#ali @ damian if they meet like ellie did: wow. you are. JUST like our sister
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starry-bi-sky · 8 months ago
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im having more fem Danyal thoughts. But specifically I've been thinking about Dani in this au. Now, Fem Danyal is just the alt. version of Danny to my other DAG au, which means she follows that lore. that being said. Danyal and Dani already had a pretty rocky introduction in the first place, ANd if we follow canon's setup, Dani in fem!Danyal's world would be a boy rather than a girl. I'm gonna call him Ali for easier difference (my train of thought was Daniel -> Eli -> Ali). While Danny may resemble Talia more than Bruce, Danny and Damian still look very similar to each other. Their blood relation is unquestionable.
You can imagine how fem Danyal might feel, walking into her room one day after school, and finding a little boy on her bed who looks, at first glance, like the little brother she loves to death. If meeting Ellie triggered Kill Bill Sirens in Danny's head, meeting Ali bass boosted them. For a terrifying, fleeting moment, Danny thinks Damian is right there. That somehow, her clever, intelligent little brother found out she was alive and tracked her down.
She slams the door shut, completely at a loss for words. Her heart has nearly stopped a second time. Then she realizes: this boy's eyes are blue. Not green. He looks too old to be her brother. His jawline too narrow, his hair too messy. As he talks, his voice is not the same as the sparse few videos on the internet showing Damian speaking. This is not the child she helped take his first steps with, nor the child she watched utter his first words. This is not the boy whom she taught to pick up a sword; this is not her brother.
Safe to say, Ali gets a knife pulled on him much, much faster than his female counterpart did. He lives, fortunately, but their relationship is unsteady and rocky even after Ali betrays Vlad and joins Danny.
Danny is unsettled by him, not for being her clone -- although that plays a minor part -- but because every time he drifts into her peripherals, she keeps thinking it's Damian. And it spooks her half out of her mind. She gets her hopes up at the same time her heart drops, then she turns her head, and it's not Damian; it's Dani.
It's also why she won't call him 'Dani', it's one letter too close to 'Dami' and she's afraid she'll call him that if she's not careful. So when he brings it up jokingly, she immediately shoots it down; "I'll call you Eli." instead. (Ali thinks she's boring -- he thought 'danny with a y' and 'dani with an i' was funny. Frankly, so did Danny, but she's too uncomfortable with the idea of calling him Dani.)
When he asks her why, she lies and says it's to prevent confusion. When their relationship is better, "Eli" eventually becomes "Ali".
("Why Ali?" he'll ask her, with an ear pressed against her ribs while Danny coils one of his curls around her finger. She's steadily become more and more affectionate; Danny has the impeccable ability of making it seem so forced and stiff and natural at the same time.)
("Do you not like it?" She'll ask him, voice stilted and unsure. She's got her heart in her throat, but she's starting to stop seeing Damian whenever she looks down. "We can keep it Eli if you'd like.")
("No, no. I like it. Just... why Ali? Does it mean anything?")
(Danny will smooth her palm over Ali's forehead, scratching his hairline with her nails, and feel embarrassed. She'll be silent until he looks up at her, and then she clears her throat. "It means eminent; exalted; noble.")
(Ali stares at her in dead silence, long enough that she starts to grow worried. Then tears bubble up in his eyes, and for a moment Danny thinks she said something wrong. "I lied;" he croaks, "I love it.")
(She will hesitate, and then wipe the tears off with her thumbs. "Ali al Ghul," she'll mutter, "but that name is for you and I only. To the world, you're Ali Fenton." Perhaps she shouldn't be giving him her mother's last name, but he is of her blood now too.)
#looked up the average heights of a 12yo boy for this#girlie has like. 10 years worth of pent up Sisterly Emotions and a new baby brother to outlet them on#just you wait Ali she’s gonna get so protective very soon#anyways danyal’s obsession is safety (specifically towards themselves and their loved ones) take that as you will#it gives them a little more agency in the whole ‘hero’ thing too bc safety can just mean Danny gets her people away from the ghosts#and call it that. she doesn’t *have* to fight them. she’s doing that of her own free autonomy#ali is a very sweet kid however his genetic template’s parents have the genetic sequence of an RBF implanted in BOTH their children#so he too has inherited the ‘silently judging you’ face#he’s a sweet kid with a lot of sass#ali @ damian if they meet like ellie did: wow. you are. JUST like our sister#damian: who made you || Ali: i cant tell you that for. safety reasons. || dami: mine. or yours.#ali: ehhhh yours technicallly. but if you’re anything like our sister then frankly? the guy who cloned her. he’s a buffoon#ali @ damian bc ali is 12 and dami is 10: when *I* was your age— || damian: you were never my age to begin wITH.#damian: how old are you. || ali: physically? im twelve. *actually?* like. six months#ali: am i your brother or your nephew || damian: you’re a fucking problem || ali: laNGUAGE#nobody in the batfam is close enough in age to have that True Sibling Rivalry you can only have when you’re two years apart#unfortunately for Damian. he is going to be the first to experience what that feels like a la Ali
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