#it's funnier if it's Tucker

[starry-bi-sky]

don't you want to be a cult leader? - danyal al ghul au

this is mostly a joke post but i thought it was funny and had to share so--

his first mistake was, obviously, inheriting his father's inability to see an injustice and stand still. -- actually, danyal's first mistake was his lair being so big. a mountainous island with a large temple in the center resembling his old home in Nanda Parbat? With sprawling foliage and rivers and streams and waterfalls galore? What was he going to do with all that space? Let it go to waste? He had plants there! Native trees of the ghost zone growing from the soil! He couldn't let it all be left unchecked!

So naturally after helping a fellow teenage assassin ghost -- who he later learns is named Akihiko, -- from Walker of all people, he sent them over to hang low at his lair until it was safe enough for them to wander around the Zone. Walker couldn't get through Danyal's astrofield if his life depended on it, and trust him -- he's tried. Danny was clearing out debris from his stupid transport vans for weeks.

Honestly it wasn't so bad, he and Aki really quickly became fast friends and Danny loves having a sparring partner close to his level again -- he hasn't had this much fun fighting since he left the League. Aki was very dedicated and levelheaded, the both of them clicked really well because of it.

Nonono, the real trouble began after Danyal met some long-passed League members and allowed them to come join his island as well. Apparently they had made a few enemies of the zone, and maybe Danyal still felt some loyalty to the League. He couldn't just let them be left to rot. Their zealotry could be overlooked so long as they kept it contained and helped him take care of his island.

And it.. snowballs from there? He meets a teen squire aptly calling himself Ambroise -- whether that was his living name or not is yet to be seen -- who died during feudal france, who is just about as dramatic and passionate as every french stereotype makes them out to be. He calls Danyal "my moon and great muse" -- which is both flattering and little uncomfortable, but Danyal's grown up in the League as the Grandson of the Demon Head, he is used to mild worship. he passes it off as nothing more, nothing less. -- and while his energy is overwhelming on the worst of days, he helps Danny draw out of his shell more in ways that Sam and Tucker still struggle with.

Him and Aki butt heads a lot, but the two seem to hold the other in at least some positive regard, so Danny doesn't worry too much about them fighting while he's gone. It only becomes a mild issue when Aki also begins calling Danny "my moon". It's a little sweet, so Danyal brushes it off.

Then he takes in a troupe of ghosts some time after he defeats Pariah Dark and they begin calling him "great one" just as the yetis do in the far frozen. This is where he meets the twins -- a pair of sibling ghosts who call themselves Trixie and Missy (short for Trick and Mislead) -- who aren't quite as passionate as Ambroise but more energetic than Aki. Eventually they also start calling Danyal "my moon" and attach themselves to his hip, even within the living. They like to hide in his shadow and cause trouble for the rest of the students. He makes sure they don't hurt anyone.

He's pretty sure Aki is jealous, same with Ambroise, but he can't be too certain other than the fact that they become much more lingering (re: clingy) whenever he visits the island.. Something he's trying to do much more often these days due to the increasing amount of people living there now. Since when did he become so popular?

Then there's Pēnelópeia from the Greater Athens, who ran away from home and joined his Island after he ran into her while she was being chased by Skulker -- and he's pretty sure the reason was because of her chimeric appearance. Her strange eyes and mismatched wings and lion's tail and talons. She assimilates into his friend group very easily, she gets along well with Ambroise and Trixie and Danny usually finds the three of them climbing the trees to pluck the most fruit from the top. They can fly and he knows it, but they prefer to climb.

Then finally there's silent poet Akkara who comes from ancient mesopotamia, who gets along most with Aki -- which is no surprise there considering their similar personality dispositions. he watches Aki and Danyal fight each other and leaves comments on this or that that he notices. He writes Danyal poems on clay tablets and leaves them by his room.

They're one big mismatched group of outcasts, and Danny's got the other ghosts on his island to tend to, because they're living on his island and he wants to be hospitable even if he struggles with that. But he spends the most of his time with them.

Sam and Tucker are making fun of him. Tucker jokingly tells him 'careful Danny, at this rate you're gonna start a cult'. Danny really wishes he had taken that joke more seriously.

He just. keeps. collecting people. Wayward souls lost in the zone, looking for shelter or refuge from something or other -- whether that be another hostile ghost, or a past afterlife, or just a purpose. Danyal finds them, he takes them in, offers them a place on his island until they are ready to leave. Many seldom do. He's not complaining -- he has the space, and it feels like it's only ever growing.

His close friends, his "inner circle" as he's heard the others call them, keep insistently calling him "my moon". He starts calling them his stars, because then it only feels fair. They're his stars, this is his constellation. It becomes a thing; little star halos begin forming behind their heads, picking them out from the rest. He loves them so much, it's hard to place. Sam and Tucker are also his stars, but they reside in the living realm, they're his tie to Life. Meanwhile, his friends here know what it's like to be dead, and sometimes its nice to relate.

Those living on his island keep calling him "Great One" and he's beginning to notice zealotry in their care for his island. He really, deeply appreciates it. His close friends gain nicknames -- as his stars, it's only natural for him to pick them out from the cluster in the skies. Akihiko, his Sirius and bright star. Trix and Missy, Castor and Pollux, the twins and troublemakers. Ambroise, his zealous Antares and close friend. Penelopeia, chimeric and loyal Vega. And Akkara, his Arcturus and strength.

It's ridiculous how long it takes for him to notice; he is, of course, a deadly trained assassin. He is meant to be observant -- and normally he is! But somehow this becomes a blind spot. One that becomes too big to be dealt with by the time he realizes it.

He should've noticed when Aki, his Sirius, stood beside him one day while Danyal looked over his island and saw the sprawling spirits carrying on about their afterlife and bowing to him as they saw him, and said: "I looked down into the depths when I met you; I couldn't measure it." They aren't one for flowing prose, it took him so off guard he was silent for over a minute before he finally spoke.

Danyal should've recognized devotion for what it is, and yet he didn't. He should've recognized it when Antares began spouting praises about him, crowing about his radiance and resplendence to the heavens. He just brushed it off as Ambroise being Ambroise. He should've recognized it when Trix and Missy nearly broke Dash's leg after he knocked Danyal's books out of his hands, he excused it as them being protective. Of them coming from times where such violence may have been customary -- after all, that's what he used to be like. What he was still like, sometimes, when his emotions nearly got the better of him.

He should've noticed it when the people living on his island followed his word like gospel, looked at him like he hung the stars in the sky. When his friends gifted him a shawl with the moon phases delicately embroidered into it, with silver, shimmering thread and moving stars lovingly stitched into it. Their constellations seen clear as day in the dark fabric. When he found small shrines dedicated to him -- but they lacked any image of him beyond stones carved to look like moons, so he ignored it. When the religious imagery began popping up.

He really, really should've noticed it when a bunch of cultists accidentally summoned Antares, and Antares had turned to him when he arrived and called them heretics. But he was so centered on the fact that they had kidnapped one of his stars, that he hadn't paid much attention to what Ambroise had said.

Sages say that faith is blind, they should also say faith in you is even blinder.

It really only hits him one afternoon while he's sitting in Sam's room studying with Tucker, Missy and Trixie lounging at his feet, Aki sat on his right, Penelopeia braiding his hair, Ambroise draped against him, and Akkara lurking over him. Its one of the rare few times they're all in one room together.

It hits him like a bolt of lightning. He looks up from his textbook. "Oh Ancients," he says in no amounting shock. Everyone looks up to him.

"I've become my grandfather."

[chaos-bringer-13]

I've seen a lot of people writing Danny as a space ancient and Dan and Dani as ghosts with moon and sun cores, being sort of parts, versions of Danny and therefore weaker. Now, consider: Dan and Dani are both powerful ghosts with really cool cores and stuff but Danny is just some guy™

Dan, who came from an alternate timeline and is kind of from the future but also not, is Clockwork's apprentice and will eventually become an ancient of time. He probably only agreed to have some lessons with Clockwork to understand better what happened to him, but he enjoys his apprenticeship now.

Dani, with her love of travelling, loves seeing all the different places the world offers to her, and that includes space and different planets and maybe even parallel universes, and she accidentally ends up being an apprentice of the space ancient. For now she's probably a baby ancient of freedom or something like that, but she might become an ancient of space in the future.

We can also have something like Dan having a core of destruction or Dani being the Speed Force if you want it to be dcxdp, or any headcanon of yours about their cool powers.

And then there's Danny. And yeah, everyone knows that he's super powerful, but also he's just some guy.

It can go different routes. Does everyone know that Danny is just Danny? Or do they think that with siblings (well, technically a clone and an alternate version, but whatever) so powerful, he must be even stronger? Is Danny actually something terrifyingly eldritch and ancient and strong, almost a god, but he just doesn't know himself? Or is he just really some guy?

Now, because it's obvious that I have a dcxdp brainrot, have a regular "JL summons/meets a powerful ghost" but its Dan and Dani, and they keep mentioning their original/brother who won a fight against them at some point. The JL is very concerned about Dan and Dani's godlike powers, and they can't imagine what Danny is like. And then they meet him (in his human form), and it's just a young adult in casual clothes, very friendly and helpful, with no evident powers. Imagine the confusion. Imagine Dan and Dani, radiating power, in their eldritch ghost forms, admitting that fighting Danny for real is the dumbest thing to do and not even they would succeed... And then there's Danny is jeans and silly t-shirt, waving shyly.

[luxpurplishgreen]

It's funnier if it's Tucker who is stuck.

He was just tinkering with some Fenton inventions plus some stuff he got from Technus.

Then he suddenly got sucked into cyber space.

He didn't even know his liminal abilities included rudimentary technopathy!

He keeps trying to ping Phantom's Chirper account, but his friends are out fighting ghosts rampaging through downtown Amity and can't answer.

(Of course Danny made a Chirper account where he could shitpost weird stuff as Phantom. Duh. It's a popular account, known for its sarcasm and morbid deadpan humor paired with pure randomness. No one outside Amity takes the ghost thing serious, but thinks "Phantom" is hilarious anyway.)

Tucker's messages gets more and more frustrated since Phantom doesn't answer.

Then Tucker apparently get eyes through a traffic cam in Amity and spots the ongoing ghost attack. Which makes him stop complaining about his friends/team being shit for ignoring him, and instead rants about badly timed ghost attacks.

Now some people (including Oracle and Red Robin) follows the trail through Phantom's Chirper and the live videoclips of a ghost attack Tucker is sharing - only to realize that wow, this might not be a joke after all.

Lots of people gets exited - because here's a superhero they knew nothing about!

The Bats gets upset - because how could they completely miss the fact that a small Midwestern city is regularly attacked by some kind of glowing monsters?!

Most of Phantom's Chirper followers have something of a crisis - because now they realize that they might have spent months exchanging stupid memes with a dead teenager!

Meanwhile Tucker gets more and more frustrated and exasperated. Because: Hello! He is still stuck in the internet! Could someone perhaps help him get unstuck today!? Seriously? Why can't they focus on what's important? Phantom being a ghost is old news!! Tucker is stuck - right - frigging - now!

The outrage and excitement keeps building. So may people starts digging, and the information blackout around Amity Park is finally breached. The GIW's firewalls were never meant to defend against a trending hashtag plus the best hackers among the Bats straining them all at once.

Unfortunately Tucker's situation gets sort of swept to the side in the frenzy for information...

(Danny will owe him soooo much groveling once Tucker is out again, and if he even breaths anything about "Bad Luck Tuck" then Tucker is going to frigging Soup him, best friend or not!)

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Nightwing giggled at the post he found. He wasn't sure if it was real, but seeing as they live in a world of metas, gods and aliens surely anything was possible, right?

Still, a post on Chirper stating:

"Superpower mishap. My consciousness is stuck in cyberspace, please send help"

was kinda hilarious, even before he edited it to add:

"Not Batman. Do not send Batman."

And of course everyone on the internet is a troll which is why not only was Batman @'d a few million times but other members of the batfam were as well.

Baby bird was still trying to figure out how someone could get thier consciousness of all things stuck in cyberspace while Oracle was doing the digital equivalent of poking the poor data guy with a stick. Interesting times indeed.

[buttl0rd]

another fatal list leak (6 dead, 47 injured)

[psyduckz]

rip arthur’s beauty 😔

[zillychu]

Finding out the Danny Phantom pitch bible originally included more creatures other than ghosts really makes me want to just (DUMPS TRANSCENDENCE AU ALL OVER IT)

[randomsufff]

Craig during the entire time in Dr. Mephesto Lab in The Fractured But Whole

Recently got the game cause of a sale and I’m being dragged back into my South Park era 💀. Might doodle some more of these guys and my little New Kid

Don’t know why this part isn’t talked about more, I thought it was absolutely hilarious how angry Craig got. (Especially the Gift Shop cut off bit- was laughing my ass off) I could only see Craig doing these memes every time and I just had to draw it

[fishfingersalad]

Mental image of Wash, Lina, and Tucker somehow time travelling back to pfl and lying so fucking badly when asked who they are.

Lina: I'm, uh, agent... South. Carolina. yknow. cause you guys only have one Carolina. Tucker: I'm... Puerto Rico! yeah! new state! Wash: I- uhm. I'm. Washington. DC, not state. they. ran out of states?

All the freelancers piece together what happened pretty quickly till everyone except Agent Carolina knows about the time travel. (Agent Carolina is just so fucking pissed that she has to share her title now)

[darkwater-reservoir]

Decided to hop on this trend while it's still popular. I apologize in advance lmao

[declamationark]

dpxdc where Everlasting Trio bet each other how long they can be part of the batfamily without anyone noticing that they, in fact, are not actually part of the family

bonus points if Dani/Ellie joins the bet

[sulphuric-onyx]

So extremely obsessed with the concept of Wahs deciding he can try get back at Tuckers flirting and that 'two can play at that game' and then finding out that while yes, two can infact play that game, that doesn't mean he isn't serverly out matched.

Random example so that this makes sense:

Tucker's dancing around thier kitchen while making breakfast, and Wash comes up behind him, swaying the two back and forth in time.

Tucker giggles a bit and Wash thinks he's won but oh no, Tuckers turned around and now they're actually dancing and fuck, Wash can't dance, but Tucker can, and now he's leading, and oh fuck he can't abort mission bc Tuckers spinning and tossing him around like it's nothing and now he's far more flustered over that fact than Tucker ever was bc of what Wash did, and it a misson failed successfully.

But i also I can't decide if it's more fun if Tucker does know what Wash is doing and retaliating twice as hard on purpose to get that reaction, or if he just was no clue and is like 'oh! Wash wants some affection, cool, time to flirt with my bf :]'

Anyway, I'm succumbing to the brain rot again, until we meet again Tuckington nation.

[strze-lec]

[ambriel-angstwitch]

Sam: It’s as the late Danny would say-

Tucker: Wait Danny died?!

Sam: Well yes, you know that you were there, but I was more referring to the fact he was supposed to be here an hour ago

[fullpetal-alchemist]

Lucy: I won’t tolerate any explosions or reanimated creations, though.

Narrator: she would, in fact, tolerate both moving forward.

[heybobbygirl]

one of these things is not like the other

[abeautifulrayofsunshine]

*cough cough* Tweek and Craig From Season 6 episode is "Spice Up Your Life" from Mlp: Fim