#not to mention the pure adoration he has for Danny as the ghost hero of amity park

[averygayplant]

We all agree Dash is gay, right Like seriously. Genuinely. Bro's got that classic big strong jock internalized queerphobia, I'm not crazy??

[srsly-messed-up-fruitloop]

Superheroes Aren’t Real

A VERY short thing I wrote to get a feel for Wes and his motivations. I’m still not entirely happy with it, but I’ve been driving myself up the wall revising it over the past week. Might as well just post it into the void...

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Wes used to adore comic books. As a kid, he considered Superman, Spider-Man, and Batman as his friends. His best friends. No one else he knew had awesome powers like they did. And the best part: they used their powers for good. That was why he wanted to become a superhero when he grew up, just like them. Other kids at school wanted to be lame and become a doctor or firefighter, and while yeah, they do save people, heroes save much more people. Plus they were cooler.

Now, Wes had absolutely no recollection of these aspirations. His best friends were long gone, burned in a backyard fire while his father yelled at him for being so unrealistic. Nor did Wes remember how he cried for weeks after that that. 

The day he discovered Phantom, he didn’t know how to feel. Seeing him time and time again on the news, saving people...it’s gotta be a sham. It’s just not realistic. How could someon–no. How could some ghost be so freakin’ altruistic? 

Nonetheless, when Wes moved here, Amity Park loved Phantom. Still, that didn’t change his sentiments. Wes cringed every time he saw Phantom’s pictures plastered all over Paulina’s locker, or when Dash would turn into a complete fanboy with the slightest mention of him. Can’t they see what was so wrong about all this?

Eventually, he concluded that Phantom was just a ghost hiding a secret agenda. Superheroes belonged in fiction, no one could have such good pure intentions for the world. Years of reading about various conspiracies taught him that powerful people are always hiding something.

The day he discovered that Phantom was nothing more than that Fenton kid, he was furious.

From then on, every time he noticed ordinary Danny Fenton at school, all he saw was a lie. A facade. And everyone believed it so easily! Couldn’t they see that he looked exactly like Phantom, save for the eyes, hair, and clothes? At school sometimes even his eyes glowed! Dammit, even their names were almost exactly the same!

Perhaps the infuriating aspect of it all was at one point, Wes also bought into Fenton’s faked up loser persona at school. Every time some jock pummelled Fenton into a locker, Wes couldn’t help but pity him. He painted such a believable pathetic image of himself. That bastard was making a mockery of the entire school!

Wes has to do something, it has to stop before it’s too late. This isn’t the government hiding aliens in Area 51 or the New World Order orchestrating another worldwide catastrophe. He was smart enough to realize that those problems were way too big for him. Society trusts the government too deeply to realize how corrupt they are. But their trust in Phantom is still fresh, if Wes exposed him...it might actually work. People might actually listen to him this time. There’s still a chance.

From that day forth, publicizing the truth about Danny became the most important endeavour of his life. Because ultimately, superheroes aren’t real.

[fountainpenguin]

Can a godkid magically wish him/herself to become a halfa and gain ghost powers like Danny or Vlad?

First of all, I don’t think many humans even know what a halfa is. Ghosts know the word, but humans are unfamiliar with the concept, and up until he revealed his identity, I don’t think it’s something Danny would go around telling people.

I’ve blended the “Fairly OddParents,” “Danny Phantom,” and “Bunsen Is a Beast” universes into a single timeline in my FOP works. We’ve seen some evidence of this in my ‘fic Come What May already, and we’ll see some more in the next chapter. 

By the time the frozen timestream in FOP canon is resolved (Season 8), Danny is established as a hero who saved the world (“Phantom Planet”). He is world-renowned, and the Ghost Getters have become a recognized organization. Most people know Danny as either a superhero or as “That one good ghost who protects us from evil ghosts.” He’s very popular, especially among kids, with lots of merchandise and Halloween costumes made in his honor.

Humans vs. Creatures is one of the big themes of my Hartman show works. We see it in Origin of the Pixies and Frayed Knots when Fairies and Anti-Fairies go to war over who has the right to human godkids, with Fairies believing godparent work should be performed in secret to avoid the risk of humans hurting them or invading Fairy World, and Anti-Fairies believing the Fae should reveal themselves to humans and mingle with them freely. We see it in Pink and Gray when Gary cries over Alden Bitterroot being thrown down the wishing well because he was a witch. We see it in No Anesthetic when Zoneborn Ghosts clash with Outborn Ghosts and Skeletons over what defines a Ghost in the first place. We see it in Goodness of Misfit when Mikey struggles to convince his fellow Muckledunkers to give up their town’s tradition of dressing up hogs like Beasts and shooting them during coming-of-age ceremonies.

Danny’s role in this game is… interesting. We have one Hartman show about Creatures that often hurt humans, one about Creatures who live alongside humans in secret, and another about Creatures who just want to live in peace with humans out in the open, but who are often bashed for it. Meshing those together was fun for me. Last year, I wrote a “Bunsen Is a Beast” one-shot called “That’s What It’s Not About” where college-aged Bunsen and Amanda carpooled together to a protest in Amity Park, even though both knew they were going to be in different picket lines. During their drive, they talk about Danny, with Bunsen describing him as a Creature hater, and Amanda describing herself as a girl who absolutely adored him when she was eleven, and wanted to grow up to be just like him. 

Humans may see Danny as a hero, but Fairies, Ghosts, and Beasts often view him negatively. As far as they’re concerned, he hunts and hates Creatures. By definition, since they are not human, they are Creatures. Ghosts who’ve gotten to know him may respect him as powerful, or perhaps view him as a neutral party, but Fairies and Beasts don’t like him very much.

About halfway through FOP Season 7, Danny is famous around the world in line with “Phantom Planet” canon, and people who live within a few hours of Amity Park may vaguely understand that he is simultaneously human and Ghost. Other people may see him purely as a human superhero, and others purely as “that one good Ghost.” Fairies tend to dislike and avoid Danny, and don’t know much about him.

Few humans would know the term “halfa,” so it’s more likely a godkid would wish to be a superhero and describe some of Danny’s powers, or if they’re more knowledgeable they may wish to become a Ghost or visit the Ghost Zone. The wish itself is possible as long as the godkid is specific about exactly what they want their godparent to do. 

Fairies vaguely understand that the Ghost Zone exists (In my DP ‘fic “How to Get Ahead In Navigating,” Youngblood even mentioned that he and his crew like attacking Fairy World merchants). But overall, Fairies avoid Ghosts. H.P. is known to have worked closely with King Pariah, though, and has expressed interest in reaching out to Danny for paperwork reasons as well. In one of the upcoming 130 Prompts, “First Impressions,” he even specifically mentions that if Danny Phantom was able to bring Ghost Zone paperwork to the Creature Convention, and if Bunsen was able to show up with Beast World paperwork, Rudy Tabootie has no excuse for not bringing ChalkZone paperwork. Pixies stick their thumbs in everyone’s pie.

Wishing to “be just like Danny Phantom” could work, to the extent of knowledge a Fairy has about Danny. They would likely make their godkid into Danny’s Phantom form, but not give their godkid the ability to switch back into being a human without a wish, simply because even though they know his existence, they may not understand his powers very well. Most Fairies and Ghosts consider each other natural enemies and avoid one another. One of the plot points we’ll see in Devil’s Backbone is our new High Count trying to make alliances between the cloudlands and the Ghost Zone.

Also, one of the established rules in my canon is that members of the Big Three Magical Groups - Fae, Ghosts, and Beasts - can’t cross into one another’s worlds without explicit permission granted by a member of that Group every single time they reach the border. So a godkid who slips into the Ghost Zone would be without his godparent unless they can convince a Ghost to grant permission for the godparent to cross the border every single time they enter the Ghost Zone. Magic doesn’t even work in the Ghost Zone anyway.

Now that I think about it, since humans canonically function like Ghosts once they enter the Ghost Zone, fae should function like the fae versions of ghosts too, which means godparents would become creepy clumps of dust that swirl about, constantly dissolving and reforming every few seconds, their speech scattered with static and very difficult to understand. Fun times.

A godkid would also get the Pixies on their tail pretty quickly if they visited the Ghost Zone anyway, since big border jumps like these tend to involve a lot of paperwork once the Pixies find out. It’s for safety reasons, mostly- Fairies don’t have jurisdiction in the Ghost Zone, which gets messy on the legal side of godparenting work if a godkid gets hurt.

TL;DR - Yes, a godkid can wish to have some ghost powers, but wishing to freely switch between being a human and being a ghost would be difficult for a godparent to pull off, simply due to lack of knowledge on the subject.