Danny: Hi! I'm Danny Fenton, your new dorm roommate.
Jason: Jason Todd. Thanks for letting me take the spare bed. I registered late, but one of my scholarships had a requirement of living on campus. I was really worried you say no.
Danny: No worries, I figured something like that was going down if the RA asked me a month after the semester started if I was cool with a roommate. I do have one rule though.
Jason: Anything
Danny: If you want to bring someone to the dorm, I need a heads up. Not just for dates or hookups. Friends or guests too. I'm a chem major, and I don't want anyone messing with my equipment. Of course I'll do the same.
Jason: That's not a problem. And I feel like I have to warn you that I keep odd hours. I'm a bouncer.
Danny: That's fine.
Three weeks later
Danny: I think my hot dorm roomate is in the Mafia.
Dan: Damn which one? I may have shot him last week.
Danny: I wish you leave the Red Hood Gang
Dan: And get my kneecaps taken from Hood for betraying him? Nah, besides, it's not that bad. Sometimes, I just walk around and make sure the kids get home safe from the school buss or that none of working folk are bothered too much. Hood is surprisingly kind about that.
Danny: I still hate that man.
Dan: I know. I'm sorry I got mixed up with that crowd. I'm too deep to get out though.
Danny: It's not fair!
Dan: No, it isn't. But it's a mistake that I made and now have to pay for.
PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4
Alright, but what happened on Danny’s end? Why is he in Gotham?
Looking for a way to get rid of all ghosts Jack and Maddie start to officially work for the G.I.W.
While diving into the portal with the Specter Speeder, Maddie, Jack and two G.I.W. agents find the Sarcophagus of forever Sleep (which wasn’t easy at all since they had to sort a lot of traps before reaching the room where they found the sarcophagus).
Thinking that the sarcophagus was a sort of weapon for ghosts (because why else would they put the sarcophagus somewhere so far and hidden) they take it back to the living realm and start to study it to use it to finally completely exterminate all the ghosts in the ghost zone.
The reason why neither Danny or Jazz noted any of this was because Jazz was with his class in a school trip to check out the different colleges they could attend and Danny was in a field trip with his class to Yellowstone.
Unsurprisingly, all goes to hell. The G.I.W. manage to completely open the sarcophagus right when Danny and Jazz come back from their respective trips. Taken by surprise, Danny ends up extremely injured in his second fight against Pariah Dark, this time with a lot of casualties, Jazz, Sam, Tucker and Val die, their liminal souls absorbed by Pariah Dark, and Jack and Maddie in a desperate intent to destroy the monster that came out from the sarcophagus overheat the portal. Danny is weakened and sad and so tired, so he transforms in front of his parents as he faints when they tried to also destroy Phantom, when they see their unconscious son where their sworn enemy used to stand, they completely loose it and as the portal explodes Maddie and Jack are frozen middle shot.
Clockwork stops time micro seconds before the energy blasts hits Danny (who has once again defeated Pariah Dark in combat and this time his anger made him consume PD’s core, this way completely erasing him from the face of every realm, not even the Void could reclaim PD before Danny ended him). And as the home realm of Danny Fenton is completely obliterated by the explosion the Fenton portal creates (all souls in the realm immediately turning into the most primal form of ectoplasm and returning to the Void), Clockworks carry Danny away to safety.
While Danny is in a pseudo comma while his core assimilates PD’s powers, Clockwork has an emergency meeting with the observants where the general consensus is that now Clockwork, Pandora and Frostbite are the young king’s official caretakers.
Pandora and Frostbite insist that Danny still needs to continue his mortal life so he can develop a stable mindset and find closure.
Lady Gotham offers her city as sanctuary for the young king, saying that her knights would be good friends for him.
Clockwork has the last word; he accepts lady Gotham’s proposal and with Ghost Writer and Technus’s help they create a new identity for Danny… and if Clockwork decided to join his ward for bit and have a taste of normal, human life, well, it’s not like they can actually stop him.
When Danny regains consciousness Dani hugs him and cries with him… they cry for a whole week.
He befriends Damian after they both stab each other in the hand with a pen because they both thought that the other was a bully.
Danny is very grateful for Damian who is funny and patient and listens and that is a little bit messed up in the head but that only adds to his charm.
Oh, Danny definitely knows that the Waynes are the Bats but Not his zoo, not his animals. Besides, he is now a retired vigilante.
Danny still does help in whatever way he can though. He is known as fix it Danny in his current neighborhood. Adults take their appliances to him for fixing, children and teens take their toys, skateboards, bicycles and roller-skates to him for fixing. All for the very cheap price of junk food (usually cookies, brownies and cupcakes, one time a bunch of kids gave him a jumbo-sized bag of sour gummy worms for him to fix their go-cart).
Danny doesn’t know that Damian takes pictures of him when he is distracted.
Danny doesn’t have a crush on Damian… he just thinks he is pretty and funny and intelligent and handsome and his eyes are so pretty and his accent is so sexy (he really likes the way Damian says his name, sounds like Danyal instead of Daniel and it’s just so ugh!), and he is so artistic and he has a cow! (as you can see, Danny is clearly in denial)
Clockwork approves.
Danny does use his powers while in Gotham. He uses his invisibility and other powers to sometimes patrol around the neighborhood (Danny: it’s not vigilantism, Clockwork, I’m just a concerned neighbor!).
sorry danny, sam will never think you’re cool
Danny: Ugh, they're back again
Jazz: Don't make that face at paying customers. Do you want to make a portal back home?
Danny rolling his eyes: Yes
Jazz: Then we need to get enough money to buy the parts. If that means waiting tables at a barely legal dinner, where idiots hit on us, then we wait those stupid tables. Now go over there and get the Waynes to leave us a 200 tip.
Danny: Fine, but only if you do too!
Jazz: *Tighten her apron straps into an hourglass figure* Way ahead of you.
Danny: *Rolling eyes but does the same*
Meanwhile with the Waynes
Bruce: It's so nice to go out to eat with you all
Alfred: Indeed. It's a nice change, don't you agree, children?
Wayne kids: *hyperventilating*
Bruce Not looking up from his phone: The Fenton siblings?
Alfred: Indeed, sir. It seems like Master Dick, Master Jason, and Miss Cass are going to attempt to speak to Ms. Fenton today. Master Tim, Master Damian, Master Duke, and Miss Steph don't seem mentally ready to look Mister Fenton in the eye. Bets?
Bruce: Dick chokes on his fork again. Tim face plants on the table, and Steph once again speaks in gibberish after forgetting the entire English language.
Alfred: Very good, sir.
Danny and Ellie had majorly screwed up. Now here they were in the hydro-electric car Danny had designed for applying to Wayne industries/whoever would give a fifteen year old a fat paycheck, sitting in the middle of Gotham, at night, surrounded by glaring bats.
Crap.
Time to bullshit his way out of this.
He looked at Red Robin and sheepishly grinned, "...hi dad."
Ellie, the little gremlin, didn't even hesitate before adding, "We are so grounded. I told you we shouldn't have messed with the broken time machine but nooo."
The bats were either taken about or cackling and Danny to this chance to put the petal to the metal and get out of there
Tim is now obsessed with finding his future kids.
[DC] some old kon sketches with some bonus core four designs I was just messing around with
(Just realized I gave all the other three ponytails 🧍🏻♀️)
Tim meets Danny when he leaves the Wayne family after seeing that they didn’t see him as family, only a stand in. He gets stuck in Amity Park with its lock down and information black out. Whether Tim ended up in the city by accident or he went looking for it when he noticed that a city just suddenly stopped existing a few years prior is up to debate. Either way Tim does what he did years ago, bully the resident vigilante into letting him help. This time though he promises not to make the same mistake of trying to be anything more than teammates, not wanting to set himself up to more disappointment. Unfortunately for him Danny is very intrigued by this fellow vigilante, and thinks he would be a good Living friend. Ancients knows he needs more of those after the fallout with Sam and Tucker.
THE DYNAMIC DUOS YEAH yeah yeah
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Teen dad Danny Fenton moving into Crime Alley and getting a reputation for helping. Street kids willing to babysit Ellie and Dan while he’s job hunting can spend the night, have a meal, get cash, whichever they choose. Sec workers who do Ellie’s hair/nails/babysit some nights also get the same benefits. He will treat anyone with injuries for the low price of showing Ellie and Dan their guns/taking them to the observatory/getting him job opportunities.
All of the people in Crime Alley know the single meta dad with two kids, who has helped half the alley at least. Everyone is also aware of how Ellie calls her other parent ‘The Bastard’, and how bad their nightmares are, the ones they have to call Danny for(A few of his repeat guests have seen the scars and burns on his arms. Some of the older street kids recognize that hunted look he gets when people touch him when he doesn’t know they are there. Some of the sec workers notice how protective he is of his kids, and the younger workers. No matter who they are, they all notice how Dan gets quiet and angry when asked about his ‘other dad’. They all have sworn never to let those kids go back to the other dad, Danny included. They are a part of Crime Alley now, and they protect their own)
Danny doesn’t realize how far his reputation goes/how much everyone trusts him until two of his regulars bring in an injured Red Hood, promising him whatever he wants in exchange for him helping their boss.
I feel like you’ll appreciate this flavor of feral brain rot as a true delicacy.
Ghostly Courting 101
1.) When you have someone you like, you politely sneak into their haunt and leave a gift that hints at your identity. If they’re interested, they’ll start hunting for you. If not, it’ll be removed without the other party feeling any societal pressure.
2.) For ghosts who died a violent or wrongful death, one of the most meaningful things you can do is avenge them. Attack their murderer, haunt their negligent doctor, etc. It’s not guaranteed to win their affection, but it’s a hell of a display.
Now, per the laws of unintended consequences, Danny finds Red Hood rearranging his freezer.
It’s 3:00 AM. He just wanted some water. Why is Gotham’s favorite son trying to leave him a fuck off huge casserole?
“Are you trying to propose or something?” Danny asks the liminal.
“Maybe???”
“Ghost weird or fruitloop weird?” Danny snatches his boo-berry ice cream and starts digging for a spoon.
Red Hood takes off his helmet to make sure Danny can see the Eyebrow of Judgment.
“Fruitloop then,” he says between bites. “We haven’t even sparred, and I sure as shit didn’t avenge you or anything.”
Oh. Oh no.
“Hood, why are you blushing?”
He couldn’t make out much from the outraged sputtering, but Danny nearly shat his fucking core out when it clicked.
“Is this about Joker???”
Danny was gonna take the stuttering as a yes.
Cool, cool, cool. He was calm. He was so fucking normal, it was fine, it was fine, it was—
Ancients take him, Danny beat the shit out of this guy’s murderer or something. He basically did a fucking flash mob proposal!
“Why the fuck am I even here?!” Red Hood screamed.
And the other guy’s fucking clueless!
I see, I see.
1: Which casserole. This is important. What casserole could the hindbrain of Jason Peter Todd's ghost instincts think is marriage material?? Is this like a comfort food can-of-cream-of-mushroom based casserole dish or like one of those newfangled sushi bake type things?? What did Jason whip out to prove he's marriage material??
2: What does JASON think is going on?? Did he hunt Danny down?? Did he just wake up in a stranger's apartment with a casserole in his hand?? Did he go to the grocery store with a list in mind or did he get home and realize he (for some reason) had every ingredient to make tuna casserole??
3: Wait. So does this mean that Jason thinks that casseroles are a good enough hint at his identity??? Does some part of Jason think that his most essential and core part of his identity is his tendency towards caretaking?? YO—
4: It's in a vintage pyrex. Look me in the eyes. This is not just Pyrex it's gotta be the old style pyrex that doesn't shatter in the oven without a pan underneath it. I am a connoisseur of white people culture and this is deeply important to me. It could even be one of the patterned ones. This is part of the gesture.
5: Danny is emotionally moved and it sucks considering that this was a complete accident
6: Jason is emotionally moved and has no idea what the fuck is going on. He wakes up at his safehouse one morning with bridal magazines in his hands which he apparently bought himself?? He's going insane. Is he cursed?? Did that twink who kicked the Joker's ass curse him??????? Curse him into...matrimony???????????????????