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Just, imagine someone walks in on them and tells Tucker “What is he saying?” And then, Bart realizes he had been speaking at superspeed, but his friend had actually been making comments related to what he said, specific questions and all, he even asked him to continue and helped him when he got off the rails and asked ‘what was i saying?’
Tucker is liminal and has some special abilities because of it. One of which being that he can keep up conversation at any speed. This cute red head guy, Bart apparently, is taking at him at a FAR faster rate than the average human. He's very excited though so Tucker lets him continue. The more and more this guy talks, the more Tucker truly doesn't mind Bart speaking. Staring at the teen excitedly chat, he realizes that he's been staring deeply into Bart's eyes for the past ten minutes.
Just an idea I wanted to share.
Danny and Damian are clearly not brothers. What they are, is switched at birth.
Talia messed up, took a mission too close to her due date, and went into labor early so she wound up in a civilian hospital. The Fentons were researching nearby ruins for ghost history when Maddie went into labor.
Two nearly identical black haired little boys born to foreigners in a small hospital in the middle of nowhere. Mistakes happen, and the babies were switched.
The truth doesn't come to light until Damian shows up at Bruce's place when he's 13, nearly 14. (Canon timeline is full of wibbly wobbly stuff.) Of course, he cares for the boy immediately, but also does a DNA test assuming Talia is lying. Clearly Talia is lying because the results show Damian is neither Bruce's nor Talia's.
Damian nearly has a breakdown and together he and Bruce track Talia back down for answers, but she's as confused as they are. She carried this baby and Bruce was, not her first lover, but definitely the last. What do you mean the DNA doesn't match?
As Talia, Bruce, and Damian begin their search for answers, in a small town in Illinois, an eerily similar looking boy, who was routinely exposed to the Lazarus Pits in vitro and has since been routinely exposed to ectoplasm, is stepping into a failed portal on the dare of his friends.
fascinating. Damian 100% breaks down after the DNA test. When he was first introduced to Bruce he was absolutely obsessed and taught by the League that he must fill in his fathers legacy. Blood relations are VERY important to the Al Ghuls. Damian figuring out he's not the rightful heir would crush him.
Damian is fully devoted to the mission of finding Danny. Does he want to battle him for the true title of the heir to the League of Assassins? Or does he try to convince Danny to take his place?
I just remembered! (Thank you, historical fantasy section!) But like? Serving and protecting The King, especially a HIGH KING, is quite literally not just an incredible honor... but it can sometimes be a person's Life Ambition?
Specificly a WORTHY king.
Perhaps they were denied in life. Perhaps they FAILED. And in their dying moments struggle with all they were to LIVE. To PROTECT. Perhaps the PREVIOUS king was a great and worthy ruler... but their heir is...
Unworthy.
Maybe they are born to an age without Rulers. Power shifting between hands in hidden halls. Unclear and murky. All they want is for their loyalty to MEAN something. For things to be SIMPLE.
The universe is large. The Infinite Realms? Unimaginably larger.
Who would willingly swear to him? Fools! That's who! Every warrior soul worth ANYTHING gets as far AWAY from his Realm forsaken resting place as they can. Hides. Lest they be dragged in to his infernal, gods forsaken, cess pit of a so called "army"! *disgusted spitting noises*
But what does this mean? It means every trained FIGHTER... got the hell out of dodge. Oh, sure, a FEW refused. Like Pandora and her people. But most? The farthest side of NOWHERE, several layers down! Some still GOING! Better to be decried as cowards then have ANYTHING to do with THAT(said with loathing)!
It also means they weren't where Pariah could get to them when he woke. Couldn't help. Couldn't fight. Couldn't be commanded to kneel. Nothing. They removed themselves completely. Planned on CONTINUING to remove themselves. Preferably to the farthest reaches of forever, far beyond the bastard's gaze.
But! The whole REALM INFINITE felt it? When that... that hissing, acidic, malicious undertone? SLAMS back and away, like somebody's knocked a parasite from their backs. Replaced by coolness and starlight. Delicate balance and blood on your teeth. The pounding in your chest of HOPE.
It flutters so small across their backs, inside their chests. Washing away the old.
The King... feels tiny. Young.
.......what are they doing? Running like this. Hiding away like that will change anything. How long... when did...
There are so many of them now. A veritable army of souls, of all Ages and People's. Every armor and crest imaginable. They'd been so.. so REPULSED by Pariah... nothing else had mattered but to get AWAY. Where even ARE they? What YEAR is it? Does any of that matter?
Their Obsessions whisper. Loyalty. Service. Protection. Honor. You have left you post! Abandoned your DUTY! What are you DOING!?
They are AGHAST. They turn around at once. The King! How could they have ABANDONED the King!? Who is guarding him if they are all HERE?!
(Yes. Danny is fine. He is eating the "Thank You for keeping us all from dying to whatever the FUCK that was!" tamales Paulina's mom pushed into his arms on his way back home. He didn't even try arguing. He made eye contact and knew he would lose.)
(Why does he feel like something really, really bothersome is headed his way?)
It's UNACCEPTABLE. Unthinkable! The King? Unguarded? Where assassination attempts and nefarious PLOTS could occur?! What if someone tried to steal his eggs!? Or attacked him while his exoskeleton was molting!? They aren't entirely sure which species he is yet, but there are SO MANY NEFARIOUS PLOTS OUT THERE!!
*panicked honor guards*
Just? Imagine becoming king. And thinking "well, aside from the skeleton army I have to figure out, at least I don't have to manage anybody!" Only to *WABAM!* your ENTIRE GHOST COURT shows up like a week later. Turns out they were hiding from your predecessor.
You have a whole ass honor gaurd. Who REFUSE TO LEAVE YOUR SIDE. You have Chefs. Who WILL cry if you send them away. The Literal Best In The Multiverse are all following you around... YOU, a RANDOM TEENAGE, with Excited Shoujo Sparkles in their eyes... because you punched a jackass really, REALLY hard.
There is no way to make this stop. Your friends are laughing at you. The interior decorator wants you to look at swatches. What are swatches and why are you being harrased by them at 1am, you wonder? If you are Mean(tm) they throw themselves upon the floor and blame themselves for their Wicked, Evil, King-Upseting Ways and you can't even TELL if your being played here.
It's like being bullied by house elves. Or Miette.
Your parents are too excited by all the New Research (at least the reveal went well?) To SAVE THEIR SON, and your sister is HELPING THE ENEMY (Traitor!), so now you're being bullied into eating vegetables and studying more.
Then? THEN!! WHO SHOWS UP?! Like... five WEEKS late?! The Justice League. Gee! GREAT RESPONSE TIME, GUYS! Reeeal snappy! But ya, JUST missed the guy!
.......YES HES BEING SARCASTIC!!!
@hdgnj @stealingyourbones
I love this! You explained a little bit more! I love how you add more context. Because i also think it matters in saying the afterward, Danny had support from day one from people that actually care about him, Jason was thrown into everything by the League, and he also had to literally claw himself put of the grave.
Also!
And, i think, halfa could be an insult/slur, like, it sounds like it, like, imagine this:
“Wow, why are you so bad at flying?! Are you like, a halfa or what?”
“Dude, they say he’s a halfa”
“Girl, there’s this one halfa”
“Augh, move out of my you godammed halfa!”
I think it could be like the type of words that aren’t bad, but it depends in context and how it’s said, here’s a better example:
“He’s a halfa”
“Look! The halfa!”
I think i made my opinion clear :D and i also think i ranted a bit :’)
Danny: ...and then I died, which, for some reason never freaked me out
Jason, who sometimes stays up all night freaking out about his death: yeh my death never freaked me out either
I think Danny wasn’t that freaked out by his death because he grew up with his parents talking about ghost and the death and the other side, and i think that just desensitized him to death and it’s concepts. And even if he didn’t believed his parents before the portal, i think he did had a background noise of kinda, expecting to come back after death, even if it was as a mindless ectoplasm being, and that probably made him think to much about death, so much, he just, didn’t care if he, himself died, because he kinda knew what would happen.
Meanwhile, Jason was, in fact, pretty used to death and dying, but he was never desensitized to Danny’s level, Jason knew you died, he knew people killed others or themselves, how death was a part of life, but he was still scared. He died young, he knew he could die on the job, but he never thought much, maybe he wouldn’t have freaked out that much if he had been older, but he wasn’t, he was a kid.
Let’s stay clear, this is my opinions, they are formed with what i know about both fandoms, and their shared community, if you want to add something or inform me if something i have said isn’t in character or in canon, do so please, i love learning :D
Danny: ...and then I died, which, for some reason never freaked me out
Jason, who sometimes stays up all night freaking out about his death: yeh my death never freaked me out either
I want this, but like, kinda leaning into Father figure Fright Knight, like, Frighty is so put to protecting Danny, he becomes a new paternal figure on Dannys life, but like, i know it sounds weird to some degree
so, behold! Big brother Frighty.
He just, overprotective, shit talker, done with Danny but doesn’t allow anyone else to be rude to him, he is also very dramatic, will not use any other language that isn’t Ghostspeak just, dramatic, big brother. Yes.
Also, Danny being like “Ugh! How discriminatory, he is a meta, God forbid they dress however they like and act in a not usually socially acceptable way!”
Danny is going to Gotham high which yay for him!
Problem? Right now he's in the office because he may have punched someone while defending damian and now everyone is waiting for his guardian
But clockwork can't come (humans perceive him a bit...well he just can't) and jazz has an important exam
So who's next in line?
Fright Knight! (Okay, technically he's not the Guardian OF Danny but more guarding Danny but details details)
So Fright Knight appears in all of his villain-esque glory and foaming sword
And everyone kinda freaks out because?? Danny, is your guardian a villain? What do you mean 'depends'?? What does the shrugging mean?? No we can't go back to the punch thing-