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Lex Luthor's cover of 'I've grown accustomed to her face':

There were certain rules that you as a villain have to follow if you want to be successful. Lex Luthor knew these rules well. The first, one which he’d kept for a very very long time, was to avoid attachment. More specifically to avoid becoming attached to anyone. You should encourage others to like you, if they liked you, if they owed you, then they would do what you wanted and what you needed. But caring for others only led to weaknesses.

Lex had no one that he cared for or trusted. No living family, no lover to warm his bed. Not that that had ever been a priority for him. The closest Lex had to a ‘friend’ was his android Mercy, an android he created. Lex supposed that the closest relationship he had was with Superman. Their antagonistic relationship where he tried to kill Superman and Superman tried to have him arrested was the most socializing outside of work Lex did per month.

A lonely life perhaps but one that Lex reveled in. He had what he wanted and what he didn’t have he could get with his power. Lex was able to follow that first rule of villainy up until one raining evening just outside Metropolis. His car was going towards his home when something crashed through the glass roof window. Something being a glowing teenager. He had white hair and bright green eyes and he was wearing what appeared to be some sort of jumpsuit.

He landed right in Lex’s lap, covered in wounds and emaciated. Three moments after he landed a bright halo of light appeared around his torso before spreading out. Suddenly, laying there on his lap was a human teenager, bleeding red blood and reaching unconsciousness.

“Sorry.” He said right before passing out.

Mercy had stopped the car, as she’d been programmed to do. Lex looked down at the meta teenager with a thoughtful look on his face.

“Mercy, continue home and contact Dr. Matthews. He has a new patient in serious condition.”

“Yes sir.”

It took a full day of rest for the unnamed meta to wake up. When he did Lex was there, introducing himself and offering comfort and safety. The boy introduced himself as ‘Adam’, a fake name obviously but Lex didn’t call him out on it. Lex made no reference to the boy’s meta-abilities. Instead, he offered a place to rest and recuperate and all of the food the boy could consume (which was a lot). Through his security cameras he saw the boy’s uncontrollable powers, new he guessed.

It took only a week for the boy to break down and use his powers in front of Lex. Once that happened the flood gates opened. Danny was his real name, and his parents had tried to kill him once they found out about his powers. Lex learnt about the source of the powers and Danny’s lack of control. His plan was going along perfectly.

Lex didn’t know much about powers, but from those he talked to with them, the key to control was practice. So, Lex built a training room for the half-ghost to practice. Then, when he destroyed that, Lex built a stronger one. (He used plans from an old ‘trap Superman’ room. Lex always appreciated being able to recycle things.) Soon, really once Danny recovered completely, a schedule arose. In the mornings, Danny and Lex would have breakfast together. Lex would quiz the boy on different things. Anything from strategy to science to history to literature. Then Lex would go to work. Danny would stay in the home and spend the morning studying. Lex wasn’t going to have a stupid tool, so the boy had an online coursework to learn what he needed to know.

Then Lex would usually receive a message from Danny around lunch time. The boy would let him know how his lessons were going and ask how his work was. Lex didn’t tell Danny to message him, he also didn’t tell him to stop. Something inside of him enjoyed the unsolicited attention. Danny was asking not because he had to but because he wanted to. He was curious, he cared about Lex.

After lunch the boy would use Lex’s computer simulations to train with his powers. He worked his muscles and his reflexes against training simulators and pushed his abilities to their limit. When Lex got home around dinner Danny would be waiting for him eagerly to talk about how his training was going. They would have dinner together. At first those dinners were solely focused on the boy’s abilities and health. But they expanded.

Danny would ask about Lex and Lex would indulge him, telling him stories from his life. Danny would reciprocate. Lex found that, beyond having very useful powers, Danny also possessed intelligence, curiosity, and eagerness in spades. Without realizing it Lex started to feel rather fond of the boy. He reminded him of Lex’s younger years before the trials that had shaped him into the man he was. Young and full of passion.

The months passed and they grew closer. Lex learnt about Danny’s two best friends that knew about his accident and with whom he had kept in contact. Danny met Mercy and even visited Lex’s office a few times to see him at work. Since the boy could turn invisible Lex had no way of knowing how often that actually was. He started to try and teach the boy strategy. How to defeat his enemies and how to control and manipulate. He didn’t teach Danny too much, he wouldn’t want to make a tool more powerful than Lex himself.

Daniel was an apt pupil up until the point that Lex suggested using his powers for personal gain. The teen’s vehement denial of using his powers that way was peculiar. Didn’t Danny see what his powers could do? What that sort of power and control could mean for him, for them both? With Lex’s tutelage and guidance, they would be unstoppable. Lex tried everything he could think of.

Every evening for dinner it became a test to see if he could shake Danny of his morals, of his will. But Danny remained resolute. Every time he argued for the right thing. He wanted to be kind. He wanted to help. Not to abuse and harm. Lex realized a little too late that he had accidentally taken in a hero and nothing about that would change. There were some heroes who could be convinced of the error of their ways but then there were those like Superman, like Danny.

Abruptly he saw his future. Danny would soon put on a suit and try and fight evil. Lex wouldn't be able to stop him from doing it. Unless Lex started to torture him and break him down piece by piece. Lex recoiled from the idea of harming Danny. The idea of anyone harming him was wrong. It was then that he realized what had happened.

Lex had been sitting in his office, planning out his next ‘kill Superman plan’ when it hit him right in the face.

“I’ve become accustomed to him.”

He’d grown used to Danny. Grown to like his presence in his life. Meals were no longer necessities for him but rather something to enjoy and savor. Conversations and laughter filled his life where there had been silence. He had loved the silence, reveled in being untouched and untouchable. But now? Now he’d adapted to Danny, and he did not wish to return to how things were previously.

“Damn. Damn. Damn."

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the only ghost king idea i'll accept for any of my aus is the one where both jason and danny become co-heir apparents in my dead on main childhood friends au

cuz there's no way Jason would just sit out and watch as his best friend goes toe-to-toe with a dimension eating ghost tyrant. Like hi, no, they're a package deal. you fight him you also fight me that's how its been since they were 8 years old and both living in Gotham.

The Ghost Zone after the fight was looking at the both of them like "okay who do i make king now, they both participated in defeating him,,,," promptly saw the neon sign above their heads that read "Please Do Not Separate" and went "ah okay. TWO princes" and then watched as Jason and Danny decided to split custody of the ring of rage and crown of fire upon receiving it.

This makes Jason having no recollection of his time in the Zone like 10x funnier to me. After Jason and Danny reunite, Danny promptly slips the ring of rage off Jason's finger and plops the crown onto his head and goes "here your turn"

"what the hell is this"

"crown of fire, Jayce. We're royalty"

"what"

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Danny is the type to get into cartoonish shit to keep up the ruse, i.e., bribing Clockwork and literally traveling back in time so he can be more accurate and freaking the fuck out bc HEY THAT. THAT JASON RIGHT THERE - THAT'S BABY PETER. WHAT.

IS HE - BUT. THE GRAVE??? TWIN BROTHER?!?!!? IS THIS ANOTHER DAN VS DANNY SITUATUON BUT PETER EDITION?? (its not.) OR DID DANNY STUMBLE UPON A GREIVING BROTHER AND ACCIDENTALLY TAKE ADVANTAGE. OH. OH FUCK.

Idk I want Danny and Robin to collab during that time travel bit where he helps Robin catch some criminal or rogue (w/o Batmans help bc he'd never let that go and Danny needs some level of whatttt I was never thereee idk what ur talking abouttt) or something and then he goes back to the present time and Jason just looks at him, scratches his chin and squints like he wants to say something (bc he already thinks that they knew eachother before hand but now its just. More.)

Dp x Dc prompt

Dead on Main

Jason going to visit his grave feeling sentimental (why he’s going is up to u I just needed some words in there) and meeting Danny “I ran a red light and there was a cop behind me so I pulled into the graveyard and picked the first grave I found and started crying so that they wouldn’t arrest me” Fenton

Tag me or repost this if u use the prompt!!

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The Phantom of Crime Alley

DP x DC Prompt for Pride Month 2: Electric Boogaloo

Jazz had run away to Gotham, a baby Danny in her arms, and a new identity set up for her and Danny. Jack and Maddie had cut him open and nearly cracked his core. She made sure that no one survived the explosion at her old home, not even the ones she used to call her parents. She even took some of the plans for things that may be useful to Danny.

She's arrived in Gotham during the time of Bruce training to become Batman. She's got a decent apartment in a place called Park Row. As Queen Regent, she makes anonymous donations to make the place much better than it is, for Danny's sake.

Her Danny has become friends with one Jason Todd. They've been inseparable since they've been able to talk, and despite Jason being older than Danny by a year, they share everything like they are twins. Even after Jason was adopted by Bruce Wayne, the two of them find ways to be in contact with each other.

After Jason's death, Danny was both sad and angry. Both Jazz and Danny knew that Jason was the second Robin, nothing can hide from them when they could see souls. Danny's anger led him to kill Joker when the Clown was in Arkham. He may not have complete control over his powers, but he had enough control over them to make sure that the "crime" of killing the Joker did not lead back to him.

Years later, Danny is a vigilante who only protects Crime Alley. He doesn't trust the other vigilantes because they couldn't help Jason in time. Danny will make sure their home of Crime Alley will be safe at all times. It's what they promised to each other after Jason was adopted by Bruce.

Now here Danny is 18 and being pinned by a person in a Red Helmet, being demanded for the location of Robin. He doesn't answer and just uses some of his powers to slip free of the grasp of this muscular man. But his mask comes free after the man tries to grab him again. He tried to hide his exposed face but was too late, the other had seen his face.

"Danny?"

That's a voice he hasn't heard in years, the voice of the one person he had slowly realized he had feelings for. And sure, when he had taken a look at Jason's face, it's different, but still the same one he knows and loves.

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Danny did his best to ignore the person trying to wake him, but they were annoyingly persistent. After a wave of "Hey"s, "Get up"s, "You can't be here"s and one muttered, "How did you get in here?" Danny finally opened his eyes to see a boy about the same age as him staring while holding up the lid to Danny's casket.

He had thought he was done being woken up after he successfully escaped his superhero responsibilities by running away from Amity, "Am I just not allowed to rest in peace?"

"Not when it's in our attic."

The ghost boy scoffed, "Shouldn't have a casket in here if you didn't want to risk something crawling in."

The guy stared at him for a long moment before Danny decided he had enough and yanked the casket closed again, this time making sure to seal it shut with ice on the inside.

"Hey!"

The ghost rolled over with a huff, determined to ignore him.

Unfortunately, he underestimated how nosey this family could be...

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DP x DC au where Conner gets hit by a magic spell from Klarion. Before anyone can figure out what it does, Superman makes Conner so mad he punches a hole- Not into a wall like he had planned, but right into a new dimension.

Meanwhile, Danny was ready to sleep for a full 8 hours for once, but was interrupted by a hole to another dimension opening up in his bedroom

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Short DPXDC Prompts #385

When Danny time travels he goes into the Speedforce and pops back out again. Every journey has been a relatively quiet one. This travel was different. He did not expect to make eye-contact with a red and gold blur of a person.

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imagine he says that and its goddamn Vicki Vale 😭

Bruce: And if someone comes up to you at school and says ‘hi, I’m one of B’s friends, I’m here to pick you up’ what do you say?

8 year old Dick Grayson: Liar! Bruce doesn’t have any friends!

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Third wheel

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I'm all for Danny being called a random schmuck bc he totally is.

This is makin me giggle real hard. Imagine Cold trying to get back at Danny, but no, he can't make it obvious because Captain Cold is so obviously above targeting some - some guy. No Flash, why would some dickwad college student have any place in his mind? Don't you know, he's busy being Serious and Schemeing.

What's worse than destroying someone emotionally and / or physically? A complete landslide of minor inconveniences that build up over the course of weeks. As they say, revenge is best served - Cold.

Danny is sitting inside Jitters sipping his coffee and watching Flash get his ass absolutely handed to him across the street by Captain Cold. He thinks Flash is having one of Those Days cause this is honestly getting really hard to watch.

And that’s Danny ‘King-of-scrappy-I-will-throw-sand-in-your-eyes-for-an-advantage’ Nightingale saying that. Alas there is no sand here. Only concrete. 

Oh, those ice beams are getting awful close. Oh wow, okay, maybe the Flash is going to actually die right now. Is Danny about to witness murder? Huh.

Okay. Maybe he should…help. Now.

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The Phantom and his Bird

DP x DC Prompt for Pride Month

Danny's first encounter with Robin was when he was leading the Titans on a mission that led them to Wisconsin. They were tasked with investigating Vlad, as Batman was suspicious of why the man became so rich so quickly.

Ever eager to help, Danny, as Phantom, had told them why Vlad got his riches so quickly (This takes place before Danny and Vlad made the deal to keep each other's identities a secret). He even gave Robin a Specter Deflector for Batman to use and possibly replicate. He even told them to steer clear of the GIW and to not believe anything they say about Ghosts.

He refused to join the Titans because the GIW still having established the Anti Ecto Acts and didn't want to put a bigger strain on the hold they have over Amity, though he has agreed that he can discreetly help the Justice League with Ghost related problems as Danny.

It's not an easy process getting the Anti Ecto Acts removed. The Justice League needs to get the masses on their side to get the Anti Ecto Acts removed, and the GIW will do anything to keep the Anti Ecto Acts in power for them to do whatever they want with Ghosts.

Slowly, Danny and Dick, as their other personas, grow together and make a pretty good duo. Danny is there when Robin becomes Nightwing. He's there to comfort Nightwing when his brother is killed by the Joker. Danny is also there to lend an ear to Nightwing after the incidents of a new Robin, his younger brother coming back to life and is a crime lord, getting another younger brother, his father figure being dead.

What happens instead of the Canon of Red Robin not being believed of Batman being in the timestream, Danny had asked his mentor, Clockwork, about the whereabouts of Batman. And as a gift to his bird, he got Batman out of the timestream.

Danny knows about Nightwing being Dick Grayson, turns out Jazz and Wes have rubbed off on him of both analyzing people and being more obervant on the lives of others, so that led him to the conclusion that the Wayne's are the Vigilantes of Gotham, and he thinks that they know who he is as well. Danny has even slowly developed a crush on Dick but hasn't told the man about his feelings.

And now Danny is on his way to Gotham, a baby Dani in his arms, leaving in the middle of peace talks between him, the Ghost King, and the world leaders, because his parents and the GIW had harmed his princess severely, he had told the world leaders that his daughter was in danger and he had to save her. He just hopes that Dick can look after Dani for a bit so he can resume the peace talks.

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Captain Nightingale

[Prompt] by @novelistwriter

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life update with this doodle of phantom i made the day before yesterday since i keep disappearing.

i start my degree in geology and astronomy this fall and im Terrified but so Excited

heyfenturd, bye fenturd.

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Danny is sitting inside Jitters sipping his coffee and watching Flash get his ass absolutely handed to him across the street by Captain Cold. He thinks Flash is having one of Those Days cause this is honestly getting really hard to watch.

And that’s Danny ‘King-of-scrappy-I-will-throw-sand-in-your-eyes-for-an-advantage’ Nightingale saying that. Alas there is no sand here. Only concrete. 

Oh, those ice beams are getting awful close. Oh wow, okay, maybe the Flash is going to actually die right now. Is Danny about to witness murder? Huh.

Okay. Maybe he should…help. Now.

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Danny is sitting inside Jitters sipping his coffee and watching Flash get his ass absolutely handed to him across the street by Captain Cold. He thinks Flash is having one of Those Days cause this is honestly getting really hard to watch.

And that’s Danny ‘King-of-scrappy-I-will-throw-sand-in-your-eyes-for-an-advantage’ Nightingale saying that. Alas there is no sand here. Only concrete. 

Oh, those ice beams are getting awful close. Oh wow, okay, maybe the Flash is going to actually die right now. Is Danny about to witness murder? Huh.

Okay. Maybe he should…help. Now.

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IM GPING TO SCREAM WDYM ONE OF MY FAV AUTHORS READ MY FIC,,,, IM

hdh STP PERCEIV9NG ME WHAT NO NL WHAT THE FUCK IM SO NERVPUS

YOU COMMENTERS KEEP ME GOING BUT AAAAAA ILL DIE. DEAD. IM SO DEAD. RISING AS A HALF ROTTED CORPSE TO KEEP WRITING BUT ITS OKAY BC IM CHILL AND ONLY HAVE TASTE FOR JOY

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HAHAHSH Flash just kinda stands there for a sec looking at a crumpled Captain Cold and starts laughing because his day has been pretty shit but this makes it substantially more bearable. Does he take a selfie? Probably. That seems like a very Flash thing to do.

Meanwhile, Captain Cold is trying to play it off like nothing happened or that it was intentional and is miserably failing while searching for whatever 3rd party did that.

Over time, he kinda goes like Okay but what if I DID do it,, (he didn't but like he doesn't need to know that)

Danny is sitting inside Jitters sipping his coffee and watching Flash get his ass absolutely handed to him across the street by Captain Cold. He thinks Flash is having one of Those Days cause this is honestly getting really hard to watch.

And that’s Danny ‘King-of-scrappy-I-will-throw-sand-in-your-eyes-for-an-advantage’ Nightingale saying that. Alas there is no sand here. Only concrete. 

Oh, those ice beams are getting awful close. Oh wow, okay, maybe the Flash is going to actually die right now. Is Danny about to witness murder? Huh.

Okay. Maybe he should…help. Now.