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bet-on-me-13 · 1 year ago

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The fact that the Fentons are forced to reexamine their biases when their research is called into question, as well as a GIW that is actually made of good guys, is so refreshing.

I don't think I've ever seen an AU where The GIW are actually the good guys, I mean their name is the Ghost INVESTIGATION Ward, not Extermination. They are made up of Scientists and Researchers, not Military Personnel and Agents.

But this makes me wonder, who are the Bad Guys in this AU?

Maybe Pariah got freed early and decided to tale a more subtle approach to his Invasion? And Vlad is working for him as the poor sucker who freed him? Pariah definitely treats Vlad like a pathetic little pet, which may come back to bite him in the Future. I know we must all love the trope of "Abused Minion who usurps his master and becomes the new even more dangerous big bad". Or at least I hope we do.

I'm looking at this through the lens of "What if the Show was written with this in Mind", which opens a bunch of possibilities.

Maybe the first Season is the Beginning Steps? Danny becoming a Halfa, learning about the Ghost Zone, and befriending a bunch of different Ghosts along his journeys in the Ghost Zone. This Season is basically just a Slice of Life Season with a bit of Fighting, missunderstandings, and funny moments.

Throughout Season 1, we get little snippets of Lore and Plot, like a few of Danny's friends quietly agreeing to keep Danny's Portal a secret, just in case He finds out. Or Danny almost venturing out into the Non-Wastelands of the Zone and his friends warning against it.

At the end of Season 1, we get a huge incident like maybe a Powerful Rogue who is allied with Pariah finding the Portal. I'mma say its Fright Knight. Danny and his friends have to battle Fright Knight and force back his mini army as they stop his preliminary Invasion attempt. The Season ends with a scene of Fright Knight reporting back to Pariah Dark, about a Portal to the Human Realm.

Season 2 is based on Danny starting to fight back against Pariah. At first he doesn't know what to do, but midway through the Season he gets the Idea to recruit as many Powerful Ghosts as he can to battle Pariah Dark. This leads him to trying to recruit the Ancients One by One to his side. Vlad is the Main Antagonist in this season, as he is sent on missions to capture or kill Danny before he can recruit any of the Ancients.

At the end of the Season, there is a big final Battle and in the end Pariah's army is beaten, but Vlad pulls a double cross and takes his own army through the Portal, blowingit up behind him. Leaving himself and a Small Army he snuck past the battlefield to invade Amity with no resistance.

In this AU the Fentons and GIW never developed Ghost Fighting Weapons on a mass scale. Sure they made proof of concept designs after the first few incidents, but they largely trusted Nebula to take care of the Ghosts who sneak through. This means that they have no way to defeat Vlad and his small Army when they Invade.

Season 3 has a Timeskip where Danny and his Team are trying to find their way to the Human Realm. The destruction of the Portal also put Danny's Portal Powers on the Fritz, so now they are trying to find a new way home.

They first try to make their own Mechsnical Portsl, but that plan falls through. Eventually they learn of the Myth of Clockwork, a Being who can freely traverse the Realms.

When they find him he refuses to help until the prove themselves and he helps Danny fix his Portal Powers. Let's pull out a Cliche and say that Danny is now the Ghost King and has to learn to control his new Powers before he can master his old ones again.

Danny's team returns to the Human Realm and eventually find a way to stop Vlad, with Danny eventually winning the day and remaining as the Ghost King.

(If you couldn't tell, this was influenced heavily by The Owl House, Amphibia, Avatar, and basically any cartoon that followed the Heroes Journey)

Nebula AU

Maybe I'll write a fic for this, maybe i won't, but here are the basics. Also if this inspires you to write something chuck me a tag cause I wanna see it.

Set during older/later high school rather than freshman year for Danny. However the portal accident still happened at the canon time.

Ghosts are more or less invisible with out tools or certain contamination levels. This also applies to general noise they make, they have to focus extra to be heard by humans. Typically yelling only equates to a whisper when right next to someone if you're a ghost.

As Danny doesn't become a hero immediately and gets to settle into himself first, his ghost form reflects more his track towards being an astronaut. Aesthetic more along the lines of solar flares and start dust. When ghost do actually come through the portal with intent to do harm he gets a helmet and thick gloves and has a sort of jacket layer over top. I imagine that his ghost form suffers from something like what's described in this post, and the helmet and glove and jacket are learned extra thing.

Story stuff. So it turns out when the ONLY ghost to wander through the portal other than little glowing blobs that only hover, is the antithesis of your theories you have to go back to the drawing board. So the Fenton's (kept out of the loop for a couple of months) and GIW are very much good guys and BETTER Scientists. And the militaristic mind set is swiftly put down when all of the subjects (the one) book it at the slightest hint of aggression.

Now Valarie, nicknamed Red Huntress during her internship, interns/volunteers with the GIW as a field watch/interviewer for Nebula. Which is the code name given to a Danny who never introduces himself and as such gets named by vote like a new firetruck by the community.

Hey BTW this is a portal Danny AU in my head.

The basement portal? That is a direct route to his lair, which is an astronomer's dream wrapped in a, you guessed it, nebula. The Wastes (or the area the Fenton Portal spawns in in canon) inhabitants spend a good few months flipping out at the arrival of what looks like a god or something. It's a decidedly "do not fuck with that" thought process.

Danny eventual.y introduces himself and makes friends without the protect the town from day one aspect. They all tussle a bit but the other ghosts go "hey it's a baby" and give him a proper lay of the land.

Cut to 21/2 years later after the Portal Accident, and Vlad decides to be a bastard and go after the adopted mascot.

Now the scientists have all learned that fighting= play/bonding. So they are all wildly caught off guard by the very sudden warpath through the city park.

Vlad doesn't put together Halfa Danny in this AU until well after there's been conflict. And after he managed to expose the active portal to ghosts outside of the immediate area of the portal that are perfectly willing to break into Danny's lair and some have figured out the horror aspect described here: FIC I RECOMMEND

So back to that fight. Ghosts are QUIET, especially Danny who even with the tech, radio/coms that make other ghost audible, has to be boosted to be heard by even other ghosts. (I imagine lots of sign language in this au) So this darling little sky watching ghost screams, a terrified child's noise, as this ghost that looks like a Vampire and a hoard of vultures(?) actively assault the poor thing? God the humans, the humans are scared. Everyone could hear that out side of the coms, and everyone saw it. They got good at televising the ghosts.

Sam and Tucker, decidedly only civilians are terrified for their friend. They know what play fighting looks like, they've been to the lair. Valarie who catches on fast thanks to being the intern bestie to Nebula and maybe future girlfriend to Daniel "Hot space nerd in row 4 of homeroom" Fenton, is forced as fights, proper devastating ones, continue happening to keep her friends away. Especially the first time. Most importantly that first fight.

REMEMBER Danny's portal, not the one in the basement. Well he stretches, upper body desperately crawling away from his lower half trapped by the vultures, keening all the way. Still scarily audible. Then from the gap made of flaring stardust and molten plasma that is the active void that consumes the area his stomach would have been was he human- Comes a raging adult ghost. More than one possibly.

I especially like the idea of Skulker and his missle launcher showing up, being the third ever recorded humanoid ghost, and absolutely steamrolling Plasimus who is not a Halfa as in halfway point like Danny is so loved by the Waste ghosts for being. But rather just half a ghost, a human with a funky little boon.

Now as Skulker has the time of his afterlife chasing Vlad and the Vultures, lets have say Lunch Lady slip out of Danny's portal, maybe one of the more teenagery ghosts too.

Anyways, instant fussing. Danny relaxes enough to stop being a portal to hell and the humans are very careful in approaching them all. What with the older ghost's yelling at the aggressors to leave the baby alone. Skulker is dramatic, and likes embarrassing the whelp.

After this point things beginning to resemble canon more, only the humans have a natural non-guessing gauge of hostility for the ghosts in town.

They figure out pretty fast that the physical portal and Nebula portal only let through friendlies. (Not entirely true but they don't know that.) And the threats, well lets just say Nebula is never caught off guard in his own territory again. He becomes ruthless.

Meanwhile, Danny Fenton has friends both dead and alive helping him fight a guerrilla war against madmen. He sits in class undisturbed even as he tracks the startbursts he knows are his friends protecting him and everyone else untill he's free. He huddles in the attic crawlspace filling out data sheets and pin boards as his girlfriend and best friends scour government documents.

Nebula sits in the portal, toxic light cascading like water around him, watching his parents and GIW agents work in the FentonWorks lab.

He always gives good greetings to those who offer, and when asked he whispers secrets of the universe he's learned from the source over the radio.

The scientists for get to ask for his sources, but when they do they are always both awed and terrified of the sources.

Things go well. And things as always progress.

Link to Doodle I did that actually drove me writing all this.

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