#Danny has to teach Jason the ways of the halfa

[bet-on-me-13]

Danny is the Crazy Old Man™️ of Gotham

So, the events of Danny Phantom happened decades ago

Like, Phantom Planet was one of the first instances of Superheroes in HISTORY. Early 1900's, just the Fentons were Insanely Ahead of their Time!

Danny is still a Halfa, but has allowed himself to grow old and live his best life before fully dying so he can accept his Throne in the Infinite Realms. He decides to experience Life in the fullest way possible, partying, drinking, making long lasting friendships that shape the lives of everybody he meets, all that!

Eventually, Danny's Party Life leads him to Gotham. And this place is just amazing!

It has all the comforts of Home, with so much more! He can Party! He can Fight! He can do anything he wants and nobody bats an eye, because a crazy old man getting into a fistfight in the middle of the road is just another Tuesday for Gotham!

He decides to spend the rest of his Mortal Life there. And this is still Early On in the DC Timeline, like, Batman Year 1 is happening Right Now.

He hangs around, befriends the local Homeless Population, and mostly just has the time of his Life! And he takes up the stereotypical Homeless Old Man look because why fight it? That's literally what he's going for!

He also unintentionally sets up a bunch of future events

He teaches Kid!Jason on his to steal Tires as repayment for driving off some muggers with a Baseball Bat (honestly he was looking forward to being mugged, it's a new experience after all)

He pulls Kid!Tim into an Alley after Tim gets caught out at night and gets chased by some Punks. He hides Tim behind a Dumpster and tricks the Punks into mugging him instead (Yay! He finally got mugged!)

He becomes kind of well known as the Old Man who wants to experience everything before he dies. He says as much too, not like he really has a reason to hide it. He just tells people "I want to live my life to the fullest, it don't matter if I live 10 more years or 10 more minutes, I'm gonna experience every second of it!"

He once walked into a Cloud of Fear Gas to see what it was like. Later he said it was a 6/10. "Not the worst thing I've had injected into my body!" He says with no Context.

He traded places with a Hostage during an active Crime Scene because he wanted to know what it's like.

He was once dared to take Batmans Utility Belt by another Homeless Guy as a joke, so he walked up to Batman later that night in full view of everybody else and just asked for his Belt. He gives up after a few minutes, and one guy asked "Why not fight him for it? It's an experience after all.". Danny replys "Nah, I've fought Vigilantes before. It was fun though, gotta say!"

...

This got away from me, but all this to say: Imagine the Bat Families Reaction when they find out "Crazy Old Danny" is PHANTOM. You know, THE FIRST SUPERHERO!

I imagine Constantine is having a stroll though Gotham after finishing up some business with Bruce, and just bumps into a homeless guy by accident.

Later that night:

Batman: Constantine, Why are you calling? Is it to do with the-

Constantine: Why the fuck is there a Homeless God in your City?

Batman: Wait wha-

...

Or imagine they know before Constantine meets him, and it goes instead like this

Constantine: Why the fuck is there a Homeless God in your City?!

Batman: You mean Old Man Danny? He's just a homeless guy? What do you mean?

Constantine: I swear on what's left of my Soul, that is a God.

Batman, a little shit: I don't think so, I would know (fully knows)

[when42-0fallasleep]

(Okay this is more fun than i thought)

Both ghost and human can read the languages of the living, but a ghost's writing cannot be read by the living because of the essence of it. A ghost can write in their languages they are fluent in, and another ghost will see it as their own languages. However, it would appear to someone untouched by death as unreadable scribble; and the longer they try looking at something written by a ghost, the more servere the headache and nausea they experience will be.

"And that's the first reason why this class exist," Raven said, "Since you, Jason has formed a healthy core, and Damian's liminal condition has increased, welcome to Ghost Write 101. Yes, Jason?"

"No offense, but why are you teaching this class?"

"None taken," Raven nodded, "This class would actually be taught by Jazz, but she has another class of Ghost Speak 101 to teach Cassandra and Tim. I have the feeling that Cass would move to this one soon, since her liminal percentage has risen almost to the level of Damian here."

As Raven waved her right hand, two books appeared in front of the two students, and she then continued her explaination, "The second reason is the way to feel your essence for writing in Ghost is pretty close to basic magic sigils writing. This would be natural for a ghost, but you are special cases. To be honest with you two, I was the one who teached Ghost Speak and Ghost Write to team Phantom," She smiled at the memory, when she first found out teaching turned out to be more fun than she thought, "Though unlike the rest of his team, Danny started at Ghost Speak 301, actually, since the language came pretty natural for him, being a halfa. His classes was mostly for helping him control his power too."

"And the third reason to this is actually a part of your Ghost Culture 101 lessons later on with Sam. I am Trigon's daughter, thus making me a citizen of the Infinite Realm, because Hell is a part of it. This is also the reason I taught team Phantom too. You will learn about the territories in the Realm later, but now," She clapped her hand, and the students' books both open to somewhere at the first part, "Let's start our class with simple words first, shall we?"

(I put this prompt in the dp x dc discord but)

Ghost Speak is something only ghosts and by extension, liminals and revenants can understand. So in the Bats, only Jason and Damian can learn Ghost Speak. Let's say somehow the Bats know team Phantom plus the fact that Jason and Damian have the most connections to the Lazarus Pit/Ectoplasm , so they tried to teach the two Ghost Speak. Damian being the little genius he is, learns the language in less than a month, and Jason might take a little longer, but not that far behind. And these two make use of it.

Damian: Todd, I remember not seeing any of these words in the books given to us?

Jason: Yeah because they literally mean "fuck", "penis" and "bitch" in that order.

[xysidhequeen]

The King and his Red Knight

DPxDC crossover fic

Part 1

Really sorry to everyone who suffered through the fact that I didn't know about the existence of readmore. I can't fix the thread now but the individual posts are better? Sorry I have like a very rough idea of how this site works 😭

Check the: The King and his Red Knight tag to find all the parts

"Go here, Danny. Go then, Danny. Go to a random cemetery in the middle of the night for no reason, Danny." A voice grumbled, accompanied by the sound of sneakers rhythmically tapping stone.

Danny Fenton, currently Phantom, sat on a gravestone, his white hair a beacon in the dark night. There were no stars in the sky for him to gaze upon, their light hidden behind swaths of smog and neon lights playing off the gray clouds.

Clockwork had dumped him here, with no explanation for why. Not that he ever really explained much when he sent Danny off on his tasks. He supposed he should be grateful, at least he was in the same when rather than being transported a thousand years into the past.

"Wait here King Phantom. You will understand in time." Danny mimicked his mentor's voice as he let himself float off the grave he'd been dumped on after Clockwork shoved him out of a portal. His body floated higher until he could flip around, his legs crossing. He sat upside down, his chin in his palm as he glared petulantly at the assembled gravestones surrounding him, his toxic green eyes glowing.

"So far all I've seen is a concerning amount of ecotplasm for a city without a ghost portal and some blob ghosts! How long am I supposed to wait here?" Danny asked the air, and the aforementioned blob ghosts who were hanging off his body, soaking in the ambient ecotoplasm he radiated at all times now.

Neither provided him with an answer to his question and Danny let out a frustrated groan as he lowered his still flipped body to look once more on the gravestone he'd been tasked with waiting on.

Jason Todd, the name read. The dates, too close together, made something in Danny squeeze painfully. He'd been young, barely older than Danny when he stepped into the portal. Only for this teenager there had been no ectoplasm to bind to his dying body and repair the damage of death and force him back into a semblance of life.

"Who were you and why did Clockwork send me to you?" Danny asked the gravestone, one clawed finger tracing the words before he pulled back with a sigh when the gravestone gave him no explanation. The dead didn't always speak, not even to their king.

Turning his body Danny looked over the rest of the cemetery. It was empty, as most usually were this time of night, of the living. There were a few shades wandering around, circling closer to him, drawn by his presence. No full ghosts though, but oddly enough there rarely were in cemeteries. This was where the dead came to rest. To remember, if they wanted to. Cemeteries were sacred spaces to the dead, much as a temple or a church would be for the living who were religious. Ghosts who still clung to life, to their obsessions, did not frequent cemeteries, did not dare trespass and disturb those who had already found their peace.

Danny himself was an oddity. He had never shied from cemeteries, enjoying the peace he found in them, the guarantee of safety offered. And perhaps, he mourned that he himself would never have a gravestone for the living to place their flowers and their tears at. Who would make a grave for someone who was both alive and dead? There would never be a body to bury for him. His human half would continue to live on so long as his ghost core remained and could fuel it.

Maybe that was why he found peace in cemeteries, for all his whining that Clockwork had dumped him here. Cemeteries were for the living and the dead, one of the only places both existed in harmony naturally. For someone who was as much dead as he was alive such a place held a certain degree of belonging for him.

Danny straightened out in the air, letting his body lie above the grave as he folded his arms behind his head and looked up at the covered sky. He complained and whined about this task, but he was secretly glad that Clockwork had given him something to do. Even if it was just 'hang out in a random cemetary'.

Ever since he'd graduated high-school, revealed himself to his parents and discovered how deep prejudice and hate could run, and he'd run away to the Infinite Realms for sanctuary while his friends moved forward with their lives, he'd felt unmoored. A ghost with no haunt. Bored was too light a word for the gaping emptiness he felt in his chest, for the loneliness clawing at him. Clockwork, Wulf, Pandora they could help chip at the ache inside of him but not banish it. Not now that his family, his friends, were spread so far apart and so distant from him.

Not that he resented their choices, their distance, in fact he'd fought for them to do just that, to get out of Amity Park, to go to college, to become more than overworked teen superheroes. Still he missed them, even if he could visit them whenever he wanted. It was becoming clear as time moved forward that the world they belonged to and the one he did were two different things.

Danny Fenton couldn't go to college when his parents had declared him dead. Danny Fenton didn't exist as far as the government was concerned. Danny Phantom couldn't return to Amity when those same parents were waiting to capture him and tear him apart 'molecule by molecule'. Danny Phantom couldn't go back when the GIW were crawling over the town like ants.

So neither Danny Fenton or Danny Phantom returned to Amity after that day. And he made sure they couldnt follow him when he ensured the portal that took his life to function never opened again. He didn't need the portal any longer to get in and out of the Infinite Realms, and it was safer for the ghosts, his subjects, if the temptation of the Fenton portal was gone.

The world of the living was not yet ready to accept that the dead didn't always stay dead. And Danny would keep his people safe until they were.

Danny jolted from his lazing state of reverie when a pulse of emotion rocked through him, the strength of it stealing his breath if he had any to take.

Fear/Trapped/Dark/Fear/Help/HELP pounded into him and Danny frantically flipped around, head swiveling, poisonous green eyes wide as he triedf to locate the source. The emotions, the plea for help, burned his core, his Obsession screamed at him.

Help/SomeonePlease/Dark/Trapped/CANTBREATHE/HELP another wave of messages, of emotions pushed themselves at Danny and this time underneath the onslaught he could hear a rhythmic thudding. Danny looked down, horror filling him when he realized the thudding was coming from under the ground. From the grave he'd been hovering over for an hour now.

Danny flew down, sending back a wave of I'mHere/HelpIsComing/I'mComing to the boy trapped in his own coffin, feeling the intense wave of relief and hope sent back before he dived into the earth as if it wasn't there. Danny paused for a moment when he passed the thick wooden coffin, seeing a boy in the dark with wide, panicked blue eyes and fingers tipped with shredded nails and fresh blood.

"Hey, I'm going to get you out of here, okay?" Danny told the boy, keeping his voice gentle, soft. The boy jolted, fixating on the only source of light, Danny's growing green eyes. Danny hoped his smile came off as calming instead of 'freaky AF' as Tucker liked to call it. He grabbed the boy, Jason, as carefully as he could and then let his intangibility wash over the terrified teen as he lifted them both out of the coffin.

When they emerged from the coffin and the ground Danny set the teen down, leaning him against the gravestone, his own gravestone, and pulled back a bit. The boy was gasping in air as if the fetid, polluted air was the sweetest thing he'd ever tasted.

Danny tilted his head as he watched the boy ground himself. Now that the emotions were leveling out and his Obsession was purring in contentment rather than growling in a frenzy, Danny could feel something off about the boy.

Disregarding the fact that he'd just come back from the dead, of course. But that wasn't the oddest thing Danny had seen in his afterlife. No the boy felt... not like a normal, living human. Not even like an Amity Park resident, who all felt more than slightly liminal. No this boy, this Jason Todd, felt closer to liminal than even Jazz, Tucker or Sam, who were three of the most liminal humans Danny had ever been around.

Jason felt almost...like a ghost. But not. Danny could feel the tickle in his throat that proceeded his ghost sense but the tell-tale mist never emerged. It was as if Jason was...like him. But Danny couldn't sense a core either. Even halfas had cores.

"Who are you?" Jason spoke, breaking Danny from his thoughts and examination. Jason was looking at him with a mix of gratitude and suspicion. Which, fair. Danny had just pulled him from his own coffin and there were so many questions that could stem from all of this, disregarding all the weirdness that was just Danny himself.

"I'm Danny, Danny Phantom. Or just Phantom. I go by either. And you're Jason, right?" Danny asked, smiling at the teen and oops, yeah that was definitely his scary smile based on the slight flinch there. It wasn't his fault his teeth were too sharp now and his lips split a bit too wide.

"How did you know that?" Jason asked, blue eyes narrowing. Danny nodded at the gravestone the boy was leaning against with a raised brow. Jason turned and almost toppled over from the movement. Danny frowned as the boy caught himself on his gravestone. His skin was still pale, too pale, and as Danny watched Jason swayed again.

"Shit. You're fading. You didn't form a core and your body isn't stabilizing." Danny cursed, moving towards the boy who scrambled back, only to be stopped by his grave.

"What the hell are you doing?" Jason asked, hands fisting as he tried to rise only to fall back to the ground when his legs refused to hold his weight.

"Saving your life. The dead aren't supposed to come back. There's always a price to pay, a balance that is struck. Currently, as you are, if I don't get enough ectoplasm in you to form your core, you'll fade and turn into a brain-dead husk." Danny told Jason, tone stern and no nonsense as he grabbed him. Jason made an effort to break free, but it was weak, and even at full strength, he wouldn’t have been able to break Danny's hold. Few in this realm could.

If they had the time, Danny would've approached this situation in a far different manner, but this close he could hear Jason's heartbeat, a weak flutter in his chest, skipping beats as it tried to fuel a body that was past saving. Jason didn't have the time for Danny to approach this gently and kindly, to coax trust out of the teen like he would a feral cat.

Jason had minutes left before his ectoplasm starved body consumed itself trying to make a core and failed because while wherever they were had more ambient ectoplasm than most places, it was far from enough to sustain the birth of a halfa. Maybe if Jason had stayed dead for another year, he'd have naturally formed a core and risen as a proper ghost. But that wasn't what happened, somehow he'd gathered enough to fix his body of whatever wounds or illness had put him in that coffin to begin with and come back to 'life' but without a core to sustain his body he'd be dead, again, in minutes. And Danny was not about to watch while a teenager, another teenager, died.

"How do I know I can trust you?" Jason hissed as Danny pushed his arms down and laid his clawed hands on Jason's chest.

"You don't. But you don't have another choice." Danny said with a shrug. "Now are you going to let me save your life or not?" Danny asked, not moving his hands. He'd save Jason either way but this would be easier if Jason worked with him.

"Fine." Jason spat and Danny smirked as his hands began to glow a toxic green that matched his eyes.

Ectoplasm pooled out of his hands and rushed into Jason, filling him until the boy glowed bright enough to rival the neon lights of the city around them. The green light flared around him like an aura, slowly shrinking but getting impossibly brighter as the glow centralized around his chest until a small glowing ball of green, like a trapped star, blazed from his chest.

Jason gasped, back arching as Danny pulled his hands away and the light vanished under Jason's skin. For a moment Jason's blue eyes burned green and his hair flashed snow white before returning to black, with one single lock of unearthly white left above his forehead. Jason collapsed back against his grave, chest heaving. Danny watched, eyes full of a sad understanding.

"What the fuck was that?" Jason panted out.

"Welcome to the world of the half alive, half dead." Danny said with a smile. "Want to get a burger and talk about it?" He asked, standing up and dusting off his hands.

"Make it a chili dog and you've got a deal."

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Fixed some typos added some lines

Maybe I'll continue this AU. Maybe not. This scene was in my head for days and I wanted to share

[aikoiya]

DPxDC AU: A Bird in Amity

DPxDC AU (can be Phantom Twin AU or not) where when Jason was thrown into the pit, shenanigans happened & instead of surfacing in Nanda Parbat, he found himself coming out of the Lazarus Pit hidden in Amity Park. It can be found in Silent Hill Park, at the bottom of Cauldron Lake.

He surfaces & is found by the Fenton family, who take him in & even get him into Casper. (Lancer is his favorite teacher. Loves that he swears in book titles.) This is at the beginning of the DP timeline, so not much has happened yet.

He rapidly realizes that the Fenton parents are actually pretty negligent despite their obvious love for their children & this begins to instill in him a latent desire to care for others that he may or may not have inherited from Bruce & would've ordinarily been resistant to. Specifically towards the younger members of the Phantom Team & especially Danny (& Dina).

At first, he's wary of everything, but eventually he comes around. Danny (& Dina) weird him out though in the beginning & the feeling is mutual. They can just sense that there's something odd about each other.

The Pit Madness doesn't really get time to fully develop due to living in a place with a constant influx of raw, ambient ectoplasm. Rather, all the corrupted, dark magic-infused ecto-gunk in his system gets filtered out quickly & replaced with healthy ectoplasm. Sure, there were instances of the Pit Rage bubbling up every once in a while, but it sort of puttered out after a while, especially with Jazz's help. Who he may or may not have a crush on.

He's quick to figure out that Danny (& Dina) are heroes & is surprised to learn that he is (they are) basically all that's keeping Amity afloat & elects himself to help the kid(s) & teach him (them) & the rest of Team Phantom the ropes. It's a shock to the entire team that they apparently have Robin on their side. Everyone is wary of his involvement & it takes some time to get used to it.

They eventually learn that he's becoming something of a very low ratio halfa (meaning that he'll eventually develop both an Obsession & a Fixation) & even begins to develop low-grade powers. Things like advanced healing, increased strength, speed, & flexibility, intangibility every once in a while (like, he can't use it willynilly), the ability to actually grab & hit ghosts, night vision, able to walk silently, even the power to see the regular, non-GZ DC ghosts like Deadman & the Gentlemen Ghost. Isn't able to turn invisible on occassion, but he is able to affect people's perception of him similarly to ghosts at any time. So, he can manipulate not only a person's sense of object permanence when in regards to himself, but he can also make himself unnoticeable. This is called Spectral Acknowledgement. Like, he can basically do what the Chameleon Circuit does. Like this:

However, because he's not a true halfa (or, at least, not a very good ratio of one), his anti-gravity center isn't fully developed, so he can really only glide & slow his falling. Just stuff that gives him an edge & a few benefits, while not taking away from his fighting style.

I see him having a hot core with an electric primary & either a fire or shadow secondary. It's nothing like lightningbending or firebending. He can only really coat himself with his element to give his punches more oomf. Though, I'm sure that Danny could make weapons that could channel the elements into them.

Either way, he's got Shocking Grasp & can probably use them as built-in defibs.

In the case of him having a shadow element, then it's not full umbrakinesis as he can only really control his own shadow.

Imagine him able to make it move like Dr. Familiar.

He can make his shadow touch other shadows, which affects the original. So, he can use his shadow to choke out someone else.

In a dark enough area, his shadow would be completely unnoticeable.

As mentioned before, he can coat himself in his shadow, giving him this sort of black flame armor that both protects him & makes his hits stronger.

Jason can Shadow Walk.

Like, Jason just merges into his own shadow, then hides in another shadow so he's completely camouflaged. I bet that even Supes wouldn't know he was near when approached if he was in a dark enough area.

In such cases, he's able to attack or outright kill someone's shadow, thus doing the same thing to the person themselves. And since Superman's powers don't apply to his shadow, it'd actually be very possible for Jason to just outright kill him in the right situation. Not that he'd ever choose to do so, but the option is there regardless.

Imagine it works a little like the bracelet from Link Between Worlds, but it connects to the shadow lands or something!

At the same time, the reason why he'd make his shadow attack someone while he, himself, is in the physical world would be for situations where he was spotted before he could Shadow Walk & so Jason physically distracts his target while his shadow goes behind them & knocks them out.

While Shadow Walking, he can also 'jump' between shadows. Like, from shadow to shadow?

Though, the weakness to this is that bright enough lights can dissipate his shadow.

There's also his Death Echo Power. I'm thinking napalm tears as he died crying in an explosion.

Either way, the best thing is, he's in the right place to better understand these new powers.

Jason has mixed & complicated feelings about Bruce, so he refrains from asking to go home until he sorts everything out. Then, he hears that there's a new Robin & the fact that Joker's still around & it all goes south. The Fenton kids do everything to be there for him, but he's just angry & feels betrayed. Though, not as vitriolically so as in canon. At least, not to such a degree that he wants to take it out on everyone he feels who betrayed him without evidence. It allows him to acknowledge the underlying hurt beneath the anger better.

It's actually because of Jazz that he's eventually able to realize that it isn't the new Robin's fault. However, he can't help how angry he is at Bruce.

Either way, because of the fact that Danny is still the only real defense Amity has against ghosts, Jay doesn't feel able to exact his revenge on Bruce & the Joker yet. But when he does, he has the whole of Team Phantom on his side.

Unlike in canon, Jason learns about how each of his old family reacted to his death. Not only does he learn that Dick had been so angry that he actually killed the Joker in revenge for Jay's death, but also that Bruce revived the bastard afterwards in some twisted attempt to keep Dick's conscience clean.

As a result, he actually patches things up with Dick pretty quickly, but on the other end of the scale, his relationship with Bruce is even worse than in canon. Which is saying something!

Jazz tries to remind him that it's likely due to Bruce's trauma from watching his parents get killed, but the thing is, Jason is not only ecto-liminal, he actually died & came back, which gives him a halfa-like connection to death. Unlike Jazz, who has yet to die herself &, as such, can still be considered human despite being fully ecto-liminal.

See, as per a really great hc I read, a ghost's killer is a source of a great deal of trauma for ghosts. So, if their killer is killed, or at least rendered incapable of causing further harm, it lifts a tremendous weight from that ghost's shoulders & will help them to better regulate their emotions & Obsession.

For more, look here:

So, for Jay to learn that Dick had killed his killer & that the world was so close to being Joker-free until Bruce decided to be a big damn hero...

So. Much. ANGER!!

Like, his relationship with Dick is gonna be great, but Bruce?

Man, his motivations might've been selfless, but they do say that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions...

I love Brucie boy, but he chose wrong this time.

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Interesting thing, when Jay does go back to Gotham, he becomes the Cardinal rather than Red Hood.

There is this superstition that when you see a cardinal, it means that a dead loved one has come to visit. Such is the case with Jason.

A very angry, aggressive cardinal...

I'm not sure what his costume would look like other than having red in it & a biker jacket with Danny's logo on the shoulders.

Also, the All-Blades are a motherfucking must!

One change to them, though. They don't only appear in the presence of pure evil & also work on paranormal beings such as ghosts. They are, however, only deadly to those who are evil. They can hurt those who aren't, but can't kill them.

[dannyphantom-justiceleauge]

The Lazarus Pit Quarters

Danny Phantom, still a teenager, getting trained to be kind of the ghost zone gradually over his high school career. more and more frequently being called to handle problems in the zone that he’d be expected to handle once he’s fully king

Danny Phantom having to go around the zone finding natural portals and close them for the health of the zone. some of them are very old, some just randomly close on their own. either way he has to keep his eye out for them because they tend to cause problems for everyone.

Danny finding one and stepping through it to find what’s on the other side and check the damage only to come out through a thick congealed corrupted mess of ectoplasm that had gathered on the surface of this portal because it’s been there for so long.

Danny being disgusted and phasing the ectoplasm off, looking to all the world as though a paranormal creature had just been birthed from the ectoplasm, glowing and more powerful than any who had emerged from the pit before, startling and scaring the league of assassins that are present.

the league immediately trying to kill Danny because they don’t recognize him and no unknown has come out of the pit before, especially one that seems more dead than alive.

Danny phasing through the attacks, having long come to expect to be attacked by humans when he’s fully ghost. their attacks aren’t with anti ghost weapons so he’s fine to go back to what he was doing and check the damage.

this causing mild panic and furious further attempts on his life while he basically brushes them off and closes the portal because something that disgusting does not need to be open any longer. he might be stable and powerful enough not to be effected by the goo, but other unsuspecting ghosts probably aren’t

the present league members fully panicking and furious because he just destroyed one of their greatest sources of power.

Danny panicking slightly as he realizes that he was on the wrong side of the portal when he closed it and he can no longer get home.

Danny noticing his ghost sense when off, and after some amount of confusion and arguing and murder attempts figuring out Gul’s whole deal of dumping people in the corupted portal and making incomplete halfas. zombies..quarter ghosts. quarters. 

Danny calling anyone brought back from the Lazarus pit a quarter because he finds it funny. no one else finds it funny.

Danny deciding to hunt down all the quarters and clear up the corruption and advise them on the ghost stuff, while he figures out a way to get home. recognizing the only way is to figure out how to create his own portals, something he’s only experimented with before, or for someone to come and get him

Danny bugging various league of assassin members, and revealing to them 1. he’s not that scary despite being an untouchable ‘demonic’ being. 2. if he comes for you he drains the Lazarus rage out of you and teaches you powers you until then didn’t know you had.

the league coming to be possessive of Danny, and basically manipulating him into making them more powerful. because having this powerful being on their side can only be a good thing.

Danny ending up learning assassin skills as a trade off, but makes it clear early on that he’s anti- murder so the league are very carefully keeping the fact that they’re all killers from him. (yes they did immediately attack him but people usually do that. Danny has no standards)

Damian being high key terrified of the demonic creature that came out of the Lazarus pit, and was already set into hiding with Bruce before the league figured out they like Danny.

Danny eventually figuring out the league is villains and taking off, but still keeping his eyes out for quarters while working on his portal making patterns.

Danny eventually finding Jason and clearing his Lazarus rage and offering to help with the ghost powers but also no murder. Jason actually agreeing to this because he already has standards and can hold off till the kid leaves

Jason and Danny developing a weird friendship, to the point where Danny is cool being a human around him.and living in his apartment and stealing Jason’s cereal. Jason mellowing out without the pit rage, though he’s still obviously traumatized and angry. showing ptsd symptoms

Jason high key being protective of this kid because Danny did him a favor and is also batman’s type. doing his best to prevent Danny from becoming a robin. Danny is not interested in the tights, thank you very much

Danny still getting pulled into vigilantism, partly because crime follows Jason around, partly because the league want danny back

Danny meeting the rest of the bats. Damian is still afraid of Danny and hates that he’s scared and it’s a whole thing. everyone but mainly Tim and Bruce are concerned that Danny has no paper trail. until he came out of the portal he didn’t exist. he acknowledges he’s from a different dimension. doesn’t mean they’re happy to have no background on him

Bruce is also not thrilled about Danny bringing super powers into his town. Jason being defensive and also having superpowers becomes a things. jokes that Jason has adopted Danny also are made. but they’re actually pretty close in age at this point.

Dick and Danny just making puns at each other as often as possible. they’re best friends. everyone else hates this and conspires to keep them apart

Alfred feeding Danny when ever possible because Danny let slip that he didn’t get regular meals at home. he’s already adopted this child. Bruce needs to catch up. Danny also really likes Alfred and thinks he’s cool, ends up good friends with him.

eventually the league does catch up and a big fight happens. danny and the bats fight them off, but danny finally masters making portals and decides to head home. goodbyes are had and it’s also a whole thing.

he’ll probably be back, has to keep an eye on his quarters after all

[sassykitkat22]

Now i love how vlads obsession switched gears and id like to add to it by making it once more extend onto another person

Jasmine dun dun dunnnnnn

As we know from the show danny got added to his obsession regarding Maddie and Jack after discovering danny is a halfa like him

And since its done a 180 here i think after a while of interacting with jack at some point will brag about his oldest daughter and eventually go down to how many times she helped keep dannys secret as well as make to steer the conversation away from phantom during dinner

And you know making sure jack and Maddie pulled away to actually take care of themselves

What is going through vlads head is something along the lines of

I see while me and jack where blinded by that

she devil my dear niece was not only making sure danny was able to feel safe and comfortable

But also insured my brother from another mother wasn't being worked to the bone by she who shall not be named and making sure he ate food

And yes vlad knows if someone isn't there to check in on jack then he will get sucked into the invention zone but his best buddy is very passionate about technology and we all get that way sometimes

But that tendency had to be ten time worse because no doubt Maddie brushed off any thoughts his best friend could have had about taking a break in order to use his mind to further her goals just like how she did when he was left in the hospital half alive half dead

Why it must have been a constant struggle to ensure jacks continued good health but his niece managed to pulled through

Suddenly, any trouble jazz my have had with uptight rich kids disappears as they try to avoid her and if she ever had to take a loan for college any debt has been paid off

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Jack finds a harley quinn on death's door after an argument with the joker one day and decides to help her get back to health

Now jazz as a psychology majore in gotham had heard the story of Dr. Harleen Quinzel at her school, teachers have used her as a cautionary tale about being carful to keep patients at an arms length and some have even done research papers on her because they consider her morbidly fascinating

Some say she's someone who was tragically doomed to fall into being a Rouge eventually due to her family background.

While others consider her a someone who was manipulated, warped by the joker and could have has a normal life if she never encountered him.

One day, she goes to visit her family after having a bit of essay writing block and deciding to take a step back and take a small break

just to find out that her lovable himbo crime lord dad has taken in said

"fuck it if my family can get away with having ties to the criminal underworld why can't I"

Jazz get help on her essay as well as someone to talk psychology to

and harley gets help breaking away from the joker obsession!

Harly, when healed enough, decides to teach jazz some tricks she's learned since in the profession jazz is planning to go into. It's better to be safe than sorry

(Now jazz knows how to aim! Though she still prefes the anti creep stick)

(P.s she's crossed out Fenton and wrote Nightingale creepstick)

Danny, with his dislike and general distrust for clowns, tries to supervise only to get pulled in and eventually get some therapy

Harley after learning about Maddie and what she tried to do to danny decides to join jacks team and gets adopted as a pseudo sibling by Jack

and that's the day she gained a non-shitty but kinda crazy family as well as a place she can feel safe.

Thus, Auntie Harley was born

(Bud and loo are kinda like guard dogs for the building, and Jack absolutely helps to spoil them)

(She and Jazz definitely tag team to help curve their family's bad habits at some point)

(She's helping Danny make chaos as soon as they are left in a room together)

(She is also the therapist for jacks helpers though people where definitely wary of her at first they eventually got use to her)

Now keep in mind she sees how Vlad acts, and while she understands the whole ghost obsession thing, she tends to help keep him on a bit of a leash and pulls him back if it starts negatively affecting everyone with both words and a good smack to the head

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Something i want to add is vlad didn't originally like her very much and the feeling was mutual After harley came back to visit the first time he tried to threaten interrogate her on why she came back what is she planning for his best friend, niece, and nephew how can he get her to leave?

Now vlad as a business man prides himself in being able to hide things from his opponents with a mask

So he's more then a little botherd when she casually lists off all his issues and the possible reasons behind these issues and bein 90% right

He only starts to semi trust her and see her as an ally/pawn is when she smacks down a bunch of goons joker sent to ambush jack after he tried to attack a upgraded crim alley with laughing gas and failed

I cant think of what would push them into being sort of friends but as a friend harley helps vlad through his more toxic traits

And when jack decides to date again she and him being both paranoid about relationships team up to make sure whoever is trying to woo their favorite himbo has honest intentions and isn't looking to use him

And she makes sure vlad doesn't try to make things up so they can cause a breakup

Because lets face it this vlad right here will probably hate the idea of jack trying to date someone purely because (in his eyes) its because of a relationship with Maddie that jack was pulled away from him in his time of need and became distanced enough to the point of misplaced resentment and hatred

So to him, jack dating = no more friendship

Thankfully harley, his frienenemy is there to pull him away from those thoughts before he does something that would actually ruin his friendship

Now, harlys nicknames for the Nightingale family!

Danny=little hyena

on account of his habit to bite dangerous people and ask questions later

Jazz=jazzypants

I know its a bit lazy but I could just genuinely see her calling jazz this

Jack= Jackyboy

Again, a bit lazy but I'm honestly drawing a blank, so feel free to pop in with suggestions

Vlad= vamps (Dracula is the one she uses if he does somthing or gets out of control)

Red hood/jason

I have two

shrike

I feel like she could probably figure out his previous identity as robin and shriks are pretty brutal birds if she did

Plus I imagine they get off on the wrong foot due to her past relationship with the joker and I can see him threatening first chance he gets maybe somthing along the lines of "I'll throw you from the highest building I can find then shoot you before you hit the ground just befor you hit the ground if you hurt them"

So violent

And Red Gremlin

There's no reason it just fits

Sam=sqirt

Reasons

Tucker=mummy boy? Pharoah dude????.....

Hacky oh gosh that made me cringe. Maybe something like guru or techie? I know those are probably lazy but i seriously still got nothing (i dont remember the character that well)

DP X DC Prompt #45

Gotham has a new rouge. Except he only steals food and medical supplies in great quantities.

(Jack takes Danny and runs to Gotham after a Reveal gone Wrong where Maddie tries to kill Danny)

[kaidatheghostdragon]

Halfapocalypse: danny is the second halfa, after vlad. Unlike vlad, danny has a social life. Sam, tucker, valerie and jazz become so liminal that they develop powers, then one day one of them gets critically injured and dies... just to wake up as a halfa. They realize this will happen to all of them.

Danny meets jason, realize he's a sick halfa, makes him better. Jason takes danny the rest of the fam, they learn that theyre all so liminal that theyre each practically guaranteed to become a halfas the next time they die (the fact that its worded that way is proof enough.) One or two of them might be already developing into a halfa. (Probably damian and/or cass?)

Team phantom teaches all of them proper liminality self care. Bruce informs them that most members of the league have died and come back to life. The team insist on meeting every member of the league and every person that any of them know that have died and come back.

Three quarters of the league is liminal. Those that gained liminality powers associated it with their meta gene. Half a dozen or so are already developing into halfas. The team gets them all squared away.

Then danny decides to inform them of the anti ecto acts.

So like I very much love DP x DC as a crossover, don't get me wrong, but it just about ALWAYS seems to be more DP x Batfam-slanted than anything else, or maaaaaybe DP x Justice League, and like . . . yes Jason alone is def enough reason to make it that way, obvi, because dead teenage vigilante and the whole Lazarus-pits-as-fucked-up-ectoplasm concept and just Gotham being Gotham, and alternately the whole "canonically would have to be capable of solo-ing the Justice League due to the existence of Dan's timeline" thing could probably be interesting to play with, but ALSO

ALSO

there are just SO many people who have died and come back in DC canon and/or could one way or another be liminal, if not outright halfas. Or could easily BECOME halfas, if that's your thing (if I am writing anything DP x DC and Jason Todd is NOT a halfa, whether he is on-screen or not, you may safely assume I have been kidnapped and replaced by a terribly misguided doppelganger).

Anyway long story short I wanna figure out an excuse to make Kon a halfa. He was dead for a THOUSAND YEARS, okay, there's OPTIONS there. Shit could happen!! Shit could absolutely happen!!!!

Also Dani is a thing, and really a half-Kryptonian halfa just sounds fucking TERRIFYING, and I want in on that shit. Oh, you get ghost powers on TOP of the Kryptonian powers, Kon? So like . . . do those just overlap or do they, uh . . . MULTIPLY?? Kon? Kon??

. . . Kon do you not KNOW if they multiply oh god.

Anyway I'm very tempted to go that way with the "Tucker is having a normal one" WIP, that's all I'm saying here. Tucker gets a mildly surprising bi awakening and Kon gets cool ghost powers that could canonically stomp the whole Justice League and surely this will all be very normal and fine and not involve the GIW or any weird internal crisises for anyone at all!

And I get to write Data EnKrypton, and therefore everyone wins. 💚

[iglowinggemma28]

Danny: *brings Jason Bruce and Constantine to Frostbite and quietly asks the yeti to do some tests to try to figure out why his core keeps screaming family around Jason as well as try to figure out what’s wrong with the young man in question*

Frostbite: I have a few questions about young Jason’s medical history. Are you his biological father?

Bruce: No.

Frostbite: Can you tell me anything about his Biological Parents? Names? Currently living status? Really ANYTHING will help us figure out the best way to treat his condition.

Bruce: Sheila Haywood and Willis Todd. Both are deceased. His medical history includes…

Frostbite: *quietly notes down the information while mentally screaming that the results we right and his current patient is in fact Great One’s grandchild and only remaining relative*

Frostbite: Ok last question. What was my patient’s cause of death? *asking not for medical reasons but because Great One needs to know so he knows who to punish*

Bruce: He died in an explosion.

Frostbite: ahh so it was an accident?

Bruce: No…He was murdered after being beaten with a crowbar by the Joker…

Frostbite: nods and takes this information as well as confirmation that Jason is Willis’s son and that unfortunately Willis is dead and was not the best father to Great One*

Danny: *shocked speechless until Frostbite gets to the part where his Grandson was tortured and murdered by the very mortal that his caused the most deaths in Gotham as a whole*

Danny: *leaves for an hour and comes back much more relaxed and then calmly explains halfa biology to Bruce and that Danny will personally teach Jason once the powers kick in…completely leaving out how he left to beat the Joker to near death replaced the bones on his forearms and calves with Crowbars and THEN sent his mind to the nightmare realm to relive every death he’s ever caused especially Jason’s death and only left him alive because Danny wanted Jason’s input and how Joker will die and how long should his ghost be punished before letting the ghost of Joker’s victims tear his ghost to shreds*

Jason: *wakes up feeling refreshed and learns that he’s the Ghost king’s Long Lost Grandson and that while he was asleep what Danny did to Joker and only reason the Clowns still breathing is Danny wanted Jason’s input on how the Clown shall die but not to worry because Danny ensured he’ll never be able to hurt anyone again. And that he’s sorry. He’s sorry he wasn’t there for Willis. That his own son turned out the way he did. That he wasn’t there for Jason growing up. Wasn’t there what he needed him. And that while he wants nothing more that to wrap Jason up in a blanket and protect him for the rest of eternity he recognizes that Jason is a Capable Adult (by human standards) so he’ll let Jason pick the Pace but also tells him he will be around so he can help Jason control his new powers and that if he wanted nothing to do with Danny after he will gladly Fuck off*

Jason: Alfred fucking has Competition for worlds best grandpa…*literally spends time with Danny who can pass as Jason Bio-dad and replaces and paternal love and memories of Bruce with Danny*

Ok so this is based on @cyrwrites prompt of Danny being Willis Todd. A very delicious angsty prompt btw. Especially @faeriekit additions. Chef's kiss. Anyway, that got my little gears turning and I thought up an alt version. What if Danny was Jason's grandpa?

Hear me out: Despite all the hardships of losing his family and identity, Danny still manages to get a wife and settle down. Then the GIW tracks him down again and while he's in the ghost zone taking care of a few things, they break into his house and kidnap his wife.

Danny goes ballistic and decimates all of their bases trying to find her but by the time he does, it's too late. She dies in his arms and there isn't enough ambient ectoplasm for her to become a ghost. This is the last straw for Danny and he retreats to the Infinite Realms, sealing all portals and summonings (perhaps he's starting down the path of becoming Dan).

Unbeknownst to Danny, his son got dumped off in an orphanage (he thought the baby died with his wife) and is named Willis. From here Willis can either be the way that he is because his core is not getting everything it needs and that's causing physical and mental side effects or he's just an asshole with secret ghostly powers. Either way, everything from there continues down the path of Jason's story.

Flashing forward, after taking an involuntary bath in ectoplasm, Jason's proto core gets activated. He was mainly human with no ambient ectoplasm around before so his core was inactive while his body did all the work. Now that it's active however, his body is slowly but surely giving his proto core all the functions it was meant to have. The problem with this is that his proto core is too weak and can't actually sustain these functions. For example, he'll randomly stop breathing but his core can't take over properly which leads to him suffocating instead until his lungs take back over. Fun times right?

Bruce is getting increasingly desperate so when Constantine mentions the ghost king might be able to help but they would have to go to him directly, he suits up and says lead the way.

For Danny's part, when he meets these three men, he is confused for two reasons. How did they even get here? And why is the youngest one putting out a feeling of family when he should have no one left?

[britcision]

Oh yes delicious and I have this feeling this is gonna get too much for the tags again so we freeballing

Danny is also So Much Less Tolerant for fuckery than Bruce. He comes to this world in a bleeding ball of pain and rage, the first thing he sees is this clown attacking his sister, he finds out later this fucking clown killed his baby brother-in-law/son

(The will they/won’t they race between Dick/Jazz and Bruce/Dan is the Sirens’ new favourite sport)

It takes everything Jazz has to stop him from killing the Joker right there, because that’s fucking Dan territory alright, and he never told Jazz about Dan

She doesn’t have the off button but she tears up when he’s going too dark, looks up at him with those way too familiar eyes, says “this isn’t you” and Danny just crumbles

Joker lives (for now) and Danny’s folded into his sister’s new family only to find that this family is mourning too

He doesn’t know enough to just magically pull Jason out of his ass but the second he Feels someone dead-but-not step into Gotham, he’s on the lookout

Red Hood’s plans are thoroughly thrown by having an instant shadow, Danny notices the corrupted ectoplasm and asks him what the fuck happened to him, and ooooooh Jason’s story has him righteously pissed at the unnamed “father” he’s here to destroy

That’s one hell of a sore spot for Danny, a neglectful dad who lets his kid die and then replaces them with someone (something) else?? Oh no he 1000% swears to help Jason with his revenge, that dark side coming back out to play and Jason finally has someone at his back

And then Danny goes home to his boyfriend Bruce and his baby-older-sister and vents about this fucking tragic baby ANGEL he has found and at first Jazz is in full “Danny no we fucking talked about this we do not kill people”

The real question is “who notices he’s talking about Jason first” and the funniest answer is “Tim” and oh boy Tim is exasperated when the others aren’t instantly on the same page

Fuck it Bruce is also full of paternal rage and wanting to help this poor new Red Hood get justice for his apparent murder, he wishes he could have done more when Jason died, so while he is firmly on Jazz’s side of “no killing” he is already thinking about helping the new kid tame Crime Alley’s gangs and seeing if he’d like Licensed Batman Backup

Tim just. Stares at them.

Oh this kid died a couple years ago. He was from Crime Alley. His dad let him die. He was killed BY THE JOKER. And came back TO GOTHAM to deal with his dad.

Tim makes them a fucking powerpoint and the last slide just says “IT IS JASON FUCKING TODD”

Jason’s return is now further complicated by Bruce having gone through his denial and been bullied by Tim at every stage, Danny immediately hunting him down for more details and what the fuckery, and Jazz 1000% calling Harley in IMMEDIATELY because oh fuck they need therapy backup

Now if you still want angst this can all still fail and the reveal goes bad but there’s a lot of crack potential right here

Joker never having successfully made his attack on Batgirl does give one less reason to murder him and Danny can come up with a nonlethal solution that’s a little more creative than the bats’ resources so maybe Red Hood comes home to the Joker trapped in ghost ice or permanently asleep

Maybe Red Hood comes home and Alfred is waiting with a plate of cookies because Jazz remembers every last one of Jason’s weaknesses and she’s gonna get to the bottom of what the fuck happened here

But either way, Danny can cleanse Jason’s ectoplasm to cool the pit rage and teach him what being liminal/a halfa means, and specifically what it means that Danny’s Obsession is protecting his family

It means they’re never having another Robin 2 incident again, on the orders of the Master of Time himself, because Danny has more powers than Superman and Jason and all the Robins are his family now, like it or not

(There was that post about how Bruce has never adopted a daughter and he’s shitty to the girls but tbh it’s not Bruce’s decision, Dick and Danny have adopted the whole batfam and they didn’t ask for his opinion)

Jazz steps back willingly from the running around on rooftops side of Batgirl to pass the mantle to Steph or Cass and becomes Oracle partially in honour of Tucker, but mostly for Danny’s fucking blood pressure because he can do the self duplicating thing to try and follow every single bat around on patrol but he’s not Vlad and he can only do so many

And fuck it if they all get one each he can create more duplicates by making tiny versions instead of a full sized, full powered Danny, so the Bats now all go on patrol with a Little Baby Man in their fucking pockets

Hands over a bat skeleton.

Jazz Fenton dies in a ghost attack and is reborn as Barbara Gordon. It's not easy being a 'child genius' in Gotham, especially when you're into psychology. People seem to just be waiting for her to snap and somehow become a child villain. Which would never happen. Jazz knows better than to do something like that as a minor with no connections.

She's a lonely kid, so when the new kid, Richard Grayson, comes up to her and introduces himself at school, she's a little surprised. But despite him being a year or two younger than her, they become best friends.

Now, see, Jazz has experience with figuring out someone is secretly a superhero. So she sees the signs in Dick a week after he started as Robin and was certain about a month after that.

He's her only friend. There's no way she's going to have him alone in this. Batgirl has a different reason for flying in the night and it makes all the difference.

...she also gets her therapy license as Batgirl asap. Bruce needs help and there's no way she's going to leave him like he is. She can't help Dick like that, because it's until, but she gives tips and tricks that might help with trauma.

I'd like to add here that she tries to reach out to Harley Quinn because she is her hero and wants to ask for her to tutor her to help Dick.