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confessedlyfannish · 7 months

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DP x DC Prompt #6

Phantom is sitting at the Batcomputer, kicking his legs back and forth. With the seat last set for Batman's height, his feet barely skim the ground. He's propped his head up with one hand, examining something he is holding between his thumb and forefinger in the other.

He is very casual for someone who has never been told the location of the Batcave.

"Phantom," Batman grunts. Phantom doesn't glance his way, likely having heard the Batmobile pulling in.

"Hi Bruce," he says. "I had a nightmare last night."

It's important to note that The Justice League does not know Phantom's true age, although there are several theories:

Theory One: he is a ghost dating back to several thousand BCE. The proof of this is sparse but present, through written record of beings with white hair and green eyes and uncanny likenesses found in artifacts proven to be authentic. Could these truly be Phantom? Yes. However, there is

Theory Two: he is a teenager, as his visual presence suggests. This could be true even if his existence is thousands of years old, as his mentality might not have advanced beyond that of a child aged fourteen to sixteen when they died. This is supported by his general behavior and advanced knowledge of memes. The few times he and Red Robin have interacted, Bruce did not understand a word of it without extensive googling. But worse, of course, there is

Theory Three: Phantom is the age of his first recorded appearance in modern times, only a few years ago. Phantom's recorded appearances in the past were sparse compared to his consistent existence in this century, which could hint at a timestream accident similar to Bruce's own, if they are real. And ultimately, this would not be the first time a two year old presented as a teenager in form.

Two out of three options propose Phantom is a child, and so Batman's tone is gentle when he says,

"Did you?"

"Yeah," Phantom says, words almost a sigh. Whatever is in his hand catches in the lamp light, shining green.

It's kryptonite. Phantom is holding a shard of kryptonite.

"Sorry." Phantom twirls his chair around to face Bruce. He holds the shard out in his palm. "I called you Bruce, didn't I? I know you hadn't told me yet."

"That's okay," Bruce says. He takes the shard calmly, his suit's layered biometrics disguising the fact his heart is racing. He recognizes this chunk from his stores, kept in the secure, deepest, impenetrable section of the cave coded to his DNA alone.

He's been aware Phantom's powers include invisibility and intangibility, but the ghost has been benevolent, honorable, and heroic since introduced and he had allowed his guard to slip. All it would've taken is being tailed one time, and now he must rely on that benevolence.

"And I'm sorry about that," Phantom says, nodding at the belt Batman has tucked the kryptonite inside. It will do nothing to stop Phantom should he decide to pluck it away again, but kept out of sight in a lead-lined pouch still feels safer than out in the open.

"I needed to make a point." Phantom says. The words are threatening but his tone is not.

"Oh?" Bruce asks, wary nonetheless.

"I'm really strong," Phantom says. "I can walk through walls. I can disappear. I can fly. I can blast and freeze stuff. I don't need to breathe. Traditional weapons don't really work on me."

"I can duplicate," a voice says from behind Bruce. He whirls around, batarang in hand, to see another Phantom rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly. "That duplicate will have all the same powers," the doppelganger says, apologetically. He floats back over to the Phantom sitting on the chair and the two merge.

"I have bad powers too, ones I don't like to use. I can scream at things until they fall apart, even buildings. I can...I can possess people, and make them do things," he admits, unable to look Batman in the eye. "It's not that all ghosts are like this, pretty much all of them aren't, it's just that I'm one of the stronger ones, and I'm only going to get stronger, and the stronger I get, the more powers I might get, and the less weapons even made especially to fight ghosts will work on me."

None of this is phrased as a threat, but rather a confession.

"Why are you telling me this?" Batman asks.

"I had a nightmare," Phantom repeats weakly. He reaches under the computer table and pulls out a purple JanSport backpack, cotton dirty and frayed with use. He unzips the front pocket and pulls out a small plastic baggy. He offers the baggy to Batman, his hand shaking.

Batman takes the baggy, examining the contents. Inside are six tiny little dots. They look like poppy seeds, but held up to the light are a deep purple in color.

"Phantom, what are these?"

"Hemo Prunus," Danny says, eyes stuck on the baggy. He's paler than usual. "Colloquially: blood blossoms. At the time they were grown it was believed they required drops of blood to grow, but a friend of mine who likes plants thinks it's more likely they actually just like a higher quantity of iron in their soil. You know, truths found in witch's tales and stuff like that. I don't know much about their care beyond that but I do know they were grown previously in Salem in the late 1600s, early 1700s during their summer seasons with some amount of success so perhaps you can mimic that environment and go from there. From what I've gathered they're incredibly difficult to grow, but I figure if anyone can do it it's you."

"I'm not exactly the gardening type," Batman says dryly.

Phantom laughs faintly. He looks like he's about to pass out, which should be impossible and is not the correct reaction to gifting someone a rare piece of flora.

"Phantom," Batman says again, slowly. "What are these?"

"They're my kryptonite."

Bruce closes his fist over the bag immediately, taking several steps back to put distance between himself and Phantom. "Are you alright?" he asks sharply.

"I'm fine," Phantom says, waving a hand. "As seeds they just sting a little, like nettles."

That's not the reaction of someone being lightly stung, Bruce thinks. Phantom looks like he needs the chair he's sitting in just to stay upright.

Then the rest of his words click together.

"You're giving me these," Bruce says.

"Yes," Phantom says. "For safekeeping."

"To grow."

Phantom's smile fades. "For safekeeping," he says, looking at Bruce's belt. Where he has stored the kryptonite.

The enormity of what Phantom is entrusting him with hits Bruce like a ton of bricks, and he finally realizes that Phantom is not sick but terrified. He is quietly, deeply, terrified. Bruce also realizes that a reaction like that is not born out of fear of the unknown but is the reaction of someone who has felt the sting of the bee and felt their throat close up. At some point Phantom has felt the blood blossom flower, and the sheer memory of it is enough to make the ghost go almost catatonic with terror.

And he has still handed over the one weapon that can hurt him to the Batman, and told him all he knows on how to make more.

I had a nightmare.

"Is this all of it?" Bruce asks, the question coming out brusquer than intended. Phantom blinks.

"Yes, I'm sorry, that's all I could--yes that's all," he stammers.

Bruce shakes his head. "I mean, does anyone else have access to it? Is anyone else growing this that we should be aware of?"

Phantom can't mask a sudden shudder, his reactions always woefully transparent (pun not intended). "No, that's the last of it. No. No. I don't think," his eyes grow wider, "I don't think so," he whispers, to himself, an attempt at comfort.

Way to go, Bruce, a familiar voice whispers, you just scared the kid harder. Bruce drops the packet on a table beside him and strides forward to put a firm hand on Phantom's shoulder.

"I'll make sure of it," he says. He'll pull Kal in and together they'll make sure, the same way they raided every GiW base across the United States four months prior. Phantom looks up at him the same way he did then, with complete and utter trust.

"Thank you," he says quietly. "But if you do...if you do find any more, promise me you won't destroy it. Promise me you'll keep it, the same way you keep the kryptonite. Please, Bruce."

He's not just asking him to keep it. Another weight finds its place, settling on the Bat's shoulders like the cape he wears. Another contingency for a hero he fears will one day be a dear friend.

"I promise, Phantom."

"Danny," Phantom says, "My name is Danny. A name for a name, right?"

"Danny," Bruce says, heart growing ever heavier. "I promise."

#I watched Epilogue from JLU right before this #can you tell #I'm in my feelings so hard rn #dp x dc #dp x dc au #dp x dc prompt #dp x dc crossover #my writing #batman #danny phantom

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very-small-giant · 13 days

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oh my god it’s taako!! from tv!!!

#the adventure zone #taz balance #taz #taako taaco #taako from tv #taz taako #im obsessed with him #can you tell

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phanchester · 3 months

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phil looking at dan off-camera

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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noranb · 1 year

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haikaveh college au + drinking games (it’s still 11.11 somewhere right)

also some details under the cut

they're freshmen

haitham: classics & anthropology double major

kaveh: architecture major

they're not roommates yet

they meet in a literature class for their writing requirement

they have very different interpretations of these novels and it often leads to heated discussions in class and everyone else is like :x..

all hell breaks loose when they're grouped together for the final assignment

other teammates are used to their bickering by now

haitham secretly enjoys these discussions, he finds kaveh's pov interesting. but he also likes watching his reaction so he'd be deliberately antagonistic sometimes

kaveh's annoyed cos haitham's so composed unlike him and he wants to think haitham's just bullshitting but his points actually makes sense ugh

freshmen year ends and when kaveh thinks he'd never have to see haitham again (and forget abt the stupid pocky incident once and for all!!) boom they're assigned to the same room in sophomore year

#haikaveh #kavetham #genshin impact #alhaitham #kaveh #so like i just wanted an excuse to make them kiss #can you tell #this is supposed to be college au #they’re stuck in the same class #probably for lit requirement or something #they famously do not get along #or do they #myart

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dustbunsinspace · 4 months

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Part of 🟢 Leo gets Overwhelmed au🟢

Aah, I’m so happy I made it in in time! 💙✨ Merry Christmas, tumblr nation! Here’s a little comic about 03 Usagi and Leo going so see the Rockefeller tree after the events of the Christmas Aliens episode.

Little post about events earlier that night

Also this is literally how maskless Leo looks to me, he’s so moomincore ;

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hiirenvirnas · 3 months

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A new QSMP original series, Town of Fobo releasing soon!! 🎬

#qsmp #qsmp fanart #foolish gamers #tubbo #qsmp leonarda #qsmp sunnysideup #hiiren art #im excited for town of Fobo #can you tell #this is how i imagine itll go lmao #also oddly proud of the qsmp logo i drew #its cute <3

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housewifebuck · 10 months

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911 + memes 4/?

#I made all these in the middle of the night last night after I took my melatonin #can you tell #911 #911edit #evan buckley #eddie diaz #buddie #911 fox #911 abc #911 memes #🪐#somebody in the 911 discord suggested that last one and I can’t remember who��😭 if it was u and u wanna be tagged pls lmk

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starstiels · 2 months

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actually supernatural is ouroboros. chuck gives them the same ending they would have had at the beginning of the story and starts it over again and again so blinded by his ego that he doesn't change anything thinking eventually his vision will come true, so confident that this time no one will be able to meddle in his story but again and again and again castiel falls in love with dean and again and again and again they defy him and his story, they gain true free will.

#spn #supernatural #dean winchester #castiel #destiel #deancas #sam winchester #i'm so fucking normal about them #can you tell #ouroboros #AAAAAAAAAAAAA

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sheyhem · 1 year

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Just got a letter informing me that my good friend Jonathan is going on a business trip to Transylvania in a bit under two weeks! I'm sure he will have a wonderful time on his travels! Can't wait to hear all about it through his letters!

#dracula daily #dracula #re: dracula #jonathan harker #artists on tumblr #digital art #i found 'bite' on spotify and listening to it on loop gave me the inspiration to draw #i'm so damn excited for re: dracula and dracula daily this year #can you tell #also here you can see the shey sheyhem trademark: every drawing of a character having a different design because i'm indecisive #might stick to this one in the future if i draw jonathan again #my art #shey art #also sorry if the quality is wack but changing a 300dpi file to 144dpi has that effect #and i don't trust uploading full quality files of my art lmao #'for so if time be long queue may be delayed; and it will not matter when the sun set'

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imakemywings · 8 months

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Thranduil in the movies: "I would not allow my son to pledge himself to a lowly Silvan Elf!"

Thranduil in the books: [heavily implied to have married a Silvan Elf himself and made her queen of Mirkwood, gave his son a Silvan name, originally came to the Greenwood intending to adopt the ways of the Silvan Elves, has never had beef with Silvan Elves]

#can you tell #can you tell I'm still salty they tried to introduce some weird ethnic tension into Mirkwood #can you tell I'm salty about how they handled Thranduil's character #thranduil #the hobbit #tolkien tag

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delicatethunders · 6 months

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#mine//original #weirdcore aesthetic #weird dreams #weirdcore #liminalcore #weird art #liminal aesthetic #liminal #liminal art #liminality #weirdcore art #liminal spaces #delicatethunders #i have sleep issues #can you tell #also is the text on this coherent at all?

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lavenoon · 8 months

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Little Seashell <3

@naffeclipse look okay I am scared of Creature Design™ but the Song Fish finale + stained glass art got me like ---

#post let luce #dcamv #song fish amid the stars #my art #song fish amid the stars spoilers #I SIMPLY HAD TO DRAW SOMETHING I WOULDVE GONE MAD!!#thank god stained glass style lets me simplify a LOT fghdjs I am;; aaaaaa #hi naff im entirely normal about your mers #can you tell #now to post it before i get shy GFHDSJ

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galpalo · 25 days

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(SPOILER)

Okay so I can’t fit ALL my screenshots here so I’ll focus on the ones I found most interesting. I will not apologize for shamelessly rambling, you WILL listen. Also this is not in order of the events.

(funfact: all of them scenarios were my favorite)

NORI FLASHBACK I REPEAT. R.i.p to the “intern”.

Can I just say I find it cute how similar Uzi and her mother are? Look at the band posters and her music tastes, plus the drawings (there’s one also on the desk!) but I did not expect her to be a heart-core remain of her old body.

BLONDE TWINS ARE BACK. THEORISTS YOUVE DONE IT AGAIN.

This moment

I did not ask to be hurt for a fraction of a second

I would scream too if I saw a trauma ghost of my past-life crush standing in front of me. Seriously though, this moment was funny

SO YOURE MEANING TO TELL ME, THEY WERE NOT JUST PROGRAMMED TO WIPE OUT ALL WORKER DRONES.

BUT ALSO THE HUMAN RACE. It unexpectedly makes sense?! Because back at episode 5 “home”, the absolute solver took cyn as a host to MURDER all humans at the gala. AND NOT ONLY DID THEY SUCCED HERE.

THE SOLVER FREAKIN. KILLED TESSA AND USED HER SKIN AND BODY??? THEORISTS HOW THE HELL DID YOU PREDICT THIS. TESSA WAS NOT TESSA. (Also this is a nice callback to Liam’s old works)

LOOK. THE SKIN-MASK. THE ARMS. THE FACE. POOR TESSA.

This moment made my heart race. When I tell you I GASPED. At first shocked by tessa being vague and kinda of a douche. And then N freakin- KILLING HER?? (That was before finding out it was the solver) girl didn’t even finish her sentence before he SLASHED her throat. AND N FREAKING OUT OVER IT FOR A SECOND. MY BABYS. MY FUCKED UP FAVORITES.

KHAN IS BACK AND I HAVE NOT BEEN HAPPIER. Lizzy and Thads confusion (mostly Thad’s) were funny.

Look at him so used and casual about the solvers powers (which raises a question) and thad and lizzy panicking in the backgrounD. Also him fixing the railgun?? And he KNEW about uzis cannibalistic tendencies? Did he notice or he saw NORI eat humans? And the fact he complained about her “nightcore” music taste. She’s just like her mom

Best not to ask Thad.

WHEN I TELL YOU IM IN DENIAL OVER DOLLS DEATH.

I WAS SO SCARED I THOUGHT THE SOLVER TOOK HER (doll) AS A HOST?? I AM IN DENIAL. I TELL YOU. UZI IS TRAUMATIZED. EVERYONE IS TRAUMATIZED. IM TRAUMATIZED. UZI SHES WARNING YOU.

THEM. THEM. IM. SCREAMING. THEM.

Even as a heart, a mother is a mother. She’s right tho Zi. (Also when she told N she knew Doll was infected with the solver. Nori. You’ve got some explaining with so little time to do so.)

J is back and I have NEVER been happier. Again. Also her “PRIOR HAZARD” message when seeing the RAILGUN khan fixed. GIRL IS NOT HAPPY TO SEE IT.

#I would add everything but unfortunately I’ve exceeded the limit.#Can you tell how normal I am about this silly robot show #Can you tell #i am very nirmal #murder drones #murder drones uzi #murder drones n #murder drones J #murderdrones V

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moliathh · 2 months

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Happy Women's day 8/3 i love women 😻😻

#hellsing #integra hellsing #hellsing ultimate #happy women’s day #i love integra #can you tell #alucard's spirit possessed me to draw this

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uppyr-blr · 9 months

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rex brings u boba

time is 2h20min yall think thats too much or whatttt

also my comms are open wink wink somt like this is 25 dollers

#captain rex #clone captain rex #the clone wars #clone troopers #clone trooper #tcw #clone wars #star wars #digital art #ct 7567 #i love milk tea #can you tell #boba clone artist

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thehollowwriter · 8 months

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OUTTA THE WAY MOB-LUN I'LLGLADLY SWAP PLACES WITH YOU

FJFIGJDDJIDDJ JADE PLS JUST ONE CHANCE PLS ISTG I WILLLET YOU STEPON ME PLEASE IM BRGGING YOU RN GRAB MY NECK CRADLE 6HE BWCK OF MY HEAD ANYTHING PLS-

#jade leech #jade leech x reader #Octavinelle #octavinelle manga #octavinelle x reader #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland x reader #twst #quinn rants #i adore him #can #can you tell #pls mister leech #ill be your mrs if you let me jffjdjdi

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