I Turn 30 Next Month So Here’s What I Learned In My 20s:

new dpxdc fic!

it's time!! this is my entry for the @dpxdcbigbang Ghouls and Gangs 2024 DPxDC Bang! I started work on this, what, six months ago?? more than that??? it's been a while. it's also fought me every step of the way, and the idea behind this story actually spawned a couple other fics -- including heart ache (makes the soul grow) which I need to get back to and something I'm still working on that I'm calling finest vintage. but! this is the original, and oh boy has it taken a lot of work, so I hope you enjoy it!

also!!! I am still absolutely stoked that I got the amazing @paxopalotls as my artist!! soon, possibly by the time you see this, they'll have posted their art for this fic too which I haven't even seen complete yet and ahhh. it was literally pax's art I was thinking of when I was dreaming about what someone could create for this fic, so that's been absolutely amazing. please go give pax some love <3

finally, I do need to give a content warning for this one, though I'm not quite sure how to describe it. but, uh. Danny's experience in this is based on That Time My Drink Got Spiked At A Bar (though there's no bars or alcohol or spiking in the fic), so. please look after yourself if that might be triggering.

a different kind of ecto

That was the thing about Gotham — it stank. He'd first caught a whiff of it when they crossed the bridge, like a fruit salad made of oranges and rotten mango. He'd smelled it several times since, then he'd started to taste it, and then it didn't leave. Eventually his tongue started to feel fuzzy with it, his teeth feeling like he hadn't brushed them in a week, and that was the last straw. --- Danny braves the Gotham streets for a seemingly simple quest, only to discover he underestimated and completely misjudged the dangers. Jason just wants answers. He's about to get way more than he bargained for.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: Gen

Fandoms: Danny Phantom, DCU

Characters: Danny Fenton, Jason Todd, Jazz Fenton

Additional Tags: Danny vs Gotham's weird ecto, Whump, i guess, danny is not having a good time, Sickfic, I guess that counts too

Words: 7,981

Status: Complete

What a year this week has been.

Yes.

I have the dumbest idea. Fully grown up adult Danny ends up having a fling with Constantine when he comes through Amity to study ghosts. It's kinda hot and heavy, but also casual. John leaves and goes on.

A year later something happens where something he's hunting has severely pissed off the Ghost King. At first, John's like "oh shit, Pariah Dark is awake?" And only finds out when this tall, buff stud shows up that King Pariah Dark is out, King Phantom is in, and also, the new King finds John as hot as John finds him.

A year after that, John gets called to a JL HQ to greet a new hero who's joining the Justice League because he also does paranormal stuff and Supes wants all the magic heroes to meet or something. So he shows up and there's Danny Fenton, being all tall broad shoulders and goofy smiles. John doesn't even question why he's there. He does sneak off with Danny to make out in a coat closet until Batman finds them.

Danny's super sheepish and John kinda feels bad enough to not make smartass comments as they walk back to the group. He stands out with the others while Supes makes the introduction. John's suddenly wondering *why* Danny is there and *where* the new guy is.

Then this happens.

Superman: I'm honored to introduce the Justice League's newest member, Phantom.

Danny transforms into Phantom, who doesn't have the glowing crown, and who doesn't glow so much, but he doesn have those sexy sharp teeth, and is clearly King Phantom.

John Constantine, realizing what's happened: oh, fuck me!

Danny, with that big shit eating grin of his: I'm pretty sure I've already done that about a dozen times, love. But I wouldn't mind another go.

John might love him a little bit.

Rest in peace yall

Why does this give me Mount Olympus vibes 😆 I might draw this later once we are off trail

The Bats tend to have favorite civilians, paramedics, cops, that they love to mess with or claim. It gets even worse when multiple Bats favor the same person and try to call dibs.

Danny ends up as one of these people.

It starts when he gets off of work late and finds Red Hood and Red Robin sitting on the curb eating pizza. He hadn't eaten anything all day, and it smelled delicious, and so what few braincells Danny had left scattered and he asks, "Can I have a slice?"

Both vigilantes turn to look at him, then each other, and shrug. They let him take a slice.

It was only the beginning.

Spoiler gets a tired "thanks" saving Danny from a mugging.

Black Bat practically buzzes with glee when she learns Danny knows sign language and helps her speak with a child witness.

Signal gets a more energetic Danny, though also a cautious distance after Signal once smacked into Danny and spilled his coffee all over the poor man.

Nightwing gets the brunt of one of his bad days when Danny decides he's done being held hostage and slips out of the bindings to chuck his shoe at the Riddler. Nightwing hi-fives him later for managing to hit Riddler in the face.

Even Robin has moments with Danny, after catching him taking care of some stray animals amd chasing off idiots who were looking for dogs to put into a recent (and very quickly shut down) dog fighting ring.

When everyone actually figures out Danny is the SAME Danny they all have been seeing around, Bruce has to fight the instinctive headache at the incoming fights. And resist the urge of looking up what seemed to be just a random Gothamite.

Danny at this point just wants a nap. And for these weird undead beings that didn't do well with his ice to stop coming for him. He had student debts to pay.

character in a fight scene: *restrains their opponent by pinning them against the wall by their wrists*

me:

What Dynamic will a child be?

 What dynamic a child will be relies heavily on genetics, and to find the possible dynamic of a child before it is been born, the idea of a punnet square is often used.

A=Alpha B=Beta O=Omega

AAxAA will produce 100% Alphas

AAxAB will produce 100% Alphas

AAxBB will produce 100% Alphas

AAxAO will produce 50% Alphas and 50% Betas

ABxAB will produce 75% Alphas and 25% Betas

ABxBB will produce 50% Alphas and 50% Betas

ABxAO will produce 50% Alphas, 25% Betas, and 25% Omegas

AAxBO will produce 50% Alphas and 50% Betas

AAxOO will produce 100% Betas

ABxBO will produce 25% Alphas, 50% Betas, and 25% Omegas

ABxOO will produce 50% Betas and 50% Omegas

BBxBB will produce 100% Betas

BBxAO will produce 50% Alphas and 50% Omegas

AOxAO will produce 25% Alphas, 50% Betas, and 25% Omegas

BBxBO will produce 50% Betas and 50% Omegas

BBxOO will produce 100% Omegas

AOxBO will produce 25% Alphas, 25% Betas, and 50% Omegas

BOxBO will produce 25% Betas and 75% Omegas

BOxOO will produce 100% Omegas

OOxOO will produce 100% Omegas

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