Oath To Remember - A Retelling Of The KHUX Finale

fun little danny phantom headcanon i came up with recently is, since the functionality of ectoplasm is mostly in fanon, i think that despite it technically being a biohazard in long amounts of direct exposure, just like, touching it won't cause any lasting harm. until you apply an electrical charge to it, then it becomes volatile to harm even living people. meaning if you put a source of electricity in an ecto-weapon, instead of just firing the ectoplasm itself, that shit'll hurt.

ghosts naturally carry some sort of charge in them at all times (their core i guess?) to power/trigger their attacks, with the more charge in them, the stronger their attacks are to both dead and living. the ghost zone itself is highly charged as well, making it dangerous for humans to wander around for long amounts of time without protection, but as it leaks out the portal, the charge dissipates into the air leaving it as just ambient ectoplasm and totally harmless.

so combine the high charge of the infinite realms with the probably millions of volts of electricity needed to power a portal to the land of the dead and well... :)

just a silly guy

based on this

friend mentioned how with the combination of how the ghostly wail sounds and dan's voice he could sing bad romance, so i made this edit for them

They sleep

YOU GOT IT BOSS!

The initial fic is right here, "darkness in the basement" (i really need to keep working on the fic oof)

but I'll go into more detail here (including a bit of spoilers under the cut because i really wanna blabber about this)

Okay so! When Ventus destroyed their heart, his half got rescued by Sora, but Vanitas' half was basically cast out into the void with no body to return to. So when Aqua brought Ventus' empty body to the Land of Departure and subsequently Castle Oblivion, he was dragged along with, ending up in the lowest floor while Ventus slept in the highest floor.

He's stuck as a Flood now because he no longer has a body. I like to think the Vanitas Remnant really is that; a pitiful attempt at anything that's left of him trying to restructure himself, but only ending up as an Unversed recreation. That's what the Vanitas in this story is, his mind was too weak to truly bring himself back initially and that's why he's in the form of an Unversed at first, because he's not human anymore. Up until a certain point. It's also why his dark suit is now white instead of red (there's no symbol on his helmet though).

Eventually, with the help of

inhumane science experiments

he gains enough energy to have the ability to transform into other forms of Unversed, though the Flood tends to be his preferred form until he regains his human appearance. But you can't exactly sit on someone's shoulder parrot-style as human, now can you?

Skipping forwards a lot, Vanitas eventually ends up in Radiant Garden around the time of Dream Drop Distance and after being a little shit for a few weeks, is finally reunited with the only person he's ever really tolerated that he watched, you know, die. I say "tolerated" because they weren't really friends in Castle Oblivion, only truly bonding in Radiant Garden and become practically inseparable (you know those neck pillows? yeah that's flood form vanitas wrapped around ienzo's shoulders)

Also because he's still connected to Ventus, he feels when Xehanort tries to possess Sora and ends up having a panic attack because he thinks Xehanort is coming after him again :)))

(the image is bigger then i intended but meh)

design from my vanitas and ienzo friendship au where vanitas is turned into a flood after dying bbs, trapped in the basement of castle oblivion, and eventually gains the ability to transform into any unversed form

one common thing is the red marks along his chest being consistent in every form. this includes his human form, both on his skin and the dark suit, which has turned to similar colors to the remnant colors, just with the remaining red on his chest.

yeah

bonus image

FOUR SWORDS JP MANGA BREAKDOWN 1/???

VIZ permanently has infected how this manga is interpreted in canonical discussion in so many ways.

Today i'll talk about when they made the translation error where vio says "shadow wasnt really evil" because in japanese he says

"shadow did all these evil things because, he wanted us to look behind and see him"

(the usage of reflect/look behind is so artistic to me btw cause. Shadow. Yknow)

also the bottom bubble says

"He really was lonely, that guy"

NOT whatever Viz put in, with the whole "he wants us to be Our Family" this misinterprets/twists shadow's original character quite a bit

also Shadow says to Vio after betrayal says

"you're worse than an evil person!!" (or more directly, "worse than a bad person, you are!!!) ((yoda ass))

and not .... whatever Viz put in there (best translation i can give)

VIZ also is just terribly translated and inserted a lot of weird "family friendly american lessons" (EX: He wanted us to be our Family) where there were not any, and took out a lot of meaning and characterization behind certain scenarios, (especially for blue) but thats another discussion...

buying spice with their minish friend :)

watched the fnaf movie and 0/10 mike doesn't beat the shit out of the animatronics in hand to hand combat

except there's also the terrifying alternative "What's this guy's problem? I need to find out" and it's already too late

BTW when you encounter a character and think "What's this guy's fucking problem?" that's your body trying to give you an out before you fall into obsession.