#Danny: Transforms into a humanish form

[radiance1]

Danny, transforming into his human form but keeping some draconic features, like a tail, horns and some scales: What, never seen a dragon transform before?

Alfred, taking everything in stride: This way to the dinning room, Master Dragon.

Danny: Where's the ice cream.

Alfred, looking Danny over: Master Dragon, dessert would most certainly ruin your appetite.

Danny: But you said-

Alfred: No buts, Master Dragon.

Everyone else:

So now here they are, sitting at the dinning table eating with a dragon from who knows where. Bonus points if Danny tries to act dignified and aloof but it's ultimately ruined by being bummed out about not having said ice-cream and somewhat pouting.

Dick, trying to make conversation: So... what made you decide to drop into our backyard?

Danny, picking at his food deciding if he should eat or not: Oh, you know. Got into a fight with my uncle and he burned my scales, the usual.

Dick:

Bruce:

Tim:

Damian: A most common occurrence, yes.

Dick, trying to pick back up the conversation: So, who's the uncle-

Danny, deciding fuck it and putting the fork into his mouth, waving his hand dismissively: Phoenix, Duke of the Black Flame, enemy of ice, etc. Kind of a dick but-

Danny, pausing after tasting the food:

Danny: Shovels food into his mouth quickly as he's able, before seeing everyone's stare and remembering where exactly he was and slowing down, trying to regain the cool and aloof image he was going for.

Danny: Ahem. Kind of a dick but wouldn't even think about killing me.

The Batfam:

Danny: If it helps, I messed up his feathers just as bad as he messed up my scales.

There was a dragon in their fountain.

A giant eastern dragon in their fountain.

Most of its body is in the fountain, but a good portion of it is just resting on the ground.

Were they supposed to just, leave it there or make it shoo.

Tim didn't know, neither did Dick.

It was beautiful, scales a glowing white and a mane that looked incredibly soft, even from where they were standing.

Again, there was a dragon in their fountain. A beautiful dragon, but a dragon nonetheless.

Alfred, the unconcerned, professional, most unphased man, just, walked over to it, give it sass for growling at him, and then asked if it would like to soak in the pool instead.

And the damn thing agreed to it too.

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Danny fucking hated the aftermath of his fights with Vlad, sure, the phoenix never tried to actually kill him or anything, but the heat just does not do it for him.

At least the fucker himself is gonna be uncomfortable from the cold.

Danny just wanted to navigate to the Far Frozen to recover from the heat, alright. Of course it would be too much to ask, because next them he knew he ran into a portal and plopped down onto some rich person's lawn.

And then took over said rich person's fountain, it was big enough for a good amount of his body at least, so he just went why the fuck not.

Then some butler came over to him, gave him of all people fucking sass, and asked him if he wanted to soak in the pool instead.

So of course, he got to the moving to said pool.

[oldblackhat]

Yes!

I have often headcanoned that

Danny Phantom makes a very relatable ghost. Friggen Casper over here

Danny Fenton makes a very creepy human - his vibes are just wrong

I think its cause he’s a halfa - he’s never fully 100% human or ghost - he’s always at least a little bit both no matter which form he’s in

He’s got mixed/hybrid vibes. But ppl don’t know he’s a halfa so they interpret him under the lens of what they think he is

A human with ghostly vibes is creepy as shit

A ghost with humanish vibes or mannerisms is just like more relatable, safe feeling than other ghosts

This also helps explains how half the town comes to trust the so-called public enemy no.1 one while the ghosthunter’s son can’t get invited to a party for the life of him

I also headcanon that ghost liminals exist. This would be ghosts that are more human-ish than other ghosts. Maybe Johnny 13 or Poindexter?

If humans get liminal from ectoplasm exposure (built up in their blood and bones) then ghosts get liminal from exposure to earth and periodic table elements.

Meaning ghosts who frequently haunt earth would be more liminal than those who stay in the realms

Just as humans who live on a “thin spot” (or visit the realms) get liminal

It’s a spectrum and halfas are in the exact middle. They flip-flop between the most liminal human possible and the most liminal ghost possible.

See its a spectrum but the exact middle isn’t possible - ectoplasm and matter are like 80% able to mix but not quite 100%.

And that’s why “halfas” flip-flop - because true middle, a perfect hybrid, isn’t possible - but its what their body wants to be. So they flip-flop between the peak liminal human possible and the peak liminal ghost possible

The only time a true perfect human-ghost hybrid exists is the brief second when a halfa changes forms. It’s not meant to be held because ectoplasm and matter aren’t supposed to be exactly 50/50 - its like an unstable chemically reactive state-it wants to change to another form one way or the other.

I think this also explains why it hurt Danny so badly to be forced by Vlad to hold mid-transformation.

My headcanon is that afterwards Danny felt like he’d run a thousand marathons simultaneously despite it only lasting a couple seconds. Just a deep abiding sense of wrong, your body screaming at you “hey, that’s bad, never ever do that again!

I see your increasingly eldritch ghost form for Danny, and I raise you:

Phantom who, instead of looking more ghostly, is just a little too much like a human.

Like yeah, everyone knows Danny Fenton can send literal chills up people's spines and they swear they've seen his eyes start to glow in the right light, but have you seen Phantom? Like why isn't his skin green or blue or even deathly white? It's a lot healthier looking than Fenton's, that's for sure.

And just about every ghost that comes through has crazy sharp fangs, but if anything, Phantom's canines are just a little sharper than normal, but really they don't look too different than Wes' when he's on one of his rage induced rants.

Not to mention the physical presence he has in Amity Park. The way he inhabits space just feels different than most other ghosts, as if Phantom is somehow more connected to the physical world. Like why is he opening doors when he can just phase through them?

Kat, who works the after school shifts at the Nasty Burger with Valerie, swears up and down that she's seen him sitting on the roof, eating two or three burgers at a time (and sharing his fries with the little blob ghost family that lives in the dumpsters).

Dale knows for a fact he's seen Phantom talking on a cell phone of all things with someone. Even claims he heard Phantom mention something about playing DOOMED.

Mrs. Greigerit, the tiny old lady who's cashiered at the grocery store since forever, loves to talk about the time Phantom grabbed a few first aid supplies off the shelves after a ghost attack to help a woman and her toddler patch up until EMS arrived. According to her, he knew exactly how to work with these things meant to heal humans, and he even left a crumpled handful of human cash on her counter to pay for the supplies before he disappeared.

Amity Park notices, just like they notice the strangeness that surrounds Danny Fenton. But really, maybe it's just AP weirdness finally rubbing off on Phantom.

Everyone brushes it off until Jack and Maddie Fenton do the unthinkable and offer their help to Phantom after a particularly nasty fight.

"We saw him there, and... we saw just another person who needed help," Jack tells Tiffany Snow later that day. "A kid who could've been going to school with mine. What else were we supposed to do?"