This is before danny became phantom. During his accident, so here sam x danny never happened
Danny was in the hospital recuperating from his accident. It took a toll on his body and he was in a comatose state for 3 months.
In that time tucker started to fear the hospital and such, the doctors digging into his best friend, the blood, the sight of Danny's apparent lifeless body.
Headcannon the danny doesn't remember wandering around as a ghost for those months.
Sam was there to keep him calm. She soothed his panic attacks and told him that Danny would be fine. She helped him get through it and tucker told her to stop acting tuff and let herself cry. Sam is more mature and has been putting a wall up, a mask for tucker so he would feel better,she been doing it so she wouldn't focus on Danny's condition so much and be there for tucker.
[ be real do you think sam felt super guilty over the fact that she was the one who convinced him to go inside leading to him getting hospitalized and dying? Like she couldn't control the outcome and danny doesn't blame either of them for it but him not blaming her doesn't ease the feeling it makes it worse. Maybe she gets control issues over that because if she could control everything about a person and their environment nothing bad will ever happen to them. There won't ever be any accidents or unfortunate events happening to the people closest to her.]
Anyho time passes tucker is scared of the doctors and such and the trio is still together.
Sam and tucker end up closer than before and one day tucker is hanging out with Jasmine and she mentions writing poetry is a healthy way to heal and process one's emotions. Tucker remembers sam likes poetry so he asks he to write about how she's feeling or about Danny's situation. Sam doesn't like how he's trying to tell her to cope or how what she's currently doing ( not addressing her guilt) isn't enough for her mental state.
Tucker tells her he isn't doing anything and that he's trying to help. She likes poetry so she can just write Gothic poetry and read to him if she wants. He'll be there to listen. He just doesn't want her to get depressed or leave him. To shut herself out or anything drastic. He wants her to process this properly. He isn't letting her get her way.
[ looking at you danny. I love you but sam can guilt trip you a lot and you don't challenge her at all, you'll argue a little but will go along with it in the end and that's called being passive. Sam doesn't need that for character growth and such. It's better if she matured and that's how you show love and she does the same for you. But she doesn't.]
He tells her all of this in an outburst later in the year during the phantom adventures when her issue on control becomes apparent. They yell at eachother for a bit but when he doesn't back down or go along with it in the end she agrees. While danny is sleeping or at least trying to when he's not getting attacked by a roge sam and tucker meet up on the bleachers or a roof of an abandoned building and tucker listens to her read her writing.
In the beginning she started writing gorey things to try and psyche tucker out and make him regret saying that and asked/demanded that he gives criticism at the end but to her suprise he doesn't do that all of that. He is paying attention and isn't backing down, he tells he how he loves how far she's gotten and tries to write with her, though his is more coding formated and tech based in order to keep him engaged and sam loves it. His is odd and unique and special in his way. She can't control him but she can guess his actions. He's accepting her even when she tries to push him away by being more hard-core Gothic and is making demands that seem unreasonable to her, like paying attention to her when she speaks and listening to her. She stopped being gorey and hard and started being genuine.
They keep this ritual a secret from danny because they don't want him to worry about them. They'll keep playing the supporting best friends/ sidekicks for him as long as he needs them.
They don't have much but they have eachother. Tucker and sam talk about their favorite shows and what they like and such. Sam tries to make tucker Gothic and he's kind of into it but it isn't his style. .
Over the year they get closer tucker confides in sam about his insecurities and sam tells him about her fear of losing them both to something she could've prevented. They work through it together but mere words aren't enough. They go through their own trials throughout the summer.
The trio breaks up sophomore year and gets back together junior year. The reasoning may vary it could be danny doing something stupid and feeling left out that his two best friends are doing stuff without him and them they blurt out what they've been doing and he gets angry bc they've been doing therapy over him and haven't told him he's the reason for it and is upset because he doesn't want them to worry about him much less to a degree where it affects their mental state.
( if it's protector obsession danny let's say he feels like he let them down because he is causing 'harm' to them without realizing and that doesn't sit right with him)
They stop talking and sam and tucker have to deal with their issues by themselves now. Tucker hangs out with people that build up/ enflate his ego and sam is spiraling because she is losing control of her life. She doesn't have anyone to confide in anymore and is spending her days writing on the bleachers and ontop of abanding buildings, where she used to meet tucker. Sometimes when tucker is feeling down or regretfull and finds her, he doesn't say anything, he just sits near her in silence as she writes. After the first couple of times she starts reading it aloud. She feels better and they slowly start sitting closer
That following summer tuckers conflicted on what he's doing with his ' friends'. they want to pull a really nasty prank on sam. Let's say sam was going by Samantha in school and started being more Gothic and a bit punk. She made drastic changes to her wardrobe and her parents not approving of this made the school call her Samantha. No one likes sam and the trio broke up so everyone calls her that.
Anyhoo tucker ops out of doing the prank and during the summer leaves his toxic friend group. He had to endure flashes of his previous incarnation of king duulaman the entire time.
He also noticed his powers and almost got completely influenced by spectra
He ends up meeting sam on a roof and they talk. Tucker wants to be with her and wants what they had before. Sam also wants this but refuses to admit it and lashes out accusing him of coming to her because his friend group dumped him. Tucker tries to explain that he left and that he isn't here for some stupid shallow reason but sam isn't having any of that.
This is the first situation where she actually has control over the outcome and she's happy about it ( her emotions say otherwise. Her heart says otherwise)
she isn't having any of it and they have a fight because Tucker refuses to let her have her way and push him away. He's making things right.
That following year Tucker and sam are enemies. No one knows why they suddenly hate eachother and are having shouting matches but they're invested but before thwy could get a clue on whats happening a ghost or something possessed chases them away.
Tucker wants sam and sam wants Tucker neither realize in what way, they think friendship. It's a reluctant enemies to lovers. Danny's in the background depressed and tired and beat up without his friends and is watching on very disheartened
Until he surprised because while their stuck in a dream by nocturn the trio work together to escape and when they soup nocture Tucker knocks danny out cold so he could actually get some rest they end up calming down and talking until danny wakes up and their classmate finds them.
The trio decide to get back together because they need eachother, but sam and tucker still bicker about stuff out of earshot from danny as to not stress him out and oneday danny catches them arguing and the rest of their grade catches them because it's a very loud and emotionally filled argument until tucker gets close and sam grabs and kisses him, shocking the onlookers who are even more shocked when tucker kisses back
They get together soon after and tell danny who's happy for them. They end up sneaking into her house because sams parents hate the boys, Danny's grades and reputation are so much worse and tucker is known for arguing with sam and skipping. They're also mad at sam from her new ascetic and refusal to be called Samantha by them
Do you think sam hates her name because of what her parents turned it into. She's being herself and rebelling against them. They want her to be a doll and go along with what they say and to not have her own thoughts.
I think they called her Samantha and made her hate that name, it was classical and who they wanted her to be and not herself, sam was her escape and who she is at school with her friends. I think a part of her arc is accepting her name and everything she has gotten from her parents while realizing that they don't define her. Her parents wealth and social status outside of Amity Park. She is their only child and heir, they have no say on what she does or who she is. She can just exist with what she has inherited because in the end they will have to accept her or set her free. She is more than them and they shouldn't be able to control what she likes and dislikes.
She ends up liking her name Samantha after tucker gave it a new meaning and definition. When she gets another make over and style. she let's tucker call her Samantha. Not often though she doesn't want her parents to know that she accepts all of them and who she is in relation to them because they don't accept her. They might see it as her coming around rather that her deciding that they can't define what's good and bad in her life. She stops listening to them when they critique her and just exist as their daughter Samantha and not the girl they want her to be.
When Sam gets taken by overgrown in senior year tucker tells danny to let him handle her and to take care of undergrowth. Tucker ends up putting his awakened Egyptian sorcer powers to good use and manages to restrain her while danny deals with the issue.
Tucker and sam have been together for a while now and Danny's just vibing in the background happy. They've managed to get through to the ghosts and now danny schedule his fights with some of his normal gallery while helping the rest just fill their obsessions in a normal manner.
He's happier and tucker and sam are happier together.
They then find out that sam has some witch blood and can actually do some occult stuff.
Are they all going to heed any of the warnings no.
They are three 18 year olds who have newfound freedom, freetime, and audacity.
They can ' sacrifice' ghost boy by having him go ghost in the circle
They summon small spirits and sam learns how to manipulate plants with her own power not undergrowths. She starts carrying sees and stuff in her pockets for rapid plant growth and ensnaring her foes. Tucker mentions how it would be cool If she was like a spirit of nature coming back to guide humanity while being creepy and cryptid. Danny agrees. They all change their wardrobe and fall into their new character archetypes. They all help eachother.
Is that an excuse for sam to be a witch who for some reason is wearing poisonous flowers and such in her make up and perfume while still holding on to her rebellious and independent attitude? Yes.
Will tucker make jokes about burying both of them in his tomb when he dies? yes.
He can control the sand and still has his scepter. He overcame the corruption and can casually work reality and use dark magic. He can also mess with technology.
Will danny embrace the ghost zone and culture while also communicating with both of them on keeping secrets and leaving him out?
Yes. Does danny fly up past the clouds with sam on a huge plant that's ontop of tuckers flying sand mass? Yes.
They go stargazing together.
Tucker and sams diets will clash but they end up coming to an agreement. Tucker will include more greens in his diets and not bring an obnoxious amount of meat near her and sam won't try and coreace/ convert him to her diet and will let Tucker plan some of her meals or rather make sure she's getting enough protein by making snacks for her.
Basically they work on their diet differences and come to a compromise. Also they were 14. They wouldn't still fight about stuff like that as they get older.
Witch sam, Egyptian sorcerer tucker/ reincarnated pharoh tucker, danny is whatever you want him to be, he isn't as important
