Danny reincarnates into a test tube, with a grief-stricken Timothy Drake staring at him in shock. The 100th cloning attempt worked.

Danny, having been dead for a very long time, decided to reincarnate, because I love that trope.

He reincarnated into the clone baby of Kon that Tim was trying to make. But Tim couldn't ever get over the hurdle that kept making the clones inviable, so the 100th was just half his DNA and half Kon's.

Danny is the son of a teenage father, who is grieving the death of his other father, and apparently a lot of other people if the ghosts surrounding the teen hero have anything to say.

Danny had reincarnated for a go at a lazy, nice life. Just relive being mortal for a bit.

Instead, he's kidnapped by Ra's Al Ghul to force Red Robin to take care of the Council of Spiders.

I find it incredibly funny from a meta/author perspective, that Ancient Greece decided to name their protagonist that angers many people “Anger Bringer” but, even funnier, is the in universe understating that anyone who meets Odysseus must have had the thought “oh dear, how unfortunate to be named hateful/hated” and then they have exactly One conversation with him and go “Ah I see now”

For reference, Odysseus’ name sounds very much like the Greek word odussomai, which can roughly mean “I am angry at” or “I am the cause of anger” (or simply “to hate” or “to dismiss”), a fact that is used for ironic effect frequently in the Odyssey.

It’s also specifically stated in Book 19 that Odysseus’ grandfather, a master thief and one who has also pissed off a lot of people, specifically named him this because “I am disliked by many, all across the world, and I dislike them back. So name the child Odysseus.” 19.428

Bro looked at his grandson and thought “Ahaha, this one’s going to be a troublemaker like me. Better get him started early.”

It’s like a terrible allegory for cause and effect or something.

Prepared for Anything Part One

Danny stared at the ceiling, bored, as the creepy clown laughed manically at a camera. Danny hadn’t been in this dimension for two minutes, (he’d portalled directly into Joker’s hideout) before he was promptly tied to a chair. He could get out of it easily.

Thing was, there were others here, restrained more thoroughly than Danny. They wore colourful, armoured suits and were obviously the vigilantes/heroes of this. . .place—Gotham? Danny’d heard the name mentioned a few times now—This Freakshow wannabe was obviously one of their villains. 

Danny had been hoping someone would show up without having to draw attention to himself. What was this dimension’s stance on halfas? Or ghosts?

But no one had come yet, it had been an hour, and he was getting stiff from sitting here so long without being able to move his limbs.

Danny heaved a loud, exasperated sigh-groan at the ceiling. The guy, face-painted like a toddler who’d gotten into their parent’s make-up, suddenly stopped monologuing. 

DPxDC Prompt

Danny can see death, but not in a way anyone assumes. When people around you die they leave a mark, how the mark appears depends on how close you are to them and how they died.

The more violent the death the more tattered the wisps, the younger they are the more fragile, the closer they are emotionally the closer they cling. many will cry in quietly despair, or wail loudly for the injustice, it is more concerning when they are silent. As if afraid to be heard...

So when Danny who is newly hired to Wayne Industries Aeronautics sector meets Bruce Wayne for the first time as he passes through to meet with his son, he is horrified to witness the amount of wisps coming from the man.

They are all tattered and fragile, children who died before their time in the most violent of ways. But that wasn't even the most horrifying part, no, it was the silence. The wisps didn't make a sound and it chilled Danny to the core.

Bruce Wayne who has a history of adopting children on the slightest of whims and has at least one child death under his belt the public knows about. Danny doesn't want to make assumptions, but there was no telling what Bruce did out of the public eye or how many children he took in that no one knows about...

When Bruce caught his eye and Danny noticed the interest that crossed his expression he realized, he fit his criteria, black hair and blue eyes. Danny hoped this wouldn't lead to him finding out personally that his boss is a serial killer, he really should have expected this when he moved to Gotham… ------------------------------------------------

AKA Every time one of his kids died a piece of them attached to Bruce before they were revived and those combined with some of the victims he couldn't save, meant that Bruce was absolutely covered in death echoes. Danny sees this and believes Bruce is a serial killer, not just any serial killer, but one that had a habit of targeting kids.

occasionally i think about my mother’s best friend, who at one point built a whole ikea shelf well trialing some new sleeping medicine and had absolutely 0 memory of it after the fact

This post made me laugh lmfao and then it inspired this:

Danny would do anything, anything, to get a good night’s sleep and some freaking money. As much as he looooved- note the sarcasm- his minimum wage job that barely covered the cost of his tuition, he’s in desperate need of funds. If he had to survive on boxed Mac n’ Cheese, as good as it is, for another week, Danny might actually consider taking over the world.

Lo and behold, Gotham’s on brand shady ass pharmaceutical companies offered $500 to people who would trial their new sleep medication. Danny, being new to the city and desperate, had no idea that any medication not from Wayne Enterprises had a 70% chance of fatality and/or caused some horrible brainwashing side effect. To be fair… Danny couldn’t exactly get dead-er. Well, maybe his human side could die but it sure as hell wouldn’t be from a pill that didn’t contain blood blossoms.

So he took the plunge, and entered the trial. Oddly enough, they gave him the money first.

Danny shrugged, popped the pill in his mouth, and went home. After stopping by the grocery store to grab snacks, of course. After that… well, his mind went blank.

Which leads to now, as Danny blinked back into consciousness. He sat up from his wonderful couch and promptly did a double take.

Danny’s apartment was kind of bare before. Now? There’s new shelving- that he did not remember putting together mind you- and an assortment of random furniture cluttered around his studio.

The most damning, most bamboozling, part of his new surroundings were the fucking Gotham vigilantes tied up on his floor. They stared at him. Danny gawked back.

Danny used to be a vigilante, firmly on the side of good. Like, illegally, but morally good.

Danny’s 100% sure that whatever he is now, it’s not good.

Is Gotham’s influence just Like That?

He was homeless when he got to this thrice damned city (literally, because Lady Gotham was so cursed) and now he’s… here? In a mid-level penthouse with a rotation of homeless kids going in and out of his kitchen and eating out his pantry??

babysitting your work friend's kid and he asks to look at your patchwork quilt of a skull. wyd. inspired by Super Sons #6!

A day of freedom, this was what danny smelled the moment he, alongside his new team (!!!) The Justice League, finished their most recent mission which involved aliens (!!!).

Until, on their way back home, a green (familiar) portal opened, hands grabbed and hauled him right through it.

Now this was, believe it or not, familiar and, and! He knew what to do.

What he didn't expect is Batman's hook to wind up around his middle, superman clinging on batman, wonder woman on superman, flash actually on his left leg and—

You get it. The entire team tm just went into the portal as well, cut contact to the tower and its absolute chaos!

What's he gonna do now??

Dcxdp #25

Ambassador Danny pretending not to know anything about humans / the living

 the Justice League stepping a little bit too far into  infinite realm politics. so the realm says they will send an ambassador. For the council it's getting Danny away and learning things like diplomacy and also keeping an eye out on the heroes. Danny is a prince not a king of the zone but is told not reveal that due to security risks.

Danny is told not to reveal too much because of the Realms bad experiences with the government in his home dimension so Danny just plays down.  Amity Park and the places from DC are separate dimensions. Danny is having the time of his life  pretending to be a tourist in the living realm. And he keeps mentioning his time travel Adventures so they're all convinced he's very old.

Danny keeps scamming Heroes into doing the stupidest stuff just for his own amusement While he pretends to have no idea  what he's making them do. the heroes I'm imagining are Tim's Young Justice team like Kon, Bart and Cassie but it can really be any heroes

Ambassador Danny AU

Just a silly thing knocking around in my brain.

Batman halted in the door of the conference room, taking in the sight of a strange being lounging imperiously in his chair. His white hair seemed to defy gravity ever so gently and his green, glowing eyes—Jason’s eyes—stared back with none of the regard or fear so many people showed towards Batman. His tanned face was speckled with tiny stars that Batman had to actively resist becoming memorized by. The boy’s choice of covering was sheening armour that refracted the light through his chest-plate of black ice. The white sleet that sharpened his knuckles seemed perfectly capable of movement despite it encasing his hands in similar fashion to the chest-plate; glassy in it’s brutal edges and as hard as the sheets that form over the coldest of lakes. 

The watchtower had been invaded. Batman had questioned why the place was so cold when he’d arrived. Now he knew.

The only thing that kept Batman from immediately reacting might have—very much—had to do with how young he looked. A boy in the second half of his teens.

And the fact that several other Justice League members were at Batman’s back as he strolled further into the room, watching the boy warily.

DCxDP Prompt

Ra's had a secret, one that not even his closest confidants knew of.

In an undisclosed location, in a twisting cave system deep below the earth, is a hidden cavern. Within that cavern is a very familiar green glow, but this pit is very different from the rest.

Because in the center of the pool, hung by an excessive amount of glowing chains is a pale being with white hair and green eyes. They hang limp and listless where they are impaled in countless places, leaking bright green into the pool below them.

This was Ra's greatest secret, Lazarus himself.

The being has never spoken, has never done more then stare listlessly at the pool beneath themselves and has never answered a single question Ra's has asked no matter what method he implemented.

Ra's had planned to bring Damian to Lazarus once he was old enough, but the child had proven himself unloyal once the detective got hold of him. It was a disappointment.

Tim though, had proven himself a more viable heir. Smarter, more clever and willing to do what the detective would not. So when he had taken Tim from the desert bleeding out from a fatal wound, he healed him and brought him to Lazarus.

What he didn't expect was for Lazarus to speak to Tim.

Oh I definitely want more of this! The original tags mentioned Ra's finding Danny already chained up. I wonder who chained him like that. Did someone seal him away because of a prophecy that spelled out that he would bring the end of the world, not knowing that he had already fixed that problem?

Or maybe he was sealed there for his sort of protection? Like, something attacked him, whether it be the GIW or something completely different and he got severely injured(hence the impalement) but no one knew how to actually help him at the time so they put some kind of binding spell on him or something to keep him there in hiding and also to kinda time freeze his injuries until they could figure out a way to help him but alot of time passed and the help he needed to get healed just never came for who knows why?

Fallen.

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Really enjoyed working on this commission about Jason. Thanks to my amazing commissioner🙏

Damian had never seen another person his age before.

“Wow, you're good at that.”

Damian froze in his practice and looked over at the boy. It was after his lesson, his instructor had other students to teach, and Damian had his own private training area. Well, it was supposed to be private. “Who are you?”

“Danny, what's your name?”

Damian glared at the boy. Who doesn't know who he is? “I am Damian Al-Ghoul, grandson of the Demon's Head, son of the Bat, heir to the League of Assassins.”

“Wow, that's a lot... Can I just call you Damian?”

“Servants call me Master. How did you get here?”

Danny shrugged, “I was just looking around.”

“Just looking around...”

“Yeah, my parents are in the science lab down in the bottom basement with the weird lake and I was helping them, but then I got board and Jazz said I wasn't allowed to leave the lab, but when I asked Dad, he said I could do what I want as long as I don't get in trouble.”

“Oh, the idiot scientists.” Damian remembered how his mother had described the new scientists hired to study the Lazarus Pools. A pair of geniuses when it came to the scientific study of magic but idiots in all other fields. Surely only idiots would bring their children to live with the League of Assassins.

“What do you mean? If you're a scientist you can't be an idiot?”

Damian huffed at the boy. “You can be smart at one thing and dumb at others. Like you could be good at reading but bad at numbers.”

“Oh, I guess that makes sense. But I'm pretty good at reading and numbers.” Danny then smiled brightly, “It looks like you're really good at swording though.”

“It's called swordplay. And yes, I am good at it. Better at it at my age than many who are older.”

“Can you show me how to do it?”

Damian contemplated for a moment, “As long as you don't get in the way of my practice, I don't see why not.”

Danny cheered as he ran up to where Damian was standing, but Damian pointed to the side of the training area, “There should be a spare sword over there you can use.”

Danny nodded and ran to get it then ran back.

Damian wasn't sure if he'd like showing Danny how to use a sword, but he liked how Danny followed all his instructions. It was different than how the servants followed his orders, but Damian couldn't place why. It became common place, for Danny to show up after Damian's lessons and Damian would show him what he'd learned. It actually made learning new things easier because Damian had to figure out how exactly something worked in order to show Danny how to do it. Not only that, but when they practiced the moves on each other, Danny would change them and make it harder to beat him. Damian did win every time, but Danny wasn't half bad.

2022. still proud of this one btw <3