What Do You Mean This Isn't What Happened?

What do you mean this isn't what happened?

Local 14 yr old throws hands with God, more news at 11

Yes

Want to come home for dinner, so I can explain you all my family bullshit and backstory?

I saw old meme, my dumb brain was happy. 

This is so beautiful

I've been blessed-

teruki, the walking pantene commercial 

I'm definitely doing this ✨

Funeral Au!

So I’ve seen a lot of Justice League and BatFam meet Danny Phantom and it’s usually due to a fight/summoning/investigation/relation.

All of which are absolutely amazing! But I haven’t seen a SINGLE fic of them meeting Danny because they straight up crashed his funeral.

I’m also not talking about full-ghost Danny, our boy is still VERY much a Halfa.

Seriously consider the comedy that can be achieved with this.

I’m picturing it’s like at least a year after Danny beat Pariah Dark and all the citizens have pretty much accepted the fact that Phantom is their undead hero whom they’ve come to love.

Danny has pretty much fallen into a routine with his rouge gallery and although Amity is still 100% ghost infested it’s doing a lot better then it was with dealing with ghost attacks and ignoring the weirdness that pops up.

Then enter a well meaning child who has been taught that if you want to show appreciation to someone who is dead you put their favourite flowers on their grave. This kid who was just saved/ has been saved before by Phantom basically catches Danny with his metaphorical pants down when they innocently ask “where’s your grave? I want to give you flowers.”

Danny “no-brain-to-mouth-filter-when-panicked-and-has-been-surrounded-in-ghost-culture” Fenton’s first and only response is “I don’t have one cause no one mourns for me. Graves are only made for those who had people who cared that they died.” realizing what he just stated and then fleeing as fast as he can.

Amity Park gets a wake up call that THIS IS A DEAD CHILD, who, as Phantom was so kind to point out, DOES NOT HAVE A GRAVE AND OMG THERE ISN’T EVEN A MISSING CHILD REPORT AND HAVE WE BEEN RELYING ON A MURDERED KID TO SAVE US???????!!!!!!

Cue panic and Amity Park just going we need to show this Kid we care about him so lets give him a funeral. Danny is oddly touched and put off by the entire situation but honestly it’s also one more thing that protects his identity so overall it ain’t a bad thing.

Now look at it from the side of The Justice League/BatFam/other hero.

Amity Park’s news paper is probably going ballistic with trying to show their precious ghost kid that they care and love him and thus have a entire section dedicated to the major fights and situations he’s saved them from over the course of his hero career. They are trying to show him that his efforts are recognized and that he is appreciated and at the very end there is the mention of a funeral to be held for “Amity’s Greatest Hero”. Just to really hit home the point that they care for him.

Whatever hero/hero group that comes across a copy of the paper has no context for anything in said paper.

Amity Parkers are the only ones who read it anyways so why would they need to specify that their hero is a ghost? That the villains who attack the city are ghosts? Besides, the paper is meant for Phantom, scattered as much as possible so he can read when he gets a chance.

The hero/heroes are just left heartbroken and speechless because:

The situation in Amity Park is on the level of World ending threats and very much not the local vigilante with local villains standard that normal “small cities” deal with.

Apparently inter-dimensional beings have been invading Earth only to be stopped by a *wheezes* 14 to 16???!!! Year old (possibly inter-dimensional as well or local meta) child.

That child is the only one competent enough to hold the beings back.

That child is dead

This would be a we must go pay our respects to this child hero and we should investigate and set up protection so that all that this kid worked for isn’t for nothing.

Cue Amity’s public funeral for Phantom being crashed by the Justice League with everyone and their grandparents being the definition of confused. Better yet have it so there is a truce for Danny’s funeral so his rouges (who were 100% in the newspaper that the hero(es) read) are sitting/floating in the audience. Boxy is in the middle of a very tearful speech and Phantom is blushing so hard he is actively a glow-stick.

How it goes from there is up to the fic writer but honestly it would be so funny to have the Justice League meet Danny at his own funeral and him actively having to explain that yes ghosts exist and yes his rouges are in attendance cause they may be villains but they are “respectful and understanding villains fuck-you-very-much. Ancients can you believe that they think we’d attack the kid during his funeral! The audacity of some people.”

I just find that there is so many possibilities that can be tied in with the funeral and it can change to be as light hearted or as angsty as one wants it to be.

This made me lose it as well, fellow comrade.

this is making me lose it

That a thing?

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