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Im back <3. First of all
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And the tags in cuestion of course
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VLAD YOU´RE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE. Guy thinks that just because he (nearly) flawlessly hid his lab he wouldn't be discovered? Tell me you've never met a bat without telling me you've never met a bat. Keeping all his incriminating stuff togheter is probably the dumbest thing he's done but Vlad isn't known for being as smart as he thinks.
Also the image of his sorry ass waking up in the middle of the night hearing the-baby-that-refuses-to-be-his-baby chirping for family? baby want family?? but not you, asshole, he's playing with your feelings, go back to sleep (his ass is not sleeping, don't believe what he says, he's a liar who lies) ((he's also screaming his lungs out to the next underling he finds)).
Orphan apearing out of nowhere to help, girl how did you learn that? what do you mean with you worked in construction?? where??? Ask all you want, she's not answering, wait where did she go? whatever, you heard her boys, keep working!
Now, the kids going to the police instead of home? Awesome, everything according to plan :]. Oh, a social worker? Ok, this seems a little bit excesive but they haven't been around for many police related issues so maybe that's how they handle minors? Oh. Their parents are under investigation? The GIW are actually a bunch of humans sopremacist and aren't legal?. Ok, it's fine, they can take it.
(it's not fine, but they can take it regardless)
At least the social worker is nice.
But learning that their aunt won't take the, specially the reason why? DEVASTATING. It felt like that anyways.
I also had to google about the axolotl thing, it shouldn't have been so funny.
Also, Jazz is baby. Please let her act like the baby she is, even if we know she won't. :'((((
THE WHOLE THING JUST TO MAKE JASON RELATED TO THEM. These bitches (bats) aren't just pulling some strings and faking papers, oh no, they are completely puppetering the whole situation so the kids would end up with Jason in Gotham. He IS getting his son, thank you very much. And his son's sister. (he aint calling her daughter unless she allows him to) ((Danny is not getting the same privilege.))
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There are going to be so many misunderstandings when they realize WHO, specificaly, Vlad was trying to clone. And his reasons. The little badger thing is also not helping, sorry Vlad. It's also gonna generate so many awkward questions and even MORE awkward-er conversations, sorry Danny.
Jack having five siblings is literally the least surprising thing about this post. He is also the middle child but the physically bigger of all of his siblings, you CANNOT tell me he's not used to having little gremlings and bigger gramlings using him as a literal climbing post. That's why he's so strong, all of his siblings were always on top of him when they were togheter before he was disowned. Too bad there's no one to climb him now.
Anyways. Thank you so much for feeding us with this lovely addition Op, kudos, all the kudos for you <3<3. Also don't stress yourself if you dont have (or dont want) more things to add to this au AND if you do dont pressure yourself to write it quickly or whatever, we love you anyways <3.
Ghost Chirps AU Part 4
A little treat in these trying times
Part 1 & 2
Part 3
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The first time Daniel chirps (to Vladâs knowledge, but itâs actually the fifth, he was just out of range in the GZ all the previous time) Vlad responds immediately.Â
The boy attacks him just as viciously as ever, and Vlad assumes from then on that the boy is merely taunting him, crying out for family only to go âno, not you.â
Vlad ignores it from then on. It isnât particularly frequent anyway.
When he hears him chirping back and forth with some other ghost somewhere on the East Coast he feels his eye twitch.Â
He dismisses it, however. No doubt it is one of Danielâs little ghost allies helping him try to antagonize Vlad into showing up just to be rejected again.
Well, Vlad wonât fall for Danielâs petty tricks. He would be Vladâs son in time one way or another, no need to indulge the boyâs temporary sense of superiority.
It is grating when it wakes him up in the middle of the night, but he goes back to sleep quickly after.
Midday, he thinks he might have to track down Dannyâs little friend for a nice long chat about Not Doing That. But thatâs an issue for later.
Before âlaterâ can arrive, Vlad finds himself taken into âtemporary custodyâ while the police search his house.
He goes peacefully, assured that theyâll find nothing amiss, all of his ecto materials tucked neatly away in a lab that is inaccessible any way other than phasing. And wrapped in lead just in case.
He does not notice that a member of the Justice League is involved, nor would he care, certain that none could find his lab. And utterly unaware of the JLDâs existence.
Not that the JLD is needed in this case.
Despite his best efforts to change every copy of the construction crewsâ blueprints both digital and physical in order to eliminate knowledge of the inaccessible room, thereâs no accounting for memory.
Officer Roger worked in construction before joining the force, and it was only less than a half a year ago that Mastersâ Amity home was constructed. Officer Roger still remembers the doorless, windowless box they built alongside the small mansion itself. Itâs nowhere to be found on the property, so he brings it up with his superior.
Orphan questions it - nearly giving the whole team heart-attacks in the process - but a simple âI used to work in constructionâ seems to be enough to satisfy her curiosity.
A two hour sweep with some metal detectors finds nothing.
Then Orphan reappears from the shadows, providing another jumpscare, before pressing a hand silently to the side of her head.
The crew watches in silence as well, giving their pulses a chance to slow.
A ten-count later Orphanâs hand drops, and she strides confidently to the rear-left corner of the mansion and points at the ground.
â200 feet beneath the foundation,â she says before disappearing back into the shadows.
The crew shares a look and gets to work.
The time it takes to dig up the cube is just more time spent in a cell for Vlad, where he waits patiently, assured heâll be released soon enough.
The lab itself would be only a minor problem - there would be fines and inspections and a heavy watch until everything was brought up to code. Questions about how he accessed it would be a larger problem.
But worst of all, in the comfort of his lab? Heâs not much for hiding away incriminating documents.Â
Of which there are many, given his propensity for keeping extensive records of his experiments, which include unethical cloning and what sums up to human experimentation.Â
Once they find the actual facilities for the experiments in his Wisconsin home? It will all be over for him.
Being a ghost he could, of course, simply flee the cell and start anew somewhere else, with a new identity or even in a new dimension altogether - so long as he could nab Maddie and her children to bring with him.
But within his labs, he also keeps extensive records of himself.
A copy of the Plasmius Maximus.
Other ghost- and halfa-capturing restraints.
When he hears steps approaching his cell 2 days into his stay when it is clearly not a mealtime, he thinks âfinallyâ assured that he is about to be released.
He only registers that it is Batman after heâs been hit by the Plasmius Maximus - cut off from his powers for at least the next two hours.
He has no chance to complain, as he is subsequently tranqued unconscious to be taken to a more secure location.
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Itâs an hour and half after school let out when the cops - who had taken to trying to distract Jazz and Danny with cards games and work stories while they waited - step away to answer their radios.Â
When they return, they tell them that itâs âtime to go.â
The siblings share a look, then shrug.
It wouldnât be the first time the cops had to drive them home - rare though it was, there were at least 4 such occasions in their memories. It wasnât a big deal.
They were less than enthused when the cops explained that theyâd be heading to take them to the station instead of to home. Still, they chalked it up to the whole âquestions about the Red Hoodâ thing and moved on.Â
At least it meant they could dodge a home visit like Danny had wanted.
Except when they get there, they are taken to a cushy room and introduced to their social worker, a woman with a kind smile and a soothing voice who introduces herself as Bethany Scott, sits them down and explains, very gently, that their parents are currently under investigation.
To her credit, she isnât condescending. She doesnât try to hide away the truth; when they ask why, she tells them.
Itâs a surprisingly long list of charges. Of everything on it, the violation of the meta protection acts comes as the biggest surprise.
Their parents were obsessive about ghosts, but they were also good at it. They never attack anything that doesnât have ectoplasm.
Well, barring a few misfires.
Another surprise comes then: the Anti-Ecto Acts donât exist. Ghosts are covered by the MPA by design, the AEA would never have gotten off of the ground in any legal capacity. It is solely a creation of the GIW, an extreme âârealâ humans onlyâ supremacist group that had worked at every level to pull the wool over the eyes of the small townâs citizenry so thoroughly that theyâd been thought a real government agency - the imitation of which would be just one of the many charges that every member they managed to capture would be facing.
Then Mrs Scott starts talking about placement options.
Their Aunt, they are told, is not an option.Â
It comes as a surprise to Danny. On quiet nights, when no ghosts showed up to interrupt him and Sam and Tucker werenât up to distract him with a game of Doomed, his mind would sometimes wander back to that darkest of timelines.
Heâd wondered how Vlad had ended up with custody. Being his godfather made him an option, but Danny wouldâve wanted to go with Alicia. Will be damned, Danny wouldâve plead on both knees with the judge to go with his aunt. Grieving or not, heâd have wanted as much distance between him and Vlad as possible,
Heâd assumed Vlad must have done something to her or paid off the judge to rule in his favor.
To find out it was because she simply wouldnât take him?
A part of him understands. He doesn't - Aunt Alicia is a kind person, yes, but not particularly loving or caring. When his parents brought up the subject of children with her on one of their rare visits, she described herself as having âless motherly instinct than a starving axolotl.â
Not an encouraging description after he read a book on axolotls for context.Â
With their options being âAunt in a small wood cabin in the middle of nowhere with the emotional sensitivity of a bull in a china shopâ and âRich friend of the family who would enable them to stay in contact with their friends and could hire them therapists even if heâs personally useless for helping them through the grieving processâ she probably also figured marking herself down as a solid non-option would just expedite them getting the help they need (because she does care, even if she herself canât - wonât - be there for them in that way).
He doesnât hate her, but the knowledge burns. To know that there really was no avoiding Vlad - in that horrible future and in the now - makes him sick to his stomach.
Except-
Except before he can spiral, Mrs Scott tells them that Vlad is also not an option. Because heâs also under investigation.
A hysterical giggle bursts past his lips before he can think to stop it.
âWhy?â he asks, ignoring Jazzâ disapproving grimace.
Itâs less funny when theyâre told that heâs under investigation under suspicion of mostly the same violations as their parents - including MPA violation, given the whole âmillion dollar ghostâ incident and related propaganda. As the mayor especially, he shouldâve known the AEA werenât real and that the GIW were frauds and it was his responsibility to do something about them.
Depending on how heâd interacted with the group, he might be looking at aiding and abetting treason - or just outright treason - charges.
âIf Aunt Alicia and Vlad both arenât able to take us, then where are we going to go?â Jazz asks, shoving her emotions aside to deal with the matter at hand.
âOrdinarily, we would call up a few local fosters and see if one could take you in for a few days while we look into more long-term options. Worst case scenario you would have to spend a night or two in a hotel suite connected to mine while I found someone,â she answers. âBut the two of you are in luck; Batman is the one who brought the case to our attention - apparently some erratic behavior from Red Hood brought them here, donât ask, I donât have all the details - and offered to run your parentsâ DNA to check for other relatives that could take you. There was a match.â
The siblings share another look.
Both grandparents on their motherâs side had been only children and both were dead. Aunt Alicia had already said no and had no children of her own. Their father had been disowned by his family, and even if their other Aunts and Uncles would have been willing to take them in it didnât matter, because all 5 had died in various accidents on their âhunts.â
âApparently your uncle, Jerry Fenton, had a fling before he passed with one Ms Sheila Haywood. Their son, Jason, was thought to be the son of Willis Todd and Mrs Haywood until the DNA test today. He was raised by Willis and Mrs Catherine Todd until his subsequent adoption by Mr Bruce Wayne, and is currently living in Gotham.â
And it sounds wrong - the only thing most Fentons could love was mystery and danger - thus why only one out of six had survived. But they donât know enough to dispute it.
Also. The involvement of another billionaire is setting off alarm bells. On the one hand: this could be a fruitloop paying someone off in order to forcibly adopt them. On the other hand, maybe Jason Todd really was a Fenton and being adopted by fruitloops was some kind of curse on the current generation.
âWe contacted Mr. Todd the moment the connection was made. He has expressed an interest in taking you in, and flew out immediately to come and meet you. He arrived not five minutes ago.â
She paused and gave them a sympathetic look.Â
âI understand that this is all a lot to take in. Please know that placing you with Mr. Todd is not the end of my duties; even after he takes you, I will be following you to Gotham. Iâll be looking into counselors for the both of you, and weâll have a follow up on that topic in a maximum of a weekâs time. Iâll also be doing regular home checks to ensure youâre both settling in well and that youâre being taken good care of.Â
Even with what little Iâve gleaned, it is obvious that the environment you both grew up in until now was neither a safe nor a healthy one. It is my job to ensure that doesnât happen again. If you have any concerns about your placement home now or in the future, please do not hesitate to bring them up with me. If you worry something is not âimportantâ enough to mention, rest assured that if it bothers you in the slightest, then itâs important to me.â
She gives them each a long look.
Then she brings in Jason.
#dpxdc#Ghost Chirps AU#Im so well fed guys#this was one of the first au's i read about dpxdc and i got exited for the update#in case it wasn't obvious
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House and Haunt(ed Home) A DPxDC ficlet.
Humans like to interpret the afterlife as some unreachable place, or some distant time. But they also like to describe the transition between living and dead as passing through gates, passages, doors, veils. And that rather implies the afterlife is simply the next room over, not some whole other house.
The thing about ghosts is, everyone eventually dies. Everyone. And most everyone stays dead. They leave one room - the room of the living - and never enter it again. But ghosts will knock on the walls, tap on windows, play their music far too loudly at two am, thump and bump and generally annoy the living into acknowledging their continued existence.
They wander the halls and yards of existence without going back into the living room, and never quite let you forget they were still there.
As a half ghost, that was especially true of Danny. And his Lair reflected it.
While the interiors of Lairs were generally contained to the Ghost Zone, they existed at the points where one reality intersected the other. Their walls were the walls between living and dead.
Danny, being both living and dead, had a Lair more liminal than most. It sauntered down side streets, and peeked into other people's houses; it made itself comfortable on the couches of neighbours, and invaded public parks. Most of FentonWorks was his Lair, but so were certain halls of his school, a booth at the Nastyburger, and the sky over Amity Park.
And when Danny moved out, left Amity and started university in Gotham, his Lair went with him.
Let me say it again - this metaphysical space of liminality, that claimed a city's whole sky, several building interiors, and nearly entire neighbourhoods - moved to Gotham.
This was a bit of problem for the local vigilantes.
There were new streets. New parks. New rooftops with accompanying buildings that could only be accessed from above. There was a mystery booth at the Batburger nearest Gotham U that only seemed to exist on certain days of the week, with a menu to a place that didn't exist and music that hadn't seen airtime since the 90's.
You could see the stars from Crime Alley, even on cloudy nights.
Granted, Danny couldn't exactly control where his Lair manifested physically.
It hovered around his apartment in Park Row, putting his childhood bedroom up the hall from his new, adult bedroom. It added halls to GU, then claimed new ones as Danny progressed through his degree. It collapsed dead end alleyways into small town green spaces, and made sure at least some of the exits lead back to Gotham.
The vigilantes particularly disliked that little feature. For all that Danny's Lair was adding features to Gotham, it wasn't removing them from Amity Park. So when you entered a "new" building from a rooftop in Gotham, the street level exit left you hundreds of miles away in a city in an entirely different State.
The average citizen adapted, of course. It was nice to take your lunch break in a peaceful (if a bit spooky) park that cancelled out all the city noise of downtown Gotham, and still be able to get back to work on time. And Gotham U was already such a maze, a few non-euclidean hallways that cut across campus was seen as a godsend. So what if they looked like they came from a movie about high school in the 80's?
It only really became a problem for Danny when his Lair opened itself a door between his kitchen, and a mansion he'd never even visited before.
Because now Batman was in his apartment, and Danny had no way to explain that he hadn't intentionally started haunting Wayne Manor.
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Petition to bring back the boop function next year for the ides of March where instead of a paw on the screen itâs a little knife that Caesar gets stabbed with
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and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024
no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended
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Danny, working as a cashier: Can I help you?
Tim half-deranged: Please I just want a cup of coffee
Danny squinted, then pulled out a binder: I'm sorry, sir, but you are on the Don't Serve Coffee list. I can offer you some tea instead-
Tim: NO. THIS IS THE FIFTH PLACE. BRUCE CAN'T OWN YOU ALL!
Danny leaning in to whisper: Look, man, I can't give you coffee under the cameras. Meet me in the back alley in twenty minutes and I'll get you a coffee. Bring Cash.
Tim: how much? Five hundred, six hundred or hell even a thousand? I'll bring whatever you want.
Danny: Chill dude, it's a cup of coffee. Three dollars is fine.
Tim: It's not just any coffee! It's my favorite brand and Bruce bought them out just to make sure they wouldn't sell to me anymore!
Danny: okay okay, this coffee means a lot to you. I get it. Twenty minutes alright?
Jason three weeks later in Bat cave: Tim's on drugs! I've caught him trading cash for small containers in a shady alley six times. We need an intervention.
Dick: What?! I thought that was his boyfriend!
Bruce: I also thought that was Tim boyfriend but if it's a drug dealer we have to help him.
Tim hiding in the shadows: shit.
Tim texting Danny: If anyone asks your my secret boyfriend who been making me teas in allies
Danny: who the hell would believe that? But I've had a boring week, so yeah, I'm down to be a pretend boyfriend.
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Once a little boy went to school. One morning The teacher said: âToday we are going to make a picture.â âGood!â thought the little boy. He liked to make all kinds; Lions and tigers, Chickens and cows, Trains and boats; And he took out his box of crayons And began to draw.
But the teacher said, âWait!â âIt is not time to begin!â And she waited until everyone looked ready. âNow,â said the teacher, âWe are going to make flowers.â âGood!â thought the little boy, He liked to make beautiful ones With his pink and orange and blue crayons. But the teacher said âWait!â âAnd I will show you how.â And it was red, with a green stem. âThere,â said the teacher, âNow you may begin.â
The little boy looked at his teacherâs flower Then he looked at his own flower. He liked his flower better than the teacherâs But he did not say this. He just turned his paper over, And made a flower like the teacherâs. It was red, with a green stem.
On another day The teacher said: âToday we are going to make something with clay.â âGood!â thought the little boy; He liked clay. He could make all kinds of things with clay: Snakes and snowmen, Elephants and mice, Cars and trucks And he began to pull and pinch His ball of clay.
But the teacher said, âWait!â âIt is not time to begin!â And she waited until everyone looked ready. âNow,â said the teacher, âWe are going to make a dish.â âGood!â thought the little boy, He liked to make dishes. And he began to make some That were all shapes and sizes.
But the teacher said âWait!â âAnd I will show you how.â And she showed everyone how to make One deep dish. âThere,â said the teacher, âNow you may begin.â
The little boy looked at the teacherâs dish; Then he looked at his own. He liked his better than the teacherâs But he did not say this. He just rolled his clay into a big ball again And made a dish like the teacherâs. It was a deep dish.
And pretty soon The little boy learned to wait, And to watch And to make things just like the teacher. And pretty soon He didnât make things of his own anymore.
Then it happened That the little boy and his family Moved to another house, In another city, And the little boy Had to go to another school.
The teacher said: âToday we are going to make a picture.â âGood!â thought the little boy. And he waited for the teacher To tell what to do. But the teacher didnât say anything. She just walked around the room.
When she came to the little boy She asked, âDonât you want to make a picture?â âYes,â said the little boy. âWhat are we going to make?â âI donât know until you make it,â said the teacher. âHow shall I make it?â asked the little boy. âWhy, anyway you like,â said the teacher. âAnd any color?â asked the little boy. âAny color,â said the teacher. And he began to make a red flower with a green stem.
~Helen Buckley, The Little Boy
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It's raining nonstop where I am so I'm just picturing the Batfam during a flood.
Red Robin uploads a TikTok from the safety of a roof saying "watch him go!" As Red Hood keeps trying to drive his bike against the current. A big wave comes by and he's slowly dragged downhill. The caption reads "don't drive during floods".
Batman and Robin are on the ground helping civilians out of cars when the intensity doubles and in minutes Damian goes from wading knee deep in the water to swimming. The emergency batfloaties get triggered and he floats away as Bruce fails to grab him by half an inch. "Robin serenely drifting in the current" becomes a meme.
Someone takes a picture of a very flustered spoiler trying to squeeze the water out of her cape. The second she lets go the weight of the water makes her fall ass over backwards. Black Bat ends up giving her her waterproof cape.
Signal makes mirages of sharks in the water to scare the shit out of any criminals. Oracle uploads the recordings with Benny hill as background music. Bludhaven escapes the worst of the storm and Nightwing sends pictures to the group chat patting the barely wet concrete just to rub it in. He still slips on a puddle and eats shit, Barbara sends that to the group chat.
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Jason has a life-sized cutout of Bruce Wayne in his apartment, and he argues with it a hell of a lot. When Dick dropped by one day and saw it, Jason convinced him of how cathartic it was. Dick brushed him off, telling him to find healthier coping mechanisms, only to go out and get one of his own.
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I still haven't gotten any fic recs about Valerie's not-so-great experience with the school dance, so I decided to do something with it myself.
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How do you do the BOooOp?,I'm still trying to figure it out :]
Honey I had NO idea it appeared like that BUT I'm pretty sure it's:
⢠In mobile, go to the profile of who you want to boop
⢠Go to the little paw on the bottom right corner and press it BUT do NOT let it turn into a Super Boop, just vibrate a little and then release.
Try it, I'll tell you if it works <3
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Trick or treat!!
Danny rolled his eyes, "Obviously, you're hallucinating."
"Huh?" Signal responded, sounding doubtful.
"I mean, you see a deaged Dick sitting at a table in one of Hoods lesser known safe houses eating cereal." He said, emphasizing his point by taking a bite of said cereal. "You can't possibly think this is real."
The daytime vigilante paused to consider this, something Danny is starting to think is a habit in all the bats, "You could be a clone."
"A...transparent clone?" He said, looking down at himself. He had tried to turn invisible like he did with the other bats but forgot that Signal had special eyes or something, and apparently, it didn't fully work on him.
"Look," Danny said, "If I was a clone, could I do this?" Danny then elongated his left arm and made it do spirals, "or this?" He began floating in the air, "Or-"
"Okay, I get it."
"Do you? If you're hallucinating this badly that you're convinced it's real then you should definitely see a doctor."
Signal didn't respond, simply looking pensive so Danny continued, "With your abilities you could really hurt someone if you hallucinate in the mask, ya know?"
Suddenly Danny was back in his seat, no crazy arms or floating, "Or at least go home and take a nap."
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-Later-
Hood: Why is Glowstick googling therapists?
Danny: My powers apparently don't work well on him, and I'm still not ready to meet my template yet.
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your freak-of-nature boyfriend that we locked up in a high security lab is loose in the fucking facility send help before he kills us all
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