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Duke & The Phantoms

In which Duke catches Danny, Ellie and Dan (who is mostly redeemed and inhabiting a clone) sneaking into the Batcave at 5am to steal confiscated GIW tech while invisible...

They think he can't see them.

He very much can.

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Starry Night

Due to both of them having power enhanced night vision, the stars are perfectly visible to Duke and Danny even with Gotham's horrible light and air pollution.

On the rare cloudless nights they have stargazing dates on rooftops. Nobody knows what the hell they're looking at.

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RUSHED IT BUT HERE YA GOOOO

SOME DEADLIGHT/GHOST LIGHG FOR THE HAND FULL OF PEOPLE WHO EAT IT UP

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I love the idea of Danny in dc and the whole hum knowing Tim but I raise you and have him meeting Duke and Duke become ing really good friends with him although he can’t see Danny like fully because of Dukes ghost vision so like Bruce or someone will be asking about Dukes new friend and he’s just avoiding the description of Danny and they think it’s because he dosent want them knowing who Danny is and going full investigation mode on Dukes new friend but in reality Duke can’t see this friend and is like 99% sure he isn’t just a glob of ghost. He don’t know shit about his eye color hair color or anything so when Duke finally brings back a like mini Bruce looking kid to the manor to hang out with everyone is like dude you just got us another sibling really, and Duke is just confused because he doesn’t know what Danny fully looks like he just sees like dots of color around Danny like he sees Danny through a really bad prescription.

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oooo Halloween prompts how fun!

Technically two words but how about 'Spider Webs' ,, they're spooky and halloweeny right?

Have fun with the prompts :>

"Ack!" Danny shakes his head, expression twisted up into a grimace as he swipes his hands over his face. He pulls sticky clumps of spider webs off his skin, shaking them off his fingers to let them fall onto the grimy floor. "Gross," he complains.

"You good over there?" Duke asks, the light of his flashlight sweeping over to him.

Danny nods, giving him a thumbs up. "Just eating spider webs over here, don't mind me."

He'd go intangible to avoid them if he could, but with Duke here, he can't just go around using his powers recklessly. He's only been in Gotham for two months and that's been enough time to learn that that less people know about his ghost powers, the better. His plan had been to keep his head down and quietly get his bachelor's degree in astrophysics before heading to a Master's program on the west coast, but trouble comes knocking for every unfortunate soul in the city.

Trouble, in this case, accompanied Duke Thomas, his classmate in their shared gen ed psychology class. Danny had only taken the class to fulfill one of his social sciences gen eds and because he was feeling homesick and psychology makes him think of his sister. He had expected to just take notes, write papers, do readings, and never think of the class again once the semester ended, but his professor acted stranger by the day. No one else seemed to have noticed, so Danny chalked it up to being too hyperaware and jaded from his experiences with past teachers and authority figures fucking him over.

The thing is, Duke also clocked that something was wrong with their professor.

One concerning comment in class had the two of them, sitting at neighboring tables, meet each other's eyes with the same did he really just say that kind of look.

From then on, Danny found himself swept into Duke's drive to figure out what the hell, exactly, is going on, which leads him here: the basement of the social sciences building at Gotham City University, traversing the dark, damp, abandoned halls in search of something that may explain their professor's behavior. The door to access the basement was locked and blocked by a row of filing cabinets in their professors office.

This wouldn't have been suspicious if the filing cabinet in front of the door didn't turn out to be fake, used to conceal a latch on the floor that gave them a ladder to climb down on. Danny stopped doubting himself and Duke's instincts once that opened.

But beyond the secret trap door into the basement, there's nothing else for them to take note of. Danny brings his own flashlight up to peer into another hall; no doors leading to rooms, no items out of place, just the same long stretch of concrete and pipes dripping water onto the floor. A ton of spider webs down there, too.

"I don't think there's anything down here," he tells Duke, going back to where he's looking around.

"No, no, there is," Duke insists, "Trust me."

Danny hums doubtfully, but doesn't try to dissuade him otherwise. Best to let him keep going just in case he does find something so they can finally understand what's up with their professor.

His mind is wandering when he realizes that he's hearing more than just his and Duke's breathing. There's a click, and then a whine of a hinge in desperate need of some oil. Freezing, Danny shares a panicked look with Duke as someone begins descending the ladder. He turns off his flashlight, Duke following suit a second later, and then they're pulling at each other, scrambling down the hall to hide.

He can feel himself run through more spider webs, grimacing at the feeling of the strands on his skin, but there are more pressing matters to worry about.

Behind them, another light sweeps through the hall, passing by them just as Duke pulls him and makes him sharply turn a corner he didn't see.

Duke pulls them both into a small alcove, pressed up tight in the small space as they try to silence their breathing and remain undetected as footsteps head towards them. Danny watches with wide eyes as the light approaches, then moves pass the hall they turned into to continue on. A long shadow stretches out towards them before shifting away, and he catches the sound of a mechanical whir. A secret door, maybe?

The light and the footsteps disappear. He and Duke keep as still as possible, hardly daring to breathe, as they wait to see if the person is going to come back.

Duke is the first to move, moving back as much as he can in the alcove. He reaches up and pulls strands of spider webs out of Danny's hair. He tries to ignore how his heart skips a beat at how close together they are, how gentle the motion was.

"You good?" Duke asks, voice hushed and low.

Danny nods, carefully moving out of the alcove to peek out into the hall. It's empty, just as dark and damp as it was before. If there is a secret door down here, he has no idea where it is. "That was suspicious, right?"

"Very suspicious," Duke agrees. "Do you want to head back?"

Part of him wants to leave before they get caught, but Danny didn't walk through so many spider webs for nothing. "We got this far, didn't we? Let's keep going."

Duke grins at him, relieved, and flicks his flashlight back on. They fall into step with each other, looking down the hallway to where the person disappeared. "Let's go, then."

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(I know it's not one word but...)

Harvest Moon!

The moment Duke heard about Smallville's Harvest Moon Festival, he knew he wanted to go with Danny. They've both been stuck in Gotham for a while and never get to leave as civilians. He's tired of most of their dates being crashed by crime and corruption, having to ditch meals out together to evacuate civilians and fight rogues who don't respect the sanctity of a day off.

Not this time, though!

Duke has the day off and a favor from Tim has him flying the Batplane out to Kansas with Danny in the co-pilot seat, humming along to the upbeat playlist they decided would accompany them on the flight. It does feel strange for the both of them to be in the Batplane as civilians instead of Signal and Phantom, but it's a nice change. 

He's sure that Bruce will scold him about using the Batplane for non-mission purposes, but Duke knows how to deal with him. All he has to do is accuse Bruce of not supporting his relationship and being homophobic, to which Bruce will reply that he's also bi, so how can he be homophobic? And then Duke and anyone else who's around will yell that Bruce is dodging the question and the man will get so tired he'll give up and leave. It's worked before, it'll work again.

"Why'd you wanna go to the festival, anyways?" Danny asks, breaking the comfortable silence that's settled between them.

Duke shrugs. "It sounded fun. And it's far from Gotham, so we won't have to worry about a rogue crashing our date again."

"Don't jinx us," Danny warns with a teasing grin, "Watch an alien warship come down just to prove you wrong."

"Don't put that out into the world! Today's our day off. If an alien warship does come down, the Supers can deal with it. I am going to have a fun night out with you and I'm not letting anything get in our way."

"How romantic," Danny say wryly, "Protecting our date. The fact that it's even gotten this bad is honestly ridiculous."

"I'm starting to think Gotham doesn't want us to date."

"Gotham can think whatever it wants. It's not going to keep me away from you."

"Sap."

"Says you!" Danny reaches over to lightly smack his arm and Duke grins, grabbing his hand to press a kiss against his palm just to watch Danny's face flush red.

They land a few minutes later in a field just behind the Kent's property. Duke makes sure the plane is cloaked, hidden from sight, before he descends with Danny. Kon waits for them, giving them a cheerful wave once they're on the ground.

"Good to see you," he greets, leading them to the Kent house. "We've got quite the spread prepared today!"

Duke blinks. "Oh, we were just going to chill until the festival started. You didn't need to include us in your dinner plans."

"If you think you can stop Ma from feeding you, you got another thing coming. Especially since she likes Danny so much." Kon winks at Danny. "Also, I made a banging sweet potato casserole and I need you two to compliment me on it, so you have to join us."

"Fair enough," Danny says. "Good thing we didn't eat before heading out, huh?"

Duke reaches out and takes Danny's hand in his. This is already looking to be better than all their other dates in Gotham. "Lucky us," he agrees, then tells Kon, "Thanks, man, for setting us up for this."

"No prob! I'm always happy to help out in the name of love. Also the festival is super fun and I need you to convince Tim to come by one of these days. If he's stuck in Gotham working on cases any longer, he's gonna start growing mushrooms outta his head."

"We'll make sure he stops by soon," Duke promises.

They emerge from the corn field to the picnic table behind the Kent house covered in a checkered table cloth and covered in a variety of dishes. The other members of the Kent family and members of Superman's side of the hero business are gathered around as well, chatting with relaxed smiles. Kon leaves them with a friendly slap on their backs and walks over to pick Jon up and toss him over his shoulder.

Sibling bickering fills the air. Danny leans against Duke with a soft smile.

"Thanks," he says quietly, the words just for the two of them. "For everything."

"I should be saying that to you," Duke returns, leaning in to kiss Danny's cheek. "C'mon, let's go enjoy our date night."

Yeah, they're definitely coming back next year. He'll even remember to bring one of his mom's favorite dishes to the Havrest Moon Dinner the Kent's host.

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"Then Danny tripped his foot before he could even kick the ball-" Duke said before Danny cut him off.

"Aaargh! Why do you always commemorate my moment of shame in my school, Duke?!" Danny whined.

Damisn stiffened a laugh and Jason and Dick were laughing their asses off at the sulking Danny. Jazz along with Cass and Steph were helping Alfred with the dishes.

"You don't have to feel bad about it, Danny," Dick tried to cheer him up. "Beside, your team did win all because of your efforts, right?"

(.... I will say this now, I don't know anything about sports lmao. And I'm also making this Deadlight.)

Danny grumbled something under his breath. Duke tilted his head, grinned, and then nudged him playfully with his shoulder.

Danny looked up to give him a withering glare, before Duke surged forward and then kissed him on the cheek.

Danny immediately flushed bright red and slapped a hand over his cheek.

"?!!??!!" He soundlessly screamed.

"Awww, you're so cute!" Dick cooed. Damian meanwhile, leaned on Jason as the two of them pretended to start barfing.

"Disgusting! Cease these vile actions immediately, Thomas, or I lose all respect I had for you!"

Jason rolled his eyes and gagged. "You're both disgusting."

"Pot, meet kettle," Duke smirked, gesturing towards the kitchen where Jazz was.

Danny groaned, covering his lobster red face into his hands before burying his face in Duke's shoulder. Duke grinned as he wrapped an arm around him and looked at his siblings. "And that's how you make a ghost shut up."

"Awww!" Dick cooed again.

"Be like Romeo and Juliet and begone!" Damian hissed.

"Damian!"

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Ghost light prompt!

Meeting the family

Gone wrong? Gone right? You decide!!!

"Do you like meatloaf?" Maddie asks as she hoists up a modified rocket launcher. Duke tries not to look too wigged out, but it's hard to keep a straight face while his boyfriend's parents deal with the hostage situation in a very strange, mad scientist/engineer way that he's never seen before.

He's starting to get why Danny didn't want his parents coming to Gotham.

"Probably?" Duke answers, hoping he can land in the general area of a good answer. "I haven't really had a lot of meatloaf before but I'm always willing to try new foods."

"That's a great attitude to have!" Jack exclaims, patting Duke on the back. His absurd strength makes Duke stumble forward a few steps. Jack quickly steadies him with a hand on his shoulder and a muttered, "Whoops!"

"I am so sorry," Danny says again, hiding his face in his hands. "I should have insisted on having them meet you some other time."

The wall before them explodes and Maddie cheers. "Alright boys, you go ahead and get to the restaurant to hold our reservation. We'll be there as soon as we clean this up! And next time, we'll skip all this mess by having you eat at home with us. Be good, boys!" She's gone before either of them can respond, Jack happily following his wife to rain holy hell down on Two Face's henchmen. Duke is left behind with Danny and the handful of other hostages gathered up to draw out Batman. If what he heard is correct, then Two Face was planning on using the hostages as a distraction to take in a large shipment of weapons from the Odessa Mob, which is a plan that has been thoroughly derailed by the Fentons.

"I knew this would be a disaster," Danny despairs, and Duke softens, lets go of his worries about the situation, and places an arm around his boyfriend's waist to draw him into a hug.

Danny leans into him, the tips of his ears red with embarrassment. "It's alright," Duke reassures, "They're making a great first impression, saving me from Two Face and all. Why don't we get the others evacuated and then head out to the restaurant?"

He nods and pulls away from Duke after a few deep breaths to settle himself. They help the other hostages get outside, following the Fenton's trail of destruction through the warehouse, and reassure them that there aren't new rogues in Gotham, just a pair of overprotective parents visiting. As Danny helps the last of them get out onto the streets, Duke takes a moment to message the Bat group chat an update with the situation.

Got kidnapped by Two Face with Danny and his parents. We're good now, his parents blew up the walls and got us out, but you might wanna swing down to save Two Face from them. He ends the messages with a peace sign emoji and puts his phone on Do Not Disturb.

Whatever else happens is not his problem. He's got a dinner with his boyfriend's parents to get to, and he's sure it'll be just as fun as this unconventional hostage situation.

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Flufftober Day 2 - “Left. Other left!”

Danny/Duke - Driving Lessons

Danny's teaching Duke how to drive.

Duke hasn't ever needed to learn, he's got his bike and he's got his metro card and he's got his grapple, so he's just fine.

Danny thinks he's being silly and takes him out to a parking lot to practice.

Turns out Duke can't drive. Like, at all.

Danny spends the time phasing them through solid objects because Duke keeps side swiping the light posts and running over the cement blocks. He's terrible at parking and he either jerks the wheel too hard or not at all.

Reversing is a nightmare.

Afterwards, Duke asks how he did.

Danny's almost nauseated from all the jerky steering and from the panic, but he gives Duke a shaky thumbs up.

What else can he do? Duke looks so excited.

They go out for ice cream after, and Duke is all excited for his next lesson. Danny just eats his ice cream and internally screams.

Duke's lucky he loves him so much. Otherwise, there's no way Danny would ever get in a car with him ever again.

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Ghost Of A Bright Future

Danny and Duke's son travel back to the past to find something and gain the unwanted attention of his future parents.

Danny is just trying to figure out if this ghost wanted to mess with him even after he left Amity Park.

Duke is trying to figure out the new metas that appeared.

Their son may or may not help them take their first step into being together.

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DP x DC Prompt #2

"Red String of Fate" Soulmate AU Idea:

Ship is GhostLights / DeadLights (But you could definitely do something similar with other ships that involve Danny.)

"Strings of Fate, Sands of Time"

So we all know the red string of fate soulmate trope. Everyone is born bound to a string that only they can see. If they follow their string, it will lead them to their own true destined soulmate.

One day, while doing homework, Duke Thomas notices that most of his string just...pops out of existence? The base knot is still there, but the rest of just gone, as if someone had taken a pair of scissors to the base of it and snipped it away. It's gone for only a second, flickering in and out of his vision, before reappearing, this time pointing the complete opposite direction.

Duke blinks, utterly confused, because...what? Did his soulmate just...teleport? How did his soulmate seemingly disappear, and then reappear in the complete other direction? He chews on his pencil, trying to figure out this mystery. Was his soulmate somehow capable of teleportation? Did they have access to a Zeta Tube? Were they a meta? Were they an alien?

Over the course of a few weeks, Duke's string continues to disappear and reappear randomly. His initial theory that his soulmate was merely teleporting falls flat as one day, he finds the end of his string. It's truly a concerning sight. The end of the string, just floating midair, ending in a bright ball of glowing light. He's able to tug on it, pulling the string from seemingly nowhere.

He begins to find the end of his string in increasingly concerning places. He sees it floating midair above the Gotham Skyline like a rising sun one day while patrolling as the Signal. He sees it twisting its way up a tree at the park, the end wrapped around one of the branches, glowing and pulsing. He sees the end of it lying in a curled heap in some dark alleyway, lighting it up with a glow that only he can see.

And. It. Keeps. On. Disappearing. And. Reappearing.

One moment his string could be pointing east. The next it could be pointing west. It would disappear and then the end of his string reappear in a pile at his feet. It would flicker in and out of sight, and then get yanked up into the sky, flying off into space. He feels like he is going absolutely insane.

One day on his way to school, finally, he catches sight of the end of his string again. This time, instead of ending in some random place, it ends at a boy. The boy is black-haired and blue-eyed, with the other end of Duke's string knotted off on his pinky.

Duke surges forward to grip the boy's shoulders, his eyes wide and wild, and shouts, "YOU!"

"Where do you keep disappearing and reappearing to?!"

The boy is one Danny Fenton. A few months ago, he was in a lab accident that involved a ghost portal, which left him half-ghost. In recent weeks, he has begun to be mentored by a few older ghosts. Ghosts such as Clockwork, an ancient ghost with powers over time, and Wulf, a ghost with the ability to tear holes between the Infinite Realms, the space between dimensions.

Who knew the ability to travel through time and dimensions would mess that much with the little string? Really, it's not Danny's fault, who could have predicted that? How was Danny supposed to notice the weird things were happening with his string? It's not such a big deal, really...

"So..." Danny says, flashing a confused grin, just slightly too sharp, at Duke, "Hi?"

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fic rec! 7.3K across two one shots - DC x DP

Summary: Duke and Danny are college roommates - and secrets don't last long.

Comments: Realizing who each other is is such a small part of this series - it's really them just getting up to shenanigans. Teasing the Waynes at a family dinner. Dealing with heat waves. Fun fluff.

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DP x DC Prompt #20

Duke hadn't believed his father when he told Duke he had his "infinite blood" or whatever. Duke wasn't an immortal. To think he would be was ridiculous.

But Damian's old and gray, mentoring the next Batman. And Duke's still young. He's still in his prime. He isn't aging. Maybe his father was right. Maybe he's immortal. But he doesn't want to be.

He's already watched too many people he care about die, he doesn't know if he'll be able to stay sane if this continues.

Turning to Doctor Fate, he asks for help in losing his immortality. He's directed to the "Infinite Realms." Specifically, to a being that has been referred to as "The Great One."

Duke looks for him hoping he can help. He wasn't prepared to find a being that was more beautiful than anyone he's met before. He can almost hear his siblings teasing him in his head.

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Danny/Duke, Yellow, Train horn @apersond

Duke was dreaming.

He knew that he was dreaming because everything looked like before. Before his powers developed. Before he could see all the befores and all the afters. Before he knew that he wasn’t fully human. Duke liked dreaming because of that.

Seeing everything he saw was exhausting. It was more information than and human mind was supposed to handle. And, well, he wasn’t fully human, but he was still half. There were days where Duke wondered if he was really able to handle everything. (Those days were usually migraine days.) But when he was dreaming, Duke could still feel normal for a little while.

Unsure what he was dreaming about (and honestly not really caring), Duke wandered the distorted version of Gotham that his mind had made up. The major points were all there, but everything had been squished together like a city in a snow globe. Duke past a new stand full of magazine he couldn’t read in the dream, the covers full of people he knew, and found himself suddenly on Gotham U’s campus in the main quad.

The whole square was bathed in a green light. A green light that Duke knew, but he shouldn’t be seeing in his dream. His dreams were supposed to be like before. There wasn’t supposed to be the distortions here. So why did his boyfriend still light up the world around him with green?

It was almost blinding as Danny turned towards Duke. Danny’s eyes were endless pools of green.

“Help me.”

Danny’s voice echoed through the quad, bouncing off the old stonework buildings like they were in the Cave and Danny was using a megaphone.

“Help you? What’s wrong?” Duke shouted back, struggling against the sudden wind that had picked up.

“Help me.”

There was ringing under Danny’s voice now. Like the city train's whistle when the winter air caught it and made it travel further than you could normally hear it. It matched the way the earth rumbled and shuttered under Duke’s feet like a passing train car.

“I don’t know how! What’s wrong?!”

“Help me.”

The grass fell away from under Danny’s feet, breaking apart and falling into a swirling green void. Danny hung there, perfectly posed in midair for a moment before he started to drop.

Duke dashed forward, screaming Danny’s name, but the shattered hole in the earth kept getting further away and Danny kept falling and—

Duke woke with a gasp.

His clothing was soaked through with sweat. The cold aid from the ac hit him and chilled him instantly and Duke burrowed deeper into the blankets despite how good it also felt wicking the sweat away.

He’d been dreaming.

What had he been dreaming about?

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I love the idea that Duke and Danny would be daytime patrol besties!!!! Like Danny after so many years of having to have a shitty sleep schedule Danny immediately is like, “Day time hero is an option? Yes please!!!!” And Duke and Danny just bond and become better friends!

But I also like to think that Danny tried being a night time hero but was too scary in the dark with glowing dead green eyes vs the smiling goofball in the day!!

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ANOTHER DUKE AND DANNY PROMPT, LETS GOOOO 🔥🔥🔥

So Duke goes on a solo mission and due to some cult shit or typical accidental Danny fuck up, Danny becomes tethered to Duke via his shadow. Much like Dr Facilier, Danny is able to stretch and move around freely (as long as he's near Duke) and is able to semi influence and move objects so long as they're in the darkness/shadows. They also have a venom symbiosis-esque relationship where Danny is able to "takeover" Duke's body by going ghost and giving him toned down versions of his powers when he's in the shadow. This leads to half the Batfam thinking that Duke's developed new powers and is scared to tell them cause he's been pulling away (he's spending time with his symbiote shadow bf), while the other half (rlly just Damian and Jason) think the LOA is involved bc he's acting different and they can faintly sense the Lazarus Pit

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Duke and Danny is a severely underrated/underutilized duo in DP X DC crossover fics and in this essay I will-