#The JLA Needs a Portal to the Ghost Zone for one reason or another and decide to “Borrow�� it

[bet-on-me-13]

Where is my Portal?!

So! Heroes have a bad habit of stealing Technology when they need it.

The Flash usually stole from Star Labs or any of the dozens of smaller Labs in Central City. Batman was suspected to steal Tech from Wayne Enterprises to build his gadgets. Even Superman stole from Lexcorp every once in a while, although that was more understandable considering their history.

Heroes, despite their main job being to stop people from stealing, were not exactly paragons of The Law. They committed crimes on occasion to stop Villains, and most people just agreed to ignore the tiny crimes every now and then.

Now the Big Crimes, that was a different story. Taking the big important pieces of Tech from these Labs was definitely liable to get people made at them.

All this to say, Danny was not amused when he walked into his Personal Lab one morning only to find his Whole-Ass Portal missing from it's spot in the Wall.

[redrobin-detective]

wait isn't there a dc hero who is just a ghost that can't interact with most stuff without possessing someone and does hero stuff by possessing people. i think his name is deadman. imagine the confusion if deadman ended up in Amity Park

Do you mean Boston Brand, my beloved? I love Deadman so much does the root of my love stem from my origins as a DP phan? most likely I’d say and he’s such an interesting character with a unique place in the DCU. Every comic he appears in is a special thrill of Hai there Boston!!!!

Anyway, I may or may not have uhhhh given considerable thought to how Deadman intersects with DP. So Boston’s ghostliness is uh a little more spiritual in nature. He was given the ability to interact in a limited capacity with the living via the godly caretaker of the hidden city, Nanda Parbat (massive simplification don’t fight me fellow DC nerds). That said, he is aware of the Zone and other ghosts he just doesn’t really go there all that often since he’s pretty stuck in the real world.

99% of ghosts, in DP and DC, are like Boston and can’t really have any effect on humanity. Boston himself is strong enough to be able to possess the living and make contact but most ghosts can’t in normal circumstances. Amity Park is not normal. The whole town was one big liminal space even before they had a giant ghost portal leaking ectoplasmic energy everywhere. It’s a big reasons ghosts go to the small town, its got enough latent ghost energy that they can have physical form whereas they can’t in most other places. Amity Park has another thing, it has Danny. I think I made a post about this but Danny also creates a strong ectoplasmic field that unknowingly strengthens other ghosts around him. If Danny were to go to, let’s say New York, his aura would give strength and potentially even form to nearby ghosts. 

Boston knew about Phantom long before he met the kid. He knows there’s a stable ghost portal in the midwest, knows that ghosts come and go freely but he also knows that situation is concentrated to Amity and is being managed by a powerful, ghostly spirit. Boston thinks Phantom is like him, another poor dead soul who’s keeping people safe while they worked through their own death. It’s something he knows but doesn’t bring up to the JLA bc it’s not really relevant until one day it is. 

When he gets in Danny’s vicinity he realizes several things very fast: 1. Danny is crazy powerful and they’d have a hard time taking him down if it came to that 2. He’s a ghost but still can easily interact with the living and world around him unlike Boston 3. He can make other ghostly things able to interact with the world (he almost cries when he speaks and his coworkers turn to look at him) and 4. holy fuck this kid is a ghost but is also still alive. While humans can’t tell Phantom apart from other ghosts, the dead take one look at Danny and just know that he’s still carrying the spark of life they themselves are missing. It’s a lot for an undead circus acrobat to handle.

Anyways, he and Constantine become Danny’s primary contacts in the JLA. They all come to an arrangement that Danny will mostly stay in Amity and only be brought into JLA related missions if he’s absolutely needed, likewise, the League will be there if Danny needs help. Boston and Danny get along pretty well, they have vastly different circumstances but they’re both ghost superheroes so it checks out. Boston delights in helping Danny out with ghost lore and working on the more finicky of his powers. The kid unnerves him, he’s unnatural and his power radiates off him like a furnace. But he’s a good kid and Boston does his best to ensure Danny gets the most out of his human life before it’s taken. Amity soon gets used to seeing the Deadman floating over their city, playfully bantering with Phantom in his characteristic thick New York accent. Just another day in the most haunted city in America.

[catflowerqueen]

#Danny has his own Portal

#He made his own a while ago after moving out so he could visit the Realms and talk to his friends without having to visit his parents

#Also so he could Eat

#The JLA Needs a Portal to the Ghost Zone for one reason or another and decide to “Borrow” it

#Why does this random Illinois scientist even have a Portal to the Afterlife? What is he planning to do with it? Is he dangerous?

#They made the right choice in taking it

#They were justified

#Or so they tell themselves

#Danny just wants his Portal back

^Original tags.

...Which makes me think that rather than make a new portal, he took the original one that he died in an helped his parents make a new one. If we assume is specifically the "portal" that is his grave.

But if it is the zone itself...

Congrats, Justice League--you just made your home base into a graveyard (in that it holds the most stable and easily accessible location to visit the grave itself)

Also, doubly funny is to consider the fact that I am pretty sure that portal has a genetic lock on it that controls the doors. Especially if this was the original Fenton Portal (though this might be fanon).

If that is the case... then I am pretty sure the Justice League won't be able to actually close that portal any time soon. And they may or may not be aware that the on/off switch is on the inside. So unplugging it to remove it... didn't exactly turn it off as far as plugging it back in to do whatever it was they needed to do goes.

So, imagine: Enough time has passed that there is a general understanding among the ghosts that if the door is closed, Danny isn't interested in their shenanigans. If you try and go through one of the other portals you better have a really good reason if you don't want an extremely annoyed Danny to beat you up.

But if the door is open? Or at the very least not genetically locked...? That's basically an open invitation to come in and mess around, and Danny's fights will be more like play sparring.

So while Danny might drop a note saying "You've brought this upon yourselves," he probably won't be actively trying too hard to get the portal back. Why do the work himself when the Justice League could do it for him, and will probably be begging for help themselves within 24 hours?

Plenty of time for him to write up his list of demands before he would be willing to entertain the thought of taking it back when he technically does have other methods to get to the Ghost Zone. Like just building a new portal wholesale.

...Might still drop a warning against outright destroying the portal/the ghost zone and some care instructions about the importance of changing the filter, though. An explosion localized to the Watchtower probably wouldn't harm the Earth itself if it was just due to filtration errors, but Danny doesn't want the civilian Watchtower workers to be harmed in the pettiness crossfire.

Where is my Portal?!

So! Heroes have a bad habit of stealing Technology when they need it.

The Flash usually stole from Star Labs or any of the dozens of smaller Labs in Central City. Batman was suspected to steal Tech from Wayne Enterprises to build his gadgets. Even Superman stole from Lexcorp every once in a while, although that was more understandable considering their history.

Heroes, despite their main job being to stop people from stealing, were not exactly paragons of The Law. They committed crimes on occasion to stop Villains, and most people just agreed to ignore the tiny crimes every now and then.

Now the Big Crimes, that was a different story. Taking the big important pieces of Tech from these Labs was definitely liable to get people made at them.

All this to say, Danny was not amused when he walked into his Personal Lab one morning only to find his Whole-Ass Portal missing from it's spot in the Wall.