DP S3 RW

you like dp, i like dp, we all like dp, let's resolve some plot threads.

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ever read a story called Gravity Shift? gravity falls/danny phantom fic

thanks for the rec! unfortunately, i don’t engage with fandom content :’D so i’ve never read any fics and am not taking suggestions. sorry about that!

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vlad redemption please

but then he can’t be the big bad U- U

it’s chill, he ends the rewrite in jail for Ghost Fraud and depowered, which worked for him before, so it’s implied he gets his shit together after the end :D

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Hi! What are your thoughts on Danny's parents? I know a lot of people (especially in fics) hc them as neglectful and/or abusive- how's your reboot going to handle em?

i mean they’re just kind of bumbling innit? they mean well. they don’t always do well, because pobody’s nerfect, but they clearly try to bond with their kids and danny’s 100% sure that they’d accept him no matter what if he’s in a pinch, which says to me they’re overall good parents that he has a lot of trust in. besides, if they were overly doting when their kids were going through adolescence, i’d be more worried - the whole point of the teenage years is for kids to figure shit out.

Not to mention they’ve already gone through that with jazz (who was so self-sufficient she honestly didn’t need their help even if it was offered), so it’s totally understandable that they’re lax with danny. up until the recent slipping grades and broken chemistry sets, he’s been a really good kid, and i personally always felt that their general quote-unquote “neglect” was more a sign of trust than of not wanting anything to do with their kid.

they have their lives, he’s starting to live his independent from them, and it’s honestly a good idea to give teens that kind of space, as long as they know they can still go to you if they need anything - and he does, ultimately.

for what reason does he not tell them? it’s clear that, relatively early on, it’s not because he’s afraid that they’ll wilfully hurt him even when they know it’s him (again, he outright tells vlad that his parents will accept him no matter what, and it’s something he’s very confident in); it’s probably just because it’d be a pain in the ass. like, they’ll definitely try to use that as a way to bond with him, which...yknow, one of the things he does find annoying about them is how, shall we say, “enthusiastic” they get about ghost stuff; there’s also no way they wouldn’t make it super public super fast, most likely by accident (enthusiasm), they’ll probably get really really worried for his safety and well-being, which would cramp his style (by the time he’s expressed that he’s sure his parents would be fine with him, he’s starting to figure this ghost shit out. also teenagers have a thing called the personal fable, worth a read), he might genuinely worry it’ll put them in danger (i mean vlad already wants to kill his dad, and while they’re competent ghost fighters, like, do you really want YOUR parents on the battlefield with you when your impression of them is “largely bumbling”?), and there’s also a not-insignificant chance he'll get in trouble for keeping such a BIG and DANGEROUS secret for as long as he had. because, uh, yeah, if i had a kid and knew that kid was regularly risking his life without telling me, i’d probably have a really strong emotional reaction to it before i could calm down and talk with them rationally.

danny and his friends also have TERRIBLE foresight, so while it may make total sense from an adult POV to tell your parents, risking the short-term fallout for the long-term safety net, understanding, and stability...frankly, i think that’d be out of character for these dumb kids (especially when sam’s one of his biggest peer influences and she's deep in the throes of teenage rebellion). if danny really does trust that his parents will accept him - and he does - then yeah, his life would be way, way easier if they knew...but also, then he’d have to deal with all that other stuff and it’s like a total pain in the ass and it’s fine, the status quo is fine, he’s handling it, we don’t really need to tell them, do we?

i bet jazz is sitting to the side like ugh danny you really should tell them but ugh it’s not my place to tell them in your stead so urghgghhg

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wtf why is the drawing butch hartman did of pewdiepie except it’s danny phantom blowing up which one of you is responsible

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I’m sorry what I got whiplash reading this

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wtf why is the drawing butch hartman did of pewdiepie except it’s danny phantom blowing up which one of you is responsible

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just some doodles i never posted

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short little animation showing off my dark danny design’s cool hair/jacket heh..

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yeah, it’s ... an oc

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sometimes i think about b*tch hartman's ideas for how he'd do a dp reboot and i start to cry, is this normal

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dani! i still don’t have her or her arc all figured out yet, but I like to imagine she gets adopted by alicia (maddie’s sister) and joins the family as a cousin.

So my main issues with dani’s design are basically...just all the steps they took to make sure you knew she was a GIRL danny OOOOO GIRL with HIPS and a PEEK-A-BELLY and LIPSTICK and THIN EYEBROWS and POINTY FINGERS and EYELASHES...she’s like 12, guys

Well, we got rid of that. i like her original human design, so i’m basically keeping it, but i changed her ghost design around so it looks a bit more like an “incomplete” or “imperfect” clone would look. The beanie design gets echoed in the hood of the jumpsuit, and we kept some of her cool zigzag patterning. Anyway, if she’s meant to be the most successful clone of danny possible, i feel like she should look like danny would have looked at the age of 12. If she cut her hair a bit shorter, she’d be a dead ringer - which is probably why the family takes to her so quickly.

she’s way cooler than danny was at that age, tough and rough and strong, which is why we have to use her sparingly: if we made her a main character, she’d steal the spotlight from danny nine times out of ten.

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this isnt exactly a flattering image of him, but...

So, Walker in this rewrite! He gets to share an episode with Wulf!

It starts with Wulf popping in one day to ask Danny and co. for a favor...to help Walker out.

Danny: I thought you hated walker? Wulf: <Yeah, but...well...>

So, it turns out that Walker’s power as a ghost is pretty directly tied to how many ghosts are currently behind bars, and ever since Danny’s jailbreak and losing Wulf as his bloodhound, he’s been in a pretty bad depressive spiral. Currently, his jail is empty and he’s been drinking himself to death, and wulf basically just goes “this is like, too pathetic even for me.”

And Walker is in, like, a pretty bad place, tries to lock Danny and co. up but they just walk through the bars and then the bars fall over and Walker starts crying again, but it’s not really enough for them to want to help the guy get back on his feet since if they do that he’s just going to go after them again. Whereupon Walker perks up and promises that if they do help them out, he’ll grant them a pardon! Everyone is really skeptical about this, so Walker ups the ante - he’ll grant them a pardon, and did he mention that if his jail is operational again, they’ll crack down on ghosts that enter the human realm all willy-nilly?

And that’s an interesting proposition. The fact is, there’s been too many ghosts going through the portal, and none of the trio are getting any damn sleep, and Danny’s getting the worst of it. So tentatively, they agree to help Walker out by catching a few ghosts for him and locking them up. Honestly, it can’t make things worse.

So blah blah stuff I haven’t actually thought out yet blah, and it ends with Walker’s jail operational again. Whereupon Walker turns on them (because of course he does) whereupon Danny and Co. and Wulf reveal that they have one last condition for Walker if he wants to keep his jail: Wulf has to be his co-warden, and have as much say in the jail’s operations. And if Walker doesn’t comply, they’ll personally come to bust Wulf out.

So, sweating, Walker agrees and he and Wulf shake on it, and Danny and Co. head home. The end result of this is that Danny notes he’s actually starting to get a reasonable amount of sleep now, as random low-level ghosts have stopped slipping the barrier, and the normal rogue’s gallery takes longer to bust out in between harassment sessions.

Let Danny sleep 2k18

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Having these designs back-to-back is cool, since I haven’t done it before - vlad and danny are designed to have opposing black-and-white spots, while dark danny gets a vlad-themed coat over danny’s patterning, haha.

what, you think danny’s jumpsuit is boring? it’s fine...there’s a costume upgrade somewhere in this thing, i’m pretty sure.

>> ask me about my s3 rewrite! OAO/ <<

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every day i cry bc pariah dark’s hands to big for he got damn sword

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He’s not exactly a “favorite” ghost, but he’s definitely one of the ones that I have the most problems with, design-wise! (Dan and Plasmius being two others). The thing is, a lot of the ghosts seem to have had minimal interference when Stephen Silver was designing them, so there’s really no way I think I, with my limited skill, could improve them! ...Thankfully, Pariah seems to have had a LOT of meddling in his original design, which means the bar is really low.

Here’s a short list of things about his canon design that I have Issues with:

>> He’s as wide as he is tall and it makes him look squished, not intimidating >> His sword is ... literally too small to fit in his hands. It’s a toothpick. >> SHOULDERPADS LIKE A SUPERSAIYAN >> Crotch Circle >> His face takes up like 1/5 the real estate of his head >> Scar over one eye...scar AND eyepatch over the other... >> Got a beard but ALSO a mummy beard? >> Moobs

SO...here’s an updated version, to also fit in with some Cool Lore that’s gonna be playing a part of this rewrite. Sharp-eyed viewers will notice the new red triangle scheme, which, hm...wonder where that’s from?

I wonder.

Anyways, as for the design, I kept some of his skull motifs, and edited the armor so it looks kind of samurai-ish. I wanted to give him like, an Attila the Hun vibe, to really get this like, conqueror theme across, and also he’s got this huge broken claymore that he fills with red ghost energy (with a fire element), and also changed the color on his ring/crown to red because it fits in better with the color schemes of the people who are going to be using it.

Like...original Pariah looks kind of like someone’s terrible League of Legends OC, where they threw together every “cool” thing they could think of and it uh, sooorta works? I mean i guess his silhouette is distinct (the shoulder pads) but it’s really disorganized and his face...

Anyways -- let me know if yall have any questions....> 3>

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now that i’ve got your attention, does anyone want to see that drawing butch hartman did of pewdiepie except it’s danny phantom?

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happy holidays, everyone!

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