so dp thoughts! I'm a sucker for the few and far between 'Danny's got his own lair in the zone too' fics, so how would you picture a lair for him to be like if he has one? starry sky ceilings? totally made of ice? 'literally just his house in mirror image'? other ideas? :oc
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danny’s lair is... always a little difficult for me to picture, but i can say with certainty that it is safe (at least, in theory). it is a place where danny can feel safe, which means it’s got elements of familiarity, but also it’s far enough from his current life that he can easily differentiate them from one another.
so i wouldn’t be too surprised if it resembled his room? that’s his space in the mortal plane or whatever you wanna call it, after all. it’s where he can bandage his wounds and sleep and relax. however, his room isn’t safe—within like the first four episodes of s1 he’s attacked in there at LEAST once? but if i recall properly it was, like, twice. ppprobably. maybe. don’t take my word on that
point is, his bedroom itself isn’t safe.
so danny’s lair in the ghost zone would resemble his room maybe in vibes, if nothing else. i can see model spaceships and posters for space programs and favorite bands and probably a few shows he likes. a bed comfortably sized for a growing kid. instead of a ceiling, there’s just open sky, deep purple and blue, with stars that resemble the constellations in the living world. it’s not a perfect rendition, but he can find peace in it all the same.
oh, maybe game systems and some books. don’t think lairs can craft those things themselves, at least not functionally, but who knows!
now, if we wanna get into, like... size? ghost lairs seem pretty elastic, i think. it’s a pocket dimension controlled and manipulated by one being, so i think size and environment is pretty... relative, i guess. maybe stronger ghosts maintain larger lairs. maybe it works like steven’s room in steven universe, where you can craft a pretty big space, but it has its limits with how much it can do. idk.
danny is powerful as hell so i can see the potential of his lair being larger than a single room, and being able to maintain more. if that’s the case, i’ve always liked to imagine that outside of the room is, like... open fields. maybe a beach, which i think is fun. i was gonna say woods, but he kinda gets hunted down by wild ghost animals in the woods when he can’t go ghost so... so. maybe not woods. definitely trees, though.
the primary space is his “bedroom” though, you know?
(ALTERNATIVE: as ghost king, the whole zone is his lair. apeshit and a little... uncomfortable, because it encompasses everything and everyone within it. that’d suck, i think. so i like him having a room. and open fields. and safety.)
