#danny casually trauma dumps and laughs like its funny

[tiny-space-platypus]

God knows I don't know how to write the Lanterns but I still want to write this so I'm trying

Danny's tired. Danny is so fucking tired. He's tired of being hunted, tired of being king, tired of his responsibilities that no one understands, he's tired of being looked down on, he's tired of watching his friends and family change while he can't. He's tired of being 14 but the dead don't change. Even though he's just a halfa, even though he's still half human, even though he's still half alive he doesn't change or maybe he just changes extremely slowly. . .

His friends have all grown up, all left him to deal with the GIW and ghost alone. He doesn't blame them, he did tell them to do so. His parents think he's run away a long time ago, his sister calms every once and a while but now it all just feels too much. So after another day of being hunted, of being attacked for just existing Danny makes a decision. He's going to disappear and hide away and not come out. He was tired and wanted nothing more than to sleep.

He makes himself a home in a deep cave within the earth. A nice dark and warm spot to sleep.

The next time Danny woke up his cave was green. That was weird. He got up slowly to see people in his cave. WHAT PEOPLE- GIW- attack, attack, attack.

Danny immediately made ice shoot at the fools who came to disturb his sleep. He growled at them as they blocked with some sort of green force fields. Ecto-tech? No this felt different, this felt confident? Edible? Whatever it made it made his crown and ring react hungrily.

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The lanterns at first thought they had found a dead child. A boy buried deep underground wearing the very deep red rage ring and something else on his head. There was no heart beat, there was no breathing, the boy was dead. Then they got closer and the boy got up, he yawned then looked at them and panicked? Why did this child look so panicked? Did the child think they were going to harm him? Hal thought kids liked the green lanterns, they did every everything they could to seem as non threatening as possible. Why was this one so scared?

The boy hissed at them "GIW just doesn't know when to quite do they?" Then began to attack them with ice and rage and pain. Then after a minute or two after the kid blinked away the rest of his sleep and took a closer look at them. The kid stopped. Only staring at them unblinking. "Those rings, what are they?"

Hal responded a bit confused and concerned, has this child been down here so long that he's never seen a lantern. "We're the green Lantern Corp. We're here to protect sentient life" The boy snapped at that speaking almost bitterly. "Let me guess, I don't count as sentient then? Your kind love to throw that around." The boy glared at him with bright angry green eyes as his ring glowed and pulsed red. "Let me guess, you're here to try and drag me back to that ancient's forbidden Lab? Here to tell me I'm not sentient again to yourself feel better when you-"

"No! No, we're not here for that! What are you- Kid-" Hal and the other lanterns who came with Hal believing this mission was going to be a rough and awful fight looked dumbfounded and horrified. "We're just here because of your ring- it's dangerous."

The kid looked at the lanterns suspiciously. "What do you know about my ring?" Hal was still processing what the kids had said earlier. "Well it's a red lantern-" The kid cut in. "Wrong. It's more powerful than that." The kid went back to sit on his bed of smooth rock as he studied them, studied their horror and their emotions. No aggression, no dishonesty.

Hal tried to say something but didn't know what to say for a second. He paused before speaking softly, the kid seemed mostly reasonable aside from being so closed off but he couldn't blame him if what he said earlier was true. "Why don't you come with us? This cave can't be too-"

The kid interjected. "There's nothing good up there. I'd rather just go back to sleep" Hal frowned at that. "Nothing huh? How about space then?" That seemed to peak the kid's interest. "Like space space, like going to see the stars and stuff?" Hal chuckled as he watched this kid open up a bit and the ring cool down. Maybe he really was just a kid. "Yeah like space space. Do you like space?" The boy hopped up and began to project different constellations and stars and planet systems from his arms explaining them in far more detail than any of them expected. The kid rambled for probably a half hour before catching himself and flustering. "Sorry- I um I know a lot about space. It comes with the territory of what I am" he laughed awkwardly. He then looked at them hesitantly again. "You mean it though right? I can see space and not a lab?"

"Yeah, we'll take you to space. While we're heading there, do you mind explaining what you mean?" Hal answered back with a smile though he did notice the ring disappear. Hm, maybe that was why they couldn't get a reading on it for so long. The kid paused for a second then got up and stood by Hal. "My name's Danny." Hal smirked, "Cool, my name's Hal. Nice to meet you, kid."

And with that Hal and the other lanterns took Danny with them up into space. Up past the stars as he spoke in depth of each star and planet like it was natural to know. The kid lighting up with everything they pasted. Like he was finally in his element.

Danny was in his element. He was the ancient of space after all. He knew all about this. He wished he knew of the lanterns before, if he did we would have gone there instead of a cave. Maybe.. He could build a new home with them. Maybe he could help them protect space and life as well as keeping tabs on the dead. Maybe he could finally live his life.

There's a very, very, important ring the lanterns have to locate and seal. After centuries of absence, they briefly find it's presence somewhere on earth. They're fully expecting the destruction that comes with it (via whoever has it not giving it up)

Danny, who ran away from the GIW, now jaded and left with no sense of hope for humanity, doesn't get why he feels like he's being somewhat spied on.

((He learns to love again and gets adopted in the process))