When Danny had been forced to ditch his dimension, life, name, and home, he’d set his sights on a place so far removed from what he was used to, and a name he was so far removed from, that he would never be reminded of what he left behind.
With Clockwork’s help, he constructed a fake Identity, got himself a decent three bedroom apartment, and settled into Gotham. Sure it was a shit hole, a terrible place full of terrible people, but it was so infested with crime that fulfilling his obsession could be easily achieved without ever going ghost.
So he settled in, laid back, and used his first few months to enjoy his new life and adjust. With his coffers as High King, he doesn’t have to work, he just fashioned himself an ID as a trust fund baby and moved forward.
Then he gets a knock on his door.
It’s Child Protective Services.
They’re looking for Eddie Daniel Drake, his new identity. Apparently, his nephews last living parent died and Eddie was listed as the next in line to get the kid.
Problem
This is a fake Identity.
He doesn’t have a brother who recently died, and he certainly doesn’t have a nephew.
Which means that someone falsified documents, and the’re trying to get to the kid.
So.
Shit.
Danny has a kid now.
And given how weirdly attached Bruce Wayne is, and how connected that guy is, he’s kinda starting to think that maybe Mr. Wayne has something to do with the falsified documents.
The thing is, the kid is tiny, even in photographs.
Danny’s human instincts are blaring, let alone his ghostly ones, which are already booming klaxlons of findprotectdefend and he agrees to meet the kid before he’s even fully aware of exactly what it means for him to be doing this.
Whoever’s after him is good, to have things set up so well, so quickly after the kid’s, Tim’s, parents deaths. It probably couldn’t compare to the work done by the collective administration of the Infinite Realms and the God of Time for his documents, but the fact that it came pretty damn close was…worrying.
In any case, it’s fine. It should be fine. He’s already kind of a dad right? And he’s surely faced worse than a ten year old orphan.
Sure Danielle ended up more of a sister than a daughter, but again, this kid was already a couple years grown! Had a chronologically experienced life and everything!
How hard could it be?
Tim is very confused. He… Was pretty sure those details were meant to be fake? But he accidentally forged documents to this random stranger.
a random stranger who immediately agreed to take him in. Clearly knowing this was fake. Just because he was a kid who needed help. Which is… A bit mind boggling really.
sojfchjfksjxhd accidental identity unfraud 🤣 Please Tim would try to flee as quickly as possible, realize that fleeing leaves him vulnerable to Being Cared About by Bruce, and then run back the way he came so that at least Batman doesn’t have to be emotionally involved sjhxhxjsjdbbdh. I’m dying.
Tim: so you get that this is a scam, right?
“Eddie”: *stirs stew* no yeah I got it
Tim: so you don’t ACTUALLY have to show up to my parent teacher night. My grades are fine
“Eddie”: and your social life? How’re you getting along with your classmates?
Tim: uh
Tim: hrm
Tim: funny story
“Eddie”: *tastes the soup* Yeah, no dice. Now sit down. I haven’t seen you eat anything other than a bag of lays for lunch today so we’re having stew. Just because I’m a fake uncle doesn’t mean you can get away with zero people to look after you, loser
Tim, ‘this house is a nightmare’ Drake: *grumbles his way to the table*
Danny just parenting this random teen he got given by accident. He is gonna be the best guardian can! He goes to parenting classes! Online forums. Whatever he can. He will do better than his parents did. And if I’m the way he applied to be a foster? He just likes kids ok.
After a few months, it’s obvious that Tim is thriving in this new environment. His eye bags have almost completely disappeared, he started to actually gain some decent weight, and he’s never bored! Not even for a second!
Sure, his new uncle was suspicious as all hell. Tim had “borrowed” the Batcomputer more than once trying to track down his real name. (His uncle had even said his real name wasn’t Eddie!) But despite his efforts, “Uncle Eddie” was technically in the system, and therefore untraceable. He had all the right paperwork you’d need to live, and nothing more than that.
lmfao can you imagine; Bruce tries to do another mind fuckey test on Tim, only for Danny to show up in the Batcave, eyes glowing, and say in the creepiest, glitchiest voice possible
“If you ever try to do something like this again; I will go to the afterlife and find Jason’s soul to drag out of it, just so you can hear him tell you how much like his biological father you are becoming.”
Bruce makes normal tests after that.
😭 Danny goes to find Jason anyways -for some reason- only to not find him in the realms and realize that something funky is going on. Eventually, maybe before LoA finds Jason wandering around lost in all the ways and just ¡yoink! Second son that needs even more help!
What if, two for one trip Son deal, Danny yoinks Damian as well as Jason?
Let me be clear, Danny has no clue this stabbly 8 year old is Bruce’s kid, he just thinks a creepy ninja death cult is No Place for a Child!
Also the kid is giving off some of the same weird ectoplasm vibes that Jason has that he absolutly need to help with, so its also for his own good! If only he’d stop loosing all of his good knives in Danny…
Dami stops being quite so Stabby once Cujo decides to make an appearence.
Danny putting his shiny new foster licence to good use!!! Obviously once the two are stable he will ask if they want Bruce. He’s not a kidnapper! But he needed to make sure they were healthy before dropping them off! Bruce won’t trust him with this. Paranoid ass that he is. So healing first, then giving back. If they want to.
Damian had been loudly complaining about being the 'blood son’ of Batman. Danny knows. But nope. Not till you are a)healthy. And b) less stabby. I can survive that. Others can’t. And your Father hates murder. So stop it!
Jason is… Confused. Like… This guy took him from the LoA. And then cured th pit rage? How? Why? Ohh. To Fuck with B? Ok. He can live with that? Oh, where is the Joker? No one knows? Uh huh. You sure about that?
Danny: I’m sure they will find him eventually! Batman does seem good at that.
Jason: Uh huh. Sure. So, I miss anything else?
Danny: Well! Tim blackmailed ,at man into taking him on as Robin. So there’s that.
Jason: He what now?
Danny: Tim should really tell you about it. But yes. He blackmailed Batman. Also, I may have scared him shitless when he tried to Fuck with Tim one time too many.
Jason: … do I have to go back to him?
Danny: Not if you don’t want to? You are nearly 18. And I’m happy to help you set up a new identity. But, you might want to tell Alfred.
Jason: Yeah. Thanks. Hm…
Tim: Uncle Eddie is awesome at fake identities! I still can’t find his real one!
Danny: Eh. Enrichment for you! amusement for me!
Jason: How did you get that past B?
Danny: Oh he knows. He just can’t do Jack about it!
Jason: …. Teach me your ways!
Danny’s going to need a bigger apartment. It was fine when it was him and Tim. Cozy, but fine. Much smaller than what tim was used to, but much better than an empty manor. Now that there’s two other boys and a dog in addition to Tim and his very weird 'uncle’, “cozy” has become “cramped.”
Tim doesbt *say* anything…not directly. But he does keep leaving ads for small houses and bigger apartments in Gotham around the place. All of which have a minimum of 3 bedrooms and 1.5 bathrooms. Some have penciled in notes about the area.
Jason brings up crime alley “if its a matter of money being tight.” Danny would prefer not, but can sense how important the alley is to Jason (how far into the brainwashing did they get with Jason? Does he want to do a red hood thing? Does he want to do it anyway but for a different reason? Does he become a crime lord vigilante or does he go back to school? Actually … Danny makes him go back to school. He gets him set up with a new identity as some other relative and gets him into a school with a good language arts and theater program. Maybe danny helps him set up some charity programs in the alley? Tutoring to start and it grows from there?)
Damian demands better accommodations to suite his status as the blood son of batman and heir to his empire….(They’re working on it. He’s at least sharing a room without attempting murder in the night now…..so… progress!! We love and celebrate baby steps in this household)
Danny does end up dragging the boys around to look for bigger places. He has the cash, and nothing better to spend it on after all. May as well get a decent sized house. With a garden. And privacy.
Danny got them out before they could get too far with the brainwashing for Jason. But he does still have the idea of crime lord/vigilante. Because of you control crime that way, you can cut out a lot of the real nasty stuff.
Jason doesn’t even fight going back to school.. He loves it. Really excited to get back into studying. Danny is more than happy to help! And Danny sits with him going over charity plans for the Alley. What would work best. Who do we involve. Jason loves it.
Damian has slowly learned that the world is very different to the one his Mother and Grandfather described. Danny is having to do a lot of talks with him to explain things. Tim is also happy to help. He introduced him to cultural things that would help him blend in. After all. A good assassin can blend in right?
Tim was very pleased that Uncle Eddie finally got the hint! He was just glad the assassin child had shared Eddie’s room not his. He definitely wanted the new house to have a workshop for them to tinker in.
I kinda want Danny’s ghostly instincts to register that he’s basically assembling a Fraid, possibly with the intent (conscious or not) of adding more children considering his foster license, and the appartment starts to settle into being his Haunt (preferably during a particularly domestic moment, like convincing the boys to watch movies with him on the little couch and them finally reaching that point of feeling safe and secure enough that all 3 fall asleep on Danny for the first time).
Or maybe it happens the first night they spend at their new place? Either way, as his Haunt the place they live is flexible enough to meet his Fraid’s needs, even if that means internally expanding to provide more room in a way that doesn’t quite match the exterior size and layout.
Maybe the change happens slowly and when needed. Keep bumping into eachother while trying to maneuver around the kitchen? Oh look at that, extra counter space!
Danny probably doesn’t even truely notice until things start to click into space.
Oh, that would be glorious. His ghost powers taking over. And deciding that as he is clearly nesting he needs to ensure the haunt will always be large enough. So the kids get to live in an expanded by ghost magic house, that can shift and change as it needs to.
Tim would go WILD with theories on this. And Danny would be so embarrassed. Ghost powers, why betray me this way! Ghost instincts are gleeful! All the babies!!!!
After the kids figure out “Eddie’s” powers are the source of their house changing and are the results of his subconscious desires, they start using the changes in the house as a barometer of “Eddie’s” real desires.
Ex. Boys find a new bedroom -“is there something you want to tell us Uncle Eddie?”
It gets worse when they find a door that opens into a Lazarus/hell dimension.
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it’s part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS’ UNION RECOGNIZED
this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!
I’m watching Encanto and I am in love with the strong one, I would forego the rest of the movie to instead just watch her doing stuff for a day
She just rang a church bell by lifting the entire fucking church and she’s carrying four donkeys at once, the biggest plot hole in this movie is that there are any adults in the village not trying to marry this woman.
I bet you’ll be happy to know she almost got axed from the movie for being a muscular woman by the execs
But the makers of the movie pushed hard enough that we now have that beast of a lady in a big movie
Love wins
She is the best part of the movie. Why did this website go bonkers for Bruno and not her. Bruno is fine but come on.
Because of the song and his ratguy attitude
What like her song didn’t fucking slap? I cried in her song and not Bruno’s. QED.
i agree with derin. under pressure (I forget what it was actually called) was easily the best song in Encanto
