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fairy-lights-and-blobs · 6 months ago

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I feel like, from the side of the canon main characters, all that Class 1-A hear is like, a mention on the news of "Weird Teen revitalizes Space Program by sheer passion for the subject". Which, huh. Cool. Anyways.

But on the DP side of things? Nezu and David Shield have to CONTEND with Danny "Little Badger" Fenton, son of mad scientists, and a mad scientist in his own right.

He WILL bulldoze his way into Nedzu's office if he Has To. What is all this futuristic tech you're using for, if not to Explore The Cosmos?

"The Gods wanted me dead, now YOU get to Find Out why" says a mildly sleep-deprived Danny, bane of David Shield's patience, and incredibly amusing friend of The Rat.

All Might? Who's that? Why is the space suit lady not IN SPACE? Why even have a space suit if you don't use it for what it was designed?

Danny will Have Words with these people.

All For One can't get a single moment of peace if he shows his face. He crushed Danny's favorite place. The ONLY space museum. The staff are grateful that the feral raccoon of a kid managed to make the Boogeyman reverse the damage, but they'd rather not know HOW he did it.

He's their Little Guy. Everyone's favorite unhinged madman with a passion for science and space, say the Museum Staff, tossing a moon rock at a sparkly-eyed kid who immediately sets about gutting their gift shop microscopes to build himself an Actual Microscope that functions, and discovering new and unheard of properties in the Space Dust.

What do you mean "he acts like a villain"? The Museum has collectively adopted him. Kanako over there managed to lure the kid out with beef jerky and rice balls, and now he's living in their attic.

They tossed him in the shower, and everything.

And they don't have to waste money on tours guided by someone who cares more about people punching each other than Space Dust. They just put Danny in front of this group of tiny preschoolers, who are here because the Hero Museum has more dangerous bits they CANNOT gnaw on. And he DAZZLES them.

Danny infodumps So Much on Space and all that's Up There. His cheeks are lighting up like little constellations, and his eyes glow a little Too Much to be normal, but the kids? They ADORE this scrungly Older Kid. His vibes are perfect for them. Mama duck and his little ducklings. The Adults are immediately forgotten.

"We can just...go get some coffee? The kid's good, he may look feral, but he has enough spatial awareness to spot a kid about to lick an electrical socket, even from his blind spot (Somewhere in the distance, Aizawa feel tremendous rage and jealousy). He's good."

They come back to Danny tossing a moon rock up and down like it's a tennis ball, and somehow one of the light fixtures have been mad science'd into being a projector for constellations.

A whole class of preschoolers walks into the Space Museum bored out of their minds and wanting to go see All Might instead.

They leave all shoujo sparkles and big eyes, with a new passion for Space. They WILL get someone Up There, as payback for their new friend and mentor.

Maybe Clockwork tells the Fentons they don't have to hurry so much. Danny is Thriving, in his own way. Has carved himself an irreplaceable spot in the place he got yeeted into. He's tossed a couple Heroes on their backs for touching him while he's distracted. Iida has tried to get Random Civilian to stop Mad Sciencing, only to get thrown on his ass because he startled them.

Quirk? What quirk? His powers let him phase through things, sure, but the mad science is pure Human Potential. Izuku has a new idol.

Maybe this could even be a couple years later. Like, Danny first getting dropped into this place BEFORE BNHA canon. He's a feral 16-year-old and 13-year-old Midoriya goes to The Museum with his mom. And there's this guy who unapologetically talks about how his Quirk isn't something he uses for his work. Sure, it's great to be able to grab something from a machine's inner parts AFTER it's already built and it got snagged in the gears, but what's he gonna do being intangible while sciencing? Drop beakers? Been there, done that, got the detentions for it.

No, Danny is a Cool Older Kid who inspires children to work with more than just their Quirks.

And then, on the U.A Internships, Midoriya meets his favorite Role Model, now in his 19-20 years of age, still as feral as he remembers, but age has tempered him.

He walks softly and carries a big stick.

Everyone listens to him, even if he doesn't raise his voice, because he's half-raised the local young adult population, and is now also half-raising their siblings, and in some cases their kids.

He's official Museum Staff nowadays. Still their Only Tour Guide, but now he's so tall he can see every kid in the area, no matter where they hide (he's a liar, he can feel where they are because thei is His Haunt now). No one gets lost, and meltdowns are handled by Danny picking up the toddler in question and letting them hide away in his shirt until they're less overwhelmed.

Until a Villain comes knocking. Then, Feral Raccoon is back in town. There's Fenton Anti-Creep Sticks strategically hidden around the place. The Shmuck Of The Hour is getting locked in the Museum. And Danny will show no mercy.

Unless they're hiding for a good reason. No sir, Danny has not seen the man that Endeavor almost killed for stealing some bread. Certainly he didn't run into the Museum. That's preposterous. Tsukauchi, buddy! Remember what Danny did to that guy that tried robbing this place? (The Detective does remember, and his headache intensifies at the memory)

Sorry, this is just me rambling on and on now, but the idea grabbed me by the throat and once I started writing the rest just wrote itself, with me as it's Oracular vehicle of expression.

Hope at least some of it's entertaining?

Okay but? We of the DPxDC? Are COMPLETELY Sleeping on DPXBNHA?

And not even for the Main Plot Shenanigans!

Just?? It has ALL of DC's super powers? But MORE OF THEM. And like 80% of the population has um! Danny can?? Finally achieve his DREAM of being???

JUST SOME DUDE™!

Yeah, he's in Japan. That's a bit of a learning curve. And YEAH, there was a cataclysmic war like a few centuries back that sorta... fucked everybody up. No one wants to talk about it. There may be mass graves and Never Forget memorials. But?

On the SURFACE!

This place seems utopian!

No ghost hunters! Advanced technology! Robust social services*!

Wait... what was that asterisk? What do you mean "corrupt shadowy government organizations"? What do you MEAN "Immortal Supervillians"? NO SPACE PROGRAM!?!? AaaaaAAAAAAAAAAH?!?!? I'M IN HELL!!! This is ACTUALLY THE BAD PLACE, THIS IS HELL, OH GOD NOOOOOOO-!!!!!!

Cause see?

There are SO MANY REASONS he'd end up there?

Think about it! Wish that he lived somewhere his weird biology wouldn't exclude him from becoming an astronaut? In Quirks having Bnha Japan EVERYBODY has weird biology! Y'ain't special! You could TOTALLY be an astronaut!..... if we HAD those! We do not. Shut down that program during the Quirk Wars and never really started it again. (And somewhere, Desiree LAUGHS)

Or MAYBE? Things are getting a little hot on the ground? Bit TOO spicy. The Family Fenton and Friends have fallen back, behind the barely holding shields. Not even the Mansons considerable political maneuvering could stop the inevitably of human fear and blind unthinking hatred. Money can't buy everything, in the end. There is only ONE(1) way out.

Through the Zone.

Plan: Strangers In A Strange World is a go.

They're all Limnal enough to fake it. Sam with her plants. Tucker with his technology and persuasion. Jazz with her limited empathy. Their parents with their... well, weirdness. And with a touch of ghostly assisted meddling? Well, they've always BEEN there! Haven't they?

And that's not to MENTION the random 4 year olds with no control! JUST coming into their powers! With all those big emotions in tiny bodies? Startling events and tantrums? Villian attacks? What could THEY possibly hope to do to control or guide that fresh new power? It does what it does and the rest of us are just along for the ride!

If Danny happens to be minding his business and gets accidentally kidnapped by a VERY distraught 4 year old? Well, that's hardly the KIDS fault, now is it? They're FOUR! That is basically a toddler! Tiny child! They are upset, confused, and didn't mean to do ANYTHING. He's a hero. And Heros don't blame little kids from accidents, no matter HOW stressed it makes them.

No, the curse like a sailor INSIDE their head. Like an ADULT.

Just? Imagine~☆

The slow transition from *starry eyed shoujo sparkles* "This is SO COOL~!" to "huh, that's... kinda weird. And Sus. Weird Sus. Maybe nothing... oh! A distraction!" To "okay, this KEEPS happening, that was shady. You all saw that right? You realize that's not NORMAL, right? That that's fucked up? Not cool?" To "oh god, oh God, OH GOD! I'm in HELL! This is actually HELL! I'm trapped in HELL!!! WHAT THE FUC-"

Like? This kid LOVES space. LOVES the stars. And this is one of the few Superhero Cannon that SPECIFICALLY MENTIONS that IN CANNON? Thanks to Quirks? As in Superpowers? That VERY THING got fuckin SCRAPPED. Gutted. Consigned to be a relic of the past so they could all focus on punching each other Real Good.

He would weep BLOOD. Chew the WALLS. The LEVEL of unhinged this child would unleash? Not as Danny Phantom... but as DANNY J. FENTON? Beautiful. Vaguely psychotic. Definitely doing the Fenton Name proud. God, the NOISE HE WOULD MAKE would be inhuman and yet somehow? Come entirely from his human half.

They👏 Would👏 Hear👏 BOSS👏 MUSIC👏

I don't even know if he'd CARE about the main characters. They'd be tangential at best. The man would be in a one man war with I-Island over their lack of space program and hoarding of scientific progress. Probably living out of an abandoned building or forgotten subway station. Just? The MOST bedraggled, feral genius to ever haunt Japan.

As opposed to the REFINED feral genius. Who is Nedzu.

I bet Danny stands outside his school at one AM waving his scientific papers at a camera and YELLS. Like a deranged lunatic. Mismatched slippers and a "haven't slept in a week" crazed glint in his eyes.

He's Nedzu's new best friend. They GET each other.

And, yes, Nedzu COULD let him in... but it's faster to just let him yell and read the papers through the camera. Who CARES if they both seem insane! Let's shout about advanced physics and engineering at 1 am! Over the speakers!!! Oh? You need to physically SHOW me the notes? Well I COULD unlock the gates... OR just wait for you to finish scrambling up the walls like a feral Racoon, to then throw yourself OVER them.

Either, Or.

I'm just SAYING! We are SLEEPING on this! There is so, SO much fun to be had! Danny breaks rules and minds! His outrage over injustice and the complete lack of SPACE! His protection instincts going BUCK FUCKIN WILD. The INDESCRIBABLE hate boner he would have for Mr. "Lemme just rip parts of your soul out so I can collect your powers like pokemon cards" AfO.

There? Is SO MUCH, guys. SO MUCH!

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#dp x bnha #can you imagine Older Danny in this?#the true epitome of 'walk softly and carry a big stick'#he's grown into the classic Dan Phantom build #has had the meltdown about it-there's STILL a galaxy-shaped hole in a wall where he almost blew up #literally #and rolled into acceptance #because he's away from everything that could remind him of Dan #Danny isn't Dan and he can see that now #he looks like him #but the Dan he remembers would never let kids climb him to sit on his shoulders during story-time #he's Competent now. Has Credentials. Has a record of his contributions to the Museum and it's Sciences #he's his old man's pride and joy #his mom's Darling Baby Boy who's done so so well for himself #maybe the Fentons end up just...moving into the BNHA world permanently #and get to witness in real time how their boy has truly Flourished here #like...Old Man Fenton becomes well-know to Museum staff as the dad of Local Legend 'Mad Scientist Fenton'#he likes to come in frequently #does he DO anything? Nope #just sits on a bench with the biggest proudest grin Danny has ever seen on his Old Man's(affectionate) face #the poor Intern that saw the guy break into tears the first time wishes their dad was like this man #they get adopted by the Fentons :)#long post

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