#Ectober Month 2021

[ajitated]

(Originally posted: 2 October 2021)

Ghostea! It’s cute, as long as you don’t think about it too much!

Ectober Month 2021, Day 1: Treat

[the-stove-is-on-fire]

Doppelganger

The age difference between Danny and Danielle in canon always confused me. Making them Chaos Twins is obviously superior. (/lh)

Bonus: Dash: “Why are your eyebrows-” Dani: “Juvie.”

(For my non native english speakers: Juvie/Juvy = Juvenile hall, Juvenile detention center, literal baby jail.)

[okkennymay]

Ectober Month 2021

Day 3: Mutant vs Cryptid

“Listen, I know you just transferred here so I thought I’d give you the heads up; If you see the boss man do anything...weird...just pretend you didn’t, trust me.”

“...Weird?”

I have the vaguest memories of the old intern squad series I had based around this same idea from my Chicky days, I mean we follow Danny’s ghostly shenanigans at school but man I would’ve liked to have seen what its like workin for a mans who’s been afflicted with a phat case of the ghost for yeARS tbh 👀

You’d have to sign a rather thorough NDA upon being hired that’s for sure

[typo-art]

Ectober Month Day 25/ Ectober Week Day 1 - Boo

The beginning of the school year is always great.

Bonus;

[soilem]

Ectober Day 10 – Mummy/Doppleganger

[artistfingers]

Ectober Day 20: Full Moon | Undercover Phantom AU

I was gonna be an astronaut.

[alexfalconeart]

The gang's all here! Nothing says fun like exploring the GZ with your friends! 👻

[marzfartz]

Ectober Day 27: Burial

Danny’s burial anyone? Also didn’t think I’d love the colour swapped suit as much as I do but I may have to draw him in this again. Images will be under the cut.

[floq]

ectoberweek 2021 | autopsy vs pumpkin

laying on fall leaves… probably overthinking some stuff

[soni-dragon]

Tfw you were suddenly teleported to the middle of the woods while you were trying(and failing) to sleep.

Ectober month day 5: Fairy Circle 𓍊𓋼𓍊

[the-random-phan]

Ouija Boards call out to (and summon) whatever ghost is closest, usually being shades too weak to even show their form. But what about the one sleeping upstairs?

Ectober Day 5- Ouija (Board)

[jackdaw-sprite]

06 - Twilight

Late naval twilight still counts as twilight, right?

A Void!Danny design.

A self-indulgent blurb, a bit of an explanation, and some sketches are under the cut.

Warning for body horror and mind control, because Void!Danny.

When the wind lows against houses and rattles windows, when the trees cast away their leaves and the electric expectation of change saturates the air, they know the night is close. After so many years, it's become tradition.

The first sign of his presence: a shifting, eerie song hovering just on the edge of hearing. It whispers long moments before bursting forth, sliding up and down the scale in a way halfway between a whoop and a rasp.

It's the same song the lake sings in the dead of winter: the song of heaving ice.

It hadn't been there, the first year.

But then, the first year many things had been different. Phantom had vanished only a few days before, and there was still hope he might return.

The second year had borne with it the second sign of his presence too: as the night drew closer the song shifted higher, more insistent. It filled the mind in a slow crescendo, and like fishing-line caught you. Drew you in like a fish and hung your mind out to dry until morning.

After the second year, everyone in Amity knew: don't drive if you don't have to, once the singing starts. It's not worth the risk of falling asleep somewhere you don't want to.

The fourth year Tucker figured out how to keep their little group awake.

And ever since then, they've tried to hold the ghost, to save him. They've pleaded with him and cajoled him. Bribed and fought and a hundred other tactics.

Because while the ghost always leaves at dawn, they don't want him to. They want him back. To strip away the years and have Danny again.

Each year, Nocturne lets Danny return to Amity for a single night. They don't know why. As a reminder, perhaps. A kindness, a taunt? There's no way of knowing. The Ancient hasn't bothered with their little town since that fateful night. Hasn't explained any of the times they've caught him elsewhere, instead slipping through their fingers like an oil slick.

They do know this: every year in the depths of autumn, they have a chance to save their friend from Nocturne's control.

And every year, it wanes.

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So! I mentioned in my day 04 post for ectober 2021 that the idea of a Void!Danny with a mask ate my brain a little bit.

Well, it was true.

Even if we take Nocturne at his word on his motivations, it doesn’t seem like Nocturne’s scheme for putting everyone to sleep could last all that long, or would at least need to move around. Humans need to be alive to dream, and they won’t stay alive long if they and everyone around them are asleep. Infrastructure needs maintenance. People need maintenance, in the form of food and drink and all the other necessities of life. So I don’t imagine a world where Nocturne ‘wins’ being one where humans are all asleep, all the time. 

In Urban Jungle, we see Sam's outfit change as she spends more time under Undergrowth's control. It becomes more sinister and seems to indicate she's farther under Undergrowth's control -- farther from herself.

And then, I read the phrase "moon-like mask" and, well.

What if it became more moon-like as the possession progressed, pulling Danny farther and farther from his humanity the longer he spent under Nocturne's control? How would he look after weeks? Months? Years?

What if it stopped being a mask and started being his head?

The idea here is that after enough time, Void!Danny is almost completely inhuman, and seems as alien as Nocturne actually is.

Danny might still be in there somewhere, but it's not in a form any of his friends would recognize. Nocturne deals with the mind, after all. Why puppet with strings when he can be so much more...delicate?

The jellyfish tentacle thing was a later addition, when I asked myself what the most disconcerting possible way would be for his moon head to slowly reintegrate itself with his body over time. My answer: jellyfish tentacle spine :)

[the-stove-is-on-fire]

Ectober 2021 - Day 4: Goo

>:) melty melty Ellie

[okkennymay]

Ectober Month 2021

Day 2: Scream vs Laugh

“I WANT TO HEAR YOU SCREAAAAAAAM!~”

[Violently speeds through the Ectober Prompts] 

[typo-art]

Ectober Month Day 30/Ectober Week Day 6 - Summoning

“Danny. He’s going to kill you for real after this.”

“For one ghost free weekend? Worth.”

[soilem]

Ectober Day 1 – Trick/Treat

the trio again!