Dp x DC Crossover Concept I think is fun but will never have time to properly write

Several years ago the scientist of the GIW were investigating the miraculous resurrection of Vlad Masters by ectoplasm. Their team managed to isolate the cause to a randomly mutated gene that he possessed which they dubbed “the ReGen Gene”. A project known as Project Phoenix managed to splice this gene into what was eventually just two viable human embryos made primarily of genetic material provided by the project’s Lead Scientist Sheila Haywood and one of her male friends. The specimens were implanted into the friend’s wife who had volunteered thinking it was part of a research project to cure something or other.

One of the junior scientists on the team [the future Dr. Maddie Fenton, in fact, although that was not her original name] had a crisis of conscience about the work and decided to tell the woman carrying the babies the real nature of the experiment. When the woman learned that the plan was to intentionally kill the babies to see if they could be brought back to life, she decided to go into hiding. With Maddie’s assistance, she convinced her husband to flee with her to Gotham City to protect the babies.

When the children were born, they decided that keeping the twins together would make them easier to find. The couple, under the assumed names of Willis and Catherine Todd, kept the older one and named him Jason. Maddie took the other, and moved her small family with new identities to a random town in Illinois, where she determined to raised Danny alongside her own young daughter as her son.

Things mostly happen the same as the original canons; Maddie and Jack continue their work in ectology and eventually this leads to 14 year old Danny unknowingly proving the experiment a success, replicating Vlad’s resurrection and acquisition of powers. Danny still keeps this from his parents so Maddie has no idea. Vlad’s obsession with Danny is fueled by the fact that he figures out Danny is one of the Project Phoenix subjects and is convinced that because Danny shares that *one* gene copied from his own DNA, he should be considered Danny’s true father. (If he found Jason he’d also try to steal Jason as his son)

Jason’s life follows the same pattern, except for the fact that Sheila Haywood (who was fired from the project for losing the specimens and went rogue trying to get them back) had been actively searching for signs of him, only to locate him after he’d been adopted by Bruce Wayne and was too well protected to simply be snatched away (she’s tried hiring kidnappers a couple of times, and every single time, either Batman or Nightwing or fucking Superman had been on their assess before they’d even made it out of Gotham. The woman just does not possess the resources to fend off the entire Justice League when they’re determined to protect the son of a billionaire socialite for some strange reason). Sheila does plant the other birth certificate in the hopes of him eventually deciding to come to her before resuming her still fruitless search for the other twin.

Unfortunately for Sheila Haywood, when her plan finally works and Jason seeks her out, he brings along the Joker and the Batman for the ride. Sheila tries to make this still work in her favor by making a deal with the Joker and arranging for Jason’s death so that she can then bring him back to life and finally prove her experiment a success, but that backfires and she is killed too. Jason’s corpse is taken away by Batman to be buried in Gotham.

Now, there’s not a lot of ambient ectoplasm in Gotham’s atmosphere. However the Lazurus Pit buried under the city has contaminated the soil with low levels of ectoplasm through leeching over the years. After some time, this is enough to revive Jason, but not enough for him to manifest powers or completely heal the brain damage he suffered at death before he crawls out of the grave. Talia shows up to whisk him away.

Not exactly clear on all the details, but Danny is eventually captured by the GiW and placed in containment to be studied as their successful experiment (the Fenton parents might be killed in the struggle to capture him maybe?). They also finally manage to locate Jason, and when they learn he’s already dead they send some people to retrieve his corpse to see if he can be reanimated too.

There is, of course, no corpse to be obtained, and they have to regroup and communicate with their bosses to decide what to do. Their activity drew the attention of Robin, who sets up surveillance of the grave site. That means when a couple of the GiW goons come back to test the soil for ectoplasm, Batman and Robin get a front row seat to their conversation regarding Project Phoenix, the fact that they’ve concluded Jason has been resurrected, and the fact that Jason’s long lost twin brother is currently being held prisoner in a high security facility and making himself a nuisance for his guards (one of the goons has spent time on Danny guard duty and has much to say about it).

Batman and Robin go rescue Danny!

Jazz and Dani were *also* trying to find and rescue Danny, using a magical tracker from the ghost zone that relied on using Dani’s blood to lead them to the one who shared her blood. Unfortunately for Dani and Jazz, the GiW facility is shielded against this type of ghost tracking. Unfortunately for Talia, who has just finished giving Jason his Lazarus Pit Bath (and unwittingly suppling the rest of the ectoplasm needed to properly give him his ghost powers), the League of Assassins is *not*

Basically, the two parties rescue the twin that’s not their own and then have to work to find and reunite with the other group without knowing the others are also actively on the move and searching, so they keep missing each other. Danny is freaking out because not only does he have a twin brother who also died and came back, the twin was apparently adopted by Batman, but Batman is helping him hide from the GiW so that’s cool. Jason is trying to learn as much as he can about his new powers from Dani while also protecting his two new sisters who keep trying to protect *him* instead even though he has actual vigilante training, except he can’t tell them that, and the League of Assassins AND the GiW are both after him and all he wants is to get back to his dad and the help them find this twin brother of his he just heard about. (It is important to note that the Jason, Dani, and Jazz party are all simultaneously convinced they are the most competent member of their contingent-Jason due to his training and history of survival, Dani due to her relative mastery of ghost powers and history of survival, and Jazz due to her age and perceived maturity—and are privately trying to take on the full responsibility of protecting the other two)

✨ Inspiration Saturday ✨

Okay so I have this fantasy au that lives rent free in my head but I really don’t think I’ll ever actually write it. Today on my run however, I was listening to music and dialogue just popped into my head for it and wouldn’t leave. Ended up pulling out my phone to write it down so uh here it is.

Again, don’t think anything is gonna become of this (I am not at all confident in myself to write a fantasy world with magic and fighting) but it could inspire someone 🤷🏻‍♀️

Plus I just enjoy making moodboards soooooo ….

“I need you safe, Eddie, or as safe as you can be. And coming with me, that would put you in the most danger”

“And that’s why I need to go! Because standing between you and danger is exactly where I’m supposed to be! I need to know you’re safe, that you’ll be protected!”

“Bobby or Chim can protect me!”

“I know they can! But I won’t be any good out there”, he gestures to the field that will become a battleground tomorrow, “if I’m worrying about you!” He takes a steadying breath, voice coming out gentler as he continues, “It’s better for everyone if I’m here, with you.” He crowds in close, noses brushing. “Always with you”

“Eddie”

“Where you go, I go, Evan”

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Ok quick Dunes Day update

...just kidding this got fucking long, so it's going under a cut

Got to the hotel a bit before 3, had to wait to check in, but that wasn't a big deal. Got over to The Rave and there was a line but it wasn't bad. I asked and it was not separated by VIP/non-VIP so I just sat down on the blacktop like everyone else and roasted for about two hours.

I had paid for parking and around 5 pm a guy came out and was like "Hey, if you're parked here, come get a pass or we'll tow you." So I had to go to my car, get my ticket, get a pass and he made me move my car so there would be more room. (Spoiler alert: when I left the lot wasn't even half full)

There was some back and forth with whether or not the VIP line was lining up at the front of the building, or if they would come and get us. They did come to get us a bit after 5:30 and then we went inside and lined up. I think I was about the 10th person in line. I shoulda known how bad it was gonna be when I was standing inside and it was just as hot as outside, just without the sun.

We finally get let into this smaller side bar and I was like oh ok, this is where the Q&A is, then we'll go into the larger room for the show. Then I realized the drum kits were set up there. No this was it. This tiny tiny space was it. Well fine ok. I had made friends with the two people behind me in line and they were super nice, and we got to talking to a couple in front of us as well. We quickly realized this show was basically a mini-Pride event 😄 it felt really cool to just be like "oh yea, I'm NB" and it was just... yea 🤷🏻‍♀️ no big deal!

The Q&A was fun. One of my line friends was like "What's your favorite horror movie?" And Frank was trying to take off his sweatshirt and he gets the mic and is like "just now when I was stuck in my sweatshirt" 🤣 Anthony talked about being 12 and huffing and accidentally burning down his friend's garage. At this point I now consider IASIP to be a documentary and Anthony was the inspiration for Charlie and/or Mac lol

Q&A ended, the assistant who was running it handed out the waters on stage that the guys didn't take and I got Tucker's extra La Croix. It was grapefruit 😄

Pinkshift came out and absolutely ripped it the fuck up, like holy shit they were great. Highly recommend checking them out! A person did pass out a little bit back from me, and the band was good about stopping right away and everyone was calling for security, but it felt like it took forever to get anyone to come around for them and get them off the floor. It was so fucking hot, like it was insane. I'm surprised more people didn't pass out honestly.

Then Dunes came on and it was fucking rad. Anthony was giving high fives and like taking peoples' hands and he totally held my hand for a moment, a long moment! And it was magical 😄 They fucking tore it up, and at the end of the first song I made eye contact with Travis and was like "🤘🏻 yea!" And he grinned back, it was great!

That reminds me, I think Coheed is coming to the Sylvee again for the 100th time, maybe I'll go because I'm done with the Rave I think.

The crowd was nuts, they were pushing really bad from the back and I eventually had to dip out. I was afraid I was gonna pass out if I stayed in there with how hot it was plus all the pushing. Would have been good if there was any sort of security keeping people back, but again, they were MIA. So I went around to the bar off to the side to get a water and there was a giant industrial fan blowing. The vibe was so much more chill and I was like "am I old? Is this it?" But honestly I didn't care. I leisurely went to the bathroom, grabbed merch, and just enjoyed the music.

I'm pretty sure this means I'm old 😅 oh well, I don't mind!

I left right at the end and grabbed a brat from a street vendor. It was amazing and honestly I needed it so bad. I had a water in my car so I slammed that as well. It sucks when you go to shows alone and you can't pop around the corner to McDonalds while you wait to get some fries and a soda and take a pee break. Like you just have to wait and wait and wait and hope someone around you is chill to hold your spot. It's sorta a bummer honestly.

Getting back to the hotel was a bit of a headache, mainly because of traffic from the Brewer game letting out. But as soon as I got back I got into my room, got a shower, and now I'm in bed. I have a full day planned for tomorrow, including stopping at Target, stopping at the running store, finding a post office, and getting a manicure. And then going home and getting prepared for the rest of my week.

Ok that was a lot longer than I originally intended, but oh well

From the most recent Ask Game you reblogged: #4, and #48 plzkthx

thank you!!!! 😊

4. Where do you find inspiration for new ideas?

i've spoken about this on the podcast but i think many things: re-reading canon, music, or just ... thinking? i think it's a bit different for long works v. shorter things. in castles, what gives me ideas are 1) the plot/writing (i.e. thinking about a particular plotline breeds more ideas for more plotlines, etc.) and sometimes comments i get/conversations on discord. it's rarely ever that i will take someone's feedback/idea and run with it, but sometimes there will be a line said in passing that will jolt something else in my brain. for one-shots, it's generally more prompt-based - either prompts that are given to me (the wolf or slipped) or prompts that i give myself (like: oh, what if i wrote a fic about fleur?) and then taking it from there.

48. What do you look for in a beta?

this is SUCH a great question, but also: i'm very picky. i think when you start out as a writer, you'll kind of take feedback from anyone under any circumstance because you want to get better so bad, you'll take any feedback you can get. as someone who's been writing for 17 years now though, that's changed a bit lol.

i like to work with someone who has a similar sort of "vision" of writing as me. as someone who goes through about fifteen million drafts to get to the final iteration, it's harder to work with someone who is the type of person who just writes, posts, done. no shade to those who do this At All (what works for you works for you) but they'll probably get bored of my overthinking 😆. same thing in terms of story format: i write long shit. if you're the kind of person who prefers pieces that are less than 1k, that's not gonna work, you know?

i think it's important for me to work with someone with whom i have a relationship outside of beta-ing. i find feedback much less effective when it comes from random strangers. even if it comes with good intentions, i am much more likely to disregard/be annoyed by the feedback if it comes from someone who i've never had a discussion with/don't know that well. i've had offers from people to beta my stuff where it's like: mate, you're probably really nice but you've *never* left a comment on my stuff before, we've never talked about my fics before... i truly appreciate the offer, but for me that's just not going to work. i need to trust the person, and i need to know they like my writing generally speaking.

if i'm going to get feedback from someone, it's also important to me that i admire their writing. that i think they write better than me. i know this is shit and i might get hate for this but i find it difficult to get beta-ed by someone who is "just" a reader. i find that sometimes, it's hard to explain things to people who've never written before. additionally, i want to know that this person has an expertise that i don't have, and that i can draw from. it's -again- much easier to get some "tough love" from someone whose work you truly admire/aspire to, rather than someone else. getting "negative" feedback from someone whose writing i don't really vibe with is like: "ah cool, but i don't really want to write like you, so 🤷🏻‍♀️"

so, yeah, i'm really fucking picky. i'd love to have a beta for castles, and right now there's one - maybe two - people i know who would fit the bill, but then you also get into the territory of: do they want to beta? do they have time? that's also a huge one. especially when it's people who read and enjoy the fic - they might not want to be spoiled with your ramblings. i was lucky enough to work with @copper-dust on the fault in faulty manufacturing and she really helped me shape that fic :).