Two For One

I don’t want to hear about Danny shipping in most crossovers. I may be a shipper but that can’t be all there is to fics.

I like reading fics that are friends and family oriented if I don’t have a particular ship I’m looking for.

The only Danny ships I have right now are Valery and that’s it. But I don’t feel like reading about it so I don’t look for it.

Does anyone have fic recommendations that aren’t focused on Danny ships? I’m also kind of tired of king Danny and twin Danny.

Does he have to been blood related to truly fit in? Just like with Marinette I don’t like that most of the time the parents are changed or misconstrued to be outright evil so they can be save by their real family.

What’s wrong with being adopted? Why are the adopted parents usually evil?

It doesn’t feel right.

Not all of them are like that, I’ve read a few where the ‘adopted’ parents are still good.

Though I wish there more of the adopted parts were switched. The parents are the people who raised them and Batman or whoever the crossover is with are the adopted parents.

There’s a fic like that I’m rereading. Danny’s parents aren’t evil- even if they get arrested- they do start changing to realize they’ve been foolish though.

Danny gets adopted by Batman. He isn’t blood related to him. I like that.

"Is he supposed to be a student?" Tucker whispered to them, eyeing at the new 'transfer' student, Jason Todd, who seemed unfazed at the attention as Mr. Lancer made brief introductions.

Webs and Wires is a fanfic I really like!

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Because Bruce is a emergency foster sometimes he temporarily takes in kids with no place to go, all the birds know the drill when that happens, no vigilante talk in the manor and Bruce's office is off limits (as the entrance to the Batcave is behind the grandfather clock within) So while few and far between, it isn't unusual for a kid to stay for a few months before moving on.

What wasn't expected was for a very visibly meta teenager with bright white hair, glowing green eyes and a very obvious meta suppression anklet on his left ankle.

Danny was forced to take refuge in another dimension after a reveal gone wrong, it is only until his friends and the rest of Amity park finish driving out the GIW so he can return. Staying in ghost form was just more convenient here, apparently something called metahumans were a thing here and they were protected by law! He could take advantage of his ghost's forms decreased need for food, sleep and warmth, without getting hunted down for being so visibly inhuman.

What he didn't expect was getting caught by CPS.

Escaping them wasn't a problem, he can just phase away the second they aren't looking, easy. What was a problem is when they determined him a flight risk and slapped a high tech cuff on his ankle that somehow suppressed his powers and prevented him from returning to human form!

This was fine, the Wayne guy seems pretty absentminded slipping out the old fashioned way shouldn't be too hard!

Because if Danny could speak he could clear things up with a "hey, this ankle bracelet is killing me," it wouldn't be too far fetched for him to tell them that. He's under the impression that the Wayne's are dumb and very very rich they wouldn't want a stain like that on their reputation. The bats wouldn't chance something like this even if they thought Danny was lying. None of them would want to be responsible for the death of a child in their care. Danny's desperate attempts at escape would just convince them farther that they're telling the truth.

If we go the angst route with Danny's halfa status things can be dragged in a totally different direction.

Danny being stuck in his ghost form doesn't bode to well for him. I'd like to think both halves work with eachother even when one is being used but the ankle bracelet...

The ankle bracelet cuts him off from not only his powers but his human half. He can't speak, no sound comes out. He can't properly breath, he can't eat/ process the nutrients he needs, he can barely sleep because he can feel his human half dieing! Nothing is working as it's supposed to and Danny realizes his situation is growing more and more dire with every moment that passes.

It's like tying off a limb with rubber bands and slowly watching it die. The panic for him would be immeasurable.

Better yet if his human half actually dies the cuff stops working and Danny turns to a batfam member and says the first words he's ever spoken to them.

We can go with Danny's core being super weird too!

Like, the crucial part is wrapped around his heart and that's all normal. But thin, root like strand spreading out from it. Integrating with his entire body, intertwined with his nervous and circulatory sytems.

Our cells can just up and collectively decide that "hey, this sucks I don't wanna do this let's do something else" and then we have cancer or something. Hell, some diseases are only as fatal as they are because they use our immune systems tactics against us! I think Malaria goes full on Ennard and hides inside the carcasses of cells it kills.

A ghost core integrated properly is ruthlessly efficient with both physical injuries and disease immunity in general. It has all the information our brain has and is like

"this is extremely counterproductive why are useless organs taking up space? They can explode!??? Why don't we regrow teeth," this goes on for months until the core just sighs and goes. "Hold on let me fix this, you don't need to cook us alive to kill infections just- let me do something real quick,"

Ghost cores fucking optimize, but they can only do so much.

I'm Imagining the batfam doing an autopsy and finding blueish green vines overgrown filling every empty space of his body. His core's desperate attempts to feed his human half and keep it alive.

@noxcheshire you've got it my friend. Angst you shall receive.

Imagine the fighting, the absolute anguish the family would feel knowing that they played a part in killing this child. Knowing that this child had likely been in so much agony as he slowly died due to their unknowing negligence.

Jason standing over his own grave staring down at the dirt knowing damn well he had unintentionally helped torture a child to death. It had to be painful, there were vines growing everywhere, dead and gnarled where they gave all their energy in a futile attempt to save the poor kid. Danny hadn't done anything wrong he rightfully didn't want to live with someone who didn't know what he needed.

Everyone knows it's the ankle bracelet that killed him or at least they theorized it did. Nobody wanted to be at fault not completely that is. They'd beat themselves up about it cursing that they didn't see the signs and take the damn thing off him. Even when Danny attempted to saw his leg off they'd been too scared he'd run before they could help him that they had become the catalyst to his death.

Lmao!! My bad! Don’t worry Danny’s not perma dead.

Damian was an older foster brother for a mere 37 days. It feels like a failure to him that Danny died of something so preventable. It was a failure on their part for not realizing there was another reason for Danny’s desperate escape attempts. Maybe if it weren’t for the Chaos of a recent Arkham breakout they would’ve been more attentive? They sure as hell were attentive now that it’s seemingly too late.

The body is rotting but Damian’s the first to notice the core isn’t as dead as the body despite the withered vines crumbling in his maggot infested chest. There’s a dim glow hidden by the human looking heart it engulfed. New vines hadn’t grown and old ones had died off leading to the hope crushing despair of their family who desperately wished to take things back. He gets grounded when he tries to pull it out.

Tim agrees with Damian on the sheer basis of a theory. He was morbidly curious the integration with the nervous system was so intricate. It’s by sheer coincidence that he discovered the core was producing something similar to brainwaves.

It’s attempting to connect and send information back and forth with the corpse. Trying to send out more vines but they can’t fight the decomposition the body is too broken, too weak. It’s when Jason says he can feel an overwhelming agony radiating off the rock does Tim decidechi to do something. He does the obvious thing anyone would do. He cuts the rock free slicing away the veins still attached. Within a few hours, the core is attempting to create new blood but there nowhere for it to go so now they have a rock that may or may not have the consciousness of a child in it that’s slowly oozing blood.

Tim decides to make a clone (as one does when your foster brother is dead) not just any clone. Really it’s just a corpse, a husk, a damaged one at that. Tim figures that the core can’t create a new body by itself and if it could it would use a detremental amount of energy doing it but shoving the core into his chest and hoping things go well seems like bad idea. He made sure the husk was missing non vital organs as the core’s response to coming in contact with it’s own DNA is to attempt to share information with the nervous system and fix problems with the physical body.

It takes a year for the core to properly intergrate with husk properly.

Danny wakes up in cave in pain with an overwhelming sensation that everything is new despite remembering everything. The bats surround him, he’s confused why they’re so relieved by Danny’s safety. They aren’t his family. Danny didn’t have a family. They helped kill him.

A body dont just shut down, it's a progress, a painfull one, one that is stretch further than it ever shoud because of Danny funky anatomy

First there is a cut in the oxygen intake, this causes pain the chest area, some among of dizziness and lower energy levels. Than the pain increases, the muscle becomes more and more rigid, the energy level drops even more as food becomes harder do eat and digest, second problem emerge from the multiple deficiencies. The pain increases. Thinking is hard and hallucinations may start to happen because of the lack of nutrients, air and function as the brain, too, start to die.

Getting out of bed hurts

It's getting even harder to breath as movement lower every passing day. Eating, moving, brathing and anything that pulls a muscle becomes harder and harder, more and more painful. It fells like you drowning. But drowning is better, because at lest there are no vivid hallucinations playing before your eyes, in your ears, on your skin. remembering things also become impossible as your brain slowly loses the ability to create memories, and those that are created are filled with horrors and pain.

You lost what days is weeks ago, you don't know the hour either.

Maybe, if you're lucky, by the time you only have a few days left, your nervous system is so deteriorated that you won't be able to feel any pain anymore, that your brain has turned so much into mush that it can't register anything anymore, that most part of the body is so deeply necrotic that theres simplicity nothing more to fell

I feel like the symptoms Danny’s experiencing make this so much worse. Because it’s possible for the batfam to see what’s happening to Danny. They are watching him slowly deteriorate, hallucinating and walking around like a zombie. But they don’t take the ankle monitor off. They know Danny’s never hurt anyone with his powers but they still haven’t taken it off. Were they so worried about their secret identities that they’d slowly watch a child die just to keep him from escaping? They might not be able to see what’s happening to his human half but anyone with a brain could tell something was going on with Danny.

Imagine being brutally tortured to death because cps decided you were a “flight risk,” And your foster family were either to dumb or too cruel to save him.

Danny hasn’t been seen by anyone but the bat’s for over a year! The Wayne’s are celebrities, so even if Danny wasn’t showing up on camera or was a big part of the Wayne family shenanigans, it was definitely known to a significant amount of people + the people who placed Danny with them that the Wayne’s were fostering a new child.

And even if Danny’s deteriorating condition was kept a secret (Sadly crap like this happens a lot irl so I can’t say it’s unrealistic that nobody checked up on him further) A whole year of not being seen wouldn’t just raise suspicions it’d sound the alarms full blast!!!

… That boy’s 100% pronounced dead.

There’s a tombstone & everything!

Like if they could prove it was a better idea to stay with them and actually try to talk to him.

Like sure they were busy but not attempt any form of communication? He isn’t deaf. Just temporarily mute.

Did they try to eat with him? Did they try to bond with him? Give him stuff for his room?

To make him feel safe? Did they think about WHY he is doing anything? At all?

Duke would hate the suppressor and would rather he be a flight risk. He would TALK to him and have a paper for him to write his response. Teach him ASL because they ALL KNOW it.

Cass isn’t usually home either. Dick and Jason don’t live with Bruce, neither does Steph or Barbra.

Duke wasn’t home when this happened. Tim has his own place he usually goes to if it isn’t work and only sometimes goes to the manor. The only ones that was consistently there was Bruce, Alfred, and Damian.

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