Because He Was Refusing To Indulge His Space Obsession, Danny Instantly Starts Stargazing, Acting All

Because he was refusing to indulge his space obsession, Danny instantly starts stargazing, acting all happy and innocent and spacey (ba-dum-tss), his obsession overriding any panic for a few minutes.

When previously interacting with the League in space form, Danny pretended that he couldn't remember much about himself, even his name (resulting in him getting the nickname Comet). He also pretended he couldn't remember how he got in the Watchtower.

Between these two facts, Phantom's attempting to remain in hero form, and Comet regularly disappearing from the Watchtower, the League concludes Phantom and Comet are split personalities, with Phantom being aware of it but Comet not. They also believe that Phantom only becomes Comet when he's been weakened or is surrounded by space, mainly because Comet always seems so faded when he's in the Watchtower.

Danny, once he's able to get his head on straight, decides to roll with it.

DP x DC combined with the Balanced/Dual Obsessions AU where Danny frequently goes to the Watchtower to safely stargaze and fulfill his secondary space obsession while invisible, and he’s been doing this for months and has yet to be noticed (albeit there has been some moments where members of the Justice League have felt a little creeped out, and the Flash swears he saw a glowing kid when he ran past the main room earlier, but when he stopped running the kid was gone-).

He sometimes brings some homework or snacks and other such things up with him.

One day, he just,,, gets so entranced watching space that he just… forgets to be invisible, and scares the FUCK out of half the Justice League due to suddenly appearing.

One rushed explanation later, Danny manages to convince them that he’s just a harmless, powerless ghost, who just wants to stargaze. He stays semi-intangible, and flickers to invisibility a couple times to make it seem like he doesn’t have enough power to form a corporeal form. And you know, they believe him.

He doesn’t plan to keep that up for long, but you know how it is with Danny and lies.

Eventually, the Justice League needs help with a threat.

So of course, Danny shows up to help out.

But the thing is. The differences between how he looks when fulfilling his hero obsession (heroic/protective aura, more confident stance, etc) and his space obsession (looks more childish/his actual age, comforting/kind aura, star freckles), plus the way he made himself seem slightly less corporeal when in the Watchtower, lead the Justice League into believing that these are two different ghosts.

Especially since Danny never gave them his name when in the Watchtower, claiming he didn’t remember it. (He does tell them to call him Phantom when he helps them out though).

Danny finds out about this assumption and doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry over having to keep up ANOTHER secret identity. He refuses to go to the Watchtower despite being inducted into the Justice League because he knows the instant he steps in there his space obsession will take over and he’ll be outed.

….And then one night, while stargazing, he accidentally leaves behind the Crown of Fire. So, the next day, mid-afternoon, Phantom shows up, in hero obsession mode, desperately searching the Watchtower for his crown, pointedly Not Looking at the Windows.

A couple of people (namely Batman) figure out what’s going on/see him flicker to space mode while searching, but overall it’s still a surprise to the majority of them when Phantom breathes out a sigh of relief upon finding the crown… and adrenaline rush over, snaps immediately into space mode in front of them.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIRABEL!!!!

- Sincerely, your platonic SIMP: Ismaet (Apparently March 6 is her birthday wtf? Am I supposed to only find that out through tumblr? yes)

Okay, so I just read a fanfic that had an interesting idea if this is King!Danny.

As ruler of the dead, Danny has control over the dead. Including those who have been touched by death, even if it was something like their heart temporarily stopping. Those he controls (at least the living) are still very aware of what their bodies are doing, and no amount of willpower or mental strength can overcome this power.

So, in his grief and anger, Danny uses this power to control every member of the Justice League who has been touched by death, and it's a lot of them. He forces them to destroy, just as his home was destroyed by their negligence, all the while those controlled are forced to watch as they destroy what they sought to protect. Any contingency plans made by Batman are useless when a different controlled hero gets in the way of an attack they are immune to. They can't even attack Danny, who has walls of supers that he isn't afraid of using as meat shields.

What's worse, no one knows Danny is the Ghost King, and no one knows why he's only able to control certain members. Everyone who isn't controlled is basically going in blind until one of them has a near death experience and is suddenly under Phantom's control.

After being ignored by the Justice League for years and thought of as a scam Phantom finally faces an opponent he didn't win against and his city is destroyed, killing everyone. The monster is heavily wounded by Phantom however as it was a brutal fight for both of them

Danny is heartbroken and in shock while the Justice League face off against this threat and also lose. Eventually they get thier second wind and rematch it and kill the thing, but just barely.

Later a small memorial was held for Amity Park and Phantom was enraged at how small it was. 70,000 people died and this was it? Most of the people hear weren't even mourners. They were press and fake ghost enthusiasts trying to catch internet points for thier viewer count. He hears some redhead say that the people of Amity were scammers and this whole ghost thing was fake. With tears in his eyes he screams, not as Fenton but as Phantom, "I'm fake?!" He grabbed the man by his throat and flew a few feet into the air, "You think I'm fake?! Here! Let's see how fake I am!" His words were dripping venom as he possessed the man and laughed as he used him as a puppet, attacking the people around him with ectoblasts and sending them running away screaming.

Bruce Wayne watched on as some unknown Elderich entity possessed Wally West and began attacking people. So Amity Parks pleas for help as well as the pleas from thier supposedly fake superhero were not just part of an elaborate tourist trap.

Green lantern had some explaining to do. Hopefully it wasn't too late to salvage the situation and save this child.

It was.

Imagine if he learned how to turn back into a kid.

Lloyd in child form, dragging Kai around an amusement park, using his ninja skills to win at all the carnival games while all the operators wonder how a kid is so skilled.

Lloyd accepts being part oni just for this.

Assuming that Danny's team is also there (Sam, Tucker, Jazz, maybe Dani and Valerie), the ghosts also decide to dunk them after they get Danny in. Each one changes the flavor of the Pits. They also get super drunk from the Pits but don't have the same issues as other humans because they are all some level of liminal due to being exposed to ectoplasm over the course of their lives.

At some point it turns into everyone throwing each other into the pits to see how their ectoplasm changes the flavor. Pure drunk shenanigans at this point.

Then someone suggests they start throwing the League Members in.

(Taking suggestions on what everyone tastes like. Would it be booze flavors or anything in general?)

The League of Assassins hideout with the Lazarus Pit has been attacked, with many members suddenly going silent. Of course, this fact makes its way back to Batman.

When the Justice League arrives to figure out what is going on, they find a group of 'metas' throwing a party, all of them with cups filled with Lazarus Water.

As it turns out, the Lazarus Water is actually high quality ghost booze, and a group of specters has decided to set up the current Ghost King's wedding reception around the best source of it.

He proceeds to use what he was given in all the wrong ways in order to stay on brand. He's putting suits on backwards, putting the wrong parts with different heroes (i.e. Superman Shirt with Batman's cowl while in Gotham), at one point he tapes a suit to the outside of his clothes rather than putting it on normally.

The closest he got to wearing a proper cosplay is when someone accidentally gave him a suit that was a few sizes too large, so Danny stuffed it with as many pillows as he could.

Danny arrives in the DC universe and, for one reason or another, decides to help fight some bad guys. But he doesn't do it as Phantom or Fenton, oh no. He doesn't want either of his identities to get mixed up in all this nonsense and get traced back to him. So what does he do?

Crappy cosplay.

He's in Metropolis and Superman needs a little help? He's showing up in a blue tee with a paper superman symbol visibly tapped on the front. He's wearing blue jeans with red boxers over them. He's wearing a cheap mask of Supe's face that was clearly bought from the dollar store.

He's in Gotham? His cape and cowl is a curtain duck-taped into a barely passable hood with paper for the mask and toilet paper rolls for the ears.

Wonder woman? It's some kind of swim suit, put over his clothes mind you, and he has a wig that is clearly made of a mop.

He's showing up in bootleg merchandise, clothes that are the wrong color, accents that are made of paper and visibly taped on, armor that is made of cardboard and tinfoil, literal undergarments on the outside of his clothes, symbols put backwards or upside-down, costumes that generally look like he put them together in five minutes.

At some point, it becomes some sort of game amongst the Justice League to see who the cosplayer will dress up as next. They have a betting pool to see who's the next one to be cosplayed.