You know the drill.
Cultists want to summon the Ghost King, the League pull up to stop them, failed summoning successfully and got Ghost Prince Danny.
With a twist.
The head cultist tells Danny what they want, but it's so pitiful that Danny just sits them down, each and every one of the cultists and explains that maybe it isn't the best idea to give your soul to an otherworldly entity just for that.
Then it somehow turns into therapy because Jesus Christ these people have been living some pretty shit lives, then Danny decides to pull some favors with Frostbite and the Yetis to get some of the cultists family members medical treatment for their Mother/Father/Siblings that they're too poor to pay for.
Other times he just kinda tries to get a few others to get more confidence after being drawn in by a few bad people against their will and try and give them ways to get out of said situation.
The entire time the Justice League was just, there, watching all of this go down and questioning a lot of things. Simultaneously Batman is thinking of starting up a program to not make this a repeat, wherein people think they have no other options than to give up their literal soul to an otherworldly entity in hopes to turn their life around.
Half a year later the now reformed cultists meet up again. The circle is the same. But by now they rid themselves of their robes and are instead donning Phantom merchandise.
All hail the Great One.
Gothams Phandom summons their lord and savior to tell him of their accomplishments.
Phil has now more time to spend with is kids.
Robert and Alexander are now dating.
Annabeth got rid of her maybe cursed puppets and is changing the room into a small temple dedicated to her lord and savior Phantom.
Small Lilly is here to meet her mommas hero.
Cassie, a old woman with a bakery, dragged her long time customer Dr Freeze with her so she can introduce him to the RELIGION Phandom. Some non criminal friends wouldn't hurt him.
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They didn't expect Phantom show up bleeding green blood all over the floor. (if they did they definitely wouldn't have tried the summoning in the living room. The poor carpet)
They also didn't expect him to pass out and turn into a Wayne bite...
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The cultists heal him. During his stay with them Danny finds out that he is in a different dimension. (Its a reveal gone wrong fic (no vivisection) and Danny was just running from the Giw and his parents when he felt the summoning. He used it as a escape.)
Now they plan a second summoning ritual for his sisters.
Danny Jazz and Dani (and maybe Dan) get adopted / take in by the cultists.
I don't have anything practical to add. I'm just envisioning a group of five to seven people who usually only ever see each other in cloaks all gathered in a public school principal office, trying to see how they can successfully enroll their lord god into his junior year of high school before term starts
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I was thinking more that, considering they're a self-formed cult based around this one child god, there was literally no way any one of them would be willing to be left out of supporting their little savior in his time of need. So, yeah, they're all the parents! ...Yeah, all of them. They're, like...married? (Yeah, that's close enough right?) (This is Gotham, you can tell them we're a cult, they're not going to judge) (Yeah, maybe, but they still might call CPS?? Can a cult have custody here??) (...Maybe?)
And they someone manage to BS their way onto all the guardian forms and sign out lists just in case and register him under the address of their "cult compound" (slowly converted warehouse, now featuring One Pull Out Couch And A Fridge! 😄👍🏽), which is great! They're doing a great job group parenting and no one is suspicious. At all. Their lord god is going to have a great time in public school during his recovery. Now, how to split up their support effectively for his extracurriculars...
Oracle in the background silently beefing up the mediocre fake ID's that they managed to get...Tim pushing through one of Wayne Enterprise more discreet scholarships...new long term favourable lease because the warehouse owner sold it to a shell company of the kind the bats used for their own safehouses...
Cult: ah thank goodness everything is working out so smoothly! (Has no idea)
@desatu's tags. Yes. The warehouse is Key to the vision here. They constantly look like they're running a drug operation or some shady bs, but no. The only thing stashed there is their teenage god.
Cult1: ...Yeah! It's. It's like a hobby. It's enrichment! It's good for him!
Cult2: And you're not worried about, oh, I don't know, the electrical engineering at play here?? What if he hurts himself??
Cult1:
Cult1: I mean. He seems like he knows what he's doing?
Cult3: hey. Have we considered that our lord god is all powerful and probably can avoid hurting himself on this through application of his will and aptitude?
CultAll: *reassured muttering*
Danny: Hey, look at this! I made a ray gun! :)
CultAll: *Parental praise and support*
Cult2: let's sign him up for a shop class. I heard that at the public level it's basically supervillainy 102
Cult4: I mean. Does he even WANT to be a super villain?
Cult1: No, but he can do whatever he likes with an engineering background, right? Support his interests and all that
CultAll: *unison chanting* Support His Interests... Support His Interests... Support His Interests...
Stephanie, mic'd in for bimonthly cult-busting recon: ...the fuck?
The batfam watching them like it's their favourite show. And watching as Danny, Ellie and Jazz are helping to keep them on a legal path. Well, for Gotham anyway. Like, counter mugging and mugger isn't a crime. Surely? The fact that they have started to help the street kids by setting up a soup kitchen? They don't know where they are getting the money. (Jason, of course it's Jason) but they don't want to ruin a good thing.
Okay, so as a side interest, I study cults (like, actual cults) and small-scale religious groups (more like what we're characterizing here), and in order to make money, the majority of religious groups sell some sort of religious service or healing service to outsiders. This usually serves both as a recruitment method and something extremely coercive to suck money out of people who're desperate.
So, if Jason rolls up to the warehouse and slams the doors open like WHAT UP, NERDS, I'M GOING TO FUND YOUR WEIRD COMMUNITY THING, there's every reason for the cult to go ooookay...do you, um, would you like an audience with the lord god? About it?
And, being nosy, I can't imagine Jason turning down the opportunity to see this kid in person and make sure he's not being pushed around or anything. So yeah, sure. The cult disappears to put on their robes or whatever and the kid pops into the kitchen (different corner of the warehouse with a fridge in it) with like his robe half put on and half flying in the wind.
"So, uh," Danny tries, looking upwards, because this guy is tall and Danny's fourteen, "Do you have, like...personal problems?"
"So many." Jason can't really emphasize just one. "Anger's usually the worst of it. Why, got a cure-all or something in this joint?"
"Er," says Danny. "...No. Actually, this seems more like my sister's deal. Hold on. One minute."
And the kid god darts out, only to return by pushing his older sister in, giving her a thumbs up and leaving. The girl rolls her eyes and straightens upright. She asks him what's up.
...Jason tells her a very abbreviated version of what's up. Kid censored. He leaves the dying in there though, because whatever, it's a cult! They'll believe that stuff.
The girl. Frowns. "That's...that's super weird. Actually. Hold on."
Jason then proceeds to watch her take an abundance of greens out of the fridge, pull the world's jankiest homemade blender off of the floor, and make two portions of the healthiest smoothie he's ever had the misfortune of seeing in his life.
She pours two glasses. Jason drinks one, and she drinks the other. It tastes indistinguishable from grass. "Try to meditate on things that brought you joy in life tonight. You'll feel better if you have good memories."
...okay.
Jason pays $3000 for bogus services rendered, goes home, and resolves himself to sleeping in his crappy safehouse bed for the night like any other.
He dreams about his mom when she was sober. They were reading doctor Seuss books together. It's a memory so old...Jason doesn't think he was even talking at that age. He wakes up in the morning totally, entirely cured.
What the fuck. Wait. Does that mean the cult is actually onto something?
Meanwhile, Jazz is glad to have gotten the most ecto-soaked veggies out of the fridge before they started manifesting consciousness again. She hopes that one dude was alright. He looked kind of hangry all the while they were talking.
Jason popping in to find out that they mostly focus on helping others. And it's because of the God child. Who refused to but their souls. But have good advice? Yeah they really are just that thankful to the kid. And really are just trying their best....
That smoothie was fuckin awful. Just the worst. But it worked? He's gotta teach them how to make em taste better though.
I like all of this. That said, I can easily imagine a different path this could take.
Danny: anger issues are more my older sister's purview, unless you mean that you want vengeance. That’s my younger sister's area.
Jason: Vengeance?
Danny: Alright, then. HEY DANI, WE GOT A VENGEANCE CASE!
Jason: That wasn't what I...
Dani: *scitters along the wall before turning her head 180 degrees to grin manicly at Danny and Jason* Tell me all about it.
Danny: Make sure to specify if you want the guy dead. Otherwise, she'll assume he isn't owed that mercy.
Jason: *stares*
Jason: So there's this psycho clown...
Joker has no idea what he'll awaits him. Jason of course is just like... If you don't kill him? He needs to be unable to move. Ellie just goes, bet! Joker will never be able to commit another crime again.
Meanwhile? Danny eventually notices that Jason is revived, and has something nasty in there... Hmm. Blob boba tea it is!
Danny: So! While that's happening! Anything else you wanna talk about? Like, we try to offer space for people who need rehab, or finding funds for medical care and shit? Got anyone who needs help?
Jason sipping on the weird, but very tasty boba tea.....
Jason: I run some of the charities in crime alley. Can I get you to add them to your list. Often safer that the government programs.
Danny: Oh for sure! If you ever need a place for people to crash in, we've turned the back into like, a barracks?
I realize you probably meant this in a "blobs as food" way, but the mention of Jason having something nasty in him got me in a "blobs as cleaner fish" mindset, and I had to share the resulting idea.
Blob boba tea has clean ectoplasm (because he needs some) and Blob ghosts (to filter the nasty stuff already in there).
The blobs will work their magic cleaning all the grossness out of his system and then phase out of him when they're done.
Later that night, Jason is lying in bed, feeling oddly peaceful and content, when a cloud of little glowing green blobs flows out of his stomach, making cute little comforting noises. The cloud disperses. Most of the blobs fly away through the walls (off to chow down on the buildup of icky energy in Gotham). A couple stay with Jason, purring gently as they snuggle up to him (hoping he will either aquire more contamination or lead them to the source).
Jason decides that dealing with this is a tomorrow problem and falls asleep. When he wakes up, the blobs that stayed are still there. Apparently, it wasn't a dream.
...guess he's going to have another talk with cult leader kid.
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Also, Ellie is having so much fun tormenting the Joker.
Jason: did I-did I give birth
Blobs: *happy purr*
Jason: oh my god I’m a mommy
Jason running back to the warehouse cradling his baby.
Jason: Your tea made me pregnant!
*holds the blob up to show the proof*.
This of course has Danny and Ellie crying from laughing. Like.... Ok. They kinda get how he came to that conclusion. But. just. No. That's not what happened here! We promise! They are filter cleaners! They are the bad Ecto and then phased out of you! More like a pet than a baby! We promise!
Danny: Oh my Ancients! I haven't laughed so hard in months!
Ellie: Don't worry! It would take a LOT more work to get you pregnant than just a cup of boba tea!
Jason:..... Wait! What!?!? You could anyway?!
Danny: You have a proto core. So like. If we got it turned into a full core? Yeah. But it would take time and energy. And you would have to be a willing participant. So you're safe!
Jason: I might need the ghostly birds and bees talk.
Ellie: I'll go summon Frostbite! He's our healer!
Jason doesn’t care if he didn’t give birth to Blobert, Blobert is now his baby.
Besides he already introduced Blobert to their great grandfather. And no one has to tell the BatFam that Blobert is basically a Pit cleaner fish.
Plus they have a domino and everything.
Is B can adopt an alien starfish he can have a blob baby!
He would like that liminal health class though. Now please. How does his core go from Proto to real? What else is this gonna do to him? Were they fucking with him when they said he could get ghost pregnant? There are a lot of answers he would like.
True to form Alfred accepts Blobert immediately. Barely even raised an eyebrow.
I enjoy the idea of Blobert becoming a full fledged ghost eventually. Because they stick around and absorb Gotham's curses. So, they eventually and slowly grow and change. Yup, that's a baby alright!
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Did Blobert eat the curse that keeps turning people into mad scientists? Because I think it would be funny to have Blobert become super intelligent. With the right guidance, they could be a benevolent mad scientist, but there will be a plethora of inventions, discoveries, and zany hijinks.
Tim might just be Blobert's favorite uncle, but he's not allowed to watch Blobert without additional supervision. The last time they were left unsupervised together they tried to find a way to use ectoplasm's antimicrobial properties to fix Tim's immune system and this somehow spiraled into them either making Tim heavily liminal to the point where there's very little chance of him not becoming a ghost or straight up recreating Danny's accident and making him a full halfa. (Blobert was really shook after Tim got a bad infection. None of their family is allowed to end.)
The other Bats never learn that Blobert started out as a cleaner fish. They just think the lack of comprehension early on was due to them being a literal infant. Of course they became more knowledgeable and capable of more complex thought as they grew. That's how children work.
Blobert builds things for their family. Things that will keep them safe (like better armor) and things that make them happy (like cameras that work on ghosts).
Did Babs ask for a battle chair with mechanical spider legs, laser canons, and a force field generator? No. Did she have fun learning to pilot it? Yes.
"how many cultists does it take to enroll a kid into high school" is the FUNNIEST.SHIT EVER FLKFKFJFJFJ
Sometimes family is you, your siblings, and the people who worship you as their god.
I do enjoy the idea of Blobert becoming super intelligent by eating the local curses. Probably learns how to shape their body into something less blob over time as well. Still goes blob when tired. Or in search of cuddles. But otherwise has a form with hands.
Jason loves liminal health care class. He's learning so much? And these poor kids? Really are trying their best to help. They escaped a shitty situation. And yeah, the kid is a godling of sorts. He can see why these guys love him. And he can see the kids are trying to get them to tone down the worship aspect.
Jason low key is emotionally adopting all of these idiots. They all have kicked puppy auras ok! He can't help it!
I am so happy this continued. But I can just imagine Ellie casually asking the other kids what they would do to the Joker to get more ideas. Him suffering horribly as an occasional thing in the background. Now I want to know what some of the Rogues think of this Not-Quite-A-Cult they have going on.
I mean, half of them would see if their 'Lord God' can help them. The other half probably try to kidnap Danny of his sisters. Which uh, goes about as well as you can expect. Even after the siblings are done with them? Fucking, Red Hood? Shows up and makes their life worse. Dammit all.
Batman is just glad they aren't killing people. He's not entirely sure what they're doing isn't worse in many ways. But, their victims still have a chance to better themselves at least. Even if it is from a full body cast.
Consider, the cult grows one member at a time. Usually because Danny leaves the "house" (cult base) and ends up doing Something Weird.
Freeze's suit cracks somehow and Danny helps patch it up at some point
Just Danny slowly amassing (accidentally) a loyal following. Just by being kind and helpful.
Eating the curses gave Blobert power to grow. But it was the Batfamily's belief that Blobert is Jason's baby that allows them to gain human intelligence and grow into a humanoid-ish form.
Even learning Blobert was actually a cleaner fish, Jason never lost that first emotional surge of attachment to them as his baby. And as Blobert grows in intelligence and gains a more humanoid form, Jason fully commits. This is his child, Blobert.
The Bats are all a bit liminal and connected to the city spirit, Lady Gotham. Batman was even claimed as her Brother.
Their belief, that Blobert is a baby growing up, formed the blob ghost into a more humanoid shape. The power of their belief that Blobert is their baby nephew-niece/grandchild/great-grandchild influenced them into growing into human intelligence. Their support and encouragement allowed Blobert to grow into a person of their own. Their love and attachment steadily feed Blobert to keep growing as their family member.
Blob form is good for cuddles and total relaxation. But Blobert wants to be like their family, so grows and shapes themself to eventually look more like a Wayne. Even if they're a semi-translucent, squishy noodle-physics, green-glowy Wayne-ish kid. Details and color is hard ok. They're also limited by ectoplasm-mass so they're still little kid-sized.
Meanwhile, the cult opens a healing Cafe and bakery in the more well-to-do parts of Gotham, alongside their outreach programs in less affluent areas of Gotham. Maybe the cafe is near the college campus. Because there's a lot of ecto-contaminated and cursed people in Gotham.
Danny cooing over Blobert when Jason comes to meet them.
Danny: Ohh gosh!! You're feeding him so much love! He's gonna manage to grow and become a person!!!! That's amazing! Do you know how RARE that is!!!
I think Jason would be a good dad for Blobert. I can easily imagine him using the rule my parents followed "If your child brings you a book, you read to them." He seems like he would be really on the ball about keeping them safe and healthy, too.
Blobert would be so loved.
I bet Bruce begins to slip them funds as well. Once he's sure they are genuinely trying their best to be good and helpful. Is it weird to have a baby death God and his siblings, their cult and his first grandchild (magically conceived. Is his grandchild a demiGod!?) in his city? Yes. But they are helping. In ways he can't. Helping those the city government won't. So he's going to help them as much as he can.
Also highly likely that he will ask if they can/will help protect Earth in dire situations. Please take the com from the JL. Please? Earth gets attacked so often. He is tired. A baby God can only be a useful ally. Making JLD collectively choke on their drinks when he introduced the kids? Was priceless. Ah, he does so enjoy fucking with his more annoying co-workers.
Blobert's biggests growth spurt (from small near child to actual child) comes when he manages to find the Lazarus Pit in Gotham and cleans it out. Jason panics a bit over it and Ra's is not happy that one of the Pits is completely removed from existence. Danny frowns when he learns about them and Dani volunteers to go around the world to clean them all up. With how often Jason has been coming around to talk about how to raise his child, him and Jazz have started to date.
