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"Red Hood's tits or Nightwing's ass" -the greatest thread in the history of batforums, locked by Oracle after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

“This character is dead in canon” to you. They’re dead in canon to you. To me they’re fine

“This character is dead in canon” then explain to me why they’re still running around and living rent free in my head.

Unrestrained summer fun 😁

this must be such a delicate experience for a creature that can dive two stories deep and has been seen cliff diving into the ocean

Such a quiet and gentle experience for a megafauna cryptid that can headbutt a speeding truck and walk away It’s like seeing Godzilla in a kiddie pool

During a summer heat wave in Alaska growing up (yes it’s a thing), my dad had several sprinklers and a tractor sprinkler going in the yard. From the woods behind the house suddenly came two young babies and a very large mother.

They came directly towards the tractor sprinkler and sat right down.

My dad verrrrry slowly pulled the hose of the other sprinklers, and repositioned them in the backyard so they would spray grass under the shade of several trees.

Lo and behold, the mother moose got up, walked over to the water now pooling beside these trees, and plomped down. The two babies followed after and just fell over in the cool water.

I write for myself

*checks AO3 every few hours to see if I got any new kudos, comments or subscriptions*

"Just because you're screaming into the void doesn't mean your heart isn't aching for an answer."

#just because you just said it aloud so that you can hear it#doesnt mean you don't also want to know that someone heard

dude...T^T

DpxDC soulmate swap

I keep seeing these soulmate AUs that when the younger one is a certain age the soulmates swap bodies.

Now, what about the vivisection/ bad reveal Danny, who is legally being experimented on by the GIW (NOT Ghost King AU), who wakes up during a family dinner, not realising he's awake at first, only for the family to tell him

"Yes, this is a soulmate swap, and yes, we ARE your soulmate's family."

He immediately goes to leave and says he will rescue himself- Que panicked family says that they'll get the heroes, only for Danny to laugh in their faces and go;

"What are they going to do? Everything that's happening to me is completely legal. Me murdering my way to my body is not. Anyway, hopefully, my soulmate is screaming and thrashing around enough that they sedate them; I've grown numb to the pain, so they don't usually bother anymore". Danny just casually stealing a car/motorbike and driving away.

I can't think of who would be the soulmate. Honestly, all of the cross-ship pairings could work.

E.R. Comics, Ryan Pequin

one time my friend had surgery on her hip/knee and we went to visit her in the hospital and she was like “hey guys, check out what i have! it’s this cool button that, when I press it, it gives me more morphine!” and sure enough she had a little tube with one end attached to her IV or whatever and one end with a button on it, and every time she pushed the button it gave her morphine

and she just kept pressing it and pressing it and giggling and getting loopier and loopier, so we went to ask a nurse if that was OK or if she was just going to overdose herself

and the nurse said that the morphine button is on a self timer limit and she had already maxed it out and won’t be able to get more for a few more hours, but she can just press the button as many times as she wants and thanks to her already being on the max dose of morphine she was just placebo effect-ing herself into the fucking stratosphere

it was a great image, my friend over there high as balls like I HAVE UNLIMITED MORPHINE POWER!!!! *press press press press* and the nurse like “nah that button isn’t doing shit but she’s having fun”

i may or may not be planning a fic where one of the many subplots is that Jason (as Red Hood, but Danny already knows) is following/investigating Danny because he thinks Danny’s dangerous somehow. I won’t go into the details because it’s so much, but point is i have a silly little scene in my head wherein Danny goes out to work on a uni group project with Tim, and on their way to the cafe some asshole car hits a guy on a motorcycle. The Biker goes into a rage and starts cursing him out, takes off his helmet and lo and behold it’s Jason.

Mid-verbal fight with the asshole he catches sight of Tim (recording the whole thing and waving at Jason) and of Danny (potential danger he’s been investigating for nearly two weeks), and Jason gives the asshole a “this isn’t over” threat and dips. Then,

Tim, who noticed Danny’s reaction: You know that guy?

Danny: Oh, yeah, that’s my stalker. You?

Tim: Nemesis. I’m sorry he’s your what?

Bonus:

Tim texting Jason: are you stalking my classmate??

Jason: Mind your own business, Replacement.

Jason: Wait, did he tell you that?

Tim: yah

Jason: RH’s been investigating him. Why the FUCK does your “classmate” think it’s me?

Tim: dick is gonna love this. the great rh has a containment breach

Jason: DON’T YOU FUCKING DARE TELL HIM REPLACEMENT

Tim: LMAO fuck it we BALL

Jason: TIM

Tim: So. Can you think of any reason he's stalking you?

Danny: Oh for sure. Anyway! This project, we can do it the super quick and easy way. Or the fun way!

Tim:... Care to tell me the reason? And, explain both options. Then we decide.

Danny: Why? It's not like it's important why he's stalking me? And! Yes. So. We can do a boring presentation on something easy. Knock something together in like an hour or two. Or! We can make a presentation on the batclans tech. Which absolutely involves stalking them for updates on their tech!

Tim:...... Fuck it. Option two sounds hilarious. How are we planning to not get caught?

Once the assignment is over? Tim wanders over to the Bat computer and starts going through the unsolved cases. Pulls up every time it was him or Danny for their project. And writes in what they did and why. Only to get some serious side eye. Tim's just like, what? It was funny! Did you, or did you not, all learn new and interesting weak spots?

Danny: So to answer your question of why the stalker I think it might be the whole my parents got banned from my university grounds the same day they dropped me off.

Tim: That seems a bit excessive? I think at lest a couple parents get banned from the university grounds every year.

Danny: I would think that too except it turns out having the GAV burst through the wall during orientation set off the villain attack lock down.

Tim:

Danny: Yeah I am pretty sure the only reason they did not get arrested was once the Dean asked my Dad if he could please leave they did. Mom really just wanted to drop off a new version of the Fenton Anti-theft Wallet.

Tim: Mad scientist parents, huh?

Danny: Yeah... At least they aren't committing war crimes any more! Anyway! I am SO stoked by the grade we got! The Prof was very pleased by how extra we went! Wanna team up on more assignments?

Tim: I should absolutely say no. But I am SO in.

Tim: Wait, anymore?

Danny: Don't worry about it. So, I'm thinking for our next Chem project, we do a full chemical analysis of that stuff that made the Joker a total Froot Loop.

Tim: wait, we would need at least a blood sample from the Joker, and a big sample, if we wanna study it as thoroughly as possible!

Danny, cracking his knuckles and grabbing the Fenton Anti-Creep Stick: so, extensive tissue and blood samples is all we need? I'll be right back :D

Does this knock Danny higher or lower on Jason's threat assessment?

Probably still at par. Gotham didn't get so many villains with doctorates by NOT encouraging this kind of behavior.

Jason internally shrugging. Ok, he might no have been born here. But he's clearly got Gotham spirit.

I love the idea of Gotham I just being so used to this that they just keep allowing it. Maybe email a list of most likely mad scientists around. So they know who's going places.

Jason decides to run interference with the Bats so that Danny can beat the joker up. Tim doesn’t mind, he finds it funny.

Danny wanders back to Tim with a cooler and covered in small splashes of blood. Tim is impressed, and very glad Danny seems to want to help people. If Danny wanted to hurt people? Tim isn't entirely sure Gotham could cope. Anyway! Science time! What did you get us? A pint of blood and half a kidney? Very nice!

Danny: so we’ve got a fully functioning cure for the insanity goop that messed with the Joker. Do you think it’d work for Harley too?

Tim; we might need a blood sample.

Danny: *grabbing the Fenton anti-creep stick* looks like it’s round two

Tim: Whoa there! Harley is... sorta reformed! We can just ask.

Danny:... That's not as much fun. Wait! You reckon she'd like the pictures I took of Joker after I was done with him?

Tim:..... You two are gonna get on FAR too well. I can just see it.

Danny: if she shares the same mutual feeling of elation I got when I beat the joker up, then yes.

Tim: remind me to never let you meet Jason.

Danny: oh does he hate joker too? You think he’d want to see the pictures?

Tim: you know, the more you spread those pictures around, the more risk it is for Batman to find out.

Danny: if he wants to keep his kneecaps, he won’t do anything.

Danny, meanwhile, is fully unaware that the Jason Tim is talking about is his Stalker. Yeah he can recognise the guy's death stink, but why the hell would he know his name.

When Danny stays over at the manor for Dinner one evening and Jason Drops by for some amazing cooking (thanks Alfie), these two just lock onto each other and Stare.

I like to imagine they do the Spiderman meme lol

Danny*whispering loudly*: The fuck is he here?!

Tim: He's my brother. Unfortunately.

Danny:... You poor bastard. Oh! I got the stuff! We can work on testing as soon as we got the labs!!

Tim:.... When was the last time you slept more than two hours?

Danny: Last night. You?

Tim: Same. science binge?

Danny: Science binge! We need to get snacks though. Last time I was hungry when we left the zone.

Tim: Good plan.

The Wayne's discreetly listening in as absolutely horrified. Oh no. They, might need to get Kon involved.

Tim and Danny exploring the Ghost Zone for days at a time

Kon, in tears: Tim has a new best friend

Jason, whos pissed his target keeps dropping off the face of the earth: yeah yeah man up. Has he told you where they were going?

Ok, but as soon as Danny finds out Tim's bestie is missing him? He's going to feel so bad. Kon is going to get dragged along as well. Like, Danny is so sorry! He didn't mean to steal your bestie! C'mon time to go with us! Yes yes, through the portal. Don't worry, totally safe!

Dead on Main Head Cannon

My favorite head cannon for this ship is that when they're feeling petty and pissed off at each other they'll send the other a purple hyacinth. It hits both of their dead, melodramatic souls perfectly. Flower language for purple hyacinth is "my regrets follow you to the grave" and that just vibes the same as "my condolences for your stupidity" to me at least.

Jason in a meeting as Red Hood with his gang. Flower shop worker guy comes in and says with the monotone of a dead-souled retail worker: "Delivery for Mr. Hood?"

Jason raises his hand with a sardonic head tilt.

Flower shop guy drops a small pot of purple hyacinth in front of him on the table and then reads off a small white card. "For leaving me to meet your dad by myself. Love, Danny." He puts the card back in his pocket. "Enjoy your flowers." He says in a way that makes Jason certain the man has no idea what the word enjoy actually means before shuffling out of the warehouse.

Hood's men all sit there silently for several long moments before one of them finally dares to speak.

"You made them meet the parents by themselves?"

Jason let's out a long heavy sigh.

"Anyone got a couch I can use tonight?"

The goons likely hear bits a pieces of Jason's grovelling phone call.

"Babe, no c'mon. It's not MY fault he stalked you to find out where you work and then showed up unannounced! It's not like he told me. C'mon!... Yes I know. I know. Uh huh. Babe, sweetheart, light of my life!... I can make the pasta dish you like so much... I'm sorry my Dad is that way... I know... I should have tried to explain him better... At least he likes you?"

Bill the Goon: Boss, respectfully as I can. What the fuck?

Jason: My old man is a paranoid bastard alright? I don't know how he even found out! I didn't tell him! I was waiting till I knew he couldn't scare Danny off!"

It's been a while since I painted ghost king Danny. I went with the aurora borealis crown this time. Also more animation experimentation with 2d and 3d stuff.

I struggled with the background a bit. Below is an alternative version, I can't decide what looks better.

Ribbon of a dream

“YOU!”

Jason turned his head to see a small guy with black hair pointing at him. He was wearing a light grey hoodie and jeans.

“Your ancestor has been haunting me for MONTHS!” Danny tilted his head, looking at Hood’s chest. “They weren’t wrong, you really do need to see a ghost doctor. What the fuck is up with your ecto?”

“My what?” Red Hood said. “ are you the guy people around here have been talking about? The one who can talk to the dead?”

“More like the dead won’t stop talking to me.”

“Alright, look. There’s this couple that looks old money and swears they are your grandparents and have said that if Bruce acts up, you are to ask Alfred where we hid the Doll. It was a vampire themed baby doll that someone gave us as a christening gift that he hated it.”

Red Hood perked up.

“If it works, what kind of alcohol should I pour one for them?

Danny’s eyes half closed and he looked through the Hood for half a second.

“Thomas says a nice smooth bourbon; he has a bottle tucked in a crevice in the back left hand corner of the wine cellar behind the empty crate. Martha asks instead of pouring a drink down to go to waste, that you pour out…Tim’s coffee?”

He froze as the words registered. “That’s a horrible thing to do to someone!” Danny argued, but Hood’s whole body seemed to perk up. I have Grandma Martha’s consent to mess with Tim’s coffee addiction? Best. Grandparents. Ever!”

As soon as Jason asks Alfred about the doll? He's going to insist Jason spill how he knew.

Jason: So. This guy, bout my age. Timmers build. Says the dead won't leave him alone. Accosted me on patrol to pass on Grandma and Gramps message. So where's the doll? Also, Gramps says to pour out one of his hidden bourbon?

Alfred: Master Jason. You will track that young man down. I need to have words with your Grandparents about Master Bruce!

Jason: That's fair. So, the creepy doll?

Alfred: I shall fetch it out once you drag the young man over to meet me.

ohh, i need danny and alfred meeting.

I imagine Danny being dragged by Jason to the manor, shouting, kicking and punching because he's not going inside a mansion that screams to him 'house of another fruitloop'. He would only reluctantly enter the house after being semi-convinced by Thomas and Martha. Half convinced that the owner of the house is not a fruitloop after eating what dish Alfred served to him.

Jason watched as Danny squirmed, flushed bright red, and glared just to the side of him. What on Earth were his Grandparents saying to him??

Danny: I am NOT passing on your flirty love notes!

Enrichment!! In his enclosure!!

Jason and Alfred watched as Danny nodded and chatted to the air for a moment. Before looking at Jason and sighing.

Danny: So. Got anywhere in this place I can summon a ghost Dr? They want you seen to. They are with holding more blackmail, which they will pass over if you agree.

@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

This has the same energy as a writer desperately trying to make their insanely cool but devastatingly off the wall plot point work with the rest of the story

Danny's found a way to dodge GIW trackers, as well as his parents. Their equipment hunts ghosts, ghosts run on emotion; so as long as he keeps his under a tight lid and doesn't feel anything ever, they won't be able to track him.

It works!

He's able to run from them, and goes as far as New Jersey. The plan was to stow away on a ship, and go to literally any country that wasn't America. He goes to Gotham, which hosts the one harbor he knows where no one will ask any questions.

But because of how weird he acted (completely emotionless during a Joker attack), he was fingered by police immediately.

He's handed over to CPP. CPP doesn't know what to do with a teen literally so traumatized that they don't show any emotion at all, ever. He keeps just...walking out of his placements. Just leaves without a sound.

Luckily, he's always caught, due to those placement houses having quiet alarms and him refusing to run.

They call the one foster parent they know who does.

Bruce Wayne takes in the strange, nameless kid who refuses to talk.

On paper, they gave him the filler name of 'John Doe', for lack of anything better to do.

Bruce does everything he can to make the newest arrival feel at home. Damian, for as territorial as he is, actually breaks out of his shell sooner than expected just to try to get the new kid to speak. To emote. To do something. Duke tries the open approach, then tries the 'no one will ever know, everyone thinks I'm an innocent goody-two-shoes' approach. Nada.

Tim even tries to trick him into talking, but nothing works.

Enter Dick; Dick heard about Bruce's new ward, about the situation, and decided to see if he could get the kid to open up.

Danny though. Danny's in trouble.

The Wayne Manor is weirdly secure, and he can't just walk away like he did his other placements. He can't use ghost powers or the GIW and his parents will immediately know where he is.

He really, really wants to take Bruce up on his offer and just spend the day relaxing. Respond to Damian's attempts to provoke him. Overshare about space facts with Tim.

But most of all, he really, desperately wants to get in a Pun Competition with Dick. He wants to laugh at Dick's jokes, and learn coolass gymnastic tricks!

But he can't!

If he relaxes with Bruce, he'll be content, which is an emotion. If he argues with Damian, he'll get annoyed, which is an emotion. If he sneaks out with Duke and breaks the rules, he'll get happy, which, again, emotion. If he overshares with Tim, he'll get excited, which is, yet again, an emotion!

The worst sin of all, he can't even show proper appreciation of the food the Butler keeps making him!

And now there's even more people coming over!

There's a quiet girl who keeps reading his body language and trying to get him to dance ballet, a blonde girl who keeps trying to kidnap him to take him to BatBurger, a guy with a stripe of white who wants to take him to a shooting range, and it just...he really, really wants to!

He wants to do all these cool things with them!

But he fucking can't!

The entire family is worried about Danny, he can tell. They are so kind, and so worried. It's like being surrounded by different versions of his sister. And even thinking of the fact that he had to leave her behind to escape their parents almost blows the lid off his carefully contained emotions. He wants to badly to accept the kindness they are offering, but he can't.

He's sitting silently in the dining room picking at the amazing food Alfred made. He can't eat it like he wants to, he can't say puns, he can't do anything because then they will find him. He is sitting there when, unbeknownst to him, a man by the name of Ra's al Ghul decides to make is monthly attempt at claiming Danny's foster father as his son and heir.

Danny keeps his fear and surprise under wraps when fucking ninjas burst through the windows showering the room in glass. He clamps down on his pain when a knife whips past his face, nicking his ear. But he can't keep a hold on his anger when Cass has to dodge another knife.

His rage explodes out of him as all the suppressed emotions and all the carefully contained ectoplasm warps his face into something more monstrous and ghostly. He lunges through the table, using intangibility for the first time in months to grab a ninja who was threatening Dick with sword.

"YOU DO NOT HARM THEM!" He roars before throwing the ninja back out the window and all the way across the manor grounds.

His face twists even more as his fangs stretch and his core thrums with his fury. The remaining ninjas are unconscious in a matter of moments. They dare to attack the first people to genuinely care for him other than his sister and his friends. They are alive, and that is the only mercy he has for them.

In the silence that follows, his breathing sounds loud. His tongue flicks from his mouth to lick the trace of blood from his ear even as his ectoplasm closes the wound without even a scar. He looks around at the knocked out foes and the wide eyed members of the family.

For the first time in months he allows himself to feel grief. They could have been everything. A new family, a second chance at a normal life, his chance to be free of those who hunt him. Not any more. He looks around as tears burn at his eyes.

"I- I'm sorry." He whispers. Then He runs, transforming into his ghost form to fly as fast and as far as he can.

mmmmmmm that sweet sweet angst

yessssssssss

Okay, but Danny can fly into Space so he could easily fly to Europe from New Jersey. The reason he didn't before was cause he was trying to not get tracked by using his powers, but now that he's already done so, he can continue to do so.

Only problem is he assumed that since the GIW are an agency of the USA and the Anti-ecto laws were only passed in the United States, that they'd stop hunting him when he flees the country. Unfortunately, the both the GIW and the Fentons are clearly delusional and think that there's no reason they can't operate in foreign countries. So he's still having to suppress himself and flee around the world, all while international relations with the United States are getting worse and worse due to the people hunting him and their actions.

A John Doe that one day mysteriously appeared in the Gotham City Morgue is driving everyone crazy. Anytime someone attempts to move him or trying to find cause of death, well, they escape the morgue looking dishevelled, eyes wide in fear and unable to speak about what occurred.

Any recording became statics. Face recognition machine broke down. Surgery knives bent like plastic. All the while the corpse stayed peacefully, not deposed like any normal corpse despite the months passing.

Most scary at all, they couldn't utter a word about this to anyone. Writing or signing was also useless. So this miraculously didn't reach the bat's ears.

Priest, (fake) occult detectives or any of the likes were invited under the pretense of blessing or destroying the cursed corpse but their attempts are futile and they were traumatized.

Until Jason Todd, who was in his undercover disguise as father Jasper, was invited.

He didn't expect the corpse to open his eyes the moment he arrived inside. Nor for the doors to lock tight and all communication cut off.