DPXDC Prompt #108 Part 2
The thought sounded ridiculous and yet Damian found himself unable to completely scoff at the idea. He himself had seen some strange things in his lifetime and it wouldn’t be fair to completely dismiss the idea outright.
“I’m unsure what your point is but I guess I suppose they exist.” Damian eventually said.
Danny chuckled at this, “I guess you're not from Amity Park huh?” he joked.
Damian scoffed, “I’ve never even heard of that place but I gather that’s where I am at the moment?” He mentally filed the name to search later.
“Yeah, born and raised. Anyways, we’re the most haunted city in America. Ghost’s are real, you’ll probably meet one at some point. They’re uh… kind of attracted to me? Kind of like… “ He trailed off for a moment, likely lost in thought trying to come up with an example. Damian was going to call him out for spacing, they were probably running out of time before one of his siblings or Pennyworth came to check on him. Luckily Danny continued, “Hey, what city am I in right now, maybe there’s a comparison I can use?” Danny asked.
“Tt, did you not even think to use GPS to find your location before calling me?” Damian scoffed, his supposed ‘soulmate’ was incompetent, “You're in Gotham.”
“Gotham? Well I guess you could compare them to Batman’s rogues then, however they tend to play a little rough. It’s kind of how ghost’s bond.” Danny’s explanation made it sound like he was the one roughhousing with these ghosts. He wasn’t quite sure where this was going but he let him continue, “so well… this next part’s kind of hard to explain especially without proof but well… I’m what the other ghost’s call a halfa. I’m half ghost half human.”
Damian opened his mouth to retort, the notion that you could be half dead was ridiculous really. But as soon as he opened his mouth a cold blue wisp wafted out of his mouth shocking him. An unfamiliar feeling washes over him and he looked down in terror as he started sinking into the bed.
“Explain your power’s now, I appear to be sinking into your bed.” Damian demanded. The feeling was odd, it was almost as if the bed didn’t exist.
“Uh, right, Okay… so, it’s kind of emotion based? Take a few deep breaths and you’ll be able to ease yourself back out.”
Damian did just as Danny instructed and took a few deep breaths. Soon he was able to solidify and sit back up on the bed. Suddenly, a knocking sound was heard through the phone.
Shit, just like he thought, they took too long and one of his siblings came to check on him. He thought it was sweet that they cared, but he’d never voice this thought out loud to anyone.
“Danny, I need you to listen very carefully. I need you to open the door and hand the phone over to them. Don’t say anything, understand?”
“Uh Okay?” Damian could tell Danny was raising an eyebrow at this but he did as Damian told him anyway.
“Uh, Hello?” The voice on the phone said, Damian recognized it as Tim Drake-Waynes.
“Drake, Please step into the room and listen to my instructions,” Damian waited a moment as he heard the door shut. “Alright, meet my soulmate Danny, apparently his parents study soulmates and they did something and now we’re in each other’s bodies.”
He heard Danny sigh, “It was only supposed to strengthen the soulmate pull. It’s not my fault they don’t know about my weird biology.”
“Weird Biology?” Drake parroted, “do they not know you're a meta?”
There was a pause before Danny spoke, “No, I’m not a meta… but for the simplicity of things, and this conversation, sure, you can call me a meta.” There was a tiredness to his voice, as if he had this conversation with someone else before.
“The name’s Tim,” he told Danny, then Drake suddenly said in an excited voice, “hey, let’s let him in on the family secret and prank Bruce. Let’s tell everyone else about it and see how long it takes him to figure out it isn’t you… we’ll have to train Danny of course. If he really is your soulmate he’s going to find out eventually and it might be good to prepare him ahead of time” The idea sounded ridiculous to Damian but at the same time, he was recently having some doubts about his Father’s attention on him. Drake had a point, if Danny really was his soulmate, he’d find out eventually.
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Danny wasn’t sure what was going on, after he handed the phone off to Tim, they talked about some family secret. Soon Tim hung up the phone and turned to Danny, “Damian say’s Sam and Tucker are there and they’ll call back when he’s back up to speed which means that we need to get up to speed ourselves,” he glared at Danny. Danny, who was still wearing Pajamas stood there as Tim approached him. Once they were a yard apart Tim spoke again, “Listen, the secret I’m about to tell you must not be told to anyone outside of this house, got it?” He fixed a hard glare at Danny.
Danny shrunk back for a moment before a thought occurred to him, “why don’t I tell you my secret as well? Damian is already learning by now and since you're his brother you’ll probably be able to help out.” Secrets for secrets, that way they would both be afforded some leverage in the situation.
Tim seemed to think for a moment with a hand on his chin, he nodded for a moment before looking up at Danny, “Alright, but tell me yours first.”
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First au of mine is of course bounty hunter au.
basically the only thought process I have is after failing to do family harmony they really just went “fuck it we ball” but ball as in murder.
Family motto: the family that kills together, stays together!
JD is the leader of course but he’s way more laid back about it. Of course he is he can easily vent his frustrations now! He’s very protective of his baby brothers. Also he treats himself to nice things and his brothers love that for him. JD is the one who can hunt anyone down in a forest environment and the best tracker, Branch is second and his little protege.
Bruce and Floyd are the manipulators of the group one with attractiveness and the other with emotions.
Clay is the one who thinks out the traps and all possible ways it could go wrong. He, of course, manages the finances and finds their targets. He’s serious but also best at torture and having fun with it.
Branch is the Jack of all trades. He learned from the best after all! Master trap maker like clay while being a manipulator of both charm and emotions. Of course he’s a top notch tracker like his oldest brother too!
Poppy: I support family rights but also family wrongs
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Nomads AU! PEPPY SUCKS !!!!!!! (And so does POP village)
Pop village basically alienated Branch. He was deemed an outcast by the village standards. Sure there have been grey trolls in the past but it has never lasted longer than a day at most! Branch has been grey for months now and has swore off SINGING?!?!! What troll doesn’t sing?! Anyway the village was cruel to itty bitty Branch, he was seen as a freak always screaming and crying about the Bergen’s, always carrying a weapon, not to mention those hysterical “tantrums” (they were panic attacks😐) The kids made fun of him and pulled pranks that usually were Bergen related (the new generation was unaware how much harm those things caused many of the survivors, but thats not an excuse) The adults talked about him like he was a pest and a blemish on the “happy” village. No one wanted him and those who tried to take him in only wanted to make him happy, and when he didn’t become “happy” they dumped him onto the next family.. Peppy was too busy to take care of the troll and insisted on finding a new home for him,….till he gave up looking after another escape from branch’s current home (Branch kept leaving to build the bunker for his bros sadly the one in pop village was left unfinished) eventually Branch disappeared, no one noticed for a few weeks till he was brought up in a conversation once. Soon Peppy and the older trolls stopped talking about the grey troll. He became nothing more than a forgotten memory, eventually the knowledge of grey trolls also were forgotten (or kept a secret…)
Everyone forgot you could even go grey or be sad in general the last grey troll was forever gone and so was sadness (Peppy didn’t want the new generation to worry about things like that besides they no longer had worries the Bergens are gone….for now)
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Before / after (also one from uphill and one from downhill) pictures of the fruit tree path I was talking about in this post! I wanted to put this cleared area of the forest to good use, and back then the idea of lining this slope with fruit trees was a maybe-someday project but I’ve planted 3 trees last year and 3 this year, so we’ve got the beginning of a fruit tree alley :) I will continue little by little...
The trees are still so little you can barely see them, but the four arrows in the second pic indicate: a cherry tree, a quince tree, an apple tree and a mirabelle (plum) tree. The cherry and the apple tree are the pioneers from last year and they’re doing well; hopefully the newcomers will enjoy their new home too. The last two trees are by themselves at the other end of my land (near Pandolf’s mossy rock path) because they’re chestnut trees and they’re less hardy, so I planted them at the lowest available altitude.
A procession of animals followed me up and downhill wanting to see what I was up to. Consequently it was impossible to dig a hole without someone going “It’s my hole. It was made for me.”
Mascarille was interested as well but Morille was there first and seniority matters a lot to cats.
Pandolf is the definition of “I don’t care who started it I’m here to finish it.”
Good luck, friend! You’ve got some quality llama manure under there to keep your roots warm.
I really hope the chestnut trees thrive and grow big not just because I love chestnuts but also so I can look at them and think “I’ve carried you in my arms all the way here when you were a baby.”
Mascarille conducted one last general inspection before I mulched, was unimpressed, christened the tree “Uninteresting Stick in the Ground #6″, then returned to her more important cat business (staring contest with her sister to establish dominance.)
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i need to draw this part of mochi more but she is honestly, from an onlookers perspective, very weird. and the reason for it is that she has a habit of collecting and hoarding old, gross, used, useless, or otherwise unwanted things.
as a witch, anything can be used all spell ingredients because objects in the world inherently have properties that can be used for spells (think botw where its like "old snail shell can boost speed" kind of thing), and often times the properties are stronger AFTER said object has been gently to moderately used. an eraser has good properties for glue spells BUT a used and chewed on eraser has STRONGER properties for glue spells
so when she was a little kid, in school you could catch her on the floor scraping up eraser shavings that a kid brushed off his desk. the teacher tries to empty out the pencil shavings bin and mochi ZOOMS in with a jar to catch all of it before it goes into the trash. a kid sticks their gum under the desk and 10 minutes later mochi is on the floor scraping it off and putting it in a little box. and when they were young it really FREAKED lime out, but over time hes like "Whatever, you do you i guess." (shes trying to be a good little witch-to-be and help her mom collect potion ingredients)
as she grows up she gets better at blending in and and uhh NOT doing that, but occasionally you'll still catch her picking up old chewed on pencils, rusty paper clips, soggy pieces of paper, whatever off the floor
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