#Bad idea really bad idea

[scrip-doodles]

Nightmare and his baby gang Chapter 20

And I'm back! Sorry inspiration and motivation left me for a while and I wanted to take a break from this fic. Don't worry I planned everything for the end so I won't leave it abandoned.

Previous chapter

It’s been three days since Error came into his castle and Nightmare hadn’t been this good for a long long time. The boys were somehow quiet and calm, Blue helped keep the castle clean and even cooked every meal. The negativity was balanced and he was finally feeling well-fed. Everything was perfect, he wished Error could stay forever.

Today the kids played with him for the first time and Cross got reassured about him. Due to his past, he was afraid of the destroyer. He thought he would take him to the anti-void and lock him there. Nightmare had to promise he would go and free him for the kid to calm down.

Now the guardian knew it couldn’t last forever, Error had to work and Blue had to go home. It was hard to admit but he got attached to the little blue, he understood why Error was so attached to him and why Dream and Ink loved him. Blue even promised him he would visit with his son or daughter so he could spend time with them. 

He even told him he was already designed as their babysitter. Like he hadn’t had too much work with his four chaos makers already. He was pleased with Blue’s proposition but it made him aware of something. He couldn’t keep going like this, the boys will be back to their adults self one day and everything would be back as it was before.

When Error told him he was almost done with the bug that made them like this it hit him harder than he first thought. They were going to be adults again, things couldn’t stay as they were. He got attached to them and having four baby bones around him was normal now. Why would adults like them would want him as a paternal figure, as the father he learned to be….?

He hid it behind a fake smile when Error told him he only needed a week or two to bring them back to normal. Nobody noticed anything and he was going to keep things like this, these unwanted feelings would go away. Eventually…

“Nightmare dinner is ready!” Blue exclaimed while the boys were hiding in the pillow fort they made in the living room. 

Error was knitting on the couch while everyone was going to the kitchen. He never ate with them, saying he didn’t need to and that it was a waste of his time. But not today. 

Nightmare grabbed the destroyer by his jacket and drew him to the kitchen with determination. He was going to eat something other than just chocolate and it was final.

“Mare what are you doing?! Let me go!”

“Not even in your dream you’re eating something tonight and that’s final.”

Error suddenly tried to get free by struggling but he couldn’t do anything against the guardian and his four tentacles when he wasn’t feeling sick or tired. Nightmare got the upper hand and he refused to let it go.

“Nightmare I don’t need to eat! This is stupid!”

“So it’s okay to not be eating sometimes dad?” Killer said with a fake curious expression. 

“No!! You need to eat!” Error exclaimed under Nightmare's furious gaze for influencing his boys.

“Error you can’t stay without eating! Here have my potatoes!” Horror said giving him a fork with a piece of potato on it. 

“Raaaah!! Fine! I’ll eat!” Error screamed pissed by the whole situation. “You have to eat, it’s important for young abominations like you.” He added before sitting next to Horror who couldn’t be happier.

Killer and Nightmare slapped their hands together with a cunning smile while Blue tried to hold his laugh back. The whole situation was adorable but also ridiculous. Error was completely clueless that Nightmare used his kids for making him eat something, or that the kids, especially Killer, gladly played this game.

Now the hard part was coming. Telling the kids that Error and Blue were going back to their home and they were going to leave the castle. 

Error told him in the morning he needed to go back to the anti-void and that Ink started to create again. He proposed to get Blue back to his family on the occasion. Nightmare thought about it and after Blue promised he wouldn’t tell anything to Dream and Ink the guardian authorized it. Now telling this to the boys wouldn’t be a piece of cake.

“Boys I need to tell you something. It’s important so if you could please stop making a tower with the potatoes I would be pleased.” Nightmare said while Blue and Error gulped and stopped helping the kids to make a tower.   

“So uh…how to say that? Error needs to go back to his work and Blue needs to go home to his family. They’re going tonight after dinner.” 

“What?! Nooo! Dad, it’s not fair! I want to play with Error more!” Killer exclaimed looking all angry and revolted by the idea.

“Error will visit us the next time Killer he can’t stay here forever.”

“His job is dumb! I want Error to stay with us!”

“Uncle Blue will visit us too right?” Dust asked while Killer was still claiming how stupid the situation was.

Nightmare watched at Error and Blue, one clearly wanted to stay out of the fight and the other was already hugging Dust in his arms. 

“It’s complicated Dust…But if I can I will.”

“Why is it complicated? Because you’re with the yellow man?” Cross asked clinging to Blue like he was going to vanish in the air anytime now.

Blue and Nightmare looked at each other lost with no idea of what to say. The situation was too complicated for the kids and they didn’t know how to resume it to them.

“The yellow man is Blue’s lover and like your dad is fighting him it’s difficult for you to see Blue.” Error said with chocolate in his hands. Nightmare looked at the chocolate with exasperation, the destroyer needed to eat something else than just candies. 

“Then dad should stop fighting with the yellow man!” Horror exclaimed with a serious expression. “Fighting is bad!”

Nightmare winced at this and groaned before taking the empty plates and starting to wash them. It was too complicated for them to understand, he couldn’t forgive Dream just like this. Not after everything that happened and Dream couldn’t either. They both hurted each other too much. 

Dream was continually trying to get him or his past self back. He wanted his weak and fragile little twin back. But Nightmare wasn’t the twin Dream remembered, he was past this weak and awful version of himself. If only his brother could understand it…

Dream had always been convinced that he was trapped behind corruption. Perhaps it was time to show him how wrong he was. But was he ready to forgive his twin? Hard thing to say… Maybe he should try, for his boys…So they could see their uncle more.

Error and Blue were looking at Nightmare with sad expressions. He hadn’t said a word and even the kids stopped arguing, they understood it was a touchy subject and kept eating their dessert quietly. Killer went to his father and rose his arms as if he wanted a hug, which was the case actually. He didn’t mean to be mean to make him sad.

These last days he got some kind of flash of scenes that sounded familiar but were horrible. The yellow man that Cross told them about attacking him, a weird older version of Horror trying to fix the pipes under the sink, his dad listening to him making some kind of report in his office. There were a lot of these scenes that were violent but curiously it wasn’t bothering so much. As if it was perfectly fine and normal.

When he told Error the black-boned skeleton was glad and told him it was awesome but when he told his dad about it he didn’t look so happy. In the end, Killer didn’t know if it was a good thing or not but if it was making his dad sad then he hated it!

He knew his brothers had some too but not as much as him. Error told him it was probably because he was the one that stayed with his dad the longer but he didn’t understand why.

Nightmare took him in his arms with a warm smile and hugged his son. The last days hadn’t been easy for them and he knew that. They needed as much comfort and love as he could give them. 

“It’s okay Killer. Error and Blue will be back when they could. It will be just like before. You, your brothers, and me. Okay?” 

“Yeah…I’m sorry for yelling…” The little skeleton said with a guilty expression. 

Nightmare kissed him on the cheek and brought him back with the others that were already saying goodbye to their uncle and Error. Dust was in Blue’s arms and Horror and Cross both had plushies that Nightmare knew, were made by Error. 

Error looked at the guardian, blushing and hesitating and suddenly he came to kiss Nightmare. The goopy skeleton almost shrieked and looked at Error as if he had a second head or something. 

“Error?! W-what are you doing?!” Nightmare stammered with his face completely cyan. 

“Kissing you. Don’t make a big deal of it Octopus.” The destroyer said looking away to avoid the guardian’s eyes.

“Don’t make a big deal of-Oh just wait you little glitch!” Nightmare shouted before grabbing Error by his shirt and kissing him passionately under Blue and the kids’ shocked expressions. 

Error made a weird crashing sound and started rebooting, clearly, he wasn’t expecting it and neither were the rest of them. Not even Nightmare. When the guardian finally got hit by what he did he blushed harder than ever. What did he just do!?

Before Error could even regain conscience of his surroundings Nightmare opened a portal and threw him and Blue to the anti-void. There. Problem solved. Kinda… Now he had to deal with the kids' reactions and he knew they wouldn’t leave him alone before he explained everything. 

[wanologic]

sorry danny, sam will never think you’re cool

[chloesimaginationthings]

This could be a kart if FLAF wasn't fucking around..

[welcometogrouchland]

Extremely bad batgirls comic I made featuring Steph's sex life and Cass' ability to read everything but the room

[oh-gh0st]

i heart these rivals so much. maybe they'll kill each other. maybe they'll kiss. maybe they'll make ou

[heartorbit]

figure skating set right now please. thanks

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Danny crawled down the aisle of the GAV, his stomach churning with every sharp turn and honest to ancients barrel rolls his parents suped up war car was doing while speeding down Gothams city streets.

He didn't think it was possible for anyone to be a worse driver than his dad, but it turned out the GAVs own Ai was powered by ectoplasm.

Who would have thought ectoplasm could be affected by Scarecrows Fear Toxin? Not Danny.

So now here he is, lying on the floor of his parents' car as its firing missiles and lazers, and the Bats are trying to beat it up.

The GAVs ring tone suddenly rang through the air, and Danny had never been so grateful to hear a Katty Perry song in his life. Hoping it was his mom calling so he would be rescued from this nightmare, he yelled out, "Answer!"

"Hello," an unfamiliar robotic voice chimed in from the speakers. Okay, so not his mom.

"Hello." He replied without thinking, his Midwestern hospitality kicking in despite no one actually being in here with him. "How can I help you?"

"Are you able to stop the machine?" Oh, so it's straight to business. Danny could respect that. "No. All the controls are on the fritz. But I think I know what caused this." He didn't give her a chance to respond before he continued, "There was a leak in the fuel line under the GAV. All my parents' tech runs on ectoplasm, which is sensitive to emotions."

"The fear toxin." The voice was still mechanical but held an undercurrent of realization, "You're a meta," the voice stated, though Danny had no idea how they knew. Scratch that. He had used his powers in Gotham a few times already. Guess the bats really do see everything, huh. "Can't you use your density sifting ability to get under the vehicle and fly underneath to repair the damage? I've seen you work on your parents' weapons before."

Danny laughed mirthlessly, "No, the GAV is specifically designed to have energy shields that I can't pass through. Besides,the problem isn't actually the leak. It's the fear. If you could force a new emotion into the ectoplasm, it might override the fear, and while I have many abilities, the Care Bear Stare isn't one of them."

[helloilikepurple]

DC X DP - Mirrors

Did Danny want to live in Gotham? No, of course not. Did he have a choice? Nope. When does he ever?

Now, he may be technically homeless, but he's also technically dead, so human laws technically don't apply to him. So, naturally, he pics out an empty mansion so big even if the owners were to come home, the chances they'd run into each other would be really low, and settles in.

This 'mansion' happens to be Drake Manor. Look, Danny lived in nowhere Illinois and kinda had his hands full dealing with ghosts, a double life, bullies, and being actively hunted. He doesn’t know much about celebrities. If you tell him the name of someone super famous, it might sound vaguely familiar, but that's about it. What he knew was superheroes and vigilantes (some of them, okay, give him a break). That's about it.

So the name Drake in connection with Gotham didn't ring any alarm bells. He did some surface level research: the Drakes are dead, survived by their only child, Timothy Drake-Wayne, who now owns their house but was adopted by some other super rich guy called Bruce Wayne and doesn't live in it, leaving it empty for the foreseeable future.

It was the perfect place!

Danny didn't explore much, partly because he didn't care to and partly because he was too tired to from healing. He cleaned up after himself, used only his bedroom (chosen for being tucked way back and out of the way), the attached bathroom, and the theatre occasionally as a treat. He lived off of the provisions packed for him, ectoplasm and water from the sink.

Cut to, few weeks in.

Danny's got a new routine, he's taken his stitches out, and is still super fucked up, but a lot better than when he arrived. He hasn't been outside since he arrived, but ghosts don't need Vitamin D anyway. Is he slightly depressed? Maybe. But he's also dead, so, bigger priorities.

Tim is looking through his stuff for something or other, and it occurs to him he probably left it next door. He hasn't been to Drake Manor in months, but he sort of really needs this thing, so he sucks it up and borrows a car because like hell is he walking the several miles from this front door to that one.

He goes to his old bedroom, opens the door, and comes face-to-face with himself.

And Danny doesn't know what he's supposed to do in this situation.

Listen, Danny doesn't always make the best decision in the moment. It's a very normal flaw to have! So he tells who can only be Timothy Drake-Wayne himself when asked, that his name is Timothy Drake, and this is his house, and, actually, who are you and how did you get in?

This causes Tim to assume Danny is himself from another dimension who he accidentally dragged to his dimension by messing with the Time Stream to get Bruce back. Danny continues to accidently fuel this misunderstanding without meaning to.

(This is not helped by the fact that a DNA test doesn't disprove this. Danny's DNA is corrupted, but what Tim does get is identical to himself. This is how Danny finds out he was adopted, and how Tim, much later when misunderstandings are cleared, meets the identical twin brother he never knew he had.)

[cak31ssuperi04]

Barbie protagonists but make it My Scene

[batsnipp]

kristen applebees is MY president

[kizzer55555]

The Vampire Aesthetic

Ok so Danny knows two billionaires personally and they really couldn’t be more different. Yet they had one thing in common. A vampire aesthetic. Sam is fully into goth. Spiderwebs, bats, the color black. She enjoys fangs and fake blood and the darkness of her soul. Meanwhile, Vlad is Vlad. If his name wasn’t enough, the dark clothing, pale skin, and flying around with a cape and fangs with coffins in his mansion really sells it.

Danny doesn’t know many rich people so he thinks this might be some kind of trend. (If Paulina is rich, her family likes the chupacabra) So he just thinks that all rich people have some kind of vampire thing going on.

Cue Danny somehow ending in the Wayne household. Maybe he was brought over as a friend of one of the bats, maybe rescued from a field trip/vacation gone wrong, maybe some other situation. But he is there in civilian form with civilian Waynes and Danny just takes a good long look around the inside of the mansion.

“So where’s the vampire aesthetic?

Everyone freezes.

Danny just starts looking around, checking behind paintings and feeling the walls for secret levers. Used to secret passages with Vlad and possibly Sam. The Fentons definitely had them when they were temporarily rich.

“Come on, I know you guys are hiding it.”

Cue the entire batfamily thinking that this is another Tim and that he is fully aware that these people are the batfamily. Danny hangs around the mansion more and the bats just start dropping their disguises and not even bothering to hide stuff around Danny because they assume he already knows. (Possibly even trying to recruit him to be a new bat) Meanwhile, Danny, who does not know these people are batman and his birds, just does not pick up on any of it.

He grew up in a health violation with a giant ballon observatory lab above his head and a portal to the afterlife in his basement. He is a half dead teenager who has tea with the god of time and his godfather is the other parent to his clone child. He’s used to death lazers being scattered across his home and mysterious stains on clothing.

People are weird! He doesn’t judge!

[ninyard]

fox tweets (pt.2)

[verflares]

i thought i felt your shape, but i was wrong. really all i felt was falsely strong, i held on tight and closed my eyes. it was dumb, i had no sense of your size. it was dumb to hold so tight.

also on inprnt :]

[cloud-bees]

My episode pitches for Tales of the Clones:

(Mr. Filoni pls feel free to steal all of these I require no credit only more clone footage pls my good sir)

- how Cody got his scar

- Wolffe losing his eye

- What happened to Cody after he went AWOL

- Kix’s story from looking into the chips to waking up 50 years later

- why Emerie was created and how she got to be working for Hemlock

- Jango meeting some of the first clones

- how Gregor, Rex, and Wolffe ended up going into retirement together

- what Cody has been doing since he left the Empire

- how Cody and Rex met

- more of the 104th and Plo Koon

- how tf Gregor survived that explosion

- The Bad Batch as cadets

- Cody’s whereabouts after he defected

- Cut meeting Suu

- Bad Batch raising Omega on Pabu when she’s a teenager

- a look into what Cody has been up to since we last saw him

- Echo finding out about Fives

- where is Cody

- Captain Howzer during the Clone Wars

- C O D Y.

[huginsmemory]

Been thinking about how Bill legitimately had a horrifying reason (the literal progressive disintegration of the nightmare realm that erases whatever it disintegrates from existence completely) to move himself and his crew into a new dimension. Like that's terrifying. And yet he never utilizes this to his favour. He could have been honest about this with Ford, and you KNOW as long as Bill didn't mention plans of overtaking the earth, Ford would've made the portal for him, both out of Ford's own interest and because Ford when faced with these big moral questions will pull through. But this is a card Bill NEVER plays because although he needs to leave the dimension, he cannot lose face. He can't put aside his pride and admit to the humility that he needs to flee from his dimension, that he's not actually all powerful. And so instead he pretends to be a muse and when Ford figures out something else is going on, instead of being open and humble and saying that his dimension is unravelling, Bill focuses on that he's going to over take earth, that he's actually been a monster all along, surprise Ford!

And part of it is definitely because Bill's built himself up on power and violence and to grovel and earnestly ask for help, to admit that he cannot stop the unraveling of his dimension completely invalidates that; showing vulnerability? Can't do that, even under the guise of lying to get his way. And part of it makes you wonder if it's also a form of self-sabotage, because underneath his deep denial Bill is guilty over what he occurred; he sees himself as a monster and so he'll be that monster, and having people recognize that feels good in the same way that pressing a bruise feels good. But it makes you wonder what would've happened if Bill even just was open about his dimension unravelling and had lied about overtaking the earth.

It's also interesting because although Bill has SOME charisma and can manipulate people decently well (as evidenced by his cult, and pandering to people's desires with Ford, Mabel and Blendin), he refuses to be vulnerable, refuses to not be true to his off-putting self, even when if he was just vulnerable of pretended to not be himself, to put aside the (false) pride he has in himself he would've gotten a portal by now. and part of me wonders if it's because it's this false pride that built on insecurity and denial on who he is he cannot drop that mask.

Further thoughts on this!

[hiding-under-the-willow]

Okay so I need someone who's better at landscapes and art style replication than I am to hop on this idea. because this man and his alien planet biome and storyline were made for the scavengers reign art style fr