#vlad plasmius

[oneboredlich]

Vlad for the character ask game? 👀

Favourite thing: I LOVE how much of a bastard he is and the fact that he's Plasmius. Let me explain, throughout the show it seems like only Maddie and Danny see who Vlad truly is, everyone else only seems to react to the persona he puts up as Masters. I have a weakness for manipulative characters with two physical forms.

Least favourite thing: it has to be how he goes from being this main antagonist with a seemingly secret plan, to be the all-over-the-place ADHD disaster joke of a villain with no clear goal we have by end season 2 to 3. The writing did him sooo dirty. All that buildup for nothing. Bah.

Favourite line: "all I have ever wanted, was love" cheesy, I know.

brOTP: Skulker. I have this vision of skulker having to put him with his ramblings in order to get his tech. Vlad is lonely and loves the sound of his own voice, so he tinkers with already finished weapons until he's done bitching about Danny's latest disrespectful comment.

OTP: Danny x Vlad, Pompous Pep. The obsession, the age gap, the power imbalance, Vlad's weakness (love) 🥵, Danny's good nature. It's the perfect cocktail.

nOTP: Jack and Vlad. I can't see it, Vlad despises that man. I also can't see them exchanging witty banter Vlad he does with others and that's a must for chemistry.

Random headcanon: I've seen many people giving him a sad past, poor family, bullying, etc, but I think he had the most normal life ever. His family are all average people, not good not bad, middle class, no traumatic events, and he was simply born that way (born to be an asshole).

Unpopular opinion: I don't know if this is an unpopular but I think all his hair should be white, brows and lashes included. I get the show made them black to avoid the uncanny look, but I think Vlad dyes both black. He's rich enough to keep up that level of cosmetic treatment always on point.

Song I associate with them: an unhealthy obsession by the Blake Robinson synthetic orchestra

Favourite picture of them: gotta be the smiles. Any of them really, but this one in particular. Love his silly faces too. And angry ones. Gosh, he's a gorgeous bastard.

[writedreamlie]

Concept: Vlad starts reconciling with the Fentons, like for real, simmers the hell down and talks to them like a person. Starts being around more often, even gets to the point where he and Danny aren't at each other's throats constantly. Eventually gets comfortable enough to consider telling Jack and Maddie about his ghost half.

And then Jack dies.

It's a freak accident, but it puts Maddie WAY more on the anti-ghost defensive, so he sure as shit can't be doing any dramatic ghost half confessions now. Despite bad interactions in the past, Maddie ends up leaning on Vlad for comfort and somewhat expecting him to take up something like a parental role with Danny and Jazz—there's no romance, just the fact that he's there and should be helping now that Jack is gone.

Meanwhile, Danny immediately suspects Vlad had something to do with the accident and will hear no defenses. He makes it his life's mission to prove it was Vlad's fault because he just can't believe it was random circumstance. Jazz isn't sure what to believe but is too focused on keeping her mom and brother somewhat sane to be of any help to Vlad.

So ostensibly, Vlad gets everything he wanted—Jack gone, Maddie to himself, power over Danny—but also he gets literally nothing he wanted—he didn't get to kill Jack, Maddie doesn't love him, and Danny is further away from trusting him or accepting him as a mentor than ever before.

[mockingwing]

danny being embarrassed by vlad's behavior the way he is with the rest of his family sometimes. since they're the only known halfas other ghosts kind of automatically associate danny and vlad with each other which leads to danny being deeply humiliated when vlad does something embarrassing.

vlad: steals a precious artifact and is now monologuing in front of a group of ghosts about how he's going to use it to take over the ghost zone

danny: *hiding his face in his hands* "ohhh my god fright night i am so sorry about him. i swear i did not know he was going to do this. i'll talk to him about it please don't uninvite us from the christmas party."

[mockingwing]

its kind of interesting to me how vlad and jazz don't really have any kind of strong relationship the way vlad has with the other three fentons. he's driven by a desire to kill and replace jack, he's been infatuated with maddie for decades, and he's formed this very strong hero vs villain/mentor and unwilling mentee thing with danny and is completely fixated on him becoming his kid, but that same type of relationship isn't really present with him and jazz.

we do get to see a bit of what a relationship between them would be like in secret weapons and jazz and vlad are really just using each other for their own benefit. they're not interested in each other specifically, jazz is using vlad to get a reaction out of danny and jazz is the first step toward vlad taking jacks family from him. i feel like that shows how they are kind of similar in some ways, but both of them are so caught up in their own stuff that they just don't notice it.

of course vlad wants jazz to be his daughter but not in the same desperate, violent way he does danny. there are no clones of jazz. i think it's an interesting flip of the dynamic jazz and danny probably had previously. jazz is the smart kid, the overachiever, the one whose going places. everyone knows and loves jazz fenton. danny is just so plain that he's usually overlooked. so to have someone be so strongly fixated on danny and not really that much on jazz probably feels kinda weird.

"should i be jealous that this guy who is obsessed with my family seems far less obsessed with me than he is everyone else or is that an objectively insane thing to be jealous about?"

[mockingwing]

i think ive mentioned this before but another thing i like about badger cereal is how vlad is like a million times more invested in what they've got going on than danny is

like vlad is Very Important and Very Evil so of course danny gets serious when he knows vlad is plotting something but.... he's not dannys worst villain. there are plenty of ghosts he's met who are stronger and more deadly than lonely bitter old man vlad masters. meanwhile pretty much vlads entire life revolves around this thing he has going on with the fentons.

vlad: heh. daniel. has that puzzle i left you been too difficult for you to figure out? is my master plan too tricky for you to unravel?

danny: ooooohhhh yeah. that. dude i totally forgot about that. i was gonna deal with it but then ember attacked and... yknow.

[touchofhemlocktea]

Danny accidentally curses Vlad.

[krossan]

WAIT UP JUST A MOMENT!!

HOW NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS??! HOW ON EARTH I RANDOMLY FOUND ABOUT THIS??

FIRST TIME MY BOY GETS MERCH??? WHY BEING CRUEL TO ME!!! WHY MAKE IT EXCLUSIVE

[rambird12]

Do comic pages I found in my files of a story that I never finished. Might redo this and continue…