#deadlights

[pixiatn]

Another Duke & Danny prompt curtsey of me😚 yw💖

Basically Duke and Danny already know each other and started dating before Duke officially got taken in by Bruce and became a part of the Batfam. The Batfam is vaguely aware that Duke is seeing someone but whenever it's brought up it's shut down with a "he's very shy" or a "he doesn't live in Gotham" all they know is his name is Danny.

Flash forward a couple of weeks/months half the Batfam's captured by cultist trying to summon the ghost king, they succeed but the Eldritch being they called upon just appears disinterested and bored asf. The cult leader starts to panic abit and presents one of their many sacrifices to him, unfortunately for them it was Duke that was presented to him and the monster goes ballistic. By the time the rest of the Batfam gets there, the cultist have already been taken care of (whether they passed out from shock or ran away) and the monster turns it attention back to Duke not paying any mind to the other bats

The Bats can only watch in fear as a being of unimaginable horror picks up the second youngest member of the team and smiles at him with a grin far too wide and sharp for pure intentions. Their fears grow as the monster brings their teammate up to it's face and-

"S̸̯͇͝t̸̢͌a̸͇͑r̶̜͋̊l̴̖͔̀̋i̶̛̮̚g̵̥̺̃͗h̵̯̒ͅt̵͈̝̚!"

Pulls Duke into an impromptu face hug? Ok weird. Even weirder when Duke starts softly laughing and when pulled away from the creature, the Batfam can see he has a fond smile on his face

"Hi Danny"

-Record Scratch-

Hold the fucking phone-

DANNY? As in DUKES MYSTERIOUS BOYFRIEND DANNY?!

Jaws are dropped, tears are shed, minds are fucking blown over the fact that, Duke Thomas, 2nd youngest member of the Batfam, is dating a fucking Eldritch God

Basically:

[help-i-need-a-cool-username]

I was gonna make a post how it would be cute if ghosts had petnames for each other that were ghost themed. "Boo" is a obvious choice. The only other one i could think of was "spooky", which has led to me laughing at the image of Danny calling his DC love interest "spooky" in front of Hal "my nickname for Batman is 'Spooky'" Jordan

[suzukiblu]

Danny/Duke(DeadLights or GhostLights), "I'll be waiting... time after time."

Duke found something weird on patrol today. He’s day shift, obviously, but near the end of his shift . . . 

Well, something weird happened. 

Or he saw something weird, more like. 

He saw something weird that’d already happened, maybe. Or . . . was happening? Was about to happen? 

It was hard to tell, for some reason. Like the time didn’t . . . flow quite right. Like the light was reflecting wrong.

So now he’s crouched in the back of the darkest alley he could feel in reasonable range, and he’s holding a tiny, tiny wisp of a thing, a faint little gossamer-fragile globe. It’s . . . light, he thinks. It looks like light. Behaves like it, a little. 

But it behaves like light that he’s using his powers on, not light that just exists. 

So that’s . . . new, yeah. 

Huh. 

Duke doesn’t know why, but he’s worried about the little light. Like it’s about to go out, and like it’d be bad if it went out. 

He wonders . . .

He wraps the darkness around himself better, and thinks of it like a cradle, for some reason. Some reason he can’t quite pin down for himself. The little light flickers, thready and inconstant. It makes him think of a heartbeat, even in the silence, and he wraps more darkness around himself. 

Wraps more darkness around . . . them, some part of him thinks. 

Yeah. “Them”. 

Huh. 

Gotham is never silent unless things are going very wrong, of course. And this is a light, not a heartbeat. Not a . . . 

No. It’s not a heartbeat. 

It’s a heart. 

Duke puts the gentlest spark of illumination on the very tip of his finger and very, very lightly touches the heart’s gossamer-lit surface. It sparks. 

It gleams. 

He sees something like veins on its surface and electric illumination inside it, and something alive all the way through it. Or . . . close to alive. Almost the same as alive.

Well. Maybe not alive, but . . . close enough to count, he thinks. 

Yeah. Definitely close enough to count. 

“It’s okay. I got you,” Duke says, and he doesn’t mean to say it that way, really, but it comes out like he’s talking to a lost little kid. He’s used to that, given the job, but he’s not sure why he’s doing it now. 

But also it’s just–what he’s doing. He doesn’t know why, but it’s what he’s doing. 

Is this . . . this is a person, isn’t it. But is this a person and also a kid? 

He doesn’t know how he knows that, but–it is, isn’t it. This is a kid. A kid who’s gossamer-frail and weak and flickering. 

Okay, well . . . he has to do something about that, then. 

He doesn’t know what exactly he does need to do. It’s . . . there’s something that he needs to do, he knows. Something that he can do. 

He wraps more darkness around them both, twisting the shadows up around them. He makes something like a nest, or maybe an actual cradle after all, and he lets it all interweave into something safe and strong and secure. He doesn’t know what he’s doing, but he knows he has to do something, and the best he’s got is trying to follow his instincts. Listen to what the light is . . . not saying, exactly, but wants. 

It wants safe. It wants strong. It wants secure. It wants–

“Hey,” a voice says, and Duke looks up and sees a floating silhouette that burns like starlight outside his cradle of shadows, a spiked crown illuminating the air above its head and a burning ring engulfing its right hand. It looks like it’s about to burst into a supernova; like it could destroy worlds. 

It’s a really cute guy about his age with electric green eyes and milk-white hair in a black hazmat suit. 

. . . okay, sure. This might as well happen, Duke thinks. 

“You two need some help down there?” the guy asks, and the little gossamer light glows. 

. . . well, all things considered, Duke’s done crazier things than ask a really cute supernova for childcare tips.

[jackdaw-and-hattrick]

Just because Dead on Main and Deadlights are two wildly different ships with drastically different dynamics doesn’t mean I can’t fully support both.

[stormikitty]

DPxDC PROMPT:

Danny starts making podcasts about space.

DC guy of your choice listens to Danny in the background while working on stuff.

Danny gets a new boyfriend who already loves his voice and has spent hours at a time listening to him talk about space.

[s-c-g-s-c-g]

Friday Fic Recs

So, somehow, despite not reading much DC x DP lately I have fallen into reading one uncommon ship enough to make a rec list. Danny Fenton/Duke Thomas fans, this one's for you, have some fic recs, arranged in order of wordcount and all containing some kind of evil cult summoning gone wrong.

assigned husband at ritual by aryelee

Accidental marriage! Evil cult summoning gone wrong! This one's really cute! The screw up is genuinely fun and I love how Duke takes everything in stride once it becomes clear Danny's not evil. This entire one shot is sweet and heartfelt.

Yes, He's the King of the Infinite Realms of the Dead, But He's Also an Introvert by bongo_balderdash

In hindsight, maybe they should've asked if this mysterious boyfriend was human first. Duke dating someone and just forgetting to mention it brings me joy. I love the vibe of their relationship here, they've been dating for a while, they've long moved past any serious worries about eldritch traits or ghost king stuff. Duke also has some little shit energy going on, which I appreciate.

Wearing Such a Heavy Crown by TheWritingOwl

The Court of Owls had been targeting the Robins for a while now. This one takes on a slightly more serious tone than the other recs. I really like that both Danny and Duke seem to be in similar places emotionally here, they're both alone and feel very much like they're facing a world much bigger than they are. The quiet care they show each other is very sweet. I can really see the beginnings of a relationship between them.

[kalsiferdraws]

Day 7: Canon divergence!

Eddie got stuck in the deadlights!

[w0oin]

Danny and Duke are roomies, they are close and very attracted to each other.

Duke who is in love doesn't know how to comfort his crush also assumed the said crush to be disowned for being a queer: Y'know one of my brothers came out as Bi, is now dating his blonde boyfriend- and I'm pretty all of my brothers and sister are part of the lgbtq community

Danny who is disowned by his parents for being a ghost who is openly pan: oh. That's must be nice...?

Duke *internally screaming*: so uh, you don't have to y'know... Feel like y'know.

Danny doesn't know how to reply without sounding confused but still does: Oh..okay?

Duke obviously noticed and found it strange...,thought Danny is dense and smack his head for not figuring that out, the dude didn't even noticed he was being kidnapped before: um nevermind- it's just-

Duke just said it Thomas: would you go out with me?

Danny who is finally thought he got it Fenton: Oh. Oh-? OH! I- um sure! I mean why not?

And now they're on a date with three stalker following them around then got interrupt by a villain attack.

[dcxdp-ghostlights]

Prompt Submissions for the first event!

The first event on this blog will be Blind Date With A Prompt!

For this event, participants will use a random prompt generator (to be made and shared soon) to create a piece of fanwork centered around Duke Thomas and Danny Fenton. The relationship can be depicted as platonic or romantic, so long as the focus is on the two of them. Additional characters may also be added, so long as they are not the focus of the piece.

Before we can get into all that, though, we need to get prompts for the event! Here (and linked below) is the form where you can submit up to three prompts.

Please keep prompts short, between one word and one sentence.

Examples are: "River" + "Kidnapping" + "Danny fights Duke"

Prompt submissions will be open for a week!

(Submissions via form will be open from 3/15/24 - 3/22/24)

[mango-sp1ce]

I’ve seen some tags for Duke X Danny.

like #deadlights, or #ghostlight

I just really like their themes so here, lemme say like 50; these can also be cool fic titles (some of these are just jokes, or might be taken by other ships)

NightLight

StarShine

if you put their hero names you get PhantomSignal which is… kinda cute

EctoSignal

ShiningSpirit

SpaceSight

Polter-Gaze (get it? Poltergeist. Gaze. It’s a pun)

GhostSightings

(this one’s just a funny joke) I See Dead People

DeadEyes

GraveGaze

SolarLights (a bit of a stretch, but people put these on graves!)

(another joke, this time phasmaphobia) SpiritOrbs

SpiritSight

SeeingStars

SpiritSignal

GhostBusters (Who you gonna call? Ghost Busters!)

SolarFlare (oh look, a space based thing that has to do with light. Cool.)

(I have to get these out of my system;) Starry Lemon-Lime|Canada Dry|7up

[a-blind-bat]

GhostLights Event: Blind Date With a Prompt - @dcxdp-ghostlights

and With the Stars as Our Witness

Edit: I forgot the prompts…

Prompts: Fanasty AU | Gala

*~*~*~*~*~*

Danny wasn’t a fan of these galas. He felt suffocated being in a room with so many people. Royals, legends, and the wealthy all gathered in one place for a celebration. The bustling of conversation along with the low buzz of music coming from a band in the corner mixed together to create one sound that bangs at Danny’s ears.

Sam had dragged him and Tucker along with her. She was forced to attend on account of her parent’s wishes and she would be damned if she had to suffer through it alone. Only seventeen minutes into the party, though, Sam got trapped in a conversation with some earl and Tucker was showing off some of his inventions to potential patrons, leaving Danny to try and entertain himself. Irony is a funny little thing. So here he is, awkwardly standing in a corner and trying to drown out his boredom with extremely expensive wine.

He should’ve made up an excuse, acted like there was a life-threatening emergency to attend to. He would rather be fighting a dragon over experiencing this party for a second longer. Even if it was a Wayne Gala, which was always praised to the high heavens, he found the party to not live up to the legend. The head of the house, Bruce Wayne, was easy to spot. He was always crowded around various wealthy participants, all laughing and chatting their heads off. He did not envy Ser Bruce, seeing as he had to interact with so many people. Even watching the crowd made him tired. The longing warmth of his bed filled his mind as he absentmindedly swirled the red wine around in the glass.

A sharp sound of metal repeatedly hitting glass pierces his ears, and he looks up from the pool of red to see an old man dressed in a black suit befitting those in wealthy circles. He was standing on the stairs and tapping a spoon against a wine glass. The crowd quiets down to a murmur as the old man clears his throat.

“I welcome everyone to our humble estate, we are gathered here to celebrate our newest addition to the Wayne linage. "

Right, the whole reason anyone was even here in the first place. The Wayne family had gained another child. Not through birth, but through adoption. Bruce Wayne was famous for picking unfortunate children off the streets of Gotham and adopting them into his luxurious life. This was his fifth…sixth kid? Danny had lost count. The rich really could afford everything.

“Chosen by Ser Bruce Himself, we welcome Duke Thomas,”

A roar of applause filled the ballroom as a person Danny presumed was Duke came walking down the stairs. Danny didn’t know what the new kid looked like. He was expecting another black-haired, blue-eyed, perfect prince archetype, seeing as the rest of the ones that were adopted were similar. But Duke was different.

The whole crowd was quiet except for the band, who played music to accompany Duke’s descent down to the ground floor. His smile was bright and blinding, and Danny could swear there was this light surrounding him, emitting off of him and surrounding him like the wings of an angel. He was dressed in yellow, gold, and black, his outfit befitting one of a prince. Halfway down, Duke’s gaze met Danny’s. The other boy's eyes turned from brown to golden and Danny had this urge to run towards Duke, to hold him and get to know him. It wasn’t a feeling he had ever felt before; it was terrifying.

Duke looked away as he finally reached the ballroom floor. The surrounding guests rushed to greet him and present their own gifts. No doubt a way to buy themselves into the good graces of Duke and Bruce. The old man coughed to gain the attention of the guests once again.

“I know you're all excited to get to know him, and what better way to get to know someone than with a dance!”

The party erupts into a roar as the band starts to play a sweet and romantic melody. Duke is immediately swept into the chaos as the dance floor becomes filled with waltzing couples. Before Danny could think, his feet were carrying him to the dance floor, his eyes fixated on Duke Thomas, who was currently enrolled in a dance with a nice young lady in a peach-pink dress.

As soon as Danny stepped into the dancing crowd, he got pulled into the arms of a young woman in a beautiful red gown. They twirl around a bit and he loses his Duke in the crowd. He looks across the ballroom floor for him as he dances around, eyes darting from one person to the next. He finally spots Duke with a different lady. This one is wearing a glimmering dark green gown, her smile big as they dance around. Duke looks around above the head of the woman and his eyes soften once they meet Danny’s. Duke twirls the lady around with one hand and lets her go, twirling her right into the arms of another lady as he bows to her. Danny lets go of the woman in his arms and bows to her, walking off towards Duke. Duke gets swept up into another dance with a nice gentleman in a fancy blue outfit adorned with jewels. They twirl and twirl before the gentleman spins Duke around with one hand. Once the spin ends, they both bow, leaving Danny an opportunity to finally dance with Duke. Danny felt various tingles shoot up through his arms as his hands interlocked with Duke’s. It was exhilarating. He had never felt this way with anyone before. It was even more strange as he had never seen Duke Thomas before.

Now that Danny is closer, he can get a good look at Duke. Duke’s a little shorter than he expected, maybe an inch or two below Danny. Beauty marks sparsely cover his face and a small scar across his left brow. His brown eyes were no longer brightly golden, but Danny could see tiny gold specks floating around in his dark brown eyes. He was beautiful, and Danny could feel his heart race. His cheeks felt hot and yet he felt as if he was completely at peace.

“Do you ever not stare?” Duke asks, a smile accompanying his question.

Danny laughs. “Don’t act like you weren’t looking for me as well.”

“It’s quite hard to look away from someone who’s glowing green. "

Danny steps back a bit too far and steps on someone’s foot. He quickly apologizes and leans in close to Duke.

“I glow?”

“Do you not know? Your eyes, they shimmer this toxic green sometimes. I was inclined to think you were magic. "

Everyone knows magic users don't receive warm welcomes in the kingdom of Gotham. So being accused of being magic was a big deal. While magic users may not get burned at the stake, there’s still prejudice and if they find out Danny can do magic-.

“I can feel your panic. No need to worry.” Duke’s eyes turn into a shiny golden. “I’m magic as well,”

“Is that why I was so drawn to you?”

“Perhaps, seems like magic souls seek each other out. "

“I just realized you don't know my name. They call me Danny.”

“‘Danny’? I like it, I think it fits you, I’m Duke, you already know that but I still like to introduce myself. "

“It's nice to meet you, Duke. "

They waltz together for what seems like forever. Until Duke speaks up again.

“Do you like stars, Danny?”

“I like the stars, yes,”

“Then I have something to show you if you’ll be so kind as to let me”

Danny nods and Duke slips them both away from the party. He leads the other boy to a balcony, out of immediate sight of the rest of the partygoers. The yellow light of the ballroom pours out onto the balcony, clashing with the dark of the night. The night sky is littered with shimmering stars, the light cast from the bright stars shining down on Duke makes him look like he’s in a romantic painting.

“I rarely like these big parties. When I get overwhelmed, I tend to sneak out here. I thought maybe you would like it. The stars always looked lovely up here. "

Danny loved it, the stars dancing around in the sky. Glowing so bright, so far, yet so close. He looked back at Duke, the stars twinkling in his eyes alongside the golden specks. Duke was lovely.

“You glow as well,”

Duke’s attention switched back to Danny, one eyebrow raised and a worried expression on his face. He looked down at himself, trying to find this glow Danny was talking about.

“I don’t think anyone else can see it. "

“We see in each other what others can not, sounds like a poem to me. "

“You like poems?”

“Sometimes,”

Silence filled the air again, but it wasn’t uncomfortable. It was nice. Danny acknowledged how strange his feelings towards Duke were. They had only just met, not even spending an hour together, and yet he was so drawn to him, like a moth to a flame. It was intoxicating and so free to be in the presence of someone he had never seen before tonight.

“Do you feel it too?”

Duke doesn’t even have to explain. Danny knows what he means. The magnetic pull drew him closer and closer. The glow in Duke’s eyes shows a part of him that no one else knows. The comfort and peace he feels just being near each other. He had never felt anything like this before. It scared him and he wanted to dive headfirst into this feeling. To know more about the magic boy next to him.

"Was afraid you didn't,"

Duke smiled at his answer, and Danny was no longer in a hurry to get home. His bed could wait. And if they shared a kiss that night, the stars would not tell.

*~*~*~*~*~*

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[pixiatn]

Duke and Danny is a severely underrated/underutilized duo in DP X DC crossover fics and in this essay I will-

[help-i-need-a-cool-username]

Currently obsessed with the idea of the bats mistaking Danny for some kinda pit creature

Danny sucks the pit waters out Jason? Pit Vampire

Danny showing up in all his otherworldly glory to save the day? Pit Angel

Danny now has shapeshifting added to his ghost power repertoire? Pit Werewolf

Jason wanting to please his new (secret) ghost just-a-friend? Pit Incubus who has ensnared their brother and must be stopped before he gets the rest of them. It might be too late already. Tim thinks he's hot and Damian blushes when they talk about him. Steph saw a pic and got heart eyes. Duke gets flustered when he admits Danny's funny. Dick and Babs might end up as their last line of defense. Bruce is not looking forward to possibly giving his children The Talk. He's put it off this long and he'd like to postpone it forever. Maybe he'll get Clark to do it. The fact Superman knows about their love life should scare his kids into never ever having sex ever

[suzukiblu]

Another "give a ship a baby" meme fill, this one featuring Duke/Danny and a very weird end of shift experience for the Signal.

as if he has saved all mankind

[whoreinadegradingway]

The Morning

Hey, duke who’s this, Dick said holding up a few old looking photos. Duke gasp because he knew he had those pictures hidden, that means Dick went through his stuff, “why were you going through my stuff”. “What? No I wasn’t” Dick looked highly offended by my accusation of him going through my room. “I know right where I hid them, you would have been looking to find them”. I said trying not to remember the day that the photos were taken. “Why did you hide them” I looked at Dick like he was crazy he knew better then anyone not to ask questions like that. “ They hold some bad memories” I said shaking what happened out of my head. “You both look happy” he added “Well it didn’t last” I snapped. After that he left me alone. I could only remember what happened after to photos what had happened to the love of my life, the dare, the accident, how I was forced to leave. When I had gone back to my room, Dick had returned the photos almost imminently, I saw a letter. It was about the kings coronation, I laughed quietly not thinking my love would go this far. I was going. To the crowning of Danial Fenton or Danny Phantom or Danial Nightingale whichever works.

TIME SKIP

Dick had told no one about the pictures seeing how upset they had made Duke.

I got ready in the hotel room that I had got Bruce to rent for me saying I needed some time away. I would be teleported via invite to my loves crowning, to say he was shocked when he saw me was an understatement.

We had the time of our lives we danced and drank and partied and all of the other things. Danny asked me to stay with him, not like that get your head outta the gutter. I have known Danny forever we were always meant to be married. I knew that because Danny was now king tomorrow wedding planing would start, can’t say I was sad i’ve been waiting my whole life for this. I planned to tell my family that this was a well earned vacation, it was but i would be coming back married to the king of the infinite realms who was just a baby enriched god but he would be massive. The ghost already saw me kind of as his “wife” I didn’t mind. Was Jazz wooing Cass in the mortal world, yes did they both deserve they love that came from that relationship, yes, yes they did. Let’s just say a few years later after learning I was married, they also learnt who was in the photos.

[vodkaandsnakes]

On this day, April 6, in Type O Negative history:

Type O Negative play the Ogden Theatre with Coal Chamber, Full Devil Jacket, and The Deadlights in Denver, CO (2000)

Type O Negative play the Newport Music Hall in Columbus, OH (2007)