Catching Up - Blog Posts

14.03.2025 (fri)

Woke up at 12 PM today and got hit with a killer headache that just kept getting worse 😭. The only reason I survived was because there were just a couple of hours till iftar. Took a painkiller, but it didn’t do much. Still managed to squeeze in some studying—not a lot, but hey, it’s something. Started strong but ended procrastinating towards the end 😭

Things I did today ~

Revised Lec 1 stuff from yesterday

Watched Lec 2 and made notes

Started Lec 3

The good part? I actually understood things pretty easily today, so I’m breathing a little easier. Still a long way to go, but small wins are still wins !!

Anyways,

BYEEEE

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I want to add Good Fentons AU. 1-I am a sucker for those, and 2-THE HILARITY OF IT NOT EVEN BEING A BAD HOUSEHOLD

For the first comment, I like to imagine that after the good reveal, they ended up making up and have gotten to the point where they just joke about Jack & Maddie vivissecting Danny if he does something. Danny started it, the first few times the responses were nervous laughs but now it's just a joke. He actually meant the bedtime thing and he got grounded for a while after that.

I want to add ANOTHER misunderstanding out there too! Hear me out: JL/YJ think that Jack & Maddie are family friends who know of Danny's identity and are actively protecting him from them. YJ/JL needed some experts in ecto entities for one reason or another, so they called in some of the first ectobiologists, the (previously negatively biased but now very accepting plus studying their society) Fenton parents! It was like- midnight when they got there and Danny had to stay away from Amity Park for a few days and forgot to tell them, and they were NOT gonna let that slide.

Meanwhile, Danny was absolutely *not* informed of who they were meeting, as well as not informed on what they were specialists of (YJ/JL didn't tell him in fears of them being disliked thanks to their past bias) so he was in for quite a surprise!

*Jack & Maddie enter the meeting room*

Jack & Maddie:

Danny:

Jack & Maddie: DANN-O! Where have you been?! Your parents have been worried sick, you know?!

Danny: I'M SORRY! I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you guys where I was!

Jack: My boy, you've grown quite forgetful in telling us when you're out ever since we found out!

Maddie: We thought that they caught you, you know? We had to make up excuses as to why you weren't home! If anyone asks, you were having a sleepover at Sam's. She's in on it.

Danny: Alright, alright. Thanks for telling me.

Anyway, they don't clarify their relationship and they didn't realize their wording could be misunderstood. How it's cleared up? I dunno. What shenanigans insue from it? People trying to mae Danny Jack & Maddie's adoptive son and their son "coincidentally" also named Danny's adoptive brother. And them being worried about him accidentally insulting his parents and him being like "Don't talk about them that way!" and Jack & Maddie who are there for some reason being "Sweetie..." cause they know that was true back then snd even if that changed it doesn't mean that things didn't happen and-

TL.DR: Add Good Fenton Parents to it :)

Young Justice is always a little...concerned. With Phantom's living situation. Now they're outright afraid for him, and Bart has decided it's time to Ask An Adult.

It was the little quips. The tiny little things. Stuff that didn't seem to matter to Phantom at all, or appeared to be normal for him, that he didn't realize weren't normal at all.

"Oh, better not hope my mom catches me." "Doing what, staying out past bedtime?" "Nah, using my powers; she'd vivisect me!"

"Another stab wound. Great." "Don't worry Phantom, I've got the med kit-" "Oh, I'm not a baby or anything, I can handle it just fine. Just gimme a sec to take it out."

"My dad has better aim than that." "...Like, when he's hunting, right?" "...At what other times would he be shooting at me?"

"Huh. Not as bad as my parents place. Look; they have a decontamination shower!" "Phantom, this lab has been vandalized to the point of needing a hazmat suit." "Did I stutter?"

Finding out each others identities did nothing to soothe the worry. Tim quietly told the others that every time he tried to run facial recognition, he kept hitting a government firewall he couldn't breach. Phantom never told them his last name, just his first, and 'Danny' is super common.

The thing that really did it though, the thing that made Bart snap and run off to ask Max, was when Danny had a nightmare.

He was talking in his sleep.

"No. Don't-stop. Stoooop. I need...my skin. Mom, no. You can't...peel off...my skin..."

Bart didn't even wait for them to wake Danny up before he was standing in front of Max, talking a mile a minute as he tried to figure out what to do, with Wally staring in horror over a plate of waffles as he computed everything that Bart was saying.

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Danny had a dream about his mom and Skulker arguing about how to skin him. He wouldn't really call it a nightmare, because it was just Skulker, but the scariest thing was Skulker insisting to his mom that it was possible to skin him with a potato peeler. Dream mom was arguing that it was not, and that from a scientific standpoint that was a really piss poor way to preserve a specimen.

He hadn't been begging them to stop hurting him, he'd been whining at them to knock it off.

But when he wakes up, it's to a room full of worried friends and an old man who calls himself Max.

"Kid, I think we need to talk."