#Frostbite Pandora and Clocky will be too busy fretting over danny to actually give ashit if the Realms go to war

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My heart!!!!!!

Poor Danny needs so much help from his fam in the realms

He needs all the hugs

DPxDC prompt #15

Demon Twins Fic

But!

Okay, so something I've seen floated a time or 2 from DC is that when using the Lazarus Pits to revive, a person emerges completely healed of all previous injuries or illnesses. Including scars.

Now obviously fandom often plays fast and loose with this rule, given how we like to give Jason an autopsy scar and some folks also like to make him keep the J from the Joker. But let's lean into it a bit here and make it play nice with the DP side of things.

Let's say that it's the ectoplasm, even the rancid stuff in the pits, that heals all scars except Death Scars.

So if Danny was, say, revived in the Pits by Talia before she disappeared him away to an orphanage in Illinois? The Danny that shows up in Amity Park wouldn't be covered in scars from his time in the League. He'd only have the one, the Death Scar.

Similarly, the Danny that stumbles out of the portal wouldn't have any scars from his time in Amity Park. He'd only have 2, the original Death Scar and the new Lichtenberg Death Scars.

Now I've seen it done many times where the Bats/Damian realize that Danny isn't a clone because you can't clone scars. So if Danny doesn't have those scars, and if his DNA is too messed up from the ectoplasm in him to check for any "regular cloning markers"...

Danny, fresh from an autopsy table, runs to Gotham to hide. And because of his inability to walk away from someone in danger, gets found by the Bats. Whether or not they know about Damian's twin beforehand, they are quite confident that Danny is a clone. An exceptionally good clone with nearly perfect implanted memories, but a clone nonetheless. Damian is particularly enraged about this

And poor Danny, already all sorts of fucked up from growing up Damian's lesser, then Dash's punching bag, then an experiment; in the face of Bat certainty and lacking any tangible evidence to the contrary; Danny starts to believe them.

[justafanwarrior]

Jazz took a deep breath and took the time to examine her brother. He looked... Off... Eyes fleeting as he mumbled to himself, clawing at his arms in a parody of the self-hugs Danny used to do to sooth himself.

"Danny?" She called again, watching him twitch as he heard her before he curled on himself, his mumbles growing louder.

"Not real, she's not real, the rocks are real, my powers are real, Jazz isn't real, I'm not real"

This time Jazz couldn't stop the wave fury inside her. What the fuck happened to her baby brother? What the FUCK did those people do to him?

She forced her voice to come out soft as she promised Danny she'd be back before she picked up the oil lamp and walked back from where she came from.

She felt like her blood was boiling in her rage, hands shaking with the need to destroy whatever and whoever did this to her brother. She itched to reach for the Fenton Creep-Stick as she entered the cave again, eyes blazing with ecto as her heart pounded.

"What. Did you do. To my brother." It took everything in her not to pour ectoplasm in her voice, Danny had shown her how as Queen Mother while she didn't have the actual power, political or otherwise, to make ghosts to anything she did have the powers to do so over liminals and blob ghosts. And that boy was liminal enough that doing so would force him to answer honestly.

Danny's look-alike clicked his tongue before staring her down despite being much shorter than her. "It wasn't exactly on purpose."

Lie.

Anyone without her empathy would be fooled but not her.

"Answer me." This time she didn't bother holding back, her voice echoing with a thousand others.

The boy stiffened as he visibly fought the urge to reply, Jasmine's eyes narrowed as she snarled at him.

"We thought he was a clone so we convinced him he was one."

Jazz didn't care when the boy fell to his knees from the pain of fighting her order this hard, she didn't care as she ran back to her brother, hoping that at least she could convince him to come with her. In the Ghost Zone at least there would be a lot of them to convince him he was not a clone and he would be safe from the GIW.

Now she didn't think anyone could convince the Realms to not go to war, not when signs of experimentation were obvious on her brother's body, not when humans managed to brainwash her little brother that he was a clone and nothing in his life was real.

DPxDC prompt #15

Demon Twins Fic

But!

Okay, so something I've seen floated a time or 2 from DC is that when using the Lazarus Pits to revive, a person emerges completely healed of all previous injuries or illnesses. Including scars.

Now obviously fandom often plays fast and loose with this rule, given how we like to give Jason an autopsy scar and some folks also like to make him keep the J from the Joker. But let's lean into it a bit here and make it play nice with the DP side of things.

Let's say that it's the ectoplasm, even the rancid stuff in the pits, that heals all scars except Death Scars.

So if Danny was, say, revived in the Pits by Talia before she disappeared him away to an orphanage in Illinois? The Danny that shows up in Amity Park wouldn't be covered in scars from his time in the League. He'd only have the one, the Death Scar.

Similarly, the Danny that stumbles out of the portal wouldn't have any scars from his time in Amity Park. He'd only have 2, the original Death Scar and the new Lichtenberg Death Scars.

Now I've seen it done many times where the Bats/Damian realize that Danny isn't a clone because you can't clone scars. So if Danny doesn't have those scars, and if his DNA is too messed up from the ectoplasm in him to check for any "regular cloning markers"...

Danny, fresh from an autopsy table, runs to Gotham to hide. And because of his inability to walk away from someone in danger, gets found by the Bats. Whether or not they know about Damian's twin beforehand, they are quite confident that Danny is a clone. An exceptionally good clone with nearly perfect implanted memories, but a clone nonetheless. Damian is particularly enraged about this

And poor Danny, already all sorts of fucked up from growing up Damian's lesser, then Dash's punching bag, then an experiment; in the face of Bat certainty and lacking any tangible evidence to the contrary; Danny starts to believe them.