DP x DC: My Brother’s Ghost

So there are a bunch of fics where Danny and Damian are twins and Danny eventually has to go to Gotham or Damian/another bat interacts with Danny as ghost king. But I do you one better. Danny faked his death because of failing a mission/he actually died and his mother brought him back. (Or maybe he revived on his own after constant Lazarus exposure over time and knew he couldn’t go back). Anyways, Danny knew that he needed to go to Bruce Wayne in Gotham if he ever needed anything but only as a last resort as they would expect him to go there. So he’s been monitoring Bruce from afar and immediately knew when Damian joined the bats. He clocked him as the new Robin and started following his hero career more closely. He was content to watch his family from afar. Even after the accident. Then something happens where Robin was said to go missing and when no news showed up after a few days, Danny got worried so figured it couldn’t hurt to do a quick trip to Gotham.

He dresses in all black and a hood made using an old ninja Halloween costume. Not nearly as much protection as his old league uniform but with his ghost powers he doesn’t really need protection. Just anonymity. He goes to Gotham in phantom form, making sure all his white hair is carefully tucked in the black hood so only his green eyes remain. He uses his old assassin training and finds Robin drugged and captured in an old warehouse by the court of owls. Robin clearly isn’t thinking straight but Danny puts him in a simple choke hold to knock him unconscious anyways. Better safe than sorry. He quickly frees the boy and drops him off in an area he knows the other bats are searching. After watching to make sure Damian is safe and a bat finds him, he leaves.

Damian could barely remember his capture but he thought he saw a figure in black with glowing green eyes. He could have sworn the future was trying to kill him but…he woke up looking at another bat (or maybe even the manor). Did his family save him?

Meanwhile, Danny can’t stop thinking about Damian. Despite his assassin training, he was drugged and hurt. Danny thought he could handle himself. He thought he would be safe. But what if this happened again? What if the colony of bats wasn’t enough? So Danny couldn’t help the occasional visit to Gotham to make sure his twin was ok. Most of the time he didn’t do anything, just watched. Sometimes, though, there would be an instance where Damian got out of a dangerous situation and no one knew how. A building collapsed, Damian appeared unharmed outside. A goon was about to get a lucky shot? Somehow the bullet missed or the goon got taken out when no other bats were nearby. Fear gas? Damian faintly remembers warm hands hugging him as he struggled. And while he thought it was weird he heard his brother’s comforting voice when it should be a nightmare, he chalked it up to the fear gas anyways since there was no other explanation.

Yet every time there is a particularly dangerous encounter, he swears he sees the figure in black. Damian sees the figure more and more yet none of his family do. They swore to keep an eye out anyways in case. You never know. Sometimes the figure becomes more clear and Damian has tried to chase them but always loses them quickly. One time the chase lasted at least five minutes and Damian managed to corner the figure in an alleyway only for them to pass through the wall.

The bats suspect that this could either be meta abilities or magic. The funny thing is, there were no traces. No one sees the figure except Damian. No one hears them, and there’s is nothing to indicate their presence, not even footprints. It’s like they were never there and no matter how hard they try, there is no footage of the figure. Sometimes cameras glitch out and sometimes they only show Robin, sometimes neither or they seem to loop on themselves. So the bats are leaning towards Magic.

They call Constantine to give Damian a thorough check and he declares that Damian shows signs of interacting with a ghost. And that stumps everyone. A ghost? If it was a friendly specter like Deadman then he would help everyone, not just Damian. If it was hostile, it would never help Damian. So why is this ghost only focusing on the youngest bat and why? Is there even someone that would come back from the afterlife to help the demon brat, let alone have the will strong enough to manifest a ghost that can affect the living? Damian was a former assassin after all and he’s hardly the friendliest bat. So who would help him that has already died?

Throughout this, Damian is silent. Because there is one person he knows to have died that might do this. One person skilled enough to avoid the other bats and evade Damian during a chase. One person Damian would acknowledge as having a will stronger than his own. But something was wrong…because he was sure that that person didn’t have green eyes.

So the next time the figure shows himself Damian attacks. Not just a chase but an outright challenge. Hand to hand combat. And as Damian punches and kicks, the figure expertly parries each attack. And as the fight goes on, Damian watches. And he knows those moves. Those dodges. Those blocks. He can read this figure’s fighting stance like the back of his hand because he grew up with it.

And Damian knows without a shadow of a doubt as the figure disappears into he ground, that despite the changed eye color, the tan skin, the increased height, his brother’s ghost has come back to watch over him.

And for the first time in many years, Damian cries. That’s how the bats find him.

there is something so funny about jesus gagging people left and right with small miracles for 30 years fully knowing he had the entire dying on the cross + coming back to life in store like thats television maybe the first hbo sunday ever

Straight up had a dream last night that DC revealed that Bart and Kon were dating and it was in the WILDEST FUCKING WAY.

K, so picture this: Clark needs someone to fly around disguised as him for a plan. So Clark goes through the options in his head: Bruce can't fly, MM is off world, Jon is too much of a twink to be believable, Kara is blonde, Kon is.... Perfect! With a person in mind who would be perfect for his plan, Clark flies off to find Kon.

Cut to Judy Garrick zipping around the Garrick's house. Joan is quietly scrapbooking at the kitchen table and Judy is bored out of her mind. Judy asks Joan if there is anything she can do because she is so unbelievably bored.

Joan responds, very calmly, that she can hear "your brother's boyfriend touching down in the backyard, so why don't you go ask him?"

Judy's face jumps from emotion to emotion as three things are revealed at once. 1) Joan considers Bart to be a son and thus, Judy's brother, 2) Judy's new brother is not straight and 3) Bart has a boyfriend who is in the backyard.

So Judy immediately runs to the backyard and is stunned to bump into Clark (who was there looking for Kon) and then the dream continued on with the two of them hunting down Bart&Kon (who were just at school being normal goddammit!!!) but the entire time Judy is secretly out for blood because she thinks that Joan was referring to Clark and that this adult man is trying to date her new little brother and Judy keeps trying to kill him but it doesn't work because Clark is Kryptonian (and oblivious to the attempted homicides).

Anyway, wild dream all around.

Happy Halloween!!! Gryffindor Draco Please!

a continuation of 1

Draco isn't personally worried when someone decides to copy the attacks from fifty years ago, obviously, but he is worried in general because Hermione is one of his best friends and her muggle parents paint a great big target on her back.

"Don't you think you're being a little ridiculous?" Hermione asks when Draco tells her that she's not allowed to go anywhere without a pureblood. He or Neville preferably, but even Ron will do in a pinch.

"Not about this," he says seriously. "A muggleborn girl died las time someone started throwing around this heir of Slytherin crap. Severus is working on trying to figure out who it is, but it's hard when no one knows how they're doing it."

Heir of Slytherin his ass. It's obviously some disillusioned upper year who's parents were likely Death Eaters that took Voldemort's fall personally. Unfortunately, that's most of Slytherin house.

Some of Hermione's derision has faded, but she's still frowning. "Well, can I at least go to the bathroom alone?"

She says it as a joke, but he snaps, "Definitely not! That's where the last girl was killed! Go with Parvati or Ginny. I thought girls liked going to the bathroom in groups anyway?"

"You don't mean," she starts, hesitates, then says, "Are you talking about Moaning Myrtle?"

"Obviously," he says, and he's trying to sound condescending, but mostly he's just really, really worried. "One twelve year old muggleborn girl has already died in Hogwarts. Let's not make it two. Don't go anywhere alone, or with anyone else of questionable blood status, okay?"

"Okay," she says quietly.

It doesn't at all make him feel better.

Hermione hates doing as she's told.

neck and neck in the bottom awards

look im jaime’s strongest soldier but he is also such a massive bimbo

WHO ELSE READ THE FOURTH WING BONUS CHAPTERS IN XADEN'S POV REBECCA YARROS JUST RELEASED BECAUSE IM HOLLERING

IM ABSOLUTELY FUCKING FERAL RIGHT NOW

🚬 FITFWT Hollywood Bowl, 30 June 2023 x

16Feb23

#Souis Starter Pack Edition Holding hands for the paps, cuppa Joe, Metal tees—they’re so simpatico! (Tagged the band from her shirt So sleuth fans could confirm!) Welcome, Sof, to the Big Gay Shit Show!

“I wouldn’t ask you to drop everything and return if I didn’t believe in it. The future of the Order, our history, our ways—everything may depend on it. Please come. —Cenric. P.S. I hope you are well.”  |  “The Spire has fallen. The survivors have dispersed into the wilderness for now. If your former master lives, I do not know where he has gone. Cenric was quite aggrieved when you did not return for the summit, but now I am sure he is relieved.”

thinking about the rhys + cenric dynamic and i am so unwell

SO CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT HOW ARIANA GRANDE IS DATING SPONGEBOB

Rush asked OceanGate’s director of finance and administration whether she’d like to take over as chief submersible pilot. “It freaked me out that he would want me to be head pilot, since my background is in accounting,” she told me.

She added that several of the engineers were in their late teens and early twenties, and were at one point being paid fifteen dollars an hour. Without Lochridge around, “I could not work for Stockton,” she said. “I did not trust him.” As soon as she was able to line up a new job, she quit.

All of these people dissing my maybe-possibly-unconfirmed-blackfyre son fail to recognize the pure horror and tragedy of being lied to your entire life and having to mourn people who never knew you existed and being pushed into a position you were not born to fill and then finding out and realizing that everything from your family to your name was a lie fed to you by a group who wants your fake family demolished and usurped. Like what do you do then? Literally what do you do?

Though I suppose not everyone wants their favs to go through suffering and anguish and only wish to reserve that for their least favourites, which is like. So boring smh. How do you even cope when your fave inevitably dies a horrible and brutal death 😕

My ninja height headcanons + Pixal and Lucy

For those who wanna know ft & in:

Kai - 5'1

Jay - 5'4

Zane - 5'8

Cole - 6'0

Lloyd - 6'3

Nya - 5'5

Pixal - 5'7

Lucy - 4'10

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when the guy with the divorced dad energy ends up a divorced dad.