#tucker doesn't realize that Damian has been courting BOTH him and danny for a while

[profounddestinyrebel]

SO Tucker doesn't realize he has a crush a Danny. He's completely oblivious.

He's ride and or die with Danny long before the portal but they're both intense people, that's normal for the two of them. Danny never notices that Tucker always mentions girls but doesn't really talk to them. (forgive me for taking liberties) That he talks about hot girls but never anything else. It's not weird that he moved to the same city as Danny, okay? Danny's a disaster, he'd end up at the wrong end of a Rouge within a day if he was in Gotham by himself. And Danny always tells him stuff, they don't lie to each. So he knows about Damian. Damian and his cow. Damian and his fighting skills. Damian and his celebrity dad Bruce Wayne though that was probably a point against Damian after Vlad.

It isn't until Danny starts getting invited to exclusive museums, planetariums that show other galaxies, Damian even gets Martian Manhunter's signature! places that Tucker can't get Danny into things that he can't give him that he figures that Damian has a crush on Danny. Which, great taste. And, good for him. Danny that is.

But. Then he gets an invitation to talk with Tim Drake-Wayne. The teen who revolutionized the tech industry. He- he talks to him for over 3 hours. WTF And, it's great, it's amazing, but. How the heck did he get on Mr. Wayne's schedule in the first place? The only person who he knows that could swing that is- but why would-

And it happens again. A tech conference that he couldn't make due to work. He gets called off which they don't even do and Danny even comes with him! Which hasn't happened in- well, a long time. Damian shows up when they get back, and it's- a little awkward, but he's too excited to really care. They go to BatBurger and he rants to Damian about all the exhibits they had (forgive my lacking knowledge on tech conferences) and this trick the new model had that just created a new more interesting bug when played with this software and. He pauses to stuff his face with a double burger that he didn't order and moans. So good. It's gone in less than 30 seconds. And Damian asks a question, clarifying. Which- hasn't happened in years. His friends listen to him but they rarely understand what he says. And it's- nice to talk to Damian like this. He orders a second burger and answers Damian.

The three of them start hanging out more often. Damian will still invite Danny places but- now he's invited too. He thinks that Damian is still working up the courage to confess. And since he's such a good friend, he starts looking for things to do for Damian too. He can't spend a ton of money but, little things. The menu of every single place that sells vegetarian food and their location. This self massage technique that he learned from Frostbite, which does wonders for headaches. Random animal memes that he thinks Damian would like. A video of a guy carving a working violin out a hunk of wood (literally impossible but I wish) that he then plays. A baby riding a dog with the dog making sure the baby stays on his back. Just, stuff he thinks Damian might like. Damian isn't effusive thanks Mr. Lancer but he answers every text which he figures is pretty much the equivalent.

My evilist dead serious headcanon is that Tucker actually has a huge crush on Danny

He's had a crush on him for years but he never got the courage to say anything about it and that was part of the reason why he was trying to get a girlfriend all the time because he wanted to get over it

And eventually Danny starts dating someone, he starts dating Damien

Tucker is super happy for Danny because he seems like he's thriving, he'll go on for hours about how much he loves Damien and how amazing he thinks he is and Tucker kind of agrees

Damien is Rich, skilled, intelligent and surprisingly sweet under his hard angry/grumpy shell

Tucker thinks he's way better for Danny than he could ever be, he would never dream of trying to sabotage their relationship but hearing about how much Danny loves him does hurt sometimes it hurts a lot actually

But he really loves Danny and he would never want to hurt him so he's willing to keep his feelings to himself and watch his best friend fall in love with someone else

[aizawaondrugs]

@twilightangel83 absolutely, but also how very dare you leave this in the tags??

I like using the idea that Damian was first dipped into the Lazarus Pits when he was like, five? So even though the nasty cave water stunts his ghostly growth he's still been either VERY liminal or some other kind of ghost-adjacent for almost all his life.

So it's not that he's got the Talia/Ra's special in his genetics, it's just that he's pretty close to being a denizen of the GZ, like, closer than anyone but Danny and he's literally half dead. So the first time he saw Danny? It was on sight. And it was a stimulating, thought provoking fight for Damian where he didn't just have to actually take his opponent seriously but where he also lost.

So when Damian went home he started researching his future husband the danger twink and it snowballed from there. He started Being SneakyTM and stalking the throuple and was at first pretty angry there are obstacles between him and His Beloved but then he saw both Sam and Tucker kick ass exactly one (1) time and realized that he miiiiiigth have a bit of a competence kink. (not that he's ever gonna tell anybody)

(look, I'm not saying the trio has a rotation of "today is your day to take care of the annoying thugs" but I'm saying exactly that. Sam gets her before-period angery hormone cocktail when they're out of her favorite vegan hot chocolate and she starts swinging so sometimes there's a bit of an adjustment)

Danny on the other hand just goes home and deadass tells Sam and Tucker to look out for the cute guy with the green eyes and bitchy face because he's interested in him (started a courting fight or something lmao) and Tucker just. Lays that boor boy's life on their table within the hour.

And then, when Damian starts stalking them they go, well, at least he's a skilled vigilante while looking at Danny. And they just take a liking to him because he's very obviously liminal and has absolutely no idea he is. So the next step is obviously to take him into the fold.

All of their personal drama ends without any misunderstanding but with the most awkward love confessions from the three boys and a I knew y'all didn't know we've been a quad for the past two months but this shit still gave me second hand embarrassment from Sam.

I also imagine Dick or Bruce tracking them down at some point and somehow inviting them to the Manor to either a) apologize for Damian's stalking if they noticed or b) introduce them because wtf are you doing Damian just say Hi

And Damian doesn't know why he's there, he's being set up and he knows it and he's fucking suspicious and THEN the loves of his life walk in. And he's just fucking flustered, Alfred is living for it and the trio are all up in his personal space in the span of 0.2 seconds after catching a glimpse of him.

So whoever invited them is speechless, Oracle has been streaming the cams because Dick promised to help her out at the library or something and the whole family is just HOLD UP WHAT'S HAPPENING??? And like Duke is living his nightmares with the ghostly/liminal afterimages like Damian and Jason weren't fucking enough.

And then Jason walks in all swagger with Jazz and just goes:

"Okay, so that's Bruce, that's Damian the demon brat with his eventual demon spouses because they're taking their time apparently, they also like to act like the parents I never had (K. O. for Bruce), that's my gramps Alfred, he's the man of the house and head of the household, don't let him fool you, and that's Dickwing, he went out in a sparkling disco costume vigilanting for a couple of months and doesn't deserve to forget it. Everyone, this is Jazz, she's the best psychiatrist in Arkham and the only reason none of those assholes broke out in the last couple of months."

"And how did you two meet, Master Jason?"

"I was patrolling when a couple of thugs tried to rob her and I went to help so obviously she beat my ass right after theirs because she thought I was their reinforcements. I had bruises for weeks. It was love at first fight."

Danny blurts out "So you're a man of culture as well!" and Jazz starts bickering with him which is how the batfam finds out their brothers are dating a pair of siblings plus some.

Damian? Cuddled.

The trio? Delighted with their Habibi.(He likes it when they call him Habibi, sue them)

Alfred? Delighted.

Jason? Behaving.(mostly)

Jazz? A probable Amazon.

The rest of the family? Wants an actual fucking explanation.

Bruce? Not drunk enough.

Amity Parkers moving to Gotham for college. Sam and Paulina pooling their trust funds together to buy an abandoned hotel and fitting it as apartments for everybody. They all train together in the courtyard to keep their skills up and just because it's fun. Suddenly an influx of super competent self-trained (or maybe ghost-trained) young adults.

Everybody having their little niches and suddenly they all have more free time that's not being taken up by ghost attacks so many of them started different YouTube channels with info they found out from the ghostly residents of Amity. Star and Paulina running a history of beauty channel going over makeup, hair styles and fashion, special guest Sam when going over alt fashions. Dash and Kwan running one on the history of sports. Wes and Mikey running a conspiracy theory podcast. Valerie running a martial arts channel. Danny just info-dumping about space and spacecraft in videos that range from 45 minutes to four hours. Tucker running a how-to channel for fixing tech and coding. Sam running a combination true crime and witchy channel. The Trio running a Let's Play channel.

Ghostly things happening in all of the videos and everybody guesting on everybody else's channels leads to everybody thinking it's all an elaborate ARG. Danny just floating through the walls half-asleep with a glowing shaker bottle in the background. Some of them when they're in the middle of a rant seem to forget to take a breath or their eyes or freckles start glowing. On a livestream Paulina snaps at somebody off screen and her eyes are suddenly glowing green. Danielle pops in during a charity livestream that the Trio are running and calls Danny-Daddy, Sam-Mom, and Tucker-Dad and is just floating on the back of the couch. Danny doing a stream to watch a rocket take off and suddenly a robe and crown flash and he disappears in a flash of green and the stream is just dead space until the rocket's about to take off and Danny comes running in and jumps over the back of his chair to watch it and cheer.