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clockwayswrites · 6 months

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Danny & Constantine, Orange, Butterscotch Ripple

@imbreonix Prompt fill set #4

It started out as a joke that turned into an actual event: Bring Your Sidekick To Work Day. It sounded absurd, of course it did. The Justice League was hardly work and certainly not a social club, but once it had been said people started to actually think about it. More and more of the heroes were taking on mentorship rolls for the next generation. While the heroes, of course, tried their best to provide what their mentees needed, they were still grown, experienced heroes and their sidekicks were kids.

Kids who lived a life that most could never understand.

Eventually it have been talked about enough in passing and over rushed meals and before meetings that it ended up on the agenda.

“Robin believes it would be beneficial for the younger heroes to know others in the same positions as themselves,” Batman had explained, as if that answered anything. The Big Bat wouldn’t even clarify who Robin was.

But there they were, Bring Your Sidekick To Work Day. It actually was a pretty nice event with snacks, drinks, and several enthusiastic sidekicks. It turned out Robin was Batman’s sidekick.

“Partner,” Robin insisted boldly, whenever the term sidekick was used within his hear range (which was disturbingly good).

The kid was the very opposite of Batman: bright, personable, and always in motion. Flash was more than a little concerned how quickly Robin and Kid Flash seemed hit it off. “They’re plotting something.”

“Hn,” was Batman’s reply, though he was watching the two whispering sidekicks too.

All in all it was a cheerful success.

It made John’s skin crawl. He jiggled the unlit cigarette in his fingers. He didn’t do social events, not outside of bars, and he really, really didn’t want to be here.

“We can just go back to the House,” a small, nervous voice suggested hopefully from behind John.

That was the thing, though, he wasn’t here for his own sake.

“No, we can’t,” John said with a sigh.

“We really can, though. We haven’t even talked to anyone. I bet they haven’t even noticed we’re here—”

“John! I did not think you would be attending,” Wonder Woman said as she approached, a smile in place. A good chunk of the founding members trailed after her.

“Fuck.”

“Yeah, well,” John said with a little shrug. He didn’t admonish the kid for cussing, he didn’t have a leg to stand on there, but by Superman’s puzzled face the Big Blue had clearly heard it. “Figured I had better bring the kid.”

“The kid?” Hal repeated incredulously.

John reminded himself he really shouldn’t punch his teammates.

“Yeah, the kid,” John said. He stepped aside to reveal Danny who had been hiding behind him. “Geist, Justice League, Justice League, Poltergeist.”

“Um, who, Constantine?” Flash asked, sounding nervous.

John looked to his right, which for all appearances, was an empty spot of air. “Seriously, kid?”

“Sorry,” Danny whispered.

“It’s okay, kid,” John said, holding back a sigh. The kid was sensitive to that sort of thing, so John had been trying. (He still messed up plenty, but he was trying.) John looked back the Justice Leaguers and shrugged. “Ghost. Visibility is like that sometimes.”

“Ah,” Diana said with a sage nod. John admired the woman for how nothing seemed to phase her. She simply looked to where John had been looking and smiled. “Hello, Poltergeist. Welcome to Bring Your Sidekick To Work Day.”

“Partner!” a kid dressed like a damn traffic light called from across the room where he was talking to who was clearly a mini Flash.

“Oh,” Danny said. (It was clearly weirding out some of the heroes to hear Danny but not see him.) “I’m not… John doesn’t let me help that much? I don’t know if I count as a sidekick.”

“That’s because last time you tagged along you went intangible and fell through a bridge, kid,” John grumbled and then immediately felt bad. “You know we’re working on it.”

“Yeah,” Danny mumbled.

John couldn’t see Danny, not any more than the others, but he could picture the way the kid would be scuffing his toe on the floor, head down as he rubbed at the back of his neck.

John sighed. “Ain’t your fault kid, powers take time to master.”

“Robin,” Batman called.

Immediately the tiny traffic light was literately bounding across the space to stand next to Batman. The kid smiled up at the Big Bat like the man had hung the moon.

“Yes, B?”

“This,” Batman said, nodding to the empty space, “is Poltergeist. He came with Constantine.”

“Oh,” Robin said. He spun to face the spot of air and held out his hand without hesitation. “Come, Kid Flash and I are— um,” Robin shot Batman a look, “talking. You can join us! I bet you will be really useful!”

Flash mouthed the word ‘useful’ with a terrified look on his face, but no one actually said anything while Robin just stood there, smiling, with his hand out. And then Robin’s grin impossibly widened, his hand closed around nothing, and he took off across the room.

“…anyone else worried about that?” John asked after a moment.

“So worried,” Flash said.

“Hn,” Batman added.

“Right then. I need a glass of shitty punch to spike,” John said and abandoned his teammates to find the refreshments. Thank the gods, the fuckers, for hip flasks.

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“I live with a ghost now, Bats, you’ve got to up your skills if you want to sneak up on me anymore,” John said before taking another sip of his much improved punch.

Batman stepped up into the corner of John’s vision, which felt like such a Bat thing to do, so John felt the placement was very purposeful. John wouldn’t complain, it let him watch Batman without taking his his eyes off where Danny was sitting with Robin, Kid Flash, and Wonder Girl. Danny was pretty see through, but he was slowly becoming more visible the longer he spent in the company of the other teen heroes.

“How long have you had him?” Batman asked.

John snorted. “That’s what you go with? Not how it works to fuck a ghost?”

Hal and Aquaman weren’t as quiet as they thought they were, but maybe that was on purpose. Maybe they had wanted John to hear. He just hoped the kids hadn’t. He might not have a clean mouth, but even he had limits.

“He doesn’t have to be your blood to be your son,” Batman said in that certain way of his.

It had John finally glancing over at Batman. It was a lot to admit and John hated to be on uneven grounds. “How long have you had yours?”

No one would ever believe him, but John could swear that Batman almost smiled.

“Nearly five years.”

John hummed and took another sip of the punch. “Only six months, not even. And he’s not my son. Kid deserves better than me as a da.”

“They always deserve better,” Batman said, his voice a low rumble that John swore he could feel in his battered bones. “We just have to try to be better.”

“Yeah, well,” John said with a bitter chuckle. “I’m not you, Bats, I don’t think I have better in me.”

“Yes you do, you’re here, after all,” Batman pointed out.

John swallowed and looked back the kid, his kid. Danny was almost solid now. His white hair floated as he threw back his head in laughter at something Robin had said.

“Yeah… yeah I am.”

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AN: So. So. This has gotten away from me. I blame Moku. So much blame. I can't promise I'll continue it but there is... there is a good bit of plotting TO continue it. It would be after I get done with City Pigeons Bleed Green though, as that's my current family feels fic.

If it gets continued we have a John/Bruce tired dads with issues slow burn fuck buddies to lovers, Danny and Dick being friends (and family), canon divergence, Tim joins the Bat family early, Bats with magic (and the world should fear them), and Alfred's judgemental eyebrow.

#dp x dc #dadentine #John Constantine & Danny Fenton #Geist #prompalomp #tired dads

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meolog · 11 months

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Im Gehirn wohnt kein Geist. Durchstreifen wir das Dickicht der Neuronen, finden wir Neuronen, aber keinen Geist.

Das Gehirn kann daher auch nicht denken. Das müssen wir schon selber tun. Denken wir also. Denken wir das Denken.

Was aber finden wir, wenn wir das Denken denken? Jedenfalls kein Gehirn. Im Geist wohnt kein Gehirn.

#montagsgedicht #geist #landscape #photographers on tumblr #lyrik #artists on tumblr #forest #x100v

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vault21 · 2 years

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OVERWATCH 2 ► JUNKRAT

"If at first you don't succeed... blow it up again!"

#overwatch #overwatch 2 #overwatchedit #owedit #ovwedit #gamingedit #video games #*mine #*gif #*500 #*1k #*request #junkrat #geist #someday i'll learn how to take 4k recordings #edit) someday i'll have a pc capable of 4k recordings

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doli-nemae · 5 months

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Something very normal is happening in local church, I assure you

Deacon lasombra belongs to @clericnortke !!!

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jabberwampus · 1 month

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Ancient weirdo

#original character #digital art #creature #artists on tumblr #illustration #cartoon #geist

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poke-chann-draws · 1 year

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I couldn’t get this out of my head

#harvestella #Harvestella spoilers #spoilers #just walk out #meme #art #just a doodle between commissions while I hang out with a friend #ein #ein harvestella #Geist #geist Harvestella #you can leave

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monsterohnenamen · 4 months

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„Ein Körper ohne Geist am Tag. Ein Geist ohne Körper bei Nacht.“

-Monsterohnenamen

#monsterohnenamen #gedanken #depressiv #einsam #liebeskummer #herzschmerz #eigenes #deutsches tumblr #zitatdestages #dunkelheit #geist

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389 · 1 year

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#geist

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theanoninyourinbox · 3 months

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Skyclan's Villains

The heretic and his terrible Patron...

...and a future problem...

#my art #warrior cats #warriors #warrior cats au #hello from the void #warrior cats design #warrior cats designs #sol #harry/sol #clear sky #skystar #stargeist #geist #longstar au #new longstar au

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chalkmon · 5 months

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#563 Cofagrigus

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Ko-Fi

#Cofagrigus #Echnatoll #デスカーン #563 #chalk #crayon #geist #gen 5 #generation 5 #ghost #kreide #pokemon #pokemon fanart #einall #unova pokemon #chalkmon #einall pokemon

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clockwayswrites · 6 months

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Does Constantine ever learn about Danny being a halfa?

Yep! I'm guessing this is about the latest ficlet? But yep yep. He does think Danny is just a spirit at first, starts calling him a poltergeist, but holy hell that's a kid and even worse a living kid. John isn't equipped to deal with a living kid! Which is actually part of how they start getting close to the Bats. John might not always get Batman, but he trusts him and it's clear that Batman cares for Robin. And Robin and Geist get along maybe too well.

@shadow-pixelle

For Not!Writing, d'you think the rest of the Batfam will ever find out about the whole 'everyone in Hood's gang believed he and Jason are dating and now think he's in a poly relationship with Danny and also himself' situation? Because that feels like it could have many levels of chaos

Oh, yes lol Dick I think knows from the start because Jason has whined to him about this even before Danny showed up, but for everyone else it's news. Danny is sure to bring it up and casually mention Jason to Red Hood when they're around. Wants to reassure them that he toooooootally hasn't been told who RH is. Their secret is safe! That's a good thing!

#askme answeryou #a-world-in-grey #geist #the fic that i'm not writing #dp x dc #dead on main

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the-drifters · 9 months

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Brakka: Which one of you was going to tell me that tea tastes different if you put it in hot water?

Emo: Y-you were putting it in cold water???

Shrika: Brakka. Answer the question Brakka.

Brakka: Yeah??? I thought for like… 5 years that people just put it in hot water to speed up the tea-ification process. Didn’t realize there was an actual reason.

Shrika: You don’t have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes???

Dianthus: Why are you… putting it in the microwave to boil it?

Shrika: Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove?

Dianthus: It takes less than a minute!

Shrika: Bestie is your stovetop powered by the fucking sun.

Dianthus: How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove?

Shrika: Like seven minutes!

Dianthus: Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat and it boils in like two minutes… less than that and you use a saucepan…

Shrika: Crying you’re putting the whole mug on the the stove??? On MEDIUM heat??? Your stove is enchanted!

Aria: Every person here is a fucking lunatic.

Geist: Do none of you own a fucking kettle?

#incorrect harvestella #harvestella #brakka #emo #shrika #dianthus #aria #geist