#Unwanted House Guest

[shanxpennywise]

Creepypasta Art Dump (Old Art.)

[batfamdannyphantomsstuff]

"The Gods wanted me dead and now you get to find out why."

DCxDP fanfic idea: Unwanted House Guest

Danny gets the bright idea to make his friends summoning disks in the case of emergencies. It's mostly due to a fight with a ghost that was so dangerous that his parents were forced to seal everyone in town behind another force field.

The only thing was, Danny winded up on the other side of it, seeing as no one realized Phantom and Fenton were one and the same. It took forever for Sam and Tucker to disable the force field, allowing Danny to go in and finish off the ghost wrecking havoc.

A metalsmith in the Zone made the disks for him using runes he selected for the design. The ghost had given Danny a warning before he started on the commission, repeatedly asking if the Halfa was certain he wanted to go through with it.

Apparently, the runes were a lost language of the Ancients, and while a direct translation was unavailable, he could make out that they would ensnare Danny to the summoner.

If that meant Danny would be their prisoner or forced to do their bidding, was anyone's guess. It was confirmed to be dangerous to even think of giving somone the chance to find out using Danny as a test subject.

But Danny trusted Sam and Tucker more than anyone in the multiverse. He pushed through with the disks.

The disks were disguised to look like a necklace, and when thrown like a Frisbee, the runes would activate and pull him to the location it landed in.

Danny was happy to see it was able to bypass forced fields, solid walls, long distances, and giving his friends means to get help as quickly as possible.

It was all well and good until Sam lost her necklace. Or more like she put it down in her room to shower, and her mother had gone through her room to throw away "problematic" belongings. Her parents had gotten it into their heads that Sam needed a firmer hand in changing her Gothic outlook on life and would randomly get rid of her things.

It was getting to the point Sam rarely spent any time at home and she was saving till the day she could leave and not ever return. Her parents were in a panic over it, trying even harder to control her life.

Thankfully, her grandmother had left her the entire estate, so Sam didn't need to worry about them controlling her finically. She just needed to hit eighteen, surviving with the help of Danny and Tucker.

Danny had an entire box of her things hidden in his house, as she had stashed some with Tucker, too. She was worried they would get rid of the last few things her grandma gave her before the older woman's passing.

She was in tears when she reported the lost summoning disk. Danny assured her that he didn't blame her, even of he was uncomfortable with the idea that a means to forcefully teleport him was lost somewhere in the world.

He prayed it did not fall into the wrong hands, as he went into the Zone to ask the metalsmith to make him another necklace.

The ghost had the good graces to not tell Halfa a "I told you so" while he made Sam's replacement.

Three years passed before Sam's lost disk became a problem. It had fallen into the wrong hands, alright.

It had fallen into Lex Luther's hold, and the man wanted Danny to kill Superman. There was a moment of horror where Danny thought he would be forced to go through it when he realized that no.

The only thing the runes did was tie him to Lex, making it impossible to be more than 20 miles away from the man. A string of light would appear around their wrists and flung them together as if someone had handcuffed them.

The other great thing was that the disks automatically changed him into Phantom, and Lex was unaware of Danny's human side. He just thought he was cursed with a nineteen year old Ghost King.

"How can the great and powerful Ghost King be a child?! A useless one at that!" Lex snared while gesturing at the glowing young adult.

Danny raises a brow from where he is soaking in Lex's expensive suit hot tub. " I'm not the one who can't get over my ex. Buy a cat or something, man. "

"I was never with Superman!"

" Don't you have a kid with him? Superboy? He's biologically Superman and your son, right? Deadbeat. "

"That's not.....get out of my house!"

"No." Danny sips some of Lex's fancy wine. " i like it here. It's been ages since I been in the human realm."

Lex also seemed unaware that Danny was trapped with him. It was better to play it off as a higher being bothering him so the man wouldn't try to make him do anything until Danny was able to free himself.

[beguilingcorpse]

it drives me crazyyyy that like. palamedes is out at canaan house with tenderness in excelsius for dulcinea. the perfect regency era gentleman. every moment is the pride and prejudice hand flex scene. if the pov character was attracted to men even a little bit the narration would be filled with swooning. he’s lowering her gently into chairs and handing her tea so that their hands brush and looking at her with those big grey eyes of his. and all of it is WASTED because it’s NOT dulcinea it’s CYTHEREA. FUCK

[torpublishinggroup]

“Two is for discipline, heedless of trial; Three for the gleam of a jewel or a smile; Four for fidelity, facing ahead; Five for tradition and debts to the dead; Six for the truth over solace in lies; Seven for beauty that blossoms and dies; Eight for salvation no matter the cost; Nine for the Tomb, and for all that was lost.”

8-74-13-18 13-343-25-111 8-269-16-10 15-386-33-34 9-209-9-25 14-131-22-34 7-283-11-34 13-283-27-55 9-453-6-17 14-508-25-65 7-212-10-17 14-172-21-153.

[vaguely-concerned]

Thinking about the symbolic weight of smoking in the TLT universe that comes to the fore in The Unwanted Guest -- the way it moves through from person to person: Pyrrha smoked, and Augustine wanted to impress her in all her stone cold fox MILF James Bond glory (and tbf who wouldn't) so he started too. and even though as far as he knows she's been gone for a myriad and is never coming back, he keeps the habit. Ianthe sees something in the hollowed-out Faberge eggshell of Augustine that resonates with her, all that gilded eloquent emptiness and disdain through the ages, so she picked it up from him to try to emulate it. She picked it up so hard that Palamedes -- the exact spiritual antithesis of the 'smoking! on a space station! what a powermove' ennui Ianthe so admired -- spontaneously unnerded enough to even known how to, simply from a sort of contact contamination of the soul.

G1deon and Augustine sharing a jittery smoke after their near-Harrow experience during soup night, and it's the closest thing to any real sense of brotherhood that remains between them. Pyrrha going ten thousand years dying both literally and for a smoke (and then Camilla sold her fucking cigarettes (for a third of what they were worth, probably Pyrrha's own good, and also more importantly grocery money). what an entirely haunted time to be alive etc.). Augustine and Mercy trading a cigarette back and forth in the middle of their collusion over the love and murder of god.

An act of small and measured self-destruction in the name of something a little bit like connection when you're stuck somewhere in yourself where love itself dares not or cannot tread (ritualized, transmissible)..........

[luce-cannon]

"You're fucked, my lad"

Obviously had to draw Ianthe in these outfits after reading that story

[featherbreak]

Camilla’s clockwork interrupted with a series of urgent beeps: the BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP of a timer alarm, faster and more panicked than the usual time’s-up sound. ... but then Camilla had straightened and was blinking furiously, and it was Camilla. Her eyes were pale grey again and she shuddered like herself.

happy Nona the Ninth paperback release day! here's some New Rho Palamedes Sextus Camilla Hect for your "I just read The Unwanted Guest or remembered that Paul exists, and now I have 99 feelings & all of them are pain" mood.

no? can't be just me sobbing about Camilla Hect forever

bonus action outtake inspired by @shesmymausoleum 's awesome fanart of my last cosplay post:

[gideonisms]

Dulcie thought maybe pal & cam would make it to the funeral.....she thought they'd never see her alive but maybe they would see her once she was dead and then planned the whole funeral just to give them one last joke with her......do you ever just.

[occasional-rambler]

okay it literally just hit me an hour ago that Palamedes and Dulcinea will literally never see each other again. If I understood right, Cam and Pal’s soul merging thing was just that, they’re technically not dead and their souls won’t enter the River.

I’m glad Palamedes got to see and speak to the real Dulcinea at least once, but god is it tragic that it only happened after they’d both died. It wasn’t enough that they just missed meeting each other when they were alive, they only get that one little conversation in The Unwanted Guest before they’re separated for good. I suppose it was never a guarantee that they’d meet again in the River after Dulcie’s choice when the river bubble was collapsing in HtN (I’m still so curious what she did and where she ended up), but I can’t imagine that Palamedes didn’t think about finding her in the River if he died for real.

Did he make his peace with saying goodbye to her forever when he was planning the soul ritual with Camilla? Was it easier to follow through after meeting her when he was fighting Ianthe for control? God I love how much this series makes me think.

[derseprinceoftbd]

"Don't say what Babs would say!"

"I *always* say what Babs would say."

Very glad I read The Unwanted Guest when I did.

[thesixthruin]

just thinking about the parallels of lyctorship being compared to meat consumption by palamedes in the unwanted guest and alecto's "kiss" at the end of nona the ninth. "you swallowed a piece of meat" vs. "this is how meat loves meat". alecto's cannibalistic display of love. ianthe's visceral and brutal consumption of naberius tern, with no love in it, only using him as a means to an end. camilla and palemedes' softer and prepared consumption of one another. the sixth house's resistance at allowing one to eat away at the other, but rather letting all wholes be consumed into something new. the mutual cannibalism of it all. thinking about ianthe's unwillingness to consume coronabeth, how lyctorship is not love in her eyes, like it is in the eyes of the sixth house.

[shanxpennywise]

Slenderman Vs Unwanted House Guest (Old Art.)

[wubbelwubbwubb]

the unwanted guest

[storybook-souls]

i think avicenna somedesperateglory and ianthe tridentarius should hang out. she'd eat him alive but i think we'd all have fun with it

[nevermoor-batty]

alright, was someone going to tell me that palamedes and Camilla are second cousins or was I just going to have to read that on Tamsyn Muir’s tumblr blog by myself??

[caiternate]

rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead (tom stoppard, 1966) // thyestes (seneca, trans. e.f. watling, 1966) // angels in america (tony kushner, 1991)

no context unwanted guest spoilers but it's just plays that i was insane about in college