#edited (to fix a grammatical tense mistake and adjust the wording in one area that felt awkward upon reread)

[stars-obsession-pit]

Tim still sat pensively at his desk minutes after the group call had closed, staring at the computer screen. The emotions in the Danny’s voice during their session… they hadn’t sounded fake.

Danny never sounded like that. He was an amazing GM and had clearly put a ton of work into fleshing out the setting of their campaign, but he couldn’t act. Well, unless it was in committing to a bit; his ability to keep jokes up for the long haul was honestly ridiculously (“The Box Ghost” is still a recurring encounter? Seriously?). It was when it came to portraying the deeper emotions that he would often falter. Which obviously wasn’t a real issue—god knows Tim’s tried to play with people far worse at RP—yet it established a trend.

And that trend was what made that last session stand out. Giving that speech as the vigilante… Danny sounded broken. He had never conveyed anywhere near that level of emotional weight before. It sounded like he was genuinely tearing a part of himself open for all to see.

It sounded real.

It made Tim cast his mind back through the rest of the campaign. Some of the idiosyncrasies of characters felt similar. Tiny details that felt so incredibly lifelike and were all but impossible to imagine someone coming up with on their own. And that wasn’t even getting into that vigilante character, whose experiences hit way too close to home in their accuracy.

Could Danny have been basing his campaign on actual experiences?

…Where had Danny said he was from? Tim was pretty sure it started with “Am-”, but he couldn’t just search two letters and hope to find results.

Wait, maybe the ghosts would be relevant! If his town was known for its hauntings, that would narrow down the possibilities a ton.

He typed out in the search bar, “Ghosts in am”

There! One of the autofill suggestions was “ghosts in Amity Park”. He recognized that name—it must be the place!

He excitedly hit enter.

0 results.

…What? But then how had it showed up in the suggestions?

Maybe it was just an error. He refreshed the page.

Still nothing.

His brow furrowed.

What if he deleted the ghost part and just searched the name “Amity Park” on its own?

This time, the search actually bore fruit, though the results were strangely old and few in number. Nevertheless, they held an important detail. Amity Park, they claimed, was the most haunted city in the United States.

Tim wasn’t sure if he believed that, but it would fit with what he had seen of Danny. A place known for its hauntings could easily have given Danny strong feelings about ghosts and ghost-hunters to then channel into their campaign.

But why had the search that mentioned ghosts failed? Surely a haunted city would make common use of that word, right? Or at least it should have appeared even just once on their webpages.

Yet the search had returned nothing.

And it was only when looking into ghosts. Any search about the city without some sort of ghostly words would work fine, but anything with them returned nothing—or at best, a few very vague or dismissive answers.

That couldn’t be natural. It smelt of a coverup of some sort.

But why?

What had happened in Amity Park?

Danny, becoming bored now that everything has calmed down, has decided to become an online DM for a virtual D&D group. Based on a normal town haunted by various ghosts and undead that haunt thus town while having access through a thin veil. So what if he's venting a bit? Sue him!

Tim, however, was becoming with the stories given by the DM. The lore, each characters, both human in ghosts, including a ghost vigilante and his three human friends, were all in too deep detail to be fake.

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Where did his DM say he was from again?

[luminanightfall]

#dp x dc#dpxdc#danny phantom x dc crossover#online friends danny fenton and tim drake#no one in the D&D group has any idea just how far the “Danny ‘commit to the bit’ Fenton” trait goes beyond their jokes#edited (to fix a grammatical tense mistake and adjust the wording in one area that felt awkward upon reread)

Danny, becoming bored now that everything has calmed down, has decided to become an online DM for a virtual D&D group. Based on a normal town haunted by various ghosts and undead that haunt thus town while having access through a thin veil. So what if he's venting a bit? Sue him!

Tim, however, was becoming with the stories given by the DM. The lore, each characters, both human in ghosts, including a ghost vigilante and his three human friends, were all in too deep detail to be fake.

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Where did his DM say he was from again?