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He is literally a blob, maybe one developing eye or maybe he is blind and has a little antenna. When he grows into a more mature eldritch being it will either fall off when his third eye develops or continue growing to eventually be used as a lure like an angler fish.

Due to cosmic shenanigans Constantine is watching over Danny during the equivalent of tummy time for the baby eldritch. The Flash being like he's so ugly, where can I get one? He keeps poking an annoyed Danny who decides he's had enough and inhales like Kirby and their speedster is gone.

Constantine: this is why you don't poke baby eldritch monsters, let alone one that's annoyed by you Speedsters who knows better than to mess with time.

Baby blob Danny: *drooling*

Constantine: don't worry, he's not eating him he's just using him as a teething toy. Once we burp him he'll throw the speedster right up and everything else he ate to chew on.

- An itty bitty- can be held in two hands -blob that has an inter dimensional pocket for a stomach so that he can inhale things much bigger than him

Or

Danny, now a dumpster sized blob, in the training room resting on a nest of training dummies. Constantine booked the whole room for Danny to get used to his eldritch instincts and that's when a Bat comes in (leaving it open for shipping preference) and gets pulled into the nest because eldritch Danny thought they were pretty and to be protected in his nest.

He is literally a blob, maybe one developing eye or maybe he is blind and has a little antenna. When he grows into a more mature eldritch being it will either fall off when his third eye develops or continue growing to eventually be used as a lure like an angler fish.

Due to cosmic shenanigans Constantine is watching over Danny during the equivalent of tummy time for the baby eldritch. The Flash being like he's so ugly, where can I get one? He keeps poking an annoyed Danny who decides he's had enough and inhales like Kirby and their speedster is gone.

Constantine: this is why you don't poke baby eldritch monsters, let alone one that's annoyed by you Speedsters who knows better than to mess with time.

Baby blob Danny: *drooling*

Constantine: don't worry, he's not eating him he's just using him as a teething toy. Once we burp him he'll throw the speedster right up and everything else he ate to chew on.

Typical "sacrificed to the ghost king" scenario except thier technically being sacrificed to the "endless green of the void" aka the Ghost Zone itself and it just dgaf so when these guys land in Dannys front yard in the gz he sends them home immediately

Just

Batman: *gets sacrificed and thrown into the void*

Batfam: *were too late to stop it* Noooooo!

Batman: returns literally a moment later confused and with a post it note saying "✨ no ✨" complete with hand drawn sparkles ✨ stuck to his forehead.

The bats lose it a little as they finished beating up the bad guys.

Somehow it turns into the bats "sacrificing" themselves to the void just to see what kind of rejection they get.

Nightwing got sent back with a note that said "lol" and nothing else

Black bat got a note saying "No, thank you"

Red Hood got a "Tempting, but no"

Spoiler got a talking Barney the Dinosaur toy but the only sounds it would make were very accurate explosions

Red Robin was sent back with like, 12 flavors of lip balm in black metal tubes. No one recognized what brand they might be from and with a bit of reverse engineering Red discovered there were hidden laser blasters inside of each of them that would be used discretely. He got freaking secret agent gear wtf.

Robin got sent back with a uno reverse card taped to his back and a glowing green bunny with blank red eyes in his arms. He has no idea where the bunny came from but wasn't complaining. It was very fluffy and loved to give him kisses.

For some reason it freaked out both Drake and Todd though.

Phantom was just wondering why so many people were sacrificing themselves to him via the "sacrificial bride" ritual. He wasn't even anyone important so why send them to his territory in the Ghost Zone???

Link stared at the boy he had just saved. He was...considerably younger than he had been minutes ago before the strange monster had attacked them and he feared that if he saw his reflection it would show something similar had happened to him.

Unfortunately, Links shield had broken in the impact of the attack and while he had protected himself from the blunt of it, he was still smaller than the black haired child he had jumped into the fray to save.

Link was not familiar with the language of this place, only knowing the boys name, and the name of the city they had been transported to: Gotham. He hoped the princess and her sages wouldn't panic too much when they discovered he was missing but he could feel through thier vows that the sages have already noticed something was wrong. Nonetheless, he had a child to protect and nothing was going to stop him from doing so, even being adopted by what Link believed was the king of this realm, Bruce Wayne

On the other hand, link had lost his childhood the moment he had drawn that sword, everything being stolen from him to prepare him to fight the calamity. He would not say no to having a belated childhood with nearly a dozen older siblings to protect him...did...did he even want to be found? Being found would mean he would have to return to Hyrule. To his old life.

He decided he did not want that.

Danny had similar thoughts. His parents never actually cared much, his best friends had abandoned him the moment Gregor came into the picture, and his sister never paid much attention to him either. He didn't have much of a life and the whole reason he had met elf boy and accidentally kidnapped him was because he was in the zone trying to vent his pent up aggression through beating the hell out of whoever and getting sucked through a portal a ghost had created to get rid of him.

Danny sees a 30 minute video in his recommendations titled: Why Red Robin and Phantom should never meet, and honestly? The more he watches the more he immediately wants to fly to New Jersey and declare Red Robin and Spoiler his new friends

Tim sees the same video and is losing his mind cause this is how he learns about the Anti ecto acts and about a Lazarus hell portal being open in a small city in Illinois for two years without the JL knowing anything!

He needs to save this guy before he gets himself...okay. Maybe its a little late for that but his point still stands!

It has nothing to do to him liking how many unhinged situations him and Phantom could get away with. Nothing!

RR could hardly believe it when Phantom showed up on his patrol a few nights later, offering to give him a tour of the ghost zone (at least what Danny had mapped out already) in return for some assistance against Vlad, the GIW, the Fentons and help him get Danny and Jazz Fenton rights to thiwr parents patents and machines so the government can't steal them...and maybe set up a place for them to live until they're 18

Also he wanted to know how cool RR was with clones.

Tim gets a thermos and immediately sucks Phantom up, apologizes claiming he needed to test it to make sure it was legit, and they go one thier way. Dannys just glad he didn't give him a blaster.

They become best friends, prank the other bats, terrorize all of thier enemies, ect.

The real problems start when Danny "can't recognize ethics unless its actively hurting someone" Fenton and Tim "always one and a half steps from turning into a supervillian" Drake start taking things a bit too far riding off of eachothers excitement

The universe trembles in fear.

Danny: I'm not sorry! This is MY emotional support bestie now!

Danny: Tim Tim Tim! This is my clone sister/cousin or whatever!

Ellie: Hi! always nice to meet my templates friends!

Kon: Wait! You're a clone too!

Ellie: Oh hell yeah! Clone buddy! Hi! Call me Ellie!

Tim: So. How long did it take you to become family?

Ellie: Oh. Danny didn't even care when I literally shot him in the back and let him be hurt to stabilise myself.

Danny: Not her fault she was made by a fruitloop asshole! He told her she would be melted down for spare parts! After she watched all her siblings melt! Not her fault! Ellie just wanted to survive! And she changed sides when she realises he was lying to her.

Tim's team had those outfits made a month before they made him make that promise JUST IN CASE he was going to admit to going villain right then and there

This causes much hilarity and chaos. No! Tim! We're sorry! We didn't mean it! We just missed you! You ran away to play mad science and abandoned us! We love you! Tim! Don't make us minions! At least lieutenants!

"A contract," the creature croaked, freezing Tim in place.

"What?" He asked, stunned. He knew he should run, he knew he shouldn't trust whatever magic nonsense this was turning into but...whoever or whatever this was sounded desperate.

Green glowing liquid had came together to make the vague shape of a person on the ground, "A contract," the creature repeated, "Care for me and give me energy, and in return I will serve and protect you."

Red Robin hesitated, "How do I know you're not going to stab me in the back the first chance you get."

"I need to feed." The thing gasped, "I need a host. I can negotiate"

Tim can negotiate too, and if there's one thing his 17 year old co-ceo self knew by now, it was contracts.

After the contract was completed, the being passed out and a bright white flash left a relatively normal looking boy in its place

Danny moves to Gotham for college, much to Jazzs horror. To be fair he got a good scholarship that payed for his entire tuition and 80% of his living expenses. He was still on his own for a lot of stuff like clothing, furniture and text books.

So Danny, being the son of mad scientists who sell thier inventions, begins making mad scientists things like shrink rays and cryo guns whatnot for domestic use and selling them to the general public. His parents are so proud when they hear and Danny is doing everything he can to stay on the legal side of things.

Half the bats are convinced hes evil and the other half are browsing his online store (actually tim is doing that regardless of which side he's on) and buying stuff.

Danny wasn't making much at first but after people found out they were legit and were safe to use and have built in things to prevent them from harming people, they began selling out fast. All of them are too weak to be used as weapons but can be used for things like instant ice cubes, shrinking/growing furniture for moving or just making it more comfortable, ect.

Tim was the best thing to ever happen to Danny.

He didn't mean that just because how much of a sappy romantic he was to Tim, but because he literally saved him from his own mind.

Danny was never going to leave Amity Park so long as the portal was open.

The portal would always remain open between his parents practically treating it like thier third child and thier ability to simply make another if anything would have happened to that one. Not to mention the super creep named Vlad.

So Danny would have stayed in Amity forever, cleaning up after his parents and being miserable.

Or ya know. Until they managed to kill him.

But then Tim came into his life and fixed everything. He befriended Danny over nightime rooftop rendezvous and groaning at his dumb (read awesome) puns.

As they got closer Sam and Tucker seemed to get both anxious and angry. Were they jealous? What right did they have after the Gregor incident?! Its true that they'd both been to busy to hand out with Danny for the past few weeks, leaving Danny with only Tim to turn to for company.

Tim pointed out that they may feel threatened knowing someone else knows his secret and Danny couldn't help but agree.

Tim pointed out that Danny was going to be stuck here cleaning up after his parent the rest of his life if he didn't find a way to stop the portal. Danny had nearly broke down at that and admitted he didn't know what else to do, so Tim devised a plan with that big beautiful brain of his.

They created a machine that ran on ectoplasm and magic that could wipe information from both technology and the human brain. They could remove all traces of ghosts ever existing in this town and erase 20 years of knowledge and research from Vlad and the Fentons minds, but it would come at a cost as magic usually does.

They would have to forget Danny existed as well. Tim offered that they could run away together.

Danny decided that was okay. The only person he had left in this town who had cared about him was Jazz and she was better off without him there to get her hurt.

Tim also had a plan to strip Vlad of his powers as well as his knowledge, and Danny was looking forward to not having to deal with him anymore

It was the day after everything went down, Tim was driving the GAV while Danny flew in the Ops Centers Jet form. They had made sure to swipe everything they could from the labs as well as everything the thought they needed to travel to Tims home dimension.

Danny had promised to help Tim uncover the secrets of his past and who he really was and to do that they essentially planned to travel around the Earth being wandering criminals.

Between Tims intellect and Dannys powers they were undefeated and unnoticed. They stole whatever they wanted and did whatever they pleased, making sure no one had to get hurt unless there was no other options.

Of course they stole cash from bank vaults as well as whatever else was in there. They couldn't stop Phantom from entering since anti-meta tech didn't affect him and couldnt track Phantom due to him being whatever he was plus the collar Tim had helped Danny design that covered up his ecto-signature.

They lived like this for over a year, breaking in to abandoned places, having waterfights in large city waterfountains (and running when they heard police sirens), tagging some of the places they'd hit when they wanted to leave a message, long romantic walks at night, lots of laughter, going on dates to restaurants (they never dine & dash. Some places make the wait staff pay which is bull and they might want to return to that establishment at some point), that one time they stole a $900 wedding cake from a homophobic bakery owner, lots of Fake out-Make outs to avoid getting sent to jail, ect.

They were having the time of thier lives up until they stopped in a little 24 hour diner in Bludhaven. They were doing what they usually do, flirting and laughing until the waiter takes thier order, when a guy approached thier table. Tim and Danny exchanged worried looks before the guy held up his hands in mock surrender, "I'm not gonna hurt you, I promise, I'm Dick Grayson." The man held out his hand to Tim, who hesitated before shaking it, "Tim," he answered honestly.

Danny nudged him with his foot under the table.

The man smiled wide, "Like Tim Drake?"

The bats had a plan. They knew Deathstroke had some wierd fixation on Nightwing and were going to use that to reel him in.

So Nightwing and the batfam staged a fight so big that when Batman disowned him it seemed legit and Nightwing disappeared not long after.

The bats were worried but they knew Dick could handle himself and that Deathstroke was an enemy he was familiar with so they just needed to trust him. That trust fell apart when they found out Deathstroke never encountered Nightwing as intended and the plan was never activated in the first place.

No one knew where Dick was. No one knew who had him, and someone had to have him or else he would have turned up by now or sent them a coded message, something!

But nope. All of his friends and family were left to worry about him and wonder...

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Dick loved his little brother. He was funny and loved to make jokes and puns with him. He still had a lot to learn about gymnastics though. Dick wasn't sure why he loved it so much, it just felt like it was part of him somehow. Danny always got a look on his face Dick himself couldn't identify when he talked about it.

Maybe it was one of his missing memories? Danny had told him all about Dicks accident. Appearently thier parents, sister, and godfather had all died in it, leaving Dick Fenton with custody of Danny as the oldest sibling.

Something about those last two words seemed to tickle something in his brain...but it was soothed just by glancing at Danny across the diner table. Looking at Danny always made the wierd sensation disappear, like dark clouds being blown away to reveal the sun. Wasnt it wierd that his eyes always sought out Danny when the feeling starts?

Anyway, the accident didn't take his life, but it did take Dicks memories. He didn't remember much of his life before Danny dragged him out of the rubble but he knew he loved his mom, dad and little siblings.

Everything was fine in thier little household of two. Now he just needed to snoop around thier house for a bit to help him remember things

To find the truth

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Aka Danny, lonely and desperate after his family and friends died in an accident. He accidentally traveled to another dimension while wandering the zone in an attempt to get away for a while and witnessed what some random wierdo in a fursuit said to his...son? Apprentice? After seeing the fight Danny has a mental break and kidnaps Nightwing thinking no one would go looking for him.

Danny erases Dicks memories along with the citizens of Amity Park and brainwashed everyone to live out his fantasy of a safe home and loving family.

MustProtectThem/MustProtectHaunt/MustProtectGrave

Danny knew taking Dick was wrong but they needed each other, right?

NeedFamily/CantProtectFamilyWithOutFamily/NightwingHasNoFamilyNow/NightwingBecomeFamily

Danny knew taking away Dick’s memories was wrong but Danny didn’t want Dick to live with the pain, right?

Don’tWorryBrother/Won’tRememberRejection/WillAlwaysKeepYouSafe

Danny raced through the ghost zone in a panic, how had he missed this? Appearently vlad had released Pariah Dark from his coffin again and got smeared into a paste. The mad king had then went into another dimension, hoping to conquer it and gain more power and skeleton soldiers only to be met in battle by a group of powerful warriors calling themselves the Justice League. Vlad had somehow survived the initial butt kicking and tried to use ghost tech to finally take the king down.

Unfortunately for him, pariah saw him coming in the reflection of a lady warriors blade and killed him.

Somehow the fight dragged on halfway across the US until they got to New Jersey where some billionaire guy was hosting one of his kids 18th birthday bash at his mansion. Pariah appearently crashed threw the roof, a hero dropped the weapon they had taken from Vlad and, in an effort to save his family, Brucie Wayne took the weapon and warned Pariah not to come any closer to his kids.

Pariah mocked him and raised his weapon to a young man with a white streak in his hair they was spayed across the floor in a daze.

Next thing anyone knew the King was dead.

Bruce Wayne had killed the previous king in single combat.

Bruce Wayne was the new Ghost King

Bruce Wayne was sitting on the throne in Pariahs keep looking very unsettled.

Danny gaped at the billionaire, jaw dropped at the floor, smoke still in coming out of the weapon in his hands. The weapon that killed Pariah and therefore—

And therefore making him the new king by conquest.

Danny reviewed the whole thing in his head just to make sure he's not getting this wrong. Pariah and him fought. Crashed a rich guy's party. Said rich guy told Pariah off for trying to hurt his kid. Pariah taunted him. Dude challenged him not to hurt his guests (including Danny). It doesnt have to be worded like that but the intent is al the same there. He challenged Pariah and Pariah retaliating with a taunt could count as accepting it.

So going back,

"Holy shit."

Danny says it out loud this time, making the rich dude's kids' attention snap to him but he can't help it. Feeling a weird change in the air and within him (as a witness), he cant he blamed to the near delirious laugh that escaped his lips. The rich guy new king and his kids tensed up as he floated towards them, guided by a weird instinct to bow before the guy with a broad smile across his lips as he imagines the chaos this would bring.

Bruce felt the wind rushing through his hair as he fell. The batsuit he was wearing only seconds ago was nowhere on his person not did he have any tools or a utility belt, only an unfamiliar tshirt and jeans and the much smaller body of a child.

Below him was a snowy landscape filled with trees and no sign of civilization nearby. Just as Bruce was preparing to do a very painful landing maneuver to save himself he just...stopped. He thought for a moment that one of the supers had come to rescue him as he slowly drifted down, much like the snowflakes that had started to come down around him but he was still alone.

Alright. So hes bodyswapped with a meta. He can work with this.

Elsewhere Danny finds himself in the body of freaking Batman in the middle of a Justice League fight where Batman had just been hit with unidentified magic from an unknown creature.

Just his luck. Its a ghost and he doesn't have his powers. But at least he knows how to make weapons thanks to his parents

Bruce proceeds to have to deal with dannys grocery list of powers and figure out how to control them while looking for civilization

A quiet beeping came from Red Robins wrist computer, puzzling him. A break in? At one of his more affluent safe houses? At this time of day?

He pulled up footage from his hidden cameras for see a kid around 14 riffling through his cabinets, only to take a box of pop tarts before bolting, looking super guilty the entire time.

Over pop tarts.

Of course Tim didn't call the police. It was pop tarts and the kid looked like he needed them too.

About a week later the kid came back. He slowly crept around the place, poking things, moving furniture around by an inch or so before deciding it was safe to steal more food. It was always things too small for Tim to care about and honestly wouldn't even notice were missing unless he had been craving them beforehand.

After another week he came back and had the audacity to actually take a shower. It was then that Tim realized what was happening.

The kid must have had never seen any police arrive after the break in and thought there was no security at all. An empty rich guys apartment with full working amenities was a perfect place for a homeless kid to live.

Tim was about to call in an anonymous tip to the authorities so he could be placed in the foster system when the kid jolted and briefly flicked invisible. That changed things. Checking the outside cameras revealed that a minor car accident happened outside. He could understand the kid being a homeless runaway if he had powers that could activate suddenly when startled.

So he let the kid stay, making sure to sneak in and keep the groceries and toiletries stalked up whenever the kid went out for the night. Kid always came back in the morning to eat and sleep and Tim made it a habit to keep tabs on the kid even while he was doing other things.

Tim stared at his computer screen, wondering if this counted as "Stalker Tendencies"

Tim hadn't yet realized he had adopted this child-emotionally if nothing else. He keeps feeling really proud of himself whenever he gets his child to eat properly and leaves little recipe cards and stuff in the cabinets with the food.

Au where Danny hides his powers and eldrich nature from his husband Tim and Tim hides his vigilante career from Danny.

Both are very successful and neither suspects a thing. Tim had originally planned to admit to being a hero at some point but they were always either interrupted or it just wasn't the right time and then Danny had mentioned a few times during thier engagement and marriage that he couldn't handle being with a superhero or vigilante and that it was a deal breaker. Unfortunately Tim was already deeply in love and couldn't bare to break up with him so now he lives in fear of Danny finding out and blackmailed the rest of the family into never letting it slip.

Danny is in a similar situation, ever since the portal incident people were afraid of his other half and no matter how hard he tried they always ended up hating him. He loved Tim and couldn't bare the thought of his husband having that same look of terror. Of hate. So he hid. Its all he could do. Back when he and his friends went on that road trip and gained the power of the reality gauntlet he had tried to undo his undeath entirely only to find out Danny had glitches spacetime enough that even if he undid it (which the gauntlet was incapable of doing) he would eventually wind up with the portal opening up on top of him at another date. Call it fate or destiny or whatever you like. He was stuck like this.

So he did the next best thing. He erased any proof he had ever existed. Even from the minds of his own friends. He then skipped town-or in this case universes- and used the gauntlets power to carve out a false identity in this new world full of heroes and hope

Luckly there was no one who could rat him out...until some blond guy in a trenchcoat started following him around the grocery store and talking to him. At first Danny was a little confused and annoyed but when he asked what the blond guy wanted he asked, "I wanna know what you are." And Danny went pale.

Constantine then proceeded to blackmail Danny into helping him with a case or else he would expose his dirty little secret to Tim.

Danny made the a deal, ensuring that it would only be this one time. He told Tim that he was being blackmailed but insinuated that it was something petty between him and some of the other high society house spouses. The kind of drama that Tim always made extra sure to steer clear of. He swore to Tim he was this close to spiking Bethanys muffins with a laxative in retaliation for something and Tim gave helper suggestions for how to do it without being caught while they got ready for the day.

Ever since Alfred passed away it was up to Danny and a few other people to keep the Waynes from falling apart. Honestly, no one realized how much that man did until he wasn't around anymore.

To be fair he pretty much spoiled Tim by picking up after him to the point the man can't function after a few days. If Danny ever had to leave Tim alone for prolonged periods of time he would return to a giant mess and something burning in the kitchen.

Danny would clean, Tim would spew a fountains worth of apologizes, he would forgive Tim (as if he was ever mad in the first place. This just reaffirmed that Tim needed him to protect and care for him, making his core vibrate in happiness) then they would...reacquaint themselves. He nearly shifted forms the first few times this happened. That would be one heck of a way for Tim to find out about his ghost half.

Danny smiled, thinking about those memories. He truly adored Tim and couldn't imagine a life without him. He would just have to make sure this trench coated guy never came anywhere near his precious husband.

These combined with Tim’s nightly disappearances make Danny think he’s into the occult.

Meanwhile, Danny still does not know about Tim’s vigilante persona so when he eventually meets Red Robin, Tim has to pretend that he has no idea who phantom is. Even better if he meets ‘Phantom’ in ghost form because Constantine brought him to the JL to help with a problem. And even worse, they actually need Danny’s help and abilities but Tim hates that they are essentially blackmailing his husband. Red Robin might try to befriend the guy to make him feel better (and either this is how he discovered Danny was Phantom or he already knew and was trying to comfort his boyfriend). And Danny confides that he’s doing this because if he doesn’t, Constantine will tell his husband what he is (Danny is careful not to use Tim’s name but Tim still figures out who he’s talking about). And he tells Red Robin all about how amazing and sweet his husband is and how he loves him so much but has had horrible experiences with people finding out about what he is. He can’t bare to think of how his husband might react. (In this, Constantine might even say how Danny’s presence was potentially harming a civilian and promises to remove any curses on the guy or how Danny might need certain items to keep him safe (both from himself and others out for Danny), which he can only get through Constantine or his ‘quests’ and in this Universe, Constantine has no idea Tim or the Wayne’s are the bats and have some of the best magical protection in the world due to paranoia. So while Constantine think’s he’s doing a good thing, To Tim, it looks like blackmailing his poor, helpless, abomination husband with a threat that doesn’t even exist. But he can’t even say anything without revealing both his and his family’s identities to Danny and Constantine).

Tim considers the situation and decides that, if things were reversed, he'd be more upset at Danny not telling him there's nothing for him to worry about. And the longer this goes on, the worse it'll get. It's not like he doesn't trust Danny with his life or his secrets (Danny's shown he's good to keep at least his own identity secret enough).

Tim might cut in.

"It sounds like you really love your husband. I think you should talk to him about it. It might go better than you expect. No really," when Danny seems skeptical "If you're talking about who I think you're talking about - and come on I'm the world's other greatest detective, I figured Batman out at like age 8 - he won't love you any less for it. Then you can tell Constantine to fuck off." After a moment "I mean, you wouldn't love him any less if he was keeping something like a vigilante life secret from you, would you?"

Danny considers this. He concedes that he would still love Tim, even if he were keeping a second life from him. Tim... was kind of angling to get Danny to confess first, give him that level of autonomy over his own secrets. But it also gives him a plan B, in case he can't wait.

And Danny takes too long. A week later they're each prepping for a space-ghost mission, and Tim can't stand the idea of Danny being so close but so far, for the extended time of a space mission. And what's worse is that Danny would be there under coercion, when there's no actual risk.

Tim sits his husband down.

"Shouldn't you be preparing for your business trip?" Danny asks

"Yeah, I am. There's something I need to talk to you about before we leave" ('uuuh, I'm going on a different trip from you tho') "Look, Danny, I really should have told you this before but I. Just. I didn't know how to bring it up and by the time I could you'd made your opinions Very Clear. But. I." Tim had a whole speech prepped, but he's forgotten all of it, in the moment. But he does have one of his Red Robin patterned birdarangs on him. So instead he just shows Danny that.

"..." It takes Danny a moment "Tim are you."

"Yeah."

"Red Robin. You're cheating on me with Red Robin. Of course."

"Ye- wait what."

"I knew it. I knew this was too good to be true." Danny stands. He starts to pace, like the revelations are too much to contain while stationary.

"I'm not cheating on you with the Red fucking Robin!"

"No - no, you said it like this has been a thing for longer. Am I the other woman?? No wonder he thought he knew I was talking about you!"

"Danny will you sit down! I'm not cheating on you, I'm trying to tell you that I am Red Robin."

That actually stops Danny short.

"You." Tim nods. "Are a vigilante." still nodding. "Bullshit" what. "You, Tim Drake-Wayne? CEO of Wayne Enterprises? You'd be more likely to end up on the Fruitloop end of cape-life."

"Rude. I'm not lying though."

"Why would you? You're super rich, you could solve the problems in Gotham financially!"

"Can't throw money at muggers. Or the mob. Or corrupt cops and politicians," ("I mean you can but") "And you can't throw money at interdimensional tornado ghosts hell-bent on destroying the earth."

"Oh."

"I just. I wanted you to know. That I know. Before we leave."

"Oh."

"Yeah. I. Wanted to wait for you to be ready. But. I can't. I can't go up there with you, knowing it's you. Without you knowing it's me. And I can't let you go, not if you're forced to. Not if I can help it."

"Oh. So this. This isn't about you being Red at all. This- This is about me."

"I wanted to let you tell me. I wanted you to know you'd be safe to. But. I just thought. If it were me, and it were you. How I would feel."

"How long have you known?"

"A while" Tim scratched the back of his neck "Your accent is actually pretty unique, and once I caught that, you and Phantom really only differ in your colors."

"The occult books - You were trying to tell me."

"Eh, to let you know I wouldn't mind. Maybe do a bit of research on what sort of thing to expect when my husband is an Eldritch Abomination."

"Heh, husband?"

"I mean. Unless me keeping Red a secret from you is a deal-breaker. I was kinda worried it would be, at the start."

"It isn't. Okay, wow. That's. That's a load off. But I think I'm gonna have to lie down for a minute."

"Do you need space or-"

"Timberlake if you don't come cuddle me right now you're going to have to look for a new Eldritch Abomination to husband."

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Phantom is just chilling in Gotham at night. It had been a few years since he realized he wasn't aging and was stuck at 14 forever, thus having to find a solution to the whole portal problem once and for all. After explaining his situation Pandora made quick work of it for him as a repayment for his previous help and sent him off into the zone.

Danny floated into a closed museum and sat on the top of the large Saturn model, leave it to him to find a space museum staring out at the exhibits and enjoying the peace and quiet. He removed himself from the visable spectrum once he felt someone approaching the building. Odd, he thought, there shouldn't be anything here that Catwoman would want to steal.

To his surprise it wasn't Catwoman who appeared. It was one of the bats. Phantom realized he must have tripped a silent alarm.

As he watched one of the bats slowly crept throught the museum, keeping to the shadows, he came up with an idea.

He quickly overshadowed one of the machines and powered it on, making it play the creepiest possible remix of the music it was supposed to play. The bat looked wary but didn't flee and Danny made it his personal mission to made this bat screech.

He failed of course. He had trapped the bat in here and done every horror story/creepy pasta plot he could think of and nothing worked.

More importantly the bat is making space puns and talking nerdy about space facts as he fights the machine constructs phantom had made

Danny decided that if the bat lasted till dawn then he would give them a major magical gift.

Nightwing: *making jokes and space puns, not being scared at all and just being his entire punny self:

Danny: .... 👁👄👁

Danny watched on as Nightwing- his literal soulmate- did an amazing backflip off of a roof, spinning several times in the air before landing gracefully on the top of another building. Nightwing was so graceful and in control of himself and his movements. Danny found himself wondering how Nightwing would move as a ghost.

Heck, how would he look as a ghost? Would he have white hair like Phantom or blue hair like Ember? Maybe green hair like Kitty and Youngblood, but Ghostwriters hair was still black as a ghost so maybe he'd be like that?

Shaking his head he moved to get up from where he had been leaning up against an old chimney, Nightwing having long since left. How should he go about this anyway? He can't just go up to a famous vigilante and be like, "Hi I'm your soulmate. Wanna go out with a complete stranger who has no way of proving anything that they're saying?"

And there was the real issue. If Nightwing asked how he had seen his soulmark Danny could just tell the truth: he had seen it in that nasty fight last week where hoards of ninjas had attacked them and tore up Nightwings suit enough to see it from his vantage point.

But if he asked about Dannys soul mark...well that was harder to explain.

His own soulmark used to be on his torso before he died but after he stepped out of the portal it was gone. As in there wasn't a trace of it anywhere. It was one of the reasons he never went anywhere without a shirt anymore because he knew someone would eventually notice its absence.

He could probably explain it as Phantom to make it more believable but he would have to get Nightwing to know Phantom more for him to trust him.

Which lead back to "how do I introduce myself to him without earning an electrified stick to the face?"

After a phone call with Jazz, where she basically gave him the long winded version of "Just be yourself! You were made for eachother after all." He decided that yeah! He can use his ghostly instincts to guide him! Whats the worst that could happen?

Cue Nightwing and the other bats in the batcave a week later, crowded around a table covered in pictures of captured villians and thugs. All of them were the same. All of them showed a subject laying on thier bellys hog tied, and in a cage with the words "horny jail" etched into it.

The only real connection that all of these lowlifes had was them making crude threats, creepy unsolicited advances, catcalling or otherwise being a creep towards Nightwing.

Conclusion: Nighting either has a fanboy following him around getting in over his head or he has a violent stalker staking a claim

Robin disagreed with his siblings. Clearly whoever is doing this is defending Graysons honor and Damian approves.

Consider!

The reason Danny's soulmark disappeared from his skin is because it migrated to his core. That's just a thing that happens to ghosts because their core is their soul. (This also implies that Damian, Jason, and Steph all have ghost cores since they all 'lost' their soulmarks, but that's a different story.)

Danny watched on as Nightwing- his literal soulmate- did an amazing backflip off of a roof, spinning several times in the air before landing gracefully on the top of another building. Nightwing was so graceful and in control of himself and his movements. Danny found himself wondering how Nightwing would move as a ghost.

Heck, how would he look as a ghost? Would he have white hair like Phantom or blue hair like Ember? Maybe green hair like Kitty and Youngblood, but Ghostwriters hair was still black as a ghost so maybe he'd be like that?

Shaking his head he moved to get up from where he had been leaning up against an old chimney, Nightwing having long since left. How should he go about this anyway? He can't just go up to a famous vigilante and be like, "Hi I'm your soulmate. Wanna go out with a complete stranger who has no way of proving anything that they're saying?"

And there was the real issue. If Nightwing asked how he had seen his soulmark Danny could just tell the truth: he had seen it in that nasty fight last week where hoards of ninjas had attacked them and tore up Nightwings suit enough to see it from his vantage point.

But if he asked about Dannys soul mark...well that was harder to explain.

His own soulmark used to be on his torso before he died but after he stepped out of the portal it was gone. As in there wasn't a trace of it anywhere. It was one of the reasons he never went anywhere without a shirt anymore because he knew someone would eventually notice its absence.

He could probably explain it as Phantom to make it more believable but he would have to get Nightwing to know Phantom more for him to trust him.

Which lead back to "how do I introduce myself to him without earning an electrified stick to the face?"

After a phone call with Jazz, where she basically gave him the long winded version of "Just be yourself! You were made for eachother after all." He decided that yeah! He can use his ghostly instincts to guide him! Whats the worst that could happen?

Cue Nightwing and the other bats in the batcave a week later, crowded around a table covered in pictures of captured villians and thugs. All of them were the same. All of them showed a subject laying on thier bellys hog tied, and in a cage with the words "horny jail" etched into it.

The only real connection that all of these lowlifes had was them making crude threats, creepy unsolicited advances, catcalling or otherwise being a creep towards Nightwing.

Conclusion: Nighting either has a fanboy following him around getting in over his head or he has a violent stalker staking a claim

Robin disagreed with his siblings. Clearly whoever is doing this is defending Graysons honor and Damian approves.

Consider!

The reason Danny's soulmark disappeared from his skin is because it migrated to his core. That's just a thing that happens to ghosts because their core is their soul. (This also implies that Damian, Jason, and Steph all have ghost cores since they all 'lost' their soulmarks, but that's a different story.)

Dont get him wrong, Danny had some big feelings about finding out his mom had cheated on his dad. He had even bigger feeling about the divorce and the whole shipping him off to live with his bio dad.

He wasn't going to lie. The new school was actually really nice and he had made friends quickly, though at first it was tough to weed out the ones who just wanted to get close to the Wayne family name and not him as a person. He didn't get to chat with Tucker and Sam a whole lot due to thier schedules but he and Jazz always made time for eachother.

His life had surprisingly taken a massive upturn. Vlad had been arrested soon after Danny warned the Waynes about him, making Danny believe either his dad it felt wierd calling him that but da-Jack made it perfectly clear he should never call him that was Batmans sugar daddy or somthing or maybe the Waynes got kidnapped so much that the bats bugged the whole place. Danny hoped not, he had done a whole karaoke thing with Jazz during thier video call the other night and he really didn't want anyone to hear thier shared cat screeching.

Jazz was super happy to learn Danny had joined the Volleyball team and Astronomy club. He used to play Volleyball in middle school and played defense a lot. He was even the best on the team but he stopped playing after one too many times of his parents forgetting to show up or causing a ruckus whenever they thought a ghost was nearby.

But it was better now

The portals were shut down by the bats. The GIW where expertly obliterated from existence. His parents are getting court mandated mental help. There are no more ghosts. No more ghost hunters.

And no need for Phantom

Danny doesn't think he's ever felt this free. He could go out to eat with friends with his way too big allowance that his...dad gives him and he didn't have to worry about having to ditch them to go fight a bad guy. He could eat dinner with a family who was a little awkward but surprisingly open to him and the food was delicious and didn't attack him. He could actually sleep at night and feel safe doing it. His siblings liked spending time with him and getting to learn anout him and thier "bonus sister" Jazz.

He had no reason to use his powers.

Until the grandfather clock he was walking past swung open like a door and he locked eyes with Nightwing coming out of it. They just stared at eachother before Danny just said, "I don't want to know which one your dating. Just know I have a bat and im willing to use it in the most ungodly of ways." And walked back to his room.