#Tims cloning experimentation

[wise-blue-cookies]

If Tim had succeeded in creating clones specifically timkon superbaby clone, his siblings r never going to leave him alone for 'pulling a lex',,,,

[cosmic-dust-poltergeist]

Another Clone Danny au, but the twist is he's basically reincarnated. CW shoved his core into a soulless LoA Damian clone to keep the halfa from completely dying after his original human body was destroyed in his og dimension. Danny is currently mute, too. Be warned, this is long. [Pt 2 here]

Danny had become completely aware in his new body after about a month of barely processing what is happening. The trauma of everything that's gone wrong in his life putting him in a disassociative state while his body's creators train and test him for something. It takes a while for him to realize he's not their first clone, but is the first to not be a soulless husk. These people talk too freely around him, but rarely each other, confident in his inability to understand anything outside of orders. So he decides to play along, learning about this hell hole and what little of the outside world he can. He takes the latter with a grain of salt, he can smell how delusional his creators are.

"Hmm, something is defective with this clone." A tall, beautiful woman says while glaring at Danny's eyes, "Damian's eyes are Juniper. This thing's eyes have been fading to a bluer colour every time I see it. Someone has made a mistake.... no matter. Beloved and my son shouldn't notice it's eyes are pine if we send it now. It is ready?"

"Yes, ma'am."

"Good. Give it its instructions and get it out of my sight."

And this is how Danny learns he's been made to attempt to kill his template or die trying. He gets the full feeling that they expect him to die, like the, apparently, dozen before him. (He hides his amusement when realizing he can truly relate to Dani now.) Too bad for his creators, he's not like the rest and fully intends to not do any murder once he's out of this godforsaken lab.

Keeping himself from reacting gets a whole lot harder when he realizes they intend to put him in a crate to ship him to some place called Gotham, but he stays as blank and relaxed as possible. It's only once they unload him, inform him of his Template's whereabouts, and ditch him in the middle of what he assumes is Gotham, does he finally grimace and shake off the shitty shell persona he had going on. As he stretches out his limbs and thinks on how he wants to play this, he takes in how absolutely drenched in the smell of death the city is. It reminds him enough of Amity that he knows his ghost half would never go hungry here, but what to do with his human half? He wonders if his Template and his father would care for another sibling. He caught the tall lady and her father saying insulting things about how many strays, he assumes kids, his Template's father adopts, it's usually over how pissed they are that his Template isn't treated like God's gift for simply being blood related.

So with a bit of hesitant hope, Danny heads towards where he was told his Template was. He's hit with a wave of weariness when he finds a kid of the same colouring as him decked out in a hero costume and arguing with a giant man dressed as a.. bat? Danny has no idea what he's looking at and is a little scared of how aggressive his Template is. Aggression means he's probably going to have to at least dodge a lot.

Danny's awful luck strikes again when before he can even decide on how exactly he's going to approach this, he hears a light crunch that has him bolting several feet in the opposite direction before he whips around and into a defensive fighting stance.

"Shit, sorry, BB." A blonde woman dressed in a purple hero costume says to a small figure that looks like a creepier verson of the bat dude. Purple is standing where the crunching sound came from, and scarily, "BB" is almost exactly where Danny had been. "Shit. He looks like Demon Brat.."

"Calm.." "BB"'s voice is soft and feminine, and she(?) seems to be trying to project "we're not going to hurt you" and "let me near" with body language alone. Which Danny finds impressive but doesn't trust, Purple is too tense and is too ready to attack. So when his Template and his father climb onto the roof, apparently seeing a commotion, and they too look ready to fight, Danny just bolts. He's not dumb enough to test if he can fight 4 unknown trained fighters. He can see why all his predecessors instantly died if they just automatically started fighting and trying to kill people.

The fact he ran seems to surprise them and gives him a few seconds headstart. He ducks and weaves, avoiding everything they throw at him to the best of his ability without tapping into his ghost half. He REALLY doesn't want to out himself as a freak just yet.

"Kid! Get back here! I'm sorry for scaring you!" Purple yells, slightly out of breath and somewhere behind him to the left.

"I demand you stop running!" His Template sounds pissed and directly behind him, so Danny quickly rolls to his right, dodging a tackle. Which apparently BB was ready for, because she's right there and grabs ahold of him, taking them both to the ground. He's scared, trying not to hurt her, and absolutely stuck in her hold without his powers. He lets out an inhuman whine as he struggles. He hasn't spoken a single word in this body yet, he doesn't know if it has the ability yet, and something he hadn't realized would complicate this situation in the way it has.

"Safe" BB tries to soothe, but Danny can't be soothed, not when he can see and sense the rest of his pursuers closing in on them. BB seems to realize this and snaps at her people in annoyance. "Back!"

Danny flinches and trembles in her hold, not knowing if they'll ignore her and ... he's not sure what, but do something to him. But to his endless surprise, they listen and back up several feet. Close enough to help her if she needs it, but far enough Danny relaxes a fraction. It's not a lot, but it's enough to get his anxiety down to a more manageable level. And even though he thought she'd start questioning him now, she simply waits. He's still confused and scared, but slowly relaxes in her hold, an odd sort of trust forming against his will at her calm and "Please trust I won't hurt you" vibe she's yeeting at him.

"Safe." She says and releases her hold just enough to free one of her arms. She gently runs the hand through his hair and rubs his forehead and cheeks, just softly petting him. It's a gentle affection that reminds him of Jazz. He can't remember the last time he was touched kindly, and it's enough to make him tear up. She wipes away any tears that escape. "Safe."

Once he finally stops trembling and he's emotionally spent, she finally fully releases her hold and moves to sit by him so he can sit up. He feels so awkward when he realizes his Template's father and Purple are staring him down while his Template looks like he's trying to pretend to not be interested, but is glancing over too frequently to be believable.

Danny takes a shakey breath and gives a little wave, unconsciously trying to lean towards BB when he sees their body language all sharpen and focus harder on him.

"Who are you?" Bat dude demands, and Danny can see the resemblance between him and his Template, even while he's panicking to figure out how to communicate without his voice. He ends up pointing at his Template with a nervous energy. "Are you a clone?"

Danny is so relieved at the yes or no question, he almost forgets to be nervous about frantically nodding yes. Almost.

"Can you talk?" Purple asks next and he's trembling again as he gives a hesitant no. "Yes or no questions it is!"

He nearly jumps out of his skin when BB starts rubbing his shoulder in a soothing manage. He tries to subtly self-sooth by rubbing his thumb along the middle phalanx of the pointer finger on the hand hidden between him and BB. It's the first time he's done it while not completely alone. He's not sure what the LoA would have done if they'd seen, but he can't imagine it going well for him. He stops self-soothing at the thought. BB's vibes turn very sad next.

"Based on your outfit, the League of Assassins sent you, yes?" His Template growls menacingly at him and Danny winces for the guy's poor teeth the way he grides them at Danny's nod. "To kill me?"

Danny wants to bolt again, but BB is already pulling him into a hug, trapping him. The spike in anger at his nod sends him into a panic, but BB's hold is inescapable, so he ends up "hiding" in her arms. He curls up as small as he can while pressing his face into the front of her shoulder. He feels like a scared little kid.

"Geeze, kid..." Purple sounds sad.

"All of the LoA clones have been nothing but mindless shells. Why are you so different?" His Template doesn't actually sound like he's talking to Danny, but even if he was, Danny literally can't answer that with some sort of aid. Though, Danny doesn't trust these people enough to explain even if he could. "Father. I believe we should take him to the batcave."

Danny tucks himself deeper into BB. She's petting his hair and back the way you would a cat. "Safe."

"One more question." Bat dude says. "Are you planning on going through with your orders?"

Danny can feel BB get defensive on his behalf, even as Danny pulls away to look Bat dude in the face as he frantically shakes his head no.

"Honest. New brother?" Something seems to change in them when BB says this. Amusement and resignation are as easy to read as their weariness. He can't blame them. He's far from their first LoA clone, just the first to not be a mindless murder machine.

"Hn."

"Tt. Really, father?"

"Hn."

"Tt!" Danny blinks in fascination at the weird monosyllable conversation between his Template and his father. BB gets up before pulling Danny to his feet. She keeps a loose hand on his wrist, probably in case he tries to bolt again, but it's still nice. It does get awkward when she keeps her hold as they climb off the roof, and Danny needs a little help getting down with only one hand.

He tucks himself half behind BB when Purple decides to ask him a random assortment of questions while they wait for something called "the batmoble". He's a bit intimidated by her energy, it's so much like his parents'.

'Do you have a favourite food?' No. He hasn't actually eaten food yet in this body, just iv-ed nutrients. 'Favourite animal?' No. He doesn't know this dimension's animals. 'Flowers? Or plant?"No. Same problem. 'Are you hurt in any way?' Shrug. He's a little scratched and bruised, but it's not even in the top hundred of hurt he's been through. He's actually pretty happy this body doesn't have all his scars, his ghost half will have them, but his new human half is basically a blank canvas, and it's a glorious reprieve. 'Have you been anywhere besides the LoA and Gotham?" No. 'Did you at least stay somewhere nice in the LoA?' No? Does the lab count? It was a pretty nice lab all things considered.

Danny nearly jumps out of his skin when a black, sleek car shows up without a driver. He clings to BB when they climb in. He's nearly in her lap.

He can't help but wonder about how out of character he feels. He wonders if it's because this body is, at most, 2 months old, or if his time as only a ghost core kick started childish instincts, his ghost half IS only about a year old, or if the trauma of everything that happened caused a mental regression. He vaguely remembers Jazz talking about age regression as a coping mechanism, not enough to understand if that's what's happening right now, but it sort of feels like it. At least BB doesn't seem to mind having an overgrown toddler using her like a security blanket.

The drive is pretty smooth considering the speed bat dude is driving. Danny looks around "the batcave" in wonder when they pile out.

"Who's that?" A cheerful man in black and blue bounces over. Danny hides behind BB again and wishes he knew literally anybody's name. Currently, he just knows his Template's non-hero identity as Damian Al Gul. BB's hero identity of BB definitely means something, but all he has is what Purple called her.

"New brother!" BB chirps. Blue guy thankfully stops a few feet away while a tired guy about Purple's age wonders up.

"Why does he look like Demon Brat?" Tired guy sounds grumpy and on edge.

"The LoA apparently made a new clone of me. This one seems defective. Simply trying to run away and escape when Black Bat and Spoiler spotted him watching father and I." The new people tense, and Danny fully ducks behind BB, while Damian continues, "He did not throw a single punch and showed true panic at being caught. As you can see, he's been glued to Cassandra's side since she calmed him down."

"Likelihood of this one trying to kill me?" Tired guy asks. "I'm tired of new siblings trying to kill me."

"Unlikely. Kid ran like a scared deer the whole time we were chasing him." Purple, no, Spoiler? reasures tired guy.

"Well, if you weren't so stabbable." There's a teasing tilt to his Template's voice. Danny kind of wants to know what THAT means, so he peeks curiously at them. Tired guy just looks more tired when their eyes meet.

"Damian and Jason both tried to kill me, multiple times." Tired guy explains with a tone that'd be more fitting for a conversation about a sibling stealing a favoured toy in the past, not admitted homicide attempts on one's life. Danny's eyes dart at blue guy and Damian, wondering if they'll try to kill him too. Tired guy frowns before asking, "Do you actually know who any of us are?"

There's a whole lot of squawking when Danny shakes his head no and just points to Damian. Damian is complaining about how little sense it makes to only tell Danny a kill order. Spoiler is embarrassed and complaining about not realizing. Bat dude is giving off embarrassed vibes, even if literally nothing changed in his stance or face. Blue guy, tired guy, and Cassandra all seem very amused, but blue guy is also stressed and tired guy is just resigned.

"Okay, so introductions. I'm Timothy Drake-Wayne, just call me Tim or Drake. My vigilante name is Red Robin." Tired guy says before pointing to each of the other people. "Stephanie Brown is Spoiler, call her Steph. Dick Grayson is Nightwing. Cassandra Caine is Black Bat, call her Cass. Bruce Wayne is Batman. Dam-"

"I am Damian Al Gul Wayne. I am the current Robin and the only blood son of Batman." Danny's Template cuts off Tim.

"Can't say you're the only blood son if we keep the clone," Tim teases and gets a knife thrown at him for it. He easily dodges it and continues talking to Danny. "There's also Jason Todd, who's not here right now. He's Red Hood. Barbara Gordon is our eye in the sky, better known as Oracle. Duke Thomas is Signal, he's our Day shift so he's asleep upstairs currently. And Alfred Pennyworth is the real head of the house and pseudo grandfather, even if he says he's just the family butler. There's more, but they're who you'll most like to interact with anytime soon."

Danny must look as overwhelmed as he feels because Dick(? Why is he named that?) steps closer, hands where Danny can see them. "You okay, little buddy? Do you have a name or something you want us to call you?"

Danny gives Damian, Steph, and Mr. Wayne a panicked look. Steph comes to his rescue.

"He can't speak. We're unsure why he can't, but he hasn't even tried to say anything. Only made a whining noise when Cass pinned him. We'd think it was another Cass situation, but he can understand everything we say."

"Oh.. Maybe he just never learned?" Dick wonders aloud before asking Danny, "About how old are you?"

Danny points to Damian. He's pretty sure his body is the same age as his Template's, who is about as old as Danny's whole existence. Unlike Dani, who was made slightly younger than Danny in body, but is currently only a year old in spirit.

"No, I mean, how long have you been alive?" Dick corrects gently. Danny blinks and figures the correct answer is how long his clone body has been alive. He can explain later when he can communicate better, if he feels safe enough to do so. He holds up 2 fingers. "2 years?"

There's grimaces when he shakes his head.

"2 months?" Danny cautious nods and startles when Steph gasps loudly.

"A Baby!" Danny pouts at that, but can't exactly refute it. He does move so Cass is more between them.

Cass unexpectedly decides to remove her creepy mask, making Danny stare in wide-eyed surprise at her short dark hair.

"Oh! The baby hasn't seen our faces yet!" Steph is delighted and pulls her own mask down. The rest of the group unmask, minus Tim, who's already in civilian clothes. Danny looks at them before circling Cass so he can see her. She's very pretty, some sort of Asian, and giving off happy and calm vibes. It reminds him a little of Jazz when they could just exist, no parents, school, or ghosts to worry about. It's nice. He likes that his new big sister has that peacefulness.

"You see?" Cass smiles and clarifies, "Language of body?"

Danny brightly nods. He had to learn to read body language or die the rest of the way. It wasn't a failure to read it that nearly got him killed.

"I'll teach you to read it even better and to hide your own." Danny is startled by Cass speaking a full sentence before he excitedly indicates he wants to show her something. He can see how absolutely horrified they all get when he slams his body language into the soulless husk both labs of horror he got stuck in wanted. He turns lifelessly to each person, taking in their reacts to it, only breaking character only when he turns back to Cass. He beams excitedly at her, wanting her opinion. "That was very good. Almost no one would be able to tell."

"I can see how the LoA wouldn't know you weren't like the others if you just behaved like that the whole time." Tim hums, seemingly more fascinated than horrified, unlike the rest. They look ready to jump him, so he goes back to hiding behind Cass, deciding right now that he's staying with Tim and/or Cass, until he either runs away or they're all more comfortable with each other.

"Be nice." He can hear the scowl she's giving everyone, but Tim. Tim edges closer with a fancy piece of technically that Danny's never seen before. It almost looks like a clipboard at first glance, but is clearly a sci-fi computer thingy. Danny noticed technology is far more advanced in this dimension, but hasn't had a chance to figure it out.

"Do you know how to work an ipad?" Tim doesn't give him a judgmental look when he shakes his head, just steps closer with clear intent to teach. "Okay, I'll show you. You can read, correct?"

Danny nods and cautiously steps towards Tim so he can see the device better. The others start to wonder off and change into civilian clothes while Tim gives him a crash course on everything Danny can do on this iPad. He does explain there's basically a child lock on it to keep Danny from accidentally going on an unsafe website. It's more for his safety as he learns. Danny accepts that reason, despite knowing that's definitely not the only one, because the other reasons don't matter. He's probably only going to be using it to look up everything he doesn't understand in this dimension and communicating with whoever is in front of him, at least for now. He feels a lot like a toddler with how out of his depth he is, which is honestly a good thing right now. Really sells the "I'm a harmless baby, protect me!" thing he has going on.

"Now that you can answer." Tim smiles a little, "Is there any you want to be called? It's okay if there isn't just yet. Finding your name can be difficult."

[Danny] Danny excitedly shows Tim.

"Danny? Not what I was expecting, but it suits you." Tim's easy acceptance is wonderful, too bad his Template ruins the moment.

"Absolutely not. You need a proper name. How about Daniel? Or maybe the arabic version? Danyal?" Danny throws his most disgusted face he can pull.

"That's a no." Tim sounds like he's barely concealing laughter.

"He needs a proper name. How about Dante?"

[It's better than Daniel, but I still don't like it.]

"How about we come back to this later? We can look up names that Danny can be a nickname for and he can pick from those once he's settled in." Tim basically orders when Damian opens his mouth. "Danny should shower. I'll grab him som-"

Danny grabs his sleeve. Cass isn't here, so Tim is his current security person. He doesn't feel safe with his Template yet.

"Nevermind, I'll get him showered. Could you grab him some clothes?" Tim adjusts to the quiet demand easily, glancing to Danny to ask. "Any idea of preference?"

Danny glances at the stiff outfit he's currently in before writing [Comfy?]

Tim nods and tells Damian, "You should snag one of Dick's hoodies and one of my fluffy pj pants. Alfred probably has some unused underwear somewhere with how many times a guest needed some."

Damian doesn't look pleased, but seems to follow Tim's lead. He does quizzically eye Danny one last time before he leaves. Tim gently leads Danny to what looks like a locker room. No one else is currently in there.

"I know he seems abrasive, but that was his version of trying to bond." Tim explains, "He's trying his best. Just say something if it's too much."

Danny nods and strips. Uncaring of Tim looking at him as he hops in the shower, he only seems to be checking for injuries, then he only glances over every once in a while to make sure "the baby" is cleaning himself properly and doesn't need help. He doesn't get any creepy vibes from the man. He's awfully familiar with the vibes to look out for since some of the scientists would bad touch him, claiming it's for science. It wasn't. Needless to say, being a labrat kind of murders shyness over being naked in cold blood.

Damian shows up with the clothes Tim requested when Danny is drying off. Danny makes sure to scribble a [Thank you!] and show it to him before taking the clothes.

"You are welcome."

"Alfred will be happy his newest grandchild comes with manners pre-installed." Tim jokes, and adds at Danny's curious glance. "The rest of us were feral. You'd think that I'd be an exception since I'm from high society, but I literally blackmailed my way into being Robin and then made a fake uncle to keep myself from being adopted."

Danny gives Tim an alarmed look, and Damian looks curious.

"Okay, so I used to stalk Batman and Robin every night because I lacked adult supervision. I was just taking pictures because I was a huge fan and had figured out who they were when I was 9. Then when I was 12, Jason died for a little bit." This makes Danny more alarmed, so Tim quickly adds. "He's alive and as well as he can be now, but he was Robin at the time, and Bruce, Bruce was devastated. He was taking it out on everyone. Purse snatchers were ending up in the ICU. So I first tried to get Dick to come back to Gotham, when they didn't work, I showed up on the doorstep with photographic evidence I knew everything and demanded I be Robin to keep him safe. I.. It was a rough time. He hated me with every fiber of his being for a while, but I couldn't let Batman die. We were partners, but not family by any stretch of the word. Then.. my parents died and I couldn't let him adopt me. I wasn't his son. I hadn't had an adult keeping track of me in years, hell, B barely tracked me as Robin, thinking it would make me stop. Jokes on him, I'm too stubborn."

"That's unfortunately true." Damian sounds exasperated.

"I hired an actor to pretend to be my fake uncle to keep Bruce from questioning my living situation. Clearly, that didn't last." Tim chuckles, "Steph compared me to a feral cat a lot during that time."

Danny has to pull up his (Dick's?) sleeves to use the iPad. [Are all of your lives so weird?]

"Unfortunately." Damian sighs, "Every single one of us has a different tale of how we came to be with Father."

"Kid, you're a defective clone that just escaped from a cult of assassins and are actively being adopted by the family of your target." Tim teases. "You fit in perfectly."

Danny flusters at that, but has nothing to say against it.

"I apologize if this is a sensitive issue, but I have to ask." Damian does look sorry. "Why don't you talk? I know a few of the Clones were instructed in the past to say things, so I was wondering why you can't."

[Never talked before. Don't know how to. Wasn't taught before mission. Tall lady didn't like my eyes and wanted me gone.]

"Tall lady? Probably Talia. But she didn't like your eyes? Why?" Tim tilts his head.

[Wrong color. Fading slowly to bluer color. Wasn't perfect copy anymore and getting less perfect by the day. Needed to die faster.]

"She wanted you to die because your eye colour?" Tim and Damian look shocked as Danny nods.

[Imperfections die. Barely good enough to be sent out instead of killed in lab.] Danny lays it on thick, but it wasn't untrue. He ended up seeing other "Imperfect" clones be terminated near the end of his stay.

"Well... actually, what colour do you think they'll end up? Now that I'm paying attention, I can see the difference. You think it's a result of whatever made you different?" Tim seems excited by the idea. Damian just looks thoughtful.

[Unsure. Changed from Damian's color to current in a month. Tall lady was very unhappy by it. Don't know why change happened.]

Danny suddenly yawns. He didn't get much sleep in the crate. Too scared to.

"Alright. We can talk more after you get some sleep."

"Alfred told me to tell you you're cut off from caffeine until you sleep a minimum of 6 hours, Drake." Damian looks a little too amused by Tim's despair over that news, before turning to Danny. "Your new room is next to Cassandra's. She apparently requested it while we were otherwise engaged."

Danny is delighted by the news, hugging his iPad to his chest. Tim and Damian lead him to his new room, pointing out things and whose room is who's while they walk. Danny's dazed look and slowly making a list of things to look up really sells his new role. He's also scared to even breathe on anything. Everything is so fancy.

"Getting you your own clothes and room decor will have to wait until tomorrow." Damian informs him apologetically before the brothers bid him goodnight. And Danny doesn't know what to do with that. He doesn't feel safe in this too nice room. So he grabs one of the pillows and the thin extra blanket at the foot of the bed before cramming himself under the bed. He curls up in a ball under the head, the end tables blocking the sides, making him feel safer.

He wakes the first day to Cass laying on the floor nearby, but not under the bed. It's a very weird day for him, but Tim, Cass, and his Template are very helpful and mostly non judgemental to the mess he is. He does find a moment to naturally "discover" his obsession with space. Thankfully, it turns out this dimensions space is so different that he doesn't have to pretend to be clueless. Everything is so different and Danny kind of loves it. He's gifted so much space themed shit and books on space and alien culture throughout the week, he has to fight to keep from glowing in his excitement. He knows they noticed, but let him pretend to be normal for a bit. It's harder to hide his inhumanity in this body, but he does his best.

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Little things I don't know what to do with

1. Phantom: Just because you're my dad doesn't mean you get to tell me what to do!

Nightwing: *just now learning he has a clone son and is nearly hysterical* Actually, it does!

Killer croc: *still holding Phantom by the neck but is now awkward about it* Uh, is this a bad time?

2. Tim goes undercover as Alvin Draper in infiltrate this new and very successful gang thats popped up in Gotham only to start falling for the mysterious leader Danny Nightingale aka a mage going by the name Hex

3. Future 7ft tall Phantom bursts into present day Gotham City like a meteor. Curled into a ball, he desperately tries to keep his unconscious husband safe from the flames and impacts as they are thrown through several buildings before creating a crater in one of the local parks

By some miracle his hubby is safe and Danny passes out once he sees some of the local bats approaching via rooftops

4. Danny flirts with Spoiler by bringing her wierd stuff thats purple. What makes it interesting is that none of this stuff should be purple

5. Danny accidentally ends up in the DC universe via ghost zone portal after he gets injured by one of his parents failed experimental weapons and it destabilizes him. He fights Superman thinking he's possessed and hes actually creaming Superman pretty bad since Clark can't hit what isn't tangible but oh boy, it can hit him.

Anyway the other supers come out to save Superman and began ganging up on Phantom.

Danny, fully convinced they're all possessed, opens a portal and manages to get them all in using Looney Toons Trickery promising to come back and "free the hosts" once he gets a more stable portal. Danny can't go through it since he's so unstable and has to look for some way to fix himself before it becomes a (after)life-threatening issue.

Turns out Ectoplasm is somehow worse for a Kryptonian than Kryptonite and they have no powers what so ever within the Ghost Zone and everything aches.

Oh.

And they're basically living out every creepypasta/horror movie ever in this creepy hell dimension.

Fun times.

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Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Scripted Redemption Bracket — Round 4

Propaganda

Sister Carpenter (The Silt Verses) (Boba Count: 2):

The Best one-liners and mic drops around, nothing sexier than a crisis of faith, unwavering commitment to saving everyone has all the panties dropping, certified milf

Ty Betteridge (WOE.BEGONE) (Boba Count: 4):

Ty fucking Betteridge. He’s weird. He’s silly. His love language is unethical time travel experimentation. One of him’s a cowboy-in-training, and another is stealing his coworker-slash-subordinate’s lunch to feed a sad cowbaby for nefarious purposes. He’s used time travel to get multiple phds. His middle name is (allegedly) “Careful”. And, perhaps most relatable to this website, he’s obsessed with Just Some Guy <3

Additional Propaganda below the cut:

Sister Carpenter (The Silt Verses):

She's tall. She's aroace. She was raised in a cult and got sent on a pilgrimage for said cult and told her god to go fuck himself. She loves pancakes.

#carpenter is the rare heroic slasher #she has killed more people than we know #at least two gods personally cherish her #in a world where gods aren't people they still personally cherish her #that is how sexy sister carpenter is

#we have no idea if she’s ace #but she IS the sexiest character in this poll tournament

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

People have been disagreeing about whether or not she is ace. This has been submitted as Word Of God evidence.

Ty Betteridge (WOE.BEGONE):

He's an unethical time travel scientist who homoerotically tortures the protagonist! What's not to love.

#TY FUCKING BETTERIDGE SWEEP

#he's so funny and horrible and i want to punch him in his stupid face sometimes #but he is undeniably sexy

#love this weirdo

He has a big weakness for cowboys, so when the protagonist shows up as one he struggles (and fails) not to fall in love with him

One version of Ty ran away to Texas to be a cowboy and he has the cutest British cowboy accent ever <3

He occasionally does Tim Curry impressions

One of his torture methods is making the protagonist listen to Arctic Monkeys

He likes to send cute animal pictures to people after he's cut their fingers off

He pretends to get along with his time travel clones well but they fight all the time and talk shit about each other behind their backs

He is so obsessed with the protagonist and his friends that he literally put them into a glass dome to "protect them" but then kept coming over to hang out and have snowball fights

#oh come on #he color coded himself and not allowed to communicate with building full of his #doubles #(they all live together and do horrible science in same building) #if you vote ty you’ll get felix for free

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DC x DP Fic Rec List

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A Little Overshadowing Never Hurt Anyone By Playedcrowd5610 [WIP]

This day was just getting worse and worse for Danny. First, he gets dragged to Gotham City with his parents for some 'ghost hunting' convention, and then on his first flight out, he gets captured! Now he's stuck in a Fenton Tech Containment device in some strange cave filled with cars, computers, and for some reason... A dinosaur? He has no idea what to do or how he will escape... Jazz is gonna kill him. The Bats have been having a hard time recently. For the last few weeks, glowing green creatures from all over had been flocking toward Gotham City. Now Tim was staring at the first ghost they had been able to capture and interrogate. He had glowing green eyes and bright white hair. And he… He just possessed Tim, didn't he? Or... Danny gets kidnapped by the Batfam and seeks a way out, a little overshadowing never hurt anyone, right?

Bus To Nowhere By foldingfacets [WIP]

Is it running from your problems if your problems consider you to be a dead imprint of consciousness that killed their son? Yes, but Danny tries not to think about how his nightmares of his parents trying to kill him came true when they found out he was Phantom. After being on the run from his parents and the government for a couple of months, moving from town to town, Danny ends up in Gotham City and decides to risk staying in Batman's territory. He'd take the wrath of Batman over live vivisection via beloved parents or being studied and torn apart by the government. Besides, he's not a meta. Being dead is a medical condition.

If You Give a Bat a Burger By Cielle_Noire [WIP]

Strange things are going on in Gotham: A series of crimes linked only by a sentence uttered. A drug that no one seems to be selling, but lots of people are taking. An old enemy reborn, or someone pretending to be him. Graffiti that can't be photographed by normal means. Bartenders disappearing without a trace. John Constantine is also there. Danny wants nothing to do with any of it. He just wants to sell burgers and survive. Actually, he'd like to go home again, but since that isn't possible, he'll stick with burgers. Gotham's vigilante's have other plans. This is why Danny doesn't do favors.

To Whom It May Concern By Sagoberattare [WIP]

When Danny and Jazz finds out they are clones, they did not process that like a normal person. No, they decided that since they could magically write to them that they'd use their "bio-parents" to vent their frustrations and maybe mess with them a little bit (hey, you try and find a healthier method to finding out one day you were cloned by a pair of mad scientist who decided to raise you). Danny figured he could rant and rave without freaking anyone out. Jazz thought it be a good way air out grievances and bitterness at a audience that wouldn't care. Two birds with one stone if you will. Unfortunately most of the "adventures" they write about are horrifying. Cue several very concerned people desperately scrambling to find their dumb (possibly meta and or undead) children and rescue them. Inspired by this prompt

My Superpower Is Being A Single Dad By QueenOfTheQuill [WIP]

What is Jason supposed to do when presented with multiple superpowered toddlers locked in an unethical government experimentation facility: not adopt them??? AKA not only is Danny de-aged to toddlerdom, so are his sister, his clone, his evil future self and half his class. Who are all liminal enough to have access to ghostly abilities. Time to make this Gotham's problem. AKA Jason doesn't so much fall into single fatherhood as he is violently catapulted.

Death Defying [Dick x Danny]

Holding Me Now in Hand By DisillusionedDanny [Complete]

After Tim Drake tells his family about his new insane chemistry teacher, Dick Grayson decides to do some investigation himself. What he wasn't expecting was to instantly fall in love with the chaotic science teacher. Danny had managed to make a new life for himself in this new dimension as a science teacher at Gotham Academy. He had a fulfilling life, teaching the kids of Gotham how to survive on the streets and then at night protecting the bats who roamed the streets. Now, to make things even better, he had somehow caught the attention of Dick Grayson. If Danny had to be honest, his life was going pretty great for him. Now he just needed the other shoe to drop.

Falling For You, Again And Again (Adventures In Getting Kidnapped And Meeting Your Soulmate) By ziazippy5379 [WIP]

Danny gets dragged to some event in Gotham and meets his soulmate. The first meeting goes great. The rest of the night not so much.

I’m Falling For You (Now We’re Both Falling) By ziazippy5379 and Milaley [WIP]

Danny Fenton is just your average big city paramedic living in one of the most dangerous cities there is: Gotham. Or is he? What most people don't know is he is a retired superhero from the small town of Amity Park known as Phantom. After the burn out that comes from being a lone teenage hero and a difficult reveal to his parents he decides he needs to get away. And what better city than Gotham for a man who loves to help in medical crises. Dick Grayson: detective by day, superhero by night. Well that's what he was until the reality of working for the Bludhaven police department set in and his depression took over. Now he's quit his day job and works for his adoptive father's charitable organization. But that doesn't stop him from continuing his superhero work as the one and only Nightwing. But when these two soulmates meet on a rooftop at night and their timers run out, happily ever after isn’t as easily achieved as one might think.

Dead On Main [Jason x Danny]

Like Betta Fish Do By PaperPuffin [Complete]

Danny had ended up trespassing in Jason's haunt. He didn't mean to. Total accident, he swears. (He blames Johnny.) So he bought the other halfa a basket of bathbombs and chocolate as a 'sorry, please don't disembowel me' gift. It was the proper thing to do, alright? Everything was going to be just fine. Then things got a little out of hand.

Half-Lives By Turnipberry [WIP]

Something is wrong with Jason Todd. That's not new. Someone having answers about why... that might be. Someone maybe being able to help... that definitely was. Danny just hopes its not to late.

Danny Fenton: Dead and Loving It By HyperKid [WIP]

Danny and Jason meet by chance in a graveyard on Christmas Eve over a certain someone’s grave. Neither expect to ever see the other again, until they run into each other at a coffee shop less than a week later. And once they’re both thinking clearly, there’s obviously something wrong. Between working out what to tell their families, what’s actually going on, and just… well, being happy pains in the ass and proud of it, it turns out Team Batfam and Team Phantom all over are a match made in Heaven. Now all they have to do is persuade Bruce that Jason having new friends hasn’t hailed the apocalypse.

Rooftop Express By EmeraldsAndAmethyst [WIP]

Danny Fenton just wants to help his big sister be comfortable in Gotham. But he is getting so done with not being able to fly around freely. Danny tries to do things on the up and up but just progressively accidentally starts looking more and more like a new rogue trying to get set up. His parents must be retired super villains, which might not mean anything. But the rest of the evidence isn't very promising. And then he finds a half-ghost no one knew anything about. Befriending him in the suit instead of out isn't helping his 'definitely not a super villain' case in the slightest.

Dead Tired [Danny x Tim]

Wanted: Dead and Alive By Astereae [Complete]

"Hey, I do I... Do I know you?" Danny asks, a hand coming up to brush something off Tim’s cheek. "No," Tim says. "We haven’t met." "Oh, no, I do." Danny says, and he smiles, teeth white and sharp. "You’re that guy who rearranged my guts!" Rearranged his- Tim glances at the knotted scars on the boy’s abdomen. He can see the shine and shadow of haphazard stitches that weren’t meant to hold forever, that tore and healed over. His- This- "WHAT!?" Nightwing shouts, equal parts confused and delighted. Tim’s fucked. OR Danny Fenton's been in GIW captivity for 4 months. Tim Drake gets kidnapped by the GIW one Tuesday evening in May. Considering how many of the Bats and the Birds have died and come back to life, it was only a matter of time for some people interested in the afterlife to come poking around. The detectives can't seem to uncover any information about the mysterious white vans, however. And they keep losing the mysterious boy who seems to be the one person in Gotham to know anything at all.

Better Halves (And Other Such Falsehoods) By Astereae [WIP]

Danny’s looking at him like he’s crazy. His hair’s dried up into a mess of waves, and there’s some tomato seeds on the corner of his mouth. “You just bailed me out of jail. And you think this is a good idea?” “I don’t have bad ideas, Fenton. And like you’ve just said, I have collateral on you.” “So you’re blackmailing me into pretending to date you?” Tim shrugs. “Or you could just sign the NDA.” OR Danny's trying to recover all the shards to an entity's chalice so that it'll stop destroying the zone while tensions rise amongst his subjects- and trying to finish high school. Tim's juggling his case load, his work as CEO, and does not have time to be embroiled in a sex scandal right now. If that means he has to pretend to date a very suspicious heir to a rival company, then so be it. It's a mutually beneficial relationship. So what if Tim's becoming a little too intrigued by the illusive, powerful Phantom? So what if Danny can't stand the Justice League for leaving him to deal with all of Amity's problems when he was just 14? That's a superhero thing. And their fake boyfriend has no clue that they're a superhero.

The Price Of Peace By JoyLess_NightSky [WIP]

The Juistria League - the alliance of the major countries of the continent Juisitria - has long since stood for peace. Unfortunately there is one country that is a thorn in their side whenever they try to solidify that peace: The Infinite Lands, a country of barbarians to the north where the only reason they survive is the magic in the air. Where the magic is so strong that even children develop a talent, which they themselves call "the blessings of the dragons". The country that, last time the Juistria League had tried to negotiate, had waged a war more brutal then anything seen before on them, for over a decade - right until the moment a rebellion caged him. Not long ago, his murderer took the title. And now, that very same newly crowned High Chief demands negotiations of them. Bruce would rather die, would rather see Gotham and all of Juistria in flames than to allow that man to take one of his children. Tim, however, makes another decision before he could say that. Now, everyone has to hope Phantom will be happy with the boy. Meanwhile Danny is just too stunned that they actually agreed to that to do anything about the sudden engagement.

Who You Gonna Call? By jaemyun [WIP]

In freshman year of high school, Danny pulled away from his friends without explanation. At sixteen, he disappeared. Sam and Tucker presumed him dead. His parents insisted he was taken by ghosts. As young adults, they run into him in Gotham, of all places. It's a stroke of luck that brings their best friend back to them. If only it was that easy for the Bats to find the god damn engineer that's been running circles around them while they try to track him down. Tim's not sure what he'll do first when he finally finds the brilliant bastard - kiss him or punch his teeth in.

Better Off Dead By DisillusionedDanny [WIP]

Tim wakes up to find himself as a ghost in the Infinite Realms after a battle that went wrong, or maybe right. Now with the help of a ghost named Danny, Tim learns that death is not always the end and that maybe he was made to be a ghost.

Tim Drake's I.E.F. (Invisible Eldritch Friend) By Half_Dead_Ham [WIP]

The last thing Danny expected while haunting his new favorite pastime while bored (read: homeless) was to find out his secret identity. It was cool though, and he helped the dude get through the days easier now. He expected even less, though, to be caught rooting around in his fridge by their butler. The last thing Tim expected while getting stalked was to get used to the unseen creature and how they started taking care of him. He expected even less for them to be the same age

Jason x Danny x Tim

I'd Die (Again) For Y'All By GroundedGryphon [WIP]

Six years after he died, Danny Phantom is captured by the Justice League and expects to be handed over to the GIW. Five years after Phantom appeared, the Justice League still doesn't know if he's a villain or a hero and just want to talk with him. Two years after Jason Todd's return, Red Hood and Red Robin finally find a reason to work together. One year after she last heard from her brother, Jazz learns he's being held by the Justice League. Right now, Martian Manhunter has a splitting headache and all hell is about to break loose.

[ficcerspam]

DCxDP MULTIS [AO3]

Super Strength Shenanigans - 12.10.23* [AO3]

DCxDP - When Danny gets an internship in Gotham, concerned for his and his identity's safety they figure out he has super strength he can't control for human-standard fights. Shenanigans ensue.

Horror Movie Child!Danny AU - 12.18.23* [AO3]

DCxDP - Danny is adopted into the batfam having a coming of age movie, whilst the Batfam are going through Summer Horror Special.

Puppy!Danny AU - 12.28.23* [AO3]

DCxDP - Danny is Ace the Bathound AU! With Bonus Dan as Titus, Dani as Haley/Bitewing, and Jazz as Sparky and Dog. There have been multiple tags for this, so please be warned you WILL cry at part 3. Now with meme post. Any additional non-story posts will be under "phantom pups" tag on my main blog!

Preschool Teacher Danny AU - 01.26.25* [AO3}

JLxDP - Clark comes across a meta-teacher with a class of seemingly meta toddlers. He asks if there's any room for Jon.

This work is semi-abandoned, and will not be updated on Tumblr. Please subscribe to the AO3 on the off-chance my real life preschool teacher friend Naynay's stories inspire me once more. [please do not ask for more]

Sunshine and Stardust - 02.16.24* [AO3]

YJxDP - Danny is a clone of Superman AU, but he's a failure, a test dummy. Amidst the days of pain and experimentation, he hears another clone is being made.

WITH AMAZING FANART by brainman1987

Villain!Jazz AU - 04.07.23* [AO3]

**Disclaimer, NOT Jazz centered and heavily DP leaning** After lots of thought this AU will be exclusively updated on AO3 from now on! Please subscribe to it on AO3 instead of following it here :)

“Jazz’s Errands, and Gotham’s Curse” - Chapter 10 Snippet and Podfic

Grunkle John AU - 06.24.24* [AO3]

JLxDP - Batman finds out that John Constantine is basically Danny Phantom(high level threat, ghost king)'s weird uncle. I tell you the story of how that came to be.

Why you should date Superboy, a powerpoint presentation by Red Robin (and Danny Phantom), extras brought to you by @ashleyreyland!

Mama Canary AU - 07.13.24* [AO3]

JLxDP - Suddenly de-aged Danny meet Black Canary and accidentally ghost-wails at her...except all it does is push her back a couple feet, and make her think he's the cutest lil' canary in the world. Eventual Dead On Main.

Murderbros AU - 11.09.24* [AO3]

DC - I explore the brotherly relationship between Damian and Jason, tracing all the way back to their days at the LoA. Damian POV, Catatonic?LoA!Jason.

Mechanic!Val AU - 11.27.24* [AO3]

DCxDP - Val’s pretty sure her new boss Jay is actually a crime lord... mostly background Val/Steph, focus on Outsider POV Dead on Main. Val-centric.

Deleted Scenes/ Extras! - 01.15.25* [AO3]

The Infamous Chair Fic (Val/Steph Smut) -01.13.25* [AO3]

Tentacle Smut? In MY Wholesome AU?? (Dead on Main Smut) - 02.09.25* [AO3]

Fanart of Val the awesome @belfry-ghost made before this AU even existed on tumblr, and was just an idea in discord---

FANART OF VAL!!! by the lovely @phantomfen <3

FANART OF MY GIRLS!!! by the antagonistic (/j) @psyscha

Haunted Mansion AU - 11.04.24* [AO3]

DCxYJ - What it says on the tin---Dead tired, with background Dark Ages!

Amazing fanart of Ember's opening scene by my lovely VP @void-of-unparalled-chaos

A Christmas Carol AU - 12.25.24* [AO3]

DCxDP - Christmas Carol Inspired AU where the three Phantom siblings visit a 15 year old Jason just before he decides to go looking for his birth mother.

The Boy in the Mirror - 03.10.25* [AO3]

DCxDP - Tim has noticed something strange about his new brother, how he looks to his left and avoids the mirror. Demon Twins AU. Angst.

Building Graves like Homes - 03.21.25* [AO3]

DP- In which Danny unknowingly builds his own grave...in an unconventional way.

Family Reunion AU - 05.13.25* [AO3]

DCxDP- In which cousins Maddie and Clark try to smuggle their clone children into the family reunion that happens every 5 years and pretend they've been there the whole time to varying successes. Mainly Kid POV.

[eatmoresoupss]

i need to finish my current writing after i finish all my exams but i have another idea for a fic. i’m in a weird space where i want to connect what i research to my obsession w batman stuff. so like, bruce wayne gets primary progressive aphasia (a typically early onset form of dementia that affects only language skills at first). a LOT below the cut.

no one notices because batman’s already very uncommunicative and quiet typically, but he’s losing his grasp on his words, he can’t get them out. he knows them but can’t find them. and bruce already has anger issues so they increase. current canon so alfred’s dead, but maybe a little in the future and damian’s a med student on a neuro rotation and starts seeing this? everyone else is frustrated because they think bruce is falling into old old habits of yell/punch/grunt including damian at first but then he starts making Connections. damian’s secretly talking to his neuro lead and asking the radiologists what PPA looks like on an MRI. maybe bruce gets a little paranoid because he thinks damian’s sneaking around and stuck in his own frustrations thinks damian’s up to something. cue confrontation which ends with damian threatening his dad into getting into the fucking mri/see a neurologist or i won’t talk to you again.

then it’s like “oh” and bruce is distraught bc there’s no way around this. his brain is just degenerating, there’s not really a cure. he sees no point in therapy or treatment to help w the symptoms because it’s still going to eventually kill him. he tries to keep it a secret, tries to get damian to keep it a secret.

damian of course doesn’t want to, and is frustrated w bruce’s lack of perseverance. like father you’re fucking batman. but damain can’t get through to him so he has to bring in the big guns. maybe dick? dick or someone is able to smack sense into him, and bruce works really hard in speech therapy to manage the symptoms. maybe cass and bruce have a moment reflecting on language deprivation and loss.

a big part of PPA treatment is script training where patients work w speech language pathologists to make scripts about things important to them/things they want to be able to say. bruce makes a script for each of his kids. it’s bittersweet because the first time bruce can really communicate with his kids is when his ability to literally communicate is going to deteriorate. i wouldn’t want to end the fic w death, maybe with bruce saying all the scripts to his kids? which would be hard for everyone because another big part of aphasia treatment is to try to not interrupt, especially with scripts, so each kid has to actually sit quietly while bruce talks. it’s burns them inside but bruce’s words are for the first time rigorously planned to explain his emotions and love for his children instead of rigorously planned to trick/deceive like he does as batman/playboy bruce

i’d want all the wayne kids (also maybe steph) to have like a big moment but i’m not sure. maybe with tim he wants bruce to try out something experimental/magical to fix it and gets mad when bruce won’t. (i don’t know much abt tim but ik he’s mr. bruce is still alive ill work w ra’s and he tried to clone his friend). maybe tim tries to leave and bruce has to finally be like “i want you here. i just want you here” which touches on tim’s imposter syndrome stuff

maybe jason to address the idea that kids feel like they have to forgive their terminal parents? he’s still mad and doesn’t forgive bruce but he has either an internal/external force saying he should bc bruce’s dementia will eventually kill him. and in the end he loves bruce but doesn’t forgive him and they both have to accept that.

more w cassie maybe they have a passing of the cowl moment and it’s heartwarming but sad. bruce is giving up batman because of his loss of language and cass’s first steps towards finding her personhood were both the bats and language.

another damian bc i’m biased but like bruce reflecting on damian setting off this series of events. damian who bruce had visions of destroying gotham and the world and who he thought was a plot to destroy him. damian who is now the son that saved him, and set him on this journey. and bruce would also be forced to finally listen to damian, it’s much harder for him to interrupt, and realizing damian’s sweetness and humor and compassion and personality. parallel batman vs robin where now it’s bruce who asks damian to forgive him and damian’s the one who says i already have (because damian is different then jason, damian’s quicker to forgive and both are okay)

for dick i’m honestly not sure what i’d do, maybe dick knowing bruce so well after years and years and being the best at understanding him but also dick who’s relationship with bruce is so so complicated and now only one of them has the words to describe it.

[gnomewithalaptop]

Hmmm.... Young Justice '98 Star Wars AU? Yes? Is this anything?

Look. Just. Hear me out. They all fit in so well. We got:

- experimental Kaminoan Clone-of-a-Jedi-Master Kon-El (who may or may not have an Order 66 Chip stuck in his head)

- Pre Clone Wars Era Padawan Bart Allen, who spontaneously time traveled to the future one day because he fucked around a little too hard with Lothal's Time Cave and then immediately found out (in his defense it was at least 30% Max's fault)

- Rebels-Era Padawan Cassie Sandsmark, who's off doing espionage shit for the Rebellion under the spotty tutelage of the top-secret spy master known only as Troia (she keeps hearing whispers about some kind of new weapons program -- something the higher-ups have been calling "Project Stardust")

- Just-Some-Guy New Mandalorian Tim Drake who stole his dead neighbor's armor and has been wreaking havoc on Imperial shipments ever since (he claims it's more complicated than that, but it really isn't)

Like. They're all off living completely different plots that shouldn't intercept at all, except somehow they keep on running into each other

[cabezadeperro]

2024 in review

I wasn't actually going to do this this year, but what the hell.

2024 has been--weird. I think it's the year I've written the least since 2020, word-wise; it also saw me writing something non-Star Wars related for the first time in four years. These two things may or may not be connected.

Anyhow, this is a pretty short list with five fics that for whatever reason I find the most interesting. They aren't my favourites, they're not the best; but they were hard to write, or I learned something writing them, or I had fun, etc.

half agony, half hope. 34k, codex, T, also known as the persuasion AU though it's more of a homage to one of my favourite novels ever. it was extremely hard to write and it took me a while to get out of my own way and just do it.

you'll like it if you enjoy pining and yearning, smart and competent people so deep inside their own asses they can't see what's right in front of them, the agonies of being 20 and responsible for the lives of millions of people and a clone trooper, jane austen, cody being fucking stupid.

home alone. 2.9k, jango fett/obi-wan kenobi, E. part of my daredevil AU. I don't think it's a very good fic, and I feel too self-conscious to reread it and find out if it's actually bad, but that's okay. The fact that I wrote something like this (that is, something that's quite a bit of my comfort zone for a couple reasons) is good enough imo.

you'll like it if you enjoy fics that are pwp but a bit to the left, trans jango fett, obi-wan being the annoying kind of service top, established relationships and domesticity, superhero AUs that aren't actually about superheroing.

islands. 9.4k, codex + anakin & rex, T. The Force Sensitive Rex fic. I am very proud of this fic. I think it does exactly what I wanted it to do, and I had a lot of fun writing it. I loooove writing these three in different combinations, and I really enjoyed having them interact in such a weird scenario.

you'll like it if you enjoy shrimp emotions, Force Stuff TM, force sensitive clones, fics where there's no Anakin bashing that acknowledge that there is something very wrong with him (affectionate), cody and rex being obsessed with each other, rex being a messed up lil guy.

smoke signals and code. 3.5k, jason todd/tim drake, T. This fic was my return to Batman comics and to this ship after a decade. I think it's kind of rough, but I'm still pretty proud of it, and I had so much fun writing them again and coming back to this world and these characters. In a lot of ways it was very much like coming home.

you'll like it if you enjoy unresolved sexual tension, calculated violence, characters who are too clever for their own good, that very specific brand of fucked-up-ness you find in late 90s/early 00s batman comics, ships that take the trope "enemies to lovers" as a challenge.

irradiated. 1.5k, vader/rex/cody, E. I wrote this as a gift for a friend. It's the kind of fic that is only supposed to be liked by one person--if anyone else enjoys it, that's great, but it is very much tailored for one person's tastes. In this case, that means it is weird as hell. There's a POV change half-way through, it's more of a character/relationship study, it actually doesn't have a plot, it sits right on the border between experimental and presumptuous, I'm not that sure it works. And I had a lot of fun writing it (and my friend liked it ❤️).

you'll like it if you enjoy second person point of view, Vader being weird, a bit of body horror in your not quite smut, open/ambiguous everything, Imperial Era stuff, weird style choices.

[emeraldkarma]

Can I confess something?

Four years ago I wrote a DC X dolphin tale cross over fic.

That's right dolphin tale, yknow the movie based on winter the dolphin with the prosthetic tale.

The whole premise was that tim and cassie (along with the rest of the bat family and wonder woman) were marine biologists who worked at a mermaid aquarium and rescue.

Bruce owns the aquarium, he bought it after his parents died, it use to be like an old marine show with two of its original residents joker and harly quinn. It was a really bad marine park (I took a lot of inspiration from real life orcas and dolphins in captivity) and jockey and harlequin became very aggressive and insane from years of abuse and cramped conditions. (So much so that joker ends up making jason and making him loose his passion for swimming and preforming.

From what I remember the mermaids were

Clark, hal, john, mgann, j'onn, guy and kyle, barry, wally, kon, bart and thaddeus. Atleast those were the main ones

I also vividly remember makeing aquamarine and the other Atlantians human vets because I thought the actual mer people being humans in my mermaid Au was funny.

Basically bruce adopted Dick after his parents passed in an accident in the circus and a few months later wally was brought from another aquarium after being rejected from his mother and was adopted by barry and hal.

Jason got the free willy experience bruce caught him breaking into the aquarium and took him in but when Jason was a teenager he was mauled by joker and stoped swimming with the mers he moved onto become the head of the rescue department.

Tim actually worked in Hawaii after going to school for marine biology. (He'd been going to the gotham aquarium for years and was inspired to take it but the drakes cut him off because of it so he didn't have the money to moveback) he got fired for being a whisle blower to the poor treatment the current Mets were being kept in. Well actually publicly he was let go because m'gann attacked him during a show when she got into a fight with kon.

Damian is still to young to work with the mers but he likes to help dick give tours and help Jason bottle feed seals.

Most of the mers were already residents but bart was actually Orphaned in the wild, because he was so young and still nursing from his mother he became malnourished before wandering too close to gotham harbor and getting tangled in fishing line. Tim and Cassie were new hires and helped nursing him back to health.

Kon and Kyle were both at Luther's marine park with m'gann. Kon is Clark's biological calf from a very experimental cloning experiment that Luther started so he could have a mer like Clark (Clark's mer breed is the biggest known breed but also super rare because they were hunted to near extinction decades erlier) M'gann was separated from her pod in another aquarium and was paired with kon as a tank mate. Kyle was kept in isolation for two years after being "rescued" and couldn't be released becouse he had damaged himself so thoroughly slaming his body into the walls of his iso tank..

Eventually the marine park was shut down when Luther was arrested for tax ivasoin. M'gann was brought back to her aquarium and pod but kon and Kyle sat for almost a year in the same conditions until it was decided they would be moved to gotham aquarium and then another six while Bruce got thing set up to take them in.

They both got there own storyline.

Fourteen year old me was something else I had so much world building for that fic guys... I think I even came up with mers being springy sedentary and picking a set territory in the ocean to live in. Speedsters were a separate breed of mers, the ice villans were separate, Kryptonians were a different breed, martains were a seprate breed that had separate conditions they needed and were also nearly hunted to extinction because humans wanted them for there unique shape-shifting abilities.

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

A Place Where I Can Go Someone Take Me Home

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/HkVrEgj by GhostWriterGirl1 There is a boy at the Wayne Gala. He has black hair with white streaks and blue eyes and is very quiet and sickly. Cass sees him standing close to his father, but after she and Tim find him alone it becomes clear that there’s something more going on here. He may need help, but doesn’t know how to ask for it. There is a girl in Crime Alley. She has blue-streaked black hair and blue eyes and a penchant for vigilantism. Jason fights alongside her after she literally crashes into the warehouse where he was about to bust an arms deal and disappears after the fight. She says she doesn’t need help, but Jason keeps an eye out in case she does. There is a boy in Amity Park. He has black hair and blue eyes and the weight of two worlds on his shoulders. Valerie notices him struggling from the burdens he’s facing, the straining relationship with his parents and the growing tension brewing in Amity Park, that he’s bound to break under the pressure. He needs help, but he might not get it until it’s too late. Until the tension snaps and all three collide together—and find themselves on the radar of a family of bats. Words: 4072, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Danny Fenton, Danielle "Dani" Phantom, Danny Fenton Clones, Vlad Masters, Valerie Gray, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Duke Thomas, Barbara Gordon, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Jazz Fenton, Guys in White | GIW (Danny Phantom) Relationships: Danny Fenton & Danielle "Dani" Phantom, Danny Fenton Clones & Danielle "Dani" Phantom, Danny Fenton Clones & Vlad Masters, Batfamily Members & Batfamily Members (DCU), Danny Fenton & Valerie Gray, Danny Fenton & Tucker Foley & Sam Manson, Danny Fenton & Jazz Fenton, Danielle "Dani" Phantom & Jason Todd, Danny Fenton & Danny Fenton Clones, Jazz Fenton & Jason Todd, Batfamily Members (DCU) & Danny Fenton & Danielle "Dani" Phantom, Batfamily Members (DCU) & Jazz Fenton, Jazz Fenton & Danielle "Dani" Phantom Additional Tags: Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Parental Vlad Masters, Is he a good parent though? That’s… questionable, Vlad Masters Being an Asshole, as per usual, Chronic Pain, Chronic Illness, Does melting into ectoplasm count? I think it counts, Vigilante Danielle “Dani” Phantom, why isn’t that a tag yet?!, Jason Todd is Red Hood, Jason Todd is Good With Kids, Sentient Gotham City, Danielle "Dani" Phantom Has a Water Ghost Core, Jazz Fenton Is So Done, Ecto-Contaminated | Liminal Jazz Fenton, Past Danny Fenton/Valerie Gray, Ecto-Contaminated | Liminal Amity Park Residents (Danny Phantom), Competent Guys in White | GIW (Danny Phantom), Bad Parents Jack and Maddie Fenton, Danny Fenton and Danielle "Dani" Phantom are Siblings, Danny Fenton and Danielle “Dani” Phantom are twins, Why isn’t that a tag yet either?!?!?, Fraids (Danny Phantom), Ghost Cores (Danny Phantom), Lazarus Pits are Ectoplasm (Danny Phantom and DCU), Jason Todd Has a Ghost Core (Danny Phantom), College Student Jazz Fenton, Protective Batfamily (DCU), Protective Valerie Gray, Ecto-Contaminated | Liminal Batfamily Members (Danny Phantom and DCU), Found Family, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Human Experimentation, Body Horror, Dissected | Vivisected Danny Fenton, Anti-Ecto Acts (Danny Phantom), DC Stands for Disregard Canon, Not Phantom Planet Compliant (Danny Phantom), I’m taking what I like from canon and putting it with fanon into a blender and going on high speed, Some Plot, Plot? In my hurt/comfort and found family fic? It’s more likely than you think, no beta we die like danny AND jason read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/HkVrEgj

[vinelark]

me reading chapter four of bbts for the 3rd time this week, begging for timkon recs

i got some for you over here! ❤️

sometimes i feel like i've read way more timkon fics than i have, and i think it's because there are like a dozen story concepts in my friends' dms that i've experienced in ultra 4k HD technicolor inside my brain. like the high fantasy au where tim is embedded in lex luthor's court (as a spy for bruce) and he's "gifted" an experimental kryptonian as a fucked-up loyalty test. or the one where tim is doing some light recon on a top-secret government facility and ends up finding their top-secret superman clone. or the timkon subplot of the OC boyfriend extended universe. the ultra 4k HD technicolor TV inside my brain is a great place to be a timkon fan.

also just for fun, some additional ficlet/comic recs for all your timkon needs:

soft timkon ficlet by puddingcatbeans

clambuoyance's lovesquare au

feyburner's clone misunderstanding

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Scripted Undefeated Bracket — Round 2

Propaganda

Gwendolyn Bouchard (The Magnus Protocol):

She's an overly serious girlboss that for some reason really needs a promotion in the creepiest company to ever exist. Extremely passionate and I want to give her a hug. She is a pathetic and stupid whimpering mess that propably doesn't have any friends, you can't get much sexier than that

Ty Betteridge (WOE.BEGONE):

Ty fucking Betteridge. He’s weird. He’s silly. His love language is unethical time travel experimentation. One of him’s a cowboy-in-training, and another is stealing his coworker-slash-subordinate’s lunch to feed a sad cowbaby for nefarious purposes. He’s used time travel to get multiple phds. His middle name is (allegedly) “Careful”. And, perhaps most relatable to this website, he’s obsessed with Just Some Guy <3

He has a big weakness for cowboys, so when the protagonist shows up as one he struggles (and fails) not to fall in love with him

One version of Ty ran away to Texas to be a cowboy and he has the cutest British cowboy accent ever <3

He occasionally does Tim Curry impressions

One of his torture methods is making the protagonist listen to Arctic Monkeys

He likes to send cute animal pictures to people after he's cut their fingers off

He pretends to get along with his time travel clones well but they fight all the time and talk shit about each other behind their backs

He is so obsessed with the protagonist and his friends that he literally put them into a glass dome to "protect them" but then kept coming over to hang out and have snowball fights

Additional propaganda below the cut:

Gwendolyn Bouchard (The Magnus Protocol):

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

Ty Betteridge (WOE.BEGONE):

He's an unethical time travel scientist who homoerotically tortures the protagonist! What's not to love.

#TY FUCKING BETTERIDGE SWEEP

#he's so funny and horrible and i want to punch him in his stupid face sometimes #but he is undeniably sexy

#love this weirdo

[sparkletastic-cookiedough]

It’s probably backed up by the fact that Tim doesn’t always get away with it.

He knows he can’t lie about how much he’s slept. His family sees the physical signs, and they’d check the camera footage.

He can’t lie about how much coffee he drinks, because Alfred knows about anything anyone eats or drinks in the house. Again, he shows physical symptoms sometimes.

It gives the illusion that Tim isn’t good at lying when he tries to lie about that. “I went to bed early last night” no, we see your laptop activity Tim, you were up till three on a research binge.

But Tim can lie about school. “Oh, it’s a research project for a paper in my science class.” (Tim is on a research binge and has to get away with it somehow)

Tim can lie about the war crimes. “No, Batman, I didn’t intend for all those cultists to die, that would be insane. I could never.” (Tim has the highest kill count of any Robin, and it’s not an accident.)

Tim could lie about the unethical experimentation he’s funding through Wayne Enterprises. “No, this cloning process is for organ donation. I’ve checked over everything and it’s fine.” (Tim knows they’re sort of producing sentient people that are too unstable to live, causing hundreds of deaths, but he wants a backup family in case the originals die. It’s fine, he’s helping hide the evidence, while hiding evidence he hid the evidence.)

Most of the Batkids lie to Batman.

What’s unique about Tim “I lie to Batman” Drake is that he lies *successfully* to Batman.

Damian just states blatant untruths and expects people to believe them. Dick puts on a good act, but it can’t fool his family, even if they won’t call him out on it. Jason’s emotions are too easy to read, even with his helmet on. Cass lies with her words, but never with her body. Duke lacks self-awareness of his insanity and thus doesn’t try to hide any of it. Steph and Barbara don’t even bother, because Batman has no authority over her whatsoever.

Tim, though? He was raised by boarding schools and nannies and practically incentivized to lie to adults. He’s so earnest and well-meaning that everyone expects him to be a compulsive truth-teller, and he weaponizes it like the little gremlin he is. And when that isn’t enough, he knows how to spin things just right that they don’t quite sound like an untruth.

[stealingyourbones]

Danny is taken in by the Batfam for protection (Jazz asked when she realized she can't do it all on her own anymore) and is surprised when for the first time the scientific curiosity he is met with isn't malicious but simply out of a desire to keep him happy and healthy. (And Jazz is relieved that for once she can have a good night sleep knowing her little brother is safe, also that Jason seemed protective enough of him to help her convince Batman to take her baby brother in. Also he was kinda cute)

!!!! Oh man this would be such a great possible H/C or Fluff fic idea. Danny freaking the fuck out because he has had very bad experiences with scientists and experimentation in the past.

Experimentations and tests that are actually non invasive and aren’t considered technical war crimes.

Cass battling Danny’s clones to help with his endurance in the skull, also to practice his focus and fighting techniques

Tim and Bruce doing a bunch of medical testing to see how being part ghost and human has affected him so they can properly create working medication for his human and ghost side.

Lots of fun researching sessions with various batfam members in Ghost Writers book collection for knowledge about possible biology (necrology? Is that a thing? Idk?) stuff for Danny.

Tim having a BLAST trying to see the extent of how he can control computers via possessing them.

Tests on:

How fast he can fly/run

How quickly can he turn intangible and if there are any limitations via just Danny walking through random shit.

If he’s detectable on any form of camera/sensor when he is invisible.

Can he minimize the constant glow around him that’s ever so constant when he’s in ghost form

How intricate can he make his ice sculptures and what’s the extent of his ice abilities though many many trials and tests

If he is eldritch, maybe how fuckin eldritch can he go and can he control that eldritch form to appear gradually or nah

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Don't Tap the Glass

by JpegDotJpeg “Do not engage,” Batman ordered. “I’m heading to your location now to confirm and take care of it.” “Well…” Tim chewed on the words sitting under his teeth. “It's- the weapon isn’t really an ‘it.’ More of a ‘he.’” Words: 6121, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types, DCU Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Tim Drake (DCU), Bruce Wayne, Kon-El | Conner Kent Relationships: Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Kon-El | Conner Kent Additional Tags: toeing the line between platonic and romantic w this one, read it however you want, Unethical Experimentation, cloning, Mad Science, non-sexual nudity, Tactile Telekinesis (DCU), Tim Drake is Robin (DCU), loosely based off episode 1 of the yj cartoon, Mentioned Clark Kent, Asphyxiation, almost, then he's fine, Non-Consensual Drug Use, (it is lab experiment kon-el being sedated), Tim Drake Causes Problems, and he doesn't care, Baby's First Trip Outside, Kon-El | Conner Kent Thinks He is Superman via https://ift.tt/NmjHVSa