#haunted ties

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one can not simply have a danny phantom au were danny does well in school. no the child must suffer academic failure if the story is to succeed. I think I've mentioned before that Danny had a harder time with school in the Haunted Ties story than compared to canon, but I didn't go into detail so I'll do it here.    Between protecting the town, learning about ghost culture, not getting caught by his parents, hiding his secret, maintaining his friendship with sam and tucker, and of course sleeping, Danny didn't have any time for school. He got interrupted every time he tried to study, he was constantly skipping classes to deal with ghost problems, and when he was in class staying awake was basically impossible cause of how tired he was.    plus, cause sam and tucker didn't know his secret, they didn't really understand why danny was doing so badly in school, and didn't really help him with it. I mean they would let him copy their notes, or offer to do homework together, and if there was a group project they basically did all the work and just let danny put his name on it. but that didn't really do much to help when danny was missing like every other class, never turning anything in, and failing all his tests cause he didn't understand the material.    and of course missing so many classes meant that Danny was constantly in trouble. He had detention a lot, and would get even more cause of missing it due to ghostly shenanigans.      but (cause I'm not heartless) anytime Mr Lancer was in charge of detention it would turning into a tutoring session for danny. cause my version of Mr Lance could see how hard danny was actually trying with his work. and while he didn't know why danny was struggling (he suspected it had something to do with danny's parents), he tried his best to help the kid out. Making him the only human adult Danny trusted.

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clockworks canon design is nice and all but I'm not drawling half a dozen watches for every panel he's in, so  I thought I'd change up his gloves + staff and call it a day. course then I went and shot my self in the foot by looking up medieval clothes and deciding that yes intricate patterns is totally something I want to add to my clockwork redesign, it definitely isn't going double the time it takes to draw him, it in no way cancels out my attempt to make him easier to draw. (also his canon color palette bugs me but I've got no idea why. will probably change it a little bit for Haunted Ties)

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Haunted Ties page 39

rest of the comic is here on my deviantart

(next page will be posted after x-mas cause I value my sanity)

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finally got around to drawling the Fentons, so I could figure out how I wanted them to look before they show up in Haunted Ties. drew a couple of different ideas for their clothes, cause they can't just wear jumpsuits all the time(though jumpsuits'll still be their main outfit) Also tried out their color palette, and realized I had a problem see in the show Danny has two different skin tones, one when he's fenton, and one when he's phantom. the skin tone I've been giving Danny and Jazz up to this point is the mid-ground between the two in the show, and I was planning on giving one of their parent phantom's skin tone and the the other parent fenton's. Problem is i like both versions and can't decide which to use. I'm open to anyone's option on this matter.

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playing around with some ideas for structures found in my version of the ghost zone.

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F*ck the police

since the set up for the"prisoners of love" episode doesn't fit with the backstory of Haunted Ties I needed an alternate reason for walker to hate danny and cause the events of "public enemies". I think setting his prison on fire is a pretty good substitute. ok now a little bit of world building

   Johnny and kitty are horrified cause they understand just how badly they've fucked up. Walker's obsession is with enforcing rules and    they just torched his method of doing so, effectively making it impossible for him to act on his obsession. which is like one of the worst       things you could do to a ghost. cause ghost's obsessions are what gives them a reason to exist, a ghost without or unable to act on an       obsession will eventually just fade away. As far as ghost culture is concerned they just effectively crimped a dude and left him too die, and so they deserve whatever sort of revenge Walker comes up with.        Danny and Dora on the other hand know next to nothing about ghost culture and are comply oblivious to the consequences of their actions.    Danny cause he's only been a half-ghost for about 4 months at this point, and Johnny and Kitty have only been showing him the ropes of being a ghost for maybe a few weeks.(he's got the equivalent knowledge of a toddler socially speaking)    And Dora's been kept locked up in her brother's castle for all of her after-life, with no interaction from the outside world. she doesn't really know anything beyond what she could observe about herself and her brother, which wasn't much.    So as far as Danny and Dora are concerned, they just did a good thing. Walker was an ass-hole who locked others up for ridiculous and petty reasons, with sentences that would make even an immortal winch. And they're kinda right, sorta, if you squint.    See Walker locking other ghosts up kept them from being able to act on their obsessions (so he's a big hypocrite when it comes to his motivation for hating Danny) but being trapped in Walker's prison causes most ghosts to temporally develop a secondary obsession with freedom till they escape, it's a kind of defense mechanisms like an adrenaline rush in humans. (ghosts can have more than 1 obsession naturally, it's just rare)    most other powerful ghost (like the observants) just ignored walker cause his prisoners would escape like every other week, and a week or 2 without their obsession won't kill a ghost. It's not a good thing but it wouldn't cause any lasting damage, so there didn't seem any need to intervene. course that doesn't mean they would defend Walker if say... someone were to burn down his jail, he had it coming after all, for keeping all those other ghosts from their obsessions.    basically Danny and Dora did a bad(not really) thing for the right(sorta childish) reasons, and made themselves a new enemy.

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Family portrait 

drew a cute picture of Danny and Ellie (aka dani). might end up using this in Haunted Ties, who knows maybe this is a spoiler.

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1st attempt at drawling cujo + an older Ellie(dani) for size comparison. hopefully this looks half way decent, cause im not good when it comes to drawling animals cujo's canon color palette is sorta headache inducing so i'm gonna lower the green's saturation a bit next time i draw him.(will probably make it a bit darker too) also cujo doesn't have a canon breed which made trying to find reference pic.s really annoying, but i read somewhere that cujo resembles a bull-mastiff (possibly a mixed breed) so thats what I when with.