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Thinking of Dan who is soft for Ellie because she's not the first clone he's met. Him finding a girl with his face floating in a capsule filled with ectoplasm while exploring the mansion after being taking in by Vlad. Him returning again and again because even though she isn't conscious he craves human connection. Him only interacting with Vlad (screaming matches) and servants (they avoid him in fear of upsetting him) so he starts talking to her, and sometimes he can even pretend that she responds.
Something something Danny being averse to fighting because he was forced into being a vigilante and fighting reminds him of those times when he was forced to fight. Dan who once held the same view but then his family died, he was taken in by Vlad, and fighting was still a necessity but now it also became a saving grace. He couldn’t afford to be vulnerable with Vlad’s suffocating presence controlling every part of his life so he channeled his hurt into anger and then that into fighting with Vlad. Fighting slowly became a comfort, almost instinctual, something familiar that helped him feel like he had control when he had none.
Vladco Heiress au is constantly on loop in my head so here my ideas for the other DP characters:
Jazz - researcher psychologist with a focus on socio-cultural psychology. After Danny manages to come to a compromise with his rouges, creating a long-term truce, she becomes interested in cultural differences between Realm beings and Amity Parkers & later on how the two cultures started to blend and form unique social norms.
Tucker - didn’t go to college and just started immediately working at Vladco as Danny's assistant/advisor to help him out while he figured out how to run the company. Once Danny started getting things under control Tucker became an engineer (still at Vladco) to focus on his inventions.
Sam - she properly sat down with her parents and talked to them leading to them realizing they have been acting unreasonably and compromising. Her dad offers to teach her and Danny both business and how to lead a company as an olive branch. I imagine her family has a successful telecommunication company but for now her dad is running the company so Sam can start her own company which creates and researches eco-friendly solutions (e.g biodegradable plastics) while working with a bunch of eco charities.
Valerie - in my au she joins the Phantom team during 50 Shades Of Valerie Grey. The team has trouble trusting her at first but eventually they become close friends. I imagine that she took some odd jobs after high school trying to support her dad and then ended up with a security job she enjoyed. Once Ellie started traveling Danny hired her to act as Ellie's bodyguard because she's the only person he could trust keep Ellie safe. Whenever she's back in Amity she meets up with Danny and Tucker to have geek out sessions where they create ridiculous technology while not sleeping for 3 days.
Wes - became part of Team Phantom after Val but before the release of Pariah Dark. Became an investigative journalist so he travels a lot - this and his tendency to hyper fixate on his articles means that he's horrible at keeping in touch with people. He's closest with Valerie (she was the first one to properly accept him onto the team) and Ellie (they meet up whenever they are in same city and compare notes about rich people - Wes tells her which CEO's he thinks are doing shady shit and she tells him which rich people gave her bad vibes or are assholes).
After the "D-Stabilized" episode Danny freaks out and goes all overprotective. The problem is that even if Danny wanted to keep Ellie close to keep an eye on her he knows that he would't be able to keep her safe in Amity Park. So instead he gives her a portal gun and calls in his favor from Pandora to organize fighting lessons for her. Ellie falls in love with New Athens; so much so that she spends half of her time there and the other half in the human realm.
And then she decides to visit Greece. First she just investigates - tries to find similarities and differences between the Greece she knows and the modern one. She goes all in, learning everything she possibly can; the history, language, architecture, culture. And by the time she's been there for 5 months she realizes that this place has started feeling like home.
dpxdc au with Serious Chaos, background Danny/Sam
Vlad gets an officially trial because of a domino effect caused by him releasing Pariah Dark. The release of the old king was such a scare to the Realms population, with him being extremely powerful and having committed grave atrocities towards the end of his reign, it led to the ancients, observant and the majority of the inhabitants of the Realms deciding that they need to create a functional government to prevent something like this happening again and to keep the Realms safe. However, forming a working government and catching Vlad to get him trialed takes time so Kindered Spirits still happens. Vlad's trial has thousands of angry ghosts watching from the sidelines while the judge announces a long of crimes the council of Ancients found him guilty of and then presents the supporting rock hard evidence. His sentence is being souped for the next 600 years - which a lot of ghosts still think too lenient.
When Danny defeated Pariah Dark he became the rightful ghost king but Clockwork told him that the council of ancients can act as the main governing body in the IR for now and suggested that Danny could take over Vladco (Vlad left to Danny in him will) to gain experience for when he becomes king.
After a few years, Elysium "Ellie" Phantom decides to return to Amity, partially because she already traveled the entire globe and partially because she feels safe being in Amity now that Vlad is gone and she's had time to work through her trauma. Her travels have made her a great negotiator so Danny decides to name her heiress. Officially Danny is CEO but Ellie handles most of the CEO's responsibilities (being the face of the company, has meeting with shareholders, discuss projects with other CEOs/representative of other companies) while Danny acts more like a COO (oversees different operations, facilitates communication between departments, coordinates product manufacturing and quality control).
Damian starts investigating Dalvco and Ellie specifically after she approaches him at a gala hosted by the Wayne family in Gotham. Dalvoco was probably on the bats radar as a sketchy company and they suspected something shady was going on - either because of Vlad's business strategy in general or due to ties to Lex Luthor - but other things kept taking priority considering the craziness of ghotam, how often villains try to destroy/take over the world and the lack of hard evidence of Vlad's wrong doing - they just felt something was off. Plus, Danny is a recluse, staying in Amity and avoiding the media, so when they saw Ellie the batfam is kinda hit in the face that yeah this company does still exist and hey look it looks even more shady now (Vlad just disappeared out of nowhere and a kid who he allegedly had an VERY antagonistic relationship with inherited his company).
I love this! But what if we mix it with the hc that Infinite Realm beings are fae adjacent/the Infinite Realms works on fae rules? Them all having their own courts made up of Ancients and representative of different areas of the IR (i.e Frostbite, Pandora, Princess Dorathea) who act as advisors. Depending on the Ancient's domain they may be in one of the court or all of them - Clockwork being a member of all their courts as time is not exclusive to one season but Fright Knight being only in Jazz's court as he is the spirt of Halloween which is in Autumn.
AND what if their courts take turns being in charge? so the Phantom siblings take turns being ghost king? I feel like that would be great cause they could still focus on other things important to them and it would prevent them from drowning in responsibilities. Dani spending the time her siblings are in charge visiting other dimension and learning learning about different cultures, languages, cuisines, etc. Danny stargazing/observing rare astronomical events or unwinding and goofing off with his friends (befriends his rougues? Sam and Tucker become ghosts after they die?). Jazz helping out her siblings when they are overwhelmed with responsibilities/paperwork/negotiations during their term as Ghost King and later having a girls night with Kitty, Ember and Dorathea to relax. Dan seeking out powerful opponents from different dimensions to fight.
DC X DP prompt
The JL attempted to summon the ghost king Pariah Dark. Yet when the summoning happened instead of the Tyrant a different being appeared in front of them.
His dark skin skin was covered with tattoos of constellations. In the middle of his chest was an eight pointed star. He wore a red and blue furred cape and a furred skirt over his pants.
Standing above the entire JL was a savage looking spirit with long braided white hair. An Aurora borealis danced around him, images of various animals appearing in and out of it.
Looking down at the ensemble of heroes, the spirit asked, "Who has summoned me, the embodiment of the Winter Sky,"