#danny's relationship w the bullies is wildly different tho

[dannyphantomiscool]

While Damian never stops fighting, just going from assassin to vigilante immediately, Danny… does. He doesn't continue his training, and very deliberately rejects everything he was taught in his childhood.

He heals. He leaves behind the violence and the death and gets a normal life, with a sister and friends and school.

Dying throws a wrench in that.

It'd probably take him longer to accept what happened than in canon. He doesn't want to believe it, doesn't want to acknowledge that his life is changing (that he's changing) when he's just become situated into Normalcy, even as his school is being attacked by a ghost.

But he does, and he decides that even if he'll have to let violence back into his life, dust off his old training and skills, he's still not going to be what the League made him into.

Nobody is going to tell him what to do. Nobody is going to make him fight anybody he doesn't want to, and nobody is going to make him kill.

Nobody is going to make him give up his friends even though they're a "weakness".

I think something interesting in the damian&danny twins/danyal al ghul au that i don't see explored,,, basically ever, is how Danny heals.

I always see his personality made more similar to Damian's, which does make sense bc of his altered childhood. But i think it's far more interesting to keep it more canonincal.

He doesn't text w proper grammar bc he rejects the strict way he was raised. He makes puns and jokes and laughs freely because he was never allowed that when he was young. He freely admits to caring about his friends and family bc that is something he can have now.

I want to see a healed Danny. I want to see an Al Ghul that actually got to leave the league, got to heal and become normal.

And it'd add a really interesting aspect to his death, and Phantom. He escaped and he healed and then he still got fucked over and lost it all.

He's right back to having to fight constantly, his friends are weaknesses that can be exploited against him, and his parents are fighting him.

Danny directly and explicitly rejecting his upbringing and taking his life back. Eating nasty burger and playing doomed and having friends and crushes like a normal teenager.

And then losing it all.

(But better to be like his father than his mother.)