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About Sidney Pointdexter🪞
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Bio       “ Sidney's been through a lot. Has haunted Amity High since the 50's. He was bullied a lot and had little to no support, got so bad he just couldn't take it anymore...Now as a ghost he wants to use his powers to help people from going through what he did. Problem is his problems followed him to the afterlife, bigger than they ever were when he was alive. He'll have to etheir reflect on the darker side of him or end up succumbing to it. And NO one wants that, especially not him!”
Personality-Sugar-Ice personality(mostly sugar normal, mostly ice mantis), awkward, anxious, quiet, timid, meek, soft-spoken, introverted, shy, friendly, kind-hearted, mild-mannered, loyal, very insecure, secretly vindictive, secret anger issues, emotional, self loathing.
Likes-Danny, Sci-Fi stories/movies, science, space, Bugs(mantises fav), egg creams, flowers, nature, milkshakes, burgers and fries, brain food, public radio, podcasts, Elvis Presley songs, pastel colors, rainbows, books, comic books, reading, cooking, cleaning, organizing, revenge(trying to get out of that).
Dislikes- Bullies, Dash, being pushed around, closed spaces, letting his emotions get the better of him, large crowds, being near mirrors too long(current), messes, loud noises, people looking down on him, being underestimated, himself.
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Headcanon VA. Sean Giambrone-Jeff(Clarence), Scott Menville(Robin, Teen Titans), Rob Paulsen(Donatello, 2012), Josh Brener(Donatello, ROTTMNT), Philippe Martin(Cody-Total Drama).
Abilities:
Normal- Smart(especially in science and biology), can fit through small spaces, can travel + communicate via mirrors or anything with a reflective surface, can make small objects float, cause small wind when grabbing stuff, can temporarily take over someone's body.
Mantis- Can an turn into a mantis monster if pushed hard enough, high pitched screech that can break glass, massive pincers that can slice through metal, climber, sharp teeth, wings and retains intelligence even in mantis form.
Weaknesses- Timid, physically weak(in his normal form), doesn’t do well under pressure, anxiety, clumsy, Poor self-esteem, unstable powers, influenced heavily by his emotions(ESPECIALLY anger), little control of his powers when he's in mantis mode, tends to lose himself in mantis form, holds grudges.
Used to own a pet praying mantis. Also liked to collect insects in his past time🦋
Has claustrophobia(stems from being stuffed into a locker a lot).
Been afraid to look into mirrors after the events at Casper High.
One of the insults people gave him was “bug boy” on account of his love for insects as well as his glasses and thin limbs making him look “buggy”🐛
Still likes to listen to public radio📻
Fav subject in Highschool-Science🧬🔬 Least Fav-PE🏈
Doesn't like to talk about his past life or family.
Wanted to be an entomologist(someone who studies bugs 🐛)
Likes bugs because he can relate to what it’s like to be small and weak and fantasized about being like a mantis, where he’s the strong one where as the rest of the bullies are his little insects at his mercy.
Wears the glasses Danny patched up👓
Used to hang alot around Amity High, In the ghost Zone he’d hang out mostly in the library the most. After the fight at the school, now lives at the Walker's Prison. He turned himself in.
One of the few people that actually respect Walker. Calls him Mr. Walker. He's his favorite. He tends to be gentler with Sid because of him being better behaved and his...situation. Is having people currently look into that.
After the mantis incident, became very scared to leave the prison, being alone. Severely regrets what he almost did, especially to Danny.
Hangs out with the other teens, Ember, Johnny 13 and Kitty the most. Tends to feel like an oddball but they try to make him feel he belongs.
For his monstrous form I chose the mantis because they look scary and in the 50′s(Sid’s timeline), there were a lot of sci-fi creature movies, including 1957′s “The Deadly Mantis”. I also wanted to implement a mirror theme on account of Sid’s mirror🪞
Gets along well with the Lunch Lady. Knew her back when he was alive. She was one of the nicer people to him, before dying(food poisoning or other health, food related reasons), He likes to help her with cooking when he can.
Needs therapy. Tbh a lot of the ghosts(def Danny) could use it.
Here’s the link to his rewrite
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/dnpanimationstudioclone/687345099875680256?source=share
What do u guys think? Any headcanons u have? I’d love to know💖
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masked-kitsune · 1 year
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Danny Phantom separate au: Cores
•Why does Phantom have an ice core?
So Pariah has a fire core and Clockwork has a time core. Those two can't make an ice core. Ghosts can reproduce asexually on their own or two ghosts can put in the effort and make a child via combining their energy to have a baby ghost pop into existence just like what Box Ghost and Lunch Lady did for Box Lunch, they also adopted Sydney Pointdexter at some point.
Pariah and Clockwork put in the effort and after a lot of trying Phantom was born. Unfortunately Phantom was born without a core and he was starting to fade. The two rushed the fading infant to the Far Frozen and after a very intense round of treatment Frostbite was able to use his ghost ice and a lot of ectoplasm to create a small core that Phantom was able to successfully accept into his form. Pariah and Clockwork were both a mess after the ordeal. They both learned very quickly that a baby eldritch being with ice powers equals chaos.
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Do u have any headcanons or ideas for Sidney Pointdexter?
@dnpanimationstudioclone of course! I love my broski, Sidney Poindexter. So strap in;
Given the length of my previous response I’ll try to keep the ideas and headcanons short for easier reader digest. So bullet points time!
Sidney was huge into sci-fi and fantasy media back in his past life. Comics, movies, books, cartoons and shows you name it he loves it especially foreign works like J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings series to the first Godzilla movie at the time in 1954. Others book wise from Tunnel in the Sky by Heinlein, Judgement by C.L Moore, Triplanetary to the works of Orson Wells to classic monster movies the 50s spurred before the 60s. And a lover for cartoons of the Looney toons variety and newspaper funny pages of Dick Tracy and Charlie Brown.
Sidney was a nerd because of his interests but he was smart nerd due to both of his parents being teachers. His mom was an English teacher and his father was a math/pre-calc teacher. Seriously, Poindexter’s dinner time would involve having to figure out three new sentences with a vocabulary word you’d learn in high school and breakfast was doing two or three long division polynomials on the page before the newspaper’s comics/funnies section which his father would make him finish first in order to read it. All of this repetition learning placed Sidney a year or two ahead than most in his class as a result.
Sidney’s parents cared for him a lot but we’re quite strict to a point in his education and use of his free time. It’s understandable in some way as I hc Sidney’s grandparents or parents were Jewish immigrants and Sid being first generation with more opportunities than those before him. His parents loved him and were trying to help him prepare for the road ahead, but they seemed to neglected their efforts and positions had as teachers in the Casper/Amity School systems. I think another factor to Sidney’s bullying is that a lot of high schoolers or middle schoolers took out their aggression on his dad’s tough math/pre-calc classes on him. That whole having to bully Poindexter as a graduation requirement thing started bc his dad was the last class you had to take to graduate as a senior.
I love the idea Sidney and Lunch Lady knew each other back when he was still alive in middle school and a young Laurie (LL’s real name in my hcs) started working as Casper’s lunch lady. Sidney being such a frail and small pre-teen, Lunch Lady couldn’t help but give him and extra helping of food (especially when others would either take his money or food). Even before the bullying got worse, Lunch Lady would let Sidney help in the mess hall to avoid being mistreated. She’d lie and say Sidney had to work first before he could earn his meal if any other staff member asked why he was there. It helped a lot, Sidney considered her to be his only friend at the time when he was alive.
If Sidney didn’t die so young or survived his suicide attempt, his parents would said enough is enough and change schools immediately after that happened. Sidney would restart his third year in junior high and avoid further bullying or gossip about his incident. It was welcomed but he was upset still over having to restart 11th grade again when he was almost done. But more importantly not being able to say a proper goodbye to Laurie/Lunch Lady when it happened. He sent her an emotional thank you card though which she kept in her important belongings until she died of a heart attack in the 1980s or 1990s.
I felt that Sidney was a late bloomer given the lack of eating meals at school, general genetics to general depression, Sidney would of been very tall in his third year in high school. I think he would of been a basketball guy but honestly I definitely think he would of been the best mascot ever in the school he was transferred to like legendary dude. Also, he’d make a risk to join a his new school’s newspaper which led to him meeting new people and socializing with new people who he’d make friends with. But most importantly it allowed him to pursue his interests by drawing cartoon/comics in the school’s papers that led him to his profession as a famous Cartoonist in his adult life.
Ok, enough new life Sidney back to ghost Sidney. Sidney found out about his ability to connect to his old Locker 724 when he got pushed in it again in his lair replica of the Casper High and saw through the mirror another kid like him met the same fate and was crying just like he did alive. It sent him off in a rage that made him press his hands to the mirror phase through and possess the kid in his enraged state to wreck havoc on the bully responsible for it. That bully literally got sent to the ER once they got their hands on them and the school knew this was a ghost possession situation when it happened, the pre-exposed GIW got involved and the locker was decommissioned until the 2000s with new staff and a bigger student body came to reclaim as much available space possible for students to use locker wise. Rumors be damned is how that went, poor Danny.
Sidney didn’t knew about Lunch Lady’s death until after the first episode when she got sent to the ghost zone. He thought she past away peacefully even if it was a heart attack or something else that had her died suddenly. Before Walker got to her/arrested her, Laurie was roaming the zone and had fast whiplash as soon as she found the old Casper high in black and white. Even more so when she entered and her appearance changed back to her look in the 50s again and the moment Sidney saw her again he broke down crying and hugged her as his loss those memories of spending time/being friends with here at the school after so many decades with being treated like crap until Danny changed everything to be treated as an equal.
Sidney is a strong advocate for Danny ever since the debut episode for him. Danny is probably the only person Poindexter actively stood up for against the other ghosts as shown in Reign Storm with Skulker and such. He isn’t fond of traveling the zone alone, at least in the school he knows what to expect with the torment he receives or used to receive. It’s familiar, he’s used to it, out in the deep green it’s unpredictable and unknown which is something Sidney fears even more.
Speaking of Reign Storm, LOOK AT THEM!!!!
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WHY DOESNT GET TALKED ABOUT MORE?! Sidney and Dora being best buddies during and after the events of Reign Storm. Sidney’s love for fantasy and old British/medieval literature too (thank his mom on that one), it’s likely Sidney can hold a good conversation and maybe understand his middle ages dialect. Even more so that both of them were bullied and tormented by their peers most of their lives that they have more in common than they thought. And yes, if Sidney would visit her and see how his outfit changes to a knight or jester outfit he would go nuts about it bc that’s his dream there and boy he is living it. Ok overall, they’re best friends I’m not accepting anything else at this time.
Danny and Sidney chat in the locker mirror on a biweekly basis. He’s Danny’s man inside as a thank you for changing his memories of Casper high so he can be the person he could of been in high school with Danny. He helps out by being part of writing the school’s newspaper club and they get other newspapers of the ghost areas as a result. Sidney can only share the newspaper through the mirror which still works out for Danny with taking a picture on his phone for reference later. Plus Sidney is a good enough storyteller that he doesn’t have to read the whole thing if he asked Sidney to share the highlights. Also, during the week or Friday before winter break Danny, Tucker and Sam make sure to wish him a happy holiday and Hanukkah. Same story for each other Jewish holiday since Sam is very adamant about letting Sid know they’re thinking about him during those times.
Danny and Sidney really hit it off after Splitting images once they talk Sci-fi, space and everything under the sun. Sidney flexes that he was able to hear Sputnik 1 late one night when it first launched in 1957. Danny is jealous about it but he gets the benefit of sharing all the new space stuff that has happened since the late 1950s. Sidney is happy to hear every word and finally have someone to share and relate his favorite things to for the first time in decades.
Ok that’s all in the hc/idea tank, @dnpanimationstudioclone thanks again for the awesome asks btw! Sorry this was longer than normal I just love my bro Sidney Poindexter.
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gilly-moon · 10 months
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It's been a minute since I did an updated DP design and I miss it!!!! Kinda want to get to all of these eventually
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jnstudios2 · 2 years
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@alinmenttreasure requested pointdexter.
And there we have it the complete six dp characters!
Pls enjoy the artwork.
I found pointdexter to be kinda easy to draw. When you study the details of him
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dailudannos · 1 year
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What do u think of Sidney Pointdexter?
I love Sidney (even though I don't draw him that often)
I love how funny he was in Reign Storm and his signature episode
That and he's a kid from the 50's/60's era, he's gonna be a little curious
I'm glad you mentioned him though because he's also a part of an dp au I've been working on!
It's a reverse role au but instead of just a switcheroo with Vlad and Danny, it's a switcheroo with the human characters and the ghosts. So all the ghosts are actually halfas and the humans a ghosts ruling over their domain in the ghost zone.
I designed Poindexter to fully human, and even have a design for him!
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That's all :)
I think he's neat
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aikoiya · 7 months
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Sam Ghost-Protector AU: Where Sam (with Tucker’s help) constantly protests for Ghosts (including Danny’s Ghost Form) to be seen, as equals + sentient beings?… Would Danny be touched by Sam’s actions?… Which Ghosts would also appreciate what Sam is doing? 💚🖤💜
Mmmm... I think that Danny absolutely would. It'd certainly propel his crush on her further.
As for the ghosts? Pretty much any one that could be considered Danny's friend. But also Pointdexter.
I just feel like him & Danny could've easily been friends had he let Danno explain.
Not sure who else. Maybe Kitty, Johnny, & Shadow? Possibly Ember too as they seem to be the ones who would try to hang out in the living realms the most.
DP Ask AU Masterlist
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uuberwachen · 2 years
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I love ur Sidney Pointdexter! I love the stretchy arms like old 50’s cartoons! If there was a DP rewrite how would u introduce him?
he's based on my alter of him, actually! I asked him and he says he doesnt have it concrete.but he that he imagines it this way:
His backstory would play out the same, save for a small detail - Sidney loved cartoons, since he was very young until his teen years. He attempted to learn to draw but had no luck, instead deciding to focus on his typical studies instead.
As a ghost, in the school purgatory Sidney's bullying is instead played off as a cruel joke. Laugh tracks play while he gets hurt.
In the episode - Danny would activate the mirror's gateway by touching it as before. However this time the magic getting revenge on the bullies would be a LOT more over the top. Sam would accuse Danny like in canon only for him to be confused about what she meant.
Danny, in typical behavior attempts his possession trick and calls Sidney forth, only now the locker door flies open, and he claws his way out, impossible to not notice.
Sidney quickly accuses Danny, believing he was using his powers to hurt others. However because I think the original moral and misunderstanding of the original episode is REALLY dumb, Danny will be able to explain the truth immediately. Sidney, realizing that he and Danny were somewhat similar, he decides to team up with him. This is overheard by Sam, who is displeased.
The episode would be the two of them getting back at bullies and dodging(a montage maybe?) until the near end of the school day. Laying on the roof of the school, it's revealed that Danny's parents had been called in due to the activity all day, and they had finally arrived. Danny, notably freaked out, asks Sidney to stay hidden. Sidney, confused, listens in on what he had to say to his parents. He sees how scared he seemed of them, and decides to "help" Danny.
In a major burst of his powers he takes over the school, and pulls Danny into the mirror with him. Here we see what he had went through in purgatory. Sidney says they could stay here and fight for justice forever. The students needed them. Danny, knowing he would miss his life, declines, and tries to leave. Sidney did not like this idea.
He transforms his version of Casper High. (A huge, cartoon-y birdcage locking it in comes to mind) and it was then up to Danny to stop him. Danny tells him it's not his responsibility to save everyone. While what he went through was not his fault, and he was right to be angry, he instead needed to move on, instead of clinging to the idea of justice being his purpose. Danny still had a life outside of fighting ghosts, after all. Why did Sidney need to fight for eternity, too?
For once Danny can talk his way out of a problem, and Sidney decides he was right. He wouldn't stop fighting, but he wouldn't force Danny to stay. He hands the mirror over, allowing Danny to leave. As he looks back, Sidney says he'll always be there to lend a hand. And would then be an occasional ally to the team if they go through the ghost zone.
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angelic-ish-phantom · 2 years
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What if the ghosts played Minecraft? What if there was a ghost that decided they wanted to live in Minecraft? What do they even be able to do it
So you’ve come to an expert I see!
If a ghost wanted to ‘live in Minecraft’, their lair and aesthetic could be Minecraft. Think Max Brooks’ Minecraft: The Island. Said Minecraft ghost would appear like a Minecraft skin, even outside of their lair and would only able to cycle through certain emotions. They would also treat real objects like blocks or items in the game… and it would work. They’d need to punch/break stuff to acquire it, and would have a fully working inventory. Also hunger which is not great. They would be able to respawn back in their lair and craft armor so they could potentially be kind of powerful actually-
While incredibly cursed, they would be relatively harmless, and only come through portals to check for updates.
(Also the ghosts do play Minecraft. This ask has made my headcanon that all of Danny’s casual enemies have a Minecraft server that they all play on its the most chaotic shit ever. The server is modded to hell and back so they aren’t bound to plebeian non-dead Minecraft player rules. Technus is admin, because he would not play otherwise. He doesn’t actually do anything with this: Entirely unhelpful creative mode server God boi™. Tucker is the only actual staff because Skulker didn’t want to be in charge of maintaining the server once he found someone good enough at game stuff to take over. Tucker hates this but also can’t bring himself to just NOT do it. Ember learns Redstone specifically so she can make music in Minecraft also. She also has every disc on the server. Not just loot. She steals any discs anyone else gets and has them all. Pointdexter also knows redstone; he is worse at it than Ember, he just uses his skills to do actual things where she doesn’t. Kitty and Danny are the only ones that just play the game normally. Danny also patches the creeper holes like a Saint. Johnny fucks with everyone’s builds when he’s bored; this is the only reason he comes online. Sam has beaten all the ghosts at pvp, a lot of them at the same time; she is just that skilled. Lunch lady is there too, dedicating all her time online to killing and cooking every animal she comes across. On the one hand, she keeps the entire server fed, on the other hand she destroys all the farms and no one can have an edible pet or it WILL die. Skulker collects money heads, and it’s actually really impressive. He’s killed the Ender dragon a figmillion times; he just keeps respawning it for fun. Youngblood makes a tonne of ugly builds and lava casts, because pretty servers can’t exist with people like these. On that note, Box ghost is also whitelisted. No one knows how, but he keeps logging on and building dirt shacks. Dani plays also, because Danny gave her the IP address. She comes online to talk to Danny instead of calling or texting him with the phone she absolutely has. Valerie also has access to the server via ‘Phantom’. This was not a good decision. She destroys all of Danny’s stuff specifically. She griefs everyone, because ghosts, but mostly just blows up whatever Danny is making. She doesn’t come on often and it never occurs to them to just ban her- Dora and Klemperer also get to be on the server. This is good for them, they are just having a good times. Vlad is not allowed on the server, because he is a fruitloop and no one wants that. How do all the ghosts get their computer? Theft of course! And lots of it! This is fine.)
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the-random-phan · 2 years
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Random Fics That Were Languishing Away in My Google Drive
Summary:
Exactly as the title says. Short writings that I (mostly) don't intend to touch again and have just been sitting around, forgotten. Expect grammar mistakes and rather random updates, if any. You've been warned! :)
Ao3
FFnet
Word Count as of Posting: 5,979
Chapter List as of Posting:
Danny NO!
Emotional Truce
Gray Ghost Reveal
Halfa Poem
Philosophical Phantom
First Draft of "A Field Trip"
The Accident
Danny Phantom Vlogs
Ghostie's First Bank Robbery
Consentual Overshadowing
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mightydragoon · 3 years
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Storms of  A Butterfly Chapter 13:  Beyond the Looking Glass
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 Summary : Danny and Sidney yell and discover shit about themselves.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21931960/chapters/52346182
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Sidney meets Spectra
Based on my version of Spectra and Sidney.
At Walker's prison
Spectra-Hello kid.
Kid who turns out to be Sidney- Hello ma'am, Who are you? Haven't seen you around here.
Spectra-Name's Dr. Penelope Spectra but you can just call me Spectra, at your service. I'm a new inmate. Nice to meet you.
Sidney-I'm Sidney Pointdexter. Your name sounds familiar.
Spectra- You may know me from my work as a psychologist. Ive been a guidance counsellor now and then, even for Casper High. So listen, you know where Walker is? I need to tell the good Warden something really important.
Sidney-What?
Spectra-I know who Danny Phantom is.
Sidney-...oh?
Spectra-Its actually one of my former student clients at Amity High, Danny Fen-
Sidney-Oh now I remember where I heard your name. Walker actually warned everyone about your arrival.
Spectra taken a back-Really?
Sidney-You've caused quite the stir in the Zone with your many cons. And apparently you even tried draining the students energy at my old school. Hence why you're here. I actually handed myself to the authorities for causing some trouble there as well. It seems you even met my good friend Danny too.
Spectra-You already know!? Does that mean Walker kn-
Sidney-No, no no. Yeah I've haven't told anyone here that and I'd actually prefer if you didn't tell him or anyone else please. Danny's tussled with a lot these guys including Walker, what a small world. With that all said it'd be best they don't know his other identity. Otherwise we'll all have some problems ok?
Spectra-Are you trying to threaten me?
Sidney-Do you think I'm just asking?
Spectra-Watch it kid. Didn't Walker warn you what else I can be?-begins to turn into her spider form to scare Sidney
Sidney-Chuckles. Neato form. It bares resemblance of a Lactrodectus Mactans, Aka The Black Widow. Of the Theridiiade/tangle web family. Well known for their distinct coloring, sharp fangs, venom cautionary but usually not fatal, depends on factors such as health and age, and eating their mates after reproduction. Quite the infamous arachnid. I've always had an interest in entomology, technically spiders aren't bugs but they're still close to the subject. Let me show you my form.
Spectra confused-your form? Sees Sidney transform into a mantis, much bigger than her spider form.
Mantis Sidney in a scary voice-I assume you've heard of the Praying Mantis? Of the mantidae. There's so much I could tell you about them, personally my fav. Well known for their camouflage, forelegs great for catching and gripping prey, their signature, having their forearms folded, hence the famous name, "praying" mantis, the females eating the males heads during mating, thats actually not as common as most think. Oh and their diet consists of many insects, small animals and even spiders such as yourself.
Gets in real close to her face when he says that last part, drool around his pointy teeth. Spectra sees her scared reflection from his teeth and eyes, staring into her very core.
Spectra begins to shake and revert back to normal. Sidney too.
Sidney- So I can assume you and your pesky assistant won't say a word of Danny's identity?
Spectra completely stunned, unable to reply.
Sidney- I'll take that as a yes. Thank you. It was nice meeting you Spectra. Walks away as if nothing happened.
Bertrand-Hey Spectra. You tell Walker yet. Spectra? Penny? Hello!?
Spectra still too stunned to reply.
Sidney in his cell holding the glasses Danny fixed up.
Sidney-You probably don't see me as your friend anymore, not after what I did. I wouldn't blame you. But you'll always be my friend Dan. And as long as I'm around I have your back.
https://dnpanimationstudioclone.tumblr.com/post/688093503095521280/about-sidney-pointdexter
https://dnpanimationstudioclone.tumblr.com/post/691237525678882816/meet-dr-penelope-spectra
What do u think? I'd love to know💖
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esa-marie · 4 years
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I've been delving into a dead fandom recently so I'd thought I'd share some doodles I colored in digitally. I finished the series two days ago but I've started from scratch again. Of y'all have any other shows I can hyperfixate on please let me know lol
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sailor-toni · 5 years
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unfinished 2018 art. I don’t know if I will ever finish these but some of them I like how they are...
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dragonsdomain · 3 years
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Christmas Wish
“Who brought a human kid on the sleigh?” Ember asked with a tinge of annoyance.
@floating-pisces here’s your Christmas Truce gift! Sorry to keep you waiting! I went with your prompt “dp villains” and wrote this one-shot, which is set immediately after the episode “The Fright Before Christmas” and inspired by a certain strange thing we see in our last glimpse of the ghosts’ sleigh. I hope you like it!
“I still don’t understand why you wanted the sleigh.” Johnny 13 glanced up at the red and white accessory on his head. “Or the Santa hats.”
Kitty turned to Johnny, looking playfully offended. “Well, if we’re going to be granting kids’ Christmas wishes, we’ve got to do it in style! Flying around, delivering people’s presents? It’s like we’re Santa’s elves!”
Johnny’s mouth curled up in a smile. “Whatever you say, babe.” He leaned in for a kiss.
“Ew! Gross!” Youngblood said, holding his hands in front of himself as if to ward off the impending mushiness.
The skeleton parrot on Youngblood’s shoulder sighed in exasperation. “At least follow that with a threat like ‘Cleave him to the brisket’.”
“Cleave ‘im to the brisket!” Youngblood commanded, waving his hook in the air. He looked suddenly doubtful. “What does ‘Cleave ‘im to the brisket’ mean?”
Desiree chimed in helpfully, “It means-”
Kitty slapped a hand over her mouth. “It doesn’t matter. Don’t worry about it.”
There was a moment of silence. Perhaps some of the ghosts were using it to reflect on the lightness of heart each felt after helping Danny that night and to ponder the joy of service. Some may have even decided to change their troublesome ways if that moment had not been interrupted. “Who brought a human kid on the sleigh?” Ember asked with a tinge of annoyance.
Ember’s comment caused the majority of the sleigh’s inhabitants to stare in bewilderment at a small human child who was inexplicably in the back of the flying sleigh with the ghosts. The boy looked bashful under the scrutiny.
The Box Ghost was the first to speak. “Who is this human in our Christmas box of flight?”
The boy perked up. “My name’s Jimmy. I’m four!” He did indeed look like a four-year-old. He was short and chubby, with a smattering of freckles across his face. A disheveled mop of blonde hair was covered by a Santa hat not unlike the ones the ghosts wore.
“What are you doing here, child?” Skulker questioned, raising a mechanical eyebrow.
“I wanted to go outside and see the ghosts, but Mama wouldn’t let me go outside because it’s dark out,” Jimmy pouted. “And I was wishing I could go outside and see the ghosts, and then I was here!”
All eyes turned to Desiree.
“What?” She said defensively. “You know I can’t resist granting wishes!”
“This is so cool! You're all so cool!” Jimmy said, “I get to meet the bad guys Danny Phantom fights!”
“‘Bad guys’?!” Repeated Pointdexter, sounding offended.
“Sweetie,” Spectra began in the honeyed tone she tended to use with children, “You have to go home. Your mommie’s probably worried about you.” That wasn’t the real reason she wanted him gone of course. She couldn’t care less about how his mommie felt.
Jimmy’s face fell. “I wish I could stay here with you guys...” he confided to the floor of the sleigh.
Desiree chimed in immediately, magic leaping to her fingers, “Your wish is my-”
“The truce.” Bertram reminded her.
Desiree deflated.
The Lunch Lady frowned at Jimmy’s sadness. “It would make him so happy.” She remarked to her fellow passengers.
“It would mean so much to him, and cost us so little.” Desiree said.
“Plus, it’s Christmas!” Ember added, “We should let the kid have a little adventure.”
“Yeah!” Youngblood added with an admiring glance at Ember.
“Would it really be so bad to bring him along?” Kitty looked around the sleigh imploringly.
Johnny looked conflicted. “But babe… we already worked so hard tonight to help that Phantom kid.”
Kitty rolled her eyes at him. “That took ten minutes tops.”
“But Spectra’s right!” Pointexter protested, while the aforementioned ghost looked surprised someone was actually taking her comment seriously. “Jimmy’s mother is probably worried about him.”
“She’ll be fine.” Ember said, rolling her eyes. “We’ll have the kid back before morning.”
“Yeah, she’ll be fine!” Youngblood added helpfully.
“I do suppose it wouldn’t cost us much,” Skulker said thoughtfully, who may or may not have been swayed by Ember’s opinion. “I’m all right with the boy coming along, as long as he promises not to cause trouble.” He looked questioningly at Jimmy.
The boy was sitting there with an amazed expression as if this seemed all too good to be true. At Skulker’s implied inquiry he jumped to his feet and testified “I promise I’ll be super good! I’ll be so good. I’ll be as good as Danny Phantom!” He said, with such sincerity that all present almost believed Phantom was the flawless angel of kindness Jimmy seemed to think him. Whatever the case, Jimmy’s conviction to not be a bother was clear. Any uncertainty that might have remained was rapidly squelched by Technus, who felt the need to clarify what every ghost present had already realized.
“While we, being his enemies, do not fully agree with your view of the ghost child, your promise to behave is well appreciated,” Technus decreed.
“If that is the case, we shall gladly welcome you to our portable box of Christmas cheer!” The Box Ghost said, receiving an approving nod from the Lunch Lady.
Aside from a grumble from Spectra, who was still unenthused about the concept of toting a child around with them for any period of time, as well as a hesitant Johnny, who needed a little persuasion from his girlfriend which was tactfully shielded from Youngblood by Johnny’s shadow, it was agreed unanimously that they would bring Jimmy along for their Christmas festivities, at least for a little while.
“Are we there yet?” Youngblood asked, before scarcely a minute had passed.
“No,” Responded the undead bird on his shoulder.
The Box Ghost, who was steering the sleigh, was driving it in circles above Fentonworks, high enough to be safe from ghost-hunting weapons, but low enough to have a good view of the conspicuous house, not that that was particularly difficult. The Fenton portal to the Ghost Zone, their best way to return home, was within that house, which was unfortunately closed off from the ghosts in the sleigh by a shining green ghost shield.
“It seems we shall have to wait until the shield comes down before we can return to the Ghost Zone as well as our usual Christmas festivities,” remarked Technus, to a sleigh full of ghosts who were already thinking the same thing.
The only one who would have benefited from this remark, Jimmy, was currently being distracted by Spectra, who had immediately decided to take advantage of her current situation. She usually worked with teens, not four-year-olds, but she’d been sure it wouldn’t be much different with younger children. She was mistaken.
“Are you afraid of your parents fighting?” Spectra asked.
Jimmy seemed ecstatic at this idea. “They should fight with swords!”
That wasn’t going to work. Spectra tried something else: “Are you afraid of monsters?”
Jimmy’s eyes widened. “Like bad ghosts?”
Spectra nodded, an eager smile on her face, wide enough to expose a good number of fangs. “That’s right, like bad ghosts.”
The boy assumed a solemn expression. “Danny Phantom will fight the bad ghosts.” He shook his little fist for emphasis.
Spectra groped, “Danny Phantom won’t always be there to fight the ghosts, you know.” 
“Yes, he will.” Jimmy said, with enough stubbornness to remind Spectra that he could and would spend the entire night arguing his point with that exact same sentence if he had to.
“Honey, the truce.” Bertram reminded her.
Spectra sighed. “Desiree, I wish we were at the Fenton portal.”
Johnny sat up. “Wait, I thought we were-”
“Your wish is my command!” and suddenly they found themselves flying through the portal into the Ghost Zone.
Jimmy let out a long gasp as they flew through the portal into the green expanse. He clung to the arm of Ember, who was lucky enough to be sitting next to him, as he looked around himself in awe.
“Cool, right? It’s the Ghost Zone.” Ember commented.
“Cool.” Jimmy repeated, drawing out the word well past its usual length. “Does Danny Phantom live here?”
Ember rolled her eyes at the boy’s incessant admiration of the halfa. “‘Course not. He’s a human. He lives in Amity Park.”
“Uh huh.” Youngblood confirmed.
Jimmy frowned and knitted his eyebrows. “No, he’s not. He’s a ghost.”
Ember smirked and shrugged. “Whatever you say, kid.”
They flew along quietly for a little while, aside from Youngblood periodically asking “Are we there yet?” with a long-suffering look on his face, to which the answer was always a blunt “No,” from his skeleton assistant. Jimmy gazed in fascination at the simple green blob ghosts floating about them until he got bored and started pantomiming a gun shooting them. “Pew pew. Pew.”
This drew Skulker’s attention to the boy. “Child, what are you doing?”
Jimmy looked up. “I’m shooting the little ghosts!”
Skulker scoffed. “If you want to join in the hunt, you’ll need a weapon.” He pulled a vicious-looking gun out from somewhere and held it out to the boy, who reached out to take it reverently.
“The truce.” Bertram barked.
Skulker grimaced as he reluctantly took back the gun. He patted Jimmy’s head in approval. “You’ll make a fine hunter one day.”
“Are we there yet?” Youngblood groaned, tugging on the Box Ghost’s shirt sleeve.
“Just like I’ve told you a half dozen times,” His parrot began. “No, we are- oh.”
Because at long last they were there. Before them stood the pavilion where the Christmas festivities for this group of ghosts were to be held, the doors hanging welcomingly open with glittering decorations of a plethora of colors visible through the door.
“At last! We have finally returned to the celebration!” Technus said.
“Thank you, Technus.” Spectra said sarcastically.
Jimmy eyed the banquet laid out on a table in the back of the room. His eyes landed on a bowl of peppermints. He tugged on the Lunch Lady’s sleeve. “Can I have some candy?”
She looked down at him in concern. “Oh, sweetie. You know we can’t have dessert before dinner! We need to eat the healthy food first.”
“I already ate my dinner!” Jimmy declared quickly.
Whether or not that was true, it did the trick. “Well all right then honey. Let’s get you some dessert.” The Lunch Lady looked pleased. “Good job eating your dinner!”
And so it was that Jimmy was found only a few minutes later with his cheeks crammed full of peppermints, likewise his pockets and his hands. A sparse trail of dropped peppermints was also left in his wake, having fallen out of hands and pockets that had been overenthusiastically filled. The Lunch Lady seemed to be enjoying Jimmy’s treat as much as he was, she was so filled with satisfaction about the healthy meal Jimmy had surely eaten, and which definitely hadn’t been stubbornly left on the table despite being declared by his mother an obstacle between him and going outside.
As Jimmy proceeded with his sugary feast, Walker entered the building. “The prisoner has been detained.” He said as he straightened his hat.
Pointdexter looked up. “Ghostwriter?”
“That’s right, son,” Walker said.
Pointdexter nodded, glaring at the wall. “Serves him right for using his powers to bully someone like that.”
Walker’s eyes, which had been scanning the room, landed on Jimmy, who was currently discovering a collection of discarded cardboard boxes, which were sitting in a corner after being emptied of Christmas decorations.
“Who’s this little one?” Walker asked.
Pointdexter followed Walker’s eyes to Jimmy before answering, “He wanted so badly to see us ghosts as we were going around helping fix Christmas, but his mother wouldn’t let him come outside.”
Walker’s eyes narrowed. “His mother is his legal guardian. Disobeying her is against the rul-”
“I am the Box Dragon!” A voice at Walker’s feet bellowed.
He looked down to see a large cardboard box with legs standing before him. The box’s corner bumped against Walker’s legs as grunting and growling sounds came from within the box. Now not many people know this - it’s a very closely guarded secret - but Walker has a soft spot for small children. And frankly, this behavior was too adorable for him to handle. His heart melted, and all thoughts of broken rules and sending the child home vanished from his mind. All this happened in an instant, and thankfully Walker was self-possessed enough to show absolutely no sign of this in his countenance.
However, the prison warden was not the only one who’s attention was drawn by Jimmy’s antics. Across the room, the Box Ghost’s face had slowly lit up with astonishment, then morphed into ecstasy. He flew quickly across the room to Jimmy’s side. “Box Dragon! It is an honor to make your acquaintance!” He stuck a hand under the box to heartily shake the small hand of its occupant. “It is always a pleasure to meet one who shares my appreciation of these fine cardboard squares! Perhaps you and I, united in our love of boxes, could prove formidable in combat against our foes!”
“The truce,” Walker said in unison with Bertram, who had somehow known this statement was called for despite being halfway across the room.
“Oh, right,” the Box Ghost relented. He quickly perked up again, gripping Jimmy’s hand and pointing dramatically. “Then let us return to the corner where I have placed many boxes and we shall gather a cardboard army!”
However, a yawn sounded from underneath the box and the small hand held in the Box Ghost’s blue one seemed to lose some of its enthusiasm. “I’m sleepy…” Jimmy mumbled, pushing the cardboard box off of himself.
Kitty, who just happened to be nearby, snapped her head around at the quiet statement, as if it had been as loud and attention-grabbing as a fire alarm. She dropped a slightly confused Johnny’s hand (he hadn’t been astute enough to hear Jimmy’s last sentence,) and rushed to kneel at the young boy’s side.
She let Jimmy slump onto her shoulder as she asked “Do you want to go home, honey?” With all the tenderness of a mother.
“Mmhm…” Came the barely audible reply, with Jimmy seeming to be seconds away from falling asleep on Kitty’s shoulder.
She gently stood up and turned to her boyfriend, who had been left to shadow her curiously. “Can you take him home on your motorcycle?” She whispered.
“Uh, okay.” Said Johnny uncertainly. Kitty gently handed over the boy to Johnny, who held him as awkwardly as though he’d never carried a child before and had no idea where to put what. He did his best though and managed to transport Jimmy to his motorcycle and situate him in a fairly safe-looking position.
The ghosts at the party gathered to see the boy off. He was thankfully just awake enough to receive the goodbyes most present eagerly began to give him.
“If you ever need anything, just say the words, and your wish is my command,” Desiree told him with a kiss.
“Always be nice to people. Don’t be a jerk.” Pointdexter advised quickly.
“Follow your dreams, kid!” Ember said.
“Yeah, do that!” Youngblood agreed with Ember readily.
“Eat well!”
“Be sure and stay on the right side of the law.”
“Always remember the power of technology, I, Technus, included-”
“May you always find nice boxes!”
Walker repositioned the now-sleeping Jimmy into a slightly safer position as he said to Johnny, “Don’t test my patience. You better not break the speed limit again.”
Johnny revved up the engine and responded, “Dude, there’s no speed limit in the Ghost Zone. You made that up.”
As Johnny drove off to deliver the child home (no one realized until later that he didn’t know where Jimmy’s house was), there was a moment of silence. Perhaps some of the ghosts were using it to ponder the night they had just had. How their small acts of kindness towards Jimmy had filled him with such glee. How somehow, despite having seemingly gained nothing from the experience, each felt happier, more contented, lighter inside even than a ghost with the power to levitate usually felt. Perhaps they were drawing near to a change of heart, or at the very least a change of obsession, that might allow them to experience the bliss of helping others on a more regular basis. Perhaps some of them would have even reached it if that moment of silence had not been interrupted.
“Let’s never do that again.” Spectra moaned.
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sydney pointdexter B1 for the expressions meme? 😳
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Ignore how im rusty with DP characters tfw Dash is still a dick to others even after u haunted his ass
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