Fake Cryptids, Real Ghosts

Ok, so dp x dc/batfam because this AU has me by the throat but what if it's the fake cryptid batfamily AU who never joined the JL.

Just...imagine it. The Batfamily has been protecting Gotham quietly but fiercely by scaring the daylights out of criminals as creatures that go bump in the night. A bit of stage magic, frightening method acting, contortion, a whole language comprised of chirps, growls, and body language, and the best tech possible and you've got a recipe for striking fear into the hearts of everyone.

They've got shrines on the rooftops, vaguely on the JL radar (Cause really, who's gonna believe that Gotham, one of the worst cities has a demon problem? Constantine? Homeboy took one look at Gotham and went Nope.) and they're protected cause any self respecting Gothamite wouldn't go spilling the beans to Outsiders. The Bats keep them safe. Who would believe them anyways?

Enter half dead, half alive Danny Fenton.

Short DP X DC Prompts #135

Alfred spots a boy defending a lady from some muggers while he’s midway through completing some errands. The boy evidently has more self-defense training than most. His eyes are hollow in the same way his boy and his grandson's eyes are. Congratulating the boy for his efforts, he offers the lad a ride to wherever he needs to go for his rescuing of the young lady. The boy very warily agrees and follows Alfred to his car. Upon further questioning, the boy’s name is Daniel Fenton and he has no home to return to. Now that just won’t do. Making eye contact with the boy in the rearview mirror, he tells the boy that he’s making dinner tonight with his family and he’s more than welcome to attend. 

!!! I'm now imaging Alfred and Danny bonding.

Danny hesitantly accepts, but when they arrive at a really fancy looking mansion he can't help but feel nervous. (I mean how often has he had good experiences with rich dudes?) Of course Alfred is quick to reassure him that Master Bruce and the others are fine kind people who would be more than happy to have dinner with him. And Danny really liked Alfred, the man just has a soothing presence that is oddly reminiscent of Clockwork so he pushes through the discomfort and they go inside

Danny, is ofcourse, then in awe of the home. Seeing how is it a lot different from Vlad’s home, he has to admit that this looked more like a home, even showing signs that a family lived there. The tension that was there is eased just a bit. But then they pass the dining room and it built up again. It's too similar to the table Vlad had once or twice forced him to eat and sit at. Threats and blackmail and the use of the name 'Daniel' (like it was better than being 'Danny' putting him on edge) were used to make him stay seated despite everything in his being told him to leave and remove his family members that had sat there way too many times for it to be comfortable. He doesn't know he's going to sit at the table no doubt Mr.Pennyworth would use. A table that made him feel trapped.

As Alfred begins setting out the groceries and supplies he used Danny is trying to stave off a his growing anxiety without seeming rude. He gets Alfred to talk about the meal as the older man begins prepping, but he can't resist the repeated glances toward where he knows that clean pristine wooden dinner table is. His anxiety was reaching a peak the closer it was to dinner time and when Alfred was almost done with cooking.

"Danny, it isn't a requirement for you to eat with the others at the table. I'd be more than happy to have a companion in the kitchen away from the ruckus that occurs at the table."

Those words were like a lifeline for Danny as he quickly accepted the invitation to stay just a bit longer in the comforting atmosphere in the kitchen that the older man seemed so attuned to. Then when it was time for dinner Alfred skillfully displayed the products of his skill and Danny watched as an array of people took their spots but made no move to join them. There were no awkward introductions and Danny felt protected as he followed Alfred back into the kitchen, plate waiting for him at the counter. The food plated no differently than the others of the family Alfred clearly deeply cared for.

The two of them ate together and Danny listened as the man spoke more of cooking and Danny eagerly listened, hoping one day he could create such dishes. When dinner was finished he helped clean up (Alfred has noticed the boys growing anxiety and how he relaxed and opened up with their two pairs of hands wet and put to work). The whole time Danny felt content and couldn't help but imagine and wonder that maybe this was how it felt to be home.

Bruce please you're making it so hard to defend you

Honestly wanted to do a bit of an art study of Jorge Jimenez's art for a while now and with the cluster fuck that is the current gotham war thought might as well do it now

“no matter how badly you think you’re doing it, someone else has done it a lot worse and been fine” is applicable to a wide, wide range of things and i say it to myself all the time

"bigger idiots than me have done it" is a phrase I live by

[ DP Fantasy AU ]  sth sth medieval meme

it’s medieval lookin fantasy AU, so of course I gotta draw medieval jokes and monty phyton jokes are monty phyton jokes still relevant i hav no idea

plz send me more medieval jokes or sth lmao

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

I have a draft started for a fic where Danny and Duke go to school together, and Duke calls Danny "Starlight" because he's always glowing in Duke's eyes because of Duke's powers. The problem is it's barely a paragraph long rn and I don't have a ton of ideas.

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

DP x DC AU: Tim had heard the phrase 'The wrong twin made it home' a number of times in his life, his parents were always very upfront about how the felt towards him. But... 'made it home' doesn't indicate death, does it? ...Tim ends up taking Danny's place by Sam's side in front of Congress to lobby the end of the Anti-Ecto Acts.

...

Tim has been up for hours passed when he told Alfred he would be resting and he's wrapped up his case files into neat little bows to deliver to Babs and the GCPD/Lawyers to do their jobs. Damian had made a comment earlier in their patrol that night about Tim being the wrong sibling to make it to his rescue and... and it got him thinking about that phrase. His parents were negligent with him, certainly, but they were always very clear about how he stood in their eyes. Praise and criticism were the two options, and very strictly limited passes of 'I love yous' that faded as he got older.

He's run his DNA before in the national databases- it was critical for maintaining his Alias' that multiple people didn't flag- but he's never searched in records before. About his twin. About the one who didn't make it home.

And its definitely the lack of sleep, and definitely the lack of brotherly affection he feels these days, but Tim just can't close the door until he's seen a death certificate. He's hacked Gotham General Hospital a million times for work, but doing it for his own gain feels wrong some how and he works with extreme caution. He finds his own birth certificate and... One Theodore Daniel Drake.

Tim snorts with a short ha, pretentious name alert and goes on to find not a single certificate of death or medical record of atypia. Oh no, what he finds is adoption paperwork meant to be closed to all wondering eyes and one Daniel James Fenton leaving the hospital instead. Tim blinks a few times, retraces his steps and then sure enough, learns for a second time that his TWIN was still alive.

Danny is Diana's Big Brother (and annoys the hell out of her)

So!

Danny decided to reveal himself to his Parents one day, and it didn't go well. Thankfully, Jazz managed to get him out of the Lab and they fled into the Ghost Zone, destroying the Portal behind them.

They seek refuge with some of their friends, and after a while they find a permanent home with Pandora in the Ancient Greek Sector. She found them while they were wandering the Zone in search of a place to sleep and happily took them in.

Danny also finds out that he is the new Ghost Prince after an incident where Fright Knight almost kills Skulker for "Daring to attack the Prince!"

So life is getting better for Danny. But he soon finds out that as the Ghost Prince, he needs a Parent to take over until he comes of Age. And he doesn't really have parents anymore.

He tries to set up Jazz as his Legal Guardian, but since she is his sister (and a newly forming Halfa, therefore also too young) she doesn't count.

Thankfully, he had the perfect candidate right there with Pandora! And she happily adopted them, she was basically already acting like their new Mom anyways, do it wasn't that much of a change. All she needs to do is keep the peace for a few decades until Danny reaches the Legal Ghost Age. (100 yrs old)

And of course, since he was adopted by Pandora he wants to learn about her Culture! So he asks her to take him on a trip to her Home Dimension and Home Country to learn about it.

So they head off to Themyscira.

And since Danny is technically Royalty, Not a Human Man, and the adopted son of Pandora (one of their greatest heroes of the past) he is tentatively allowed to visit the Island.

(Also, Danny can shapeshift, so it wouldn't be too big of a problem if he wanted to)

While there he meets Pandora's sister, Hippolyta, and her newly born Daughter, Diana.

Danny instantly decides that Diana is his new Little Sister.

And he also decides to indulge in all of the Big Brother Urges he has never been able to get away with with Ellie, and annoys the hell out of her in a way only big brothers can manage.

He teases her in front of her friends, pranks her occasionally, has play fights with her that end with a Forest being wiped off the map, and generally annoys the hell out of her.

But he also does all the good brother things like protect her from bullies, gives her wise advice, comfort her when she feels sad, and even helps comb her hair (she realized that he thrives on domestic stuff, since he never got to appreciate it when he was a kid)

He also introduces Diana to Jazz, and they get on like a house on fire! Unfortunately, Diana found out that Jazz can actually reign in Danny whenever he gets too overbearing and weaponizes this to great effect.

Ellie too, although they are hence banned from ever hanging out without supervision ever again (the observants couldn't walk right for a decade after that incident)

They go on like this for a few centuries, even after Danny takes up the Throne and has less time to hang out with her.

But Diana still loves her big brother, annoyances and all. Still, she will absolutely never let him know about the League. She wouldn't survive the embarrassment.

...

Wait, who did this Cult just say they were summoning?

Danny is summoned in all his eldritchy ghost king glory and proceeds to scare the piss out of all his baby sisters friends. Diana is doing her best to pretend she isn’t there and/or doesn’t know him.

Suddenly Danny zeroes in on Batman and goes mild melting abomination on him and threatens him and his entire bloodline if Batsy ever makes his baby sister cry.

Batman is frankly handling this better than most mortals (frankly he thinks Green Arrow is having a seizure) and stoically as a mortal can informs the Ghost King that he doesn’t know who his little sister is.

Suddenly the eldritch abomination shapeshifts into a more humanoid form and wailing that his little sister is embarrassed of him, lamenting that his sweet little princess hadn’t told any of her friends about him, and dramatically draping himself over Diana and whimpering that she doesn’t love him anymore.

Diana is embarrassed out of her mind and keeps insisting she doesn’t know the spirit sobbing as he clutches her legs.

As the father of …what was it eight, or maybe it was ten -however many children he has, Batman recognizes sibling bullshit when he sees it and is frankly relieved that it’s just a sibling situation, that and Green Arrow has finally stopped twitching.

Danny is Diana's Big Brother (and annoys the hell out of her)

So!

Danny decided to reveal himself to his Parents one day, and it didn't go well. Thankfully, Jazz managed to get him out of the Lab and they fled into the Ghost Zone, destroying the Portal behind them.

They seek refuge with some of their friends, and after a while they find a permanent home with Pandora in the Ancient Greek Sector. She found them while they were wandering the Zone in search of a place to sleep and happily took them in.

Danny also finds out that he is the new Ghost Prince after an incident where Fright Knight almost kills Skulker for "Daring to attack the Prince!"

So life is getting better for Danny. But he soon finds out that as the Ghost Prince, he needs a Parent to take over until he comes of Age. And he doesn't really have parents anymore.

He tries to set up Jazz as his Legal Guardian, but since she is his sister (and a newly forming Halfa, therefore also too young) she doesn't count.

Thankfully, he had the perfect candidate right there with Pandora! And she happily adopted them, she was basically already acting like their new Mom anyways, do it wasn't that much of a change. All she needs to do is keep the peace for a few decades until Danny reaches the Legal Ghost Age. (100 yrs old)

And of course, since he was adopted by Pandora he wants to learn about her Culture! So he asks her to take him on a trip to her Home Dimension and Home Country to learn about it.

So they head off to Themyscira.

And since Danny is technically Royalty, Not a Human Man, and the adopted son of Pandora (one of their greatest heroes of the past) he is tentatively allowed to visit the Island.

(Also, Danny can shapeshift, so it wouldn't be too big of a problem if he wanted to)

While there he meets Pandora's sister, Hippolyta, and her newly born Daughter, Diana.

Danny instantly decides that Diana is his new Little Sister.

And he also decides to indulge in all of the Big Brother Urges he has never been able to get away with with Ellie, and annoys the hell out of her in a way only big brothers can manage.

He teases her in front of her friends, pranks her occasionally, has play fights with her that end with a Forest being wiped off the map, and generally annoys the hell out of her.

But he also does all the good brother things like protect her from bullies, gives her wise advice, comfort her when she feels sad, and even helps comb her hair (she realized that he thrives on domestic stuff, since he never got to appreciate it when he was a kid)

He also introduces Diana to Jazz, and they get on like a house on fire! Unfortunately, Diana found out that Jazz can actually reign in Danny whenever he gets too overbearing and weaponizes this to great effect.

Ellie too, although they are hence banned from ever hanging out without supervision ever again (the observants couldn't walk right for a decade after that incident)

They go on like this for a few centuries, even after Danny takes up the Throne and has less time to hang out with her.

But Diana still loves her big brother, annoyances and all. Still, she will absolutely never let him know about the League. She wouldn't survive the embarrassment.

...

Wait, who did this Cult just say they were summoning?

I finally bit the bullet and jumped straight into the dc and dp fics and it inspire me to draw, I tired to make it look like a comic book sort of style with the shading but man that’s hard.

I picture this as Danny saying something along the lines of “I almost died/ that could have killed me fully” while midway way through a story forgetting he wasn’t talking to Sam or Tuck and then just pausing with an “oh shit” moment as Damian is just confused and suspicious cause what kind of ghost can die!?

Danny phantom art because I love drawing him.

Okay, but what if Danny, in an effort to be less of a liar and more of a cheater, learned sleight of hand and magic and lock picking?

What if, as he gets older and the need to explain how he got in somewhere, or how he got something, or how he got out of something gets to be so abysmally frequent that he just decides: fuck it. I’m gonna be that guy. You know, that guy that just Knows Weird Shit. That guy that just Does Things because he’s a little feral.  

Instead of risking his identity and/or getting shot at as Phantom he just...becomes the delinquent that breaks into random places just to see if he could. Just ‘cause he’s bored. If they coincide with Phantom’s activities? Well. Phantom’s a cool guy. Maybe he’s got taste. 

He’ll break out some card tricks, do a little invisibility, make a little telekinesis happen--just cool little party tricks in the middle of the day. Break into locked closets just to ditch class purely because “fiddling with his magic tricks is better than class” (and totally not because he’s out there fighting ghosts, no sirree). 

Practices incessantly during lunch hours. Starts trying to break out of handcuffs in math class. A little bit of a routine with escape artist tricks applied liberally to get out of English class. Tries to see if a teacher can catch him in the act. (They never can, and it only takes a couple months for it to be purely on his skill, and not with a little help from his powers).

Loudly proclaims he’s trying to hunt Phantom, but not to “rip him apart,” just to hang because Danny thinks he’s really neat. 

Imagine that being Danny’s best fucking cover, cause at this point, whose gonna question why Danny is standing right where Phantom just disappeared to? Danny probably broke in just to stalk the poor ghost. Jesus. He’s been in weirder places for weirder reasons. He once pulled a rabbit out of some kid’s ear. His reason? 

“I just thought the coin trick was so dull. Plus, you know, bunny ears? ...No? Too much of a stretch? Yeah I thought so too. Oh, well. Back to the drawing board I guess.”

Okay yes, but imagine jack and Maddie losing their absolute shit over it because, wtf Danny we didn't raise you to be a delinquent or a magician, you're going to grow up to be a ghost hunter like us.

And Danny is just like, nah fam.

And so to get back at them, whenever it's a close call coming out of the zone he just tells them he's trying to summon the ghost of Houdini to get more magic tricks

This gives me ideas but on a slightly unrelated note for context:

The Phantom gang being dragged into his "magic shows" and therefore learning specific "acts" in support of Danny/rebelling against the Fentons (and sort of the Mansons).

Sam learning dagger throwing and sword swallowing with glee, doing quick changes and learning how to disguise herself.

(This results in Sam having any number of knives on her, and being able to quick change any attempts of frilly dresses her mom tries to push on her into gothic versions)

Jazz, thinking she's funny, learns "mind reading" and does those "guess your card" tricks. It's just elaborate psychology in reading the intended person's body language. She starts getting more and more tricky with cards and sleight of hand.

Tucker being the ultimate backstage guy and hype MC. Recording the gang's shenanigans and being generally in charge of the social media aspect. Where did he pull all those cameras and fireworks/lights from? Nobody actually knows. But they're live on TikTok now!

Val, with some help from Cujo, being the "animal tamer" (is she an animal tamer if its just one animal?) and doing a bunch of the classic "lion tamer" tricks with Cujo's big version. She's also on some p good terms with Vlad's vultures, and uses every oportunity to fuck with that guy.

(I hc that Val's on the phantom train now, and actively tries to make Vlad's life a little harder every day. Vlad is less of an asshole, but mostly just tries to stay out of their business in this AU. He's less of an antagonist and more of a nosy uncle trying to be better)

What this all means is that the more the Fenton's try to get Danny to behave a little more like a ghost hunter (with the unintended bonus result of getting them less focused on actual ghost hunting) the more the phantom troupe pull elaborate and highly distracting magic tricks.

They try to pull Danny to fight a ghost with them? It's actually Sam disguised as him.

They try to show Danny a new ghost detection device? Val literally pulls it out of Cujo's mouth. How did she get it from their hands? That's a great question!

They try to make Jazz and Danny practice with a new ghost weapon, Jazz throws a couple cards a la Gambit and cuts the weapons in half. She looks them in the eyes and says "Probably needs to be sturdier."

They try to put out some new ghost propaganda, Tucker hijacks their channel for Danny's new juggling routine. (He's juggling a variety of ghosts, some fenton blasters, and an irate Sam).

After the previous fiasco they decide to lock up their weapons, and when they go back to pull some out there's only a post it note from Houdini saying "better luck next time." Danny tries to sell the Houdini signature on ebay but only gets 2 bucks for it even though its authentic.

DC X DP PROMT #11

Hello again wonderful strangers! I present to you another promt! (Similar to the last one)

Tim drake had a twin brother.

Daniel drake, the second son, born exactly three hours and 47 minutes after Tim.

Why does no one know this?

It was kept secret. Daniel was never expected. He was an addition to their idea of their. And not only that, but he was a meta.

Of course the Drakes couldn't have a meta son, I mean, could you imagine the scandal?

So, the Drakes did what they could, kept the boy hidden until he was 5 years of age.

After that they found dealers, people who could take the boy without connecting him to the drakes.

And so, Daniel Drake ceased to exist.

Hey Tim?

Yes Dick?

Wasn't there another boy with you? At the circus I mean. You know, the night you saw me for the first time? I could've sworn you had a look alike, maybe a twin brother?

... what brother?

Feel free to add on or use!

Tim didn’t like talking about Danny.

Tim knew that Danny was just his imaginary friend but he wished he wasn’t.

Danny was less of an imaginary friend than an imaginary brother. Danny was always there for him when his parents ignored him. Danny always told him stories before he went to sleep. Danny would try and take care of him when he was sick. Danny help his hand when he was scared. Danny was there for Tim when no one else was.

Tim wasn’t the most imaginative kid. Danny had looked just like Tim except for one thing. Danny had freckles. Freckles that glowed bright Lazarus green when ever Danny was really happy. And eyes that glowed green when he was mad.

Danny rarely left the house. Tim could remember asking his parents if Danny could come with them to whatever event they dragged him too, but they never let him. Danny was oddly obedient for an imaginary friend. Danny had only followed Tim out of the house once, when Haley’s Circus came to town. Tim’s parents hadn’t been happy that Danny came and locked Danny in his room for weeks afterward.

Tim didn’t really miss Danny all that much when his parents locked Danny away. Danny would tell Tim stories through the vents. Danny told Tim stories about the Infinite Realms, the space between spaces where ghosts of what ifs and never beens mingled with concepts given shape.

Tim’s favorite stories where about Phantom. Phantom was a protector spirit created when two mad scientists opened a portal between the infinite realms and the living realm. Phantom was a hero who defended the living from the realms beings and the realms beings from the dead.

Tim wished Phantom would come and take Danny and him away from their parents so they could always be together. Danny always looked sad when Tim said that.

Danny was Tim’s imaginary friend until he was five. One day Danny just disappeared. His parents told him that Danny didn’t exist and was making things up. Everything that Tim ever associated with Danny was suddenly gone. The pictures they drew together. The toy Danny had given him for Christmas. The glow in the dark stars that covered the ceiling of Danny’s bedroom. Everything was gone.

Danny didn’t exist.

You don’t have a brother.

Stop making up stories.

His parents repeated those words over and over again until Tim believed them.

Danny was Tim’s imaginary friend.

Tim didn’t like talking about Danny

Because Tim still wished Danny was real.

Roulette had to admit that Badger was not like her usual fighters. His powers where basically useless, a simple parlor trick and nothing more. But what Badger lacked in raw power he made up for in ferocity.

Badger had been sold by his parents when he was 5 and had passed through many hands before coming to her. Many of Badgers previous owners had remarked that he was more trouble than he was worth. His powers where too banal to be of any use to villains or researchers and those who wanted him for less than wholesome reasons learned he bite was much worse than his bark and a notorious flight risk. That may of been why he ended up in her ‘employ’ he had a fighters spirit.

Badger was a scrappy little bastard who fought hard and fought dirty. Watching him fight was like watching his namesake go to town on with an equal amount of biting. No matter how high the odds where stacked against him Badger fought with everything he had and more often then not came up on top.

Roulette had an easier time controlling her rising star than his previous owners. For one Badger liked to fight and relished a challenge. For another Roulette knew what buttons to push.

Badger had a brother. A brother he loved and would do anything to protect. All Roulette had to do was mention his brother and Badger was putty in her hands. Sure there was no way she could make good on her threats but what Badger didn’t know couldn’t hurt her.

Another reason Badger never made a break for it was because of the friends he made amongst his fellow fighters.

Like him they had banal powers but strong fighting spirits.

Pharaoh who could talk to technology.

Nightshade who was photosynthetic

Huntress who could summon a thin layer of fabric like skin over her body.

Psyche, who had slight emotional manipulation

Wraith, who could turn her body into goop

Veritas who was a living lie detector

Hermes, Veritas’s brother, who could convince the ignorant what he said was true.

Sprint, who was slightly better physically than those that surrounded him

Drakess, who had reptilian scales in patches on her body

Double, who could duplicate his body parts on his body

Satellite, who could see electrical signals

Phantasm, Wraiths elder brother, who could breath smoke out his nostrils

Badger had also befriended some of her older and more lucrative fighters

Koolaid, who had enhanced durability, strength and a habit of going through walls.

Teal, who hand heightened intelligence and was a skilled martial artist

Viper, who had fangs and glowing red eyes.

Badger would never leave Roulette without the others in toe and she would never let that happen.

Ghost King Isn't the Only Title Danny Has

Okay, so you how monarchs can have multiple titles? Like how the heir to the English throne is both Prince/Princess and Duke/Duchess of Cornwall? And how monarchs can get titles and epithets that just stack onto their preexisting names/titles? Like "Catherine the Great" or how Daenerys gets her famous list of "Stormborn, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, etc."?

Well, there are dozens upon dozens of names for the Infinite Realms. The Ghost Zone might be what Amity Park calls it, but there have been hundreds of names for it throughout history. The Afterlife, Sheol, Heaven & Hell, Purgatory & Limbo, Valhalla, and so on and so forth.

So when Danny finally gives in and lets himself be crowned, he doesn't just become the Ghost King. Oh no. He is crowned "King Daniel Fenton, First of His Name, Protector of the Infinite Realms, Defeater of Pariah Dark, Liege of Fright Knight, Ice Mage of the Far Frozen, and Hades of the Underworld."

And then a few months later when Danny inevitably gets summoned and pops up on the Justice League's radar, there's some serious side-eyeing going on because 'Diana, why didn't you mention your uncle looked like a teenager? Why does one of the most powerful gods like to hang out in teenaged form anyway?'

Just... give me an unknowning Danny accidentally inheriting a niece along with the crown, and that niece just so happens to be Wonder Woman.

Danny fidgeting awkwardly...

"So, um funny thing. But um.... Hades was dethroned a few millennia ago? And um... When I took down the latest tyrant.... I inherited the title?"

And the Justice League look to Marvel and Diana like... How did you not know this??

Diana "Would you happen to know why he didn't tell the family?"

Danny "I mean, he still rules the Greek section? So it was more of a demotion I guess? And he IS still a King.. Just not the High King."

They try to summon him again later, but find their grimoires all seem to have added a slew of new titles.

Lord King Daniel, The First of His Name, Protector of the Infinite Realms, Defeater of Pariah Dark, Liege of Fright Knight, Ice Mage of the Far Frozen, Hades of the Underworld, The Unwishing, The Restless Protector, The One Weaving Through Time,

etc etc and it takes half a fucking hour to chant because people just keep naming the poor kid.

(he's doing it on purpose, he does NOT want to be summoned.)

Constantine: Why do you have so many titles? The chant to summon you takes half an hour!

Danny: I don't want to be summoned. I will keep collecting titles as though they are Pokémons until people give up on summoning me due how long the chant is.

Danny put here trying to find the character limit on a summon, what is he finds the limit but it ends in the middle of a word but be cutting it off halfway through the word becomes longer breaking the summons like the Arabic glitch on iphones

See, the thing is Names Have Power.

If someone really, really needed Danny's help, they just have to call him by one (1) name. Plenty of innocent ghosts captured by the Guys In White have been saved by screaming "Help me, Dear Ghost King" at the top of their lungs and then waiting the necessary 5 seconds for Danny to summon himself and fuck shit up as necessary.

However, if Danny doesn't want to answer the summoning, he can ignore it. He usually only ignores it if it's cultists who want him to consume the universe or something similar, so this isn't a bad thing. If they try to summon "The Ghost King, Ice Mage of the Far Frozen, Liege of Fright Knight," then Danny can just put on his "Hades of the Underworld" title and go about his day. But if the cultists use every title Danny has, then there's nothing for it. Danny gets summoned and has to bullshit his way around the cultists' demands until either he can free himself or someone else can catch up and help out.

The solution to this?

Danny adds a shit ton of epithets to his title. So now summonings sound like:

"We call upon you, King Daniel Fenton, First of His Name, First of His Blood, First of his Dynasty. Protector of the Infinite Realms, Defeater of Pariah Dark, Liege of Fright Knight. Ice Mage of the Far Frozen. Ally of Pandora; Protector of Pandora's Box. Ally of Princess Dorathea; Reagent of Dragon's Lair. Brother of Jasmine; Princess of the Ghost Realm and Major of Psychology. Friend of Sam; Jewish Witch, Vessel of Undergrowth, and Ultra-Recyclo-Vegetarian. Friend of Tucker; Player of Doomed Online, Reincarnation of Hotep Ra, and Genius Hacker. Defeater of Undergrowth, Defeater of Frigthmare, Defeater of Skulker, Defeater of Ember, Defeater of Ghost Writer, Defeater of Young Blood, Defeater of Box Ghost--"

John Constantine punches the cultist hard enough to break their jaw before they can continue down the line of Danny's past opponents. Summoning does, after all, create a fuck ton of ecto-energy that the Justice League's scanners pick up. Constantine has yet to stop a summoner before they get past the "Pain in the Ass of the Fruitloop" part of Danny's title.

Vlad tracks down a summoning one time, out of curiousity for What The Fuck Are These Idiots Doing, and just about re-dies laughing when they hit that title.

Ok but now I'm imagining Danny (in a scenario where Phones or Texting would be too slow) gives the Justice League and/or Justice League Dark a special secondary summoning ritual. Not for Danny as King Daniel Phantom, High King of the Infinite Realm, but instead for Danny as Danny Phantom, the Second Halfa and Heroic Spiritual Protector of Amity Park. (He throws every other title he's earned at his King summon to make it as long as physically possible).

He went through a lot of ghost legal loopholes just to make a second summoning for his Hero alias specifically. It's both way faster and easier to perform but Danny makes it crystal clear it's for EMERGENCIES ONLY, like end of the world-type danger or if Danny doesn't respond to any text messages or phone calls for anything serious within 4 minutes.

Danny also asks them to do it in a scenario where he goes completely missing for 2 weeks without messages or calling to keep in touch, mainly as a contingency plan in the scenarios where he gets captured by the Guys in White or if his parents figure out their son is Phantom and choose research over their son.

He admits it would be a hellish two weeks, but as long as he doesn't give up with the knowledge of hope in the back of his mind then it should be fine right? (He doesn't tell them about the Anti-Ecto Acts and Guys in White immediately in case they choose to side with the government over him, thus he wants to build their trust first as an ally.)

Driver Danny.

Danny goes to Gotham (you can pick why) and he's strapped for cash.

So he tries everything to keep the flickering lights on and the leaky roof over his head.

Dishwashing, pizza delivering, grocery shop Manning, beverage making, tutoring.

He does everything.

Eventually he ends up doing less then legal stuff.

Keeping a look out while a store gets robbed (didn't really feel guilty for that one, the owner was an asshole) work at the iceberg lounge.

Somehow he ends up as a gettaway driver...

Danny, the son of Jack "what's a red light?" Fenton.

He becomes the most sort after driver in Gotham.

Oh oh oh. If he ends up working for Jason's gang, Jason's going to eventually get attached to him.

Danny is effective as a driver which endears him to Jason, but his humour, life perspective and youth which makes Jason realise he's basically unofficially adopted this kid. So he starts making Danny take care of the more legal stuff, and gives him "perks" like higher pay, better work hours, more coworkers who keep an eye out for him, even housing.

Everyone else's equally endeared to Danny, so no one really complains (those who would've thought so, know to keep it to themselves, or hold their opinions until they have more experience with Danny before saying anything) and looks out for him, as much as they can.

Danny, for his part, is suddenly confused about why he's suddenly got so many adults looking out for him but he's realised that Jason's essentially done his variation of ghostly adoption. He doesn't really think it makes sense, given Jason's barely Liminal and Danny is... Danny. But he's in Jason's haunt, and isn't looking to find himself embroiled in the vigilante world again. So he goes with it.

Besides, he's finally having some form of normality. He's also getting a bit more time to figure out how to get back to attending classes and relax. Why would he back out of it with that in mind?

Now he just has to figure out what the man in the furry suit wants with him and his boss.

Now I'm just imagining Jason waiting for Danny, his getaway driver, to get him back to one of his new hideouts without attracting the attention of the other Batfam members.

When the Batmobile shows up driving towards him Jason thinks to run, only to see it open and reveals Danny in the driver's seat.

Danny had somehow managed to steal the Batmobile, and from the look of things. Bruce has yet to realize it yet.

Jason will admit it was the best ride of his entire existence but did make a note to send it back to Bruce though after the fact.

...Without the wheels of course (though how Danny managed to get it back undetected is beyond him but he respects the kid enough to not investigate.)

He tells Danny that he's keeping the wheels is an inside joke between him and Bat from when he was a kid, and Danny just shrugged; honestly Danny stopped caring about the reasons everyone gave a while ago. Now he just nods along and files it away and when he's intangible he overheard a lot since he likes being around everyone. He only brings it up if it becomes relevant which is also how almost all of Jason's gang is scared of him because how does he know so much?

Jason and everyone else have somewhat decided that Danny being scrawny and silent probably blends in well. (The Batmobile job as it came to be known basically cemented Danny's reputation as The Ghost. Danny finds the whole thing hilarious.)

They keep trying to feed him any chance they get including sending him home with someone's mother's or aunt's or sister's or grandmother's "leftovers" or "extras". (They're concerned that Danny still looks like he's 14-15 even though he's closer to 19-20. The boy doesn't eat enough is the suspicion and probably hasn't for a few years.) They've done everything except drop off precooked meals in his refrigerator and freezer.

Batman for his part is still confused about what happened to the Batmobile, and the strange uptick in food and multivitamin buying happening around Red Hood's gang. He's convinced that the new character The Ghost is responsible but he can't get any information about him except he's a kid with black hair and blue eyes and disappears really well.

“Page-Sister Deborah was caught reading ahead of the group. As punishment, we will now be reading her old Star Trek fanfics aloud.”

“You don’t want to leave the club, Page-Sister Sally. Without Book-Mother Karen’s guidance your reading will be hollow and your marriage will fall apart.”

ORIGIN SWAP

I think about this AU everyday of my life.. Kryptonian Bru-Way, with his family

Okay people, dream with me here: 2d animated Supersons in Patrick Gleason’s style from the comics

This is a small bit of a 1 minute animatic I’ve been working on in my spare time, that I’m slowly starting to get some finished animation on! Based on the Robin vs Superboy fight scene from Superman #10, by Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason, because I love it

Injustice Superman meets Jon Kent

For context; Injustice Superman is a version of Superman who lost his wife and child and became evil as a result. Jon Kent is the child he would have had from another timeline.

In the comic (spoilers I guess) they sent Superman from the good timeline to defeat the evil Superman. But I wondered how things could have turned out had a certain someone else shown up instead...

(Yes I know there's actually a comic that's similar to this idea out there but it was lame so I made this)