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[rin-may-1103]

Aspiring Escape Artist (part two)

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"Why don't we all head inside, yes?" Mr. Wayne suggested, waving his arm in the doors general direction.

"Yes, that sounds great," Ms. Clance agreed, turning to Danny like she was debating whether or not she should drag him inside. Danny was very against that idea and glared at her. She huffed but turned and started making her way up the stairs.

The other, he can't really say kids because he's pretty sure half the people standing in front of him were over the age of eighteen, but they still lived with Mr. Wayne, apparently, so kids it was. The other kids continued to try to stealthily watch him as they made their way into the building. (He refused to call this place a house; it was bigger than Sam's manor for Ancients' sake.)

The gray-eyed girl waited for him, the not-so-happy but happy sparkle back as she watched him approach. Pausing for a moment, Danny turned and gently patted the bush closest to him, it had been practically begging for attention for the past ten minutes and Sam would have throttled him if he had just ignored it.

She treated them like demented puppies, and it's against every unspoken law (in danny's books, atleast) to ignore a puppy.

The gray-eyed girl (man, he was going to have to learn their names, Ancients, why were there so many people here?) tilted her head curiously, eyeing the plant he just patted.

"My friend has plant powers," Danny huffed, which was true. Sam still had lingering plant control and a connection to the green because of Undergrowth. Danny was just leaving out the fact that he also had plant powers. He wasn't sure why he always got new powers after beating new powerful ghosts, but it happens, and now he needs to pet the plants because they get sad if he doesn't.

(Jazz theorized once that the new powers were due to his half-a nature, but then they looked at Vlad and decided it was probably something else.) (Also, why in the world did he get ice powers and then almost immediately plant powers? like, seriously, why?)

"Close friend?" Gray asked, turning to follow Danny inside.

"One of my best friends," Danny agreed. Man, he missed them. He'd have to figure out how to get out of here soon; there was no way he was going to just not see his friends on Tucker's birthday. Which meant he had about a week to bust out of here and get back to Amity. Oh, and stay under the radar so Vlad doesn't find him.

Glancing around the entry hall, or was the term foyer? like, the place was fancier then most five star hotels he's seen (which he wants to make clear, was against his dying wishes. fuck vlad and his not hard earned money.) like, sure, it wasn't all white modern minimalist like the hotels, but he's pretty sure the vase just sitting a little too close to the edge of a table was worth more then a human heart on the black market.

"Welcome to Wayne Manor," Mr. Pennyworth started, closing the doors with a heavy thud. He didn't lock it, though, Danny noted. Probably because Ms. Clance still needed to leave.

"may I have your coats?" he asked, holding out his arm to Ms. Clance and looking over to Danny. Ms. Clance immediately started to shrug off her jacket and dropped it onto his arm without a second glance, trying to talk to Mr. Wayne about an office or something.

Danny shook his head, "No thanks. I prefer to keep my things with me." especially in a new place, who knows what they'd do to his stuff. last time he handed anything over it had been locked up and never returned. (or well, not returned until he stole it back right before leaving, but that's getting into semantics.)

"So, Daniel was it?" the older guy from the first three asked, smiling brightly and trying to act casual. He was failing.

"It's Danny," Danny huffed, glancing around to study the others.

Gray was nice, he had a feeling they'd get a long fine. she was like an open book, all her opinions and emotions right there for him to see. Though that just meant she was awear of them and could easily hide them.

The others not so much.

Eyebags looked tired but alert, watching Danny like he was a new puzzle. Which was fine, Danny could deal with that. He probably wasn't as bad as Jazz or his parents were when obsessed with new things, so he goes lower on the list but not off.

Mr. Casual over here was watching him AND the others, which meant he was probably the peacekeeper. That or he was the one who antagonized the others into acting without them noticing. Same as eyebags, then.

Blondie looked like she was planning how to prank him right then and there, but also like she was evaluating him for something. Like he thought earlier, she'll probably stick around until she gets bored. So, hmmm. Keep an eye on more than eyebags, but probably not a problem.

there was a kid maybe two-three years younger than him trying to hide on the stairs out of view, he looked pissed off and annoyed. Something was telling Danny he should stay away from him. So, definitely going to the top of his list right next to butler man.

And finally, Mr. Wayne. He was smiling and chatting with Ms. Clance like he didn't have a care in the world. And it would have been believable if it wasn't for the fact that the man was easily steering the conversation away from the stuff Ms. Clance wanted to talk about, without Danny around, before leaving. Which means Mr. Wayne wanted Danny to be part of the conversation, probably to get both sides of the story.

He was smart and knew how to manipulate situations without people catching on.

Also, top of the list, then.

"Only people who want to kill me call me Daniel," Danny added, watching as Ms. Clance tried to bring up his file and fell for another diversion.

"Really?" Eyebags asked, actually surprised for some reason.

Oh, wait, murder isn't normal. Ha, to live a normal life. It must be boring. Couldn't be him, even if he wanted it. There was nothing normal about growing up with mad scientists, and nothing normal about being half dead and a vigilante.

"Yeah, my friends and I made a chart and everything. Granted, we didn't have many people to add to the list to compare with, but it's checked out so far." Danny admitted, turning to face Eyebags.

Honestly, it was just Vlad, his parents, a few GIW agents, and those very few times his friends almost killed him. But come on, they all called him Daniel at some point. Therefore, it totally checks out.

"Huh," Mr. Casual blinked, glancing at his siblings before shaking his head. "Right, so uh, why do people want to kill you?"

"Because they're Fruit Loops," Danny grumbled, finally deciding to approach Ms. Clance. Might as well get this done and over with. The longer she stayed, the less time Danny would have to scout the place by himself later, after all the introductions.

Next (to be written)

[that-weird-thing-in-the-woods]

•~{ Heyyyy, So I realized I haven’t made a post mostly about Dani and Dan soo I fixed that :) }~•

The Sun and Moon

The JL needed help.

To be specific they needed powerful magical help, A new cult had started up somewhere near metropolis and they had started to steal different things in the past the JL just thought that they were selling the things they stole as they found no connection with the objects so they treated it like a normal group of thief’s.

Until they got a tip about a cult summoning so they fly over to stop it but they are to late and the beings that the cult is summoned and it has started to cause violent storms and extremely dangerous earthquakes and several other very deadly natural disasters all around the world.

So some of the JL and JLD are in the watchtower trying to find a way to stop the being but nothing is coming to mind until Constantine sighs and starts to draw a summoning circle with many runes but the only runes the JL can tell what they are is a Sun and Moon.

Than Constantine pulls two pendants out of his coat and puts them in the middle of the circle and takes a large step back with a determined but sacred face and than the circle starts to glow then a large blast of wind out of the circle and they see two figures one young female and one young male than they say.

“You called us, what do you have to trade?”

-•—••••••••••••••••—•-

•Background•

Danny has become the Ancient of space, wait let’s go back a bit.

Danny life has been fine, his parents accepted him but is it is really awkward and they always look at him with pity and guilt so it’s hard to be around him and with Jazz gone off to college there’s no one else in the house to talk too.

But at least Danny still has Sam and Tucker to talk too and with Dan redeemed and either traveling with Dani or with Clockwork in the Ghost Zone anyway with Sam gone with her parents off to a rich people thing and Tucker at a family reunion Danny is kinda feeling alone.

But it quickly becomes resolved as Dan and Dani came back to Amity Park to visit Danny and everything felt nice and calm.

Until Dani and Dan get taken by Vlad when they were about to go to nasty burger and Vlad takes them to make “better” clones of Dani as she was the only one of the clones to live longer then 10 minutes and Dan as his biologically could help keep the clone alive longer.

But Danny finds out fast and books it to Vlad’s house to get Dani and Dan His Children back and if Danny can beat the shit out of Vlad he wouldn’t be upset but Danny gets their too late and Danny is forced to de-aged Dani and Dan to keep them existing.

And to make sure Dani and Dan who have been renamed Dawn and Dusk stay safe and to make sure this doesn’t happen again [because Vlad is a vengeful fucker who refers to stay down] so he heads to The Ghost Zone then books it to clockwork and ask him what he should do.

Thats when Clockwork says that Danny should stay in his lair with the now twins and he’ll know what to do soon.

So Danny listens and with the children head to his lair and fall asleep.

-•—••••••••••••••••—•-

•Little Facts•

•Dawn and Dusk help / give favors for trades

•John didn’t want to call the Sun and Moon Ancients as they are known to “play” around with humans

•Danny mostly sleeps or is very sleepy because of how big he is

•The Beings that was summoned was vortex and undergrowth 

•Dawn and Dusk call Danny “Mama”

•Danny mostly stays in his large Space form

-•—••••••••••••••••—•-

•Appearances•

Dawn-

[ Dawn has a lot of gold jewelry that she was given by her Mama and by Dusk ]

Dusk-

[ Dusk’s star coat was given to him by his mama it is made out of real stars ]

This is the pendants

•~{ And that’s it! Hope you gremlins like this anyway until next time byeeee }~•

[dclovesdanny]

DcxDp prompt

I want an au where the GIW did something when trying to recreate the Fenton portal, and upset the entire balance of the world. Their universe became so stabilized that very few people managed to survive, i.e. members of Amity Park had a 50-50 shots of surviving, Jaz, Danny, Tucker, Sam, Ellie and Valerie all survived, but were injured. Fix this and how’s the new souls, most of them were sent to be reborn with no memories of their past life in Gotham. However, Danny and his people stay in the zone for a while, each of them getting training from different people.(Danny, getting training for becoming the ancient of space, undergrowth, training, Sam, Tucker dealing with the whole reincarnation thing he went through the first time and figuring out his powers, Jaz training with the yeti and frostbite, as well as with a few other psychologists in the zone, Valerie, maybe going to train with Walker? IDK they just have some vibes to me. Allie definitely traveled throughout the entire zone and Indered herself to everyone.)

I don’t know why, maybe the zone needs them out, maybe they’re human needs are being hindered by the zone, but they have to leave the zone and go to the Gotham world, where almost everyone they knew has been reincarnated and does not know that or anything about them.

I want them to arrive in Gotham, and then find out that most of the people who they knew are either villains or heroes, with a few scattered people who are not technically involved, but are adjacent.

I want everyone who is reincarnated to meet these people and have a strange feeling of déjà vu and maybe maybe even treat them a little bit similar to how they were treated before. Like Vlad being reincarnated as Ra’s Al ghul, and when he sees Danny, he has the overwhelming urge to adopt him.

It’s even better if they all have their ages messed with for some reason, so now Jazz is 25, Val is 12, Sam and Tucker are 10-11, and Danny and Ellie are 3-5, bonus points if they are seen as the same age.

Idk but I think this is just neat

[radiance1]

A Dp x Dc idea that isn't Danny-centric!? Say it ain't so!

So I think that this'll be a relatively short one but anywho.

Pariah Dark forcing the entirety of Amity Park into the ghost zone did not come without consequences, even with the ghost shield the Fenton's put over the town.

Said consequences come in the form of the entire basically becoming a ghost portal in and of itself. It mostly happened slowly over time, with the town experiencing quakes that spread quakes that lead to the Ghost Zone.

Everyone had to evacuate when it got really bad, well, mostly everyone. You see, Sam didn't want to leave Amity Park at all so he tried to find ways to convince her parents to let her stay even if said city was basically crumbling.

Then she had an idea.

What if she became one of Undergrowths allogenes? (taken from genshin impact)

So she persuaded (read: bullied) Danny into taking her to him so they could make a deal and let her stay in Amity. Undergrowth was surprisingly accommodating to the both of them, what with Danny becoming the new Ghost Prince and Sam already leaving a good impression on him.

He gave her a task, take this seed and place it within the middle of Amity Park and watch over it until it fully grows, then, and only then, will he accept her as one of his allogenes.

So Sam very obviously took said seed, said yes, and went to plant it.

The center of Amity Park was basically a giant ghost portal, it was small, at first. But with each and every quake it expanded and expanded until it couldn't be ignored anymore, so after Danny and Sam got back and went to it, Sam just dropped the seed in the middle of it and watched it sink.

Luckily Overgrowth gave her a proper method she should follow to ensure its growth, at the very least.

It took 4 years for the seed to grow, 4 years of relative isolation for Sam. Danny was usually busy with High Prince duties, what with being summoned and the likes, while Tucker was busy with taking over the outside world.

They still made time for her however.

When it grew Undergrowth gave her praise, not many would willingly keep themselves in isolation to grow an interdimensional seed from the other world. Such, he made do on his promise and gave Sam a portion of his powers, turning her into one of his allogenes.

He did however tell her that she was only Allogene he's ever had in multiple eons. Some of them chose to reenter the reincarnation cycle, while others sacrificed themselves for the greater good and such, some of them among the living are still alive, however, so they should be at least, vaguely aware of her existence.

Sam trained her new powers, familiarizing herself with them until it was as easy as breathing, which took a few months of non-stop training. Thankfully her new stamina is leaps beyond that of her previous human self. Eventually, she was even able to create a few lotus' that acted mostly as transport around the giant ghost portal.

Oh yea, did I mention that the Ghost Portal expanded enough to take over all of Amity Park? Well, a few buildings here and there stilled survived, mostly like small islands but still.

So Sam was living a pretty fine life, all things considered. Her days were very peaceful, tending to a few plants here and there, taking care of the giant tree that sprouted from the seed she grew, training her powers and talking to Danny and Tucker whenever they dropped by.

It was repetitive, but a nice one.

Then her daily cycle was interrupted by people claiming to be the Justice League, and she honestly did not have a clue as to who they are. She didn't really keep up with the news after planting the seed, or the outside world at all for that matter, the only one she regularly kept in contact with was Tucker.

She thought back on, and Tucker did mention them once or twice. Mostly painting them as irritating individuals yet worthy of respect, not that she knew why but she wasn't going to just let them step in here regardless. It's pretty rude to just step into someone's home without permission, no?

[thehiddengame]

Danny Phantom Au Idea: SplitSoul Au

Wanted to try writing a fanfic but gave up because the characters kept becoming ooc. But I still wanted to get this idea out there so here we are.

An Au that is a mixture of the following concepts I enjoyed reading about over the years:

-Eldritch Danny: Danny becoming some sort of eldritch entity but still keeps most of his personailty and heroic tendencies.

-Ghost Repellent Danny: After the ghost portal inccident Danny didn't become a half ghost but was instead spit out with little to no damage. He's still fully human but for some reason ghost avoid him at all cost. This leads to danny not believing in ghosts becuase they're always gone when he goes near them.

SplitSoul Au Info:

-When Danny entered the portal and turned it on he dies. However Clockwork tried to intervened to keep Danny alive but the result ended both outcomes becoming true but not in the way Clockwork wanted. Instead of Danny becoming a halfa his soul was split in two.

-The majority of the sould stayed with his human body. So Danny Fenton woke up the following morning sore but completly healthly. Thinking he must have just touched something and got shocked, thus knocking himself out, continued living his life as normal.

-A splinter of his soul found itself in the ghost zone. Due to being mostly an empty vessel, a weird interaction the occured when Danny activated the portal while inside of it and the remnants of Clockworks meddling, the splinter was able to greedly devour the ecto energy of the ghost zone and rapidly grow in strength. This resulted in a gaint Eldritch Entity with Danny's heroic tendenties with a deep connection the ghost zone.

-Danny Fentom: Human

-Phantom: Eldritch Ghost

Episode Ideas:

-Mystery Meat: Danny, Sam, Tucker eating lunch when Danny needed to leave(Needing to go to WS, forgot something in class room, or something like that.) Thats when Lunch Lady appears and does her thing. However this time when people try to leave Large ghostly hands ripped into reality and block the exists. The room grows chilly(Green tint appears) as a large rips in space appears in the middle of the cafeteria. Large ghost hads grip the edges and tears the rift open revealing a large humaiod figure with counless arms. The figure attacks the Lunch Lady, evetaully defeating her and dragging her back into the ghost zone via the tears in space. The figure guided by vague ideas and feelings turn their gaze towards a cowering Dash and screams at him before charging. However before the figure can reach dash the doors which seem impossible to open swung open. The chill instinstly dissapear as Danny unaware of what happened apologies to Sam and Tucker for taking so long. However before either of them can comment the bell rung prompting Danny to hurry his freinds so they won't be late for class.

-Episode Cycle: Ghosts would appear, then Phantom would defeat them and before they can go on a rampage Danny would walkin none the wiser of what happened causing Phantom to dissapear.

-Sam and Tucker finding seeing a connecting between Phantom and Danny starts investigation.

-Jazz joins the duo in thier investigation pretty early on because Phantom protected her from a ghost attack.

-His parents try to rope Danny in their ghost hunts especially thier hunt of Phantom but because Danny is with them they alway miss the ghosts.

-Urban Jungle: Gaint kaiju battle of Undergrowth and Phantom

-Bitter Reunions: The family goes to Vlad's as normal. The Phantom follows the valtures to Vlad. Vald and Phantom fight and Vlad would have lost multple times if it weren't for Danny constantly appearing before Phantom can land the finishing blow. Vlad become intrested in taking Phantom's power for himself. He also become intrested in Danny's what he thinks is Anti-Ghost powers. Danny just thinks of Vlad as his parent's weid college freind. Jazz might or might not learn of Vlad's ghost powers.

-The Ultimate Enemy: Instead of the dark future cartoon archetype it is instead becomes future enemies come to the present. Future enemies figure out Danny's and Phantoms connection and thinks that taking out Danny would also take out Phantom but being unable to do that in the future, finds away to send assassins to the past to take out Phantom before he got as strong as he is in the future. Clockwork wanting to stop this(And having more restrictions due to his meddling with Danny's death) decides to send the children on the main cast to the past. Because of my bias and my favourite ships being Danny x Sam and Danny x Ember, it would be the Danny's and Sam's child along with Phantom and Ember's child that Clockwork sends back in time. (I see Phantom becoming for human/becoming their own person as they grow in strength.) At the end the gang goes to the future and sees a glimps of what they can look forward to. I see Danny becoming an astronaut and because he didn't have to worry about ghosts he managed to keep his grades up. While Phatom became the protector of both Earth and the Ghost zone.

That is all I managed to think of. Feel free to use/exapand on this idea as much as you like

[op-sys-chaos]

Val is in 6th place*

Several DP rogues are directly under her on the leaderboard, some spots varying and some staying the same.**

Dash holds spot 15 pretty regularly, though sometimes his ranking slips when some of the tougher rogues show up

More of the rogues are scattered below Dash, some holding their spots consistently and some battling it out within a certain few places and constantly trading spots amongst themselves

Jason first came to the 25th monthly tournament. Lady Amy extended invitations to the other city ghosts to send their champions to compete. Only Lady Gotham responded at first, knowing Jason would get enrichment and enjoyment out of it. She was so proud of him for knocking Val out of the top 5 (she previously held the 5th spot) and taking 5th for himself.

The next month, Jason brought Harley along. Harley loved it, and comes back whenever she has time. She holds onto spot 8 pretty consistently whenever she competes. Harley brings Pam along half the time, and Pam either cheers from the stands while chatting with Sam and/or Undergrowth or participates herself. Pam’s placing wildly varies depending on who’s fighting that month. She’s usually somewhere in the top 10, though.

The month after, Jason brought Damian. He loved it too, and the two now have “monthly bonding” scheduled which is really just their joint trip to the Necrosis Arena.

After hearing about how much Lady Gotham’s knight, her harlequin, and her environmentalist loved it, Sir Metropolis decided to send a knight of his own. Superman so often had to hold back in fights. He might enjoy letting loose.

Superman was shocked to learn about his city spirit, but was willing to attend the tournament. After figuring out that yes, he really can let loose here, he slowly climbed through the ranks. Jason’s not afraid to bust out the kryptonite, and he respects Val and Sam a lot so he lent them some, so Clark can never beat those three. And he absolutely can’t beat the Phantom trio. So he’s usually around 7th or 8th on the charts, though he shows up maybe twice a year since he’s usually too busy. Superman agreed to keep the fights a secret because he knew the JL would try to shut them down.

By the 30th monthly tournament, other cities had started sending heroes and villains alike. At that point, it escapes containment and people found out. It became the worst kept secret in the hero and villain community. Knowing the issues this might cause, Lady Amy enforced a truce. Any travelers heading to or from the Necrosis Arena were under immunity, and anyone attempting to harm them would be banned from the tournament and unable to find the tournament until they agreed to keep the truce. If a hero made a mistake, not realizing the villain was traveling there, they were quickly forgiven. But if they truly could not keep the truce, they ended up banned from Amity entirely.

And actually, the heroes saw the benefit in that too. Villains who were in it for the love of violence ended up massively decreasing villainous activities because they got their fill at the Necrosis Arena, especially because they could stay and participate in the regular, non-tournament battles. There were people who had standing challenges with each other, ready to throw down at a moment’s notice when the other needed a fight due to bloodlust or whatever. Mostly, Lady Amy tried to pair up villains, but the Phantom trio also agreed to be on call if need be. They could even set up duplicates and let the duplicates “die dramatically” (complete with special effects) to fulfill the bloodlust for villains who truly needed to watch someone die.

And after a bloodlust episode like that, they were usually sent to the Arena’s resident therapist, Dr. Jasmine Fenton. She had a wonderful reputation for helping villains learn to process their emotions in non-violent ways, even fully rehabilitating a few of them.

The heroes, on the other hand, viewed the Arena as training. People with all kinds of powers (or none at all, just martial arts training) participated, giving them all types of combat practice. Plus, there were no stakes other than placement on a chart (except in the yearly tournament). They also took young protégés there to train in a low stakes environment, while also showing them how violent this job can get and asking if this is what they really want to do.

Word of the Necrosis Arena never reached non-hero/villain-associated civilian ears, thankfully. Lady Amy didn’t want this outlet for violence to turn into a public spectacle or a cash grab via betting - in fact, she’d strictly forbidden betting among Amity civilians who’d chosen not to participate. And the civilians who had heard of it knew better than to spread the word about it.

Eventually, the Necrosis Arena would gain something of a sacred status as a neutral battleground to be used for fun and training. Occasionally, people would settle disputes in one-on-one battles, but those were rare and usually handled somewhere where permanent damage to others had not been magically forbidden by a powerful entity. (Anyone who would have sustained a permanent injury was instead turned intangible by Lady Amy’s magic at the last possible second and declared to have lost the fight. Lady Amy’s magical presence covered the full arena, allowing her to easily accomplish this.) Some wanted that magical protection to avoid harming their enemies permanently while trying to handle situations, though, and so preferred the arena as a battleground to settle things.

However, as the arena’s prestige and patronage grew, Lady Amy’s power grew, and she was able to set a new system in place. The arena gained a sub-section called the Necrosis Court, where you could set terms and conditions for victory in a battle if you wanted to settle something via combat. For example, if you agreed to never kill again if you lost the fight, and then lost, you would be magically barred by Lady Amy’s power from ever killing again, a power backed by the city spirits who would help reinforce her spells when the subjects of them came to their cities.

Use of the Necrosis Court wasn’t common, though. Trial by combat had fallen out of favor, and was mostly used in extreme circumstances. However, Jason did manage to magically stop the Joker from killing people or indirectly causing someone’s death ever again, which was very impressive. It took a lot to get him to agree to that, and Jason had had to agree to let the Joker kill him again if he lost. Thankfully, he didn’t. The fight wasn’t even close; Jason had a lot on the line and fought like hell for it. Every Gotham hero and villain attended the fight, and they all rejoiced at the outcome, especially when they realized that the magical effects of the contract would force it to be kept. None of the Gotham villains were ever stupid enough to agree to something that drastic as a condition again, though. The Necrosis Court rarely saw use, but its use was certainly effective.

Most of the use of the Necrosis Arena was for fun and training, though. And Lady Amy enjoyed having it stay that way. As did the rest of the combat community. After all, there’s nothing quite like a fight to the death where no one can actually die.

*In the yearly tournament, Amity Parkers like Val rarely win. You can only win once before being barred to avoid someone claiming the massively coveted prize year after year, and they don’t want to be barred from the biggest fight of the year. So those who can win a top spot usually throw the fight once they reach the top ~20. Those who are there for the love of the fight will challenge those who reach the top spots to fun one v one battles the next day, but let those who are there for the prize actually compete to win it.

**As a side note, the board placement reflects who actively fought that month. They do keep notes next to the placements about previous title holders though. Basically, if Superman didn’t fight that month but was in 7th the last time he fought, under the person’s name in 7th is “Superman” in small letters. Sometimes there’s like 5 people who hold a small letter title under a spot, since they all each held that location the last time they fought but hadn’t fought in a while. There’s no limit on the small names under a position, and it’s always interesting when all of the small names show up at once. People love to see which 7th place holder is the true 7th place fighter. Those fights are always a hit.

DPxDC #14

Amity Park has been irrevocably changed due to the portal. The town is seeped with ectoplasm. The citizens have become liminal.

Amity Park has gained sentience, gained its own city spirit. Lady Amity, Lady Amy for short. Lady Amy has made sure that the needs of her people are being met.

Liminals need enrichment. So she created a coliseum, named Necrosis Arena. Citizens can fight whenever and whoever, even those from the realms. There is even a monthly tournament, open to all. The winner receives a weapon or something of equal value. In the yearly tournament, however, the winner can get anything they want (within reason) from the Ghost King.

Necrosis Arena has a leaderboard of the top 50 list of all fights. And a dedicated stats board for the top 10.

Talks about the coliseum break containment of Amity Park and reach the ears of the JL/JLD. Several people are sent out to investigate.

When the league gets to the coliseum they see something they never thought they would. There on the leaderboard in the number 5 spot is the name Jason Todd-Wayne - Red Hood, Knight of Lady Gotham. And coming in at number 25 Damian Al Ghul-Wayne - Robin, Knight of Lady Gotham.

[gilbirda]

DPxDC cheat sheet

So. I'm not a nitpicking person. I understand that mistakes can be made and typos are a thing and sometimes we are just not the kind of person that can make words work for a variety of reasons (dyslexia, for example).

This is not for that people.

This is for everyone who stumbled into this fandom by mistake and had learned things via osmosis and don't have the energy/time to check the source material for the "correct" thing.

Y'all are valid.

This is a cheat sheet of correct terms and fandom things that are not correct that I've seen in fics.

Disclaimer: while experimenting with canon is fun, this is just to lay down the rules of what's what so it can be the springboard of y'all's beautiful creations.

Given that some people just can't behave online: "If you don't have anything constructive to say, don't say anything." Did I say something wrong? You have resources better than this? You want to make a nitpick? Cool! More info to the mix — But come at me in a hurtful and insulting way and I'm blocking you on the spot.

[Will add more when I think more/have suggestions]

DP SIDE - Post "A Glitch in Time" Canon

Sam is Jewish

Sam is ultra-recyclo-vegetarian aka "doesn't eat anything with a face". Is not a real thing.

It's "Amity Park" not "Amity Ville".

Wes is fanon, same as Kyle. Info on Wes here

It's "Casper High", not "Caspar High".

Mr. Lancer doesn't have a canon name. Common fanon ones are William or Edward.

Ghost obsessions are canon. In AGIT, it's explained that ghosts have a purpose or drive. Danny's purpose is "protection" of both humans and ghosts.

Ghost cores are fanon-ish (there is a mention that Danny's ice powers come from his "core" temperature and is never addressed again, of course) (Episode is "Urban Jungle"). Then in the videogame Urban Jungle for the Nintendo DS, Undergrowth's "core" is an actual object called a "core".

Ghost speak is fanon. However, in AGIT, it's revealed that there's an ghost alphabet, and it's ancient form is based on sanskrit and tamil alphabets. Codex of Ghost alphabet.

Ghost Hunger is canon! In AGIT it's revealed that ghosts feed on emotions and thoughts to stay sapient. If they don't, they become feral with time. Halfas feed from their human side, remaining stable.

Danny is the bridge between the spirit world and living world - canon!

Danny beats the Ghost King Pariah Dark in combat, but faints and that fight is never addressed in the series again. Ghost King!Danny is fanon-ish so go ham with interpreting that. (Episode is "Reign Storm")

Tucker is the reincarnation?? (never stated in canon, but he does look alike) of a pharaoh named "Duul Aman" (Duulaman is also accepted as spelling). Said pharaoh never appears in the series as a ghost, just a picture. Who does appear is his (evil) right hand man, Hotep-Ra, who tries to manipulate Tucker (Episode is "King Tuck"). That Tucker gets cool magic from this event is fanon. But cool.

Sam gets possessed by Undergrowth via a vine straight into her spine (gross). Undergrowth calls her "his daughter" and she tries to lure Danny into "joining her to take over the world". (Episode is "Urban Jungle"). That Sam gets cool plant powers from this event is fanon. But cool.

The Fenton parents are never physically abusive - just comedically neglectful in the way parents are depicted in early 2000s cartoons. Incompetent, misguided, dumb... but they are shown to love their kids. The even accept Danny the 2 canon times they find out about him (Episodes "Reality Trip" and "Phantom Planet").

Jazz is never shown as "mature" in the sense that she had to parent Danny and be the responsible adult. She is comedically the "annoying and meddling older sister" from early 2000s cartoons. She wants to be considered an adult. She couldn't see Youngblood, who is a child ghost that cannot be seen by adults, and Danny had to push her into acting childish to make her see him.

Axiom labs is bought by Vlad's company "Vlad.co" not "DALV.co". DALV.co was the fake company that paid for Maddie and Danny to fly to a conference but stranded them in a forest where Vlad's cabin coincidentally was. (Episode "Maternal Instincts")

Dan is not older Danny. He is not called "Dan" in the series, just "Dark Danny". In The Ultimate Enemy videogame for GBA, he's called Dan Phantom. He is Danny's ghost half, who killed his human half, ate/merged with Vlad's ghost side and then tried to kill Vlad's human side. Was losing his humanity what made him evil? Was it merging with the Bad Guy(tm) of the series? 🤷‍♀️ Take it as you will. (Episode is "The Ultimate Enemy")

Freakshow is NOT a clown. He is the ringmaster of a goth circus (called Circus Gothica). Danny's headcanoned fear of clowns can be traced back to the "circus" and clown-related imagery surrounding Freakshow's performances, but not directly BY Freakshow. (Episodes "Control Freaks" and "Reality Trip")

DC SIDE

Damian (not Damien or Demian) had never confirmed his religion. Fanon has accepted he is Muslim.

Bruce is from a Jewish family (Martha Wayne was Jewish), but he considers himself an atheist. Same with Kate Kane (Batwoman).

It's "Selina" Kyle, not "Selena" or "Salina".

It's "Talia" Al Ghul, not "Thalia".

It's "Jason", not "Jayson".

Damian is vegetarian, not vegan. It means he doesn't eat meat, but eats animal produces like eggs, milk, etc. He went vegetarian after rescuing Batcow from a slaughterhouse, he didn't arrive at the manor already being vegetarian.

Duke is NOT adopted. Bruce is fostering him temporarily and is more of a mentor to him than a father. Duke considers the others his siblings, though. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DUKE: Part 1 | Part 2

Dick was not adopted as a kid, Dick was Bruce's ward. That term is not used anymore, though. Adoption happened later in Dick's adulthood.

It's Gotham, not "Gothem".

Cassandra IS adopted.

Cassandra's most common nickname is "Cass". Even if "Cassie" has been used in canon before, is more commonly used Cass in fandom. Cassie is used more to refer to Cassandra Sandsmark, Wondergirl.

"Baby bird" or "Baby bat" are fanon-ish(?). Little Wing, Dickie, Dickie-bird... Canon! Jaylad is not canon, but Jaybird is canon! A GREAT post with receipts about all nicknames. ("Replacement" isn't canon btw).

Stephanie Brown was the 4th Robin. She is not adopted, and was part of the batfamily because she was dating Tim. She is still considered batfamily even if they are not dating anymore.

In Hush, when Jason comes back to Gotham, Jason puts a knife on Tim's throat, but barely leaves a cut. Tim's throat wasn't injured during the Titans Tower attack.

Cass is selectively mute because she wasn't taught any language beyond what she needed to predict people's movements. She doesn't know sign language. She doesn't know how to read and write (more recent comics show her reading a bit). But she could learn, with difficulty. Very in depth analysis of Cass' disability.

Jason's "Pit Madness" is fanon. Canon offers Ra's saying "the Pit alters the mind - could happen for a few days or for years, you never know" or something like that, and that's it. There is reason to believe that the Lazarus Pit can cloud judgement for a while but there is no voice in the back of the head or the Pit taking over.

Tim never expressed special interest in photography or in it as a hobby. Nor he is a coffee addict more than the other bats, who pull all nighters on the reg. He is actually addicted to energy drinks.

There are 2 main Conner/Kon-El/Superboy I portrayed in fics: Young Justice cartoon one (grumpy, same age as Dick, kind of an asshole, has daddy issues, wears black shirt and jeans, has a space motorcycle and a pet wolf) and 90s comics one (leather jacket, piercings, punny guy, same age as Tim, has a #nohomo relationship with Tim, kind of a himbo).

There are a few Ghost superheroes - Greta Hayes (Secret), she was in Tim's run as Young Justice's leader; and Boston Brand (Deadman), who is a member of Justice League Dark (with Constantine and Zatanna and Swamp Thing!). So the DC heroes are familiar with ghosts and ghost powers.

It's "rogues" gallery, not "rouge". Rouge means "red" in french.

Clark is never abusive to Conner, he just doesn't know what to do with him and chooses to ignore the problem; which, yeah, is mean, but not to the levels that fanon has taken it. And this is in the Young Justice cartoons, not across all depictions. In comics, they consider each other family and that's why Conner took a kryptonian name (Kon-El - of house of El, Kal's family)

The whole "No metas in Gotham" is not true. Batman understands that Gotham is very Fucked Up and that if you add metahumans and heroes with powers trying to do good to the mix it could make things worse. Outsiders don't understand Gotham and if they get jokerized or mind controlled, it will get ugly real quick. That's why Signal is cool beans! Duke is a gothamite through and through.

While is interesting that no one in the Batfam knows about Tim's missing spleen, is very probable that Alfred knows - post about this

Constantine is more powerful than it looks like. A post about interesting abilities.

Damian has a metal spine. Yeah I don't know how it works either. They used it as way for Talia to control Damian for a bit :(

Interesting links:

What's fanon in DP

Fan project for Ghost Speak, written and spoken form, and a ghost speak generator - post AGIT canon

Transcripts of all the Danny Phantom episodes

The whole DP series + the complementary comics + A Glitch in Time comic (if you are able to buy the AGIT comic please do 🙇‍♀️)

How to pronounce Ra's Al Ghul

BatPham ship names (updated regularly).

What are the canon ages of the Batfam?

In depth guide to everything Batman in one place (be prepared to go down the rabbit hole)

Fanon vs Canon Batfam edition

Superfam family tree

Interactive map of Gotham (Gotham Knights videogame)

Timeline of events (Batfam adoption order and ages when those events happen)

Map of Gotham (made based on various sources, with annotations (check the reblogs for more info))

The Titans Tower attack: Fanon vs Canon and More thoughts on the Titans Tower Attack (with links to the comics online)(wear protection kids! before clicking the links have a solid adblocker and a vpn if possible)

This person has dedicated a lot of time to research receipts of Comic stuff so check out their masterlist

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Suggestions are welcome! Please be kind with each other and remember to have fun with this fandom!

[tanglepelt]

Dc x Dp idea 22

John summons the new ghost king with the justice league to determine the threat. Hoping it’s not a pariah who could target their dimension. After all whoever took pariah down had to have done it for the power. He was unsealed and replaced in the span of 2/3? days. That’s just how the infinite realm works

Meanwhile Danny is stressed. His parents and Valerie are more laser happy since they were sucked into the ghost zone. Clockwork, Frostbite and Pandora have all taken to teaching him more about the infinite realms and future responsibilities. Sam is on his case about him wanted to relax more and Tucker is acting jealous again. It’s like the whole Desiree thing didn’t happen. He has a test in the morning he actually studied for and no rouges out for the night.

Getting summoned at 3 am was not his plan for a good night’s sleep.

Danny is just trying to get this questioning over with. The summon circle was not one he could reverse on his own (clockwork had been teaching him how to ignore and deal with them).  He just asks then if they could hurry this up, he has things to do.

It’s only johns’ comment that sets him off. That if he didn’t want to deal with summons, he shouldn’t have fought pariah for the power.

Danny doesn’t take that well. He can’t leave the circle as phantom. Can’t stop Danny from jumping out to scream at his face.

Danny: you think I wanted this. That I wanted these powers. That I walked into my parent’s lab into their broken portal just to have it turn on with me in it. To kill me and bring me back. That I wanted to fight, the ghost that kept coming through the portal. I didn’t have a choice. If I hadn’t spectra could have harvested all my classmates after giving them the ghost flu. If I hadn’t nocturne would of kept everyone in amity asleep to gain power, undergrowth would have fed them to his plants keep Sam as his forced daughter, Technus would of invaded the World Wide Web, who knows who skulker would be hunting and Pariah would still be free.

Danny:  I never wanted any of it. If I hadn’t stopped pariah amity would have stayed in the infinite realm. I had no choice. All I wanted was to have a normal life. I went from being a straight A student to barely passing. I have a test in the morning. Check your facts next time. Lose my summons clearly you made a mistake and wasted my valuable time. I had no intention of harming any dimension.

Ending his rant, he transformed and got to school right before the test.

[stormikitty]

Headcannons that carry over to almost every if not every DP au I think of (most if not all of them are DP/DC aus)

Danny and Jazz took dance classes when they were little, and Danny was always a dance prodigy. He can dance flawlessly on pointe and can do any style, though Danny and Jazz's main focus was ballet when they took dance classes. They still know a lot about most dance styles.

Danny and Jazz also took figure skating lessons growing up, but only in winter. They both still practice every time they go ice skating.

Danny is trans.

Danny and Paulina are dance partners (or were dance partners before Danny left Amity Park)

Paulina has dragon powers because of the incident with Dorothea's necklace.

Sam has dragon powers because of that incident as well, but hers are weaker due to less exposure.

Sam also has plant powers because of the thing that happened with Undergrowth.

Paulina and Sam both have dragon instincts because of their dragon powers. This means they are both VERY protective.

Ghost hearing is on the same level as kryptonian hearing. When Danny first became a halfa, everything was too loud for him to understand and sounded like white noise. Danny, Sam, and Tucker all started learning sign language shortly after the accident because of this. If Jazz didn't already know sign language, she quickly noticed that Danny wasn't understanding anything he was hearing and started learning sign language as well.

Ghost speech is not a language. It is a power that allows ghosts to understand and speak any and every language fluently, whether they've heard it before or not. But it's like learning every language with the time and effort it takes to learn 1. The power still needs to be practiced for ghosts to use it well. It's a skill.

Danny knew a few languages even before he died, so it was easier for him to learn ghost speech than it was for other ghosts who have that power.

Dani goes by Ellie because it didn't feel like she had her own name when she went by Dani.

Danny and Ellie both have fangs.

Danny and Ellie need more iron in their diets than any human.

Danny is 4 feet tall and will stay that height forever.

Ellie is at least 6 feet tall when fully grown because her growth wasn't stunted like Danny's.

Jazz is TALL

Danny is touch starved af but REFUSES to ask for affection.

Jazz is touch starved too, but not nearly as much as Danny, and her communication about wanting affection is slightly better than Danny's.

Danny gave Ellie a stuffed raccoon shortly after they met. Ellie named it Travis.

Ellie refuses to say the word "raccoon." They are Trash Pandas and that is what she calls them.

Danny has a giant panda plush that was given to him by 1 or both of his sisters.

Jazz has a stuffed red panda that Danny and Ellie worked together to get for her.

Danny is bisexual.

Sam is a lesbian.

Jazz is either a lesbian, bi with a preference for women, or aroace. (Lesbian in most of the aus I think of.)

John Constantine is Danny and Jazz's pseudo uncle, "Uncle JC," who they weren't allowed to see or talk to anymore after he got into a fight with Jack and Maddie about ghosts when Danny was 12. (This 1 is more specific to dp/dc, but most, if not all, of the dp aus I think of are dp/dc.)

I don't talk about these enough, but these are the headcannons going through my head with every, or almost every, story idea I come up with. I think I've mentioned all of these on discord at some point. I don't post all the story ideas I come up with, but many float in and out of my head and repeatedly come back. Sometimes, a possible story idea will be floating around in my head for weeks, and I won't write anything down or talk about it or post about it, and then eventually I either send it to the discord server to talk about, or post it on tumblr. Usually discord. But I only talk about the ones that I can put into clear enough words to talk about them.

[xomintybreezexo]

dc AND Marvel for this.

The Avengers and the Justice League are debating what to do about this weather-controlling meta, and eventually decide to just go to his hometown to meet the kid. Imagine their surprise when they are, instead, met with Team Phantom, who have been showing up all across the globe for about a month at that point.

Pharaoh (Tucker, the hacker with electricity and mild mind control powers, has hacked into the Pentagon before) seems to be the most elusive, but also is out on the field a lot, just never seen up close. Kinda a cryptid at this point.

Gardener (Sam, the brains and the muscle with plant powers after her stint with Undergrowth), who is mean and has a scowl to put Batman to shame and who is always on first call.

Red Huntress (Valerie, the backup, stays in Amity the most out of the team with a giant gun always strapped to her back. Think of her season 2-3 design), she's also mean but methodical in her madness, knows martial arts, and you cannot convince me otherwise.

Blacksmith or Conspiracy (Wes, backup, stays in Amity alongside R.H., makes weapons effective for all different types of realms beings, fixes broken weapons or armor for the others, also a hacker, but not on Tucker's level yet), he's perpetually pissed off and hates tourists and out-of-towners but despises the government the most. Has shot at civilians before (never actually shot them, but has aimed and fired in their direction). Always carries a shotgun and knives of various crafts and sizes on his person. Has given a pistol to a kid before, did not regret it.

Wraith or Phantasm (Dani/Ellie, the scout. She'll see, or hear about from her various sources across the world,(do not ask, she will not elaborate) a ghost attack and will inform the others, doesn't fight much because of her instability, but is their for crowd control and status updates and what not, definately a speedster.) She's tiny and silent, which makes her easy to sneak into places the team needs intel on. She's always there but never front and center, headcanon her eyes are purple in human form (clones aren't always 100%), which makes her eyes in ghost form a kinda teal or turquoise.

And finally, the man who started it all, Phantom himself. (Doesn't need to be Ghost King for this, but I like to think he is, just to make the Avengers and JL panic more lol, an agent of chaos through and through, wears body armor now after having learned some tough lessons about how ghosts can still get internal bleeding, pretty lightweight stuff though.) The heroes don't know he's Daniel Fenton, but they notice how he also has weather-controlling powers and make the very incorrect assumption that Phantom is one of Fenton's ancestors who died young and now protects the town. (They keep asking him about Danny Fenton, and Danny keeps panicking internally, being all like 'omg they KNOW' lol)

In season 3 episode 4 of Danny Phantom, Danny ends up accidentally absorbing some of Vortex’s weather manipulating powers after getting blasted by his lightning and later lost them the same way.

But what if Danny never lost his weather powers but instead after getting blasted by Vortex, gained a better control of it for it was no longer connected to his emotions but with the drawback that Danny can only use it in his human form.

If we include DC or Marvel into this we could even make it so Danny’s recognized as a weather controlling Meta.

[impyssadobsessions]

So I got this little idea and if anyone wants to expand on it go ahead, basically:

Your usual dp x dc crossover, but instead of Danny or even Sam being related to the Waynes, Tucker is the one related to them, more especificaly he's Duke's cousing and they where pretty close before Tucker's parents moved away to Amity Park (they still keep contact but not as much as before since they have their own hero/vigilante family/team to help out)

Tucker's parents decide to give Gotham a visit for nostalgia and to catch up with Duke and since Tucker didn't want to go there alone he asked if Danny and Sam could come too, his parents where a-okay with that so now we have a trio of weird kids (with one being half dead and the other two probably having a lot of ectoplasm contamination in them) on a vacation to Gotham and going straight to the Wayne Mansion. This is gonna be fun

(I also had the idea that as soon as Duke saw the trio he could see that something was Not Right™️ with them, it was mostly Danny but Sam and Tucker also had Weird Shit™️ going on with them too *side eyes Undergrowth's mind control and the whole Reincarnation of a Pharaoh thing*)

Ooo I heard someone think about Tucker being related to the Fox family but that neat too~ Can see Tucker's parents worried how Duke been doing. Duke nervous n excited to see his old cousin. (batfam stalking at first and probably not so subtlety add perks to their stay. Over Protective LOL) Duke swearing they're just normal kids from Amity Park- and then he sees them and like. Shit. O w O' Can't help but keep staring at Danny because something strangely is happening around his form. The hang out was pretty chill, besides the constant staring. Duke feels guilty but same time, something is off and his new detective senses are tingling. Duke notice something off with his cousin and the girl when Danny goes to use the restroom. He was too distracted by Danny. Duke tries to hold out a couple of days, not wanting to make a scene. But the others are already digging in too deep and he wants to hear it from the horses mouth first, not his new siblings and their tangent of theories. Tucker tries not to answer til Duke clarifies he can see something's off with them. "You.. as in plural? So all of us?!" Duke nods. "Wait! What? But me and sam aren't... does this mean I'll get powers to?! Amg. Wait right here. I got to.. ask Danny and Sam and then I'll tell you. Promise." Duke can here them all chattering in the next room, nothing coherent but obviously the girl was mad at Tuck. Danny raised his voice a few times. Door cracks open and then Duke is yanked into the room by his shirt, with Sam threatening him if he says a word, she doesn't care who he's related to. His ass is grass. Duke trying hard not to let his fighting instincts kick in. "Fair. " "Sam. cool it." Danny sighing "Whatever." Sam letting Duke go and barricading the door behind them. Tucker just rubbing his arm and smiling meekly with a wave. "Uh soo. ... Do you believe in ghosts?" Duke's eyes widening. What the hell happened in Amity?! Is Tuck dead?!!!

[dannyphantom-justiceleauge]

What do you think about Amethyst Ocean, Hunter Silly (Tucker/Valerie) & Sam, Tucker, & Valerie becoming halfas? Like, what if the ecto-acne wasn't completely cured & Sam & Tucker slowly became halfas over the course of several years.

Undergrowth & Duul Aman left sort of imprints on their ecto-signatures so they have some of the powers they had when possessed, such as florokinesis & harenkinesis (sand manipulation), but once they fully form as actual halfas, they also get personal powers. Like, Sam getting ghost magic or shadow manipulation & her unique physiology as a plant halfa makes her immune to Blood Blossoms & gives her the ability to manipulate them with her powers. Also, Tucker having technokinesis similar to Technus & developing a hot core with a lightning element.

As for Valerie, it's due to being fused with her ghost armor. The more she uses it, the stronger her ecto-signature gets until she's suddenly a half-ghost.

It could be an interesting personal struggle for her.

I don't think any of them would ever have the potential or power that Danny is capable of, but that's mostly because of the unique way in which he became halfa. Same way I think Vlad would've soon lost his edge against Danny. Though, that also has to do with the fact that he's a businessman & it's unlikely that he made much contact with the GZ before Danny opened the portal himself & most of his training beyond his ghost powers was with your typical physical trainer.

i'm always down for a more halfas au.

any explanation would do as far as i'm concerned, but as it stand, tucker and sam get exposed to A Lot of ectoplasm. it's not just them getting possessed or getting ecto acne like vlad. it's them going into the ghost zone without hazmat suits. it's them getting coated in ecto goo all the time. just from sheer exposure they should have some amount of contamination. and the ectoplasm would just continue to grow in their systems the longer they're fighting ghosts along side danny.

same for val. she's had her share of moments getting coated with ghost goo. and while her suit should offer a level of protection but since it's ghost based. it's far more likely to worsen the exposure effect. i'm imagining her suit just absorbing power from the ectoplasm it comes in contact with it. and thus almost intentionally building a core for her.

the moment she realizes is going to be a bad day for her. i could actually see her going to danny fenton and asking if he could help change her back. which puts him in an awkward position, ripe for drama. just the irony of her becoming what she hates because she was unable to let go of her anger. chef's kiss. 10/10 would love to see this fic.

sam and tucker adjust better. i feel like they both kinda wanted ghost powers from the beginning. sam is going to use it for justice. sometimes to zealously. tucker is probably going to abuse it a bit and has to be reminded to stay humble and responsible. danny is just kinda following behind trying to stop things from being to chaotic, and feeling guilty that his friends died, but also kinda psyched that he's no longer alone.

also found family super hero team, anyone? it's my favorite. - Hestia

[the-sprog]

So since I'm very bad at remembering my ideas, I'm gonna throw this out there and hope one day I'm like "WAIT didn't I have an idea for a fic??? What was it???" And I will find it on my tumblr.

It's about Danny Phantom, obviously.

There are actually two of them in here so:

The easiest one: Jack and Maddie are not stupid. I mean they're scientists, the use the scientific method. One of the things about the scientific method is that if you do a bunch of tests, based on an hypothesis and only one of them comes out disproving it, then your hypothesis is incorrect.

Phantom has disproved basically all of their hypothesis.

So, next thing to do? Create a new one. Do new tests. They take Jazz's suggestion and try and see if the ghosts of Amity are actually conscious. Because obviously they're sentient, but are they like animals? Or are they like robots with artificial intelligence?

Or even better yet, are they like humans?

They grab Phantom's attention and ask him if he would cooperate for this test. A simple Turing test. Obviously they're still wary because of everything that happened with him, and do the test with witnesses to keep both Phantom's and their minds at ease.

He passed the test. With flying colors.

They're shocked and ask him if he knew peaceful ghosts that would be willing to take the test (because, y'know. Scientific method. Need to try over and over again). Phantom would have to explain that not all ghosts are as human-like as him (as, first of all, he's a halfa, but he doesn't say that. And second, lots of them are blobs or animal-like ghosts), but cue his parents meeting Jhonny and Kitty (cause I like the idea that they have a truce with Phantom and that going out of the zone helps them with their couple problems), as well as Shadow (example of a less human-like ghost). Then Sidney, Dora, the Fright Knight (cause king ghost Danny ftw) and Frostbite.

They all pass, more or less. Some, like Dora, the light and Sidney, where given away by their choice of word, but other than that all of them passed the test.

OK SO MORE COMPLEX ONE:

I love crossovers. I love finding ways of putting the two universes together, of making them work with each other, adapting the rules so that they apply to both. (With Danny Phantom it's also really cool to just... Make him travel the multiverse. He doesn't adhere to the rules of where he goes to, so it's always hilarious. But we're not here for that now).

One of the best ones to do this with is My Hero Academia. Whenever a show has someone with powers I end up asking myself "how should that work in the world of my hero?" And start trying to incorporate it in the lore.

So, first thing first, we're getting rid of the canon story of my hero. Completely unrelated to the show. This takes place decades in the past, when the first people where developing quirks (so if I wanted to write something with this and actually use my hero characters, I'd make it so that they where hit with a time traveling quirk or that Clockwork was somehow involved).

The Fenton's hatred for ghosts? Make it discrimination against the people who have quirks.

Danny being half-ghost? His quirk's fault. He calls it Ghost, for simplicity, it allows him to come back as a sort of ghost-like creature after he dies. Somehow, one day, he doesn't die completely so his body fixes it the only way it know how. Making him partially ghost.

Obviously that would mean that all the ghosts he fights aren't ghosts anymore. They're villains with quirks, and their powers would be based on what they can do on the show, minus the basic intangibility, invisibility and flight.

Obviously only Sam and Tucker would know he was Phantom and he had a quirk, he's also kinda the only one in town with one. People would be a little racist against quirk havers, but the kids, like in the show, come around to it. And actually start loving Phantom and thinking of him as a hero.

How do I fit Vlad in all of this? Ehm ahhhh this is the one thing I didn't think about. Very basic, but could give him a power similar to Danny, were instead of a ghost, he becomes a vampire. But his quirk is caused by an accident in college, so it's artificial.

Why does Skulker (who doesn't have a quirk. He's just a guy in a suit) hunt Danny? He has a very unique quirk.

Does Dani exist? I mean. Yeah. Cloning is not so farfetched, especially with the existence of quirks.

Clockwork can control time, he involuntary does that being a child, then an adult then an old man thing. The Observants are people without quirks that keep him in check, an organization that made a pact with him to stay young forever or something in change of idk what. No idea what Clockwork would get out of it I won't lie. Money maybe? Or somehow they found a way of keeping him there against his will?

Walker (and I'll make a seperate post about this) is an ex guy in white. Yes they still exist, but they hunt quirk havers instead of paranormal stuff. Walker was kicked out because he actually has a quirk but lied about it. He's after his own kind in the show as well. I mean, he's a stickler to the rules, but he only ever seems to care when it's ghosts that brake them. Correct me if I'm wrong, but never has he punished a human. His quirk is making semi-sentient minions. They're not copies of himself. They're like clay humans with basic forms. They all look alike and have no special characteristics.

Frostbite is just... A yeti. With cryokenisis. It's a mutation type quirk.

Same goes for Wulf, he's just a humanoid wolf that can create teleportation portals. I can't think of a reason why he would only speak Esperanto though. It could be something similar to Five from umbrella academy. He accidentally got stuck in the 1600 as a kid and managed to come back only relatively recently.

I feel like all the other ghosts have obvious powers.

Cujo can become ginormous,

Technus can control technology,

Dora and Aragon can become dragons,

Jhonny gives people bad luck and can control his shadow,

Kitty can make man disappear,

Ember can mind control using music,

Spectra can use people's negative emotions to stay young,

Bernard has shapeshifting,

Youngblood can't be seen by adults (side effect: can't grow old) and his sideckick has a variant of shapeshifting where he can only transform in animals. A definitive father figure),

Box ghost can control boxes,

Pandora can control the plagues of the world,

Desiré can make people's wishes come true,

Sidney can swap bodies with people,

Undergrowth can control plants,

Pariah Dark- I... Actually don't know...

Lunch Lady can control food,

Aaaanndddd no more come to mind.

I want to do something with this AU but I can't really think of an interesting story, other than "kids from 1A get misplaced in time and Danny has to help, discovering the existence of Clockwork and the Observants, whom he hates. So he tries to get Clockwork out of there with the other kid's help" but that's it, really.

I actually have a 3rd idea, but it basically works the same as the MHA one. Crossover with the X-Men.

Substitute quirk havers with mutants and quirks with mutations and you get the idea.

The plot would be more of a "Danny gets recruited by Xavier after the trauma of almost dying activated his mutation and goes to live at the mansion. This happens after the events of season 3, alla salted to make sense in the world of Marvel, but without Phantom planet. He makes friends there, since Sam and Tucker aren't with him and everything is fine and dandy and happy. Until it comes out that the Fentons actually contribute to the creation of the Sentinels, because they hate Phantom that much.

So Danny has to infiltrate his own family to get info on how the Sentinels work so they can destroy them, since his parents are still oblivious and they made it so that the Sentinels wouldn't attack Danny thinking that his accident just somehow make him register as a mutant on machinery" and that's it.

[elzerei]

Sooo this idea inspired me and I started Worldbuilding. If anyone wants to write this you can take or leave any of my ideas. They are very loose and unformed right now.

Ghosts have very malleable forms, usually having minor shapeshifting plus multiple defined forms they switch between. More powerful ghosts have more forms, but most ghosts have a minimum of 2 (Humanoid Ghost and Weapon). Their most powerful form for battle is almost always their Weapon form. Ghosts can fight in this form without a Wielder, due to their ability to fly, but it is less efficient since they have to spend so much energy on flight. Ghosts can Wield one another, but a) that is a level of collaboration most ghosts don’t go for unless it's something serious or they get along well, and b) a human wielding a ghost is more powerful because of the balance of life and death energies, which Resonate together to boost the ghost’s powers. 

Halfas are more powerful than other ghosts of the same age/importance/etc, because they are a balance of life and death energy, and can therefore Resonate with themselves. In fact, they do this instinctually, so the boost to their ghost powers is not usually noticed because it’s their default. 

The goal of the GIW is to use ghosts as weapons. Amanda Waller probably helps fund it. Anyway they are more competent and block off Amity Park pretty early on so the Justice League doesn’t try to turn their new weapons into people, but at first that’s most of what they do, staying back and observing.

Danny’s story goes pretty similarly, with him fighting ghosts. However he frequently takes his weapon form, a Scythe, and lets Sam Wield him to fight more powerful ghosts. However, because Resonance requires a balance of life and death energy, Halfas can only Resonate with other Halfas, and being Wielded by a full human or ghost is helpful, but not as much. Sam’s Vigilante name (since she keeps being Phantom’s Wielder a secret because of the mixed reception of him as a hero) is Grim, short for Grim Reaper. After Undergrowth she gains more affinity for plants and changes it to Nightshade, since a Wielder’s magical affinities affect the powers of the ghost weapon they Wield. Plus, being more contaminated by Ecto means that while she still can’t really Resonate with Danny, she’s a better Wielder for him. 

Most ghost fights is still just the ghosts, just with more changing between Ghost and Weapon forms, but Pariah Dark Wields Fright Knight (Soul Shredder is just his Weapon form in this), and Undergrowth forces Sam to Wield him. Maybe a couple other times a Ghost convinces/coerces a human into Wielding them for the Ghost’s goals, and when Pariah attacks a couple ghosts let humans Wield them to fight his army. (Star wielding Ember, maybe? Dash Wielding Skulker? Tucker Wielding Technus? IDK) (IDK, if I put more thought into this I'd go more fight by fight to see how ally relationships cause Wielding. Also maybe the Johnny thing is he wanted Kitty to be able to Overshadow Jazz and Wield him) (OH actually maybe to fight Pariah either Danny Wields Vlad or vice versa)

Things change tone drastically once the GIW finally figures out their actual goal- a device that will force a ghost to stay in Weapon form, and remove their ability to act without their Wielder’s direction, turning them into an object just like how the GIW sees them. (I’m thinking like locked-in syndrome, completely awake but can’t do anything) However, the GIW isn’t satisfied because it can’t force ghosts to Resonate, so the Weapons are less powerful than expected.

I think I want this to be good but oblivious Fentons AU, and have a good reveal happen after the GIW starts getting more dangerous. 

The GIW manage to capture Danny and make him stuck in Weapon form. Sam, Tucker, Jazz, the Fenton parents, and maybe some ghosts idk (I kinda want Tuker and Technus as a Wielder/Weapon duo) manage to break him out, but they don’t know how to undo the effect. Amity isn’t safe anymore with the GIW taking full control, so they escape to Gotham. They pick Gotham because the rampant crime and vigilantism means that it’s a good place to hide from the government. 

However, the GIW are obsessed with Phantom since he’s the most powerful ghost, and forcing him into Weapon form he’s still very powerful since he still instinctively Resonates with himself. So they follow them to Gotham. 

Meanwhile on the DC side of the coin: 

Ghosts come in a wide range of power levels, and the most powerful ghosts usually are the ones in the Realms, because of the easy access to Ecto there. 

Deadman is a very low-power ghost, especially since he has trouble fulfilling his Obsession, which is to have a healthy, loving romantic relationship. However, he can still transform into his Weapon form, a magical amulet (maybe), and is usually Wielded by Constantine. The GIW don’t bother trying to go after him since his Justice League connections make him not worth it. A non magic user can’t get much use out of his Weapon form anyway. The Government’s part in making the JLD was part of what inspired the GIW though, since they saw what Constantine could do with Deadman and learned about how powerful Weapons Ghosts could be. 

Secret is a more powerful ghost that the GIW did take a couple attempts at but again focusing on Amity was more worthwhile. 

Jason is a halfa, but an unstable one due to the Pit’s corruption, and so he’s stuck in human form and mostly without ghost powers until he gets access to pure Ecto, which would finally give his core the power to filter the Ecto he has and stabilize him into a proper halfa.

Constantine doesn’t know about halfas and doesn’t interact with Jason after he comes back, so there’s no one to tell Jason this. 

When Team Phantom get to Gotham, GIW on their heels, this causes the Bats to learn about the GIW. 

Or really, about a strange organization that is after a strange group of people. 

The Bats are still in the info-gathering stage when the GIW’s ghost sensing devices sense Jason while he���s watching Team Phantom and the GIW attack Jason. 

Team Phantom move to help (they want the bats to help them, and don’t know which side they’ll take, which is why they didn’t try going for them. Helping a Bat (who might be ghostly?) against the GIW will help with that.) 

The fight is going poorly since the GIW have powerful anti-ghost tech, and outnumber our heroes, Jason is doing a good job of dodging the anti-ghost tech, since he’s the most trained person in the fight, and so when the GIW manage to get their hands on Danny, Jason takes down the GIW holding him and picks up Danny himself. The fight immediately shifts as Danny Resonates with Jason, which in addition to making Danny super powerful, starts the process of filtering Jason’s Ecto. This throws Jason off a bit but the powerful weapon still manages to turn the tide. 

Thennn Jason and Sam fight (verbally) cuz Sam wants Danny back (After all that’s a whole person she has been entrusted with the safety of who can’t advocate for himself since he’s stuck in Weapon form!) But Jason a) wants to question them and currently has leverage to make them answer, b) doesn’t trust them with weird super powerful magic items, and c) REALLY doesn’t want to let go of this magic item that’s calming the Pit. Like he knows he probably should since an unknown magic item is affecting his mental state but. But. And Danny keeps Resonating with Jason after the fight ends because this poor guy (who just saved him and his friends) has been suffering with this rancid Ecto for who knows how long! He has to fix it!

This idea came to me after reading this post

I want more Danny using a scythe

How about a dcxdp that is also crossovered with soul eater, with Ghosts being weapons and the humans could be Meisters

And Half ghosts like Danny can be both, like using his ectoplasm/ghost half to have himself as a weapon

With Jason also being a halfghost they could be team (and later also couple?)

Danny can become a scythe and Jason becomes a gun(?)

[murphy-kitt]

Beyond The Grave - Chapter One

(Dannymay - Nature - Day Fifteen)

The memorial reminds him of something he never wants to remember.

Danny can barely see it, for the crowds that block his vision, but he knows exactly what reads on the memorial. There’s a warmth in his chest that likes this, seeing how much Amity Park and their appreciation for his ghost half. It makes him feel a little more accepted.

But there’s a little nagging in his chest that tells him this isn’t right. He’s not even dead, he shouldn’t be getting a memorial.

Or is he?

Fear strikes in his heart, and Danny shakes his head furiously, hands clumping in his hair.

No. No.

He’s tried so hard to forget, it can’t go to waste now. Not after all he’s been through, is it going to return like a storm surge because of a stupid memorial.

Sam and Tucker are further away in the crowd, but their glances are the same wary ones. They know exactly what he’s thinking about. Jazz has a smile on her face. She doesn’t know.

And Danny was happy for it to stay that way.

His parents know he’s half ghost now, they know about his powers, and they’re adjusting, slowly, but steadily. Maybe not ready to reveal that he’s Phantom, but they’re definitely more accepting. Danny swore he saw a bunch of purple hyacinths addressed to his ghost half from his parents on the memorial.

Danny edges away from the crowd slowly, it’s not as if anyone will notice him missing, he usually always is.

His footsteps pound the ground, panicked, and begin to increase as he runs down the road, averting eye contact with any strangers that pass his way with an alarmed gaze. He doesn’t care.

The teenager finds himself storming through in the direction of the woods, where he’d swore never to go again, but his feet are pressuring him to run here. Brambles and thistles overrun the area since he’s last been there.

It’s a small, shaded and overgrown part of the forest, one that no one would go unless they had a specific reason to. There’s no footpath or pebbled trail, and the teenagers legs are spiked by brambles.

Although, there’s an opening of brambles shrewdly trampled down, as if someone had been in a panic. His heart pounds in his chest, and Danny tries his best to stay calm.

“I never wanted to come back here.” He says, to no one but the silent air and birds twittering in the distance. His hands begin digging in the brambles — he’s here — and his feet won’t let him move.

Piercing bramble needles splinter the raven haired teens hands and make them bleed, but he doesn’t care. Furiously, blue eyes dart among the undergrowth, trying to find it.

“Where is it?!” He cries in desperation— maybe if he finds it, he can forget these stupid memories again and going back to being fine.

Flashbacks run through his head. It’s like that night all over again.

Racing head, pounding heartbeats, the crack and snap of brambles.

“Quick! In here”

“But someone might—“

“It doesn’t matter — no one will. No one goes down this track.”

“But what if they see the brambles trampled?!”

“They won’t! Just dig!”

Clawing at the soil with bare hands.

Body still rattling with electricity, head pounding.

Shock.

Dig. Keep digging.

Danny feels his legs collapse into the dirt, exhaustion claiming him, and tears freely falling down his face. How can he even begin to tell his parents about this?!

His eyes catch the dirt, ragged and disjointed, a trail of scratches along the floor.

The ones from that night, he realises. Rain hasn’t washed them away, nor have any animals disturbed this area. Scars of the desperation and blatant panic in that one night.

He pulls a thistle flower from a nearby bush, not caring at the spikes impaling his hands, that’s the least of Danny’s worries. Grabbing the solemn purple flower, he drops it on the ground, where a patch of darker soil lies.

It’s strange to think that no one knows of this presence but him, Sam and Tucker. Lurking beneath for months, simply, there, while tourists loiter around the area happily, unaware of what lies beneath the soil.

“God — what do I even say? Condolences?” He scoffs, and stares at the thistle flower, looking sad and forlorn. “This was your own fault, Fenton. Kind of a sick twisted way to remind me, isn’t it? A memorial to Phantom. Well, what can I say? They put it in the wrong place, that’s for one.”

“Not that I'd want it to be here, anyway.” The teenager looks up at the area surrounding him. To be fair, it had been their only choice in the midst of terror.

Somehow, Danny doesn’t seem as panicked anymore. Perhaps his dark sense of humour masks most of it.

“I wonder if they did find it, should it be moved next to the memorial?” Then shakes his head. No. No one would find it.

The idea of having that next to the memorial, in the town square, also seems too alarming. Huh, maybe he’s beginning to like the reclusive spot a little more now.

He knows his parents will find out about him being Phantom one day, that’s inevitable. But the context between the origin of how he became Phantom is one he doesn’t want to burden them with.

And learning that there’s this, also? He didn’t even want Jazz finding out.

It was just wrong. He was here, he was alive, wasn’t he? Partly.

Those fake death records Tucker had made were a punch in the gut to this, really. The memories had resurfaced, but not so bad that time.

Now, in the town centre, he had the equivalent of a grave. Equipped with dates and everything.

Little did anyone know where his true grave lay, a result of anguish and terror within the night of his death.

And Danny wasn’t ready to face it.

—

Another corpse au? Just maybe. This is the first part for a multi chapter fic, set in my fanfic series It’s Your Funeral and is the sequel of Grave Consequences. No more chapters added until I finish GC though.

Murphy

[five-rivers]

Reflection

Tucker passed in front of a mirror and stopped, did a double take. He'd been doing that a lot, lately, ever since what he and his friends referred to as the 'Egypt incident.' He raised one hand and traced a line under his eye, his lower eyelashes ruffling.

"You checking your eyeliner, Fol-ey?" asked Dash, bumping into him, rudely.

Tucker avoided stabbing himself in the eye and caught himself on the sink. He frowned at the reflection of the jocks in the mirror and scanned the locker room for Danny. Alas, his best friend must still be running punishment laps in the gym.

"Looking for Wimp-ton to save you? That's pretty pathetic," said Dash, jabbing Tucker again.

Tucker spun to face them and started to back away. He wondered if it would be okay to fight back under these circumstances, or if he would get in trouble. Because Tucker could fight. Maybe not as well as Sam and Danny, he was more the tech guy of their group, but all of them could throw a punch. Heck, Tucker could pull back a bow and put an arrow into the center of a target a hundred feet away. That took arm strength.

If he fought Dash, he'd probably win.

But fighting was generally frowned upon at school and with the other jocks as witnesses... Yeah, that wouldn't pan out well. His parents would take his side, but he didn't want to get a bad reputation with the teachers. One of the trio had to stay on their good side. Obviously it couldn't be Danny, and Sam was too argumentative, so it fell to him.

He sighed. Well, he could take a punch, too, if it came to that. He took off his glasses and put them on the back of the sink.

"What're you doing that for?" asked Dash.

"Good glasses are expensive, Dash," said Tucker, flatly, glaring up at the taller boy. "They're also made of glass. I don't want to be wearing them if you decide to hit me in the face."

Dash stared down at him, as though seeing him for the first time. He humphed. "You take all the fun out of it," he complained. "Come on, guys," he said to the other jocks, leading a parade out of the locker room. Tucker sighed and looked back at the mirror.

Eyeliner, huh? Dash probably would have been surprised to find out that Tucker had thought that he'd seen eye makeup on his face. Kohl. No. Not kohl. That was a recent word, and not completely accurate. Mesdemet for the black. Udju for the green. He blinked, unsure where the words had come from.

No, he knew where the words had come from. He just didn't want to think about it.

Danny stumbled into the room, banging the door behind him. "Hi," he said, waving at Tucker. He paused. "Are you okay? You look kind of..." Danny trailed off and shrugged.

"I'm fine," said Tucker. "Just talked my way out of getting beaten up by Dash."

"What, really?" asked Danny, his eyes flickering over Tucker. "Are you sure you're fine? He didn't hit you?"

"Nope. I'm really fine."

He hoped.

.

The archery club met right after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays, regularly, contrasting with the computer club, which met 'whenever' and 'online.' Usually, meetings coincided with Danny getting detention and Sam's activist stuff. Tucker thought of these afternoons as their 'alone time.' Otherwise, they were, well, not quite joined at the hip, but...

It was a near thing.

Tucker wouldn't have minded if Sam and Danny did join the archery club (or the computer club, for that matter), but it could be nice to have some time away, so that he could sort through certain thoughts. Thoughts such as: What was happening to him?

Because he really had thought that he had thrown off the influence of Duulaman's ghost, or that weird staff, or Hotep-Ra, or whatever had been going on that week, and yet, here he was, over a week later, hallucinating himself wearing Egyptian makeup, of all things.

He squared himself on the edge of the archer range and checked that it was clear. The other members of the club were working with the closer targets. Tucker thought that he would challenge himself today. He pulled back.

The thing was, at the end, when Hotep-Ra was gone, and Tucker was back to himself, he had been able to use that staff, the Scarab Scepter, to return everything to normal. He wasn't sure he should have been. He had no idea how that staff worked. Yet, in that moment he had.

And he did look an awful lot like Duulaman.

"You're doing great today, Foley!" called the club advisor from across the range. "Are you sure you don't want to shoot competitively?"

Tucker rolled his eyes. "I'm sure!" Then he caught sight of his arrows. They were all clustered neatly in the bullseye.

The hairs on the back of his neck stood up. Tucker was good. He wasn't, quite, that good. Not at this range. But, in the moment, as he was shooting, he hadn't registered anything as being unusual. He remembered looking at them as he was aiming, so he wasn't just spacing out.

Archery was practiced in Ancient Egypt, wasn't it? He remembered seeing murals. He remembered the sun shining down on his shoulders as his entourage...

... What?

Tucker frowned. This wasn't going to go away, was it?

.

The computer screen cast Tucker's dark bedroom in a blue light. The only sound was him typing away at the keyboard.

Tucker didn't want to worry Danny and Sam. Mostly Danny. He had enough to deal with without worrying that his best friends was going to go crazy and try to kill him. Again.

He cringed. He did not have the best track record when it came to that particular thing. Then again, neither did anyone else close to Danny.

Hence not wanting to worry Danny.

Maybe he should talk to Sam, though. Out of everyone he knew, she was the only one who'd been mind controlled in a similar way. She hadn't said anything about having hallucinations post-Undergrowth, but, then, she wouldn't, would she? Sam had the same reasons Tucker did for keeping quiet.

Tucker made a face at himself. It was probably a sign that their relationship wasn't as healthy as it looked, keeping secrets from each other like this. But... he knew Danny kept secrets. They all did, and they were fine with it. So, Tucker or Sam keeping secrets was fine, too.

As long as it didn't turn into murder attempts. That was not fine.

Tucker slipped his fingers under his glasses to rub his eyes and returned his attention to the screen. He was researching Duulaman, and had dived deep into the academic side of the internet. He'd come up against a dozen paywalls and dismissed them all with a few keystrokes.

Duulaman. Pharaoh of Kemet. A descendant of Hatshepsut and an ancestor of Tutankhamen. He had been a fairly progressive member of his family, restoring several of Hatshepsut's monuments after other of his ancestors had done their best to destroy them, making laws concerning the treatment of slaves and foreigners, and forging peace with neighboring countries. He had been well-liked, his popularity having been attested to even years after his death by inscriptions in other graves, praying that their inhabitants would find themselves under Duulaman's rule in the afterlife. He'd been famed for his athletic and magical abilities.

Sadly, academic publications were as skeptical about magic as they were about ghosts.

Tucker rubbed his eyes again.

Duulaman had been murdered. According to his brother, the pharaoh who had succeeded him, the deed had been done by an advisor whose name and image had been systematically removed from everything.

Probably Hotep-Ra. That fit with the ghost's whole thing, and the fact that Tucker couldn't find any information on him.

After another relatively fruitless hour, Tucker pried himself from the chair and went to bed.

.

He turned the fine silver mirror over in his hands, contemplating its polished surface. It had been a 'gift' from a Mitanni noble, and had carried a brutal curse into the heart of Kemet, but the curse was loose, now, wound around his very soul, and the mirror itself was merely a harmless, empty vessel.

One that Duulaman could learn from. He ran his fingers along the strange symbols scored on the outer edge of the mirror.

If his advisors would stop arguing for just a moment.

"We must attack at once!" said Hotep-Ra. "This insult against the person of god cannot be borne!"

"But it is harvest season," objected another. "We cannot afford to take the men from the fields. There would be famine!"

"Hotep-Ra," said Duulaman, softly, "brother of my heart, it was not even their king that sent this. Would you raze their whole kingdom and force a tragedy on their own for the sake of one man?"

"One who attacked you and our kingdom through dread magics?" asked Hotep-Ra. "Yes, my pharaoh."

"Then perhaps it is good that I am pharaoh. I know that you love me, but I have no desire for war. Even so," he said, raising his voice, "I have sent certain persons to correct the problem, and my brother has borne a letter to the Mitanni king, explaining the situation. It is true that this assault on our kingdom cannot be suffered quietly."

The advisors took that in. Duulaman turned to the Priestess of Mut and tried not to squint. She was just far enough away that he had trouble seeing her. Sadly, none of his magic had yet succeeded in giving him the eyes of a hawk, but he yet had hope.

"What say you about the curse?" he asked.

Duulaman was a powerful priest in his own right, favored by the gods and his ancestors, but he valued other opinions. Being the focus of the curse might have blinded him to certain aspects of its function.

The priestess bowed. "It is as we first feared," she said. "It binds your great soul, so that you may not pass into the green fields of the Duat when it is your time to do so. Instead, it decrees that, when you die, you must suffer to be born into a common line, far from your rightfully exalted place."

"And for Kemet? For my line?"

The priestess, an experienced woman who had served Duulaman's father, actually trembled. "That, whence your second life reaches the age of reason, you shall understand, and you shall see the last of the Pharaohs come to ruin, all our temples abandoned save for nonbelievers, your descendants crushed or cast into obscurity, your name stricken from history, and your tomb robbed by foreigners. She dooms you to watch the slow decay."

This was about what Duulaman had expected. He closed his eyes, pained. If only he had been more careful opening the box... but he had assumed it to be from Hotep-Ra, or his brother, or one of his sisters, for it had been among other, like gifts.

"I see. Fear not. I will take care of it. Kemet shall not fall within our lifetimes."

The relief in the room was palpable. They had faith in Duulaman's power.

Alas, that it might come to naught.

.

Tucker woke with a jolt, hand on his heart. He looked around wildly, relaxing when he saw the acid green numbers on his bedside clock. He was here. He was now. He was Tucker.

And it wasn't even time to wake up for school.

Wait. It was Saturday. He wouldn't have to wake up for school anyway.

Alright. So he might have, thousands of years ago, been Duulaman. Fine. He laid back down, breathing through his nose. He dealt with ghosts on a daily basis. He could deal with reincarnation. This was cool. This was fine.

He was definitely having a crisis.

Crap.

He fumbled for his phone, and hit the speed dial for Danny. Danny never slept anyway, it was fine. Besides, stuff like this was why Sam had bought him a phone (a Nokia brick, because ghost fights) in the first place. Dead people were Danny's specialty.

"What's wrong?" asked Danny, far too alert for the small hours of the morning.

"I think I might be Duulaman," said Tucker.

There was a beat of silence. "Yeah?" said Danny, confused.

"Like, I'm a reincarnation of him or something."

"Yeah?" repeated Danny. "I thought that was the whole reason you could use that staff and stuff?"

"Wait," said Tucker. "You mean, you knew all along, and you didn't say anything?"

"I thought you knew and didn't want to talk about it," said Danny. "I'm sorry. Are you okay?"

"Yeah. I'm just having weird Kem- Egypt flashbacks. I'm fine."

"Do you want me to fly over?"

"No," said Tucker. "I just- Am I still me?"

"I mean, you're you to begin with. You are yourself. That's like, definitional."

"Yeah, but..." Tucker gestured at his ceiling with his hand, even though Danny couldn't see it.

Danny chuckled. "You're still you, Tucker. I know Sam and I aren't always super sensitive, but... We do pay attention, you know? We'd know if you were being taken over. Maybe not right away, but..."

"Thanks," said Tucker, with only a little bit of sarcasm.

"Hey, I like to think we've all come a long way since the thing with Poindexter."

"True," said Tucker. "Hey, thanks, man. I'm sorry about waking you up."

"Don't worry," said Danny. "You didn't. I'd just caught Boxy when you called."

"Oh. That's good. Get some sleep, Danny."

"You, too. Tell me what Egypt was like tomorrow, okay?"

"Kemet," corrected Tucker. "And, yeah. Bye."

.

"What are you doing?" demanded Hotep-Ra.

Duulaman turned away from his ritual tools and fixed an un-amused eye on Hotep-Ra. "I may have made it your place to question me," said Duulaman, "but I thought I had made my decision on this matter clear. The method your faction proposed is too uncertain, too risky."

"I have made a mirror," said Hotep-Ra, "one that will recognize your soul in whatever body it should take. With it, we could search all of Kemet for you when you are reborn and then lay you properly to rest, as you deserve, before the curse comes to fruition."

"And if I should be born in lands beyond?"

"Then we should look there, too!"

"Starting all sorts of wars on the way, no doubt. Tell me, brother of my heart, what is the difference between the young man who falls in war, whose body is left for the crows, and the old man who is buried peacefully, and who will find joy in the Duat?"

"The devotion of his family!" responded Hotep-Ra instantly.

Duulaman shook his head sadly and looked back to his tools, touching them softly. He had already completed the ritual that would force the curse to carry his soul thousands of years into the future. By the time his next life reached the age of reason, there would be no pharaohs for the curse to affect. And if there were? Well, it would have been a good long time, and the curse would have weakened significantly. Perhaps even to the point of unraveling.

"No, Hotep-Ra. The difference between a tragedy and a happy ending is time. All kingdoms fall. All civilizations fade."

"Not this one."

"Even this one. The only questions are when and how."

"No," said Hotep-Ra. "No. Never!"

Duulaman felt, rather than heard, the scrape of metal against oiled leather and reached for his staff, which lay across from him, on the other side of his ritual. He was too late. He had trusted Hotep-Ra too much, let him get too close, and he felt the bronze knife slide between his ribs. His eyelids fluttered as his hands groped up his chest.

He was dying.

"I will see you, in the next life," he whispered, blood bubbling in his throat.

And then he was gone.

.

It was bright when Tucker woke again.

He felt... oddly calm. It was nice to know that he had succeeded in out-waiting the fall of Pharaonic Egypt, even though the fact that it was gone made his heart shiver.

Well. He pulled his phone over, and texted Danny. I know what it feels like to die, now, he said. Maybe they'd be able to bond over it. Or Danny would give him some coping pointers, since Tucker was pretty sure he'd have at least one breakdown over this. Either one would be good.

He stood up and walked to the bathroom. His reflection stared back, completely normal. No weird eye shadow, no Egyptian clothes, just Tucker and his pajamas.

Behind it stretched miles and miles of sand.