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Danny Is An Alternate Version Of Ra's Al Ghul And Flash Already Called Dibs On Adopting Him

Danny In All His Sleep Deprived Slightly Scuffed Up From A Fight Glory Is On His Way To Clockworks Tower To Hopefully Get A Nap And Maybe Some Homework Done When A Natural Portal Opens Up In Front Of Him And Proceeds To Unceremoniously Drop Him In The DC Verse Just Outside Of Central City Before Promptly Closing Leaving A Tired Danny Behind In A Run Down Abandoned Parking Lot.

It's Times Like This When Danny Regrets Putting Off Learning How To Make His Own Portals, Cause Now He Is Very Much Stuck For The Foreseeable Future And He Has No Idea Where Or When He Is. Luckily For Him However Central City Isn't Too Far Away, Unlucky For Him However Is That Once In The City He Realizes This Isn't His Dimension. He's Pretty Sure He'd Remember Something Called The Justice League.

So What Do You Do When Supernatural Bullshit Fails You? You Fall Back On Your Mad Scientist Roots And You Make A Portal Gun. So That's Exactly What Danny Plans To Do.

Unfortunately Staying Alive And Building Questionably Safe Portal Technology Requires Money And Supplies, So He Ends Up Wandering From City To City Doing Odd Jobs/Fixing Up Busted Tech For Cash Or Unwanted Electronics For His "Operation: Get Home" Needs. This Obviously Ends In A Few Superhero Encounter Shenanigans.

Though He Always Ends Up Back Near Central City, Both On The Off Chance The Natural Portal Will Open Up Again And Because Out Of All The Superheroes That Apparently Exist In This Universe The Speedsters Are His Favorite (Red Robin Is Solidly His Second Favorite Ever Since The Gotham Vigilante Gave Him A Large Coffee Filled With Enough Caffeine To Kill A Man).

Unbeknownst To Danny However Is That Every Hero/Vigilante He Has Encountered Has Come To At Least One Of The Following Conclusions; 1. Run Away Meta Who Is In Desperate Need Of A Good Meal/Adoption Bait. 2. Possibly Red Robin/Tim Drake Clone 3. A Good Kid But Could Possibly Be A Future Rouge If Left Unsupervised. 4. Did Bats Get A New Kid And Why Is He Here?

All Flash Knows Is That He Saw The Kid First And Therefore Has Dibs. Suck It Bruce.

Fast-forward A Few Months And Danny Gets Hurt During A Rogue Attack While Trying To Help Some Civilians Get To Safety (Old Hero Habits Die Hard (Ha Die Hard) And All That Jazz) And He Nopes Out Once Everyone Is Safe And When The Paramedics Are Busy With Other People Unaware He Left A Blood Sample Behind.

One DNA Test Brought To You By Paranoid Bat Concerns Of A Possible Red Robin Clone Later And They Find Out That Dannys DNA Matches One Ra's Al Ghul.

They Now Think Danny Is An Escaped Ra's Al Ghul Clone.

Memes For The Vibes:

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When you stare into the Abyss: The Beginning of Robin

Bruce never thought he’d have a child, perhaps after his Mission was done, after Gotham was cleaned of the worst of crime and the worst of the worst were behind bars and receiving treatment.

It was a laughable thought, that Bruce would ever manage to clean the corruption out of Gotham, that he would ever be able to pull out the black tar of insanity and crime within his lifetime.

Then Bruce sees a boy watch as his parents die, he sees this small child at the exact same age as he was going through the exact same thing, and it hurts.

Brucie Wayne leaves the circus, but Batman arrives at the crime scene, he wants justice, wants to make sure it was an accident and nothing more, even if for his own heart.

Little Richard Grayson is missing, that’s the first thing he hears, and it scares him. So he joins the search and finds the young boy hidden in one of the Elephant tents. His red, yellow and green Leotard is stained with blood, and it makes Bruce heart ache.

He isn’t scared to see the hulking creature that is Batman, no, this tiny boys is full of rage, of hurt and pain and the need to fight. He screams into Batman’s suit and then collapses into a crying mess on his clawed arms.

He brings the small boy back to the police, even when they watch his non-human form with fear and disgust. He hands the young boy off to be placed with his new guardians and tries to focus on the case.

It isn’t until the next day that he learns the eight year old wasn’t sent to a foster family or even a shelter, but to a juvenile detention center.

There is no family, no will or any instructions on where to place the boy, and the circus doesn’t have the means to fight for the right to keep him, they leave town within the next day.

It’s spur of the moment, born of anger and depression and knowing exactly what that poor boy was going through. Except he didn’t have and Alfred, have the Wayne fortune to keep him safe and cozy inside a huge mansion to cry himself to sleep in.

A few bribes and a lot of money later, and Richard ‘call me Dick’ Grayson is now the Ward of Gotham’s richest bachelor.

The boy is full of energy and the need to play, and Bruce finds himself expanding the gym just to place practice trapeze equipment so he’s got somewhere to let out his energy, beside being a Trapaze artist was in his blood, and Bruce would never try to take it away from him.

But there is rage there too, and after Alfred finds him with a dislocated thumb and bloody knuckles Bruce ends up teaching him how to throw a punch, then how to kick box, then on and on he teaches this boy who soaks up the lessons like a sponge.

It’s not the healthiest coping mechanism, but it works. It turns this grieving and depressed child into a happy and cheerful one, it helps in the best way Bruce knows how.

Then, whoops, Dick follows Alfred into the Batcave and realizes just exactly what’s going on, because Bruce is only halfway into the Batman ensemble and it’s very obvious.

Bruce still hasn’t been able to find Tony Zucco, the man who rigged the Grayson’s to fall. He has tried, so hard, but the lowlife had bunkered down as soon as Batman took to the scene.

Dick yells and screams at Bruce for hiding the secret, then for not being able to catch his parents murderer. He fights Bruce, with the intent to hurt. Bruce regrets teaching how to fight just a little bit, and is very thankful he has a cup on already.

Eventually, after a very long and painful conversation, Dick understands why Bruce hid as he did.

It takes two days before he decides if Bruce can be a crime-fighting Vigelante so can he. Bruce refuses and tells him maybe when he’s older, more trained it might be possible but he is not allowing him to fight crime as a child.

It takes him smuggling into the Batmobile for the fifth time, and almost getting himself caught by a criminal that Bruce realizes that he can’t stop him no matter how hard he tries. Because along with all the tricks the circus and Bruce have taught him, he is a little devil of a child.

So Bruce decides, fine, he can join him on patrol, but only after he goes through this very specific and absolutely grueling training program, keeps his grades above a B+ and after he designs and perfects his own cryptid suit to Bruce’s liking.

Bruce was hoping his endless hoops and almost impossible expectations would make Dick back down, nope, if anything it made him even worse.

He goes through the training with a smile on his face and a continued need to learn, even when Bruce makes him learn how to do college level chemistry, how to code and make back doors and viruses, even when he makes him sit through three hour long lectures on how to tell blood splatters apart.

He excels at school as well, going above and beyond with A+ across the board except for in English, which is understandable since it’s not Dicks first language.

He decides on his mother’s nickname for his new name, Robin, but he also chooses the Grayson colors for his suit, red yellow and green.

Robin looks more like a hummingbird, especially since Dick wanted both stilts and wings on his costume. Bruce actually welcomes the bonding activity of making the prosthetic bird feet that are fully functional, and would never stop Divk from his dream of flying, even if it’s more like paragliding.

Dick even creates his own style of fighting in the suit, flashy and playful but also deadly brutal. Sometimes Bruce forgets how quickly his ward can go from cheery and playful to downright brutal, but honestly he’s proud of his kid, even if this is probably the most concerning father-son bonding excercise ever

And thus, Robin was born and Gotham gained a new cryptid.

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When you stare into the Abyss: Origins

Masterlist

Next part

It started out pretty simple, almost three months after he had began his career as Batman, intent to save the innocent just as much as punish the criminals of Gotham.

“Batman is still just a man, he’s not a god.”

He had overheard the words at a gala the first time, when airhead Brucie is drinking and flirting with all the pretty girls he can see.

The words of course, don’t visibly effect him, don’t make him pause in his step or his voice calling towards a nearby heiress falter.

However, his heart beats in his chest even as he cozies up to the woman.

Because in truth, Batman was just a man, a rich, overly trained and incredibly intelligent man, but a man nonetheless.

He tries to ignore it, but as he keeps hitting the streets to dig out the rotting tendrils of corruption in this horrible place, he keeps hearing it.

A pair of smokers outside a club known for the fact no woman ever escaped without being drugged to hell and back, talking quietly about the rumors of the Batman that had began picking off their friends one by one.

“I ain’t scare’ o’ i’ jus’a man inna cos’ume.”

“He’s a de’il I ‘ell ya, ‘ere ‘o ‘ollect ‘is souls.”

Batman stays still on the roof above him, but even days later with both men in costudy and the bar shut down for health code violations, his mind keeps going back to the conversation.

It’s whispered in alleys and under bridges and inside packed clubs, the words a mantra the criminals begin to say like a prayer.

It’s sneered with distaste inside the mansions and museums of the rich, joked about inside their ivory castles covered in blood.

It’s said fear inside workplaces and coffe shops, whispered in schools and parks for their only protector.

Batman is just a man.

It agitated Bruce, he doesn’t know why at first, because it is the truth, he is just a man.

Then he sees a blurry photo a the Gotham Gazete with a humanoid shape of shadows, it’s nothing more than a Bigfoot sighting, blurry and pixelated and might just be a trick of the light.

But it makes his stomach curl, because he knows he might not be that lucky next time, and how long would it take for people to start looking for Batman, if they think he is just a man and have a photo to prove it?

Bruce, after a decade of crime fighting, will tell anyone he regrets the decision he made that night, what it created.

His family will hug him and tell him he couldn’t have known.

Because in the bar stool of the kitchen where Alfred is plating an enormous plate of breakfast to make up for the calories lost the night before, he makes a decision.

Batman needed to be more than a man, perhaps not a god, but something close enough no one would ever accuse air-head Bruce Wayne of being the terror of Gotham’s underground.

Alfred will tell what followed was a three day whirlwind of creative insperatikn and sleep-deprived insanity mixed with an over caffeinated Billionaire’s pocket money.

Bruce would say it was three days of careful planning and precise research as well as dozens of mock up designs.

In the end it takes longer than a month for Bruce to implement the changes to his original suit design, practically scrapping it and starting over between dodging board meetings and stalking the streets.

But eventually, Bruce finishes his design, and that night the screams of terror are stronger for quite a while, after all, Batman is no longer just a man.

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When the you stare into the Abyss: Masterlist

What happens when you purposefully become local Cryptids to terrorize the not-so-innocent population of Gotham, only to realize after a while that oops.

Your plan worked too well and now your actual Cryptids?

Part one

Part two

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Okay, so with all the ATLA stuff going on with the disgraceful live action series, I have been inspired so here is an idea.

When the Convergence happens and the Spirit World is thrown into a mess, a small slum district of Republic City is caught in the crossfire.

Gotham District is suddenly displaced into a new world, about early 1800’s maybe?

So starts the City of Gotham, born in a flash of light into a deep swamp across the bay from the City of Metropolis. The people quickly work to hide themselves in this new world, and the few earthbenders that were among them were able to move what buildings they had into the large cave system beneath the surface as they set up temporary shelters, very aware that the bustling people across the bay could see them.

The Metropolis people who did come to check on what was going on assumed the newly built area to be made my the miscreant and lawless population of their city, and the Gothamites, scornfully, allowed the misconception to stand.

They hide the few member of their community who can bend away after one awful day where a young earth bender girl was accused of witchcraft and almost burned at the stake while joining a company of people searching for supplies. A rule is made then, that no one would ever bend above the surface, and no one would ever speak of benders either.

Fast forward a few centuries, and one night Bruce Wayne watches his parents get murdered, and decides on two things.

1) To never allow another person to be orphaned on his watch.

So starts Batman, the protector of Gotham on the Surface.

2) To make sure no one was so in need that they had to commit crimes in order to survive.

So starts a series of bending schools and food banks in the Underground, the Sacred part of Gotham that no blood should ever be shed in. All of which are funded by Bruce Wayne the skilled Earthbender.

When Bruce begins to find himself taking in children, he finds out that all of them are benders themselves, and is excited to teach them bending himself. Though he does enforce one rule, to never bend in costume.

Okay now onto what I think the Batfam would be as Benders! This is my own opinion you don’t have to agree, just don’t be rude in comments!

Alfred:

Alfred is a waterbender, kind and soothing but never destroyed and always there. He is the lifeblood of the family, even though he hides behind the title of a Butler he is really everyone’s grandfather/father.

Bruce:

Bruce is an earthbender, results and determined, never moving and unbreakable. He has devoted himself to his beliefs and to his family, and nothing will ever change that.

Dick:

I think Dick would be a Firebender, while Airbender would be an easy answer, it doesn’t really suit him. Dick has a mean streak and donned the Robin suit in order to commit literal murder, he almost killed Joker, and he fights with Bruce constantly. He is a smoldering flame that will burn bright and hot but keep you warm on even the coldest of nights, he has so much love and affection and to me, he just embodies the character of a firebender, like Uncle Iroh.

Babs:

I think Babs would be a fire bender, similar to what is said above with Dick, but also the fact is, she chose to become a vigilante herself, she chose to fight and protect despite not having anyone to support her at first. When she was paralyzed she still fought, she still does everything she can to protect her friends and family.

Jason:

Jason embodies the Earth, calm and strong and unmoving. Each decision he makes is with reason and choice, and he is confident and willful but also soft when needed. When Jason is revived and filled with anger it shakes his foundations and his morals are shattered, but he reigns destruction like a landslide, devastating and all consuming and utterly unstoppable. Perhaps as he heals he learns to Lavabend, to put the anger and hurt and pain to control and tame the destructive force.

Cass:

Cass is a waterbender, she is used to moving with the tides and rolling with the punches, she is calm and consistent, but also powerful and strong. She can heal just as much as she can hurt, and be beautiful and powerful at the same time.

Steph:

Steph is an airbender, she is carefree and playful and doesn’t need physical things to be happy. She can never sit in one place to long, she wants to know everything and meet every one. She is kind but not merciful, and when she is angered she is as powerful as a tornado and just as destructive.

Tim:

Tim is an earthbender, he is headstrong and willfully stubborn, he has devoted his entire being to his beliefs and cannot be persuaded away.

Duke:

Duke is an airbender, though his meta gene may affect the power he can use. He is calm and straightforward, but dances with the blows life gives him and learns to adapt.

Damian:

Damian I think is a waterbender, he is strong and powerful like the sea, ever changing and never the same. The sea can be calm and merciful or harsh and deadly, and I think that embodies what Damian can be. He can also learn to be kind, to be gentle and loving and oh so very careful. Perhaps part of his recovering is learning how to heal, to use his powers to help instead of harm.

So! That’s it! If anyone has anything to add or if this inspires any fics, pls add them!

Also, here have a drawing I made while thinking about this!

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Hello all,

Here is another AU building block that lives (again rent free) in most of my stories/AUs.

Prompt(facts)? : Types of ghosts/ghost growth.

Ghost Types:

1. Shades

All living beings no matter how content with their life, become a shade when they die. Shades are Invisible and unable to interact with the living world. And can only be seen/contacted with the help of a medium (person or object)

When you see someone standing over their body in the movies, that's a shade.

Shades have no core and are highly influenced by the surrounding emotions.if a shade stays too long in the living world they start to lose who they are.

The more negative the emotion, the more warped the shade becomes, and in turn, the more the shade craves that specific emotion.

If a shade collects enough negative emotion(it does actually take alot of time) They become a poltergeist.

2. Poltergeists

Poltergeists are pretty much exactly as you see in the movies. Violent, angry, and very much able to affect the living world.

Due to the lack of core, most poltergeists can't remember anything about who or what they were before death.

this causes most poltergets to appear staticy or "glitching" and have no consistent shape or body. They often base their shape to fit whatever/whoever has caught their attention.

While they are not true ghosts, they do tend to show ghost like tendencies.

- Even though they dont have one, they will try to fulfill an obsession. (They get more angry when they cant.)

- They will often pick a "haunt".

-asking a poltergeist how they died will get you killed as fast, if not fast then asking a full ghost. (You wanna know why everybody dies in ghost horror movies. That right there. If some random stranger asked for my most traumatic experience that was so bad I could't move on, I'd smack the shit out of them too.)

Exorcisms do not actully work on poltergeists. They release the energy they have collected to make them corporeal, but the spirit itself actually is still there.

3.Infi-beings (ghosts)

Infi-beings (more often referred to as ghosts by human) are split into three main categories based on the method of creation.

- Infi-born

Infi-borns or fledglings are beings created by two other Infi-beings. (They need to be level 2 or above) this can be extremely hard for weak level Infas as they have to be able to give up half of their energy and still hold their form. Infas do not see a difference between chosen children and "born" children. The bond is the same, and all Infas can tell who your parents are regardless of appearance.

-Ghosts/Infa-beings

The word Ghost and Infa-being are used interchangeabley, however they are not entirely the same thing.

When a shade "passes on" from the living plane, they may become a ghost. The ghost's placement heavily depends on their species/beliefs in life.

The infinite realms is the membrane between all universes. Any and all afterlife exist inside it, each God has their domain, each demon has thier space.

If a person did not have a belief on where they would go but are too restless for reincarnation, they wind up in "Ghost zone" or the inbetween. (Canon DP.)

"Ghosts" that wind up in this area are actually infa-beings. Ghosts have a place. Infa-beings often have to make one (lairs.) It should be noted that most Infas can't be bothered to correct anyone who call them a ghost (they know who they are) and will use the titles given to them by others (Re: "Ghost zone"). some will even go as far as to make it part of their aesthetic. (Looking at you boxy)

(I will do a different post on ghost hierarchy and realms later).

The in-between is the only place neverborns are created.

-Neverborns (Ancients)

Neverborns are beings that simply came into existence one day. They do not function like normal ghost, and while they do have cores, they are often do not have an obsession but a category or element that they govern/protect.

These beings are overwhelmingly powerful and are often referred to as gods (which in turn actully makes them stronger)

They are made when a large collection of the livings believes in a deity or element of nature. These beings often choose their own names but are the sum of all thoughts and power that come from their domain.

Ex: Vortex, he is the neverborn of weather. All prayers to weather gods, though or hopes for a specific type of weather give him power.

While it is not always, most neverborns are Ancients. The thoughts/concepts they are made of have been around since the beginning of time. (They old)

It is very, very rare for an Ancient to lose power from thier domain. Though it can happen if they accept a one on one challenge from another being.

On the very rare chance it does happen, they will fade. When two beings fight in a formal challenge, they are betting ALL they are.

All three types of ghost go through the same stages of growth.

1. Born/created - the baby ghost stage. This form often reflects how a ghost died/ a mix of the parent ghosts. (Neverborns can only be fostered by other neverborns. Their cores are too different)

At this stage, the core is still forming and is still vulnerable. It will often take on traits from the cores surrounding it.

When a new ghost forms all ghosts within in GZ all ghosts the immediate surrounding, feel a tug. This fades once the baby is formed. However, surrounding ghosts will protect the unclaimed until suitable parents are found to keep them safe.

It is absolutely forbidden to attack a known baby ghost. (Like even mad Pariah would what waited until first shed forbidden.)

2.first shead

The second stage is "the shead." The core is now fully formed an can not be influenced by outside sources.

It is called the shead because the baby ghost will literally shead thier form taking on new one that is more "them". Often times the shed will leave a ghost looking nothing like they did when it started. The new form is entirely based on how they view themselves and thier obsession.

3.Flux stage

The Flux stage is the time between time between the first shead and the second.

The time spent in this stage is entirely random and depends on the ghost. At this stage, parents will encourage their children to explore and work on their obsession, as well as fight.

Fighting is heavily encouraged. The more a ghost fights in Flux stage the stronger they get. Other ghosts will often pick "fights" with the Flux to help them grow. (It takes a village, people)

4. Second shead/final form

The second shead is very similar to the first with two key differences. First is the power boost. When a ghost reaches second shead it is heavily celebrated! The ghost often will finish thier second shead three to four times stronger then when they started. (Massive glow up).

This, however, is often the last power up they will get. They can definitely refine their skills. However, the base power is now set.

The second difference is that they are now considered an "adult" ghost and gain a connection to the oblivion.

No one, not even the ancients, knows what oblivion is. It has been here before anything else. It has no face or presence. They know promises made on it are sacred. No one will break one. Or oblivion itself will swallow you whole.

the GZ is known to be chaotic. But there are some things you don't mess with. The oblivion is one of them.

Im really not sure when or why i made this? I just know it is a staple in all of my writting. I may not say it. But its there.

@alinmenttreasure had asked if Danny was a baby ghost in my last post. I wanted to expand on my reply. Danny is a baby ghost by this logic.

he did not technically form in the GZ, so there were no ghosts around to feel the tug as he formed. Ghosts and humans don't have good communication. Ghost know a lot of their info by feeling, where humans react as we gain knowledge. Danny needs stuff like a ghost but thinks like a human.

As far as the ghosts know, danny has parents (Maddie and Jack), and no parents in the Ghost Zone would let their baby out, so Danny must be Flux stage. It is common for parents to play fight with their kids at this stage. (Though what is "playing" really varies between species)

Danny gathers/develops new powers at a really fast rate. (Which looks like a trait older ghosts have) so again others assume Flux.

What is actually happening is danny is picking up small traits from all the ghosts he is running into and his core is trying to figure out how to build itself without instructions.

Ghosts can sense other ghost power levels, but the stages are more visually. So the concept of nobody has claimed the baby does not even register, let alone compute.

How and when this comes out changes per AU. sometimes it's soon. Danny gets some very overprotective ghost perants real quick and forgives the other once he understands that they were actually trying to help him grow. Sometimes not, and danny now has a bunch of kinda aunts and uncles who are scrambling to help the baby before the first shed.

This Authors' choice,however much you wish to edit it, is up to you. It's a building block, not a law.

There will eventually be a AU called Baby Hood once I have all of my basic world building prompts done. It heavily leans on a few of them so I wanted those done first.

Thanks for reading! ❤