Danny Phantom Fan Fiction ❯ Photo Opportunities ❯ FAQ ( EndNotes )

FAQ

 

I have been receiving a lot of questions about Photo Opportunities since it began and have decided that instead of continuously sending you all separate answers, here's a FAQ. Enjoy.

 

 

 

Why does Dash act so gay?

 

This is a question best left to the writers of the show, because I didn't make him ooc when I wrote about Teddy bears, Romance movies, boy bands, and a Chihuahua named Pooky. See the episodes `Attack of the Killer Garage Sale', Doctor's Disorders', `Micro management', `Girls Night Out', and `Forever Phantom'

 

 

Why doesn't Danny have a Cast for his broken bone?

 

Danny has a Proximal Humorous Fracture (shoulder joint), while technically classified as a broken bone the break is hairline and does not need reconstructive surgery and/or replacement of the joint. It is impossible to cast a shoulder joint, instead simply immobilizing it will allow it to heal satisfactorily. Danny keeps his arm in a sling and is excused from any activities that require him to move it. In a normal split he would have to sleep upright to allow gravity to realign the fracture and help it heal, but it is simply a hairline crack, and will heal in 3-6 weeks (on a regular person)

 

 

Why didn't Danny's doctor express concern over his bruising?

 

His explanation was that he fell from a tree, and as they took him to a hospital as soon as he got home from the park the bruises were just forming, so the doctors would barely take notice of it because bruising is commonly associated with broken bones

 

My original reference for the bruises was Excessive Ecchymoses, which is a deep, horrifically discolored version of a bruise. Extensive Ecchymosis may become visible 24-48 hours following a four sectioned fracture to the ball joint of the humorous and may involve the entire arm and shoulder and spread to the chest wall and flank. However, Danny's is different because his crack is only hairline, his bruises started at his chest, not his fracture, and has since developed far beyond anything most doctors have seen. As the story progresses more information about the bruising will become available.

 

 

Who is Grimalkin?

 

Grimalkin is a ghost in the form of a small male black cat. He is very small, just bigger than a beanie-baby, with large yellow eyes that turn green when a ghostly presence is near, much like Danny's frosty-blue “ghost sense” discharge. His name is a derivative of the feline name Greymalkin commonly associated with animal spirit guides. He was originally given the name Odin by Jack and Maddie Fenton, but Danny didn't like it, so when pressed for a new name the word Grimalkin appeared in Danny's head.

 

Grimalkin has some physic abilities, most commonly expressed in the form of mental communication such as telling Danny what to name him, but also in subtle persuasion, e.g. getting Danny to take him on patrol and getting Dash to follow him.

 

 

 

Why do Sam and Tucker ignore Danny's injuries?

 

They're used to them. Danny fights ghosts, and gets beat up on a daily basis by Dash and other jocks. Danny does have high pain tolerance and heals quickly, but he's not invincible, he can get hurt, and often does.

 

Danny and Sam show some pretty close affectionate gestures in the fic, but it's a Slash. Why are they still acting all romantic?

 

They aren't acting romantic, they're being themselves. Danny and Sam have a very close friendship, and had once had romantic feelings for each other that in the canon storyline developed into a full relationship. However pending disastrous consequences that came about after the series end (my own interpretations) Clockwork had to reset that day and Danny decided that it would be best, and safest, if they remained friends. This memory is sometimes painful for him to recollect, but those feelings, which were never really acknowledged, never dissipate.

 

 

“Why do you make Dash too OOC from his canon self?”

 

Ah, the ever wonderful OOC comment.

 

The problem with secondary characters such as Dash and Paulina is that you can't get a really good feel for them. I've some complaints that I make Dash sound too eloquent, and that I don't incorporate enough slang terms into his dialogue to fit his social standing in school.

 

But honestly, his overall canon character in the series is riddled with inconsistencies. One major part being that in one episode he is shown not knowing how to pronounce “Untutorable” but in another he asks Danny Phantom how much they just benched “Proportionately” when the former word had just been said, and the later had come off the top of his head.

 

Also in the pilot episode Lancer mentions he was really good at sports, but in the first appearance of Desiree he is shown to be god-awful and in need of ghostly assistance. Not to mention the huge counteracting between his love of romance, teddy bears, opera-songs, and boy-bands, and his sports and bullying, and crappy one-liners. I try my best to weave all this into something resembling a main character, but the image, without proper fillings, seems two-dimensional and bland. So I try and give him traits, such as being dyslexic.

 

But most important is that his canon is 14-15 years old, and many of my works involve him being older, and thus more mature. That's the best answer, however long-winded, I can give.

 

Often times you make Danny shallow, sometimes even cruel and icy, towards his friends and others, to make him more `Seme' in the relationship. Why change his character just to fit your idea of sexual roles?

 

I'm actually surprised by this question. Danny has been shown, on more than one occasion, to value social status and material gain over being a hero and doing the right thing. Although he does learn his lesson in the end, it usually has to involve some kind of consequence he discovers and not his own moral obligation or choice. In attack of the killer garage sale he apologized to his friends only after getting his butt kicked, severely. He constantly leaves his friends to take the fall, ditches them to hang with the popular crowd, and, unlike Sam, when he has a bit of spending green he waves it in the faces of others.

 

Incorporating this “darker side” of him into an older more mature version brings to light a second face, almost but not quite bordering on split personality. Being one of the most powerful beings of two worlds is bound to swell egos, and as he grows in strength there will be lesser and lesser opponents who can smack some humility back into him. A character flaw of his that when twisted just right, creates a person who when he sees something will go after it in reckless and relentless pursuit.

 

This is the `seme' that I see, and who I like to bring to the forefront in many of my stories, but I like to show he has some humanity left in him, and will often give him the same handicaps given to him by the show, such as his love for his family and friends, his need to be accepted, and of course, the weight of the safety of the world vs. his schoolwork.

 

 

When you pair Danny up with Dash, Paulina, and Kwan, you sometimes cast Sam and Tucker in a bit of a bad light. Why?

 

I don't so much cast them in a bad light as I cast a harsher light on their already existing character flaws. It's no secret that Sam and Tucker are both extremely overbearing with Danny and will act in jealous rages when provoked. Sometimes it seems like they don't want Danny to have other friends, like, and I hate to bring this up again, `Attack of the Killer Garage Sale'. Danny skips out on one get together with them to do something he's always wanted, not to mention turning down an invitation when it was obviously difficult for Dash to give him one in the first place would have been very rude, and they pitch a fit. Sure, Danny often leaves them with a mess, and sometimes gets them in trouble, and almost killed, but they also drag him into some hairy situations as well. Sam changing the menu (despite the fact that making everyone live by her standards is hypocritical) and Tucker's inferiority-complex, womanizing, and obsession of all things tech off hand.

 

Tucker's power hunger, to the point of sacrificing his friends, and Sam's need to express herself as an individual, even if that means rejecting something she may actually like if it happens to be widely excepted by the population, are very fun things I like to tap into, but also their double standards. Danny showed romantic interest in Paulina and Valerie and Sam let loose a fury that could level buildings, but when she dated Gregor, someone who was very likely to be a threat, she did the exact same thing she accused Danny of doing, she ignored the obvious. And when Danny did the exact same thing she did, try to get involved, she went berserk, and then she and Tucker practically dumped Danny to hang with Gregor. Now this is only one scene of many, and we've barely touched on Tucker, but I don't want this tuning into a Rant.

 

The point is, Sam and Tucker are used in the show as Danny's restraints, trying to mold him into a certain view of a hero, while showing that as a teenager he does rebel against these constrains. As I try and break through that mold to bring about a more mature, adult hero, I have to break through Sam and Tucker's former selves as well. I try not to cast them as villains, but help them to evolve and grow as Danny does, and to do that I have to make them go through some life changing situations in which their previous behavior is cast in a bad light, and thus cast off.

 

You hardly ever really touch on romance between Danny and Dash, and when you do, it feels rushed and sloppy. Do you not like writing it?

 

On the contrary, I love to write it, but you're right, I do mix things up a bit when it comes to the slow development of relationships.

 

The major problem is that Danny and Dash are heterosexual characters with wildly complicated and clashing personalities. In many one shots it's easy to say “well one discovered he liked the other and pursued,” or “It was one heated situation that turned into another” in terms of getting the characters together, but when you want to write about the act of getting them closer in length and detail, it gets a bit hairier. I like to think that they always had a kind of chemistry, a type of foe yay relationship, but it isn't until they start spending time together, or puberty, that they realize the tension between them isn't `I'm gonna kill you' tension, but something else entirely.

 

And the discovery of this would be strange tingling sensations when the other is near; increase in heart rate, sudden adrenaline rushes, and rises in temperature, but of course the boys are completely clueless, or rather choose to be clueless, as the alternative will cause temporal scarring.

 

As for the sloppiness, I'm working on writing better romance scenes, as I have no experience in romance in real life I have serious research to do.

 

Yaoi and Yuri go against what the characters were intended to be, and that's a real turn off in your work. It's as if you don't really have any respect for what makes us love those characters in the first place. You're merely reconstructing them into your own fantasies that happen to just look like the characters for your own satisfaction.

If you really like that sort of thing, there are characters that fit into that. Otherwise, might as well just make your own characters entirely that have no association with straight characters.

 

Well, first off sexual orientation should be kept completely separate from actual characterization. Saying who you fall in love with makes up who you are is utterly ridiculous as people fall in love with their polar opposites or their mirror images all the time. Opposites attract, true, but so does brilliant compatibility.

 

I'm not completely reconstructing the character to fit my own needs, but rather adding in a small idea and trying to evolve the character based off his canon reactions to it. Saying Dash and Danny would never get together is presumptive of the characters on your part.

 

Quantum physics calls it the `uncertainty principal' and tells us that at the same time that there is this beautiful, perfect order to all the things in a very large sense, there is also a part of our universe, down at the smallest level, that will never ever be predictable. True subatomic particles ARE unpredictable, but so is history, so in human behavior. There are some things we just can't control. I like to call this the sea of probability, at least when writing, because it's what gives me such leverage with my fics.. We cannot know with one hundred percent certainty exactly what would happen next. Its Chance, it's probability, it's the idea of our making our own destiny. Free will.

 

Nothing is static, everything changes, that is the beauty of life.

 

If Danny can fall in love with Ember or Kitty, or Spectra or any other ghostly female, many of whom are his enemies and would rather see him dead, then it is an intelligent assumption that he could also fall in love with someone of the same gender. And if we factor in the variables of outside influence (e.g. mind control, delirium, possession, alcohol, Ghost Writer) the plausibility of this idea goes up several percentages.

 

You cannot like the idea all you want, I'm not going to tell you what to think, but to say that two straight people would never fall for someone same gendered is undermining the very foundation that makes up our universe. The future is not set, how people live their life will always change, because it's part of our makeup, it's the reason we pray, the reason we have choices, the reason we have war. People will never be what you want them to be. Sorry, but that's just the facts.

 

Do you have this posted on another site?

 

Yes this is posted on Yaoi!gallery, mediaminer, adultfanifiction, gaia, fanfiction and deviantart.

 

At the end of chapter 8 you had Dash admit he was Gay, but never followed up on that. What gives?

 

Okay, to clear this up hopefully once and for all, Dash did not say he was gay. Let's review the dialogue:

 

“What is with you people?” Dash cried, blushing furiously. “We are not in a romantic relationship, we're barely getting into a friendship, and,” he turned to Sam, “how exactly did you guess I was gay? Did I act gay? Cause I don't get that.”

“I've got gaydar,” She replied.

“Oh…what's that?” Dash asked, and everyone laughed.

 

Dash asked Sam how she could figure he was gay, not how she figured it out. It's a `Wait you think I'm gay? How the hell did you arrive at that conclusion?!' kind of reaction. And yes it probably would seem to be a bit more like Dash if I made him actually say that, but Dash isn't always angry and it's been shown that if he's naturally curious about something, even if it's something he should be angry about, he won't yell about it.

 

 

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If you have any other questions feel free to ask and I'll be more than happy to answer.