#danny is going through it rn

[starry-bi-sky]

my body's aching like a knock-down drag-out

and my poor heart is an open wound A Childhood Friends Au snippet that very briefly delves into Danny's life post-accident. CW: Mild Mentions of Blood, Violence, VERY mild gore ig. Danny briefly recalls getting impaled during a fight.

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What they don't tell you about being dead is that it hurts. That it can hurt. That it can hurt more than when you were alive. That when you die, the emotions you die with stick with you like a leech that just won't let go. That emotions are ugly little thorns that stick their barbs into you and grow beneath your skin; or, at least, whatever’s left of it. 

Danny is familiar with anger. It kept him warm in Gotham, when his parents weren't home from work and he and Jason were crowding Crime Alley with their presence. It kept him warm in Amity, when the fresh sting of moving was still needling into his heart and he wanted nothing more than to rip and tear into the closest person next to him.

He's familiar with violence. With fights. With death. He's seen people die in Crime Alley probably every day. From overdose, from gunshots, from stab wounds; anything that can kill, rest assured he's seen it. He's familiar with getting his own knuckles rough and bloody when other kids turn and bare their teeth at him and Jason; they're all just starving dogs stuck in a fighting pit, primed and ready to rip out each other's throats. 

Black eyes, stomped hands, bloody noses. You name it; he’s had it. Gotham is paved with the blood of her children, and Danny likes to imagine that when he was born, the doctors handed his mother a file and told her; “Take it. He’s going to need it for his teeth.” 

Danny’s mom (and dad, for that matter) was too busy trying to keep him and Jazz fed, so Danny stole the file from her drawer with Jazz’s help, and did it himself.  

He’s familiar with anger, he thought he was getting better at it these days. It doesn’t come to him as easily as it did before. Of course, that was before Jason died. 

Danny is less familiar with grief. Caring kills and Gotham kills the caring, so Danny cares very little about other people. Or he tries to. But grief hurts. His grief hurts. It hurts too much. It hurts like a bug trying to crawl out of his chest; like a rat chewing a hole through his heart. Some days he wants to dig his hands into his hair and split himself down the middle. Some days he just wants to scream. 

He’s dead. He’s dead. He’s dead. 

He wants the whole city to hear him wailing, some days. It sticks itself in the back of his throat like bile, and Danny is one wrong retch away from letting it loose. It sticks in his lungs like all the tar he’s smoked in since he was nine. It pushes and aches at his temples, in his head, like his brain is trying to swell out of his skull. His thoughts becoming so loud they threaten to commandeer his tongue.  

He has no mouth, but he must scream. 

Something they don’t tell you about being dead is that it hurts. That it hurts more than when you were alive. Something they don’t tell you about being dead is that it’s violent. That it’s bloody. Or as bloody as it can be when everyone has no blood. 

Another thing they don’t tell you about being dead, is that it’s a lot like Gotham that way.

With no threat of death, Danny’s enemies forget death itself. Blood comes easy, like water, and teeth are encouraged. Bring your own fangs to the fight. Dying is something you can just walk off. 

Danny’s been dead for three months. He can’t say he’s been walking it off easy. He’s perfected the art of turning his nails into claws since his heart was still beating, but he can’t say he’s perfected fighting other ghosts. 

Scrappy is just not enough. 

He feels like he’s back in Gotham again. Back in her death-shroud alleyways, fighting someone bigger than him. But there’s no Jason to watch his back, and Danny has to get himself out of there alone. Or he might just not get up at all. 

Black eyes, busted lips. It’s familiar to him like an old scent, Danny isn’t quite sure that he’s missed it. It’s more familiar than his fights with Dash. 

But there’s no one else who can do it but him. Not Sam, not Tucker. He can’t lose them too. He can’t. He can’t. He can’t. His heart can’t take another break, he already feels like he’s going insane. 

With no threat of death, Danny’s enemies fight like death themself. He learns why when Technus puts a street sign through his stomach one day. It pins him to the asphalt like a moth pinned by its wings. 

Danny claws at the metal like how an animal caught in a trap chews off its leg, and every move is blinding pain. He thinks he was howling, but it’s hard to tell. He couldn’t recognize the sound of his voice. 

He bleeds green. It mixes in black with the pitch blackhole in his heart, which throbs and twists and cries in time with his reckless panic. The finger-choking terror of dying again strangles out the air he doesn’t need. His blood evaporates, only to reabsorb into him. It just bleeds out again, cycling like a snake eating its own tail. 

Danny breaks his nails clawing at the metal, and eventually gets it in his mind to pull it out. So he does, and the end drips ectoplasm green as he gets to his feet. In red-vision, Danny sends the sign back with snarling, vicious fervor. The pain is irrelevant in his rage.

Only after the fight does the hole the pole left start to close. Danny doesn’t shift human until it’s gone. Unlike other injuries, a scar stays behind. Ugly; mottled, it aches for a week with every twist and stretch his body makes. He hates it. 

Being dead is agony. 

Every part of him is in pain. Every step, every word he speaks, everything he does, it is prerequisite with pain. The body is temporary, but the soul is forever, and death has carved into it with its freezing green hands and left him with never-ending heartache. It has torn from him and stolen what of him it could, and in return it’s left him with sorrow. 

His pain is his grief, and he’s sobbed in the safety of his room more times than he can count. It’s still as fresh as the day he heard the news of Jason’s death. He knows, instinctively, that it will stay fresh forever. 

In his room, Danny shoves his hands over his mouth and shrieks in whatever, muffled way he can into his pillow. It’s not enough. It’s never enough. He needs to be louder. He needs to be heard. He refuses to be. 

Being dead hurts. 

#tw mild gore #cw mild blood #cw mentioned violence #dpxdc #dp x dc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #dp x dc crossover #dead on main #dp x dc au #dp x dc fanfic #cfau #cfau danny #obsessed with the fact that danny just has the WORST fucking time after jason dies and baby i can make it worse #*kills you and makes you a banshee and puts you in an irrevocable state of grief* #delicious angst. danny is having the wORSt time ever lol. lmao even #was originally meant to explore the idea that danny can survive lethal injuries as phantom. which briefly got mentioned. #but i got away from myself. leaning reaaal heavy into the fact that danny's a banshee. At 19 he's got a pretty good handle of himself #but imagine being a fresh out the gate banshee. usually they get time to themselves in the zone to cry until their heart's content. #sorry danny. you have school tomorrow and family sleeping in the bedroom next door #kinda proud of myself. you can kinda see how Rath would've occurred here. #danny is going through it rn #was gonna add a snippet about the city's thoughts on phantom but couldnt fit it in

[mossycobblestonewrites]

DC X DP PROMPT #24

Danny has the ghost flu. It's not contagious. So what's the harm in answering a summons from his favorite group of heroes in the sky? Coddling. They knew IMMEDIATELY that something was up and now they aren't leaving Danny alone. On the plus side, he's in space! On the downside, his powers are acting up with the ghost flu and they just aren't letting him go home.

#dc x dp #dpxdc #danny gets summoned to the watchtown #summoning is their form of communication with the ghost kid #danny is sick through his ghost side #unrelated to the given scenario but reveal gone good in this one #the jl: the ghost kid is sick #we should help him #danny: let me go heathens #listen #it doesnt make much sense but i am also very sick rn #actually give me sickfic recs #let me live vicariously through my blorbos

[mimipuppet]

my first contribution to the phandom

poor attempts at in universe memes but it's after danny's identity is reveveled and amity park is astonished that wes was actually right

#danny phantom #in universe memes #dp memes #amity park is going through the 5 stages of grief rn #danny phantom in universe memes

[lfcrobbo]

ummmmmm??? val gang how we feelin????

#valtteri bottas #valtteri #i know i say this a lot but someone for the love of god check on danny ric. he's probably going through it rn

[vala-dreams]

He stubbed his toe

#danny phantom #danny fenton #he's really going through it rn #send hopes and prayers please #fanart #danny phantom fanart #digital art #illustration #shipost #digital doodles

[chaosinstigator]

ngl… my excitement for this weekend literally vanished last night

#daniel ricciardo #danny ric #dr3 #f1 #formula 1 #dutch gp 2023 #I’m trying so hard to find it back but - #listen danny fans yall know #the emotional toll we’ve been through the last year #or two years depending on how long you’ve been watching but I’m baby I’ve only been here for a year #but seeing him lose his happiness and his seat… spending the first half of the season without him just going nutto for the glimpses we got #here and there and then BAM surprise we get him back! but no it’s 2 races and then A MONTH OF BREAK #but it’s okay bc he’s excited he’s ready he’s COOKING and then yesterday #the emotional roller coaster I am exhausted #I can’t imagine how he feels after all this but we know he’s got great people around him thankfully #anyways yes so now that I have a taste of him enjoying being back in a car.. seeing another x amount of races he’s forced to sit out feels #extremely depressing #I honestly don’t know if I’m up for it and like ofc I do root for other drivers but they’re not Danny yknow? idk maybe I’m just a lil dumb #joey rambles #sorry sorry I’m in a sad girl moment tm rn #which is not great since I have to go to a work thing tonight

[stardustthread]

You guys shouldn’t forget this at all

#greta van fleet #gvf #danny wagner #danny gvf #baby daniel #broken bells #the battle at garden's gate #im going through all the stages of grief rn #there’s a lot of emotion and a lot to process

[sir-bird-bones]

I’ve begun to realize that my favorite character dynamic is “absolutely insane about each other and their mutual best friend/in a qpr with”

#Lois x Clark with Jimmy just always there #or any version of the trinity of Diana x Bruce x Clark #I have a soft spot for Bakugo x Deku with Todoroki always there to the point people assume he’s their 3rd #they’re not wrong but they’re not right either #even with Danny phantom #and the ever lasting trio dynamic #with they way they had it in canon but my personal favorite flavor of Tucker x Sam with Danny in a qpr #it even goes in Scott Pilgrim with Scott x Romona and Wallace also #I love a cute Diana x Clark with Bruce being they’re ace romantic/qpr partner #But also Clark x Bruce with them going on a very romantic date but then half way through they’re both like man I sure miss Wonder Woman rn #or even Bruce x Diana walking in a moon lit garden looking into each others eyes and then Superman showing up #looking like absolute hell and just being like do you guys wanna get milk shakes with me 🥺 #and both of them being like well shit we have to go get milkshakes with him #the idea of telling him no doesn’t even cross their minds #and in a more platonic direction #ZADF with Zim seeing Gaz and being like YOUR sister Dib-thing WRONG she is OUR sister #they’re more but these are the few right off the top of my head #my rambles

[ohfugecannada]

Watching the haunted mansion (2023) with my mom. I haven’t been this painfully bored watching a movie since I watched Batman: Gotham by Gaslight.

#haunted mansion #I can see why Disney underadversied this and yeeted it to Disney+ purgatory #none of the characters are good apart from maybe Owen Wilson priest #I can’t stay mad at Danny Devito but he’s mostly just going through the motions #the set design and ghosts are lame and bland #the story isn’t interesting or investing at all #and none of the jokes are funny #except that one where Owen Wilson priest says a preyer before the seance that actually caught me off guard #but yeah I hate the phrase but everything else is mid af #I wish I was watching the muppet version rn

[jmkho]

Day 109 of trying to get @gretavanfleet back

#gvf #greta van fleet #josh gvf #josh kiszka #jake gvf #jake kiszka #sam gvf #sam kiszka #danny gvf #danny wagner #day of trying #hi all will again be taking a break just going through some stuff rn but will keep these posts coming

[allieisacrybaby]

ARE YALL TELLING ME THIS MAN HAS A TOUNGE PIERCING?!???? WHAT?!!

#danny wagner #daniel robert wagner #danny gvf #huh? #bffr?! #on my knees rn #my jaw is literally on the floor #head full #very many thoughts are going through my head right now none of them are holy #dear god this is bad for me #it looks so real though?!!

[ivystitches]

wake up girlies new drew and danny just dropped

#as someone going through a depressive episode this is exactly what i fucking needed rn thanks #also i’m sorry about the girlies my youngest cousin (she’s like 2) calls all of us girlies #and since it’s now meme in my house it’s also going to be a meme on my blog #danny gonzalez #drew gooden

[winchesternova-k]

i’m finally well enough and awake enough to continue writing today and now i’m finding a new sticking point w comparing my pov chs past gfs 😬 this isn’t in a weird way it’s just an examination of his feelings fvgfvg and i’m having trouble doing that w/o feeling like i’m diminishing one rl fvgfvg this is what i get for writing fic for soap operas that didn’t expand too much on the end of the relationship fvgfvg

i’m srsly debating whether to open the ebook continuations to see if i can find anything there but i can’t tell if i think it might actually help or if it’s just the adhd urge to Stop bc i’ve Hit A Wall

#bray’s flip between ‘im going to find danni’ ti ‘danni who?’ in like three eps is so hard to try and write through fvgfvg #it’s making me get Why the writers didn’t but i rlly can’t just skip this bc it’s important and it would be so weird to skip it #i love writing introspection but holy shit this is hard rn #emily actually writes #the tribe #with grace in your heart

[aro-aizawa]

little things that have made me happy these past few days:

watching a film i love while cuddling with my mum, i felt such calm that i didn’t realise how tense i’d been

i bought some fairy lights that have rose coverings on them and they look amazing while my room is dark. i am restraining myself from buying at least two more

my mum and i traded rings we inherited from my grandma and i love the ring i got. its thin and light but not delicate while being v pretty. i don’t think im gonna take it off again unless i have to

#shut up danni #my life is rather stressful rn but i can focus on the good things for now #but i really can’t stop looking at the ring tbh #im already looking after my grandma’s engagement ring thats not the ring im talking abt #on my birthday my aunts all went through my grandma’s jewelry and divided it up and i was given one of my grandma’s rings #one that she didn’t wear a lot but it was pretty altho too big for me #anyways my mum took it to get it resized if she saw the opportunity to #she didn’t see one but propsed a swap #bc my ring was too big but she’d chosen a ring too small for her #so we swapped and this ring is perfect #im gonna be glad i have this when i have to pass the engagement ring to my aunt in a couple weeks #y’know i didn’t used to wear jewelry all that often before but now its constant #it’d only wear it when going out but now im always gonna wear my locket and ring #oh yeah i love the fairy lights bc roses are like. my flower. (specifically yellow roses but yellow lights didn’t look good) #and i’ve always wanted fairy lights i’ve always thought they were super cool

[ew-selfish-art]

Dpxdc AU: consultant groups can be used to outsource problems for companies so why not monarchies?

Danny is listening to the various eyeballs and ghosts chatter on about all the issues that he now has to oversee and advise and make so many freaking decisions on. It’s annoying that it all has to come down to his call because he was a dumb 14 year old who didn’t want his town to permanently live in the ghost zone.

Now 17, King of the Infinite, and a bit wiser to the world, Danny is doing his best to balance his teenage ambitions to not give a shit and his protective obsession to very much give a shit.

Sams parents are making her learn the family business and Tucker is trying to make this internship he’s got with a fancy tech company out of New Jersey into a career without college… so while they’re commiserating with Danny the idea comes up.

Earth has a shit ton of heroes. Like, ever since the Justice League *poofed* the GIW out of existence with the Meta human acts- more and more caped crusaders seemed to be coming out of the wood work. More villains too but still, more people who seemed wise to their abilities and morals. Danny has literally never taken an ethics class.

But rn, Eye-mothy and Eye-Bert are arguing over how Danny as King Phantom is supposed to tackle the problem of some fucking pool acting as a weird trade route with a cult and… ugh it’s just so boring but like also such a fucking problem. But… maybe it can be someone else’s issue.

Opening a portal, Danny escapes into space and gets to work finding the base of operations- Tucker had told him there was a new satellite after all and there’s no way it wasn’t connected to the hero orgs- and boom he flies into the Watchtower.

“Hey- are any of you guys willing to consult on some weird pools of ectoplasm in Pakistan? Green and glowing little lakes of bullshit and magic?” Danny asks into the meeting room of the JL regardless of their startled and alarmed exclamations.

“… I could consult on that.” A voice comes from the corner, and Danny recognizes him as one of the bat people. Or bird? The guy is in a lot of red and clearly wasn’t supposed to be in this meeting based on the way he’s propped in the corner. The room erupts in protest but Danny barely hears them through his excitement and focus on the dude.

“Great! I’ll have him back before the end of the day! Lets go Bird boy!” And with that, Danny grabbed the Bird, chucked them both through a portal back into his thrown room and begins to explain the way these eyeballs are totally trying to trap him into doing more work than he needs to do.

“What do I call you by the way? I’m Danny but you’ll probably hear them call me King Phantom.”

“I go by Red Robin, and honestly, I’ve been trying to get this shit taken care of for years.”

From there Tim becomes a regular consultant for King Phantom- the Bat Family is losing their minds with him constantly going to the land of the dead but also Constantine said not to piss off the king at all costs.

Danny is just thrilled that this dude has a shit ton of insight as well as business sense- like he could legit run the monarchy way better than him despite the fact that they’re the same age.

They end up working together for years, and even when there’s not an active issue at hand, Danny will meet up with the bird just to talk.

Sam and Tucker think they’re hilarious each time they ask if Danny’s proposed yet.

Tim has already planned their wedding but all of that information is in a folder more secured than the nuclear codes- Danny needs to ask him on a date first.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #dc x dp #dp x dc #danny phantom #Tim drake #dead tired #dc crossover #dp crossover #ehehehehe #also him just grabbing any random hero to help on any issue their power set might help to advise #danny outsourcing his issues is my favorite headcanon #boy wants to be helpful but also like is begging to just have one lazy Sunday #Tim drake is like ‘why would I not help run a monarchy in my spare time from running a Fortune 500 company and being a vigilante?’ #tim drake is a menace #he’s what the eyeballs have nightmares about and they didn’t even think they could have nightmares

[deadsetobsessions]

Danny is desperately running away. Not from a robber, they’re not much of a threat to him anyways, but from a really intense Batman.

“Oh my ancients,” he muttered as he sprinted away from the dude swinging above him. “Can you please go away?! I already paid you back, dude!” Danny raised his voice at the swooping figure above him. He wished he could go ghost, but that would break his cover so fast as a “meta” or whatever.

“Stop running,” Batman landed in front of him, growl reverberating around them.

“Stop chasing me then! It’s bad manners!” And Danny’s from the midwest, so that’s an actual concern.

“How did you find Two-Face?” Batman loomed before stepping back when Danny’s shoulders curled inwards.

“Oh. Is that what this is all about?” Danny huffed. “It was self defense! And… the pun was too good to not, you know? Yeah, no, I had to. Prime opportunity.”

The cowl might hide it but Danny always knew when people are doing that nose pinch of exasperation. It’s a talent he carefully cultivated through shenanigans and puns.

Batman? Definitely inwardly pinching the bridge of his nose.

“How did you find him? Harvey Dent is a dangerous criminal.”

“In my defense,” Danny started, like a teenager caught guiltily shoving the entire cookie jar into his room instead of leaving some for the rest of the family. “He found me first. Well, no, he found the kids first. He started it!”

Batman somehow raised an eyebrow. How the hell does he do that?? The cowl covered the entire upper half of his face! Danny squinted at him. Is Batman a meta?

“Listen, I didn’t start it, but my sister sure as heck taught me how to end it. It’s not my fault Dent couldn’t handle a beat down. And I told you I was gonna pay you back for that one (1) Big Dent! If you wanted cash, you should have said so!”

“Hrm.”

Maybe it was the fancy gear. Maybe it was the pointy head thing. Batman reminded Danny way too much of Vlad and he got the ick.

“Okay, well, good talk, bye!” Danny ducked and ran, faster than he had before.

Batman grappled up and forward, trying to grab him. Danny, with years of dodge training under his belt and impeccable teenage instincts of gtfo, managed to dodge Batman’s reaching hands with a hollered “OPE!”

“Bye! See you never!” Danny ducked behind an alley and turned invisible as Batman swooped past.

When he was sure the vigilante was gone, he slowly faded into the visible spectrum.

“Jeez. Better warn Amy about this. Maybe I should hide in Crime Alley until this blows past.”

——

Gotham’s underbelly had a new tale to sling around their bars that week and a new demographic to be wary of.

The Terrors, the kiddie gang that ran perpendicular to Crime alley, was preyed on by Harvey Dent.

“What do you think you’re doing to them?!”

“Ahhhhhh!!!” Harvey screamed, flailing as a creature of shadows and claws- god damn those sharp ass claws- descended upon him, scarring it just one side but both sides of his very vulnerable face!

“Back the hell off of my kids, you fashion reject!”

As for Harvey… well, he’s developed an aversion to the smell of peanut butter and small children.

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Batman, hunting down Danny because he’s worried about the endangered meta kid: you left me a Dent.

Danny, because he sees a vigilante bum rushing him: I have no cash! That’s the only way I can pay you back rn!

——

Batman, trying to lecture Danny about safety because he’s a worried batdad:

Danny: ew a rich stalker trying to be my dad!

@tricksterwitchkat can you tell I’ve been thinking about your pun for days? This is for you, thank you so much for that pun, it made my entire week.

#batman #danny phantom #bruce wayne #dc x dp #harvey dent #two face #two face is not having a good time #Danny and his little sister’s kiddie gang #bamf danny phantom #ope being a thing I’ve heard midwesterners say #I think