"Still trying to intimidate me? Cute."
(ID: Kirby series fanart of Meta Knight and Galacta Knight based off of a couple dynamics template by @/ReddsMess on Twitter. Original template and source below the cut, as well as a HAL language variant. Top-left panel - high-angle shot of MK lit from above, standing firm and glaring up through his mask, his wings curled out and breaching the panel in places, subtitled "Well well..." Top-right panel - low-angle shot of GK lit from below, looming in the air and leering down through his mask, his wings curled out and his hands spread wide in challenge, both of which breach the panel in places, subtitled "Look who came to see me..." Bottom panel - MK & GK stand next to each other, the latter leaning towards the former and gently caressing the side of his mask with the back of one hand, grinning smugly and wrapping a wing around the knight, subtitled "My Knightmare." MK stands stiffly with his fists clenched at his sides, blushing vividly and glaring away from the warrior. A little flurry of white hearts emanate from GK, while one small one hovers above MK. END ID.)
Started 03/30/24, finished 04/02/24.
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Original by ReddsMess (template link) NOTE: The artist has marked 16-18+ in their bio, so browse at your own risk!
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Today in the snek rambles about random fandom things, we have: Danny’s age! Specifically, how he ages long-term, seeing as he half-died at fourteen.
Now, a lot of the fics I see that age Danny up in some way have his human body aging, either normally or occasionally at a slower rate, and his ghost form naturally changing to mimic that. Almost as common are the fics where Danny’s human form ages while his ghost form stays at the age he died. And don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot of fun to be had with both those options. I’ve seen some great fics playing with both those concepts.
…But yknow what I haven’t seen?
A fic where Danny’s ghost form is the one that ages, while his human form stays the same. Think about it, a ghost’s form is malleable, and doesn’t necessarily reflect what a person originally looked like so much as what they think they should be. This is almost alway the explanation given for Danny’s ghost form aging with him, when a fic writer decides to go that route. Ghost forms are malleable, it makes perfect sense for Danny’s Phantom form to be capable of aging, so long as Danny believes that it should be.
…but you wanna know what isn’t so malleable? A human body. And for all that Danny’s still alive, he’s also dead, and while the show seems to portray Danny and Phantom as two separate halves with little to no bleedover, fanon seems to prefer having the boundaries between death and life in one Danny Phantom be much blurrier. As do I. Danny is a human who is dead, just as Phantom is a ghost who is alive. Both and neither at the same time. And while living humans age, dead ones don’t.
So. When Danny walked into the portal, he died. And regardless of how you want to argue semantics of resurrection and was there a brief period of time when he was only dead and he was also alive when he left the portal, he did die and a part of him stayed dead. Meaning that, by some definitions, his human body can be considered a corpse. And corpses don’t age.
Just, imagine the potential angst there, of Danny realizing, a year or two or three after the accident that no, he’s not just a late bloomer. He’s just. Not. Aging. And never will again, at least as a human. How long did it take him to recognize that fact? …how long did it take for him to realize that he can never seamlessly blend into human society again? His Phantom form is obviously not human, and his human one will never make it past fourteen.
…But then, his ghost form is still aging, it never stopped even after he noticed that the two forms no longer look the same. Even after he accepts that Danny Fenton will never make it past fourteen. There’s a part of him that recognizes that he’s still alive and that he should be aging, so Phantom grows up even though Fenton never will.
Which, if you’re inclined to keep piling on the angst, can also serve to isolate him from ghost society. A being of change trying to fit into a community of people who will forever stay the same. Preserved exactly as they were at their time of death. Except for Danny. Who’s still the odd one out, even in death. A ghost who’s growing up and a human who’ll forever remain a child.
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Orrrr if you’re not in the mood for soul-crushing angst, you can also use this concept for fun and hijinks. Age Danny up a couple decades, plop him into any world with other superheroes, and watch the identity shenanigans take over. I’m especially fond of this being done with the Justice League, because he’s basically a reverse Captain Marvel. Imagine, the League finds out that their adult coworker is actually a small child masquerading as a grownass man through the power of a magically aged-up superhero form and a lot of bullshit. They see that when Billy Batson is in his civilian/human form he returns to his actual age. And then they see phantom, another coworker who, when not in the form they use for heroics, physically turns into a child. And so they go “we got this, no further clarification needed.” (Spoiler alert: they do not, in fact, got this).
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stranger things spoilers (+like… non serious ‘ableists die’ comments, and discussion of su1c1de, and eugen1cs (censored for tumblr, jic))
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manifesting death for everyone who says that they hope max dies so she doesn’t have to live as a disabled person. as someone who’s disabled due to a traumatic incident, 100%, max loosing her sight/potentially loosing limb mobility is a tragic thing, and will be very very very hard on max should she wake up. but like… saying that a girl who had been struggling with suicidal thoughts and was now finally wanting to live again would be happier dead than blind is fucked up.
honestly shit like that feels like it’s approaching eugenics with the whole “well personally i’d rather be dead than be disabled, and i think that being disabled is a curse which people should be freed from via death” vibe. again, suddenly being blinded/having any such change is an extremely upsetting experience, but if you think max would be better off dead so she wouldn’t be disabled, id rlly recommend taking a look at your views and checking for internalized ableism. (cuz some people genuinely don’t see an issue with this view! and that’s okay, i’m just saying…. check in with yourself, ask why you have that opinion. also, if you just straight up think life as a disabled person is worse than being Dead and unable to do Anything, maybe die then <3)
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exactly!!!!! let max be disabled, let her be supported, let her have people in her life who care about her and are there for her!!! let her continue to have her passions and her personality- give her people in her life who will support her and help her continue to do what makes her happy, who will help make her interests more accessible. dustin’s smart as shit, let him work with max on her mobility aids. give lumax their movie date, let them fucking. rent a movie from blockbuster and have mike and will work to make it accessible, so max can learn what’s happening in real time and enjoy the movie with lucas. let el read comics to max like how max showed her comics back in season 3- let elmax continue to be close and show one another new things.
let there be change, change that takes the form of accessibility and accommodation, not max being miserable because there’s just 0 point to living now. let her be loved and supported by people in her life who care about helping max, but let her continue to be happy just to be alive, because being disabled =/= being miserable
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