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POV: you’re the tired Pokemon partners to a trio of slightly feral rat children. (You are also feral yourself)

One part experiment, one part art style study of @critterbitter’s GORGEOUS art, and all an excuse to dabble in drawing some Pokémon (and bonus rat children because Crit I love what you’ve done with them so much it’s ENDING ME every time you post)

Done in Procreate entirely with the syrup brush to capture the feel of MS Paint because that’s the mood I was in lol, and only a single blend layer right at the end to harmonize the colors. Those shadows and highlights were picked entirely by hand and I feel stronger for it <3

Bonus: Rat children reactions!

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At their core, ghosts are amalgamations of energy. Quite literally, in fact. Ghost cores are coalesced energy that’s taken on an elemental flavor. They’re created in places with high concentrations of ectoplasm, which eventually collects and pulls itself into core. That, in turn, attracts more ectoplasm, which is what creates a sentient ghost. Human souls, being made of energy, are naturally attracted to the energy rich ghost zone once they’re freed from living bodies, and spawn cores after being drenched in ectoplasm.

The vast majority of the time, cores are single element, from the following ten: water, ice, plant, earth, fire, magma, electric, air, light, and void. However, dual element cores do also exist. They very rarely occur naturally, and are more often than not the result of ghost fusion, which is the result more powerful ghost absorbing the energy of a less powerful one. This is widely regarded as taboo, as it’s the only way to really “kill” a ghost. Most of the time “killing” a ghost just disperses their energy, but it will recollect over time and they will respawn. Absorption stops that, because the energy is being functionally held hostage by the more powerful personality/conciseness.

Some hybrid cores are stable, such as plant/earth cores, or electric/light cores. Cores they aren’t holding two opposed elements in one. Cores that are holding opposed elements, Like, say, an ice-fire core, are incredibly volatile. Their powers can be difficult to control, they can cause health issues, and typically need ectoplasm to be constantly expended in order to keep them under control.

As a ghost grows and matures, so too does their core. This results in a general power boost and sometimes entirely new abilities. There are rare occasions where the power of a core outpaces what the body can handle though, and the result is all kinds of power outbursts and unpleasant side effects until the body catches up.

So, in a purely hypothetical scenario, what would happen if you took a mature, yet volatile hybrid core, and suddenly placed it into a body that isn’t used to even having a core at all?

Well…

It isn’t always pretty.

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Jasmine had an ice core.

That fact took Vlad by surprise, by way of an ice encased foot trying very very hard to to connect with and break his ribs. He barely managed to twist away in time, firing a blast of ectoplasmic energy at Jasmine as he turned.

An ice core? Really? It didn’t suit her. They were for the serene and the graceful, people with personalities comparable to freshly fallen snow or frozen lake vistas. The quiet, the cold, the easily crushed.

Jasmine was many things, but serene was not one of them. Not by a long shot. She was clever, determined, ambitious. She could be described as controlled, but only when she was human. As Phantom that control slipped to reveal a… truly spirited young woman. Her personality was far more suited to an electric core, or perhaps, fire. Like his own.

That would be the single disadvantage to said lovely fire core, Vlad mused distantly as he teleported away from Jasmine, reappearing just in time to hear the tail end of her frustrated scream. He matched up much too well against ice. He wished Jasmine could have been on more equal footing against him.

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As Vlad stared down at Jasmine during their next scuffle a few days later, he was keenly aware of the fact that his… concerns about Jasmine’s core had perhaps been a bit presumptuous.

She was picking herself up out of the small crater Vlad’s fiery blast had left her in, frost collecting under her palms and feet as she hauled herself upright. Vlad opened his mouth to say something snappy, only to pause as the air grew cold. The frost had spread from Jasmine’s feet, coating the entire crater in a softly glowing blanket and creeping across the ground outside of it. The wind picked up, ice and snow solidifying in a swirl, with Jasmine at its center.

A blizzard.

It was in that moment Vlad realized an ice code suited Jasmine perfectly. It was no calm and gentle thing, Jasmine had an ice core like an avalanche. A tumbling, churning wall of ice on a warpath, a raging force of nature that would not, and could not, be stopped, especially not by something as insignificant as fire.

Vlad smiled as Jasmine shot towards him. This would work out well, actually.

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🎶His molecules got all rearranged!🎶

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I rewatched Infinite Realms last night and noticed something curious. When Danny meets Frostbite, Frostbite says that Danny is basically the savior of the Ghost Zone because he’s the one who sealed Pariah Dark in the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep. Which is mostly true, Danny definitely did the bulk of the fighting and defeating of Pariah, but if we’re feeling pedantic and technical (and obviously I am, since I’m writing this lol) Danny isn’t the one who actually sealed Pariah in the Sarcophagus.

Vlad is. He’s the one who actually had the key and locked Pariah up.

Which I think the show forgot about because you mean to tell me that Vlad isn’t out there taking credit for that? I don’t believe that for a second lol. Vlad would be taking credit for Pariah’s defeat at every opportunity imo, because he’s Like That(tm).

So anyway Halfa!Jazz AU Vlad has 100% taken credit for Pariah’s defeat and Jazz is totally super not bothered about it (she is incredibly bothered about it) (don’t worry she is also getting credit for the fight since she did most of the heavy lifting, Vlad’s just being annoying about it lol)

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Rating: Teen and Up

Archive Warning: None

Category: Gen

Fandom: Danny Phantom

Characters: Jazz Fenton

Additional Tags: Halfa | Half-Ghost Jazz Fenton, Canon Typical Violence, do I need to tag that? Jazz gets electrocuted, idk if that counts as violence lol, regardless she’s going through it in this one

Chapters: 1

Word Count: 2,556

Summary: It was 11 PM on a Friday night and everyone else had finally gone to bed. Ordinarily, Jazz would also be getting ready for bed herself, but tonight was no ordinary night. Tonight, she was going to find out what in the world was going on with the ghost portal in the Fenton Lab.

AKA Jazz accidentally nearly kills herself investigating the portal. You know how it is.

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Oh the woes of having an overactive ice core

(And an enemy who drops you off with your arch nemesis at the first sign of severe distress.)

Bonus:

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🎶 Yo Jazz Fenton she was just 16 when her parents built a very strange machine 🎶

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Huh, turns out that arch-nemesis might be kind of trustworthy after all…

Who knew.

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Turns out me and the bestie (@lilianade-comics) have the same taste in blorbos lol

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Hey Tumblr guess what I started playing

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Commission for @painted-fanbird of her Halfa!Jazz AU!

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Some Halfa!Jazz and Vlad doodles! Because I love them both very very much <3

Jazz and Vlad are also such a fun pair in this AU, because while they do start as enemies (the finer points of which are currently eluding me because unlike Danny in canon, Hungry for Answers Jazz does attempt to accept Vlad’s mentorship offer, albeit with a few conditions. That doesn’t end up working out though lol) I’m a SUCKER for Vlad tripping and falling his way into being a good mentor so yeah, they’ll get there eventually lol

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Agit got me thinking about, of all things, a Halfa!Jazz AU and I am having a BLAST with it in my brain <3

Jazz doesn’t have a lot of canon content, so there’s plenty of blanks for me to fill in. This Jazz is a curious thing, she hungers for knowledge and she loves learning. She’s very studious, and has been since she was young, so she ultimately doesn’t really have any friends because Amity Park is a small town and her reputation has been firmly established as a responsible, mature, know-it-all and teacher’s pet Jazz. Good for tutoring, not good for inviting to parties. Not that she’d go anyway, she always says no.

It ends up being that insatiable curiosity that sends her into her parents lab after their latest project doesn’t work. That has her stepping into this very strange machine, wondering why exactly it didn’t turn on. Is something missing? Was it not plugged in? It wouldn’t be unlike her parents to forget to plug it in, they can get ahead of themselves in their excitement sometimes.

She accidentally leans on the button.

You know what they say; curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

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ASDFGHJKL I READ THE DANNY PHANTOM GRAPHIC NOVEL YESTERDAY

IT WAS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE 15/10 WOULD READ AGAIN!!!!

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I made an observation about how Dustfinger loves the inkworld so so much, and how it loves him right back in a post I reblogged yesterday and now I literally can’t stop thinking about it

Because I just, UGH. He really does, he loves the fire and the fairies and his best friend. His wife, his daughter, his now step-son. The trees, the traveling, the singing, the dancing, even the danger. He loves every part of this world with his whole heart

And it loves him right back! The fairies who healed his face after Basta slashed it, the nymphs who remembered his face even after so long gone, the White Women who love him and his fire, The Great Shapechanger who let him go from her realm of death. For every ounce of love Dustfinger pours into this world, he gets it right back

Which is like, that’s the crux of his character isn’t it? Love. Dustfinger is many things, and he sees himself as many more, but at his core? He is full of love. He loves deeply and wholly. And I love that about him <3

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Please consider: chronic father-figure Dustfinger

He just can’t stop being a dad to every unattended child he finds, especially young girls (because he has daughters), and it’s a problem. He’s returning to the strolling players camp with this third teenaged girl of the week and it’s just “what’ve you got there Dustfinger?”

“A smoothie”