#paulina phantom au

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My second @green-with-envy-phandom-event is finally done!! Paper doll Paulina drawn by @marzfartz , then printed onto patterned paper and coloured from there!

Bonus: Just because Paulina Phantom’s clothes’ colours get inverted doesn’t mean she can’t pick up some pink accessories after the transformation!

Progress shots under the cut!

(If you look closely, you can spot some of the pieces @marzfartz was making for her own dress-up doll!)

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Ghost Girl

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

Finally posted the full collection of Paulina Phantom AU ficlets and illustrations that @marzfartz and I created for this year’s Ectober! Includes two bonus ficlets that I never got around to posting here on Tumblr.

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Ectober: Dragons

A part of the Paulina Phantom AU.

“He so does not deserve a sister like you,” Paulina declares. “Like, you’re twice as smart and ten times as hot--and I mean that both literally and figuratively.” 

Dora snorts, a large cloud of smoke emerging from her snout. 

Paulina briefly goes intangible until the smoke wafts away, so that she doesn’t have to worry about the smell sticking to her clothes later. “See? Now, I think it’s time to put on a brave face, go confront your dumbass brother, and tell him that every princess deserves her own Sweet Sixteen ball. And if he still won’t throw one for you, I will.”

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This October, @marzfartz and I have split the prompts between us with the intention of creating non-stop Paulina Phantom content! Check out the #paulina phantom au tag for more!

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Ectober: Zombies

A part of the Paulina Phantom AU.

“I am supposed--huff--to be at a party--ugh--right now!” 

But the zombie does not care about Paulina’s social plans anymore than he seems to care about her bolts of energy. She’s struck him multiple times now, and the creature has merely shaken off the bolts (as well as loose bits of skin) before continuing to shamble along his way. Where exactly the zombie is going, she has no idea--Paulina honestly isn’t sure if he knows either. 

The party tonight, the one that Paulina is very tragically missing at the moment, is Star’s fifteenth birthday. It’s supposed to be a pool party, and Paulina bought a whole new bikini just for the occasion, and now she’s missing it because some undead loser decided to crawl out of his grave. 

“So rude!” she snaps, and changes tactics. Forget ecto-bolts; Paulina picks up a loaf-sized stone from a crumbling grave, balances it consideringly in her hands, and then hurls it with all her ghostly strength. 

The zombie’s head makes a literal popping sound as it sails off into the distance. 

Paulina plants her hands on her hips, impressed. “Maybe I should try out for the softball team.” And then she catches a strain of music in the distance and perks up. “That’s my song! They’re playing my song and I’m not even there yet!” 

She leaps into the air, casting one last disdainful look at the twitching zombie body on the ground. “See you never, loser!” 

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This October, @marzfartz and I have split the prompts between us with the intention of creating non-stop Paulina Phantom content! Check out the #paulina phantom au tag for more!

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Ectober: Dread

A part of the Paulina Phantom AU.

“I am not going to be stuck like this forever,” she told Danny when the accident first happened, when her hair turned white and her clothes ice-blue. She had looked in a mirror and seen a stranger staring back and declared that this was not going to be her reality for long. 

But it turns out it isn’t so easy to reverse your own half-death. Turns out this isn’t the kind of problem you can throw money at to escape, and there isn’t any easy undo button. And maybe there are upsides, maybe it’s not so bad to be a superhero with fawning fans… 

It doesn’t help the dread, the chills down her back, when she picks up a mirror these days. Because what is she supposed to do about the fact that the stranger’s face is starting to look far more familiar than her own?

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This October, @marzfartz and I have split the prompts between us with the intention of creating non-stop Paulina Phantom content! Check out the #paulina phantom au tag for more!

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Ectober: Portal Shenanigans

A part of the Paulina Phantom AU.

It’s not like Paulina had wanted to visit the lab belonging to a pair of mad scientists. If she’d been given a choice, the afternoon would have been spent at the mall along with her besties. She could have been shopping, gossiping, and passing out catty remarks. Instead, she’d been guilt-tripped into spending more time with her father, which really meant accompanying him while he checked up on his angel investor projects. 

Look, she loved that her father was rich enough to hand out money to every crackpot inventor that caught his interest. She just didn’t want to spend her afternoon surrounded by strange beeping machines with no discernable purpose while her father discussed such fascinating things as timelines and budgets and expected ROIs. 

Boooring. 

At least he’d promised they’d stop for milkshakes at Lola’s Diner afterwards. Paulina might have been watching her figure, but she also wasn’t going to turn down a Lola’s Shake with her father. She would just have to skip the dressing on her salad at supper, and maybe hit the treadmill tomorrow morning even though she didn’t usually do cardio on the same day as cheer practice.

It was halfway through this mental planning that her father pulled up in front of the last stop on the list. Paulina looked out the window at the flashing neon sign and cringed hard. “I’ll wait in the car, Daddy.” 

“No, you won’t,” he said. “There’s nothing to do in here. Come on, stretch your legs. Say hello. Let me show off my pride and joy.” 

There would be nothing for her to do inside the lab, either, once her father had finished showing her off. Worse, this was the Fenton lab, situated in the basement of the Fenton home, where the Fenton scientists lived with their two Fenton children--one of whom had the most loud, embarrassing, disgusting crush on her. 

But there was no talking her father out of something once he’d made up his mind, and he was apparently dead set on introducing her to absolutely everybody. So Paulina bit down her protests, made sure her new phone was in her pocket, and followed him up to the door. 

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They were down in the laboratory, and Danny Fenton was staring at her--had been staring at her from the moment Paulina stepped foot in their house. Paulina was doing her best to ignore him in return. She’d given the Doctors Fenton very professional handshakes while her father beamed with pride, dutifully followed the adults down the stairs to their basement lab, and then whipped out her phone the instant their attention turned away. 

Star and Valerie were at the mall, and had started texting her pictures of potential new outfits. It was Paulina’s sworn duty as top fashion expert of their trio to thoroughly evaluate every single option, even if she couldn’t be there with them in person. 

It was almost enough to keep her entertained while the adults talked about investments and testing procedures and expected timelines to launch. The three of them were crowded at the far end of the room, attention split between diagrams pinned to the wall and a huge metal construct built into the wall itself. 

Her phone pinged again. It was Star in another crop top, with the caption: Rad or bad? 

So rad, Paulina decided. She sent her reply, and then made the mistake of locking eyes with Danny when she glanced up again. He gave her a hopeful smile and Paulina responded with her best get lost, twerp scowl--only to hastily wipe the expression from her face as the adults moved away from the huge device. 

“We keep all the financials in here,” Dr. Jack Fenton was saying, leading the others into a side-room. 

“So,” said Danny as soon as the door closed behind them, “Guess it’s just you and me, now.” 

Paulina snorted. “As if.” 

He was not deterred. “Wanna see something cool?” 

She waved her Motorola. “The only cool thing to look at is on here.” She paused, then added, “And myself, of course.” 

“Of course,” echoed Danny, still unphased. He was already sauntering backwards toward the huge device his parents had been showing off. “Come on, don’t you want to see?” 

Paulina lowered her phone and rolled her eyes. “No.” But despite this, she found herself following Danny across the lab until they both stood side-to-side in front of the huge, dark opening. 

“Cool, right?” asked Danny. 

“So cool--not.” Paulina made a face. “It’s a bunch of metal and wires. What’s it even supposed to be, a giant cave?” 

Danny started to wave his hands with far to much enthusiasm. “When this thing works, it’s going to punch a hole right into another dimension.” 

“When it works,” she repeated dryly. 

He started to explain the different parts of the device, as if Paulina might possibly care. Her level of interest was way negative. But she hadn’t received any new texts from Star or Valerie yet, which meant she had to find some way to entertain herself in the meantime. 

“You sure know a lot about this thing,” she purred, slipping the phone into her pocket. “You work on this with your parents?” 

Danny stuttered, caught off-guard by her sudden change in attitude. “O-o-oh. Um. Not really, I just listen.” 

“And yet you’ve picked up all that? You must be so smart.” 

Danny’s face went suddenly, hilariously red. “Oh. Well, maybe.” 

“What happens if you stand inside this thing?” 

His forehead creased. “Well… I don’t.” 

“But it’s not turned on, right?” She made a show of stepping over the trailing wires and ducking beneath the curving metal chassis. “Look at me, I’m spelunking.” 

Danny forced a laugh. 

Paulina made it to the back wall of the device, which was only a few steps within, and gave it a loving tap before turning around. “You’re telling me you’ve never done that?” she asked, before catching sight of Danny’s face and bursting into giggles. 

The poor kid’s face was still red but now it was also twisted up in a hilarious confusion of emotions, like he couldn’t decide whether to be mad at her or scared they were going to get caught. “You shouldn’t do that,” he said in a strained voice. 

“Relax.” Just to mess with him further, Paulina took out her phone and pretended to browse through old messages. 

Danny’s face settled on mad. “Paulina,” he hissed. 

She shifted her weight, slouching to the side to lean one shoulder against the metal frame, and then froze as something clicked under her weight. 

“What was that,” whispered Danny, as two of the wires sparked.

Paulina straightened. 

And the world exploded around her.

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This October, @marzfartz and I have split the prompts between us with the intention of creating non-stop Paulina Phantom content! Check out the #paulina phantom au tag for more!

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Ectober: White Crow

A part of the Paulina Phantom AU.

Paulina wakes up to the ruffling of feathers and a loud, imperious squawk. For a moment, she thinks that she must have fallen asleep outside at the end of her patrol--up on the roof, or perhaps in the park. But when she cracks her eyes open, she finds herself nestled in her own bed. The source of the ruckus sits above her, hopping impatiently on the headboard. 

It’s a crow. A pale-white crow with glowing green eyes that glitter with intelligence. Paulina sits up, about to reprimand the ghost for the rude awakening, before spotting the time on her bedside clock. It’s well past the time for her get up; had she slept in any longer, she might have been late to school. How embarrassing. 

“Lucky you were here, I guess,” she says to the ghost crow, tentatively patting its head. The crow preens under her attention. 

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This October, @marzfartz and I have split the prompts between us with the intention of creating non-stop Paulina Phantom content! Check out the #paulina phantom au tag for more!

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Ectober: Claws

A part of the Paulina Phantom AU.

It’s not that Paulina doesn’t enjoy her new shapeshifting power. The ability to take on physical aspects in a fight that directly oppose her foes’ attacks is beyond helpful. Plus, the ability to make herself look more or less threatening depending on the situation has helped her deescalate a fair number of conflicts before they even reach the fighting stage. And she won’t deny that it’s been a relief to occasionally change up her Paulina Phantom outfit, even if doing so is only temporary. 

But for all the benefits, the shapeshifting side-effects that hit her in her human form are a bit much. Is it really too much to ask for one single family dinner without having to hide the sudden appearance of gross dragon-claw feet??? 

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This October, @marzfartz and I have split the prompts between us with the intention of creating non-stop Paulina Phantom content! Check out the #paulina phantom au tag for more!