I Just Think Danny Should Be Scary

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MY WORKS:

Somethings Wrong With Danny Fenton (#swwdf)

COLLABORATIONS -

Things That Bleed - Danny Phantom x Alex Rider x SCP ( Blog for this fic @thingsthatbleedfic ) (#ttb)

FUNCTION.HEARTBEAT:SYNC - Generator Rex (Blog for this fic @function-heartbeat-sync ) (#fhs)

Proximal - Danny Phantom

MY FIC RECS

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[bidulgie]

ayo thats my son

[pheita]

Memo to everybody :

Never be afraid to recycle an idea you had for a WIP you abandoned. Sometimes the idea needs a different set of characters or a different setting.

[indecisive-behaviors]

An addition:

Never be afraid to recycle an idea you had for a project you already completed. Sometimes ideas really are just that good and deserve to be used more than once.

[mytrinketsandknickknacks]

Don't be afraid to use the same recipe to make a new cake

[noodlesstarghost]

Danny always ends up in the worst possible situation

[nondelphic]

"who’s your target audience?"

me and the five people in my head who get it

[clavelydrops]

Dark stuff actually fits Danny

[invisobang]

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Ghost boy 

[federfleisch]

Friends come and go. Relationships end. That edgy character you latched onto at age 12 is forever

[thingsthatbleedfic]

Hello, Specky here o/

So I'm not really sure how these askbox things tend to go, but I shall give it a try! First of all, I wanted to thank you three for writing this story. I've been having a rough couple weeks and going back to read fics like this one always brings me comfort.

As for the question(s), I was curious about how you guys frame your mindset to match the character's when writing their perspective. Like, what are the things you keep in mind for each character when it comes to the things they do and say? What are the traits that you think are the most important/most defining for those characters when writing them? And how do you stay in character when you do?

I know every writer has their own vision of how a character should act; were your visions for those characters different between each of you at first? How were they resolved?

Sorry, getting ahead of myself. I know as a reader we can infer things for ourselves, but I've always admired the way other writers get into that headspace for their characters, and was always curious about what you guys specifically thought about when it came to writing this story and the way things played out. I think its amazing that a story could be written by three people and be as incredible and cohesive as this fic. Things That Bleed will always hold a special place in my heart 💜

hey omg specky thank you so much for this awesome ask! we're really glad to hear that our fic gives you comfort in trying times.

between the three of us, we honestly for the most part are in accord with each other about how the story should proceed and how the characters should act! i think that's one of the really serendipitous things about this collaboration: that three people can have so much consensus about the story we're telling together. of course, we do have our creative disagreements and diverging ideas, but many of these are hashed out in our discord channel prior to our cursors touching the document. sometimes we're not sure about something and we bring it up with the others to discuss.

more under the cut! it got a bit long, also some mild spoilers for older chapters of TTB:

kkachi: i would say that for me, what i'm focusing on is how i can best bring out their character arc. for all three characters, it fundamentally boils down to having lost and learning to love again. their basic character arc is the same, which keeps them glued together narratively. how they respond to this fundamental arc, and the specific quirks to how they react, makes them different characters and POVs

i'll use yassen as an example. yassen would not be an interesting character to write if he was just doing regular assassin-y things in his scorpia era. he's interesting to write because of the tension between the calcified amoral armour he wears against the beating heart inside.

take the B&B up until the climax in chapter 11, for example. many people have pointed out that the violence of his response seemed disproportionate. this was on purpose! yassen's hammer is Murder and every target looks like a nail. that was the only hammer he has been allowed to use for over two decades. avoidance and then violence, in that order, are the only things that he knows will work.

then, sticking to the survival mechanisms he knows, in the throes of anomaly-induced panic, he shoots danny in the throat.

his actions and POV in that moment of pure fear reveal so much about him as a character: that he cares enormously for alex, that he cannot abide by the violence that was and continues to be done unto alex by the agencies vying for his free will, that he is grieving and has probably never reconciled that grief, and that faced with something scary, his answer is always the gun. even when it's not a good idea.

then there's, of course, the perceptual filters. danny is so fun for this one, obviously, but understanding each character's unique outlook on the world tells you so much. it tells you what details to prioritize in a description (facial expressions? smells? darkness? pressure points? vantage points? identifiable features?). it tells you how to write those descriptions (is fear bright? cold? creeping? does it remind you of a memory? can you taste it? do you try your best to ignore it?). this sews itself neatly to the bones of the plot skeleton and makes something very, very fun and meaty to chew on.

Kei response: Hi speck! Thank you so much for sending this amazing ask! Like kkachi said, a big part of writing them, and any character for that matter, is having the context. Their histories dictate so much of how they act and react to things. The more you can know about a character, the better you can write them.

For me personally, something I do actually is focus on their mannerisms and body language! Thinking about how they visually hold themselves or move through a space really helps me get into their shoes and write how they interact with the world they're in and each other.

Also, a key thing for me is just… how long you've spent writing a character. Like all things, you get better the more you do it, and I think the same is true with characters. My sweet spot is usually 20-30k words. Once I've written a character for that long, something about them just clicks and locks into my brain and it gets way easier for me to write from their perspective. (Funny enough! It's kinda why we started this fic in Danny's perspective iirc. I for sure had more experience, and therefore comfort, in writing from Danny's perspective as opposed to Alex or Yassen.)

On writing Danny: His POV is like. Two steps towards 3rd person omniscient with Danny as the filter

kkachi: it's so interesting writing him because sometimes he's still a teenage boy but sometimes it's so clear that he really did die in there and lost his humanity along the way

On writing Yassen: Yassen, more often than not is the perspective we struggle with the most. The way we approach writing him is based in literary fiction actually! We use a lot of narrative distance for him to have that sort of... Disconnected and pragmatic feeling to him. And we only close that distance for emotional effect when his mask cracks so to speak!

kkachi: yeah ^ one of the things we try to do is tell his emotional story in the actions and the omissions.

we hope this was an interesting response! let us know if you have any follow-up questions okay :] we're always happy to get asks!

[yukicharley]

DannyMay-29-CAPTIVE

猜猜是谁的手

[jackalspine]

FWAK DIS GUY FR

[okami-love]

Day twenty four of DannyMay! Prompt was recording. Did you know ghosts don't photograph well? :D

[thepiperatthegatesofdawn1967]

at least the colour green exists

[stealingpotatoes]

rereading your own fics/wips is a very slippery slope into finding out you actually have to finish your fics if you want them finished

[phantomrose96]

Patches reporting

[gummmy]

Line walker