Just sharing this real quick while brainstorming for the Good Vlad AU drawing but I think I may have finally figured out a way to make characters look intangible like Vlad and Daniel were in a fanfic of mine.
Original:
(Warning, spoilers below the line if you haven't read "Ghost In The Machine" yet)
Wishing I could help him too, I watched as Vlad stared at Daniel, then at his hand thoughtfully and turned it intangible and tried again. And when he did, we both gasped when for the very first time, Vlad touched Daniel. A shiver ran up my spine as I unconsciously reached for my wrist too. It was almost like…I could feel a phantom of their touch, or maybe I was just imagining it, since this was such a big moment for Daniel, as his eyes welled up with tears and he looked at Vlad, amazed and more than a little overwhelmed by it.
"You're…you're touching me. I can feel that." His head snapped up to Vlad's face. "I can feel your hand. You're touching me. Father, you're touching me."
Daniel repeated this several times in a small weak voice, almost afraid to believe it was really happening until Vlad laughed softly and explained. "You're stuck intangible, my boy. Your signature is too weak to manifest a full body so the projector is helping you do that to some degree. But you appear to be stuck like this for the time being."
Without missing a beat, Vlad turned completely intangible and pulled Daniel into his arms, hugging him tightly. And Daniel, in response, wrapped his arms around Vlad too and whispered lovingly. "Father."
Ruffling his hair, Vlad cradled his head close, his own shoulders shaking too as he choked out in a deeply emotional tone. "I am so sorry, son. I am sorry I couldn't see you before. But you are real."
He whispered in return with equally as much hope in his voice. "I promise you are real. I wish I deserved your love but I will strive to be worthy of your affection, my boy. I won't make the same mistake again. I promise."
Daniel smiled at him through the tears and nodded. "I… I love you so much. And…I forgive you, Father."
Honestly, this felt like a really private moment as I stood there awkwardly watching the whole exchange. But at the same time, I was happy for Daniel. It looked like things had worked out between them in the end after all. Still, as happy as I was for him, I was still kinda worried about how Vlad was taking all this. After all, I knew him better than Daniel did and who knows what might happen now that he's got what he wanted, a clone of me to be his son…
I just hope he doesn't screw this up for both of them with his bad habits.
So I got such a kind message from @thesoulspulse , through talking with them I learned of their Danny Program AU! Which has a whole fic attached to it which you can read here
I still absolutely love the AU’s this Phandom creates, I can’t help it if inspiration takes me in it’s grasp when I see one! >vO
I've been rereading all your fics on ao3 lately, and I had a thought. What if the Danny Program AU got combined with It Was an Accident, I Swear? So Vlad and Jack both unintentionally made a viable clone of Danny?
That would be too hilarious. Poor Danny is the most cloneable person ever. 🤣
Great news everyone! I finally got a ton of my original art project files back recently which means I can at long last resume a bunch of them I was working on before my laptop crashed. And to celebrate this I thought I'd ask you, my followers, what you'd like to see artwork for next!