Five-Rivers encounters Phantom... but he isn't himself....
A Danny Phantom Podfic for Ectober 2021.
Written by summerssixecho on tumblr, ao
Twin green lights greeted the new guest, like lanterns that lit up the foggy night, casting all attention away from the uncertainty of the murky waters up ahead. It drew the visitor to its source, like Icarus ignoring all signs of imminent danger before getting too close to being burnt.
“Phantom?” the new voice calls again.
The sound of their friendly concern made the ghost perk up. The warmth of the wide smile not quite reached the giddiness in his glimmering eyes.
“Oh, you’re really here?” The sound of the ghost boy’s words sent shivers down River’s spine. Where once had been a friendly and playful voice, was now surrounded with a soothing, white noise. The echo was still present. “Are you another gift my brothers sent me? Or just a mirage?”
Rivers looked up, down, and around. Where was ‘here’? Darkness spread below, almost moving to cover their feet. The sight of the millions of stars covering distantly the dark expanse didn’t match any of the constellations found in Amity Park’s sky. The ‘stars’ moved like wisps attached to the dark ooze, pulsing, fading, whispering, creating smaller fractals in their wake.
“Is this the void? Did I stare at it for too long?”
Phantom’s smoke-like body got closer in a blink, with no signs of moving at all to cut the distance between them. Was that even Phantom anymore? Where were the puns and the confidence? The town’s hero usually made them feel protected, safe, untouchable whenever he was fighting a ghost. But now that feeling was nowhere to be found.
“Ha, nice of you to humor me,” the ghost replied with a sinister smile. “I love playing with w̴̬̫̠̿́͗o̴̙̘͌͜r̵̤͊͑d̸͕͇̊s̵͋̐͒͜. I heard you like them too?”
His eerie green eyes stared at the ground, the once black expanse at their feet shifted slightly to a new form. Tiny orbs began to appear, mirroring the endless sky. Each minuscule light shifted into a letter, then a word, then full paragraphs to be followed on a path.
The human tried to make sense of the stream of text that continued beyond the horizon. Familiar names got their attention, “Lethe” stood out in larger letters, floating away in the ghastly road. Another look around showed different paths connecting to a larger one.
As “Lethe” got away, the words that followed whispered secrets. Lore created by ghosts, not available to any other human before, the voices said.
“So what do you say we play a game?” Phantom cut into Rivers’ thoughts. “Unless you’d rather forget about it.”
Rivers felt something nagging, a shadow lurking at the back of their mind. But this was Phantom. They needed to help him. So maybe they could play along for a while… “What kind of game?” the wary human asked.
The smile stretched even wider as the green orbs shone with more intensity. “See how many words we can play with here? It’ll be fun.” The ghost extended his darkened hand. “Here, I’ll even give you a hand.”
The visitor belatedly realized this wasn’t the myth of Icarus. This wasn’t Charon taking them to the other side.
If anything, this was closer to Phantasus and as they followed the path to a door, they lost themselves in the dream...
call it what you want by @presumenothing: and not just because presume is a friend of mine, lol... it’s a great toph zuko bodyswap oneshot.
The Family You Choose by TunaFishChris: excellent found family/platonic soulmate fic!! love the concept. it’s so good.
shadows on the walls by howlikeagod: I mean, all of their fics from the end of the world beach vacay series are good, but suki and zuko bonding? come on. it’s great.
the Dragon of the Yuyan series by @awkwardpenguinproductions: y’all probably know I love a good “zuko joins the gaang early au” and boy howdy, is this a good one
the no grave (hold my body) series by ZenzaNightwing: genuinely amazing spirit!zuko fic. it’s so well written and well thought out.
for the small prompts : Quizz n Levi first meeting :3c (any AU of ur choice uwu)
Ok so let's do... Idk villain au verse I guess
"oh it's you!" Levi blurted out. The other trainee had looked familiar at first, but once he'd gotten a closer look he finally placed where he'd seen them before. "you're one of misha's training buddies right?"
They flinched back when he grasped their shoulder. Levi squinted when he saw a bandage shimmer into existence- their brown eye turning bright red as they looked towards him, one covered in a heavy bandage that wrapped around half their face and continued down their neck.
Right! This trainee had some sort of illusory ability. At least that's what the reports told him.
"oh shit sorry I uh..." He drew his hand back, smile sheepish as he rubbed the back of his neck. "I forgot that I should ask before touching, specially since I can null other people's abilities..."
He watched as the other person shrank in on themself, hiding behind their bangs as if they were a shield.
"uh... You okay you-" ok leviathan, don't fuck this up. Remember your publicity training. "your face is kinda hurt huh?"
Smooth.
He reached a hand out to wave in apology but the other trainee just bowed before rushing off in fear.
Only later on did he find out their name from Misha.
"so he likes being called quizz? Maybe they'll let me hang around them more now that misha's got my back."
He hoped he hadn't scared off someone interesting. Facility life was bland at best and exhausting at worse.
Levi only hoped the other trainee had it as easy as he did until they next met.
I want to trade a fic of school wide prank for Wes where Danny just change into Phantom on plain view and no one bats an eye. Like, everyone at school know danny is phantom but no one tells Wes just to mess with him
I forgot if someone hav asked this yet but ☕ teen titans 2003 vs teen titans dc animated movies (like teen titans vs justice league etc)
....the animated dc movies are bad lol. I’m sorry I have to say it. TT 2003 has better animation and emotional weight than literally any TT animated movie. The TTGo movie was actually pretty good but I don’t think it counts as one of the “dc animated movies” like we think of them.
I watch the movies and enjoy them but it’s in the same way some people watch Tommy Wiseau’s The Room just to see what happens.
