just because someone is from a country obsessed with baseball doesn’t mean they themselves are obsessed with baseball. i hate when people make assumptions like that.
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Ok so maybe pretending to be crazy so that he didn't have to live with Vlad shouldn't have been plan A or even plan D for that matter. But.... it had worked. Danny just wondered where he was being shipped off to.
Well, this Arkham place doesn’t seem so-
Aright bet, I’m already considered insane here.
Cut to the Bat signal:
Commissioner Gordon is smoking somewhat nervously as he waits to explain that a feral teenager from bumfuck Ohio tore through his restraints, several walls, Rogues, and mauled the Joker. With his teeth.
Bane is still in traction.
Waylon lost his tail, but seems otherwise more startled than anything.
King Shark is still growing half his teeth and appears to be building a bouquet of ???? And muttering to himself.
Harley broke a nail and is devastated about that. And not getting the footage.
They aren’t sure if the joker is gonna wake up, but the kid seems much more docile with joker out of the way.
Danny after coming to his senses: Oops 😅. I hate clowns!
Danny gets adopted by Bruce Wayne au but consider: Danny was brought up in a loving-if absolutely insane- household where pda and mushy gushy stuff wasn't only said, but expected.
The bats almost never voice thier love for one another, instead showing it in a variety of different ways.
What I'm saying is that Danny keeps nearly killing them by saying "I love you." I'm not even joking. Danny has nearly offed the bats more times in his week staying in wayne manor than any Gotham villian would dare try
Like it doesn't even have to be an emotionally charged scene. It can literally be Danny heading out for school and telling Dick, "Love you! Bye!" And Dickie will get thrown off and take a tumble down the stairs. And this is all of them.
For just a touch of ouch to spice things up:
Danny, being so used to such open love, is confused and a little bit hurt how the Bats never say it back. They're always so caught off guard, fumbling like they don't know what to do. Except for Damian, who is seemingly just enraged. Do they not feel the same? Was he too quick to start loving them? Is he making everything awkward and uncomfortable?
I love the idea that Danny just gets really sad about them not saying it back, but still can’t bring himself to stop saying it to them. Maybe the reason why he’s with them is because his family died so he regrets not being able to say it to them anymore or something so he wants to say it to the bats even if they don’t feel the same.
Maybe one of them finds Danny upset and he confesses what’s wrong and cries, making that person make an effort to always say it back and yell at everyone else until they do too.
Tbh it would be so freaking cute if this was Damian. Like he’s angry at first until he actually talks to Danny and they have a heart to heart so Damian knows the significance and that Danny actually DOES love him.
Danny, leaving for school: Love you! Bye!
Bats: 😭💖
Damian: I love you as well Daniel.
Bats: :O
Damian, glaring at them: say it back to him.
Bats: Wh-what
Damian: Tell him. You love him. Say it. Or else.
Bats: l-love you too Danny
Danny: 😭😭💖💖💖😭😭💖💖💖
Busting through the wall like Jack Fenton to point out that not only do the Fentons SAY I love you
They show it in many ways the bats just cannot fathom (aka are not easily confused for stalking)
Danny breaks into the kitchen with Alfred to make everyone fudge his first weekend
(He also breaks down crying if said family is now dead and gets lots of hugs and comfort from Alfred, keeper of the Sole Mote Of Emotional Regulation of the Bats)
He sees Damian’s paints one day and full on kidnaps him and brings him to a park with an easel and Damian is angry and following because he was told to Be Nice but really wanting to stab Danny
And then Danny creeps to the edge of the water and shows him a nest of baby ducklings to paint
And yeah he did carry Damian out under one arm he’s had some Fenton super strength
All those hugs Danny thought were embarrassing? Yeah he’s doing those too, just grabbing whichever new sibling is closest for a rib cracking squeeze
(Dick is Ecstatic, Cass will drape herself on Danny like a blanket and let him carry her around, Tim hisses like it burns)
Danny shows his love in loud, obvious, slightly frantic ways and never leaves a conversation or a room without a last “I love you”
Because he’s never sure if it will be The last and he’s never making that mistake again
And the bats all pick it up, possibly at weapon point
And then they say it to each other because it’s just… normal. Danny gives a wave and a “love you!” To the room before heading out, Duke follows him and gets a second “love you” from Tim who is half asleep and just saw movement and assumed it was Danny
Dick, with a fresh outlet for his brotherly affections, IMMEDIATELY slathers it on every conversation with everyone
(He is consequently the last person to get free “I love you”s from Steph, Jason, Tim, Harper, and Duke specifically because he wants it so bad)
Bruce is physically incapable of saying it for a while
Like he opens his mouth and no words come out
And it’s sad and awkward right up until Steph catches on
And then she does her best ventriloquist bat-growl “I LOVE YOU” when he opens his mouth and it is an instant hit
All the kids will pitch in and do a Bruce-love and it’s silly and it’s funny and when he can finally do it himself one day they all pretend not to notice cuz they don’t wanna scare him off
Cass is the first person to notice that Danny has noticed they don't return his indications of affection. He's so open about it that she's sure the others would recognize his actions as genuine if they weren't so paranoid and affection-starved.
And the new brother is so genuine. He carries his happiness in his grin, his fatigue in his shoulders, his sadness in... everything. She can read it in everything else he does; that heavy, lingering despondency.
And she can tell that Danny's used to others who are similarly "loud" in their displays.
So, she takes it upon herself to bridge the gap.
She starts with Danny, because she doesn't like seeing him sad. She opens up to him; hugs him and hanging on him like a limpet and humming happily when he laughs and smiles at her.
Hanging off his shoulders, she's conveniently close enough to his ear to whisper interpretations into his ear as they hang out in the Manor. The ever-so-slight nods from Damian, the set of Tim's shoulders, Bruce's grunts. And she can see the change in him nearly immediately.
She can see Danny realize that the family cares for him, too. That they're just quieter in showing it.
So Danny expands his efforts. From just simple, loud demonstrations of love and affection, he finds things specialized to each person. Showing Damian the nest of ducklings he found at the park. Sending Tim links to articles on new tech or camera designs. Leaning just a little longer against Bruce until the man feels comfortable enough resting his hand on Danny's shoulder.
Next, Cass targets the rest of her family. She leaves notes where they can find them of Danny's likes and hobbies, of ways to help show the reticent teenager that they're there for him, and that they always will be.
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Danny had grown so used to a family that was loud. To his father breaking walls and furniture as he rushed to reach his wife an pull her into a hug. To his mother whose sentences were filled with 'sweethearts' and 'honey'. To his sister who dragged him to her room so they could talk and she would nudge him out with an affectionate "little brother" comment.
The Fentons had been loud and as obvious as their house with their Fentonworks sign.
The Waynes not so much.
YALL I WASN'T FINISHED TYPING THIS UP OMG I WAS LOOKING FOR MY BIT IN THE DRAFTS CRAP 😭😭
I can't believe I posted it before I finished it ☠️
@atiyasnake I love you
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After moving to Gotham and having to deal with a stressful job, Danny has started taking walks around the city as a way to destress.
Since he knows that he could get mugged, he just becomes intangible and invisible while listening to some loud music on his phone.
Unfortunately for him, his control on his Invisibility keeps slipping when he gets lost in his music, and the people of Gotham keep seeing a semi-translucent ghost man walking around at night aimlessly.
Some thugs think it’s just a meta with invisibility and try to mug him, but pass right through and he disappears completely. This convinces them that he is a ghost, since having both invisibility, and intangibility would be too big a coincidence. Not to mention he never reacts to them whatsoever.
The Bat’s get word that a Ghost has been stalking the streets of Gotham, and he looks scarily like Bruce Wayne from the little they have been able to see from him. Now Batman thinks his dad may have come back as a ghost.
Danny is oblivious to all of this. He just likes his nightly strolls.
What if the stressful job he’s dealing with is funeral director/mortician. So when he takes these walks he’s often wearing a fairly nice suit, maybe one that’s a little old fashioned that he bought used in order to save money but still look professional. Or maybe it’s an old one he “borrowed” from Sam’s dad, one the guy wouldn’t miss with how he changes out his wardrobe every gala season.
This kind of outfit, of course, lends further credence to the theory that this is Thomas Wayne’s ghost, cursed to wander the crime ridden streets in which he died.
One night Danny had a little accident as he was leaving the embalming lab to get home. He was actually pretty annoyed about it. He swore the new guy had it out for him, with how he just happened to be carrying old Mrs Smith’s drainage when Danny popped in to say good night and just happened to spill some of it all down the front of Danny’s second best dress shirt and just happened to not get a single drop on himself.
Ellie comes to visit at one point and is super excited to show Danny her new shapeshifting powers. She can’t do a lot right now, not yet, but it’s enough to play around with in the streets of Gotham.
Danny is thrilled his little starlight is learning new powers. To celebrate, both of them dress up real nice and hit the town, taking full advantage of their ghost abilities to make the most of it. They get some ice cream, see a movie, freak out some tourists, scare the shit out of the Joker, mess around near the clock tower, and eventually calm down enough to enjoy the night air through a long walk.
Ellie is giggling and skipping ahead of him, taking advantage of the empty streets to freely shift her form every other block. With one step, her hair is twice as long and sparkles with an unnatural gleam. The next, her dress has turned bright green and the flowers stitched onto the hem wriggle and dance in tune with their blasting music. Danny calls her back when she gets too far, and when Ellie turns around, all of a sudden she looks like a boy with a suit similar to his and an adorable pixie cut.
Danny just sighs and takes his daughter’s hand. He knows that one day, when her powers are more developed, Ellie will truly cause him a royal headache with all the trouble she’ll get up to using her powers. But right now, right here, he’s just glad to have proof that Ellie is becoming her own person. She’s thriving in ways he never will, and that fact alone comforts both of them. Ellie isn’t just a clone anymore. She’s his daughter, and he’ll humor her till the end.
It takes a few days for the thought to crystallize, past the unsteadiness of shock. For his normally brilliant mind to start making connections again. Chaotic. Fae-like. His… His Father was unchanged. A man forever trapped in time, yet free from that terrible alleyway in a way Bruce still isn’t. But the CHILD?
It brings to mind the old tales of changeling. Fae children left where human children were taken from. Or perhaps, like cuckoo birds, fae children who steal a human child’s place. It was… It was seeing himself replaced. His father laughing, playing, unknowing in his adoration of what he believed was his son. The child in Bruce had screamed in horror.
The man in Bruce knows his Father is not unknowing.
At least… he desperately hopes so. It is impossible to tell yet what the ghost of Thomas Wayne is actually SEEING. The world as it is? As it was? Something else, beyond Bruce’s human sight? He’ll need Constantine’s help. Everything in him is trying to fight calling him.
It takes all his strength just to say the words out loud. To ask Clark for help, all the way over in Metropolis City, but Bruce… he can’t. He can’t. He searches the city for signs of his Mother. Like everyone else looking finds nothing. Was she not worthy of a return? Did she not earn some impossible goodbye?
What God would separate his parents? Would cruelly tear them from each other’s arms? Is his Father looking for her? For him? He found him. Is it now his wife he searches the streets for? Imagining her around the next street corner, some function or charity, a dear friends house for a chat?
Or was he pulled back by the Fae Child. Yanked from his rightful sleep, to play house, by the willful demands of a magically powerful child? Did he stand above his grave and wonder where he was? One moment trying desperately to protect his family, the next a graveyard? The world changed. The endless questions haunt Bruce.
Ha. “Haunt”. He’s begun to hate that word. Trapped. His Father isn’t “haunting” anything. His Father has been TRAPPED by this city and a child that Shape-shifts like water flows. Has Gotham not asked enough from his parents? Did they not already pay, for the crime of caring, in blood? Behind him Damian is less practicing his stances, as he is wrathfully hacking away at a training dummy.
Bruce continues to type at the bat-computer, gives him his privacy as he works through his emotions. The disrespect to his grandfather’s spirit. The lose and hurt he is feeling. Damian has never gotten to even meet Thomas Wayne. Known him only as stories and other people’s memories. Paintings upon walls. Old journals.
Beautiful but empty things.
The spaces outlining where a man once stood. A great man. A kind one. One who would have loved him fiercely and been endlessly proud to call him his grandson. One he now sees played a puppet along the filthy streets he died on. Sees at the mercy of forces unknown, to ends unknowable.
Who sees it hurting his family.
Alfred is nearly a ghost himself these days. He has caught him staring at his parent’s portrait so many times. A truly lost expression on the man’s face. When he had thought it a hoax he had been offended but now that it… it is likely REAL? There were so many things left unsaid. Things they wished they could share with his parents.
It is grief ripped anew.
His Father… He had told him he had done a good job. The look on his face excited and melancholy like he was remembering the escapades of Bruce’s youth. When mastering something meant then turning around to show off to his parent’s. Was he proud? Is he?
Bruce is afraid to ask. Afraid to know.
But he will not let his Father be trapped in the city that killed him. Cursed to wander the city of curses. For all he loved this city, Thomas Wayne earned a peaceful rest. Deserved to sleep along side the wife who he loves and loves him more than anything but their son. To dream of dancing and stars and peaceful afternoons, in whatever comes after. Not this. His Father does not deserve this. And Bruce?
He is going to make this right.
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Well, now I have IDEAS. How dare you inflict this upon me once again. The NERVE. Now I have to play off the fae idea.
After moving to Gotham and having to deal with a stressful job, Danny has started taking walks around the city as a way to destress.
Since he knows that he could get mugged, he just becomes intangible and invisible while listening to some loud music on his phone.
Unfortunately for him, his control on his Invisibility keeps slipping when he gets lost in his music, and the people of Gotham keep seeing a semi-translucent ghost man walking around at night aimlessly.
Some thugs think it’s just a meta with invisibility and try to mug him, but pass right through and he disappears completely. This convinces them that he is a ghost, since having both invisibility, and intangibility would be too big a coincidence. Not to mention he never reacts to them whatsoever.
The Bat’s get word that a Ghost has been stalking the streets of Gotham, and he looks scarily like Bruce Wayne from the little they have been able to see from him. Now Batman thinks his dad may have come back as a ghost.
Danny is oblivious to all of this. He just likes his nightly strolls.
What if the stressful job he’s dealing with is funeral director/mortician. So when he takes these walks he’s often wearing a fairly nice suit, maybe one that’s a little old fashioned that he bought used in order to save money but still look professional. Or maybe it’s an old one he “borrowed” from Sam’s dad, one the guy wouldn’t miss with how he changes out his wardrobe every gala season.
This kind of outfit, of course, lends further credence to the theory that this is Thomas Wayne’s ghost, cursed to wander the crime ridden streets in which he died.
One night Danny had a little accident as he was leaving the embalming lab to get home. He was actually pretty annoyed about it. He swore the new guy had it out for him, with how he just happened to be carrying old Mrs Smith’s drainage when Danny popped in to say good night and just happened to spill some of it all down the front of Danny’s second best dress shirt and just happened to not get a single drop on himself.
(Courtesy of my lovely partner that doesn’t use Tumblr)
So. All of the masks/the batman cowl they all have. Cameras in them? So if something happens on patrol they have pictures.
This was supposed to be in case something back happened. Every like, minute or so, they take a picture which goes onto the batcomputer
One year for Christmas dick and Tim spend. Hours. Days. Going through the pictures from the cowl and making Bruce a scrapbook of just.. pictures of his kids? Because there aren't many pictures of them all together
And so you have like. Pictures of Damian and Tim ahead of him on patrol bickering and dick mid-fall because he was playing the "wait till the last second to grapple" game and then missed the trigger
The real gems are from the solo robin and batman patrols. Especially Jason and Dicks patrols
They find a picture of Jason all curled up in the batmobile sleeping in Bruce's cape its adorable
I think it's even cuter if Bruce like.. goes through the pictures a lot. And he leaves like. Notes? So he doesn't forget the context
Like under damian and Tim just "I have no idea what they were arguing about, but the look on Damians face.."
A note under a picture of little robin!dick looking MISERABLE and it's just "apparently his 'cool trick' was not worth the four stitches."
worst college experience actually was people seeingme use tumblr and say 'haha oh i used to use tumblr we could follow eachother' and i open their blog and its like 700 artic monkeys band gif grunge images pastel moodboards and im sitting here hands folded like you are about to learn our uses of this site are wildly different and i just posted a photo of a buff man in a g string
i wouldnt lie online
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Jellyfish like Danny Phantom Eldritch form
This is invading my brain. He is just a giant space jellyfish at quick glance but of you look closer he's like a living cosmos and in a more humanoid or king/prince phantom form his cape had jellyfish vibes from it in the way it sways and stuff. He's just very ethereal and whimsical and he looks so frail/young even in regal attire but can throw you through a planet for funsies
