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bitletsanddrabbles · 7 years

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Rec Your Own Fics

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers.

I was tagged by @alchemine, more or less. Gonna try and do one from each of my fandoms (at least on Ao3). I figure that should give a nice overview.

Ghost Hunter (Animal Crossing, Human Character-centric, rated T)

“That does it!” the irate koala announced to the dark and the trees and the fireflies that he was sure were hiding from him. “I’ve had enough of this! I’m going to bed and bugger Peewee and his little niece!” Strangely, that announcement made him feel better. Shoulders squared, spine straight, he spun purposefully on his heel –

- And found himself staring at a small glowing ball of light which certainly wasn’t a firefly. Actually, it looked like a little ball of blue flame, just hovering in mid-air. Despite the fact it was glowing, the light didn’t seem to reach very far. Instead a sense of coldness seeped off of it, dropping the surrounding air at least ten degrees in temperature.

Something about the cold little fire made Gonzo’s hair stand on end. He took a step backwards. It followed him, at which point, Gonzo Koala did what any sensible animal would have done.

He turned and ran screaming into the night.

My friend and former roommate introduced me to AC back in the day and we had a grand ol’ set of cross over stories between our towns. This one was done for a Halloween challenge. I really enjoyed fleshing out the game sequences, turning the villagers into three dimensional characters, and creating an actual plot.

Displacement (Phantom of the Opera, Raoul/Christine, Erik/Raoul, rated E)

“You, Monsieur, are out of line.” Clenching his hands down on the arm rests, Raoul fought the urge to turn and strike out at the presence he could feel bending next to him, because he knew there would be nothing there. The whisper in his ear, so close that he could imagine the brush of lips against his skin, was a trick, and while he didn’t understand it, he knew that if he forgot that, his unseen adversary would win.

“You, Monsieur,” the voice mimicked, dropping to a throaty purr, “are a fool. You think polite society doesn’t see the way you look at her sons in the galleries and on the stair wells. You think she believes you when you curtsy and make eyes at the women.” The voice switched sides, a low murmur that made the temperature in the box seem to rise. “Polite society turns a blind eye because you are one of her own, she encourages you in your delusions, but she sees, Monsieur. Oh yes, she sees. She knows.”

Blue eyes slid closed against the darkness. He’d wait it out. The mocking charlatan would get tired, eventually, and leave him in peace. After all, even demons had limited attention spans.

I’m not really a huge Erik/Raoul fan, but I took up the pairing as part of a challenge. This one might be more of an M rating, but I tend to be cautious with such things. At any rate, it’s all psychological. It centers entirely around Erik’s skills as a ventriloquist and the way the human body responds to things like sound rather than touch.

Live Dangerously (FFVII, Reno & Reeve, rated T)

“Come look over here.” Reno raised his voice to call across the elevator, despite the closeness. “Sector six still looks nice and dressed up, what with its pretty lights and all. That should make you feel better, huh?”

“Is that how you live with yourself? Just look away, find something that’s still whole?” In his ear, the transmitter connecting him to Cait Sith brought him the whistle calls and bells of the Golden Saucer, a hint of all of its decadence and vice, a slum dipped in gilt. It seemed no matter where he looked tonight, he was going to see decay.

“Hades in a dress! You’re depressing, you know that?” In the glass, Reno turned to look across the elevator, his bangs and goggles providing enough shadow to blank out his entire face except for the tilt-tip of his nose. “Man, here I am, fought my way up the food chain to the point I can finally afford to be a moping ass, and you’re the one moaning about the state of the world!” His voice dropped to a contemptuous snarl. “You’ve never even lived in it.”

Clashing world views are always fun to write. Here we have the philosophical humanitarian and the scrappy survivalist. It makes for an interesting power dynamic.

Tea and Rosewood (Harry Potter, Dumbledore & Slughorn, rated G)

With a small grunt of surprise, Horace looked up – and nearly spilt his tea. The man standing next to him was tall and thin, bespectacled as the boy now threatening to break Randy’s nose with another blow of the book, and had a face that was – recently – plastered over every newspaper in the country. He was also one of the last people Horace Slughorn ever expected to see in the Rosewood Wand. “Albus Dumbledore?”

“Good morning, Mr. Slughorn.” The other Wizard smiled pleasantly, looking for all the world like a congenial Transfiguration teacher (which he was) and not a thing like one of the greatest adversaries of the Dark Wizard Grindelwald (which he also was). “I’m sorry to have startled you. I suppose I am rather unworthy of notice when compared to some of the other patrons.” Blue eyes flicked to where a struggling Randy was being shown the door – just as Terson and Petrick showed themselves in, already well on the way toward their next break up from the sounds of it.

“Oh, I,” Horace blinked, then hastened to sweep away the unread newspaper and clear some room for the other man to have a seat. He hadn’t seen Albus Dumbledore since the other man had graduated from Hogwarts two years ahead of himself. As surprising as the sudden reunion was, damned if he was going to miss the opportunity to speak with one of the most brilliant minds of the age! “Think nothing of it, nothing at all! Here, do have a seat.” He laughed off his surprise and gestured for the other man to pull up a chair. No sooner had Dumbledore seated himself than he asked – he had to ask, really – “So, what brings you to the Rosewood Wand?”

Dumbledore looked at him mildly over the top of his glasses. “Oh, nothing much. I just thought I’d stop in for a cup of tea and to see if I could find some interesting conversation.”

“I see.” Horace blinked again. Actually, he didn’t see – either the other man was truly oblivious or he’d just dodged the question neatly and it was impossible to tell which. Clearing his throat and lowering his voice, he tried again, more directly this time. “You are aware, aren’t you, that this particular establishment caters to – well, not to put too fine a point on it – queer men?”

Albus continued to look at him, his eyes sparkling merrily and his lips twitching ever so slightly at the corners. “Oh good. I’d hate to think I’d gotten the wrong tea house.”

“Well!” The day seemed to be full of shocks. At this rate, Terson and Petrick would still be on speaking terms by the time they left. “Well, I never.”

Simple conversation between two characters. Exploring the pre-canon relationship and hypothesizing on how Slughorn came to teach.

I Don’t Remember Names (Downton Abbey, Matthew-centric, rated G)

At first he couldn't see the source of the scream. He was looking around, trying to determine what the danger was and which direction it might be coming from when a girl, roughly his age, came barreling around a tall, well manicured hedge row. She was obviously running quite hard, her skirts hiked up as far as decency would allow, but the turn caused her to slow. She caught sight of him and, with a quick backward glance, she hurried forward again. "Help me!" she pleaded, "Oh, please help!"

"What's wrong, miss?" Matthew asked, automatically stepping forward. He might be the middle class son of a doctor, but his parents had taken great care to teach him good manners, and while he wasn't a hero, he couldn't ignore a member of the gentler sex in danger.

"He's got a snake, he has!" she explained hastily, hurrying to put Matthew between herself and her as yet unseen assailant.

"A snake?" Matthew asked, confused, turning to look over his shoulder at her. Somehow from her screaming he'd expected something a bit more dire.

"Yes, a -" she started, looking back the way she'd come. She stopped mid sentence and emitted another shriek, this one unfortunately close to Matthew's ear. He winced.

Not my most popular Downton piece by a long shot (and in many ways a shameless ploy to get to write about snakes), but I like it. It’s fun to realize that two characters meeting when they’re young and then just not recognizing each other when you hit actual canon is actually perfectly plausible.

And that’s a wrap. I would tag five people, but I don’t know that many writers, so if you see this and want to do it...tag! You’re it.

#fanfiction #recommendation #animal crossing #the phantom of the opera #ffvii #final fantasy vii #harry potter #downton abbey #gonzo koala #erik #raoul de chagny #reno #reeve #albus dumbledore #horace slughorn #matthew crawley #thomas barrow

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thebootybitchdragon · 7 years

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So, first of all, I am super excited to have found somebody as excited about the clone as I am. I've been thinking about it a lot since Butch posted his video. But, I'm confused, because I thought this was ten years into the future? Wouldn't original Danny be older? Like 24 I think? Aside from that, you guys got some really good ideas about this character, and I've been laughing at some of the comments for a good few minutes.

AHHHH someone else who likes the clone!Welcome friend!!! 8) lmao, I was browsing the Phantom tag yesterday waswas so disheartened by how many people were irritable at all of thedesigns or downright kicking them to the curb. Which, isunderstandable, everyone has their tastes, and I agree that most ofthem are just…..Put Them Back embodiments, but it was still sad tosee so little interest in the Clone.

Because its such a good idea ripe withpotential, both for TUE levels of darkness and for hilariousscenarios. For once (ONCE) Butch has done okay by me.

And now to actually answer yourquestion, lmao: Yes, you are correct, the original concept was Vladfor ten years into the future, with a teenage Danny clone (I do admitthat’s super squick, like Vlad do you have no other hobbies besidesbeing fucking creepy? Go outside and play some tennis my dude.) sincethe video was a part 2 to the original Phantom concepts for the tenyear anniversary. However, at least in the ideas and concepts I’vebeen talking about and personally throwing around, I’ve gotten rid ofthe ten year span.

Because it literally doesn’t makesense.

I have contempt for the officialPhantom timeline bc its so inconsistent, but a majority of peoplehave it taking place over a two year time span, based on the twosummer episodes. (This is something I personally don’t agree with,but I have no evidence to argue it so I’m stuck like a petulantchild grumbling in the corner) and Vlad gives Valerie her gear in S1Ep10, Shades of Grey. I cannot recall if it was specifically statedin canon Vlad was using her to get Danny’s DNA, but I’m trustingthe wiki bc I really don’t want to endure re-watching Kindred Spiritsand D-Stabalized. If we assume that this had been Vlad’s goal fromthe start (something I disagree with and will touch more aboutbelow), that means that he’s been gathering Danny’s DNA for about ayear to two years if we estimate heavily with the nonsense timebetween the episodes.

In that time span, he figured out howto do the cloning, built the equipment, went through countlessprototypes to figure out all the bumps and snags, made severaldecently “functional” clones (Dani and the one he fucking murdersas a display), made the “perfect” one, and figured out exactlywhat he needed to stabilize an artificial hybrid of ghost and humanorigin.

In two years max.

It would not take him ten fuckin yearsto recreate a successful perfect clone. Even if everything wasdestroyed twice and he lost Valerie’s “assistance”. And thereason for that is because he already knows how. The hard part isdone. Once you know how to do something through so much trial anderror, you know what not to do and what you should do the nexttime around. Vlad doesn’t need to re-figure out how to make astable, perfect clone again, he can just get the equipment, the DNA,whatever and just do it.

Which he was most likely attemptingto already do in D-stabilized.

[Edit: I neglected to look on thewiki before writing this entire thing bc I was confident I know thematerial and apparently I need to get a reality check on my ego bc Iwas completely misremembering D-Stabalized. The fallowing should betaken with gratuitous lumps of salt bc I’m salty at this discoveryand also I haven’t changed anything in it.]

Why do you think hewas going after Dani? Why would he want that information of “Whyare you so stable?” if he wasn’t trying again? If he wasn’t at thepoint that he NEEDED to stabilize something? For future knowledge?Please. If Vlad was truly going to make another perfect clone, hewould not wait several months after loosing the first doing literallynothing but tormenting Danny and being an ass, nor until after he’sfigured out Dani. He was working on the Clone project for a long timeunder everyone’s noses in the first place, so who’s to say he wasn’tagain?

I’m saying Vlad wasliterally within inches of succeeding in D-stabalized. That healready had a second Clone ready to stabilize.

[Edit: I was incorrect in thinkingVlad only wanted Dani to learn why she’s stable, he wanted to use herto make another perfect clone. I was close, but not close enough. Iam still standing by my theory, however, canon can suck it. It’sstill at least feasible.]

Hartman suggestedin the video, as I’m sure you know, that the Clone (I call himDaniel bc there’s literally no way he’s not namedDaniel.) has some of Vlad in him. And this, my friend, melds so well with where canon dropped off.

Vlad wanted andattempted to stabilize the clones with Danny’s full DNA, probably soit would be 100% Danny, enough to the point he was willing to murderDani to figure her out/use her. However, after failing to get themid-morph from Danny (failure 1) and failing to get anything fromDani (failure 2), Vlad would be unlikely to try the same thingsagain. I would also like to think he’d also be unlikely to continuing to announce “OI I’M CLONEING YOU” to Danny, but it’sVlad so you never know.

He would be forcedto think of something else.

There is nothing incanon suggesting that Vlad couldn’t use his own mid-morph tostabalize a clone. He never brings it up, never explains why themid-morph is the critical link aside from the fact that it just is.There’s very little info about just how these clones are made, sothere’s no known rules to what could work and what wouldn’t. A possible reason this might not work is that it could function likebody parts or blood types, where you need a match in order for it tobe properly accepted. In that case, however, its just figuring outwhat you need to tweak in order to force an acceptance, somethingprobably made easier to do when you’re in control of the entiregenetic sequence you’re fiddling with.

This would not taketen years to do. None of it would. It would take at most, I think ayear. Maybe two, but that’s pushing it. I also have a theorythat Vlad was being so obtuse in Season 3 was to purposefullydistract Danny, but take that as you will.

This is all of myfancy way of explaining why my personal ideas are set so close to theactual canon and kicking that gross ten years to the curb.

As for my forgotten notion about why Idon’t think Vlad started cloning from Valerie’s beginning was becauseVlad was still mostly focused on Maddie up until Maternal Instincts,which occurs 6 episodes after Shades of Grey. Shades of Greyis only three episodes from Bitter Reunions as well.That’s a pretty small amount of time for someone still (reasonably)sane to go “I liked that kid, I want him to be my son. I shouldclone him.”

I’d also like to state that in the fourepisodes Vlad appears in before Kindred Spirits (not including TUE)but after Maternal Instincts, not once is his main goal Danny.Nor is it ever Maddie, either. Danny becomes a factor in MillionDollar Ghost, however his main goal is still stealing the portal. InReign Storm, he’s more inclined to use Danny than to try to make himhis son, bc again: his goal is the artifacts. In Secret Weapons, Vladisn’t even interested in Danny when he’s dropped in the middleof his lab. Tbh, I can’t for the life of me figure out what Vlad’sgoal was in the whole sibling battle thing, he really just fucked hisplans up himself in that one. In Masters of All Time, his goal wasthe cure, and again, had no problems using Danny as a pawn.

Kindred Spirits is the first place inthe entire series where we see the extent of how far he’s willing togo to get Danny to be his son. The first episode where it’s his maingoal.

I just realized how close MaoT andKinSpirits are, I wonder if Vlad triggered the Ectoacne flare workingwith the ectoplasm for the clones? Hmmm, interesting.

Anyway, the point is: Vlad kept hiscloning stuff a secret, but for how long remains a mystery. Mostlybecause there’s no point in time where it becomes obvious just howdesperate he is to have Danny. Is it when he saw an opportunity withValerie? Or is it after Danny ruins his attempts to get the Ring ofRage back from Pariah by blowing up the ectosuit so he was just like“Well fuck, now what do I do to keep myself busy?”

Getting back onto the topic of Cloneand Original Danny, there’s a second, lesser reason I’ve personallybumped the time skip, and that’s because there would be literallyZero conflict between a 14 year old and a 24 year old.

OlderDanny would kick his ass, trainingfrom Vlad be damned.

OlderDanny would also not be fazed asmuch as a younger Danny as his identity being perverted by a clone.This is because the age gap would automatically render them as beingtwo different people. OlderDanny would not see the clone as himself,at least not fully, because he’s already a mature adult. The clonecould not torment Danny with the fact that he’s him, that he’sstealing anything, that he’s threatening his notion of being andsense of self. Because OlderDanny has nothing to fear about a youngerversion of himself; he’s stronger, wiser, and different enough. Thedynamic simply doesn’t work. This is why Danny could be okay withDani: he doesn’t see himself in her. He doesn’t think of her as aclone, as the doppelganger. Because she’s a girl, she’s younger,she’s different. She isn’t him in his eyes.

With an identical copy, that’s notsomething you can avoid or ignore. Can’t deny that its not your facetwisting into that evil smirk that looks so wrong because itsfamiliar but not. Its you, but its not, and its uncomfortable,its an invasion of privacy, the ultimate identity theft. Its a personthat wears your face, sees with your eyes, speaks with your voice,thinks with your brain, and bleeds with your blood. And yet its notyou.

The closest thing Danny had to this wasDan. But Dan could be defeated. Dan could be made so that he neverexisted in the first place, completely avoided.

Daniel could not.

Daniel’s creation is out of Danny’scontrol, his existence never takes into account what Danny wants orcares, because its done at Vlad’s whims. And that’s the worstpart: the lack of control. To know that an identical yet completelywrong version of yourself exists against your will and you haveabsolutely no control over it is torture, especially for someone whoalready had cause to fear himself once before. Sure, Danny can fightDaniel, suck him up into a thermos, and maybe kick it into the ghostzone to try to be rid of him forever, but he would still existand he could always come back. Unlike Dan. And there’snothing Danny could do about it.

What even could be do? Try todestabilize him? Ask clockwork to erase him from existence? Lock himin a thermos and bury him deep in the ice caps? Kill him?

Would Danny truly be the person to tryany of those?

In other words, the closer Daniel is tobeing like Danny, the worse effect it would have. So its all aboutmaximizing that to get the full potential of the conflict. Dannyneeds a reason to see Daniel’s creation as the ultimate line crossed,the “This has gone too far” moment. Danny needs a reasonto not only despise, but fear his clone.

There are some….problems, with this,and I’ve already used them in my argument: the fact that it another you is too different, you stop seeing it as yourself. AndDaniel is not an identical copy. He has aspects of Vlad in him.There’s a very fine line to be walked, between Daniel being similarenough that it hurts Danny while being different enough to count as adifferent character. The design alone might already doom it. But fuckit, you people can pry my inverted skunk haired baby from my colddead hands.

I realize that this is a very longresponse, and very little of it pertains to what you asked. However,I hope you enjoyed my analysis and my explanation of my personalreasoning. This was a lot of fun to talk about (I can’t remember if Igot into some of the things in other asks or if I’m recalling themfrom a thing I was gonna post but hasn’t gotten to yet. If thereare repeat things, I’m sorry! My memory is v bad.) and I thank youfor the ask!

I also realize that a majority of thisask talks about making Daniel Danny’s worst enemy, which goes againstthe “They slowly become bed buds” ask I got earlier. I receivedthat ask before I really had any ideas of what to do with Daniel, andsince I’m loving this worst enemy idea, the conflict isunderstandable. The friend idea is still on the table tho! All itneeds now is a climax, a trigger, a turning point. Something thatchanges the dynamic to start that “I hate you, but not as much as Idid, and I kinda sorta enjoy your company a little bit.” ball a’rollin.

Fuck if I know what that is tho lmao

#Danny Phantom #Vlad Masters #Daniel Masters #Clone Danny #Long Post

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