I'm on a Danny is Dick's child kick rn so I'm making more.
But lets add in some Ghost King Danny!, Dad to a deaged Ellie and Dan! And toddler Mar'i Grayson.
Danny was conceived during Dick's amnesia year when he was Ric and the woman couldn't find him to tell him (or maybe the Owls caught wind of the pregnancy and took her) and he ended up somehow (hmmm maybe a meddling time keeper?) with the Fentons.
Danny grows as a Fenton, he knows he was adopted btw, then becomes Phantom, protects Amity, becomes the Ghost King and things seem to be going okay between Amity Parkers and the Infinite Realms since they took care of the GIW problem, AND has been a good doting teen dad to his deaged 'cousins/clones' turned kids.
Danny was going to go pick his kids up from daycare one day when CHAOS happens. Just as he wrangles Ellie onto his shoulders, cause she wants to be tall today, and about to take Dan's hand cause he's and I quote "A big boy and not a baby like Ellie, Dad!" he suddenly feels the tug of his family being in danger.
Thing is, its a blood related danger. Meaning someone blood related to him was in grave danger, and by the emotions he can feel, its someone young, way younger than him.
Problem.
The only people Danny knows with his blood in their veins and are young enough for the feeling are with him.
So who?
But due to Danny being a protector spirit AND knowing the feeling is from someone as young as his own kids, Danny decides to use his Ghost King Powers to summon said person from the danger to him.
Danny opens his free arms out just as a tiny toddler with black hair like his own but with bright green eyes, even the sclera were green, in a ruined party dress drops from the sky from the summoning circle that had opened above him.
Danny stares at the terrified child, whose hands are tied by rope and was crying, and takes notes of certain traits she had that he saw every time in the mirror or on his own kids, same eye shape and cheekbones. He can tell his ghost core has claimed her as family but not as his kid though.
No the connection that formed was almost like his connection with Jazz but a bit stronger.
This kid, was his sister. His blood related one.
-Meanwhile-
Dick Grayson, aka Nightwing, and his family were freaking the fuck out.
Dick was already panicked when his daughter Mar'i had gotten kidnapped just a few hours ago by the Joker.
Now he was feeling pure dread when his daughter, who was about to be killed, was suddenly pulled into a strange glowing circle at the last minute and disappeared into thin air.
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Every Gotham U professor remembers their students and how every student who excelled in their chosen field of study became some of the most notorious Gotham Rogues. They become terrified for the future of Gotham when the newest student, Daniel Fenton, not only excels but is unparalleled in every field of study he participates in.
Danny had pretty lousy grades by the end of senior year. Well, he had picked it up a little the tail end of junior year, around when he figured out about half of his rogues were fighting him for bonding and not to kill (someone, not naming names, still wanted his pelt on the wall, and so on), but it was stupid hard to catch up with all the stuff he missed before that. And school stuff takes time, so even with all that improving a bit, the interruptions that were still there, like Clockwork giving him little quests or Fruit Loop and stuff, he was always behind still.
Anyway, bad grades. His parents had already sort of accepted he was āthe dumb oneā of the family. Not maliciously, but it still kind ofā¦stung. And he couldnāt be an astronaut anymore, even ignoring his grades. In his human form, he had lichtenburg scarring that was stiff and achey sometimes, and tremors, and his heart was slow and skipped beats sometimes. And he was cold, compared to a normal human, although he was typically actually uncomfortably warm, experience wise.
So, he had to choose a new career path.
And not be the dumb one.
Danny decided to be an engineer. Maybe with a space tech focus, who knows? He had learned the basics at his parentsā knees, in between cleaning up ecto spills and organizing parts and stuff, and practiced it plenty taking apart all kinds of ectoweapons recently. He could write something sappy for his essays around that first stuff, even.
But with his grades, no good engineering college would really take him. He gave it a shot, of course, and got a series of very polite rejection letters.
Except from Gotham U.
This was fantastic, actually-Gotham was seeping in emotion and death. Perfect for sustaining a growing halfa core!
His parents even helped him pack! It was the most heād seen of them for months-they were hoping to get an official contract with some big ghost hunting show, and were working on piles of new inventions.
And driving away from his first haunt was a little like dying again, but he had already kind of not felt at-home for a while there, and it helped his fraid, Tucker, Sam, Jazz, and Dani were all gone from Amity, either to their own colleges or globe trotting. He didnāt crash the U-Haul, anyway, so it was fine.
Gotham was great. He had a little basement apartment he sprung for with funds from Samās weekly allowance, deciding him in a dorm was doomed to fail, which was cheap even for being in Park Row. He was able to be in the cold, and tinker on stuff, it was fantastic.
Gotham U itself was cool as well. Sam loved the pics of the architecture he sent her. His professors all seemed very attentive and knowledgeable. The dining hall food was leagues better than the ecto-contaminated stuff, let alone takeout. Between his parents wiring money every month (Jazz reminded them to set it up) and Sam sending him and Tucker funds to use her allowance, he was living like a king by college student terms. He didnāt even have to spend anything on Gotham essentials like gas masks because he could just stop breathing!
And he was doing really well in classes! Having a place to sleep and study that wasnāt going to attack him or portal in people to attack him did wonders for his stress levels, turns out. And Danny had even been taking courses with Dora and some more with assorted ghosts across the realms, so he had a bunch of background knowledge. He even decided to take some fun little extra courses, on top of the rotation they gave the engineering kids to help them determine their focus, which was stuff like chemical and electrical engineering. He took a Psych course in honor of Jazz, a fashion design one for Sam, and a coding one for Tucker. He was even doing well in those, too!
He hadnāt made a lot of friends, though. He thinks heās a bit hard to relate to for a lot of his peers. Which is fine! He had a weird childhood, he was a bit of a weird guy. Itās just that everyone was also paying him a strange amount of attention.
POV Outsider (GU Faculty and Students): *What the Fuck* levels of concern
Danny living his best college life: I'm sure I'm just imagining their behavior, after all I'm nothing to be concerned about considering they don't know about my powers! (Doesn't realize he's desensitized to abnormal behavior and odd occurrences.)
Danny didnāt realize he was rogue material. He could build a fully functioning weapon with scraps. He took apart the toaster and used it to make a tracker when they were trying to avoid the Joker after he broke out of Arkham. Nobody should be able to do that, let alone a student. Everyone learned to stay the fuck away from Fenton; he was the next rogue in the making, and there were bets on whether it would happen before or after he graduated.
It doesnāt become a problem until Duke, who also goes to Gotham U, hears these rumors. He makes it his mission to befriend Danny, and can confirm Danny is a second generation mad scientist. One time he stubbed his toe and Danny made him steel toed shoes that would break walls. How did he even make those from a microwave? Duke didnāt understand. Dukeās phone got broken during a riddler attack at the school. Danny casually gives him a new phone the next day, and tells him not to worry about cell phone coverage. Duke tests this out by going to the Watchtower, and he still had cell service. He asks one of the Green Lanterns to take the phone into deep space. It still has service. Duke doesnāt know what to think of Danny now, but he was committed to keeping an eye on him.
The Bats have a bet pool going on Danny. They all think heās one bad day from becoming a dangerous rogue.
(They donāt even know about Dannyās superpowers. I think theyād nearly shit themselves if they knew)
I imagine theyāre keeping a constant watch on him for when he finally has that bad day so Iām curious how they react to him just?? Super chill? Nothing phases the guy, he treats rogue attacks, fear gas in the vent, bomb threats, and running out of food in the fridge with the exact same level of āremind me to deal with that laterā energy.
Would they be happy he seems so stress tolerant? Would they be freaking out because they think heās just bottling it all up?
Danny gets a concerned phone call from Jazz the next day.
Jazz: What did you DO?!
Danny: I have no idea what you're talking about???
Jazz: I got a gift basket from Red fucking Robin!!!! With a little note! Thanking me for keeping you sane?!?!?
Danny:... Red Robin knows about me?!? What the fuck? I haven't done anything in Gotham!
Jazz: I swear to clockwork you better not be heroing again!!
Danny: I'm not! I go to class. I'm acing all my classes. I joined the astronomy club! I tinker in my flat? I don't do anything hero related! I've not even been in any fights! Heck, I've not even been mugged?!?!?
Jazz:.... Danny... How many extra courses have you taken?
Danny: I dunno. Like.... Five? Why?
Jazz: Have you been making normal engineering objects?
Danny: Yeah? Jazz! I've been working in a lab on projects since I was big enough to hold a screw driver. C'mon!!
Jazz:... So. When I first came to Met U. I had trouble fitting in. I was just too Fenton ya know? Honey, I think you might be letting the mad science show...
Danny: What? No? Don't be ridiculous. I've not made any weapons. Or portals. Or anything dangerous!!!
Jazz: Nothing?
Danny: Betrayal!! How came you not believe me!?!?!? Woe! Woe is me! I've not even made a tazer!
Jazz: Have you made any gifts for friends?
Danny: Oh! Yeah! I made new boots for Duke!! Reinforced! Those bad boys will keep his toe safe from anything!
Jazz: Huh. Maybe the Gotham heroes are just paranoid about all the too scorers then? With all the PHD villains?
Danny: Huh. Maybe. Aww man! I can't believe I'm on a watch list! This sucks! I didn't do anything!!!
Jazz:... Could be a good thing? You might get scouted by the Justice League tech people? To keep you from going rogue?
Danny: While funny? No thanks. That's a bit creepy.
Tim frowns at the phone in his hands. Takes a sip of his coffee. Then cracks his knuckles & starts drafting an internship proposal to send to one Daniel Fenton, promising engineering student.
Hiring the kid to keep him from going rogue? Not a bad idea at all.
I propose a minor change. They tried to bug his house. But his frequent use of powers when alone keeps frying them. They bugged Jazz's place. They still get the phone call. From the other side. As well as her calling Sam and Tucker to tell them. So they can also mock her little brother.
Danny is going to look at the internship proposal and squint. Wayne is well known for funding the Justice League.... Now, Danny frequently used his powers. He knows this kills bugs.... He's gonna visit Jazz and check her place. This is sus as fuck. He's gonna take it. That's a lot of zeros. But it's sus.
Tim when he just hears; "Ah! Yup, thought so! Jazz! Burn sus presents in the future! You never know what bugs you're bringing in!" . And then the big goes dead.... Ok. Message received. Tim makes sure to update the Fenton file with a note to NOT rebug Jazz.
Meanwhile, Jazz smacks Danny on the shoulder.
Jazz: They're going to be even more suspicious of you now!!
Danny: I'm not doing anything illegal! They can be sus as they want. So long as they don't infringe on your privacy again! What if you had a date!!
Jazz: Thank you for looking out for me. Make me a big sweeper?
Danny: Already done. You can totally collect them and use them to fuck with people of they try again.
Jazz: I think I'll leave baiting heroes to you!
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Danny of course is going to love the internship. Every single person he works with is terrified of him. He ends up being shuffled off to the other villain potentials. And they are having the best time. Lucius Fox doesn't know if he loves them or hates them. They are so difficult to deal with. But so good at what they do.
The first design he submits is none other than the bug sweeper.
The Bats have a brief panic that maybe retired hero potential rogue in the making Danny Fenton knows their secret and is trying to really drive the point home that he won't tolerate himself or his family being bugged.
Danny, for his part, just kinda thought it was a decent invention for securing personal privacy. Plus, if Wayne really does fund the Justice League, he probably also gives them access to advanced and experimental tech. No better stress test than hero work, y'know; Danny can personally attest to that. And it wouldn't be terrible for the heroes to have something like this. There's probably always villains and rogues and maybe also Plasmius trying to put bugs into hero headquarters. So, sure! Why not? What's the worst that could happen?
Tim sees it and laughs. Because that's the sort of thing he would do. He gets it. Guys, chill. He's made the usual connection about us funding and making toys for the Justice League. It's not a threat. If anything? This feels cheeky.
The sheer amount of old designs he has? That he hasn't bothered to even try and get patents for? Yeah, he submits them all. Brucie Wayne is well known for ensuring even interns get a percentage for every design they make themself. Danny is going to use this internship to set himself up.
Tim sees that and just laughs. He really wants to meet this guy!! Duke won't let him though. Traitorous siblings. Bullying him! Not letting him play with the collection of non villainous mad scientists. C'mon!
Duke is kinda glad he doesn't have to stress about his new friend being a rogue. He totally needs to teach him how to be more normal though. Danny! No! We do NOT bait the rogue to distract them! No! Not even if it works! What were you thinking!? ... Danny, where did you get that from? Danny! Put Mr Freeze's ice gun down! No! No reverse engineering weapons! Bad! Bad Danny! Bad!
But also gives him treats if he performs a normalā¢ response to something. Danny just glares at him one day.
Danny: I fucking hate that you are reconditioning me, like I'm a bad dog.
Duke: I dunno what to say dude. Start being a good boiā¢. And I'll stop treating you like a bad one ok?
Danny:.... Replay what you just said, in your mind. Then tell me why you thought that wasn't weird.
Duke:... Ok, so I have no excuse. Except that you are clearly a bad influence.
Danny: That why I'm not allowed to meet your foster family? Scared I'll influence them too? Papa Wayne worried about the future rogue?
Duke: Nah. Y'all have the same damn sense of humour. And I'm pretty sure if you and Tim meet? You're gonna accidentally take over the world. Just not worth it!
Danny: Tim? Like, my boss that isn't allowed into the naughty mad science division without a minder Tim? Yeah I can see that. The feral one though?
Duke: I have seen you punch out thugs and muggers. Gang members, and rogue goons. He's violent enough thanks. He does not need that enabling!
Danny: Fine! The oldest? Severe eldest daughter syndrome?
Duke: The pub off would be awful. I would be duty bound to kill you both
Danny: The only girl? Your sister?
Duke: She'd try to adopt you. Or vibe with you ominously in a corner. Either way...
Danny: Ok, zombie boy. Thought dead? Miraculous return?
Duke: The death jokes. His are bad enough. No. Plus, they'd all either scare you off or absorb you into the family. You're MY friend dammit!
Danny: Awww. You DO love me! I feel so special!!!
This of course causes a minor scuffle. Duke tackling a laughing Danny to the floor. The pair wrestling playfully. Before Steph, who was NOT on stalking duty, honest. Decided to break it up before someone took a photo. By pouring her fizzy drinks over them. And then grinning widely as they both pouted at her.
Steph: Duke, bud. Timmers would not appreciate the headache of a picture of you and loved boy on front page news. Not looking so... Ruffled, anyways!
She then thrusts a hand out to Danny.
Steph: Hi! I'm your boss's ex, turned family friend. Call me Steph.
Danny: Cool. We're do you rank on the room table Duke just dropped on me?
Duke: Chaotic enabler. Absolutely not! My friend! Shoo! Go bother Tim or Cass!
Steph: Rude! I'm gonna go tell them why you won't bring your friend over!
Duke: I'm pretty sure they already know? Body bunch they are.
Danny: Damn. And here my friends and family mind there own. Weird, magically appearing presents aside
Duke: Really? Can we trade?
Danny: Depends how into eco conservativism you are? Also the hacking matches. And letting my sister psycho analyse you. Or Ellie. I love her. But she has a tendency to just arrive unannounced and then refuse to leave. Until she randomly fucks off to Peru, or Austria.
Duke: Huh. I can learn. Please?
Steph: No take backs. Bruce is clingy. You know this. Do you want to make him cry?
Danny: Isn't that like, a sin, in Gotham?
Steph: Oh! Can you even imagine! Whoever did that? Would be as hated as Scarecrow!!
Danny: Huh.... I've already ticked 'make a billionaire cry', off my bucket list. So it's cool.
Duke: I want to hear this story?
Danny: Its my godfather. He's an ass. And he kept freaking stalking me! He had this whole, renounce your Father!!! Thing. wanted to marry my Mom. I burned all of his Packer's merch. And he had a LOT. He cried like I'd just shot his Mom.
Duke: See. It's this sort of thing. This is why people think you're a day away from being a rogue!
Danny: That sounds like a lot of effort. For something I wouldn't enjoy? I'm good.
Steph: I love the way you put that. Like, nah, too lazy. Thanks for your consideration.
Danny gets all frumpy because it's working. He's even started realizing when he's being too "mad scientist" for "normal people."
Then he starts wondering if he can use these methods on some of the people around him.
Duke has accidentally taught Danny how to use operant conditioning. Gotham is all the more terrified and the Bats will not stop laughing at Duke about it.
Which Duke clocks immediately. And then has to add to the file. He was doing so well! It was such a good idea! If only his friend wasn't such a damn gremlin!! The rest keep teasing him! Mean! He was being nice! Friendly! Heroic! And you're bullying him! How was he to know his friend would use it for gremlin purposesā¢!
Okay, but what about the actual Rouges of Gotham? How do they feel about Danny? He is unaffected by fear gas or Joker venom, so that's Scarecrow and Joker, who are at least intrigued. He is also a punny little shit. That will put him on Nigma's radar. Then there is Victor Frieze, who would surely abduct Danny and "force" him to help improve his wife's cryostasis chamber.
Joker or Scarecrow try it? And they are stuck in a full body cast for months. Riddler? Danny is happy to do pun offs. While subtly calling the cops to come get him. Look Mr Nygma, he'll come visit you in Arkham of you promise to lay off hurting kids at least. Deal?
If he gets taken by Freeze? Yeah, he'd likely help on the medical stuff. While making mental notes he can email to the cops. It gets to the point that the bats have a separate folder of incidents. Where he has constantly shown no fear. Then either dealt with the situation himself. Or, has acted as a distraction so they could. What the fuck kid??
Danny meets Harley while playing with Cujo. Who obviously makes friends with Bud and Lou. They get on far too well.
I like the idea of danny being able to clock the vigilantes' identities once he's met one of them both in and out of costume, either because of liminality levels, recognizing the Signs of Secret Vigilantism purely from experience, or just left-field fenton intelligence.
For danny, it's just a "that tracks" realization, and he moves on with his life. He might even think its an open-secret type thing like his identity is back home because of how obvious their identities are to him. (And if danny figured it out the moment he met them, then jazz figured it out years ago by profiling and psychoanalyzing them purely as a hobby. She never said anything either, even if she did use the knowledge to create a few contingencies way back in phantom's early years.)
The bats have absolutely no idea that he pegged them all. Not even duke. Danny's behavior didn't change in the least, he's too busy with college and internships to dwell on it beyond the fact that working at WE means he's already working for batman - which he already decided would be kinda cool.
Have they figured out that he's phantom yet? Like, they overheard the conversations where he promised he wasnt heroing in gotham, so they already know that much. But did they connect him to phantom?
I think it would be a much more reasonable assumption to the bats that he was hero support to phantom, if we're not going the route where everything from amity is cut off from them somehow. Like, his parents are obviously one of phantom's rogues, but phantom himself is seen using fenton tech. Did danny sneak it out and give it to phantom? Was danny constantly running interference on phantom's behalf? Those would be their first assumptions, long before any leap in logic about how a ghost can be alive, or a dozen other options that would be easier to digest and closer to the truth.
Ghosts can change their appearance anyhow, and phantom probably used danny's face to mask his living identity.
I just think it would be hilarious if danny is figuring out all these identities, solving all of gothams rogues problems and acing college classes, just by living his best life. Meanwhile, the bats just think hes retired vigante support engineering genius, still worried he's one bad day away from taking over the world, and trying to track down phantom to get his opinion. (Where tf did he even go? Its like he dropped off the face of the earth. Should we be worried? Should we ask danny?)
Duke asking Danny about it out of the blue. With his parents stI'll hunting. I'm assuming the Ecto acts are still in place. Especially if they have a contract with the government. So Danny just lies.
Danny: Why would you accuse me of knowing an enemy of the state?
Duke is obviously thrown. Enemy of the state? Phantom is a hero right?
Duke: Isn't Phantom a hero?
Danny: Legally? Phantom is an enemy of the state. To be captured and turned over to the GIW and disposed of. So, no.
Duke now has a lot of follow up questions. And a new case as well. That can't be allowed to continue. No wonder he's disappeared! Duke would vanish to!
Oh, this is good. I just figured he was too busy with college and didn't want to make waves in another hero's haunt. But now he's dropping trauma bombs, making the bats even more concerned, while outsourcing all his problems.
Danny is either elated that he hit the jackpot and someone is finally gonna help with the giw, or he's convinced he's about to be arrested for aiding and abetting a fugitive.
He's aware he got the jackpot. Purely by the look of horror on Duke's face. His friend looks gutted.
Duke very quickly gets his family on the case. Because those laws are fucked up. And he wants them gone. No wonder Danny is so weird with certain things. No wonder he empathises with certain rogues!
I love how the Waynes just casually have a division of sciencey people they're trying to keep happy so that they stay productive members of society and don't become The Next Big Problem.
The League felt like they had a strong sense of Phantomās power. After all, they wouldnāt have asked him to join the team, otherwise. Heās strong, he can fly, and due to his supernatural nature, heās amazing on recon and stealth missions. Heās also incredibly reliable, and smarter than most people give him credit for. Heās a natural hero, a more snarky Captain Marvel, some news outlets have been saying. Always saving people with just the right words to say, with a humble smile on his face.Ā
Phantom, with all of his power, seemed untouchable in every definition of the word.Ā
And then they got invaded by Darkseid.Ā
It wasnāt the first time Darkseid had invaded Earth, but it was the first time bringing armies so large, the first time heās attacked all over the world to spread the League thin. It is single handedly the worst alien invasion Earth has ever had.Ā
Batman, bleeding out on the sidewalk, Wonder Woman knocked unconscious and restrained by a nearly egregious amount of henchmen, Superman, weak from the kryptonite Darkseid had shot him with. Thankfully it had missed all the important bits, but with that bullet inside of him, Superman was also down for the count, as well as dozens of other League members.Ā
If it hadnāt been for Phantom, they would have lost.Ā
Phantom, whoās never been seen without a smile on his face until now. Phantom, whoās never had so much as a scratch on him, until now. Phantom, who has only ever been known to be kind and compassionate, even to his villains, until now.Ā
Usually thereās this sort of warm, comforting feeling that radiates from Phantom. It feels like a nice breeze on a warm summerās day, a nice cup of hot cocoa, your favorite song. Itās a feeling of safety, as if everything will be alright just because heās there.Ā
Here, though, something else, something much stronger, is radiating from him. It practically rolls off of him in huge waves, making those conscious around him more aggravated, more on edge.
Phantom pulls himself off of the ground. His suit is torn, and his green blood splattered on himself and the ground. He spits a glob of it out, along with a tooth.Ā
āStill, you stand,ā Darkseid says, as if tired. āDo you not tire in the face of your own demise?ā
āAs long as Iām still standing, you wonāt ever win,ā Phantom says. His voice is low and threatening, reverberating eerily off of the broken infrastructure that surrounds them. It sends a chill down everybodyās spines, though if Darkseid is affected, he doesnāt show it.Ā
āYour comrades have fallen, your militaries have failed, and you have no other help arriving. Pray tell how one singular human will be able to take me down!āĀ
Phantom doesnāt answer right away. Instead, he walks forward so that his friends are behind him, and braces himself. Darkseid, unable to contain his own hubris, lets Phantom come closer.Ā
Phantom takes in a deep breath, as if heās about to speak.Ā Ā
Instead he wails.Ā
Any remaining glass shatters, raining down upon them as green sound waves push back the offending forces.Ā
And itās loud, of course. The ears of Darkseidās minions are bleeding, and many of them are either dying because itās too much for them to bear, or theyāre killing themselves to give themselves some modicum of relief. But itās also more than that, more than noise.Ā
Itās mourning.Ā
The first feeling that overwhelms everyone is anger. Phantomās anger at Darkseid, at the destruction, at the fact that he just canāt catch a fucking break and itās not fair. The second, is the sadness. It weighs down upon their shoulders, suffocating them like smog. It invades every part of their being-their lungs, their joints, their very hearts-and it presses and presses and presses until thereās very nearly nothing left.Ā
Phantom still pushes on. He is nothing if not persistent, driven to fight, driven to protect his people, his team, his friends, his family. No mortal being could ever hope to have a lung capacity like this, but Phantom is no normal mortal, and Darkseid is finally starting to come to terms with that.Ā
The last wave of overwhelming emotion is more of an idea than it is an actual feeling. Itās not a threat, per se, but a promise. A promise to do everything in his power to destroy Darkseid and his forces permanently and with prejudice. A promise that no matter how hard Darkseid fights, he will not win.Ā
A promise that, if knocked down, Phantom will stand back up, and he will not lose.Ā
Eventually, after what feels like eternity, the wail dies down. There isnāt a single member of Darkseidās army thatās still on their feet or in the air. Phantom collapses down to one knee, and bright, white rings flicker around his person for just a moment, before he wills them away and stands back up.Ā
Itās less walking towards Darkseid, and more stalking. They are not on equal footing. Phantom is the predator in every sense of the word, his anger and grief still radiating off of his body in ways that Darkseid is unable to comprehend.Ā
āDo you yield?ā Phantom asks. His eyes are blazing green, burning into Darkseidās very soul. It is a sort of animalistic, primal instinct deep within him that tells him, run, run as fast as you can. Darkseidās hubris, however, remains unmatched.Ā
Even as he stares Death in the eye.Ā
āI do not,ā Darkseid says. He tries to get to his feet, but his body wonāt listen, still weighed down by the effects of Phantomās wail.Ā
āThen as Phantom, King of the Dead, I hereby condemn you for the rest of your afterlife.ā
āDonāt count your eggs yet, boy,ā Darkseid spits. āIām still alive.ā
āNo,ā Phantom says, in a tone adjacent to someone whoās giving their condolences, āYouāre not.ā
Phantom gestures beside them, and Darkseid spares a glance and seesā¦Himself.Ā
His corpse is splayed on the ground, blood spurting out of his ears, nose, and eyes. He stares lifelessly up at the sky. The blood is still leaking down the sides of his face.Ā
āYouāre dead now, Darkseid, and therefore under my jurisdiction. Due to your extensive list of crimes you will not receive a hearing, just your eternal damnation for the sins youāve committed.ā
Phantom waves his hand, and green chains and manacles appear on Darkseidās wrists and ankles before heās dusted out of existence, sent to his eternal punishment in another dimension.Ā
As soon as heās gone, Phantom collapses to his knees.Ā
Heās not sure how long heās there, sitting in the blood of those heās killed, before Wonder Woman comes over. Sheās covered in gashes and bruises and blood that isnāt hers, but she still stands tall and proud. A battle won is a reason for celebration, after all.Ā
He glances behind her, sees Superman taking Batman into his arms and flying off.Ā
Diana doesnāt ask him questions about how heās feeling. A victory is a victory, sure, but not without its price.Ā
Instead, she holds out her hand. Danny grasps it, and allows her to help him to his feet.Ā
āAs long as you can stand, you can win,ā Diana says. āI think Iāll have to use that for my next big speech.ā
āBy all means,ā Phantom tells her. āJust be sure to credit me.ā
Ok i know that to us it seems completely out of pocket that the parents would even consider agreeing to what Mr Groomer offered. But unfortunately, in50s although it was frown upon, such an agreement wasn't uncommon. I still live by my words: Conflicts need to happen in a story in hope of the story to be engaging.
I also want to point out something.
The girl that stepped in when Olivia and Mr Groomer ( i refuse to remember his real name) where together in the classroom. She was clearly infatuated with him. He acted standoffish, but why do i have the feeling that he acted that way only because Olivia was there?
I have a theory.
He actually has a bunch of young impressionable girls wrapped around his fingers. Olivia is just the only one he was caught with. So he then found himself a random adult woman to cover for a bit and save his reputation while Olivia's sinked, that way she would be the more vulnerable. Then he slowly starts to treat her different, gives her more permission, a special treatment, and then when the time is right ZACK he "leaves" the cover woman to rush after Olivia so she can see him as a romantic hero.
Also the girl that stepped in his classroom? She was a poc girl. How much are you willing to bet that he targeted poc girls specifically because he knows that they aren't as "guarded" as white girls. They already have a poor reputation because of their origins.
This is also solidified by the question "How old where your parents when they got married?" Because (This is a generalization and based on racism of the time) there was the idea that people of ethnic backgrounds did immoral things like marring super young. He knows that her culture will allow him to slide right in. And he is also a well set white men in the 50. The parents probably both see this as a chance for Olivia of a better life, and know that He could completely ruin them if he wanted to.
And also " It wouldn't be the first time this happened" HE DID RESEARCH. HE KNOWS HE CAN GET AWAY WITH IT!!
I truly hope that next episode he gets exposed with a bunch of other maybe even younger girls come forward to say "You said you loved me!!" And everyone will see him for what he is.
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SOOOOO Iām a bookworm and I think I ššššš have a slight peter pan reteling obsession
That idee I got bc I already have a Peter Pan retelling at home (from Disney: a twisted tale) and Iām about to buy 3 more Peter Pan retellings (Lost boy by Christina Henry, A worthy opponent by Katee Robert & Lost I the neverwoods by Aiden Thomas)
And a Robin Hood retelling and ONE (1) fake dating book
Okay Iāve seen aus with Jet going to the Boiling Rock after Ba Sing Se and aus where Zuko fights Azula and gets sent to the Boiling Rock, but, consider, both
They both get arrested and Zuko has to explain to Jet that yes, heās a firebender, and yes heās the prince of the fire nation, and yes he hunted the avatar across the whole world, but heās totally good now and Jet has to process that he tried to recruit the literal fire prince into his gang
Zuko gets thrown into the cooler very regularly, almost as much as Jet gets put in solitary, because they rarely last more than ten minutes in the same room before Jet tries to start a brawl. After a while heās not even angry, itās just kinda boring in prison and Zuko fights good
Suki recognises Zuko immediately, but after she hears why heās in prison and watches Jet almost throw him off a ledge several times, she decides to forgive him
Thus starts the weirdest friendship trio ever
They actually work really well together, because Suki supplies the group brain cell, Jet gives them terrible ideas, and Zuko carries them out
The other prisoners and some of the guards quickly recognise that the three most dangerous inmates are teenagers, and now that theyāre working together, all they can do is pray. They all end up teaching each other fighting forms they know, and Suki discovers Zuko is a total avatar nerd and thinks Kyoshi was the best avatar since Wan (she approves of his assessment)
Suki plays the āyou burned down my villageā card exactly once. Jet uses āyou burned down Sukiās villageā almost daily to get Zuko to do things
Sokka arrives looking for his dad and spots Suki in the yard distracting a guard while Jet keeps watch and Zuko steals his keys. He thinks theyāre actually planning a break out, but no, Jet just wanted to fuck with the guards and see if Zuko could melt metal
(Theyāve tried escaping, but Suki usually stops them because Jet suggests tying all their blankets together, stealing a messenger hawk and training it to tie the rope to a rock across the boiling lake and climbing across that. Zuko, who has never had a plan beyond ābreak into the maximum security stronghold and go from thereā, is 100% on board)
When Hakoda arrives and the other inmates warn him not to piss off the three teenage prisoners, he thinks theyāre joking. Theyāre not. He reevaluates when he sees Jet start a riot in less than ten seconds, Suki kidnap the warden, and Zuko break the gondola lever and jump across a boiling lake
Sokka comes back from his fishing trip with four missing people and no fish
Bonus: Suki: āthis is my boyfriend Sokka and his boyfriend Zuko and his boyfriend Jetā
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Havenāt done any warpaint!Captain Arthur in a while!Ā
Arthur and Morgana are both chasers for their teams (Morgana plays a lethalĀ substitute beater though). 99% of the time they play a clean game - until they cross paths with eachother on the pitch.Ā
week 5 pthon bonus: Time Travel!! ft. more gratuitous Aggressive Hufflepuff ArthurĀ cause apparently i canāt stop shoehorning my own dumb au into things
Headcanon that Merlin is and always has been super powerful in every universe, which is my excuse for how a third-year can accidentally time-travel hundreds of years into the past. Arthurās just stoked that he used to be king.
Camelot!Merlin finds a way to send them back safe and sound, and Hogwarts!Merlin and Hogwarts!Arthur wake up thinking it was all just a hallucination brought on by too much exposure to a pair of Prof. Sproutās flapping fever ferns.Ā
Next year, when theyāre 14, Arthur asks Merlin out on their first date to Hogsmeade, and still years later Merlin finds that Arthur really will end up with thick forearms, among other things.
When parents ask you to do something they have been nagging you about for days, weeks, maybe even a few months. Then youāre FINALLY doing said thing they asked you to do (without a reminder) and then they come and ask you to do something else that needs to be done that moment. It canāt wait until youāre done, nooooo itās need to be done now, while your in the middle of doing the thing THEY asked you to do.
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ā¢ he once broke into a museum to try and animate a dinosaur skeleton only to find out the display ones are mostly made of plaster and uhhh that ends about as well as you can expect
ā¢ rachel makes him summon skeletons when she needs anatomy references
ā¢ he doesnāt do a lot of art himself but he absolutely adores every form of it. like the hades cabin is full of books and he doesnt understand spotify so he has tons of vynls and he lets hazel draw on the bunks and walls and his arms and he and rachel can talk for hours about art history and!!!! he just appreciates art so much
ā¢ speaking of music nico will listen to anything literally any genre EXCEPT country (which is really just bc he doesnt click with it but he loudly speaks against it just to piss Will off)
ā¢ heās not like Strictly vegetarian but he avoids eating meat if he can bc it just tastes like death to him
ā¢ heās really akward around younger kids bc heās worried heās gonna say or do something thats gonna mess up the kid forever but when he does talk to them he treats them like adults and they love him for it
ā¢ sometimes he tells absolutely wild stories with a straight face just to see if he can get away with it (he can) and now camp has no idea what stories about him are true and which arenāt
ā¢ like he went āyeah i was born in 1932ā and they all went āhaha very funnyā but then believed him when he said heās seen bigfoot
ā¢ sally jackson invited him over for christmas the december after boo and he very admantly refused but sally kept insisting and long story short now he has a key to their apartment and she knows all his favorite desserts
ā¢ he lied about not liking animals he really fucking likes animals guys he just said that to make himself feel better about the fact that they donāt like him back
ā¢ HE IS A POLYGLOT THIS IS BASICALLY CANNON he already knew like four languages just by existing the way he does but then jules albert showed up so he took up french and then he felt bad about the language barriers at camp w/ international campers so he started learning all of their languages and then asl looked interesting so he started learning that and then the TROGS so on and so forth and now he knows random bits and pieces of different languages
ā¢ also linguistics nerd nico ??? classics nerd nico??? history nerd nico??? absolutely yes he may not be able to do basic algebra but he can and will rant about obsure historical events or og goth mary shelly if youāre willing to listen
ā¢ Mr. D originally didnāt call Nico the right name but Nico is living on pure spite so he pointedly ignored him every single time until D eventually caved (but theyre both stubborn as fuck so this lasted MONTHS and honestly if nico and mr d hadnāt started Therapy Breakfast Time it probably would have never ended)
ā¢ he still checks in on May Castellen every few months or so to make sure sheās doing alright (percy comes with sometimes)
I think we should just survive this year and everything horrible this year will clear up *nocking on my table 3 times, so I donāt curse it*. Mainly bc of 2 theories about 2020.
1) the one of 2020=2012, you remember when the world would end in 2012 bc the mayaās believed that when their calendar would end so would the world. Yeah apparently there were a few years lost in translation about 8 years, that would make end of the their calendar 2020 not 2012. So if we survive this the world didnāt end.
2) 2020 is fucking bullshit bc we have 2 Friday the 13thās this year. One in March and one in November, I personally donāt think Friday the 13thās brings bad luck (actually itās the day the least accident and such) but this is really a bit to much bad luck days for me.
So if we survive until next year, yeaaaah for us. But still just for extra security letās all say jumanji when next year begins (like tik tok a while back) you CANāT have enough security for next year.
