#poc danny fentons

[starry-bi-sky]

Stuck in the middle of a forest made of

Flesh and bones and they're all scared of

A lost little boy who has lost his heart

Fear's not enough, they have to

Tear him apart —-------

There are two things Daniel Fenton knows that his family knows as well: 

He’s adopted.

He can’t remember anything else before that.  

‘Adoption’ is a loose term, implying that they went through the official legal processes and troubles of adopting a child into their home willingly, and with the full intention of doing so going into it. That is not what happened. What happened is that Jasmine Fenton found a half-dead child, in strange clothing, in the middle of the woods at her Aunt Alicia’s cabin, and then she went and got her parents. 

What happened is that a twelve year old Danny woke up in the same cabin, wearing clothes much too big on him that didn’t belong to him, and with very little memory of before that moment. He wakes up like a spring being set loose, sitting up so fast he scares the daylights out of Jasmine Fenton sitting next to him. He wakes up, reaching for his sleeve for something that isn’t there, and when it isn’t his mind stutters, like he’s tripped at the top of a steep hill. 

When they ask him for his name, he tells them, clearing muddled thoughts from his mind; Danny. He’s twelve.

(He thinks that’s his name, at least. It sounds right; it feels right. If he thinks really hard about it, he thinks he can remember someone calling him that, utter adoration in their voice. So it must be his name.) 

The Jasmine girl convinces her parents to take him home with them, and they give him the spare guest room upstairs. He has nothing to fill it with.

It’s… a strange experience, to go to a ‘new’ home when he doesn’t even remember his old one. 

The official adoption process… happens. He can’t say it’s easy, or difficult. He’s oblivious for the most of it, Jasmine intends on helping him settle in and Danny can’t say he enjoys the smothering. He learns that he is stubbornly self-independent, that’s one new thing he knows about himself. 

His adoption papers say ‘Daniel J. Fenton’. Danny remembers staring at the name ‘Daniel’ for a long, long moment, something curdling sour in his sternum. His name is Danny, that he knows. But it’s not Daniel. But he doesn’t know any other way of saying it, so he keeps his complaints to himself.

(Jack Fenton boisterously claps his hand on Danny’s shoulder and jerks him around, grinning wide as he welcomes him into the Fenton Family. Danny’s mind blanches at the touch on his shoulder, an instinct snapping like the maw of a snake, telling him to cut off the man’s fingers for daring to touch him.) 

(He keeps the thought to himself, tension rising up his shoulders the longer Jack Fenton’s heavy hand stays on him.) 

They found Danny in the summer. It’s a perfect coincidence, Maddie Fenton says before she goes back into her lab with Jack Fenton. She says it’s enough time to allow Danny to adjust; that they’ll enroll him into the school year in the fall. Then she stuffs a canister of ectoplasm onto the top shelf, and disappears like the ghosts she studies back down the stairs.  

(There’s something eerily familiar about the ectoplasm sitting in the fridge, something unsettlingly so. Danny knows what that stuff is, but he doesn’t know where. When the house is empty, he takes a can from the fridge and inspects it.)

Jazz wants him to leave the house. Danny doesn’t want to step foot outside of the FentonWorks building until he has something that quells the feeling of vulnerability he gets whenever he does. He tried to once, and he felt exposed. Unsafe. 

He turned back around and went inside.

—-------

Where do we go

When the river's running slow

Where do we run

When the cats kill one by one

—------

One day, when the house is empty — or, as empty as it can be; the Fenton parents down in the lab, and jazz out with friends. Danny is making a sandwich, and he caves into the urge to flip the knife in his hands between his fingers. A childish impulse, but one he falls for nonetheless. It comes to him easily, like second nature, in fact. The slip of the blade between his fingers is seamless, flowing with an ease like water running down the wall.  

He’s almost startled by it; his body holds memories that his mind does not. Muscles that know which way to move and twist, limbs that know how to hold and how to throw. He continues twirling it, fascinated, as if he were a scientist discovering a new species of animal. 

It’s not for a handful of minutes when a new thought hits him; an impulsive thought that pops in the back of his mind like a firecracker; Danny moves without thinking. 

He turns, and throws the knife. The pull of his shoulder, the flick of his elbow, is familiar like a hug. He knows when to let go, and the blade flies through the air in impressive speed, embedding itself into the wall with a hearty, loud thunk. Sinking into the drywall like butter. 

Danny stares at it in shock, he feels relieved — about what? — before he feels the guilt. He scrambles across the kitchen to pull it out, heart racing in his chest at being caught, and prays no one notices the hole it left behind. 

(He runs up the stairs before anyone can find him, food forgotten, and hides the knife beneath his mattress like a guilty murder weapon.)

After that, he leaves the house more. It’s more out of fear of being caught than the desire to leave. But Danny is quickly learning that among all things, he is someone who was dangerous, before he lost his memory. Even with his mind in fractures, he is still dangerous. 

He’s not sure how to feel about that — he thinks he should be scared. He feels a little proud, instead.

—------

Hazel beneath our claws

While we wait for cerulean to cry

Unsettled ticks run through time

Enough for the hunt to go awry

—-----

There’s another thing he learns about himself. That he knows about since he woke up. He knows that he left someone behind. He doesn’t know who, but he knows they must have been close; he’s always looking down and finding himself surprised when the only shadow he sees is his own. 

He thinks that he must have sung to them a lot; he finds himself humming familiar melodies when he’s lost in thought. Lullabies lingering at the tip of his tongue, an instinct to turn and sing them to someone beside him. He can’t remember the lyrics, but his mouth does, it tries to get him to say them when he’s not thinking. He can’t. 

Danny’s found himself humming under his breath more times than he can count, trying to recall whatever it is his mind is trying to claw forward. 

(“That’s a pretty song, Danny.” Jazz tells him at breakfast one day, Danny screws his mouth shut. He hadn’t realized he was humming. “What is it?”) 

(Something mean and possessive rears its head on instinct, uncoiling like a snake from its ball. His shoulders hunch defensively, he bites his cheek to prevent himself from baring his teeth. He doesn’t know what song it is, but it’s not for her. “I don’t know.”)  

He misses his person. Dearly. He knows, the longer he is without them, that they must have been close. Otherwise, he wouldn’t feel like he’s missing a chunk from himself. He wouldn’t be turning to someone who's not there; reaching for a hand that’s missing, birdsong on his tongue, a story to tell. 

A dream haunts him one night. Warm and familiar, he’s holding onto someone smaller than him, they’re tucked into his side like a puzzle piece. He’s humming one of his songs that is always playing in the back of his mind, an unfinished tale of a harpy and a hare. Danny can’t remember their face, not all of it. He remembers green eyes, hair dark like his own, skin brown like his. 

He loves them more than anything else in the world, a fact he knows down to his soul. He loves them so much it fills his heart with sunlight. Danny squeezes them tight, nuzzling into their hair; he makes them laugh. Then, he proudly boasts something. That when he takes something of their father’s, that his person — a sibling? That feels right — will be… the word fades from Danny’s mind before he can make sense of it. 

His person hugs him tight, his… brother? And their mother — a woman whose face he can’t remember either, but who he loves like a limb nonetheless — appears, smiling. Her hands reach for them both, voice calling them, ‘her sons’. There’s ticking in the distance, it sounds like the fastening of chains.

Danny wakes up cold, tears streaming down his face. The details of the dream already fading from his mind like the cold pull of a corpse.   

—-------

Harpy hare

Where have you buried all your children?

Tell me so I say

—-------

When school starts that Fall, Danny joins the sixth grade class, and quickly learns more things about himself. One of those things being that he’s smarter than the rest of his grade, whatever education he had before, it was better than the one he’s getting now. 

Everyone knows he’s adopted right off the bat. He tells them when the teacher forces himself to introduce himself, but it’s not like they needed him to tell them for them to know; he never existed in their little world before now, and the Fentons are pale as they come. Danny is not.

He befriends Sam Manson and Tucker Foley; they ask him about the scars fading up and down his arms, they ask him about the scar carved diagonal across his face.

Danny, as politely as he can, tells them he doesn’t remember. He thought kindness would come second nature to him, his dream burned into his mind where he hugged his brother so sweetly. Apparently, his sweetness is only second nature to people he considers his own. 

(It becomes even more apparent when Dash Baxter tries to bully him later that day, and Danny ruffles like an eagle threatened. His mind whispers, hissy and agitated, sinking like a shadow at his shoulder, several different ways Danny could kill him for talking to him like that, and fifteen more ways he could cripple him.)

(Danny ignores those thoughts, up until Dash Baxter tries to grab him. Then he breaks his nose on the wood of his desk. It’s easy how quickly the rest of his grade sinks him down to the status of social pariah.)

(At least Sam and Tucker still talk to him after that. When Danny goes to the principal’s office later, he wisely doesn’t mention the worse things he could’ve done than break Dash Baxter’s nose.)  

—--------------

It clicks and it clatters in corners and borders

And they will never

Hear me here listen to croons and a calling

I'll tell them all the

Story, the sun, and the swallow, her sorrow

Singing me the tale of the Harpy and the Hare

—-------

More dreams come, of course they do. Each one halfway to forgotten whenever he wakes up, ticking faint in his ears. He is many different ages. He is young, shorter than a table. He is older, holding onto his little brother. He is singing in almost every single one. He is singing to his brother. 

Danny can barely remember the lyrics, he’s begun leaving a journal by his bedside so that it’s the first thing he can write down when he wakes up. He’s a storyteller, he learns. He feels like a historian, trying to piece together a culture long dead and forgotten. 

His most vivid dream-like memory is not a happy one, and for once he’s almost relieved he barely recalls it. He is somewhere that isn’t home, but his mother and brother are there. He is dressed in black, blades keen in his hands. 

They are atop a moving train. They are fleeing something. His brother is struggling to keep up, he is small, and young. It’s beautifully sunny, they are somewhere green and lovely. 

It is a fast dream. 

His brother stumbles on something, and Danny, fast as a whip, snatches him by the back of his shirt and hoists him up to his feet before he can fall. “Watch your feet, habibi.” He murmurs low, a hand on his back. It’s hard to hear, there is wind in their ears.

His brother, face obscured in all but his eyes, which are green as emeralds, nods. 

The dream blurs, but Danny falls behind. His foot catches on air — impossible, it should’ve been, at least. He never trips. — and he lands against the roof with a thud and a grunt. His mother and brother stop, and turn for him. 

The train hits a turn before Danny can get up, and he shouldn’t have, something pulls on him, he swears, but he slips. He can’t find the purchase to pull himself up, cold fear hits him as his nails scrape against the metal. 

His mother and brother’s horrified faces are the last thing he sees before he disappears off the side of the train. 

(The ticking is at its loudest when he wakes up, pounding against his inner skull. He only manages to write down ‘train fall’ in his journal, before he’s flipping over to press his head into his pillow to get the pain to stop.) 

—---  

She can't keep them all safe

They will die and be afraid

Mother, tell me so I say

(Mother, tell me so I say)

—-------

When Danny is fourteen he is still humming songs he can’t remember, his mind still in a broken puzzle. But his room is now decorated with stars and plants in every corner. He has a guitar he keeps in the corner of his room, and he plays the lullabies in his head on the strings over and over again. 

The ectoplasm in the fridge still unsettles him, still reminds him of a past he can’t recall. The knife beneath his mattress has returned to the kitchen — he doesn’t need it. He found a box in the attic last year, it had his name on it, and inside he found familiar, strange clothes, and more weapons than he thought was possible to carry on one person. 

(Even without knowing that the Fentons prefer guns to blades, Danny knows, instinctively, that they were his weapons. He was — was? Is — a dangerous person. He takes the box down to his room to sort through. The weapons all fit into his callused hands almost perfectly — the grooves worn to fit his palm. They’re just a little small.) 

(He tentatively takes a small blade with him to school one day, and feels much more comfortable with it sheathed beneath his shirt. He’s kept it on him ever since, like he’s reunited a lost limb to himself.)   

Danny doesn’t have a name for his person, his little brother, nor does he have a name for his beloved mother. He’s haunted by dreams every few weeks, many of them repeating. He’s ingrained the words he can remember to memory, and the ones he doesn’t, he writes down in his journal. His little brother; Danny calls him a bird, he can’t figure out what kind. His little bird of some kind; when Danny takes something from their father — what, he can’t remember what — then his little brother will be a little bird. 

(He doesn’t have a name for his brother, yet, but he’s calling his birdie in his head. It’s better than nothing.)

—------

Seeker, do you ever come to wonder

If what you're looking for is within where you hold

Will you leave a trail for them to follow a path

You'll soon forget

Home

—---------

When he’s fourteen, Danny dies. It does nothing to fix his fractured memories, much to his consternation. It just confirms something he already knows; that he was someone dangerous, and that he still is. 

When the shock of death has worn off, Danny inspects his ghost in the metal reflection of the closest table. It’s blurry, hard to see, but shock green eyes pierce back at him, green like the portal. Lazarus, Danny’s mind whispers, and he blinks rapidly.

‘Lazarus,’ he mouths to himself. It’s familiar. Sam shows him with her phone what he looks like, joking that he looks like an assassin. Danny doesn’t think she’s that too far off. 

He doesn’t tell her that. He tucks the thought away with the rest of his secrets, and fiddles with the hood gathering at his neck, attached to a cape with torn edges swinging down to his ankles. He pulls it over his shock white hair. It shadows over his face impossibly so, until all you can see are his green-green eyes peering out like a wolf hiding in the brush.

He ends up calling himself Phantom. 

(Maybe now he can start putting lyrics to his lullabies; his memories may not have returned, locked away with the sound of a clock, but the dead can talk. One of them may just have answers.) 

----------

Home is where we are

Home is where you are

Home is where I am

-----------------

Dedicated to @gascansposts for being the one who introduced me to the band Yaelokre, and thus being the whole reason I was inspired to write this in the first place >:] Those lyrics at the line breaks are all from their album Hayfields.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #danyal al ghul au #amnesiac danyal al ghul au #songs in order of the album: the hartebeest / harpy hare / and the hound / neath the grove is a heart #musician danny has my heart and soul #yes this danyal IS an alternative danny from the other au. an au where things were a little better :) but still sucks #implied good mom talia al ghul #danyal is a momma's boy send tweet #dpxdc ficlet #dpxdc prompts #dp x dc au #dp x dc fanfic #danyal is sTILL five years older than damian in this au #no beta no edits we die like danny fenton #poc danny fentons #i didnt know where to end this :(( i was gonna go on but i blanked. i thought about going into his relationships with his rogues and so on. #but that felt too much like trying to just increase the word count rather than actually writing?? if that makes sense #ugh im gonna have forgotten to include things and im gonna be kicking myself later #morally ambiguous danny whoo! we love to see it #since this was just for fun it doesnt really go into it all that much other than like. it happens. and that danny realizes he's dangerous #phantom in a hazmat suit? nah phantom looking like an assassin >:]. #danyal al ghul with damian and his mom: 🥰🌸✨ #danyal al ghul with everyone else: 👹🔪 #am i heavily implying that clockwork had smth to do with Danyal’s amnesia and appearance by the cabin? 👀 maybe #not enough danyal al ghul aus where him being an assassin actually. has some kind of affect on him

[murcielagatito]

heres my fave danny phantom pieces <3

#THE COMIC WAS SO FUN AND TRULY DONE WITH LOVE #i yope 9f we get another comic it focuses more on valerie #thats college danny and valerie at the end hehe #I HAVE SO MANY CHARACTERS THAT I STILL HAVENT DRAWN FUCK #danny fenton #jazz fenton #valerie gray #tucker foley #paulina sanchez #sam manson #dani masters #vlad masters #grayghost #danny phantom #dphantom #mi arte #i believe in poc danny supremacy

[moonsbijou]

~danny 💚👻 x valerie 🌹🔫~

#grey ghost #gray ghost #danny x valerie #valerie grey #valerie gray #danny fenton #danny phantom #danny phantom moodboard #gray ghost moodboard #grey ghost moodboard #my post #my posts #poc #woc #bgm

[loraliewritesthings]

Just realized ghost king Danny in my nameless danny au is probably the first poc ghost king depending on what you think pariah was when alive.

#ghost king danny dc #dc #dp x dc #dc x dp #danny phantom coronation #danny fenton #danny phantom #poc #hes damians brother after all #despite being very removed from his heritage #poc danny phantom #headcanon #nameless danny au

[vxmp-stains]

Drew an Adult Danny Fenton a few days ago.

been on a major danny phantom kick lately, good to see the phandom is still half alive lol

#digital art #art #poc art #poc artist #danny phantom #danny fenton

[saeweedbrains]

reject tradition (white danny fenton) embrace modernity (desi danny fenton)

#danny fenton #danny phantom #dp #desi danny fenton #poc danny fenton

[izukuleeyoung]

I’m going ghost!

I'm not really, but I finished this set and decided to make it a gif!

Might make this a preorder too idk...

Anyway, please follow my links are in my bio and basically on every post.

Danny has always had trans vibes just like Jenny.

If you missed the Jenny Wakeman Gender Pride Flags Tumblr post, here you go.

I really am begging for follows and Mutual Aid so please please please reblog!

#support artists #nonbinary #genderqueer #trans danny fenton #childhood nostalgia #nonbinary pride #nonbinary poc #check my bio #im going to bed #transmasc #trans egg #egg feels #agender #check my pinned #agender positivity #genderqueer pride #jenny wakeman #transgender #check my links #western animation #danny phantom #im going ghost #trans boy danny phantom #transition #follow me please #signal boost #agender pride #trans danny phantom #please reblog #please please please

[nastyburger]

Please say more about the awful Asian designs in Danny Phantom. I'm not Asian but I'd love to have a rundown on the elements that make them offensive so I can avoid and critique those elements in other works. And also you deserve to speak your mind about it

im gonna mostly talk about southeast asian designs since thats what i am and the most familiar with and also what i feel are the show's worst transgression with their casual depictions. tw for racist imagery im gonna link pictures.

there's not much to say about the designs aside from, you know, everything but things to note are the unnatural yellow tone for the skin and closed slanted eyes. veggie burger (fan name for the bg character in the middle) also suffers from the huge nose that sometimes shows up in racist depictions. the straight edge/cut hair as well is somewhat stereotypical. this one isn't as bad but in conjunction with everything else its not ideal. i will give the smallest molecule of credit that at the very least dp never gave any of these bg characters buck teeth.

some depictions are better than others, but theres still missteps happening in one aspect or another. kwan's eyes in a lot of shots/episodes can be too skinny and even too slanted, the girl in the middle is almost perfect but her skin is too yellow (she looks kinda okay on my computer screen but i remember when watching dp on my tv she looked real brightly yellow), and principle ishiyama (who was weirdly forgotten about pretty early on in the show and was replaced by lancer doing most of the school stuff despite not being principle?? which is a whole other issue with how dp treats its poc characters) the same usual notes about the slanted eyes but also the upturned nose is pretty reminiscent of racist japanese art during ww2. again it is not the worst way to draw a nose but combined with everything else in this show's depiction of asian characters its not great, they are on thin ice man.

not to mention, principle ishiyama is the only character here with brown eyes. this is a problem that extends to all poc characters in dp and to my knowledge i think ishiyama might be the only one with them tbh. this is, again, a whole other issue though.

i think the thing that bothers me most about these designs though is that dp is very clearly aware that these depictions are bad. the only difference between the first set of characters and the second is one singular thing: they have a clear speaking role.

suddenly when theyre not stock background characters, dp knows how to act when drawing them. i cannot for the life of me find the image of it, but the last jock guy in the first set gets a speaking role in reign storm (he's cosplaying phantom) and he is drawn with proper open eyes! (theyre also blue but whatever) it just makes me sad that this was a clear choice they made.

the show also went in a different direction in the final product, but early development stuff was really drawing from a lot of japanese/asian influences like danny was originally gonna have a motorcycle (pulling from ghost in the shell) and was even referenced in the show via the akira motorcycle reference (which i once again, for the life of me, cannot find. danny took johnny 13's motorcycle and did the classic akira slide i think it was in million dollar ghost?? idk whichever one where the giw are trying to blow up the ghost zone). danny's name was originally gonna be jackie, named after jackie chan, this i assume was given to jack fenton afterwards. and i think the show having a more martial arts direction with the action was also gonna be a thing? that one could be wrong dont quote me on that, there was an episode where danny and vlad have like a weird ninja fight though im pretty sure.

either way my point here is that they wanted to pull from all these influences and it was prominent enough during development that they sprinkle references to it throughout the show and yet their portrayal and treatment of asian characters in the show is so abysmal it just feels Bad™, you know? i cant really put it more eloquently than that, like its very take and no give with it.

it overall just puts a bad taste in my mouth, and its sad that it still affects people years later. like i mentioned in the tags of the post that started this discussion with that whole old trend of putting yourself into the bg of dp screenshots, i felt alienated by that. and its not the people who participated's fault obviously but most of the people i saw participating were white fans (going off of how they drew themselves) and it made me a bit mad that they were able to enjoy the style of the show in a more carefree manner than i ever could. i didnt want to ruin anyone's fun obviously, but a small part of me wanted to bring to light how i wasnt on equal ground with them in that situation.

#seance #considered putting this under a read more but i decided i dont want to give people the choice to just not look at it

[elzifelzi]

Soo this is just like me ranting or whatever and i don't want to discourage anyone cuz uk draw what you like so long as you're not being offensive and promoting hate.

But am I the only one who finds it weird when people infantilize certain characters to the point of mischaracterizing to obscene degrees? Especially like Poc characters.

Like for example Pavitr(Spider-Man india) is this jacked 15/16 year old laid back Indian dude and while he acts like a kid (cuz well he is a kid) I've seen alot of people just take that and turn it into Pav is this tiny soft uwu E-boy and idk it seems kinda weird.

Like for certain characters i get it like Danny Fenton more or less i understand it.

But then for others it's likeee how did u come to this conclusion like ⭐️+🧽 = 🐚?

And again..draw what you want ,create what you love this isn’t to discourage that at all ,just my thoughts.

#danny phantom #spiderverse pavitr #my thougts

[quartergremlin]

I’m doing Blacktober! Day one: Childhood fav

Don’t mind Danny, he’s just admiring his ass-kicking, ghost-hating girlfriend

#arhoadsart #blacktober #blacktoberdayone #poc #person of color #danny phantom #danny fenton #fanart #valerie gray

[starry-bi-sky]

Danielle and Danyal's meeting... very, very quickly goes very sour from, basically, the moment Danny steps into his room and finds Ellie sitting on his bed (strike one) and reading the comic books Tucker introduced him to (strike two). By the time she's looked up to address him, Danny has the door locked, and a hand hovering near the knife hidden under his shirt.

She gets her third strike when Danny, in a voice that could make the mountains tremble, demands to know how she got into his room, and she lies (with uncertainty of her decision growing in her chest) that Jazz let her in. Danny's hand shifts closer to his weapon, and he turns towards her fully, and says that Jazz would never let someone he didn’t know into his room, and who was she.

(Vlad Masters had underprepared Danielle for her meeting with Danny -- not out of any completely direct malicious intent, but he failed to mention just how... 'touchy' Daniel could be -- he failed to mention the scars littering up his arms, unhidden by the hoodie tee he meets Ellie in. He failed to mention that along with those scars, that Danny was visibly lean, capable of doing very real damage without the use of his powers.)

(He tells Ellie that he’s adopted, and that he is observant and clever, but ungrateful and has a bad attitude.)

Her final strike occurs when Ellie, trying to keep her facade of cheeriness, tells him that she’s his third cousin once removed. Immediately, Danny has his dagger pulled out, and Ellie finds herself with the cold metal of a blade pressing against her throat.

Danyal 'A.G' Fenton hasn’t killed since he arrived in Amity Park. At first it was because mother told him to keep a low profile, and killing would do the opposite of that. But, he's been slowly learning from his sister and friends over the years the value of human life. So it's become a combination of keeping his head down, and also that life has value to it.

But. That doesn’t mean he can’t kill, nor is he opposed to doing it if the situation calls for it. It just means that he doesn't do it. And ‘Danielle’ is an unknown in his room, claiming to be family to him, and appearing uncannily similar to him and his family. Either someone hired her and she was trying to pass herself off as a relative to him because that someone realized Danny was the biggest threat, or, his false death has been compromised, his mother was unable to tell him, and the league was aware he was alive.

No matter how he looks at it, this Danielle was a threat to him, his sister, his friends, to Damian, and to the Drs. Fenton. Danyal Fenton doesn't kill, but he has no problems doing so.

(Ellie, pinned under Danny’s knee and the blade to her neck, is too terrified to think of phasing out of his hold. Not that it would help, he would just chase after her.)

“You have broken into my home, dared to lie to my face, and when I demanded to know the truth, you dared lie to me again." Danny's scowl could cower even Skulker, his glacier blue eyes burning. "Your continual breath has been a favor from me, that I have graciously allowed, from the moment you entered my room, dahkil."

"So I will ask one more time," he hisses, "who. are. you."

Danielle, only a few months old, unprepared for the ice storm that is "Daniel" Fenton, and his clone in only flesh and blood, and not memories, immediately breaks. And tells him that she was his clone, that Vlad sent her to come capture him, and to please not kill her.

Danny's face twists with anger, Ellie thinks he's going to kill her anyways. Instead, he withdraws his knife and gets off her, stringing out curses in Arabic as he sheathes his weapon back into its hiding place faster than Ellie can blink.

He switches to English as she is collecting her bearings (and contemplating fleeing), and Danny paces the room like a tiger in a cage. "--of course that wretched, arrogant, peacocking little ingrate would do something so infuriating. I should have driven my sword into the shrivel of his heart when I had the chance--"

Ellie, for a moment, thinks of leaving while he is distracted. And starts to slowly creep away. But Danny notices instantly, and whirls on her. His too-bright eyes bore into her head: "Where do you think you're going."

"...I'm leaving."

And Danny scoffs at her, "Why? So you can fly back to Masters and tell him that you failed to capture me, and that I know that he cloned me?" He says, and Ellie remains silent -- that's exactly what she was going to do. "He will destroy you within seconds."

Of course, Ellie rears back in offense, and she finds the footing to glare at him. "He would not! He's my dad, he loves me!"

Danny gets in her face, glowering back with an equal intensity. "He does not." He snaps, "Vlad Masters has not a soul in his body nor a heart in his chest. He would sooner cut off the hand that helps him stand, than to take it along with him."

"If you're really made of my blood, then I will teach you only this: we bow not our heads nor our hearts to anyone." Danny's too-blue eyes narrow, and his voice dips into a hiss, "Especially not to a conniving snake like Masters. Your heart: cut it off, or cut it out. He will sooner leave you to bleed."

Then, he unlocks the door and drags her out before she has much time to act. And as he drags her down the hall he shoots Sam and Tucker a text, and they meet up at Nasty Burger. Ellie is a spitfire, but Danny has her too intimidated to leave.

"This is Danielle," he tells them bluntly as he corners her into the booth, "she's my clone. Masters created her."

Ellie is with them for a week, and somehow throughout that time, Danny manages to actually get her to like him throughout that time. He's callous, blunt, and full of sharp edges that you can cut yourself on. But when he's not spitting venom, he's fretting.

When he drags her back to the house after being with Sam and Tucker, he pulls her to Jazz's room and opens the door to tell her the same thing. "This is Danielle." He says upon abruptly opening the door, interrupting Jazz's studying as he pulls Ellie inside. "She is my clone, Masters created her. She needs clothes."

Then he turns and leaves, shutting the door behind him. Ellie, in that moment, thinks that now's her chance to flee. But Jazz then squeals, and she is trapped in new arms, shaken around by Jazz Fenton, excited for a sister.

(Ellie finds herself complaining to Jazz that night, shoved into old pajamas. She's in utter disbelief that Jazz could care about a jerk like Danny.)

("He's rough around the edges, but Danny does care." Jazz tells her, combing through her hair with her fingers. "We've been working on it ever since he joined the family, but Danny warms up slowly. He's usually less stoney; I think your arrival spooked him.")

("Spooked him?" Ellie repeats, she doesn't believe it at all. "He has a funny way of showing it, he threatened to kill me!" And she turns around just in time to see Jazz's press her lips into a line.)

("He's... very protective. He'll deny if you ask him, but he worries a lot." Jazz's fingers find her hair again. "What I do know for certain though, is that he wouldn't have kept you here if he wasn't worried about you at least a little bit.")

(Ellie doubts it.)

But Ellie is indeed there for a week, and the day after her initially rocky introduction with Danny, he is a little bit kinder to her. Still kinda a bitch, but he's less harsh to her, if... almost uncomfortable around her. Flighty, kinda.

Whenever she gets mouthy at him though, he looks oddly smug about it and, infuriatingly enough, praises her attitude. He is very, very annoying. And still kinda terrifying. But hearing him shout insults via puns at someone during a ghost fight that happens that week lessens the intimidating factor,,, a little bit.

Things go about,,,, relatively,,,, similar to canon. In the sense that it ends with Ellie defecting from Vlad because she finds out that Danny was right and that Vlad didn't actually care about her. (And that Jazz had been right too; Danny, in his weird, mean way, had been worried about her as well)

Danny looks out of his depth as she talks about how he was right, and he cuts her off with a vaguely uncomfortable clearing of his throat. And gives her the most awkward, but genuine apology he can muster.

"I should've used more tact when telling you about Masters, and I... apologize for threatening you when we met. I was..." he makes a face like he's sucked on a particularly sour lemon, "worried. First about my family, and then later about you."

(Ellie will be damned: Jazz was right)

Before Ellie leaves, Danny puts a hand on her shoulder and tells her: "I wasn't kidding about what I said to you when we first met: you are of my blood, and as such, you do not bow your head nor your heart to anyone."

Ellie looks at him, thinks about the last week, and smiles like she's caught him in a trap. "What about Sam and Tucker then? And Jazz?"

Danny smiles, it's awkward and tilted, like his face isn't used to the gesture. "We bow not our hearts, but that doesn't mean we can't share."

#danny speaks in formal english when he's pissed. he goes full on 'i shall eat his heart in the marketplace' levels of formal #not quite a ficlet not quite a post talking about the idea but a secret third option: its both of these at the same time #dp x dc #dpxdc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #danyal al ghul au #dc x dp crossover #dc x dp au #dpxdc au #dcdp #dpdc au #dp dc crossover #older brother danny #danny is an asshole with a heart of gold #the writing feels all over the place but since its not a fic i dont feel that self conscious about it lol. very much spitballing here #morally gray danny fenton #poc danny fenton #look ellie MIGHt - and thats a big if - have gotten away with the cousin lie if it weren't for the fact that she's danny's clone #danny who is not white nor remotely white-passing in this au. she might have gotten away if he had been and she claimed she was #from jack's side of the family. but alas. danny is adopted. the fentons are whiter than sunscreen. and danny is not. #dani and danny's meeting in danyal al ghul aus have the potenial of being IMMEDIATE dumpster fires which is very funny to me #on the basis of if danny knows he's adopted or not and if dani claims to be related directly to him or to jack. #dani: im your third cousin once removed :) #danny. is adopted: i kNOW YOU LYING. CUZ YO LIPS ARE MOVING #i got fanart for this au on haunting heroes discord and it kickstarted my thoughts about danyal again. they gave him the BATWING EYEBROWS #ellie has the batwing eyebrows too that was the mind killer thats what fucked her over /j. those are UNIQUELY BRUCE WAYNE BROWS FOLKS #fuck i wish tumblr told us on laptop when we run out of tags because i just lost like 4 of them. good thing i got screenies those were FUNN

[they-bite]

What are your unpopular Danny Phantom opinions? I may have missed another version, but the reblog I saw from you only had a comment on the phandom’s various responses instead of listing your own, so I’m all curiousy about it :3c

Revised from my initial comment, bc I did leave one on that post but it got lost in the ether:

-Danny Phantom the show is moderately successful at what it intended to do while having enough elements to successfully sustain a fandom, but those two facts are perpetually at war with each other. It's a show meant to socialize 7-year-olds and commit Butch's enjoyment of Scooby-Doo and superheroes to paper. While some of the writers did provide satisfying character moments, it still wasn't meant to provide tangible lore, thoughtful character arcs or deep dives into the horror genre. Have your cake and eat it too, God knows I do, but it makes no sense to resent a cartoon for being a cartoon.

-I only trust trans!Danny when it's an ownvoices thing. It's still not my favorite idea, but I know how much it means to people it resonates with.

-White fans, we could all do a lot more to be more welcoming to fans of color. Rep by way of POC headcanons or OCs doesn't count for anything if you're going to dismiss POC fan content and analysis as niche or reactionary.

-My stance on the Fenton parents goes like this: I think the abusive things they do in canon are a product of cartoon exaggeration, and I'm tired of fans interpreting them in bad faith. However, I do still think that the Useless Parent trope is relevant here, so I gravitate towards media that depicts them as good people but bad parents. However however, I can totally understand fans who are tired of seeing dysfunctional families in child- or teen-centric media.

-I'm pretty okay with most of the villains not having a lot of depth to them lmao. There are exceptions, like Johnny, Kitty and Sidney, but the others don't offer much imo.

-I don't much care for Dani

-Fans are way too quick to draw Valerie skinny and/or give any of the characters of color more Western features

-I said in the initial comment that the trio's friendship is tepid and that Jazz is kind of annoying, but I'm going to go ahead and say that both subjects are all too often plot obstacles, and fanon often fails in the same way canon does to give Tucker, Sam and Jazz interesting roles. (Tl;dr there are so many fics where any/all of them are Just Kind of There because they're obligated to be.)

-A lot of popular fanon lore (obsessions, ghost hunger, territory/lairs, cores) only serves to deprive ghosts of any humanity/agency and add a bunch of plot wires to trip over

-the concept of a social structure in the Ghost Zone was already bad but then it became a useless cocktail of American & European political structures for no reason

-I never miss an opportunity to say this. They fucked up making Sam Danny’s friend (and later love interest) instead of his sister like they’d originally drafted

-Wes Weston, similar community OCs and Pitch Pearl all exist because of the cast’s dearth of svelte white boys besides Danny

-gay ships don’t automatically yield more interesting characters

-there are other traumatic and invasive medical procedures than vivisection and I’m begging you to use them

#answers

[weaverworks]

I hope guys like them! My take on Paulina and Danny from Danny Phantom. Danny Fentom is Native American.

#danny phantom #paulina sanchez #paulina #danny fenton #danny Phantom Reboot #Danny is native american #poc #poc representation

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So I drew a grown up version of Danny Phantom where he has become a fusion of his human and ghost side and thought that maybe someone around here might appreciate it~ (Also my headcannon has always been him being POC)

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[saeweedbrains]

BOOOOO white danny fenton u can make him white not me tho stay safe out there

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[dailyjcink]

Daniel Fenton/Danny Phantom | 35 | Half-Ghost

Canon Lore History

First off, you are more than welcome to meddle around with Danny's history! This is quite inevitable to have him adapted and what things have already been established already do so.

Appearance: Just like Vlad, Danny is meant to hold two forms. Normally, he has a pale complexion, blue eyes, and black hair. He is likely on the taller end. The only abnormality, which I have established through Vlad, is that he should be aging slowly. While Danny is thirty, he probably appears to be in his twenties still. It is entirely up to whoever takes up Danny whether he is aging slower or faster than Vlad.

His ghostly form looks similar to him, as his hair is white, his skin a bit darker, and his are bright green.

Personality:  Danny's personality is open to whoever takes him. I imagine that there are changes since he has obviously not only grown older but I have also based his life on the alternate timeline (aka most people he knows are deado and he was raised by Vlad). He is meant to have grown closer to Vlad despite their history of conflict, the bond, much like the show, spawning from mutual loneliness.

History: Most of what is needed can be found in either Vlad's application or the above link. However, to briefly summarize, Danny's life is meant to be similar to the alternate timeline (meaning things in the later seasons did not happen). As such, his friends, family, and English teacher die despite an attempt to help. I do not state WHO was behind this, so it could have been someone other than Dan. Either way, Danny is meant to believe it to be a murder but is likely not open about this since Vlad still thinks it is a tragedy.

Things that largely deviate is that I imply that things like ghost portals might not exist (whether the ghost zone does is up in the air but if it does it might be a bit different), I do not make it clear whether Dan exists, and the alternate timeline obviously went a bit differently since Vlad clearly never gave into any grief ridden requests from Danny. Outside of that, I have softened Vlad's characterization somewhat (not to say he's good but I got rid of his more insane actions).

Play-By: Lucky Blue Smith is suggested.

Valeria Gray | 34 | Human

Valerie is someone who learned the hard way that the magical world is not always a wonderful, but can often be the sort of place that barges into the lives of humans without caring about the damage it wrecks. When she was fourteen, an unusual incident- in the show, it was due to a ghost dog- that was rooted in magic cost her father his job. As a result, her world was quickly upturned as her family lost their wealth, struggling to make ends meet. For Valerie, she quickly learned that many of those around her were shallow and had only been her friends for what she had.

Later, a grudge is born towards ghosts when she becomes affected by the problem while Danny is trying to fix the source of the problem. While, unlike many like her, she becomes willing to work with some when it is required, this grudge appears to never properly heal.

Personality: Once a selfish and cruel person, Valerie has become a kinder individual due to the harsh hand life has given her. She is stubborn and persistent, more than willing to fight her own battles not matter how difficult they appear to be and only willing to accept help when it is either forced upon her or it is beneficial enough that she struggles to say no.

At the same time, she is easily the type of person that many individuals might consider to be a villain. Having become disillusioned with at least a small part of the magical world, she definitely believes in it. Unfortunately, Valerie is clearly an ignorant individual who lacks much information about the very beings she claims to hate, considering them mindless and out only to harm others when they are actually little different from herself. She's a hunter, but as far as she's concerned she is the hero and is protecting people.

Appearance: Valerie is African-American and a year younger than Danny. She has long, wavy hair and green eyes. She's meant to be thing, but has a bit of curve to her. 

History:  Canon Lore History

Valerie's character is heavily tied to Danny and Vlad. In the past, she hunted Danny, not only because she believed him to be a ghost but because she blamed him for the misfortune in her life. This hatred is something that Vlad took advantage of. Anonymously, he provided her with high-tech gear so that she could hunt. It was only later that he revealed himself to her. While she was wary of him, the two formed an unholy alliance, Valerie clearly viewing Vlad far more useful despite whatever she thought of him as he was able to upgrade what she already had.

Valerie never actually learns that Danny Phantom and Danny Fenton are one and the same. She's not meant to know Vlad Masters and Vlad Plasmius are one and the same either [while the cloning incident happened, I didn't write Vlad ever turning to Valerie during it].

Exactly what she is doing now is open, but chances are that she is still in contact with Vlad.

Play-By: Valerie's play-by is open, but she MUST be POC. The image shown is of Tamera Mowry.

Dani Phantom | 21 | Unstable Clone

Dani is a clone of Danny that was created by Vlad when he began to succumb to his loneliness and give up on ever persuading Danny to become part of his life. He does not currently know she exists.

Appearance: Overall, Dani looks similar to Danny. When she was created, she looked about two years younger than him. Whether this is still true is entirely open as chances are that her biology works differently than both Danny and Vlad despite appearing to have similar powers as Danny. Overall, she can be best described as looking like his little sister.

Personality: Dani is meant to be a bit similar to Danny, but what separated them is their experience and age. She is clearly more cheerful, childish, and naive when compared to him, something that doesn't seem to change too much even with her bad experiences. Exactly how much she may have changed over the years is open, but I do imagine that these specific traits may have not entirely left her.

History: Dani's history can be found in Vlad's application.

When Vlad was 45, he found himself in a state where he had begun to give up on ever finding happiness and, more specifically, Danny. As a result, he turned to science. While it might have seemed impossible, he was not one to give up. He tried many times to clone Danny, figuring that if he could not convince the boy to become his son then he would merely create a clone and raise it as if it were his own.

This is how Dani came to be. She was the most successful of the clones and the most stable. Unfortunately, Vlad viewed her as a mistake. He was aiming to create a perfect clone of Daniel and Dani was not that. Moreover, he was quite convinced that she would eventually decompose as the rest of his clones had. However, even Vlad had lines and killing a child who was convinced that he was her father definitely would be crossing them. As such, he sent her on a hopeless mission, telling her that Daniel had the solution to her problem and she only had to get it from him.

This eventually worked against him, as Dani and Daniel form a close bond. As a result, when she eventually brings Danny to him, she realizes that the "perfect clone" he wants to make is not her but a new male clone. Danny and Dani put a stop to this and Vlad never sees Dani again.

Something that should be noted is that some of the darker aspects of this plot line were taken out (such as the implications of how poorly Vlad treated the failed clones).

It is preferred that she still be an unstable clone.

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