Tim is a part of the Big Brother Program for At Risk Teens.
Or, a variation of it.
Basically, parents can sign their kids up to have older kids or young adults that check in on them when they feel like they just aren’t getting through to their kids. It’s country-wide, tends to stick to virtual instead of irl meetups, and all communications are reviewed to ensure there’s no predators targeting the kids.
And it kinda…grew. Into a huge thing.
Kids will tell other kids a lot of horrid shit, specifically horrid shit that happens to them.
A lot of abusers got unearthed in that first year.
So Tim is a Big Brother in the program. A required reporter of abuse, trained to recognize the signs.
He’s assigned to one Daniel Fenton; the kid had a bad accident a few months ago, and ever since then he’s been worrying his sister.
The kid lied, of course, and said his parents signed him up for the program, but Tim can read between the lines.
He makes a note of it, and Social Services deems it a non-emergency, and the kids parents are put on the backburner for questioning.
Honestly fourteen isn’t that big of a gap from eighteen, but they get along well.
Then the kid starts saying…more and more concerning things.
That sleeping means people getting hurt, an evil lunch lady who actively tried to kill him, asking how to properly do a row of stitches, etc.
Tim gets really concerned when Danny starts going on about how weirdly obsessive his godfather is, how the man is a fruitloop, and starts alluding to physical abuse.
Then Danny stops replying entirely.
Tim sounds the alarm.
Social Services and police arrive at the Fentons, but Tim received unfortunate word that while they found the Fentons Danny is nowhere to be seen. Per the Fentons, he’s at his GodFathers and has been for the past year as part of a therapy program for “healing in nature”.
Tim legitimately steals the Batjet to get to Wisconsin before the cops or the Fentons can, finds the manor, and as he’s about to infiltrate it a teenage boy staggers out of the woods.
He’s covered in blood, there’s a fucking bear trap on his leg, and he’s holding a newborn baby.
Basically, AU where when Dani was made, Danny was being held prisoner in Vlad’s Manor because Vlad convinced Danny’s parents that it would be good for the “poor boy” to be so close to nature and away from whatever was stressing him at home.
Danny finds out about Dani, but when she’s just made infant stage of life. Technically a premature baby.
He breaks her out and makes a run for it, but between dodging all of the ghost animals and traps, he gets fucked up. Turns out the best way to dodge Vlad’s tracking tech is to be human, so that’s what he does.
He was not expecting his Big Brother Mentor to be waiting on the edge of the forest, standing there in an armani suit while the lights from the fucking BatJet outlined him from behind.
Tim sees a teenager who went missing for almost a year with a premature baby and makes some assumptions.
They are not good assumptions.
This is a wonderful statement and needs to be acknowledged outside of tags:
I mean, Danny was tortured while the clones were made in canon (to my knowledge), he was electrocuted multiple times AND had the dna stolen to make the clones AND most of them died in front of him except for Ellie who he met later so while he wasn’t raped, he did get tortured so he might not say anything to deny that that is how Ellie was made, especially with the rights a clone might or might not have at this point
Danny shying away from the adultiest adult in the room (Alfred’s upstairs) and shielding the newborn from him.
Muscles still twitching from electroshock torture and covered in bruises that are very clearly in the shape of handprints.
Clear distrust in his eyes.
Vlad’s gonna get ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttt. Vlad’s gonna get it.
And if we go the Neglectful but adoring parents Jack and Maddie, with Supervillain mad scientist tendencies? The literal only scientists that specialize in weapons meant to hunt and harm beings like Vlad (and Danny) to the extent that those are their only weapons?
They hear Social Services inform them of how Danny was found once Leslie does her checkup, what they think happened because Danny keeps it close to his chest how Dani came into existence because clone rights concerns, and Danny is trans?
Ohhhhhhhhhhh my fucking gods y'all.
The Fenton’s wordlessly tranq the cops and Social Service workers with a specialized gas and get in the GAV.
Jazz doesn’t say shit and gets in with them.
Bruce may be opposed to murder, but I’m pretty sure Jack, Maddie, and Jazz not only would be all for it, but would have guaranteed ways to make sure Vlad’s soul couldn’t move on.
Vlad’s prepared for the Justice League, not the literal only scientists in the world who have the capability to take him down.
sounds very similar to a radio story i heard in 2014 ago about credit card debt. the debt got sold to a collection company and a couple received a court summons. they knew they had taken on debt, but they were confused about who this new company was and where specifically the number they were supposed to owe came from.
they show up in court and just ask the lawyer for the collection company: can you prove where this number comes from? Do you have a contract showing that you purchased our debt? probably luckily for them, a reporter researching a book on the topic showed up and asked the same questions.
10 minutes later they get in front of the judge and the collection company drops the whole case and theyre free to go. story is below, it has a transcript in the link too
Mickey Mouse when I ask him why he’s increasing my house rent by $100 dollars every month (he’s my landlord)
The underpaid disney employees on their way to evict me and my family
disney literally tried to do this ages ago. please watch defunctland explain it. im losing my mind. why
I would like to let people know that is a reality for many of the underpaid Disney employees as they can’t afford housing on their salaries
So Disney has apartment buildings it buys to rent cheaply to their employees
And I’m sure you can imagine the level of control Disney has over you when they control your employment and your housing
Originally it was just for the college program employees (like me) but got expanded to being available to all employees
Now I don’t know how it is with the full time employees, but if you were a college employee and you got “termed?” (Disney loves alternative language to control their employees, see being a ‘cast member on stage’ vs an employee at work). After being termed you had 24 hours to move out
Now, guess how well that worked for 19 year olds from Ohio who have nowhere to sleep and no way to get home
I knew a guy who had two “strikes” against him (calling out of work gets points against you, 3 points get you a strike) that had been waved as he had good reasons to miss those days. He then made a comment his supervisor didn’t like so she reversed the strikes being waved and gave him the third one for his comment. He then had to call his parents at 2 am to tell them he was now homeless in Orlando. Imagine if your boss could evict you for talking back
Now imagine you’re one of the many semi retired employees trying to stay afloat through their 70s, or the many employees who are recent immigrants, or who are parents of kids, or anyone else without a lot of work or housing options
Think of the shit they’d be able to do to you if losing your job meant immediately losing housing because your boss owns your home
Think of how much leverage that gives against the unions when your workers aren’t even secure from their employer in their home, where union dues paying for you to not work can’t save you from eviction because your boss decides if you get to live there
Any fucked up thing Disney does is almost always worse for their employees, and likely tested on them first
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A/N: I finally got my copy of AGIT and it sparked this prompt idea, I might continue on…
“Of all the times why were we thrown into a different dimension…”
“I am not happy about this either, twerp.”
Danny gave his body double a scorching glare. Dan only shrugged as he leaned back into the park bench, hiding a chuckle. Even if the situation was dire, it was kind of funny too. Good things had changed so much since he got a human body. Danny had become more of a brother to him than his nemesis or time original, especially since Danny had gotten the crown and was trying to smooth things over for ghosts and humans. Plus he finally understood why Jazz like to tease them so much as her younger siblings. He got to tease his time original / cousin / ‘younger’ brother now too, well he did see himself as the older one when they could technically pass as twins.
“We are stuck looking like this! Our powers don’t work and I can’t open a portal, Dan!”
“And what do you want me to do about it? Clockwork is not responding to either of us.”
Dan studied Danny who was still pacing in knee-high snow, then looked down at his hand which was smaller than he remembered. He tried reaching out to his ghost powers but nothing responded. From the corner of his eyes, he noticed Danny stopping his pacing and looking back at Dan, his voice soft from resignation.
“What is the last thing you remember?”
“It’s… nothing.” I don’t remember what I did last. Why do you ask?“
"It’s the same for me. We are stranded for some unknown reason in an entirely different Dimension in six-year-old bodies, with no clue or solution to get home and our ghost powers being all wonky as shit! And clockwork won’t react to us yelling his name into the snowstorm we are currently in! At least we are cold-resistant!”
Danny resumed pacing in the snow, kicking random little snow hills he was making with his pacing as he ranted. Dan was watching him from the park bench with a scowl of his own. Both had found themself waking up to each other in a pile of snow in a park that was located in a city they had no idea about, the only thing they had was a green sticky note with the words 'Code Bat: Different Dimension’.
That led to Danny yelling for clockwork into the starting snowstorm. They knew their powers weren’t completely gone. Wherever they were they were in a place with a lot of ambient ectoplasm.
“We should look for a way out of the snow twerp. Even with cold resistance, we should stay out here.” Dan huffed as he tried to make out the buildings around them outside of the park, Danny instantly stopped pacing tilting his head.
“Where should-”
Both boys yelled in absolute horror as they suddenly got picked up and were carried like a sack of potatoes under the arms of strange guys. Instincts kicked in and the two instantly fought back but the guys carrying them didn’t appear to be bothered.
The wind whisked past their ears making hearing anything difficult until they finally got put down next to each other. Instantly Dan took half a step before Danny, glaring at the ones that abducted them from a park. “Who the fuck are you, guys?!”
“Language kid. And I should be asking what the fuck you little kids were doing out in the middle of the worst Snowstorm Gotham had in a long time?” The guy in a red helmet said towering over them with crossed arms. “I know you street rats are smarter than staying out in the open like this. Don’t you kids have a shelter?”
Street Rats? Okay, so what if their clothes looked a little ratty? Hold a second. Danny and Dan looked at each other briefly as if for the first time noticing how worn the clothes they had looked compared to what they were used to wearing. Great so not only were they in twin six-year-old bodies but also wearing such worn-out clothes that people saw them as street rats.
“None of your fucking business.” Dan retorted, the fun of the situation now gone and anger and frustration settling in as he glared at their abductors. Danny on the other hand tilted his head miming the confused child as he stared up at them.
“We got lost.”
“You got lost?” The other guy in blue with a mask asked them unbelieving and Danny only nodded.
“Yup, we got lost.”
Dan watched how the two adults playing dress up exchanged glances. He peaked back at Danny and then back at them. Before making a probably short-sighted decision.
“Fuck this!” He said out loud and grabbed his twin’s hand. Once more he reached for his ghost core and powers, internally yelling at it to get a response. And it worked, sort of.
He felt intangibility wash over them so he attempted to escape by phasing him and Danny through the ground only… to get halfway stuck as the old on his ghostly powers got lost. Dan’s eye twitched as he realized he was stuck in the ground up to his tights.
“Dan what the fuck?!” Danny who was now stuck knee-deep into the floor yelled.
“I was at least attempting to escape!”
“We are stuck now! This is even worse! You could have just let me talk our way out of this!”
“Oh hell no. I remember the others saying often enough that you should not do the talking!”
“Phasing us through the floor is not better at all! Our powers are wonky or did you forget that?!”
While the twin boy’s where fighting Nightwing and Red Hood exchanged worried glances.
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