Danny moves to Gotham, hear him out! There's really good jobs there that pay through the nose and the cost of living is cheap!
Plus, the city is riddled with heroes and vilains! It's so easy to slip under the radar!
Unfortunately, there are so many civilian casualties. Like, all the time. Even in Metropolis!
So Danny, for his first year in Gotham, opens small portals to the Far Frozen and gets schooled on being a field medic. None of his powers can really be used for healing, but they can make people feel better. He just has to be careful to be as far removed from the Phantom moniker as possible, so he can't use any obvious powers.
He gets a bit of a reputation in Gotham; a small time hero of the people, for the people. A hero not invested in fighting, but in dragging civilians away from the danger. He doesn't even have a moniker; people are too busy arguing over the best one for him.
So while aliens are attacking both Metropolis and Gotham, Danny is out in full kit; a gas mask to hide his face, all black, repurposed kevlar from the vests the GCPD did not properly dispose of, no identifying markers.
But one of the clean up crews notices something insanely worrying; the geiger counter they have to point at alien spaceship parts? Yeah. Yeah, it's going off when they point it at the new small-time hero.
That hero's power is radioactivity. Holy shit. It's not at a level that will hurt people, but when he's dodging through fighting the level goes up.
The clean up crew concludes and shares via Twitter that the medic-hero is only a danger to others if he gets too stressed.
Word spreads fast, and pretty soon the absolute second Danny shows up on a scene, all fighting stops.
After all, no one wants to piss off the living Nuclear Bomb.
Basically, Danny's ghost-everything sets off Geiger counters, and now absolutely everyone is convinced that the medic-themed hero only refuses to fight because his meta power is just...being radioactive.
But he isn't.
So now, because it's the perfect cover and completely disassociated from Phantom, he has to play along and pretend like yes; that is his power.
Danny is stuck in a crumbling office with civilians injured and unable to escape, and as a last resort he's forced to create a structure out of ice to hold what's left of the building off everyone.
But his powers are getting stronger and instead of just ice, in his panic he summoned snow as well, turning the space into an Arctic scene.
His sudden show of powers makes headlines, and in conjunction with him being a radioactive hotspot, the press just begins to call him Nuclear Winter.
Danny's Just happy it's not something like Invis-o-bill.
Did you know that AO3 allows fics with homicide in them? There’s a whole tag for Major Character Death and even more tags so you can find exactly what kind of character death you want to read.
Don’t they know that murder is illegal? You just know there are a bunch of homicidal maniacs out there who love to read those stories. They write them, too, in between killing people.
Anyone can read the stories on AO3! Kids can read them! They’re getting exposed to stabbing, poisoning, even guns! And they’re writing the heroes doing the killing, too! That’s basically telling kids it’s okay to go out and murder their families. It’s promoting violence and encouraging homicide and if we don’t do something about it soon, you’ll be murdered next!
The devil came to my house and tried to burn it down, which is why this post exists in the first place.
I saw Goody OP writing darkfic with the devil.
Batmobile has been stolen by so many people that at this point Batman should just go walking.
it's always been so funny to me to picture the batman, crouching to get into or out of his car, especially mid action scene. like, logically i get why he has a car, he's not a speedster or a flyer, but it's just so silly to me. it's the batmobile. like, that is the funniest name for a car and then it's just casually a tank.
i cannot think of a single benefit of an actual car over a motorcycle that would out weigh the sheer advantage of maneuverability that is so crucial to urban vigilantism (can you imagine the batmobile stuck in traffic or thwarted by a narrow alley?), especially given their fighting style / focus on stealth.
sure the batmobile can have heavier armor, and it's probably better for moving anyone who's injured, but that makes it a situational tool, not an ideal default vehicle.
Robin Tim: I need to tell you something but I don’t want you to see me any differently or tell Batman just yet
Nightwing, thinking he’s coming out: I promise it won’t change anything
Huntress, also thinking he’s coming out: if he says anything when you do I’ll kick his ass
Oracle, also also thinking he’s coming out: just know you can tell us anything
Robin Tim, who just caused his first young justice international incident: okay so-
discovered an intriguing network of pornbots which appear to be repeatedly reblogging this picture of butter between themselves
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Jesus ffucking christ bro.
Seems like he had an oral fixation… Almost as if he were replacing the cigarette with… No i shant say…
Then we’ll all say it together
i AM a tim energy drink truther btw. jolt. josta. red bull. rockstar. monster energy my friend monster energy. the trashy ones. the skater park ones. the ones you get at the convenience store and collect the tabs and put them in chains or on shoelaces. trust me when i say that the vibe of the completely innocuous and loser rebellion of drinking those things bc theyre 'unhealthy' fits him. the status of them amongst suburban white children. they do serve the purpose of keeping you awake whether you want to or not and personally break through my own caffeine tolerance.
like tim IS the kind of person to just run on fumes til he passes out and the coffee thing is fanon yadda yadda but i just. think that nothing is funnier than tim "canonically drove a car at 14 and has a skateboard" drake collecting drink can tabs. because he would. to me
Tim is canonically BIG into grape-flavored drinks (Dick also likes Zesti, though I do not remember if he has a flavorite flavour) called Zesti.
Zesti is one of the two big soda companies in DC canon (think their Pepsi to their Coca-Cola) with the competing, more popular drink being Soder.
Hilarious to me is that canonically (to before New52) Zesti was made with addictive well water and cola nuts from Santa Prisca (the island where they were doing the Venom experiments and Bane got pumped full of Venom to begin with) so like... literally addictive well water and potentially Venom-tainted cola nuts.
And then, apparently, the addictive water well got destroyed so they had to find a substitute amd we never even know what they chose XD
Tim is biiiig on Zesti.
It's his and Dick's favourite drink canonically for Pre New52!
Forget caffeine the boy is hopped up on Zesti and that's 100/10 fully in character for him.
Also I feel like he used to play that game where you move the tab up and down saying letters until it breaks off and then you keep it until you can string enough of them together to have a name, be it yours or your friend.
He definitely has can tabs mixed in with his possessions, just rattling in a drawer or at the bottom of his backpack / bag / belt pouch.
People on this site really be like *make long posts about those four times Jason went overboard as Robin to prove that he was characteristically ‘such a brutally violent Robin, oh my!’*
Then they deliberately leave out the part where Bruce talked how uncharacteristic that was of Jason and how worried he was for his son because he was sure that uncharacteristically reckless behaviour was due to Jason finally feeling safe enough to grieve for his mother.
But that’s none of my business…
Four times, it was like FOUR times.
Two of those times were an abusive pimp and then a serial rapist, not common criminals, a third with Two Face, who killed his dad, and he felt bad about it after and said he pitied Two Face for his mental illness, we don’t have context for the fourth, but the first two give us an idea, huh?
Sorry, I’ll stop now.
If the fourth time you’re thinking of is when he gets benched in Death in the Family, then we actually do have at least some context.
1. It was child pornographers
image description: a comic panel of a bids eye view of a warehouse. The caption reads, “it took me three weeks to track down the kiddie-porn ring’s main warehouse. the bust was all set to go. robin and i and were in hiding, waitng for our police back up. suddenly my partner runs out of patience. that’s the way it goes sometimes with the best laid plans of mice and men.
2. Alfred and Bruce think it’s a grief response.
image description: a series of four panels of a comic. the first is an outside view of wayne manor. the others are of Batman sitting in an armchair and talking to Alfred.
Panel one: Caption: When I get home to wayne manor a couple of hours later, I find Robin’s not yet returned. In a way I’m relieved. It gives me a chance to talk with my oldest friend.
Bruce: I think I’ve made a terrible mistake, Alfred.
Panel 2:
Bruce: The kid’s losing it. He dived into those thugs like someone looking to die.
Alfred: I’ve been noticing some disquieting things about Master Jason, myself.
Panel 3:
Alfred: The lad avoids talking about his parents lately. I’ve come upon him, several times, looking at that battered old photograph of his mother and father, crying. When he’s seen me, he’s hidden the picture and left the room, refusing to talk.
Bruce: In other words, I may have started Jason as Robin before he had a chance to come to grips with his parents’ deaths.
Panel 4:
Alfred: Being your partner is not exactly the best situation for a teenager adjusting to such a loss.
end image description
And, yeah, Bruce does note several times in the first few pages of this issue that it’s a change from how Jason normally is.
Oh so there was context for the forth time, and would you look at that, it does fit the pattern. No idea how I could have forgotten that.
And there are the parts with Bruce and Alfred talking about it too.
I will never stop reminding people that this is the context Jason was benched in, it’s my sacred duty now. Also note that if you look at that issue, Bruce’s primary objection is not that Jason is overly violent - Jason’s violence is second to his recklessness in both his internal monologue and his conversation with Alfred. Bruce says he acted “like someone looking to die” - he was worried Jason was going to get himself killed.
How ironic, then, that Jason died by obeying Bruce and staying behind with Sheila.
You’d think that people would remember this - you know, seeing as this is only from the most famous segment of his run as Robin. :/
This fandom tends to be very forgetfull. And yeah, he was worried about Jason, not mad or disappointed in him. Also an important distinction is that Bruce didn’t fire Jason permanently as Robin, he just benched him so Jason could have some room to process all of his grief and trauma. Because he loved his son and he could tell that Jason was going through a lot.
