He's a Phantom...

[schrodingersghost]

WHO: Danny Fenton and Anyone
WHERE: Around Kaisou and on the Libra App
WHEN: July 1
WHAT: Danny transforms into his ghost half for the first time. He has concerns.
WARNINGS: Talk of death?

The Street near Danny's house, July 1, Midmorning

Over the last two months, Danny had put a lot of effort into not thinking too hard  what conclusion all of the abilities he was developing were pointing at. Sensing ghosts? No big deal. Plenty of people claimed they could do that. Feeling cold? Probably a coincidence. The invisibility and intangibility were a little harder to explain away, but the sheer annoyance of dealing with them helped with not thinking about why these specific abilities.

When it finally happened, it was just a stupid accident. He was walking down the street on the way to visit his friends, when he trips over his shoes intangibly sinking into the concrete. He feels a quick spike of frustration.... which quickly turns into panic as a ring of bright white light appears around his waist. It separates into two rings and begins to pass over his body in both directions. 

And everywhere the ring passes, he changes. White to black. Black to white. Blue to Green.

And then the rings vanish, leaving a changed and more than slightly freaked out kid behind. He shakily lifts his hands and inspects them, noticing the faint silvery glow he now had even in the bright sun.

And something in his mind triggers, remembering another time and place.

It hurt. Electricity and ectoplasm and the portal opening to somewhere else, all running through him at once, forging him into something Other.

And then all of a sudden it did, and he was falling out of the portal, green energy still rising from him like smoke. Friendly hands trying to help him off the floor, but they only passed through him like he wasn't even there

And back in the present Danny takes a deep breath and starts to panic..



For Friends, Late Morning:

Danny needed help. Right now, and he was too panicked to think about calling. 

And so in the late morning you'll hear a loud and frantic knock coming from the front door. And when you open it you'll find a nearly unrecognizable Danny. White-haired, with glowing green eyes and a silvery luminescence surrounding him. Even his clothes have changed to a photo negative version of what he was wearing before.


Libra App, Early Afternoon.

[Danny had calmed down from earlier in the day, somehow. The transformation wearing off had helped a lot. But it still left him with questions.

How had this happened? Why had this happened? And what did it mean for him?

And he had no idea where to even start, apart from this.

He smiles nervously, and shifts with awkward energy]

So I know this is kind of a weird question. But... how do you know if you're dead?    

 

Comments

So no one told you life was gonna be this way (clapclapclapclapclap)

[droptheious]

Varian's been getting up earlier and earlier lately. It used to be he'd sleep in as long as possible but these days he gets up with the sun - he feels cruddy if he doesn't. He assumes it's linked to his new earth powers, and it's gross.

Needless to say, he's been awake for hours when Danny comes to his door. He's seen some dramatic hair changes before (thanks, Rapunzel and Cass) but this is something else. It takes him a hot second to identify who is at his door at all.

"...Danny? Is-is that you?"

[schrodingersghost]

Danny's expression is more than a little panicked.

"This is me alright. Except there was this freaky light and now I'm glowing and my hair turned white and I think I might be dead?"

[droptheious]

"...Yup. You are definitely glowing."

Varian is such a helpful friend, Danny definitely picked the right person to come to. He steps aside to let him into the sheer chaos that is his apartment.

"Okay...uh, come on in and sit down, we'll try and figure out what happened," once Danny is inside, he closes the door. "Good-ish news? This isn't the first time I've dealt with...hair being weird. It's kind of a thing back home. Did anything happen before the light? Like...were you near any strange rocks?"

[schrodingersghost]

As Danny steps inside, the light around him only become more obvious. His gaze flicks around nervously. Not at anything in particular, it had just been that kind of day.

"I can't think of anything? I was just walking. I was sinking a little, but that's normal these days." He tugs at his hair with frustration, pulling it down far enough to see the change of color.

He pauses.

"And do you hear beeping?"

[droptheious]

Yup, that light is not comforting at all. It's almost like he's been dunked in some sort of luminescence or...something. But if Danny says he didn't do anything odd, well, he believes him. It sure doesn't explain THIS new look though.

"...I don't hear beeping no," that's...a concern. "What does it sound like? Do- do you think you could maybe track it? Like, does it get louder if you move in a certain direction? We might be able to find where it's coming from and get some answers."

Video, un: Melodiousnocturne

[ocean_songbird]

I mean if you were dead then you couldn't be talking to people right now, right? Like... ghosts can't use computers. Right?

[schrodingersghost]

How should I know? Maybe ghosts can talk to people and use computers. I mean, if I somehow died and never noticed I've been doing all of that stuff for months.

1/3

[ocean_songbird]

Dude. The only way it'd make sense for you to be dead would be if this is the afterlife.

2/3

[ocean_songbird]

.....

3/3

[ocean_songbird]

Waaaait a sec... do you think this is the afterlife??

[schrodingersghost]

[If they were meeting in person, Danny would totally be throwing his hands up in frustration at this point.]

All I know is that I just spent half the morning as a ghost. Glowing, walking through walls, invisible, the whole thing!

[He shudders, and tries to check to see if he has a pulse. This would probably work better if he actually knew how to do that.]

PURE MOR-NIING

[a_cute_batata]

"I'm coming! I'm c-c-oming!"

Luz is yawning, sleeping in for once since Eda didn't need her at the owlery, so she slept in. When she heard the knock she ambled to the door, opening it.

"What is-ughhhhh, Danny?"

Now she was side awake.

"Dude. Um. What's, uh, what's the haps?"

[schrodingersghost]

Danny tugs at his newly white hair, barely managing to keep his panic attack under control.

"Sorry to bother you." He shudders. "It got worse. Again. How much do you know about ghosts again? Because I think I might be one now."

Just going to not think about the implications there. Because if he was a ghost now, didn't that mean he was dead?

[a_cute_batata]

Wow. Whitw hair. Green eyes. New suit! That was pretty snazzy!

"You're not bothering me! Besides, this is important! So you were trying to make your whole blinking thing out work, and now you look like this? How come you think you're a ghost now? You sure don't look like the ghosts I know in the Isles."

She was already going back in to get a notebook, so. Just follow her in Danny.

[schrodingersghost]

"I'm glowing," he says bluntly as he follows her in. There was a faint echo to his voice as he spoke, but he was choosing to ignore that in favor of everything else that was wrong at the moment. As he moves out of the sunlight the silvery glow around him becomes more obvious. "I walk through walls and turn invisible. What else would I be?"

And he was pretty sure that he'd just remembered how he died, but definitely shelving that for the moment.

[grayrave]

[ Well, this is something for the young gravekeeper who's too close with death to see. It's surprisingly with little hesitance she does return: ]

The truly dead would not know anything.

[schrodingersghost]

What makes someone truly dead? As opposed to what, screwing it up somehow?

[Which considering he'd gone back to his usual appearance after spending half the morning glowing, was more of a possibility than he wanted to consider.]

Late Morning

[findingways]

Moana was generally up pretty early in the mornings, even during summer break. She always had lots to do, and she liked getting a head start on the day. She had spent the earlier part of the morning out running, the humidity barely bothering her that much. And its after cleaning up and making a small breakfast for herself that she hears a knock on the door.

Finishing off a bit of fruit, she hurries to open the door, and nearly chokes on the piece at the sight that greets her.

"D-Danny...! What in the world - ?"

[schrodingersghost]

"You know about ghosts, right?" he says in a rush. He tugs at his newly white hair worriedly as he stares at her with glowing green eyes. Even in the sunlight there was a faint silvery luminescence around him.

"Because I think I might be one now."

[findingways]

She sucks in a breath as she takes in his appearance. "I - "

The words are stuck in her throat, because even though she knows about ghosts, she's never quite heard about anything like this.

"I-I mean...sometimes people's appearances do change after they've...become a ghost..." She reaches up, about to brush her hand through his hair - just to see if anything feels different - but she hesitates, not sure how he'd feel about it.

"But...how did...?"

[schrodingersghost]

"I don't know! One moment I was walking down the street, maybe sinking a little. And then I was this!"

He doesn't pull away. His hair is wispy and oddly insubstantial under the glow.

text; un: fern

[laminae]

dang man that's a whole big question
it's hard to tell sometimes
usually something big happens and then you just kinda know?
how come you're asking?

text; un: spacekid

[schrodingersghost]

Because I turned into a ghost this morning and I think I remembered how I died? Except I know I've never been anywhere that looked like that. I think I'm back to being alive now? Maybe? I think I'm breathing and everything? But I don't know!

[laminae]

you turned into a ghost??oh man!! that's uh

RIP
or sorry
not sure if humans have something specific they say when someone dies
even if it's only temporary
or like a half death thing

[schrodingersghost]

Weird? Impossible? Incredibly depressing?

I don't really know if there's something specific to say to people who aren't really sure whether they're dead or not. I don't think thats the kind of thing that comes up often.