depressed_parrot
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The Hands We’re Dealt by depressed_parrot
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
25 May 2025
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Gotham is a city full of desperate people trying to survive against all odds, and Danny has become one of them alongside a mountain of traumatised Metahumans with the passing of the new Metahuman Protection & Re-integration Initiative. Under an already oppressive system with much larger players making their moves, all of them are about to get caught in the crosshairs…
What do you do when what was meant to protect you is what is hurting you? What do you do when others would rather you didn’t exist? When are our actions justified? What should we do with the shitty hand we’re dealt?
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An au where Danny has the same scar as Two Face and has run away to Gotham undercover as a meta to hide from his parents but keeps getting accidentally roped in with the bats’ rogues gallery, all the while with the Bat family hot on his heels.
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A House Better Left Forgotten by depressed_parrot
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types
01 Feb 2025
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Growing weary over the years
What is a body but a house?
A space holds memories just like a person does,
to say both forever and not at all
Home is a home until it is a prisonOr
Following the breadcrumbs of a suspected government coverup, Tim stumbles on an empty midwestern town. At its hollow center sits a strange house.
Danny can’t remember much these days. His thoughts slip through his fingers like sand falls through the hourglass of time. All he knows is that he is tired of being alone.Series
- Part 3 of Ectoberhaunt 2024
- Part 1 of Spooky Fics
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Ectoberhaunt 2024, day 17 - Gothic Horror.
(With a hint of day 10-Came Back Wrong)A retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell Tale Heart in the Danny Phantom universe. I really recommend you read the original. I worked hard to imitate the style, so it’s not my usual way of writing.
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Danny isn’t the same anymore. There is a green sheen in his eyes that wasn’t there before. She can’t admit it to herself, they watch her every move warily when before they’d only ever been full of love. She’s known for a while now. This isn’t Danny.
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- Part 2 of Ectoberhaunt 2024
- Part 3 of Spooky Fics
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Danny gets disconnected from his arm in *sigh* another tragic lab accident. Reconnecting with yourself is not all its cracked up to be. Not a fun experience: 2/10. Would not repeat.
Ectoberhaunt 2024 (double submission) - 4 (came back wrong) & 10 (creepy-wet)
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- Part 1 of Ectoberhaunt 2024
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A forever 14 AU
It’s an A.U where Danny has to spend conscious energy to age his body up to look his chronological age. The gang is now in college together, back to a life similar to how it had been in high school. Now finally back in a stable routine (or as stable as you can get), they start to think of the future… and to dissect their past.
Its sort of Mortified-canon compliant? I havent finished reading it yet at the time of writing this fic.
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- Part 4 of Late DannyMay
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A collection of short stories based on the Danny May prompts that I post year round.
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Spooky Fics by depressed_parrot
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Danny Phantom, DCU (Comics)
01 Feb 2025
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A collection of unrelated dp or dp x dc fics with spooky vibes
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Congratulations, It’s a Baby Duck by ReaderRevolution
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
15 Sep 2025
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“Heyyy,” the stranger says. “So like. Um. You might feel a little different. Don’t panic.”
Jason immediately panics.
He grabs the front of the guy's hoodie and yanks him forward.
“What. Did. You. DO.”
He raises both hands. “I fixed your soul!”
“WHAT?!”
“It was crunchy! You were walking around like someone duct taped you back in with rage magic! I just popped it back in place!”
Jason stares. “You just ‘popped’ my SOUL back?!”
“I mean… yeah?”
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Jason screams, Danny panics, and somehow this equals the world’s weirdest meet-cute.
[Inspired by a tumbr post.]
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- Part 26 of Ghosts Among Us
Bookmarked by depressed_parrot
15 Sep 2025
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« Danny Fenton has had it with Gotham.
He’s only been here twenty minutes and he’s already found two haunted alleyways, a demonic pigeon cult (they had matching robes), and a guy who is literally walking around with a fractured core like it’s nobody’s business.
He didn’t even mean to look at the guy. He just happened to glance over and BAM—»
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“Val, do it.” She recognizes the popping static of ghost speak. Danny raises his head and the pain in his eyes is gone, replaced with grim, angry determination.
She opens her mouth to respond, but he stops her.
“Don’t reply, just shoot me. If you do it, you’re free.”
He couldn’t survive this. Not unless there's something major he isn’t telling her.
And then she remembers there is.
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Valerie and Danny are kidnapped by the GIW due to their anomalous ectoplasmic radiation readings. In the lab, they're put trough testing to determine whether or not they still count as human. Danny struggles with the cost of keeping his secrets to avoid hurting Valerie, while Valerie grapples with the real ramifications of her suit’s technology and how ghostly she's becoming. Together they must both face their truths if they want to get out alive.
Written for Invisobang 2025!
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Bookmarked by depressed_parrot
03 Sep 2025
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He releases a ragged breath in a demented laugh. "They’ve got other ghosts held captive."
She waits for him to finish that statement with a point. He doesn't. The look he gives her, like she's just kicked a dog, isn't appreciated.
"That settles it." He smacks his lips. "I’m going to completely level this place."
She snorts, but he's not laughing. How he intends to keep that promise, she hasn't a clue.
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Four times having a governor module fucking sucked, plus one time [REDACTED: FILE MISSING].
(Or: Murderbot has Emotions for 8,000 words. ART tries to help. So does Dr. Mensah, but like, in a decidedly less assholish way.)
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Bookmarked by depressed_parrot
10 Jul 2025
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«"For the last time, I'm not seeing your fucking human marriage counselor."
He threw his hands up. "Hey, she's a relationship counselor! She does relationships. Friends, roommates, families, uh…" He scratched the back of his head. "Rogue SecUnits and their giant sentient spaceships."»
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« "You should be careful," I said drily. "I'm always looking for reasons to launch myself into space." »
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« After a few moments spent staring at myself in the hallway cameras, trying to make my facial expression as un-murdery as possible, I stepped forward and into—alright, fine, fine, I would say it—my asshole research transport again. »
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That should be the end of it. His parents are happy, the portal is working, and Danny doesn’t get grounded for messing around where he shouldn’t be. Case closed, happily ever after, the end, everyone can just move on with their life now and Danny can just bury this incident into the confines of his mind with little to no consequences.
Except…
Well, the memory problems are concerning, but at least he isn’t dead.
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Based off a prompt on the Haunting Heroes server: "Nobody knows AU-- including Danny"
Bookmarked by depressed_parrot
08 Jul 2025
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Not a single word wasted, masterfully suspenseful. You figure out what is happening half way through but can’t put your phone down until the very end. 10/10
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Lies That Were Never Told by evilly_laughing
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics)
27 Nov 2016
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“You’re the straight brother.”
“Oh?” Well that’s news to Jason, a very queer individual with a boyfriend.
However, he apparently doesn't have a way to come out to his family. And he has to find one soon because said boyfriend is finding it very interesting that Dick keeps sending him t-shirts that say 'ALLY.'
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Bookmarked by depressed_parrot
02 Feb 2025
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This single-handedly represents my experience as a fem presenting lesbian better than any other form of media ever has.