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fountainpenguin · 7 years

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You know how you've divided the Fairies into various species, such as pixies and elves and leprechauns? What about the Ghosts? You could have banshees who scream all the time (Ember?), poltergeists who turn invisible and wreak havoc with inanimate objects (Box Ghost?), nature spirits (Frostbite?), genies who grant wishes (Desirée?), doppelgängers who copy other people (is Danny his own doppelgänger?), etc.

Did you seriously Google that accent aigu and umlaut for an Ask because wow dedication you are the kind of support I need in an Anon

I do want to divide a few of the Ghosts (capital G being for their class same way I do for Fairies and encompassing plurals, lowercase g for the species itself). I didn’t think about dividing them much further, but I don’t have my headcanons pinned down, so that’s something I should look into, especially if you’re interested in! I’m not super familiar with ghost subtypes. Research!

If any of you have read “No Anesthetic” yet, you’ve seen my theory for how Ghosts are created: when a dead body falls into one of those portals that randomly opens and stays open for only a few seconds or minutes. Dead things reanimate after nine seconds (so yes, in the Ghost Zone, the Lunch Lady’s meat powers create cows and turkeys and stuff. After nine seconds).

I was thinking that fresher bodies might become ghosts, and bones with little or no meat become skeletons, like those seen in “Prisoners of Love” and “Pirate Radio”. There’s a big distinction between those two classes, with the Ghosts claiming the skies and leaving the Skeletons the ground, so Youngblood’s a weird fellow who links them together. Whoops. I hope that doesn’t turn into something Sueish. As long as I don’t make crowds of backgrounders super mad at him for defying these barriers or all in support of it and just don’t make a big deal about it, I think it should work out fine.

So if that’s the angle I’m working with, I need to decide how one becomes a certain species. Perhaps it was the last thought they had, or something- Ember, for example, may have woken just before the smoke/fire killed her, and died screaming. And I still need to work special abilities in there somehow. Youngblood’s invisibility I think would render him a poltergeist too!

I’m still trying to figure out if he’s friends or enemies with the Box Ghost (because a pirate would want storage crates on his ship, and did the Box Ghost lend them to him because Youngblood bought/borrowed them, or do they constantly fight over who gets them, and am I going to be able to have Youngblood waltz into the wedding ‘fic, or is he going to have to sneak in, and if he’s sneaking in then why would our narrator Poindexter put up with this pirate whose job description is literally being a bully if he doesn’t have to?), but being the same species - especially if it turned out to be an uncommon one - would add another layer to their relationship.

Or maybe it wouldn’t be the last thought, but based on a strong aspect of their personality- in this case, Youngblood constantly playing pranks when he was alive. Box Ghost, uh… moving boxes around because that was his job when he was alive. Genies would be those who lived and died wanting to help people (although dying to save others might result in a species of its own).

The problem with genies (as usual) is that they’re so overpowered. I mean, I guess there’s the possible limitation of not being able to use any magic themselves, only for others… but if helpful people are dying, that leads to too many genies, I think. Hmm. Maybe genies tend to live in a special area of the Ghost Zone because they get sick of being bothered.

We know every ghost has a talent related to their personality. I’m trying to figure out if they are always related to that person’s personality, or if they go with certain species, Pokémon-style, and personalities build around them. Do I want, say, six major subspecies, or do I want twenty or more?

I could possibly go off skin colors here, but there doesn’t appear to be a correlation between colors and abilities, and probably species either. And I definitely wouldn’t want anyone to misinterpret such a headcanon as me implying negative connotations between “unpleasant” types of ghosts and groups of real-life people, so I guess it’s better to just end that idea here.

On the subject though, my guess would be skin color probably relates to human skin color, maybe? Black skin to blue, Latinx to green, white to gray? Maybe purple for those of Asian descent? Are there any purple ghosts (I think Bullet)? I haven’t looked into it a lot and I haven’t double-checked this with Dora, who has green skin and might have a canon color palette for when she was alive (even though having a colored photo makes zero sense given how old she is), so don’t hold me to this, though. What do you guys think?

(What baffles me is that Danny’s clothes, eyes, and hair change colors when he goes ghost, but his skin stays the same. That would’ve been awesome to see, for example, a Black or Latino Phantom, and definitely would’ve made it more difficult for people to recognize the similarities between the two Dannys. Ghostly gray skin would have been cool too, since I think he’s the only ghost with skin that looks human. Welp.)

Ghosts are very complicated. I would have liked to see more world-building like this explained in the show, but I guess it is fun to do the work myself too. Sometimes (It is a lot of work and I can’t find quite the thrill I get from FOP. I like fantasy, magic, and animals- not sci-fi, tech, and buildings).

I wish I had more to draw from. I need Ghost Zone flora and fauna, and I need more Ghost culture. I don’t want to use all my good ideas in fanfiction for a show that, while enjoyable, doesn’t strike as strong a chord with me as FOP, TD, and CZ when I’m trying to design my own fantasy world at the same time The “Name” prompt kind of drained me on magic plants and I do wish sometimes I could take certain headcanons back for personal project use but hey, if it gets me Followers then that’s a good thing ‘cuz my aunt who’s an editor says publishers immediately snap to attention if they hear you have a lot of Followers on social media because of the possibility of y’all buying my books so having you guys click that button might help me someday soon.

Honestly, I can’t see myself ever getting as involved with “Danny Phantom” as I have with FOP. I want to write Youngblood’s ‘fic because he’s underrated and I like him and want him to have one. I want to write the Box Ghost/Lunch Lady wedding ‘fic. I want to finish that one-shot I have of Danny in the hospital after the accident. I want to participate in Phanniemay. I’d love to write a ‘fic about Skulker and Ember and the Christmas celebration from Season 2, with some Youngblood adjusting to life after Sitarist’s death, but I can already feel a few of you rolling your eyes at the thought. Yes I like Youngblood okay I like him a lot.

Otherwise, unless I go for that DP/“ChalkZone” crossover that I have zero plans for, I’ll probably bow out of the phandom, only popping back to answer Asks or do a few doodles. I want to work on personal works and novels that I can publish, and balancing that with FOP is difficult enough (I still have to get through Origin, Knots, and the Prompts, all of which I think about constantly on a daily basis. Geez, then there’s “Lyin Queen”, “Beatin’ Path”, “Lions Under Palm Trees”… Yeah, no wonder all my personal projects are hardly drafts).

Do you guys like this species idea? It’ll take me some time to research ghosts and stuff. If you have suggestions, feel free to offer them for consideration.

#asks #Anon #Going Ghost!#He is the Box Ghost!#YOUNGBLOOD!#ridwriting

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