#if redeemed Vlad he could possess Bruce's shadow

[puppetmaster13u]

Okay but depending on what happened to make him so injured there could be enough ghosts for everyone in the batfam to get a shadow friend lol.

Short DPXDC Prompts #809

Danny is extremely weak and injured and he really hates overshadowing people. He does the next best thing: takes over the shadow of a person. Unknowingly, Danny just possessed the shadow of Red Robin.

[f4nd0m-fun]

Oh I love that.

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Actually my initial idea was never that the infinite realms was the monster dimension but rather that it was maybe 2° separate from it, there's a similarity there but if you document it well enough you can find the differences. I do enjoy this idea tho, and it could be combined sorta. Essentially, you've got the living monsters that no one is entirely sure where they come from, and then the much stronger monsters that used to be blocked by the gates being closed. The regular monsters can be tamed, at least some, and, occasionally, if they die in battle they'll keep fighting for their tamer. To the people of this world, this isn't considered a face of death, not for a while, they just assume it's some form of evolution. They are, of course, wrong.

Also this was thrown in by @radiance1

(Poor Danny, he just wants a break, and Constantine still isn't sure how this happened)

So Bruce's liminal ability would be Shadow, and Dick's would probably be wind. And he's a contortionist, he's just gonna get worse about it over time.

Jason, I wanna get all Shakespeare dramatic with him. Joker is a Ghost who goes drum host to host if he's ever killed, and absorbing the soul of the original host makes him stronger, but traps him until the body dies, hence why it's not smart to kill him. He still killed Jason in this but, at usual, Jason managed to possess his own corpse. Talia stole him away because he was gonna rot and the League is full of liminal. Anyway, Jason's head was hidden by the joker instead of being found by his family but Talia located it an used it to find him. Because of how long he was separated from his head, if he's feeling the pit rage he can just yoink off his head and annoy it with Hamlet or something until it calms down (I dunno, I just woke up a bit ago). This also fits with the duffel head bag, except probably not a duffel this time. Jason probably has some form of pain immunity or maybe some minor psychic abilities entirely linked to piloting his body when detached. (I imagine the family tries not to have a heart attack the first time they see this). And Jason? He misses when the shadows called him home, when he could grasp them nearly as well as Bruce, but it seems sacrifices have been made and now he can barely feel them.

Also, the way I write things, Meta Powers are just Oddly Specific Magic essentially. They're not necessarily as strong as some spells but they're stronger than the basic ones but they're also usually fairly specific and you don't get much of a choice.

I just had the sad idea that the League essentially 'breeds' for stealth abilities in liminals and Bruce, with his natural affinity for shadows, was an important piece of the puzzle that got away, and thus Damien was created, grown in an ecto womb, born quite liminal, and more likely to become a Halfa than a Ghost for his first death.

Also, I toyed with the idea that DP is pretty much DC flipped on its head. Danny is Damien, Jazz might be Barbera with Jack as Gordon, Maddie as Talia and Vlad as Bruce, Sam is Cass and Tucker is Duke, or you could have Val and Tuck as the Hawk pair. And it'd be funny if Wes was the Flash as Barry.

I am also running with Prince Danny, and I like the idea that redeemed!Vlad is his regent or something, and that's half of why Vlad thinks Danny has accepted being his son (he hasn't but oh well).

And if we want to make the chaos even worse, throw in another AU of mine, in which Alfred is Clockwork, Thomas was Pariah and went crazy after his death (Alfred sent him back in time to try and fix things but it didn't work), and Martha refused to leave her family so she was sent back as a guardian for them and starts collecting curses (they seem bad now but they'd be worse on the mortals) and then Parish gets let out, whole thing happens, and then Clockwork takes him for some community service or something. Or he's still King but Vlad is like supposed to make decisions with/for Danny if Pariah isn't there. This works well with Bruce's shadows because a lot of people HC Pariah as the ancient of Darkness. It's also hilarious because, in the world where this powerful king sired a prince, that Prince stayed mostly mortal but, in the world where he allowed a mortal to host the soul, they became a halfa.

Anyway, I guess in this case, succession is Bruce-Vlad-Danny? Or maybe Danny goes first because of the fight?

Ooooo what if the JL's world is still stuck in the past of Pariah, Alfred thought he was sealed but instead there's a minor time loop going on, and, because he awakened in the other world, that's why the gates were getting so close, because he's no longer asleep for most of the year?

Cue Clockwork sending Danny to fix things and beat this version of Pariah, but also sending the whole family along because this was Pariah in his glory days.

Imagine the horror Bruce might feel upon learning about his father's fate, at least the fact that he'd been the one warring on the world, pretty much entirely because his death caused the ring and crown to take over since he no longer had a human half, and Danny's Win wrestling the ring and crown away from him, allowing his mind to be free again. Imagine Loop!Pariah and Redeem!Pariah meeting each other.

The thing is, if Thomas had Survived, Pariah wouldn't have been Born, but, as seen in that Flaspoint(?) movie with Martha as Joker, without her being Lady Gotham, the curses are free to latch on, and who is a bigger curse but the one that always got away - Joker? And Thomas may not have lost his humanity, but he did lose his hope.

Alfred only rarely uses his abilities, he was meant to be a watcher, until he fell in love with his king and his mortal partner, until Thomas and Martha had a son, had two, against odds.

And, in a world in which abilities are more common and liminals are not rare, these traits from Thomas, and even a little bit from Alfred, prove themselves more visibly. Thomas and Martha may have given the DNA but ectoplasm tends to seep off of entities, especially stronger ones, and Alfred raised Bruce from 10. I wouldn't be surprised if Bruce is slightly faster than the average human or if, like a post I recently saw, he has so many contingencies because he can randomly see the future without controlling the view. When Alfred finds out, he brings Bruce a mirror, Bruce isn't at why until he realizes he's not having visions anymore except the really dire ones, and soon realizes that the mirror is acting as... something, he isn't sure what. (It doesn't stop his ingrained paranoia, and sometimes he'll stare at the mirror for hours, when that happens Alfred intervenes).

Imagine if Clark isn't just an alien but is also from another dimension. The idea that the phantom zone is part of the realms, and the fact that Kara rode through them, why couldn't Kal? And that's how he ended up on this world. Most of the time he wouldn't have to worry, but this world is soaked in magic, even if most people can't use more than a tiny spark of it, or have very specific abilities about it. Or, maybe, by growing up around it, he became more resistant to it, but also weaker. He's still a heavy hitter, he's still weak to magic, but it's not as bad as it could be.

Diana is still clay-born and god-blessed of course, tho I wonder how she'd react to Bruce sorta being her uncle through Chronos. Or imagine when she first meets Alfred, at least the first time she recognizes the power flowing through him, and remembers the stories of him and his children.

Anyway, Bruce vs Vlad, Vlad is probably winning but if he gets distracted Bruce might be able to sneak off win the help of the shadows.

I do find it funny that Vlad has a Plasma/Sun core, essentially light and warmth, but Bruce is gonna be shadows, they're the same soul at core, but went through such different things.

Maybe Jason as a fire core and, if you look closely enough, his head and neck are attached by a thin stream of smoke.

I do wonder though if any of the army members might recognize Bruce's soul, if not though Thomas' past than perhaps though Vlad's existence. Maybe Constantine notices as well.

I dunno, there's so many ways to take this.

So in a lot of these monster hunting fantasy webcomics, you have these things called monster cores. Imagine, if you will, an AU where the Justice League has always been in a world like this. Maybe an alternate earth, maybe the aliens are from different planes instead of planets, maybe you've got magic as the primary force and yet there's some who still manage to stick almost entirely to tech/magitech (like Bruce). These cores are essentially batteries, and the more powerful the monster the more energy you can draw. Also, I love the idea that, if you put it together right, you can technically recharge it.

Enter, the Phamily. Either they are from this world and the Fentons are monster hunters trying to find the origin place of the monsters, or this isn't their original world and they're trying to open a portal home.

Danny, Ellie, Dan, and Vlad if he's there, have cores. These can be considered batteries just looking at the way ectoplasm is used (imagine how much more potent the cores would be than the globs). Jazz, the parents, and Danny's friends if they're there too are liminal. This could mean that magic considers them part monster despite no cores, or maybe they're considered akin to warlocks or sorcerers, looked down upon but not actively hunted or something. Although the presence of the half monster kids and what seems to be a half monster dad... (yes this is probably a family breakfast ship, sue me if you dare) well, Vlad is gonna be determined to fight off the rumors with whatever he's got, there's no need for his darling Maddie to get worked up about idiots, aside from him and Jack of course. (I also love Vlad x Connie so this could either be Vlad is just an uncle or we get Connie in and call it Family Party or something - Party cause alcohol?)

Also not entirely sure on how I'm writing Bruce and Dick here, I want them to be able to access magic in some way, but sensing magic might be more of an Oracle/Barbara thing, I'm not sure, but also they can't do anything big or flashy with it, it's more tiny stuff which is why they rely on magitech. Also the idea that even if people can sense magic, usually they ignore changes aside from moving away from it if necessary cause usually it means a bunch of monsters are coming through a breach. Honestly, not sure how to run this but, eh.

The below segment is written with Native!JL and Isekai!DP in mind.

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Bruce had been tinkering with his latest animaga, a monster core whose energy had been threaded through one if his favorite inventions, intended to allow him and his ward flight with the use of monster wings.

"B!"

He tensed but refuses to startle as his ward all but jumped on top of him. "Yes Dick?"

"The magic feels weird!"

Bruce paused, setting his tools down. He knew as a half elf, Richard was sensitive to magic, but wasn't nearly as strong with it as most full elves.

Of course, Bruce had always been considered... disabled in that regard, a full elf who could only feel the energy close to him, though it wasn't public knowledge that he knew of. "That's good to know, Chum, why don't you meditate on it and I'll investigate tonight?"

His ward seemed to understand the intent to leave him behind and started to protest.

"Chum, I was going out alone before you showed up, if the magic really has changed, it'll be safer for me to go out and use the radar."

Dick whined but didn't protest again.

Bruce hoped he wouldn't sneak out this time.

As night began to fall, a family of 9 was gutting a strange metallic ship. Well, the three elder ones were, while the younger ones worked together to scout out the area.

Bruce had just arrived to the location, but chose not to interfere just yet. Batman was the embodiment of night to many, a fearsome predator to others, and some even thought he was a monster himself. Reconnaissance was his strength, as was stealth.

"I don't know, Jazz, the energy here is weird. Muggy almost." His form gave off a soft glow, not unlike that of the whisps, though much larger in body.

The girl with red hair, Jazz he presumed, did not appear impressed. "Like you're the expert on energy. Maybe you should ask Sam when we get back to Mom and dad."

"And Vlad."

"Don't remind me."

The glowing one shuddered. "I know him and our parents have been buddy buddy again but why did he take you find along?"

"Because you're still in training, Daniel."

Both children shrieked.

"I see your core has accepted me into your Fraid."

Bruce froze a bit. Core? Thier energy was certainly strange but not entirely monstrous, hence his inactivity, but the presence of a core presented issues.

"Whatever, Fruitloop. Go back to camp."

"I don't think I will, you're being watched and I can't have my son or daughter being in harm's way."

"Give it a rest, Frootloop, we're not your kids." Despite their attitude, something about their reaction and stance suggested they were worried about being watched as well.

Bruce wondered how they knew about him, perhaps he should have asked Lucius for help with a dampening field to hide the energy of the animaga?

"Don't bother flying away, you'll be surrounded before you can think." Vlad placed a hand on Danny's shoulder.

Before Bruce could react, there was a flash of light that all but burned onto his retinas, but the light was all wrong, a deep black instead of a glowing hue. By the time he was back to his senses, Vlad was gone, and in his place was another strange Whisp. Batman didn't have to turn around to find there were identical ones behind him. Clearly, this was an opponent not to be underestimated.