#have her date Barb with poly links to the outlaws through Kori for maximum chaos

[spidori]

If Danny and Tim do start up a romance after this, I feel like we should acknowledge what that will do to the Bat family relationship web; not to avoid it mind you, but because chaos that glorious deserves to be recognized!

Tim would now be: Damian's grandfather (and OH how he's gonna hate that!) by marriage, Talia's step-dad (and one she can get a different type of support from), and Bruce's kinda-sorta father-in-law (which Tim would absolutely milk for all the chaos he could get out of it)

Which also begs the question "but can we make this even worse?"

To which I'd respond, what's Jazz up to?

DPxDC Prompt #7

Danny is a clone.

But not of Bruce. Nor Tim. Nor Damian, Jason, or Dick. Not Clark or Diana or any of those usual suspects.

No, no.

You see, when Ra's realized that he was running out of Pits to revive himself with, before he resorted to allowing Talia to give him a grandson with the Detective, Ra's tried to clone

Himself.

After all, who better to be his Heir(/Vessel to Possess) when this body ultimately fails him.

But he failed. Repeated use of the Lazarus Pits had done something to his DNA. Changed or degraded it. All of the clones were unstable from the start. None surviving past the embryonic stage.

All but one.

Ra's last attempt before deeming the project a failure developed all the way to standard 40 weeks before flatlining.

In a last ditch effort to salvage it, Ra's instructed for the clone to be dipped in the Pit. Only to have the Lazarus Waters rip the stillborn infant away and down down down into it's depths.

Immediately following that last failure, Ra's finally relented and gave Talia permission to inseminate herself and bear him an Heir of his and the Detective's blood.

.

Meanwhile, in the Infinite Realms, an Old Clock finds a mortal infant choking on his first living breaths through the Corrupted Ectoplasm in his lungs which gave him life and brought him here. The Ancient smiles. The Realms has chosen her next King. And what a Great One he shall be. Now the Time Keeper needs only deliver the infant where he needs to be to become who he must become.