Danny got a job in Gotham as a scientist/chemist and has been enjoying it greatly. He’s the best in his field and everyone he works with is weirdly nice to him. If only they weren’t so nervous around him all the time.
He works at Wayne Enterprises. When he came in with samples from the latest gas attacks the entire staff held their breath for a week, waiting for the other shoe to drop. The other shoe was him running out of his lab a few days later, manic, covered in various stains and soot. Holding a secure container that he rushed to the managers office with.
“Hey guys!!! I managed to synthesize a cheaper and better series of anti toxins!!!! And a neutralizer!!! Here is my proof! Here is the testing data. Ways it can be administered and stored!!!”
The rest of the area fell into a chaotic jumble. What did Dr Nightingale just say? He managed to create not only anti toxins, but neutralisers! Only the bats had managed that so far right. And what did he mean by cheaper?
“Uhh, Danny, what do you mean cheaper?”
He perked up and looked at the manager grinning with feral delight.
“Well, last week I managed to get hold of the various toxins, but I ALSO managed to grab the antidotes the bats use. I was wondering why they didn’t patent and sell them, turns out they are CRAZY expensive. Like, Brucie Wayne and fam only kinda expensive. SOOOOO, I figured, I should work on that. If we can make neutralisers and anti toxins affordable more gothamites will be safer right? And it will lessen the issues the rogues can cause! I am gonna see if I can work on something that would… vaccinate? acclimatise? someone to the compounds. See if we can’t inoculate against em in my spare time. But I figured that’s a long term goal!”
The manager sighed deeply.
“Dr Nightingale, please tell me you didn’t steal from our local vigilantes. Again.”
Danny shuffled sheepishly and rubbed his neck a bit.
“Ok, I won’t tell you then. BUT! I did make up a case for them to test? as uh, repayment. To make sure they don’t arrest me or whatever? Plus I figured they should be pleased someone is helping, without punching people right? Like I left the punching to them. I just did science!”
The manager sighed deeply.
“Allright, I will take this all up to testing. Once it passes I will send a message to the CEO and Mr Fox. Please, for everyone’s sanity go home and sleep. Have some food. And a shower. I will put you on mandatory leave if I have to. And stop stealing from our local nightlife! It’s going to get you in trouble on day!”
Danny amused his co workers by whining like a child but he did as he was told. Gods their manager was the best.
“He is definitely going rogue at some point right? Or, anti-hero?”
The manager looked at them and pointed them back to their stations.
“That is for the future to decide. For now you have a day free of our resident maniac. Use it wisely. Hopefully I can convince him to take a few days. Gods know he will drag the bats on us at this rate.”
He rubbed a hand down his face and sighed. Genius madmen in this town were always a problem. Hopefully this one was going to stay this level of hassle.
Dani comes to visit one day and all of Danny’s coworkers are all like “oh no. There’s 2 of them”
Ellie bounced into the office, excited to see her brother. She wandered up to the deal and waited politely, not their fault her brother was a dumbass.
“Hello there miss, how may I help you?”
Ellis smiled happily and raised a small box in her hands.
“My brother forgot his lunch again. He gets a bit manic when he has a new project. So I thought it to make him eat. Is it ok if I take it up? Or should I leave it with you?”
The receptionist smiled. That was quite sweet.
“ Well, it depends which area I’m afraid. Although, I can send a message over the come instead of they work in one of the restricted areas? ”
Ellie hummed thoughtfully.
“Um, I think it will probably be restricted I guess? I’m Ellie Nightingale, Danny works in the chem labs. He has gotten way too into his latest project though.”
The receptionist felt shocked. Dr Nightingale had a sister? And she seemed so sweet and normal? Well time to send the message then.
“ ah yes, definitely restricted. I will just send a message. You can wait here for him. So, is he ah, always so passionate? ”
Ellis nodded a bit. Then grinned bouncing again..
“Oh yeah, it’s a family trait. Our older sister is just as bad. And to be honest I am as well at times. ”
The receptionist was saved from having to reply to that frankly horrifying statement by the arrival of Dr Nightingale. He was visibly pleased to see his sister. Seeing them together made the relationship obvious. They looked near identical. Ellie perked up and waved happily as Danny all but ran to her.
“Ellie! So, the guys I work with want to meet you, so do you want to? They said we could meet up in the cafeteria? And I can buy you good or a drink? I know you were curious about the.?”
Ellis grinned, just as manic as her brother. Oh yes, this could be fun. She looked their arms together .
“Lead in Danny. I wanna see your colleagues. They must be good to work with you! So let’s go. Oh have you heard back about the antidotes yet?”
Danny was practically dragging her through the balls and he nodded.to
“Yup, already been out to trial. Apparently the fact that I backward engineered the toxins is worrying though. Dunno why. It’s not like I’d ever need it.”
Ellis just smiled. Her brother could be so oblivious. Even she knew Gotham’s genius Dr to rogue pathway.
“Paranoia. You know Gotham has LOADS of Dr’s who are rogues. Oh, speaking of! Dr Fries agreed to let me study with him! I am super psyched! I get to look at pharmacology and stuff in more detail. And how drug development works! It’s gonna be a great opportunity!”
Danny was so proud of his car Ellie had come. She had decided medicine was her way forward. She was doing great things in her studies so far. He weaved his way through the crowded cafe to find his colleagues .
“Right, these are my team mates, guys this is Ellie. She is the best! Did I’m gonna get you the death wish coffee and an everything bagel. So you want a snack as well or? ”
Ellie grinned fondly. He was the best.
“Sounds great bro! Ummm, surprise me on the snack! And I’ll play nice with your colleagues. Won’t ask too many questions promise!”
Danny laughed as he wandered off. As if she needed to promise that.
Ellie grinned at his colleagues and waved. They all looked a little spooked now she focused on them. One of them leant forward to ask he a question . “
"So, why would you ask too many questions?”
“ Oh! Well, I’m doing my doctorate in pharmacology! I’m focusing more on medication for long teth conditions. So still chemistry, just more medically focused. so, I wanted to see how it differs. Obviously Danny talks a bout it. But he’s not exactly the average chemist you know? ”
One of them snorted at that.
“You can say that again! So, has he always been this intense?”
Ellie nodded.
“ oh yeah, family trait! Our big sister is the same. and I know I can get carried away. It’s probably a good thing we all took different fields! I can only imagine how badly it would go if we all worked on the same project. We’d probably never sleep again! ”
Danny’s colleagues had to take a mo.ent to suppress that bit of nightmare fuel. Time to dig for personal stories.
“So, uh, you two look like you should be twins. Does your older sister look the same as you two?”
Ellie grinned and pulled out a photos of three adults. Two being Danny and Ellie. The thir an unknown. She stood a few inches taller than the other. Her hair was bright red as well. She looked like some sort of Amazonian frankly. Ellie and Danny both but near six foot, so she must tower over everyone else.
“Yeah, Jazz got her height from the paternal side of the family. But her colouring from the maternal. Me and Danny got the opposite! I’m two years younger as well, we aren’t even twins! ”
Danny came back as she finished and set down her food, before making granny hands to his own lunch.
“Hiya! Hope everyone was getting on ok?”
His co workers shifted a little and lpoked nervous for some reason. One of them coughed lightly and nodded.
“ Yeah, your sister is a sweetheart. We were just confronted with the idea of multiples of you feeding of each other’s manic energy. You don’t need that. ”
Bruce decides to give this ‘Dr. Nightingale’ a visit after hearing one too many complaints and therapy requests.
Bruce: Dr. Nightingale, how would you say your work life balance is?
Danny: Oh it’s great! But sometimes my work just gets really interesting and then 3 days later I come out of the rabbit hole that is my job! I make it up to my family by spending the next 3 days with them.
Bruce: Interesting. We at Wayne Enterprises always want to make sure our employees work-life balance is complete.
Danny: I could say the same thing about you Batman.
Bruce: I beg your pardon?
Danny: Dude, don’t worry I was a cape I highschool. I just managed to sort the issue by the time I graduated you know? I won’t tell anyone! But, you can hardly come at me about my work life balance when you don’t have one either.
Bruce: I see. And you say your family have the same tendency as you? Also, where did you operate?
Danny: oh yeah, we are all workaholics. Our parents were worse though. we still remember to people at times. And you won’t have heard of it. The government has put town under martial law for a while. And full censorship. The government nearly started a war with the Infinite Realms. Took me a while to sort everything out and calm people down!
Bruce: hmm. Infinite Realms?
Danny: Ummm, Its the realm between dimensions. And it’s where all the afterlives are. Lost souls and Ecto entities live in the free space connecting them? And they are really strong. some are God level. So, the US government nearly starting a war? Would have been a major headache. So I stopped it.
Bruce: Hmm. I…are you willing to go to the Justice league to do a debrief? And we still need to discuss you scaring your colleagues.
Danny: Sure! Wait, I scare them? Is that why they are so nice to me? How am I scary?
Bruce: You are a manic genius. Historically in Gotham that leads to you being a rogue.
Danny: Ah, no. I have too much work to do to bother with that. I’ve already fought the US government and won, why would I bother being a rogue now?
My favorite part of this is that Danny’s only excuse is that he’s just too busy to be a rogue
It is absolutely a reason why! The other being that he ONLY just got his species recognised as sapient. He does not want to be hunted by the government again! But that’s a sad thought. Danny doesn’t have those nope. They go in the bin and are ignored. As they should be!
Jazz keeps telling him to get therapy but nah. That sounds like something for other people! He doesn’t need help he’s fine! Promise *cheery, obviously forced, grin*
And well. If he went rogue, he would have to source his own resources, and a lab space. He would have to work extra hard to be able to afford his everything! No thank you, too much like hard work. He likes it here. He gets his own lab (Which he now understands), His co workers are nice (because they are scared of him… oops?), And he gets to fuck about on someone else’s dime. Hells yeah!
Does, Does Mr Wayne not know how time consuming research and development ARE? He kinda gets Dr Freeze. Like, the guy is going through it. But the other rogues who were in research first? No, most of them have left research behind to hyperfocus on one specific thing. Danny has too many ideas in the ol’ noggin’ to manage that ok!
He would NEVER be able to afford to bounce from project to project like he does as a solo act! And, he does like helping people. Being a rogue would be counterproductive!
Now, how to make nice with his co workers? That does seem to be a fair complaint. He does forget how high energy he can be. Maybe he can promise to never be a rogue? No, they would never believe him… Oh! He’s got this! Promise they will be safe from him if he ever goes rogue! Wait, no. Urgh this is so hard. Jazz, why are people so hard?
Ellie, Ellie, help your dear template!!! Wait, no bad idea. She spooked them too. Argh. Maybe he should ask his manager? Quietly. In an office. So no one overhears and misunderstands? Yeah that seems like a good plan! Ohhh, and then he can work some more on that chemical to help clear pollutants out of soil! If he makes that! The maybe Poison Ivy will chill for a bit! That would help right? Umm, maybe he should tell Mr Wayne about that idea first actually? And, well, he could just ask him for some of the bats various chemical things to improve for them?
That might be a better idea than stealing them. In hindsight. In his defense! He was doing important things! things to help people! And his anti toxins are great! So much more affordable! Red Robin did drop by his house though, to ask HOW he stole their versions. It’s not his fault he’s so stealthy. But, well. Asking might be the better idea.
Danny: walks into Tim Drake’s office and slaps down a stack of paper like an inch thick.
Tim: can I help you Dr Fenton?
Danny: yes I’m very politely requesting access to every chemical weapon you and the other bats have ever come across. For science.
Tim, who Was Not Aware that the Future Rogue everyone complains about knew their identities and currently also realizing that said maniac is unfairly attractive: I suddenly understand B’s thing with Two-Face so much more now.
Danny: if you don’t allow me access to the things I need to create cures and/or antitoxins, I will find a way to gain access myself. And I’ll get my friends and family to help. You will never know peace again.
Tim, weighing family loyalty and possible collateral against this man’s infectious grin and the fact that he’s mildly sure the man could snap him in half even with all of his training, and always down to start a new round of gaslight gatekeep girlbossing his family: …yeah sure where do I sign.
Danny walking the Gotham streets: “hmm, my sense are tingling” turn’s around to slap something only to see nothing and walks away.
Joker, who was behind Danny, about to kidnap Danny cartoon style only to be slapped on to oncoming traffic by the Dick Grayson look alike: “uh oh”
Random TikTok user on live about to do a face reveal only to see his comment section going wild to look behind him: “huh” looks behind him and sees the joker get slapped into oncoming traffic. “Oh- realization -OH MY GOD!!!”
Random TikTok user goes over to the Joker and starts checking his breathing: “oh my god ohmygod!!! THE JOKER IS DEAD!!!!
Mc being so busy commanding the seven brothers that they forget that they can be commanded too.
Satan and Lucifer fight? You resolve it. Beel getting too hungry and destroying the castle? You resolve it. Mammon and Levi arguing over owed money? You resolve it. You run a tight ship and you’re the boss over those demons in every little way imaginable. Every demon and angel you have met has bowed to your command and let you have control and be the peacemaker.
So when you get too stressed and begin to yell, all seven brothers looking at you in astonishment, nobody knows what to do. Except for the one person you cannot tame.
You feel a hand grip the back of your neck. It’s strong but gentle and you feel your breath hitch in your throat. The person behind you leans in and demands… “Behave”
And suddenly you’re quiet. Docile. Solomons voice calming your mind without a single spell. He smiles at the group as you close your eyes from the embarrassment.
“We’ll be seeing you later, you can resolve this amongst yourselves. Me and MC have some business to attend to at Coctyus Hall…”
This goes for an MC that goes to Twisted Wonderland after they go through Nightbringer, but the Obey Me Boys from the OG game come to get them from Twisted Wonderland.
I think that if this were to happen, MC would immediately turn to Solomon before they even considered happily and affectionately greeting the brothers or the others. Because they don’t know if these Obey Me Boys come from the past or the present, but they do know that no matter where they were, Solomon was himself and was there for them.
Obviously, the brothers would be hurt, but if Solomon told them about what happened during Nightbringer, they might understand. If he hadn’t, then they will be extremely jealous, wondering why they’re human is acting like this with the Shady Sorcerer.
I can imagine MC seeing Solomon, stopping whatever they were doing, and immediately rushing over, tackling him into a hug. Like this, maybe,
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MC: No, no, Crewel wanted us to measure it in percentages of weight, not percentages of volume. No wonder you’re not doing too well in that class.
Deuce: How do you know all this? I don’t have it anywhere in my notes that we’re supposed to do it that way.
MC, glancing down and thinking about their favorite person: Just, had someone tutor me a while back. They were a very good teacher.
Epel: Was it Vil? He’s good at potions, but I don’t know anyone who could last against his teaching.
MC, laughing: No, it wasn’t Vil.
Vil approaches angrily.
Ace: Speak of the Devil and he shall appear.
MC, trying to avoid another Overblot: What’s up, Vil?
Vil: The new exchange student put in my dorm!
MC, realizing he’s come to vent all his problems to them, as they’re the unpaid therapist: I forgot Crowley was doing that today. I wasn’t invited because my dorm is unofficial and too small for new students. What’s wrong with your new student?
Vil: He’s just so infuriating! It’s like he’s only ever relied on his looks, and acts as though the world revolves around him!
Epel, under his breath: Reminds me of someone else I know.
MC, smacking Epel: Well, surely there has to be something good about him?
Vil: His social media skills are commendable, and he seems very good at reading people. But it’s hard to approach him. He seems rather attached to two of the Diasomnia exchange students.
MC: That’s a little surprising. Most people are afraid of Diasomnia students.
Sebek: Clearly this new exchange student just has good taste!
MC, slowly putting the pieces together: You know, the description of the exchange student reminds me of someone I know.
Ace: Think it’s them?
MC: It’s possible, but doubtful.
Solomon, approaching the group: Never doubt my abilities, dear apprentice.
MC immediately drops their notes and other things, rushing past Vil and their friends towards Solomon.
MC, tackling the sorcerer: Solomon! I missed you so much!
Solomon, laughing, and patting their head affectionately: I missed you as well.
Asmodeus: Did you miss me, darling?
Solomon, helping MC up, waits to see their reaction.
MC, unsure of how to approach the demon: Of course I missed you, Asmo.
Asmo, blinks when he is not also bombarded with affection like Solomon was: Then, where’s my hug?
MC: Did you want one?
Asmo, pouting: Of course!
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Or with any of the brothers and others.
If MC is dating Solomon they could tackle him into a hug and then start kissing all over his face. It’d be really funny if the brothers and others didn’t know they were dating and were just so shocked to see them being so romantically affectionate with Solomon.
Or, if they got married as a sort of formality, they were practically already married in Nightbringer as they lived together and acted like a married couple, and no one knew. Like, just one day they went and filed a marriage certificate and didn’t tell anyone so when the Twisted Wonderland characters ask who this person is, they very easily respond with “My Husband”, and everyone on both sides is in shock
Like I know it’s for the meme but I love how detailed the figures are and the poses, especially that perspective with that one Eclipse shot, oh my gosh, those claws!!! AHHH THE DETECTIVES THE BOYS ALSJFDALSDFASDF
This song is so fitting. I love the ending the most, the gun and the boys and Y/N’s surprise!! Ahhh, this is amazing and I’m treasuring it!
