#for CiM gotham is something of a mystic doldrums or wasteland

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I'm so curious to learn how the Bats came to the conclusion that the Phantom Kid is also the city spirit. 👀 It is a reasonable conclusion because of the soul-connection as well as appearing around the same time they felt the shift with the new City Spirit and whatever information Dr. Fate shared with the JL.

It's mostly a case of the Bats going "hey, this weird shit started happening the same time this kid with no record of existing who also triggers a similar metaphysical phenomena when we manage to interact with him started appearing" so they drew the most logical conclusion that The Phantom Boy is this City Spirit thing. I mean...they are detectives and it's not like Danny's very good at subtle.

Naturally, they don't have all the pieces of the puzzle yet, so they've still got some pretty big question marks, like what exactly a City Spirit does, the rhyme and reason for these powers they now suddenly have, and how Sam, Tucker, and Jazz fit in all of this, or what they're planning to do to help Gotham.

As for Fate...well...to me he just felt like the JL member who would realistically know something about what's going on in Gotham, so he became my exposition mouthpiece lmao. Fate knows in the broadest possible terms what's going on in Gotham's mystical behind the scenes by virtue of being a Lord of Order, but the specifics are a bit beyond him (though Gotham kind of makes him nervous because it's perpetually teetering on the very edge of spiraling into Chaos and just looking at it is anxiety-inducing for him. Needless to say, it freaked him out when the small glimmer of Order holding this budding maelstrom of Chaos together flickered out, only to be replaced by something much brighter. So Fate's been keeping a closer eye on the mystical goings on in Gotham).

#void answers #change in management #for CiM gotham is something of a mystic doldrums or wasteland #the framework of order is SO fragile there that even most of the more malicious magic users avoid it #it is a powder keg that NO ONE wants to be responsible for setting off #for reference: i think of order and chaos as being mechanically opposed forces rather than moral ones #chaos drives things forward; it inspires motion and change #order; meanwhile; keeps things stable and serves to constructively direct the energy of chaos #an excess or deficiency of either is detrimental overall #too much chaos and things fall apart; too much order and things stagnate #interestingly the villain darkseid serves (in my mind) as an example of Order taken to its darkest extreme #this turned into general dc meta but hope you liked it :)