Moon Shadow

they were kids that I once knew

Deathstroke: the fuck are you doing up here

Mini stalker Tim drake, holding a camera: just trying to get a good shot, Mister!

Deathstoke: what a coincidence.

Had this idea a month ago, it was supposed to be fully animated at some point but… 😬 didn’t work out lol

When someone is genuinely grieving they are sending emotions that are an essential part of a forming ghosts core. Maybe it even helps them come to terms with their death and have less hang ups about it, but my main point is that Danny would see Tim mourn his friends and go "man I wish that were me"

Tim: Kon? Is that you?

Danny flees as he blushes because he was able to taste the depth of this guys feelings for "Kon" and actively ignores how he hasn't been mourned.

Flash forward to college. Danny is in Gotham taking a prerequisite English class for the astrophysics program and Tim is also in that same class as a prerequisite for business program. They’re so used to the other’s mask, that when they sit down next to each other in class they don’t recognize each other at all. Danny is nothing like Daniel James Masters (as he typically went by at galas) and Tim is nothing like Timothy Jackson Drake. (Who is currently going by Tim Wayne). The two of them hit it off immediately. The fire to the others gasoline.

The other Wayne’s clocked it immediately. They did not understand how neither boy was making the connection, but it’s fine. Just another opportunity to put the family betting pool in action.

Oddly enough, it’s not until the next Gala, where Tim is attending as a Wayne, and Danny is attending without the watchful eye of his godfather across the room, that both finally realize who the other is.