#Danny Skull au

[massivechildtidalwave]

Skulls escape attempts.

With the new and improved Amity Park safe Danny is now free to do what he wants.

Since their parents are crazy I can totally see Jazz and Tucker working together to get their names changed leading to

🔆 Jazz Nightengale and Danny Nightengale 🔆

however Danny is exploring and when you explore and run the risk of getting your name on the news it should never be your legal name.

they are already making new names, while they are there might as well just make a full new identity to keep him safe. Tucker had already broken into the government files why make him do it again?

you know how Tucker loves puns? Danny is half dead and now that they are a little older the trio have discovered *adult jokes*. By older I mean they are fifteen-sixteen.

boom

Skull DeMort.

it’s beautiful,

Ignore Lancer looking about ready to kill himself in the background.

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When Skull got invited to this Strongest Seven thing he was a little hesitant however after dealing with Vlad for years and getting forcefully cloned, he was pretty sure there wasn’t anything in the meeting that could cause him issues. As long as there was no FrootLoops in the meeting he would be just fine.

Which is of course why there were only Frootloops in the meeting when he stepped in. Fuck Fenton Luck he wasn’t even legally a Fenton anymore.

While he had gotten used to the idea of murder being necessary in some cases due to the GIWs unhinged practices he didn’t particularly like doing it.

His core was protection people! He would do it if he needed to protect others however murdering for the sake of murder doesn’t do it for him and the lady glowing Orange feeling sorry-it-needs-to-happen is acting weird. Hell everyone is acting weird.

Yellow kept trying to shoot him, which normally wouldn’t have been an issue except he was trying to be a normal human without ghostly powers and he couldn’t just turn himself intangible to escape the bullets. He associated the sound of guns with his parents.

Fon had been nice enough to inform him about Flames. He was now slowly experimenting with it in the room he was given. (Not his room, his room was in his haunt at Amity Park, speaking of Amity Park Skull needed to figure out where on earth it was so he could run there after he escapes the mansion)

Miss. Lal kept treating him like a subordinate and while he appreciated the target practice, he did not ask for it. She kind of reminded him of Jazz with the whole ‘I’m going to give you advice you never asked for thing’ the difference was that Jazz was his sister and more focused on the mind.

The Green FrootLoop was like if his parents started following research protocol and with his power being fucking Electric! He was getting Portal PTSD but slightly worse.

The worst thing about them was that they were observant. He couldn’t leave the building and with his core singing the songs of freedom in the wind, it was starting to bug him. His room had no windows after his first escape attempt failed so he couldn’t see the stars, he couldn’t go outside so no stars that way, there was no one to protect and no freedom or adventure for him to find. His core was starting to hurt.

Skull is a Nightingale however, he escaped much worse!

out the windows didn’t work, neither did just walking or running out or ditching during a mission….

hey… didn’t the garage have a lot of spare parts in it? They were probably meant for Verde or someone else to use but Orange said everyone could use anything in the mansions so as long as no one is using it. Couldn’t he take them?

For all their observations the adults only checked his room once or twice. They never looked in his closet…. His entire family was geniuses he could probably make a Fenton Portal there.

Just close the doors and hide the machine if anyone does come looking, they only ever stopped to make sure he was actually in the room when they told him to be. This… this could actually work!

[starry-bi-sky]

danyal al ghul memes because i don't think i've done those yet for this au.

(the jason one is in reference to the fanon headcanon/au that Jason and Damian potentially knew each other and interacted while jason was in the league. I've thought about it before in context of this au, but haven't thought about it enough to feel inspired or motivated to make a post exploring the idea)

(diablito means, as you can guess, 'little devil'. while i'm neutral to latino jason, i think the nickname is cute as fuck and was danny's main nickname from Jason. i don't wanna touch that timeline so im not gonna decide how old they were when Jason was there.)

Skulker: i am the ghost zone's greatest hunter! i capture and hunt creatures both rare and dangerous. Danyal: a poacher?? you're a poacher?? you poach animals??Skulker:...i sense i've made a mistake of some kind.

anyways that was the day that Skulker cemented himself as Danny's no.1 opp, and still remains there to this day even if he and Vlad are both viciously fighting for second. Out of everyone in the the AP rogues gallery, Skulker will be the first to be thrown under the bus in terms of 'o shit here comes phantom fucking RUN'.

[zillychu]

broken little king

[zecoritheweirdone]

so i saw this old-ish post about an au centering around a villain lewis and a hero arthur,,, and i. may have gotten attached to it,, dkdndkdjs. so i decided to make some edits + doodles based on it!! i also really wanna make a lil oneshot about it as well,, but uh... whether or not i actually follow through on that, we'll see,, skdjsojdks.

edit: good news, gang,, i wrote the fic!!

[phantomskeep]

I just went on a three hour research binge for my fic. Was the binge about Danny Phantom or the DCU? Y'know, the two fandoms in the fic???

Nope.

Apparently no one can agree on the symbolism of a cat skull, so we make up our own in this household :')

Cute lil final design for my Thief!Danny outfit for my fic. I ended up adding in lil glowing eyes buuuuttt.... I'm dumb and forgot to save after that LOL

I'll be doing more art for his design soon! I'm not the best with human anatomy (hi yes I'm a warrior cat kid) soooooo please be gentle <3

[alanaartdream]

With a little @mysterybensmysteryblog mystery skulls animated update I JUST had to draw my Fairly odd parents Fairy Timmy with the nicktoons au with mystery skulls Animated Arthur kingsman / kingsmen?

Fairy Timmy Jimmy Neutron and Danny Phantom are helping poor Arthur out here with a rather nasty spirt here

This crossover would happen before fairly odd parents a new wish series

Just wanted to draw Arthur with them honestly

[deadinside8675]

The results are in and it’s outstanding how much everyone voted for Danny Phantom I guess I’ll be working on a Danny Phantom au

just to clarify quite a few things are gonna be different in my au compared to the original show

[cherry-blxssxm-chaos]

while I work on these sketches involving Cerise, here's a fun fact;

if I had not begun changing my favorite aesthetic while leaving high school and entering college, she would not exist! I almost had a completely different but slightly similar MSA OC who was originally recycled from a Danny Phantom OC in mid-2015, and yet, 2 years later after Freaking Out released and I had time to think more about it, Cerise was made

makes you think what might have been different... it sure has made me lol

[mysteryideasgroup]

Redesign of Dark Sophie

A/1

B/2

C/3

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For @laurasanchez36

Dark Sophie/Dark Soph belongs to her msa x dp oc sona Dark Future AU Alternate Universe

[mysterious-animated-skulls]

A self-indulgent MSA x DP crossover. Oneshot.

@solitaria-fantasma

Vivi’s hair at the back of her nape stood up.

She had ventured into her fair share of creepy basements. Only three of them had been hidden in average houses – although she could argue nothing about the Fenton’s house was ‘average’.

She didn't even mean the eye-searing ad bolted (?) to the house's roof. Between the automatic anti-ghost defense system and the fridge’s contents, this house was worryingly high on the list of ‘most haunted places I’ve ever encountered’.

But it was just their luck warning signals only were blaring in her mind in the fourth basement of an average seeming house.

She tightened her hand around her bat. The parents had left for a ghost convention several states over. Tucker was monitoring their phones so they wouldn’t receive any surprise meetings. She still felt watched as she hopped the last steps down. Her whole body jittered with nerves.

Looming at the lab’s far back was the reason for her dread.

A massive octagonal metal door covered almost the entire wall. Various warnings signs had been slapped across the surface, but less than there should be in her opinion.

The door was the source of the humming. Vivi fiddled with Obaa-chan’s newest protective charm. The humming had settled inside her teeth when she passed the basement door, but she had ignored it while checking the floors.

The hum grew heavy as the door opened, revealing the other side was unpainted lead.

It had become louder when she descended the stairs.

Where the fuck were the security measures compared to the upper floors? Even without this supposed portal, the Dres. Fenton were working with dangerous chemicals and weapons! Even Tempo High had had better lab safety when she was in school.

But. Oh wow. She ticked off a mental tally of the number of lethal weapons laying around on tables or hanging on the walls, just ready to be stolen. She adjusted her assessment of danger-

Focus. She had promised Jazz and Danny not to do anything but reconnaissance. Or first wave reconnaissance. It wouldn’t do anything to check out this place if the defense system attacked Lewis or Mystery or Arthur. She idly swung her bat in a vertical circle, carefully making her way to the side of the portal.

The power was there. Immense power. Familiar, from other tears into other realities she had encountered with the Mystery Skulls, although this one was still unique. They rarely encountered portals into afterlives, and this one radiated death. But not only. It made sense as that not every ‘ghost’ people called as such was the spirit of a dead person. Supernatural beings could come into existence in various ways.

And yet the portal was different. Most portals, even artificial ones, closed quickly if magic didn’t keep them open. Vivi sensed no such magic from the door.

Inhaling, she let some of her powers flow through her. She passed her free palm in the air across the door, snow crystals forming and melting in the same moment. A simply scan spell.

Still nothing. Only the energy from the tear itself, rather what was containing it.

Crud. Mystery would have kittens.

Was this truly technology only? Just how had the Dres. Fenton achieved that?!

Vivi needed more help in figuring this out. Definitely Arthur, and the kids. Even if their parents had forgotten to document the process how they developed this portal, between the two younger Fentons and Arthur and maybe Mystery, they could figure out this thing.

She hoped, at least.

[satoshy12]

Danny's parents are Black Panther and Victor von Doom. Try to think 2 Royals 2 Kings! Searching for the Clone who is in US.

Or very special

Red Skull + Captain America = Phantom with his mighty shield!

Red Skull Jack:" IT was that red face, We just thought he was a Ghost Danny!"

Wolverine + Sabretooth

Dr. Strange + Dormammu (don't ask how the Fentons did it)

Spider man + Norman Osborn (maybe her as female (big fan of female Norma Osborn)) = Harry's half brother by his best friend

Daredevil + Kingpin I bet he would be happy being a dad again

Hercules + Ares

Mephisto and Ghost Rider as Jazz parents. Mephisto is Red = red hair. Jazz x Peter Parker.

or DC other parents

Jazz:" How did you get Reverse Flash and Flash DNA!!" Jazz parents are the Flashs, she didn't even knew he could bleed!! Kid Flash got a big sister, and Impulse a cool Aunt.

or other comics Spawn and violator Maddie:" We thought it was Ghost, but it was just Demons..." Danny gave up, at least he came out human. Before the Portal!

Danny finds out hes a clone/ adopted, and instead of processing that like a normal person he decides, "Well its not like they can find me so imma mess with my bio parent(s) while venting my frustrations. Two birds with one stone."

Hence (hero or villian of your choice) begins receiving letters via untraceable magic of him telling them he's thier clone/son and just telling them about his day/past adventures.

Unfortunately most of his adventures are horrifying and the person is desperately scrambling to find thier dumb (possibly undead) child and rescue them.

It probably doesn't help that Danny only signs his name as Phantom and is careful not to give clues to his location.

[massivechildtidalwave]

amity park vs the arcobaleno

When making the au I was originally thinking about how the Arcobaleno would react to a “civilian cloud” with Danny’s background. Just chaotic good boy doing his best surrounded by lunatics pretending to not care about him or pretending to not be slightly unnerved by his unique reaction to things but I’m currently stuck on how Amity Park would react to the Mafia.

Cause they have seen some shit and are more than a little feral over their resident protector ghost, especially if they had to move to escape the GIW. Not to mention the aftermath of Vlad.

When the ghosts first came, it was Phantom who protected them not the GIW. Their ex mayor Vlad did something to Danny when he went missing that ended in Danny carrying a tiny child back into town looking like he had seen the devil.

( some had muttered about rape, it would have been believable if they hadn’t known Danny was always male. Though knowing about ghostly autonomy it wasn’t been ruled out.)

Phantom was the one grabbing as many as he could out of the GIW labs during their escape. and it was Phantom that warned everyone about the GIWs plans to begin with!

Of course they were going to be protective over the one good thing that happened to them. But! But Danny doesn’t work like that. He doesn’t want praise or protection or apologies for making his life harder when he was already dealing with ducking bullet on the daily.

Danny is a boy who loves the stars and wanted to protect them, so when whey were safe and he was getting antsy for travel of course they urged him to go. quietly, in their own little ways.

It was because of this care for each other that had grown through their struggles that they were more than a little freaked out when Skull came back as a fucking infant.

It’s fine, everything’s fine. They’ve dealt with worse. He came back with stories of the mafia and an explanation for the colorful fire (Dying Will Flames) that had started to spawn on some of them.

Getting Amity Park cleared with the Vindice as a mafia neutral territory similar to Mafia Land took a week. They even made a Famiglia for themselves for good measure!

The Carcassa Family was somewhat hated or feared by the Mafia because of its hand in the organ trade. Many assumed that the organs, which looked much too young to be from an adult, had been taken from human slaves. While it wasn’t illegal by Mafia Law to sell organs it was one of the more darker practices few chose to carry out.

In reality when your body heals quickly due to ectoplasm concentration, you occasionally have to remove organs if they are in the way of healing the wound. Any organs made by ectoplasm will work the exact same as original ones so there isn’t much of a point to being protective of them. After being cleaned of ectoplasm, there is nothing truly stopping one from selling it to a person in need. Really it shouldn’t be their fault people automatically assume the worst out of others.

In the world of Amity Park everything is perfectly fine! So why are these outsiders smelling of heavy death who eye them like they are demons asking for ‘Skull’?

is this another fucking Vlad situation. Wes is already texting the group chat to subtly keep Danny company for a while so he doesn’t have to be alone with these creeps. Hopefully with him splitting his time as human and Phantom they won’t recognize him as Skull. They can’t do anything about the hair but maybe the lack of heavy makeup will throw them off.

if not the school has hidden rooms he can hide in until they give up and leave.

[starry-bi-sky]

This is very inspired by @minnesota-fats post about Danny being Bruce Wayne's clone (which has been rotting in my brain for two days) but an au where danny isn't just Bruce Wayne's clone, but also not fully a ghost.

both ideas can be used separately honestly, the idea just came to me while thinking about the bruce wayne clone idea, and a lot of this idea is just "danny without his ghost powers. i might probably make a part two that delves into him being bruce wayne's clone.

Hear me out.

A Danny Fenton who has the ghost sense and the fangs and the pointed ears and the scary eyes and an increase ecto-essence, but does not have the ability to "go ghost". His accident occurred when he pressed the "on" button on the outside of the portal, and the button electrocuted him due to faulty wiring. He ends up miraculously surviving but not without some new additional abilities (and electricity-based trauma).

Since Danny no longer has a built-in alter ego with the invert wardrobe to match, he doesn't see the point to take ghosts back to the ghost zone. What the hell can he do anyways? All he has is a cosmetic add-in, a lower body-temperature with an impressive ability to hold his breath longer than a human realistically should, and a built-in ghost detector. Not very helpful if you ask him.

That is, up until he goes into the lab after his parents catch a relatively harmless ghost and sees them vivisecting it. He's horrified. He thought his parents were using hyperbole when he said they'd tear them apart molecule by molecule.

(Granted, he also believed that ghosts were unfeeling up until he saw this random ghost being absolutely terrified for its existence on the table.)

After an argument over his parents harming the ghost, Danny goes back up to his room and refuses to leave, not even for dinner. Later that night after his parents went to sleep, Danny steels his resolve and sneaks back down into the lab and releases the ghost back into the ghost zone.

This happens a handful of times, until, finally, frustrated, Danny tells the latest captured ghost to tell anyone inside that if they even think about coming through, he'll capture them and bring them back to the zone himself. It's for their own safety.

The ghost agrees, and goes back inside. Danny steals a "failed" thermos from his parents' stash of weapons. The next time that a ghost shows up, its the lunch lady from episode one. Danny manages to defeat her without being seen, but knows that if there's gonna be consistent daytime ghost attacks then he can't base his luck around fighting without witnesses.

So he fashions himself with a makeshift outfit. This really only consists of an old, nondescript hoodie and a plain black face mask. Its the best thing he can do at short notice, however. Later, for his nighttime ghost fighting, his outfit is only slightly better.

He considered using one of his parents' lab suits. But white sticks out at night and the material doesn't protect you from road burn. His outfit is pretty homemade, with knee and elbow pads under his clothes and multiple layers. A long sleeve shirt over a hoodie over a black denim vest he found on sale. He later on manages to make brass knuckles ghost-proof and manages to stitch them into his gloves. (he gets very good at sewing).

His favorite part of the entire outfit, is a Casey Jones-style full-face mask he found while thrifting. It allows him better breathability than the face mask he was using (calling Rule Of Cool law here), and he can use his scary eyes to make him look more intimidating. His gloves, his mask, and his thermos are the things he carries around with him constantly, and, later on, wears baggier clothing to hide the fact that he's wearing knee and elbow gear under his clothes.

Did I mention he has long hair? Danny has long hair (because GNC danny ftw, it goes past his shoulders) that he braids back. it's a bit sloppy but it keeps his hair out of his face well enough. He takes the fenton creep stick with him.

(He and Bruce have, ultimately, a more lean build than a bulky one. It helped Bruce with his Brucie Wayne persona big time when he had to look like a pretty skinny boy, he uses body language, optical illusion, and body armor to make himself look bulkier as batman)

He still goes by the name Phantom. He still has a bitter rivalry with his parents, who have no idea that its him. They think he's probably some other ghost with beef with the other ghosts (he still triggers their ghost sensors), and still want to capture him.

He doesn't talk around the living. He doesn't have any fancy voice changer and dropping his voice hurts and ultimately, he just uses ASL if he ever has to talk in front of people. The ghosts know his voice at night, but not during the day.

He hardly talks to the living. He avoids them like the plague actually. When he defeats a ghost and there's an audience, he barely sticks around to have a nice friendly chat. He tries to get away as soon as possible. He's paranoid over people finding out who he is. He doesn't have that ghost form to fall back on here.

Oh god this is getting so long, so i'll post another part soon.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 4.5 (Dani interlude) Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 7.5 (Dan Interlude) Part 8

[phoenixcatch7]

Dp x dc twin au where Danny and Damian were in fact conjoined/siamese twins, but the most dangerous type - one head, two bodies.

Their early removal from talia being because their shape would not have allowed for natural birth, they were written off but talia begged for the chance to send them off in the lazarus pit.

By some bizarre miracle, before she turned to leave, two small bodies bobbed to the surface - identical in every way, except for the eyes. The previous blue eyes now split in two, one left, one right, and the new eyes, pit created, a bright green.

She took her child, her two children, and together, they survived.

Being removed prematurely, their early years were tough, but soon they blossomed into promising heirs for the league. In sync with every step, the closest of brothers, the league was certain the old fairy tale of twins being telepathic had been granted by the pit that separated them, the remnants of being born as one mind, one brain, one skull.

But then Danny had to flee, and leave his other half behind. Stretched by distance for the first time, the bond grew thin and stretched, and Damian grieved his brother as dead. When he started being sent on public missions, he hid his distinctive heterochromia, choosing the green in memory of the pit that had given him and his brother life.

Danny, hiding his pit aura in the ocean's worth that was Amity park, took to blue, the colour that he and Damian were born with.

Damian moves to Gotham, and continues to mourn his brother as dead, right until one day when he is twelve, when he learns what the death of your other half truly feels like.

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Their reunion is a thing of family legend. Violence runs hot in both bloodlines, ghosts are highly emotional and prone to fighting a the drop of a hat for bonding, playing, testing, every reason under the green sun. Their training and play often consisted of friendly spars, competitive spars, furious spars, venting spars. Both have been exposed to unhealthy amounts of ecto since before their birth.

There is a long, long minute of staring, before they rip themselves away and lunge at each other like wolves.

The bat family are horrified by their brutally efficient youngest suddenly barreling towards a clone (?) and trying to claw his throat open with his bare hands while openly sobbing.

It ends with them wrapped around each other crying into the others shoulder as their minds finally meet again and relax from the painful stretch for the first time in years.

But nobody else has any idea what to do.

[woodland-gremlin]

Summoning Your Secret Boyfriend Pt. 6

First Previously AU Summary

“‘Even’ nothing. Now we are going to drop this, summon the new King, beg them for forgiveness and for them to deal with Trigon, and fix those disastrous laws!” Constantine declared while pulling out a book with a strange aura out of his coat pocket.

Red Robin internally sighed in relief. They were finally getting somewhere. He had been worried that they would be stuck getting integrated until Trigon was right on top of them. Not that it would stop them from getting questioned after the whole fiasco was over, but, small mercies.

From the way Batman was glaring at Supernova and Red Robin it was even more obvious that the Bat wouldn’t let it go. The only thing stopping him being the pressing matter with Trigon and the occult magician being very willing to yell at him if he kept poking. Though it did make Red Robin wonder how he planned to do so, it wasn’t like he lived at the manor anymore. No one but Alfred noticed that the only time they saw him was at the cave, and even that was rare. Really makes one question about the ‘World’s Greatest Detective’ title that Batman held. Danny certainly doesn’t think so with all his nicknames for him, and after the last few years he was inclined to agree. You really shouldn’t meet your heroes.

The Laughing Magician worked and while watching him make the summoning circle Red Robin and Supernova were suddenly glad that neither offered to make it. If they did they might have never stopped getting questioned. Even Constantine would have probably joined them with how differently their summoning circle would be. While the con man made an intricate circle with the title of Ghost King being the main factor, with candles placed at significant points and fancy offerings, the two boyfriends had a much simpler approach. The biggest differences being name and title. They call Danny by name, which makes it significantly easier than a broad title to summon him. Add on to the fact that most of the titles that Constantine are using are only Danny’s by default the ease in summons is a lot easier. Though them being his boyfriends and offering snacks plays a big factor in it too.

The occult magician then began to chant in Esperanto. Candles began to flicker, changing to Relam’s green. The room’s temperature began to drop, frost creeping across the floor and walls. Wind that shouldn’t be possible in a space station whipped around, flipping Batman and Superman’s capes over their heads. A neon green crack appeared in the air above the summoning circle. Claws clutching the tear in reality before ripping it further.

Out from the tear in reality stepped out an ethereal being. White hair that moved like it was underwater. Lavender skin with freckles spaced out like constellations. Bright green lighting birch scars crawling over their body, cutting all the up to their brow. Eyes glowing the same erie color with the one the scar cut through being that singular color, sclera and all. A crown seemingly made of aurora lights and ice, radiating power. A fur lined coat seemingly made from space only added to the otherworldliness, A ring shaped like a skull, signaling the being as one of death. Armor with small dents here and there showing that it isn’t just for decoration. That this being that they summoned was a fighter, a King forged in battle.

 Everyone but Red Robin and Supernova froze. They thought that they were prepared. They knew that they would be powerful, enough that they could rule over beings like Trigon. But no words could have prepared them for the aura bearing down on them. All their bravo was drained out of the minute they were subjected to the King’s presence. Aquaman was especially shaken. He was a King as well but he felt like nothing compared to the one in front of him. Like a big fish in a small pond thrust to face the ruler of the ocean.

“Were you the ones that summoned me, freeing from the bane that is paperwork?” the being asked.

To be continued . . .

Next

[dudethatsmyundeaduncle]

DP x DC AU

Danny's gonna adopt all the Halfas in Gotham whether he wants to or not, and it's gonna start with the little dead girl he found after crawling out of that portal in the league base.

Pt 2 here. My Au Art

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There's a dead little girl sitting on the rug in front of Danny's coffee table curiously eating Cheetos.

Well, she's not all the way dead, only half, could even be a little less then that, Danny would know he's sort of the leading expert on being half dead.

Her skins blue, like comic book mystique blue, vibrant and impossible to miss. Shes got these big black eyes and a nasty split going straight through her upper lip to just under her right eye.

She's also missing her nose, it's just gone, no cartilage left over just the gaping nasal cavity like skulls have.

The little girl looks dead, she is dead, or she's at least as dead as Danny is which is almost exclusively in name only.

Her name is Curaré, Danny only knows it because it's been branded into the skin of the little girls neck, just under the curve of her bald skull.

Curaré is terribly thin, the little toddler sized T-shirt she has on hangs loose around her torso where baby fat should fill it out.

She's horrible to look at, a tiny nightmare, her corpse like coloring doing nothing to mitigate the appearance.

Curaré was neither a healthy nor normal little girl, there was no way Danny could have left that league facility without her.

Oh and she almost exclusively spoke in Spanish which made finding her dinner hard.

Not that Cheetos are really dinner, little kids need to eat more then that Danny was pretty sure, like 89% sure. Although they did have a lot of calories...

Danny tilts his head absently as he looks at her, the little demon being illuminated red and green by the glow of the TV. She's enraptured by the Scooby doo rerun Gotham's only spanish language channel is playing tonight.

As if she can feel his eyes she turns to him and tilts her head the same way.

Danny blinks at her, Curaré blinks back.

" Uh- " Danny starts, trying to remember anything from his Spanish elective from sophomore year. God, his teacher had been right he had needed to study more. " The Cheetos, you like them? They're uh...bueno? Oh! Son Buenos?"

He points his finger down at the snack sized bag in her grasp, her fingers are tiny , they must be so fragile, looking at the desperate grasp they have on the bag makes Danny's chest hurt. How could anyone be so small? Had Danny ever been that small?

Curaré blinks again, long and slow, processing Danny's words. She looks down at her Cheetos and back up at Danny then she carefully holds the bag out to him.

" Oh no that's ok they're for you kiddo" Danny insists.

Curaré shakes the bag at him, like enticing a stray cat with treats but he only shakes his head again.

She gives up after that, shrugging and turning back to her cartoons.

Inside her chest Danny can feel her ghost core vibrate placidly as Scooby and Shaggy run across the TV in a panic.

Danny's own core can't help but try to match it's frequency, a low contented humming echoes between them, safe it seems to say.

Curaré can't be older then 4, which means she was resurrected young and that she died even younger. Danny doesn't know how any of it happened, halfas aren't created easily, the amount of energy needed...

She's so small.

He hopes it was fast, whatever it was that did this to her, made her like him.

Danny also hopes that her injuries aren't permanent. Some ghosts keep the carnage of their corpses well into the after life but as a Halfa Curaré should heal, even if she got those injuries during her ressurction. For her sake it'll be much easier to find some sense of normalcy if she isn't always actively bleeding, even if the blood itself is just an ecto-echo of real blood.

Danny curls his knees up to his chest and hides his face for a moment just trying to breathe. He's too young to be taking care of a toddler, he's still six months away from turning 18 and hes got school on Monday. His eyes burn and his throat constricts as he tries to swallow.

No one else but Danny would know how to take care of Curaré, and she's got no family to try and stumble their way through it. Danny can't take her back to the league and he sure as hell isn't going to search for whoever put that brand on her neck.

Even if he dropped her off at the fire station Gotham only has one Meta focused orphanage, it's state run and all the kids in it have to wear little prison style jump suits. And the food sucks, Danny can personally vouch for that.

She doesn't have a home, she's just as out of place here in Gotham as Danny is. Danny really wishes, not for the first time, that he had an adult here. Like Jazz or hell even Mr. Fuckin Lancer.

Just anyone. Anyone who could tell Danny what to do about this. Who could help him out with the child he's suddenly acquired.

He wishes anyone else was here so it wouldn't just be him and Curaré. Two dead kids sitting on the floor of a studio apartment in the Bowery watching cartoons.

What a pair the two of them will make, oh God. Danny laughs as a few tears stain his jeans.

Curaré makes a curious little noise that has Danny forcing his head up. She's reached the inevitable end of her snack sized bag and she looks absolutely devastated. She turns to look at him, tilting the empty bag towards him as if to say ' can you believe this shit!'

Danny can't help but give her a watery smile, no more crying Fenton, and wipes his nose on the back of his hand.

" Okay, one thing at a time." Danny tells himself. " You finished your Cheetos and now it's time for dinner, right? Stop me if I'm wrong."

Curaré just looks at him.

Danny's not worried, they're gonna have all the time in the world to teach her to appreciate humour and also English.

" I'm going to take that as a yes. " Danny hops up off the floor and goes to find his phone, nobody does dinner like the local Batburger.

Little foot steps follow him into the hallway, he'll have to get used to that sound he's going to be hearing it a lot.

Food first, everything would be better after they ate.

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For BG I imagine he's been living in Gotham for a few months and found Curaré while popping in and out of different portals in Gotham. (Who woulda guessed that some portal in Gotham leads right to the lazarus pit)

Note: if u wanna see cool art for this AU it's all in the Danny and the little dead girl au tag on my pg!