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this just in: danny fenton is just as much of a mask as Brucie Wayne? - another danyal al ghul au
Turns out, being placed in a civilian family who have no knowledge of your background is actually detrimental to the health and development of a child assassin due to lack of proper support! Surrounded by strangers in a foreign city, Danyal Al Ghul does as assassins do best. He hides. Espionage is one of many teachings one learns in the League, and it only takes half a day for Danyal to construct a new persona to hide behind: Daniel Fenton.
By the time dinner rolls around, Danyal al Ghul is safely and securely tucked behind the face of Danny Fenton; brand new adoptive child of the Fenton family who came from overseas. A shy, quiet little boy with a thick accent and curly hair, with brown skin and blue eyes, and an avid interest in the stars. The best fictions are always cobbled together in a little bit of truth, it's some of the only truth he ever lets through. He apologizes in a meek voice for his behavior early, he didn't mean to be rude, and he watches the three of them eat it up with coos.
Lies roll like silk against his lips, he struggles to meet their eyes and offers them his weakest, shyest smile. It's too easy. It's easy to go from there.
Danny Fenton, adoptive son, shy and awkward and unconfident but friendly. Who struggles in his classes and isn't the brightest, but tries his hardest. He makes bad jokes and has a quick tongue and a sarcastic mouth. He wants to be an astronaut. He's got the best aim in school, and is a terrifying dodgeball player. He's one of the least athletic kids in his grade.
It's like playing two truths and a lie, but there's only one truth, and the rest are lies. It's easy to pretend when he knows it's insincere.
Danyal Al Ghul, grandson to the Demon Head. Deadly, trained assassin. Has spilled blood, has had blood spilt from. Environmentalist, animal activist. He loves the stars. He owns a calligraphy set. A sharp tongue, an even sharper blade. He's clever, quick-witted, he would be top of his grade if he tried harder. He purposely doesn't.
He misses his family. He misses his mother, and he misses his brother. Mother visits a few times a year, so few times that he can count it on both hands. He cherishes every visit, as brief as they are. It helps remind him who he is.
Sam and Tucker are Danny's best friends. They've never met Danyal, but Danyal's met them.
It becomes routine to become Danny Fenton. As familiar and as easy as pulling on a shirt in the morning. Danyal wakes up and is always first to the bathroom in the mornings; stares at himself in the mirror until he can finally see Danny staring back at him. At night, he locks his door and sheds the mask.
Dying throws a wrench in his mask; splits a crack straight through the porcelain. He's able to smooth it over with sandpaper and liquid gold, but it's a little hard keeping his ghost form under wraps. It instinctively wants to shift to show his true self. Danyal can't have that, he's spent four years as Danny Fenton, he'll spend another four as him as well. Even if the feeling of the hazmat suit in his ghost form feels restrictive, like a too-small shirt suctioned to his skin that needs to be peeled off.
He'll live. Er-- well, you know what he means. It's frustrating however, trying to keep his Danny Fenton mask up even as Phantom - fighting in the air is something he needs to get used to, and the sudden propping of powers throws him off. But he is nothing if not adaptive, and he hates that he needs to slow his own skills down in order to keep pretenses up in front of Sam and Tucker.
The first time Danyal summons a sword when he's alone, is one of the few times Danyal gets to grin instead of Danny. He's fighting Skulker, and from an invisible hilt he draws a katana from thin air. It startles them both. Skulker takes a step back at the smile that spreads across his face.
They're both silent as Danyal examines his new sword.
"Do you know what people like me do to people like you, poacher?" Danyal finally asks him, the accent he began to hide a few months in slipping through. He drops all pretense, dragging the flat end of the blade slow and appreciatively against his palm. It's a good make, and when he cuts it through the air, it slices through like butter. He looks up at Skulker with a smile; "are you ready to find out?"
When Sam and Tucker ask about why Skulker seems so skittish around Danny now, Danny shrugs at them and says with a playful smile; "I don't know, I guess I kicked his butt too hard after our last fight." and he watches as Sam rolls her eyes exasperatedly, and Tucker snickers with his own joke.
By the time he reunites with Damian before their 15th birthday, Danyal is buried beneath so many layers of Danny Fenton that his brother will need a shovel to dig him out. He's not sure what he'll find.
#dpxdc#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dp x dc#dpxdc crossover#dp x dc crossover#danyal al ghul au#danyal al ghul#dpxdc prompt#dpxdc au#dc x dp crossover#dp crossover#demon twins au#so turns out putting an assassin child in a normal family does not actually fix the child. it may just make them worse. had this thought#today and had to extrapolate. i have a whole ass post in my drafts explaining my idea for this lmao. my thought was basically:#'damian would be the better off twin because he'd have actual proper support compared to danny bc the bats know damian's background and +#+ as a result can actually address the league's teachings properly and help him dismantle the lessons that have been ingrained in him +#+ as compared to danny who would be with a random family - regardless of affiliation - who would only be able to help with surface level +#stuff if danny even ever lets them see that. danny would need to dismantle his own mindset on his own if he even thinks he has to.'#jazz is not a reliable or licensed therapist. that is a child. she's not even implied to be a good one. psychoanalyzing people doesn't make#you a good therapist. it just means you can psychoanalzye people. and therapy only works on those who think they need it. danny would not#think he'd need it and any attempts from jazz to psychoanalyze him would just result in him shutting her out and doubling down on his belie#tldr: starry made another au exploring the psychological effects of growing up in the league and he calls it:#'whose the more adjusted twin? Damian or Danny? Lmao Damian ofc. Danny got screwed over'#rip to damian you have your work cut out for you trying to peel back all of your brother's protective layers. that's an iceberg waiting to#be explored. o7 to you champ your brother got the short end of the stick. danny has so many things to unlearn that i didn't go into here#its an actual demon twins au too! would ya look at that.
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Talia took a 20+ Year Undercover mission a while ago
So! Talia is the Daughter of Ra's Al Ghul, and has been alive and at his side for many years now. Decades even. She is well into her 100's, even though her physical Body looks like that of a 20 yr old.
And in all the years that she has lived, what's to say she didn't take a few years off as a vacation? Even Ra's must take a few years off every once in a while, leaving to spend time on some remote island he can relax on for once. So, one day in the Early 80's she decided to do the same.
But she wouldn't be completely relaxing, she would take the break to further the League's goals still. She decided to Dye her Hair, change her Name, get into an acceptable College, and study Lazarus Waters to their scientific limit. She decided to name if Ectoplasm, to avoid any unwanted attention.
And while there, she met a pair of men doing the exact same.
Jack and Vladimir were nice enough. Although their Research was more focused on Ghosts, or as she would call them, Pit Demons. They were convinced that Ectoplasm and Ghosts came from another Dimension, and if they could find a way to open a Dimension Gateway to this theoretical Ghost Zone, they could aquire Limitless Clean Energy (and maybe find a way to contain the Ghostly threat).
Over the years, Talia Maddie would fall for Jack. Eventually, even after she had completed her College Studies and Vlad had left contact with them, she decided to extend her Vacation to further study Ectoplasm with Jack. One thing led to another, and eventually she found herself pregnant. And then it happened again.
Jazzmine and Daniel were the cutest little babies. But she knew the danger they would be in if it was ever discovered that she was their Mother, so she trained them in everything she could so they could survive. She knew her time as Maddie Fenton was coming short, but she resolved to stay, at the very least until Jazz was an Adult.
She didn't account for Daniel becoming a Small Town Hero, but those were just the Trials of motherhood.
Then, the day came. She left a note on her bedside table explaining that she regretted what had to happen, and left in the middle of the night. It was better this way.
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The year right after she returned, her Father forced her to have a Child with his most prospective Heir. The Bat, he called himself. Oh he was Charming, there was no denying that, but unfortunately she was still working through her feelings about Jack.
She treated her resulting child poorly because of that, and that she regreted it deeply. She loved him, honestly she did, but it was hard to look at him and not remember Daniel. Still, she persevered.
The day she once again had to give up her son for his protection was the hardest of her life.
But it was unavoidable. The Coup that had taken her Father's life had also fractured the Organization, anyone could have taken their shot at her Son as the rightful Heir. She needed to protect him as she took care of the Traitors.
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Damian always knew he was the One True Heir. It was his defining character trait for his early years of life. Even though he had grown to be more than just that over recent years, he always felt like it was a key part of his identity.
Until now.
Because the BatComputer had just finished running a DNA Test on the Blood of a man who he had spotted on his Patrol the previous night.
A DNA Test that had come back, with results claiming that the man, who looked almost exactly like a younger male version of his Mother, was his Half Brother.
#Dpxdc#Dp x dc#Dcxdp#Dc x dp#Danny Phantom#Dc#Dcu#Talia Al Ghul#Jack Fenton#Maddie Fenton#Talia Al Ghul is Maddie Fenton#She went on an Undercover Mission/Vacation to scientifically study Lazarus Water#She met Jack and Vlad in the College she was undercover at#She fell for Jack and his Himbo attitude#She knew that Danny was a Ghost/Pit Demon but decided to test if he had actually remembered any of her self defense lessons#She got Jack to agree to it#She will admit she may have gone a step too far (the threats over dinner were a bit much)(so was keeping the act up for so long)#Danny was 16 when she left an 17 when she had Damian#Jazz was 18 when she left and 19 when she had Damian#Currently Danny is 29 and Jazz is 31#They never did figure out where their mother went#But they will never forgive her for what she did to her Dad#Jack was heartbroken#He still is#He got better over time but it took a while to begin to heal
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#art#artists on tumblr#very swag#nostalgia#music#journal#black tumblr#fashion#money#blackexcellence#artwork#film#hiphop#jazz#soul music#black beauty#producer#musician#archive moodboard#moodboard#motivation#quotes#quoteoftheday#black history#gil scott heron#poetry#life lessons#reality
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Superman doesn't know how to curse
So, Clockwork had sent him to another dimension. No problem with that, he actually liked to explore the different dimensions, though he wondered what "lesson" was there for him to learn.
He avoided all nearby beings (he didn't want to face them, even though he had so many questions for the Martian). His plan was going spectacularly well until he tripped over a chair and hit his foot. The pain was immense and he just started cursing.
Now, Jazz was very sensitive about the "we don't swear in this house" part since he was little so, well, he had to get creative and start swearing in languages she didn't understand. Alien languages he had known in the Infinite Realms.
The first thing that gave away the halfa wasn't the lack of invisibility or the Watchtower-wide intruder alert. No, what gave him away was an embarrassed Superman who didn't know how to explain to his teamates that yes, that boy was speaking in Krypton language, and no, he couldn't translate because he didn't want to repeat what he was saying, but no, it wasn't bad.
Conner and Kara who were visiting laughed at Clark's face, he looked completely mortified. Bruce's insistence on knowing exactly what the boy was saying wasn't helping him. While Conner didn't know as much of the language as the other two Supers, he could tell a curse word when he heard it.
Danny looked up to find many individuals looking at him uncertainly, he chuckled, noticing that a man with bat ears was staring at him and a boy in blue pajamas couldn't bear to look at him.
It was the moment where he realized that his invisibility had failed him, so he did the only thing he could think of: he raised his hand in greeting. And disappeared immediately after.
#dpxdc#Pa and Ma taught him better than that#Clark doesn't curse#Jazz tried with Danny but it didn't work#Danny found a loophole in her no swearing rule after meeting aliens in the Realms and learning their languages#It was strangely easy#Danny doesn't know that he can learn dead languages easy because of his condition as a ghost#dp x dc#dc x dp#Connor and Kara approved#Danny speaking Kryptonian#Danny swearing in Kryptonian#The hit hurted and he couldn't help it#JL is confused#Batman is extremely suspicious but Clark is just embarrassed#There was no lesson#Clockwork was just bored#Danny ended in the Watchtower
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Rhys Darby petting a shelduck, for reasons (✿◡‿◡)
#rhys darby#i have no idea why that was the first thing that i saw#dude probably got some duck petting lessons and i can't get my mind out of the gutter#love birds 2011#i'm just watching this for rhys and because i had an idea for a murray fanfic so here we are watching straight shit#all that jazz
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Road Hazard (dp x dc)
Cassie looked to the side at the boy sitting next to her in the small waiting room.
"You nervous?" she asked and he looked up from whatever he was doing with his phone to answer.
"Eh." The guy answered with a vague hand motion and Cassie had to squash the need to pat his head kindly. Though he had to be at least sixteen if he was taking driving lessons, he looked way younger. With his messy black hair and big blue eyes he made her think of a disgruntled kitten that had been scruffed abruptly.
"I'm sure you'll do great!" Cassie couldn't help but want to encourage him. She herself had only just started taking the classes since she'd never found the time before.
But her words seemed to have the opposite effect as she wanted as the kid seemed to deflate at her words. "It's going to go terrible," he bemoaned.
"Don't say that," the demigoddess chided. "We're still learning this stuff. It's normal to have some issues still." She pointed to herself. "I can't seem to park, like, at all."
"It's not the same," the guy said. "Bad driving is in my blood. I'm literally destined to be awful at this. I had to take classes two hours away from my hometown because they didn't want to let me behind the wheel."
"Look," there Cassie paused, realizing she didn't know his name. "Danny," the kid provided helpfully after the short silence. "Cassie," she introduced herself.
"It's just a joint practice," she said. "So you won't be evaluated today. Nobody's expecting miracles here. So don't worry so much, ok?"
The kid exhaled audibly and let himself sag. "Yeah," Danny said. "Yeah, ok."
"Let's just do our best and have fun!" Cassie gave him a smile she hoped was encouraging and his own lips tugged upwards in response.
"Cassie Sandmark and Danny Fenton?" called the voice of the receptionist. The two stood up and were directed towards a man looking to be in his forties holding car keys.
"Who wants to start us off?" the man said.
Cassie looked to Danny. "Want to start?"
The kid heaved a breath. "Sure," he said, trying to sound resolute.
"Let's go," said the instructor, giving the keys to Danny before guiding them towards the car.
Danny got in the driver's seat, and Cassie looked on as he went through the steps of rearranging the seat and mirrors, putting on his belt. Then, the instructor gave the go ahead and Danny switched from park to reverse. He took off the hand brake before twisting around. He started reversing the car jerkily.
"Easy," the instructor said, then after a moment spoke up again. "Alright now you can go forward and merge with traffic."
Danny put the car to drive and took a deep breath as he signaled with the blinking light his next move. So far so good, thought Cassie.
And as if the universe had heard her, that was the moment Danny went full throttle on the gas pedal, propulsion the three of them onto the street, narrowly missing getting rear ended by the truck behind them. Cassie's yelp was drowned out by the cacophony of honks that sounded just behind her.
"Easy, easy, easy, easy!" the instructor was repeating which, to his credit, did seem to get Danny to slow down a bit, but then the traffic light in front turned yellow and the car once again roared to life as they dashed forward. This time the instructor yelped as well as one straggling pedestrian had to jump out of the way of the moving car.
So maybe, Danny hadn't been exaggerating after all.
#cassie sandsmark#wonder girl#driving lessons#This would've worked with Jazz as well but I like giving Danny more older sister figures#You can never have too many big sisters in your life#dc x dp#dp x dc#roxpox#roxpoxwrote
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Here’s how Earthspark Jazzwave can still win!! Aka I haven’t been able to stop thinking about girl Jazz in ES since @fanficmaniatic’s post about her and now I’ve got brainrot for she/her bisexual Jazz and he/him lesbian Soundwave (is delusional) :’//
#my next plan:#the tensest most awkward megop jazzwave double date#there is sO much glaring from the Decepticon side of the table#and the Autobot side is pointedly ignoring it in favor of small talk#as per usual I think I’m hilarious#maccadam#transformers earthspark#tf jazz#tf soundwave#twitch malto#thrash malto#jawbreaker malto#nightshade malto#hashtag malto#tf bumblebee#jazzwave#for real tho I already have an entire hypothetical episode imagined#where Jazz would cameo#and her whole lesson would be about how sometimes change is good#and meeting new people allows you to learn new things about yourself#I think she would make a wonderful aunt to Hashtag T-T#wlw solidarity
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unfinished danny spreads
#danny phantom#phandom#sam manson#danny fenton#jazz fenton#dani phantom#danielle phantom#DANNY WITH EARINGS#he’s 16 here#driving lessons with jazz <3#my art
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the lighting in my bathroom continues to go hard
#my face#unrelated but i had my first drum lesson since my instructor went on tour today. was too excited and wound up arriving 30mins early.#accident.#she kind of? invited me to a show next week in the city. omg do u guys think she likes me 😳 (joke)#yes i AM excited to go hear some abstract jazz at a bookshop.
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he destroys the world as the most evil ghost ever because he cheated on a test that’s rough man
#can’t believe they said his whole family and best friends got blown up#like just fucking Killed them#because he was gonna cheat on the test#like I get jazz being against his cheating but why tf did sam and tucker care#anyway great lesson for kids to not want to cheat in school#I wouldn’t want to watch all my loved ones blown up violently#anyway moving on#danny phantom
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For some reason this song title reminds me of The Man Who Fell To Earth in a way
Like partially it's because of the word 'subterranean' since Bowie's track Subterraneans from Low was initially written when he tried to do the soundtrack for tmwfte and other than that it's just the feeling of the song ig? I know it's not what it's really about, that was just my first association, it is really beautiful though (me and my piano teacher went on a tangent about Radiohead today so that's what I've been listening to all evening lol)
#tbh I've kinda been hesitant to listen to them before because I was just really annoyed by creep#and I found other of their more famous songs like karma police or high and dry alright but not too interesting harmonically#but recently I finally gave in and listened to kid a and it was so beautiful and weird#definitely a fan of the way they mix acoustic and electronic sounds#and the melodies!!!#I had to get used to thom yorke's voice for a bit but now that I listen to it I do like it#I love how our piano lesson conversations evolve because we were just looking at a strange satie piece#and then it reminded my teacher of everything in its right place#so of course we talked about radiohead#and he told me how it was the band that got him out of his four-year-long jazz hyperfixation#and then later we talked a bit about music studies which evolved into a conversation about math and the point of it#because he took calculus for a year as a second course when he was studying jazz#my piano teacher is the best really#radiohead#the man who fell to earth#tmwfte#david bowie#Spotify
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Wrecker *asking random questions to test how smart his brothers are*: What is 36,752 x 27?
Echo *confident*: 884,201.
Wrecker *mouth open*: Whoa!
Omega *eyes wide*: That was so fast!
Tech *raises an eyebrow*: And incorrect. The correct answer is 992,304.
Crosshair *snorts*
Echo *shrugs*: Yeah but I answered the question quickly.
Tech *eye twitch*: While that may be true the answer is still incorrect.
Echo *points at Wrecker*: He didn't know that.
Hunter *frowning*: That isn't the point Echo.
Echo *jazz hands*: It's all about confidence!
Crosshair *snorts louder trying to hide his laughter at Tech's face of disdain*
Hunter *shaking his head*: No, it really isn't.
Taglist: @soliloquy-of-nemo @sexy-rex @jiabeewrites @nekotaetae @staycalmandhugaclone
#echo your annoying little brother vibes are showing#he woke up and chose to be a problem#a big ol' problem of annoyance#poor tech is just about ready to strangle him#no no omega do not take lessons from him!!#it's all about confidence *jazz hands*#jokes on them echo can't actually do complicated multiplication#tbb tech#tbb crosshair#tbb wrecker#tbb echo#tbb omega#tbb hunter#hunter#echo#wrecker#crosshair#tech#omega#star wars#incorrect star wars quotes#the bad batch#star wars tbb#incorrect tbb quotes#clone force 99#havoc marauder#tbb
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Lesson of The Evil | 悪の教典 (2012) dir. Takashi Miike
#movie stills#cinematography#film stills#japanese cinema#based on novel#horror#thriller#2010s#lesson of the evil#悪の教典#lesson of evil#takashi miike#hideaki ito#fumi nikaido#sometani shota#asaka kodai#mizuno erina#hayashi kento#yusuke kishi#psychological#youth#wasnt a big fan but ay they gave us that massacre with upbeat jazz so i wont complain much
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Newly-drawn character illustrations celebrating White Day 💝✨
#Mairimashita! Iruma-kun#M!IK#Iruma kun#Kalego#Asmodeus Alice#Clara Valac#Welcome to the Demon School#Naberius Kalego#Andro M Jazz#Shax Lied#Kalego Sensei#Kalego's White Day present to 'you' is a study book xD#Maybe he's suggesting a private 1 on 1 lesson#( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Jasmine Al Ghul
A while ago the perfect assassin was born, she was Talia's daughter but Ra didn't like the rebellious look in her eyes, they were claiming for destruction and he knew that she would do nothing but destroy the League as soon as she could.
So he rejected her as the heir, something Jazz grew to resent. When the twins Danyal and Damian were born, one was clearly weaker than the other, considering that he was born without breathing and was only saved at the last second.
This made Ra make his decision: Damian would be the heir and Danyal his shadow. But Danyal wasn't interested in killing, no matter how much he was punished for refusing, he wanted to see, to explore, to learn. Everyone could see it.
Because Damian was spending more time on heir training, Jazz devoted herself to taking care of Danyal. She tried to teach him but the boy kept refusing, failing over and over again in the most simply things, Jazz hated him.
Until she stopped hating and became fond of him, feeling a kinship because of their grandfather's rejection. Danny taught Jazz things she had never considered (love, stars, a new interest far away from training, find the meaning of life simply by living) and she made her decision: she would save the boy.
Jazz escaped with Maddie Fenton (one of Talia's students) seeing she wantes to save them too and could pass as their mother, she took Danny with her. She couldn't leave him in that place, she wouldn't forgive herself.
Of course, Damian grew to resent his younger twin for taking their sister away. Blaming him for being weak, why did Jazz leave him behind? He could be a good little brother too, he was better than Danyal! In everything!
#dp x dc#dc x dp#dpxdc#jazz fenton#Danny and Damian are twins#but Jazz is their older sister#Ra didn't like her#She didn't hate Damian but never interacted too much with him#he was busy with extra lessons and stuff#of course she realized she leave him behind long before after she left#The reason she is so interested in psychology is because she wants to fit in society#and help Danny fit too#Jasmine Al Gul#Talia don't have a mother relationship with Jazz because she is too similar to her#Talia does like the twins because they are similar to Bruce tho#Maddie was Talia's student#She wanted to leave the League and live with Jack#league of assassins#Damian is resentful toward his younger brother#He doesn't understand why Jazz took Danyal and left him behind
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Two guitar lines to the jazz standard ”Have you met miss Jones”.
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