#dp headcanons

They’re able to ‘coo’ and ‘babble’ and eventually figure out how to form the proper words as time goes on, and they learn faster around other ghosts who speak in ghostspeak around them. Until eventually they can hold their own in a conversation.

Danny, due to being Phantom, learns a lot of things he does not want, or need to know. Like top teir embarrassing, blackmail worthy information, and Danny is just privy to it all.

And its litterally never on purpose, he just finds him in situations where hes invisible and happens to overhear stuff like: how Dr. Parker, the dentist, was getting a divorce with his wife because he cheated with the receptionist but if he promises his wife the kids she'll say the divorce was mutual do that Dr. Parker still has some dignity, or how the Florist, Mrs. May, was actually going to leave her shop to her granddaughter, and not her son because she knew her son was horrible with money, or how the Middleschool Science Teacher and Librarian had actually been dating for a year even though it went against policy.

this kid that they had grown so close to, has a near death fight, and they feel the overwhelming relief of knowing that they wont have to bury their honorary bird

..

only for that relief to be immediately stripped away, because now danny has no idea who they are, who he is, or what was just happening

and suddenly, hes pulled into the realms to be crowned, never to see his family again

It’s been a while since I’ve posted ab Shadow, Jazz’s contracted Ancient :3 One of its unique abilities is to imitate the appearances of the living, but they’re not always accurate due to its weak eyesight.

A headcanon that I have ab Shadow is that its favorite human form to copy is Batman’s. Not Bruce, but specifically Batman, bc he appears dark, shadowy, and very tall. Shadow will often follow Batman and watch him in order to copy him better. Afterwards, Shadow will accompany Jazz and Jason as Batman on the occasion whenever they’re in Crime Alley.

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Clockwork has decided that Jason Todd is incapable of taking care of himself after becoming a revenant and he simply has to intervene (yes, has to, stupid eyeballs).

And by intervening he means pseudo-adopting; because that’s just how ghosts work

So he goes to Gotham City, he goes in disguise as a man with sun-kissed skin, crimson-brown eyes with a the one having the scar, and stark white hair reaching about shoulder length and often having the top half pulled up and back

His name is Horace Clockwork, a forty-two year old man who just moved into Crime Alley who walks with a black cane that has a golden clock gear shaped topper and dresses like he’s in a medieval romance novel

(It’s been awhile since he’s been in a human disguise, okay?)

The first step of taking in Jason is to appeal to his more ghostly side; aka, bandage Red Hood’s wounds when he crashes through his apartment’s window one night.

After Hood wakes up, “Horace” demands he stays the night to heal. Next day he’s made waffles that almost (almost) rival Alfred’s.

To appeal to his more human side, Horace signed up for many of Jason Todd’s charities and volunteer events. He even starts baking and providing dinner for anyone less fortunate who knocks on his door; whether that’s what they were asking for or not.

Horace Clockwork becomes Crime Alley’s Saint, creating blanket and pillow piles in his living room for kids on those colder nights or when the heater breaks. He’s always seen leaving Tupperware full of food on people’s doors, knocking but not staying so the people who need it can take it without feeling any guilt or pity.

Through all this, he inevitably grabs Jason’s attention. The Red Hood visits him once a week for dinner after interrogating him and making sure his intentions are pure.

“Eat your dinner before I shove it down that hood of yours,” He waved a spoon at him the first day he showed up, thus starting their weekly dinners

Jason looks into Horace himself, sometimes in disguise sometimes not, but overall finds the guy harmless and even starts to see him as a father figure.

Bruce finds out and does his whole Batman Stalking procedure, where he finds out that Horace Clockwork isn’t a real man despite the ID and driver license the man carries with him in his name.

(He controls Time, not the government)

Batman confronts Horace one day in an alleyway, demanding answers and interrogating him.

“Who are you?” Batman demands

“Nunya Bis,” Horace answers, “It’s short for none ya business,”

Horace manages to evade all Batman’s questions and his cornering after that night until Clockwork decides he’s tired of the man’s stalking and manages to get a message to both Red Hood and Batman so they meet him at the same time.

It’s there that he confesses everything. Which leads to Clockwork holding Jason on his hip like an overworked mother as he yells at Batman for “not treating his dead adjacent son right!” And “did you even do any research on raising a revenant? You have access to the Justice League Dark!”

Jason loves it, Bruce is exhausted, and the rest of the Batfam have adopted Horace as their second father.

For the longest time he thought it was protecting people after all that’s what he did for 3 years but during those years he realized it wasn’t protection, he still protected town but it wasn’t his obsession

Then he thought it was space, he had been obsessed with it for years and had originally wanted to become an astronaut or at least work for NASA in some way, but that wasn’t it either although it took longer for him to realize

When he first came to Gotham, on the run from his parents with the help of Clockwork, he got some forged documents made it look like he was really born in this universe and everything, he went to school for aerospace engineering so he could work for NASA

He had to work a job, he originally started at a cafe and realized he loved when people complimented his baked goods or his brews. He felt better when he helped street kids, after all living near Crime Alley meant there were plenty of kids who need even just food. He slowly realized his obsession was caring for and showing love to other people, the love he sorely lacked, sure Jazz tried she really did but she was only a child too, she couldn’t provide what Danny needed no matter how hard she tried because she needed it too and never got it