dp x dc prompt: marriage and sacrifice au (dead tired/ brain dead)

a crazy magic user kidnaps red robin and offers him as sacrifice to the ghost king, proclaiming that his death will seal a binding contract that will make her the ghost queen, which will force the king to do her bidding.

danny, seventeen and still the ghost prince since he's too young to take the throne, looks at the crazy middle aged lady who's talking nonsense and purposefully misunderstands her. he points at red robin and says, "so that's my fiancé? sweet. he's cute too." then takes advantage of her outrage to knock her out. he proceeds to untie red robin when the circle starts to glow.

unfortunately for danny, the summoning circle took his words as him rewording the contract and accepting red robin as his bride. the rest of the batfam appear just in time to see fright knight come out of a portal and present the consort's betrothal ring to a really confused red robin.

Bonus: they only know each other in their hero personas, but Danny moves to Gotham after graduating high school to be closer to Red Robin as a surprise.

Imagine Danny's surprise when he goes to get a coffee before job hunting and in walks a tired man in a suit who's wearing his ring.

Since it's marriage, Danny'd have a ring too. So he just walks up behind Tim, tapping him on the shoulder.

Danny: [Waves, pointing at his ring] 😇 👉 💍

Tim: [Coffee flows out of his mouth] ...

Tim: We need to go somewhere privet?!

Danny was more than a little excited to break the news to Red Robin. After almost six months of a semi-long distance engagement, they would be living practically next door to each other compared to the previous distance. They both had agreed to letting Red keep his civilian identity a secret, getting to know each other more.

This also meant Danny hadn’t revealed he wasn’t all dead.

Danny meeting Conner in every DPxDC fic:

#conner kent#to be clear I think this is so funny of us#Superman: he was created by my mad inventor billionaire greatest enemy to kill me!#Danny: well MY clone created by my mad inventor billionaire greatest enemy DID try to kill me#she still does! mostly as a joke now though#Superman: he still tries to kill you?#Superman: YOU HAVE A CLONE?#Danny: HER name is Dani and she’s my bestest friend younger sister third cousin once removed pet homicidal weasel tyvm#so be nice to your clone or I’m taking him#Superman: wh…

Superman: he’s dangerous and clearly planning something.

Batman who just watched Phantom cry in a field with fireflies on his palm after centuries in captivity/stasis: your concern has been noted.

#dpxdc#family recognizes family#Spirit Halloween#even Batman’s natural paranoia is side eyeing Clark#dcxdp#dc x dp#dp x dc

Batman is gonna be paranoid, and make contingency plans that may or may not go too far.

right now thats all just pointed at clark.

superman thinks batman is biased if he's an adoptable dark hair blue eyed kid we're talking about

batkid laughs, Bruce has adopted an alien starfish! its criteria for adoption much much broader

martian manhunter is happy to be found by batman and strong judge super man here. After all, by his own logic his parents should have taken him to see/call the scientists/the government when they found His pod.

This scenario is for my take on this prompt [here]

So worse for Superman Phantom is a dark haired, blue eyed Dad who’s first response to waking up with a clone calling him dad was to defend, accept, and check the health of said kid before passing out again.

Supes 100% begins to think Batman is biased bc he’s compromised. By being seduced.

Also the starfish if called Jarro and is a liberated piece of the giant mind controlling Starro alien

thank you for giving me the name Jarro again 💜

In the very first arc of the Justice League anime that I watched as a child, a race of aliens had infiltrated several branches of the government to push for nuclear disarmament and hijack what to communicate with the mothership (among other things) We learn that this species of aliens was in stasis on Mars and had exterminated the Martins there. Batman breaks into an ostile alien-controlled government base and releases the Martien Manhunter there, immediately fleeing with him. Martien Manhunter is a founding member of the Justice League following this arc.

If Batman had followed the line that superman proposes here Martian manhunter would probably not have been released, could not have transmitted his information ect

So yeah he probably wouldn't be very friendly with superdude if he heard that. Especially since he's an empath, being an empath isn't just a super power, it's also a way of thinking and putting yourself in the place of others. Here it is really very close to home

Ah thank you! I haven’t seen a loy of dc content with MM yet so that’s incredible information. Also similar to how they free Phantom minus the alien invasion.

I should do a part from J’onn’s pov with that in mind. Provide another perspective of the situation.

Thank you for enlightening me!! I love Manhunter and learning more about him is awesome

my favourite tabletop gaming bit is when a player is away for a session and you come up with an in-universe excuse for where their character is

‘hanne has fallen asleep in a sunbeam and got left behind on the ship, we’ll fill them in later’

(*400dB Crunch noise*)

Fun fact! Decibel is a logarithmic scale. This means an increase of 10 dB is a doubling in strength.

It's impossible to get a sound louder than about 200 dB on Earth: this is because a soundwave is a series of peaks and troughs of air compression, and around 200 dB you hit COMPLETE VACUUM in the troughs.

So, decibels are a measure of energy.. 400 dB is around 10^28. By the Atomic Rockets Boom Table, the dinosaur-killer impact was merely 10^23.

400 dB is "all the oceans flash boil off the planet and then the crust melts". This rabbit just destroyed all life on earth with a noise equivalent to an exaton of TNT. Aliens on pluto are getting woken up going "what the fuck was that light?"

that bunny is so powerful

Correction. Every 10dB isn't doubling the strength. It's growing it by 10 times.

Apropos of nothing, here's my personal headcanon in regards to Mario and Luigi's surname.

Now, it's been generally announced and accepted that the brothers' last name is "Mario," shackling them with the somewhat awkward full names of "Mario Mario" and "Luigi Mario." My take on this is that the family's original last name was "Marianetti" (likely coming from the more common "Marinetti"). This name was changed to "Marionetti" when the boys' grandmother came over from Italy. (A common occurrence in record keeping at immigration at the time. Someone probably had bad handwriting and smudged a pencil stroke somewhere. It happened in my family for sure).

In Brooklyn, their father went by the last name "Marionetti," which ended up shortened to just "Mario," as oftentimes he would be addressed by his surname only. (Think, "Hey, Mario! Get over here!" as opposed to "Hey, Marionetti! Get over here!")

So, the boys are born and get their names. (Their father's middle name was Mario, and so our Mario, being the oldest, inherits his father's middle name as his first name. Luigi's name maybe comes from the middle name of some uncle who is long out of the picture).

So we have "Mario Marionetti" and "Luigi Marionetti." Which, their surname being a mouthful, gets shortened to "Mario" more often than not, just like their father. And thus we end up with "Mario Mario" and "Luigi Mario," culminating in the "Mario Brothers."

Op...This is genius!

This explains so much!

I'm headcanoning this. No matter what. I love this so much 💗

Sooo hilarious but I can completely see this being a real conversation between streaming execs 😏

(original vid: Asif Ali - instagram - https://tinyurl.com/2p8jpkzz)

“they even put an Indian guy in WandaVision”

hang on a second, I gotta look up something

yeah, this is really funny

mia kinda attracts explosions i cant lie

Green Arrow (2001) #31 - Mia narrowly avoids getting blown up with the kitchen after Connor shoots her in the shoulder to save her

Green Arrow (2001) #50 - Mia again narrowly avoids getting blown up when their house explodes in front of them

Green Arrow (2001) #57 - #58 - Dr. Light traps (and kills) Mia, then Merlyn blows up the house she's in on top of her. (btw we dont see mia again for like 7 issues, i KNOW the mia stans in 2006 were STRESSED)

Green Arrow (2001) #72 Red Hood does his whole drama routine then blows up Mia's school gym just after she escapes

Green Arrow/Black Canary #28 - Cupid activates a quantum arrow, causing an entire rooftop to explode. (mia survives and then is immediately held at knifepoint)

Also originally Mia was fully gonna die in the star city explosions with Lian so. i need to get her in a bombproof suit STAT

thinking how i said jazz's dynamic w vlad would her wanting to study him like bug and how if she managed to compile THIS much research on jack than i can only imagine what her research on vlad would look like

jazz: damn vlad and my dad are more gay mentally ill and traumatized than i initially thought holy shit

Porky Pig’s speech pattern deconstructed.

BRUH

:O that was amazing

I always thought they were just random sounds. That’s kind of mind-blowing.

I’m over this man for making it seem so simple lol

“And nobody can do that and that’s why I have job security.”

This is from a documentary called ” I know that voice” and it’s on youtube

Hi artists if you’re reading this I need you to know that it’s EXTREMELY necessary to have a folder on your phone called “bragging” where you save the screenshots of your favorite comments and sweet messages and shares and artist follow backs. So when you feel like your art sucks and you’ve only ever received praise out of pity, you can look back and realize that that feeling is wrong. The best way to combat imposter syndrome is to record your accomplishments. Keep reminders of your hard work and its reward. Actively try to be self-obsessed. Ok that’s all, go eat some fruit while you’re at it!

oh yeah this applies to writers too

IT'S FINALLY HERE! The true full size of my "do you love the colour of the sky HD remake director's cut" tumblr post

This ended up being 2 3/4 inches wide by 36 FEET LONG. 

The 2 3/4 inch width was chosen because that's the same width as a pretty average phone screen, and I wanted to know how physically far you have to scroll to get past this post.

also dont tell my boss that I got into the art gallery before we opened just to set up this rainbow CVS receipt looking motherfucker. in my defense i literally couldn't find any other location that was long enough to show this off

Please consider subscribing to my Patreon to gain access to my original content a week before its posted on tumblr!

reblogging this because the og post is suddenly getting a bunch of notes and i want everyone to see just how long this motherfucker is in real life

that is impressively long omg

also you all should be so grateful I never reblogged that post because WOW

i actually find this really funny because if i’m not mistaken this is supposed to be a can of A&W root beer, and Japan HATES root beer Apparently it’s a thing in Japan, it’s like black licorice to them, no one likes it. medicine for kids has ingredients that make it taste kind of like what root beer tastes like so whenever they get root beer it tastes like medicine pretending to be a soda to them so it’s like giving an american a huge bag of black jelly beans and labeling it “Why would you put these death nuggets in your body you ridiculous lout”

dp x dc prompt/mini blurb thing:

Somewhere along the line, stealing the Batmobile had seemed like the best option.

Elle would stand by that - admittedly short-sighted and kind of panic induced - logic. It was a vehicle that no one would try and stop. It was fast. The keys were in the ignition. Easiest car theft of her life. Or, well, unlife. Whatever. Still the easiest.

She may have forgotten that Superman could fly as fast as the stupid tank of a car could go. Or that Gotham had other vigilantes, that had bikes that were way more maneuverable, or that Billy was a big baby about car chases.

“WATCH THE ROAD!”

“YOU WATCH THE ROAD I’M DRIVING HERE!”

A very confused Superman relays that to the bats. Who are obviously highly amused, and very very concerned. Because, Superman. Why are you chasing two Wayne adoption baits?

Clark: I saw them first, I have dibs on adopting these two

Bruce: Hn

Clark: Don’t give me that tone of voice, you don’t have a monopoly on black haired blue eyed orphans you know!

Bruce: Hn

Clark: *gasp* I’m telling Alfred you said that!

Elle, now wearing a random pair of Bat-Sunglasses she found: huh real serious stuff you guys got there, maybe you should stop and talk about it for a bit

Billy: *high pitched screaming as Elle guns it intending to turn an incomplete bridge into a cool ramp to jump the river*

Jason, having the time of his life watching these two steal the batmobile: *shouting what buttons to push to activate the rockets*

It’s not that the Fentons are Bad Drivers, it’s just that they have a ride or die style.

Like…Queenie Shaw from Fast and Furious movies! She is a badass woman who takes shit from no one. Her driving style is a gaslight gatekeep girlboss.

The Fentons have too much bamf in their persons to drive like normal mortals, only Jazz is the normal driver because she’s adopted.

He’s not even trying to catch them. He’s just heckling Ellie hard.

Danny: Awwww! Look at my baby go! She got the family driving skills for sure! Woo hoo!

Billy: That’s your Dad?!?!?

Ellie: I’m a clone! He’s my template! I don’t have a Dad!

Danny: Gasp! Betrayed by my own child! Unloved! Forgotten!

Superman: Are you going to help any time soon?!!

Danny: No? Why would I let my baby girl get arrested? I’m here to provide encouraging words in her time of need!

Ellie: I’ll show you encouragement template!

Billy: No! No! No more encouragement please! Oh fuck! I’m too young to die!

Danny: I’d save you don’t worry! I’d just mock Ellie forever!

Jason: Hey! Use the boosters! Third button on the left!

Ellie: Boosters! Yes!

Billy: Oh fuckgodshitno!

Danny: Now we’re talking! Take a head left kiddo! I’ll keep Supes off your back!

Superman: She just needed to give a statement!

Ellie: ACAB!

Billy: Ohhhhh!!!! Fuuuucccckkkkk!

Jack Fenton *joining the fun with the GAV*: Wooohoooo! Let’s see who is the BEST FENTON DRIVER!!!

Maddie Fenton on a motorbike on the other side: Is this a race then, dear?

Danny Fenton racing beside the batmobile with a motorcycle Jhonny gave him as a deathday present: You bet, mom!!!

Dani Fenton being the little shit gremlin she is: The first who is caught by Batman or Superman loose, and who run over the Joker wins!

Jason Todd on the back seat of the batmobile: Can I join your family?

Billy even more scared for his life: Why did I became friends with you?!?! WAHHHHHHHHH

Danny being the shit stirred he is. Heard Jason. Patted the back of his bike.

Danny: Hop on brother!

Jason, extensively trained for this and other such risky shit. Immediately jumps into the offered bike seat. Which, being one of Jonny 13’s has grip bars for passengers. for Kitty.

Jason: I love your fucking family! And lads!

Maddie: Lovely to meet you dear! I’m so glad to see the kids engaging in the family pass times!

Jack: I see Joker! Two streets ahead kids!

Ellie: That bitch is mine!

Jason: Fucking no! He killed me! If anyone deserves it! It’s me!

Danny: Sorry sis! Mans right! I gotta do it! Bro code demands it!

And with that they are hitting the next level of crazy. Gotham has by this point started to observe the crazy. Because… Who is that crazy teen? They stole the batmobile? Superman and the Vatican are in pursuit? And the kids family have joined the fun? Prime watching this is!

And then, oh shit! Joker is near. And the family seem to be running for him! Gotham holds their breath. Waiting to see if it works! Two semi tanks, and two bikes are reacing. The bikes are pulling ahead. Maddie is using some Fenton boosters. Danny has added Ecto to the tank. The tension rises! And, Jason sacks him in the head with a Fenton anti-creep stick as Danny runs him over!

Gotham goes wild! And then! Maddie runs him over, followed by Ellie and Jack. Gotham is cheering! Whoever this family are! They are Gotham’s now! Holy shit these guys go hard.

Superman just sighs. There’s no way this is going to end well. He just needs to know what they did with the kryptonite dammit!

Superman: Can you at least tell me what you did with the kryptonite!

Ellie: I ate it!

And that… Superman feels his understanding of the world crack. Who says kryptonite? What the heck?!?! He just. He needs a minute. He just stops on a roof to think about things.

Jason is still having a great time! This is amazing! He is pretty sure he’s gonna get a lecture later! But fucking worth it!

Jason: This is the best day I’ve had in a long time!

Maddie: You should come home with us then!

Ellie: Every day is this crazy!

Billy: She’s not lying! Why am I friends with you!

Ellie: Cause I saved you from my Klar-bear!

Jason: Klar-bear?

Danny: She’s dating Klarion.

It’s important to do fun family activities! Also, the idea of Ellie and Billy being chaotic dumb bestows has be cackling like a loon. Poor boy just wanted a friend. Now he has his co workers in their tail. He’s gonna get a criminal record. Bats will be on him for batmobile theft. And that’s only if Ellie’s driving doesn’t kill him first!

Jason is of course having the best day ever! He has found his people! These crazy fuckers! Dick will be so jealous! Shoulda come to Gotham. But he was busy being a cop! Hah! He got to run over the Joker! And be chased by the Justice League. He has no idea what’s happening. But it is fun!

Danny is still helping send off Superman and the speedsters. Look they have to get out of here… Actually?

Danny: Ellie? Portal time?

Ellie grinned wide and feral! Fuck yes portal time!

Ellie: Jonny 13’s lair!

Maddie: Good idea baby!

Billy: No! No we can’t keep the batmobile! Ellie!

Superman: Portal?

Danny just grins and focuses. The road in front of the family starts to shift and sufeebly a green portal tips into existence swallowing them. Before closing behind them.

Batman and Superman just stare.

Suoerman: Was that.. Hood on the back of the boys bike?

Batman: Hm.

Superman: I’m sure he will be fine. Can you track the batmobile? It might be the only way to find them.

Batman: Hn.

Superman: Ah. Dimension portal huh. Well. Better get to the watch tower to report this.

Meanwhile..

Jason: Holy fuck! Where the fuck are we?

Jack: Ah! We’re in the ghost zone lad! Welcome to the Fenton’s!

Danny: Don’t worry! I can get you home whenever!

Ellie: Danny’s way better at portal than me!

Billy: Yeah. But you can fly further and faster.

Danny: And no one has spells like you do!

Maddie: So! What was that all about Ellie?

Billy: We uh… May have taken out Supermans nemesis.

Jason: You showed up big blue? Amazing! Also ghost zone? Like?

Danny: For ghosts yeah! Me and Ellie are half dead!

Jason: Aww man. You guys got powers for dying? I just got uncontrollable rage!

Maddie: Well! Maybe the kids doctor can help!

Jack: ah! I’ll stay here with Jonny.13 and the cars then! I want to look under the hood of this bad boy!

Yes! They got away with the Batmobile! Yes!

Billy later shows up to a Justice League meeting (as Captain Marvel, duh) and finds them still discussing it.

“What happened?” He asked, playing dumb.

“Some kids stole the Batmobile,” Superman said.

“It was epic!” Superboy said, flying over to him. “Luthor was fighting my dad, but then these two kids showed up, defeated Luthor, stole his kryptonite, and then got away in the Batmobile! Then my dad flew after them, and then the bat family joined in on bikes! Although, I think Jay- Res Hood joined the two kids. Then another kid showed up on a motorcycle whilst shouting advice at the two kids, and then another motorcycle showed up, and a giant truck! There was a race or something, they ran over the Joker, then the truck, the Batmobile, and the two motorcycles disappeared into a green portal! It was the most epic five minute chase I’ve ever seen!”

It was five minutes?! Billy had thought it took like half an hour.

Although, he was screaming at Ellie the whole time.

“Jon, slow down,” Superman said. “You weren’t supposed to be there.”

Superboy stuck his tongue out at his dad.

“Oh, and get this!” Superboy was back to excitedly retelling the tale, “Dad asked what they did with the Kryptonite, and the girl said she ate it!”

That was true. To be honest, Ellie had said it tasted like ectoplasm rock candy.

“I didn’t realize that was possible,” Billy said.

“Neither did I,” Superman muttered, shaking his head. “Jon, we’ve got a meeting, you can go hang out with Robin, alright?”

“Okay!” Jon bounced away, out of the room.

“It sounds like quite the tale,” Captain Marvel said, moving to take his seat at the table.

“Hn,” Batman said, pulling stuff up on a monitor.

To be honest, Billy still had trouble understanding Batman’s different grunts.

“Yes, we really should figure out who those kids were,” Superman agreed.

Internally, Billy winced. Ellie, you were gonna put him in jail!

Marvel: So. Is Hood back yet? Or still no sign of him?

Batman: *Extremely grumpy hn!*

Superman sighed and looked up to the ceiling.

SM: You just had to remind him didn’t you?

Marvel: Ah. That bad? Surely, you can trust he has enough knowledge and training to be alright?

Batman: Hm!

SM: Marvel, please stop. Go, do anything else. let him simmer down.

Marvel: Ok! Sorry.

Billy wanders off internally screaming. Not only did they steal Batman’s car! They also stole his kid! They were dead! He needed to make a fake ID and flee the country!

Meanwhile Jason was having a very important medical check up. Turns out, he was no longer entirely human! Well, mortal. He, Jason Todd, was a Revenant. And had been lacking in some vital nutrients to be healthy. Because of the shit Ra’s added to the pits.

So he got to spend the night in a funky bath that would magically cleanse him? somehow? And drink some smoothies. He could not lie, it was kinda nice. He got to chill, and he has been able to run over the Joker. Yeah he was feeling good.

The magic bath was pretty epic too. It felt great! It was the perfect temperature. And soothing aches he didn’t know existed. And, to top it off. Once he was done with his spa day/magical cleanse stuff. He would finally unlock his undead magic bullshit.

Which for him apparently meant just a general boost.. Oh. And he would stop aging at some point. So that was going to be… Interesting. He was straight up told he should be able to shrug off bullet wounds. Which, kinda made sense.

His new siblings were sneaking the batmobile back to the batcave as well. That was going to be hilarious. Especially as he switched to street clothes. So his Hood gear was in the car. With a note saying he was taking some me time. B was gonna lose his shit. He hoped Timmers would show him the proof. Ah. What a great day!

Ellie and Danny were having a blast! Jason had happily told them where the cave was for this! After Jack and Jonny13 had finished drooling over it, they carefully cleaned it. Folded Jay’s clothes into a bag. Dropped his note on top. And then set off for their reverse heist.

Apparently Batman would go spare. They were hoping Jay could get footage. Prime watching material! So here they were. Floating the batmobile back into the batcave. And because they could, they did it all invisibly. So the car would seem to simply appear in the cave.

Ellie wrote a quick Thank you for the get away car note as well. It never hurt to be polite! When they got into the cave they could see Red Robin at the computer. Oh! This was going to be funny! They carefully set the car down and backed away. Once far enough away Danny threw a rock to just in front of the car.

Watching Red Robin lose his shit over a magically appearing car made it really hard to not laugh and give the game away. Thankfully they didn’t have to breath. So they could perform truly breathless silent giggles. Oh the poor man looked so confused. He couldn’t seem to tell if he was dreaming or not! They had to go back and tell Jay!

Tim ‘sleephobia’ Drake: *look down to the coffe cup he has on his hands* Why did you betray me…

Dick ‘Discowing’ Grayson: *enter the batcave after watching The Race on the news* uh… what happens? Wait… is that the batmobile?

The Fentons in a corner recording this: Jay will love this!

Tim slowly looked up from his coffee to Dick.

Tim: Wait. I didn’t hallucinatory the batmobile appearing?

Dick: I mean. It’s right there!.what do you mean appearing!

Tim: I mean! One minute, no batmobile. Nectar minute, batmobile. Thin air. Magic!

Dick: So like the portal they stole it with?

Tim: I’ll check the cameras!

Dick: The fuck even happened?

Tim: Two kids beat up Luthor, fled from Supes. Ate kryptonite. stole the batmobile. Car Chase, Joker got fucked up. and then portal!

Dick: Was… Was it really Jay on the second bike?

Tim: Yeah. He jumped on the chance to be in a car chase with Supes.

Dick: Tim…. His suit is folder up with a note on it.

Tim: What! What does it say?

Dick: I.. Fucking asshole. I swear to whatever God is listeningI a! Gonna beat his ass!

Tim: Oh my gods! He’s taking a holiday?is he TRYING to give B a heart attack!?!?!?

Dick: Uh. There’s another note ‘Thnx 4 The car. Sweet ride!’ That little shit! Oh fuck! I want to shake her hand!

Tim: What a fucking legend. We should film B when we give him all this. Hold it I’ve Jay’s head!I

Dick: Yes! He owes us for this! I can’t believe he played grand theft batmobile without us!

The brothers both whipped around when they heard a slight giggle. And then again when another voice giggled from the opposite direction. Before a portal opened and a voice drifted to them before it closed.

Ellie: Jaybird’s out brother too now!

they shared a look and sighed.

Dick: I can’t believe he managed to get adopted by the crazy family so quickly.

Tim: I mean. B picked him up when he tried to steal a wheel. What did we expect?

Tim sighed and got to work. He would present this to B once he got to the cave. Where he could be sure to get his reaction from every angle.

I know this is supposed to be Batclan but the image of the Christian Chruch going after this one family with a vengeance is so hysterical

Yup. holding and all! I should probably proof read my.posts more. But also…. The crack joy I can give people with my oopsies?

I just wrote over 4k of Danny angst and I need yall to know that seeing all these additions has been the most amazing refresher to all the Sad Boi Hours 😂

Everything yall have added has had me in stitches, holy shit it’s all so amazing 😂❤️❤️❤️

When Danny first shiwed up, I thought it said he was riding a bike (like, bicycle) and the mental image of Danny peddling like the wind to keep up with everything is very fun.

Danny on a push bike keeping up with the batmobile is a great idea! He is absolutely cheating. It looks like he is peddling properly. He is not. The bikes actually a few mm off the floor and he is just flying with it!

Which also makes Jason jumping on funnier imo

So on top of the note saying he was taking a break. Jason decided to make a holiday postcard.

I’m just think he dragged Ellie and Danny into it as well. So photo of the three of them with Ecto smoothies. In a pool of ‘Lazarus water’ gets delivered to the manor… Several hours after B gets the batmobile back.

The back of the picture has a note on it.

Picture of me with my new favourite siblings, Ellie and Danny. XoXo.

P.s. Don’t worry. I’ll be back in a week!

Tim sees it and starts to laugh so hard he cried as he hands it over to Bruce. Dick is offended! He is meant to be the favourite! But also, Jason. Did you have to?

Bruce is about ready to scream, or punch someone really really hard. At least they have a picture of the batmobile thief!

Sadly whenever they tried to scan the picture the tech fizzes out. They try to describe it and the memory goes fuzzy, they hold it up to compare to people suddenly the picture quality drops. It cant be drawn out either. Danny and Dani got Dora to curse it, there shall be no evidence to their crime.

Tim is highly amused by all of it. He can respect the sheer pettiness of it. It’s frustrating yes. But hilarious. HE wants to meet them. And shake their hands. also, he’s not worried. Jason is clearly fine and just up to his usual antics.

Jason has been adopted twice and both times involved stealing at least part of the Batmobile

Jason convinces Danny and Ellie to come back with him when he goes home. Just to create chaos. And gets them fancy new T-shirts. Danny’s saying ‘Fuck the police’ and Ellie’s with 'ACAB’. Mostly he says, because his oldest brother is a cop. And he will sulk. And it will be great!

Danny and Ellie of course agree. They get to cause more chaos? Tease a cop? To his face? Fuck yeah!

Short DPXDC Prompts #809

Danny is extremely weak and injured and he really hates overshadowing people. He does the next best thing: takes over the shadow of a person. Unknowingly, Danny just possessed the shadow of Red Robin.

Sleep deprived Red Robin arguing with is shadow is not an unknown sight. The shadow arguing back is new.

It doesn't vocalize its disagreement, but it does subtly move, gesticulate, and generally give off vibes. Subtle enough to be mistaken for a trick of the light if you aren't watching it closely for a few minutes, yet clear enough to subconsciously pick up on.

Now, Tim is just wondering how the hell his own shadow, an entity bound to his own movements and incapable of facial expressions, is managing to give him an Alfred level deadpan disappointed stare. Damn he needs caffeine. Another glance at his shadow and; again, despite having no face to express, he's 94% sure it just did Alfred's patented arched brow. Maybe he should turn in early and get some sleep.

Alfred: Ah. Master Tim. It is delightful to see you resting for once!

Tim: My shadow started being disappointed in me. I realised I probably needed sleep if my own shadow was hinting I needed rest.

Alfred: ... I see. I am glad you can in fact, see reason.

next time Tim sleeps, Alfred brings cookies to Danny shade

Alfred holding a cup of tea and a plate of cookies.

Alfred: Now. I would like to make a deal with you young shadow.

The shadow flickers and dips in curiosity.

Alfred: Every time you convince him to sleep you get a plate of cookies.

The shadow vibrates with excitement.

Alfred: Excellent. We have an accord. Your payment for tonight

As Danny gets stronger he will reach an arm out of the shadow to take the cookies and plate into the shadow with him. Eventually Alfred brings him some post its and a pencil and they become penpals of sorts. Danny eventually reveals to Alfred Through these notes that he's a ghost that got weakened by some kind of battle and needed a place to hide and rest to regain strength. So possessed Tim's shadow for now. Alfred starts bringing the shadow 3 meals a day.

3 square meals a day is doing wonders for Danny's recovery.

He's not quite ready to climb out of Tim's shadow yet, but he is strong enough to start subtly helping on patrol. Little things, of course. A slick patch here an untied shoe there. Not leaving Tim's shadow means his influence is a bit constrained to places where Tim's shadow crosses. But Danny still helps how he can. It's nothing much.

At least, not until Tim finds himself in some real danger. A mission gone sideways a clown with a gun to Red Robin's head on live stream. And Danny, possibly panicking slightly, definitely not wanting to find out first hand what the insides of human people looks like. He just kind of reacts. The clown is fortunately standing on Tim's shadow, so it's a simple matter to turn the floor there intangible and let the clown fall into the sewers.

The whole of Gotham watches Red Robin's shadow eat the Joker live.

Danny got extra desserts that night. And the rogues of Gotham are now more afraid of Red Robin. As if the crazy bastard wasn't scary enough. Tim of course need a to have words with his shadow. because, what did you do?

The problem is how to get an answer. Tim can yell and talk and argue all he wants but it doesn't change the fact that his shadow is a shadow. It doesn't have a face and it doesn't talk. It takes him almost a week to figure out the post it note trick

Tim would pull up a PC and keyboard.

Tim: You can touch stuff, you can type. Get to it!

Danny : I helped! Why r u mad?

Tim: What are you? Why my shadow?

Danny: Friend! Injured. Healing slowl.

Tim: Ok. So till you are healed you are hiding in my shadow?

Danny: Yes

"Okay... oh-kay!" Tim took a forceful breath as he processed, My shadow is possessed by some sort of shadow monster. Wow! I'm... I'm gonna need a moment."

The shadow gives a shrug, as if to say "what can ya do."

"I'm guessing this means my secret identity and the identity of my siblings are all pretty much obsolete, right?"

There's clacking as the shadow types:

CONSOLATION HERO TOO

"You're a hero?"

SMALL TIME NEVER HEARD

"A small time hero I would have never heard of. Ok. Good to know. Why are you in Gotham?"

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Tim took a deep breath ok. He could do this. Ghost hunters? GIW? Hmm

Tim: What was your hero name? And where are you based? It'll help me get information quicker.

Danny *Phantom. Amity Park. Anti Ecto Acts*

Tim: Thanks! I'll get started on research then. Know anyone at the other end who could help?

Danny: Tucker Foley. Friend. Big fan.

Tim: Great! Thanks. Wait, of me as Tim Drake? Or Red Robin?

Danny: Yes.

Tim: Ah. Fair enough. Red Robin it is then. Maybe he can help me give you more energy to heal?

Tim pulled up his Red Robin laptop and started to go to town looking for the issue. Huh. There were some extremely strong fire walls in place. At least he found Tucker Foley. He could set up a secure channel to talk to the guy easy enough.,

Then if he was any good they could attack the wall from both sides? Yeah that was a plan. The anti Ecto acts were easy enough to find. Once you knew about them. But they were added piece meal into different bills. No wonder no one had noticed them.

Tim highlighted the relevant sections and sent them to Bruce. Along with notes asking him to query them. Who and how decided ghosts were not sentient? How did they come to the conclusion?

Well, that was what he was going to find out! He smiled as Phantom pushed his coffee lightly to get him to drink it. It was sweet of them.

Tim: Thanks phantom..

His shadow formed a thumbs up. Good. phantom clearly needed more interaction. Being a shadow much be dull....

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