#vlad actually does send a allowance to him (Jack and Maddie actually asked since they couldn��t) but Danny takes it as child support

[krispyphan]

I just thought of this but I’m pretty sure I also made a similar prompt on my old blog, but Danny as a payback for all the shit Vlad has done to him, makes it seem like Dani is their biological child and he’s a deadbeat.

This backfires spectacularly because Danny forgets that he’s not very forthcoming with information on ghosts to the JL so they believe he’s actually a 14 yr old, a mature one but a 14 yr old nonetheless.

Really it’s more of an inside joke that got out of hand, as Vlad started to be less of a fruitloop. After Vlad got help on his obsession (turns out having an unhealthy obsession is actually really unhealthy for a ghost) he started to mend what little relationship he had with Dani. And as her other biological parent, Vlad also started mending their relationship.

Ofc with Sam and Tucker they gave him the thought that since Danny took care of Dani while Vlad was being insane, he should be getting “child support for the years he was being a deadbeat”.

Danny lorded this over Vlad for years, a joke that never fails to make Vlad angry. Danny had some brain cells to realize that it would look real weird to outsiders but he always could just pass it off as ghost shit. JL were not convinced, and after replaying everything Danny has said about Vlad, had incriminated him even more in the eyes of the JL.

While Danny went to have a dinner with Vlad and Dani (as per their agreement, as Dani wants both of her family to sit down with her) (they both don’t really mind but each dinner usually ends before a fight can break out) he gets stopped by a JL member, asking him to follow them to a meeting room.

Danny’s met with an intervention, where the JL want him to understand healthy relationships and that he shouldn’t be with a man who’s hurt him before. Danny is absolutely horrified and at the same time laughing so hard he goes intangible.

[randomhuman45]

Ahhh okay. I have a few ideas!

1.

Danny tries to integrate back into his old way of living

At first starts off slow like falling more often since he can't just float, late more often cause he cant just fly, bumps into things more often cause he cant just faze thru things

Then he doesn't know when ghosts are coming anymore

One sec he's bored in class the next skulker is in class shooting ecto-beams at him and all danny can do is run and hope for the best

Johnny will come by to mess with him but danny cant defend himself without his powers besides even Plasmius has mentioned how he usually just throws his powers around. Danny isn't properly trained in how to fight, he was just a kid with a fuck ton of powers to blast out. He doesn't have that anymore

Danny is never comfortable anymore. He doesn't know when the next ghost attack is coming, he cant hear when dash is coming around the corner, he is always missing that cold center that was always buzzing just beneath the surface

He gets involved with his parents tech more, making ghost signals, wearing protective ghost tech like the belt and carrying around ecto guns, ect

He asks his mom to teach him how to fight. He teaches his parents about ghosts to help with their inventions.

He starts to follow in the family business but its never enough. Because while Jack and Maddie do what the do out of love for the paranormal, Danny does what he does out of fear

Danny wakes up screaming shooting weapons out into the nothing from flashbacks and knowing he no longer has phantom to protect him

He dives dipper and dipper into his parents studies trying to ensure he's safe. He even tries to replicate some of his previous abilities but its not enough

The tech can be defective, he can forget it at home, he can fiddle with the trigger in panic, the ecto gun can get stuck in his bag he can struggle to reach for his weapon in battle. The fear eats him alive

He can't take those risks. So he inserts the tech into his body. He makes ecto-guns that shoot out his hands like when he was phantom, adds tech to let him fly, to detect ghosts ect.

But his parents haven't always had perfect tech, danny was too scared to wait around for testing and testing and more testing, he just needed to be safe

It kills him, some wires get crossed, some technological difficulties, something leads to the tech exploding, some tech fault leads to danny loosing his life, again

But this time he won't be a halfa, this time he won't have the wide range of emotions Technus always went on about, or the wide range of goals like when he was phantom. When he was phantom he was still half human, not fully bound to the dead, not fully bound to an obsession

But he wasn't a halfa anymore. He was a ghost hunter, a ghost who hunted others not for the thrill, not for the chase like Skulker. He hunted and killed ghosts, took away their abilities just how the giw took his

He hunted and killed humans. First it was the giw, but soon he'd realize everyone allowed for it to happen. Everyone knew Fenton was a halfa and they let the giw take that ghost half away from him. He would get revenge.

When he saw clockwork again it was not a harsh tone nor a happy one, just disappointed as he looked at the boy he thought he could save, "I'm sorry Dan, but it seems like I couldn't save you from this path afterall."

Other ideas include:

2.

Danny going insane trying to get his ghost half back to the point if jumping back into the portal, infecting himself with pure ectoplasm, attempted suicide, ect. until his parents just send him into a mental health facility that make him question if phantom ever actually existed or it was all just in his head (think like moon knight vibes with the ambiguity of the powers and ghost being real or imaginary)

3.

Something from Vlad's point of view of becoming the 1st halfa all alone and the only one of his kind until he stumbles across the only other human born then turned halfa. He wants to train the new halfa, give him the things Vlad wanted when he was a new baby halfa not knowing how to use his powers and trying to navigate the new and unexplored realm of halfas by himself. Trying to give this only other of his kind the things he would have given up the world for. The younger halfa betrays him and works against him despite his helping hand and Vlad returns the favor. That is until the little halfa is discovered and the world of pathetic humans decides to take away his halfa status and turn him back into a helpless and powerless pathetic human like the rest of them. Seeing how such a cruel world will find a naive powerful child and destroy it just because they can. Because power is something the humans fear. Vlad is a loney bachelor, but because he cannot let himself be stooped down by human relationships and friendships, look at where that put his kind, Danny kept his humans friends and in the end the humans betrayed him. Danny trusted humans and lived among them and they betrayed him. Danny did nothing but put himself at risk to protect them and they destroyed him. Is Vlad a bitter old man who looks down on everyone else? Is Vlad forever destined to be alone? Yes, because look at what hope and friendship does to his kind, it destroys them. (Idk i find the concept very poetic and can bring up a lot of cool themes. Especially if paired up with one of the above ideas. Idk I like it)

After being revealed and arrested by the Guys in White, they surprisingly didn’t torture or experiment on him. Instead, they completely removed his ghost half, “cured” him of being a halfa, and that, somehow, was a hundred times worse.