#Danny phantom D- Stabilized

[lilianade-comics]

My brain, loving and appreciating narrative parallels and themes: Danny and Vlad are perfect foils AND they have BEAUTIFUL generational parallels through their respective trios. In a more narratively coherent version of DP, this should be explored to its fullest potential. This logically means that Danielle should not exist so as not to distract from or muddy the waters of the prime dynamic.

Also my brain, 24/7 with no chill whatsoever:

cheese melt go brrrrrrrrrr

[daily-dose-of-danno]

On-screen transformations in D-Stabilized

Season 3, Episode 11 - D-Stabilized

[ectocreature]

what if d-stabilized but instead of vlad melting danielle bc he only wants the research data he’s doing it because he thinks there’s no way to save her and that it would be merciful to kill her instead of letting her continue to suffer the way she has been.

this is his mess, his fault she’s suffering, so it’s only fair he’d be the one to put her out of her misery right? the empty darkness of death must be so much more pleasant than the constant pain. after all, he knows what it’s like to have something incurable ravage your body like that. anything must be better than that constant agony.

[dannyphantomclips]

Valerie learns that Vlad is Plasmius/half ghost and has been deceiving her all this time (D-Stabilized)

[acadjonne]

so hear me out

tim drake and danny fenton are twins

jack drake really did have a brother named eddie, once upon a time. eddie drake also had a wife, and she was expecting twins, but of course gotham is gotham. right before the twins would be born, eddie died, but his wife was brought to the hospital and lived long enough for the twins to be born.

jack and janet drake adopt the older twin, tim, because people knew that eddie and his wife were going to have a baby, and they had been considering having a kid themselves. but no one knew the drakes were expecting twins, and jack and janet don’t want two babies, so they arrange for the younger twin to be anonymously given up.

well, through some insane miscommunication, the other twin ends up in illinois, where he’s adopted a few months later by jack and maddie fenton. of course, because danny was given up anonymously, there’s no information whatsoever about his birth family

tim finds out he’s got a twin when he’s eleven or twelve by finding his birth certificate and an ultrasound print in his father’s safe. he starts looking for his twin, but doesn’t find a whole lot on his own.

(even when tim becomes robin, he never thinks of mentioning his twin to bruce.)

when they’re 14, tim meets sam manson at a gala in gotham. she’s originally from gotham as well, but moved to amity park as a kid, so this was her first time back in a long time. danny had just recently found out he was adopted, so of course when sam sees tim and he looks exactly like danny, she puts two and two together and approaches tim.

once sam gets back to amity, she puts danny and tim in contact. they agree that it sounds super unlikely on paper since danny was found in a hospital in chicago, while tim was born in gotham, and danny’s birthday is a couple days off from tim’s because no one knew exactly what day he was actually born, but they also look way too much alike for it to be coincidence.

of course, before they can get a dna test done, danny’s portal accident happens, and he gets super squirley about it after that whenever tim mentions it. plus they’re both minors and the drakes are never around to actually consent to it so it would be kinda weird for tim to insist on a dna test at that point.

but they stay in touch for the next few years, both expertly dodging any mention of their hero activities, and even manage to meet up for their sixteenth birthday. they hang out for a weekend in cleveland because it’s neutral ground, pretty much right smack in the middle between amity park and gotham. then, a few weeks after the events of d-stabilized, shit hits the fan.

valerie knows vlad is also plasmius, and after giving (dani) ellie a good head start, she starts going after him, outing him to the whole town in the process. of course, vlad assumes danny is the one who told valerie, so he outs danny as phantom as well. vlad manages to shake valerie, the fentons, and the giw, but danny isn’t so lucky, and gets captured by the giw.

of course, once they find out he’s been captured, sam, tucker, and jazz start planning to break him out and get him somewhere safe. obviously they can’t take danny to either the manson or foley houses, the giw would check there first, and they can’t take him to jazz’s college dorm either. gotham has a lot of ambient ectoplasm though, and the giw (probably) wouldn’t go anywhere near batman’s territory even with the anti-ecto acts, so sam calls tim and asks if they can take danny to him once they rescue him.

of course, tim had no idea about anything going on in amity park, not that team phantom knew that. turns out the giw have been covering things up forever, and the extremely high ectoplasm leaking from the fentons’ portal doesn’t help either. but of course sam assumes he knows because most of amity park is actively protesting against the giw and demanding danny’s release and it’s about to start getting violent any second now, and if it’s such big news in amity then of course tim knows danny is phantom by now, right?

but tim’s able to keep hold of himself long enough to let sam know that yes, danny can come to gotham, all of team phantom can come to gotham once they’ve rescued him, and once he’s let her go he immediately goes to the other bats and sounds the alarms

so queue the justice league showing up in amity park to deal with the giw, and inquiries about the legality of the anti-ecto acts and how they overlap with meta protection laws get raised, and danny gets rescued, and team phantom is evacuated to gotham.

once things have calmed down, tim tells danny about being red robin and they bond over hero stuff. danny fixes jason’s pit-induced anger problems because holy shit dude your ectoplasm is rancid. bruce of course takes on look at danny and decides to adopt him.

anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[plutoshaunted]

Tucker and Sam: So, how did your cousin get ghost powers anyway?

Danny: Shit I knew I was forgetting something. Funny story guys...

[vineyrose]

Headcanon

Danielle starts speaking less often after the episode "D-stabilized," as the experience of being tricked and betrayed for the second time, by someone who is working for Vlad no less, caused her to become more private and elusive in an effort to better protect herself.

[picturejasper20]

One line that stands out to me from D-Stabilized is when Danielle thinks that Vlad has been working on something to stabilize her ghost form that is fading away. It's more of a question that still puts hope in that Vlad is going to help her.

In spite of Vlad disowning and almost trying to destroy her in Kindred Spirits, Dani still sees Vlad somewhat as her father figure. She genuinely seems to believe that he still cares about her enough to find a cure for her condition.

It's a brief moment that is pretty sad for that Dani because she can't help it but seeing the person who raised her as her parent, no matter how terrible he treated her.

[daily-dose-of-danno]

Can I give you a challenge? I fee like Tucker's side profile is one of the rarest things, I can't find any references for it 😭💔

Season 2, Episode 5 - The Ultimate Enemy

Season 2, Episode 6 - Identity Crisis

Season 2, Episode 17 - Reality Trip

Season 3, Episode 11 - D-Stabilized

Season 3, Episode 12 - Phantom Planet

[roachliquid]

I'm incredibly miffed that Amy Keating Rogers only got to write one Danny Phantom episode. D-Stabilized was superb. It pulled off being a darker episode without feeling quite as jarring as Marmel's entries in that vein, and I loved the overarching interplay between Valerie, Danny, and Dani. It infuriates me beyond measure that the show cuts off almost immediately afterward.

[storm-driver]

to wrap up my feelings on season one, good shit. i remember exactly why i loved this show. and it isn't just the angst factor.

it's got dated humor and some shoddy animation sequences sometimes (particularly the 'action scenes' where they just do still images with sound effects over them), but i can forgive it for the time.

the episodes that stood out to me the most had to be fright knight, pubic enemies, and one of a kind. brother's keeper is great for the story, but the other episodes i were by far my favourite for having a good gel of animation, writing, and humor.

i dont think any single episode was bad in this season? my least favourite was probably lucky in love, but that was mostly bc it didn't do much for danny as a character.

the concept of this show alone astounds me at every corner, and its hard for me to believe nickelodeon really did approve this back in the 2000s. im glad they did, there's just so much to unpack every episode and it makes me giddy to know i get to do that all again. this show hits in fun ways, many of which make me wanna write my own stories. i'm coming back for s2 absolutely.

i am. still on the bench about s3 tho.

yknow what I'm cataloging my feelings as i rewatch every danny phantom episode, here we go

[sakaardreaming]

i feel like the grand majority of the problems with Danny Phantom as a tv show are so easily explained by the fact that there was clearly not a single woman in the room during production.

like. overshadowing being treated as a bit of a joke rather than a total violation of bodily autonomy. tucker's treatment of girls, and particularly it going unaddressed. danny having apparently gone into the girls' locker room invisibly, without consequence, which we learn through... two brief screencaps with goofy music. (never brought up again, arguably just done as a one-off for laughs, but still... not something a girl would laugh at.) sam constantly belittling the other girls for being feminine, in conjunction with paulina being written as shallow and one-dimensional (for the overall effect of femininity as a whole being dismissed and demonized).

according to imbd, there were exactly two (2) women involved who wrote a single (1) episode each, one being torrent of terror and the other being, INTERESTINGLY, D-stabilized, one of the episodes widely-recognized as one of the better ones in the show.

so i'm not saying we should just completely ignore any of the problematic characterization, because obviously characters don't need to be perfect and should grow, but i am saying that the writers did not see these things as flaws and therefore did not induce any sort of character growth away from them. which would not have been the case if they'd actually had any other perspective than Man in the room with them

[lilianade-comics]

I never actually finished Danny phantom but then I stumbled upon your cheesemelt arts to find out Dani is canon and canonically NEVER had GOOD relationship with Vlad???!!! Im sick throwing up gagging rn pls and thank you for letting the baby be happy with her dad😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀

My blog could be considered elaborate public therapy for people who suffered through Danny Phantom's late third season atrocity D-Stabilized. Thank YOU for enjoying my work, letting the baby and her dad be happy is very fun for me 💕

[evilminji]

I just Literally Galaxy Brained :D???

Oh? My? God?

So here I am, on a Star Wars kick, when I Ponder my beloved Danny Phantom. As ya do! Who? I wonder? Could I mix into the star wars universe?

WHEN IT HITS ME.

You know who LOVES kids? Just... will Burn Down Planets for this kid they literally JUST met? Mandolorians. Know where you can find a SHIT ton of those, genetically? The GAR!

Those are CLONES, baby! WE got a Clone! She's feisty and adorable! Smol! Bites! Got them big ol tooka eyes and itty bitty hands! Likes to fly, explore, and fight! She's BASICALLY born for this!

Tell me they would collectively look at this tiny feral child, with her poofy lil hair and chubby cheeks, fangy lil grin and biting tendcy, and go "is BABY!" Come on, tell me. I'll call you a liar.

And you KNOW the Force and Ectoplasm are probably messy EXs. Dani could TOTALLY use they "why should you allow me in? .....because they're not the boss of you" argument to GREAT effect.

Here, Skywalker. Kenobi. Watch this mysterious child... foooooor.... uh, Reasons! Yes. I, the Force, definitely have valid reasons for doing this! I am NOT just being a petty bitch! #SoundsLegit

But? Gasp! The child is a Cadet?! A BABY Clone! Of WHO? A legendary warrior king, from what context they can gather. Made by his enemy. Sent to kill him. Forgiven then adopted. Ooooh, lots of life lessons there. Clone rights and forgiveness and such.

But more IMPORTANTLY, to the GAR?

BABY CLONE! Is BABY!!!

We are ALL Buir now! All of us. Biggest family in the galaxy. Dani is cool with it, congrats New Fenton's! On the Be-Fenton-ing! Tremble in FEAR, scrubs! It's OUR HOUSE NOW!! Mwahahahaha! *cackles from her perch on top of a table*

But... wait... what is that glowing stuff that you're getting low on?

Oh? This? New beloved Highly Unhinged Jedi Friends and Clone Dads? Oh it's just my LIFE SAVING MEDICINE that I NEED TO LIVE that I never told you about! :D

*horrified silence*

*PANIC*

It's okay. It's OKAY! Everybody STOP SCREAMING! W-well just reverse engineer... *machine makes the equivalent of a Dunno noise* FUCK! Okay! New plan! Dani, sweetie, lil warrior, what do you remember about your medicine? What does it DO, exactly?

Unstable clone.

Okay! Okay, that's a start! THEY are stable clones. Right? Right!

.........r-right? Are... are they SURE? Cause, I mean, it's ONE thing when it's just THEIR health on the line... but when it's their YOUNGLING? Their lil tooka Dani? Their ade? Are they SURE? How sure. Bet HER life on it sure?

....no. No they are not. They don't trust the long necks NEARLY that much. Time do do a DEEP deep scan. Best they can find. They got to make SURE. Boba might be the only STABLE clone... assuming the sleemo even told the truth about that.

And? They LEARN some stuff.

Like about the chip in their head's. Supposedly an "inhibitor chip". Sends Skywalker into a karking rage, cause that looks a whole lot like a slave chip to HIM. Dani says they can CHECK. Then doesn't wait for an answer as she sticks her HAND into someone's head to just... pluck it out. Hand it over to be sliced.

Dani, sweetie, c-can you do that for the rest of us? Sure!

But! The race is ON. To either figure out how to contact the original, stabilize Dani, or synthesize Ectoplasm in a universe that DOES NOT HAVE IT. All while unknowingly? Absolutely Fenton CURB STOMPING Ancient Sith Plans into oblivion.

As is the Fenton Way.

This IS The Way~☆

@hdgnj @babbling-babull @the-witchhunter @hypewinter @mutable-manifestation @legitimatesatanspawn @lolottes @spidori

[dannyphannypack]

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