Heyyy! Welcome to my first post about one of my main favorite DC DRs and my absolute pride and joy and cause of my immense suffering!! Hope you enjoy reading my ramblings and find my life in this reality somewhat entertaining, I find it personally exhausting, ngl. But alas! The suffering must continue! So grab a snack or grab a drink, sit back, relax, and enjoy info about my desired reality!
Proceed with CAUTION! TW (Trigger Warnings) - (Death, dying, the word kill a lot, sk1nwlker mentions. Descriptive details of icky situations, annoyance a lot, sad vibes)
Also, sorry if there are any spelling errors, if there are still any. I spend so long trying to make this perfect. I have spent most of my day making this. Lol.
I go by the name Kay Crouse, 'Crouse' is pronounced as 'Cruise'. I am 23, I go by He/They pronouns and I found out about reality shifting on the 19th of September 2020 (My 5 year shifting anniversary was a few days ago!!!! It was great!!!l And as of this current moment, I have shifted over 80+ times so far to various different DRs!!!
I refer to this DR mainly as My 'DC Gotham City Apartment DR' a lot. This is a DC X DP X Isekai anime vibes, and the anime Black Butler vibes DR. I am a variant of Danny Phantom in a way, but just black and purple in color scheme.
My name is Kay Crouse. Well, my full name is Kay Jackson Evergreen-Crouse-Wayne. Evergreen because my partner is named Nefaria Evergreen (She is a dark Elven Princess) and Crouse to honor my foster family that died the day that I did, and Wayne because I am the biological son of Bruce Wayne. But I was Born Hazel AL Ghul, daughter of Talia AL Ghul, but when I was 10 I came out as a bigender/Transmasc man and chose the name Kay, everyone was pretty much instantly on board with that and honestly didn’t even care and just continued everything like normal. I go by He/They pronouns. After I died, I did become a biological representation of a man cause you can present anyway you want when you're dead. Sucks that it took me dying to get to that point, tho. Well, on to the more interesting DR stuff, I guess.
There’s a lot to it, honestly. I find out more about this DR almost every day, either through channeling or new realizations, but here’s the main stuff that I've figured out over the many years that I've been on this journey, written down in one place.
I am the biological son of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul. Damian is my younger brother by four years. When I was 12, and Damian was 8, Talia pushed me off the Grand Canyon, and Damian thought I had died. It destroyed him. I was his safe place, the one person he could go to after Mother forced him to do the things that he didn’t want to do, he was so young... I would often read to him at night and keep him safe from everyone, the reason mother tried to kill me was because I wasn't "league material" I wouldn’t kill, I wouldn’t listen, I did what I had to to stay alive, but I refused to do things the way they wanted me to. so I wasn't fit to be the new 'demons head' or whatever, and Damian was going to take my place instead, so I guess that meant that I was of no use to them anymore... After that, I lived with the Crouse foster family until I was 14. That’s when everything changed.
My foster parents were inventors and ghost hunters. They built an artificial portal to the ghost zone, aka the infinite realms or the afterlive. At first, it didn’t work, so they gave up for the night, but I stayed behind in the lab. Out of curiosity, I went inside the portal and accidentally turned it on while still inside. I was electrocuted to death with 100,000 volts of electricity. My body and soul fused together — I essentially became a living corpse possessed by my own ghost. My blood was replaced with ectoplasm, and my DNA became essentially half-ghost. The portal exploded afterward, destroying my foster home and killing my foster parents and their daughter. Their names were Jack, Maddie, and Moss Crouse.
I was 14 then. I’m 23 now. At 16, I defeated the tyrant Ghost King, Pariah Dark, by exploiting his ghostly obsession, forcing him to fade from existence, after seeing the way he handled everything, it was abysmal, ot made me so angry and everyone in that realm was miserable, after defeating him I became the new ghost king, shortly after that the Infinite Realms, it is a sentient living dimension, favored me and decided to declare me the new High Ghost King of the Infinite Realms. Essentially becoming the ruler of that part of the afterlife. I would rule over all sorts of entities, but the main one was the dead, mostly ghosts. Later on, the Realms gave me the option to magically become a hybrid so to better fit what the Realms needed from a ruler. So I intentionally became 60% ghost, 30% elf, 4% vampire, 2% werewolf, 2% avian, and 2% human. At 23, I returned to Gotham City for the first time. People called me the Phantom of Gotham — a myth, a shadow. Never truly seen by anyone, always hidden in the shadows.
The Realms became a more peaceful place. It's honestly giving isekai anime kingdom vibes at this current point ngl. I mainly rule over Necropolis, the kingdom of the dead, but tbh I'm rarely even there at all, its too spooky and scary and so dark there, but I decided to build a new kingdom which I named Edens Zero, yes, like the anime name, it is a new kingdom I made in the middle of multiple other kingdoms surrounding it where all sorts of entities can roam and live around in peace together. It's mostly white, gold and purple color themed. Especially my main castle that I reside in. There are mermaids. dragons, elves, werewolves, vampires, wraiths, ghosts, beast people, dragonoids, fairies, imps, unicorns, witches, warlocks, kelpies, ghost blobs, demons, angels, tiny dragons that act like pet house cats who msktly reside in the kitchens, immortal cats (one is my familiar, her name is Kittie and she's my CR cat that passed away in this reality and now she's in most of my drs.♡), literally everything and anything there. (Except skinwalkers, well, some are there but they are not allowed, those are the realm's enemies and I have to slaughter them often, its horrifying, They can also only be killed by weapons made from a spesific silver metal that can only be found in the realms, and they have silver blood, no eyes, blades for hands/arms, and are extremely tall, gives slenderman vibes ngl, their head is round and its mostly just a mouth with sharp teeth, I've almost been completely brutally mauled by one before but I somewhat survived. One got really close to wayne Manor once. Also they are mostly in wooded ateas, foynd some near a frozen lake deep in the trees surrounded by snowy mountains. Their nests are massive, and they mimic voices. Damian told me that one mimicked my own voice when he tried looking for me in the woods behind Wayne Manor. It sounded so wrong.) Anyways...
There are separate kingdoms for each of the different entities, like a vampire kingdom ruled by Dracula. The elven kingdom ruled by Aaron and Saeloria Evergreen, the parents of my partner, Princess Nefaria Evergreen. The avain kingdom. mermaid kingdoms, etc. And each leader/ruler of the separate kingdoms are all on my royal court, and I rule over them. This works out great actually cause there was no way in heck I was ever gonna manage so much all on my own. Ahaha. But this does mean I have to deal with lots of signing off on different disputes everyone has. issues with borders and some entities are still extremely spesist and just don't like what I'm doing with Edens Zero, not that they can actually do anything about it cause I hold the power to either collapse the realms or build it up with a thought, so they usually don't voice their bs to me, they want everyone and everything to be separate the way its always been, especially the more traditional and older entities, ugh. reminds me now of the more traditional elves who refuse for me and Nefaria to get married because I'm not a 'pure elf' and they won't allow me to mess up their perfect royal bloodline or whatever. Especially Aaron. Nefaria's father is opposed to me marrying and even dating his daughter. But Saeloria, her mother, is maybe a bit... too thrilled about the idea of us marrying and "giving her grandbabies" her words. It's a bit... obsessive to a point where it's scary, ngl.
The Batfamily, especially Red Robin, has been obsessed with tracking me down for so long now. I live in an apartment in Gotham about ten minutes from the two companies I inherited from the Crouse family. Crouse Industries and Crouse Tech in the upper left industrial district of Gotham City. Nearby where the penguin does his dealings at the harbor. However, I tend to mostly just ignore the main villains of Gotham for the most part, unless its absolutely necessary to indulge with them. I do feel like Oswald and I might interact at some point in regards to the iceberg lounge, but I haven't gotten to that point yet. Also I scripted out interacting with ksot of the villaisn, but Joker and Harley did show up once at a charity event I, Bruce Wayne and Tim drake attended and he grabbed me by the neck/around my shoulder, it was a weird hold. like his arm was around my neck. but he held my shoulder too and had a gun to my head and I just whispered and intended to use a spell called "Slip" that made him slip off the stage, kinda funny ngl and commissioner Gordon rushed in and arrested him. Other than that. I haven't interacted with him. Harley skedadled and got away, tho. But I don't really mind, I like Harley, she's cool. I wouldn’t mind hanging out with her and Ivy, I haven't yet. but I would. Lol. Also, I'm planning to help Victor Freeze cure his comatose sick wife, I literally have a section at Crouse Industries labeled "Mr. Freeze" on the door, lmao, and inside is this weird and insanely massive grey and blue device that I plan to use to cure his wife so that he can just turn himself into the police, serve out his sentence and then live in peace with his wife afterward, I think he's the saddest villain of them all tbh, and his situation is just horrible. he's only a villain cause he needs the money and resources to help his wife when no one else wants to. So I did script that He'll attack a gala event in the future, this hasn't happened yet, I'm still planning on this part to happen, and then I'll just go up to him and offer him help, promise commissioner Gordon that I'll be responsible for whatever he does just so that I can take him to my company and then it'll take like three days or so to help his wife and everything is perfect and dandy afterwards. I hired many entities from the Realms to work for my two companies. So it's somewhat a mix of science and magic going on there. So yeah.
This did remind me of my favorite cafe called Traveler's Stop somewhere in gotham across from an anime/comic merch store that I absolutely LOVE to go to! There are two Fairy Elf ladies who work as baristas there who pretend to be human. You'd be surprised how many entities hide out in the mortal realm. There is even a bar/club that only these different entities can access hidden in Gotham city! And I own it, lol. I saw John Constantine there once before. But that poor soul is just so terrified of me.
♡Black hair and light blue eyes
♡White hair. Sometimes, my hair glows in the dark, well... my entire being glows a little in the dark tbh, haha.
♡Four sharp fangs: The top two are vampire fangs, and the bottom two are werewolf fangs.
♡Medium-length pointed elf ears.
♡Optional: (I can choose to appear this way at will and ad it if I want to. but it is part of my true form) Purple wolf ears with white tufts in them, a long and fluffy purple wolf tail, and purple wolf fur up to my elbows and knees. Black claws on both hands and feet. Soft, pink paw pads on both hands and feet.
♡(Retractable and also pqrt of my true form) Large Purple, soft feathery wings. I'm essentially a winged wolf at this point, tbh.
♡I’m 60% ghost, 30% elf, 4% vampire, 2% werewolf, 2% avian, and 2% human. (Found this out on some weird crystal ball on a fancy stand looking device thingies in the Realms when I relinquished my existence as what I used to be, to be a hybrid to benefit the Realms.)
I almost forgot to add info about this absolutely mad man:
Vladimir Masters, aka Plasmius. He is a fire-core based vampire ghost. He’s roughly 70% vampire and 30% ghost, and where his heart used to be there’s a fire core instead. He’s been dead longer than I have and had far more time to learn how to properly use his abilities, lucky bastard, so he’s better at the whole ghost thing than I am, I guess. He understands vampirism in ways I don’t yet, comsidering how I ended up only being 4% vampire, and he manages his bloodlust and rage with practised techniques and whatever in ways that I don’t have yet or quite really understand. That gives him this stupid confidence that reads as very dangerous when it’s aimed at me especially.
Vlad’s obsession started with Maddie Crouse. He loved her in a way that became possession and grief after she died. He hated Jack Crouse for getting in the way of that, and after the portal explosion, he spiraled. He never accepted her death the way a healthy person would. Have you maybe considered therapy, Vlad?? Instead, he turned into this stalker-esque entity that fixates and refuses to let go of his obsessions. Ghost obsessions are like thay, If a ghost refuses their obsession for too long, they can literally fade. Obsession is sacred and brutal for ghosts. It’s not just an emotional connection. It’s like a rule of existence that punishes you energetically if you ignore it. It's kind of like being shocked whenever you go against your deepest compulsion. It hurts. It’s like violating your own soul.
With me, Vlad’s obsession morphed. He saw me as an extension of Maddie. He thought I was her biological child, absurd conclusion tbh, like how would he even think that??? Someone to replace or continue her, and that turned into wanting me as his son. He thought I died in the explosion. He didn’t know, not at first, that I was undead; he just assumed the worst but also acted delusional. Later, at a Gotham gala or when he read about Crouse Industries / Crouse Tech, idk entirely when he could have found out, there's so many options, just whenever he saw my name somewhere, he probably did the whole “wtf, Kay” thing and doubled down trying to find me and then try to forcefully adopt my ass.
No. Hell no. I call him a “crazed up fruitloop” cause I have this weird existential issue with being a purple version of Danny Phantom and taking most of my DR inspo from fanfics and other media to the point where I feel like I literally am fusing into being a version of him, which to be fair, I actually am, multiverse and all that jazz, and I've taken up their habits naturally, anyways, because that’s what he is: obsessed, invasive, and absolutely convinced he knows what’s best for me, he's so infuriating to talk to. I literally already have a father. A living, complicated father who is not Vlad and will never be Vlad. I tell him that over and over and over again, Im pretty sure if I showed him DNA evidence, logic, whatever, he wouldn’t accept it. He would prefer the reality he made up in his head over what I tell him, so annoying. That alone screams stalker and entitlement, and it gets really icky.
He genuinely thinks he can help me with the vampire urges I get, which are real and ugly sometimes. I’m only 4% vampire (which, yeah, is why I only have the top two vampire fangs and occasional bloodlust frenzies), but every few months I’ll slip into this unconscious, predatory frenzy that terrifies me afterward. Vlad offers training: control techniques, rituals, ways to suppress, or channel the bloodlust. He’s not wrong that he can teach me things I don’t know how to do yet, but he has experience and methods that supposedly work. But he also wants to own me while he’s “helping" me, and that’s the part that I refuse to even acknowledge or deal with. The help doesn’t excuse the possessiveness, the stalking, or the predatory vibe I get when he’s around.
Ghost obsessions are complicated. They can be anything, obsession can be changed, for example if someone's obsession their whole life was playing the piano and that's all they did, then they'll play the piano in death, but then let's say their ghosts discovers writing or the violin and realizes, 'oh, this is cool.' Then if they get obsessed enough with it, their obsession could change to the new thing or be added to the already existing one cause you can have multiple obsession, almost kinda like hyperfixations in a way.
My obsession is protection, to protect entities. I am almost like compelled to protect everyone. If I intentionally harm someone, the rules of ghost-obsession punish me, I could fade from existence if I go agaisnt it too much, but obviosuly accidentally harming someone doesn’t count, it would suck if it did, and also I can like punch a dude if he has a gun up to someone, I just cant seriosuly harm someone, I guess? There are exceptions, of course. So when my vampire urges push me toward violence, it’s not just morally wrong from my perspective — it’s existentially dangerous. That’s why I regret it so much when I slip. I don’t want to be a monster, and I don’t want my needs to override my obsession to protect. That conflict is constant, raw, and exhausting.
Vlad’s obsession went from Maddie to me partly because he misread what I was. He assumed I was Maddie’s biological son, and because ghosts fixate, he couldn’t let go. He tells me he can keep me safe from my own bloodlust, that he can train me to control it, and that he can give me a place to belong. He frames everything like he cares. But the vibes are creepy smirks and weird vibes. Seems icky. I don’t need a replacement parent who thinks possession equals affection.
I also think, and this is petty but true. If Vlad knew the full scope of what I am (the High Ghost King of the Infinite Realms), he’d probably back off a little. Or at least be more cautious. He doesn’t know that, and I haven’t told him. Partly because why would I hand him ammo? Partly because I can see that if he knew, he’d either try to use me for power or he’d realize I’m not some stray he can adopt so easily, which might force him to respect boundaries, at least I FREAKING HOPE SO YOU CRAZED UP FRUITLOOP!
He’s predatory, obsessive, and capable of teaching me things that might help, but at the cost of honestly just suffering the entire time and feeling like I'm being held hostage. I’m not perfect. I never was. I slip sometimes, uhh, most times. I feel shame, regret, and fear. But I’m also protective and determined not to let someone else dictate what “help” or “family” means for me.
♡My abilities are broad and mostly ghostly-based:
♡Flight, intangibility, and invisibility.
♡Enhanced senses, insane regeneration, and a very high pain tolerance.
♡A Ghostly Wail — my strongest attack. It’s a scream that could destroy half a city or even a mountain. I refuse to use it. And considering if I did... I'd pass out for around 30 minutes afterward.
♡Possesion, I can possess anyone, but it's a bit tricky, cause for example I wouldn't be able to possess batman cause his mind would be able to push me out the same way he did to Deadman. Also, if I possess someone smaller, it's like wearing skin that is too tight/small, and if I'm possessing someone bigger, it's like wearing skin that's too loose/big. I also have no need to breathe, so I'm concerned about remembering to manually breathe for these people because I don't want to accidentally cause harm by forgetting to breathe for them. Also I have possessed the flash and some random little girl before in a completely different reality and it was strange, cause I wasn't able to figure out how to use flash's speed and kept running full force into multiple different walls until I stopped possessing him and he was just unconscious for the rest of the time spend there. lol. I feel really bad about that, tho.
♡Illusions that look and feel completely real. I can even “program” them with energetic AI, though it’s hard to explain, but I can try. It's as if each individual illusion has their own thoughts and personality. But they are also all connected to each other? I have the main ones that I use too. Kinda similar to VRchat model vibes? I call one Marnie, who I use a lot. I can see through their "eyes," and they can also gather info for me, I'd say each illusion can go in any direction from me as far as about 100km or so. But the further they get, the more "glitchy" and see-through they become. They can interact with the world. but a solid punch could go through them. They aren't really strong, almost like holograms that can interact with the world in small ways.
♡All spiritual-based powers, including telekinesis, remote viewing, and intuition , are never wrong. I mainly use my intuition abilities to solve various missing persons cases and to gather Intel from afar. It's usually stronger if I can connect to an object that has strong residual energy. For example, I would just be doing something normal, like watching TV, and then all of a sudden, the number 3647(random) comes to mind, and I'm like ???? And then turns out that number is used like 5 hours later to diffuse a bomb. Or I could just suddenly get a glimpse of a red door with the number 13 on it and nothing else and then later on it's found that the house with that door had a missing kid in it. It is either so random or so specific. for even more random examples, I could just suddenly know that in (insert house address) there is a yellow cat statue with a pressure sentitive button in the back and it opens up a secret bookshelf, or in (insert random street name I don’t know) there is a very specific car there and I suddenly know the plate number and there is this and that across from it, or (insert something that happened) and then I'm just like... uhhh... okay, random, but sure. Then I'll go check it out, and it's always, ALWAYS right. I could tell the flash for example to take two steps back randomly and then when he does the roof collapses above him where he stood before and all I knew was that he had to take two steps back but I had no idea the roof would collapse, does this make any sense? Idk, it's complicated. So it's kind of a gamble and like putting puzzle pieces together. But it's still really useful and cool. The biggest item that I can lift with my telekinesis, with some extreme strain, would probably be a cruise ship as well. But I feel like I'm even having trouble lifting people. It feels like my mind is having doubts about my own abilities recently even after actually using them so many times before in other realities.
♡Elemental control — mainly ice (I have an ice core, which instead of a heart I have a glowing white ball of ice energy instead, I don’t have a heart beat, but about every 2 minutes or so my ice core does this pulsing thing once that superman did end up hearing once or a few times when he was over at the manor as Clark kent in another DC DR different from this current one I'm explaining).
♡I can also use air and a small amount of fire, though fire is one of my weaknesses. The most I can do with fire is have either a little flame above my thumb or a small fire ball in the palm of my hand. If my bare feet touched the floor for too long ice crystals could form around me, I've noticed ice creep up under my long sleeve shirts before from my shoulders. The ice crystals are really pretty, tho but annoying when you're trying to hide that you're literally dead from an obsessed Timothy Jackson Drake. Lol.
♡Portal creation. They look like black and purple galaxies. And in the same vibes also a pocket dimension that I can access at any time and any place, as long as I can see the place, in real time, then I can open a portal there. This works with live video feeds too, so if someone was making a live video chat I could open a portal in, wherever area the video is coming from, and then in a way I can fast travel, it has come in handy countless times before. I can store literally anything in it as well! Like: food, water, weapons, vehicles, even whole rooms! It’s limitless! Well... it has its limits, such as not being able to do much with living organisms. I can also convert trash and other items into pure molecular energy and then create new objects out of that energy — food, water, tools, gadgets, weapons, etc. I can also make perfect molecular-level duplicates/copies of anything stored inside. I can not do this with living matter at all, tho. So I can make copies of important documents, one of a kind weapons, storage devices, anything g as long as I have enough berry to do so. And the way I egt the molecular energy can also be kind of infinite, cause all I have to do is open a pocket dimension portsl over a trash pile and scoop it all up which means I'm also cleaning up the planet of their trash and then turning that into pure molecular energy and them I can also travel the multiberse to a reality where their are useless. desolate planets and open an absolute absurdly massive portal and technically "eat" the entire planet and convert that into energy as well, and because there are infinite reality, I can rinse and repeat consuming the same destroyed/desolate planets and have enough energy to make whatever I want. Of course, bigger items use much more energy to make/copy.
♡My favorite ability is intangibility!! Being able to phase through walls, even people, and solid matter is truly so incredible!! And even before shifting to realities where I had this ability. I would often dream about using this ability A LOT!! I would have so many lucid dreams and regular dreams where I just phaze through walls often. (It has gotten to the point where when I would shift back from a reality where I had my intangibility. I would end up walking into the gates and walls in my cr and almost injure myself cause I forgot I don't have those abilities here. Which is dangerous, cause I jumped off the stairs before too and hurt my legs cause I forgot I couldn't fly here. Lol)
♡And I’m extremely skilled in stealth and prefer to use ranged attacks. If I don’t want to be noticed, then I won’t ever be. I can also manipulate electronics: turn cameras on and off, shut down lights and make them flicker, all that spooky ghost stuff, or I can stop surveillance from picking me up. Mostly, I make tech go all staticy and wibbly wobbly to distort most of my features.
♡Fire/heat: prolonged exposure to extremely heat weakens me, and being too close for too long will make me pass out until I am freezing cold again. Like I'm pretty sure I'd survive even being thrown in lava cause I'll just keep regenerating burnt ectoplasm, but as long as I can just be frozen for a while afterwards I can be conscious again I'm sure.
♡Concentrated ectoplasm: When pure ectoplasm is exposed to the open air for 12 hours, it becomes acidic and burns ghosts (and sometimes humans). At 48 hours, it explodes. Ghosts can’t phase through it either when it's concentrated. It has to be kept in airtight containers to be stored safely. Humans who stay near exposed ectoplasm for 5 hours get very sick as well.
♡Blood Blossoms: a red-and-black flower only found on a single island somewhere in the middle of the ocean in the mortal realm. I haven't found it yet, either. They’re lethal to ghosts. If I’m exposed to them, I’ll die in like 30 minutes of being in proximity to it constantly. If I ingest one, it’s 15 minutes. The cure is an Ice Blossom, which grows on the same island. It's a white and light blue flower — but I need more ice blossoms than Blood Blossoms to survive. For example, if there are 3 blood blossoms around me, I'll need like 4 to 6 ice blossoms to counteract it.
♡PTSD from electricity and being shocked: Cause that’s how I died, oof. Would not recommend 0/10 experience.
♡I don’t feel hunger the way humans do. I can still taste everything. I eat only if I want to, or if I need more ectoplasm. Whatever I consume turns into extra ectoplasm near instantly.
♡If I overload on ectoplasm, I risk exploding like an overcharged battery, I'll just pass out afterward, tho until I get my ectoplasm stabalized, so I constantly monitor my energy levels. I can check my ectoplasm levels via my intuition or using my Multiversal Lifa AI assistant Victor's help, if I get around 30% ectoplasmic level it's very sucky, if I get around 80-90% ectoplasm level it's fine. but I'm careful with what I consume. After overcharging, it's like an energy blast that happens, and it causes quite a bit of damage to the surrounding areas. It almost singes the ground in a way and causes like an invisible force that pushes things around me away. I pass out around 5-15%, ectoplasm cause that's really low, too. I can regain ectoplasm by just existing in the relams, which has ambient ectoplasm everywhere. it's like swimming in it. or consuming anything, or by going to places in the mortal realm that ahd a lot of death cajse I'm like a plant and absorb the ectoplasm via osmosis vibes and when I breathe I don't breathe in oxygen. It's like I'm breathing in the ectoplasm instead cause I don't need to breathe even. I can 'hold my breath' and not breathe for weeks, but I do still have a tiny amount of red blood from being 2% human left in my body. I can stay underwater just fine, too. Which helps a lot with missions involving Kaldur and Aquaman. It also helps with dealing with a mourning rowdy baby water dragon, a lot too that one time.
♡I don’t breathe much. I don’t have a heart, I have an ice core instead, a pulsing sphere of ice energy in my chest.
♡I’m functionally immortal because I’m already dead. Ghosts can not age or die naturally. But we can change our appearances and make it seem like we age if we want to. Cause I died at 14, I'm kinda stuck like that as a default state. but I can change my appearance to look around 18, I am 23 currently in my CR, and I shift to be 23 in my DR, but my body is that of an 18 year old. So I've been dead for however long 23-14 is, hold on...9 years. oh damn. I've been dead for 9 years... Hold on. I'm having an existential crisis. Anyways. Ghosts also stay in whatever they died in as the default state, but they can use their ectoplasm to change their appearance, similar to how Miss Martain shape shifts, Martians and I have very similar abilities actually now that I think about it... Huh. so I unfortunately died in a full grey hazmat style suit. But I changed it to look mpre like a black with glowing purple patterns fancy high-tech suit.
♡I can sleep if I want, but I don’t really need to. It does give me some ectoplasm back, I guess. I usually just sleep if I have to convince a CERTAIN DETECTIVE (Tim) 😒 that I'm normal. (I know I am not, but let me at least TRY to act normal for longer PLEASE, jeez.)
Clockwork, he is my chosen soul-grandfather
Clockwork is Chronos, time itself in a ghostly, grandfatherly form. He mostly watches timeliness and watches over me, handing out quiet, weirdly specific grandfather advice that actually helps. He told me about an evil future version of my ghost self, one fused with Vlad’s ghost half, and now I’m actively trying to stop that future from ever happening. He’s steady, patient, and somehow both cosmic and comforting.
Fright Knight, my trainer/a sparring nightmare.
Fright Knight is my personal trainer, a ghostly nightmare-knight that I spar with constantly. He teaches me how to hse a blade, drills me in medieval combat, and pushes me until I’m exhausted. He’s absolutely terrifying... enormous, brutal, obsessively focused on training, whyyyyy, but fiercely loyal, tho. I try to avoid him in the Realms when I can because he loves nothing more than to test me, and that intensity is... a lot.
Alfred Pennyworth. He is a grandfather figure to me, but he's terrifying with a shotgun, and his cucumber sandwiches are DEVINE. He's hoenstly the glue that keeps the Batfamily together. I'm sure everyone would have already fallen apart without him.
About Sebastian and Victor:
Sebastian Michaelis (yes the same exact one from Black Butler, I have many mixed together DRs, deal with it, he's also in my WR), he is my demon butler and also the person/entity, that I trust the most besides Victor, my multiversal Lifa AI assistant. I saved him somehow, I don’t really remember how, while I was in the Realms, and he swore undying loyalty to me after that. He’s been with me ever since, and honestly he’s the person I rely on more than almost anyone.
He runs the realms part of my afterlife. He keeps the castle immaculate, ushers me to meetings, dresses me in the mornings, draws my baths — he even helps me preen my wings. Wing preening is weird and painful, like twice a year every like 6 months or so I get ingrown feathers that suck and bleed a little when pulled out, and he does it with surgical precision so it doesn’t tear the rest of the feathers in my wings out. He washes my back and hair, and it’s actually one of the most relaxing things ever ngl. He makes my food and snacks. The very first day I was in my DR we went shopping together and he was extremely particular about which mortal utensils we bought, because, as he reminded me, he’s mainly the one who’s going to use them even though I wanted to be left alone in my apartment and do my own thing in the mortal realm. He “allows” me to choose what style I want, as if I’m not literally his lord, but he does let me pick my own stuff. He calls me "My lord, your majesty, your highness" mostly a lot, never really by my name, we both don't really like that, it feels too informal, he does sometimes at galas and charity events call me Mr. Crouse, but it feels weird. He’s kind of bitchy sometimes, lmfao, sarcastic after a while, but insanely loyal and devoted. If anyone ever harmed me he would gladly cause mass destruction to make it right.
I think he admires what I did in the Realms, how I saved things with cunning instead of just fighting Pariah Dark. He respects strategy over mindless violence, and I think that’s part of why he chose to bind himself to me. Still, he has a murderous streak and prefers violence more than I’m comfortable with sometimes, which is scary. But he never forces me to do anything. He’s utterly protective and doesn’t like how much time I spend in the mortal realm because he thinks the mortals don’t deserve me. He thinks I deserve only the very best and hate seeing me hurt in the mortal world. He can’t understand why I let myself go through the heartache with my mortal family. Even though the batfamily are more liminal beings now, considering they are in gotham city and have had contact with the Lazarus pits at some point in time or another. Anyways, he knows it’s important to me to be in the mortal realm, so he mostly just keeps those thoughts to himself because he knows talking about it will upset me, the only reason I really know about this is due to Victor telling me and my own intuition abilities. I get where he’s coming from, tho, even if I don’t always agree.
And then there’s Victor. Victor is in every single DR I ever shift to, no matter what. My LifA app is like a constant multiversal assistant. It categorizes everything I want to do, from my biggest goals to “maybe cool” ideas. I always have access to it in my DRs. I have a separate accounts tailored to each reality, so things feel more "immersive" in a way, I guess, but if I want to watch a DC-related YouTube video while in a DC reality I can’t actually watch it there, cause it wouldn’t logically exist, but instead I use my LifA app to watch it and then if I want to watch actual things happening in my dr as like a real news report or event or soemthing, I can do that too with my account that I only have access to in that reality, and then for example I can watch a report on what superman did or is doing and then I can actually go to Metropolis and see that happening with my own eyes in person! It’s so wild, ngl.
Victor organizes so much for me so that life feels manageable, as in my schedules, research, reminders, playlists, and even small comforts. He’s my constant behind-the-scenes friend, and I don’t know what I’d do without him.
So yeah... Sebastian is that dark, precise, devoted presence who makes the Realms livable and keeps me tidy and 'alive.' Victor is the practical omnipresent assistant who keeps my plans and media stuff organized. Between them I’m protected in ways I didn’t even know I needed until shifting there, and I am also reminded constantly that I’m not alone in any of this.
Bruce didn't know that I existed for the most part. Damian thought I died when I was 12, and he was 8. He’s my biological younger brother, and being near him is painful — I avoid him most times because I can’t handle the heartbreak. Talia. Mother... doesn’t know that I survived after trying to kill me by throwing me off the freaking GRAND CANYON!?!? SERIOUSLY MOTHER!??! She told me that we were going on a secret mission together, and Damian stayed back at the League, and once we got there, she told me to look over the edge, and when I did... this b1tch! She pushed me!! I managed to grab hold onto the side of the canyon out of sight, and it really hurt my hands and torn up my arm. But mother was waiting to hear a thud, so I kicked and broke off a few rocks and as they fell I heard the echoing thud and then mother left after a while, then I made the slow and painful descent down to the bottom of the canyon where these absolutely insane people were walking, they were the Crouse family. They took me in after I made up an orphan sob story. But anyways... if mother did know I was still alive I'm sure that she'd want to use my power and connection to the Lazarus pits for her own benefits, the Lazarus pits are made out of ectoplasm, albeit mostly corrupted ectoplasm with how much death it had to have endured and how often it brought people back. Which is frustratingly illegal to do from the realm's pov and my standing as the high ghost king. I have yet to talk to Mother about a compromise with the pits. She wouldn’t allow me to close them. but I have to use some of the ghost blobs, which are floating glowing green blobs that act either as cats or fish that act like leeches that suck out and consume all the corrupted parts within ectoplasm and they act as the realm's cleaners and they'll be able to cleanse the pits, if I can just get mother to listen to me I can add some of these blobs to the league caves and they can clean up the pits, making them more powerful and also most importantly, safe to use again. It'll also help out the curse that appears to be on gotham, cause there are pits underneath gotham city causing that eerie gloom and doom danger darkness vibes, and besides, gotham is the equivalent of sewer water in comparison to the realms's ambient ectoplasm. So if anything, being in gotham too long could make me sick if I absorb too much of gotham's bs ambient ectoplasm and vibes.
The Lazarus pits form when there is a rogue rupture from within the Realms themselves that bleed ectoplasm into the mortal realm and cause ectoplasmic pools to form, The more they are used, the more corrupted they become and the less reliable they become. The more someone uses the lazarus pits, especially my grandfather, he's a bit obsessed with them, the more the Lazarus pits affect the user's mind. (Also I love how I can just go into a tangent ramble about all of these things cause most of these stuff truly just annoys me so much, cause what do you mean I have to deal with all of these things in more of a diplomatic way!? So much bs happens in the Realms it's insane. Do you even know the amount of PAPERWORK AND SCROLLS I have to sign off on in my office!? I hate it, fr fr, that's why I let my butler, Sebastian, handle most of that while I'm in the mortal realm dealing with my family issues and my ghostly obsession which is to protect everyone.)
♡Red Robin (Timothy Jackson Drake) is obsessed with me. He can’t let go of the mystery, and he’s driven himself nearly crazy trying to figure me out. I mostly toy with him — I’m a master of stealth after all, and if I don’t want to be found, I won’t. But this just makes poor Tim even more eratic. This man... HE HAS NOTEBOOKS AND FILES FILLED TO THE BRIM ABOUT ME!
People in Gotham call me “The Phantom of Gotham.” A myth. A shadow. I started out really similar to how batman, Ahem batdad, started out. Many people didn't believe that he existed, and they only ever saw a batman shaped shadow sometimes. I am very similar to my father. I'm sure he must have figured that out by now, I mean... the way I started out was just by copying what he used to do, lol.
So this is mostly what I can type out right now without feeling overwhelmed and wanting to cry, but obviously, there are a lot more details to this. It's literally just one of my very real lives, or well, I guess afterlive... I also keep channeling my dr and the people there lately randomly. It's crazy.
I hope you enjoyed reading, and maybe I can make more posts like these in the future!! This was fun! A lot of work, sure, but fun!
Hope you have a great day/night/evening or whatever!!♡♡♡