The biggest fuck you the bat kids can throw at Bruce is to appoint someone else as their father figure when they get mad at him.
Bruce doesn’t really care if they go to anyone else for help. It stings sure, but he trusts them. What he can’t handle is them going to someone for simple things like ice cream. Or movie night. Or quality time. That’s HIS job. You can partner with them, you better not try to parent them.
Once when kid Dick was pissed at Bruce for not allowing him to be violent towards a villain, he’d grabbed Superman’s hand and declared he wanted Uncle Clark to tend to his injuries and tuck him in bed.
The amount of jealousy and anger radiating off the Bat was so enormous Superman almost thought the man was about to stab him with a Kryptonite sword and couldn’t stop fearing for his life.
Then came Jason, and after getting mad at Bruce for not letting him buy five libraries, he finds Alfred and spends the day as his son, calling himself Jason Penyworth. When Tim came along, he was once fed up with Bruce’s antics and dragged Dick - who had just entered after a gruelling week - out of the mansion, declaring he wanted a different parental figure and insisted they get takeout and have an arcade night. Hell even when Stephanie stormed off and decided to crash at Barbara’s instead of the mansion, Oracle could’ve sworn that Bruce was pouting under his mask, silently sulking at his rejection.
And Damian, well Damian had heard stories of all of this happening, and although he wasn’t a child and refused to throw petty tantrums like the rest of the siblings, one day Bruce’s advice wears on his last nerve and he marches upto the figure reading a book on the other end of the room before demanding they go out to an art studio that day.
He grabs hold of the hand, hears him stuttering behind him but doesn’t pay any heed. Grayson wouldn’t mind after all. He was sure of it. They go outside, and Damian whirls around, about to declare that he wanted to go to the art gallery and spend the night somewhere other than the mansion when his eyes meet a pair of confused blue ones and the words die down in his throat.
He could feel the heat building on his face as he and Tim stared at each other for a few seconds.
It wasn’t his fault Drake and Grayson looked so damn similar! And Drake was sitting on Richard’s spot! Why was the failure doing that?? He knew it, he was trying to throw Damian off his hand and he’d succeeded! He was going to turn around, and hand Damian off to Bruce. Served him right for being so mindless.
Damian knows he should say something, but his mind was blank. He stuttered, furiously trying to think of an explanation before the other man chuckles and lets Kon know he won’t be available for the rest of the day.
Please enjoy the infectious laughter of the Australian senate struggling to keep its composure while grilling a man about getting semen out of a bee
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and then nothing bad ever happened. the end
I’ve seen Danny being the ancient of space pop up a few times. A lot of it interprets that as the ancient of outer space, but I propose he has dominion pver the concept of physical space. Clockwork has time, Danny would have space, making them the counterparts for each other
So, imagine if you will, Danny only recently coming into his spatial powers retreating to his lair in the Ghost Zone. It’s too dangerous to have uncontrolled spatial distortions just randomly appearing in the human world.
His lair is an extension of himself. His spatial powers extend not just to himself, but to his lair. It connects to liminal spaces. Walking through school hallways after hours? One of those doors leads to his lair. All night diner with flickering florescent lights and you’re the only customer? Carefull going to the bathroom or you might just end up somewhere else. Closed down building, or even buildings that never were there. Sometimes at just the right time, places just exsist, and they all lead to Danny’s lair. Inside is an MC Escher esque labyrinth of rooms, hallways, tunnels, ever shifting as their connections to the human world alter and shift.
Enter the Batfam
I pick Tim for this. He sees a building he’s never seen before on a street he’s very familiar with. He checks the address.
“Hey Oracle? Is there a 147 Becker street?”
“No, Becker street stops at 144 before merging into Roosevelt.”
“That’s what I thought, but I’m there, I see it right in front of me.”
“What?”
Tim is too curious for his own good, and probably a bit sleep deprived. He enters the building only to get turned around and not be able to find where he came in from. It wouldn’t be so concerning if the building didn’t seem to go on and on.
Next thing we know, Danny finds Red Robin wandering around, completely lost in his lair. The tricky part is getting him out around the right area and time, because space and time are connected, and when one is weird, so is the other. They need to take the scenic route, much to the impatience of Red Robin. He eventually gets him close enough: Bloodhaven. Tim can always get a ride back from Dick, then he looks at his watch.
It’s only been 30 minutes. He had been wandering for hours, yet only 30 minutes had passed.
Que confusion and shenanigans when somehow, yet more Bats wander into Danny’s lair
801. ring of RAGE 802. Damian Mind Control 803. Integrating Into Society 804. Fish In The Pond 805. Damian's Dog 806. Damian's Informant 807. Ancient Customs 808. Billy & Danny 809. Danny Possesses Tim's Shadow 810. Danny Clone of Connor 811. Ted Kord Recruits Fentons 812. Danny Pals With Bats 813. Jason Borrows Johnny's Motorcycle 814. Ivy Teaches Sam 815. Danny Falls Into Puddle Uno Reverse 816. Dani Is Elephant's Foot 817. Barry Pulls Dani Out Of Speedforce 818. Flashes Use GZ To Time Travel 819. Dream Merge AU DeadOnMain 820. LoA Stalks Danny 821. Sam Meets Ivy & Harley at College 822. ACME Levels of Fuck You 823. Cute Anger Management 824. Goonion (Ghost Union) 825. Steph & Danny School 826. Dora & Beast Boy Are Buddies 827. Dora Protects Beast Boy 828. Magic School Bus Field Trip 829. Wes Mistaken For Wally 830. Danny Looks Like Tim & Alien 831. Eldritch Younger Brother Tim 832. Danny Clone Misunderstandings 833. DC Is Danny's Original Writing 834. Boxy Supports OSHA 835. Kitty Joins Birds Of Prey 836. Cass Knows Danny Is In Wayne Manor 837. Danny Meets Superman On Moon 838. Sam Meets Swamp Thing 839. Lancer Works In Gotham 840. Tucker Becomes A Speedster 841. Damian Adopts A Yeti 842. Sam Gives Info To Clark Kent 843. Dash/Jason Bookshop AU 844. Jason Time Core Time Travel AU 845. Jazz Psych Teacher 846. Kwan Two Face 847. Jason/Johnny 13 Meet Cute 848. Duke & Dash School 849. Danny & Billy Roadtrip 850. Danny's Dick Clone
Their son got caught up in a plot via a Supervillain, and he and a bunch of other teen heroes are trapped in a room slowly filling with water. The Supervillain is broadcasting the footage to the world, and just letting it play. Forcing heroes to watch their mentees die.
The teen heroes can't get out.
Until their own son, Danny, takes a deep breath and orders them all behind him. That he can do something. But they'll have to handle the rest.
Then, Danny screams.
The wall is blown clean off.
The teen heroes swoop in to drag him along, and they leave the room.
What the teens don't know, however, is that the cameras throughout the entire facility are recording and broadcasting as they come into view. Apparently, the Supervillain had accounted for this and wanted to broadcast them dying from other traps.
But the professional teen heroes are doing a great job clearing everything out.
Danny is...looking unwell.
Jack and Maddie are concerned. They didn't know he was a Meta, so he definitely didn't practice that power; had he pushed himself too hard?
Then the teen heroes notice and start asking.
Danny answers.
He's terrified of his parents finding out he's a Meta. He has a contingency to run away if they do. He says his parents are only focused on their inventions and hunting a certain group of interdimensional beings. That because of his abilities and Ecto-contamination, their weapons keep hurting him and they refuse to get rid of them, so he clearly knows what they value more.
That they might think he's possessed and harm him to "fix" him.
That he has nightmares about waking up on the operating table in their basement, cut open with his organs missing.
That whenever he sees his mother holding a knife or his father holding a gun, he has to fight the urge to run for safety.
And Jack and Maddie, being stared down by Black Canary and Green Arrow (who had been sent to comfort but are now bracing to protect their own son from them), feel like someone has carved out their own organs.
They have to be better.
TLDR: Danny almost gets got by a Supervillain plot meant for others teen heroes he was around as a civilian, he knows he's being recorded in the beginning and uses the Ghostly Wail to break the walls to escape, and kinda sorta trauma dumps on the teen heroes not knowing he's forcing his parents to watch and listen to him list all their failures in 4k.
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- When she talks to other people she sometimes says Dad. Usually to professors. Strangers and school friends.
- To her one of the reasons she doesn't call him Dad much is cause she correlates "Dad" with her bio dad and disappointment. To her and the other kids
"Bruce means dad. This does change eventually as she's around him more. Especially with some of the others calling him dad
- One of her college professors went on a rant about the rich and how they should burn and included Bruce on the list and it pissed her off cause she knows Bruce didn't really care about the money and if he didn't use it to help others he would rather not have it
- He started singling her out after he realized she was affiliated with Bruce. She kept her calm and asked him how much he donated to charity. The professor tried to claim Bruce only did it for tax purposes but he gave away way more then he would ever get back so moot point.
- One time one of her civilian friends lost their scholarship due to some technicality and Stephanie was thinking of getting a job to help and was talking to Tim about it. And by the next day it was fully paid. She thought Tim did it. But Bruce did it. He overheard them talking and got it done. Tim was so confused cause he knows he didn't and realized what Bruce did.
- Bruce wasn’t a man of many words, and she helped him realize that if he just got better at talking he would have a better relationship with his kids. She actually pushed him to therapy.
- One time she was hit hard and went down. She was out for a week. They weren’t sure if she was gonna make it. Bruce. Tim and Cass took turns sitting by her side. Bruce begged that if anyways listening to please save her.
Dpxdc prompt:
Danny has made a bet to haunt and scare the inhabitants of a certain place.
His first attempt at spooking someone did not go like he thought it would. He ended up in a staring contest with Cass till the awkwardness of it had him disappearing and fleeing the scene. All his other attempts resulted in a similar result.
It soon became a point of pride. Didn't matter that he got everyone else to run screaming away from him. Cass was the one person he couldn't spook, and it bothered him. A surprise jump does not count.
Cass from her pov keeps reading Danny as harmless as a tiny kitten all throughout his antics.