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Oh wow, I'm alive and briefly over burn out!

I've spent the better part of about 2 weeks working on this. I used a combination of Copic markers and watercolour, which I've never used before and I'm super proud of how this came out!

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I got "The Captain." Lol, honestly that was completely unexpected.

can i offer you landlubbers a uquiz during these times: what trope on a pirate ship are you?

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Uhm... Hey everyone lol. And welcome to my Danny Phantom & Flynn Fenton story.

I am alive, I’ve just been so busy with personal stuff and college. I mostly wanted to post this because I am an avid fan of Danny Phantom and I absolutely wanted to talk about the video Butch put out a few days ago with Danny having a “mysterious older brother.”

This has actually inspired me to write for the first time in a millennia and while I’m a bit late to the party and very nervous, I really wanted to make my own version of the story on top of expressing my opinions. So here we go!

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I don’t like Butch like most people in the Phandom but I just want to preface this by saying that I think that his idea for a mysterious older sibling for Danny isn't a bad one, but the execution of it was very poor. The issues I mostly have of it is that it messes up some consistencies with the show, it has plot holes and instead of making Jack and Maddie slightly incompetent with people's safety, it makes them out to be negligible criminals.

A Summary Of The Original Story:

The original story went that they had 3 kids, Flynn Fenton (who's age was not disclosed but he might have been about 10), Jazz Fenton who was 4 at the time and Danny who was 2. Jack and Maddie had created a uncompleted Ghost Portal that Flynn had turned on, wandered too close to when it somehow started working and was subsequently grabbed by a mysterious ghost from the other end. The portal suddenly stopped working afterwards. Jack and Maddie found out about this after reviewing security footage in the lab, which they coincidentally didn't have when Danny had turned into a ghost.

After the whole incident, they hid the fact that Jazz and Danny had an older brother for years and take their time getting the portal to work again so they could save their son. Years pass and Jazz suddenly has a dream about Flynn and eventually confronts their parents over what happened and they tell their kids everything.

As for Flynn, Butch goes off in a tangent about a ghost who was responsible for the uprising and rebellion against Pariah Dark. I forget her name, but it was edgy and she honestly looks like a cartoon concept design for Thor's sister in Ragnarok, but if she had a Spiderman appeal to her.

Anyway, once Pariah was sealed away in the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep, she wanted to rule the ghost zone fairly and with justice. Or something. However chaos ensued now that the ghosts were free to do as they please without Pariah's wrath hanging over their heads. Over time, trying to keep balance in the Ghost Zone took a toll on “Thor’s sister” and she one day stumbled across and open portal and saw Flynn on the other side. She essentially kidnapped him and raised him to be her soldier for justice. Like the Winter Soldier.

The logic for this was that humans have ghost powers in the Ghost Zone. I mean, yeah they can fly and phase through things, but it was never actually mentioned whether or not humans had super strength in it. But go off Butch. Then he goes on to explain that in some reference to the Ant Man movie, over time Flynn just sort of gained powers as he became "one with the Ghost Zone" and became a powerful protector called "Exodus." Then Fartman went on to mention it was a reference for a machine in the Halloween episode.

So yeah, eventually Danny finds him and they've kind of got that dynamic of "I think you're the bad guy in this situation" when they aren't and duke it out until Danny eventually convinces this dude they're related. Oh yeah and Flynn had no memories of his human life.

Gonna be honest, I might have misremembered a few things but it’s honestly close enough.

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The issues I have with this concept are as follows:

⦁ Jack and Maddie have essentially been the direct cause for 3 people being harmed (and sorta killed) in some way by their Ghost Portal experiments. This doesn't even border on negligible at this point. It basically is, especially considering they should have learned not to let Danny near their experiments after losing their first son.

⦁ They come off as criminals considering they hid all traces and knowledge of Flynn from Danny, Jazz and most likely all family members and didn't even report his disappearance. They even had cameras in their lab and that honestly puts across the idea that they disabled them in case one of their other kids gets hurt.

⦁ There's already a ghost who considers himself to be the law of the Ghost Zone and it would appear that Butch forgot he created Walker for that exact purpose.

⦁ The female character who was responsible for putting away Pariah Dark honestly isn't well fleshed out. She can imprison the most powerful ghost in existence but is essentially useless at stopping lesser ghosts from causing chaos? Even if she did have help, how exactly was she capable of such a feat to begin with?

⦁ This messes with the cannon a bit considering there are some plot holes that can't really mix well with the established story.

I saw some of these concerns were also mentioned by the Phandom. Giving Butch the benefit of the doubt here, I don't hate the concept but I think it needs to be worked on more. I've read about what some people's opinions were and at least the ones that gave real critiques had some good ideas. Like maybe making the sibling either Jack's or Maddie's and it would have helped with their obsession of ghosts.

I have my own plot hole filled ideas with how this could maybe be told better. I'm not a storywriter and this might come off a little edgy, but man I love coming up with ideas. So here's mine:

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My Story:

After the incident with Vlad, Maddie and Jack decide that their ghost hunting days are over and resolve to live a normal family life. They have their first son Flynn, who had solidified their decision to quit ghost hunting and settle. After a few years, Jazz and Danny were eventually born and it seemed they had the perfect life.

One day while vacationing in a wooded area (location can change), Flynn had wandered not too far from the camp. Then a flash of light suddenly burst in front of him and he could see a whole other world. Jack and Maddie were alerted to the sound and ran towards where it came from. They gasped at what they saw and knew exactly what Flynn was staring into; a ghost portal. 

Before they could yell for him to stay away, a hand suddenly reached out and pulled Flynn in, the portal immediately closing as soon as he entered. Maddie and Jack were devastated. No one believed them when they explained what happened to their son, and this incident became the catalyst for them to start their ghost hunting careers again.

They worked tirelessly for years to get the portal to work again. Jazz had eventually chalked up their obsession to being a coping mechanism because they couldn't handle the guilt of losing Flynn and were in denial that he was gone. Danny was more of a social outcast than ever because people assumed his parents had something to do with Flynn's disappearance.

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Now with regards to why Flynn was pulled into the Ghost Zone, I would actually like to think Clockwork played a hand in it. I watched the Blood of Zeus recently and I kind of wanted to play around with an idea that inspired this next part.

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Clockwork knows that Dark Dan was never going to stay imprisoned forever. The fact that he still exists, even outside of time, was an omen he needed to heed. So maybe he meddled with a few future possibilities. Maybe he tried to get Maddie and Jack to realise Ghost Hunting was something they shouldn't mess with after hurting Vlad, which led to their decision to settle for a family. Maybe... He wanted Flynn to exist for a purpose.

He was the one who pulled Flynn into the Ghost Zone. Clockwork told Flynn that he would be the key to saving the future from Dark Dan, but withheld information on who he really was until he was old enough. He taught him everything he needed to know on how to defeat Dark Dan and trained him over the years in combat.

Going off the idea that Danny is kind of really average in comparison to the rest of his family, Flynn is a technological prodigy. He created weapons that Vlad could only dream of creating and can utilise technology that puts Tucker to shame. Once he was old enough, Clockwork finally revealed who Dark Dan was and how he came to be.

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As for the fighting portion of everything, I'm honestly not too sure how I could go about writing it. Obviously they team up to destroy Dan for good and Flynn gets reunited with everyone. He might actually prefer to stay in the Ghost Zone and be Clockwork's assistant. Idk.

This is as far as I can go with regards to the story and it was super fun to write. Hope you guys enjoyed reading it too!

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Making slow progress with the animatic. I’m really rusty at animation, but I really love this.

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Hey all. It’s been a while since I’ve last posted, but I’ve been around. I kinda lost the drive to draw for a while for reasons I’ll post about another time, but I’ve been obsessing over Mystery Skulls lately. I have a short animatic in the works and I hope to finish it sometime soon. Anyway, have a still frame I really liked and have a nice day all!

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It’s my birthday and I’m 21! It’s been a while since I’ve posted on here, but I’m still alive. I may be posting some art soon, so stay tuned! Have a great day everyone!

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I drew this a little after “Bad Little Boy” aired back in 2013. This was for my friend and I wanted to make a better version, and I think I did really well! I still suck at shading tho. Oh well. The context behind this is that Marshall stole the skull piece if Sig’s weapon (which is a bow) and it’s useless without that piece. Well, not completely useless. Hope you like it.

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A WIP of a really old drawing I made for a friend. I never gave it to her, so I decided to make a new version of this instead. I’ll give more context about this later on, but the female vampire in this is her OC and her name is Sig.

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So this was an idea I had that Ruddy would have been put in the Human Zoo if no one could watch over her for one reason or another.

The amethyst in this image is my oc that I haven’t drawn in forever and she works at the zoo. Ruddy belongs to @zawa-ro, who is an amazing artist. Hope you all like it!

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I’m a little late to the party, but I’ve been drawing this in a sketch book for more than 2 weeks now. I got a bit lazy with the line work towards the end, but what evs. I was inspired by @reindeerarts and his short comic on White Pearl. I sort of had this idea that this is what White Diamond would say to Pink when they first met.

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Bot Trying To Steal Information, Please Spread

Yesterday I was contacted by this blog: lollygrl-a27. Immediately block it. It's just a bot. It starts out the conversation normally at first by saying it found you through one means or another and then it tries to send you to a webcam site where it will supposedly put on "shows" for you. I could tell it was a bot because all my attempts to say no were completely ignored. It's pretty obvious that it just wants either your credit card information, your personal information and quite possibly your location.

This isn't a new thing that's been happening and it happens with different usernames. Sharing the name of the blog will help prevent someone who might actually be tricked by it. If you suspect something suspicious in the similar manner that I have, please block and report the blog to prevent it from gaining any information on you or anyone else.

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Some doodles from the week.

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Does anyone else think of Baby from Five Nights at Freddy’s when they see that evil laughing gem from the trailer? No? Just me? Alright then.

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SU: My Theory on Corruption

I’ve been thinking of this theory for a while about how corruption works and why Rose nor Steven could heal it. I’ll start this off with the episode “An Indirect Kiss,” when Amethyst accidentally cracked her gem.

When her gem is cracked, Amethyst’s form begins to contort and change. The worse the crack gets, the more her body started to fall apart. She eventually started to lose her sense of speech, speaking backwards and even screeching to get Steven’s attention.

What if corruption worked in a similar manner, but in a much smaller scale? The Diamonds intended to use their attack to shatter all the gems on Earth, but what if it worked in a way that they hadn’t anticipated? What if instead of outright destroying the gems, they caused the interior structure of the gemstones to fracture? The structure would have fractured enough to not destroy the gems, but enough to completely change their forms, mindset and speech patterns. This could be why they have such monstrous forms and why they are unable to change back to their default forms. Like in the case of Centipeedle.

Now onto the reason why Rose and Steven can’t heal them. Perhaps Rose’s healing ability had no effect because, even as a Diamond, her powers are significantly weaker than the combined powers of White, Yellow and Blue. It’s possible that the effects of the corruption were immune to her healing which may be why she was stated as not being successful in curing the gems of their corrupted form.

Steven wasn’t even able to fully heal Centipeedle, despite going further than Rose did. Perhaps being half human made the difference, but it still wasn’t enough to fix what was broken. He may have healed any external damage, but if it was structural, that could be the reason why her form wasn’t totally normal and why he couldn’t get very far.

As for why Centipeedle reverted back, it’s possible that remembering the traumatic event caused enough stress that her gem fractured again. Or maybe Steven’s healing ability was only temporary.

I’d love to see how all this plays out and if we get any proper explanation from the show about how all this works. I’d also love to see what White Diamond really looks like, although the fan art people do is pretty spectacular. If you have any ideas or theories to add, I’d love to hear it!

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I just realised something...

I’m not sure if anyone else thought of this, but I just realised that in the song “We Are The Crystal Gems,” Pearl sang: “We will protect your Earth.” Now why didn’t she say “the” instead of “your”? That’s when I realised the Earth still belongs to Pink, therefore it now belongs to Steven. It’s HIS Earth. I’m not sure if this was intentional, but this is some sneaky shit right there!

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In inspiration for the little sneak peek that took place after “A Pale Rose”, I thought this would be appropriate. This took me a while to do and I couldn’t decide on whether the visor should be see-through or not. I also just saw the new promo for the next 5 episodes and I can’t wait!