#DP headcanon

[fanaroff]

I find the idea that Sam and Tucker are neurodivergent but Danny is neurotypical funny.

“What’s your conditions?”

Sam: I’m inactive-ADHD, ultra-recyclo vegetarian not because of texture reasons but my own beliefs (maybe some texture issues too), and Goth. I’ve got my specific hyperfixations based specifically around things my mom wouldn’t like that I do. This is partly due to my Oppositional Defiant Disorder caused by my ADHD. I’m also chronically dead inside.

Tucker: Auti-HD baby, gotta have that Too Much for Too Fine Tuck, this is my comfort PDA her name is Linda. I coded her specifically for *devolves into hour long info-dump about technology* I also only eat meat as a safe food and refuse anything else.

Sam & Tucker *pointing to Danny*: This is our emotional support neurotypical. He used to have his life together, got good grades, was a little genius, always came to school on time, only had one hobby that wasn’t playing games, and was on the road for a scholarship. He didn’t need meds to function at the time.

Danny: I’m dead now :)

“You mean dead inside? Like depressed?”

Danny: :)

[starry-bi-sky]

DPXDC CFAU Headcanon: Ghostspeak Edition

Ghosts in the Infinite Realms who saw Jason and Danny together called them "luzdra", a term in ghost speak that directly translates into the words "shared soul". It's literal definition is; "two ghosts with a bond so deep that it was as if they had split their souls in half and given one to the other", but in general it just means two ghosts with a profound, indescribable bond.

Luzdrus is the singular form of the word, and refers to only one ghost in the bond. While "luzdra" is plural and either refers to both of them together, or the relationship as a whole. It depends on the context of the conversation and who they're saying it to.

There is no romantic, platonic, or familial connotation behind the word. It just means "someone who shares a deep bond with someone" and can be between anyone.

It also does not mean soulmate, and if you say that you'll be corrected. Soulmates implies that their bond was destined by the universe, luzdra are two people who developed and built that bond themselves. It's a relationship forged between two (or more) people.

Some of Danny's rogues -- like Kitty and Johnny, who might've seen the two together and are possibly luzdra themselves -- still call him 'luzdrus' even after Jason's disappearance from the Zone. Danny doesn't know how to feel about it.

[absolutely-esme]

It actually kind of makes sense that Danny Phantom is able to keep his secret identity

Yes, I know he's terrible at lying and hiding things, but he has the advantage of his secret being so bizarre that it basically keeps itself.

There is no way to logically deduce that a ghost can also, simultaneously, be a living person if you don't already know.

There's no reason for anyone to suspect that a ghost is not just a ghost.

No one has any reason to think that Danny Phantom even has a secret identity, and the easiest thing to hide is something that no one is looking for.

So, even if people can tell he's hiding something, there's no reasonable way for them to figure out what (unless they actually see him transform, like Jazz).

[puppetmaster13u]

Some of my headcanons for the Phantom siblings.

Both of them have freckles, but Ellie has hers in human form and Danny has his in ghost form

Ellie went as Phantasm while she was off journeying before deciding on the first name Ellie, in which she started going by Ellie Phantasm

Dan had to do community service for the first few years he was out of the thermos, and actually helped clean up both Amity and other ghostly areas where the veil was thin

Danny takes more after his mom body-type wise as he ages, while Dan visibly took more after Vlad and Jack, and Ellie is something inbetween

Ellie discovers she can go goop at will and use it to shapeshift slightly- the moment she saw spiderman comics with venom it was all over for the other ghosts

Danny's wail is more of a scream with the underlying sound of machinery humming and crackling electricity, while Dan's is more of a roar with an underlying rumble of fire and crash of a cracking glacier

Dan's human form has surprising long hair, which Ellie (and Jazz) likes to braid- Clockwork was the one to teach him how to braid his own hair

They get matching tattoos on their forearms as adults that forms a constellation when put together (they also have small matching flower ones with Jazz)

All of their blood glows in the dark, even in human form. They use this by popping their bones and jokingly shaking each other until they glow like a glowstick.

Their eyes also reflect light, but that's more of a liminal thing shared with all amity parkers

Danny has a space core, Ellie has a moon core, and Dan has a sun core They discover they can combine the strength of their abilities while messing around one day and go feral

[agentianlegend]

Overshadowing vs. Possession

There’s a reason the Fentons always use the term “overshadowing” instead of “possession.” Overshadowing is easy and obvious; a ghost is manipulating a body like a meat puppet.

But possession?

It’s ownership. You, you, your soul belongs to them. They’re not controlling flesh; they’re controlling you.

And the worst part? You might not even know.

[millieueu]

I once thought of something really funny

Yknow how Danny has ice powers? I have this hilarious headcanon that whenever Danny sneezes, he sneezes out ice and he ends up freezing stuff.

Sounds really funny XD

[dnpanimationstudioclone]

Rewrite idea

Considering how Danny became a ghost, I can imagine he'd have developed a bit of electrophobia(fear of electricity)⚡️

TW Flash, mentions of trauma, panic attack and seizures.

He was ELECTROCUTED and good chance probably saw his own life flash before his eyes and ended up half dead and experienced ALL that as a 14 YR OLD! Its safe to assume the boy's got some trauma from that.

I can imagine the experience made him far more wary of things with electricity, not to the point that he's afraid of using electronics or other things with electrify but far more careful, like staying away from exposed wires, would avoid adding too many plugs into an outlet, getting outlet covers, wouldn't go into the Lab alone and if he did wouldn't be in there too long, etc. He could've even developed a fear of thunderstorms due to fearing he could get struck by lightning⛈️ ⚡️

I can imagine he'd also be shaken from things like bright flashing lights, similar to the flash he saw from the accident. Could even end up having things like panic attacks or even seizures due to the incident.

I can imagine villains like Technus and Vortex would be the biggest for him to handle as their powers could trigger his trauma far more than the other ghosts, Technology/electricity, weather/storms. A lot of ghost attacks look like shocks, I can imagine that could shake him up.

People who've been electrocuted can end up with all sorts of long term physical and mental damage and while I can imagine Danny becoming a ghost ended up lessening the damage he'd normally experience as a human(good chance it saved him from becoming a full ghost) I can imagine damage was still done to him, in ways he might not even realize himself. I think it'd be an interesting thing to dicuss and try to tackle if DP ever came back.

What do u think? Do you think Danny could have trauma from becoming Phantom? I'd love to know💖

[crying-over-cartoons]

Recently, I've been rewatching Danny Phantom for the first time in years- with a couple of friends this time, and I've started developing a new headcanon: ghost proxies.

This post got pretty long, so I'm putting a readmore. Also, if you're "a couple of friends", this post has spoilers for parts we haven't gotten to.

The episode where I first came up with this was Prisoners of Love, specifically from Walker's goons. There's a million of them, they all look exactly the same, none of them ever seem to speak, and they all obey his every command without question. The Doylist explanation is that Walker runs a prison, prisons have guards, and the creators only wanted to make one model sheet. But I think its more fun to wonder why they're all identical, and all unquestionably loyal.

My idea is that a ghost of sufficient power is able to create extensions of that power- less powerful or intelligent than a duplicate, but able to act on their own merit. This would explain why all the guards are completely loyal to Walker- they're extensions of his power.

I think the same idea applies to Youngblood. There's a bunch of pirates who are happily doing the bidding of some snot-nosed kid for seemingly no reason (aside from Ember, but she bails as soon as things go south). In fact, all of the pirate ghosts from that episode aside from the parrot and Youngblood himself vanish by their next appearance, The Fenton Menace. A bunch of adult ghosts, obeying the every whim of a child, only to completely vanish as soon as they're no longer relevant to his game. Could be proxies!

Then there's Sydney Poindexter. Fair warning, this paragraph will briefly cover themes of bullying and suicide, but I will not go into detail. Sydney's ghost is still high-school aged, implying he may have died around that time, and the headcanon that he committed suicide at that age is a common one in my experience. His ghost is continuously bullied by the ghosts of his tormentors- but why are all of them still high school aged? Why did they all become ghosts? If they went to high school in the 1950s, shouldn't some of them still be alive by 2004? Not to mention, Sydney seems to be a very weak ghost. He has a poor grasp on Danny's powers, barely able to even fly- one of the most basic ghost abilities. My headcanon is that Sydney originally had a lot of power, due to his traumatic death, but that trauma (and his inability to imagine an escape from his bullies) manifested itself as a recreation of the high school he was so desperate to escape, and he used up most of his power to create it.

My brother, @belmoley, pointed out that Sydney and the people in his Casper High recreation are the only people in the whole series to actually use the term 'halfa', implying that it may be a term he made up. There's also to consider that the students in this recreation start treating him better shortly after he receives kindness from modern Casper High students- perhaps reflecting a change in his self-worth.

He also pointed out that Nocturne's Sleepwalkers could be proxies, but I haven't gotten to that point in the rewatch yet, so I don't have much to say about that.

Another thing he came up with is that only a few very powerful ghosts seem to be capable of duplication- Danny and Vlad are the most majour characters to have this power, but Clockwork, Vortex and Undergrowth both have it as well (though again, I haven't gotten to season 3 in the rewatch, so I got some of that from the wiki). Half-ghosts are shown to generally be more powerful than regular ghosts, and Clockwork, Vortex, and Undergrowth are all obviously incredibly powerful in their own right. This means a duplicate could be a more powerful form of a proxy.

I'm sure there's plenty to both add to and discredit this headcanon, but I think it's fun. Its added some extra fun to my rewatch, trying to determine if a ghost has proxies or not.

[the-game-spirit]

oh, I just had a neat idea

so you guys know how we recorded the 'sounds' of the planets and other objects in the solar system?

what if ghost speech has a unique sound for every ghost, and the sounds of the solar system is dannys?

he can sound haunting and endless like the sun or jupiter, or bizarre like the saturn, or discordant like ganymede

[ghost-pasta]

what if the farfrozen yetis have Warrior Cats or similar naming conventions and Frostbite is actually Frost Bite.

[mysteriousooze]

Any Valerie Gray headcanons?

Ohohoho now where did I put that soapbox...

Valerie eventually has to come to terms with her own ghostly nature. She has been imbued and empowered by nanobots and ectoplasm, and even when she isn't using any of it, she is different now

Technus is capable of mind controlling Valerie. Fortunately, he is stupid. He doesn't think to do so for a very long time, and it's obvious the moment he does

They never actually figure out how to prevent technus from controlling her. But thankfully he never gets good at it. Instead, he learns to fear being beaten like a pinata by teenagers

Eventually, the GIW is able to pick Valerie up on their sensors due to her super suit living under her skin

Valerie is not a halfa. She doesn't have ghost powers. To any ecologists, she seems highly contaminated and likely overshadowed.

Any attempt or even success in removing the ectoplasm and nanobots from her system will kill her.

Valerie was that kid who never missed a day of school even if she had the flu and everyone would have been safer if she had stayed home. Being sick just makes her stubbornly determined to persevere.

(Valerie stays home from school the day she realizes the anti-ecto acts apply to herself)

If Valerie were to ever come into contact with blood blossoms, she would feel pain within her entire body, followed by muscle spasms as if being jolted with electricity, and—with prolonged exposure—sores would open on her skin and start leaking ectoplasm.

Blood blossoms alone wouldn't kill her, unlike Danny. But they would weaken her immune system enough that something else likely would.

Valerie eventually develops a sort of sixth sense for electromagnetic fields

If Danny transforms into a human and keeps a lid on his powers, he can hide from the GIWs sensors. Valerie can never hide.

Valerie's eyes are opened to her own behavior toward ghosts after the GIW treat her as subhuman.

It's not Danny who saves her. It's Sam Manson.

Valerie's dad and Sam's parents work with the teen girls as they spearhead the ecto rights movement. Valerie becomes a figurehead. She hates it, but she hates the GIW more

Eventually when Valerie joins team Phantom, she learns that Tucker has been able to track her location using her nanobots this whole time

The more she learns about Danny's weird friends, the more she comes to respect them

Hey friendship with Sam is frightening to behold. The bond over the destruction of their enemies

She doesn't touch romance with a ten-foot pole, and is thankful nobody brings up feelings. Team Phantom have flashes of rage or betrayal or yearning, usually followed by an awkward silence. But mostly it's because they're low-key being hunted by the government

(Publicly, the government isn't hunting them at all. They strike indirectly, or when ghosts can take the blame. They place substitute teachers in Casper High, which is always badly understaffed. It's a strange cold war.)

Valerie never has the problems with controlling her nanobots that Danny did his powers, but sometimes her reflexes get the better of her.

Valerie would rather get angry than cry

She almost shot her dad once when he tried to wake her up from a nightmare. She bawled for two hours while he held her

Valerie sees herself as an adult after becoming a ghost hunter. She occasionally doesn't see Youngblood bc of this

She's honestly such a daddy's girl tho it's kind of embarrassing. If Young blood tried to sneak up on her while she was with him, he would immediately be spotted

Valerie never becomes one of the popular kids again, but rises above it all. She's the kind of powerhouse of a girl that kids part like the red sea to get out of her way

She doesn't become a leader so much as a linchpin of teenage civil disobedience

She knows everyone in Casper High. She has their phone numbers. She has their secrets. And she knows most have been trained with Fenton Blasters and are willing to use them

With a single mass text that the GIW is cornering Phantom, a flood of teenagers takes to the streets for their hero

Valerie isn't the leader of a teenage militia. But isn't not NOT a leader iykyk

Valerie eventually develops an affinity for controlling technology

Technus decides that she is his daughter

It's like a much less dangerous version of the relationship between Danny and Vlad

He still wants to take over the world but also considers himself to be a good father who does not fight his daughter

Team Phantom can recruit him as an ally

As an unrepentant daddy's girl, Valerie is filled with unquenchable rage at the presumption of this undead weirdo

Technus might have tried challenging Valerie's dad if team Phantom didn't keep gaslighting him that he couldn't tell humans apart "omg Technus that's not even her dad. He has a completely different eye color"

Valerie accidentally activates the nanobots inside of Jazz. They can't do all of the things that Valerie's does, but between the two of them, they figure out how to strengthen her, as well as make her immune to overshadowing

Nanobot buddies:)

Tucker is a mite envious

Dani is the little sister Valerie always yearned for; she feels like a partner in crime and like her baby girl all at once.

Jazz is the big sister she never wanted

Danny will never feel like a brother tho lol

Valerie and Danny have solidarity in helping each other avoid therapy with Jazz

All of their parents (except her own dad) trust Valerie implicitly for some reason. "Well if Valerie's there then whatever you're doing is okay" kind of deal

It baffles, outrages, and amuses the trio, bc Valerie is just as bad if not worse

Valerie is a force of nature

Valerie will continue to hone her ghost hunting abilities. Not bc she hates ghosts; to protect the ghosts closest to her heart

Bc Vlad Masters is the real monster, and he is escalating. Someday, someone will have to put him down. And he's already in her sights.

[kaezerdoodles]

Hear me out- Reworking the Ghost Zone to be a cross between ATLA’s Spirit World and Pokémon’s Reverse World.

I have like a whole essay about this in my head explaining the pseudo-science and its purpose while tying in fandom ghost HCs such as obsessions and ghost cores.

[absolutely-esme]

My halfas and clones headcanon

I see a lot of stories use the idea that Dani continues to be a fundamentally unstable clone who continues needing treatment for the rest of her life or even ends up melting even with treatment.  This surprised me because it went against some assumptions that I had forgotten were my idea in the first place.  I figured I would share them, in case anyone was interested.

My headcanon about how halfas (or Dannny at least) work is that the state of being is, first and foremost,  a survival adaptation.  

I imagine that the portal works by overlapping the space inside it with a corresponding space in the ghost zone.  Basically,  both spaces exist in the same space for a brief time as the portal is opening.   This would have been all fine and dandy had those spaces only contained air and inert ectoplasm, but that's not what happened.

Danny's body was put under a kind of stress that would not usually be survivable by having a hole in reality torn through the space he was occupying.  Due to the portal opening into the afterlife,  his ghost started forming right where his not-quite-dead-yet human body was.  Now his dying human body and his still-forming ghost are both in the untenable position of existing in half of the overlapped space they are occupying.  In a last-ditch attempt at survival,  the two fuse into one body which is able to fully exist in the space it occupies,  which allows the portal to finish opening as Danny is no longer in the way.  This all happens in the space of a second.  

In the following weeks,  Danny experiences a lot of craziness as the two halves of his biology integrate into a functional system.  Danny's ghost half acts as a kind of glue and maintenance system that keeps his body together and functional come hell or high water, and his human half provides a stable framework for his ghost half that allows it to keep its structure without expending energy on actively holding it.   

This being the case, Danny's ghostly half doesn't have to put as much into maintaining its physical form because it has his human half's sturdy structure made up of proteins and Calcium and whatnot.  That's why Danny changes back when he's exhausted or kOed.  If there’s one thing physical matter is good at, it's continuing on as-is without being acted on by outside forces.

Vlad did not take this into account while trying to make clones entirely from ectoplasm, which he could get for free from the ghost Zone, without any of the componentsfrom which a human body is made.  The clones didn't have that secondary structure,  so when their bodies tried to lean on it, they failed and lost structural integrity.   

Dani was a little heartier because the first thing she did was ask Danny for food and dig in when he gave her a whole lot.  This resulted in Dani's body having a collection of proteins, vitamins, minerals, etc to put to use.  Not enough to form a complete body without her ghostly side working overtime, but enough to take some of the strain off it.  

The reason Dani remained unstable after escaping Vlad the first time was because she was facing food insecurity as a homeless child.  What the Fenton Ecto-Dejecto did was one of two things.  Either it beefed up her ghostly side to let her function in a manner more similar to a full ghost, or it energized her and bought her time feed herself up.

To put it simply,  Danny's clones were unstable because Vlad didn't feed them.  They didn't need a mid-morf DNA sample, they needed the Emergency Ham.

[dandey-lion]

So, time in the Infinite Realms is pretty warped. Some places it moves faster, some places it moves slower.

This is pretty convenient for Danny.

This is pretty confusing for the other heroes.

Danny, leaving in a portal: Alright everybody I got some ghost king paperwork to deal with I’ll be back in a sec

Heroes, doing their business: aight

Danny: Hey I’m back! Gosh paperwork is so annoying to deal with..

Heroes: ??

*Danny has an argument with Jazz or smby idk*

Danny, storming off: Don’t try summoning me!

Heroes: you two need to work it out

Jazz: Yeah we should. I’ll apologize when he gets back.

Danny: Hey guys I’m back! Sorry about that I was pretty upset but I’ve cooled down now.

Heroes: ???

Jazz: No worries! I’m sorry too.

Heroes: ????

Or: everybody consecutively forgot to explain the time warping to them. They’ll figure it out. Eventually.

[agentianlegend]

Danny joins the Batfam alongside the other 4 Robins and they are soon known throughout Gotham as the Batson Five

[millieueu]

I have this hc that Danny has dimples, and they glow whenever he smiles

OMFG GENIUS GENIUS GENIUS TAKE THE FUCKING CROWN