[Character Name] Danny Fenton
[Canon] Danny Phantom
[Point Taken from Canon] After the Fright before Christmas, but before Secret Weapons
[Age] 15
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] Hetero
[Eye Color] Light blue while human, screaming-crayola-green in ghost.
[Hair Color] Black as a human, white as a ghost.
[Height] 5'2
[Other] He's scrawny and unimpressive looking.
[Clothing]
In human form: baggy jeans, red converse, white shirt with a red school logo on it.
In ghost form: Black spandex hazmat jumpsuit, with white gloves and boots.
[Background]
Follow the link to wiki! [Personality]
Although he starts out in the series as a clumsy, outwardly ordinary teenager, Danny Fenton's actions immediately make him more than this. Everyone must sooner or later make choices that define who they are and what they are willing to stand up and fight for. Danny's moment of truth was a little more unusual: presented with abilities that gave him budding super powers, he wastes no time in scraping them together to protect his friends in an emergency. A malevolent ghost had appeared at his school, and with no help on the way but his own. He saves the day, fortunately. The very next day, the same thing happens and he helps again. Then the next day, again... Soon it's become a 'thing': with his friends in tow, Danny becomes a vigilante ghost hunter.
Adjusting to life as a super hero is not easy for Danny. For one thing, he's still a teenager at Casper High, and still has to cope with the throes of young adulthood. He worries about being part of the 'in' crowd. He has an unrequited crush. Even though he's moonlighting as a super hero to keep his town safe, he still has grades and bullies to deal with. Then there's the issues with his super hero work: ghosts seem to come and go through the town as they please, so keeping the town ghost-free is an around the clock job. He's constantly on call for the slightest hint of ghostly activity. The fact that his very DNA is no longer entirely human haunts him with the possibility that his secret might be found out. This threat is something he takes quite seriously: with ghost-hunting parents who hate ghosts in every shape and form, and a town that quickly grows to hate the ghosts destroying homes and property at every visit, there would be very serious consequences for him if his connection to them was revealed.
In spite of their obvious hate for everything ghostly, Danny loves his parents very much. He's aware of the violence that they regularly promise towards his ghostly counterpart, but he also knows that they cherish their children more than anything. Trusting his safety to the strength of their love (and their reliable near-sightedness on these issues), Danny continues to live with them, acting as normal as anyone in a family like his can. He does his chores (as often as he remembers), he goes to great lengths to make his curfew even in spite of ghost hunting, and he teases his sister around her frequent attempts at psychoanalyzing him. His sister, who eventually finds out his secret, has only recently let it slip that she knows of his unusual activities. The two siblings have still not completely decided how to deal with each other's realization, and have mostly been falling back to old routines when it comes to each other's role in the never-ending battle for a ghost free town.
Danny's main family only consists of these precious four, but there is someone who would love to see this change. Vlad masters, an old friend of his parents, has held thinly veiling feelings for Danny's mom for twenty years, and hated Danny's dad for just as long. As soon as Vlad discovers the secret of Danny's alter ego, he immediately has a new goal: obtaining Danny as a son. Danny hates Vlad for his frequent manipulations, and fears him as an enemy he still hasn't managed to really defeat. Neither emotion keeps Danny from leaping to the task of trying to stop him, but it's not a surprise when things don't go well until something lucky happens.
[Specialties/Abilities]
Danny is not human. Half his DNA has been rewritten with ectoplasm, and it has made him able to transform at will into a form that is essentially ghostly. Because this change happened at such a fundamental level, his ghost-abilities are easier in, but not restricted to ghost form. He is initially able to phase intangibly through solid objects, go invisible, and fly. As the series goes on, he fights more and more ghost and develops powers that are apparently completely combat oriented, such as shooting laser-like beams of ectoplasm from his hands, and putting up 'ghost shields' made of ectoplasm. At one point he seizes an object and uses it as a conduit to electrocute someone, but he does not do this more than once. Most recently he has obtained a powerful attack in the time-travelling fiasco with his future self, something called a 'ghostly wail'. It is a sound attack, and is strong enough to stop almost anything in its tracks, if not defeat it. The drawback of such an attack is that it presents an enormous strain on his strength, and he quickly exhausts himself while using it.
Combat abilities aside, he has two more abilities: one is among his most valuable, and most used, being his 'ghost sense'. This involves his breath freezing in mid-air whenever a ghost is near. The other is overshadowing, where he possesses (or 'overshadows') a person and controls their actions. Due to past issues he's had with this ability, he generally avoids it.
[Affection] Danny is not all that affectionate, particularly with people not in his trusted group of friends.
[Fighting] Other characters are welcome to fight and try to injure him, but since Danny is fairly good at fighting in his own right, anything more serious or certain should probably be touched on OOCly beforehand.
[Other Permissions] I'd rather people didn't 4th-wall him or read his mind for more than unhelpful and superficial thoughts: a lot of his personality is that he's secretive, and he startles easily when his secrets are involved.
[Other Facts]
Danny is a half-ghost. The series doesn't say much to explain this, but the bottom line appears to be that he's half dead, somehow able to assume a ghostly form and return to life at will.