Mentor-Hunting
AKA "Danny gets magically turned into a DILF because a wayward wish. Who better to help Phantom manage a feral mini-me than Batman, bat-dad of many feral children?" DPxBatfam prompt based on this art! A little plot-twist at the end ;)
Imagine Danny's in his late 20s, graduate student going to Gotham-U for a (super cheap, possible Villain Origin Story trial run) doctoral degree in bioengineering. To be fair, Desiree has never stepped foot in Gotham. And not so fair, she does happen to keep an ear out for her king and any wishes regarding his well-being.
(Later, she'll say it was in his best interest. She was just trying to give him the "gift of fatherhood" without the tribulations of a "boring romance". Danny, of course, calls B.S.)
So, when an itty-bitty well-meaning grandma from the food cart Danny probably frequents too often tells him, "You need a find a wife and have some babies! He'd be a heart-breaker with those curls. I wish I'll see the day," Danny laughs it off. He orders his usual, spends 6 hours working on his dissertation, and falls asleep to his laptop fan trying not to combust in flames.
He wakes up to: A Child. Staring at him. It then says, "Do you have graham crackers?" in a deceptively cute voice.
Specifically, his child - black curls, cherub cheeks, pale skin, and oh no, bright green eyes that immediately narrow with poorly hidden mischief. He's chasing the 7-year-old around his apartment and frantically dialing his mom, asking, "How did you calm me down as a kid?? Ancients, don't touch- come back here! Stop flying! Don't break anything, I need my deposit back!" Unfortunately, neither his mom or dad are any help.
It takes about 3 days of non-stop child wrangling before Danny is desperate enough to ask for help from anything aside from single mom tips and tricks reddit posts. He feels like he's been run over by a truck. He's barely eaten because his kid steals anything he makes for himself like a particularly loud-mouthed vacuum cleaner, he can't take a shower without a bone-deep terror that the kid somehow escaped out into one of the most crime-ridden cities in North America, and he's 72 hours behind on his paper.
