Part SEVEN of "Clone Danny"
Red Robin, Danny recognizes, steps away from him as he sits up. "My name is Phantom," he signs, blinking the exhaustion out of his eyes. (From Red Robin's perspective, it looks like he has no eyes. There lacks his signature green glow.) "I'm not a gang member, just an out-of-town vigilante."
Red Robin frowns at him, an uncertain grip on the bō in his other hand. "Phantom?" He repeats, no lacking amount of suspicion in his voice. "How can I believe that?"
Right. Yeah, okay, that's fair. Danny shrugs at him, and slumps against the wall. "Google search?" He gestures, he's been out in the daytime before and he's seen the news articles about him.
Red's eyes narrow at him and Danny simply draws his knees up and faceplants into them, half-listening to Red's murmurs into his comm while also trying to get some extra-shut eye.
("Oracle, can you pull up anything on a vigilante named Phantom? The guy here is claiming to be one." Tim says.
"On it."
"Is this Phantom wearing a white mask?" Bruce asks, his voice gruff like an aftershock. "There's a vigilante who shares the same name, but he resides in Illinois."
"Is this guy from that Amity city you visited ages ago?" Says Tim, before shaking his head. "Don't answer that. Yes, he's wearing some freaky mask. I said it reminded me of Hood's helmet for a reason."
"I've got something," Oracle interrupts, "Bats' right. as usual. The Phantom of Amity Park, not much stuff of this guy but he's only been out for over a year. Apparently, his rogues' gallery consists of ghosts."
"Oh great.")
"Look tell the Batman that I'm sorry for trespassing on his turf," He signs irritably when Red Robin eventually starts talking to (re: interrogating) him again. "It's not like I want to be here."
"How did you get in Gotham anyways?" Red Robin questions, batman was on his way to help deal with the situation but Tim doubted he wouldn't get caught up on the way with dealing with petty crime. "Your turf is nearly a thousand miles away from here."
"Two words." Danny deadpans, "Teleport ghost." (Red Robin winces sympathetically.) "I'm keeping this bastard in the thermos for a month for this alone."
(Danny was ignoring the slow-choking anxiety growing in his lungs over how he was gonna get home. He never takes his phone when he goes out, the risk of breaking it was too high. He had no way of contacting anyone to get him home.)
(He swallows the growing lump in his throat, and buries the feeling in the back of his mind.)
"Thermos?"
Danny unclips his Fenton Phantom Thermos off from his belt loop and shows it to Red Robin. "My ghost-catching device," He says with one hand, tilting it carefully for Red to inspect. "I wish I could say I made it, but its a FentonWorks invention."
(He wasn't sure if it was a smart idea to say who it belonged to, but saying it wasn't his probably loosened up any tracks on him, right?)
"Do you work with these Fentons, then?" Red asks, and something dark and shadowy flickers from the corner of Danny's eye. He glances over, and sees nothing, and his hackles raise.
(Either that was Batman, or a ghost, or Danny's mind playing tricks on him. He couldn't feel his ghost sense building in his throat, so he decided it was either the latter of the former.)
Danny snorts, quiet and gruff. "No." He clips his thermos to his belt again, stifling a smile on his face. "The Fentons hate me actually, I prevent them from catching ghosts themselves. Their son gives me their tech."
He had a cover story, so he might as well stick with it, right?
Batman shows up at that moment, appearing atop the little roof where the door is, and giving Danny a heart attack when he speaks in his low, rumbly voice like thunder rolling in, "Why would they hate you for that?"
Danny shoots up to his feet with a startled yell in his throat, clutching his chest as he whirls around and looks up. He nearly runs into Red Robin, and signs a few choice swears at the Bat.
"wow you're scarier in person, asshole."
"you didn't answer my question."
"Of course I didn't, you scared me." and Danny takes a trembling step back when the Batman jumps down and lands on the roof in front of him. He's faced ghosts before, but somehow the living is always scarier.
"But, um, the reason is a bit.. complicated, I guess." He says, fingers beginning to shake as his adrenaline wears off. God is he tired. He wants to go home. "The Fentons are the local ghost hunters and local crazies. I don't know if I can call them mad scientists because they're harmless to the living."
"But they're extremely anti-ghost. I've heard from their son multiple times the very unethical things they would do to ghosts if they got their hands on one."
Danny 'talks' a little more before calling it quits, even telling Batman that he can't tell him more without putting his identity at risk.
Plus, its getting harder and harder to hide his bone-deep exhaustion and his growing fear of being stranded in the most dangerous city in America with no way home.
"I would love to tell you more, believe me I'm dying to." Danny signs, shaky sarcasm dripping from his fingers. His hands are visibly trembling and he's withholding a slowly growing panic attack. "But I would like nothing more than to figure out a way to get home."
"Do you have no one to contact?"
"Sort of. But only one of them could probably come get me and get me back to Amity by sunrise. And I have no phone."
That one person being Ellie.
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Fernando 2012 Chair Lore (source: me)
So I've been thinking a lot about Fernando sitting in this particular chair in the Ferrari garage in 2012 for [redacted] reasons:
Originally I just wanted to find more pictures of it for reference, and then went down a rabbit hole of 2012 pictures, trying to figure out when exactly the chair came to be. There's so many pictures of him in it, and it's so funny to me to imagine them hauling this super villain chair all around the world for him. And so now I'm obsessed with the evolution of it:
Pre-Chair - Australia to Bahrain:
He just had this little stool, well I should say big because it somehow still manages makes him look small. Clearly not comfortable; to paraphrase @sweatyflytrap, it's not conducive to his inner Shakespeare villain monologues
The Chair Appears - Spain
He suddenly now has this, aforementioned, super villain chair. Several things, why is it like this. It looks like a sim chair almost ngl. And then the weird plexiglass support is confusing me, like where did they get that. It furthers my narrative they just had this chair that they couldn't put in a car so they put that clear bottom on it. Anyways yes good, now he has somewhere to brood
The Chair Evolves - Silverstone
Look!! They gave him a booster seat!!!
The Chair is Now Here to Stay :)
I downloaded a truly horrible amount of pics him in this chair, so now you all must also look at them >:)
*he still had the chair in 2013, but I think they took it away from him in 2014 :( Is nothing sacred in this world??? I hope he got to take it home hahaha
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the confession alone is more than enough to throw erin completely off guard, but it’s the sound of the all-too-familiar voice, echoing in the foyer of her two-bedroom condo again, after what feels like an eternity, that makes the muscles in her legs stiffen and the hair on the nape of her neck stand up. her natural instincts urging her to pull him into a hug, assure him that everything will be okay in the end, pretend he’s still hers and she’s his — that it’s the two of them against the world, the way it used to be a few years back. oh, how easy it would be to forget about everything and… but the more rational part of her wants to just stand here, linger in the doorway for a while longer, and pretend she hadn’t heard him, wishes the ground beneath her feet would open up and swallow her whole, get her out of this strange, uncomfortable situation. why would he say this now? why did he have to say this?
clearing her throat as she contemplates her response, she absently brings one of her now shaking hands to her dainty necklace and, to occupy her fingers with something, anything that will help her fight off the urge to reach for the redhead, begins to fidget with a small, heart-shaped pendant. she opens her mouth, but closes it almost immediately, her heart pounding away in her throat, keeping her from forming any coherent sentence. for someone who’d been subconsciously dreaming of something akin to this moment, she feels completely lost and unprepared, nowhere near ready for this kind of conversation. the gifts and letters that he’s been sending her, all the flames that, perhaps involuntarily, they have slowly rekindled, every little thing that she’s been trying to ignore for the sake of their significant others and her own peace of mind… they’re standing right in front of her now and she can no longer run away from the feelings that she’s so desperately tried to suppress for the past few months.
gaze dropping to the floor, examining the pink nail polish on her toes, she struggles not to get emotional, not to overthink the meaning of this unexpected visit. ❝ 𝐚.𝐱𝐥, ❞ she whispers, a soft plea ringing in her voice — not here, not now, let’s not go there… she’s just managed to put her life back together, to move on, or at least that’s what she’s telling herself. if they have this conversation, it will leave her nothing but a shell of the woman she is. but she can’t just close the door in his face, tell him to leave because it’s her weekend with sebastian, scold him for complicating every little thing, remind him that he should be writing letters and sending flowers to a different woman. god. she’s never been strong enough to stay away from him. she doesn’t want to stay away from him. ❝ would you like to come in? it’s almost dinner time. i’m making ‘ghetti and meaty-baws, ❞ she offers shyly, a hint of a smile on her lips because that’s how sebastian calls them. meaty baws. she thinks it’s adorable. ❝ speaking of bastian, ❞ she’s quick to change the subject, although it breaks her heart, ❝ he’s been grouchy all day. i think he might be coming down with something. he keeps complaining about his throat and has a stuffy nose, watery eyes, sneezing… you know the drill. but i’m sure he’ll be so happy to see you, ❞ she explains, opening the door a little wider and inviting the singer to come in with a subtle hand gesture. ❝ see the pile of blankets on the couch? he’s in there somewhere. would you like something to drink? we have apple juice. i can make you coffee or tea? ❞
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I just discovered your Garashir adoption AU and I ADORE IT!!! i am literally in love with the ideas and your art style and omg sjsnsjksjsnsjsns ✨💖🥰🥺❤️🔥
Anyway my important questions are these: Can you tell me how old the children are? And pls tell me that they whole family has like a gigantic bed on which they can all cuddle together?!
That's it, thank you for your time and the amazing contribution you have made to this fandom, it's utterly beautiful <3
Hope u have a good day!
AWWWGHHH THANK YOU!!! I'M SO GLAD PEOPLE ARE ENJOYING THIS SANDBOX WITH ME!
This was as good an opportunity as any to sit down and sort of get a babby timeline together..
(yea med student handwriting lol)
which would put everyone (at one discrete snapshot in time) at I think -
Jocasta is older than Iskra! but came in to the family later. and is much less.... much. So it's easy to forget that.
As to big nestbed.. when he's younger Idan crawls into Julian and Garak's bed every once in a while because dadek is a sentient warm water bottle, but all his siblings swat him afterward and tell him that it's disrespectful to violate your honored parents' space like that. Nesting is for siblings! A Cardassian social space where you can literally let your hair down and share warmth.
Unfortunately for Young Elim that means that everyone's rowdy and wiggly in the evenings when he'd rather be sleeping, but that's the tradeoff for getting to use the shared comfy bed instead of the one in the attic where he'd have to sleep otherwise.
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