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fall in love again and again...

It was fine and all with mostly friends viewing them up until his meta gene activated. He didn't even know he had a meta gene and kinda figured any of the ghost stuff he did as Phantom would have activated it if he did have one. Nope!

His newest video started out with him wearing a red beanie, "Hey guys! You know how I just moved to Gotham a few months ago? Well, turns out I have the meta gene!" He takes a moment to let that sink in before continuing, "Most people get there abilities or whatever through a lab accident or an explosion or something and end up with like telekinesis."

"I, however, am hated by the universe and got scratched by a cat," he then yanked off the beanie to reveal two large cat ears, "and turned into furry bait. On that note if you have any tips on how to avoid Catwoman please leave them in the comments section. For my sake."

Dick stared down at his phone in shock. He needed to show his siblings this

In the meantime Danny has to deal with his channels popularity skyrocketing. "This is not what I want to be remembered for."

"joker isn't a clown. I've met real clowns. He doesn't deserve the game he gets. Honestly, overrated murderer. He deserves the death penalty. 0/10 stars."

" Catwoman? Love her work. Would not mess with her. Also, I do not want to be her apprentice. Please, help me keep her away. I don't want to be a furry on either side of the fight! "

"Harley deserves better than to be remembered as Jokers ex. He was her origin story, not the love interest. Her and Ivy are relationship goals."

The bat kids have made it a secret game to see who can be in the background of the most videos

Red Robin was about to casually swing through when the fuck marry kill was announced, missed his landing, and slammed face first into a wall

Chat screamed hysterically at Danny, who turned just in time to see him fall

Danny stares

RR stares

Chat holds its breath

Danny turns back to chat “well he fell for me and I love pathetic so I’m marrying this one. Which is he?”

Tim does not return to the manor for six months

This does not prevent merciless bullying from his siblings

Spoiler begins raining flowers on Danny mid rant whenever she sees him with love notes from “Red Robin”

Danny sees her enough times to know she’s the purple one and not actually his husband but dammit he likes a good bit so they’re partners in crime

Dick shares the fmk video from his official Nightwing page captioned “well he nearly killed one of us”

(The rogue Danny respects the most is Condiment King. He has: commitment to the bit, knows what he wants, and standards

And he gets his ass beat but keeps on trucking

He can make cat puns at any time. They are always relevant.

He once got a rogue to cry by just shouting "you've got to be kitten me!" in the middle of their dramatic speech, completely ruining their flow. Followed by a "what's the matter? Cat got your tongue?" which made them go from crying to absolutely sobbing on the ground.

Danny is of course, not at all bothered. Look, the gas barely even makes him anxious. He barely twitches. No matter how bad the strain gets.

The kitten has been pissing Joker off! The damn cat keeps dismissing his work as sub par! How dare he! Joker will show him! Yes he will! He decides a show is in order. Gotham seems to have forgotten him. ThiS is NOT acceptable!

He has to go big. Bold! Bright! Full of action! Excitement! He has the perfect plan! He starts to build a trap. One even the Bat would struggle with. Reinforced with meta safe materials. Fills it with cameras and deadly traps. He will catnap the disrespectful kitten and throw him in there! And show Gotham not to MESS with him!

It takes weeks before it's ready. Joker knows this will be a masterpiece. Even if the cat can get to the last chamber. Well, cats may have nine lives. But Joker has bombs.

Danny of course has noticed Jokers goons following him. In a fit of whimsy Danny lets himself get grabbed. This is gonna be fun. See if the Joker attacks him, and he fights back? No one can complain. Oh he won't kill the guy. That's no fun. He'll make him a footnote in history. Now he just had to remember to play his part.

Danny has a blindfold and handcuffs on as he is dragged in front of the clown. Joker stands on an orators box, in front of a concrete block. The camera is streaming live. Most of Gotham can see their catboy being hurt by Jokers goons. The city seems to hold its breath. What will happen? Please let the bats save him!

Joker: I hear cats have nine lives! I figured I would test it out! Who doesn't love science huh? Throw the kitten in the box. Let's see if Shroedinger was right!

Danny is throw roughly into the maze after his blindfold is removed. The handcuffs stay on though. Looks like he gets to show off a bit?

Danny: Oh me, oh my. Whatever will I do? Not the Jester! How will I ever survive? He spotted a camera and smirked provocatively. Hey he had to throw the clown off his game. Make him mad. See what happens.

Joker let's out an angry growl. Before calming himself down. no. no, he must not play too hard yet. He has time. He can play with his pet a bit longer. No matter how annoying it is.

Joker: Ah, naughty kitty! How could you forget ol' Joker's name? So mean to me!

Danny: Ah, but see I'd have to respect you to care. So suffer. Anyway. What's this game? May the best cat win!,

Joker: You wouldn't know a good punchline of it beat you in the face! Games simple. Get to the last room and you live. Don't die too quickly. That would be boring!

Danny grinned, fangs on show. He opened his mouth wide and bit down hard on the cuffs. The metal snapped, and he spat out the leftover pieces.

Danny: Sorry sorry. I forget you need help with your advanced age. Don't worry though Jester! I'll be able to help real soon.

Danny knew Joker wouldn't play fair. He was expecting every deadly trap a person could think of. And he was going to use as few ghost powers as possible. Still.... Best not to breathe for now. He performed a theatrical bow to the camera, complete with jazz hands. Then looked around.

This first room looked like a puzzle game. But he knew there would be a 'punchline' somewhere. Now to find the hidden trigger. Gotham watched in shock as Danny, cute, crazy catboy started to look around his cell. What was he doing?

It wasn't until he found a depression and started to pull it apart that they realised. He was being clever. Very clever. Joker didn't do obvious. Joker was evil, insane, and intelligent. Danny was not playing by the assumed rules. No, Danny wasn't playing fair. Gotham watched as he pulled apart the trigger plate that led to a gas canister. Danny looked up and winked again. He was clearly not taking it as seriously as Joker wanted him to.

Oracle had found the video and called for everyone. This would not be pretty.

Oracle: All bats available report in. Joker has Nebula. I repeat. Joker has Nebula.

Batman: Batman here.

Nightwing: Nightwing. I can be in Gotham in 20.

Red Hood: My guys are already out searching. I'll let you know if I Get news.

Red Robin: RR here. I Can help track the signal.

Spoiler: Spoiler on.

Black bat: Black bat.

Signal: Signal reporting.

Oracle: Thank you guys. Once I have a location I'll let you know. For now I am forwarding the stream. Nebula is doing a great job pissing Joker off. HE will be more volatile than usual. Nebula is also happily working his way through the traps. I don't think Joker expected him to be this handy.

Joker was angry. The kitten was good. Almost Bat good. How dare he! How dare he be this good. How dare he treat this like a game! He was looking forward to the big finale! That would show the brat!

Joker had. No idea how his pet was surviving the gas. Or how he dodged the bullets. Took apart the pit trap. Or how he passed through the poison water. What he did know was the Kitten was teaching the last few chambers.

Joker: I wonder what we are going to learn now? Cats huh, always so destructive. You give them a perfectly good enclosure and they rip it to shreds!

Danny: Well, I gotta stretch my claws! Their length has been kit-ing on my nerves!

Joker: Puns are a low form of wit!

Danny: And, explosions are too. You don't see me bitchin'

Gotham could see a muscle in Jokers jaw twitch. Nebula was really pissing him off! And somehow, he had No injuries yet! And he was in the third to last chamber.

Joker was getting more and more angry and the damn cat tore his traps apart. He was gonna enjoy watching as the cat was blown up. He grinned as the kitten got to the last chamber. No more tricks to save him. And no bats here to rescue him.

Gotham watched on hoping that Nebulae would survive the last chamber. No one thought he would though. Joker never played fair. But then? Nebulae changed the board. He started to rip the ceiling down around himself. He avoided that last room. Joker grabbed his crowbar and moved to the area Nebulae was ripping apart. Fine the cat wanted to play outside the rules? Joker would adapt!

Danny grinned as he ripped through the top and climbed out. He blocked the crowbar Joker swung at his head easily. Joker was human as they came. Slow and weak. Danny would face no issue with him. He held in and dragged the Joker off balance as he jumped out.

Joker let go of his weapon he had spares after all. Even if it wasn't his favourite. It seemed the kitten might be a real threat. How fun. How annoying. How clever. He'd never imagined anyone but a bat managing what the kitten just did!

Joker: Well well well. How interesting! You his this pretty kitty! What other tricks do you have up your sleeves?

Danny laughed and let his fangs show prominently.

Danny: Always one more than expected Jester! How else do you think I kept my mind lives huh?

Without wairing for the Joker to react to what he said Danny lunged forwards. He let his class take across the villains face and danced back out of reach. The Joker yelled in pain and rage before trying to reach him. Danny was still paying attention to his surroundings. So when he heard a good try to shoot him. He dodged, using feline grace.

Because of where they were stood? The bullet but the Joker in his outstretched arm. Joker of course screeched and yelled at his goons. This was his fight. They were to stand still and do nothing!

Danny was grinning with feral glee and cackling by this point. And Gotham? Was amazed at the sight. Their pretty little car boy was not just surviving the Joker. But humiliating him. Holy shit! Nebulae really was meant for Gotham!

Oracle was pissed at how long it had taken to find the location. And knew that the bats wouldn't get there in time to stop the fight. Not that they apparently needed to. Nebulae was winning. Easily. He was winning a rigged match with ease. And it was terrifying. To think he could do this. And simply hadn't. Because he hadn't felt any need to. His danger rating would need to be increased.

Gotham watched as Nebulae kept darting in and out of the Joker range with ease. Stealing weapons and throwing them away from the rogue. The Joker was getting more as more incensed.

Danny: Awww Jester. No need to be mad! Isn't it funny? Cat got your tongue?

Joker: Stop fucking around you little brat! And face me properly!

Danny laughed freely at that and smirked. Before answering he danced way and performed a theatrical bow.

Danny: As the court Jester demands!

Danny then got up close and personal. He grabbed the Joker by the throat and slammed him into the wall. Once he had him pinned Danny grabbed his nearest arm and pulled. He was not going to kill him. But destroy him? Oh yes.

Gotham watched in shock as Nebulae wrenched the Joker's arm out of its socket. And proceeded to do the same to the other arm. Danny made sure to damage the joints and muscles. If Joker had to spend a year or so in recovery? That was a year Gotham was free of his evil. He dislocated his jaw next. And made sure to crush it. Joker wouldn't be speaking for a while.

Once he was down Danny turned to the goons and grinned.

Danny: So. Who has my phone? Or do I go through you like I went through him?

The goons shuffled nervously. Fuck it. They were not paid enough for this. One of them three his bag over and then they all scattered. Best to be home before the bats arrived. Danny looked down at the Joker and sighed.

Danny dragged him in front of the camera and sat to the side of him. Pulling up his phone he saw the chatroom.

Danny: You guys! Thanks for the messages of support! That's really sweet of you! Now! We are definitely gonna need a Doctor for Jester here. Yes I could have killed him. But I'm not a murderer guys! No thanks. I prefer to not be in jail.

Danny laughed at all the pouring emojis that appeared after he said that.

Danny: come on! I'm gonna be in enough trouble for fucking up his arms and mouth so bad! He's gonna have to eat through a straw for months! Not to mention to to physio to move his arms again!

Then a specific message popped up.

Red Hood: If I get there first in gonna shoot him!

Followed by a bunch of cheers from civilians. And the other bats telling him not to. Danny just grinned and looked at the camera like he was doing a stream.

Danny: I'm kinda torn. Like on the one hand I hope Cuddles gets here first. But on the other? I want him to suffer liquid food for months while his jaw heals. Choices choices.

Red Hood: You're never gonna give up on the names are you?

Danny: Nah! Why would I? It's too much fun! Especially how the DadBat gets an exe error every time! Husband is fun too! And you know I love love teasing Stabby!

Oracle had to admit she was amused by what she was watching. Nebulae had a way of working the camera. He really did know how to control the mood. And he had managed to escape and take down Joker in his own. Without killing. And was now helping to calm the masses down by playing up his act. He was good. She wondered how long it would be before Batman tried to get him in costume?

Red Robin and Spoiler were first in scene thankfully. So there was no shooting of the Joker. No matter how much he deserves it. Danny of course played up the camera to keep attention from them. Moving the screen so they could work.

Danny: Husband and Mischief need their privacy! No I won't show you their gorgeous selves! I'm hurt! You want to we them more than me! Do you want to make me cry? Cause that's how you make me cry!

They could hear muffled snickering from off screen. And Spoiler apparently felt the need to back him up.

Spoiler: You just wanna keep your husband to yourself!

Danny in true form gasped as if offended and placed a hand over his heart.

Joker is going to be going through hell right now. His jaw is gonna be wired shit for months as the bones heal. So he's on a liquid diet. AnD can't talk. His arms are fucked. Danny made sure to destroy the connective tissue as much as he could. So that's major surgeries. To get a chance of them working right. And one he's stable? He is back in Arkham. Pretty much defenceless.

Danny chose to make him suffer. And he is going to. Joker is now going to be stuck in Arkham. Without his words. Without his arms. No way to save himself from his many victims that are there as well. And the guards? Will not be willing to do more than ensure he survives. If they are willing to do that. Prince of crime? Not any more!

Jason sulked for a bit, only cheering up when he remembered that they couldn’t give Joker pain medicine because he had an allergic reaction caused by the damage to his lungs. So he was dealing with healing without so much as a baby aspirin.

Joker couldn’t believe his luck.

That damnable cat had a kid.

A kid that liked to be out and about with no supervision whatsoever.

A little girl all alone in the big wide world with no one to protect her.

Oh wouldn’t it be delicious if he caught that cat boys daughter and treated that dark cat to a one of a kind live stream where he re-enacted the time he clipped Robin2’s wings.

The cat wouldn’t call him Jester after he used the kittens limbs to spell out his name now would he.

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As Joker planned his next performance two tails twitched simultaneously.

One tail ended in a lions tuft and belonged to an Amazonian red head.

The other, white with black stripes belonged to a flaming haired hulk of a man.

Gotham was treated to the adorable sight of Nebula and his clone/daughter curled up together purring. It was becoming a common sight. Every time she visited there would be sightings so over. It became a challenge almost to be the first to find them. There were so many videos and photos. And even more of the pranks they played on each other.

Ellie had bullied Danny into introducing her to the local vigilantes. And, like her 'Father' she refused to use their real names. The picture of Red Hood with two cat Metas curled around him went viral. Especially as it was clear they had ambushed him. Spoiler had happily appeared behind the camera to moan about not being favoured with kitten cuddles.

Danny hadn't even had to introduce Robin. They were doing a stream from home. Playfully bickering, when Stabby let himself in through the window. Apparently to check she was eating enough protein. And not drinking too much milk.

Ellie: Oh! Oh! He's like Dan! All stern and grr! But caring!!!

Danny: I know right! Those two saw your latest visit by the way. They are both coming over soon.

Ellie: My Aunt and Uncle are gonna be here!!! When?! I need to be here! Been ages since all four of us got together!!

Danny: I mean. Dan just finished parole, so he's finally free to travel. And Jazz just got her doctorate. So she's looking for work.

Ellie: We should get a house together!!! I could go to college I guess. Since you bullied me into getting a GED.

Danny: Yup I did. You don't have to settle down if you don't want to. I know you love your travel blog. But! You are always welcome wherever I live!

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Stabby:..... There are more Fenton's? I wonder if they also share the mutation?

Cuddles:... I can't believe you changed my name back... Fuckers. Did you notice how he said parole? Wonder what he was done for?

RR: ..... His records are extremely spotty. But if the hero theory is correct? Well, we have no way of knowing. Could be time travel shenanigans. Could be redacted.

AllSeeing: Older sister is a medical Dr. Specialized in neuroscience. With psychiatry as a second focus. And yes. They share the gene. Apparently after Nebula got scratched the rest went to test the theory.

Purble: I love Ellie so much you guys. She's so sweet! Just as feral as her Dad.

RR: Kon subscribed to their stuff. He about cried when he saw them interact. Guys, he was so happy!!!

Purble: Do I have to tell Nebula you're leaving him for Kon? That's fine! We can marry him to cuddles!

Cuddles: Fuck no! Little bastard bites! And we've seen him chew metal!

DickWing: I thought you'd be into that!!!

DickWing: Ok... Who changed my name? I'm not mad. I promise.

ShadowSteps: Sound mad. Anyway! New stream! Kitten is being mischievous again!

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Joker groaned in pain after his latest round of exercise. It had been nearly a year. A year! And he still wasn't fully healed. Oh he was healed enough to be allowed out of solitary. But damn did his shoulders still hurt. The cat was impressively vicious. He had to wait a little longer, and then he could take the cats little clone.

Joker wanted to see what the cat would do. How far could be push him before he snapped? What would be do when he saw the mangled remains of his clone? His pretty little kitten bloodied and broken. He couldn't wait. Oh, he was going to need some help. His arms still weren't quite up to beating someone to death. But he had plenty of minions.

He'd worked with Crane and Fries for the plans to escape this time. Crane was going to release his latest strain on the prison. And Fries was going to freeze some of the walls. Making them easier to blow up. The chaos was going to be wonderful! He couldn't wait to see what happened! And then? He was going to lay low for a bit. Get everything in place for his newest pet! Couldn't have her ruining his plans like her Daddy cat!

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Danny was on edge. He knew he was being over protective. That Ellie was just as strong and clever as he was. That she could look after herself. But Joker had broken out of Arkham. And he was known for going after family members of people who pissed him off. And Danny knew he'd pissed him off. He was torn between sending Ellie off to somewhere remote and hidden, and keeping her chained to his side. But knew of he did either Ellie would go spare.

She had at least agreed to wear an alarm bracelet. One that worked on ecto. No tech scramblers would work on those. He knew, they'd tested it thoroughly. So if she was taken? Or he was? The other would know where to search first. Which took his fretting down from paranoia like Batman, to paranoia like Spoiler. According to Cuddles anyway.

It did amuse him that the local colony had decided to check in with them every few hours since Joker broke out. It was sweet, if a bit weird. Ellie had agreed not to share her location online. And he had only been streaming from home. Both had dramatically moaned to their viewers about Joker ruining their vibe. The Bats had tried to get them I to protective custody. But that wasn't going to happen. Not when they could defend themselves. Still, they did agree to the compromises. Getting shot or stabbed was in fact a bitch. Not deadly, but still a bitch to heal.

Ellie was getting restless being mostly stuck in the house, so she had wandered off to the shop. Danny was trying not to worry. Even if Joker did grab her she would be fine. But still. She was his baby! He couldn't help it. At this point the waiting was worse than anything else would be. He wanted Joker to just act already. Although, if he DID go for Ellie? There were good chances she would just rip his arms clean off. She was NOT as nice as he was... Oh well. Danny dropped his head onto his desk as Ellie's alarm went off. Of course. Of course, it would happen when she went shopping. Fucker.

He did a quick sign-off with the stream and pulled up the chat he was added to by Spoiler. Time to let them join the hunt he guessed. Pulling up the app showed the location was stationary.... She waited didn't she. Fucking brat.

Brat wanted her own chance to fuck with the clown. She was going to get such an ear full. Especially as Dan and Jazz had just got on the plane to Gotham. They’d arrive by night fall. And then all three of them could coddle the shit out of her. Make her pay for being a brat. Sending the bats the link to the location Danny grinned. They weren’t gonna know what to look at first when they arrived. Thank fuck he could get there first. If he needed to help her hide a body…

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Ellie was kinda grossed out at what this guy was saying. He wanted to use her own limbs to spell out Danny’s name? Weirdo. She grinned when she saw how affected Joker still was by what Danny did. Her template did a REAL good job fucking up the guys arms. And he had scars on his face where they had to do surgery to fix his jaw. He even seemed to not have full use of his arms yet. Going by the way he had a minion do all the moving shit. Ellie made sure to do a careful look at his arms and jaw before sending a shit eating grin at Joker.

Ellie: Hmm, Template REALLY fucked your arms up didn’t he, Jester??

Joker took a deep breath to calm himself. Part of the reason he lost last time was getting to angry. He knew it wouldn’t help this time either. He was so looking forward to wiping that smug grin off her face. Not to mention the devastation on Daddy Cat’s face. He could just see it now. What would be do in his rage?? He couldn’t wait to see!

Joker: I can’t wait to see your Daddy Cat cry little stray. Might even be as fun as Batman when I plucked the little Robin’s wings!

Ellie: Eww! You are super gross, you know that? I totally get why Template crushed your jaw. You just don’t know when to stop talking do you? That’s fine. I can teach you!!

Ellie had enough of this guys jabbering. There was nothing here that could properly hurt her. And frankly, he was boring. So she wouldn’t play along. It was easy enough to snap the cuffs holding her to the chair. The goons waiting by with bats and crow bars? Not a problem. Only issue was making sure to hit them hard enough to knock them out, without killing them really. And then the hunt was on. And this was going to be a fun one!

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By the time Danny got to the warehouse he was dreading what he was about to walk into. Ellie was not as good as him at holding back. But, he could hear her giggling. Hopefully that meant he wasn’t helping hide a body.

Danny: Kitten?? You ok?

Ellie: Hiya!! This way! You should call an ambulance!! Jester REALLY needs one?

Danny: Good to know I’m not helping hide a body!

Danny rounded the corner and sighed at the sight in front of him. Ellie was sat on a throne of tied up goons. Using the badly damaged Joker as a foot rest. His arms and jaw looked even worse than last time. And…. Danny was pretty sure legs didn’t bend that way.

Danny: What exactly did you do to him??

Ellie: Welll…. He kept being SO gross. He wanted to cut me up and spell your name out with my limbs?? And he said something about skinning me and keeping the pelt.

Danny: How very Skulker of him.

Ellie: RIGHT!! And, he kept going on about how he made Batman cry when he killed Robin. And how he wondered what you would do after. And hoping to see you cry and stuff??

Danny: We both know exactly what would happen if any of my people died.

Ellie: True. Dan is a VERY good example. So yeah. I broke his jaw again. And crushed it. So they are gonna have to rebuild it. And I crushed all his joints? So, Jester is gonna have an AWFUL time if someone doesn’t manage to kill him before he heals.

Danny: You know, I’m somehow surprised you didn’t rip his head off.

Jazz: Anyone other than Joker in there?

Ellie: Nope! Just him! All fucked up and alone!!

Jazz: Good.

Dan: He-

Danny: And you *finger turns to Jazz* just finished your degree. Are you really gonna risk the future you worked so hard for over the world's worst court Jester?

Jazz: I-

Red Hood, just arrived in time to catch that: No, no. Cat's got a point. You have lives and futures to think about. Premeditated murder tends to look bad on resumes, even if it is the Joker.

Other Bats, through Jason's comm line: Oh thank god, he decided to be reasonable today.

Red Hood: Hand me the matches. I'm already a Crime Lord with a kill count and an iron clad secret ID. Won't fuck my future up.

Red Hood: Yeah? He already does. What did you do to him anyway?

Ellie: Crushed his jaw and joints in his arms an' legs. I don't think I that can be healed to be honest. I really want for it. Seeing as death is too good for him.

PREV/NEXT MASTERPOST

It is around seven p.m. when Batman walks out from the zeta tube in the Batcave, nursing a throbbing headache from the long day of listening to reports from the other members of the Justice League and complaints from some unionized staff of the maintenance crew. All Batman wants right now is to get rid of his cowl for a couple hours until patrol, eat something delicious, take a shower, then take a two-hour nap and finally go punch criminals to relief some stress. He comes out form the hidden door that takes one to the Batcave and walks into the manor, with his left hand he takes away the cowl form his head and with his right hand he combs his hair. He walks down the hallways and when he crosses before the drawing room’s open door, he sees something he didn’t think he would ever see again in his life: there, kneeling with his face to the wall and his arms lifted up is none other than Jason. Massive, tank of a man Jason, grounded like when he was twelve years old and Alfred found him smoking for the first time.

In silence Bruce nods his head once, he knows Jason is not allowed to talk right now, so he does the sensitive thing and keeps walking towards the kitchen to ask Alfred why Jason is in trouble this time.

When Bruce walks into the kitchen, Talia is already sitting on her usual seat at the small rectangle wood table that they usually use – the big dining room is only used for occasions where a lot of friends and/or guests are also invited –. She’s wearing a pair of loose sport pants and a sweaty sports crop-top – which indicates Bruce that his daughter has recently finished her evening training –, her hair is up in her trademark ponytail, showing off her hidden undercut and her ear piercings that she doesn’t wear at school. Talia is sitting in a perfect lotus flower position on her chair, eating a falafel wrap and some breaded tofu sticks. Alongside Talia is Alfred, drinking a cup of tea and also eating falafels, but he is doing it with a fork and dipping them in tzatziki. There is no Duke in sight, which means that the boy must be in his room or doing homework in the manor’s library.

“Alfred, has Duke eaten already? And, why is Jason grounded?” The father of many asks as he walks further into the area.

“Welcome home, master Bruce.” Alfred greets as he stands up from his seat. “Young master Duke has already eaten and is currently doing homework in his room. Today for dinner before patrol I have prepared some falafels, tzatziki and some grilled lamb. Please have a seat.” The gentlemanly butler says as he walks towards the cooking area to prepare Bruce’s food. “And as for why master Jason is grounded, well, that is something that miss Talia can tell you.”

Talia glares at Alfred and Alfred only lifts one elegant eyebrow as answer. Talia huffs in defeat and then glances at her father, who is now sitting before her, right next to where Alfred had been sitting seconds ago. The teen girl straightens her posture on her seat, she puts her feet down and clasps her hands together over the table, her eyes are closed as she takes a deep breath and a smile decorates her elegant features. When Talia opens her beautiful green eyes, she pins Bruce to his seat.

“Father, I have acquired myself a boyfriend.” She drops the bomb and her eyes shine likes the brightest of stars at the statement.

Boy-friend?

“And today we had our first date.”

Boy-friend?!

“It was going to be perfect, father. He had planned a most lovely day… but then the heathen that is your second son, under the command of your firstling, dared to ruin it with his presence!” Talia finally snarls.

BOYFRIEND!

“Pennyworth said that I am not allowed to kill them to defend my most beloved’s honor so he grounded this one… but rest assure father, I will have my vengeance over both of them.” Talia promises and then goes back to finish her food.

“Boyfriend…” Bruce mumbles as Alfred puts his food in front of him. “You, uhm, never mentioned fancying someone.”

“Yes, well, I wasn’t expecting him to reciprocate my feelings.” Talia admits as she plays with some tofu sticks and a lovely blush paints her cheeks.

“Oh, well in that case I’m happy for you, darling.” Lies, Bruce is crying tears of blood inside. “And who is the lucky young man?” Please, please, let it be someone that I like. “Is he from school? The Teen Titans?”

“From school, he has a scholarship in the science program.”

Bruce feels his heart drop, he is so distressed he doesn’t notice Talia omitting the boy’s name. With great struggle the man takes a deep breath. “I’m happy for you, sweetheart.” He finally says and it surprises him to notice that yes, he is happy for his daughter. When Talia came to them, she was so indoctrinated into what basically was cult thinking, but know look at her, an independent young woman who is emotionally aware enough – or well, as emotionally aware as any teenage girl – to start and experience romance outside of the standards of the league of shadows and the vigilante life.

Talia and Alfred exchange a glance, both surprised by Bruce’s positive answer.

“You are?” She asks as she looks at Bruce.

“Honey…” Bruce says as he starts to cut the lamb into pieces. “When you arrived home you weren’t that much in touch with your emotions or new much about the world… not that I can say that I have a great emotional intelligence though, but now I look at you and see how much you have grown, not only as a member of society but also as your own person; I have had the pleasure of seeing how you have become a capable young woman. I trust you Talia, and I trust that if you have seen something in this young man then he may deserve some benefit of the doubt.” He finishes talking and puts a piece of lamb and falafel in his mouth.

“Thank you, father.” Talia answers, eyes sparkling and voice full of emotion.

“Just remember, princess, your brothers only wanted to make sure you were safe, they didn’t mean to actually bother you.”

“Tt, so, no vengeance?” Talia deflates.

“No vengeance, Talia.” Bruce says before giving a sip to his glass of water. “Besides, Alfred must have already banned cookie rights from both of them, don’t you think that’s punishment enough?”

“Tt, fine.”

“Why don’t you better tell me a bit about him?”

Talia rolls her eyes at Bruce’s ‘subtle’ attempt of getting information out of her, but since he is been nice Talia will grace him with some truths. “He is in my grade and we share some classes together but he is in the science program so after lunch his schedule changes, we usually eat together in the school’s gardens…”

The rest of the small dinner, father and daughter amicably talk, the echo of the conversation reaching Jason’s ears (don’t worry, Alfred frees Jason from his punishment soon after and also feed him, but there won’t be dessert for him for a very long time).

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Jazz feels an immediate relief as soon as she opens the door of her home.

When they had first arrived to this strange realm full to the brim with corrupted ecto she and the remains of her family had taken shelter in an abandoned building in what now she is the Narrows, if it weren’t for Dan’s massive frame and aggressive nature and Ellie’s feral demeanor the family of mostly teens would have passed a very bad time. Jazz later learns through Constantine and Zatanna that actually they just give off an odd vibe, that they are too much to look at. If someone looks for too long at any of the Nightingales some may feel like they are watching directly at the abyss, feel like they are been swallowed by the darkness and strangeness, other will feel that they are too ethereal, like the beauty of a fae, something unreal and strange that shouldn’t be looked at for too long. Only those touched by dead, those that have a very strong will, or those who wield magic can withstand their gaze and presence for long.

“It’s like an acquired taste.” Constantine tells Jazz once when she asked him how come he can be with them for days if he just said staying for long periods of time with them feels weird. “Sure, at first, I almost peed my pants when I saw Dan and Elle in their non-human forms, but the more I share space with you lot it gets easier. Also, I’ve dealt with demons and whatnot long enough, darling. I’ve looked at the abyss before, you guys are nothing particularly new.”

“You mean you fucked the abyss!” Dan screams from the room he was cleaning back then, followed by Elle’s witch cackling.

She had laughed so hard she woke up the sleeping Danny from his afternoon nap. They had to buy new glass for the windows.

The British man could be a bit crude sometimes, but Jazz is immensely grateful to him, Zatanna and Batman. If it weren’t for them, she could have never got the good quality, fake papers for her and her family, she could have never applied for the Martha Wayne Foundation’s assistance for teen mothers and the Wayne’s Foundation help for homeless youth. It was thanks to those helps that she got her G.E.D. and could go to college and become who she is today, it is thanks to those helps that Dan and Elle also could get their own G.E.D.s, that Elle could go to night school and get her par-time job, that they could safe money for Dan to open up his bar and that Danny could go to school and live his second life happily and safe. Jazz is so immensely grateful she would, without a doubt, kill for Connie, Tanna and Batman if she ever saw them in danger.

Nowadays Jazz, Elle and Danny live in a rather large apartment in a three-story building in old Gotham, near to the boarder with the Diamond District. Dan lives in the apartment on top of his business, it is one of those loft-apartments. Every night, before opening time, Dan visits his sisters and nephew to eat something with them before work.

Usually, Jazz doesn’t work of Saturdays but today she needed to finish some administrative work and also check with the nurses the new doses of some patients; she certainly didn’t expect to take so long. So, when the warm light of the living room greets her and she finds Elle and Danny play fighting her heart soars.

“Hey, guys.”

“Jazz! You’re not gonna believe it!” Elle exclaims as he locks Danny in a complicated jiu-jitsu lock on top of the rugged floor of the living room. “Danny’s got his first girlfriend!”

Girlfriend! “Oh sweety~!” Jazz coos as she drops her stuff on the floor and proceeds to join the ball on the living room. “Your first girlfriend~!” She can feel the happy tears gather in her eyes.

Dan, Ellie and her have worked so hard to raise Danny, to give him the life he deserved after what happened in Amity Park – after what the G.I.W. did, after what Jack and Madeline did –. They all deserved this peace, they earned it – and she is going to rip to shreds anybody that dears try take it away from them –.

“It’s the Wayne girl.” Ellie adds while Danny struggles. “You should have seen him! He became a damn supernova for like a whole minute! I have it in video!”

“We have to call Dan! We must celebrate!” Jazz says as she incorporates herself and cleans the happy tears away.

“Already done! He’s on his way! He said he’s gonna let Danny drink a beer!”

“Really?!” Danny exclaims at the same time that Jazz goes: “No he won’t!”

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Later that night during patrol, Nightwing’s comms buss to life with a very angry:

“What is this nonsense I’m hearing that you send Jason to crash Talia’s FIRST DATE with her new boyfriend?!” Barbara growls at her own boyfriend.

NOTES:

Batman/Bruce knows that the Nightingales are not from around there. But it will take sometime before he finds out who is Tali’s boyfriend.

The Nightingales don’t know that The Waynes are the Bats and the birds, but they do know that the Waynes are extremely liminal. They think it is because of the same reason people from Amity Park are extremely liminal.

Mom!Dani.

Like Dani (or Elle, depends what people wanna use) is now older. She still travels and visits Danny (whose in collage) and the others when she wants to but enjoys her freedom. And it’s on one of those visits that as she traveling across the states, invisible cause she knows she’s in Superman territory, she spots Superman and (Conner) Superboy in the sky.

Now since Dani is a ghost form she doesn’t have a heart beat and since she’s invisible she decides to see if she can overhear some gossip in the hero community goes over without much of a care.

BUT! Instead she starts hearing Superman, who hasn’t come to terms with trusting Conner due to him being a clone and having been created by Lex still. (He’ll get better after getting his butt kicked and chewed out by Dani and Danny but for now, jerk Superman), argue and well, Superboy’s status as a clone is brought up.

Some very heated words are exchanged between the two in their fight and Superman says he can’t trust Conner mostly due to him being a clone meant to end and replace him.

And this, hurts. Not just Conner but Dani too. And she can see on Superboy’s face she knows just how terrible and how deeply hurt Conner is from hearing it too. Superman leaves not long after that and Conner is left behind with his hurt feelings and thoughts.

Dani decides then and there she wasn’t going to let this continue. After all, clones never asked to be made and so they gotta watch out for each other.

If course, Tim is the only hero be no knows about this. And he absolutely helps Connor cover his tracks. His best friend has a chance at a loving family. He is going t help him.

The rest of the League? Little bit more concerned. Where is he? What’s he up to? He’s still heroing. But not anywhere near Metropolis. That’s Supes city. And now he has a Mom he travels with. They do vagabond heroing!

The League are confused. Superman didn’t even notice when he went missing. And well…. That’s concerning. He is meant to be his mentor! How did you not notice? And that’s when they realise how much they fucked up leaving the two of them alone.

And now he has a new mentor. Who isn’t part of the League. And they can’t track. And know nothing about. Great going Clark! Ellie as Connor are having the best time! He is learning so much about the world. And about himself! And yeah. He loves his new Mom. And his Aunt and Uncle! The fact they didn’t even question his appearance?

They just added him to the family? Made him a new ID as Connor Fenton? Gave him a new phone, with their numbers? Told him they would always have a space for him? Connor might have cried as Mom hugged him that evening. Ellie of course knows all about that feeling. And he is her baby now!

Didn’t she Tell him they would love him! Not everyone is as cruel as Superman! And yeah. She loves her siblings so much. That they don’t hesitate. Tucker and Sam too. Just took him in with open arms.

Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu for adding to this, I forgot about this AU (the joys and double edged sword of my mind, I come up with a lot of ideas)

I LOVE the idea of Conner and Ellie becoming vagabond heroes, and Tim (no doubt he’s still Robin at the moment, Robin Tim was always cool with bending rules, doing things his own way, and being chaotic for the sake of his friends. He’s still like that as RR but he does it without a trace and bit more…I guess, more serious? Deadly about it? No room for mistakes?) being the one helping out as well is perfect (cause again Tim is my fan fav).

Conner crying over the fact he found people besides his friends, and someone who knows how he feels about being a somewhat clone with messed up genetics, that barely bats an eye is WONDERFUL~ 

And can I just say, the idea of Conner experiencing the world instead of just relying on what the labs stuffed in his mind when he was made is something that I wanna expand on cause it makes good fluff. I can just imagine them exploring around some artsy city and Ellie encouraging him to try things out when they spot a local activity like pottery making or something, and Conner just kind of explains he doesn’t need to because of the knowledge how its made already being in his head and that he most likely won’t be good at it because of his strength. 

Ellie just shakes her head and places her hands on his shoulder, keeping in mind not to float up so she’s eye-level with her tall son, and says.

“Knowing how things are made and trying them out for yourself are two wholly different things Conner. You’ll know if you’ll enjoy it yourself unless you actually try it out. One of the things I learned while traveling and learning who I am, is that despite my DNA being a near copy of Danny’s is that I enjoy things he doesn’t or even tried before. Perfect example is the fact Danny loves scrambled eggs, I love omurice from my time traveling Japan… We both may have been made to be someone else but I find trying things my template hasn’t tried helps separate me from him a bit easier, because its something he hasn’t done and I can easily say I did it first even if he tries it later. The experience of doing something they haven’t proves we’re more than a copy. That despite our looks, powers, and lab made body and minds may have been copied from someone else, our souls and lives are not theirs but our own.” her face being serious, a rare but comforting look to Conner (she had that look when she first talked to him about her understanding his feelings about being a clone) before she grins her wide smile and says “Now, lets go sign up for some lessons, even if we’re crap at it.”

Ellie: Connor love? Come sit I have something to show you!

Connor sat and looked at her. She opened the book and… His Mom had yellow hair. With blue streaks. It looked awful! And next to her was Uncle Danny with green hair looking just as bad.

Connor: Mom?

Ellie: It’s important for EVERYONE to try out different thing hon. So Your Uncle Danny? He took me on a holiday and we tried out different looks together. So we could find what we liked. And so I could see we were different. He might not understand it the same way as us. But he is the best big brother I could ask for.

@hdgni You’re add-ons are always a joy to read and I get so excited when I spot you’re reblogs. I loved every single second of that and Tim and Conner crushing on each other is -chef’s kiss- perfect and lovely. (and I love Tim wearing comfy/baggy clothes, sweater paws ftw)

ALSO I love Danny and Ellie both doing stuff together like bad hair fails, nothing spells sibling bonding than screwing up your hair together lol.

And Bruce is sitting back and observing. For one, no one knew for weeks. Clearly leaving Clark in charge of Connor had ended poorly. If he didn’t notice? Then he wasn’t making the poor boy go back.

And through just watching from afar, he could see very early on how much more settled Connor was. Ellie is a known hero. Even if she rarely works with others and travels all the time. Add to that the fact Connor showed improvement really damn fast? Yeah Bruce is willing to sit and observe.

And then when he wanted to look more, and he saw the someone (Tim) was covering for them? Well, that was a good sign. He knows Tim cares about Connor. Knows he wouldn’t stay out of the situation if Connor was in trouble.

While she could have tried to set up a more professional meeting? She didn’t bother. With the way Tim and Connor were? They were going to end up in laws eventually. May as well ignore the usual social protocol. Ellie hummed as she finished up making food. She made a lot. She was planning to go by the tower and few all the kids. Her boys team were great kids.

Batman was clearly caught off guard by her offering to feed him as well. Which was great. Ellie had been told some hilarious stories about the man. And the fact she could throw him off balance by being friendly? Fantastic.

Ellie: You don’t have to eat. But it is late. And being a hero takes a lot of energy! Poor Connor wasn’t taking his powers into account with his food needs. He’s so much more healthy now I upped his food intake!

Batman: He wasn’t eating enough?

WW: Batman?

Batman: Due to Superman neglecting his duty to properly train or look after Connor? He was not being properly fed. His team didn’t fully understand his dietary needs. Starvation causes many short and long term side effects. This is being corrected now he has been adopted.

WW: I see. Kal. We will be sparring later. Please send a message to Connor’s Mother with my thanks.

Flash:… Did he not know what was wrong?

Batman: Cadmus kept him starved on purpose. To ensure he was easier to control. He assumed the feeling was normal.

Flash:… I’ll email you a copy of our calorie dense meal plans. Send them over. Might give her more ideas.

Flash: Wait! How did we not know she was a clone before?

Bruce: You recall Phantom?

Flash: The kid who saved the Earth long before we became a team?

Bruce: Ellie is his clone. She has existed since before you became Flash.

WW: Ah! This explains why she has never joined the team then.

Bruce: Hn. She has only ever done heroics with family. They had both already settled into a niche long before we came to the scene. Neither fight humans. They are primarily rescue heroes.

Flash: Yup, fighting natural disasters. Which is pretty cool. So he’s doing well? Impulse will be glad to hear that.

Okay I don’t know much about Cassandra cain so some of the things in this prompt might be inaccurate

I have seen a few prompts of various members of the bat family or Other people adopting Danny most often it’s Jason or Batman or even John Constantine (involuntarily), and anyone who has read my other prompts know I absolutely adored de-aged prompts

And I also despite not knowing much about Cassandra I think she’s a unique and incredible character so I would like to think that she wouldn’t mind adopting a child, for the sake of this prompt she is maybe 18 or 19

So Danny after being captured by the G.I. W after bad Fenton parents reveal is like sadly tortured and Vivisected and so many other things to a point where he so injured that his core Reverts him to as young as possible to conserve energy but because he’s only half ghost he will have to relive his entire life to go back to his normal age and due to his much younger form now he has the mental capacity of his physical age and barely remembers anything but he still has torture trauma.

So Cassandra goes on a mission to some country or some part of America to investigate something and while there she comes across a lab that she was unaware of and she’s pretty sure no one else in the family knew about it either , and while investigating the lab she comes across a baby may be a few months old covered in scars of terrifying variation, so she does the sensible thing grabs the baby, steals as many files as she can, overrides the system to release any other prisoners, and  get the hell out of there.

 after getting the baby out she goes to settle in the private hotel room or private suite that Bruce got for her because he wanted her to stay comfortable while dealing with a very long mission and even though her original plan was to go back immediately after finishing the mission because she knew she would be able to finish it quickly but now she decides to take the entire time Bruce gave her to first figure out what to do with the baby and it doesn’t take her long to decide to pull a Bruce Wayne and adopt the baby .

reading the files that she stole she learned that his name is Danny and he is something known as an ecto being, the files straight up say that they are  non-sentient and non-feeling, and that they are simply made up of emotions and ectoplasm, but what she saw clearly does not align with what these files say because everybody she spotted there no matter how few of them there were, they were clearly  either distressed, sad, scared or  in pain, whatever the hell this G.I.W was clearly violating so many laws, not to mention she read something in the files about an anti- ecto act and as far as she is aware nothing like that was ever allowed by the government since technically based on these reports ecto beings are creatures from another world or universe which technically makes them fall under the alien protection acts, and she was definitely going to tell the bats  about this.

so while spending a month in this specific place she somehow in some way adopts Danny as her own child without the help of any of the other bats , somehow finds a way to interact with the Infinite realms and talk to frostbite (probably thanks to one of the other ghosts that she released)  and she learns a lot from frostbite and the other ghosts that offered to help her.

She learns that Danny is  the crown prince of the infinite realms and she also learns that Danny is only half ghost he is still half a life and she’s kinda happy to learn that he’s not technically a dead child fully at least, she also learned a lot of ghost customs as she gets to know her new baby boy ( I feel like Cassondra is the type of person to want to know everything important or relevant in this type of situation so technically learning the customs and culture of her new son is something she would try to learn as much as possible about).

after a month of spending time with her new baby boy and learning stuff about his culture and also she learned  from frostbite that  apparently due to her interaction and care of Danny he has formed  a familial bond with her meaning he recognizes her as his mother, frostbite also gave her his summoning  sigil just in case she needs to call him for an emergency, she leaves to return home and give her entire family heart attacks over the fact that she has a baby now.

When she returns it’s late at night and the only person in the mansion is Alfred  ( because Duke was assisting with a case and everyone else was obviously on patrol) who greets her and is a little surprised to see her holding a baby boy, and Cassandra with minimal words would explain to Alfred that she found this boy, she adopted him and that he’s not human fully at least, Alfred obviously knowing how unusual this family is accepted it  because there’s a new family member and he absolutely loves it when the family expands not  to mention this will be the first ever baby in the family since master Bruce was born, so he immediately gets Cassondra settled in one of the living rooms with the baby, and brings them a few snacks before he sits down to talk with her for a bit and then goes to the Batcave to wait for everyone so he could lead them up to the living room for the surprise.

Most of the bat family would be in the Batcave and would obviously wonder why Alfred was just waiting in the Batcave in front of the elevator for them he would first tell them to go get changed and cleane up and then to follow him because Miss Cassandra has returned and she has a surprise for the family..

After everyone finishes cleaning up and getting changed into normal clothes Alfred leads them all to the living room Cassandra was in and at first they only see her head over the couch but as they get closer they hear giggling? Babbling? They all go to look over the couch to see Cassandra holding a baby, a black haired blue-eyed baby fully awake and playing with something while sitting in Cassandra’s lap. Cassandra obviously knew when they entered the room. And she would quietly introduce everyone to the newest member of the family Daniel or Danny cain.