App for Vatheon
[ Player Name ] :Lel
[ Personal LJ ] : leloipa
[ Age ] : 27
[ Timezone ] :EST
[ Other Characters ] :n/a
[ Character's Name ] : Danny Fenton
[ Character's Age ] : 15
[ Series ] : Danny Phantom
[ Canon Point ] : After D-Stabilized
[ History ] :
Wiki History
[ Personality ] :
Danny has a laid-back and easygoing personality, but can be very sarcastic and cynical at times. He is very stubborn and over protective of his family and friends. Danny has a lame sense of humor, which often manifests itself as corny puns. In public he seems like nothing more than a typically lazy, klutzy and easily bullied teenager. And in a sense, he is still one. He likes to hang out with his friends and listen to popular music. He enjoys bowling and video games. He is bad at math, but loves astronomy. And Danny has all the typical teenage worries about school and family.
But thinking that was all there was to Danny Fenton would be a terrible mistake. Deep inside, Danny has an overdeveloped sense of duty and a streak of responsibility a mile wide. He genuinely wants to do the right thing, and will do so even if it hurts him. As he put it once, 'I can't ignore a cry for help.' This feeling of responsibility and justice has often driven him to help even people who are normally his enemies. He has a habit of blaming himself every time someone gets hurt that he could have saved.
At the same time, his determination to do the right thing has put him in conflict many times with the desire to use his powers for selfish purposes. He has been tempted in the past To play pranks on the school bullies and to get out of trouble with his parents. But every time he has given into this urge it has always come back to hurt him.
More than anything else, Danny dreams of acceptance. That he could tell the world about his secret and he wouldn't have to fear being shipped off to a lab to be experimented on. That people wouldn't automatically assume he has evil intentions every time he meets them. That they could accept that he only wants to help. And that he wouldn't have to face his own parents as enemies half the time. But at the same time, he's a little too pragmatic to believe that that could ever be possible. He would like to believe that his parents would accept his ghost side, but he is too much of a realist to tell them of his own volition. At some level he has accepted that he doesn't truly belong to either world. He's too much of a ghost to be human and too much of a human to be a ghost. He will never be just an ordinary kid. And if he isn't okay with it, at least he has come to terms with it.
Living for a year as a supernatural vigilante has left Danny with some lasting personality traits. He is always a little paranoid, always waiting for the next ghost attack or the next ghost-hunter to come after him. He has serious trust issues, as well. The only people he trusts completely are his friends Sam and Tucker, his sister Jazz, and a ghost named Clockwork. He has never voluntarily told anyone about his secret. He doesn't trust adults. At all. He may like some of them, but he never trusts them completely. Perhaps because every new adult he has considered trusting in the past year has ended up betraying him on some level.
Danny's greatest fear is himself. In an adventure with time travel, Danny met a future version of himself that was everything he had never wanted to be. His 'evil jerky future self' (as Danny called him) was a sadistic psychopath who only understood destruction. He had murdered his human half in a way that was 'better left unsaid'. He'd destroyed most of the world simply because he could. He'd murdered an unknown number of humans, destroyed cities, and sadistically mutilated ghosts. When he discovered Danny in the future, he had trapped him there and returned to Danny' present solely to ensure that all of Danny's family and friends died on schedule. Danny is terrified of ever becoming something like that. Worst of all, he could sort of understand some of the decisions that version of him had made, and that scared him. He made a promise to his family never to become that. But hasn't forgotten any of it.
Danny is afraid that some day he won't be strong enough or fast enough to save someone. At the same time, he is afraid of becoming too powerful. From his adventures in time, he knows that in only ten years he could be so powerful that no one would be able to stop him if he ever fell.
[ Strengths/Weaknesses ] :
Strengths
Physical
As a ghost, Danny is very powerful. He has access to a wide variety of abilities such as intangibility, invisibility, ectoplasmic manipulation, ice manipulation, and overshadowing. Even as a human he is fast and agile.
Mental
Mentally, Danny is extremely stubborn and quick-witted. He is intelligent, even if he doesn't apply it much to his schoolwork. And he has a strong moral code that he refuses to break.
Emotional
Danny's greatest emotional strength is his ability to forgive. If someone needs help, even if it's someone that normally torments him, Danny will immediately drop everything to go and help them. Although he is, of course, not above getting in a little payback in the process.
Weaknesses
Physical
Danny is more than a little klutzy, especially in his human form. He doesn't always have the greatest control over his powers, especially when he gets emotional. He is a self-taught fighter, and has little understanding of fighting without his ghost powers.
Mental
Danny is young. He is still prone to seeing things in black and white terms. He jumps to conclusions easily, and is not always capable of understanding the plots around him.
Emotional
Danny is very emotional, and often lets his feelings get the better of him. This is especially obvious, considering the fact that his powers sometimes respond to his emotions. He is prone to doubting himself, and has a vulnerable self esteem.
[ Other Important Facts ] :
I play Danny from very close to the end of the series. At this point he has already gone through the majority of his character development. He is mostly comfortable with his double life as a superhero, even if he still doubts himself and complains about his life occasionally. He has mastered his duplication and ice powers, as well.
[ Sample ] :
The problem with being the half-ghost son of ghost-hunters, Danny thought, was the way he constantly ended up in bizarre situations. Apart from, you know, the whole being hunted by his own parents part. Nothing could ever top the sheer wrongness of listening to your parents discussing the best way to dissect your alter ego. Talk about things that no amount of therapy could ever erase.
Still, the point was, if he hadn't been a ghost and if his parents hadn't been incredibly overenthusiastic ghost-hunters he wouldn't end up in situations like this nearly as often. Case in point, the ridiculously oversized and ominous looking invention he was helping his Dad install on the roof of the Fenton Ghost Assault Vehicle.
"So, uh, Dad, what exactly was it that this did again?"
His Dad puts down the welder and grins broadly at Danny, practically radiating the sense of cheerfully enthusiastic incompetence that had made the Fentons known and dreaded by most of Amity Park. "I'm glad you asked! This, son, is the Fenton Ecto-obliterator! Just wait till you see what this baby can do to that ghost kid! First it will suck him into this box and then the ectolasers fry him until he's nice and toasty! Mmm, toast. Could you toss up the Fenton Ecto-Wrench?"
Pushing down the sense of nausea that particular description had created, Danny fishes through the toolbox and retrieves a completely ordinary wrench with the Fenton logo printed on the handle. The teen rolls his eyes at his parent's obsession with embossing that on everything and hands it up. "And the thing with all the glowing knives you just added?"
"That was the Ghost Ginzu! We don't want ghosts to have any chance to get away. And this way he'll be all sliced and ready for us to study! This time we'll get that ghost boy for sure!"
Danny's face pales at the thought. Why was it that each of his parent's inventions seemed worst than the last? "Right, Dad. You have fun with that. I think I just remembered some home work that I have to do. In my room. Away from here."
Links to other samples
Danny meets a stranger in the Woods
Danny is moping over all of his friends and family disappearing. Now if only his friends would leave him alone.
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