Danny Is Rolling With The Punches The Entire Way Through - Tumblr Posts
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.