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Had another funny plot idea. Desmond in the Crusades, trying to stop certain things. Altair and co still go to Solomon's temple, only when they reach the end, all the Templars, including Robert de Sable, are dead and there's an unknown 'assassin' holding the treasure Al Mualim wants. And Desmond is staring at them like he just got caught at midnight with his hand in the cookie jar. (Where'd the time go? He thought he had like, another fifteen minutes to escape before they got there. Shit.)

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You… you do understand what this means, right?

We now have, in our hand, the honored tradition of…

Altaïr chasing his target all over the city.

And this time it isn’t some Templar who has guards on his side.

No, no, no.

This time it’s with an unknown (most probably) Assassin who has the skills of three Master Assassin and a Grand Master (and maybe, just maybe, the vague Bleeds of a pirate).

So when Desmond panicked and booked it, Altaïr was immediately hot on his tails before Malik could even try to suggest they talk it- Nevermind, they’re already too far for them to hear Malik.

Malik and Kadar would stay behind just to confirm the kills (and realize that they were all killed by a sharp blade but not technically a hidden blade, perhaps a dagger or even a throwing knife of some kind… two of the guards were taken out by surprise at the same time, most probably, and there was a hint of a strange smell in the air…)

Back to Desmond and Altaïr…

Their chase would definitely have this kind of vibe:

And they would be freerunning all over Jerusalem, from the busy streets to the rooftops, ignoring the guards who try to shout at them and sometimes they’d even take the time to take those guards down when they try to apprehend them but then the chase would continue.

Desmond didn’t actually have a plan other than get to the stables and grab a horse, hopefully outrun Altaïr.

Hell.

He didn’t even know where he planned to go.

Anywhere but Jerusalem, that’s for damn sure.

Goddammit, he should have made more smoke bombs!

Desmond got his wish and he finally managed to get a horse from the stable, Altaïr hot on his tail.

He had hoped getting a horse would give Desmond enough distance for him to finally escape Altaïr.

And, seriously, his legs were killing him and his lungs were about ready to explode, he hoped Altaïr was the same.

Desmond’s horse was fast and it wasn’t long before they were out of Jerusalem.

And that’s when Desmond realized he fucked up.

Because he had picked the first horse he saw, all in the hopes of quickly distancing himself from Altaïr.

But Altaïr…

Altaïr picked his horse.

The same horse he had been using for a while now.

The same horse that was noted to be one of Masyaf’s finest…

And fastest…

Well.

Fuck.

Desmond knew he was screwed the moment Altaïr’s horse caught up with him, galloping next to him.

And Altaïr…

The motherfucker tackled him off of his goddamn horse and Desmond couldn’t help the yelp of indignation that left his lips as he was suddenly bodyslammed off.

Now, a common reaction would be to try and fight off one’s assailant while they’re falling.

But Desmond..

Desmond trusted Altaïr.

And so, instead of fighting him off, he wrapped his arms around Altaïr’s arms and embraced him tightly as he braced for impact.

Too surprised by Desmond’s action, Altaïr forgot the next part of his plan which was to grab the horse’s reins so that they would fall to the ground nearby.

Instead…

They both skidded and rolled until…

They both fell to the nearby cliff, plunging into the uncaring wild currents below.

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An idea I have but don't want to write - Minerva sees Desmond sacrifice himself and feeling somewhat guilty, she broadcasts who desmond is and what he has done into the minds of every human on earth - in doing so also spilling the beans on the Isu and the Juno, and also assassins and Templars. Every single human being now knows that Desmond Miles died to save the world. A stereo is panicking. The assassins are freaking out. JUNO is freaking out. Religions are freaking out. And also new ones featuring Desmond start being made.

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Minerva just going:

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I get it. I have a lot of ideas I don’t wanna write too. We write what we want and what makes us happy. Sometimes, the ideas we have are just ‘hey, you know what would be awesome/fucked up’ but at the same time we’re like ‘hhhmm… yeah.. not gonna write that…’ Sometimes, ideas just remain ideas in the end and that’s okay.

Okay, but on a more serious note, this has soooo many things that could go wrong. Like, Minerva’s pretty much going “fuck it, I’m already dead by this point, it’s no longer my problem!” and screwed up everybody in the process.

Let’s not even focus on Desmond yet.

By blowing the lid on what the Isus were, Minerva had effectively hit a deadly blow to every religious organization in the world. Not only that, the scientific world would be scrambling as everything they know to be true about the world must be scrutinized now that they know that there was an ancient civilization before them.

Then there are those drenched in power and those who desire power.

Politicians, terrorists, CEOs of corporations that control the world, etc…

They would be scrambling to get ahold of these POEs because they would be a source of power that they do not have but crave.

And now we get to the shit that comes to light because of Desmond…

The Templars and Assassins.

The Templars have it harder. Soooo much harder.

They’re Abstergo. Their deeds have been broadcast which included Desmond’s abduction, forcing him to relive his ancestors’ life, toying with his feelings using Lucy Stillman and…

Oh yeah.

The Great Purge gets uncovered too because Desmond hears about it and there are journalists and conspiracy theorists that smelled blood in the water and they’re definitely eating everything they can.

The Assassins are panicking but they’re fine, all things considered. They’re used to hiding. Rebecca, Shaun, and Bill are the only ones whose faces everyone knows right now (also Desmond’s mom, I guess?). But the rest can still stay in the shadow.

And now…

The world is shifting.

Religions featuring Desmond as a messiah and even a god (the one true god, the god of humans, not the false gods of the Isus) are popping up and they’re making things... actually easier for the Assassins.

Because they all have the same thing in common.

They wear white hoods.

Some wear hoodies.

Others go for the whole white robes that are pretty much monk robes.

So now the Assassins have an easy way to blend in.

It’s like they’re retreading the path walked by the Levantine Brotherhood during the Third Crusades.

But this time, it is the cults and religions worshipping Desmond Miles that are sweeping the world.

Shaun, Rebecca, and Bill knew that Desmond would have hated this.

He had sacrificed himself so that the world would not treat him as a god.

So that his deeds and words wouldn’t be twisted into fanaticism.

But, in the end, that was what was happening.

The religion and cults are joining together, creating a large religious organization that places Desmond as the one true god (although some say that he is a human turned god, others say he is a reincarnated god). Altaïr, Ezio and Ratonhnhaké:ton are even getting added to the 'doctrines', being called prophets and saints. Some sect even consider them Desmond the god taken human form. Haytham, if he is even added, is more divisive with many sects calling him a false Prophet while others call him a Fallen Prophet.

This religious organization marks every other religion as worshipping false gods and it doesn’t help that Juno has shown herself, protected by her own cult or whatever bullshit those nutbags call themselves (the Instruments of the First Bitch or whatever). Juno is showing a very bad image of the old gods and that’s only making everything so much worse.

And that is how…

The Holy Wars begin anew.

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Yesss give me all the holy wars. Give me the scientists freaking out and the reaction to the truth of Adam and Eve and the historians loving the chance to get first hand views of the past and various religions freaking out and having civil wars. Some lose their faith, some cling to it and say that Desmond is a false God/Devil and they are being tested, some merge Desmond and the Isu into their beliefs and some are just chill. (Like Buddhists. I can't imagine the Isu reveal changing Buddhists views much.)

Also, the reveal of the Assassin's and how they have been actively preventing the Templars from taking over the world and mind controlling people means the assassins are suddenly REALLY POPULAR!

There are arguments about whether they should be supporting people who kill others even if they do it for a good cause.

Pundits are arguing over everything.

The Daily Show does a segment on it. So does John Oliver. No - John Oliver does a SONG.

And all while this is happening, a large amount of Humans are Believing something. And as we found out from Juno - that can effect reality itself.

And what they Believe is that Desmond Miles is a God.

Okay, John Oliver doing a song about it would be awesome but just 30+ minutes of John Oliver ripping the hell out of Abstergo would be epic:

(Not included: the 5-minute orchestra titled "What the Fuck, Abstergo" with a chorus including the line "What the fuck, Abstergo")

I FINALLY HAVE THE MOTIVATION TO DO THIS CROSSOVER IDEA!

(The moment for this episode is a cross and the name of the puppet is 'desmond jesus' for some reason)

Anachronism Ahoy:

  • Look, I know Puppet History wasn't airing in 2012 but I've always wanted to throw this crossover and now I have an excuse to. Just imagine Shane, Ryan and everyone in Watcher got an early start
  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver also didn't start until 2014 so I guess we're punting John Oliver into being older in AC verse too.

Edits by me with screenshots coming from these episodes:

Omg I love you. And yes, he absolutely has a five minute song called 'what the fuck Abstergo' and the assassin's LOVE IT. They hijack abstergo's sound system just to play it at them.

Also, buzzfeed unsolved! I want to read a 500k word fic just about the social media of the world reacting to 'the event' (what would it be called)

Something light and funny - with holy wars brewing in the background, because I have not forgotten them.

Also, as much as fxnws and certain pundits there would probably agree with the Templars and try to support them, I think even their supporters would rip them to shreds for it - cause all those anti vaxxer anti masker and government people will find out that this rich corporation wanted to MIND CONTROL them and also were willing to let them all die in a solar flare while they hid in bunkers and go spare. And I hate to say it but they'd LOVE Desmond for the same reason they love Jesus- he died to save them and everyone loves a martyr - and also he's dead so they don't have to deal with him being a person or disagreeing with them. They can just put whatever they want onto him and he can't protest or disappoint them because he's dead.

Also I wanna know Bill Nye the Science Guy's reaction lol.

And yes, their watchers would definitely side with the Desmond cultist/religion for one important thing: Desmond is technically a WHITE man who died to save them. Like, I’m pretty sure part of the holy wars will be the whole “Desmond is better than Jesus” debate that would just… oooohhh bboooyy.

On one hand, these are the people that would definitely push the Desmond religion into fanaticism and would be the front liners for the holy war.

On the other hand, there would be those people who would try to temper them, reminding them that Desmond died to save the world and should we really be fighting one another? Isn’t that against his very Creed? (Just imagine how they’d fuck the Creed up to suit their doctrines?!)

Then Juno starts doing crazy shit and rallying her Will of the First Bitch cult and that’s how the holy war starts.

Because Juno can’t believe that Desmond is being worshipped more than her. (Also, Minerva is noted as a ‘reformed’ false goddess who did the right thing in the end and the Desmond religion thinks of her as a saint and welcomes all myths and artworks of Minerva/Athena. Some even call her ‘Saint Mother’ which just annoys the fuck out of Juno who gets called the ‘False goddess’ and the ‘First Bitch’ that they actually got from one of Desmond’s memories)

Also… there’s definitely a sect that cuts their ring finger off as part of their ‘practices’ and another sect that cuts their lips.

… They’re definitely the more hardcore of them.

For nicer things:

A daily show featuring Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson just trying to explain to the masses what all of these means in terms of science.

History Channel just scrambling to make new specials each day and having episodes of them just trying to compare what they know and what they don’t know.

Deadliest Warriors episode just focusing on pitting Assassins and, oh boy, they sparked up the debate of who was a better Assassin, Altaïr or Ezio.

A Forged in Fire episode of contestants being told to make a Hidden Blade. One of them accidentally making a Hidden Blade that needs the goddamn ring finger cut off.

Buzzfeed publishing bs like “Which Assassin are you?” or “Tell me what you last ate and I’ll tell you which Desmond Miles quote you are”. Shaun hates them but can’t stop clicking on them.

The name of the event? I don’t know. Maybe something connected to the sun? Like maybe Sol Desmond or something Latin pretentious? Oh man. It would be funny if they start changing the calendar to mean Anno Desmond, the year of Desmond XD

I mean, Desmond might be TECHNICALLY white but he has Syrian, Italian and native American (and welsh!) Ancestry and looks pretty multicultural - so what do you wanna bet some people start doing what they've done with Jesus and making images of him where he's whiter? Or blonde haired blue eyed. Shaun comes across one and goes SPARE.

Ooh yes, Juno would ABSOLUTELY lead into the first war, be the spark that sets the world on flame. She'd be so upset that Demsond and Minerva are getting more worship then her. Racist (speciest?) megalomaniacal bitch that she is.

And I want all the stuff with people reacting to the Enlightening and the real past. All of it. Tumblr's reaction. Twitter wars. The pope having to give an opinion, the president, various autocratic governments - and ooh. What do you wanna bet every government out there is now looking to grab any Piece of Eden they can?

Pilgrimages to the Grand Temple!

What if they name it (apart from just 'It' or 'That' or some such) the Enlightening? Also, what if there's a big argument to change the calender, not to anno Desmond but to starting at 0 in 2012. So 2013 would be the year of our lord 1 - our lord as in DESMOND, not Jesus?

I like the idea of it being named as “Anno Domini Desmond” because then the acronym would be ADD (an extra d for Desmond XD)

They definitely would. There won’t be any blonde Desmond but Shaun would want to hit something just seeing a portrait of Desmond having light brown hair and it’s so light one can argue it’s dirty blonde at that point.

Also, blue eyes would be a minority because many of them would paint or render Desmond having gold eyes as a sign of his ‘godhood’.

The governments in the world would be scrambling to find POEs and that’s also a reason why the holy wars start. The Religion of Desmond (are… we really calling it that?) sees their greed and goes “blasphemy!” and “sinners!” because Desmond did die using a POE so these POEs must be treated with care and caution. And I like to think there would be some sect made up of scientists who jumped ships who focuses on containing and studying these POEs and they’re the only ‘sanctioned’ scientific religious sect (god, it sounds so weird calling it that) allowed to do such a thing. Anybody else will get holy war in their asses for even trying.

Okay… but think.

The Grand Temple is seen as a base for the Instruments of the First Bitch and now it’s a very disturbing recreation of the holy war in Jerusalem where the Religion of Desmond wants to get it while the Instruments of the First Bitch fights them off. Turin and the rest of New York is gonna get caught in the crossfire.

May I suggest for the pilgrimage instead: The Farm where their god gained his human form.

And then, borrowing from an idea of mine of Desmond actually ending up being worshipped as a god because he let the world burn, the ‘Rome’ of the Religion of Desmond (Desmondity? XD), is Monteriggioni with Villa Auditore being their ‘Vatican’. XD

I have no idea what the Desmond religion would be called, apart from not Desmondity! And holy shit yes the Grand temple ends up the new Jerusalem and is constantly switching hands and causing holy wars.

And I LOVE the idea of the Rome being Monteriggioni, because because I love Desmond and Monteriggioni together!

And yes to paintings of him with golden eyes, and a golden arm because of his burnt arm. But yeah they would absolutely start making him whiter. Basically there's chaos and wars and problems everywhere - and this is the world Deamond is Reborn/Revived into. Where he is literally worshipped as a God.

Which I can only imagine leading to him going 'Nope' and running lol.

And then every social media would just be flooded by sightings of him and #ourlordandsaviordesmondmiles will be trending before the day is even over. Everywhere Desmond goes, people realizes who he is and there’s a lot of groveling and a lot of going down on their knees and praying and holy shit Desmond absolutely does not like any of this and he just keeps running away.

Someone starts the “Our God Sightings” twitter/instagram/every other social media platform that just retweets/shares every sighting of Desmond Miles.

At that point, even the government are trying to take him over.

Then…

He finally gets in contact with Shaun and Rebecca and they take him away.

Back to Villa Auditore.

And that’s where Desmond hears that Shaun has become…

Pope Shaun Hastings the First.

“What the fuck, Shaun?!”

“You think I wanted this?! The only way we can keep them from completely destroying the world is by leading your damn religion! I don’t even want to be pope!”

“Then why are you the pope?!”

“Because I picked rock and Rebecca picked paper!”

“YOU GUYS ROCK-PAPER-SCISSOR’ED WHO BECOMES MY POPE?!”

God imagine the Epic Rap Battles of History we’d get from this

I cannot write song lyrics and definitely not rap lyrics so have this:

(The screenshot is from Genghis Khan vs Easter Bunny. He appears in one line "Jesus")

I have So Many thoughts about Scum Villain I have so many feelings I am overflowing with Them I am drowning in it I am dying

Shen Qingqiu telling everyone (including himself!) that he didn’t mourn for Binghe, okay? He did not mourn for him! He just repaired his first sword and buried it in his back garden so he could sit by it for hours at a time! He just felt so guilty that he concocted an entire elaborate ploy to off himself but still live so that Luo Binghe could get revenge on him! He just stopped eating because he didn’t have to eat in the first place and food tastes bland when it’s not made by Binghe! He called out Binghe’s name and compared Gongyi Xiao to Binghe and thought about Binghe at least once every three sentences, but he was Not mourning! He was just vibing, okay, you don’t get it-

The extra where Shen Qingqiu sees Luo Binghe during the five years he was dead. And Luo Binghe is working diligently and always busy and makes food everyday like he’s waiting for Shen Qingqiu to wake up. And he says he doesn’t know how much longer he can take it, but he takes it for years and would’ve taken it for even longer if he had to. And he holds Shen Qingqiu’s body to feed him qi and Shen Qingqiu recognizes it as the way he held Luo Binghe when he got hurt. And even though loterally everyone thought Luo Binghe was doing awful things to Shen Qingqiu’s body, all evidence points to him just holding it. Luo Binghe never touched Shen Qingqiu inappropriately and he was so sad and he was so broken.

The part where Luo Binghe says “Theoretically, how would someone go about showing another person that they have strong feelings for them?”

Mobei-jun: “Have you tried beating him up three times a day?”

Luo Binghe: “Mobei-jun, you are uninvited from answering.”

Shang Qinghua thinking about Peerless Cucumber everytime he gets insulted and getting nostalgic about it, but then pretending he only “just remembered” the username when he actually meets Shen Qingqiu and finds out he’s the one Shang Qinghua has been fondly remembering for literal years. You only remembered just barely, huh, Shang Qinghua? Yeah, okay, sure…

Shen Qingqiu was purposefully pretending to be stupid so that Liu Qingge would beat up his own Bai Zhan Peak disciples. Shen Qingqiu finds out they were bullying Luo Binghe and vows to get revenge, he was purposefully playing dumb so that Liu Qingge would volunteer someone to come up and then he’d go, “whoop, haha, silly me, you were right, Shidi :)”

Shang Qinghua comes back from a trip and everyone is talking about how weird Shen Qingqiu is acting and he’s like “What? What happened? How is he acting strange?” and Yue Qingyuan replies “He had a peaceful conversation with me for two hours” and Shang Qinghua immediately goes “He’s cursed, he’s definitely cursed, is he dying??”

Everyone else: “Shen-shixiong is being nice to us…”

Yue Qingyuan: “Is there any way to get Shen-shidi back to normal?”

Everyone else, internally: “Maybe, but I’m not looking for it.”

The entire Holy Mausoleum section. It’s stuck with me for two years. I love all of it. From beginning to end. The entire section, the moment Shen Qingqiu wakes up in a coffin to the moment Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe get out. All of it. Every single thing that happens is comedy gold and I will never get over it.

But of course there are highlights.

Shen Qingqiu, knocking on a coffin he can’t open, trying to hide from the things wandering around trying to kill him: “Excuse me, may I come in?”

Tianlang-jun, inside that coffin: “Sure.”

Shen Qingqiu just casually carting his boy Binghe around. Hanging out. Trying not to die. Getting stabbed multiple times and having plants grow out of his legs. The usual.

The Old Huan Hua Palace Master being a human stick. At first, Shen Qingqiu is like “omg Binghe is insane.” Then, after the Old Palace Master acts creepy towards Binghe and kind of implies creepiness about Binghe’s mom, Shen Qingqiu goes: “No, wait, yeah, this guy deserves this and worse.”

Shen Qingqiu: sits up in his coffin

Meng Mo: “I can’t help you wake up Luo Binghe.”

Shen Qingqiu: lays back down in his coffin

Meng Mo: “What are you- Are you going back to sleep?!”

Shen Qingqiu calling Zhuzhi-lang “Xizhi-lang” and Zhuzhi-lang tripping over his own feet then just sighing and letting him do whatever

Tianlang-jun: “Why do you know so much about the Holy Mausoleum?”

Shen Qingqiu:

Shen Qingqiu: “LOOK a DISTRACTION!”

Luo Binghe: “Why do you know so much about the Holy Mausoleum?”

Shen Qingqiu: “I read about it in one of Qing Jing Peak’s books.”

Luo Binghe, previous head disciple who has all of the books that have ever been on Qing Jing Peak memorised: “I see. I don’t recall that one.”

Shen Qingqiu:

Shen Qingqiu: “Oh hey look, a distraction-“

Tianlang-jun asking Shen Qingqiu to help him up and then his arm popping off.

Tianlang-jun just generally being the weirdest fucking guy. Tries to be a wingman for his nephew. Helped conspire with his nephew to bring a dead guy back to life. Has been stuck under a mountain and says it was for ten years, despite the fact that it was almost certainly longer than that. Sings the song about Shen Qingqiu fucking his son and then bluntly asks “Did you fuck my son?” Says “I was looking forward to meeting you” specifically because of the song about Shen Qingqiu fucking his son.

Tianlang-jun, just in general, is one of my favourite parts of Scum Villain. Like, he’s so… he’s my poor little meow meow. He is my scrungly. He literally falls apart and is just kind of like “Again? Dang.” A bunch of cultivators show up to thwart him and he’s like “I expected more of you.” He realizes that Shen Qingqiu, Zhuzhi-lang, and Luo Binghe were all in the same bed together and is like “Does Shen Qingqiu always need two others?” He walks in on that scene, only seeing Zhuzhi-lang and Shen Qingqiu, and says “Continue, please, don’t let me interrupt.” Finds out his wifey wasn’t apart of the plot to trap him under the mountain and even tried to save him and immediately melts like the marshmallow-hearted maiden he is.

Pre-trapped-under-a-mountain Tianlang-jun is a treat too. Finds his nephew and immediately says “You’re so ugly. Have a bunch of soldiers and land. Bye.” Meets Su Xiyan and becomes insufferable. “Zhuzhi-lang, am I ugly? Zhuzhi-lang, don’t you think my face is worth more than two silver pieces? Zhuzhi-lang, human women are so different than what I’ve read. Zhuzhi-lang, be honest, am I obnoxious?” He literally tries to barter over how attractive his face is and is legitimately pleased when Su Xiyan says it’s worth a gold coin. Zhuzhi-lang describes him as being the sugar baby and Su Xiyan being his sugar daddy, but Tianlang-jun not only doesn’t mind, he even seems to enjoy it. Zhuzhi-lang describes him as a pure-hearted maiden falling for a roguish cultivator. Zhuzhi-lang has the terrible realization that, in his own metaphor, he’s the handmaiden who follows her innocent lady around trying to keep her out of trouble.

My favourite part will always be the reveal though. The reveal that, after a whole novel dreading it, Luo Binghe is the antagonist. Luo Binghe purposefully led these cultivators and monks and priests to Tianlang-jun and let them all think Tianlang-jun was the one fuelling Xin Mo. Tianlang-jun says “I can’t even fuel Zhuzhi-lang’s human form, how could I fuel Xin Mo?” and everyone feels like they were thrust under cold water. Luo Binghe stands there and smiles and adjusts his sleeves and doesn’t care because none of these cultivators can touch him, most of them were taken out during the fight with Tianlang-jun, and Luo Binghe has basically already won.

He says that he hates Shen Qingqiu choosing others over him. Shen Qingqiu always chooses someone or something else. Shen Qingqiu always leaves when he asks him to stay. Luo Binnghe says that he’s going to make sure Shen Qingqiu has no other choice. If Luo Binghe isn’t his first choice, then Binghe will become his only choice. He’s willing to destroy the human realm and the demon realm both so that Shen Qingqiu will only be able to choose him.

One of the monks is like “That’s kind of fucked up. You’re just going to make him hate you.”

Luo Binghe: “Shizun can hate me all he wants, as long as he never leaves. And he won’t be able to leave.”

Luo Binghe is the ultimate villain. He is literally unstoppable. He is almost totally unkillable. He’s the final boss, but he’s a boss who’s always scripted to win. He’s more powerful than all of them combined and he’s gone actually insane because he can’t control Xin Mo. Xin Mo is feeding all his insecurities and Luo Binhe decided that the cure was to tie Shen Qingqiu to him with a leash too tight to escape.

He is absolutely terrifying, in this moment. He’s insane. He’s outright telling everyone that he’s destroying everything they love because if he doesn’t, Shen Qingqiu might choose one of them over him.

He’s - so - cool!

Luo Binghe is always cool, he’s so badass, but this moment just cements how absolutely unhinged he is!! He is insane!! He is manipulative and silver-tongued and adaptable!! He is grabbing the narrative with both hands and forcing it to be the way he wants it to be! He’s so cool, he’s so very cool, and I get chills when I read this part, he’s too cool!!

And I’ve already made a long post about how meaningful it is that Shen Qingqiu ultimately does choose Luo Binghe. Even out of a world-ending event, he still chooses Luo Binghe. Shen Qingqiu only didn’t choose him before because he didn’t know that was an option. For the rest of the novel and all the extras that take place post-canon, he seeks out Binghe. He’s the sticky one.

He says he hurt Luo Binghe’s feelings by saying he didn’t want to sleep in his bed and he’s upset because he was going to give in if Binghe just pushed a bit further! He thinks Binghe is in danger and takes him to Qing Jing Peak and tells everyone not to bully him and tells Luo Binghe that he can beat up the Bai Zhan Peak disciples as much as he wants, as long as they don’t die. He patches him up and just generally sticks to him. In the extra where Binghe shrinks, he takes baby Binghe everywhere. He holds his hand and he’s obsessed with how cute he is and he can’t get over how cute he is and he wants to show off to everyone else how cute he is. He’s having the time of his life, and only gets upset when everyone thinks baby Binghe is his child because Luo Binghe is at least eight, when would he have had him? And he’s a man, that too.

(Ming Fan: “I just assumed Luo Binghe was a demon and demons could do what they wanted.”)

Shen Qingqiu travels everywhere with Binghe and teases Binghe and likes admiring Binghe because Binghe is so handsome and charming and wonderful and-

The succubus extra where he goes to a succubus’ cave with Liu Qingge and is too flustered to look at the naked women everywhere and is very impressed by Liu Qingge’s disinterest in all of them. Gets his fortune read because he thought it might be fun and is like “…yeah, okay, sure, like this is true” and it turns out to be completely true. Thinks Madam Meiyin is weird because she never even officially joined Binghe’s harem, what a weirdo, who wouldn’t want to join Binghe’s harem? Pushes Liu Qingge into a pond to help him get over sex pollen.

Shen Qingqiu is such a madlad. He transmigrates and is like “I’m not going to be stupid and panic and make everyone suspicious of me 🙄” then becomes the most suspicious man on the planet by treating his martial siblings and disciples slightly better than dirt. He’s as obsessed with Luo Binghe as Binghe is with him, but pretends (poorly) that he isn’t. Agrees to do what Binghe wants to do while admitting that Binghe is definitely manipulating him, but Binghe is so cute, how can he say no? Thinks his little white lotus disciple is as pure as a maiden while Luo Binghe is over there desperately trying not to get a boner.

Shen Qingqiu never figures out that Luo Binghe messed up excersizes on purpose as an excuse to cling to him. It doesn’t even cross his mind. He thinks Luo Binghe was just clumsy. He thinks it’s a bit weird, since Luo Binghe is so good as everything else, but figures it’s just something Binghe was going through. Literally never crosses his mind that it was purposeful. Doesn’t even pop up as an option. He remains completely oblivious to that, even after Luo Binghe literally tells him he’s been horny for him since he was a disciple. Shen Qingqiu just does not realize.

I also really like MoShang, I promise, I find their dynamic to be honestly quite sweet, especially since Mobei-jun is just a spoiled princess who isn’t used to having to ask for what he wants. Luo Binghe and Mobei-jun respect each other and might even be a bit fond of each other, but good God, Mobei-jun, do not give me romantic advice, I swear. Shang Qinghua is constantly like “Cucumber-bro is so stupid, how can he not notice Binghe’s feelings?” and Mobei-jun is behind him slowly counting to five thousand in an attempt not to punch anymore holes through the walls. Great dynamic, 10/10, at least Shen Qingqiu eventually realizes that Binghe’s into him, Shang Qinghua doesn’t get the hint.

I like Yue Qingyuan being like “My sword is my life. Quite literally, it is my life. Accidentally combined my life force in my sword, whoops, now I lose a few years everytime I pull my sword out ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯”

Qi Qingqi is constantly like “Shen Qingqiu, the most annoying man I know. I would sell him for a half-eaten, unsalted tortilla chip. I hate this man’s guts. He is staring at my darling prized disciple but not even in a horny way. He is obsessed with Luo Binghe and never stops bragging about him. He acts like he’s delicate just to get out of having to ride a horse. He’s so lame, so cringe, a loser, the worst.” And near the end she’s like “I guess Shen-shixiong isn’t actually the absolute worst man ever- What do you mean he chose to date the heavenly demon disciple who not only caused him to die, but also threatened to destroy the entire world and everyone on it?! Shen Qingqiu is the stupidest piece of shit man I swear I’m going to murder him with my bare hands and no body will blame me, they’ll probably thank me-“

Mu Qingfang: “Shen-shixiong is being… kind to me? Shen-shixiong… smiled? Shen-shixiong is… being the most reckless man alive, oh no, Shen-shixiong, no!”

Liu Qingge, hanging up pictures of Shen Qingqiu: “I hate Shen Qingqiu.”

All of Luo Binghe’s wives are in sorry states. Well, all of them aside from Ning Yingying, who is living her best life as number two Shizun supporter (number one is Luo Binghe), and Liu Mingyan, who is also living her best life, but by writing porn about her brother’s closest (read: only) friend and a demon. Sha Hualing is in constant suffering because Luo Binghe is a tyrant and also had the gall to ask her for advice on getting into another man’s pants. The Little Palace Mistress was certainly very rude, but Luo Binghe threw her emotional support whip into acid. That’s a bit rude. The others are either dead or Luo Binghe just never notices him because he’s too distracted trying to woo Shen Qingqiu.

Ning Yingying and Liu Mingyan got off lucky. Ning Yingying, especially, really drew the luckiest lot. She went from an airhead who accidentally said things that got her buddy in trouble to a talented cultivator who purposefully says things that get her into fights. Love her picking fights with anyone who badmouths her Shizun. She tried so hard to share the number 1 Shizun fan spot with Luo Binghe, but probably decided that she didn’t want to die and backed off. She apologizes to Luo Binghe because she knows he likes to be the only one to clean Shen Qingqiu’s house. The bestest girl.

Speaking of Bing-ge, I love him. That should be obvious (I wrote a whole fic just to let him be happy) but I really like him. I like when he says “Is this about last time we met? It was on me, Shizun, I swear…” like he didn’t rip Shen Qingqiu’s arm off. I like when he’s fucking pissed that he’s losing and furious that it’s to this weaker, insignificant version of himself who is happy and in love and Shen Qingqiu cares about him and he got to taste that, just briefly, just barely he got to taste how it felt to be loved by Shen Qingqiu, only for a day, he got to feel an ounce of the easy affection and love that didn’t have to lead to sex and that was protective of him instead of expecting him to be protective of them. Shen Qingqiu didn’t expect him to be the strong one, didn’t expect him to be the powerful demon lord, had no expectations at all aside from expecting affection.

And he says “Come with me” like he’s begging for it. He doesn’t understand. He feels like it’s unfair that he didn’t get a loving Shizun. He wants that love. He wants to be chosen. And, ultimately, he leaves, but it just left an impact on me. The way he expected to find a catch but only found that Shen Qingqiu was willing to die for him.

Anyway, all that said, Scum Villain’s pretty okay. I only lie awake thinking about it occasionally. It’s alright.

Short DPXDC Prompts #723

Danny is in Gotham and smacks a sticker on the batmobile, not knowing what car he just vandalized. Now he spends his free time at night trying to 'tag' batfamily with stickers. The Bats also make it a game to collect as many stickers as possible

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One night Red Hood feels like he’s being followed but can’t see anything. Just as he senses movement behind him and whips around, his helmet cameras get obscured by something and laughter echoes around him when no other sound is creating echoes.

The presence disappears before he can get the helmet off, only to find a sticker slapped on the front. As if his face was a car bumper.

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Jason: Did anyone else get hunted down and tagged tonight? Or is it just me being followed by a kid with no self preservation instincts?

Tim: Nope. Not just you. Did you actually see them or?

Jason: only out of the corner of my eye. They tagged my helmet by the way.

Tim: Yeah, they got the batmobile, my bike, Robin's sword and Batman's utility belt.

Jason: without being seen?

Tim: Yes. B is losing his shit by the way. So avoid him if you don't want that today. Damian is torn between anger and a strange sort of pride. I think he wants to adopt them so he can train them. Honestly I have never seen him so motivated to find someone.

Jason: You're shitting me. Damian is having a positive emotion about this? Is it cause they are smaller than he is, and therefore not a threat?

Tim: Huh, you know what, maybe. I'll add that to the board.

Mean while in the batcave.

Bruce: I will find them. And impress upon them the danger of their actions. They are so small. I should make a file.

Alfred: Master Bruce. You would be better suited to sleep on it. You have searched and found nothing as of yet. Leave the computer and sleep on it. A few hours rest may provide the clarity you need to progress on the case.

Damian: Father will not rest until the child is found. Which is understandable. They are admirably skilled for their apparent age group. They were roughly 4 inches shorter than I am now. We both know Father will struggle to rest until he knows the child is safe.

Alfred: I will drug the coffee then. And yes, small children are your Fathers weakness. You do not seem opposed?

Damian: No. They managed to place a sticker on my sword, without me being able to see them fully. They show talent that should be honed.

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The Fentons are in Gotham for a ghost hunting convention. It's all rather old hat for Danny and Jazz by now, and mostly low-risk since no one besides their parents have *actually* managed to create anything that hurts ghosts and no one at these things tends to take the Dr's. Fenton very seriously, being mostly 'psychics', 'mediums' and the occult curious.

Danny already scoped the place out while Jazz helped their parents set up the booth, and they had managed to 'misplace' a few things and have any of the truely concerning tech 'need repairs' or 'recalibration' while they packed the RV back in Amity.

Coming back to the hotel a little before sundown after the first day's 'excitement', Danny flung himself into the room he and Jazz were sharing next door to their parents and bounced over to his sister. "So, I'm good to go exploring now, right? Right??"

Jazz sighed and rolled her eyes fondly as Danny's already wide grin stretched ever so slightly into unsettlingly inhuman. "Oh, fine. But! You have to keep your phone on you at all times and no going ghost! We got everything calibrated to ignore your ecto-signature in human form, but there's no telling what Mom and Dad will do if you make the scanners go off here in Gotham."

Danny whooped and threw a fist into the air, "Yes! I've been practicing using my ghost powers without actually going ghost. I've got invisibility, intangibility, flight, and ice down, no problem!"

Jazz raised an eyebrow at him wordlessly, thinking back to the day before yesterday when she'd seen him almost trip down the stairs when he put his still-intangible hand through the stair railing. After a moment, Danny rubbed the back of his neck and laughed sheepishly, "Well... Mostly..."

"Just be careful, little brother. There shouldn't be anything here that can actually hurt you regardless of the crime statistics, but keep your guard up. All the powers in the world won't help a gunshot you weren't prepared for," Jazz admonished him before giving him a hug and ruffling his hair. "Have you got the allowance Mom and Dad gave you before we left?"

Danny perked back up, ducking away from her to fix his hair, "Yeah! I can't wait to see what kind of souvenirs they've got here. Gotta bring something back for Sam and Tuck! Bye, Jazz, I'll see you later!"

Jazz waved him off as Danny dashed back out of the room, excited to explore a new city. One *without* a fruitloop billionaire trying to force-adopt him.

After wandering around and taking in the sights as the sun went down, Danny spotted the *sickest* looking car he'd ever seen down an alley. It looked like it had been built halfway between an F1 racing car and a *tank*.

Making sure to go intangible before heading down the alley just in case, Danny circled the car in awe. Reaching into his hoodie pocket for his phone, his hand brushed against a glossy-feeling stack of papers he'd forgotten he'd stuck in there on the way back from the convention.

Glancing between his pocket and the car quickly, Danny grinned impishly. Oh, this was gunna be *fun*.

Moving quickly down the alley toward the batmobile, Batman stopped suddenly before continuing at a more cautious pace.

Circling the car and finding no other signs of tampering, Batman narrowed his eyes at the glowing sticker now affixed to the back bumper of the batmobile. What on Earth...?

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Danny giggled as he hopped from rooftop to rooftop, having left the streets for higher ground after the second mugging attempt where he freaked out the would-be mugger by letting them pass through him before turning invisible.

While the reactions were *hilarious*, he figured he should probably just go where there were no muggers, rather than tell Jazz just how *many* near-misses he'd have had if he were fully human.

Hearing what sounded like a gunfight from up ahead, Danny cautiously approached as his protection obsession urged him forward. What if someone needed help?

Gasping as he caught sight of the action, Danny watched as Red Robin twirled quickly through a small gang of opponents, disarming and taking them down as he went.

Danny had watched his mother as she worked on her kata and kept up with her black belt in martial arts, but he'd never seen someone closer to his age, if still a few years older (he was fairly sure anyway), move with that kind of focused, bone breaking intent. He was so cool!

After the fighting was over and Red Robin was tying up the bad guys for pickup, Danny started to move on when he caught sight of a tricked-out red motorcycle around the corner.

Looking over to make sure Red Robin was still busy, Danny floated down towards the bike invisibly, leafing through his stack of leftover stickers before choosing one with a grin. One present for a fellow vigilante, coming up!

Red Robin did a double take as he made his way back to his bike to continue with patrol. Was that?? It was! Someone had stickered his bike while he was fighting just now. But how? He was sure he hadn't heard anyone else come up this way.

But even still, why would someone put a glowing ghost sticker on Red Robin's bike??

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Gliding over the city, Danny was having a blast. There were gargoyles and grotesques all over the buildings in Gotham. He was getting *so many* cool pictures to show Sam when they got back to Amity.

Spotting another cool gargoyle, Danny made his way towards it before spotting movement in the shadows behind the statue.

Redirecting his focus, Danny watched as Robin's lithe form unfolded from the darkness, white, domino covered eyes glaring out across the city.

Gasping softly, Danny clapped a hand over his mouth as Robin's head snapped over to look in his direction. Oh, no! Robin had heard him! Staying completely still, Danny waited as Robin's attention slowly shifted back to the surrounding streets.

Moving soundlessly through the air, Danny flipped around happily. That was Robin! The vigilante closest to himself in age that he knew of! Sure, going by the couple inches of height and pounds of muscle Robin had on him compared to Danny, he might still be a bit older than Danny's currently scrawny 14, but still! Fellow teenage vigilante, right there!

Danny almost squealed in glee, only the narrowing of Robin's eye lenses as he glanced around again stopped him from making any noise.

"Who is there? Show yourself! I know you are here," Robin bit out tersely, moving in a slow circle as he tried to pinpoint where the presence was coming from, backing away slightly from the edge of the building.

Oh, whoops. Danny might have gotten a bit carried away there. He didn't want to step on anyone's toes by being in Gotham with Batman's notorious dislike of metas, even if Danny technically wasn't one, it wasn't like he wanted to go around announcing his ghostly presence while the GIW were a thing and a *ghost hunting convention* was currently in town.

Nevertheless, he couldn't leave without giving Robin a sticker. He *couldn't*, and he knew just the one to give. Now where should he...

Robin whirled around as he felt a touch to his katana, quickly unsheathing it so he held the scabbard in one hand and the naked blade in the other. As he turned he caught the barest glimpse of a small figure with black hair and blue eyes as they faded out of sight.

Swiping quickly through the area he had seen the figure he found nothing. Continuing to investigate the rooftop gave him no results as it seemed whoever had been there had completely vanished.

Moving to sheath his sword, Robin froze as he caught sight of a new addition to his blade's scabbard. Someone, who seemed quite young if the glimpse he'd seen could be trusted, had managed to get close enough to him to add a *sticker* to his scabbard undetected. It was a rather impressive display of stealth, actually. And sort of cute, for a depiction of a pit creature.

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After tagging sword Robin's katana sheath Danny was riding a Heck of a high. The issue was, well, where does he go from here? He has to escalate. He needs to know how many places he can get the resident furries. He has to.

Danny was lying on a grotesque and staring at the smog covered sky. He has to tell Ellie. She would love this. I'm fact, she has been playing tag with the Super fam recently. He grinned as he shot her a text.

*Hypothetically, where would you tag the Batman if you had the Chance? Especially if you already got his sick ride.*

Ellie must have chilling early, because she answered really quickly for once.

*Obvs, his utility belt. And RH 's mask. Oh oh oh, and NW 's back, like a tramp stamp! *

well, that was a great series of ideas. Now he just had to make sure to set up a body cam. He needed pictures of this. It's a shame he didn't get a picture of sword Robin. But oh well.

*Hell yh sis! Love it! I'll try to grab a souvenir too! A batarang or something!*

Danny called as he received a response that was just a key smash. Welp, he definitely needed to lift a batarang then. He needed to plan this carefully. Sword Robin nearly saw him, Batman will be way worse. So he's gotta be careful! Oh, and grab the body cam Tucker have him too. So he can get stills of their reactions!

He took to shadowing Batman from a safe distance to figure out how to do this. It was better safe than sorry after all! And heck, he can practise some of those moves later! He finally managed to get close enough to tag Batman, and took the chance to swipe some stuff from his utility belt. He had no idea what he took, but honestly. He's only getting one chance at this. The look on Batman's face when he turned to see what touched him, only to see a fleeing shadow was EXCELLENT! It took everything Danny had to hold his laughter in till he was a safe distance away

Once he was far enough away he checked the footage on his phone and took a still of Batman's face and the sticker on his belt. Then a picture of the haul he got. A batarang, some sweets and a com unit. oh dear. Better get that with Ecto..... He does not want to get caught thanks. He sent the pictures to Ellie and set off to find Nightwing.

Well, after finding him he go why Ellie said he needed a tramp stamps. Man is flirty and punny. It's a totally valid way of putting your enemies off, but it does lead to a certain image being portrayed. Some of his puns are real quality as well. This may end up being his favourite bat. The amount of times he has had to stifle a laugh was ridiculous. Ok, ok, he can do this.

Did he find a sticker that had a flirty ghost pun just for Nightwing? Yes, he did. He figures Nightwing will appreciate it. He was grinning as he snuck up on the vigilante and quickly smacked the sticker on before legging it laughing loudly. Did he about "Tag" as he did it? Yes. Look Nightwing seems the sort t appreciate it. He also waited till he was found a corner to go invisible fully.

Nightwing chased him for a block which was great as they got to exchange puns! Finally able to collapse into his laughter and not get caught Danny just sent Ellie the whole set of footage. She would love It!

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Danny couldn't believe he'd done that. He'd stickered *Sword Robin's sword* and lived to tell the tale! Well, existed. Semantics. The Point Being! That he'd gotten *two* of the Gotham Furry Vigilante Brigade! How many of those did Gotham have again? Could he get the whole set?

Humming the Pokémon theme he opened the group chat on his phone.

ThrowingShades😎: so hypothetically

ThrowingShades😎: if you could slap a sticker on a gotham vigilante where would you put it?

AllTuckeredOut: omg man what did you do???

SpicyGardening💀: red hoods helmet, right between the eyes

AllTuckeredOut: LOL! Red Robin's cape?

ThrowingShades😎: Nah already got red robin and sword robin

AllTuckeredOut: no way! Pics or it didn't happen

Danny giggled as he sent the pictures he'd taken of the car, Red Robin fighting and the stickered bike, and Robin looking at the sticker on his sword.

SpicyGardening💀: nice! you didn't mention you got the batmobile

ThrowingShades😎: oh snap I didn't see batman you really think that's the batmobile???

SpicyGardening💀: that thing is obviously not street legal. who else would own a moving tank in gotham??

ThrowingShades😎: it looks kinda like a streamlined RV, it could belong to anybody

AllTuckeredOut: sorry buddy, your fenton bias is showing. literally no one besides the batman is going to own a car like that in gotham

Books&Badassery: It does take a certain disregard of traffic laws to own a vehicle like that. I'm glad to see you're having fun Danny, try not to stay out super late, though.

Books&Badassery: Also, I vote somewhere visible already, like Batman's utility belt, since most of your stickers glow in the dark.

ThrowingShades😎: will do jazz

ThrowingShades😎: so that's red robin, robin, batman and red hood down. I think that's all of them?

Cruising&Bruising: you should totally give nightwing a tramp stamp!! come on itd be soooooo funny!!!!!!!!

AllTuckeredOut: OMG DO IT!!!

SpicyGardening💀: go for it. from what I've heard of him nightwing would find that hilarious

Cruising&Bruising: can I have a batarang as a souvenir??? It would match my green arrow arrow! Im collecting hero weapons but so few of them use replaceable ones :(

ThrowingShades😎: hey ellie! my favorite little sister cousin! I think nightwing is mostly in bludhaven?? But I'll see what I can do if I run into him and about a batarang while I'm here

Cruising&Bruising: thanks danny! your my favorite 💚

Danny grinned as he signed off. Looks like he had some vigilantes to hunt before it got too much later.

So, uh, some people asked to be tagged for this! Hopefully I got everyone and it works right. Thanks for the love guys!

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Vigilante hunting through Gotham was more like... competitive bird watching, rather than stalking-through-the-woods status.

Carefully watching the horizons for flashes of color and movement.

There was just *so much* city to cover. It really kinda drove home why Gotham would need so many heros vs him, his sister, and his friends in Amity.

With the lack of sleep that sometimes came with fighting ghosts now, Danny didn't really want to contemplate what it would feel like to be the only hero to a city the size of Gotham. Though granted, most of the Gotham heros were adults and weren't *expected* to go it alone as teens. As much as Danny loved his parents, they didn't exactly qualify as helpful in most ghost fights.

Catching a flash of red, Danny turned to see Red Hood making his way over the rooftops. More free running than the grappling/swinging he'd seen the other heros do in grainy pictures and shaky phone videos online.

Danny quickly closed the distance between them. As he got closer, a funny tickle started up in his throat, as if something kept almost-but-not-quite tripping his ghost sense.

Danny hovered behind Red Hood as he readied the sticker. Red Hood was said to be more... violently reactive than some of the other vigilantes, and while Danny wasn't exactly risk-averse, he *had* made a promise to Jazz to be careful.

Drifting slowly closer, Danny watched as Red Hood seemed to twitch and start inspecting the rooftop around him. Could he feel Danny like Danny could feel him? That was interesting. He'd have to mention it to Sam and Tucker and see what they thought of it.

Coming up just behind Red Hood, Danny took a deep breath and got ready to bolt.

"Boo!"

"Fuck!" Red Hood yelped as he swung around, trying to get a bead on whoever had snuck up behind him with one of his guns as his heart hammered in his chest. If this was Dick playing a prank on him he swore he'd *actually* shoot him this time

He felt an impact on his helmet as the visual feed broke into static, glitching out so badly he couldn't see anything through the fuzz of snow.

Swinging blindly, unwilling to start shooting when he couldn't be sure the bullets wouldn't go straight through another building, he heard the high pitched laugh of a young male echoing strangely in a way that shouldn't be possible on the open air rooftops, even taking into consideration the sometimes weird ways the older construction could bounce soundwaves around.

Quickly running through the necessary steps to remove the malfunctioning helmet without the explosives inside triggering, Red Hood was thankful he always wore a domino underneath as he threw it aside and scanned the area.

He was alone, save for the lingering echoes of laughter slowly fading around him. For all his adrenaline was pumping so hard it almost made him shake, the Pit was strangely quiet. Banked almost to a low simmer of resentment he usually only felt on the very best of days, not directly after some kid had nearly succeeded in giving him a heart attack.

Trying to breathe slowly, Red Hood crouched to pick up his helmet and figure out what went wrong with it. Getting a good look at the face plate, he snorted. Well, *that* was almost too on the nose, considering.

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Stickers AU

Anyone not wanting to spoil the surprise sticker, after clicking next, click on my blog name to go to the actual post, as direct linking takes away the readmore cut. I'll take this out and fix it if I can find out how. Sorry!

Parts 1-5

Hey everyone, this post is getting a bit long, so I'm gunna try doing links to the next parts as I post them. I wasn't sure I'd be doing so many posts for this AU, but I'll ride it as long as the creativity holds out.

Dp x Dc prompt (short)1:

Danny learns how to play an instrument and gets a gig at one if the Bats Rouges bar or something. The Bats show up to fight said Rouge and while the rest of Dannys band ran and left he stays playing music. Like the band in titanic did but instead he’s playing some up beat or intense beat to make it sound like their in a fight scene. Better yet if the instrument he learns is the Violin.

W e l p- Here you go Tag gremlins because my brain latched on to this like a leech. Enjoy because I have no earthly idea how to play a violin.

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Danny had been a tad down on his luck for a while now. In his defense, he thought moving to Gotham was a good idea because it’s one of the only other cities with ambient ectoplasm, though that should’ve been a red flag. It was strangely hard for him to get a job, so he was honestly desperate. He was close to his next rent pay, and definitely did not have enough. So, street busking it is. Clockwork was the one who suggested he take up an instrument after seeing how stressed he constantly was, and Dora was the one who helped him with the violin. He wasn’t expecting it to be so soothing, but it truly did help him relax. So when a sketchy guy on the street came up to him while busking and offered him over 400$ to play at the Penguins bar for a night? Who was he to say no! He was practically immortal so it’s not like he could get killed, and the job would pay well! So of course he accepted, packed up his violin and headed to the bar at 7:00pm. Knocking on the back door, he stepped back and waited.

“Who got locked out this time- oh you must be for the band, right?” Someone asked him when they opened the door.

“Oh uh, ya I’m the violin player. I was told to come at 7?” Danny rambled out as he held up his violin case. “Perfect kid, come inside, we have to get you a uniform but that shouldn’t be an issue.” He was quickly ushered into the back, a strange suit shoved into his arms. “Change quick then head to the front with the rest. Your music sheets should be on a stand so you better be good on the spot.” The guy told him before turning around and heading out to the front. Shrugging his shoulders, Danny changed into the penguin(ha) suit that was given to him as he grabbed his violin and headed to the front. There were three other musicians at the front, so he went over to them.

“Oh hey, you the violinist?” A lady who was sitting at a piano asked him. “Uh ya, I’ve never grouped played before so I hope I do ok.” Danny mumbled out as he found a spot to stand.

“Don’t worry bout it kid, just follow the tune and you shouldn’t have to worry. We try to free play for that reason.” A guy clapped him on the shoulder before sitting down on a chair with a saxophone.

“You guys ready?” The last guy asked as he raised a trumpet. A small chorus of yes’s rang out before the piano brought them in. Sure enough, no one followed the sheet music, instead following the lead of the piano in a jazz like tune. Danny was surprised to find he was actually having fun!

The fun lasted thirty minutes before the doors were kicked down and people came down from the roof.

“Crap! It’s a Bat raid!” Someone cried out as the patrons scrambled to leave the bar. “Let’s go kiddo!” The band scrambled to leave, not even grabbing the cases to their instruments as they ran. Danny stood frozen on the stage, confused. If they ran would they get payed? Ya he’s not risking it. Sitting down in a chair with a cheeky grin, he watched to fight as he started to play. He could tell that it was confusing the bats, while the Penguin just looked proud of him for staying. Crashed echoed all around him as he got a brilliant idea, ducking to doge a chair thrown his way as he spun of the stage. With a shit eating grin, he played.

Channeling his inner Star Wars, he played the Creature Cantina song as he danced around the fight, avoiding getting hit himself. He jumped when a Red Hood was thrown past him, looking back to see if the vigilante was ok. “You good dude?” Danny called out as he continued the song.

Red Hood groaned before standing up, turning towards Danny. “I should ask you that dumbass, your the one who shouldn’t be here.” Danny shrugged as he played, not a care in the world on his face. “Kinda broke. This pays well and I can’t risk not getting the full payment.”

Behind them, the Penguin called out, “if you keep playing I’ll double what you were offered!” Danny smiled brightly, looking back at Red Hood. “See? Thats my rent right there!”

Needless to say all the Bats in the building groaned when they realized there was no chance the civilian would leave anytime soon.

Also, violin cover for your ears

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I can't stop thinking about this now. @fandombrainrots you absolute gem. Hope you don't mind me adding to this. Danny does not just play epic music, when playing the violin he can feel the emotions the music gives, so can others around him. Litteraly.

(I am a Lindsay Sterling fan BTW xD)

After finishing the performance at Penguin's bar (and being lectured by batman himself about "safety during rouge fights") Danny had packed up his violin, made his way home, before promptly freaking out.

That felt amazing!!!!! He had never moved or danced when playing before, too focused on learning the cords and notes. but moving, moving had felt amazing. Danny was pretty sure he had accidentally started to channel some of his ghost energy after the second song change.

whether they meant to or not every time a bat managed to match the beat of the song or moved in sync with him durning the crescendo of a song, his core reacted just like it did when he was the one fighting to protect. The Bats seemed to get more amped up as well, though that could just be normal awesome fight music instead of ghostly awesome fight music.

Once he had calmed down a bit, he video called his friends.

"I just can't stop thinking about it!" Danny gushed. "It was like I could literally feel a connection with them! I could feel every time one of them started to move with the beat."

Danny passed for a brief second before grabbing his notebook (space themed) and continued. "Do you guys think it matters what song. Oh, Ancients, I could make a playlist of each of them for the next time!!"

"Why would you be running into them again?" Tucker asked, slightly panicked. "You're not going to back are you?". Danny looked Tucker dead in the eye before replying. "Tucker I made just under $1000 dollars in one night. My broke ass is definitely going back."

Tucker let out an exasperated groan as Danny continued. "Besides, it's not like i am doing anything illegal. A lot of the people who work there are legally employed. Just cause the owner uses his cut to do sketchy shit doesn't mean the workers don't need to make a living."

"Does it have to be a fight" Sam asked ignorning Tucker as he started to smack he head into his desk.

"Like you said that you could feel a connection, and we already know that you can affect other people's emotions if you push really hard. maybe you just need a different medium? Like, if you did like a street performance or something, do you think you could boost the calming effect?"

The "calming effect" was not really a new power, so much as danny didn't know he was doing it. When ghosts get super emotional, they tend to leak that emotion into the area around them. Most ghosts can change this feeling at will. As a half ghost, Danny was not as "intune" with his emotion influencing and was usually stuck on his "base emotion".

Due to his obsession, Danny's aura usually calmed others down even if he hiself was not calm.(Though they did find he could change this if he got really worked up.)

Danny grinned before flipping to a new sheet of paper. "Only one way to find out, help me pick some songs and a stage name".

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@stealingyourbones your Playlists give me life!!!

Ideas for this AU:

-Danny did not come up with his stage name. He picked one, but after he got cheeky and told someone that he was "looking for his muse," people began to call him the muse.

-Danny can influence other with his songs, though it is more like hyping people up or calming them down. Not like ember.

-Ember made a deal with Danny to perform anywhere so long as she doesn't mind control people. She and danny meet up for chaos, and she is thrilled that there is another ghost I to music (famous Rockstar knows gotham's muse??)

-Danny does have play lists for each bat and some rouges. Over time, gothamites get used to hearing certain songs and know that if muse suddenly switches songs, there may be a fight about to go down. If you know the songs well you might be able to tell who is fighting who from far away.

Ted craned his neck around, trying to see all the crazy architecture around him while Jenny steered him down the street.

“I can’t believe you ended up in Gotham.”

She laughed, “It was definitely an adjustment. But Wayne Enterprises pays well and they help with housing.”

“Plus, your mom wouldn’t be caught dead in Gotham,” he smirked.

Jenny beamed brightly, “It’s a nice bonus.”

Ted snickered. “So, where are you taking me? I can see Wayne Tower over there. Weren’t you going to show me your workplace?”

“Just a quick detour, I promise.”

“If you take me to fucking BatBurger, Jenny, I swear…”

“Nothing that horrific, Ted, chill. It’s just… well…”

“Welll….?”

“There’s this musician.” She blurted with a blush.

Ted groaned, “Another one?”

“This one is different!” she protested indignantly.

“Really?” He drawled.

She glared, “He’s amazing. Like, genuinely awe-inspiring. Once, he even played with Ember McLain!”

Ted frowned, “Isn’t Ember McLain dead?”

“In the same way Elvis is dead, sure.”

Ted groaned, “Is this a result of living in Gotham or were you always like this and I just didn’t notice?”

She nodded solemnly, “I’ve always been like this.” Then, she burst into giggles.

“Anyway! His name is Muse and I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out he was an actual Greek Muse the dude is so good. When he plays, you get swept along with the melody and your souls transecends to a higher plane and -“

Ted turned around, “Nope.”

She grabbed his arm, “Oh come on. It’ll be quick, promise. And you’ll see when you hear.”

Fine. A couple songs. Only because you’re my favorite cousin.”

“Don’t say that in front of Alicia,” she grumbled.

“Alicia thinks she’s everyone’s favorite but she’s actually no one’s.”

Jenny spluttered, “Well, yeah. But you’re not supposed to say it out loud!”

Ted snorted but stopped resisting Jenny’s tugging hand.

They were passing through a rather sad-looking park when Ted started to hear music. There was faint clapping and some cheering interwoven with the sound of a violin.

“Oh good, it’s an upbeat day.” Jenny smiled wickedly, “get ready to dance, Teddy.”

Ted squawked a protest, “I didn’t even dance at my own sister’s wedding I’m not dancing in public!”

“You’ll change your tune, soon enough,” she teased.

Ted rolled his eyes but continued following her. They turned one last corner and Ted could see the crowd of people gathered around. There were actually a couple kids dancing while others stood around, singing along.

Suddenly, the music switched from some tweeny pop thing to fucking Metallica.

“Now that’s more like it,” Ted grinned at Jenny.

Jenny did not grin back. Instead, she looked worried. “Change of plan.”

“What? You were so excited about this guy and now that he’s playing a song you don’t like, we’re bailing? Is it just because you know I love this song?”

“Do you love it enough to die for it?” She hissed.

“What the fuck, Jenny?!”

She swung her bag around and started digging through it. “Okay, look. If any Rogues or Bats show up, he’ll play a theme song for them. He stays the whole fight and it’s like battle music. I’ll show you compilation videos later, it’s epic. BUT, ‘Enter Sandman’ is the theme for the god damn Scarecrow. I’m not telling Aunt Linda you got killed for a fucking song.”

She forced a gas mask into his hands, grabbed his shoulder, and shoved. “Run.”

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Imma drop this lil sketch right on in here o.o

Addition: Most of Gotham's Rogue's abilities are less effective on, completely useless against, or actually make Danny stronger even without him being almost immortal; and Gotham as a whole isn't sure how to handle "Muse" being unafraid of the Rogues or the Batfam because they genuinely can't really hurt him. Good music though, and even without knowing what songs line up to which Batfam member/ Rogue, the song change is a decent warning to get to a safe distance before they get there. The Batfam has given up on getting him to leave since he doesn't accept any form of help associated with the Wayne family and the Rogues keep offering (and actually paying) him extra to stay. Joker skipped out on payment once, wasn't seen for days the next time he broke out of Arkham, and then reappeared in his cell thoroughly shaken and refusing to tell anyone where he went or what happened, having apparently dropped off the face of the earth before turning up after doing seemingly nothing worth noting. Everyone notices when he actually calls a timeout specifically to stop and hand "Muse" a couple hundred dollars every time they cross paths after the disappearing act and (correctly) assume that it's a bad idea to offer payment if you don't intend to deliver.

Wind whipped and howled around the ravenette, though he paid no mind — his hands worked fast, almost faster than sound itself could keep up with, to play every cord right.

Tonight had started out calmer than most this year; few petty thieves or muggers made themselves known, which ended with a quick beating from Robin. It almost seemed surprising that monstrous plants sprouted form underneath concrete and tar and ripped them from the earth’s surface with ease.

Norman found himself intensely watching the news broadcast from his apartment building, which thankfully was over ten miles away from the outbreak of chaos, but kept mindful of the volume due to his sleeping toddler in the next room. Now evacuated streets were destroyed by man-eating flowers or oversized vines with thorns running up each side. Reminds me of a certain movie, he quipped.

Batman and Robin took to facing an obviously pissed off Poison Ivy, which most people would shudder at the thought of doing.

Music furiously filled his ears, both from the television and outside, even if more of a murmur than an actual song to him judging by how quiet it was from here. Each note the violin hit matched perfectly with how the battle was going, intense and a bit of a rollercoaster — every time Batman was hit played a new tune that interrupted the song, which he honestly thought was merely the Muse making mistakes, but there was no hesitance to continue playing like it never happened.

Norman vaguely could see a tiny speck upon one of the nearby buildings in the distance that was caught by the cameraman, but could understand them not picking up on it — barely he saw it and even then thought it was dust rather than the musician himself.

The music stopped.

Blinking hard at the force back into reality, Norman watched as Ivy was led into batmobile in cuffs.

And, when squinting to search for the speck again, he sees as Muse vanishes into thin air. Literally.

Man, he really needed to cut down on the coffee. He was starting to see things again.

This is why I love the dc x dp fandom. This made my day, night, week, month, and year. This definitely needs to be a full fic. It’s beyond awesome. 👏

Danny uses the theme songs to warn the civilians to stay away. So it’s all gimmicky (Love Potion No. 9 for Bane, Do You Wanna Build Snowman for Mr. Freeze, Welcome to the Jungle for Poison Ivy)

If no Bats are nearby he’ll play Holding Our For a Hero.

Once the civilians are out of the way, he’ll do the requests. If he thinks their monologue is getting out of hand, however, he’ll play the chorus of Time Is Running Out. But he focuses on the actual battle music because that’s where he can infuse the most magic.

Depending on who is involved in the fight or what it’s about:

If the Bats start to get tired, he’ll do I Can Go the Distance.

Once they defeat the Rogue, it’s We Are the Champions.

When Danny plays calming music (You’ll Be in My Heart, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Stand By Me) after Joker Venom or Fear Toxin gets released, it combats the worst symptoms. More people survive long enough to get antidotes. (Duke might cry a little.)

A lot of his side gigs are just Harley. When the Sirens are out it’s all Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Bad Reputation, Born to Be Wild. (Bed of Roses when Harley wants a date with Ivy.)

Danny graduates with a double major in music/engineering. And no debt.

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I ran out of steam for Bats and Birds Themes so I didn’t spend as much time on it as I wanted.

Red Hood: Highway to Hell

Red Robin: Titanium

Black Bat: Girl on Fire

Spoiler: Uptown Funk

I am so glad this got continued out, (and now has an animation on the way) so I’ll add a tad more.

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Danny still was a tad upset that his name got picked for him but, eh, it works. He’s made it a habit to bring his violin everywhere he goes now, even to class. The fights have even payed off his debt! It was a lot of fun Honestly, playing around as well as being involved in the fight once more. His core loved that he could warn people through his music, and it truely was his favorite part time. He hummed a song silently to himself as he walked down the street, one of his ears twitching at a voice in the distance. He could pick up on Mr. Freeze, and listened to see if he could hear any of the bats. He kept walking, but changed directions so that he was heading towards the rogue, pulling out his violin as he went. People started to notice his instrument, instantly getting ready to run or stay as they waited for the song to play. Organized chaos started as ‘Holding Out for a Hero’ started from the violin, people getting out of Danny’s way as they ran in the opposite direction. Not long after the song started did Mr. Freeze burst into the scene, freezing anyone who was too slow to run away. Danny watched with mild anxiety as he waited for a bat to show up, playing louder to try and warn more people. His anxiety worsened as the Scarecrow came from the opposite side of Freeze, instantly throwing his fear gas into the chaos. He switched the song to ‘Stand by Me’ to try and help combat the gas, his ears still listening for bats as he made his way around the fight.

‘They aren’t gonna get here are they, something must’ve happened’ a minor realization ran through Danny’s heads as he continued the songs. Danny could feel the worry growing around him, the only idea that made sense was that this was a planned attack. Did he have much of a ‘hidden’ identity? No, everyone basically knew about the Muse. Yet he core screamed at him to do something to stall for more time, and he knew that he had to intervene. Sure he messed with the Joker that time he forgot to pay, but never any of the others. He might as well make it a bigger show then before, halting his playing as the world went silent to him. He could see that even the rogues themselves stuttered in their fight at the pause, as he normally just transitioned the songs together.

‘Circus’ by Britney Spears started as a grin spread onto his face, leaping into the fight with a burst of speed.

Don’t stop now! How do the bats react to seeing the muse fighting while playing the violin?

But of course! Your wish is my command. Remember to check out all the cover links I add, as the musicians are incredibly talented and have many more covers!

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The Bats had been held up by a dupe fight, only realizing Freeze was attacking when it was already late into the fight.

“Red! How far are you to Freeze?” Nightwing called over the comms as he ran across roofs. “I’m almost there!” Red Robin called back, the bats rushing to see the damage. Nightwing faltered as he reached the scene however, being greeted by the violin blasting through the air.

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Danny was nervous, he knew he had to step in but didn’t know what he could do by just playing the violin. He couldn’t transform either less he wants more attention, possibly negative, from the rest. ‘Ember!’ He remembered how the ghost who channel her powers into her guitar, looking at his own instrument with awe. He has started playing Circus, the villains looking towards him in confusion. With a burst in his step at the chorus, he burst forth into the fight, startling the villains. Channeling his energy into his playing, his eyes flashed green as a wave of an ectoblast shot from the violin, sending Scarecrow flying back from the attack. With the attack, Mr. Freeze was shaken out of his shock, growling at Danny as he lunged to attack.

Danny spun and danced around the man, avoiding ice blasts and shielding civilians with bursts of shields flying from his bow. His ears twitched, hearing the Bats finally near as he continued to fight. With a grin on his face, he smoothly switched the song, “Devil Went Down to Georgia” burst from his violin as he uped his attacks. He send a powerful kick paired with ecto-energy into the Scarecrow’s gut as he moved. Without wasting time, he ducked to dodge a blast of ice from Freeze, spinning around with anger in his expression as he played a sharp note, a wave blasting over him with an overwhelming aura as his eyes flashed green once more. He heard the bats land on the ground as they ran towards the scene, and knowing that he did his job, he faded out the song, letting to music drift to silence.

“Muse? What the hell? Your a meta?” Nightwing asked him as Batman and Red Robin ran to apprehend the two defeated rogues. Danny couldn’t help the glare he sent to the vigilante infront of him, slipping his violin back into its case.

“And if I am, is that a problem? If I’m right there is one on your team.” He huffed as Nightwing gained a sheepish look on his face.

“Fair enough, it just wasn’t expected. Though you shouldn’t fight, you could’ve gotten hurt.” Danny frowned at the scolding, his posture tensing. “Yet I never get hurt before, after all, the Joker can testify that I can fight just fine.” He let the implication from the incident hang in the air before continuing. “I have class. Next time show up to your own fight in time and maybe I won’t step in.” He slipped away before Nightwing realized what was happening, hearing the man start after him. Danny just slipped into an alley, turning invisible and intangible as he walked through the dead-end.

I think there were some who wanted tags, so I hope I got you all!

ok ok ok but

ember finds out danny stole her shtick:

(i gave danny he/they pronouns bc why not)

he's playing the violin just for funsies out in public when suddenly he's slammed to the floor by someone with flaming blue hair yelling with indignation

other people are wary, of course, but don't recognise her as a rogue, so stay, even if at a comfortable distance away, and someone(s) start filming it, at least one person live streaming

at first (once Muse has gotten back to their feet) it just looks like an argument, except—is her hair actually on fire? is it GROWING? and her yelling gets louder and suddenly—

she pulls her guitar off her back

she strums and Muse is thrown back by the shockwave (is it them, or did they seem braced for that?)

Muse doesn't seem to be fighting back? or even playing a theme tune? just trying to placate her?

it's a short lived attempt: ember decides since danny used her shtick, she'll use his obsession againt him

she starts mindcontrolling the bystanders and—danny is pissed OFF.

the bystanders that have so far avoided the mindcontrol are surprised when Muse throws their violin to the ground and—flies? at her (surely not. they must have leapt)

this culminates in danny's powers (not all of them op!danny ftw) being revealed to the public of gotham, and suddenly they get why Muse never seemed so worried about the rogues or their own personal safety

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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]

Short DPXDC Prompts #232

Danny starts as a low level intern in Wayne Industries and is very concerned when people keep referring to him as Tim and keep asking him to sign papers and attend meetings that aren’t remotely in his job description.

will Danny at the very least know what he's doing? like will Tim come to the office a week later seeing no time sensitive work in his email because when Danny does something? He. Committed. He started this and he's gonna see this through? Will Danny get a job/promoted after this? Lol

danny accepts his fate until tim can escape what is essentially his grounding. tim walks into his office and his assistant just stares at him like she needs the biggest raise on the planet only to spot danny at his desk doing paperwork like a pro. when they make eye contact there is silence for a solid minute before danny just lets tim know he has a meeting with shareholders in 10 minutes and asks him if he wants a coffee to which tim obviously replies a tired 'yes'

assistant chimes in: make that 2

@wisecloudnightmare these tags bring me so much joy

Oh my goodness. This is amazing. I’m definitely keeping this in my back pocket because I’m at work and I can’t spend too much time on this. 😅

It would be doubly hilarious if he wasn't even actually an employee.

Like. Maybe he was just in Gotham on vacation or something and was passing by the building just as the assistant (who was running late due to all the scrambling around they had to do in Tim's absence) was heading in, and just got yanked in because they assumed that Tim had decided to come in after all.

Then he just stuck around both to commit to the bit and because he had nothing really better to do.

...Or to make it even funnier than that, the reason he was there was because he was heading into an interview at the Wayne corporation, only to be told he didn't get the job. So he was dejectedly walking out when the assistant arrived and just yanked him right back in.

So he is staying half to commit to the bit, half out of spite.

So when Tim returns he gets an actual job, generous backpay, a fruit basket and/or ticket to the planetarium, and then Tim and the assistant go and yell at the person who refused to hire him in the first place once they find out about it (Danny gets sent on another coffee run in the meantime in order to save his ears from the furious shrieking about to be unleashed on whoever made that poor decision)

Danny begins to be used as a body double at events...

Tim now has alibis to say that he is not Red Robin...

his family starts asking about the body dobe from the last gala... Danny was asked... Danny introduces Amorphous to the Batkids...

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Wait. If Danny’s doing Tim's paperwork does that mean he's committing forgery??

I…. Oh fuck

Tim definitely does a thing where he’s like. Fuck it. Why not I’m finally resting, and signs off papers to give Danny the ability for his signature to have the same official weight as his own signature. Yeah that makes the Board of Directors mad when they see a different signature signing off on various documents

Okay, everyone explains Tim and Danny's likeness as twins separated at birth (after the clone theory had been debunked).

I raise you a: "The Fentons adopted an abandoned alternative universe version of Tim Drake during one of those times the Fentons stumbled into different dimensions during their early ghost hunting days".

Yeah, this theory is even more chaotic than usual, but here's the idea:

So, the Fentons were canonically really weird even before the ghost portal opened, and at least the fanon has latched onto the idea of Jack sending the house to another dimension at least once while Danny was in kindergarten. Which makes it quite likely that said Fentons ended up visiting several alternative universes during their early ghost hunting days (and probably didn't even realize they did).

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Jack, Maddie and a tiny Jazz were investigating some old ruins rumored to be haunted. They weren't, but the place was a liminal area where several universes overlapped during the right phases of the moon.

Meanwhile we have this alternative universe where the Drakes somehow are both slightly better and much worse parent to tiny toddler Tim. For some reason they actually brought him with them on one of their archeological expeditions (going to those weird liminal ruins) but then promptly forgot that they had and left the kid to wander around on his own.

Tiny Tim toddles around and looks at interesting rocks, waiting for his parents to come back. He's used to waiting and doesn't find it unusual to be left on his own, but he's starting to get hungry now.

The sun sets, the moon rises, and universes overlap. The ruins being the subject of a daytime archaeologic excavation in the Drakes' universe now blend with the abandoned ruins being investigated by ghost hunter Fentons during the night.

The Fentons finds a tiny toddler curled up beneath a broken statue while silently crying. As far as they know the ruins are completely abandoned and in the middle of nowhere, and yet there's a child there. They obviously can't leave the kid in the ruins and takes him with them back to their camp (after making sure he isn't a ghost).

In the morning the Fentons try to find Alt!Tim's parents, but obviously can't since they're in another universe. Tiny Tim is too young to speak clearly and doesn't even know his name properly, so he's not much help. They end up calling him Danny since he answered to that (truthfully Alt!Tim just reacted to their tone of voice) and from now on he's known as Danny).

The hunt for his parents is nothing but dead ends, but the tiny quiet kid grows on the Fenton parents, plus Jazz is ecstatic about having a little brother, so in the end they adopt him.

Danny is a Fenton now, and his strange origin nothing but another quirky anecdote among the other weird things that have happened to the Fentons. No one thinks anything much about it, until Danny moves to Gotham and meets the local Tim...

How the heck will they untangle this extremely weird set of coincidences? Will the bats ever let go of the clone theory? Will an extremely exasperated Danny finally head over to Clockwork and ask him WTF is up with him sharing DNA with Tim Drake?

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This is a brilliant development! The shenanigans will be top tier, especially if the parallel dimension thing means that Danny registers as Tim by pretty much every form of objective testing. Personality wise is a different matter though, as while they may be technically the same person they were both raised in very different environments.

I feel like this concept works best with the Fentons as mostly good parents. Still obsessed and oblivious, but fully including the kids in the research madness and trying to be supportive parents in other areas in their usual overenthusiastic way. It makes for a nice contrast with the Drakes who seem to have been less keen on the parenting part of being parents, leaving to chase their obsessions far away from home.

So Danny turned out with better social communication skills and far less drive. The Fentons are overenthusiastic where the Drakes are absent, creating very different sorts of pressure to push against.

Danny's adoption has never been a secret. Not even the potential dimensional travel part of it. But none of the Fentons have any concept of normal anymore so when he notices Tim he's only mildly curious about the example of what his life might have become in a different world. Mostly he has better things to do with his time, until the identity confusion gets started.

Collection post

Alright, fuck it. There's too much good stuff hidden in the reblogs and branches of this post. I'll go and copy-paste all the good stuff you'll miss together into one post.

I'm not adding what's already been posted above this post, but everything else is in chronological order.

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“This is a file with all the stuff I had to sign, don’t worry, Bruce knows—”

“Bruce knows?”

“Bruce knows— this is everything I was able to put off signing, this is all the personal stuff ‘you’ got told, this is the legal ass-covering that my friend helped me with, and this is your schedule. I pushed back anything vital but non-time sensitive. Board meeting is about me. You. Here’s all the paperwork proving that I never said I was you, never claimed I was you and never tried to lead them to believe I was you, that they assumed, the legal ass-covering for you and Bruce on that front, and since you’re going up with Kennedy from Legal, then I thought you’d like to know they’re all gonna get served for harassing me.”

“Is Bruce helping?”

“Oh absolutely he is, he’s so excited.”

“Of course he is.”

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I’m picturing after a while of Tim using Danny to escape tedious duties cover for his nightly activities, Danny is becoming Concerned™️ by how many important decisions he’s making.

He totally understands and emergency situation where the boss is sick or whatever but “please, sir, understand the stress I am under for being responsible for so many people and if I fuck it up thousands could be out of a job and there’s no repercussions for me bc I don’t have any stake in the company.”

Tim, the ultimate problem solver replies with, “Okay, here’s x number of shares in the company.”

Danny: “this…is not what I meant sir”

#dp x dc #Danny is now Stressed™️ #Danny: I just wanted you to handle the company-wide change things #Tim: *who has an actual semi-regular sleep schedule for the first time in years ignoring Danny* Have I told you how awesome you are?

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Like what if he was actually good at it. Since he was the ghost king and was used to dealing with obsessive people and reading between the lines on bunch of important documents

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With danny looking so very much like time, that also means that tim looks like Danny and that there could be reciprocated chaos in terms of mistaken identities XD

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Why was danny in Gotham? Was he moving there? Is this after high school? Or did he have to leave town before then (reveal gone wrong/everyone is gone)?

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Imagine Sam running into tim at a gala and calling him danny and getting upset that he hadn't let her and Tucker know he was ok (maybe also that he managed to escape the GIW?), that they had been freaking out bc it had been so long, but don't worry bc Amity is fine and Val has it taken care of, and she's so glad he's ok though she's surprised that he let himself get adopted by Wayne though he 'must not be as bad as the frootloop' but then her parents are coming over and so she shoves an extra phone that she had on her (bc just in case) and tells him its the usual password and to call either her or Tucker once he's in the clear and to not worry bc it'll work in the zone

And tim is like.... ??? 'Was this how danny felt?' And then starts to process what she's saying and then starts to freak out.

#danny phantom #dp #dp au #dc x dp #dp x dc #dpxdc #dc #danny fenton #tim drake #wayne enterprises #danny looks like tim #sam manson #mistaken identity

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Eventually Danny gets shot right after getting out of work. And Tim rushes outside to find Danny's very aggrieved ghost beating up a mugger. And Tim's soul just about departs his body. For several reasons.

But then Danny reinhabits his own corporeal form and explains things to Tim. Who needs therapy (even more than he already did) and also a coffee and a nap (even more than he already did). But they get talking and at some point Danny explains that Scarecrow has actually been a ghost this whole time, seriously, he saw the guy on a rampage once and his ghost sense went fully off. Also the Penguin was too, yeah specifically the ghost of an actual aggrieved penguin possessing the body of his former cruel owner. Danny dealt with it during his off time, it was a whole thing.

So now Tim has to deal with the fact that Gotham is actually fucking haunted and there's no way this lookalike isn't also getting adopted into his vigilante life too and he can also see how that goes.

... he kind of wants to know if Jason sets off Danny's ghost sense.

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Omg what if he is walking through Gotham in a disaster and Tim is knocked out. And any batfam member is like wtf what are u doing. You need to help right now and Danny is pushed into doing a little bit of vigilante shit

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@talafairy added:

Just imagine when Dani shows up to vist Danny, sees Tim and Danny and with a shit-eating grin says "hey dad" infront of the batfamily. Oh the chaos!!!

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On one hand, having read Red Robin, Tam Fox would never confuse some poor sap for Tim longer than an "Oh thank god there you are I-" Before she clocks this man as Not Time Drake because when you get dragged around the world and deal with literal Super Assassins with a guy you just know things.

But Also I feel like Tam is so fed up with chasing this man down that she would absolutely just take a body double. Especially a body double that isn't going to fake murder her dad and not tell her about the plan or make her play the worst game of where in the world is Tim Drake?

She was going to kill him. For real this time, even though that was something she muttered every time Tim vanished into the shadows to do whatever crazy thing he was caught up in. Her father had given her numerous tips on how to deal with a Bat, and at least Tim didn't play up the air headed playboy like his father. Tam counted her blessings where they were because lord knew this man was taking years off her life every hour.

Juggling the phone that was propped between her shoulder and ear, Tam counted to ten while the investor ranted on about his valuable time; as if he mattered enough for Tam to remember his name once she'd hung up and jotted down the details of his complaint. The contracts she was sorting through as she walked were also a decent distraction. "Yes, yes, of course, I-" When the line went dead, Tam wanted to scream.

When she opened her eyes and spotted just the man she was looking for, she did scream. Well, yell, it was more a sharply raised tone honestly, a fraction of the volume she wanted to use but appropriate for the current setting.

"Tim! Finally, if you don't get back to-" A year and a half of keeping up with Tim Drake-Wayne had vastly improved her ability to assess and recalculate a situation. The man who was shaking hands with Tim's three pm conference attendees was not Tim Drake-Wayne. Tam could forgive the poor secretary, who had started to hurry him along to the next meeting, given the striking similarities. Build, facial features, charming smile that was just a touch nervous.

But Tam knew Tim Drake-Wayne better than probably anyone else these days. His bright blue eyes were the wrong shade and too vibrant, even if they held a similar bone deep, weary sadness to them. There also wasn't an ounce of recognition in them. Quiet resignation instead of the playful spark that never failed to set off butterflies despite that ship having sailed already.

Barely a minute had passed, but it felt like longer before Tam made a decision.

Fingers wrapped around the man's wrist, she pulled him away and made a mental note to look into how whatever this was happened. Not-Tim followed without resistance and a heavy sigh.

"Who are you." Tam demanded once they were standing in front of Tim's office and mostly away from listening ears.

"Ancients, finally." Not-Tim ran a hand through his hair before rubbing the back of his neck, the same habit Tim had when nervous or caught red-handed. "Danel, Danny Nightingale, I work in the engineering department. Three days ago, I was coming back from lunch when this herd of interns swarmed, and it just kept escalating. Oh, oh good, I see you found the stack of 'please I'm not qualified to make changes or sign these.' papers."

So many people were getting fired or retraining.

"We can make this work."

"I don't like where this is going suddenly." Good, he had a healthy amount of awareness to him. That was good, he would need it.

"Three days?" When he nodded, she took a breath and let it out slowly. "So you're the one responsible for the restructuring of the Wilcox contract and the bid against Lexcorp for the Brownstone contract?" Danel gave a sheepish nod and rested his hands on his hips. It might have been an intimidating stance if his posture wasn't drooped like a scolded child. He was kind of cute like that.

Focus, Tam, now was not the time.

"We can make this work." It would serve Tim right and teach him a lesson about running off without telling her anything. They had a system! It could be a bad idea, but he'd done an incredible job outfoxing Lexcorp, that project was an incredible opportunity to improve the smaller clinics around Gotham. Goldburg had looked charmed beyond belief, leaving the conference room moments ago. That man was impossible to get along with. "This could work."

"This has to be some kind of Identity Fraud. Not Theft but like, someone else stole the identity and made me hold onto it. I can't possibly look that much like this Tim guy."

"Stick with me, Danny, we have work to do."

"Do I get a say in this?" Danny said as he followed her into the office anyway. Obediently, he sat down at the desk and looked forlornly at the stack of papers and then to the coffee pot.

"Nope! Don't worry, I'll make sure you're properly compensated for your work." Tam answered, starting a fresh pot of coffee. Just like Tim, the similarities were piling up, and it was a little eerie. While the coffee brewed, she sent the alert message to Tim's phone about the doppelgänger. "I can reorganize the schedule, so you're not making any hugely important choices, save those for Tim.

"Now, there is, so much to do." Tam set down the cup of coffee and watched him knock the drink back like it wasn't steaming.

"Guess we get started then." Danny laughed as Tam refilled the cup for him.

By the end of the day, all the urgent things Tim had been putting off were taken care of. Yeah, this could work.

#dpxdc #mistaken identity #went with the Dan-el idea from that one kryptonian myth post #Sprinkle on a little but of Older brother Danny and not hint at it in this drabble at all #Danny is Tim's older twin brother but he was a sickly baby so he was put up for adoption #Danny has no idea he's adopted #He's about to find out when Tim gets back! #Tam is so tired of Tim's shit okay #Technically she's doing damage control #contain the look-a-like and monitor him #give this woman a raise she's been through so much #she and Danny are gonna become besties. #Danny still adopted Kon and Match and Bart #All as Phantom so they don't know he's human too and looks like Tim #prompt fill #drabble

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Ok but then imagine Tim forgot to tell the board, so they get all worried and confused until someone does some digging and finds out about Danny. Then they get mad, coz they realise they've been duped.

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I can imagine Danny sorting out a bunch of paperwork when out of nowhere Tim in the Red Robin costume appears and takes off his mask.

Tim taking off his mask and putting it inside a closet inside his workshop, he finds civilian clothes to wear.

Turning around he sees Danny standing there looking blatantly shocked.

"Oh shit…."

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Danny: *makes sure no one else is there* *transforms into Phantom* I won't tell if you won't

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Okay but you KNOW this means at least once Tim asks Danny to go out as Red Robin too

Months after this chicanery begins, with Danny as Tim’s established work double, they’ve done the accidental reveals

Tim gets The Nastiest Flu

And as bitches like Tim do, refuses to rest and recover and tell the bats he won’t be patrolling

NO

Come hell or high water, Red Fucking Robin is taking the streets

He threatens to go full Jason if Bruce fights him

Gets all the way into costume

Grapples to a roof

Nearly collapses

But Like. FUCK. Is he ever gonna admit they’re right.

Cue Danny gets a sudden text at 11pm summoning him to a rooftop emergency and y’know what? Fuck it, he’s not busy

He finds Tim, tells him off for being a stubborn bitch, but Tim threatens/begs/bribes him to help him save face with the family

Hell, Tim promises to stay in bed for a WEEK so long as he can do it at Danny’s and Danny takes patrol today

And flips off the other bats as he grapples past

Danny, Professional Little Brother, agrees

Silly changing montage because I CAN

The rest of the bats, fully expecting to find Tim passed out in an alley, are all stunned to see him practically flying from roof to roof

(Look no one ever taught Danny how to use the grapnel he’s doing his best)

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Then a bunch of people left awesome tags:

#IT GETS BETTER

#IT GETS BETTER AGAIN

#this is the best thing ive read #i love when little ficlets get created by tumblr #like everyone just contributing little bits and pieces#and making something awesome #id love to read more of this! #dp x dc prompt #danny phantom fic #tim drake #danny phantom crossover

#okokok I am here for this sm #how far does Danny go to be Tim’s doppelgänger #and the thick plotens

#absolutely love this au and every time i see it got a new addition im just mwehehehhehehehhehehehhehe #danny phantom #dc comics#dp x dc #dc x dp #danny fenton #tim drake #red robin #reblog

#i love no one even in the batfam knows about tim #tims at home with a mic and camera so he sees and hears everything danny sees and hears #and he just feeds him info #weather it be case stuff or something to get bruce off his back #and they sound the same so it works #i think they got a solid six month before someone catches onto something#and they only do becuase the were fight goons and they swear to go tim got shot but he is fine?????

#jfkgkhzldhl Danny literally flying because he doesnt know how the grappel works

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Listen when you find a twin in the wild doppelgänger you can’t just not pretend to be each other at least once

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Then I (luxpurplishgreen) and @bookwyrmie added our posts, and now we're all up to date!

Keep writing from here folks!! The spontaneous round robins are the best! 🖤

@stealingyourbones prompts tend to grow bit by bit and it's a shame to not collect it all in one post.

This is very interesting to me! I’m not sure how Danny would have nothing better to do, but a bit of universe jumping could possibly help with that! Or if he’s taking online classes mostly in Gotham. Or dealing with a ghost problem there.

Sing Shong should release an open-world RPG game where we play as Yoo Jonghyuk in the 0th Round. At first it's just us controlling him to do common game actions and challenges but then as the game progresses, we begin to be able to communicate with him directly and influence the storyline. And then when the game ends with the Star Stream falling, YJH will ask us who we are and why we helped him and there will be an automated text saying, "I am the Demon King of Salvation."

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A best-seller 'rags to riches to prison shackles' autobiography written by a woman in her late sixties, who was finally exonerated for the murder of her late, wealthy husband after 20 years in Blackgate prison, is getting a limited-series adaption. One of the most anticipated scenes is a exchange from early on in the book, in which the author describes a private, emotional conversation she shared with a young Bruce Wayne, where she recounts details about the passing of her son.

Countless fans try to theorize who will be casted as a younger Bruce Wayne. Some think it should be Damian Wayne, but many point out that he's too young for the role. Others think it should be Tim Drake, who would be at the right age to play it. However, as CEO, he doesn't exactly have an open schedule, and they haven't heard him disappearing for filming all those months ago. Other people think Bruce Wayne himself should play the role, using deep-fake technology to make him appear younger.

In the end, their questions go unanswered until the first trailer airs online for the limited series. It previews the very first glimpse of a young Bruce Wayne, played by previously unknown 'Danny Fenton', and the internet-

Loses its fucking mind.

(Bruce might just be getting a new son from this after all.)

danny going into acting was somehow not something i considered before, but i love this idea. i can also see him being one of those theater cryptids. like maybe his coworkers think he's brilliant at acting but do admit he's a bit strange. and he always does all of his stunts but never gets hurt despite not having any stunt experience??

and i love people trying to figure out who this new actor is, so they try to do research on his personal life. apparently he is related to the famous Psychologist Jasmine Fenton, brilliant inventors and scientists Madeline and Jack Fenton, and the well known billionaire and business mogul Vlad Masters. he also has ties to Sam Manson, a well known activist and child of millionaires, and his other childhood friend, Tucker Foley, is a pioneer in computers and coding. and Danny apparently attended college for astrophysics (but went into acting?) and is also known for discovering the last known female purple-back gorilla

like, nobody can believe this unknown actor has so many ties to famous and rich people and seemingly has a really weird childhood

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It'd actually be hilarious if Danny is surrounded by all these rich or famous people and then goes unnoticed until this series comes out. Especially if some of the people that research him some more realize... they FOLLOW some of these people's careers. Some of them are invested in Sam's activism groups, some of them follow Jazz for her enlightening psychology advice, some of them are just WAITING for Tucker to drop his code as open-source for them to pick apart.

So when they start seeing all these names attached to Danny, they go:

It's like a real-life crossover and they don't know how to handle it.

that's exactly what im getting at! lmao Danny was never on anyone's radar until the series with him staring as Bruce Wayne drops. and then slowly people start to realize that Jazz Fenton has mentioned a brother before. Danny can be found in pictures of Sam protesting. Tucker has given credit to Danny for some of his coding projects. Vlad has brought a "ward" to galas before. Danny has even been listed as a co-inventor for some of his parents patents and gets royalties for them. it's just that no one noticed or made the connections because Danny was never the focus

everyone thinks this new actor is a nobody because he's not well known but it becomes very obvious as he gains fame that he's always had important connections, he was just in the background. the funny part is that he never tried to hide, the information to realize all these connections was always accessible. he just didn't matter before.

it's like the Mandela Effect. is anyone actually sure he was always there? no one remembers it like that but apparently he was

wait wait wait wait wait. you know what would be absolutely hilarious?? if Danny played both Bruce Wayne and Batman acting roles one after the other. like, he does several scenes in the autobiography series as Bruce Wayne. everyone agrees he's perfect for the role, not just because he's good at acting, but because he looks like he could actually be related to Bruce Wayne. a lot of Wayne's kids have black hair or blue eyes, but their faces all look different. Danny's doesn't. he looks so much like a young Bruce Wayne that some people speculate he might even be a clone (though when his history and childhood is researched by journalists and fans, that theory is quickly disproven when they find out about his real family)

and then, because he did so well in the scenes he had as Bruce Wayne, a producer reaches out to him for another role. you know, money talks to money, and there are many connections in Hollywood. the casting director that initially hired Danny recommends him to some of his friends. one of them happened to be a producer who was looking into making a historical fiction film about real world heroes and what they've done (how the Justice League was formed, and maybe focusing on Batman's role in the hero/vigilante world because the producer is a Gotham native and wants to honour Gotham's protector). both men agree that Danny would be perfect for the role of Batman

Danny, meanwhile, is just vibing. he spent years as Phantom, being insulted, criticized, and called a villain/monster. nowadays Phantom has more support from the public, but Danny greatly enjoys his new fame because it's mostly positive. you're telling him all he has to do is lie in front of a camera, shed a few tears, and then he'll be praised? people will actually like him? sign him the fuck up.

Danny finds it a little ironic that they want him to play the role of a hero in this new film because he's already an actual vigilante, but the paycheck is tempting and Danny finds film production and acting fun. he even helps with the script writing because he has experience with vigilantism (though he doesn't tell the producers that).

he has no idea how panicked it makes the actual Bruce Wayne when the actor who was famous for looking exactly like him also acts as Batman in a new film. some fans start writing fanfiction and even do crossovers where Danny's role as Bruce Wayne connects to his new Batman role. some people even point out that Danny has the perfect figure for Batman, though maybe he has leaner muscle while Batman is more bulky. that's a little too close for comfort for Bruce, so to try to generate something else to gain the public's attention and distract them from the Bruce Wayne - Batman idea, Bruce publicly invites Danny to visit the manor to have dinner and maybe do an interview together

Danny can be stupid sometimes, but he knows something is up when a billionaire invites him over for dinner. this has happened before, with Vlad. and even though they're on better terms these days, that first dinner didn't turn out so well. so when Danny first meets Bruce Wayne face to face, he immediately clocks him as Batman. come on, Danny's been in the heroing business since he was fourteen. he knows a fellow vigilante when he sees one (and he also maybe has experience with secret identities, but shhh don't tell Bruce)

and if Danny had a nickel for every time a billionaire invited him over for dinner, turned out to be a powerful vigilante, and wanted to adopt him, he should only have one nickel, but now he has two. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

plus, this time, the overwhelming public is actually convinced that Danny is a secret child of Bruce Wayne - and if he's not, then he should be adopted anyways.

sorry @halfagone i know this was your post and i don't want to hijack it, but i have so many ideas lmao.

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Our post now >:3

Another funny possibility would be that there is a brief Batman scene in the series itself that Danny also plays. So it becomes:

Bruce, silently sweating when he sees the credits roll: Do- Do they know???

Producers, meanwhile: Yeah, we just asked Danny to do it because it was easier than finding and paying a whole other person. Besides he fits it perfectly! No harm, no foul!

(There was harm, to Bruce's sanity at least lol)

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As much as I love this, it instantly gave me the idea that instead of Batman, Danny takes the role of Superman after his stint as Young Bruce Wayne.

It fills me with a gremlin like glee, knowing the atomic bomb of sheer chaotic energy that would slam into their internet.

Because it's Superman. Everyone ships Superman with someone. Not even Lex was able to get all the Kalthor smut off twitter, and he unshackled Brainiac to do it.

And Superman never looks like he gets older.

Some brave as fuck 4chan memer drops the bomb that maybe Superman is actually immortal, and has been around for ages. that he had a son. A son who miraculously survived being shot.

Bruce Wayne is the Half Kryptonian love child of Superman and Martha Wayne.

Flash, on Tik Tok: put a finger down hero edition!

Flash: *points at Superman and Conner*

Flash: put a finger down if you've ever been cloned without your consent by a billionaire who wanted to use said clone to kill and replace you! And now you're coworkers!

Danny, sitting in his car, face completely blank, in a Tik Tok duet: *puts a finger down*

Dani: *pops her head over the seat and makes eye contact with the camera at the exact same moment*

(Whats some other finger down moments that danny shares with the hero's that doesnt directly reveal his identity?... this could be further stitches as flash or other hero's tries to beat danny-feel free to add!)

"Put a finger down if said billionaire has tried to publically demonise you and make you enemy no. 1?"

"Put a finger down if you've ever travelled to an apocalyptic future and had to fight for your life?"

"Put a finger down if you've ever met an evil alternate version of yourself"

Multiple leaguers: "Put a finger down if you've ever been mind controlled to commit crimes?" (Danny mouthing 'more then once')

"Put a finger down if you've been to space"

"Put a finger down if you've piloted experimental aircraft?" (Danny mouthing 'often')

"Put a finger down if you've gone back in time and altered the past only to result in a worse future"

"Put a finger down if you've dated your rogues?"

"Put a finger down if your family members can count as your rogues?"

"Put a finger down if you have a co-worker who's connected to ancient gods?" (Tucker pokes his head into that stitch with his Pharaoh's sceptre)

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(At some point the stitches are trending so danny decides to get petty and go for the win, probably exposing the GIW and vlad in the process)

"Put a finger down if the American government passed a law that strip's your species of their rights and labels you as non sentient in blatant disregard of the meta rights act?"

“Put a finger down if your so tried to kill you.” Danny just chilling, someone else recording him as the audio plays, (most likely Sam)

“Put a finger down if you have been kidnapped more than once” Danny is seen sighing, mouthing 20+ as he does.

“Put a finger down if you have used alien weapons.” Danny is seen mouthing to the camera, ‘Does ghost tech count?’ Before wiggling his hand as a maybe sign.

“Put a finger down if your arch enemy owns a cat.” Danny is cackling at this one, mouthing, ‘dude named the cat after my mom.’

“Put a finger down if your now friends with some of your rouges.” Danny sighs as he points to Dani/Ellie in the corner where she is happily waving, Danny mouthing ‘reformed’

Y’all want a mini fanfic about this? If it’s ok with the two previous posters this would actually be really fun to write and I have so many more ideas.

This is hilarious 🤣

The batfam was stared in horror at this one TikTok account. Ghost_Boy, a tiktoker who only seemed to duet put a finger down videos. The first few seemed pretty innocent (“put a finger down if you don’t get along with a parent’s friend” “put a finger down if you’re currently failing a class”) but the first odd video was when he dueted a video flash had recorded.

“Put a finger down if you’ve ever been cloned without your consent by a billionaire who wanted to use said clone to kill and replace you! And now your co-workers!”

Superman in the original video put his finger down and superboy laughed and rubbed the back of his neck. But that wasn’t what bothered the batfam.

Ghost_Boy, and pretty normal looking boy, with black hair and blue eyes, had stitched the video with a completely blank face, and put a finger down. When he put a finger down a girl maybe two years younger than him popped into frame and made eye contact with the camera. She had white hair and green eyes, but was otherwise identical.

The video continued.

“Put a finger down if said billionaire has tried to publicly demonize you and make you public enemy number 1.”

Ghost_Boy put another finger down.

The video continued again.

“Put a finger down if you have a co-worker who’s connected to ancient gods.” Flash, Superman, and Superboy all put fingers down and the camera pans over to Captain Marvel.

Once again, Ghost_Boy puts a finger down, and a dark skinned boy pops into frame with some sort of scepter. That’s where Ghost_Boy’s video ends. The next video wasn’t much better.

It was recorded by Young Justice, though it started off with the clone girl.

“Put a finger down if you look one age but aren’t technically that age,” Superboy said putting a finger down. The camera panned over briefly to where Captain Marvel was sitting, and he had a finger down too.

Clone girl put a finger down, and a caption appeared that read “im actually 1, but shh…!”

“Put a finger down if you can shape-shift” miss Martian said, putting a finger down, and clone girl did too.

“Put a finger down if your family members can count as your rogues,” Artemis said putting a finger down.

Clone girl tilted her head, then put a finger down. Ghost_Boy came into frame and put a finger down as well.

There were several more videoed like this, making the batfam more and more concerned for the sake of these kids.

“Have you figured out who this kid is yet?” Jason asked Tim and Barbara.

“Facial recognition is struggling for some reason,” Babs said. “And the IP address has some kind of weird firewall. If the kid’s got this much protections he’s probably also has a VPN.”

“We’re doing the best we can,” Tim said.

“Uh… guys…?” Steph said. “He just posted a new video… you might want to watch it.”

Frowning, Bruce pulled it up and projected it to the Batcomputer.

Unlike the previous videos, it wasn’t a duet, and Ghost_Boy himself was talking.

“Put a finger down if the American Government passed a law that strips your species of their rights and labels you as non sentient in blatant disregard of the meta rights act.” Ghost_Boy said. After a moment, he put a finger down. Clone girl entered the frame and put down a finger as well. Then the video ended.

The batfam was quiet for a bit.

“Tim-” Bruce started.

“On it,” Tim said, and he looked up American laws.

Figuring out who this kid is is stupidly hard. And he had gone silent for several weeks now. He used to post about twice a day, but hadn’t in a while.

“He’s in trouble…” Bruce muttered.

“You don’t know that, he could just be busy,” Tim said.

“HE POSTED!” Steph yelled, and she broadcasted the video.

Ghost_Boy’s face was ashy, and his clothing seemed to be covered in blood.

“That’s crime alley!” Jason said. “He’s in Crime Alley.”

Ghost_Boy tried to crack a smile, but winced.

“Put a finger down if-” his voice broke. “Put a finger down if… if you got caught by your parents and got your torso cut open and are now hoping for Batman to help you and are now hiding out with your clone…”

He put a finger down, clone girl popped into frame, she looked exhausted.

And the video ended.

“I found him!” Babs said. “Jason, he’s not far from your apartment right now. Real name, Danny Fenton, he’s from a place called Amity park.”

Jason nodded, pulled on his helmet, and left the bat cave on his motorcycle.

Danny covered his nose with his hand. Where ever he landed smelled absolutely foul, like rotten fruit and burning tires mixed with chem lab.

"Remind me to bring a face mask the next time I explore the Infinite Realms." He muttered, before kicking a soda can down the alley he was in and being repulsed by the squelch sound it made when it came into contact with a very questionable looking puddle, "Better yet, a gas mask." He glanced at the puddle again, "Or I could go full Hazmat." Clockwork had told him this world was full of superheros and villians and to steer clear of it, but once he learned there were aliens in this world he couldn't help himself. Danny had always been weak to his curiosity, but he liked to believe he was cautious, and chose to stay in his Phantom for for added protection.

Turning on his heel he exited onto a deserted street lined on one side by a chain-link fence. The sky above him was filled with clouds so ominous and dark that Danny honestly couldn't tell you if it was night or day, all he knew was that it was going to rain soon and hopefully these awful smells would be drowned out by the downpour.

Danny got his wish only minutes later. Thankfully Phantom was unbothered by the cold and could just bask in the rain as it fell apon him. A lesser known fact about ghosts is that thier clothes are made from thier ectoplasm and are part of thier bodies, much like a second layer of skin, so one would be able to feel things on thier clothes as easily as they would with thier bare skin. The level of sensitivity varies with the type of clothing however. All this to say Danny loved the feeling of the rivulets of rainwater traveling down his ghostly hazmat suit.

He was so preoccupied with enjoying the sensation that he didn't notice anything was wrong until he was jolted forward from the weight of someone landing on his back. The person was quick and precise, taking no time at all to have his wrists pinned behind his back and- weirdly enough- thier teeth digging into the material around his neck.

Flash, on Tik Tok: put a finger down hero edition!

Flash: *points at Superman and Conner*

Flash: put a finger down if you've ever been cloned without your consent by a billionaire who wanted to use said clone to kill and replace you! And now you're coworkers!

Danny, sitting in his car, face completely blank, in a Tik Tok duet: *puts a finger down*

Dani: *pops her head over the seat and makes eye contact with the camera at the exact same moment*

(Whats some other finger down moments that danny shares with the hero's that doesnt directly reveal his identity?... this could be further stitches as flash or other hero's tries to beat danny-feel free to add!)

"Put a finger down if said billionaire has tried to publically demonise you and make you enemy no. 1?"

"Put a finger down if you've ever travelled to an apocalyptic future and had to fight for your life?"

"Put a finger down if you've ever met an evil alternate version of yourself"

Multiple leaguers: "Put a finger down if you've ever been mind controlled to commit crimes?" (Danny mouthing 'more then once')

"Put a finger down if you've been to space"

"Put a finger down if you've piloted experimental aircraft?" (Danny mouthing 'often')

"Put a finger down if you've gone back in time and altered the past only to result in a worse future"

"Put a finger down if you've dated your rogues?"

"Put a finger down if your family members can count as your rogues?"

"Put a finger down if you have a co-worker who's connected to ancient gods?" (Tucker pokes his head into that stitch with his Pharaoh's sceptre)

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(At some point the stitches are trending so danny decides to get petty and go for the win, probably exposing the GIW and vlad in the process)

"Put a finger down if the American government passed a law that strip's your species of their rights and labels you as non sentient in blatant disregard of the meta rights act?"

Dp x DC prompt

Damian and Tim are in a League of Shadows base, preparing to capture and question a guard to find out more information they were lacking when a Bruce Adoption Bait of a teen walks in, yells "Hell yeah they got a pool!" and immediately dives into the Lazarus pits in front of them. Tim and Damian are horrified. How did this teen get in? Why did he just kill himself? Why did he think the pit was a pool? Why was he hot?

“Hell yeah they got a pool!” 😭😭😂

(Tim is 17, Danny is 16, Damian is 14)

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The thing about summoning the ghost king is that it takes a very specific ritual. Even the slightest misstep and it won't happen; most people make a misstep and then try a different, even more wrong ritual.

Which means while Danny does get summoned, it's more like a monthly occurrence than a daily issue - pretty infrequent for the infinite realms, he's told.

Clockwork himself has biweekly attempts, but he long since learned to reject summons. He's very bad at explaining how, though, and reassures Danny he'll figure it out eventually.

After the fourth time or so he decided to just appear as Fenton - okay so the first time was an accident, but the lack of glow makes him look way less impressive, apparently. Most people take one look at Fenton - pretending to be very confused and startled about where he is and what just happened, completely devoid of magic or death (hidden so well beneath his human skin that he can pass through ectoshields in that form, mind) - and send him back.

Ra's Al Ghul is not most people. Maybe he wants to summon the Lord of the Dead to speed up the whole 'mostly depopulate the earth' thing. Maybe he summons him as 'the balance.' Maybe he found the ritual in an ancient tome about the Lazarus Pits and want to, like, bargain for more LPs or something.

Whatever the case may be, when Danny Fenton appears bewildered and gawking in his circle, Ra's can sense what the other, less- or non-ecto-contaminated summoners could not: there is something off about him.

He can't pinpoint what, but he knows they did ritual to perfect - oversaw every step down to the last drop of blood. A test, perhaps?

When he gestures one of his men into the circle he expects Danny to react. He does not expect him to continue blinking owlishly before going down like a sack of bricks, as if he never even noticed the man sneaking up behind him.

He puts it from his mind; test or accident, they will find out eventually. He has Talia tie the boy up and take him away, they can interrogate him once he awakes.

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Danny wakes up tied to a table. This is something that has featured heavily in his nightmares for a while now.

Unlike in his nightmares, however, the ropes and clasps are all completely mundane.

He heaves a sigh of relief, preparing to phase out and bolt when movement cuts him short.

One ninja looking dude goes out a the door of the room his little table sits in the center of, saying something in a language Danny is unfamiliar with. A second stands by the door, watching.

"Any chance I could get you to let me out of here?" he tries.

And is promptly ignored.

"Yeah," he sighs, "I thought not."

He slips out of visibility, through his bonds, and into the guy's body before he can to much more than startle.

Hopefully if he leaves him somewhere weird enough he'll write it off as a fever dream - assuming the usual effects of overshadowing don't fudge his memory enough on their own.

Stepping out the door whistling a jaunty tune, he immediately makes dead eye-contact with the old dude that had seemed to be leading his summoning ritual before - along with ninja 1 and some lady he didn't recognize - not 15 feet away.

They all freeze for a moment. Old dude looks angry for a moment and opens his mouth, but Danny turns and bolts.

Footsteps race closer behind and his spins just in time to dodge a kick from the Unidentified Fighting Lady (UFL, he decides).

He makes sure a fist is coming for ninja 2's chin before phasing invisibly out of his body. Ninja 2 has just enough time to widen his eyes before he's out cold.

He drops down a floor and goes visible.

If they're going to kidnap him instead of sending him home post-ritual, he feels like he's allowed to explore their...castle? Or whatever this place is.

Maybe cause a little chaos to encourage them to be less kidnap-y next time. Or to just. Not have a next time.

Both is good.

Soon enough, the place is full of people scrambling everywhere. He lets a few see him, sticking out his tongue or giving a mocking comment before ducking around a corner and through a new wall.

When he ends up behind a group, he taps one on the shoulder. He'll relish their shrieks for weeks (they're highly trained and none of them noticed him until he tapped one, thus the reaction).

And also the scream of frustration when he disappears around a corner not two steps ahead of them and they lose him entirely.

He has to take a moment in an empty room to get his laughter out. Then he has to phase down another floor to avoid being cornered - no need to make it too obvious he's using powers, here.

He finds an armory and spends a while taking apart a good chunk of the guns - there are some models he leaves alone since he doesn't recognize them. He might come back for a sword to keep, he thinks. The curvy blade ones look really, really cool.

Another hallway, another group trying to surprise him from behind - jokes on them, he's on high alert now that he knows they won't just send him back, the jerks - another disappearing act, and he finds himself in a room full of paperwork.

Yep, he can't read the writing either.

Oh well.

He has a good 8 minutes of throwing papers around and rearranging them and cutting out photos of people to put in a separate pile before Old Dude and UFL come sweeping through the doorway.

UFL's eyes widen and Old Dude's face turns a furious red faster than he thought possible.

They don't move to attack this time, Old Dude instead taking a deep breath before drawing himself up and saying something else in the language Danny doesn't know.

It sounds...calm. Polite, maybe.

Danny pauses his paper cutting and gets up, slowly walking up to the dude - just an arms length away - likes he plans to talk.

Then he takes a quick step closer, slaps his shoulder, and shouts "Tag, you're it!" before diving between them and running away - a discreet use of intangibility the only thing that keeps him from being nabbed.

And from taking another head wound.

Seriously. Some people.

He barely hears the faint "Wait!" over his own laughter - which draws more ninja people to his location.

No matter; he cuts a complex route through the floor he's on before, once again, vanishing around a corner and through the floor, down another level.

If they actually want to talk, they can do it after he's had his fun - and after they apologize for the head wound. Talk about rude.

But first: he's going to explore more.

He finds the locker room level.

Or, well, it's bedroom and wardrobes and stuff. But he finds where they keep the spare ninja outfits.

He puts one on and goes up five levels, punching and kicking at the air like the zombie-ninja in Dead Teacher 5 did in the post-capture scene.

When a group spots and rushes him he disappears - you guessed it - around a corner and goes invisible to find a new group. Which he then pops into visibility behind, pretending to follow along.

It doesn't work, as the moment he takes an audible step they whip around and bow.

It's the most blatantly non-hostile reaction he's gotten so far, but it's also the one he likes the least.

"The Demon's Head apologizes for the inhospitable first impression. He would like to have the chance to apologize to you personally," the group calls out in unison, this time in English.

If he hadn't recognized the language, the accents didn't help any.

Not that he really expected them to, given how he didn't always end up on the same planet - yet another motivation to stay human for these things, the circles don't auto translate when he's human, making the summoners even less inclined to believe their circle worked.

He sighs. Sags.

"Fiiiiiiiiine," he groans out. "But I'm finishing exploring first. Call it step one of making it up to me for putting on his creepy corpse slab thingy."

He sinks through the floor before they can say anything else, leaving the stolen ninja-suit behind.

He wanders around for maybe another 20 minutes before he gets bored.

The ninjas are still everywhere but they keep bowing. When he goes invisible after passing a group they call someone. Probably Old Dude - or 'Demon's Head,' which, compensating much?

He's getting bored. He could probably figure out how to get home on his own, but it'd be easier to just have them send him back.

But first, the basement.

You can tell a lot about a person by their basement. Take his parents for example; very obviously obsessed with ghosts.

Vlad's basement? Visibly Fruitloopy.

Tucker's family? Normal, maybe a bit nerdy. Pool table, bookshelves covered in old and new tech devices, bookshelves covered in books - fictional and technical both.

Sam's? Rich people. Not much for interacting with anyone except their fellow rich friends; noticeably stuck-up (except Sam, who somehow escaped the generational curse of ass-holier-than-thou-ness. Though maybe 'generational' was a bit unfair, given Ida).

So he goes down, down, down, until he stops hitting empty space. Then he goes back up, to what appears to be the bottom floor - though he'll have to check for stairs leading down, since the basement could just be smaller than everywhere else and not beneath him. It is a castle.

Or at least it's castle-sized.

He wanders around, back in the visible range.

He can't help but notice the many unconscious and/or tied up ninjas he passes on his journey.

Odd.

Danny emerges from the hall into a large chamber, with lamps covering the walls. He idly notices a pair of brightly-dressed people tying up a few more ninjas at the bottom of the stairs - stairs that curve around either side of a large pool.

"Hell yeah they got a pool!" he shouts as he dives arms-first into the middle of the water. Or...ecto-water? It's a little discolored green, and now that's he's in it he can just feel the energy brushing over his skin.

It's pretty refreshing.

He swims seven laps below the surface - doing loops and spins and just generally taking his time - before he surfaces to breathe.

Which he stills needs to do in human form. Just less often.

He could just go intangible to breath - a little hack he discovered by accident - but it's still kind of awkward.

Plus, he's kind of curious about the costume dudes. If they're still there.

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It's been a long month for the batfam.

All of Arkham managed to escape on the full moon on the first of the month, and they might as well have set up a rotation schedule for their attacks.

None of them have had a moment's peace since.

And to top it all off, Ra's was up to something fishy. The League had been moving differently for two weeks now.

Tim and Damian had both taken notice, and had quietly agreed that the two of them should handle it themselves. Once only a few rogues remained out of Arkham - the Joker not among them - they disappeared onto a plane, a text in the group chat about doing some in-person research on a case all they left behind.

Everyone was worried - and Bruce was furious - but for all Gotham was finally relatively stable again they still couldn't afford to leave. Not with Riddler having something so clearly in the works. A quick promise to be safe and they cut off all of their tech.

They only needed a guard, but Damian insisted on the ones closest to the Pit since they were more likely to know something. It was supposed to be a quick in-and-out kidnapping; lucky for them most of the assassins seemed occupied with something on the upper-levels, meaning they only had to take out perhaps a dozen including the target.

They are very nearly done tying up their kidnappee when they hear "Hell yeah they got a pool!" and whip their heads around just in time to see a black-haired, blue-eyed boy somewhere between their ages and wearing jeans and a t-shirt dive directly into the Lazarus Pit.

They both try to shout a warning, but they're already too late. He was midair before they saw him.

And now he was dead.

He looked completely uninjured, there's no way the Pit didn't kill him.

"There is no way that was a League approved outfit," Tim says, still a bit in shock. "Was that a tourist???"

"Impossible, there is no way the League would be incompetent enough to allow a mere tourist through, no matter how distracted they are," Damian shoots down, rushing up the stairs and leaving Tim to heft their would-be-kidnappee and scramble up behind him.

Damian stops at the top of the pool to look down, and Tim joins him, kidnappee thrown over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

The Lazarus water is still. No bubbles. No movement.

"Shit," Tim breathes, feeling numb.

They came all this way to keep something bad from happening only to see some guy kill himself by diving into a 'pool.'

"A pool. Why? Who looks at a bubbling, steaming, metal-smelling, miscolored vat of liquid in the middle of what he has to have noticed is the sketchiest building ever and thinks it's a pool!?"

Tim hears Damian's tut over his own internal screaming.

"There is nothing we can do for him," he shakes his head, turning to Tim. "Let's move-"

The surface of the water breaks not three feet from them. The diver shakes the Lazarus water from his head and wipes his eyes, calm-as-you-please, before he looks up at them.

"Yo," he says, swimming over to rest his folded arms on the edge of the Pit.

He makes no move to get out, just treading water.

In the Lazarus Pit.

"So like, do you guys have beef with the ninjas or something?" He asks into ensuing silence.

Tim barely restrains himself from mouthing 'ninjas.'

Damian, on the other hand, snaps out of his shock.

"Who are you and how did you get in here?" he asks. Important questions, given that the task isn't something just anyone could achieve.

Not even taking into account the fact that the guy is using a Lazarus. Pit. Like it's a damn kiddy pool.

"Danny, nice to meet you!" he smiles, feet splashing slightly in the water behind him. Tim and Damian flinch at the spray that hits no a foot from them. "I was brought here. Bashed over the head, strapped to a table. You know how it is. I ruined a lot of Old Dude's paperwork, though, so I think we're almost even. You?"

"We don't have a lot of time," Tim rushes to explain, "They'll only be distracted up there for so long but those aren't 'ninjas.' They're assassins. We're here following a lead on a change in their activity. The 'Old Dude' is named Ra's Al Ghul, he's the leader of all of the assassins and if you actually damaged any of his belongings he and his entire organization are going to do everything in their power to kill you."

Not that Tim was sure he'd succeed, given the guy was still just chilling in a Lazarus Pit. And also snorted at the warning.

But he was likely connected to the changes in LoA activity, making him a lead - on top of, apparently, a kidnapping victim.

They needed to go, but Tim has a feeling the case will be easier to solve if he comes with them.

"Look, even if you can handle yourself, it doesn't mean you have to. We know the way out, we're leaving now. Come with us; we'll make sure you get home safely," he offers, holding out his free hand.

"Taking me home already? I don't even know your name," the diver - Danny - flashes a cocky grin.

"Red Robin," he answers, trying to stomp down the blush that wants to crawl up his neck to his face.

"Yum."

The blush wins.

Damian grabs Danny's hand, nudging Tim out of the way "so you don't drop the suspect. Tch" and introducing himself as "Robin."

It's a flimsy excuse but Tim shakes his head and ignores it.

"Towels?" he asks, hoping Damian will remember where they are - he really doesn't want to get Lazarus water in the batplane.

"No need!" Danny chirps, and when they looks back to him he is...completely dry.

"...Right. Let's go."

They make it out of the building and to the batplane, shockingly enough, without seeing anyone else.

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Danny follows the bird-themed strangers out of the castle. Normally he would be so relaxed about this, but it's summer break. He can kill afford to kill a day or two in a different...location. Maybe state, maybe country, maybe universe.

He shoots off an invisible duplicate to keep distracting the ninjas a few floors up, and to deliver his message. The duplicates memories rush back to him not 15 minutes later - by which point he's in a plane miles and miles away.

His copy had found a ninja on the first floor.

"I'm ready to talk," he'd said.

They lead him back to the summoning room - sans summoning symbols - where Ra's & UFL sat on floor cushions around a low table. An empty cushion opposite them awaited him.

"I apologize," Ra's says as he sits, "For the poor first impression. My men can be jumpy, and I suppose the medical room can appear a bit...startling, to the unfamiliar. I assure you we meant no disrespect."

"Mhmmm. What was with the big circle, then?" Danny continues, playing dumb.

"The ritual we performed claimed it was designed to summon the Lord of the Dead. Of course, I should have known such a feat could not be nearly so simple. You are...an emissary, I presume?"

"Or something," Danny flash a sharp grin and green eyes. "Tell you what? You want the Lord of the Dead to hear you out? I'll make it happen."

Ra's and UFL perk up just slightly at that, but Danny holds up a hand before they can say anything.

"But first," he drawls, leaving a slight pause to build suspense. "You have to come find me and finish our game of tag. If you manage to tag me within the next three days I'll give you the meeting you want. If not, I'll come back here on day four and you'll have to send me back, with no reward."

He made sure to emphasize the 'you' while staring at Ra's, who wastes no time leaping the table to tap him.

'Danny' only laughs.

"Only the real me counts, Ra's. But to be fair, I won't use dupes after this one is done is delivering this message." And he is so, so glad his original will retain the memory of the look on his face. Surprised Pikachu: assassin edition is honestly hilarious. "I'll even give you a hint: I flew away with a pair of robins."

With that, 'Danny' disappears, flying away to join back up with his original.

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