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See I want Dash to be the phantom team medic because like Jazz is only equipped to handle emotional wounds. Sometimes you need a huge guy who should be a nurse working with children asking if you want the hello kitty bandaids or the trucks.
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I like the idea that once Dash doesn't get a scholarship & his parents learn about his bullying tendencies, his parents (or at least his mother) send him to boot camp & he ends up with some talent for being a medic.
In my mind, Dash's father is a pillar of true masculine toxicity & very obviously homophobic.
Like, I feel that the terms are overly-used these days & has lost some of its meaning, but I do feel like there are certain traits of men that can be toxic if they don't learn balance, just like how I think there are certain female traits that can be toxic too.
Like, for men, there's aggressive & violent when they need to be & that's just part of being a man, it can even be a good thing in certain situations. Then, there's being overly aggressive & violent when there's no need for it or in a situation where it's not appropriate or where he's being legitimately abusive. Like, literally just because they're angry or wanna hurt someone. (I mean, if a couple guys get into a fistfight, then afterwards they laugh about it & go get a drink together, no harm done, then that's fine. Sometimes, that's just how guys interact.) Then there's overly stubborn & a refusal to be wrong & the need for others to be subservient. Those are the sorts of things that are toxic, but they aren't innately male-centric characteristics & are toxic no matter who acts that way.
Luckily, I haven't met many men around me who exemplify this sort of thing.
As for homophobia, again, there's a difference between not agreeing with someone's lifestyle, yet still supporting their right to choose how they live... & outright hating homosexuality & treating such individuals as something less than human.
Dash's dad is the latter.
I also see him as the type who'd use "quit [insert verb here] like a girl" in ways that aren't in jest.
I see Dash's mom & dad being abusive in different ways, the mom, Freida, being more negligent with the dad, Harvey, being more verbally abusive, loud, & demanding. Not necessarily physically violent, though it did happen once or twice. Once to his wife & once to Dash himself. But both times, there'd been this sort of... haunted expression on his dad's face afterwards. Like he was seeing a ghost... Interestingly, he never struck out in anger at either of them again even though there were a number of times when he seemed to raise his hand or fist high with a face like thunder. Though he never followed through, his hand or fist always shaking before he'd instead punch a wall or slam his fist down on a table the stomp out of the room. (Because, I hate 1-dimensional characters. I need almost everyone to have some sort of redeeming aspect to them.)
However, even though he never really struck Dash (after the first time, anyway), he did push Dash to be "the best" in ways that are honestly a detriment to him.
So, when Freida & Harv finally got a divorce, Dash's mom saw some of the makings of the man she married through Dash's bullying & decided that she couldn't handle it.
So, she sent him to boot camp which straightened his ass out quick & in a hurry!
He later chose to apply to the military & even later became a field medic.
He becomes a much better person because of this, his experience with teams helping him a little bit, though basic training was, like, even worse than football training could ever be, & even though he & his mom aren't on good terms, he's thankful that she put him through that even though it was for her own self-interests. Being from a town where ghosts attack at all hours also tends to help with one's reaction time.
Once he retires from the military, he goes back to school & becomes a full-fledged doctor. A surgeon specifically & he does pretty damn well.
Thing is, had his parents not gotten divorce, he would've become what he did in TUE. A fat, washed up loser.
He's also married with kids. He's bi, but he ultimately decided that he wanted a wife & kids of his own blood more than he ever could a man, so he chose to seek out women once he realized that. It's in that moment that he realized that while he was bisexual, he was also heteroromantic & felt no true romantic connection to any of the men he'd dated before.
He'd always found that odd, but now he understood.
Ultimately, he's happy &, at the 10 year reunion, he made sure to apologize to all the guys he bullied back then. Including Fenton.
They're decent friends now. Still razz & bitch at & insult & prank each other, but there's no heat to it anymore & even when they do fight, Danny fights back now &, as mentioned above, they tend to laugh about it before going off to get beers together afterwards.
Just dude shit.
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Actually Tucker being afraid of Doctors and hospitals would be kind of interesting with Dash as the team medic bc it's like Sam means well but doesn't make him confront his fear and even if she did Tucker probably wouldn't listen to her. But you have your ex bully putting on his best bedside manner and Tucker who faints if someone pops their knuckles the wrong way.
Some more dash and a-lister posts that technically aren't canon but I feel like should be.
-Sam before her goth phase used to actually have playdates with Dash and Paulina because of parental obligation things. They all have a mutual understanding to never bring this up.
-they were the kids that had elaborate/cursed pretend barbie soap operas.
-dash stopped hanging around the girls in like the 5th grade, and this kick started Sam's joker phase bc of this "betrayal."
-Paulina's family bought a bunch of possibly haunted furniture from Ghostwriter's estate sale -- it has the side effect of giving her weird dreams and chronic head aches, but damn that chaise lounge looks killer.
-i full hearted believe that Dash if given enough time would have become the phantom's team medic. And when asked why he was such a jackass freshman year he would say "its because it's infinitely easier to hurt people than to fix them."
-on top of the cutesy band aids and teddy bear collection, Dash has a pink DS as well as other stuff like this. Its genuinely his favorite color, mostly because it's practical-- you can see it really easily, he knows no one else on the football team would have pink stuff-- ten percent because it looks good on him.
-Dash is Sidney Poindexter's Nephew. Sidney Poindexter was Dash's Father's brother.
-Same thread I think it would be funny if Star was distantly related to Young Blood- explaining her childish traits.
-Kwan's family owns a liquor store or some other small business in town. I say liquor store because it would be really funny to have a store called "Amity Park Spirits."
-Kwan's dad I feel like would be friends with Jack. Or at the very least Kwan's dad is friendly with Jack.
-Kwan is extremely different around strangers versus his real friends. Kwan is formal and courteous with strangers whereas his friendship Dash allows them both to indulge in their worst traits.
-Kwan and Val are Exs but are still really good friends, because no one can resist Kwan's charms. No one.
-Paulina and Dash love horror movies, Kwan can't stand them.
-Kwan is actually just a big of a coward as Dash maybe bigger but his fear response is to freeze, instead of run.
-Paulina, Dash, and Star try to keep up with the Phantom and ghost stuff-- while Kwan and Wes sound like those guys who can't tell celebrities apart.
-Kwan and Wes-- underrated dynamic I feel. Absolute Sunshine Child with the crustiest little guy.
-Wes only looks short in comparison to the others but being the basketball dork he still towers over the phantom trio. Though Paulina and Star don't let him get a big head about it-- they wear heels to dwarf him.
-Wes and Tucker are on the school paper together. Half because Wes is stalking them, half because he wants to perfect the craft of writing the perfect roast. Tucker despite thinking Wes is a total clown show often works with him on assignments.
Anyway, Jazz and Dash being the Team medics and trying to get the phantom trio to practice self-care.
Dash being into sports medicine and treating team phantom's field injuries is something so important to me. Yes he also has a fanny pack full of candy and stickers.
Me and the three other people who want good things for a queer coded dumb jock character from 2004 are living rn
Alright you caught me, my medic dash posts are a way to solve the bland characterization of the show and fanon material by making the nebulous phantom trio into a phantom-five man band with clear defined roles that would fit into an episodic and serialized narrative better
