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Hey, didn't flash make an enemy speedster go super, super, super slow? To the point he was kinda trapped in time but still aware of every second passing? Didn't flash put that guy in a museum to act as a (living) statue?

Wonder how Barry likes getting the same treatment.

DP x DC prompt: Danny isn’t from the DC dimension but a few of his rogues and other Realms ghosts have wandered there from time to time. Enough that the Justice League has him on call through an inter dimensional signal, better than having Constantine or Zatanna summon him all the time. Sometimes, they call him when he’s busy dealing with Ghost King shit or just getting a rare moment of peace. Clockwork’s solution to this problem is to just stop time in the DC dimension until he feels Danny is ready to go deal with whatever problem they’ve called him for. He never tells Danny he does this.

This wouldn’t be a problem at all, if it weren’t for the fact that the entire Flash Family are still painfully aware of every instance where time is stopped. They thought the world moved slowly before, imagine what it feels like for it to not move at all. It’s a waking nightmare for them and the next time they see Phantom they’ve gotta get him to stop this.

For the record, this is just how Clockwork dotes.

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Dannymay 2023

6. Eclipse & 27. Rigns

I was planning to combine these prompts and draw space ancient Danny, but then "What if it was Dan?" popped in my head and I found that idea kind of fascinating.

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Dan was born from grief, rage and self-hatred by smashing two very different ghosts together. On the one hand I really like the idea of him healing with time and becoming more of his own ghost. And I like the idea of Clockwork seeing one very improbable future and deciding to push it to become reality (partly because he wants that for Dan and partly because Observants will freak out). But mostly my reasoning was just: Why not? (and honestly that's reason enough)

Other ghosts being all “Clockwork is extremely dangerous and powerful! Some of us don’t think he’s real, but regardless, we must avoid him at all costs!”

And Danny’s like “No?? He’s super chill, watch.” and tackles him at the speed of Mach 10. Clockwork just sighs like a tired dad and pats him on the head.

Y'all who love depicting Ghost King Danny as an eldritch being in DPxDC crossovers, i have a plothole to offer to you, and then my favorite pastime - the solution making the plothole look like an intentional part of the interior design

The plothole: why are y'all making 'eldritch being' part of a Ghost King's attributes when Pariah Dark never showed anything like it at any point of time????

The solution: lmao y'all i present to you the Thor Ragnarok headcanon, in which the Crown and Ring and Ghost King status don't actually make anyone eldritch, they just make it easier to focus what's already there

So basically

Danny: but i don't have the crown and ring anymore how can i beat them i'd have to like. go full eldritch horror for that

Clockwork: and you can, now that you have done it enough times with assistance. the king accessories only draw out what is already there, make it easier to acess, but the core of it is you. you can do this danny :)

Danny:

Danny: I WAS AN ELDRITCH HORROR FROM THE START????

CW: *cocks gun* always have been ...what do you think happens when a 100% complete undamaged child soul goes out and then supernova in an explosion of ectoplasm? You're the equivalent of a black hole Danny, of course you're a primordial being

Danny:

Project: Save Humanity

or something like that

It's no surprise that the Ancients get bored. They are immortal and have all the time in the world to complain about it, sadly Danny joined them after he was crowned.

Their monthly meetings are divided into three topics: Taunting the Observants (Clockwork's favorite topic after they were demoted to helpers, assistants, and other menial jobs), talking about the safety of the Realms (quite peaceful if just as chaotic), and argue.

They- really had nothing to do, and their hobbies eventually bored them. So Danny had a brilliant idea (read: he saw it on a TV show) and decided that they should all become mentors and save one of the dimensions.

Clockwork was about to say that was not a good idea, since it was the same as throwing giants into a world of ants but he needed some fun so he kept quiet. He showed them the dimension of DC and how it was continually being destroyed, the King told them to start their project in that place and select someone.

Clockwork selected Flash because he felt vengeful, Nocturne selected Tim Drake for the same reason, and so they went; each one of the Ancients selecting a "champion" they were going to teach. Although their selection reasons were quite absurd (being that they were selecting their opposite poles or just someone interesting).

Danny being a spirit of protection, selected Jason Todd and secretly Billy Batson, because he was the king and could break the rules (Clockwork rolled his eyes at the comment). The question now was, how did they appear to them and avoid the world's myriad routes of destruction?

Well at least they weren't bored anymore

I love seeing Danny Phantom showing up and being like ‘don’t ask too many questions but John Constantine I own your soul. All of it. Lmao sucks to suck bitch’, and he’s usually all Ghost King Full Regalia as he does it, at least in front of the Justice League, but consider—

He just shows up as Danny Fenton.

“yeah I got bored and collected the pieces like Pokémon. Gotta catch ‘em all” says the 5’2 teen who looks like a stiff breeze could trip him. He denies being a sorcerer, or a magician, concedes he’s maybe psychic but mostly he’s just…. The kid of two mad scientists—who have a basement lab where they opened a portal to what he SAYS is not hell but no one is frankly CONVINCED, by the way—and he hasn’t decided what to do with Constantine yet besides getting Danny into some r rated horror movies, but figures he should tell the dude probably.

“What’d you even trade for some of his soul contracts?”

“Don’t worry about it”

They worry about it

How to chew off an ankle monitor

DPxDC

Danny didn’t mean to cause a mess so catastrophic that Clockwork saw it acceptable to put him on house arrest. So what if he almost caused the apocalypse again at least no one died. Now he was stuck with a ghost ankle monitor because that is a thing apparently. Clockwork got him doing “community work” which is just him bossing him around the multiverse.

Oh no a spoon will cause a dimension  to collapse because of some fucked up butterfly effect, let’s send Danny to beat up a spoon. If Danny’s being honest if a dimension can be destroyed by a spoon of all things then it was meant to be. Danny would advise it to simply be better.

You wouldn’t believe the crazy universes he has been sent to. For some reason a lot of them have heroes though. Maybe Clockwork is trying to make this a life lesson. Or well after life- maybe half life? All Danny is really learning is how to chew through an ankle monitor. Oh how proud Jazz must be. How proud Dani must be! But to be honest Dani has probably been arrested way more than Danny.

And now he has been sent to another universe to collect taxes. Clockwork called it a much needed favor to be called on but Danny swears he was told to give this guy the same speech the IRS gives when they try to make his parents pay taxes. Sorry, correction, when they used to try to make them pay taxes. Jack and Maddie Fenton has officially scared off the IRS.

With a clip board, his new ankle monitor newly attached, and his will to live diminishing by the second Danny is ready to collect. What he wasn’t expecting was being punched as soon as he went through the portal. He flew back hitting a wall and with his dramatic flair he somehow ended up upside down with his legs in the air. He was surprised and due to this surprise he has yet to move from his spot.

He heard people yelling around him.

“Holy shit! Kon why did you do that!?”

“I didn’t mean to! He just showed up out of nowhere.”

“Is that a fucking ankle monitor?”

Looking around to get a better look at where he teleported to he saw he ended up in a training room of some kind. He was surrounded by teenagers and a few adults. All of who looked at him with some level of suspicion.

He made eye contact with his target, still upside down, he pointed at the man in a trench coat. “You!”

He raised an eyebrow, “me?” Danny was surprised by the British accent.

“You got some favors you owe and I’m here to collect.” Floating off the ground he turned right side up before letting his feet hit earth.

“Damn it the one time I let Batman convince me to do a magic demonstration for the brats.” He trailed off rubbing his eyes like he was fighting off a headache.

“Yeah yeah boohoo for you, is listen man the master of time himself wants to meet with you. For what I have no clue so don’t even ask. But I can tell you don’t want to do I got a deal for you.”

“What’s the deal?” He asked with heavy suspicion.

Danny lifted the leg with the ankle monitor on it and shook it a bit.

“You get this thing off me and I let you be.”

Danny was banned from bitting it off.

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I think Danny with an ankle monitor is hilarious

Idk, if I was Danny and I just found out that I was ghost king, the first thing I would do is install ghost therapy. Like I know the ghosts are compelled to fulfill their obsessions but there gotta be healthier and less destructive ways to do it.

Like Skulker for example, he could become a detective and hunt for missing persons instead of, you know, trying to skin a child. Or Ember could make a fucking Spotify or something idk.

The second thing I would do is make Clockwork do the worm.

*slowly shuffles a wooden box of finger bones towards you* so I have two ideas for you

So, what if ghosts like, really screw with video technology, so it all kind of looks corrupted at all times- so when Danny starts recording like a blog of daily like in amity park (maybe as a way to cope with Trauma) and he posts it, maybe people outside of amity could think it’s all just like, an ARG or analog horror- if you want to go with dc/dp here, tim could be trying to solve a nonexistent mystery

For idea two, do you know ab the mystery flesh pit? If you don’t it’s basically an unreality where a gigantic super organism is turned into a National park and it’s then shit down when the organism basically coughs in its sleep and destroys a lot of stuff-( also be warned, there is a lot of body horror involved in this, so if anyone’s sensitive to it maybe don’t look at any content!) so maybe Giant Danny is taking a nap and some villains find the GIANT GHOST TAKING A SLEEP and decide to hook him up to be used as like, a battery or Lazerus pit (if you go the route of his blood being lazerus water) and the heroes get involved trying to figure out what’s happening

oh man that would be so fun. Danny just takes a little school project 10 minute documentary of the town and doesn't think too much of it when he submits it to Youtube so he can send it to his teacher.

A week later and every ARG/Analog Horror nerd on the planet has heard about this brilliantly well produced video called "Amity Park"

Now knowing this, He decides to have some fun. He takes ominous shots of mundane Amity life and splices them between the more normal scenes of himself and his friends having fun and hanging out.

He amps up the uncanny level. Throughout all of his videos, he starts to tell a slightly dramatized version of his life, not the Phantom stuff, but his life as a Fenton.

The whole world watches in awe and delight as this refreshingly new Analog Horror channel posts nearly twice a week with some of the most stunning CGI that they've ever seen. I mean 'c'mon, Sentient food. A child living in the house of two mad scientists who casually mention dismembering and destroying ghosts at the dinner table. An honest to god crazy scientist lab with a massive portal to this 'Ghost Zone' just in their basement?! Yeah, whoever made this has an absolutely incredible imagination. (Some people are even dissing it since this GZ really just feels like a warped version of The Backrooms but it's fine, it's unique enough that it makes up for it.)

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I am a hoe for any and every topic that Wendigoon talks about in his videos so I very much so know about the Mystery Flesh Pit. (Video is linked but be warned; Benji isn't joking when they say that it's a LOT of body horror.)

I'd like to propose that Danny isn't even on earth, he's on a different planet that has collected his blood and harnessed his core for energy on a massive scale, helping create and produce items that benefit their world greatly.

To Danny, Their mining, harvesting, and energy draining efforts are the equivalent to bacteria moving around his body. He's so massive that this civilization isnt impacting him in the slightest.

The JL get called because this strange planet superorganism is now moving and it's causing the destruction of an entire civilization.

They fly over to the planet and they notice something very very wrong with the shape of the planet.

First and foremost, the two eyes spanning the equivalent width of Texas that stares up at their ship is new.

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.

Clockwork & Danny

After reforming Dan, Danny gets it into his head that he can reform Pariah Dark too. He takes a break from his kingly duties to go down to Earth. Both as a way to teach Pariah the wonders of humanity and to make sure Dan has actually changed his ways.

DC/DP Crossover Idea #37

Where when Danny gets de-aged instead of moving him to a different location or even dimension, Clockwork just…keeps him in his part of the realm.

Which leads to when the Justice League somehow comes into contact with Clockwork for whatever reason, they first see talk imposing creature with a purple flowy cloak before the middle of the cloak to reveal a bumbling and babbling baby sitting in one of those baby carriers.

please look after him for a while. i hope nothing bad happens

Ahhh, how cool is that! and beautiful and wonderful and cute! everyone deserves a 2 chance glad for this happy ending✨

A Stitch in Time

Mess of ideas

Basically a mess of ideas and head cannons I've read and thought would be cool to combine together. Don't know if anyone would even like it.

• All the other ghost see Danny as a baby ghost and are fighting with him as enrichment for him. Danny doesn't know this and think they genuinely want to hurt people.

• Danny's core is starting to crack as a result of stress and being stretched too thin. His obsession is space, not protection, but he fights because he has the instinctual need to protect his haunt. Amity is his haunt because he wasn't in the ghost zone long enough to make a haunt there. The other ghost don't know this.

•Eventually the other ghosts find out. Whether this is because Danny snapped and had a breakdown in public due to stress, clockwork intervened so a ghost could see Danny have a private breakdown, or an idea you have.

•Now everyone is trying to getting Danny into the ghost zone and keep him the long enough for him to heal. While he's trying to leave think the ghost want to hurt him. Miscommunication all around.

•Could be redeemed Pariah Dark with him or/and clockwork taking on a mentor/father figure for Danny with ghost prince Danny.

Yes.

Y'all who love depicting Ghost King Danny as an eldritch being in DPxDC crossovers, i have a plothole to offer to you, and then my favorite pastime - the solution making the plothole look like an intentional part of the interior design

The plothole: why are y'all making 'eldritch being' part of a Ghost King's attributes when Pariah Dark never showed anything like it at any point of time????

The solution: lmao y'all i present to you the Thor Ragnarok headcanon, in which the Crown and Ring and Ghost King status don't actually make anyone eldritch, they just make it easier to focus what's already there

So basically

Danny: but i don't have the crown and ring anymore how can i beat them i'd have to like. go full eldritch horror for that

Clockwork: and you can, now that you have done it enough times with assistance. the king accessories only draw out what is already there, make it easier to acess, but the core of it is you. you can do this danny :)

Danny:

Danny: I WAS AN ELDRITCH HORROR FROM THE START????

CW: *cocks gun* always have been ...what do you think happens when a 100% complete undamaged child soul goes out and then supernova in an explosion of ectoplasm? You're the equivalent of a black hole Danny, of course you're a primordial being

Danny:

-Prompt-

Danny has HAD IT with the Observers!

They just don't know when to give up! Insult after insult and defamation attempt without stop! Assassination attempts at basically every hour of both day and night! SERIOUSLY! Danny can swear upon the stars that he knows the whole hitman population of the entire Ghost Zone up to their mothers.

On top of the fact that he hadn't slept for a whole week because of the assassins (Thankfully they stopped coming after he defeated literally ALL of the hitmen in the INFINITE-REALMS, which, might he remind you, are infinite.) He now discovered that the floating snots (read: Observers) are holding Clockwork hostage by his core.

When he tells you the Ring Of Rage cracked, he isn't joking. He is angrier then the literall embodiment of the concept of rage.

So, he steps trough the portal and snaps his fingers, and the entire Ghost Zone is punged into a very dark night.

The fact that the GZ isn't supposed to have a day/night cycle isn't noticed by anyone under Ancient power level. Said Ancients basically react like this:

[Insert ancient of choice]: *Steps out onto their balcony holding a mug of their prefered beverage* "Hmm" *narrows eyes* 'sluurrrpp' "Nope! I dont see anything strange" steps back inside *whispers* "I'm not nearly old enough for this"

So, the Ghost zone is plunged into night with no one seeing anything wrong with it. And when it does finally turn to day and people finally do realize that there wasn't supposed to be a night, its already too late.

The lair of the Observers is reduced to a field of debris and dust. The only trace of their existence is the occasional scream emanating form Phantom Keep-

[Ahh! Papercut!

My Eye! Existance is pain!

I'll get you bac-- *Sound of a heavy pile of paperwork being dumped onto someone]

And if someone sees Clockwork taking a stroll trough the palace gardens?--No they didn't. I don't know what you're talking about! I didn't see anything, I swear!.

"How. Dare. You." Those three words resounded across the gathering of ghost with the force of a freight train and yet, the gentleness of a butterfly. The tone of said words quieted the crowd, but what truly brought everything to a grave like stillness was the emotion behind them. It was indescribable, it was oh, so... so much more then pure hate and, at the same time so much less then indifference.

"How dare you." They wrang out again. Followed by a "You finally piece it together and this is how you repay him?!"

"You plot and scheme against him as if he is not the sole reason why you even exist!" A tierd huff escaped the figure, now recognized as the master of time. "You wine and complain about the inaccuracies and errors in your history as if this is not how you have alaways been!" "Might I remind you that this all came from the mind of a DYING CHILD!" He gesture all around, to the infinite green void. "The fact that we have ANY correlation to the mortal world is a miracle and a testament."

"At the very moment of his death, Danny's mind recognized that, according to the laws of his world, his univers, he had no way to survive;" An intense glared was directed at the waste of ectoplasm gathered below him. "And, sensing his desire to Live, to not abandon the only three people who have shown him compassion, it does the only thing it can." A sigh escapes his lips "It creates a door, it makes a universe, a multiverse, infinite realities. It makes it out of all his hope, compassion, love and determination, sadness and despair... It gives birth to DEATH itself, just to beg it to keep him alive."

The crowd stills completely, as if suddenly turned to stone. "It is a testament to his willpower, knowledge and... his compassion." Another sigh rings out, filled with something between sorrow and and the burden given by knowledge. "Prior to his death, there... there were no afterlives, there was nothing awaiting but Oblivion, true death. And then he created all afterlifes, he created all of you."

A long pause soon followed, as if to allow Clockwork to catch his breath, but it was more to allow all the ghost beneath him to process the information.

And then he continued "In the very first moment of its birth, Death knew what it had to do... It took its very purpose and the very laws that should have binded it to said purpose and discarded them with no hesitation." Another pause. "Without a care for itself, and alongside Magic, who was born at the same time as the Realms, it set out to helps its father like any good child would do for a loving parent"

Not even allowing a word to escape the crowd, CW continues. "Would any of you even dare to THINK about striking your mothers or your fathers!?" Before they can even flinch Clockwork hammers the point in "Answers me this: Is there anyone among you who can say, with any amount of certainty, that Danny would even hesitate to... give up what little remains of his life, his existance! To save yours?"

Having made his point he turned his back to them. "Like any parent would do?" Not paying attention to the trembling and sobbing ghost, Clockwork, the master of time made to leave, but not before saying one last thing.

"From the highest peaks of Haven to the deepest VILEST pits of Hell, there exist no language in which I can express my disappointment and disgust in you. Have a good afterlife, and don't forget WHO you have to thank for it you vain children"

[This] post inspired this. @five-rivers Thanks.