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Name: Fel
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CHARACTER INFO

Character Name: Daniel "Danny" Fenton
Character Canon: Danny Phantom

History: Here is a wiki link!

AU History:

Born in Caldera, Danny is the second child of a duo of Engineer/Pokemon Researcher types who devote their lives to the scientific research of their passion: ghost-type Pokemon and ghosts/spirits in general. Similar to the organisation known as the Seekers, the Fentons search out the world's spookiest places for their research and usually end up taking Danny and his older sister with them in the hopes of keeping it in the family. To nobody's surprise, this has mostly only resulted in neither kid showing any inclination of wanting to take up the family business.

Because of his parents' calling, Danny had a very unstable upbringing. Although he spent the first six years of his life with a permanent address in Caldera, the Fentons left their home in that city after Danny turned six, and have since lived in a variety of places. The result? A slightly awkward, if friendly, teenager, who has never really been able to fully integrate in places due to his parents' obsession. Sure, Danny's always managed to make one or two friends wherever he goes, but it's bound to be a temporary thing, and he knows it.

After Union started making waves and putting itself on the map over the past year or so, the Fentons became interested in the rumours surrounding the Forest Shrine in the Verdant Forest, and so, around the time of the Soulfasting, Danny and his family moved to Union so that his parents could study the effects of the shrine, as well as the large spiritual community in the city.

Danny's first few months in the city were uneventful, as Union months go, although his parents began their latest project to develop an experimental Ghost-type Enhanced machine that could perform a similar "bridging" effect to that done by Union's mediums. As of the end of May 2015, the project hadn't seen much success. One day after school, Danny headed to his parents' lab to find that they weren't there, but that their non-functional machine was. Taking a look at the machine, the boy prodded something he probably shouldn't have and...

Well, honestly, he's still not sure what happened, except that it hurt a lot and he's not sure he should have survived it. Or if he really even did survive it. When Danny first came to some time later, there wasn't anything to suggest getting zapped by his parents' technology had done anything to him. It was only the next day when he woke up to find that he had phased through his bed in the middle of the night that he realised that something was very, very wrong.

Now it's a week or two since the accident, Danny is uncontrollably turning invisible and phasing through objects at random moments, and he is still trying to figure out how to tell his parents that their machine might just have turned him into a Ghost/Normal type Enlightened.

Canon Personality:

To all intents and purposes, Danny Fenton seems to be your average fourteen year old kid. Sure, he's a bit of a social outcast, and his grades and attendance record seem to have taken a sudden nosedive that seems at odds with his slightly awkward yet good-natured exterior. But mostly, the impression you'd get at a casual glance is of a friendly, slightly stressed high school freshman who's also so timid and easily scared that he turns tail and runs away at the first sign of one of Amity Park's regular ghost sightings.

If you bought in to any of that, then congratulations! You're seeing exactly what Danny wants you to see.

It's not a complete lie, of course. Up until the mysterious lab accident near the start of his freshman year, Danny really was nothing more than your average kid, albeit one with mad ghost-hunting scientists for parents who occasionally did things like transport the house into another dimension. His grades were decent even if they weren't stellar, he didn't really cause any trouble, and he mostly put up with being a target for bullying. Of course, being a teenager, and a socially outcast one at that, he could - and still can - be a little on the clueless or superficial side at times. Though Danny has two best friends who he genuinely wouldn't trade for the world, and mostly seems to accept his lot in life existing on the outside of the wider teenage social sphere, there's a part of Danny that's desperate to be accepted by his peers, and so he has a tendancy to buy in to the whole high school popularity contest. There's times in the series where he'll jump at the chance of five minutes of popularity without really stopping to think about it, despite the fact that most of these kids wouldn't give him the time of day at any other time. This is not to mention his crush on Paulina - a girl who, while outwardly gorgeous, is undeniably shallow, and even borders on callous at times.

So yeah, Danny has a tendancy to be too quick to judge things based on their outward appearences at times. In spite of his generally good-natured personality and capacity for incredible amounts of dorkiness, he also tends to be more than a little moody, in that time-honoured way that teenagers can be. This is more noticeable if you happen to be either his parents, an authority figure he doesn't like, or his big sister Jazz, and usually it only tends to manifest itself in Danny's propensity for snarky comments and in an occasional moment or two of acting like a jerk. That said, when things go wrong, Danny tends to have one of two reactions; he either snaps or lashes out at it when it gets to be more than he can take, or he goes to the complete opposite extreme and internalises his anger or frustration, stewing on it in a way that can't be healthy. In a way, it's probably good for him that he has ghost fighting as a means for him to take out all of his misplaced aggression.

Oh, did I say ghost fighting? Yeah, it turns out that that lab accident in his parents' basement that probably ought to have killed him only went halfway. Getting zapped by his parents' portal to the Ghost Zone fundamentally altered Danny's DNA, making him a ghost/human hybrid. Danny's attitude to his powers tends to fluctuate between seeing them as an annoyance to actually enjoying having them, but ultimately the decision Danny came to with them was to try and use them to defend his hometown against all the other ghosts that started pouring out of the portal after it activated during the accident.

This says a lot about Danny as a person, honestly; he slips up sometimes and uses his powers in selfish or self-absorbed ways (and who wouldn't, if they suddenly gained the power to become invisible and walk through walls?), but Danny genuinely wants to use his powers for good. He's far from fearless, but it can't be denied that he's fundamentally very brave, pushing aside his fears and his confidence issues to play superhero to Amity Park in ways that often risk life and limb. His Danny Phantom persona is a glib and cocky wisecracker with an affinity for puns, a complete contrast to what most people see of his human half. Fighting ghosts is where Danny's ability to strategise really shines, too; the kid might not be well-read, and Danny's ability for long-term planning is also seriously lacking, but when it comes to thinking fast on his feet, he's not half bad.

Still, the motive to protect that lies under the Phantom persona is 100% Danny; one of the fastest ways to make an enemy of him is to threaten his family and friends, although on the flipside, that also makes his loved ones the easiest route to go through for those wanting to manipulate him. He seems to take his loved ones for granted at times, there's moments when he and his friends don't always see eye to eye, and there's also plenty of times when he finds his family embarassing, exasperating, or just plain infuriating, but Danny is incredibly protective of them regardless. For all that the siren call of popularity can turn his head sometimes, deep down he knows exactly how lucky he is to have real friends he can count on like Sam and Tucker, and there's a loyalty there to both his friends and family that can be surprising. Why won't he end up like his evil future self from an alternate timeline? Because he promised his family and friends he wouldn't, that's why, even if they can't remember it. It's as simple as that.

It'd shock almost everyone who's seen his report cards, but responsibility is a big thing with Danny: he knows that it's not necessarily his ghost powers that are the real burden, but that the burden is in how he uses them - something he got a pretty nasty wake-up call about when he had to face that aforementioned evil him from a bad future. This doesn't end with Danny's paranormal abilities, though; one of Danny's best qualities in general is how he's willing to take responsibility for his screw-ups. Danny screws up a lot, in both little and big ways, but despite how often he messes up, after he realises where he's gone wrong he makes a point of owning his mistakes, apologising and doing whatever he can to try and make it right. Danny's newfound reputation as a curfew-missing troublemaker with bad attendance and worse grades hasn't come about because he stopped caring; it's just that since Danny is the only kid with ghost powers that Amity Park has, defending the town has to take priority over his GPA, even if that means his lifelong dream of becoming an astronaut and seeing the stars he's been passionate about since he was in grade school has to go out the window as a result.

Because that there is the kicker: Danny's half-ghost status gives him a whole host of new problems and insecurities on top of the normal and expected teenage angst, and he was never the most confident person to begin with. It's best summed up by one of the show's villains, a ghost who feeds on people's misery and doubts: "What are you? A ghost trying fit in with humans, or a creepy little boy with creepy little powers?" Danny's response? "Both! Neither! I don't know!" Danny honestly doesn't know anymore whether he's more ghost or human, and the idea of his secret getting out terrifies him. And considering that his own parents, oblivious to the fact that the ghost boy they want to catch so badly is their own son, make regular threats to dissect his ghost persona and tear it apart molecule by molecule, can anyone really blame him? Danny is a kid struggling to keep his grades afloat in the shadow of a family of geniuses, a ghost-fighting superhero, public ghost enemy no.#1, and the Ghost Zone's most wanted. He is all these things, and has to try and balance them as best he can.

AU Deviation:

Danny in Brave New World is a lot more worldly than his canon counterpart due to his semi-nomadic upbringing. Danny's been a lot of places and seen a lot of people, and with that sort of cultural mish-mash in his childhood, he's able to connect to people from all over quite easily.

On the flipside of this, though, this unstable childhood means he has no constant support network of close friends like he does in canon. In a way, this makes Danny more isolated on a personal level than his canon counterpart. He might be able to make friends easily, but he knows he shouldn't get too attached to them because sooner or later his parents will uproot again and he'll inevitably fall out of contact with any friends he does make. (Danny is chronically bad at not getting attached, though, so even if he tries to resign himself to it, it doesn't work.)

A big difference will be Danny's general attitude towards his powers. Since Enlightened are an accepted part of the world and its societies, the pressure of trying to conceal part of himself from everyone around him will be nonexistent, as he simply doesn't need to do it. This will ultimately mean that Danny ends up less stressed than his canon self, especially since he doesn't have to take on the responsibility of protecting an entire town by himself and will actually be able to get outside support for his powers and focus on his everyday life. That said, he wouldn't be Danny if he didn't end up wanting to use his powers to help people in some way.

In a similar vein, the issues and doubts Danny does have about his powers will be through a bit of a different lens. He might not have to struggle to exist between two worlds, and he might not have the angst of wondering What Measure Is A Non-Human?, but given he wasn't born naturally Enlightened, I wouldn't be surprised if he started drawing parallels between himself and the Enhanced. On the other hand, his motives for not initially telling his parents about it are a little different, and will probably take less time to work through. Since Ghost-type Pokemon are a generally accepted part of the world rather than a constant paranormal threat from realms unknown, his hangups will be more in the general area of, "I don't want them to blame themselves/I don't want to be their next study project," than, "I don't want them to decide they want to dissect me and rip me apart molecule by molecule because I'm the thing they hate".

Canon Abilities:

o Intangibility: Basically, walking through walls. Danny has the ability to make all or part(s) of himself go intangible, allowing him to pass through solid objects and people. Or vice versa, as it happens. He can also make other things or people go intangible by holding on to them when he uses this power. This is one of the ghost powers that Danny can use when he is in either form.
o Invisibility: Now you see him, now you don't! Much like his intangibility power, Danny can make all or parts of himself unable to be seen by others, and can spread the effect to the things or people he's touching at the time. Again, he can use this power in both his ghost and human forms.
o Ghost sense: This is actually an offshoot of Danny's cryokinesis powers, but essentially, Danny's ghost core reacts to the presence of ghosts nearby. It manifests as Danny suddenly feeling really cold and shivering as a blue mist comes out his mouth.
o Ghost form: Danny can transform between his human and ghost forms. "Going ghost," as he calls it (told ya he was a dork), gives his body superhuman limits, as well as giving him access to the full range of his ghostly powers. It also works as a convenient identity switch, since his ghost form looks quite a bit different from his human self. However, the transformation can reverse itself unprompted, which usually happens if he either uses too much energy or passes out while he's in his ghost form.
o Overshadowing: Basically possession by another name. Danny can go intangible and hop inside someone else's body, controlling their actions for the duration and leaving them with no memories of the experience. Danny can also use this to exorcise another ghost from the person they're overshadowing.
o Spoopy ghost body abilities: When in ghost form, Danny can manipulate the shape of his body with a thought. It's mostly seen when he occasionally loses his legs in favour of that classic ghostly tail, but he can also stretch and contort his body in some pretty weird and wonderful ways in order to avoid attacks - up to and including making holes in it.
o Flight: While in his ghost form, Danny has the ability to fly at speeds exceeding 100 mph. There doesn't seem to be a limit to how high he can go, either, considering that he flew right up into space in one episode.
o Ectoblasts: Danny can concentrate ectoplasmic energy in his hands and weaponise it. This can take the form of a continuous beam of energy, explosive blasts akin to a kamehameha, or an attack that's basically a ghostly destructo disk. On a less destructive note, he can also use his energy as a light source.
o Ectoshield: As well as weaponising his energy, Danny can also use it defensively, creating shields of various sizes that can protect himself or others, repelling or absorbing attacks.
o Ghostly wail: This is by far the most powerful ability Danny has. Basically, Danny can weaponise his voice to produce an extremely damaging sonic wave attack made of ecto-energy. The wail has a ridiculously wide radius and damages pretty much anything that's unfortunate to be anywhere in front of Danny at the time. To give an idea of its power, it has the potential to destroy a ghost shield large enough to cover an entire town. The flipside is that because Danny gained this power during a very desperate moment, it's implied that he developed it prematurely before his body was really ready for it. Using the ghostly wail completely drains him of power and forces a transformation back to his human form, leaving him exhausted and unable to go ghost for some time afterwards.
o Duplication: It takes Danny almost the whole series to master this one, but he eventually gains the ability to create copies of himself, either to create a diversion or to fight multiple enemies at once. Causing enough damage to one of his duplicates destroys it.
o Cryokinesis: It's eventually revealed that Danny's ghost core is ice-based, and the massive amounts of cold his core generates allow him to develop ice powers. He can use these powers to shoot beams of ice from his eyes or hands, create icy projectiles, generate shields of cold energy, or freeze things just by touching them. He can also combine his ice powers with his normal ecto-energy based powers.
o Healing factor: Have you seen the amount of punishment this poor kid can take over the course of a normal episode? Cartoon physics aside, the fact that he can get up and go to school after a night of ghost hunting definitely speaks to him having one of these.
o Fentonworks tech: Danny's parents regularly invent all kinds of weird and wonderful gadgets, most of them designed to hunt ghosts, and Danny not only knows how most of it works but is also pretty proficient at using it all. The invention he uses most regularly is the Fenton Thermos, a... thermos (roll with it) that can capture ghosts in a beam of light and contain them inside. Danny uses it to hold his ghostly enemies in before he releases them back into the Ghost Zone.
o Piloting???: He's able to drive his parents' Specter Speeder and on top of that, the kid once landed a space shuttle just because he'd logged that many hours on a simulator of it. Go figure.

Enlightened Abilities:

Danny will be an Enlightened with a Ghost/Normal typing, switching to a Ghost/Ice typing when he evolves for the second time at level 55. His trainer ability will be Kindred Soul.

To start with, Danny will have no combat abilities whatsoever; his Enlightened awakening will mostly manifest in his ability to make himself intangible and invisible, as well as having the ability to sense the presence of other Ghost types. As he begins to get into training or fighting situations, he will be able to use moves like Mega Punch and Mega Kick, although at first they won't be all that powerful. Danny will also be able to Taunt his enemies, and since his eyes will glow radioactive green in response to strong emotion (especially anger), he will also be able to use Glare to intimidate his enemies into paralysis. Close to the time of his first evolution, he will learn Ecto Beam, a Ghost-type energy beam attack. His only physical changes will be that his body temperature will consistently be a few degrees below that of a normal human.

After evolving for the first time, Danny's appearance will change. His hair will turn from black to white, while his eyes will be green and slightly glowy. He will gain the ability to float a little ways off the ground, although he won't be able to go very high or very fast. With evolution, his Ghost-type moves become more diverse; he'll learn Shadow Punch and Shadow Sneak, as well as being able to form a defensive Ecto Shield around himself or others, and create an explosive Ecto Blast out of Ghost-type energy. While he won't be able to make true copies of himself, Danny will be able to use a move similar to Double Team to make it look as though he has, making himself more evasive, and will also use Follow Me to lure any opponents away from attacking his allies. Danny will learn Ghostly Wail, a hideously powerful Ghost-type move, during this time. It won't be quite on the level of how powerful it was in canon, but to compensate for still packing a whallop, using it will retain its drawbacks, damaging Danny and leaving him weakened and unable to fight as effectively. As he nears level 55, Danny's body temperature will drop dramatically, leaving him feeling uncontrollably cold no matter how many layers he wears - a sign that he's getting close to evolving for the second time.

His second evolution will bring his type shift from Ghost/Normal to Ghost/Ice, and his new secondary Ice type will give him access to learning moves such as Ice Punch, Ice Beam, and Sheer Cold. Danny will also master the ability to create a duplicate of himself, allowing him to learn the move Substitute. With the loss of his secondary Normal typing, Danny will be able to manipulate his body to give himself a spectral tail while floating, as well as gaining the ability of complete flight. He won't be able to master flying to the extent a Flying type would, but it will allow him to perform a powerful Take Down attack, as well as letting him use the move Sky Drop. Appearance-wise, Danny's eyes will revert to being blue to reflect his new Ice typing, although they will continue to glow permanently. He will also gain a ghostly aura and a spooky echoing quality to his voice, while his body temperature will be very, very low.

Starter Pokémon: A Cleffa named Nova, starting at level 10!

Notes/Special Considerations: Just a small query, really! I noticed that on a revision request on a recent app you mentioned that Citadel was unknown to other civilisations until recently; would this rule out the Fentons having lived or travelled around that area for a while before they moved to Union, or would this be alright to go ahead and include? Just for future reference if I thread with any Citadel characters in-game!

SAMPLES

First-Person: a thread at my musebox here!

Third-Person:

What do you feel your role in your city is?
That'd be a whole lot easier to answer if I actually had a city. [ sigh. ] Sorry. Don't get me wrong, Union's nice, and I kinda like it here, but I've never really been able to stick around long enough anywhere to get enough of an idea as to where I fit in in the grand scheme of things, you know? Besides, I'm fourteen. [ there's a joking note in his voice as he says: ] Kids my age aren't all that well known for their sense of social responsibility.

A human has attacked a wild Pokémon who retaliates in defense. How do you respond and whom do you defend?
Uhm, the Pokemon? [ duh?? ] What kind of idiot attacks a wild Pokemon without expecting it to fight back? I mean, sure, I don't want the human to get hurt either, so it's not like I'd help the Pokemon maul the guy or anything, but jeez. [ he rolls his eyes, shaking his head. ] Okay, okay, I guess I'd help the human get away if I could. And then, uh... depending on what kind of Pokemon it was, I'd either try and calm it down or just run away from it too? I don't fancy my chances against something like an Ursaring.

What does the story of the Savior mean to you?
Oh man, that's the one you guys tell about the lady who stopped the war 500 years ago, right? I-- I dunno if I can really say it means anything to me personally, but if all the stories are true, she's a hero. A real hero, I mean. Even if it turned out it wasn't real, I still think that's pretty cool no matter how you look at it.

You are alone and bereft of your Pokémon allies; upon what strengths do you rely on to see yourself safely home?
Oh gosh, uh-- [ he laughs nervously, rubbing his neck. ] My mom's always getting on my back about how my wilderness survival skills aren't as good as they should be, but I'm actually pretty good at using the stars to navigate my way okay? So I guess that, if something like that really happened, I'd have to wait till it got dark and hope I wasn't too far away from the nearest civilisation, orrr something.

No Enlightened chooses their abilities - and not all are Enlightened. What type abilities would you most desire to manifest and why?
[ Danny's quiet for a moment, biting his lip as if he's struggling with the question. finally, almost hesitating: ] Honestly, I... I was actually okay with not being-- um, you guys call it Enlightened? Yeah-- I was okay with that. But I mean, if I'd had a choice? I definitely wouldn't have picked Ghost-type, that's for sure. I mean, have you met my parents? [ he grins, before it settles into something a little more wistful. ] I wouldn't've minded Flying-type, I guess. That would've been neat. Hey, you think there's ever been a Flying-type who could make it all the way up into outer space?

What would you say is your greatest duty, and why?
[ with shameless flippancy: ] Does protecting the innocent people of Union from the enthusiasm of my parents count? [ :D? ]

Ha ha, okay, okay, I guess you wanted a serious answer. But uh, the truth is, I... I really don't know. I mean, I guess I must have these powers for some reason, but-- I mean, right now I'm still struggling with not sinking through the floor in the middle of class. As much as I'd like to say something cool and heroic, I might have to take a rain check on that one.