This is some character-building I did for Years!Danny while I was bored. Questions are from prompts-and-pointers. These detail Danny’s growth throughout high school. In this AU Danny’s birthday is September 23rd and he is halfa’d the day after he turns fourteen in 2004.
How is their tolerance to frustration? How do they deal with frustrating situations?
AGE 14 – Danny doesn’t deal with frustration very well. Before he was halfa’d he learned through enduring years of bullying not to fight back, biting his tongue and keeping his hands to himself. When he was younger he was much more reactionary to others jibing him. The more he lost miserably, the more reserved he became. The frustration festered hopelessly inside of him. After he was halfa’d he found he had a new outlet for his frustrations; fighting ghosts. Once he realized he could use his powers to get back at people like Dash Baxter and his cronies, he was all for it, finding relief in doing so. Even after his encounter with Sidney Poindexter he continued to harass Dash invisibly or via overshadowing now and again. It wasn’t until Pariah Dark’s invasion it hit him that he needed to find more responsible means to unleash his dissatisfactions. He still tends to take out misplaced aggression on ghosts he fights, but to his mind, better them than a human.
AGE 15 – Danny can deal with frustration in human form much better than before. He swallows it down and tells himself that it’s for a greater purpose. In ghost form things are changing. He finds he can’t just fight off every ghost that comes his way. Ethical and moral questions pop up in his head and now being half-ghost isn’t simply something he has to deal with, it’s what he is. At the same time he’s accepting who he is, other frustrations are building up. Danny starts falling into the onset of depression.
AGE 16 – With five new teammates, a half-ghost girlfriend, a Vortice to guard, and his sister heading off for college, Danny has a lot of new responsibilities on his plate. With Melete the Warrior as his advisor, he deals with new and old frustrations with more maturity. He’s not perfect at it, but he’s growing. Dash seems to be making it his mission to mess with Danny as much as he can before he leaves Casper High forever. Danny doesn’t really care what Dash does anymore.
AGE 17 – Danny has become accustomed to his new routine and few things faze him now unless they involve his family or friends. He takes things in stride and, while he can become frustrated, he handles it well. Dash has graduated by this point and Danny’s school life is much easier without him there. The Fright Knight is a damn good patrolman and Danny’s newest teammate. Things are looking up.
How much do they care about appearance? Are they content with how they look?
AGE 14 – Danny isn’t all that content with how he looks. He doesn’t think he’s ugly, just that he needs to grow up a little more. He dates Valerie briefly and this boosts his self-esteem considerably.
AGE 15 – Danny’s opinion of himself while at school lowers due to the general dislike of him by the students. He doesn’t think he’s very worth the while. He keeps these thoughts to himself and doesn’t really reveal them until he starts dating Sam.
AGE 16 – Sam makes a point of making sure Danny knows he’s getting muscled and handsome. Danny stops being so insecure. He doesn’t cut his hair short because he likes the way it looks when long. In ghost form he is pleased with how he’s altering visually. Especially with the firehair. He loves his dang firehair. When Tucker asks whether it goes out when water is poured on it he goes out of his way to test it in the shower and finds it doesn’t. But that’s a stupid story for another time.
AGE 17 – Dan’s alright with how he looks. He’s even happy about it, particularly in ghost form. He is half-ghost after all, and ghosts care a lot about their appearance.
What is their pain tolerance like? How do they handle being sick or injured?
AGE 14 – Pain is dulled in ghost form and heals very fast, whatever is transferred to human form is usually in the form of scars or at most scabs and bruises. Danny hasn’t had to deal with horribly intense pain in human form yet. If he had to he would react to it like any other person, though trying not to. He wouldn’t be able to help it. If he gets sick he goes about his day like he would if he wasn’t.
AGE 15 – Things seem to explode. Danny starts getting injured more severely than before and these sort of wounds take longer to heal. He builds up a tolerance for pain. If he becomes ill he has the same response as he did when fourteen.
AGE 16 – He grits his teeth and bears it, perhaps with tears welling. Runny noses and sneezing are the most he gets. He barely feels them.
AGE 17 – If he had a broken arm he wouldn’t scream. Sickness is ignored.
