding and there's a line about Clooney in the Be More Chill musical kinda randomly lol.

Terminatra was just a fun option that I thought fit, and I liked the idea of using Miku way more than the canonical "Sexy Anime Female" which is icky to me.

The George Clooney clip is from here and the Miku one is from here.