Danny only realizes years later that everyone on Earth thinks he died in a blizzard or some freak whiteout incident. So he just⌠rolls with it. Itâs honestly convenientâespecially after he finally told his parents everything, and they realized their portal was the reason the meaner ghosts kept showing up. (âOh! Oops! Sorry!â) They slammed it shut immediately.
Now theyâre way too excited about studying ghost culture like wildlife biologists observing a tigerâclipboard, camera, whispered commentary and all. Danny absolutely prefers âbeing filmed while eating steak to see if he grows fangsâ over the other option of being dissected, so itâs fine. And his ghost buddies? Completely delighted to have an audience for their weekly âfriendlyâ brawls.
This unfortunately spirals.
Because the Justice League, hearing âdied in a blizzard,â seeing that he rarely uses ice powers on missions, and noticing he gravitates to warm environments, assume he has a massive cold-related trauma trigger. Obviously he must⌠fear ice. Avoid ice. Be weakened by ice. (He is literally the Ice Prince of the Infinite Realms, but okay.)
So they start assigning his missions strategicallyâonly warm climates. Tropical recon. Desert patrols. Undersea volcano monitoring. Anything to avoid âaccidentally triggering his tragic snow-related death memory.â
Which is how Danny ends up being the one they send to Mercury.
At first heâs hypedâclose to the sun, cool space suit, awesome photos. But then the suit starts beeping, and Danny has the slow, dawning realization of:
âOh no. Iâm literally melting.â
Back on Earth, the League reacts exactly how youâd expect:
Absolute panic. Alarms. People yelling. Batman demanding to know why the kid with the supposed âCold Trauma Weaknessâ is on the closest planet to a star. Hal swearing it wasnât his idea. Superman already halfway to Mercury before the meeting even starts. Constantine just lighting a cigarette and muttering, âTold ya he wasnât scared of snow, ya muppets.â
And Danny? Dannyâs just sitting there in orbit, steaming like a microwaved marshmallow, trying not to die again, and texting the group chat:
âWHY WOULD YOU THINK IâM WEAK TO COLD??â
âYOU LITERALLY DIED IN A SNOWSTORM.â â Wonder Woman
âI WHAT.â â Danny
credit @jensminkele