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@artichokebean I can’t seriously let you leave that gem in the tags

obsessed with how in Danny Phantom

when the network (i presume) went to the show's writing staff and said, "love the show, but the kid's a superhero, give him a logo, we need a logo"

they clearly thought. but uhhh chief his super hero costume is the outfit he died in. we can't change it.

but they *had* to change it.

and instead of any half-dozen solutions i can think of off the top of my head (e.g. season 2 power up, take advantage of his already canonical light shapeshifting powers)

they went "okay so a ghost genie re-writes reality so he never met Sam and therefore neve rdied so Sam convinces him to die all over again but not before slapping her own home-made logo on his chest"

ridiculous. awful. love it.

Trying to develop a realistic height chart for Vlad and Danny is proving interesting.

The above image is the most accurate reasonable scale of their heights I've managed to approximate from screencaps. If I'd stayed completely true to the caps, Vlad would probably be 6'5" and Danny 5-foot-nothing.

Their heights fluctuate so much throughout the series (sometimes for framing reasons, like that last cap from Reign Storm Pt. 1; if they'd shown Danny to height, we'd only be seeing him from the neck up, which looks bad on film). Based on just the caps, Danny (and all of his friends of the same age) seem extraordinarily short—either that or Vlad is extraordinarily tall. But as always, I concede that this is just a cartoon and cartoon style/physics applies.

Realistically I envision their heights to be more like this, a little closer to average:

It gets even more fun when you add Jack's relative height, though that changes from moment to moment too

though he is probably tallest at his debut appearance. After that he is usually shorter than Jack

im a blorbo apologist but also they did every bad thing they did and i will get mad if u ignore that. complexities

I am not blorbo’s apologist, I’m blorbo’s defense attorney. And baby, we are going for a plea deal cause he absolutely did that shit.

"No one wants to see art of ocs" If I dont see art of peoples ocs at least once a day I DIE. Do you want that to happen? Do you want me to DIE? Draw your ocs.

Vlad claims that Phantom is his son in a public bid to force the teenager into his care and custody. The public is very divided.

You CANNOT just leave this in the tags!

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Also I love that "I've never killed that specific teenager before in my life," aside from having all the textbook signs of a lie, implies that he has, in fact, killed other teenagers.

The moment Harriet uttered the question that had been on everyone's minds for the past few days, Phantom froze in a state of shock. He opened his mouth as if to speak, then closed it. For the next 10 seconds (she counted) his face went through several emotions before finally settling on one. Rage.

"That bastard! Can't believe he'd pull something like this."

"Is that a no...?"

"He's not my dad," said Phantom quickly. "He'll never be even a fraction of the man my dad is." He swallowed. "was."

Oh, now that was interesting. However, Phantom was a child, and seemed even more so up close. That fact had been brought in stark clarity during the mayor's press conference when he tearfully relayed his and Phantom's connection to all of Amity Park. Even though he was a ghost, there were certain ethics in interviewing children; it wouldn't look good on the recording if she probed Phantom for answers. "Do you want to talk about it? You don't have to if you don't want to."

He crossed his arms defensively and breathed out through his nose. Maybe he actually needs to breathe, or maybe it's out of habit. He couldn't have died that long ago. "You know what? Screw it. If that fruitloop's been telling lies, then I might as well come clean."

"So what is your connection to Mayor Masters exactly?"

"He's not my dad, that's for sure." He looked away and stared intensely into the distance. "He can't take that title no matter who he kills."

"Care to start at the beginning?"

He snapped out of his brief reminisce and turned his attention back to her. "Oh yeah right, so I'm not his son, but he sure did want a son. However, because he can't be original to save his life and is a complete nutjob, he decided the best way was to murder my parents and take me in after their 'tragic' death." Phantom hugged himself tighter, that million-yard stare on his face left little to the imagination as to what he was recalling.

"I... wasn't supposed to see it, which threw a wrench in his plans. I guess knowing he was a murderer would really hurt our 'father-son bonding.' Heh." He rubbed the back of his neck. "I regret not being there in time to save them. I think that's why I'm still here. I just want to protect people from bad guys, I guess, and here I can."

"Are your real parents with you?"

He shook his head. "No, I can't find them. I think they moved on, or whatever happens to dead people who don't become ghosts." He laughed weakly. "They probably would still be around if they knew I was coming with them so soon. Or maybe they didn't have time to think before they...well..." He trailed off.

"What would you think about an investigation to bring him to justice?" Privately, she wondered why Phantom hadn't gone after Mayor Masters sooner.

Phantom scoffed, which surprised her. "He's a billionaire. He's already wiped any record of my and my parents' existence. And then there's Plasmius, or the Wisconsin Ghost. He's basically Vlad's pet. I've accepted that he won't be tried for my murder. I just can't believe he had the gall to follow me here."

She couldn't imagine how stressful that must be. She remembered that one of the first things Mayor Masters did was put a bounty on Phantom. In retrospect it was obvious he couldn't be Phantom real dad, especially not a good dad. Who puts a bounty on their own child? "It must be really hard for you now that he's the mayor."

Phantom laughed again. "Yeah, I didn't want to say anything because that'd be the second time I've had an incident with the mayor. And for the record the first time was a big misunderstanding. The mayor was possessed and trying to make me look bad."

"Is this going to change anything about how you operate?"

He shrugged. "Not really? As long as no one tries to force him on me nothing's really changed."

Harriet nodded. "Okay. Is it okay if I use this recording in the news tomorrow?"

"Uh, sure? Just... do you have a specter deflector from the Fentons?"

"Yes?"

"Good. You can use it if you don't like, make it seem like I said something I didn't. And you should probably keep an eye on the footage before you air it in case Plasmius does something."

"All our equipment is ghost proof. I wouldn't be able to interview you if it wasn't." Ghosts were hard to interview with conventional equipment because the recordings always have heavy static that the interns have yet to be able to remove from the audio.

"Okay, well see you around!" Phantom waved and flew off.

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Danny let out a breath he didn't realize he wasn't holding. That was the most stressful and most complex string of lies he had ever told. He had to pause for a few seconds to come up with something good.

Step 1 of lying was to make sure the lie matched his initial expression. If he looked nervous or embarrassed, the lie better sound embarrassing. He was pretty sure he nailed that. (Imagining his parents dead at the hands of Plasmius was...not something he wanted to think about, but it sure did sell the story.)

Step 2 was that the lie needs to be self-consistent. He's...pretty sure he did that will the whole, "you won't find any records of me."

Step 3 was to sprinkle in some truth so new information doesn't contradict the lie. His tall tale was in character for Vlad, and was probably as close to the truth of Vlad's motives as he could get without outing himself.

That'll teach Vlad to not claim he's his son on the news.

It will...probably blow over. Hopefully. Maybe Vlad won't be mayor anymore.

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Harriet watched the footage again and again, rewinding and playing back one line. "And then there's Plasmius, or the Wisconsin Ghost. He's basically Vlad's pet." Phantom's bitter tone rang out loud and clear.

She remembered the Wisconsin Ghost from the reunion party. He had possessed Jack and wrecked the party. it was the reason she even ended in this job. Soon after, he was spotted in Amity Park a short time before Vlad moved here from Wisconsin.

If she was right, Vlad Masters wasn't here for Phantom. He'd found a new target. A new boy he planned to make his son. A boy he was apparently the godfather of despite having not seen the family in 20 years.

Danny Fenton.

This feels like a convo they’d have in canon tbh

Wow! This character can hold in so much stress! Get well soon stressed boy

do y’all remember before direct messages tumblr had a dumbass ask limit of 10 per hour and communication was impossible until they introduced dumbass fan mail and we were basically sending telegraphs back in forth trying to communicate those were…dark times

Do y'all remember when they finally gave us direct messages and instead of doing it normally, they gave it to a few people at a time and we had to infect each other with it like a virus

remember when any post with more than like 6 people talking was unreadably smushed except for the last few additions remember when any post of over 500 characters became a link back to op’s blog readmore style remember when video and audio posts had about a 10% chance of working when you click play

As a recent user I love finding out shit like this from older users. What the fuck guys???? Why were you USING IT AT ALL?!??

believe it or not, we liked that more

I was doing some research for a fanfiction, and remembered this line from Reality Trip, which got my criminal justice self all excited because of the implications. So have some analysis from a rambling autistic with a criminal justice degree.

“Daniel Fenton, in accordance with the Federal Anti-Ecto Control Act, Article 1, Section 1, Sub-section A, you’re under arrest.”

Y'all, this is kinda wack? It means, on some level, there has been a federal judgment within the world of Danny Phantom that not only acknowledges that ghosts exist, but has an entire fucking act describing specifically the course of action in a sense. Lots of acts will kind of be this vague overarching thing with various random acts thrown into it, but the name along with the article one, section one subsection a dealio implies that this entire act focuses on ghosts. I say act and not law btw, because those terms are not necessarily synonyms.

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