bassically by tei shi

💛 Danny phantom x Backrooms👻

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

A tad more lore-filled continuation of this.

Aka. The AU where I stockpile trauma for profit.

Decided to call the AU 'Xenomelia', since the imposter syndrome goes far beyond skin deep in this one (and 'Body integrity dysphoria' is a mouthfull).

First batch of notes can be found here. ANYWAY-

And since I feel kinda obligated to add Danny since Danyal originates from a DPxDC prompt-

He's doing great!

Lil update to make up for my sorry lore-dumping skills:

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my soul detaching from my body: 

He closes Wikipedia.

Jason being a revenant means these tactics will still work on him.

What if one day a Rogue blows up a building (sadly common in Gotham) but Jason gets hit by debris - the shockwave knocks him over and the bricks and mortar that flew through the air land on his legs. It’s nowhere near enough weight to cause his siblings problems (they all jump right back up and brush off the dust and rocks and race off to help and fight) but he can’t move. It’s just a couple bricks, probably 5-8 pounds worth. He regularly lifts 40 times that weight but suddenly he can’t even wiggle his legs to make gravity roll the bricks off him. He’s paralyzed.

Jason has to call for help which he loathes, and when Nightwing or Spoiler race over they think he’s got spinal damage because he can’t move his legs and he hates the anguish and pity on their face even more. Nearly bites their head off screaming that they just need to move the bricks and when they do he jumps up and rushes off to punch the villain to funnel the aggression in a healthy-ish direction. (It’s not healthy. His family need to pull him away to prevent a murder fueled by dread. And then he avoids them for a month because he doesn’t want to face what happened.)

Jason wouldn't be too worried about being captured, at first, he's got a comm, and every Robin is as good as an escape artist. But he freaks out when he sees the coffin. It's good, solid wood, only the best for him, the villain mocks. He struggles the whole time the goons manhandle him into it, until they lay the stones on his limbs, and it's like he paralyzed.

Honestly, the villain was just doing, like, a dramatic bit. Imagine their glee when it actually works.

The others are clamoring over the comms, asking what's going on, where he is, but Red Hood suddenly falls silent. His communicator is still functional, but nothing they say can get him to respond.

One other thing about revenant lore is the that modern depictions often claim their entire purpose is to get revenge on their killers, but grow more dangerous and restless the longer they are prevented from doing so.

That means avenging his death and preventing others from sharing his fate is Jason's entire purpose. Its The reason he rose from the grave.

What if it was Joker who was performing the revenant burial? This silly little ritual seems like something the clown would find funny. And if it works? If he gets to see the helpless terror in Hood's eyes as he closes the coffin lid? What could be more hilarious!

1. You're right, that IS a hate crime

2. This is the funniest way possible to salvage this situation

Joker has had enough death/near death experiences that he ABSOLUTELY falls under Danny's jurisdiction, and once he realizes that, he and his royal court (friends) go on a research binge for every legal precedent in ghost court.

Danny could also just. Kill the guy. But it's not his place. As in it LITERALLY isn't his place; Joker is ectocontaminated enough that he would definitely become a ghost, which nobody wants to deal with. It could only be prevented by the finality of a Revenant's Retribution, meaning he has to be killed either by Jason or by Jason's chosen champion (Bruce). Bruce has clearly dropped the ball, so Danny is taking matters into his own hands.

Joker's lawyer tries for an insanity plea, of course, but honestly, his psyche is pretty typical for ghosts. Then it's, since he isn't a full ghost, he doesn't have an innate sense of ghostly social customs. The opposition gets to shoot that down, too, as the act was clearly done with malicious intent to cause the victim to relive traumatic parts of his own death and resurrection, which NOBODY is cool with.

Being the Revenant's murderer and the focus of his revenge also immediately sours Joker's reputation and makes the whole thing even more distasteful to the jury.

Jason, meanwhile, has a great showing in court. He has to testify, and being in the same room as his target sends him into a murderous rage several times. Yeah, that'd be a knock on his credibility in human court, but everyone in the Ghost Zone is really excited about a real Revenant making his way there, and very approving of his passion and drive for vengeance.

So yeah, Joker owes Jason an enormous sum of funds in reparations, but also I think it'd be funny if he had a magical restraining order, one with enough distance that he literally can't live in Gotham anymore. Jason can get closer to Joker, of course, in case he decides to go kill him (otherwise it would be a violation of undead rights), but Joker physically cannot cross the boundary.

The Ghost King cooperates with the state of New Jersey to have a new containment facility built in a remote location, so that when Joker inevitably escapes there's less danger to civilian lives. Jersey becomes the first state in the union to renounce the Anti-Ecto Acts and acts as sort of a safe haven for citizens of the Infinite Realms.

Danny was injured to near death and left for dead by the League as a young boy. Ra's only wanted one heir and Danny was less bloodthirsty than Damian, so it was decided that Danny had to go.

Danny is found and taken to a hospital in Illinois, barely alive. He is saved and wakes up with basically no memories of where he was from and speaking a rare dialect of arabic that none of the cops investigating his case can identify. What words Danny does know in english are concerning so the cops figure Danny was being held by some sort of murder, death cult.

The investigation runs cold and Danny is sent to foster care once his injuries heal. He is then adopted by the fentons and moves to Amity Park. As he grows the only clear memories he has of his past is another boy his age who he felt safe with. He knows the other boy is important to him but not why. He cant even really remember his face, certainly not his name. Danny always felt shitty that he couldnt remember the other boy because if he did, then the cops would have rescued him from the murder death cult too. Instead the other boy is presumably there and getting hurt all the time like Danny was.

Danny gets his powers like normal at 14 and decides that now that he has superpowers he absolutely has to save that other boy. Sam and Tucker help him gather clues, he starts to remember a bit more. He remembers the word ahki and realizes that the other boy is his brother!! Which just really enhances Dannys need to save him from the murder death cult. Eventually Tucker finds a picture of Damian Wayne and Danny is like thats him. Thats my brother.

Wait.

Bruce Wayne is his brothers dad???

Bruce Wayne is a rich fruitloop like Vlad obviously, so he is probably a member of the murder cult. Danny has to rescue his brother from the illuminati.

Cue Sam going to a socialite dinner in gotham much to her parents delight. Getting close to Damian by talking about animal rights, slipping him some sleeping pills in his vegan food. Tucker hacking into the gala and causing a commotion. Danny lugging an unconscious Damian out of the Gala and into the GAV ( no, his parents dont know why he borrowed the car or where he is).

Damian wakes up and immediately tries to attack Danny thinking hes a clone. Danny is like woah shit no its me! Its your brother. Damian is like Danyal is dead. Danny is like obviously not. Now chill out im rescuing you from the cult.

Damian, who has been secrectly mourning his twin for years, has never heard anyone call the League of Assassins a cult. He has to reevaluate a lot of things while Danny drives the GAV out of Gotham as fast as he can. Danny explains his whole backstory and how he is sorry he didnt come to save Damian earlier, his memories were gone but he had never forgotten how important Damian was to him. Damian doesnt do emotions on a good day and is unable to handle that like a normal person.

"Father isnt part of the cult, Danyal."

"Hes a billionaire from Gotham, of course he is!"

Damian who has fought many rich people from gotham, all of whom were evil, tries to find an explanation that isnt 'our dad is batman'. Danny isnt listening to any of it, promising Damian that he will be safe from the murder cult in Amity.

Damian eventually gets out that their mother was in the cult and their father didn't know about them. Danny pulls the GAV over and looks at Damian.

"Did i just kidnap you for no reason?"

"It was a kind gesture at least Danyal."

"Fuck. I just kidnapped bruce wayne's kid in the middle of a gala, am i super villain now?"

"Not if you take me home. Father will understand Danyal."

"I dont want to go to jail!"

Damian gives Danny the address to Wayne Manor and Danny drives to Bristol.

When they walk inside Damian now has to explain the whole 'had a dead brother i never told you about' thing to a less than amused batfam.

Danny introduces himself to Bruce and says that he has an adopted family back in illinois, but that he would be happy to get to know Bruce, also sorry about the kidnapping i dont normally do that i thought you were part of the illumimati and i had to rescue my brother.

Bruce just hopes this kid is normal.

Ghost King!Danny gets summoned one time by a cult and is like 'absolutely not'. He is already barely scraping by in highschool with all of his ghost fights, if he can be magically yoinked at any time he can kiss graduation goodbye.

He asks his ghost friends and one of them tells him he will need a human magic user to create a ward for him, since its human magic thats summoning him the protection should come from the same source.

Now where to find a magic user that can

1) make a protective ward for a half ghost/ half tired teen

2) will do that when Danny has about 3 dollars in his piggy bank

Danny through whatever means are the funniest discovers the soul tax evading John Constatine and has an idea!

A few days later John finds out his soul has been bought by the high king of the infinite realms, who last he checked, was a homocidal maniac.

John, holding on to his poker face by a fraying thread: Fantastic. What do you need, your highness?

Danny, a teenager who is so very tired: I need a spam filter so these creepy cultists can't keep summoning me all the damned time.

John: ......

John: Cheers! I'll get right on that!

Danny is on the run in gotham, as you do in dpxdc fics. His parents are dead and he is trying to stay out of Vlad's custody. Gotham has plenty of ectoplasm to hide his ecto signature. It also has a high enough population of homeless people that no one would even notice Danny just showing up.

He's been living rough in gotham, mostly sticking to Crime Alley and The Narrows, sleeping in abandoned buildings or in relatively clean parts of the sewer system. He eats what he can find and does his best never to be seen.

Not good enough since he along with like 30 other street kids get picked up by joker goons and tied up. Joker is planning an explosive party for the city to watch and he needed guests. Joker literally set up bombs of joker gas around the city that will go off and send the entire city into pandemonium, killing millions. The only way to stop the bombs is to kill his guests (homeless kids from Crime Alley) which the city can vote on. Kill themselves or kill kids.

Danny is sitting at the edge of the group, listening as Joker televises his new plan to the entire city.

He really, really hates clowns.

He is also not gonna let this guy kill all of these kids. He may not be a hero anymore but those protection instincts didnt die with his parents.

And also fuck that clown.

He phases through his bonds, and then starts asking the various kids to borrow their hat, gloves, and scarf. Gotham street kids take one look at this out of town kid and mentally wish him luck while planning out his funeral. They keep on acting terrified because as stupid as this kid is being, they're not snitches either.

Danny puts on the borrowed clothes to hide his face and hair. He can't be identified, or Vlad is gonna be on his ass tomorrow. Once fully covered he gets up and into view of the camera. The Joker notices him, turns around to laugh and jeer at him. Probably shoot him for being impolite and interrupting him. Danny doesnt even pause just walks right up to the clown and coldcocks him.

Based on the sound of bones snapping Danny admits he might have punched a little too hard. Danny checks the Jokers pulse and immediately panics. Danny has Batman levels of fear around killing and he is panicking about becoming Dan.

"Holy Shit I killed him!" He says, to the entire city because the camera is still rolling.

Cue:

Danny running for his life, trying to hide away from his fear and guilt.

Red Hood becoming like his dad and drawing up mental adoption papers

Harley Quinn also drawing up adoption papers, paper ones, while Poison Ivy changes their home's 'no boys allowed' banner to 'son boy allowed'

Jokers goons trying to find Danny to kill him for killing their boss

City wide pandemonium as the jokers death is confirmed and people are partying in the streets, the mayor is planning on giving the street kid who did it the key to the fucking city

The batfam trying to find Danny to protect him from Jokers Goons (Bruce is third in line for custody not that he knows he is gonna have to fight both Harley and Jason for the honor)

The crime alley kids are still not snitching on the kid who saved them. Anyone who asks them about Danny only respond with 'what are you a cop? Fuck off pig'

Vlad Masters, as someone who has been punched by Danny, immediately recognizes the punch and flies to Gotham to find his wayward 'son'.

Vlad even meets with Brucie Wayne to ask for help in finding Danny. Bruce gets bad vibes from Vlad and is even more invested in finding Danny. The boy has dark hair, blue eyes, and a tragic orphan backstory. Its fate!

The ghost zone, the infinite realms, felt the punch like a nuclear blast. Haunts destroyed, ghosts displaced through time and space. It was chaos.

Whats worse? Danny's friend is missing.

Danny had met Robin in the GZ during one of his adventures, the two dead teen vigilantes took to each other like ducks to water. Danny helped Robin learn about being a ghost and Robin taught Danny life skills such as: throwing a punch, lockpicking, and how not to fall for obvious traps that villians set up.

Even Sam and Tucker had met Robin, although since Robin was such a new ghost he wasnt strong enough to leave the zone for long. Young ghosts (halfas aside) needed to spend the first decade or two in the zone before they were stable enough to go back to the mortal side. Danny had offered to fly to gotham with a message for batman, but robin had declined.

Batman and he had had a fight before he died, the guy probably didnt want to see or hear about the robin that failed after all.

Robin had forbidden Danny and the others from looking into Gotham.

Danny would not be in Gotham if his friend hadn't disappeared after the sonic attack that had rocked the ghost zone. He had no idea who Robin had been under the mask. Even in death, his friend had not shared his secret identity. But Danny needed to find his friend before he destabilized into ectoplasmic goop.

So now Danny has to find Batman, convince the guy that ghosts are real and that his adopted son Robin is a ghost. He manages to find the bat signal on top of the GCPD and hails the hero.

Who has a new robin with him.

It hadnt even been a year!!! Batman had replaced his friend with a younger model, this one was wearing pants instead of shorts!! What the hell!!!

Danny is so offended that if he didn't need Batman's help to save Robin, he would so punch the guy in the face. Multiple times.

Danny explains the problem to Batman and FAKE Robin all while keeping his cool.

"His ghost probably ended up near his grave. Just get me to the cemetery, if he's there, i can find him and save him before he fades forever."

Batman agrees.

Internally, Bruce is bluescreening. His mind is just thinking: Jason. Jason. Jason. Jason! Over and over again. He needed to get to his son. Right now.

Tim wasn't expecting his first mission as Robin to go like this, he had just finished his training, but nothing he had trained for prepared him for a ghost that told him that he met Jason while fighting a magic ghost dragon.

When all three get to the cemetary, they find Jason Todd's grave empty. A hole in the grass, just wide enough for a person to crawl through. The casket has a hole punched through it. Parts of the suit Jason was buried in were torn off and caught on splinters of the wood.

"I am gonna be honest. I did not know zombies were a thing." said the ghost.

Tim: please stop calling me fake robin.

Danny: what am i supposed to call you? Alive robin? Thats just ghost racist.

Superman: can we please focus? Whats the problem Robin?

Tim: the problem you had with superboy prime in Metroplis a few days ago? It brought the last robin back from the afterlife and well...

Superman: the grave is empty? Where is he?

Danny: thats what i want to know! My friend could be out there knawing on brains, we have to find him.

Superman: and who are you?

Danny: names phantom, im dead

Superman, upon not hearing a heartbeat coming from the glowing boy: right....

Tim: nightwing is already searching crime alley, we need help canvassing the rest of the city, the sooner we find the last robin the better. Batman is...

When danny goes to the future chasing after his evil future self, he runs into Batman, the only surviving member of the Justice League. The hero helps him track down Vlad and discover what happened. Before Danny goes back in time to stop the dark timeline, Batman stops him.

Batman gives him a code phrase and tells him that if things dont work out, if he cant save his family or if he needs help in his own time he should go to Bruce Wayne and tell him the code and the man will help him.

Batman with years of experience when it comes to his deranged teenaged vigilante children assumes that Danny will know that Batman just shared his secret identity. After all, all of his kids would have put it together with ease.

Unfortunately for Batman, Danny is not one of his detective kids. Danny assumes that Bruce Wayne is a friend of Batman's. He goes back to his past and manages to defeat Dan and Clockwork saves his family. He never forgets the code Batman gave him.

Fast forward a couple years, Danny is on the run, he needs help. He does what Batman told him to do and goes to Bruce Wayne. He gives the man the code and is immediately taken to Wayne Manor for some medical care.

Danny doesnt want to tell Wayne about his ghost half. When the man asks him why he was hurt and how he can help, Danny said he needed a place to stay and that Batman said that Bruce would help him. Danny begs Bruce not to tell anyone he is here, not even Batman. He needs a safe place to hide.

The code Danny gave? A batman original that means "this is a trusted part of the bat family who comes from a doomed timeline, do whatever they say"

But Danny doesnt know Bruce is Batman????

So like, from Bruce's perspective, this beat-up kid shows up from out of nowhere and gives him a code phrase that basically sets the entire bat fam on red alert. Because this kid just came back in time from a doomed world right?

But the Batman of that time didn't reveal his identity. So surely there must be a reason for that? Bruce has to trust the version of himself that lived that failed timeline, which means he can't reveal his identity.

But no. There was no reason. Batman just did that thing he always does where when talking to a dark haired, blue eyed teenage hero he just doesn't finish his sentences and assumes they understand him perfectly.

They almost never do, at least not at first, and he never, ever learns.