#Sleeping Danny can't control his strength

[nelkcats]

Sleepwalking Hero

Danny couldn't sleep much when he stayed at Amity. This never improved, probably because his senses just became much more sensitive so any noise could wake him up; eventually he managed to fall asleep at normal hours.

His friends discovered that he would sometimes wake up to fight ghosts in the middle of the night, although after some investigation they noticed that he was still asleep, he was sleepwalking! Jazz thought it was disturbing, the halfa thought it was hilarious. He was some kind of superhero with his eyes closed.

This became a problem when Danny moved to Gotham to complete his college studies, they had a very good engineering program and the halfa was excited. The first two nights everything was normal but the third night something weird happened; Danny slept as he normally would and woke up with little blood stains on his pajamas.

He frowned but didn't make a big deal of it, maybe if he ignored it then it would leave. It didn't go away, rather he started waking up with a...mask? on his face, Danny didn't know what to think about that development.

On the other hand, the bats were panicking, a vigilante with super strength had appeared in the middle of their patrols. The lower part of his face was covered with a mask and his eyes were always closed but as soon as he heard a commotion he would run towards it.

The vigilante seemed unable to contain himself and sent the rogues flying. Miraculously that had only resulted in hospital bills and not the morgue but the new "vigilante" wasn't listening to anyone and they were starting to worry.

#dpxdc #Sleepwalking hero #Danny can't help but be a hero even asleep #in his defense its his rogues fault #if they hadn't kept interrupting his sleep in adolescence that wouldn't have happened #Danny doesn't know what's going on but the blood thing is weird #maybe he collided with the bed while he was sleeping? #Danny forgot he sleepwalked because it hadn't happened in a long time #dp x dc #dc x dp #The bats are worried #they tried to talk to the new vigilante many times and were ignored #It's not that they know that the vigilante is sound asleep #Sleeping Danny can't control his strength #he was mostly dealing with ghosts after all

[sunnysam-my]

Yesterday I couldn't sleep after seeing Dune in theatre so I made a Danny Phantom rewrite in my head. I always wanted the show to be deeper and more mature, you know, serious issues, learning how to navigate unwelcoming world and all that stuff. I ended up making it more angst lol. I already wrote most of first chapter but I'm super curious what would you change :>

So here's what I'm thinking:

Ghosts are "unfinished business" merged with plasma, intention so strong it lingers after death. When it meets ectoplasm, it changes into the shape of the intention + the owner of it. They're animated ectoplasm with a single goal: an obsession. The longer they exist, the less human they are.

Danny’s obsession is fixing, due to the fact he died trying to fix the portal to try to fix his family. He was unstable at first, lacking purpose, but once he realized he wants to fix his mistake and protect Amity, it stabilized him.

Danny accidentally opens the portal, and now it can’t be closed, since the off button is behind the portal. The ghost comes to the living world and Danny thinks it’s his fault. He feels the need to fix it.

Right after opening the portal he can't control his anger and fear as a ghost so he runs away to the forest and is found 5 days later.

Ghost don't belong in living world, just like humans in ghost, so they need to recharge in Ghost zone. Because Danny’s only a half ghost he just needs to be close the portal. If ghost consume their power entirely, they disappear, half ghost change back to human form, unless they force themselves/are forced to stay in ghost form.

Danny’s room is located above the portal, thanks to that he recharges while sleeping. + The room is space themed, because he loves space.

After the accident, he gets a bit paler than he was before. His pulse and body temperature are below normal.

There’s a Lichtenberg scar covering the right side of his body from the accident, going from his shoulder over his back, neck, and knee. It wraps behind the ear on his forehead, only delicately visible, but Danny covers it with his hair. He gets called Harry Potter puns, like closet boy, because of that.

His fangs are sharper and more prominent, even in human form.

At first he has problems controlling his strength, for example he bit a glass and shattered it by accident, because he was zoning out.

Accident triggered Danny's joint problems as well as injured his right knee. He suffers chronic pain, a headache disorder and mild cognitive impairments in memory, attention, and mood regulation. He had multiple physically aggressive outbursts since the injury, but he never hurt anyone.

Danny is mathematically “gifted”, Tucker technologically and Sam literary. That’s why people pick on them. From an outsider's point of view, they have it easier. After the accident, Danny is acknowledged as disabled, but he "doesn't look like he really is". They are different, and school achievements comes easy to them. Their parents are pretty neglectful, so they can do whatever they want. People get jealous.

Due to being a ghost you can't stare at Phantom too long, your brain will struggle to comprehend what it's seeing. The longer you spend with a ghost, the easier it is to see them. All ghosts are like that.

Ghost can finish their unfinished business and disappear.

I have many more ideas, but that's all I'm going say for now :>

So, what would you want to see in a rewrite?

#danny fenton #danny phantom #danny phantom rewrite #rewrite #disabled Danny #fanfiction #fanfic #phandom

[phanboyo]

Half Zombie AU 🧟‍♂️

Did the Fentons accidentally create a zombie virus? Probably, but it only became a problem when Danny went down into their lab without supervision and knocked some stuff over. And yes, their samples got a bit mixed up and he definitely cut himself on some of that glass, but no way is he going to tell his parents, he wasn't supposed to be down here anyway. He kind of just cleans up as best as he can, makes it look mostly how he found it and hopes his parents' overworked sleep deprivation keeps them from noticing.

He sleeps through most of the next day, has some wild fever dreams, and wakes up in the middle of the night starving. The raw hamburger meat in the fridge smells amazing actually, and before he even realizes what he's doing he's eating fistfuls of it with the thought that it'd be even better if it were still warm.

Yeah, he's not okay. He's pale, eyes bloodshot, his heart barely beats, and his blood is the wrong color. He doesn't heal as quickly and his pain is dulled. But his sense of smell and hearing has heightened, his strength too.

He can usually control himself enough not to literally attack and eat people but man is it distracting when their hearts start pumping harder and faster. Gym class sucks a lot more. Someone's cut starts to bleed and he has trouble looking away. Yeah, this probably isn't puberty.

Things are normal enough for a bit, with Danny trying to figure out how to deal with his hunger and pretending that Everything Is Fine, but eventually a proper zombie outbreak occurs. I can't decide if it happens when the Fentons' research samples are forwarded from their home lab to an offsite one with other scientists, or Danny finally loses control and bites someone. Either way, Vlad is patient zero and the resulting infected aren't like Danny, they're full-on zombies. Welcome to the apocalypse! Good thing the Fentons are low-key doomsday preppers!

I'm thinking Johnny and Kitty are survivors, maybe Shadow is a pet zombie that he's trained to some degree, someone he knew before he was infected.

Danny is obviously immune to it, he's already kind of infected, and will unfortunately turn other people into zombies if he's not careful enough (how do you think he figured that one out?).

A decent amount of characters probably die pretty close to the start of the outbreak. Maybe Lancer goes down protecting his students, maybe Jack makes a clumsy mistake that leaves him infected and decides to go out in a blaze of glory before he turns. idk

#plz add ideas or variations onto this i'm so down for zombie danny #before OR after a full outbreak #zombie au #ideas #au #zombie danny

[akela-nakamura]

Alone In A Room, for the title game

send me a made-up fic title and I’ll tell you what i would write to go with it:

Okay, okay. I see this two different ways:

First: When a ghost is first formed, it's Lair in the GZ is a single room behind a plain door. It builds itself as the ghost gains strength and younger ghosts have to spend time in their Lairs to regain ectoplasm and "rest" as it were.

Second: When a ghost is forced into it's core, it's like being locked in a room. When they're first forced in, there isn't much around but it doesn't really matter, 'cause they're too tired to be bored. As they regain their strength (and how fast this happens depends on if their core is cared for or is simply left on its own), it builds up. And a ghost can start to feel what's around it. A ghost's ectoplasm is also really malleable when they're in their core, so if they want to change how they look they can do so in their core.

I like the first one better, so this is what I'm thinking:

Danny's only been a halfa for a few weeks when he starts feeling weak. The ghosts he's fighting aren't terrible powerful in the grand scheme of things, but for a young halfa who's still trying to figure out their powers, it's a lot.

Danny also can't understand why he feels so ill, he had been getting stronger, gaining more control but it's like he's hit a wall. Tucker and Sam try to help but they're just as in the dark as Danny is about ghosts and their needs. Sam suggestion hanging out near the portal, Tucker wonders if Danny has to actually eat ectoplasm or something.

At this point, they don't even know what cores are. They're running blind and they're starting to get scared. Maybe there isn't a cure for this, maybe the energy that blasted into Danny during the accident was temporary and it's running out.

Maybe Danny's going to die fully after all. Maybe that's why all the ghosts are gunning for him, he's not supposed to exist.

One night, Danny goes to bed early. He's so tired. There's a weight in his chest and he can feel something stuttering. It's not his heart, but it feels just as important. He feels a little hollow, like he hasn't eaten despite having dinner.

He can't sleep. He's so freaking tired but he can't sleep. It's not enough, it's not what he needs. He works his way down stairs and goes to the lab and it's a little better next to the portal. But it's still not right.

He paces outside the portal for a bit, tired, frustrated, and so so confused. There's something tugging at him, something calling him and he doesn't understand. There's instincts buzzing under his skin and he doesn't know how to interpret them. There's something that has to be found but he has no idea what.

He tries to stick to logic: Fact, going into the GZ alone is dumb, especially when he's this weak. Fact, not telling anyone where he's going is dumber and Jazz will freak. Fact, he doesn't know his way around the Zone, he can't go in without backup. He could run into someone he simply can't fight right now.

As the night drags on, logic--his human logic--slowly starts to lose meaning.

In the end, he's barely able to scribble a note out to Jazz and his friends before he dives into the portal, chasing after something he doesn't understand.

He transforms just before he hits the portal and it's like all thought vanishes. School, Amity, his family, his Obsession--all pale in comparison to what he has to find here, in the Zone.

He's seen the Zone before in brief bursts, but he hasn't ventured very deep yet. He's been too nervous to explore alone and Sam and Tucker can't exactly fly.

None of that matters now, though. He doesn't register anything, his mind is firmly locked on his Lair. There's a beating in his chest that can't be his heart and he feels...driven. There is only one goal and he cannot be distracted.

(He doesn't know it, but no one could find him right now if they wanted to. He's not exactly Phantom right now, he's a baby ghost in need of their Lair.)

He navigates by instinct, feeling the ectoplasmic currants that flow through the Zone and the feel of the larger lairs and kingdoms that dot the Zone.

He finds it and it's like joy. It's like home. It's like belonging.

The door is nondescript but he knows.

It opens for him. When he enters, all the tension in him eases. The pulse in his chest slows and the cycle lengthens, like whatever lies in his chest is slowly drawing energy in. The ectoplasm feels different here, less purposeful, less formed. It's not a fight to pull it in, to use it.

He curls on the floor and finally finally sleeps.

#DP #Prompt #Prompt ish #Akela's Antics #Akela's Asks #Ask Games #Danny Fenton #Danny Phantom #I fully imagine him not even looking like himself when he's flying through the Zone #Like he's just a ball of mostly formed ectoplasm on the hunt #I also think he'd have to visit his Lair often #He starts bringing his homework with him #The first thing that forms in his lair is a desk lmao #As he gets stronger he'd have to visit it less #But when he needs it he *needs* it #I couldn't get across in this how *visceral* the need to find his Lair is #But I imagine if someone had tried to stop him from jumping into the Zone he'd have pretty much gone feral #Human Logic Vs Ghost Instincts #FIGHT

[void-writing]

One Batfam and Danny interaction that just came to me:

Danny, pointing fingers: How come that you can control those powers already?! It took me months not to clip through the walls!!

Whether or not said Batfam member really has as much control over their new, Danny-given powers as Danny at first believes is a different matter. XD It's about his outrage.

Hahaha lol.

I haven't gone into power shenanigans yet (that'll probably be an extra story somewhere down the line) but my thinking is that the Bats had a fairly easy time with their powers because 1) superpowers aren't that unusual in the DCU, so they have not only real live points of reference but people they can turn to with questions, and 2) they really only have to deal with 1 power whereas Danny was dealing with 3+ simultaneously.

Of course, I haven't shown it yet but like Danny, the Batfam's new powers are largely stuck in the "on" position if they aren't passive, and even then there's something of an adjustment period.

Dick floats if he's not mindful of it and now frequently hovers over his bed when he's sleeping, The Exorcist style. He kind of just lets himself do it when he's alone or in the company of other Bats or heroes, so it's not too much of an issue so long as he's not seen doing it in pubic as a civilian.

Jason is going to have a hard time getting needles through his skin now, so he better be careful about exposure to airborne chemical weapons. And also getting yearly vaccines.

Tim's astral projection doesn't necessarily mean that he's fully resting. The energy is more split between his astral form and his physical body, so the longer he spends in astral form, the less restful his sleep is. Also, the activation of his power depends on how tired he is when he goes to bed. If he's exhausted enough, he'll just sleep normally and not project at all.

Damian definitely melts a few things in his hands when he's not careful (canon seems to portray ecto-blasts as heat-based attacks, so I'm going to roll with that even though Danny is definitely more ice-affiliated).

Cass slips into the shadows a little too easily sometimes.

Steph sometimes ends up blocking herself with her own shields.

Barbara has to be mindful of what her new telekinesis grabs onto and from what direction it's coming from.

Kate is fortunate that her duplicates can't make duplicates, otherwise she'd have a harder time hiding it.

Duke definitely underestimates his own strength for a while after the abrupt buff. He may not have super-durability, which would enable him to punch through things or crush them without hurting himself, but he does keep accidentally pushing and pulling things too hard. Doors are tricky for him for a bit XD

Bruce regularly keeps blinking out of the visible spectrum, if not the entire detectable spectrum all together. Basically, his power has two settings: plain vanilla invisible (where he's just not detectable on a visible light spectrum), and Super Invisibility (where he just plain stops being detectable period). He can only maintain Super Invisibility for a few minutes continuously before it starts to wear him out (and you can bet that every time he uses it, Clark is sending him a "you good?" text or just straight up calling him to make sure he's okay XD). Of course, his power wants to be "on" all the time, so he has to be mindful of keeping himself within the visible spectrum, lest he just blip out of peoples' perception for a while.

And a note on Alfred's power: He's not going to "de-age" past his prime. I'm putting his age in CiM at around late 70's, early 80's. What his new power is doing is walking his physical body back towards the top of the "physical aptitude" curve, so he'll look like late 50's, early 60's instead of his actual age, but it won't go further than that. And most importantly, he'll feel like he's in his 50's again too :)

To note, when I say "Alfred is immortal now" I mostly mean that he doesn't age anymore. He can still be killed or fall ill, but time no longer wears on him like it used to (and really, as far as CiM is concerned, time was the only real threat to Alfred''s continued presence, so functionally, he is immortal now lol).

One thing that I do plan on writing later is that Jason and Duke spar a lot both for training and for fun because their powers kind of balance each other. Jason can take Duke's hits and Duke can wrestle Jason on fairly equal standing.

But we will be seeing Danny's reaction to the Batfam's swanky new powers fairly soon :)

#void answers #change in management #dc x dp #dc #danny phantom #batman #i recently read 'Batman and The Signal' and i loved jason and duke's dynamic in it #jason was the tough love older brother for duke but you could tell they were pals

[mercuryvesmakes]

2024 19 February

so, technically speaking, i am on my way to finishing episode 4 of The Prince and the Dragon, but I'm feeling a bit stuck with it so my attention is wanting to shift elsewhere. episode 4 takles place after a 6 year time skip, so youppa and kymeri will be twelve. i don't think the direction the story is moving in is bad, i'm just having the normal woes of serialized storytelling - there's stuff i want to go back and change but can't, really. i wish i had been a bit more concise in episodes 2 and 3 because i feel like i might have spent too much time on their childhoods - but also, having context for their childhoods is important for later. i don't know - i'm just unsatisfied. but, like, the only way out is through, right?

...

anyway, since i've been feeling shaky with The Prince and the Dragon, I've gone back to Merit Party (a comic I worked on in 2021 - see my art from 2021 post to see a little bit about that). i worked on redesigning the characters with costumes from a heroes i was working in in 2015 (i think?).

i'm not sure which color scheme i prefer but I'm leaning toward the second one.

i have one episode written that might be the video i post next monday, depending on whether i would prefer to work on the Prince and the Dragon instead.

To introduce the heroes (from left to right):

Venus [Jemma James]

Powers: Flight, Forcefields, and Enhanced Strength

team leader

Beau's younger cousin

Has a highly manufactured, high-femme persona - she leans on the cute, dumb, girly schtick to make people underestimate her

she wears a blonde wig when she's in uniform to keep her Venus persona separate from her civilian identity

she's actually kind of a nerd: she's a gamer, and she's working on a doctorate in American literature

Devilette [Helena Hernandez]

Powers: Jinx; she can alter anyone's luck, but the effects can be highly unpredictable

she was the last on her team to be confirmed for debut because of the unpredictable nature of her powers (in hero school, she often had teachers and other students tell her she should drop out and join a villain cohort instead) - she's a bit insecure about her work because she worries she'll be fired for doing too much damage

she's the only person in her immediate family who can't speak Spanish

has a crush on Jemma?

Fantome [Laila Arora]

Powers: Telekinesis, limited Mind-Reading, limited Intangibility, limited Invisibility

her powers exhaust her so she tends to sleep a lot when she's not working

ironically, using her power to levitate takes up less energy than walking, so she levitates to get around whenever she is allowed

she prefers quiet places/people

most likely on the team to do quiet acts of kindness for her teammates

Lookalike [Steven "Stevie" Choi]

Powers: Shape-shifting; he can change the shape of objects/people outside of himself but he's likely to use up too much energy for it to be worth it

his power is built on observation, and some have said that enhanced observations skills are part of his powerset - he's known for being good at every skill he tries to learn

was highly lauded among his peers for having very advanced control over his powers at a young age

feels really insecure about his intelligence because he has dyslexia and his parents weren't very understanding about it when it caused him to bring home lower academic grades than they were hoping for

loves sports/hates reading

is working through an identity issue, but he can't pin down what his problem is

Hotshot [Danny Darling]

Powers: Flight, Energy Blasts, Enhanced Strength [not as strong as Jemma]

sunshine boy, kind of a goober

emotional core of the group/most likely to cheer up the others when they're down

loves cooking

people unfamiliar with the team assume he's the leader

has a secret girlfriend he won't tell his teammates anything about

Striker [Beau Marshall]

Powers: Superspeed, limited Temporary Cloning

Jemma's older cousin

the quiet, artsy one (has a lot of creative hobbies); a go-with-the-flow type

the one the others tend to go to for advice

in a situationship with his roommate and his teammates Don't Like It

...

if Monday's video is Merit Party instead of The Prince and the Dragon, the episode is about Beau and his situationship (it's already written, I just still need to record and Oh God I Don't Want to Do the Subtitles Please God Help Me)

[dannyphantom-rewrite]

Redesign reference: "Phantom"

Presenting my redesign of Phantom, drawn by the amazingly talented evansdaemon!

Update: they now have a Tumblr @evansdaemon !

So let's get straight to it!

-Rather than getting tanner as Phantom, Danny's skin is a sort of blue gray. It's not as pronounced as Vlad's, but I like the idea of the blue tint being something they have in common.

-Green iris, yellowish scalera.

-My Danny didn't actually go into the portal in hazmat, just his street clothes- so this isn't Phantom's default look, just his ghost busting get up. This is what he looks like when he's not actively superhero-ing. Anyway, Evan did an absolutely wonderful job making it look less skin tight and more hazmat-y. They also seem to have snuck in a little bit of a galaxy pattern and I friggin love it!!

-Danny doesn’t have the logo until he’s established himself as a known vigilante. Sam still designs it for him, but it’s not a sticker, Danny is just able to manipulate his appearance to add it. His hoodie gets a logo change, too.

-A ghost’s appearance is often a reflection of how they view themselves, So once Danny has started taking the superhero thing seriously, he adjusts accordingly, hence the addition of the logo.

-The hazmat also gets padding in the knees and elbows, this is something Danny does subconsciously after fighting ghosts for a while, and it does help minimize injury, to an extent.

-The Fenton phones, along with his thermos and hip holster, are a near constant accessory. They're used to keep in touch with Sam and Tucker during planned patrols.

-As Phantom Danny has glowing green Lichtenberg figures! They’re not visible under most circumstance since they’re mostly centered on his back and arms, and thus covered, but they are there, and can be seen from time to time.

-His ears are tapered/pointy, and prehensile to the extent that he can sorta swivel and twitch them. 

-FANGS (“standard” set, sharpened lateral incisors on top row, and canines on the bottom) 

-Retractable claws. They grow out a dark green, almost black color. they’re very sharp, and thick, not easily cut, filed, or broken. He’ll eventually wind up making the gloves fingerless because of them.

-Normally, Danny doesn’t have any of these features in human form unless he chooses to, but sometimes they slip out when he’s angry or other wise overwhelmed emotionally.

GHOSTLY ABILITIES: 

Going ghost: Might not seem like something of note, just because of how obvious it is, but along with going from human to ghost, The white transformation wings can also be weaponized, as the let out a sort of energy pulse that can repel enemies. 

It also fucks with nearby electronics, and causes Tucker So Much Grief.

Ghost sense: Since I decided on swapping Danny's ice powers for electrical ones, the ghost sense is no longer visible as an icy breath. When Danny senses another ghost it’s more in line with a static shock, like when you rub your socks on carpet and then touch a door knob. 

Standard ghost powers include; intangibility, invisibility, and flight/levitation. That last one can also be used to walk on walls and ceilings or just glide across the floor like an ice skater. 

Danny has two variations of ecto-blasts:  

-The first of which is just green ectoplasmic energy, and the second being ecto-energy charged with electricity. 

-Danny has the ability to conduct and manipulate electricity due to the nature of how he “died” and the charged ecto-blasts are an extension of that. 

Ectoplasmic constructs: shapes made of ectoplasm, usually shields or other barriers, but this ability can also be used to form things temporarily like ropes or weaponry.

Energy reflection and absorption: self explanatory, this is either used in the form or a shield that will redirect an enemy attack, or to absorb the energy from said attack and throw it behind one of his own. 

Ghostly wail: Same as in canon, with the addition of being able to interfere with technology, causing massive power outages and effectively frying any electrical appliances.

Echo location: a combination of the ghost sense and aspect of the ghostly wail used to locate another ghosts exact location. Like how a bat uses vibrations. 

Voice manipulation: The ability to make his voice echo or sound other-wise distorted. 

Telekinesis: why the fuck did we only see him use this power ONCE? to move a fucking rake?? he can levitate shit c’mon. Ya bois part poltergeist. 

Exorcism: The ability to knock another ghost out of a possessed person. Due to the fact that Danny has an actual living body he cannot overshadow or posses people….and he himself is still suspectable to possession. He has more of a chance to fight off a ghost than the average person, however. Were Danny to get possessed, his ghost half would get knocked out of his body ala gravity falls sock opera style. 

Ghost-tail: When flying at high speeds Danny’s legs shift to a ghostly tail. He can also consciously choose to shift to a tail at any other given time. Although sometimes it just happens when he gets excited. He'll start flicking it around like a cat and he doesn't even realize half the time.

Death throes: Most ghosts have the ability to channel the cause of their death. Danny’s ability to manipulate electricity is an extension of his death thoe. When fully activated he appears as he did in the moment of his “death.” The Hazmat suit takes on inverted colors, and Danny’s body is lit up in an electric green aura, with his skeleton becoming visible. He is highly unstable in this state, as he feels the pain of electrocution the entire time. All of his powers are heightened in this state, and his body crackles with a continuous electrical charge. 

Ghost-portal manipulation: Like Wulf, Danny can use his claws to open and close portals into the ghost zone, this is also an extension of his death throe.

Danny has a lot of other less noticeable abilities that he can use in human form:

-Accelerated healing, injuries heal a great deal faster than the average human.

-Enhanced durability, can take hits that would seriously injure the average human being 

-Hyper-metabolism

-Enhanced speed, strength, agility, reflexes, stamina, and balance 

-In ghost form, A lot of Danny’s bodily functions slow, allowing him to survive for minutes at a time without oxygen, (or even longer, if he's in the Ghost Zone) and for long periods without food, water or sleep. 

in human form Danny's powers are limited to invisibility and intangibility. He's too heavy for flight without all the Ectoplasm flooding his body, and while he can form ectoblasts he can't really control them enough do anything but burn his hands. 

#long post #art #danny fenton #redesign #character redesign #danny phantom