#i can see danny prioritizing his life around the ghostface's designs. every choice he makes is ultimately for the ghostface;

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OBJECT OF OBSESSION.

as a child, danny's entire identity was constructed by his father, to imitate his father's. as an extreme (partly subconscious) act of rebellion, and ultimately because danny felt that there was no other rational option, he killed him. it was his first premeditated murder. his first "design". but daniel johnson senior was a tough son of a bitch. danny was younger, faster, trained to be lethal in every sense of the word. it did not matter. daniel had more experience. he was meaner. daniel was not shocked, when danny finally initiated his plan to murder him. "finally got it in you, huh, danny boy?" — "is that all you got, maggot?" — "can't even sneak up on an old man?" admittedly, it was a violently emotional act. a crime of passion. the first time danny had ever felt any real passion, at all. his father's mocking words stirred an anger inside him, opened the proverbial floodgates of every feeling danny had compartmentalized and internalized. danny beat his father to death, bludgeoning daniel's head into the ground until it was just meat and mush. and daniel was still mocking him, still laughing at him, as the blood obscured his face. until there was no face at all. just a gaping hole. finally, danny's horror story was over. finally, he made the horror stop. and, consequently, the ghostface’s horror story began. danny, and by extension his persona as jed olson, now exists to facilitate the ghostface's long and complex story. a perfect design. a more perfect truth. a more perfect version of themself. danny is obsessed with control, because he had no control of his life as the child of a murdering fascist. the ghostface is an ideal. a personal ideology, poisoned by his father's ideologies. better than flawed, emotional, human danny johnson. he is, first and foremost, obsessed with the ghostface. but danny will always have his personal obsessions, tempted by his human parts; envy. loneliness. love. yearning. validation. rage. rage. rage. danny can become obsessed with people he feels "empathetic" towards, or else he imagines and fantasizes that there is a connection between himself and the object of obsession. he may view them as a friend, or rival, or lover (or varying combinations of these relationship-forms; fundamentally seeking a complimentary companion, overall). completely removed from the machinations of the ghostface and their brutal, solitary designs. completely danny. a liability to the ghostface—  which danny eventually, inevitably kills (or, the rare alternative: the obsession kills him, by design, forfeiting his existence for theirs. because someone has to die. and he enjoys being morbidly poetic).

#character: danny. #hc. #i can see danny prioritizing his life around the ghostface's designs. every choice he makes is ultimately for the ghostface; #no real passion for 'civilian' life; apathetic to coworkers & careers & society; his engagement with these things are a means to an end #he will forget to eat and sleep etc. to make sure the designs are perfect; he is a freelancer so he can have TIME for these designs #then suddenly he has Feelings for someone & goes full dumb simp mode! he is not rational. he's awkward & CRINGE! #danny becomes enthralled with one (1) person and IMMEDIATELY devises a plan to fumble that fucking bag hard LMAO #it amuses me always my lil boyfailure my poor guyloser #gore cw #murder cw