#phandom lore

So I was recently reading Danny Phantom's Series Bible via ForeverPhantom's reblog (thank you, hannahmanderr, for originally posting it) and there's some really interesting facts and tidbits I came across. As is said b4, Danny was conceived of as having been called Phantom long before The Accident™, it was a nickname given to him by Sam and Tucker, a dig(?) on how his' being shy, timid saw him become, for lack of a better word, socially undetectable, invisible.

But only a few people know that Danny Phantom is actually Danny Fenton, the shy, average, quiet kid that sat in the back and tried to stay out of trouble. Because of his skittishness and shyness, his friends Tucker and Samantha started calling him “Danny Phantom”. They didn’t mean it to be hurtful… it was all in good fun. And after the accident, it didn’t bother him anymore. Because it ended up being more accurate than even they could have believed.

It also makes it seem that as a human/ghost hybrid Danny (in addition to all of the standard array of abilities specters have, to fly, to shed their solid forms and become intangible, etc) is indeed possessed of the ability to straight up, like, make portals/teleport(?), a la how Vlad in-canon can apparently do, and so cross in-between the realms at will. To be fair, that could just be a case of me reading too much into it, but the exact wording is as follows, that,

Danny received his powers through a scientific experiment gone awry... the dimensional barrier was damaged and Danny - who wasn’t even supposed to be in the lab at the time - was caught in the middle, and essentially trapped between the two worlds. The lab and the experiment were both badly damaged in the process… but Danny wasn’t. He was left with the amazing powers, and the ability to “crossover” from one world to the next at will.

What Do the Fentons Do? What Are Their A c t u a l J o b s?

Ohhh boy. Like, okay he only showed up in one episode, so i dont think of him often, but i think about him a lot, okay?

Ghost Zone = phandom as a whole. the show ended/died but continues to exist via ectoplasm. gets new ghosts/phans every once in a while. occasionally does ghost things.

Doors = crossover portals

Ghosts = phans

Ancients = legendary phans that are around since early phandom era and continue to be awesome with their contribution to the phandom

Powerful Ghosts = phans everyone knows about. does lots of contribution to the phandom/influenced the phandom.

Observants = lurkers 👁️

Humans = non phans, potential phan recruits

Ghost Artifacts = legendary pieces of artwork in all forms (art/fanfiction/music/video/etc) that shapes the phandom

Ghost Realms/Islands = phandom community

Ectoplasm = keeps the phandom alive