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SKULKER AND EMBER!!

Skulker/Ember - Hunter's Flame

(immediately after the events of "Girls' Night Out")

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Suffering defeat at the hands of the dipstick was humiliating enough. Suffering defeat at the hands of the dipstick's loser humans was even worse.

Ember leaned back into the couch and rolled her neck. Being stuck in that stupid thermos always gave her a nasty crick in the neck. At least the girlfriend, the one with the killer fashion sense, had enough decency to let her and Kitty and Spectra out sooner rather than later. Now instead of excruciating pain, she was only in severe pain.

Physically, at least. Mentally, the pain was definitely excruciating.

Especially knowing she'd had to slink her way through the Badlands with her tail between her legs... back to Skulker's place. Who, the last time she'd seen him, had gotten into a huge fight with her.

Surprisingly though, Skulker wasn't in his home. Nor was he anywhere on his island.

Which was a shame, because if this humiliating defeat had done anything, it'd made her realize she needed to tell him a few things. Which... would also be majorly embarrassing.

Not to mention that the longer he didn't show, the more of her nerve she lost.

Something clattered loudly in the kitchen. Ember immediately sat up (and winced when her neck protested it).

"Ancients, I swear if another one of his stupid 'trophies' found its way in here again..." she grumbled as she stormed off to investigate.

What she found, though, was not one of the many animals roaming the island, but a little green blob ghost rooting around in a drawer.

"Hey! Get out of here!" Blob ghosts were commonplace enough that they usually staked out a claim around ghosts' lairs, but usually they knew to stay out of the lair proper, let alone dig around in private places within the lair.

She shot a little bolt of energy at it - nothing strong enough to harm it. The shot hit and the blob...

... squealed?

"waitwaitwait!"

Blob ghosts also didn't usually talk.

Still with energy called up, she approached where the blob had fallen out of the drawer after getting hit. "What the...?"

"it's me, it's me! don't shoot me!"

"Aaaand, I'm supposed to know you?"

The blob ghost finally righted itself and stood on tiny little legs she hadn't seen before. It zipped up to meet her at eye level.

"yes! it's me, skulker!"

"... Huh?"

The blob ghost - Skulker, apparently - rolled his eyes. "yes, okay? this..." He sagged, dejected. "look, this is me, alright? my true form..."

Ember's eyes narrowed. "Really, huh? That's awfully convenient, how am I supposed to know you're really Skulker?"

He sighed and crossed his teeny arms with a huff. "because... because i went out on a hunt for you. to... make up for the whole tv remote thing, alright?"

Her core stuttered. "Ancients, is that really you? And - whoa whoa, wait. You went on a hunt? But what happened to... everything?" She waved a hand around his body.

"it's my ecto-skeleton. it makes me more... formidable. helps me hunt." He wouldn't meet her eyes as he rubbed a hand up and down his arm. "i didn't want it to be a big deal. especially with..."

"With... me?" Static filled her brain. "But why?"

"why? what do you mean, why? because why would a powerful ghost like you even look twice at a whelp like me?" His cheeks darkened as he spoke. "i was embarrassed, alright? i didn't want you to laugh and throw me aside, because i l- uhh, i care about... what you think of me."

"Hey, hey, chill out metalhead," she said. The pet name finally made him look up at her, and she offered a tiny smile and an outstretched hand. Warily, Skulker settled into the palm of her hand and yes, now that she was in contact with him, she could feel that this really was him.

"you... you're not mad?" he asked, almost sounding like he couldn't even dare himself to ask.

"Mad?" She scoffed. "'Course I'm mad, I'm pissed! You've been lying to me this whole time!"

"... oh."

"But I don't hate you," she said, and this time, her smile widened. "Look, I realized some things over the weekend, and if you were serious about trying to make up for the remote, then... well, I can't exactly hate you after that, you know?"

He looked up again. "really? you're... okay with this?"

"Obviously." She rolled her eyes, but the smile remained. "And... as much as it pains me to say, I'm... sorry for calling you a bad hunter. I shouldn't have gotten so close to your core like that. Not when you're someone I, er, care about a lot too."

Carefully, she leaned down and planted a little kiss on the top of his blobby head. When she pulled away, she couldn't help but laugh at his stunned face.

"So," she said, mischief dancing in her voice. "Let me guess. You went after the kid, didn't you?"

"... oh, just help me find the key to my backup shed."

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#danny phantom #skulker #ember #ask hannah #ask game #hunter's flame #scarletsaphire #idk #this one is what it is lolol #thanks for the ask!!

i think kitty, ember, and johnny are all close. and then skulker tagged along with them for a while because he was ember's boyfriend.

but neither kitty nor johnny are close with him because skulker is from a much earlier era (i hc skulker as having been a paleolithic hunter-gatherer), is out of touch with a lot of modern culture, and shares barely any interests with the rest of the squad.

johnny tried bonding with him over mechanical stuff once, but johnny likes cool cars and motorcycles and wasn't prepared for skulker's nonstop gun talk.

(johnny, 10 minutes into skulker rambling about which guns are the most fun to kill people with: what the fuck does ember see in this guy)

#danny phantom #dp headcanons #i guess? thats what this post is abt but who is even going in those tags #kitty #kitty dp #dp kitty #johnny 13 #ember mclain #skulker #skulker dp #hunter's flame