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"Dad... you're dead."

Jack laughed. He probably shouldn't have, Danny seemed to be very genuine in his assessment, and Jack recognised that he should probably take this more seriously. But still, dead?? It was laughable.

"Come on Danny be serious." Danny's face remained stoic, "I'm not dead, I'm right here."

"You're a ghost, dad." Danny's lips were pressed tight, his entire body tense. "You died."

i mean, that's one way to tell them

+bonus:

Based on a prompt by @fabnamessuggestedbytumbler for the Phic Phight! An excuse for Lost Time fluff? Don’t mind if I do…

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The Ghost Zone had a legal system. A court system. A prison system. A police system. A set of established rules. There were even lawyers.

In theory.

In reality the courts (Observants) refused to look at anything that wasn’t world ending. Every group had their own, private prison. The police made up their own rules and, even then, broke them regularly. The actual rules had gone several hundred years without an update and referred to places, organizations, and customs that no longer existed. The lawyers were all clinically depressed. That’s what happens when there’s no active, unifying head of state for hundreds of years.

Prompt from @ectopal: Jack and Maddie, at the end of their rope, beg Vlad to come to Amity to help stop the ghost that’s haunting their family. Vlad realizes that it isn’t a ghost that is terrorizing them, but their son, who recently became a half ghost and is having just about the worst time in the world dealing with it. Bonus points if in his human form Danny is extremely unsettling.

Word Count: 3694

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Vlad marveled the three story brick house defaced by an obnoxious FENTON sign and what can only be described as a giant tin hat on top. He reached for the doorknob but stopped himself. Years ago, this wouldn’t have been a problem, just walk in, say hi. Hug Jack, kiss Maddie on the cheek. 

Flushing, he wrung his hands. They’d fallen out of contact for what was it now, fifteen? Twenty years? It had all just become too much. His pain, their happiness. His loneliness, their romance. His…changes…their family. He couldn’t keep answering their questions, couldn’t keep pretending he hadn’t changed, and couldn’t keep acting like he still wasn’t in love with Maddie.

Couldn’t keep acting like he didn’t blame Jack for all of it.

Phic phight 2020

Submitted by @phantomphangphucker: Danny Fenton seeming creepy, unnatural, predatory, etcetera to the general population of Amity Park. Or only seeming creepy, unnatural, predatory, etcetera to tourists, while Amity Park locals are confused by anyone finding Fenton ‘creepy/intimidating’.

Summary: Some mascots are great at pumping up a crowd. As Casper High’s mascot, Danny has only one job: strike fear into the hearts of their opponents. This is the story of how Danny becomes the famed Mascot of Fear.

Word count: 9268

Tucker witnesses it first. His cousin from another state is visiting for the weekend and Danny comes over to hang out. Ozzy has met Danny before, a few times, so Tucker thinks they won’t mind if Danny joins them for a little while. He arrives while Ozzy is in the bathroom, and Tucker gets a three-player game of the new Doomed: IV console game set up.

Danny lounges on a beanbag chair, leaving the couch to the Foley cousins. Clutching his controller, he plays with the controls, watching his character jump, roll, punch, and shoot, trying to get a feel for the different set up.

“I think they took out the high jump,” Danny says. He spams the jump button while tapping various others across the controller, testing different combos.

“What?” Tucker lunges for the game case, taking out the pamphlet tucked inside the cover. He flips through, looking for the controls.

“Yeah, it doesn’t seem to­—oh damn that’s fun.”

“What? What?” Tucker scrambles up, throwing the pamphlet aside, and watches Danny’s avatar leap into the air, then sprint forward.

“Air-dashing,” Danny says with a grin.

“Sweet.” The boys bump fists.

Danny, kneeling on his beanbag, keeps air-dashing across the screen, whipping the controller back and forth emphatically. The action does nothing to improve the gameplay, but at the same time, it just wouldn’t be as enjoyable without it. Tucker lays upside down on the couch, hands braced on the floor, cheering Danny on. “Go, go, go!”

It’s stupid and fun. They haven’t even started playing the game yet, but this is the most they’ll enjoy themselves all afternoon. And that’s the scene Ozzy walks in on.

They remember Tucker’s best friend, although they hadn’t seen him since coming out. Ozzy’s not sure what to expect from him, but it certainly isn’t this. And by this they don’t mean the raw enthusiasm for a simple game mechanic. They mean the shiver that crawls up their spine the second they lay eyes on Danny. They feel cold, like they’ve stepped in a bath of ice-water rather than their cousin’s living room.

Danny turns his head toward Tucker and sees Ozzy standing in the doorway. Both of them freeze. Ozzy’s heart beats fast and heavy in their chest. Their pupils dilate, stretching wide, and sweat beads on their forehead. They can’t look away. If they do, then they’re dead. If they let Danny out of their sight, they’re dead.

i was struck by a sudden and instinctual urge to Draw this Spooky Boy

Then, the Dan thing happens. Danny discovers that Valerie is the Red Huntress from her future self, and he is DEVASTATED. He had to witness his family and friends almost die, discovered that his human half is killed by a violent mixture of his ghost half and Plasmius in the future, discovered that he turns evil and kills EVERYONE in that same future, and on top of all that, his girlfriend is the Red Huntress. His girlfriend, who he adores and loves and who snorts when she laughs, who can judo flip Dash without a second thought (and has, on one occasion), who is smart and funny and sarcastic and listens to him when he starts ranting about the stars and space with genuine interest...

Is the same person who screams insults at him from her hoverboard as he flies over the town. The same person who hates Phantom with more burning passion than even his parents, who fires at him with the intent to destroy. And for some reason, that hurts him even more than when his parents fire at him, hurts even more than when he hears his parents talking about dissecting him “molecule by molecule” as he eats his dinner.

Meanwhile, Valerie begins to notice how stressed and nervous Danny is getting. Yeah, he’s a nervous person, but never on the level he is now. He’s always fidgeting, always looking for exits to a room or building, always alert and vigilant. He’s always on the verge of a panic attack, and whenever her... side job comes up in conversation, he flinches slightly and starts shaking. And whenever Valerie tries to help, tries to comfort him, he only gets worse, verging on a panic attack or hyperventilating. It starts to put a strain on their relationship, and neither of them know what to do.

Until one day, Danny breaks down and tells her. He’s been so nervous, so scared that once she knows the truth, that she’ll hate him for it, and the fear and suspense has been driving him insane, because what if she finds out? What if she tells everyone and they hate me for it? So Danny tells her, because all that he has is Sam, Tucker and Jazz (Vlad does not count and he never will), and that used to be all he needed, but ever since he found out about Dan and the CAT and how he killed so many people, too many in that timeline, (how he may as well have killed his own friends and family, it was his fault his fault-) he’s constantly been on the verge of a breakdown, and that tiny, almost nonexistent web of support just isn’t enough anymore.

So he tells her everything. He tells her about the portal, about how he turned it on, how the subsequent blast and shock killed him, but not completely. He tells her about him being a Halfa, about phantom. Tells her about his decision to become Phantom, to start fighting the ghosts that make their way into the human world to cause havoc, because no one else could or would do so without destroying them. Tells her about Pariah Dark, how the fight almost killed him.

He tells her about Dan, about that horrible, horrible future, and how terrifying it is, knowing that he could still turn into that horrible, twisted version of himself.

And at first, Valerie is PISSED. How could he, how could he lie to her like this, about something this massive? How could he lead her on, knowing full well that he was the reason that her father lost his job, that he was the reason the A-listers kicked her from their group. She’s about five seconds from pulling out her suit, or her ecto-gun, and firing at him...

When she pauses. Because right now, Danny doesn’t look like the cocky, confident, annoying half ghost that Valerie has come to despise. No, right now, Danny looks like a normal kid who has to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders and then some, who has to deal with being hated by ghosts for being human and hated by humans for being a ghost, who has to deal with the knowledge that one wrong move could turn him into a monster capable of destroying the planet.

Has to live with the fear of his parents discovering who he is, what he is, and hating him for it.

And Valerie has done the same thing, except this was arguably worse, because how many times had Danny gone out of his way to save her at his own expense? How many times has Danny been hurt, badly hurt, by one of her own weapons?

And she sees Danny shaking, looking at her with wide, scared blue eyes, and they look so much like Phantoms, and Valerie realizes that behind all the death puns and bravado, Danny is a scared, traumatized highschool kid, who got dealt a heavy hand, and now has to deal with just about everyone he knows and cares about either fearing him or attempting to kill him.

So she leans down and hugs him, even as he starts crying, because it’s so much, too much, to know that Valerie doesn’t hate him, that she at least doesn’t completely hate him. And they’re both apologizing through their tears, Danny for what happened with her dad and Cujo and lying to her, and Valerie for the whole Red Huntress/trying to kill him as Phantom thing.

It gets to the point where people start asking them how they got together, how long they’ve been in a relationship, etc. Cue both Valerie and Danny turning into spluttering, blushing balls of denial and embarrassment as they both realize that yeah, some of the shit they do could be seen as couple-y stuff, except poor Danny knows he’s already dated Valerie before, but they broke up because of him, but he still has those pesky little feelings for her that just will not go the fuck away, this is supposed to be a professional relationship dammit!

Valerie, on the other hand, dives head first into some insane denial, because how could she be in love with a ghost, even if they are teammates, and his little purrs are adorable, and his puns, and the way his eyes glow brighter when he’s focused, or how his lips quirk up in that little half-smile.... and Valerie realizes very quickly that ‘oh fuck, I have feelings for this ghostly dumbass’.

Sam and Tucker can’t stop laughing as they watch Phantom and Valerie devolve into panicked denial, because seriously how did they not fucking see this, come on. All of Casper High, upon the discovery that no, Red huntress and Phantom are not a thing yet, decides that they must do their duty to their faithful guardians, and get these two together.

I don’t know about the phandom but I recently found out when I was in NYC with some of my best friends that one of them does when she unironically tried to order us a pineapple pizza pie and we were hanging out with this girl from Staten Island, a guy from Brooklyn, and my buddy from the Bronx and I’m pretty sure the three of them were holding themselves back from indivudually strangeling her. It pains me greatly to say that she is still alive and well, potentially eating pineapple pizzas every week. Honestly don’t know if I can ever trust anyone again. Just the worst news.

truce gift for @phantomofprocrastination!! happy new decade :)

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Being friends with a rival ghost has its pros and cons. The pros are that Danny can call on them whenever he needs help fighting a bigger, badder ghost. The cons are that this does nothing to stop his ally from attacking him whenever they like.

He was awoken in the dead of night (pun intended) by his ghost sense escaping his throat. He quickly transformed and flew outside, preparing to fight a ghost wreaking havoc. Instead, he was met by Johnny, who asked for a spar.

Danny sighed and ran a hand across his face. “Really? You couldn’t have picked a better time for this?”

“Of course not!” Johnny delightfully replied. “All the humans are asleep, so you don’t have to worry about hurting any of them.”

That was…surprisingly thoughtful. Still didn’t make it any less annoying. Danny fixed him with a glare and said, “Johnny. I’m half human. I also need to sleep.”

The ghost’s eyes widened, and his mouth formed a circle. “Oh.”