#hmm coffeecake gave me Thoughts
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I'm thinking about Valerie now... thinking. I wrote some stuff in the discord I'll copy paste it here
Imagine she's been doing the Red Huntress thing for a while. She likes it. Gets a call from vlad ... he has a new suit for her. Lots of upgrades, it'll give her a better edge against ghosts. She picks it up, tries it on... it works great! Vlad tricked it out so that while shes wearing the suit she can turn intangible or become invisible - a tactical advantage she loves to utilize. I mean, who wouldn't?
Except she starts using those abilities without the suit on. She does it accidentally - sometimes she doesn't even notice, but as time goes on it happens more, and she doesn't have very good control of it. She starts dropping things - things she had a good grip on, things she never even felt slip out of her hands. She gets in trouble with Lancer and he goes through her list of infractions, absent mindedly mentions that the only person to top her record of dropped beakers in science class is Danny Fenton.
She has a realization.
He has these powers, too.
And she goes to ask him, to confront him. What did Vlad do to you? she asks. We have to stop him. Danny explains that it's true he's got ghost powers; it was because of something his parents had been working on, but ultimately his own fault. He does point out that he doesn't have a problem beating up Vlad, oh, quite the opposite. Soon they're working together, Valerie teaching him her combat skills (she's super good at fighting in close combat!!) and Danny teaching her about being part ghost. Somehow, over time, she just becomes something more stuck in the middle than Danny is. No two sides, no "going ghost." She just is the way she is. Tangible, human body, but with the powers of a ghost. Danny is a little jealous, honestly. He can't always use all of his powers in human form. But he also knows she's so scared. She stopped using the suit long ago but she keeps getting new powers, getting stronger. Danny wonders if it's some kind of ghost radiation... and starts asking his own parents about it.
What's wrong? they ask. What happened? Are you feeling okay? And they start running tests - real tests, ones that actually study the effects of ghost radiation on humans. He can't keep his secret anymore. But is it his place to tell them about Valerie? Probably not.
Valerie feels such anger. She wasn't told this would happen. Vlad did this to her, with no remorse. She goes to confront him and he just says Oh, that's interesting, and offers to train her. That's all. No I'm sorry, nothing. She gets so angry and yells. Asks him why. And he says... he isn't sure. But Valerie isn't alone. I know, she says. I know. And then Vlad changes.
This, she didn't know. That all along she had been working for a man who was half ghost. That he was just using her to test his more dangerous equipment; that her grudge against Phantom was purely just convenient for him. She knows who Phantom is, that grudge has long since faded. But now there's a new one in its place.
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