An AU where Danny Fenton is suicidal.
The boy decided to fix the portal wasn’t just to help his parents.
A part of him quiet, broken—hoped it might end him.
A clean accident. A way out that wouldn’t look like he gave up.
Still, he managed to fix the portal.
The accident left its scars.
His body colder than ice.
Skin—ashen, sickly pale, shadows sunk deep beneath his eyes.
He lies to everyone, laughs it off, says he’s just going through some “emo phase” from hanging out with Sam too much.
His friends play along. They smile. They worry.
They don’t know how to help.
Fragile as he is, he still hunts ghosts.
Still guards a city that doesn’t even notice he’s fading.
The boy, reckless and bright in all the wrong places, tells himself there’s nothing wrong with being a halfa.
He feels powerful when he’s Phantom.
He rolls his eyes when Vlad and Box Ghost shows up.
He guards the city while playing little chase games with his ghost hunter parents and Red Huntress.
In those moments, he feels—
The monster beneath his skin.
His own reflection twisted beyond repair.
he can’t balance the pieces anymore.
How can he protect anyone when he himself is something that should not exist?
The boy begins to believe it:
His parents were right all along.
Ghosts should be destroyed.
He was meant to destroy the boy, not bring him back, not recreate him…
especially not after the boy vanished from the mortal world.
such a constant thorn in his side.
And even now, the clones refuse to hold together.
What Vlad doesn’t understand is
they, too, don’t want to exist.
Clone after clone collapses, melts, crumbles in his hands.
Just like the day he stumbled upon Danny’s lifeless face.
The boy had smiled, soft and small—
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