Hey You Ever Think About The Characters So Much To The Point Where

hes trying to get in the holiday spirit

(insert witty "holiday spirit" pun here)

Danny Phantom may be dead, but the Phandom just keeps cugging that sweet sweet green ectoplasmic goop like it's cream soda

And I hear for it.

And all the au's.

Casual Ectober 2024!

Come one and all, to a very Casual Ectober(*)!

How casual? I'm starting it a month early, because life gets busy sometimes. Heck, go ahead and let it run long, if you need! If Christmas can start the day after Thanksgiving (in the U.S.), then Halloween can last until the day before.

No need to use every word of a prompt, just like how there's no sweat if a prompt doesn't click. Skip it! Write (or draw) what vibes with you! This is meant to be low pressure and fun. Casual.

DP x DC is welcome! Let's have fun with it, this is a show about ghosts. What better time of year to celebrate?

The tag for this is #CasualEctober2024.

Prompts:

Day 1 Costumes | Stitches | Hidden | Chills

Day 2 Eerie | Spider | Party | Exorcism

Day 3 Candy | Scary Movies | Graves | Intruder

Day 4 Mirror | Gadget | Candle | Eyes

Day 5 Claws and Fangs | Ritual | Ooze | Trade

Day 6 Pumpkins | Bones | Haunting | Cape

Day 7 Free Space (Mix & Match! Add your own!)

DC X DP: VACATION TO A DIFFERENT UNIVERSE Pt. 1

CW: mentions of death

TLDR: Danny is stressed and depressed feeling like despite all the changes in his life, he feels like he is still the same.

Word Count: 1310

a/n: I plan on making multiple parts to this one but it will take some time. This is more a draft to part 1 than anything else and will most likely end up on AO3 in the future as a more completed version of itself once it is done here on Tumblr. Any feedback and suggestions (or even if you want to continue this plot with your own spin on it as long as I am credited/ tagged so I can read it too!) is very much welcomed!!

Danny wanted a change.

Not just for fun either. Though fun would be nice between all these Ghost King responsibilities he had been forced to start learning for when he comes of age, or well not, technically?

He doesn't know! It's complicated! He was 17 now, but his ghost age was only 3! The Observants said to fully assume the throne his ghost age was supposed to be 18 at the youngest but they'd make an exception for when he was 18 in the living realm.

Ghee, thanks you weirdos, because I totally wanted my adult life to already be over so I can manage my undead life.

Anyways, between trying to graduate and learn his forever job, he had been going to therapy now that he isn't the only ghost fighter in town. He has breaks! A support system! 14 year old Danny would never believe his parents accepted him for his ghostly side!!

His friends learned to fight and trap so well over the years that they don't even need him by their side anymore for every fight. The GIW was chased out of town and supposedly disbanded by the government because "it was a scam and ghosts don't actually exist." Even his parent's business was booming in town.

They started leaving the field work to others and focused on research. They hold ghost defense classes 3 times a week for any and all citizens. They build home defense gadgets and other anti ghost equipment to sell to the town, too. There are even kids from his class who want to get into the field now and intern at FentonWorks.

Over the years, everyone in town has grown incredibly capable of handling ghosts themselves that there is a city funded ghost protection task force. And that is all to deal with the ghosts that are more on the unruly side.

The reality is that it is not exactly necessary anymore to always be prepared for the next daily ghost attack. Since it became public knowledge for the Ghost Zone that he'd be assuming the throne, most ghosts have opted to leave Amity Park alone since it was his haunt. However, he has opened it up to any ghost who wants to visit as long as they do not leave Amity Park. And so, ghosts and the living live in harmony in the town.

In his senior year, the town has become so open to ghosts that when a ghost whose obsession is teaching, they hired him at Casper High! Danny is even in the class. He teaches an elective on astronomy, something the school could never afford. Ghosts didn't want to be paid in cash, so it helped! All Dr. Denver wants was to teach and to be allowed to claim the observatory for his research.

But while all this was great, Danny felt depressed. Which leads him back to why he was in therapy. It felt like all these amazing things have happened. That everyone has changed, except him. Thanks to his halfa status, his physical state isn't changing as much either. He discovered he is aging much, much slower.

Talking to his therapist, she helped him realize that what he craved was for a change for himself. Sure, he IS going to become The Infinite Realms king and that'll be a big change but it isn't what he wants.

He doesn't know what he wants, really. Which meant his therapist has given him an assignment to figure it out. So he talked to Clockwork, naturally hoping for some help. And Clockwork told him something surprising instead.

"Yeah, I'm ready for a change, but I don't know what to change." Danny told him in hopes the wording would draw Clockwork to give him an answer instead of something cryptic. He really didn't want to do the legwork to figure it out while he had midterms to study for and more ghost king lessons with The Observants later.

Clockwork paused as if in thought, "You could take a vacation to your universe of origin," he suggests. "That may help give clarity in what you need to change to be happy."

Danny floated next to him. He couldn't bring himself to be frustrated with the being of time for knowing exactly why Danny was here. Instead, he stared at him in confusion, distracted by what he just said, "What do you mean? I am not from here?"

He grins, his form flickering from old to young, "When you became a halfa, you changed universes from the complicated process you went through to become one."

Danny contemplated for a moment, confused but intrigued. A different universe? I wonder how different it would be from here. Without a second thought, Danny grins eager.

"I wanna go!" He exclaims like a young puppy who discovered a new toy for the first time.

"That would not be a problem, time runs differently between there and here. A week there will be an hour here so you won't need a time medallion." Clockwork simply looks off into the space surrounding them before continuing, "I have a friend who will act as your guardian while there. Head through the star shaped door near the Yetis whenever you are ready and he will be standing by, waiting for you" He shifts back into an older version of himself, pleased with himself for already knowing Danny would be taking this chance to go and made the preparations for this moment weeks ago.

Danny does a small dance in midair without a second thought and starts to drift off in that direction, "Oh, and Danny?" Clockwork calls out, "Legally, you are dead in that universe and.. well, much is different from what you know, so do be careful. Due to how time and the laws of that dimension for being such as myself, I am not the main ruler of time there, so the protection spells I placed on you are not guaranteed to save you this time." Clockwork grins knowingly towards Danny as Danny speeds off, oblivious to how serious his warning was.

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Danny flies like the wind through the vastness of The Ghost Zone until he arrives at the door Clockwork described. His thoughts start to sour at the thought of this universe where he is considered dead despite it being his origin.

The door he arrives at is huge. Like he was not sure how to open the door huge. But wow, was it beautiful. It was like staring into space itself. It sparkled unlike any night sky he has even gazed upon. As he approached the beautiful door, he hesitated.

He was technically returning home, but he didn't feel any attachment to the universe in front of him. To him, nothing seemed different. Everything was exactly the same when he woke up after the accident, so he never noticed. The entire idea that he abandoned his family and friends by dying here was a horrible thought, but it wasn't his fault. He didn't know what happened here.

Wait, did that mean Vlad wasn't from that universe either? Danny shakes his head at the thought. It was pointless to fall down that particular rabbit hole now.

Maybe he should've asked Clockwork more before flying off without a thought. Clockworks words echoed inside him for fear of what he might find. Was this really a good idea? To return to the place he no longer existed? Could he handle seeing what the grief of his passing had done to those he loved?

A moment passes, and Danny shakes his head and steels himself. He needs to know how much changes, if he really did make an impact. Was he important?

With his decision made, the door seems to open itself. A bright beam of a soft white light floods through the threshold, and Danny steps through.

You gotta write for funsies sometimes. Everything doesn’t have to be groundbreaking. Like. Who cares if it’s a little silly it is made out of love

suggestion: if someone online leaves a nasty comment on a piece of media, you don’t need to debate them. you don’t need to defend the creator. don’t give them attention, just leave your own, kind, positive comment on the piece of media. 

Mumbo car... Mumbo car?

Mumbo car.

DPXDC Prompt: Contingencies

Team Phantom joins the JL (YJL?). Batman wants contingencies for Team Phantom. But Team Phantom are all enablers for each other, and they're teens; thus, a bunch of gremlins.

So, Tucker is in charge of Danny's, Danny is in charge of Sam's and Sam is in charge of Tucker's.

As his friends, even if Danny was scared of becoming the future him, there's no way they'll ever give them The very weakness that could end up really killing him.

Danny doesn't know bc he expects them to give Blood Blossoms, but he'll never harm any of his friends. Embarrass them? Sure. But never hurt them.

So Batman just receives something like:

For Danny:

Buy Fruitloop (Bc in this AU, it's Fruitloop) cereal.

Aim it at him by the handful. He will hiss at it like a cat being sprayed with water. He knows it by scent.

When empty, throw the box at him. He will attack it instead.

He now cat.

Complete with a picture of Danny hissing at a box of Fruitloop that was frozen.

For Tucker:

A recipe book full of vegetarian stuff with a note telling them to force-feed him it. It'll make him beg for mercy. Ban him from meat products. He's a weak, no-muscle dude, so forcing him to eat those should be easy.

For Sam:

"She hates frilly, girly, pink stuff. Use your fastest hero and make her use it. The more ribbons, laces and sequins, the better".

Danny has ADHD and Time Blindness, but he has no idea about that. He has no idea he has either of those things due to the fact that he also has superspeed.

As far as he knows, it really doesn't take that long to get from Point A to Point B, wherever they are.

It's just a quick little jog, after all. He has no idea why everyone is so complainy about it taking forever to get from....well, anywhere. Walking/jogging takes way less effort than people seem to think; it's just so simple! But no one wants to get fresh air or see the city, he guesses.

Like, somewhere down the street there's a cafe that makes great bagels, but no one knows what he's talking about because no one bothers to explore.

Before he had his accident, sure; time seemed to be a swamp to struggle through or not there at all, but after the accident it just kinda set itself right. Now he's almost on time for most things!

The Flashes, however, all know about the out of touch speedster that sometimes zooms through Keystone to get bagels from a specific cafe. He's a little odd, always zoned out, and the only one of them he pays any attention to is Bart, and that's only to say hi.