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Ellie is Damian's newest classmate at Gotham Academy. She soon gets a reputation for being the weird kid who's really into the supernatural and occultism. One day, Ellie and Damian get into an argument, Ellie accuses him of being a snobby rich prick born with a silver spoon in his mouth and decks him. When Damian subsequently starts experiencing shortness of breath, a racing heartbeat, etc whenever he's around Ellie he's convinced she put a curse on him.

She didn't. That's just his first crush.

Everyone in the Batfam upon hearing about his "symptoms": Ah yes. Be sure to investigate her thoroughly.

Cujo meets krypto and from there they play occasionally. One day Cujo visits Krypto while he’s doing something with Superman. The two dogs play as Superman looks at them confused. He reads Cujo’s tag and the embroidery on his handkerchief saying he’s a free spirit allowed to wander as far as he wants and there’s a phone number if he’s causing issues with a name.

Cujo complicates things when a villain shows up and while he tries to help he ends up distracting Krypto.

He ends up with something in his mouth but won’t spit it out and it’s important, maybe he will listen to his owner?

At the watchtower they make the call, Cujo meets other super pets like Ace and they sleep in a pile. It’s very cute.

A white haired kid answers the call and asks what Cujo did this time.

“He has something in his mouth we want.”

“Cujo! Here boy!”

Cujo wakes up and floats over to the screen.

“Cujo, if you want extra treats when you come home then you need to drop whatever it is you took.”

He even dangled said treat in view- suddenly there’s a blast behind him.

“Are you alright?”

“Yeah, I was just in the middle of being chased when you called no biggie.”

“That’s normal?”

“Yeah! We’re just having fun- and I’m dead so it’s not a bad thing to be rough now and again. Honestly I haven’t had a break in forever!”

He turns to shout at the ghost behind him that he’s on the phone and they shout they were playing first.

“Would you just give me a few minutes? I got a call about Cujo- yes again! Anyways, drop it Cujo! Who’s a good boy? Who?”

Cujo finally drops the item and barks happily and wags his tag. He bumps his nose into the floor when he tried to dig a portal over to play with Danny.

“Sorry boy, but no portals in the watchtower.”, said Superman as he carries him over the docking bay.

burglars break into a rich person's mansion, but the old man keeps saying he's excited to have roommates. the burglars don't really wanna be murderers, so they humor the old man.

at first, it's comedy and funny, and they're trying to lie like they applied for the lease and the burglars are doing the whole "ACT NATURAL" thing when the old man enters the room while they're doing thieving shit.

then things start to turn.

they can't find the front door.

none of the windows will open.

they try to escape through the backyard and almost starve to death because they got lost in it.

the paintings are watching them. the walls are rearranging behind them. there's always food that's ready for them to eat and they're starting to realize that it isn't the old man cooking the food.

they confront the old man, and he admits that playing along with them was to soften the blow and delay the inevitable; no one who enters the house can leave, and he doesn't know why. he and his own crew of burglars found that out the hard way, and he's the only one left alive.

now everyone's trying to escape, it's not even about stealing shit anymore, and the entire time the old man is just watching them with a sad, knowing expression. he and his own crew tried literally everything the new guys are trying, and none of it worked.

one of the guys starts to lose it, starts saying they're ants in a formicarium.

they realize they don't remember their names anymore.

one of them finds a room with a functional TV, and the news says it's been years since they tried to steal, but three days later they find another room with a different TV, and it says they're forty years in the past.

they realize they don't remember what they liked or disliked anymore.

one of them goes and weeds the garden out of desperation for something to do. the next morning he wakes up with a facial feature he always wanted but was impossible to get, like fangs or reflective eyes or something.

stuff happens, and they realize that this is a fae's den, and yes, they're in a terrarium for humans.

through a series of flashbacks you see them the day they decide to break into the house; the barista who didn't look quite right insisting on having their full names, only to write nicknames on their cups. nicknames they've been using this entire time. the rows of mushrooms they'd driven over to get to the mansion. all the times they ate the food in the mansion.

the scene cuts to the camera being dragged away, out the front door that's hidden behind four different walls, down the driveway, into a tree, and credits. Then the credits stop.

the barista is smiling at the camera.

"I'm sorry, but if you want to know how this ends, I'm going to need your full name please!"

I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.

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Danny hates Batman. It wasn’t because of the mess in Amity Park, nor because of the whole no meta in Gotham rule. No — Danny hates him because he is Bruce Wayne.

A decade ago, the Fenton parents were invited to an important event in Gotham, where they were supposed to promote some of their non-violent, non-ghost-related inventions. But Bruce Wayne, after looking into their research, thought they were trying to sell weapons — and found a way to destroy their reputation.

If it weren’t for some of their old patents, they would have ended up on the street. Not only did he make Danny’s parents cry, but he also tried to report them for abuse — when there wasn’t any.

When Danny was a child, he thought the whole ordeal had just been an unlucky series of events that Bruce Wayne caused by accident. So, while he didn’t like him, he didn’t hate him either — because Danny himself knew what it was like to make bad things happen by accident.

But when he was sixteen and discovered the true identities of the Justice League… he realized it hadn’t been an accident at all.

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That night, everything changed.

Sixteen-year-old Danny Fenton had seen a lot of things since the accident that made him half-ghost. He’d fought creatures made of shadows, faced eldritch horrors, and even saved the world a couple of times. But none of that compared to the cold fury he felt when he connected the dots — when he realized Batman and Bruce Wayne were the same person.

The same man who ruined his parents’ careers.

The same man who’d called Child Protective Services on them, convinced they were abusing him.

The same man who smiled on camera, talking about charity and family values, while quietly dismantling others behind closed doors.

Danny had always thought Batman was supposed to be one of the good guys. A hero. Someone who protected the innocent.

But now all he could see was a hypocrite in a cape.

He didn’t tell anyone — not Sam, not Tucker, not even Jazz. He just… kept it inside, like a cold ember smoldering in his chest. Whenever the Justice League showed up on the news, he’d look away. Whenever Batman’s name was mentioned, his jaw would tighten.

And when he met the League in person for the first time, years later — when they came to Amity Park to “investigate an interdimensional anomaly” — Danny was calm.

Too calm.

Because he wasn’t that scared kid anymore.

He was Phantom.

Thus begins his plan to file a report with CPS about Batman's care of his sidekicks; after all the video comilition of the youngest Robin calling the man father is proof enough of him at least adopting some of them, and he has a lot of ghosts of Gotham he can ask about the worste things Batman has done to his children. Separately he does the same Bruce Wayne's career and gets those interviews, and then posts his testimonies from ghost online. Why online? Because CPS won't do jack against kids in homes with roof, food, and water and he needs both of the guys identities to feel the pressure from outsiders constantly thinking he's an unfit parent; give him a taste of what his parents felt for years because of Bruce's planned slander. It won't be the same but it will be a start.

Title of his post.

Ghost speaks all on Gotham's two biggest heroes and how they use 'Family' like tools.

Batman evidence: Could mention baterrand incident, tim 16th birthday, not getting trained individuals to help Damian stop killing, accusing a child of murder without proof, arbitrary punishments of losing Robin without warning if he 'doesnt think the child will be safe' but doesnt bother to keep child safe when they move to Blud, hitting the oldest foster child, using Robin as a manipulationto get children to return to fighting crime with him, having children pretend to die for a bid in his war, etc.

Bruce evidence: first child moves away before 18, 2nd child runs away to find real family, 3rd child was groomed to take over company, 4th child needs intervention services and despite getting these services for 1st foster child has refused tp get them for his blood child, is fostering a child of color but does not open his home to this child's old friends and suddenly this child loses contact with old friends and their new friends are already pre-approved 'friends' of the family.

It doesnt matter to Danny if it's taken out of context. Batman took his whole family out of context. He will return thst favor.

Phantom is a protection spirit. He can't simply turn a blind eye to imminent danger when he sees it's coming; doing so would be in direct conflict to his very being. And it's definitely coming for this "family unit". His years spent as Jazz's little brother, listening to all her psycho babble, have taught him that.

Danny, being a kid with a sister who loves psychology, understands more than anyone how bad this is. Are any of them getting proper schooling? Are their sleep schedules okay? How many of them have nearly died? Had any of them actually wanted to be heroes or was it something they were taught to want due to having powers/hero parent(s)?

Phantom had no choice but to become a hero, he's a protector spirit, not protecting literally hurts him. But how many of these kids actually had a choice? From what he's learned the first Superboy certainly didn't, but what about the others? Did they have a choice in becoming a hero? Or were they just told they did when in reality they didn't?

Lowkey, I'm not good at putting my thoughts into words and im on mobile, so I really hope this all makes sense, but;

And also a violation of human rights, which makes it worse. Like, yeah, you can argue its heroism (which, is basically legal in dc) but if you think about it too long it gets real bad, especially when you look into certain comic issues and see what happens to certain characters, like Beast Boy, or Raven, or literally any young superhero.

The psychological issues are insane. And are documented well. Quoting the wiki on child soldiers "Child soldiers who survive armed conflict frequently develop psychiatric illness, poor literacy and numeracy, and behavioral problems such as heightened aggression, which together lead to an increased risk of unemployment and poverty in adulthood. Research in the United Kingdom has found that the enlistment and training of adolescent children, even when they are not sent to war, is often accompanied by a higher risk of suicide, stress-related mental disorders, alcohol abuse, and violent behavior."

And "Child soldiers who survive armed conflict face a markedly elevated risk of debilitating psychiatric illness, poor literacy and numeracy, and behavioural problems. Research in Palestine and Uganda, for example, has found that more than half of former child soldiers showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and nearly nine in ten in Uganda screened positive for depressed mood. Researchers in Palestine also found that children exposed to high levels of violence in armed conflict were substantially more likely than other children to exhibit aggression and anti-social behaviour."

Simply put, say a child superhero doesn't want to fight crim anymore? The damage is already done, and what will the league do? Yeah, they could offer therapy, maybe even help out with civilian life, but that doesn't take away that said child has had their innocence taken away, torn apart and stomped down. I mean, in the comic issues AND animated series we can see how badly certain situations can affect them.

An example here would be, say, Young Justice Season 1, Episode 16, "Failsafe', where the Young Justice team goes into a simulation and deals with severe trauma due to the simulation going out of control. Yes, it's a simulation, but that does not stop it being traumatising, especially seeing your friends and mentors dead!

Yes, they get therapy, but these are still children! Teenagers who are being put through simulations for battles!

Another thing, pulling from the wiki on child soldiers here again, but: "Children are targeted for their susceptibility to influence, which renders them easier to recruit and control. While some are recruited by force, others choose to join up, often to escape poverty or because they expect military life to offer a rite of passage to maturity."

Which, if we look at the Justice League mentoring young heroes or employing young heroes (who could reasonably be from poor situations, see: Jason Tood, or Dick Grayson, or Artemis) for easy labour, or to make an army. (In some cases, if I'm remembering correctly from when I used to watch Yoing Justice and Justice League Animated, there have been a few episodes where they go against the government or even caused large amounts of damage that could cause civilian deaths, or even the deaths of heroes.)

You could also take Jason Tood (a famous example here) as being forced into superheroing. Depending on the backstory you choose, or even issue, you could make it out that Jason thought that if he didn't become Robin, he'd be put out on the streets. Again, street kid that was homeless for a time, and I'm not sure about you, but I'd also probably think such a thing if I was Jason.

And I am going off on a tangent and need to get back on track because i have FEELINGS on children being shoved into superheroing/villanary and if i think about it too long, i WILL go mental and rant about the government, so I give you:

Danny realising that, yeah, that Batman, and the Justice League, is violating a lot of human rights by employing or training child superheroes. Possibly even counting as human trafficking since the definition is literally "the unlawful act of transporting or coercing people in order to benefit from their work or service, typically in the form of forced labour or sexual exploitation.'

And we all know its the former. Or it can be the second, if we go by some... problematic issues (I am eyeing that one issue with Hal Jordan dating a fellow green lantern who was an alien and was said to be the 'equivalent to a 13/14 year old'. I CAN UNDERSTAND IF IT WAS SAID THAT HER SPECIES MATURED AT A DIFFERENT AGE, (SEE, MARTIANS) BUT THEY JUST DOUBLED DOWN ON IT MAN.)

Insert Danny looking up all the legal jargon he can and going into a rabbit hole and coming to the conclusion that the Justice League is as bad as the criminals they take down. He could even come to the assumption that they are even taking down criminals to make themselves look good, so anyone who finds anything wrong with them could look bitter or crazy.

At this point Danny undeniably has to show this work to someone else, probably Jazz and Tucker as Sam became friends with them after the CPS incident, and while Jazz is probably a little disappointed Danny's doing this at first there's still that confused and angry child in her, and knowing that it was planned is reanimated that dead horse. It only gets worse when she sees all of the evidence that Danny gathered, especially the psychological impacts of the teen heroes being child soldiers and if she's taking notes on how to help Team Phantom it's fully understandable.

And when a teen hero eventually tries confronting them, trying to explain that they had actively wanted to be one, they just give them a pamphlet that explains the definition of of a child soldier and ALL of the ramifications being one has, it also has a statement somewhere in there that actively wanting to be one is incredibly concerning. I imagine if Jason saw one of these pamphlets he'd go into a Pit Rage, not because he's angry at the pamphlets but because they revived a dying horse, he hated the whole child soldier thing Bruce was pulling when he came back up from the Pits knowing something about it was super wrong, he just didn't realize how bad it was. Maybe he even realizes that the Pit Rage wasn't just the Lazarus Pits fucking with him, but the results of having been a child soldier being amplified.

Considering what you said about the JL being just as bad as criminals but doing good things to be seen as heroes at least one member of Team Phantom is going to realize that there would be no way they can immediately attack them without being labeled vindictive and then ignored, they have to chip away at their credibility first. So, they start writing articles, probably starting with vague things about heroism at first, like "What is a Teen Hero, Really?" where they go over what exactly a teen hero is and conclude that it's just another name for a child soldier. Tucker and maybe Technus even work together to help make sure that these articles get not only into the public eye but make sure they aren't somehow taken down. (If you've ever read a MHA fic where Izuku uses the internet to slowly chip away at Endeavor's credibility so he can get arrested then you know where I'm going with this.)

With articles like that in the public's mind people start asking questions, questions they start investigating. This would allow Team Phantom to start posting more pointed articles about the JL, maybe even with Wes managing to weasel in to help write these articles, or if we go with him having Cassandra's Curse he writes articles seemingly going against what TP is writing to make them more believed. At this point, I feel like they may get the chance to start interviewing Teen Heroes, who are beginning to question a lot of things, to put even more pressure on how bad it actually is. Maybe they even get an interview with Redhood once he calms down from the Pit Rage enough, whether he reveals himself to have been the second Robin who came back is up to you, but it would be effective in showing how bad being a Teen Hero really was.

AABD- Assigned aromantic by dash

this is totally not based off of the fact that multiple times I mistook aro pride art as danny phantom art on first glance lmao

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Danny is Tim’s twin.

The Batfamily knows that. They know the name, the history, the way Tim goes quiet when it comes up.

What they think they know is that Danny is dead. Fully, conclusively, no-heartbeat-no-body dead.

And Danny never corrects them.

After the Infinite Realms, after the Ancients, Danny learned that death has habits. It follows certain families. It watches houses like Wayne Manor and waits its turn. The Batfamily doesn’t really get normal family relationships — they get empty chairs and memorial cases and names that don’t get spoken too loudly.

So when they reach for Danny, he gives them a ghost. Someone already lost. Someone fate has already checked off the list.

Being near them in his living body feels dangerous, like standing under a falling blade and trusting it to miss twice. But as a ghost, he’s safe. Already dead means already paid.

They’re trying to build a relationship with him, and he lets them — just not with the part of him that still has a pulse.

Because families like this survive by losing people.

English version too

DP x DC Prompt

I've seen a few fics of Danny becoming a doctor/field Medic and decided to make my own take on it.

Danny did not inherit the things Pariah had, in order for him to actually become the Ghost King, he needs to end the Tyrant King, and he doesn't want to do that.

Danny has become really good at handling other Ghosts. Not in the beat-them-back-into-the-portal sense, he's good at making Ghosts more suitable for the living realm by finding ways for them to fulfill their obsessions without causing harm.

He's also been seen to use his Ice Core powers to help in ways that would heal someone, and a certain Yeti Ghost has taken notice.

When Frostbite had come to Danny to offer him a way to help more Ghosts and people, he took it. And just like that, Danny has learned many medical practices from Frostbite over the course of years. He's helped Dani stabilize during his training with Frostbite as well, but since he is not a normal medical expert, so he can't just be in a hospital where only humans are being treated, plus, the Anti Ecto Acts are still in effect.

When the Justice League began to battle a hostile alien fleet bent on either destroying or conquering earth, Batman bad begun to prepare for the worst when many of his allies and friends began to be hurt in lethal ways. And when the medical requests slowly stopped coming in, he did a head count, but was shocked to see that everyone who was injured was alive when.

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