#then even the JL doesn't know about amity to tell anyone

[chewingbatmanlikeasqueakytoy]

Literally me ^ ^ ^ FR a convoy to Jazz would be so dope though?? Like if they're meeting the bats bc their patrols crossed paths I take it Danny is patrolling not in search of ghosts but bc he's looking for Jazz and other survivors.

Jazz I think would definitely count as contaminated enough to be warding off zombies so I propose they can have either: A very sweet reunion where Danny is grateful to the bats for helping him find his sister bc she was in the 'safe zone' the bats had established, having absorbed the band of survivours Jazz had been keeping safe

Jazzs band of survivours has not been absorbed yet but when the bats observe the zombies avoiding the parkers they spread out, hopeful at the fact they might meet yet more survivours from their city

Jazz has a Cult. (Danny always gets cults so now it's Jazz's turn.) This can either be hilarious or angsty. Lets go with hilarious for now, and assume it comes at the end of a long tense search with the bats to find this very unexpected compound. The Cult is worshipping Jazz as some sort of holy figure because her presence keeps the zombies away. She is using this position to get people to practise mindfulness and healthy coping mechanisms, and doing her level best to listen to all these people bc she may or may not be the only one around with any kind of psychological training.

Realistically how long would it take for Sam and Tucker to get bored of Danny being overprotective? Like there's probably not going to be many zombies on the long stretches of roads between cities (Which they will point out. Repeatedly.) So I can imagine Sam, the moment they stop in Gotham or its outskirts, leaping out of the side door of the vehicle (I'm imagining at least a van, probably Mad Max style so they can break through any obstacles if the Fentons didn't outright give them the GAV) and literally latching onto the first zombie she sees, either piggy backing it or slapping it across the face, only for it to run away bc That's Not Food

Cue Danny panicking while one of the bats, patrolling for supplies, watches on in absolute bemusement from a roof top at What That Was

DPxDC idea: zombie apocalypse.

It's pretty common in zombie apocalypse stories for zombies to not attack each other, they somehow can tell themselves from the delicious delicious living beings. So I think it'd be interesting if anyone who's died died also does NOT ring the zombie dinner bell.

Example: Jason obviously smells so unappetizing to zombies, they don't even bother trying to bite him. Jason is weirded out by this, he stops jokingly calling himself a zombie. (Honestly depending on how far back in canon you wanna go about half the bats/birds are undead.)

And obviously Danny, Vlad, Dani/Ellie, and Dan (if you wanna include him) are some form of undead. It could be fun to play with the fact that zombies and ghosts are the apples and oranges of undead. Yeah, they're both fruit/undead, but they're also basically opposites. How would Danny's frenemies react to zombies invading the living realm?

And that's not even getting into liminality. Are humans that have been exposed to ectoplasm and/or the Laz pits just generally less appetizing to zombies? Like it confuses their senses? Just imagine you're in the middle of trying to survive the zombie apocalypse and then in bursts Batman and friends in their normal costumes with no fear because zombies just don't want them. The bats are acting like it's business as usual, that'd be so bizarre after the hell you've been through. And then they take you to this middle of nowhere town called Amity Park where people are living like it's pre-apocalypse because zombies get close and just turn away before crossing into town.

[spacedace]

Got another dc x dp writing prompt blurb thing for yall (this time featuring TimKon)

Elle declaring herself Queen of the Clones as a joke because Danny is the Ghost King and she should get a fun title too and accidentally making herself effectively the god of clones across all dimensions as a result.

Elle being suddenly aware of all the clones in existence in a vague way, but able to "tune in" on specific ones, or suddenly becoming aware when a clone is in serious trouble.

Elle deciding, fuck it, she's gonna take care of all the clones that need taking care of, turning her haunt in the Ghost Zone into a place of safety, using her new abilities as God Queen of Clones to make it so whenever any of them need help they get pulled to her Haunt instantly.

Connor getting mortally wounded in a fight, saving the day but getting buried in rubble away from where anyone would be able to dig him out in time to save him and suddenly being Somewhere Else.

Connor getting saved by Elle and the yetis, but having amnesia from the severe headroom (he can't remember anything except maybe the face of a boy his age, dark circles under sharp blue eyes, a wry smile, the understanding that Connor was in love with whoever the boy is or was).

Elle not being able to tell where Connor is from, her Haunt just pulls clones in trouble in when they need her help, there's no sending address or anything like that. And he was in such bad shape its not like she trusts that sending him back to where ever he's from is even safe to do.

Connor being one of the permanent residents of Elle's haunt (she always tries to find the clones that end up there a place of their own, getting Clockwork to de-age them and a good family to love them for those that want that, a spot in Amity where clones don't even register as anything weird, or just back to where they came from but now with the promise of somewhere to call home and a new family of clones to care for them) and ends up with the title of her knight or champion or something along the way, looking after everyone when Elle is off traveling and generally being vice-president of Clone Club

Elle getting captured by the GIW while out seeing the world, unable to escape but at least able to alert her family that she's in trouble.

Danny and the Pham not being able to break in because of all the upped security keeping away anything ghostly or ghost adjacent

Connor and a group of the clone club rallying to get Elle out themselves, breaking in and releasing as many ghosts as they can and destroying as much as they can and oops the Justice League has shown up

Connor not having powers in the Ghost Zone and being very freaked out when he punched Superman in the face and sent him flying a hundred yards, surprising the Clone Club with his super strength and surprising the League with his surprise about his super strength and frantic apologies to Superman for yeeting him across an open field (up to this point they assumed this was another evil clone situation Lex cooked up but now aren't so sure).

The GIW ends up closing in to attack the clones who just got Elle back and need to make a break for it before the portal back closes while that's happening and Connor decides to be self-sacrificing and give them cover, so they can escape.

Connor surrendering to the Justice League before the GIW can grab him once everyone else is free and clear, because he knows Elle and the other Clones will break him out and that's gonna be a lot easier if he's not in GIW custody

Tim and the Young Justice gang losing their God damn minds because that's Connor?? Maybe?? He doesn't remember them or the Justice League or Superman or anything but it has to be him right? They never found his body, Tim had been so sure he was still out there alive somehow - had lost weeks and months to maddening grief, desperately searching for some sign that Connor was out there somewhere - and now here he is!

Connor refusing to talk to the JL, low key trying to figure out if they actually do know who he is or if it's a trick - the Pham's stories of what they've all had to deal with and his own recent raid on the GIW has left him with a healthy suspicion of anything government related and the JL may not be with the GIW but they sure as hell are still government goons as far as he's concerned.

The main league being worried that it's mind control or a clone scheme or something like that and not really being sure what to do. There's too many questions about what happened to him, where he's been, what he was doing in that raid on that government facility - there's questions too on just what kind of facility that was, and a new case has already been opened on that whole can of worms - and Connor (if it is Connor) isn't answer their questions.

So they put him in a cell with some Kryptonite to make sure his powers are suppressed - half out of concern that him surrendering to them is a scheme, half terrified that if he really doesn't know he has powers anymore that he'll accidentally destroy the Watchtower with a sneeze. They make sure it's comfortable, he did apologize about punching Superman in the face - a lot, actually, it was pretty much the only thing he had said the entire time, along with very concerned questions on if the Man of Steel was okay - and while there's something strange going on, if it's mind control then they'd rather Connor come back to himself somewhere decent.

And no one is supposed to talk to him alone, or outside of a formal interrogation or without Wonder Woman there in case Connor gets hostile - even with the Kryptonite, they can't be too careful - but that's not going to stop Tim. His best friend is alive, there isn't a power in the universe that's going to keep him away.

Connor doesn't recognize him. Except that he does. It's weird, because his only memory has been the face of that boy, but there's also just something so familiar about Red Robin and it's the first familiar thing he's known since waking up in the Far Frozen over a year ago.

For awhile it's just Tim talking, trying to get Connor to remember, trying to do anything he can to prove (to everyone, to himself) that this really is Connor. And after over an hour he's nowhere near ready to give up, but he is maybe ready to go and have a breakdown in a supply closet for a bit, when Connor finally starts talking back.

He doesn't say much - he's suspicious, even as he becomes more and more sure that Red Robin is someone to him - but he does start talking and, it's nice. Familiar.

And just as he's considering actually telling Red Robin something - everything, really, Connor's always been a sucker for a cute boy that looked one more cup of coffee away from a psychotic break - the cavalry arrives. Ghosts everywhere, causing a distraction and looking for Connor and maybe just having a little fun fucking around for a bit while they're at it.

(Constantine is trying to sneak off to smoke somewhere he won't end up getting lectured like he's a disobedient school boy, opening a door to come face to spectral bellybutton with Fright Knight. He decides maybe Bats is right and he should quite smoking as he - fruitlessly - closes the door again without a word.)

Wulf is ready with a portal and Technus is in control of the station and the cell door opens just as Lunch Box appears to phase the cuffs off Connor (and maybe steal some of that delicious rock candy that was in those cuffs for some reason, her parents won't let her have any back at home and she's helping the royal family get one of their loyal knights back, she deserves a little treat) and it's time to go.

Tim's ready to throw down, terrified that whatever the hell these things are they're going to take Connor away again, but just as he's working out a plan on just how he's going to fight something that can walk through walls, disappear and fly (and eat fucking Kryptonite), he suddenly finds himself being thrown over Connor's shoulder and being carried through a terrifying rip in space and time to another dimension.

Conner can admit, as he lands back in Elle's haunt with all the ghosts streaming in behind him as the portal closes and the Clone Club rushing forward to check on him and Red Robin still slung over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes (a cute sake of potatoes, though) he might not have thought this one through.

Kidnapped by his amnesiac and possibly mind controlled best friend and dragged to hell(?) aside, Tim's just happy Conner brought him with him this time. Batman and the rest of the League, still reeling from what just happened, are not nearly as happy with that fact.

[stealingyourbones]

*slowly shuffles a wooden box of finger bones towards you* so I have two ideas for you

So, what if ghosts like, really screw with video technology, so it all kind of looks corrupted at all times- so when Danny starts recording like a blog of daily like in amity park (maybe as a way to cope with Trauma) and he posts it, maybe people outside of amity could think it’s all just like, an ARG or analog horror- if you want to go with dc/dp here, tim could be trying to solve a nonexistent mystery

For idea two, do you know ab the mystery flesh pit? If you don’t it’s basically an unreality where a gigantic super organism is turned into a National park and it’s then shit down when the organism basically coughs in its sleep and destroys a lot of stuff-( also be warned, there is a lot of body horror involved in this, so if anyone’s sensitive to it maybe don’t look at any content!) so maybe Giant Danny is taking a nap and some villains find the GIANT GHOST TAKING A SLEEP and decide to hook him up to be used as like, a battery or Lazerus pit (if you go the route of his blood being lazerus water) and the heroes get involved trying to figure out what’s happening

oh man that would be so fun. Danny just takes a little school project 10 minute documentary of the town and doesn't think too much of it when he submits it to Youtube so he can send it to his teacher.

A week later and every ARG/Analog Horror nerd on the planet has heard about this brilliantly well produced video called "Amity Park"

Now knowing this, He decides to have some fun. He takes ominous shots of mundane Amity life and splices them between the more normal scenes of himself and his friends having fun and hanging out.

He amps up the uncanny level. Throughout all of his videos, he starts to tell a slightly dramatized version of his life, not the Phantom stuff, but his life as a Fenton.

The whole world watches in awe and delight as this refreshingly new Analog Horror channel posts nearly twice a week with some of the most stunning CGI that they've ever seen. I mean 'c'mon, Sentient food. A child living in the house of two mad scientists who casually mention dismembering and destroying ghosts at the dinner table. An honest to god crazy scientist lab with a massive portal to this 'Ghost Zone' just in their basement?! Yeah, whoever made this has an absolutely incredible imagination. (Some people are even dissing it since this GZ really just feels like a warped version of The Backrooms but it's fine, it's unique enough that it makes up for it.)

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I am a hoe for any and every topic that Wendigoon talks about in his videos so I very much so know about the Mystery Flesh Pit. (Video is linked but be warned; Benji isn't joking when they say that it's a LOT of body horror.)

I'd like to propose that Danny isn't even on earth, he's on a different planet that has collected his blood and harnessed his core for energy on a massive scale, helping create and produce items that benefit their world greatly.

To Danny, Their mining, harvesting, and energy draining efforts are the equivalent to bacteria moving around his body. He's so massive that this civilization isnt impacting him in the slightest.

The JL get called because this strange planet superorganism is now moving and it's causing the destruction of an entire civilization.

They fly over to the planet and they notice something very very wrong with the shape of the planet.

First and foremost, the two eyes spanning the equivalent width of Texas that stares up at their ship is new.

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Danny, on the run from the GIW decides to take shelter in Gotham because if the GIW have any sense they'd never set foot in there.

Even if Batman and the JL agree with thier opinion on ecto entities (as evidenced by their lack of speaking out against the anti-ecto acts) Batman was notoriously territorial and would have issue with a wildly incompetent government organization throwing missiles around his city all willy-nilly.

With that being said it was probably best for Danny to wear a disguise. Sure, they didn't know Fenton and Phantom were the same person yet but Danny Fenton suddenly turning up in Gotham after going missing in Amity is certainly going to raise some eyebrows regardless of the necklace he had that jammed his ecto-signature and made him untrackable.

Danny started off by going blond. Its something he's always wanted to do and now with ghostly shape-shifting powers he doesn't even have to worry about frying his hair or dying his eyebrows to match. After that all he needed to do was part his hair down the middle, add a lip ring or two and maybe a bit of make up.

Danny stared at himself in the mirror. He looked like a completely different person.

A completely different and very attractive person. He looked good. The newly blond man threw on a green jacket and went out to explore the town. He did not expect to literally bump into the Tim Drake. The Wayne adoptee just stood there mouth opening and closing comically. Did he offend him? Crap. He had promised Jazz he would stay off of the radar of the Waynes and the bats specifically and here he was angering one of them.

Danny decided to book it before it became a scene, ignoring the lovestruck Tim's crys for him to wait.

Back at his apartment Danny quickly changed his look to red hair tied back into a two inch low ponytail, green eyes and freckles that unbeknownst to anyone else was made up from the lesser known constellations.

The coffee at this Cafe smelled amazing! Too bad Danny wouldn't get to try it because the next this he knew freaking Red Hood was behind him asking to talk. Our favorite ghost boy wouldn't be embarrassed to admit he let out a small squeek before bolting out the door yelling, "I'm not even a criminal!"

It took Jason a few seconds to process that the guy he had tried to flirt with ran away in terror. Crap.

Day three and four were blissfully Wayne and bat free, though he did find out that Tim Drake and Red Hood were looking for his two false identities. Joy.

Day five he met the stabby Robin who very valiantly beat up two people who had been following him. Danny didn't even notice he was being followed and thanked the bird for saving him. Danny, who was shape-shifted into a very pretty girl at the moment, offered to buy him something to eat as a thank you. "Danielle" insisted and Robin allowed it. Danielle never noticed the slight pink on Damians cheeks as they went over to one of Damians favorite restaurants.

Day seven he had went out as blondie and got confronted by some girl named Barbara. She was nice and managed to convince him to come to a Cafe with her. He told her his name was David and he ran away from his parents with the help of one of his friends family members and that he was Jewish, which was true...except for the David part. He learned that if you wanna keep your story straight keeping to almost truths was your best bet. She in turn told him about Tim and how he's a friend of hers-uh oh- and that he's been looking all over for him.

Danny-David- tells her he's sorry but he didn't mean to offend Tim and doesn't want any trouble before laying down enough money to cover his half of the bill and the tip and booking it out of there

This repeats with most of the family trying to flirt with him or adopt him into the family when he's out as Danny.

Bruce Wayne approached Danny when he was waiting to board an elevator, "Hel-" was all the billionaire could get out before Danny cut him off "Hell no." And then he just got in the elevator and pressed the close doors button and was gone again.

[vicmillen]

Oh but what about wine aunt Dani? Well, simultaneously older and younger sister to Bruce. She's rarely in the same dimension much less the same country because of her free spirit, but everytime she pops up she'll bring with her so many weird souvenirs right? And would track down both her brothers to give them their share right?

Which means sometimes she just shows up when Bruce is doing Batman stuff with the JL, no matter where that is. Off world or mid battle, it doesn't matter, a white haired lady just flys over and goes 'here's your gift little bro'. Well, she knows how important a secret identity is, so she always shows up to Batman as Phantom. She's considerate like that.

Which then means the JL would know Batman have a definitely not human sister, and then comes up with so many wrong theories. Bruce? Is honestly pretty fine with that. More things to muddle up his identity.

He does tells her a firm 'not now' when she pops up mid battle. So sometimes Dani would be like 'ok Batsy' and just float there and waits, but other times she'd join in to help because she's not very patient. One thing leads to another Dani Phantom is now a JL affiliate.

Hmm.

I wonder if anyone else in the JL knows the og Phantom from Amity. I think at most they would know about him. But since he disappeared with the other ghosts after the ghost crisis is over, and that happened before Batman even is a thing...

At least one member would have congratulated her transition. And Dani being the chaos gremlin that she is, would totally rolls with it.

Was ranting and literally had to pause being angry to contemplate this more, that's how I get all my ideas btw they're born from the pits of anger and frustration. Kinda like revenge plots.

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Headcanon: Feelings affect ectoplasm. And only few people can perceive ghosts fully. So ghosts look different to each person. The differences grow between cultures and even more between species, but the perceptions share some traits. Frostbite and his people aren't yetis. But popculture and cultural appropriation have affected the area of Amity that Danny at first perceived them as such. Frostbite would look very different to J'onn for example.

Sounds fun and vaguely eldritch!

Like, the ghosts' physical form doesn't change but because of their metaphysical nature, humans can't comprehend them entirely and instead their brains use what input it can understand to manufacture an appearance it can comprehend. That would definitely be a handy explanation for the ghosts' wide and varied appearances outside of the Doylist "that's just how early 2000s cartoons were styled." Box Ghost yells about boxes? To the people of Amity, he looks like a mover. Desiree came out of a lamp and grants wishes? Well...the cliche genie look writes itself.

What if we take it one step further and say that personal feelings and ideas impact how an individual sees ghosts? Like, the Fentons for example. They think of ghosts as unfeeling monsters hellbent on destroying the living, so that's what ghosts look like to them no matter how nonthreatening they appear to the audience.

And what if we apply that to Phantom too? Like, Sam and Tucker just see their friend but with a color palate change because they just think of Phantom as Danny but with a different look. Meanwhile, anyone else would see something similar to the other ghosts for a long time until they realize that Phantom is just trying to help. Maybe that could also explain why Paulina was so infatuated with Phantom XD Maybe she perceived him as a dashing and handsome young hero that is 100% crush material for her tastes XD Honestly, that could also be used to explain why no one recognized Danny as Phantom unless they saw him physically transform: in their eyes, the two don't look even remotely similar.

Gosh...Phantom would probably look entirely eldritch to the Justice League. It's a common trope in dc x dp fic for Constantine to tell the League that ghosts are scary and powerful entities that should not be contacted lightly.

So: pop culture image of what ghosts are like + their personal experiences with inhuman entities from beyond mortal kin + expectations for the worst = the Justice League seeing Phantom as the mother of all nightmare fuel.

At least until Danny opens his mouth and they get to know him a little and the realization sets in that "oh, that's a child" and their perceptions of Phantom's form shift accordingly.

To add a little comedy to this, what if the JL never mention it to anyone because they don't know about the whole perception filter thing and each of them sees something wildly different and this is only revealed when they have to describe Phantom's appearance for some reason and everyone collectively goes "what the fuck? he doesn't look like that."

Endless possibilities.

Very good idea! Thanks for sharing :)

[nerdofspades]

Okay. I want to take this as a little thought experiment and track through the events here. First, we're assuming a GIW/Tucker internet scrub to keep Bruce and anyone else in the League from finding anything too detailed and specific about Amity Park and Phantom. Now there's a question of how does the League learn about Amity Park. Because I see three main options. (Obviously there are more as they suit your crossover needs, but let's just look at three for now.)

The first and, in my opinion, funniest option is Constantine, Zatanna, or some other magician in the League coming in one day and drawing a nice red circle around Amity labeled "do not enter." This option doesn't help us because it would trigger Batman's paranoia. So the magic gang is not the first to learn about ghosts in Amity.

The next two options are very similar. Either Bruce hears something through billionaire gossip, or Clark hears something at work.

For Bruce, he would probably hear something about Vlad Masters moving to Amity Park and becoming mayor. And haven't you heard, that town has a serious ghost problem! I've heard Vlad call it an infestation at times. Oh, they do have a local hero handling the issue. Masters doesn't seem to like him much, but even he admits the hooligan gets the job done. (Side effect, Lex Luthor knows about Amity. But he probably doesn't actually hear anything useful either and does not care.)

Clark is probably not the person assigned to the piece about Amity Park, but he definitely hears about it before it gets published. Probably one of the times Amity got invaded. Walker or Pariah. Possibly also the Youngblood-Ember team up, and that one raises more fun problems of Clark paying attention to Fenton and Phantom for League files. For the others he probably gets the gist of "small town gets invaded for [small chunk of time] and the local hero handled it. Everything's fine now." He nodds along and mentally dismisses the scale of threat the invasion would have had because it got handled by someone before the League even heard about it and never left that town. Clearly not much of an issue.

In both cases Clark and Bruce do some cursory research just to have enough information to make a file about Phantom and Amity Park in the League database and move on.

Now we get to the JL networking parties. First question, who makes contact to deliver the invite? They don't have a good way of reaching out to Phantom (and likely other low level heroes that haven't been introduced yet, it's not like they're in the phone book) and I doubt the JL is gonna leave a note with governing bodies or law enforcement. Especially not in cities where they don't know much about local corruption or other political issues.

So hand delivered. Do they get the Flash to handle it? Are heroes dispatched to deliver them based on proximity of their territories? Or similarity of work? (For that one do they think Danny is a lesser spirit and send a mage? How quickly does the magician realize they've miscalculated and do they care enough to warn the rest of the League?)

(Also, do they invite Red Huntress as well? I would assume they know about her.)

Contact made, how long does it take them to figure out that Phantom is a literal child and so OP he could take on Superman? Would he win? Debatable. But he definitely isn't losing a straight fight against the Big Blue Boy Scout either.

They probably realize he's a teenager first. Danny's never been particularly good at hiding that and in this version of events the League has no reason to believe he's ancient because they haven't dug deep enough to find the records from Ancient Egypt. Danny is a teenager using modern slang, playing Doomed, and probably fits in better with any sidekicks/protégés that got brought along than he does with the other independent heroes.

Them figuring out how strong he is comes in when they start trying to parent him or tell him to stop.

(Leave it the adults? There aren't any competent ghost hunting adults in Amity.)

(I'm fine. Being a ghost makes me super resilient. I pretty much just need a good nap and I'm back at full health. No permanent injuries so far. Well. Other than the one that killed me.)

(How'd I die? That's rude to ask. Do you want someone asking you about your worst trauma that drove you into hero work?)

(Justice system? Well, the GZ doesn't really have one right now. And I'm not super comfortable trying to force anything on them in general, and definitely not until I know more about how everything works and can ascend to the Throne.)

(Yeah. I'm technically King in Waiting because of Right of Conquest or something like that. Clockwork hasn't explained it super well.)

I don't know how long these conversations take or who's having them. But. Suffice it to say the Justice League does not know what to do with this boy. (Not sure if they consider him a good or bad influence on their kids either.)

I know it's a classic trope of danny phantom x dc crossovers that the Justice League or the Batfam finds out about Amity Park and immediately starts an investigation, but honestly, that doesn't really make sense in world.

Like, there are ghosts in Illinois. Whoopdeedoo. There are aliens in Metropolis, assassins in Star City, metas in Central, and every type of crazy imaginable and a few that no one would ever think of in Gotham. The DC world is a very weird place.

More than that, I think it kind of misunderstands what the Justice League originally was. A lot of the time fanon and canon both treat it like some kind of centralized superhero organization with the main group as the bosses. This isn't really how it started in the comics though, from what I understand. At first, the Justice League was a bunch of independent supers with their own independent territories who occasionally talked to each other. They would get together if say, there were aliens in Star City and Green Arrow needed advice on how to take care of them, or if there was a worldwide threat they needed to work together to address, but for the most part each hero had their own jurisdiction and they were not fond of people intruding in that territory. Local problems were dealt with by local heros, and if there wasn't a local hero? Just wait a couple of weeks, the police can handle it until someone pops up.

My point is that the League is really unlikely to try to swoop in and completely figure out Amity Park's situation, or even to really care about it once they realize that they already have both Phantom and Red Huntress. At most they might invite them to a few get togethers for networking.

I bet Batman wouldn't even care that much. I know he's the king of paranoia and contingencies, but he focuses almost all of that on people he knows are threats. He doesn't have time to care about a couple small town heros with small town problems, the Joker just got out of Arkham and he's going to kill hundreds of they don't catch him fast. (This isn't to say I think B would look down on small timers, but he would probably see them as little leagues, because he has no reason to suspect that it's that important. People with the power of the Justice League aren't just crawling out of the wood work, and it makes far more sense for him to assume that the problems in Amity Park aren't particularly powerful. Like how non Gothamites never believe that normal human rogues could actually be that dangerous.)

Crazy stuff is everywhere in the DC world, and unless you make it their problem, most supers assume that it's taken care of.

That said, it would totally be awesome if the Justice League was throwing a get together for lesser known less powerful heroes and just didn't realize what they had invited until it smacks them in the face.

[nanenna]

#Maybe the convoy is how word starts to get out that there's even a safe town to move too#realistically there's no news cycle#and if this is one of those#'amity stopped trying to hail the justice league' scenarios#then even the JL doesn't know about amity to tell anyone#anyone who was from out of town and hears about the convoy going#in whatever direction you want to put gotham from amity#would be like#TAKE ME TAKE ME I NEED TO KNOW#like#it would literally be like something out of a fever dream#nothing but desolation then all of a sudden#in the distance#TRUCKERS#something ANYTHING from before the End#I Imagine the convoy starts off small#then starts to get larger depending on how many places they have to pass through before they reach gotham#maybe the supers are susceptible to whatever's caused the outbreak#(magic curse? Alien Shit?)#so that's why people are still stranded#and superman didnt just swoop around the world and gather everyone up#IM SORRY IM LIKE REPLYING SO LONG LMAO#and also it occurs to me you never specified they leave amity#so are the BATS rolling into amity?#is gotham completely lost??#bc that's a whole other very very FABULOUS direction#and a really fresh one to take it in!#like dannys always coming to gotham but we rarely see the bats land in amity for anything but short periods

Let's just save all these nice tags. UwU

My thought was indeed the bats rolling up to Amity because the worst place to be in a zombie apocalypse is a city. Cities have all their supplies shipped in from somewhere else. All of them! No food, no clothes, no medical supplies, nothing. They might be able to dig in, maybe set up a barrier around the park and start growing their own food, but realistically they're not going to be able to grow enough to even keep themselves fed, let alone the other survivors you know the bats are trying to gather up, they're going to HAVE to abandon the city if they want to, you know, survive. They still need to eat!

So maybe it's the bats in a convoy trying to find someplace safe to take all these survivors. And well... Ma and Pa Kent seem like the best place to go. It's just that uh... they get a little lost along the way. ;D

DPxDC idea: zombie apocalypse.

It's pretty common in zombie apocalypse stories for zombies to not attack each other, they somehow can tell themselves from the delicious delicious living beings. So I think it'd be interesting if anyone who's died died also does NOT ring the zombie dinner bell.

Example: Jason obviously smells so unappetizing to zombies, they don't even bother trying to bite him. Jason is weirded out by this, he stops jokingly calling himself a zombie. (Honestly depending on how far back in canon you wanna go about half the bats/birds are undead.)

And obviously Danny, Vlad, Dani/Ellie, and Dan (if you wanna include him) are some form of undead. It could be fun to play with the fact that zombies and ghosts are the apples and oranges of undead. Yeah, they're both fruit/undead, but they're also basically opposites. How would Danny's frenemies react to zombies invading the living realm?

And that's not even getting into liminality. Are humans that have been exposed to ectoplasm and/or the Laz pits just generally less appetizing to zombies? Like it confuses their senses? Just imagine you're in the middle of trying to survive the zombie apocalypse and then in bursts Batman and friends in their normal costumes with no fear because zombies just don't want them. The bats are acting like it's business as usual, that'd be so bizarre after the hell you've been through. And then they take you to this middle of nowhere town called Amity Park where people are living like it's pre-apocalypse because zombies get close and just turn away before crossing into town.