I would like to know more about ghost wombs in Danny phantom, I really loved the the fics about them and the implications of them. Kinda just one see a fiction of Danny being bombed by Vlad or Pandora or walk and what would happen after that.
Oh, no, my old curse coming back to haunt me. Ahhhhh take a Pandora.
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Danny hadn't thought much about it when Pandora invited him back to her palace after they'd gotten her box and the Box Ghost squared (heh) away. He'd helped her, and she wanted to say thank you. It wasn't as if it hadn't happened before, even if it wasn't exactly common.
They'd talked for a while, over sandwiches. Pandora seemed interested in what he did as a hero, how his thermos worked, and things like that. They were, she had pointed out, doing similar things, and his thermos was remarkably like her box.
Then, they'd walked through Pandora's gardens. The hedge mazes had seemed higher than they had before, their twists and turns tighter, more frequent, more disorienting. The Labyrinth, she'd explained, responded to need. There had been a need for Danny to get past it, so it had been simpler, the magics in it that kept ghosts passing through earthbound not as strong.
After a while, they'd turned back towards the palace.
"There is something I want to show you," said Pandora, once they had left the maze. "Something important."
Danny looked up at her, confused. He'd thought they'd gotten all of the important stuff out of the way already. "Did something else get stolen?"
"Nothing like that," said Pandora. "But considering how our interests align, it is something you should see."
Danny nodded. He wondered if it was going to be something like the Cave of History in the Far Frozen.
They walked under a columned porch. Water flowed across the marble in what looked like specially cut channels.
"The Lethe," said Pandora. "Be careful, a single drop can make you forget everything."
"Everything?"
"Everything."
Danny shuddered and pulled his feet up underneath him to float instead of walking. "That sounds dangerous."
"It is," said Pandora, "but some things need to be protected by more than walls."
Hesitantly, Danny nodded. He could understand that.
They crossed into the building proper. The floor was a maze of little streams and a dais rose out of the center like a tiny mountain. Pandora flew ahead of him, towards the dais. Danny hesitated for a moment, then followed, wary of the water.
On the dais was a plinth, and on the plinth was a... It wasn't quite a box. Or, it was a box, but it wasn't cubical. It was cylindrical, with a round lid. The sides were painted in detail.
"Go ahead," said Pandora. "Look inside."
Danny glanced at her, then looked down at the box again. He reached out and touched the lid's handle, offsetting it slightly. There was a rushing sensation, as if the box had been filled with wind. Danny blocked his face with his hands and arms.
When the wind died down, he lowered them and looked around. The room was entirely different. It was small and dark and round, and there was so much ectoplasm in the air that it felt wet. Other than the glow of the ectoplasm, the only light came from an odd, crescent shaped skylight high overhead.
As he watched, the skylight waned away to nothing.
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Outside, Pandora closed the lid of the box, making sure it had settled into it's proper place. She patted it, gently, thinking of the child inside. Before too long, he would be changed. Remade. Reborn. And then she would let him out into his new, second life.
Taking him was, admittedly, a bit of an impulse decision, but how could she not, when they were so similar? When he had come to help her? When he was so young, so unformed?
The way you write ghosts in a lot of your AUs are so buglike to me in a way that's very hard to explain. It's the mixture of alienness and the occasional horrifying/vaguely gross or cursed to humans vibes of it all. Like the whole Wombing thing reminds me of tsete flies, which only have one egg at a time that remains in the uterus after hatching and keeps growing inside the mother until the fly finally 'gives birth' after which the larva immediately pupates.
They are supposed to give, like, alien biology vibes, so, this is a good thing? Yes?
While a recent wombing is still fresh on everyone's minds what exactly is your stance on people taking fairly direct inpo from you?
Obviously not taking locations wholesale or straight up plots but things like wombing, or (I am 90% certain it was you behind this at least) the eating the children to cycle their forms as growing up/modestly analogous to pregnancy like wombing is? (I can be wrong about it being yours because tumblrs not exactly co-operating with search attempts for me. I did try to see if you've already given permission for example)
Point remains; Wombing, a concept where there's a lot of room to riff on the idea. Other people doing stuff with that or things like that. Thoughts or opinions on that possibility?
Yes, both of those concepts were me (at least partially - for the eating thing, I was also inspired by other fics and mythology, but the one where Clockwork eats Danny is mine), and I'm fine with that. If it's direct direct, then I'd prefer that no money is involved (have to specify this because of thieving AI trash youtubers), but otherwise? Especially the base concepts? Please use it! It'd be downright hypocritical if I said no, and I'd love to see it (as long as it's SFW).
