I think I'm going to do a story in the broken dreams canon of the goldaverse where the golden age Blue beetle is the father of the first Charlton blue beetle with the first Charlton blue beetle being renamed to Daniel Garret Jr,

now that part would remain canon in both the main universe and the BD canon of the goldaverse but they would start to diverge after the war with the golden age Blue beetle getting captured by the US government and his wife getting killed forcing sparky (the original side kick of the blue beetle) to basically raise the young Jr in secret, taking on alternate identities, then have jr eventually become a hero like his father with the same origin he has in the original Charlton comics him finding a mystical scarab and then swearing to find and save his father but he eventually falls to the same fate he originally does and is killed but instead of the mad scientist being on his own this time he's backed by the US government, but also like in the original stories Ted kord is there for his friend and trys to save him, but blue beetle knows he is dying and unlike in the original universe successfully passes the scarab on to Ted who mixes it's power with his technical know how and becomes his own version of the blue beetle (renamed shining beetle) alongside the now much older sparky who swear to finish what the second blue beetle started

Maybe even have this version of Ted secretly fund and be a member of the illegal superhero group fighting against the curroptus government