#ghost king

[nowherelittlegirl]

Nico likes listening to music while training, I just know it (he told me) 🖤🎧

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[alien-slushie]

No One Knows AU, but the actual story part takes place 10-15 years later at a high school reunion.

The usual No One Knows AU stuff, where there were rumors that Danny was running around with weirdos nobody recognized(ghosts), or that he was doing substances, he distanced himself from Sam and Tucker, ect.

After he barely scraped by and graduated, Danny left town and nobody could ever find any information on him, not from social media, or jobs or anything. Even his family hadn't really heard from him, just texts every few months that essentially equated to; "Haven't died(lol) in a ditch somewhere". Honestly people mostly forgot about Danny until it was time for the reunion. They couldn't find any new adresses or anything to send him an invite, so they sent his invite to his parents who let him know about the event, but Danny never responded so everyone assumed he wouldn't attend.

The reunion starts up, people chatting, and trying to prove how much better their lives are over another even though they all mostly peaked in highschool(cough*Dash*cough), before devolving into rumors and gossip about Danny, and his life thats sure to be crap, to make themselves feel better.

Their chatter is cut off by someone walking in. They cut an imposing figure, every step that echos on the gym floor commanding attention and respect. They have a familar, and unnatural glow, and they're tall, as tall as Jack Fenton, but lacking the man's bulk. They're wearing a suit that looks like it belongs in a fantasy manwha, with long white and black hair thats braided over their shoulder, some extinct flowers(not blood blossoms obviously) braided intricately through the locks, leading up to a glittering crystalline crown that seems to float above their head rather than sit upon their head. They're talking on the phone as they enter, an equally as impeccably dressed, and glowing, assistant walking beside them with a clipboard, and a number of papers.

Everyone is whispering, wondering who just walked in, as Star, the one who arranged the reunion, walks forward to ask, the person gets off the phone, handing it to their assistant. Before Star can ask who they are, they turn towards the reunion goers, revealing their unobscurred face.

"Sorry I'm late, Demons have no sense of timing." And everyone is stunned, because that, that is a very familiar voice, the voice of Danny Fenton.

"No timing indeed your highness." The assistant hummed in agreement, ignorant to the stunned room.

'Your Highness?' The group collectively thing, someone dropping their glass. 'What the Hell?!'

Or: Usual No One Knows AU BS, after danny graduates, he doesn't see a future in the human realm, especially with the GIW/Anti Ecto Acts in place, so he goes to the Ghost Zone/Infinite Realms, where he takes his place as Ghost King. Ghosts are pretty easy to rule seeing as they litterally only care about their own obsessions/interests 90% of the time, so Danny really only has to focus on keeping peace with other species(demons, gods, angels, ect). Now in a position power, Danny is also able to reach out to the US Government and 'discuss' the Anti Ecto Acts and GIW at length until a treaty of some sort could be worked out between the them. Being King and only having to focus on one thing let's Danny decompress from the stress and running around he did as Fenton. He still goes to the human world occasionally, he does still have to eat and stretch his human sides, but he spends most of that time traveling around with Dani/Ellie. Cut to when the Reunion happens, the GIW have publicly been disbanded,(Danny revealed his ghost self to his parents and Jazz before going to the reunion, they were too stunned to really react so how they feel about it is up in the air still)anyway, Danny goes to the reunion, fancy king clothes and all since he doesn't have to hide anymore.

[jack-elly]

I’ve seen de-aged Danny AUs in crossovers before but have I ever gotten to see one where there isn’t a crossover attached??? because consider:

Clockwork decides the most efficient way for Danny to defeat Pariah Dark… is to have Pariah raise him.

no warning. no context. no explanation.

just toddler Danny, bundled up, dropped at the gates of Pariah’s fortress centuries before canon with a single note:

'' He’s o̶u̶r̶ your baby. – CW.''

and Pariah is standing there like.

'' When did I fuck with the embodiment of time itself?''

'' WHEN did this happen! ''

meanwhile Danny is just blinking up at him with big glowing eyes and reaching up like “uppies.”

and now Pariah —ancient tyrant, nightmare of the Infinite Realms — is stuck pacing his throne room at 3am with a ghost toddler who refuses to sleep unless he’s holding onto his cape.

but here’s the thing.

Pariah is prideful. He is royal. He is not raising a weak heir.

so Danny is trained.

battle strategy taught at bedtime.

sword forms before he can properly read.

history of the Realms instead of fairy tales.

because if this is his child (apparently???) then he will be a prince. and he will be formidable.

and somewhere in the background

Clockwork is watching like :)

because what better way to ensure Pariah’s defeat… than making him love the thing that will one day overthrow him.

[phantomwithbreakfast]

Art trade with @ep-10 :D

I drew their Amnesiac Ghost King and their Clockwork’s Apprentice!

It was so much fun! ♡

[purpleplague2]

Lonely is the crown

[nerdpoe]

Danny won the title of Ghost King when he defeated Pariah Dark. He doesn't keep the title.

He immediately, as soon as he's aware he has it, asks what all it entails.

Sure, there's stuff like politics, but more importantly; it comes with a castle. It comes with servants. Observants/secretaries to handle the big Political decisions that Danny won't know what to do with until he has enough education to know. It comes with a support system, and education and money and doctors on call.

Danny already has a support system and education and access to money and the ability to go to the doctor whenever. But he knows someone who doesn't.

Danny abdicates the throne to Dani, so that she can grow up safely.

If she doesn't want the throne later, she'll do whatever with it, but right now, she's the Crown Princess of the Infinite Realms, and he doesn't have to worry about how she's doing constantly.

Dani, for her part, was super iffy at first, but so far it seems cool!

She has a huuuuuge castle, a bunch of teachers who teach her boring stuff like math and cool stuff like sword fighting, knights, skeleton servants that play with her, and a team of doctors that work around the clock to make sure she doesn't destabilize!

But she gets bored sometimes, and answers random summons to pass the time!

Fright Knight gets worried when she does it, and it takes him a bit to hunt her down, but it's fine. It's a...training. Exercise.

Sure.

Sometimes though, like right now, the summons lead her to really weird and questionable places.

[ayspooky1]

Hey Y’all!

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Meet Little Baby Ghoul! (Or “Lil’ Ghoul” for short.)

And Here’s Normal form.

Here’s vote names you choose are done 👈🏼

Look familiar…?👇🏼

So what’s you think?

[deikshen]

The Shen Yuan that dies - really dies. He actually dies and doesn't transmigrate, but well, you know, death is a timeless thing and the flow of time itself in the world of the dead is so weird lol So, well, let me make up that all the demons and ghost kings and cultivators inhabit this powerful timeless space where the dead also go, and oh, there's Shen Yuan now -

So, Shen Yuan is just a silly ghost fire filled with pent-up rage, damn shitty novel, damn shitty author. Is he “alive” for something? Because of how much he hates PIDW and its fucked up ending. Get a lower-ranking ghost body because he's just... angry at Airplane. His new form is, ah, well, different and weird, but he can grow his hair to go unnoticed, and can steal some robes.

Get a small job eventually just because he was bored and although he don't need to eat, it would be nice to have extra money - and the tea house owner doesn't care if he's a human or a ghost as long as he's not creepy with the customers and serves their tables. It's a routine that gives him the quick financial support to get bad books, complain more - and maybe he's getting stronger because of it? Because of his anger at mediocre authors and repressed anger? Does it even make sense?

At some point, Tonglu opens. Shen Yuan has headaches and the desperate feeling that he must go, as if he summoned. He tells his boss he's going to be out for ghostly reasons - his boss is like, oh, you needed a vacation anyway. And Shen Yuan goes.

It's a massacre, of course. A mix between the Hunger Games and the Purge, but Shen Yuan has something they definitely don't: a lot of knowledge in shooting video games. And he doesn't have a gun, but hey, he can shoot resentful spiritual energy and it works like bullets or something - he soon discovers that the more ghosts he overcomes, he becomes stronger. He has more power to throw, more skills, a stronger body.

Go to the kiln. Have bloody fights. At some point he gets a sword and it takes him forever and nothing like a training sequence to use it properly. And finally, the kiln opens and Shen Yuan comes out looking... Well, stronger.

He returns to the teahouse to change and take a bath. The owner tells him that it's been thirteen years, what the hell, but lets him in and gives him hot water and clothes.

Shen Yuan's new body and new abilities are strange to him. He notices himself taller. Stronger. His hearing and smell have improved. His abilities seem to be more wordy, as if he could persuade people if he spoke to them in a specific tone, as if his words could bind them. Well, it's not a bad way to be dead.

Shen Yuan tries to continue working at the tea house, but the humans are clearly terrified by the powerful ghost king aura in their area, so there are hardly any customers. Shen Yuan just sighs and decides to leave. He has some savings anyway.

Ghosts run away from him. Humans either try to kill him or hide. Shen Yuan is fed up; no matter if it is in the mortal world or the ghost world, people are gossiping about him and how he has not taken a Territory, about how unorthodox he is, about how they are waiting for him to start his killing spree one day.

Shen Yuan learns to change his appearance from creepy ghost to normal human, hide his resentful energy, and camouflage himself in the human world. It's a long way from his old tea house, and so many years have passed that the kind owner has probably already died, so Shen Yuan gets another job at a bookstore. Nothing unusual. Just a boy who was once from a wealthy family and was disinherited when his older brother took over the family leadership because of their bad relationship. Now he must work to live.

People swallow that story like a good meal, some even feel sorry for him.

And Shen Yuan is having a decent afterlife. Boring, mostly, but with good days. He reads a lot, gets angry a lot, writes authors letters that reach their desks without them even realizing how the hell did this crazy guy find his addresses. Let's just say he's having an interesting life.

Then one day, he meets Luo Binghe.

He... He literally knows that he's Binghe. It couldn't be anyone else but Luo Binghe. He does his investigations, and apparently, Emperor Luo Binghe exists, he has been there all along. It's not like Shen Yuan knew it; the ghost realm and the human-demon realm are divided, and even if they have a common mortal ancestor, demons and ghosts don't usually meddle in their own things.

Not that Shen Yuan wants to be cannon fodder anyway; he keeps his distance in Binghe, works at that bookstore, gives friendly greetings to his customers, and keeps sending angry letters to authors.

And one day Shen Yuan receives a direct visit from Luo Binghe at his door. With a letter in his hand.

"This letter was on my Second Wife's desk," Luo Binghe says, with a fake smile. "No one but her can open or read it, so this Lord wonders after discovering the resentful energy signature on the paper, what missives does this Ghost King exchange with one of the Emperor's wives?"

Shen Yuan is not surprised that Luo Binghe knows who he is - ever so OP the Protagonist! However, it is more difficult to explain that his wife actually writes cut-sleeved novels that the fact that Shen Yuan was reading and criticizing them in the first place.

Well, he's been dead for over a hundred years, really denying that he's at least bisexual at this point in his life...