#i kept it vague but just in case

[dawning-skye]

memories of rain.

[starry-bi-sky]

Clone^2 danny headcanons and/or facts that i wanted to expand on but didn't have the motivation or inspiration to write a ficlet about. Ultimately most of these are ideas that already exist in canon clone^2 but are only now being expanded on/explored/stated specifically.

Because I'm procrasinating cfau and passively thinking about clone danny and damian again.

1 - As he's liminal, Danny generates his own ectoplasm. He generates it at a slower rate than the casual ghost but faster than the average liminal. It's what gives him an ecto-signature and results in him triggering his parents' weapons and ecto-sensors.

The ectoplasm he generates actually has a use, and he tends to burn through his supply while he's fighting because of all the physical energy he spends + the use of his scary eyes requires (albeit really minor amounts of) ectoplasm to use. It also has health benefits, as using his ectoplasm keeps his heartbeat steady and lessens the risk of his arrhythmia flaring up due to all of his physical activity and adrenaline.

It does happen occasionally that he uses up more ectoplasm than he can replace, and this has the expected negative effects on his health as all that adrenaline and stress catches up to his heart without a buffer to mitigate it. He carries a canteen full of diluted ectoplasm with him in order to give his system the boost it needs in order to stabilize itself, which he can usually tell when he needs due to excessive fatigue/chest pains/dizziness/other arrhythmia symptoms he gets that means he's low on ectoplasm.

2 - Danny's arrhythmia is a form of bradycardia (which is a slower heartbeat) -- what type? Unspecified / Unknown thanks to it being ectoplasmic in nature.

3 - In that same breath, Danny also has to burn that ectoplasm off in some form or another because if he doesn't it builds up and causes him the same issues as if he was too low. It also causes him to become more emotionally volatile, restless, irritable, overstimulated, etc, which the stress of that then makes his heart condition worsen. If too much ectoplasm builds up, it'll cause a physical electrical shock/shortage. This is rare however, and usually is the equivalent of giving someone a painful static shock. At best it makes the lights flicker or technology fritz out for a few seconds.

While it doesn't have much effect on the physical world, it does expend a good chunk of ectoplasm. Think like dumping out a heavy bucket of water that you've been carrying for a while, or getting into a hot shower after being outside in the cold for hours. It's emotionally draining but very relieving.

4 - Danny can replenish ectoplasm or generate ectoplasm faster by resting, eating, consuming other ectoplasm (fastest), fulfilling his interests / doing things that makes him happy, or by being exposed to high amounts of ectoplasm in the area. He can also rapidly generate it by being in a volatile emotional state, but that drains ectoplasm almost as quickly, and runs the risk of causing flare ups in his arrhythmia.

5 - this is actually canon to the au but I figured it wouldn't hurt to expand more on it / clarify / confirm, but Danny post-Damian has chronic pain in his hands from the nerve damage he sustained. He has daily physical therapy exercises he's supposed to do that he does in the mornings/evenings and whenever his hands hurt/feel stiff. He wears compression gloves in his day-to-day life and gets Sam and Tucker's help to brainstorm ideas about how to make compression gloves for Phantom that can include his knuckledusters. His grip and hand strength is weakened.

He has bad hand days where his hands hurt more than usual. This can happen at random, but is more common after he's overused/strained his hands either the day before or earlier in the day. His fingers stiffen up for similar reasons, and he gets tremors. It's happened before where (for example) he's braiding his hair and unbraiding it, only to need someone else to finish the braid because his fingers stiffened up and don't want to work like he wants them to.

Massages, heat, pressure, etc. helps soothe the pain, and since Danny's a fidgety person his friends and family can usually tell when he has a flare up because any hand movements he was doing prior ceased/slowed suddenly, or he starts massaging his hands / stretching out his fingers.

Damian very stubbornly insists on massaging his hands for him when this happens, he has a lot of intense guilt for being the reason for Danny's chronic pain so he wants to alleviate it in anyway he can.

6 - Danny has what I like to call "Bruce-isms", a word I came up with just now that means he has Bruce Wayne mannerisms that come from the fact that he's still Bruce's clone. A Nature vs. Nurture thing. His Bruce-isms include the Bruce Grunts Of Ambiguous Tonal Meaning ("hm", "hrm", "hn"), his workaholism, his paranoia (on a milder scale), etc. They're small, relatively non-defining things that are quirks but don't make up his personality.

He's got what Sam and Tucker like to call "Bruce Wayne Moments" which are essentially Bruce-isms but only ones that Danny and his friends are aware of considering they only know Bruce as Brucie Wayne and not Batman. "Bruce Wayne Moments" include Danny being clumsy, doing something air-headed, being oblivious, etc. It's not a common joke among the three of them since Tucker and Sam know that Danny's still pr sensitive to the whole clone thing. So they only bring it up when he's done something stupid but hilarious.

7 - while clone^2 focuses more on Danny and Damian's relationship and Danny helping Damian develop his identity beyond just "Damian Wayne's Clone", Danny still suffers from his own identity crises. He sometimes gets jealous of Ellie and Damian for being "lucky" that they always knew they were clones, rather than finding out later in life.

He's aware that this is not fair to think and that Damian and Ellie both have their own struggles as clones, but he can't help it sometimes.

He tries not to think about it too much, but when things get too quiet or when he's not busy, Danny can't help but wonder how much of himself is things he's learned on his own and come from him, and how much of it comes from being Bruce Wayne's clone. He has to stop and count how many things are unique about him specifically when he starts to emotionally spiral. It's not rational, but it's not supposed to be.

As a result Danny kinda, hm, clings to his identity as the Phantom, just a little bit? He thinks it's one of the few things that he has autonomous control over as "Danny Fenton", rather than it being a result of him being Bruce Wayne's clone. Because Bruce Wayne isn't a vigilante! Right? Right?

Consequently this becomes one of the reasons that Damian keeps mum about Bruce Wayne's identity. The original reasons were because Danny asked not to know much about the LoA beyond what Damian already told him, and Batman was technically "apart" of the LoA, and secondly because he just didn't want Danny to get involved with Batman and co and Danny knowing about Bruce Wayne's identity could potentially cause that.

But as time goes on Damian kinda notices like, just how being a clone is affecting Danny even if he hides it from Damian pretty well. He can't really comprehend what it was like for Danny to grow up thinking he was normal like everyone else only to find out he was a clone, but he does see the hurt it's causing his brother. And he does notice that Danny was holding onto being Phantom quite a bit, and figured that if he found out Bruce Wayne was also a vigilante, it would hurt him beyond belief.

8 - So Danny's creation has been kept relatively,,, mmm,,, vague? considering I've been struggling for a time how I could plausibly have his creation happen without Bruce finding out about it immediately. And my conclusion is that around the time Danny was created, Bruce met up with the Fenton parents again for some reason or another -- checking out their tech under the guise of wanting to catch up with them.

And I can imagine that, due to being close friends in college, the Fentons literally just outright told him, "Hey we wanna 'nother kid but don't want to go through the risk of pregnancy again, so we're gonna make a clone of one of us instead"

and in true Bruce fashion, he mentally went "wow i should learn Everything And Anything About This Thing Specifically. Just In Case." and outwardly went "woah cool! ahaha how does it work"

and since the Fentons consider Bruce a close friend and are also incapable of Not Talking About Science, turned and went "OH WE CAN SHOW YOU" and showed Bruce their entire cloning process up to and including how they (safely) extracted the DNA they were gonna use. of which they already had. they were gonna just extract Jack's DNA a second time as an example, but it was Bruce who said "hey you should try me instead" in order to gauge how exactly safe this was and if there were any symptoms he would need to recognize in cloning.

so with his consent they did, and then showed him how they were going to use the DNA to make a clone without actually going through the process. Without prompting from Bruce, the Fentons went "we're gonna throw your DNA away though since we don't want this lying around and because we have no use for it" and visibly showed him that they were disposing it.

Bruce came to the conclusion that the Fentons weren't planning anything nefarious, they just really wanted another kid, and (reluctantly) left afterwards. The mixup comes when Maddie, surprisingly, misplaces the cartridge with Jack's DNA in it and while they could have always gotten another sample, it was better and safer to just try and find the original before that.

Jack finds Bruce's in their disposable. In his excitement, he forgets that it was Bruce's DNA, and manages to get it out safely. Maddie wasn't looking when he found it, and in her excitement also forgot to ask where Jack found it. They used that cartridge instead.

When they found out they used the wrong DNA, Danny was already about year old and while Jack and Maddie are morally dubious, they're only morally dubious towards ghosts. Danny was their beloved human baby, they would never do anything to him.

That being said, they were still horrified when they found out, and really, they genuinely did consider reaching out to Bruce to tell him. They thought it was something he deserved to know since it was his DNA that got used instead, and they felt awfully guilty after he trusted them enough to let them draw DNA from him. The only reason they hadn't is because, at the time, Bruce had been really busy with something in his public life and they didn't want to bother him during such a stressful time.

So they were going to wait, and in Fenton-like fashion, forgot to tell him. When the subject came up again sometime later, they assumed they already told Bruce and went about their day.

[ozlices]

it really is that simple and easy to respect people's boundaries. : )

[whistlingstarlight]

Bro I actually love Dingo he's such a weird little goober. Guy eats unidentified shit, and then immediately gets defensive when questioned like he didn't just potentially eat poison (enough for Collin to apparently dream about telling him not to eat weird shit). Talks tough but is a Fucking Coward, but also absolutely slays at Dandori. Scared of dogs, yet has an implied crush on probably the biggest dog-lover in the galaxy.

[fatalelity]

[ arcana ] examine the mysterious energy charge from the portal. ( DC : 22; result : 1d20 + guidance (1d4) + arcana proficiency (+2) = 21 )

you can sense that the magic is familiar but you can't quite make of it. it's reminiscent of the same magic that ince brought you comfort — and yet now, you regard it with disgust.

a woman in front of you, scarred, tattered ... broken. you can feel her pain, as if there's a connection between the two of you. it's the same aura radiating from her, but you know she's no dream visitor. she's no ilithid ... she is very human.

your arms fold protectively. the last visit on your campsite led you to a site unholy. you remember feeling as if your body was not your own, the emperor wanting to evolve you against your will ... your mind's will. you would rather die than to become a flayer.

" ... I don't believe I've seen you before. "

you look at @clawsextended and you feel.. almost uneasy. maybe, you've seen this woman before — maybe you haven't but ever since that visit with your so called protector, you haven't trusted a single soul save for gale and shadowheart.

" what are you doing here? this is my room. "

[dumfanting]

I keep thinking about that leaked clip of season three. I can’t be the only one thinking that the way the scene is set, with both on either side of a mesh-like screen, that it’s reminiscent of a confessional booth. Right? Or is it just my childhood catholic guilt projecting?

[mtreebeardiles]

Gale: *excitedly sharing his passion for the Weave*

Kieran: 😮

Gale: 😊

Kieran: *learns some Weave to show to Gale*

Gale: 😮

Kieran: 🥰

[bioluminescent-obscurity]

a few OFF and Disco Elysium parallels

right from the beginning, you feel that something is terribly wrong. your mission is futile. your mission is inevitable. this responsibility is yours alone. your new companion doesn't believe you're capable, but is interested to see you try. you don't know why you do the things you do. should you have stayed in your coma? something is terribly wrong. all these words being used around you—neurodegenerative disease, atypical sclerosis, acute encephalopathy, malignant aneurysm—do you know what they mean? should you know what they mean? your companion—do you trust him? does he trust you? you keep hearing about a woman. a queen. a deity. what's her name? why is she important to you? why do her words cause such pain? the children are suffering. you can't alleviate their pain, but you can end it. something is terribly wrong. we are all animals. what do others see when they look you in the eye? can you look yourself in the eye? is any of this real? nobody can face reality alone. what are people willing to do to survive? is death a worse fate than addiction? mass-production. mass-consumption. our society devours itself from the inside out. a cleansing wave of pale oblivion is sweeping forward, heralded by an entity hiding behind the mask of humanity. something is terribly wrong. something is terribly wrong. something is terribly wrong.

[mofsblog]

I finished Nimona like 15 minutes ago. I'm so fucking emotional. I was not expecting it to be that good. There's so many scenes that hit so hard. Something about a certain scene and the trans suicide rates and just, yeah. This movie coming out at a time where queer rights (especially trans ones) are being attacked is sooo

[itstimeforstarwars]

In the galidraan au, omega is a clone of arla fett. I don’t know if it will come up at all or have any plot relevance, but it does shape my worldbuilding just a bit.

[paper--moons]

This isn’t a request or anything I just wanted to say that the post you made 3 or 4 days ago about little Shigaraki and Spinner has inspired me so much that If I didn’t have too many half finished fics currently in the process of being written I would start a new one just because of how much I love the dynamic you wrote. (I’m a sucker for when you mentioned Twice and Toga joining in with Shigaraki calling Spinner ‘Speener’ and I can not for the life of me get the idea out of of my head of him trying to take care of three regressed gremlins. Hmm maybe I will have to start a new fic after all too many ideas…)

Also as I was typing this comment I had yet to read the last bullet point and dang- hit me right in the feels :( I’m not currently caught up with mha all the way but my goodness does your writing make me want to jump back into the series.

Anyways enough of my rambling now just felt like sharing how much I appreciate your posts ^^

Oh, thank you so so much! 🤍

Truly, it means the world to me to hear such kind words about my silly little writings. It's the biggest compliment to know that something I've put out there has inspired others—really, I think that is one of my top goals as a creator. Knowing that I've helped the process of creation continue for others is important to me. Even if there's no "end result", inspiration is the greatest part about creation if you ask me. It's the dreaming stage! And I want everyone to be able to dream up things that bring them joy in one form or another.

Also, I'm happy to hear you liked the dynamic! I try to work really hard on character dynamics in my longer, private works as it's something I really enjoy fleshing out, but I fear that I do not get to showcase that so much within the confines of my little posts here.

And again, thank you for your kind words! I'll be sure to keep them close as I work through this next batch of requests. 🌙

[wayfinderships]

Happy Halloween, Everyone!! And to those who don't celebrate, I hope you're having a lovely day!! Send me a "Trick or Treat" to my inbox and I'll give you all a neat surprise!

[mouseshift]

wait mouseshift I'm not getting the audio book immediately (and when i do I'm saving it for a 9 hour road trip I'm gonna be going on soon) and I was wondering which chapter is the most painful/sad to listen to?? I wanna prepare myself

hello hi um SO . jello was right that chapter 7 and 12 were DISTRESSING . molly and lorelais voice actors are FANTASTIC and both made me cry but as a rick shades liker chapter 8 jumped out of nowhere and hit me like a bus . good luck soldier

[hollowsart]

sometimes I see posts of popular characters that discuss or are commentating on current event dr4ma and like..

the reasons we fall for characters is more than just the aesthetic appeal of them. The flanderization of the characters we like is something that's been persistent for decades (and by that I mean the objectification of the character in question), and we really gotta reel ourselves in on that and remember what deeper aspects of their overall character appealed to us are.

Example? Mysterio is genuinely goofy, but he is also a genuine serious threat. Yeah he may be very often silly and relegated to the comic relief, but he is a deeply fascinating character overall. His design is really cool, his average looks outside the villain persona are endearing to me, but I do find there's so much more to his character that I am not smart enough to discuss that I do genuinely admire. All of these things are what add up to why I'm so down bad for this character. yeah he's hot, but he's also so deep and rich in flavor. (I acknowledge the flaws and worst variants of his character in the comics that I don't read, but it doesn't stop me from enjoying what I do)

Doc Ock is another great example. you go into his tags and you see so many deep dive character studies from the Sam Raimi version of the character and it's SO GOOD. SO REFRESHING to see people going into a character like that!! Yeah there's obviously thousands of thirst posts, you can't blame them when he looks like that, but it's definitely balanced out by all the genuine care and love people have for his complex character. (heck, even the comic version(s) of Doc Ock have similar studies and thirst lol I respect that)

[valueinn]

my official black mirror s6 reviews and ranking:

beyond the sea - this felt like one of those short stories you read in 20 minutes and think about for the rest of your life. 10/10

demon 79 - fun vintage horror vibe without feeling like it was taking itself too seriously. nida i love you i love you i love you

mazey day - 2000s paparazzi culture. but watch out

loch henry - shooting on location was the best choice they made here. i feel like it fell a little flat as a critique of true crime culture and how netflix contributes to it just bc of who’s producing it but overall i liked it

joan is awful - cool idea i guess but as a criticism of the content-machine it felt disingenuous coming from netflix itself

[neck-thats-made-for-bruising]

I always think my childhood wasn't that bad but I got put into therapy in kindergarten because all of my pictures were drawn with sad faces