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words-writ-in-starlight · 4 years

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I'm a little late to the party but for the ask meme: Danny Phantom 5, 13, 14, 18, 20 + Trans!Danny headcanons. I know that wasn't on the list but I have a feeling you'll do it for me anyway ;)

MY NEWEST BOY. For this ask meme! Also thisgot long so I made a separate post about trans Danny because I care about it alot byeeeeee.

5) Guilty pleasures

Barring times where he’s being, A, imprisoned, or, B, hunted forfun and profit, Danny actually—really likes the Ghost Zone. It’s soothing in a way that he’s pretty sureis not quite right, in a way that Sam and Tucker and Jazz do not seem toagree with, but he likes it there. Theslow, billowing curls of green drift through the air like nebulae, currents of energyrather than wind that he could drift on like thick water if he wanted, dottedwith doors and islands that orbit whatever passes for gravity wells in a skyscapeof ectoplasm. Almost every touchstone inthe Ghost Zone moves, although most have a predictable pattern—about once everyten months, Danny tries not to use the Fenton portal if he can avoid it, onaccount of how it comes out practically on top of Walker’s prison—and learningthe rhythms of it is sort of like a hobby, at this point. Danny doesn’t have a ton of time to kill, buthe’s figured out that, as long as he’s in ghost form, he can go for a longtime without feeling hungry or thirsty or tired, in the Ghost Zone, so onetime he told Jazz he was going to try his hand at cartography and spent theentirety of his parents’ five day out-of-state conference coasting on ectoplasmand trying to plot the place. It cameout looking kind of like a star map, full of arrows trying to indicate movementdirection and a lot of scribbled notes like Pretty sure Clockwork moved thisand AVOID and Possibly Vlad’s portal, maybe close this.

Danny doesn’t talk about it much, because the Ghost Zone makes hisfriends, his family, jittery. He’s prettysure they’re worried he’ll decide not to come back some day.

13) What gets them flustered

One time a reporter manages to get a camera intoDanny’s face before he can book it after a fight, and she’s smart enough toalready be asking her first question before he realizes what was happening.

She’s also smart enough to start her first questionwith “Excuse me, Inviso-bill–”

“It’s Phantom,” he snaps,looking around in annoyance, and the reporter smothers a triumphant smirk.

“Yes, Phantom. What made you become a hero,Phantom?”

Phantom just hangs there in the air for a moment, gapingat her, and then squeaks, “Excuse me?”

“You’re a ghost,” the reporter says, keeping aprofessionally straight face and a neutral, friendly tone. “Whatmade you decide to be a hero?”

“I–didn’t?” Phantom scratches a hand backthrough his hair, and the reporter silently thanks whatever quirk of ghostlyfunction is bringing a green glow like a blush to his cheeks and throat andears. She’s going to lock down a raise with this interview, even if heflies off right this second–the first person to interview Amity Park’s ownsuperhero. And he’s blushing. “I’mjust keeping things under control, you know?”

The reporter grins. “Well,” she says withfalse nonchalance, “would you mind answering a few questions?”

“Uh,” Phantom says. “I have to–go.”

He turns invisible and makes a break for it,and the reporter’s fifty-second clip of a conversation runs on the local newsfive times in the next seven hours. She gets a reputation for being ableto snag the neighborhood super for a few seconds, sometimes even multipleminutes. She discovers real quick thathe’ll blush pretty reliably the second she drops the H word.

14) Ingrained habits/forces of habit

Danny works hard to seem helpless at school. It kind of makes him crawl the walls, but he workshard, okay? He lets himself getpushed around, he occasionally gets punched in the face, he does his best toconceal it when a year or two of ghost hunting as a full time job starts toshow in his human form, he spends a lot of time and energy projecting a façade oflocal hopeless wallflower. He can’thelp seeming like a delinquent, given that he’s been living the C-average lifestyleby the skin of his teeth and misses about three class periods on a good week,but at least he can seem like a delinquent who would never, ever be a candidatefor competence. He’s protecting a secretidentity out here. Official Team PhantomPolicy, much as everyone might hate it, is that no one intervenes with Danny’scharade. It gives Tucker hives and Samhas a hit list of bullies, but Danny’s always quick to smile off their concernand get on with his life. He has ahealing factor and it’s been years since Dash was actually concerning tohim except as a potential stalker, Danny can stand to bite his tongue and take it.

Aaaaaaand then when he’s sixteen, Dash punchesTucker, instead. Over some pettynothing, something that Tucker doesn’t even remember afterward—refusing to makea fake ID for him? Laughing at Dash forfumbling a catch at the game on Saturday? Joking about how Dash’s grades were even worse than Danny’s? It could’ve been anything. It didn’t really even register with Tucker assomething worth getting punched over, whatever it was, but he guesses thatbullies can have bad days too.

So Tucker says whatever he says, and Dash whipsaround and sucker punches him, a swift hidden jab that only someone alreadywatching would see. And then–

And then Danny dislocates Dash’s shoulder. It’s not on purpose and it’s not subtle. Tucker doesn’t really remember what happened—hewas a little busy gasping for air. Mostly he just remembers the crash of someone being slammed into a locker,and Danny’s voice, deep and un-Danny-like, snarling You don’t touch them,and a shout, a howl of pain and shock. By the time Tucker can stand upright, wheezing and clinging to Sam,every kid in the silent hallway is staring wide-eyed at Danny, skinny weakDanny Fenton who isn’t really so skinny and weak anymore. Danny’s stepping back from Dash, who’sclutching at a shoulder that looks wrong under his letterman jacket, andDanny looks mildly horrified with himself, but he’s still standing betweenTucker and Dash.

When the teachers show up, Danny goes quietly to theprincipal’s office, and gives a plain-spoken explanation of what happened—Dash punchedhis best friend, Danny slammed him into the wall, and somewhere in there hepopped Dash’s shoulder out of place. He getssuspended for two weeks and detention for the next month, which he cooperateswith, and non-negotiable anger management counselling, which he mostly just…doesn’tattend. Danny has decided that he doesn’tdo school counselling anymore, thanks.

After he comes back, Danny slips back into therhythm of things without any change in his behavior, but—it’s hard for everyoneto forget that they watched Dash’s favorite punching bag nearly put the king ofthe school through a wall.

Sam and Tucker enjoy a very peaceful remainder oftheir high school career.

18) Things they’ll never admit

Danny has not and will not talk to anyone about the accident withthe portal. The actual events, yeah. But he’s thought about it, and—they just don’tneed to know. Sam already frettedherself blue over the Lichtenberg figure lacing up Phantom’s left arm to hisheart. They don’t need to know how clearhis memory of being electrocuted is.

(Jazz watches Danny skirt around the Specter Deflector with abouta five foot radius of nervous respect, and she makes some educated guessesabout why, exactly, her brother doesn’t like being shocked. But if he doesn’t want to talk about it, for once,she’s not going to wring it out of him.)

20) What Ifs/Alternate Timelines

I’m sure everyone and their cousin has done this but…I love Jazz and Danny’s relationship.

So.

Jazz has been keeping an eye on herbrother for…ever. This is partly becauseshe’s a worrier by nature and partly because their parents are both brilliantand affectionate and completely hopelessly scatterbrained. Jack and Maddie are fine and all, but alsoJazz is frequently awestruck that she and Danny lived long enough to be able totake care of themselves. Holy shitis she ever going to write a memoir. TheChristmas I Re-killed the Turkey or something. So when their parents are out for the day andshe wanders through the living room into the kitchen to see if the Nilla Wafershave been contaminated yet, and she realizes that she hasn’t seen Danny in fourhours, she starts looking around.

Sam and Tucker’s bags are in hisbedroom, and all three of them have left their jackets by the door. It’s a cool autumn, and Tucker complainsconstantly that he’s not built for the cold, he’s built for indoor rooms fullof computers, so they wouldn’t have gone out. The TV is off. Danny’s room isempty. It’s not dark enough yet forDanny to have dragged them up to the roof for stargazing.

It’s about this point where Jazzstarts to feel like something is about to go horribly wrong.

She passes the door to the lab andhears Sam’s voice echo up the stairs, and then—

“Fine, fine,” Danny says from thebasement. “It doesn’t even work.”

Jazz opens the door, already composinga lecture about not poking around in the lab (for Danny) and a lecture aboutremembering to lock the lab when they’re going to be out all day (for herparents), and starts down the stairs.

The crack-boom of the portalkicking on hits like a thunderclap, and then there’s a scream, someonewailing like they’re being killed.

Jazz never does remember how she gotdown the rest of the stairs, but she makes it just in time to see her brotherstumble out of the glowing green portal and fall straight through Sam’s armsand collapse into a pile of black-clad limbs and shocking white hair.

#danny phantom #danny fenton #jazz fenton #sam manson #tucker foley #ask meme #headcanon meme #starlight writes stuff #i have that adhd hyperfixation thing spinning up HARDCORE about danny phantom so...stay tuned #anyway some further thoughts about that au: it doesn't change a TON in the long term #but it DOES mean that danny has an ally in a) lying to his parents and b) handling vlad right out the gate #but what i'm really specifically interested in is jazz being there when danny comes out of the portal #she obviously cares about him a lot! i strongly headcanon that the fentons are a little...benignly neglectful #not because they don't care but because they're just REALLY not actually that equipped to focus on their kids #so jazz has had a huge hand in danny growing up rather than accidentally eating ectoplasm as a three-year-old and dying #so YEAH what i care about is that girl coming downstairs just in time to see her brother's ghost/dead body/indeterminate energy construct h #i think it takes jazz a second to look around the lab and do the mental math as sam and tucker scream danny's name #and then she FREAKS OUT #so that's some chaos to deal with while she flutters over a dizzy half-conscious danny and tries to call an ambulance #i...legit don't think danny admitted to his parents that he had a bad enough lab accident to go to the hospital #in any universe #i think he hedged and said he just got a little shock and felt fine and didn't need to see a doctor and managed to get out of it #but that's a longer story #anyway yeah jazz gets on the Fuck Vlad Train much faster in this one and there's angst about her worrying about danny #also in this timeline since jazz is in on everything from the jump she starts calling vlad 'vladimir' when he won't drop their full names #a queue we will keep and our honor someday avenge #lathori #asked and answered

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ot3 · 5 years

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i’m going through my document folder trying to find the criteria for my stellar classification lab and i found a one thousand word opinion document rant about why trans john is good im now going to just paste it here without rereading what it says. lets see what it holds up.

Okay so essentially John doesn't have a character arc in homestuck proper. If we're considering, in this instance, a character arc being the way a character's worldview has to change to engage with the events unfolding around them. John really is never forced to shift or reconsider his dogma, and, in a grand and overarching scale he doesn't have anything he wants to accomplish above or beyond the stated 'live and succeed' terms given by the game. So for John, having an arc that involves an external conflict (e.g. Kanaya's arc culminating in the recreation of the matriorb) doesn't make any sense. There's no external Reward, per se, John could receive that would contextualize or add meaning to his struggles in the comic.

John also by far has the least interpersonal issues. There's never any larger scale conflict that results because of John disagreeing with or being unable to relate to/sympathize with any of his friends. John's pretty much universally liked and on amiable terms with almost every member of the cast he's met. So a character arc that requires John's interpersonal relationships to change or improve doesn't quite make any sense either. Contrast with a character like Karkat, whose entire character growth comes from changing the way he interacts with the people around him. So any sort of meaningful interpersonal arc for John is, I think, out.

That leaves us with Man vs. Self. Less typical of a conflict for a story that starts off as such a conventional hero's journey, although we all know that Homestuck subverts (for the most part, successfully) a lot of traditional storytelling concepts. Even as early as the first act of homestuck, we're introduced to the sense that john is 1. lacking in self confidence in some places and 2. uncomfortable with his current lot in life. The narration for John's hijinks often include a lot of commentary about how bad he is at doing the things hes doing when he does them, which, objectively, is true, and while initially played for laughs, I think gets recontextualized once we quite literally see The Writing on the Wall.

All of the kids scribble in their sleep but John's the only one who writes a bunch of cruel and self deprecating things about himself. One could argue that the Gamzee using chucklevoodoo on John is what caused him to write this, but I don't think that makes sense; arguably it'd only be meaningful as Emotional Torment to exacerbate pre-existing subconscious self hatred, not make up new shit. Considering John isn't consciously aware the writing is even there, I think it's safe to say that the implication is that on some level John really does feel this way about himself. And there's a lot more I could say on this but I will go on and make some other points.

First of all theres the way John is about his movies. We all make plenty of jokes about john being gay for mathew mccoughuhughouhgouhguhey and nic cage and we're all right about it but also there is the whole trans/gay issue of Seeing these characters in media and the lines between it being so blurry; do I want to like them? Or date them? I think part of john definitely realizes that in some ways what he's feeling is Attraction but I think because of the way he learns a lot of his social dynamic from movies, he internally has that thought train of 'wow, if I was a girl, I'd so totally be into dating cameron poe.'. Lets not deny that. Plus I think there's osmething interesting to be said about how the specific scene from any of johns terrible movies that gets the most narrative screentime is the one where poe reunites with his wife and daughter. There's some more stuff I could say here too regarding Dad Issues and Nuclear Family but I could definitely literally write a thesis about john egbert if I had to which is kinda sad ANYWAY.

There's some meta weight to John's place in the narrative of being one who brings about change. John as a character is a proactive one in a very bizarre way because he himself doesn't actually do much. However, what he seems to excel at is prompting action and change in other people. Even though all of the heavy lifting is done by other characters, John essentially saying ''lets do this'' instigates a huge majority of the actual change, growth, and progress that happens throughout the narrative. Especially in the GO! Timeline; john says 'no, things need to be different' and then physically leaves his own reality to Improve Life. All of the planning and work is terezi's; john just goes to serve as her errand boy, and jade's the one who has to suffer when the price is paid. Which brings up another point. fundamentally, john is not bound to reality in the same way the other characters are; he's completely outside of it, and I think that arguing that being freed by the harsh cosmic rules that control the way one is allowed to navigate Reality could be metaphorically interpreted as being able to free yourself from the rules and regulations of a Society. Doubly so since so much of homestuck is a story with emphasis on isolation, especially during childhood.

And getting more out there there's also the fact that homestuck Is a creation story, going even so far as hussie in the authors notes make a quip about 'adam egbert and eve lalonde' when john bites the apple that lets him enter the medium. John then goes on to be the one to create all the babies for the session as the ectobiologist, sort of playing the role of both a cosmic father And cosmic mother in a theological sense.

So like i'm not saying 'john is a trans girl and the narrative foreshadows it' because it definitely doesnt, but I am saying as far as 'male characters as trans women' headcanon goes, this one has a lot going for it on a conceptual level

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pikablob · 5 years

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do all the headcanons (except nsfw ones) for june bailey and reggie!!

This is gonna be long so I’ll do Reggie seperately.

☾ - sleep headcanon: June often has trouble sleeping. She’s often up well into the night, but that’s often when she gets her best ideas. She does a lot of planning for Wonderland long after bedtime.

★ - sad headcanon: She doesn’t like to admit it, but she’s still scared of losing either of her parents. She knows now that she can cope and keep that light shining, so it’s not as bad as it used to be, but there are times when she wakes up from nightmares of her mom not getting better or her dad getting injured. She doesn’t take abandonment well in general.

☆ - happy headcanon: She was kinda worried about telling the rest of the neighbourhood about Wonderland at first, cause she was worried they’d laugh, but now she’s super happy she did cause of how much fun it is with everyone. The park model is open every weekend and all the kids come around to see what she’s added.

☠ - angry/violent headcanon: June has a tendency to shut herself off when she’s angry. She’ll go and hide in her room and stew rather than arguing. Her parents are both used to this, however, and they’ll go up and talk to her about whatever’s upset her until she feels better.

■ - Bedroom/house/living quarters headcanon: The only parts of the house which Wonderland doesn’t extend to are the parents’ bedroom, the bathrooms (cause gross) and the kitchen (cause its a safety thing). The living room and hallways all have some part of the model.

♡ - romantic headcanon: She’s pan but isn’t interested in a relationship at all atm (maybe ace panromantic, IDK?). She’s aware of Banky’s crush on her but doesn’t reciprocate - she just likes him as a friend.

♥ - family headcanon: She gets on best with her mom but she’s really close to most of her family members. After her adventures in the park she makes an effort to get to know her Aunt and Uncle better too. They’re all really supportive of her.

☮ - friendship headcanon: She considers Banky her best friend. He was also her first real friend, and the first person outside her family she shared Wonderland with.

♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon: She’s always having ideas for Wonderland, so she’s started carrying around a little notepad to scribble down ideas whenever they come to her.

☯ - likes/dislikes headcanon: When planning engineering ideas she prefers to do test things practically rather than calculate it all on paper. She’s great at maths, but doing stuff on paper just isn’t as fun.

▼ - childhood headcanon: She doesn’t really wanna grow up. Being a kid just seems way more fun and she’s worried she’ll have to leave Wonderland behind eventually.

∇ -. old age/aging headcanon: She grows up to become a famous theme park designer, heading a famous company, and eventually does get to build Wonderland IRL!!

♒ - cooking/food headcanon: IDK why but she really likes peanut butter.

☼ - appearance headcanon: She always rolls her hoodie sleeves up cause it’s easier to do stuff that way and not risk them getting dirty. Her fox hoodie remains her favourite.

ൠ - random headcanon: She’s a trans girl ! She figured it out when she was ten or so and everyone’s been super supportive!

#wonder park #somajesticdonki #june bailey #headcanons

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