Welcome, fellow disasters.

One of the Sage of Truth's most ardent students!

Anyway... Yeah. It was supposed to be a quick shitty edit, but since I spent FOUR HOURS ON IT, I figured I'd share. Even though you can clearly tell which parts I did before I started putting way too much effort in 😭

I mostly like his design, I might draw it properly later... with more blue. He needs more blue. And maybe white pants. Inspiration below the cut.

One of the Sage of Truth's most ardent students!

Anyway... Yeah. It was supposed to be a quick shitty edit, but since I spent FOUR HOURS ON IT, I figured I'd share. Even though you can clearly tell which parts I did before I started putting way too much effort in 😭

I mostly like his design, I might draw it properly later... with more blue. He needs more blue. And maybe white pants. Inspiration below the cut.

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This is a man who is VIOLENTLY aware that when it comes to conservatives, he is a Muslim first, a Brown Man second, an Immigrant third, a Socialist fourth, and a human a very distant fifth, if considered at all. He was also a young adult during the Obama Years and will have seen Republicans rip Obama to shreds for wearing a tan suit instead of a dark one and use literally ANY excuse they could to try and degrade his image.

White Roses (Acsended Virtues AU: Destined Truth)

The spirit of deceit is once again trapped in a hell of his own making. He resides in the other realm which the Oracle mercifully allowed him to share. The Pure Vanilla cookie is the only cookie he can physically interact with regardless of power and the only audience he has. Stripped of his Power, Freedom and Dignity, Shadow Milk cookie spends his days painting his sorrows away, and scheming escape plans that have been effortlessly trawled by his ‘savior’. But there is a simple way out, Shadow Milk must simply accept the truth and embrace his destiny, but he refuses to give up or give in. He swears to find freedom his way, but can he escape before he gives in to the Oracle’s will?

“Shadow Milk cookie has suffered beyond measure, deceit has been his only companion for far too long. But he is destined to be a cookie of knowledge once more and I will see to it. I will do everything in my power to guide every soul to destiny no matter how sinful they may be.”

Fun fact: Shadow Milk used to write as a way to express himself but Pure Vanilla would read his work and “gain a greater understanding of him”. Realising Oracle won’t respect his privacy (or him in general) he now makes abstract and metaphorical paintings so the Oracle would have a harder time deciphering his art. He also started talking in riddles and rhymes, but will stop rhyming when he wants to be taken seriously.

(Previously)

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Billy, who 15, and still kept his identity a secret within the League and is still homeless comes across Dani and takes her under his wing. Danny is ghost king.

They become siblings, and Dani knows about Captain Marvel and Billy knows that she a halfa and ghost royalty

One day, the Justice League needs all hands on a deck for an alien invasion. Everyone is forced to call in every favor they are owed, and Billy calls Dani.

Dani arrived in her ghost princess outfit. Everyone is extremely confused.

JLA: who’s this…??

Marvel: my younger sister :)))

Dani: hi :)))

JLA: hi..??

The magic users, don’t know much bout ghost royalty, but they do know that the ghost king is the older brother of the ghost princess.

Captain Marvel’s the ghost king????

They also know that the Ghost King is extremely private (also checks out) so they don’t mention their theory to Marvel.

So whenever there’s an issue with ghosts or anything ghost related, they call in Captain Marvel.

Billy deals with the issue, using the skills Dani taught him, which further ‘proves’ the JLAs theory.

One day, some one attempted to summon a dangerous ghost, that even Captain Marvel can’t defeat.

So he calls in Danny.

Or that's what it looks like.

The ground is barren, grey sand and broken rocks and the foundations of buildings with pipes sticking out.

The sky gives him a perfect view of the black hole eating the galaxy. It's close enough that he can see the distortion at the edges as it eats reality and light both. The longer he stares at it, the more his head hurts.

The air is still and serene. There are no smells of destruction, no sounds of terror. Just a peaceful quiet interrupted by the sound of sand moving against itself by a soft, occasional breeze.

"Uh, kid? What are you doing in my room?"

Billy glances down (yup, still in his Captain Marvel form) before turning to face whoever, whatever could possibly call this their room.

It's a teenager, wearing a NASA hoodie and holding a clear cup of what looks like boba tea, staring at him like he's insane.

He blinks, rubbing at his eyes.

He opens them to a normal room, slightly messy but overall definitely just a room. It has posters on the wall and junk hidden poorly in the closet and everything.

No sign of the desolate landscape he'd just seen.

He turns back to the teenager.

The teenager raises an eyebrow.

"...Why do you say kid?" Billy asks, the gods clamoring in his head that this is a trick, that the room is just an illusion and the being in front of him isn't human.

"Because...you are? Wait shit I'm looking at the wrong-" the teenager mimics what Billy just did, rubbing at his eyes and blinking. "...Okay, now I have even more questions? What is a grown man in spandex doing in my room?"

"Does your room normally look like this or does it look like a barren landscape of pure destruction?" Billy asks, feeling a headache coming on. "The blackhole was a weird touch, by the way."

"How the hell did you get into my Lair? I don't even use my Lair."

"What's a lair?"

Danny Fenton may age, but his ghost form sure doesn’t. He’s an adult in his civilian life, but his hero form is perpetually 14. Which isn’t that big of a deal, but it is annoying how people outside of Amity keep treating him like a child when he’s trying to help.

Then he meets Captain Marvel, who is his inverse. An actual kid who transforms into an adult body for hero work.

And they have a genius idea: they can become each other’s “adult supervision” for things!

Danny Fenton can act as the “adoptive father” to Billy Batson for civilian matters, while Captain Marvel can act as the “mentor” to Phantom for hero work!

Now people will finally stop bothering them!

So! Danny isn't the King of the Infinite Realms. And he is not above the Law.

Sure, he has many friends in high places, and he did defeat the King in single combat, but that doesn't mean he is above the Law in the way The King would be.

And unfortunately for him, Walkers Laws do actually have some backing.

Not all of them. Some are just laws he placed over his Lair and surrounding Territory, which he is really nitpicky about, but the Big ones he touts are the Laws of the entire Zone set by the First King. Don't Tresspass on Lairs without an official challenge, don't End a Realms Being without permission, Don't bring Humans into the Zone without permission, etc.

And Danny has broken quite a few of them, meaning Walker is entirely in his rights to put him away for a few Thousand Years. Thankfully, there is an alternative.

Since Danny wasn't wanted for any major crimes, Walker offered a different path for him. Danny was still one of the Strongest Ghosts in the Zone, and as the Portal was technically his Grave he had full authority to use it however he liked, so if he ran a couple of errands for Walker, he could consider his Sentence served.

All he has to do was round up a few of the Trouble Makers that had escaped his grasp by virtue of being in the Living Realm, and he would forgive his previous crimes.

So, Danny took him up on the offer. It was better than being constantly hounded by Walkers Guards. The fact that he could beat them easily was moot, it was extremely annoying and he wanted it to stop.

So he was given his First list of targets, and went on his way.

Ra's "The Demons Head" Al Ghul, for Tresspassing on Ghost Zone Waste Dumping Grounds

Solomon Grundy, for continued use of copyrighted poem, requested by copyright holder post mortem

Vandal Savage, for failure to notify the proper authorities about his absence on the day of his intended death

Jack "The Joker" Napier, Special Request by 1000+ Ghosts for purposes of Vengeance, Torture, and general Catharsis.

Now I’m just imagining him taking the Joker.

Joker is in the middle of a scheme with the bats watching and maybe he’s doing pretty well. He’s got half the bats down with injuries, and he had just finished a magnificent monologue. And then suddenly this slow clapping fills the area. They look and see a figure leaning against the wall.

“impressive” He says.

The room is suddenly 30 degrees colder. Like worse than Dr Freeze cold, and a shiver runs down everyone’s spine. The person clapping is a glowing humanoid figure with white hair and piercing green eyes that glowed where they were obscured in shadow. And despite looking so young, it’s almost like his mere presence sucked the light out of everything. The shadows on the walls grew larger and even the surrounding colors seemed to dull.

Batman is the first to recover but it was a struggle to move. He questions who this person is and what he wants. The guy says that he’s here for his job. The bats get ready for a fight but the unsettling figure just ignores them and pulls out a glowing green list. “Jack Oswald White.” And everyone freezes, including the Joker who hadn’t heard his full name in decades. “You are herby under arrest for the senseless sloughter of over 5,907 human souls, the personal torturing of 565 of those souls, the second hand torturing of 1,524 of those souls, targeting the loved ones of 4,438 of those souls after death, as well as the desecration of their gravesites. You are also arrested for an accidental killing of an additional 4,729 souls and then forgetting their names. You are sentenced to over 500,000 years of imprisonment with the inclusion of torture, obsession denial after death, isolation, and stripped of the protection of the zone until your term ends.”

By now everyone was starring as the kid almost seemed to be reading through the list in a bored tone, yet the sheer power that radiated off of him had even the bats on edge. Of course, the Joker ignored the danger signs and just laughed it off as a Joke.

He tried shooting the kid and the bats lunged but were too far away. They needn’t have worried though as the bullet sailed straight through and the only reaction the teen gave was an annoyed eyebrow raise as he continued reading through his list, flipping through a few pages. Ignoring every attempt at harm the Joker tried. And trust me. He tried. Finally the guy finished and asked if the Joker had any questions before his arrest.

This just made the joker laugh harder. “You think you can arrest me?! I’m way above your pay grade kid. If the bats can’t do it, what makes you think you can?”

The teen just gave a tired sigh.

Then it’s like the shadows themselves reach out and grab the Joker, pulling him close until the kid had a firm grip on his collar before they released him.

Despite his situation, he continues to laugh. Saying that it won’t matter. arresting him won’t matter. He’ll just escape any jail he comes across. “That’s the problem with all you vigilante types. Can’t get the job done now can you? And when I gets out, I’ll find you, and I’ll make sure you scream.” His cackles filled the air. But the white haired guy just stares at him. Deadpan.

“I think you’re misunderstanding something.” The figure crouches down so that he’s on Joker’s level. “I’m not taking you to a human prison.”

The clown’s laughter doesn't stop. “Ooooh, trying something new I see? Well what’ll it be? High secure facility for metas? Maybe an alien spacecraft? Ooh! ooh! oooh! And I being held by Leprechauns? Well at least my hair‘ll fit right in!” He continued to cackle.

“I still don’t think you understand.” The figure says. And then suddenly the very air itself cracks. It’s as if the space is being warped and broken apart to reveal a swirling glowing portal that opens right behind the glowing human. Casting his face in shadow, all except those eyes, filled with complete disregard for the one before him.

That unsettling presence just grew 100 fold and everyone present knew they were not looking at something human. Every instinct in them screamed danger. This was a predator, and they were the prey.

“I am not a meta. I am not an alien. And I’m most certainly not a leprechaun.”

He leaned in close until his face was mere inches from the jokers, and the clown could clearly see his fangs.

“I’m the one the dead call to bring in those who break its laws. Those who break the balance, upset the fabrics of reality, cause dimensional rifts. I have hunted demons, gods, immortals, and things your puny brain can’t even imagine. Point is, you’ve made a lot of mistakes in life and the souls of your victims have cried out loud enough that the afterlife is going to do something about it. I’m here to collect.”

The joker gulps, starting to realize his situation. “Are you….are you the grim reaper?”

The teen laughs.

“Nah, I’m worse.” Then he smiled and clapped his hand. “Alright then! Let’s go to Hell!”

“No…no no no no no NO!”

“Yes… yes yes yes yes!” The creature mocked back.

Now Joker starts struggling for real. The boy just grabs him by the collar though and starts dragging him towards the glowing green portal, the cheerful grin still on his face. The clown couldn’t get loose no matter what he tried and started threatening the kid, then threatening his family, when that didn’t work he tried bargaining, willing to get anything, do anything, kill anyone, if the guy let him go. When that didn’t pan out he tried begging for his life.

“Wait! You arrest murderers right?! Then why aren’t you taking Red Hood?!” He points to the area where the bats still were. They hadn’t moved an inch, frozen by Danny’s intense presence. “That guys killed tons of people! In fact, I think he’s died before too but he came back! Isn’t that a ‘crime’?”

The figure froze and all the bats collectively felt their hearts drop. They could feel the power oozing from this guy and even more so from the portal. It took everything Batman had just to speak in its presence. How were they suppose to fight it? If that thing went after Jason…could they stop it? They watched in horror as the humanoid creature gave a gentle hum and pulled out its glowing list again, flipping through more pages before stopping at one.

“Nah, he’s good. Says here his paperwork was filed for him by a….Thomas and Martha Wayne? He’s got a permit.”

The batfamily has so many questions. Unfortunately Joker took the being’s moment of inattention and finally managed to break free from its grip. He made a mad dash for the road, grabbed a car, and drove down the street like his life depended on it, which it kinda did.

The teen just looked so affronted by the action. He sighed again and yelled at the speeding car “You’re just making this harder on yourself!” But the car didn’t stop. The figure looked at the bats as if saying, ‘can you believe that guy?’ When the bats didn’t give a response the teen just rolled his eyes. Then he put two fingers in his mouth and gave a loud whistle. Not 10 second later, another being rose up from the ground and revealed itself to be a gigantic dog about the size of a tank, with razor sharp teeth and glowing red eyes.

Constantine: Oh a Realms Ghost huh? I've dealt with o few of them in my time, I'm sure I can whip something together.

Batman: It said that it was a Debt Collector and that it had a list of targets given to him by a person named Walke- Constantine?!

Constantine: *jumped out of the window the moment he heard "Debt Collector"*

Ras and Savage would both be a HUGE deal that justice Lea would definitely notice. And the part about the Flash family all getting speeding tickets is hilarious.

So I'm imagining that he cornered Solomon somewhere near his favourite swamp and that went unnoticed until well after the Joker capture put him on the vigilante radar.

Danny being Danny also decides he's going to be petty and captures all the Flashes in a speed trap meets Wile E Coyote style giant glue trap. While they're all struggling to unstick themselves, Danny's standing to the side rattling off the list of crimes. Then, he floats over and sticks the speeding tickets to each of their foreheads before snapping his fingers which results in everything vanishing.

Also one point he could make is that all the souls from the old timeline but either never were born or died cause of the change end up in the ghost zone and it is causing Clockwork, Walker, and a the observents headaches because of the complaints.

What if it isn't the Flashes who do ice slip and slide?

So like *holds Danny and Billy up by the scruff of their shirts* these two bastards won't leave my brain, and for punishment I will make them kiss...

Just, the Rock of eternity technically is Shazam's (the wizards) haunt? He has been dead for a long time, living only though his champion, what if Ghost King Danny gets slapped with a post it note that reads like

"Daniel, you're required to assist the Champion of Magic as the High King of the Realms, even Pariah helped the previous Champion Black Adam."

And Danny is like, "Sure, why not, Magic is real and so are ghosts."

And like....

Sparky Danny meeting Literal Sun Beam Billy, they are both 14, it's puppy love at its finest. Danny doesn't know what to do with gay panic and Billy is just straight up "This man is my soul mate, he shall be mine." (Call iy Zeus bestowing more than just lightning)

The leauge is very concerned why Captain Marvel seems to have a seeming underage partner.

Superman squinting very hard and trying to figure this out: So...just how old is Phantom?

Billy, unaware how bad this looks: Oh I don't know honestly, it's kinda hard to tell with beings from the Realms! Though he died when he was 14!

Superman, gripping the table (which cracks a little) :And how exactly long has he been 14?

Billy, taking out his phone and flipping out pictures: Like I said, I don't really know how old he is, but there is Egyptain hieroglyphics of him! Look!

Superman, blinking at the very real looking pictures: Ahh. Fun cool cool cool...a-and how are you again Cap?

Billy mindlessly swiping the photos, excited to show off his boyfriend:Never said it, but he is definitely older than I am.

(Danny is older by a month, Billy calls him an old man for it.)

Billy gets to live full time in Danny's haunt in the Zone, Danny built him like the best house, Tucker and Sam get to meet Billy and they just are flabbergasted that Danny "I can't get a girl to date me or else she ends up wanting to kill me" Fenton has a boyfriend that has been going steady for a few months.

My brain sees like, Maddie and Jack are 100% backing Danny, they are fully supportive of their bi/gay/pan son, but in no way would they support him if he was a ghost, like they are organizing Amitys first ever Pride parade, but there is a shoot ghosts on sight order.

And just the reveal is like...

Danny gets finally tells them he is a ghost: if you start shooting me, your shooting the only Gay person you know, not very ally of you mom and Dad.

Maddie mouth open in horror: Oh no...Jack are...are we homophobic?

Jack sharing her look of fear: Great Scott...Dann-o a-are you sure...its...it's a life style right? Y-you chose this?

Danny, trying very, very hard not to laugh: It's not a life style dad! I didn't choose to Die!

Captain Marvel turning to look at Danny and finally getting what they mean: "Oohhhhh lol, yea he's older than me. He just stays in that form cus he met an evil older version of himself once and decided to avoid that at all costs."

Justice league knowing that evil alternative selves are legit just an occupational hazard at this point: "Okay but doesn't the visual age gap make it weird?"

Danny feeling like giving Billy an out with his alternate form: "Nah he also takes a 14 year old form when we're hanging out. We're not really at the physical intimacy part of the relationship yet anyway so it's not an issue."

Billy, de-powering in front of them to be 14. "To be fair, it's technically reincarnation. We're born, we age, Danny dies and gets stuck in between, we continue, I die, we reincarnate and do it all over again. Danny refuses to move on without me, if he can help it."

"You rarely ever die of natural causes either. It's always getting murdered or killing yourself. At least when you're murdered I can avenge you!"

"Oh, dude. Remember the incident with the bread?"

"Yeah. I'm still traumatized. And can't stand toast!"

"It's been three incarnations already!"

"How did you get defeated by a baguette?"

Billy (14, has had his powers for less than a month): Phantom? Oh, uh! Yes! He's my s--

Danny (15, has had his powers for over a year, and held Billy's hand through every power manifestation): I will phase you into the ground six feet deep if you finish that sentence. I am not his sidekick!

JL: Boyfriend? But aren’t there age difference between you two?

Danny, who is the chaos itself: They are right, Marvel babe

Billy: But it just few centuries, it is not that far and love is the only thing matter

Hal: Well, it is not simple like that

Danny: You hear him baby, I am too old for you. I think we should take a break

Then he turns invisible.

Billy: No!

Flash: Now it is a little awkward, Phantom is older than you?

Billy: Yeah, he is my caretaker

Clark: But he looks like a teenage

Billy: He hasn’t changed since his death

Bruce: So, how long have you know him?

Billy: Since my birth (he means his Captain Marvel’s birth)

Hal: And how long have you dated?

Billy: Few days since my birth?

Well, first the JL thinks Captain Marvel and Phantom dating is inappropriate because one is a grown man and the other is a teenage.

Now the JL still thinks it is inappropriate because they are dating despite their age differences, which could be centuries, and one is the other’s caretaker since birth

Diana: ah, yes, that makes sense. I was also born this way.

Danny, remembering Pandora telling him the story: oh, yeah! I remember that! Pandora said the ground around you turned to this really cool baked clay, with veins of glaze shining throughout.

Danny reapering: you make me sound like a creep, I'm like one existence older than you

Flash, to superman next to him: dude thinks humans live to be centuries old, doesn't he?

Billy, who heard Flash but is choosing to ignore him: yeah, you're my little old man

Danny, huffing: fine, next time you reincarnate I won't help stabilize you

Billy: wait no, that's not fair I'll burn through the immortals so fast. I'll end up with the worst of them

Diana, still focused on the clay thing cause to her this is a very casual convo with two other people who have lived for centuries like her: I should see if I still have a peice, it'd be a nice gift for my mother

Danny: Oh, tell Hippolyta I said hi! I haven't seen her in a while (it's been like 2 months since he got back from ancient Greece)

The Flash, having his world view switch five times in quick succession and not making the connection to time travel DESPITE ALSO DOING THAT: You knew her mom? Damn, grandpa here has game. So how old are you exactly

Danny, who knows telling the truth will be much funnier: 15!

Flash, quietly to himself: 15 what?

Billy: if your 15 I'm 13

Danny: see! That's not nearly as bad