Christmas Fic Prompt: Danny's Anger
Danny has... a lot of misplaced aggression towards Christmas. In that I don't think it's actually Christmas that he's truly angry at.
For one, from what I remember seeing, the origins of his problems with Christmas all have the same source; his parents.
The thing is, I don't really think that I ever see him direct his anger at them. I believe that, in his mind, it's a lot easier to just blame & hate & dump on Christmas, which is a holiday that can't fight him back or even defend itself, than it is to acknowledge the fact that he's actually angry at his parents who are the source of the problem.
People do this sort of thing all the time irl & I'm not even sure if he's really aware of it himself.
We also see Danny redirect his anger towards people who were never responsible for the issue to begin with all the time in the show. Is it really so strange to think that he'd do the same in this situation?
Like, we know that Danny loves his parents & wants them to trust him, but I also think that, deep down, he's also very angry at them & their selfishness. In a lot of ways, they're the cause of a lot of his problems. From being bullied (because his parents have a weird profession & are obsessed with ghosts), to never having a normal holiday, to literally dying & having to spend all his time protecting a town & people that hate him. Not to mention his failing grades which that plus his half-ghost status, means that he'll likely never work for NASA, the fact that he has an arch nemesis, & how they continuously chase his ghost half & threaten to "rip him apart, molecule by molecule."
In a lot of ways, almost every terrible thing in his life is because of them & either their obsession or their negligence.
And I think that, subconsciously, he knows this & doesn't want to face it.
Not that I think they do this intentionally or even realize that it's happening or just how much their actions have effected Danny. If they did, I'd like to think that they'd stop as I do legitimately believe they love him. (But, then again, in Fright Before Christmas, they did sort of brush it off as just being "how they celebrate," so I could be wrong.) But Danny is the sort to internalize, hide, & try to ignore things rather than work them out.
It'd actually be very in-character of him if this were the case. Danny is innately not a very introspective person who wants to avoid the emotionally difficult things as long as possible.
I kinda want to see someone do a Christmas fic based off this where Danny realizes these things & accidentally lashes out verbally at his parents, not just about Christmas, but about everything & just sorta... break down.
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