#he doesn’t want to fail another brother so he doesn’t acknowledge the batsibs as family

[mkarchin713]

No.

No.

This couldn’t be happening.

Danyal had won.

Danyal had beaten him.

Danyal had proven himself worthy.

So why?

Why was the King taking his brother?

Why wouldn’t the guards let go of him?

He needed to save his brother.

Danyal was better than him.

Danyal may have not been stronger

Danyal may have not been swifter

Danyal may have not been smarter

But Danyal was kinder.

Danyal deserved to live.

Danyal deserved to live with their father.

Danyal deserved to escape.

So why?

Why was his brother chosen?

Wait.

Was that why his brother was chosen?

Did the Ghost King know what he had done?

Did the Ghost King know Danyal was the “weaker” twin?

Why?

Why did the Ghost King have to take Danyal?

He would have been satisfied dying so his brother would live.

How was he going to live knowing his brother was gone?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Demon Twins but Danny was sacrificed to the Ghost King

So I've seen AUs where Ra's tries to sacrifice Damien to GK!Danny, and I've seen AUs where dead or injured Danyal got thrown in the pit and was transported somewhere he could be found by the Fentons instead of revived/healed.

Let's combine the two.

Ra's tried to summon the Ghost King. Since Pariah Dark was unavailable, the council of Ancients who sealed him away took turns answering his summons. (None of them bested him in single combat, but they all bested him together. Therefor the kingly responsibilities fall on all of them.)

This time it was Clockwork who showed up. Ra's proposed his bargain in exchange for one of his heirs as "sacrifice to the ghost king." Clockwork saw a potential future where Danyal became Danny became Phantom became the Ghost King. In order to make this potential future more likely, he specifies that Danyal must be sacrificed to "the Title of Ghost King"

Ra's didn't care to question the semantics, otherwise he might have found out that Clockwork was ensuring that his spare was sacrificed to Bear the Title and become the Ghost King, rather than be enslaved or killed by him.

The result was that Ra's got some minor boon from an eldritch entity he assumed was the Ghost King, and Danyal Al Ghul was taken in exchange. If you want to add extra angst, maybe Damien and Danyal had to fight for the right to not be sacrificed. And/or Clockwork, who could see that Danny would make a better king than Damien, CHOSE which twin he wanted as sacrifice.

Like imagine little Danny and Dami in a duel, the loser of which will become a sacrifice. And Damien, who cannot bear to watch his twin be doomed to that fate, throws the match so that he could be taken in his stead. And then the ritual happens and the entity refuses him. Damien has to watch as his twin brother gets dragged to hell despite his best efforts to save him.