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[demonic0angel]

Twitter AU (Part 7)

It's happening...

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And Phantom is now part of the Justice League 😏

Notes:

+ Dw too much about the merge, nobody died. However, now Amity Park is inside of a once-empty field in Illinois. This won't really be too important later (I think)

+ Danny blames himself for not realizing that his city got transported into another dimension. Emotional Arc, here we go!!

+ @anonymous-existences and my OCs finally become useful as introductions to the worlds merging lmao.

[somewhatreader]

Author Danny

So I've been seeing a lot of Danny having different careers other than being a superhero, so i present to you 'AUTHOR DANNY' or more accurately 'FANFIC WRITER DANNY'

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Part 1 ?

Everything is fine. No matter what everyone else say, everything is fine. He was totally not having a mental breakdown or anything. Actually, he was doing an amazing job hiding it- not that there was anything to hide. Of course, that was until Wes found him hiding beside the school dumpster and said the dreaded words "are you okay?"

That question was all it took for Danny to tell him everything. From his declining grades, to his parents last attempt to capture him (as phantom) and just has a mental breakdown. It was like a Dam of words just spilled. (Jazz would be proud that he is talking about his problems)

Wes who was not really expecting such a huge mental breakdown to happen gave him the one advice that always helped him whenever he was overwhelmed. ✨ writing fanfictions ✨ ( and by helped he meant distract him from the problem) and advices Danny that if he didn't know what to write, then he could probably take inspiration from other fanfic writers/promt writers *cough* tumbler *cough*

Danny being oh so desperate for a distraction proceeds to go through many apps and websites reading fanfiction taking notes on the fanfictions that he liked/ could take inspiration from and found himself enjoying fanfictions that are more focused on the JL, or more accurately the fanfics that includes their well known/potential love interests. (Basically romance fanfics about the JL) (also wes's advice worked)

And so he ended up writing his own fanfictions. Those fanfics being:

*Batman x Brucie,

*Red Robin x Superboy (Kon-El),

*Superman x Brucie Wayne,

*Green Lantern x Green Arrow,

*Martian Manhunter x Superman,

*Flash x Green Lantern

*Robin x Superboy (Jon)

*and etc.

But here is the twist. Danny sister is Jazz and she wants to be a psychologist; and so whenever she rants to Danny some of it stick to him. So the fanfics he writes ends up being so emotional with so many deep meanings that could be interpreted into so many different meanings.

He showed his fanfics to Jazz, Sam, Tucker and the cause of this all, Wes. All of them really enjoyed reading everything he wrote. It made some pretty interesting debates whether which heroes would be compatible for relationship; in the end Batman x Brucie Wayne always won.

[whimizera-me]

some older drawings of mine not too proud of this one but it still makes me giggle a bit

when I get the time, ill be posting newer danny shenangigans (if you have a request just ask me <3)

[dani-halfa]

On Sam Manson’s case

Sam Manson is a weird case of a character because she is a main character in Danny Phantom and yet she doesn’t have exactly what i would call a ¨proper character arc¨.

On the surface, Sam Manson is defined by her sarcasm, intelligence,  brash attitude, individualism and morality. She is someone who often likes going against what it expected in society. She criticizes society issues and has desire to change things for the better. She rarely shows any fear of speaking up, regardless of who the person is. For instance, she stood up for Danny in ¨Parental Bonding¨ when Paulina was making fun of him. She is protective of her friends and often acts as the voice of reason in the group. 

Sam seems to be into supernatural things, she knew about the Fright Knight, also known as the ¨Spirit of Halloween¨ in ¨Fright Knight¨. This may come from being a goth or helping Danny with ghost hunting. This is an interesting aspect of his character that doesn’t get much exploration, which it is a pity because it has potential. So, with all these things that she has you would think the writers would came up with some interesting ideas for her character correct? Well, that comes the issue with Sam: They didn’t. Or well, they did, except its mostly defined by one thing. Her relationship and crush on Danny.

Like, there is nothing wrong with having the girl in the team falling in love with main protagonist. That’s completely fine!. The problem with Sam is that most of her episodes seem to be defined by the crush she has on Danny and she doesn’t have much episodes exploring her personality outside of that.

It doesn’t help that in Season 3 she is reduced to be Danny’s girlfriend as a good chunk of the episodes are about ship teasing the relationship between the two instead of exploring their characters.

Her goal in changing society is important in like two episodes and it leads to mixed results. (Mystery Meat and One of a Kind). There isn’t a bigger arc of her coming up with some project to help Amity Park or her school. The fact that her family is rich could have shaken up some plot threads. For example: Her standing up against something her parents are doing because she finds out that it is inmoral.

One episode that explores her character well its ¨Beauty Marked¨. Because of her individualism and no fear of speaking up, she inspires Dora to stand up against her abusive brother. This episode... has a few issues that have been discussed by other people in the past but i think at least it does a good job a showing Sam’s attributes having a positive impact on someone.

And yes, unironically, ¨Girls' Night Out¨ a Season 3 episode explores her relationship with Jazz and she learning to get along with her, which is weird that they did this at this point in the series and not before considering Jazz is an important character in the series and a part of the team.

The problem with ¨Beauty Marked¨ is that it doesn’t evolve Sam in a way that has an impact in the bigger narrative nor has much consequences for her later on. The same applies to ¨Girls' Night Out¨ since it is on Season 3, that has almost zero cohesive narrative.

"Parental Bonding" is sweet episode because it shows that Sam is into ¨girl things¨ but maybe avoids doing these things because she is afraid of being seen as ¨shallow¨. It could been interesting to see her trying to remain ¨unique¨ while learning to be into ¨girly things¨. Maybe Jazz could have helped her with that or even Valerie.

In contrast to Tucker, he has at least three episodes about him.  "What You Want", "Doctor's Disorders" and "King Tuck". While they don’t have much consquences of his character, they explore him quite well. "What You Want" and "King Tuck" explore his inferioty complext and desire to be admired by other people. How power can get over his head and makes not think things through. "Doctor's Disorders" is a good episode that has Tucker facing his fears of hospitals to save Danny from Spectra. As you can see, Tucker is allowed to some development outside his sidekick role. And this doesn’t count B plots from a few episodes.

To be honest, both Sam and Tucker feel like characters that the writers didn’t put much thought into them when it came to their character arcs. They are just there, sometimes helping Danny with his ghosts adventures.

The closest that Sam gets to character evolution is her learning to be less possessive of Danny and that she can’t force him to like her. ("Fanning the Flames"). There were moments that Sam expressed getting jealous of Danny paying more attention to Paulina than her. What bothers me is that her not confessing her feelings to Danny wasn’t properly adressed neither? Did she expected to be rejected by him? Was she afraid that it would ruin their friendship? This was never brought to explain why it was the case.

Eventually Danny returns these feelings to Sam.  (Frightmare- Claw of the Wild). By the end of the series they become an official couple and start dating (Phantom Planet).

Like i previously mention earlier, her character arc is mainly defined by her relationship with Danny and there doesn’t seem to be much outside that aspect. All of this is rather disappointing since Sam is a character that can be explored in multiple ways. 

A few ideas that come to my mind to fix this are: Explore her relationship with her parents, her coming with ideas to change society or Casper school, getting into witchcraft or showing an interest in the supernatural, making her go capturing ghosts on her own, meeting someone she cared about in their ghost form; to name some examples.

In all, Sam Manson is a character that is fun and had some potential to an interesting character but she wasn’t given the proper execution she needed to have a good arc.

[rose-34]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A while back a bunch of ghost trashed the Guys in White experinental lab to save some of their brethren and found an infant in the lab. One ghost decides to adopt the babe and this is what happens.

[vodkassassin]

Sam, somewhere off to the left: can’t believe we’re surrounded by idiots

[demonic0angel]

Once the Phantom Family moved to Gotham, a bunch of their villains came with them, and now they and the BatFam are in a complicated custody battle over all their villains.

(Not sure what your prompt means by custody battle but I’ll try my best)

“Now why would any of us trade our perfectly nice enemies for the Joker? Are you kidding?” Danny snorted.

Tim said, “We’ll take Spectre and Skulker in exchange.”

Danny was already shaking his head, but Jazz immediately refused. “No, no one but me can handle Spectre. She’s worse than Scarecrow and Harley combined, I promise you.”

Thank goodness Jason wasn’t here, because then everyone would’ve become nauseous with his goo-goo eyes. Dani spoke up then, “Maybe you guys can take Vlad?”

Stephanie shook her head. “Nuh uh! Absolutely not! We already have our own crazy rich, mentally unstable billionaire! We don’t need another!”

Bruce, who had been lurking nearby, turned to look at her with a mixture of bewilderment and betrayal.

Tim groaned. “C’mon! It’s just one guy! We can handle the rest of your nemeses, you just have to take the Joker!”

Danny grimaced. “Yeah, no thanks. He’s way too crazy for all of us. If you want him to stay alive, then it’s best that you handle him. Otherwise, I think Dan will just rip him into pieces in a few days.”

Tim and Stephanie both whined in complaint.

Dick, who just arrived, looked at Bruce for an explanation as to why Tim and Steph were bargaining with the new heroes to exchange villains.

Bruce shrugged.

He had no idea why, how, or when this happened either.

[demonic0angel]

Twitter AU (Part 5)

In the DP world...

Meanwhile, in the DC world...

On the hero side...

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Alright, just one more post and then we can get to plot!!

Notes:

+ Personally, I dislike it when OCs and self-inserts get too close to actual characters, so just note that you won't have to worry too much about that happening. They're just there to move the plot :3

+ Please look at the poll I have up while it's still running.