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I haven’t gone into it much before but I’m honestly so attached to the idea of Danny having a heart condition

It’s asymptomatic under most circumstances because his naturally low heart rate means that his heart isn’t under any real strain

But like?? Vlad died of ectoplasm poisoning, Danny died of electrocution

Vlad got ecto-acne for years and Danny thought he was fine but actually he has a heart condition that would’ve been fatal without treatment under most other circumstances <3

I just like it

Danny now has 2 secret identities.

First is Phantom - he cannot just vanish right after his death - that would be too suspicious. He is not sure if he wants to use his 'civilian' ghost to fight. Maybe he should become his own sidekick to fight off ghost attacks on school? It would save him from coming up with new excuses to slip out of class. 'I need to go to the bathroom' is earning him some odd stares and uncomfortable questions about ghost biology.

The other one is his still-alive body. He now has to pretend to be dead (the irony), but he still has human needs like hunger or sleep. Besides, he would like to use his body sometimes, since he still has one! He is considering telling his parents about his human needs - they already consider him a bit of an anomaly because he is sentient/sane, but he was kinda hoping to change their view on all the ghosts, so he doesn't want to make himself even more of an outlier.

The GIW use a device to forcibly transform Danny into Phantom in an attempt to unmask him to the public.

But thanks to some quick thinking and ghostly shapeshifting, Danny manages to make himself not look like Phantom.

Thus, everyone who isn’t already in the know assumes that the GIW just blatantly murdered some random kid because they thought he was a ghost (which doesn’t even make sense??).

So yeah now everyone is very strongly anti-GIW because What The Fuck, Guys. The Fentons are especially furious about this - just because Danny came back as a ghost and is somehow still sentient/sane (they’ll have to revisit that ghost research later…) doesn’t change that those bastards killed their son!!

The Witnesses

Watching your mutual best friend die in front of you only for him to still be alive but not be alive has gotta give you some shared trauma that's unique to you

Ramble of thoughts and a small sketch dump under the cut.

Y'all can't convince me that my boy looks absolutely NO different than he did before that portal accident. Whether his "molecules got rearranged", or is walking around both alive and dead at the same time like Schrodinger's cat, or any of all the different headcanons that exist out there, surely there has to be SOMETHING that's not quite right, right?

That's why I really like to draw Danny's human form's eyes like the above concept art. I like the idea of his eyes passively being the only visual hint that not everything is as it seems. The eyes are the window to the soul, after all. Maybe it's too obvious, idk, I might scrap the concept at some point. But no one on the show has ever noticed the consistently blatant use of his powers in plain sight either, so I guess it wouldn't be too much of a stretch.

Likewise, just like how Danny's human eyes will glow green when he's angry, I think it would be cool for his ghost form to also have a version of his "scary eyes" that's more dynamic than a simple brighter glow than normal. I feel like the idea of his pupils changing color to a bright yellow makes it much more intimidating than normal (I mainly took inspiration from the old Pet Sematary movie when I first thought of this, which freaked me out as a kid, so maybe it seems more eerie to me than it actually is, idk, I just thought it was a cool concept).

From a quick glance around the tumblr I didn't see anyone else have this sort of headcanon. Of course I didn't look very hard either so I'm sure there's something similar somewhere probably that I missed, but I wanted to throw it out there anyway.

(Also, I've been working on a couple of projects that I hope to be finished with soon, hopefully I'll be able to get done with those and post them within the next week or two. Or three. Or so. Idk, I have a full time job and part time job so it's hard for me to balance things.)

It takes place before Danny gets control over his powers, so he keeps turning intangible and dropping stuff. He then gets flustrated and it happens even more. And while he is struggling with that Sam tries to swap ingredients to vegan alternatives without Tucker noticing.

you know the blind, deaf, and mute challenge? well i accidentally typed "blind, dead, and mute" into the youtube search bar and now all i can think about is Danny doing the challenge with his two friends, Tucker and Sam, as blind and mute, while he transforms into Phantom as the "dead" and they try to bake a cake

Don't talk to me or my crack ship

Hope this clears things up for you

Concept I saw a while ago: when danny goes ghost, he physically leaves his body so like there's just a dead teenager that Danny, Tucker, and Sam have to hide

Land of waves 🍥

A slightly angsty Merthur fic idea/ mini fic where a magic reveal goes slightly wrong, and Merlin and Arthur are captured by bandits. Things are still raw between both of them—think of their interactions in Diamond of the Day—but they’re stuck together anyway. They’ll have to depend on each other to escape (they will, but angst first).

The bandits know that Merlin has magic and give him cold iron shackles so he can’t use it. Worse, their leader is bragging how much coin they’ll get if they hand over their new sorcerer (Merlin) to Cenred.

Merlin’s fate seems to be uncertain: even if he escapes with Arthur, Arthur could still have him arrested for magic. Or he could end up being forced to fight for Cenred. (I think it’s headcanon that known sorcerers are forced to serve Cenred in Essetir and that’s partially why Merlin had gone to Camelot in the first place.)

So, as soon as they’re alone (in a cell or tied to trees away from the bandit camp), Merlin asks Arthur to kill him. (He would rather die than serve Cenred, and he knows execution probably awaits him in Camelot anyway.)

Arthur is obviously horrified that Merlin would ask him to do that. He asks why.

Merlin doesn’t bring up that he doesn’t really see a way out of this for himself. But he answers honestly: he doesn’t want his magic to be used as a weapon. (Merlin feels no loyalty to Uther, but he has no wish to harm Camelot or anyone else. *cue Nobody’s Soldier by Hozier*)

His answer is what brings Arthur to look at him fully again—stranger and friend, sorcerer and servant. (Basically Arthur goes from not recognizing the Merlin he thought he knew, to realizing he’s the same fool he’s always known.)

They escape later, and there’s much for Arthur to relearn about his friend, but they work together to bring magic back

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