#Misplaced Baby

[dcxdpdabbles]

DC xDP idea: Misplace Baby

Danny makes a mistake.

He was messing around in Clockwork's lair-specifically the one with all the various clocks- when he accidentally broke a glowing gold hourglass on himself. It was the size of a house, so as the sand practically drowned him, he didn't notice his body shrinking until he dug out of the shimmering sand.

Danny stumbles on chubby little legs, panicking when he notices his clothes are suddenly too big and his hands are tinny. He fumbles to one of the old grandfather clocks to check his reflection in the glass. A small three-year-old stares back at him.

Danny screams, pushing away from the old clock. His actions cause him to trip over the leg of his pants, and he falls. Just as he tries to catch himself, the clock starts to ding.

Danny briefly recognizes the old melody of a Westminster before the clock's glass case swings open, revealing a portal, and he falls through. He catches a glimpse of Clockwork with a hand on his forehead, shaking his head in the doorway as he falls.

His face is dragged against the carpet as the Westminster chime rings behind him in the otherwise silent room. Groaning at the burn on his nose and cheeks, Danny sits up.

He turns around, watching in horror as the portal closes.

"No! No, no, no!" He opens and closes the glass door, but all he sees is the slightly swinging pendulum. Repeats his actions again and again. "Clockwork! Help! Clockwork!"

His mentor does not answer, and Danny can't feel him in the air. Can't sense his new father figure's gentle control over the flow of time. If he's learned anything in the last year he's been working as his appearance, this means Clockwork isn't in charge of this timeline.

He's in a universe so far from his original that not even the god of Time is the same. Moby Dick, he's gone and goofed now.

"Who's there?" A voice demands, and Danny whips around to see a startled man in a suit. A fine black two-piece suit that looks more expensive than Danny's house and car. Oh no, a rich man.

The man's blue eyes soften when he sees Danny. "Hey there, chum. What are you doing in my study?"

Danny blinks up at him as the man walks closer. At the closeness, the halfa's body betrays him. He starts to sob. Strong, painful sobs that wreck his whole body, and he can't breathe from how much he's crying.

The man's arms are around him in seconds. "Oh, Chum, it's okay. You're okay."

He lifts him up, pressing his wet face against his neck as he pats Danny's little back. It is humiliating, but Danny can't help but cling to the strong shoulders and curl against the warm chest as he cries. His tears and snot are all over the man's suit, but he doesn't seem to care as he comforts Danny.

Eventually, he cries to sleep, tear-stained face still pressed against the stranger's neck and his little head leaning against a strong shoulder. The rich man carefully tilts his head to ensure the toddler is fast asleep.

Once confirmed, he takes the small boy to the guest rooms. He needs answers- who is the boy? Where did he come from? Is he the son of one of the Gala attendees? What had the boy been doing at the clock guarding the Batcave?- but he will find those later. Right now, he needs to tuck this small child into bed.

"Master Bruce, your guests are waiting for you to give the speech," Alfred says, catching him at the stairway. The butler's eyes zone in on the small child in Bruce's arms before nodding. "I shall inform Marster Dick to speak for you. Who may this young lad be?"

"I'm not sure. I just found him crying in the main study." Bruce tilts his head to the upper floors. "I'm going to tuck him in."

"I'm afraid I only prepared the room next to Master Damian in preparation for Master Jon's visit. Thankfully the lads would not be opposed to sharing a room for the night if I request it of them."

"Thank you, Alfred. I'll be down as soon as I-"

"Who's child is that!?" Jason demands, stomping his way up the stairs. He's missing his suit jacket, and there is a nasty red stain on the front of his white shirt. Likely he's come for a change after "accidentally" dumping it on himself to get away from the Gala.

The toddler's nose wrinkles, indicating his sleep may be interrupted. Quickly, Bruce pats his back, humming a lullaby before the child can wake. The boy settles after a small sigh. He gives Jason a warning glare that the young man has the decency to look remorseful.

"Jason," Bruce starts, voice hushed. "I found him in the main study. He looks distressed, but a few minutes ago, I got an alert that someone had gotten into the manor. When I followed the motion detectors, it led me to this little guy."

"A baby broke into the manner? That's hardcore." Jason replied, peering at the sleeping child only to gasp. "It's another mini-you!"

"No," Bruce tells him, but secretly he thinks the same when he first finds the little boy in the main study. He had already taken a lock of the boy's hair. Just, you know, in case.

"Nice try, old man." Jason pulls out his phone, his thumb flying over his screen. A soft ding comes from the pockets of Bruce and Alfred. He doesn't have to look to know his son has just told all his siblings about the child.

A series of dings follow shortly after.

Bruce sighs, choosing not to answer, nodding to Jason and Aldfed as he quickly goes up the stairs. At least Alfred delays Jason from following by scolding him over the red stain.

Once the boy is safely placed into the bed, he carefully changes him into a pair of Damian's smallest pjs. They are still far too big for the boy but better than the jeans and white shirt he wore. He's happy to find that besides the red on his face- it looks like carpet burn- and a small bruise on his knee, the boy is unharmed. He places a stuffed octopus in the toddler's arms- smiling as the little one automatically clings it to it - before rushing down to the Batcave.

There he runs the DNA tests just as he reviews the camera footage. There he catches the toddler walking out of the woods, pushing himself through a small gap in the metal fence and wandering around the manor until he finds an open window and crawls in.

The window was opened by one of his Gala guests taking a smoke break. Bruce felt a small annoyance that they didn't follow his "no-smoking" rule even when he had explained on multiple occasions it was due to Tim not having a spleen and being worried about his health. He'll have to blacklist that man.

The child had not gracefully fallen into the manor, and Bruce winced as the boy slammed against the carpet floor as tripped. It explains the marks on his face. The boy had then cried for a few minutes- his cries must have been drowned out by the music of the Gala- but then he must have realized that no one was coming for him, so the baby had gotten up and wandered through the house crying.

He had found himself in the main study, where a few minutes later, Bruce had seen him.

Rewinding the camera, Bruce's eyes narrowed at seeing a piece of paper pinned to the boy's clothes. It looked like it fell off when he crawled through the window. Checking on the DNA test, Bruce left the cave to look for the paper.

He found in the hands of Cass, whose eyes were going over the words with fascination. She looks up at him, unsurprised by his approach- no one could sneak up on Cass- and smiles widely. "Baby brother?"

"What?"

She hands him a letter. It's short and to the point; it claims to be an old fling that gave birth three years ago, but she doesn't want anything to do with the child. She's sending the boy to the manor and is out of the country by the time he arrives.

She leaves no name.

Bruce can't remember anyone with whom he had a fling three years ago, so he knows it's a lie. Still, he would rather not find her if the child was abandoned like this. He's not sure he wouldn't break all her bones.

"I don't think he's mine," Bruce tells Cass. She tilts her head with a frown, staring at him with a soft glare until he sighs. "But I won't mind keeping him."

She beams.

The two make their way to the Batcave and find Dick already there. He's staring at the screen displaying the DNA results with a stupefied expression.

"Chum?" Bruce asks, but Dick doesn't respond. He only gapes at the screen. Cass skips next to him before she, too, freezes, and Bruce is slightly worried about what he will find.

There is a match between the boy and someone in the manner alright. But it's not with Bruce.

It's a match with Dick.

"Holy rapid-ranging ravens, I'm a father." Dick gasps.

Clockwork runs his fingers through his idiotic son's hair three floors above them. Kronos stands guard at the door, arms cross as he watches the visiting time god carefully whip the dimension travelers' memories.

Kronos is in charge of this universe timeline, but when he was approached by Clockwork asking for a favor, well, it was not hard to shift some events and make Danny a legit background.

He was now the son of Dick Grayson and Stacy Quinell. One was a boy who had been born in a circus but was forced to leave it after the death of his parents. When life got too rough, the boy would join the circus for short trips under the name Dan Danger.

The other was a girl whose parents were so determined to control every aspect of her life and were going to force her to marry a man twice her age she left home at sixteen.

She joined a traveling circus-Haley Circus- where she had a fling with Dan Danger. The night Dan was meant to go, she had seen him without his mask and learned it to be Dick Grayson.

Upon discovering her pregnancy, Stacy feared being kicked out of the circus, so she took a short break, gave birth to the boy, and kept him until he was three, thus demeaning him old enough to be without his mother.

She took him as close as she could to Wayne Manor and left. She intended to return to Haly's Circus, unaware of the fate that waited for her. Unaware of the Cout that needed new talons.

"Are you sure about this?" Kronos asks, "I'm all for discipline, but having the boy forget everything about himself for going into the timeline room?"

"It's not a punishment," Clockwork says. "It's a gift. Danny had lost so much when his parents learned the truth. His sister died trying to get him out of the house. His best friends were crippled when trying to hide him. His town was blown to pieces when his parents decided that no one in Amity Park could have a family if they could not have their children. Danny had spent years wishing to forget but mostly wishing to be a normal child. I will forever be grateful if a lifetime here grants him that."

Kronos frowns. "You have no power here. You do not know what awaits him."

"True, I know not of the trials and tribulations Danny will face, but I know you do. And you would not let anything happen to him, won't you." Clockwork looks at Kronos through his lashes and the other god of time swallows.

"Of course, my love. I will protect him. But unlike you, I can not get involved with mortals as easily. I will not be able to shield him."

"His new family will," Clockwork says, pressing his face against Danny's hair one last time to breathe him in. It will be a lifetime before he can hold his son. "The bats have faced worst odds."

Kronos tilts his head in agreement. "They have rewritten fate on numerous occasions. Even the Flashes have only been able to overturn fate but never truly go against it."

"The Court of Owls?"

"Danny will deal with them in time. His new mother is on her way to becoming a Telon. He will erase them from the timeline once he learns what they have done to her." Krono answers, eyes glowing as events of the future play before him. He watches a glowing figure battle against the king of the dead, his white hair shining brightly. "He seems to take the throne from the king of dead even here. Remarkable."

"My son is the most remarkable being around," Clockwork says proudly. He flouts from the bed, leaving behind a child with only memories of three years and a few false imprinted glimpses of the circus trailer his mother hid him in. He presses a kiss against Krono's lips. "I find myself wishing for another child. Will you assist me with that love?"

Kronos snaps them out of existence just as Danny opens his eyes and feels a small loss. It's quickly forgotten as his new father runs into the room to gasp. "Hey there, buddy, do you know who I am?"

Danny Grayson is introduced to his uncles and aunts later that night. He also meets John Jones and his niece Megan Morse who ask him a few questions about his past. Danny gets a funny feeling around them, as if someone was running their fingers through his hair but inside his head.

Thankfully they find everything to be alright.

And a new generation is born.

#dc x dp crossover #dcxdpdabbles #Misplaced Baby #Danny is Dick's son #bad parents jack and maddie #Haly's circus was a front for the Court of Owls #Kronos and CLockwork are longtime lovers #accidental baby acquisition

[opbackgrounds]

Oda puts a lot more emphasis on Sanji’s response to Usopp’s potential death than he does Zoro’s. There are a couple of different ways to read his expression, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a flash of guilt and the feeling that it was his fault Usopp was on that tower in the first place 

#opbackgrounds #one piece #ch420 #sanji #slaps car #this baby can hold so much misplaced guilt #Oda’s expression game is on point

[eerna]

watched the Netflix ATLA. Gordon Cormier and Dallas Liu have sooooo many rights. the rest of the show can go

#gordon's adorable baby face and dallas' completely misplaced talent got me through so many badly written scenes #atla liveblog

[michyeosseo]

Do you know why she is honored as goddess? Bedridden for a long time due to her incomplete celestial roots... a deity everyone thought could not be saved... Lord Xingzhi came to take to the Extranatural Heaven. And cured her. Therefore, the Divine Realm's Heavenly Lord gave her a title: Luotian Goddess – blessings from the sky. The girl blessed by the [ancient] gods.

Li Jia Qi as YOULAN

THE LEGEND OF SHEN LI (2024) 1.17-1.19

#cdramaedit #cdrama #the legend of shen li #li jia qi #jackie li #与凤行 #theverylasttofu #took until week two but our girlie lamu came to spice the party ahhhhhhh welcome home baby #that cfensi round-up that one year kinda pointed out a unique talent out of her infinite charms: #can convincingly imitate a medieval painting #idk the specifics but whatever was reworked with her soul made her keen to the three realms' worth of situationship #or truth intuition is her goddess power to begin with *shrugs* #had a preface... excited even about comedy showcase aka her one-sided love rivalry negl i believe in you girls! #youlan's ~attitude~ + quick temper? give the sweetie actual similar friends and not some simps that only revere her being healed #i do believe she'll come around re: misplaced attachments. a bit frightful by way of millenia coma but y'know #let peachkins live and do the cultivation thingy #(did i mishear furongjun - brother appeases sister with 'huang jie'? that's their most normal display rofl) #that said i thought the immortal troops were big gossips but the divine denizens are slowpoke sanctimonious giant snails #and if this was all heaven edition of pass-the-message #they're definitely losing #but it's ok youlan you still and will always be my bébé

[twinkalicious]

no cause the fact that richter thought alucard was a myth is absolutely killing me. he grew up hearing stories of his ancestors' heroism, but for some reason a central figure of those stories was merely a legend to him, an immortal fantasy creature who he never got to meet. honestly i'm willing to bet his own mother and grandfather and any other belmonts before them didn't either. they only told the stories of defeating dracula as their parents did before them, thinking them dramatized and never literal. it became a game of telephone, with each person doubting the existence of a friendly dhampir ally more and more because alucard wasn't there to corroborate it. alucard separated himself from the belmonts at some point. he wasn't there to see trevor and sypha's lineage despite the fact that they merged their houses and literally founded a city together. speculating the when and why is going to drive me absolutely insane, you don't understand.

#i like to think he got sick of watching them all grow old and die #like maybe after he watches trevor and sypha's babies and grandbabies die he says ok i cant keep doing this #dozens and dozens of mortals who all have trevors humor and syphas whit and their eyes and their hair and their faces all bleeding together #alucard probably left after the first few generations because he knew he couldnt keep doing it over and over again #he couldnt lose them time and time again #the fact that richter has trevor's face and sypha's eyes is going to be a problem i think #trephacard #i am feeling angst in this chillis tonight they had BETTER EXPLAIN when and why alucard broke away from the belmont/belnades line #castlevania nocturne #AND ANOTHER THING #wonder if alucard will feel any misplaced guilt about not being there to protect the belmont descendants and their loved ones #god i hope im wrong and richter was just the outlier in not meeting the immortal family friend #also known as the belmonts' living family heirloom that i lowkey headcanon him as 😭

[galehowl]

some quick concept/design scribbles from a bit ago of the WoL in question

Au ra, all lizard, all DRK, very nice to be around

#rayvero ebonclaw #the last name is just made up by herself bc she didn't know her tribe name #was a sassy lost baby that got super misplaced to Eorzea and adopted by a lalafell couple #they found her in the trash basically #my art #my characters #original character #au ra #dark knight #WoL #FFXIV

[napneeders]

yep. sew like the wind!

#reupload because i had misplaced about 20 frames lol #frenchie #my baby boy #my gifs #ofmd #ed and frenchie

[abimee]

its the one year anniversary of my budgie lucas passing away and i miss her and her mean little ass dearly

the most spiteful bird ive ever met and i loved her for it

#meteion is doing well btw she got a little ouchie on her wing (NOT A BLOODFEATHER) but it was like a literal speck #so it wasnt worrisome we think weehoo just bit her on the wing so i put weehoo in baby jail for a day but she hasnt shown like #aggression at all before or after the incident so im wondering if it was just a misplaced smack. cause meteion is a lot sometimes LOL

[loptrcoptr]

I’m not sure how I didn’t know that Paolini was even working on a Murtagh book, let alone that it was out already, but I didn’t know! At all!!!!

So now I’m ending the year of “live like 2013 me would’ve wanted” by reading a book that’s the canon version of fanfiction that 2013 me wrote. What a time to be alive.

#this was not on my bingo card but I am loving it lol #let’s see if past me got any plot points right lololol or if paolini has a subtler plan lol #murtagh #inheritance cycle #eragon #honestly legitimately someone get me a Time Machine so I can go back to 2013 #and tell baby ellis there’s a murtagh book and we saw wtnv live and also David tenant is in a Dr who special #what a time to be alive??? #me: look kid I’ve got a signed copy of this book that is a better version of your shitty fic #past me: omg wat is air?!?!one #ALSO the hilarious irony is I had gone in to the bookstore to pick up my copy of Mandy matney’s murdaugh book #but they had misplaced the order somehow so I just walked spring and ended up with Different Spelling #Different thing lol

[fellhellion]

yadda yadda we all have different interpretations of art, but i also feel like "miguel is absolutely retraumatised when mayday crawls all over him and peter is a bad friend for not noticing" just kind of. ignores the intended comedic tone of the scene? as well as the fact miguel has doesn't tense up in the aftermath of baby hold + peter ribbing him. he relaxes.

#unclenches if you will lmao #body posture wise hes not relaxed but emotionally you can tell hes calmed down. he reapproaches explaining to miles whats going on w/o #lashing out. #the fact hes stoic and trying to project authority and confidence while the vibe is utterly undermined by baby on head is the joke #hes also just. honestly kind of an awkward guy when it comes to being emotionally vulnerable #he can tell u to fuck off sure but could he say he considers peter a friend and he likes mayday? beyond the gesture of enduring the ribbing #and holding the baby gently? nah. that bitch is emotionally constipated #theres daughter trauma hanging overhead in that scene sure. but i dont think any part of miguel actually misplaces that onto peter and bebe #tunes talks spiderverse

[britneyshakespeare]

A featherless biped

#a man #more spefically laurence olivier in wuthering heights 1939 #ive been working on it for 2 hours and i desperately need some distance from him #take a break and refresh my head #not all that ashamed of the progress tho #tales from diana #i hope to finish this today #i havent done a charcoal drawing in... 9 months! jesus #a little over. last time i drew in charcoal was intl. women's day #i couldve had a baby in that time #well i lost my charcoal that's why i rly haven't done any #one of my family members mustve misplaced it when they were cleaning in the attic (a place where i often draw) #no one is fessing up to it. >:( #but i had a few spare pieces and my mom got me new drawing paper for christmas #i hate drawing in graphite anyway. pencils can kiss my ass #there's smth very off w his right eye but im not ready to fix it #oh well. oh well

[spaceangst]

expanding on yuki’s idea⎯i think suguru hated jujutsu sorcerers more than the weak, but he struggled to differentiate these feelings all the way till that fight with yuuta and rika. it’s almost like the non sorcerers became a scapegoat for him⎯what nanako and mimiko went through was horrific, yes, and the non sorcerers were responsible but how many similar cases did jujutsu society and its elitist trifecta ignore? yes, the non sorcerers were weak and fell prey to that hive mind in a cult, but wouldn’t they riko they got to know have died during the merger? yes, toji went too far and he killed without meaning but early gojo and geto were pretty reckless in forgetting curtains and limiting the blast radius. 

growing up was always suguru’s weakness and he never figured this out⎯he simply fell through the cracks.

#this doesn't mean adulthood is good btw #it's bad #so is capitalism #but also #please reflect on your feelings so you don't create too many scapegoats #suguru's anger was righteous #but it was almost misplaced #and you can see it in how so Little actually changes from his killing spree #he just #escapes society and lives with his family #and occasionally kills; sure #but also not really? #if i remember correctly #he even helped the non sorcerers with his cult #if he really wanted to; he would have killed them all #he could! #gojo's not the only strongest #suguru was and always is but his inferiority complex meant he didn't see it #which isn't his fault but it sucks #hindsight 20/20 baby #jjk #jjk s2 #jujutsu kaisen #jujutsu kaisen spoilers #jujutsu kaisen meta #jjk meta #satosugu #gojo satoru #geto suguru #riko amanai

[thegayneurodivergentagenda]

Heaven (by Troye Sivan) × Bad Buddy The Series

The truth runs wild

Like a tear down a cheek

Trying to save face, and daddy heart break

I'm lying through my teeth

This voice inside

Has been eating at me

Trying to replace the love that I fake

With what we both need

The truth runs wild

Like kids on concrete

Trying to sedate, my mind in its cage

And numb what I see

Awake, wide-eyed

I'm screaming at me

Trying to keep faith and picture his face

Staring up at me

-

The truth runs wild

Like the rain to the sea

Trying to set straight the lines that I trace

To find some relief

This voice inside

Has been eating at me

Trying to embrace the picture I paint

And colour me free

Without losing a piece of me

How do I get to heaven?

Without changing a part of me

How do I get to heaven?

All my time is wasted

Feeling like my heart's mistaken,

So if I'm losing a piece of me

Maybe I don't want heaven

(We know we can't change the world, but the world can't change us either)

Heaven (by Troye Sivan) × Bad Buddy The Series

BadBuddy× my Playlist 6/n

#i didnt raise you to be like this #patpran×my playlist #episode 10 my begruged #pran telling his mom hes different because of her #the queer coded #pran getting slapped and the burn out of being the perfect child finally turns him to ash #pran realizing he cant take it anymore because #pran allowing himself to break #the song makes me cry so bad #why must i have to choose between happiness and acceptance #why must i be hated because the world seems to think im different and therefore #wrong #how am i being punished eternally for love? #this episode (bangs the roof) can fit so much guilt inside it #MISPLACED GUILT if i may add #because the idiot parents just ✨️ dont feel guilt✨️ #but their HyperVigilant Traumatized kids cant stop feeling the guilt #the classic case of pls make it stop pls pls pls let my babies be happy they are just babies #bad buddy #bad buddy gif #pat napat jindapat #pran parakul #bad buddy text posts #pat x pran #patpran #Maybe IM OVEREXPLAINING BUT THE FACT THAT PRAN EP 4 WAS CRYING BECAUSE #Heaven is PAT and HES HURT AGAIN BECAUSE HE CANT HAVE PAT #FIRST BECAUSE THEY COULD NEVER WORK OUT AND SO HE SEES PAT AS HEAVEN HE CANT HAVE #SECOND BECAUSE PAT LIKES INK AND *THEY COULD* WORK WITH THE FAMILY SITUATION #DOUBLE WHAMMY OF NOT GETTING THE HEAVEN THIS STUPID BB BOI WANTS *SOBBING*

[unlocklist]

Can you share the name and look of the bear? Others can help find an exact one :o

I joined a group for lost stuffed animals honestly holding out hope I still find my bear in my moms basement when i go in august but here are the images I've shared + the description of him

Hes a white face bear wearing a green onesie with a hood and if you shake him he rattles. the inside of the hood is yellow and on the front of the onesie is a small rattle design in the top right, he has blue eyes with blue eyelashes that are sewn in and a pink nose/mouth also sewn in. after searching around online Ive found a line of his cousins from tb trading company but the differences are there and hes the same bear just slightly different. Ive had him since i was a baby in 1999

he was a little lad in onesie pajamas and his eyes were looking up and had a rattle embroidered on the right side. thats literally the ONLY difference to the cousin i found in the images, its literally the exact bear model just slightly different features and outfit

#i did buy both cousins i need the original in his little baby rattle pjs im so torn up #if posting this means even one person can recognize and help me find this bear ill do it ill do it anywhere #vintage #tb trading co #vintage bear #im absolutely so heartbroken ive been crying since saturday night #i thought i was done crying today but on my drive home rn i just started sobbing #how could i so horribly misplace him he was my angel

[wormsdyke]

curious as to why i feel insane in several very specific ways. surely it’s unrelated to the fact that i have forgotten to take the medication that makes me not feel insane for several days

#weird that all my food is rotten and contaminated and every surface is dirty suddenly. wonder why #what could be the reason for my sudden inability to perform many hygiene tasks out of misplaced fear. strange #sertraline baby i’m sorry i forgot about you again #also i know it’s unrealistic but it’s so frustrating to me that symptoms are not treated the moment i swallow the pill #finally remembered to take it last night as i was rapidly going downhill and was briefly confused why i still couldn’t touch any food #girl give it a second. or a few days. since i forgot to take it for a while #if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions #orating! #ocd tag

[magiclessxprefect]

“I can’t pet Grim unless he wants me to pet him. Sometimes I want to pet something really fluffy and cute....”

#IC: Misplaced Prefect Present #((My coworker has been bringing in her puppy #Puppy is a Yorkie #she is a baby #;_; I got to hold herrrrrrr.))