Physics & DP Nerd

Hold on now, hear me out, I get that it’s been done before (but really, can you have too much of a good thing? In fanfics?) but just… give me a second to get to the point of this prompt.

Danny is Bruce’s clone. He wasn’t created to kill Bruce or take over his life or because of Batman or what-have-you, but simply because his creator thought Bruce was pretty. Not in an “I want to get him in my bed” pretty, but an “I want to display him in my house” pretty. Danny’s creator took one look at Brucie Wayne, just before adopting Dick Grayson, and went “he would look lovely in my front room.” They’d intended to create a child with Bruce, but every attempt failed. So, they took drastic measures instead, and, just as rumors of The Batman and Robin Dynamic Duo began being verified as truth, a baby was taken from a cloning pod.

The baby was an ugly little thing, so the creator was very hands off and awaiting the day they could begin grooming the boy into the perfect little centerpiece.

Somehow, in some way, the Fenton’s get ahold of Danny. Which really just ruined the creator’s whole side project, but if mind-controlling was on the table, then mind-wiping was surely available. Now, if only they could find their pretty vase, wherever he might be…

Oh. There he is. And just as pretty as they were imagining.

Meanwhile, Danny is getting creeped out by this person who randomly shows up one day and starts staring at him. Just what he needed, another Fruitloop. Well, might as well ignore them like he does all his other problems.

Hold on, he’s adopted? And shares DNA with who again?? That means Bruce Wayne is his bio-dad, right?

So Danny goes to meet his bio-dad, just to say he has… and the creepy person just. Follows. Everywhere Danny looks, he seems to be meeting that stranger’s eyes again. And it’s like, kinda weird? Like, moreso than being followed by a creepy person is weird - there seem to be various non-lethal traps trying to cage him but they’re, like, stupidly easy to escape. It’s like whoever is trying to capture him is unaware of Danny being Phantom, but who in the world wants to capture just Danny Fenton? He’s 15, average, boring, and broke af, so like? What would even be the point of capturing normal human Danny?

Danny goes to meet Bruce and, just as they lock eyes and Bruce has a moment of “holy shit that kid couldn’t look more like a child me if he tried, who the hell did I knock up 15 years ago” and Danny is like “yep, that’s obviously my dad”, someone comes up from behind Danny and knocks him out with drugs.

They’re in a public place. Neither Bruce nor Danny can reveal themselves. Danny is forced to inhale the chloroform-or-whatever-drug-of-your-choosing, is knocked out, and then taken to another location where he wakes up with a pretty new collar, that blocks Danny’s access to his ghost half, and the creep staring at him waking up.

Bio- is the Greek stem for life, as observed in the comments.

Thanato- is the Greek stem for death from Thanatos, Death.

Necro- from Greek nekros is the stem for dead.

-ology is the suffix for "study of."

Hades is the Greek name for both the god of the underworld and the underworld itself.

Biology is the study of life, which doesn't fit.

Ectobiology is a contradiction in terms.

Thanatology is the study of death. The study of the process of death, dying, and grief.

Ectothanatology would either be the study of ghost death/dying/grief or the study of the interaction between ectoplasm and death/dying/grief (ghost creation). Therefore, I disagree with the comment suggesting this one.

Necrology is the study of the dead/corpses.

Ectonecrology would be the study of post-organic lifeforms since ghosts don't leave corpses. I think this one would be the ecto-parallel of biology. It would also include the study of ecto-contamimated corpses. (Theoretically, they would rise from the dead sooner or later anyway.)

That's why I like Space Core Danny: space is very cold (almost absolute zero), it has gas clouds (nebulae), it has heat (stars), it has ice (comets), etc. In fact, you can take a great many of Danny's more advanced powers and correlate them to astrophysical phenomena. There's even a moment in the show where he's getting swarmed, and he proceeds to create a ball of ectoplasm in his arms and then let it go supernova to knock back his foes.

I'm telling you, Space Core Danny makes way more sense than Ice Core Danny.

And it's tactless comments like this that almost made me stop drawing Valerie altogether. First it was a problem with the skin tone I used to play it safe to avoid offending someone, which I literally copied exactly from screenshots of the show:

Then it was how I draw Valerie's body shape, which mind you changes CONSTANTLY in the show. So at the end of the day, you draw her how you want to and I'll draw her how I want to. And if you don't like it, don't look at it anymore. Because if this starts happening again where I'm getting rude backhanded comments like this one I WILL stop posting my Valerie fanart in public-

That's why I like Space Core Danny: space is very cold (almost absolute zero), it has gas clouds (nebulae), it has heat (stars), it has ice (comets), etc. In fact, you can take a great many of Danny's more advanced powers and correlate them to astrophysical phenomena. There's even a moment in the show where he's getting swarmed, and he proceeds to create a ball of ectoplasm in his arms and then let it go supernova to knock back his foes.

I'm telling you, Space Core Danny makes way more sense than Ice Core Danny.

Tucker, having realized that Danny can basically spontaneously manifest powers and that Ectoplasm and magic interfere with each other, convinces Danny to let Tucker be his "agent" and they set off around the country to disprove magicians like John Constantine, Zatara, Zatana, and Doctor Fate (Tucker gets to pull out the Ghostly Egyptian Scepter to cancel Fate's Ankhly powers).

First, they storm Zatana's shows to have her prove it's not all an illusion. Danny, clearly a perfectly normal human, asks Zatana to pick him up with her magic if she's so powerful. She can't. She tries to do other tricks, but with Danny actively blocking her, she can't.

(Danny 0.3 seconds away before smelling the Heroes he just met.)

So I've been pondering about how ghost have the ability to sense one another out when close enough, but now I've been thinking of something for the living. Fanon has something like this in a few fics, making it how Danny can tell who the Leaguers are in/out of costume by calling it Death Touched.

I offer: The Stench of Death.

When a person comes close to a deadly encounter, the event becomes a smell is akin to the near experience. Say if someone survived a fire? The smell would be close to burning the materials being burnt and the smoke for example.

Think like food and how you can smell all the things that go into the dish.

The more you get into deadly situations, the more smells you can pick up on as well as getting stronger. Ghosts can sense the Touch of Death on the living, but not the Stench. Danny, who is a Half alive, can. If he focuses hard enough, he can pick up the scent and sniff people out like a bloodhound.

Now take the Justice League and all their branches/allies, organizations who fight to stop bag guys and world-ending events every couple of months...their smell is prominent enough for Danny to easily pick it up.

Now enter one Daniel Nightingale who has left Amity for [reason] and in [Hero's City], trying to keep a low profile because heroes exist now, he's retired now after sorting out the business between the ghostly and living worlds, and wants to have as close to a normal life as he possibly can before taking the throne.

But one day, he stops a known rouge that would've caused some serious harm to the populace if someone didn't stop them, gaining their attention. They try to get information on Danny, but there's nothing out of the ordinary on his file, so they decided to do the next best thing; watch him.

The young man is very guarded and observing his surroundings often, so the idea of him being a new meta struggling to handle his newly awakened powers or a new alien on Earth are possible theories.

The only problem is that, when they get they close, he tends to leave the area and head home. It's like this for a while until they realize they haven't seen him in some time now and find out he packed up his things and moved to another town...a different city a Leaguer call their hometurf, so they notify that hero of Danny's presence and the cycle repeats itself a few times before Danny is getting tracked by multiple Leauge members.

Wonder Woman is an interesting thought experiment because she lived on Paradise Island for most of her life, and is it a brush with death if you shoot at somebody who can block bullets or is it only a brush with death if they come close to dying? By the former definition, sure, every hero is super stinky. By the latter definition, Batman or one of his brood are the big stink.

All his wounds were bandaged and looked after. He wasn't even in pain! A rare luxury indeed. Looking over he saw a guy around his own age cooking some fish over an open flame. The other teen, as if feeling eyes on him, turned toward Respawn and smiled.

"I hope you like green onions." He said, motioning towards the plate stacked high with the vegetable, "They're the only edible thing I could find."

The day dragged on with the guy-Danny- playing nursemaid and insisting to take care of Respawn as he recovered, even going so far as to cut his food for him. Hes pretty sure Danny would have fed him himself if he had struggled anymore with handling the stick the fish was on.

Blessedly his enhanced healing factor ensured that he wasn't down for too long and he could take care of himself. He couldn't bring himself to be annoyed with Danny though. He was actually rather grateful.

When Respawn asked why Danny was out here in the wilderness he sheepishly told him about how his mad scientist parents had made a portal to another dimension and had tried to create a portal gun for portable access to said dimension. They were showing it to him, his sister and his two friends when something went wrong and the gun went off, sucking them all into the new portal. He woke up in the forest alone.

Looking back on thier past conversations, Repawn decided that it made sense. It would explain why Danny didn't know what a meta human was or that they had rights protecting them. Danny had been so excited when he had told him and immediately began using his unholy number of powers to help them survive in the wild.

"Have fun on your murder trip, sweetie!" Maddie called after Slade's departing back.

Slade froze, how did she know? "Uh..."

"Yeah!" Jack cheered, "Make sure you get 'em good! We don't want their ghost coming back to getcha!"

Slade turned to stare at his weird, pseudo parents... who weren't old enough to be his parents, "How do you suggest I kill a *ghost*?"

His best friend was a comic book nerd, Danny was a space nerd, so there's no way he didn't enjoy having super powers and think it was awesome despite the pain he went through to get it. He could have chosen to stay in class instead of fighting ghosts. At the very least, we know Maddie was a competent ghost hunter, so it really was an option for him. He chose to do something he enjoyed more and helped him feel fulfilled.

Arguably, by becoming a ghost, he gave his parents their ideal child. They already obsessed over ghosts, and they wanted their kids to be ghost hunters like them; technically, Danny finally became everything he needed to be to get his parents' attention (any attention is better than no attention). *And they supported it by accepting him every time they found out.*

-The defendant knew or should have reasonably known that his actions could have lead to the death of the other party;

-The defendant's actions showed an apparent disregard for human life or were intrinsically dangerous; and

-The defendant's actions or failure of duty were the direct cause of the other party's death

-The defendant knew or should have reasonably known that his actions could have lead to the death of the other party;

-The defendant's actions showed an apparent disregard for human life or were intrinsically dangerous; and

-The defendant's actions or failure of duty were the direct cause of the other party's death