Filed under danny phantom but no seriously this really makes me wonder what the ghosts think of Danny and maybe halfas in general with this in mind a little bit creeped out? pity in the case of ghosts like Dora and Frostbite? a little bit legendary? raised by humans = raised by wolves? moreover raised by hunters no wonder he snaps and bites that first months was probs v. developmentally significant ectobiology
Ghost speak? Feral children have problems with language - specifically past/future tense, modals, grammar in general. Concrete thinking can develop, abstract thinking no. Language is crucial to human child development - and ghosts use spoken language to communicate, so I can’t see it not being important, even though the way it develops would be very different. Danny’s speech would be understandable (bc he can already talk, duh) but very broken, and he wouldn’t really get the grammar. And if you throw in the “core tone” thing and the blunted affect… First of all, uncanny valley as heck. Second, what the hell is wrong with this kid’s head, he psycho or something?
…I think that overall, Danny would probably come off as an idiot savant (if anyone figured it out). Like, here’s this creepy little kid who barely glows and can’t string together a sentence without sounding like an idiot, but he can take on Pariah Dark and not die. What the heck.
Hm. Come to think of it, no wonder everyone calls him “ghost child” instead of bothering with a name - he’d seem off and not really capable of thinking, especially since his first reaction to a ghost is “beat it to hell”. Ghosts seem to be largely asocial, too, so no one would really give a crap about why. They’d just write him off as too dumb to worry about. …and he’s not, not by human standards, so surprise! They just got outsmarted by the kid who was raised by hunters. How embarrassing. Let’s never speak of it again. …wait, he did what?
And he’d probably get a bit better after more exposure to ghosts, though he’d have to learn things the hard way instead of just popping into existence knowing or whatever. (Which is why he keeps managing to get lost… I headcanon ghosts as being wired to navigate in the GZ, which does not really run on the same physics as the human world. Danny’s ghost half not developing properly means he’s still wired for Earth, where “down” is always “toward the ground” or at least “whichever way gravity is pulling”. Reading maps? Forget it.)
Vlad, though - no wonder he always gets Skulker or the vultures to run errands for him. The vultures are loyal to Vlad for whatever reason, at least to the point of running errands to the best of their ability (and complaining constantly). Also, they’re freaking old and have probably seen weirder. Skulker would simply not give a darn - the pay tech is good and he’s too damn sneaky to trap, so move on to a target who isn’t impossible to catch.
Dani… oh, boy. No wonder she stays in the human world. Her needing to eat and sleep aside, she didn’t really get a human lifetime either. She just doesn’t have the life experience for loophole exploitation (aka Danny’s go-to tactics) or Vlad-type scheming (without strict orders to follow, which no). Kid’s screwed.
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