#Danny dying because Batman revived him without his consent

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Part 2

I want the whole non-ghost Phanfam to be either at least liminal, have powers or have specialties(like Tucker being technopath, Sam being able to control plants like Poison Ivy, Jazz having a power where she can influence other people with persuasion easily, Maddie is a super skilled martial artist with many expertise and Jack is just like super strong). They would be at first be underestimated by the Bats, but as the time passes by, they became one of the top Gotham Rogues

I think the Waynes will be on edge because of the new influx of villains and with Danny being suicidal. Bruce wouldn't listen to Tim as to why they need to let Danny go back to his family. The title of being the most difficult child of Bruce is no longer Damian/Jason. Dick? Well, he's at his breaking point and will probably be much more vicious whenever he's in the mask, demonizing the Bats even much further. He's probably secretly resenting Bruce and Danny. Cass probably won't return to the Manor due to the stress and tension when she visited the Manor for like 3 days. Damian will probably be neglected or feel neglected as Bruce spent most of his time with being Batman, or "trying to fix" Danny, Damian will also spend his time being Robin as he feels like he needs to prove to his father to not replace him. Duke, as time passes, became guilty and would try to be accommodating to Danny and he would be the first one to discover that Danny is dying because of what they've done. He almost fess up to the Phanfam on where Danny is, but the boy is loyal to Bruce... for the time being. Steph and Barbara is always targeted by Danny whenever they visit the house or the cave, so their visits in the manor became less. Alfred, in this au, is complicated. He tries real hard to make sure that Danny is well-fed and cared for and on one hand, he's really tired with how every time Bruce fucks up, he is always called to persuade Danny, who is much MORE stubborn than Bruce. With Bruce's top priority is Danny, Alfred is left to deal with the rest of the family. Alfred doesn't have the chance to get to know Danny more because 1) Danny doesn't give him a chance and 2) Alfred is bombarded with other things to have time. At one point, Alfred snaps and shouts at either Bruce or Danny and he nearly quits (or whichever in the family you may prefer), prompting Bruce to probably take action to fix the problem that he's done. Cause if Alfred's already having a breakdown, then that means the problem probably already festering faster than he thought.

Jason, oh Jason, in my mind he would be a full blown asshole, taunting and insulting Danny when he's visiting the Manor or when he captures Danny unsuccessfully trying to escape. Jason dislikes Danny at first sight and thought that he was just being an attention seeker with his suicidal tendencies. Reasoning: he thought that Danny didn't look like someone who gave up at life. Danny looked like who would harm himself just to torment his oppressors and make them squirm, Danny looked like someone who wanted to live. And that the reason why Danny is locked into the house and wanted to escape every chance he gets is to return to his family(to the Fentons, not Talia, Jason). He thought that Danny was raised by Talia, making him a much more sadistic and suicidal version of Damian(except that Danny doesn't attack Tim). He wasn't really told the true reason why Danny is here, cause he would probably go PTSD, go ballistic at them and his relationship to the family will be strained again. Which he did, don't worry, when Tim and/or Duke clues him in on what's really going on. And he would never be able to shake the guilt of what he's done to Danny, of how Danny almost died in there, even after Danny returned to the Fentons. He would sometimes look at Bruce, Dick and probably even Alfred with the betrayal and/or heartbreak when he remembers the emotional damage they've done to all of the others, just because they thought that they know what's right.

The only person who I think is at truly at fault here is probably Bruce, he's like the parent who thinks they know what's best to their child and would probably listen to their complaints but won't give it a second thought.

I will do a continuation much, much later because my creative thoughts are exhausted.

Hey, who wants a really dark and morbid prompt filled with angst? Well buckle up or scroll away cause I'm about to hit yall with a hammer. You have been warned.

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Danny had slowly come to hate his human side. Well, humanity in general usually left a poor taste in his mouth, so as the weeks passed and the end of his sophomore year inched closer he made a decision. He was going to live his afterlife in the ghost zone. Probably go so far as to fake his death.

Things go south when his bio-dad showed up and he would have been stoked to learn his bio-dad was Batman if it wasn't for his insistence on "fixing" him. He wanted to be less human not more. Geez.

Turns out his bio-mom was that one lady with the long dark hair and green eyes that would smile at him from the shadows while he was patrolling as Phantom. He liked her. Sometimes she waved at him. He liked her a little less for siccing Batman on him. She had called him in out of worry for thier "son"

As it turns out, the reason she did that was because the source of his power (he pointed out it was called a core) was absorbing too much power too quickly and was at risk of overheating and having a meltdown, something akin to a nuclear reactor. He didn't like where this was going. Frostbite had said everything was fine at his last check-up, but no one was listening to him (another thing he hated about being human. As a ghost he was respected, or at least listened to) "So, what? I'm going on vacation?"

The "adults" looked at eachother. "Something like that." Nightwing gave a reassuring smile that only seemed to unnerve Danny more. They were hiding something and Danny had a bad feeling that it was going to end up making him miserable in some way.

He made sure that his friends and sister (meeting his bio parents changed nothing. She would always be the best big sister he would ever have. The only big sister!) knew where he was going and for how long and to raise holy hell if he wasn't back on time. After that we went willingly with Batman onto the batjet.

This turned out to be a mistake as he woke up nearly two months later completely human. Well, ok. Not quite. His eyes still glowed green whenever he was angry or distressed, like now. But his core and all his powers were gone.

Batman had stolen his powers from him. He had stolen Phantom from him. Everything he ever worked for. All the treaties he had made and signed in preparation for his coronation to the Ghost Zones throne, all the grueling training Pandora and the others gave him to controlling his powers, every flunked class and detention from having to run out and deal with a ghost, his shattered dreams of being an astronaut, everything he had done and sacrificed since the accident now meant nothing.

All because of some rich megalomaniac billionaire wanting to control him. Figures. He had the audacity to act suprised when he blew up at him. His powers where such a huge part of him. It was one of the few parts of himself that he actually liked. And Bruce had the nerve to give him the "superpowers aren't everything" speech. How condescending could someone be?!

The insinuation that he could be one of his flightless birds (oh God he would never fly through the nights sky again would he?!) and should be greatful about it was frankly insulting.

So he did what he did best. Escape. Except they caught him. Every. Single. Time. Was this a mansion or a prison? Honestly he wasn't sure anymore. Where was Jazz and his friends?

He cursed aloud when he realized they didn't have any way of tracking him without him being a ghost. He really was on his own with his kidnappers huh. And they were trying really hard to inflict some Stockholm syndrome, but didn't like it when he made the insinuation out loud.

They tried everything in thier power to keep him there "until you're better" and he couldn't tell you how many times they've busted down the door to reach him before it was "too late". Many locks throughout mansion were removed because of this. Too bad for them there was a lot of ways a normal human could "Go Ghost". It was a reoccurring joke that was slowly driving Bruce insane. Good. Suffer.

He really wished Nightwing would stop coming into his room at night to hug him though. The hugs were long and uncomfortable and he kept trying to talk to him. Weird. He acted like death was something to fear.

Too bad he wasn't going to make it easy for them. He had managed to slip away from the purple girl long enough to set two of the libraries on fire (a fact the estranged Wayne child was later furious about when he found out) and make a run for it. He actually managed to steal the batmobile and get a few miles out of the city before he was caught and recaptured. Danny never gave up though. He always found a new way to raise hell and escape.

He was going to become a ghost again.

One way or another.