Danny has very little control of his powers (month since accident)
Jazz is overprotective (yet still a 16 year old who thinks she’s an adult oof)
Parents assume it’s Jazz that’s the ghost. Why??
Assumption half ghost: I don’t believe that he believes this or knows what he is
Sam is more annoying than I remember (and selfish to boot)
Changes (or clarifications, in some cases):
Danny has previous fighting experience (his mother is a black belt, she taught both him and Jazz), which explains some of his ability to fight.
Danny possibly has some innate knowledge for his ghost self which allows him to pick up his abilities so quickly
We’re bringing Sam down (she’s vegan). She’s still very passionate, but instead of changing the menu entirely the school tries to do the “vegan for a day” thing. She’s still judgmental about eating meat, makes a few comments every now and then, but other than doesn’t make a big deal out of it unless she’s having a really bad day
Jack and Maddie do not go crazy and try to catch Jazz (Danny takes the thermos from the lab instead).
Jack and Maddie are nice/caring parents, abet very absentminded and forgetful (resulting in Jazz’s forced maturity - or belief in her own maturity).
Danny is initially quite naive and tries reasoning with the ghosts (maybe this continues or he becomes cynical later on)
Danny is still freaking out a month later and spends a lot of time trying to keep from crying or screaming. It’s part of the reason why his powers are so out of control for the first few months.
His control on his powers are very based on his emotions. It suCKS.
Lunch Lady is much less reasonable. She doesn’t hear rational excuses for why Sam can’t actually eat meat because it makes her sick. Some serious tunnel vision.
Not to mention... a lot of the meat is raw, so she’s trying to feed her raw meat, still dripping blood.
Dash is still a very physical bully, but I refuse to believe schools would let bullies get away with so much, especially with the anti-bullying campaigns that were going on back in the 2000s.
He’s smarter about not getting caught and has his friends to back him up. Nothing that’ll bruise visibly and no touching the face.
Short Drabble under cut
“I feel like I’m going crazy,” Danny whispered, eyes cast down as he tried to push back the jumbled mess his emotions had become over the last month. If he let himself go for even a moment his powers went haywire, but it was exhausting to hold it in.
“Danny...” Sam looked at him with a mixture of sympathy and confusion. She was the bigger supporter he had right now for keeping his powers (if there was any way to get rid of them in the first place).
“You’ve gotten a lot better since the accident! You haven’t gone invisible once today,” Tucker quietly said, glancing behind him to make sure no one down the hall had turned their heads. Tucker was good at that, reminding them that none of this was normal, that if anyone found out he’d be dead in another way.
God, he was dead why why it was an accident -
“Ya, but how many times have I gone through something instead,” Danny hissed back, shoulders hunched and eyes shut as he tried to fight back the swirling lights and the never ending headache that made it hard to think or concentrate half of the time. “I can’t stop thinking about it. It only takes one person. ONE PERSON and I go from geek to freak!”
“Danny!”
He looked around to Tucker only to find he was at least a foot taller than the last time he checked. The boy let out a startled gasp as he was painfully yanked up by the arm back to level footing. The chilling, almost numbing, sensation in his legs that he had failed to notice faded slowly as he was pushed forward and into the adjacent hallway.
“You’re not a freak. You’re unique! There’s nothing wrong with unique! It’s one of the reasons I’m vegan!”
“Please, you’re vegan because it bothers the hell out of your parents,” Danny muttered, looking back at her with faint amusement as she came up beside him and shoulder bumped him closer to the lockers and away from what remained of the mass heading to their lunch period.
She was good at hiding too.
“That, and I refuse to benefit from companies that support animal cruelty in the name of profit.” Arms crossed, she glared at Tucker who narrowed his eyes back at her, as if daring her to try and start with him.
“Eating meat - “
“You eat an excessive amount of it - “
“ - doesn’t make me a bad person!”
A middle finger was enough to get Tucker to stop pulling his punches.
Danny looked up at the ceiling, wondering if he should leave before the panicked thought of them not being there if he had an “episode” had him cemented to the floor as their voices joined the ambient buzzing in his ears.
Vaguely, he wondered if the wisps found high school as stupid as he did.
