#ghost of sleep

[cerberus253]

Hi. Here's some interesting Nocturn faces because I've gained a Hyperfixation on him.

Enjoy the Sleepy-Time Junction Conductor

You’re Welcome😴💤🌃🌙

For a celestial owl-faced, goat horned, old spirit man, he's got some funny/cute faces.

Also, his yelling does sound like a stereotypical old man, and it's funny. He also says "nap time" when threatening to kill Danny. Nocturn is amusing.

[thesoulspulse]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52784995/chapters/164230528

Glad I took a break from this until I was ready to work on it again. I won't go into too much detail but a close cousin of mine that I grew up with who was practically like an extra little brother to me passed away on March 1st so we've been recovering from the shock of that. Don't worry, I'm doing a lot better now and have had a lot of support from the rest of my family and friends. Therefore, I'm in a much better place to resume writing about fictional family drama between Vlad and Danielle who're kinda going through a lot at the moment themselves...

Especially Vlad, who is extremely pissed at Nocturne and ready to avenge his little badger by any means necessary whether she likes it or not.

[hellhoundpet]

Something entirely self indulgent and I have NO SHAME. Nocturne was always one of my fav villians from Danny Phantom. Dreams and sleep and all and I love his design.

[thesoulspulse]

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

Ironic that just when things are looking up, something bad has to happen to screw everything up. Poor Dani, she just can't catch a break. I know the feeling. And just when she was settling in for the night after having a good time bonding with her new kitten Leo too!

[thesoulspulse]

I was inspired and before I forgot the idea I went ahead and drew a genderbent version of my Good Nocturne. Just like her male counterpart, this Nocturne has Dreamweavers who help her craft special dreams out of threads from the Tapestry of Fate to guide mortals who are in need of a gentle nudge in the right direction...

She is a serene being who would much rather bless everyone with sweet dreams but understands the need for nightmares as a warning, sometimes even a punishment. Very few have seen Nocturne outside of their dreams, if at all, but all are welcome to her domain if they want to be granted a short respite from their troubles. And finally, she is most famously known for sealing away Pariah Dark along with the combined efforts of several other ancient spirits in the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep where the Ghost King is unable to even dream.

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[thesoulspulse]

Regarding The Ancients (Part 2)

I think this screenshot says it all. In the last post I talked about the Ancients in general and there are a lot of great candidates for who they were in the Danny Phantom cast. After all, villains could count among them too because all Skulker said was that “...a group of powerful ancient ghosts banded together in a last ditch effort to defeat the King” which when you think about it doesn’t necessarily mean they were all ‘good’ ghosts. They probably had no choice but to become allies to take down someone who threatened the balance of both worlds...

Part 1: https://thesoulspulse.tumblr.com/post/698786699553177600/regarding-the-ancients-part-1

Still, I like to think of most of them as the good guys so we’ll start with them.

Clockwork is obviously the most logical choice because not only is he already wearing a purple cloak that’s extremely similar to the Ancients in the flashback, but he also has statues of the Grim Reaper, aka Death, all over his tower along with lots of scythes. But it makes sense given how he’s probably old enough to have known Death personally. Bonus points if they were brothers since time and death go hand in hand.

Sorjourn is another mysterious figure we know very little about but it would make sense for him to be one of the Ancients too, perhaps even their leader. In fact, before they defeated Pariah he probably had to make himself scarce since he didn’t want his vast knowledge of the Ghost Zone to be abused. Especially since he’s the only ghost rumored to have found a path to the Elsewhereness, aka their version of paradise or heaven. My personal headcanon is that he CREATED the Infimap and then entrusted it to Frostbite who we’ll get to in a second.

Frostbite is definitely up there too just like @ecto-stone​ pointed out since he’s implied to be old enough to have been around with his tribe during Pariah Dark’s original reign of terror. His cloak may be tattered, but he’s wearing one too which is a good sign in my book.

Nocturne is definitely another prime candidate and ironically, I wrote in one of my fanfics that he DID help trap Pariah Dark in an eternal but dreamless sleep so he couldn’t plot anything while imprisoned. Obviously he’s not wearing a cloak but since Nocturne is literally shrouded in shadows its pretty much the same thing. I like to think he didn’t used to be all that evil, he just got tired of having to live off of the ‘scraps’ of human dreams and later on decided to take matters into his own hands and put them to sleep by force to harvest a lot more energy at once.

As much as I like Undergrowth, personally I can’t see him as an Ancient only because from what I can tell he’s been dormant on Earth for a long time and even Frostbite is wary of him when he mentioned him to Danny, implying that he’s never met him but knows how dangerous an enemy he is. I can’t see him working with anyone since his priorities seem to lie with protecting plant life from foolish humans which are mostly found on Earth anyway so I doubt the political affairs of the Ghost Zone back then concerned him much.

That, or as a plot twist maybe he could have been one of Pariah’s allies.

“I have heard tell of this Undergrowth. A powerful ghost he is. Capable of regenerating himself and producing numerous killer offspring. Nearly impossible to defeat.”

~ Frostbite, Danny Phantom Season 3, Urban Jungle.

In exchange for Undergrowth, I think Pandora is a great fit since she already created Pandora’s Box to contain the greatest evil so wouldn’t it stand to reason she could use her skills to build the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep too? Plus, there’s more skeleton symbolism at the altar her box is kept. Greeks had Sarcophagus’s too, but theirs were literally more like ornate coffins or ironically boxes.

Then again, the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep looks more Egyptian than Greek. So maybe an unknown Egyptian ghost was one of the Ancients instead?

The Observants obviously care a lot about maintaining balance but they even say all they can do is watch so I kinda doubt they had an active role in defeating Pariah apart from giving council. Honestly, that’s probably why Clockwork detests them so much because they're all talk while HE and the other Ancients actually did something proactive to stop Pariah.

So anyways, long story short I think Clockwork, Sorjourn, Frostbite, and Nocturne are pretty much locked in as Ancients in my eyes which only leaves the remaining three. Pandora might be one along with an Egyptian spirit like Anubis which I would absolutely love since he’s a god of the dead. I only say A god because I think a lot of different religious figures are real in the world of Danny Phantom and are more likely to be ancient god-like spirits.

Lastly, to go along with Anubis, it’s possible that Death takes on many different forms so they could be the same entity or entirely separate ones. If it’s the latter, then it makes perfect sense that the classic Grim Reaper would be one of the Ancients.

And that makes seven.

In the end though, these are just my personal thoughts and there is no right answer since there’s just not enough information to go off of. It’s all pure guess work which is both a blessing and a curse in the phandom. Still, I hope you enjoyed hearing my thoughts and I’d love to hear more of yours too!

Ah, and before I forget, here’s a bonus idea. I have a personal headcanon that some of Aragon and Dora’s ancestors fought against Pariah and lost, hence why he has skeleton dragons in his army.

[thesoulspulse]

I'm mostly just trying out a possible mural technique and thought my AU version of Nocturne would look good as this kind of silhouette so I borrowed his design from another drawing of mine. I mostly talked about his powers in "Lost Soul" but since he's going to be making an appearance in "Final Epitaph" as well I'll explain them again...

So this Nocturne has the power to read the threads that make up the Tapestry of Fate and weave them into the dreams of others with the help of his Dream Weavers (aka my replacement for Sleepwalkers) and the 3 Fates themselves. These threads can show him fragments of someones past or possible future which is why he uses his powers to indirectly guide them and help point them in the right direction or warn them of incoming dangers.

Only Clockwork can see the full picture though which means Nocturne often has to ask for his council in more serious matters the threads have shown him since its pretty easy for him to misinterpret the dreams woven from them. After all, Nocturne is the Master of Dreams, not Time. And yet both of them have important roles to play in the grand scheme of things.

Lost Soul: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13761033/1/Lost-Soul