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danny phantom fic recs!
danny phantom absolutely SWEPT this poll (shoutout @dp-marvel94) so i've dug through my ao3 bookmarks to find yall the goods. fair warning- i haven't read most of these fics in a while, even though i still remember how much i love them, the descriptions might be a bit vague
Something's Wrong With Danny Fenton Vol. I by Ghostly_Cabbage ( @ghostly-cabbage) is a no-one-knows au where danny transfers to casper high as a junior and meets sam and tucker. as they slowly become friends, tuck and sam realize something isn't quite right with this kid. this fic is such a vibe- the mysteriousness of sam and tuck interacting with the ghostly and the slow somber build from danny being alone to having supportive friends absolutely MAKE this fic. volume 1 has a satisfying conclusion but when i say i have author notifications on so that i get an email the second any potential vol 2 drops...
Dying To Know You by Fridurmus ( @fridurwrites with art by @faerynova) is an absolute delight of a fic wherein valerie ends up half ghost too after the events of Reign Storm and deals with it with the help of danny. the writing in this fic is so well done, perfectly capturing the horror of the situation. this fic is nearly entirely from valerie's pov and it is so so good. the art is also fantastic, i'm such a sucker for less-human ghost designs and faerynova's art and fridurmus' descriptions absolutely kill it (pun intended) here!
Undercover Phantom AU by artistfingers ( @artistfingers) is a comic series, a no one knows au where sam and tucker independently befriend both danny phantom and danny fenton. more lighthearted than Something's Wrong With Danny Fenton, and currently incomplete, this collection of comics so wonderfully captures the teenagerness of danny, sam and tucker. the art is so wonderfully adorable.
Dancing Around the Truth by Taliax ( @dannyphandump) is a very cute gray ghost fic ft paulina! Paulina discovers Valerie is the Red Huntress and blackmails her into getting a date with phantom. which is suddenly a much easier (or maybe harder) task once valerie in turn finds out danny is phantom. the reveals in this fic happen in the first third, and the rest of the fic is glorious glorious scenes of these three characters talking out their feelings. obviously i adore the danny/valerie of it all, but the aroacespec!paulina here is ABSOLUTELY DIVINE, such a great insight into the character!
okay i'm giving up and posting this for now. it's been in my drafts for months. have your bread. everlasting trio and gray ghost 4eva.
Im trans woman Grace pilled rn
Me and the 20 people on the rylark server have gone crazy for this ship
grace goes to therapy- part 1
sharing this here hii . . . <- guy who doesn't really understand how tumblr works
for just a moment longer
[you were loved]
Yall. What if the gang gets out of the circus and itās filmed in live action
I WAS (kinda) RIGHT
I see half the fandom characterizing Adrian as patient and selfless, and I see the other half characterizing them as bitter and unaccommodating, and I also see the joking and non joking 'what if Rocky were the trolley operator' fics and ideas, and I've come to the conclusion that you all are missing the beauty of the superior third option that is Adrian also being traumatized and feral over their mate.
Thank about it. Rocky's a spitfire and bounces off the walls at baseline and they looked at that little autistic, bossy ball of energy and went 'yes. that's them. the creature I want to spend the next 500+ years with'. They have to at LEAST match their energy somewhat. And if you think you wouldn't be a fucking ball of PTSD and bitterness at your culture and society after fifty plus years of not knowing they were alive or dead, you're fucking operating on moon logic. Honestly, Adrian and the other families were probably begging for a rescue mission that never happened for various political and logical reasons; and while it probably would have ended in mass fatalities as well, so thank goodness that figurative and literal ship never got off the ground, the fact that it didn't happen probably burns more than a little, reasonable or unreasonable.
So one day Adrian gets some Eridian diplomat on their doorstep, and they're expecting the formal condolences at long last, but instead they go into this whole spiel of ' so. So! Turns out twenty two of the original crew died, but your mate survived! When did they die? Oh, early on, so your mate was submerged in crippling and literal deafening loneliness for over four decades; and now he's back and acting weird, and he's become codependent with this weird fragile squishy human being that's the only reason he came back at all, and he's refusing to send down the cure unless we make the blob an aquarium. Could you come to the space elevator and tell him to stop being so unreasonable?' If that were MY mate? I'd fucking lose it.
Just throwing things at this poor messenger and shrieking like " Oh! Oh!! So it's somehow Rocky's fault that you're refusing to take a few months out of the several hundred Eridian years we have left to ship the cure we already have to Threeworld before things actually become problematic to make sure one of the two saviors of our entire species doesn't die?! To give the sole survivor of the mission--my mate, who's been alone and in silence, with no one to watch him sleep, for hundreds of years--some sort of solace and peace?! And you're wondering why he's acting erratically?! Maybe you wouldn't be in this position at all if you'd sent the rescue mission for which we've pleaded for years at every single thrum! I don't care if this Grace thing is a literal giant space amoeba; get the fuck out of my house and tell the powers that be to give it literally everything it wants and needs!" And they're all 'be reasonable' and Adrian's like " I've been reasonable for hundreds of Eridian years, and you would not be in this situation if you'd actually sent a rescue mission and not simply wrung your claws and hoped for the best, so fucking live in the nest you made. All I'm going to do if you get me on the radio with Rocky right now is tell him he's doing amazing and give him advice on how to properly parboil the Taumoeba so that you can't even recover even the slightest scrap of DNA if you don't give the flesh blob that saved his life and saved OUR lives PLURAL goddamn vitamins." Like, they think it's bad that Rocky basically stands over Grace's sleeping body and hisses? Wait until they get the MUCH LARGER ERIDIAN doing that for Grace and Rocky. Wait until the much large Eridian leads the families of the dead twenty-two crewmates to the space elevator to riot because this sure sounds like a coverup to them!! This sure sounds like the deflection of blame on the sole survivor!! This sure sounds like the same paralysis that left them to die alone in space because you didn't want to admit failure!! Yes, I know, I'm weaving some sort of political intrigue plot that probably doesn't exist in canon. All I'm saying is that you all are missing the delicious implications of a mission that went radio silent for fifty plus earth years with no word from the government and no obvious attempt at rescue, followed by your partner coming home with the only being that's been around to watch him sleep since the rest of the crew died forty-some years ago, and people are calling him weird and changed. You'd be horrified. You'd be sick.
You'd be pissed the fuck off at every body of power that let this happen.
I know phm and The Martian donāt take place in the same universe but bare with me for a sec;
You are Mark Watney. Your relatively average trip to Mars went to hell because you skewered by scrap metal during a storm and your crew left the planet thinking you were dead.
You spent a year as the only person on a desolate planet, clawing through actual shit because you refused to die.
Things kept going to hell but several of the worldās governments came together to try and rescue you. After being blasted into space in a tarp, you were finally rescued by your crew that came back for you. The return trip was long but you finally made it back.
You can finally touch the ground your home planet you thought youād never see again. All because the entire planet came together to save one man.
You a hailed as a hero and get ready to spend the rest of your life in peace and comfort.Ā
Except, no you donāt!
Because, apparently, for what ever fucking reason, the sun is dying! Every star is dying? You and everyone else on earth is dying for certain in 30 years. So much for peace and comfort!
And now youāre back in the building because you have elite knowledge of growing crops in hostile environments governments need you to help slow down the apocalypse.
You hear a rumour from your colleagues that apparently a mission is in the works to send three astronauts to a star that isnāt dying to maybe find a solution. Ok. You hear a little later that there are no plans to recover these astronauts one their mission is complete???
Wow, all these countries that were just waxing poetic about the importance rescuing you from space are launching three people into the stratosphere to face certain doom. Great. Fantastic.
The mission goes public and launches. The names of the astronauts are revealed to the public. Two of them are people youāve briefly met and worked with. Theyāre good people. What an absolute waste.
But the other you donāt recognize. No one recognizes him because... Heās a civilian? A middle school teacher? Whatās up with that?
Youāre discussing how concerning this is with your colleagues a bit later. Their faces turn grim.
Theyāve heard, through the grapevine, the people running the mission had to induce his coma early because HE DIDN'T WANT TO GO???Ā
What. The actual fuck.
i'm jumping far ahead from what i've been commentating on with the order of episodes i've been rewatching for astro boy, but i really do want to talk about episode 50.
actually, just about Tenma. we're talking about Tenma finally.
keep in mind- i'm going to be focusing on how he's characterized for the 2003 show.
there's a lot of key details that he does and thinks that really add to his character, motivations, and downfall.
Tenma is a very intelligent, resourceful, and trusted scientist before everything happened.
Even if it was difficult to get started, the fact the project even started goes to show he IS smart. He IS respected. He IS someone who managed to be the HEAD of this Ministry. He, alongside a whole team of scientists, the best in the city/country, successfully completed a project where robots could have the same free will as humans. That is NOT an easy task.
This doesn't make him a good man before this. He was still neglectful to his son, and he carried this expectation of those below him to obey without fault. This is something he always had. He's had these traits from the very start. What changed is how he viewed the world with these in mind.
I think it is also important to note that his position as Head of the Ministry of Science allowed him great power. Not many people are going to argue against someone who is the boss of all bosses in the place you work at, especially in a science field where it's already a struggle and a half to climb up that ladder of a career.
Tenma never makes it hidden that Atom is a robot.
This feels incredibly important. It's standard to most adaptations of this story, but it still adds a lot to Tenma's decisions and thoughts for this show specifically.
Tenma was aware Atom was a different child. He calls him "Tobio", but this isn't Tobio. There will never be the first- that one died and it's impossible to bring him back. Tenma's mentality was already under the impression that a robot "Tobio" would be better; different, but better. Better in every aspect he didn't know before- and the possibilities could be endless.
Tenma did all of this knowing he wasn't going to have the same son. He wanted a similar son, but he knew it wouldn't be exactly the same. He was fine with this, thinking that he would have a more obedient son, more powerful to boot.
What he didn't account for was that free will is a double-edged sword.
Tenma didn't punish Tobio for having an interest in robots.
Tenma expected it to go in the direction he himself took it in, that all of his subordinates and coworkers took it in- to further science, to further the progress of humans.
Tenma is all about control and progress. It's all he ever talks about- in his crazed rants throughout the show, he boasts about how a singular race will rise up in the end to take over the world, to control it with an iron fist. This is what he feels is success, this is what he's seen as success. He was the head of science and that's what his success looked like- surely it must look that way for everyone and everything else in the world, too.
It's self-centered. He has always thought this way.
What Tenma disliked was how Tobio viewed robots as something to be cared for. Tenma didn't account for his neglect leading to this side effect- that Tobio, being raised by a robot nanny when Tenma isn't home often or too wrapped up in his work to care to do a lot with his son, would gain a familial and platonic affection for robots.
Tenma as a child seems to be lonely, and we get this implication in Episode 24. Tenma created/modified/did whatever to a robot teddy bear so he'd have a friend. He obviously has resentment towards this part of his life, even if it is quite similar to Tobio's own interest and sympathy in robots.
Tenma fears those who have confidence in themselves.
This one can be obvious by now as it relates to the idea of control. If someone has issues with their self-esteem, appearance, and direction in life, they are easy to control. A young, shy, nine-year-old willing to do anything to get the love and attention of his father will be very easy to manipulate. Many terrible people in the real world have children so they have someone to control over. It's simply a fact. I can't say if this was Tenma's intent with Tobio to begin with, but it's definitely what he enacts on and strives for by the time we get flashbacks of Tobio.
It's not always intentional; a lot of these sorts of mentalities come subconsciously. At the same time, a line has to be drawn with these sorts of patterns- especially if said patterns are said aloud and realized by the one enacting the abuse of control.
Tenma states directly the reasons why he shut Atom down- he was scared.
For one, he put this incredible power into this one robot, fully expecting said robot to be totally obedient- better, in every aspect- so he could use it for his own gain. For all we know, Tenma's intentions of keeping Tobio was to be much like Atlas' father; to have someone keep the wealth/status of power within the family line. This could be one of many parallels Tenma saw in Atlas' father and was disgusted by- because he saw so clearly a reflection of himself in this other man.
Tenma knows what he's doing in terms of using others to get what he wants. He may not be thinking completely logically, but we see that even in these disillusioned ideas of what the future of the world should be like, Tenma is entirely capable of using his habit of power and control to sway things towards his favor. Tenma knows the kinds of people he can control. He specifically uses the most terrifying moment for "Tobio" to try and control Atom- the Kill Collar.
Atom breaks that. Atom breaks the fear of control because he's done so much in his own stead to be the one to control a situation instead.
Shadow broke that, too, when he turns against Tenma in Episode 47. Shadow has gained his own view of the world and confidently lives by that now, helping decide what is the best future for Robotonia.
Whenever Tenma praises Atom's evolution and how advanced it is... all he is ever praising is the mind of a child growing and maturing. Maturing far faster than it should for anyone Atom's mental age, of course, but Tenma is simply observing what a life is like- how life grows and changes and adapts. The fact it's coming from a robot is truly fascinating and a miracle, of course, but the way he talks about it seems to imply he doesn't believe humans are capable of this at all.
If he ever saw Tobio learning to be independent, speak his mind, and be creative with his talents, would Tenma praise it? Would Tenma instead think Tobio is doing something unnatural, something abhorrently wrong that no son should do?
Tenma's praise turns back on itself and punishes him, because with growth comes self worth.
Tenma was terrified of Atom's powers, but worse of all he was terrified of not being in control of those powers. By "guiding" Atom throughout the show to "evolve" into a "king," Tenma was grasping at anything that could possibly rein in Atom back in his control again.
Tenma didn't do anything significant when he told Atom he isn't fit to be Atom's father anymore.
At least, I don't think so.
By this point, Tenma has clearly given up the idea that Atom is going to be anything like a son he wants. He HAS known this. He's forced a disconnect to Atom. His connection to Atom is instead a desperate attempt to control something in his life again. Atom is so full of potential and Tenma needs that in his hands.
Atom didn't let Tenma die because he doesn't want anyone to die- not even Tenma. Not a single person deserves to die in his eyes. Atom stopped expressing his feelings and took Tenma in, so that Tenma wouldn't die.
Atom has far moved on from Tenma at this point. To move past being mind wiped again and living with Tenma again, then being forced to talk one-on-one with Tenma in the ministry else the whole place blow up, there's so much resilience that Atom has to have to be able to approach all of that, and then speak his mind again without holding back his honesty. He's always been someone who never beats around the bush with his feelings, and he wasn't going to do it here. Unfortunately, when it got to the point that Tenma was going to truly go through with harming himself and the city over their relationship, Atom had to discard that for this moment so he could neutralize the situation.
To me, the hug isn't supposed to be a cathartic moment. It's a regression. It shows that Tenma's desperation is very hurt, difficult for anyone to navigate, and truly hinges on this one child, which is unacceptable and impossible for one child to bear alone. This final scene with Tenma and Atom well and truly shows that if Tenma wants to change, he has to change outside of thinking about Atom- and any concept of having a son, or anything like that.
Tenma told Atom he isn't fit to be a father anymore. EVERYONE knows this. Tenma may have finally accepted it, or at least felt it in the moment, but it may also be something said that he would have changed his mind on about later, should Atom continue visiting Tenma under good terms. We really can't tell- not with someone as emotionally and mentally unstable as Tenma was for months on end.
It is a turning point, though- Tenma isn't going to be Atom's father. Never was, never truly tried to be, and never will be in the future. Even if he tries to come back around, there's too much ingrained in Tenma as a person that would not work in terms of being Atom's father or any sort of parental/influential figure to the kid's life.
Umataro Tenma is a very very VERY interesting character. He's terrible, but his whole arc through the show is consistent, builds all of this up, and then resolves it in a very mixed but understandable way. We don't see him 'get better' with anyone, because it's clear that he is in no state to be around the people he's forced himself into the lives of. He has to move on, and he has to move on alone. Everyone he's dragged down will do better without them.
He will do better without them, too, and maybe he'll be able to gain enough humility to do so.
Im. Fine and normal.
Assorted song ideas (Songdeas)
ACT I
Overture / Waking up Alone
An orchestral number which incorporates motifs of other songs,
Thereās Something in the Sky I
upbeat number Grace with explaining to his classroom about the many great discoveries of humanity motivated by asking whatās in the sky, interrupted by a child asking about the Petrova lineāsong becomes far more somber as Grace explains the crisis, noting that āthereās something in the sky.ā
[title pending]
Rather long exposition song, showing grace being recruited and working on the project Hail Mary and getting to know Stratt and the other scientists
Heer Halewijn / Evaās Song
The karaoke scene, Eva sings a Dutch folk song thatās essentially about the Bluebeard Myth (weāre meant to see she regards herself as the villain of the song)
Adrian
Song about. The planet Adrian, I guess?
Me Believing in You
Act I finale, Strattās betrayal and the audience finally learns that Grace was forced on the mission. In present time, Grace sings to Rocky, telling him that he needs to wake up so they can save earth and Erid together.
ACT II
Thereās Something in the Sky II
Graceās motif again, when he realizes Rocky will die without his help and that he must turn back.
Heer Halewijn (Reprise)
After watching Graceās messages, Eva sings a few bars to herself, smiling (the part of the song where the heroine tricks the wicked prince) Scene transitions to Erid.
Thereās Something in the Sky III (Finale)
Essentially a reprise of the first song but with Eridian students. a nice ensemble moment, children from earlier come back on stage with their own eridian puppets.
au where the amnesia doesn't stick and Grace still does his little video logs but he's MAD
@hailed-marys requested some photos of Grace smiling and I thought the rest of the world should see him too
Hungry