#dani ask

[alexiaugustin]

no u were correct about skam austin but only S1. love the girls but the setting of Eva's season being so american for a show and plot that relied heavily on not being that it took me out.

however a texan s3 & 4 would've been peak skam and I stand by that

right like skam is just inherently unamerican thats kind of the fuck of it all. shay's season would have absolutely devoured tho

[songmingisthighs]

I figured out why Mingi's behavior triggers me so much, I had a boy act like this with me a few years back and my God he was horrible. I had to literally have a breakdown in the middle of a conference meet with higher ups wailing about how much that boy caused me my peace and sanity. He still texts me the most unsolicited pickup lines and random date offers. So I'll say one thing.

MINGI ILL GIVE YOU THE TRAFFIC CONE TREATMENT IF THIS CONTINUES

G0000000RL the block button is RIGHT THERE like this is a no tiny prick zone

BUT WYM A TRAFFIC CONE TREATMENT !!?!??!?!??

[artemisocs]

Can you share anymore about Danielle? I really like her and the premise. Also pretty fond of Hopper pairings too.

Can I? Babe there is literally nothing I ever want to do more than gush about dani!! For a bit of context (that feels super important to me but probably isn’t actually!), I developed everything about her while visiting the town that I grew up in and was super fucked up about community and extended found families and the homes you can always go back to and it really shaped the way that I developed Dani’s relationships, both with individual people and with the entire Hawkins community!

So, Danielle Carter. She goes pretty exclusively by Dani and Carter, but Will and Jonathan also call her Dan. She’s around four years older than Jonathan, grew up in a small house with controlling but emotionally absent parents, and has been babysitting since she was eleven years old. She’s babysat for all of the Party (as well as Nancy and Jonathan when they were younger), and was especially present in the Byers’ lives after Joyce left Lonnie.

When she was in her senior year of high school, she had a boyfriend and thought that they were in love. After a lot of pressure about how if she loved him, she’d sleep with him, Dani lost her virginity, only to be dumped the next day. A few months later she found out that she was pregnant, and her parents kicked her out. She’s stubborn and determined to still graduate but she also needs money, so she gets a job at the station as the overnight secretary. Do they strictly need one, in a quiet town like Hawkins? Not at all, but Flo has a soft spot for her and bullies Hopper into hiring her anyway. They really do love her there, she’s charming and sassy and cares so much and remembers everything about everyone, and it takes about two shifts before she has them all wrapped around her finger without realizing it.

They throw her a graduation party and show up to cheer for her at her graduation, and when she gives birth, Flo arranges a town drive at the station for shit like diapers and formula and wipes for her, it only lasted for 2 days while she was in the hospital (bc they wanted to surprise her) but they overflowed three boxes

She’s also extremely close with a few of the Hawkins moms, notably the Party moms but especially Karen and Joyce.

They all recommend her to friends needing a babysitter, but with Joyce and Claudia also being single moms she always insisted she’d do it for free, just give her dinner and a couch to crash on, but they’d always slip money into her bag anyways because they understand what she’s going through the best

Karen regularly offers to look after her daughter (Melissa Joyce Carter) overnight so that Dani can work and/or sleep, although Hopper lets her (and actually offered) keep a crib in the station too so that Melissa can sleep while Dani works.

Claudia Henderson always cooks a lot of food, even though it’s just she and Dustin, specifically so that she can drop off entire weeks worth of meals for Dani. Dani refuses to ever charge her when she babysits Dustin but she always finds money tucked into strange pockets of her bag, and anytime she babysits at night, Claudia insists that she and Mellie sleep on the couch instead of going back to her lonely little trailer.

Joyce is Dani’s mom, in every way that could possibly matter. Dani has known Joyce since she was eleven years old and first started babysitting, and Joyce was very much the primary adult in her life. She taught her to drive when Dani was fifteen, and a few years later, when Joyce is picking up as many extra shifts as humanly possible and can’t do it herself, Dani goes on to teach Jonathan.

Now, Dani continues to babysit Will when both Jonathan and Joyce are working, but usually Dani is over just because they’re her family and Joyce is always insisting that she comes for dinner and stays overnight and she really is just the eldest Byers child. She named her daughter after Joyce and after season 3 she moves to California with them.

She takes her first ever PTO at the station when Will goes missing so that she can be there for Joyce and Jonathan, being the first person to actually believe Joyce about everything but also being there to help Jonathan through everything – his own emotions and all of the logistics that he has to deal with.

(and then a bunch of officers tell hopper that she can have as much of their pto as she needs too and hopper is like "she's already getting as much as she needs and don't tell her but i'm not counting any of it")

The thing is, a lot of what Joyce is saying sounds absolutely insane. Will is in the walls taking to her through the lights? Like, what the fuck? Obviously Joyce is right because she’s always right, but we the GA can see why that sounds unbelievable. But the thing is, Dani trusts Joyce so fucking much. Dani trusts Joyce more than anyone else in the entire world. So if Joyce says that Will is talking through the lights, then Will is talking through the fucking lights.

(This picture right here sums up the difference between Dani’s relationships with Joyce and her bio mom better than anything that I could ever right, so I’ll leave you with a side note that Dani and Joyce have a standing coffee date every Monday morning before the boys finish school)

Now!!! That was a really long tangent about her relationship with Joyce, so now let’s go back to everything else.

Her daughter’s name is Melissa Joyce Carter, obviously named after Joyce Byers, and Dani calls her Mellie. Hopper calls her Missy, and is actually so incredibly sweet with her. There’s a lot of angst in that because of Hopper having lost his own daughter, but despite being all gruff and bad with emotions, he’s actually phenomenal with her.

I have this one scene in mind where, back before Dani actually has a place to live, she’s pretty much just crashing with different people every night throughout her pregnancy and in the early months of Mellie’s life, she’s staying at Hopper’s trailer. It’s about two am, Mellie is screaming and has been all night, and Dani just starts sobbing. She’s exhausted, she’s stressed, she just can’t fucking do this anymore. And Hopper just quietly takes Mellie, says “get some sleep, Carter, I’ve got her,” and gently shoves her down until she’s lying down. (She’s taking Hopper’s bed and he’s sleeping on the couch and he tucks the blanket around her)

And then as she’s falling asleep she can hear Hopper in the other room going “You need to settle down and let your momma get some sleep, little Missy, she works so hard to take care of you”

Also please know that watching Hopper being so wonderful with Mellie is absolutely what made Dani fall for him

and also also, please know that it'll be a super angsty slowburn full of Hopper hating himself for developing feelings for her but dear god they love each other so much and I love them so much and they're such a wonderful little family and El gets a half-mom-half-big-sister in Dani and a baby sister in Mellie!

But even outside of those main people, I just feel a lot about this girl in a shitty situation, kicked out by her parents, and this small town that could have easily judged her and shunned and ostracized her but instead went no, she’s ours, and we’re going to take care of her

So... I definitely lost the plot like 200 times here, please forgive the stream of consciousness and tangents! Thank you so much for asking about her, I really truly love her so much and I'm so glad that you're interested in her 💙

(also... one last side note, my faceclaim for slightly-older Mellie is McKenna Grace!)

[dancingintherainwithchifuyu]

hey dani! how are you doing today? your theme is really pretty btw it gives me comfy vibes 🥺 <33

Minch!!! I'm good works kinda slow which is good for me cause of my sprain. I cant exactly write because it looks like I was drunk.

Other than I'm good!!

Wbu???

And thank you!!! It's really soothing for me too rn. !!!

[chlobenet]

Are you planning/ atleast talked about dani crossovers like at all? because i need more of her in my life and i love crossover dynamics

Yessss me and @wild-stdreams have discussed my little Irish bab and it’s a general rule of ours that we cannot make an OC without the other creating an OC to be their bestie so I don’t doubt for a second that Rosie is going to produce some absolute angel to bounce perfectly off Danielle. I’ve also discussed, not a crossover but introducing Dani into Treachery at some point rather than writing a separate fic for her. Me and Jess have discussed that a little bit and I really like the idea of it a lot. Also I hear that @beacon-hills-chance-harbor has an Irish shadowhunters OC on the horizon so when I know a bit more about that character I don’t doubt that we’ll cook something up. 

[songmingisthighs]

Mingi the typa guy to say, "without me?" When a girl says she's gonna take a shower.

wbn!mingi the type of guy to say "without me?" AND BRING A DAMN LOOFAH when a girl says she's gonna take a shower

[songmingisthighs]

GO OFF JUNG WOOYOUNG

WOOWOO ATE AND LEFT NO CRUMBS

[songmingisthighs]

JONATHAN.

J O N A T H A N