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#this isn't a super serious Actual AU or anything but i just feel like tossing heartwarming thoughts back and forth
emeraldsandamethyst · 2 years
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obsessions (danny phantom)
i had a comment asking about obsessions on ao3 and am sharing it here, since i thought I'd made it obvious but obviously that is in my brain and y'all aren't in my brain
for reference this is the fic [on ao3 here] and the bits specific about ghosts having 'things' I'll put at the end under a cut
Q: In your ‘verse is the Box Ghost really strong, or just a masochist? Same with Technus? Because some ghosts seem really intrinsically tied to their thing and express it super openly.
A: So in this AU ghosts have a lot of choice in how to fulfill their obsessions.
Boxie doesn't have a box obsession specifically. I'm using the HC he died in a warehouse accident so his obsession is more related to protection and he satisfies it by keeping boxes away from everyone else.
Ghosts being deliberately vague with their language about 'things' both helps other ghosts by well, being vague, because they could say something like "oh yeah that's box Ghost, boxes are his thing" and ghosts all understand that's not literally his obsession because you just don't do that. And most Ghosts that didn't know him would understand that being known for boxes is what he wants. Both from his name and how the ghost talking about him said it was his thing.
Like "being a hero is Phantom's thing" no ghost would think his obsession is heroism (it isn't in this au anyways) if a ghost said that. If a human said that they'd be pissed but only because they know humans don't respect obsessions and it's possible that they are actually sharing it.
Does that make sense?
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“Oh! Yeah, sure. Like I said, if you read any of [Jack and Maddie's] conclusions from before about last year just try and toss that out. They’ve learned a lot more about ghosts since then that really changes the entire field of ectobiology. And I dunno if they’ve published anything about ghost forms since then, actually but, yeah, ghosts only sort of control their forms unless it's like, their thing-”
“Their Obsession, you mean?” Valerie asked. Danny paused a little too long and looked at her a little too sharply to convince Valerie of his full humanity.
“You could say it like that. But it’s rude,” Danny finally said, succeeding in looking and sounding fully human at least. As Phantom she’d seen just how pissed being asked about any ghosts obsession made him. She’d only asked him about his own once. That had been… probably the only time Danny had legitimately tried to hurt her, now that she thought about it.
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“So,” Valerie said, not commenting on the sudden awkward tension, “Ghosts can’t change their bodies at will, usually, unless it’s their special thing.”
“Right!” Danny said with a happy nod of agreement.[...]
“And if a ghost suddenly does change their form, then there has been a huge change with them on a deeply personal level,” Valerie stated, [...]
“Yeah, pretty much!” Danny agreed.
“I’ve told you this isn’t safe,” she reminded him, exasperated. It was… it wasn’t nice actually. It was frustrating in a bad way. That electric place behind her heart that was usually so light felt heavy, almost like something was grinding against it.
“What do you care?” Danny hissed, leaving his tongue sticking out and slinking deeper into his coiled tail.
Valerie felt something actually painful in her chest and embarrassingly felt herself chirp for no reason she understood. Danny floated up towards her immediately, looking alarmed and contrite.
“I didn’t know. I’m sorry,” Danny said, distressed. “I never thought about what your thing might be, honest!”
“... Whatever,” Valerie said. She swallowed and remembered their conversation the other day. About ghosts having ‘things’ that under no circumstances should ever be mentioned and definitely not called Obsessions. Valerie hadn’t died. She couldn’t be a ghost. “I’m not…”
“Of course! Of course,” Danny said, fidgeting with the tip of his tail anxiously. Was this really that serious of a deal? Did… did ghosts feel even worse when someone brought up their Obsessions? Even indirectly? Maybe it was a bigger deal than she’d ever realized.
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shadeswift99 · 2 years
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Hey yo so what if I made the most crack-filled crossover fix-it AU for both Hermitcraft and Empires at once. I bet there's a way I can smash em together so all of their individual problems literally just cancel each other out and all we're left with is ridiculous amounts of fluff and chaos, one draft no edits let's gooooooo -
- Instead of each of the server's individual endings happening the combination of dumbass science and magical nonsense just breaks reality completely and the two worlds hurtle into each other at interdimensional warp speed. Everyone's Hermitcraft bases are now on top of/beside/inside/under everyone's empires, it's pure aesthetic chaos incarnate
- Hermatrix Octa Beats Exor's Ass because I say so. Aeor fights the Moon and wins. (Please ignore the fact that I know next to nothing about 3/4 of these entities just let the gods fight it out I don't care about the details)
- Alternatively: fWhip and Jimmy still do the salmon/cod reactor thing but it happens in just the right place so the explosion pushes the two worlds away from the Moon by pure coincidence
- It takes exactly 1.37 seconds for Sausage to start sacrificing stuff to the Boatem hole
- Pix is there and Pixandria isn't actually splorked onto any other bases, but he shows up to meet with the others Exactly Once and then they basically don't see him again for months because he's booked solid making Vigil candles for Scar
- Eventually Joe finds him (tried to use that desert to mine sand for new green hotbar glass) and they have a conversation about philosophy, death, and epic pranks that I would absolutely pay to see while Joe helps him craft all those candles
- Cleo tries to sell them Hive-dr8 for the Vigil but Pix doesn't think that would be very respectful of the dead (he will take several for himself though because that desert is approximately Dry As Fuck and also this high fantasy rp man probably hasn't had an energy drink in his life)
(lots more under the cut, also very interested in extra ideas!)
- Whenever there's two of anybody they have to fight each other. That's the rules. Wizard Gem assumes she'll win the fight easily but HC Gem is a Canadian moose hybrid and absolutely runs her over a la "counterspell THIS, casual" so that's that decided (Gem respawns just fine with nothing harmed but her dignity)
- Pearl v Pearl ends up with Empires Pearl winning, of course, but it's a good fight and they agree to spar lots more afterwards for practice
- Scott and X talk and decide to just swap evil brothers and have done with this already. Scott takes Evil X aside to gently talk about his crippling abandonment issues and EX just decides to quit bothering people before the gay elf man makes him cry in front of two whole servers
- Xisuma lays eyes on our favourite demon Xornoth for 1 (one) millisecond and immediately remembers why he's wearing all that Doomguy armour. Rip and tear. (Whether he gets some kind of a redemption ending or not is really up to people who know and care more about that lore than I do)
- After EX Forcible Therapy Arc he runs across Evil Sausage and they try to go in together as business partners. It's an absolute disaster. Dark!Sausage keeps gleefully murdering all their customers and the place goes bankrupt days after opening. At least they're having fun though!
- Optional: after X uppercuts the corruption directly out of Xornoth he joins the Evil Business Trio and actually makes it halfway make sense (he is now the least evil person there and also the proud owner of at least one braincell which I find hilarious under the circumstances)
- Joel figures out that he's exactly 0.5 inches taller than Bdubs when they stand perfectly level with each other. His complete refusal to let Bdubs forget it has started 17 wars already. (In reality they get along great still though, because Bdubs does things with terracotta that would make any builder weep tears of joy and also he's wearing moss -)
- Zed's mountain is now home to zWhidaph's Laforgeboratorylands and he is NOT happy about it, this is not in keeping with his antisocial habits at all, there's this guy with wings running around unionizing all his villagers and there's weird deepslate redstone spikes everywhere and - OOOO wait he can study that stuff! Everything is perfectly okay now. Zed is in science heaven
- Gem's dragons make friends with False's giant eagle
- Grian keeps challenging Scott to increasingly risky flying challenges and Scott keeps ending up head-first in a tree in a very un-kingly way
- The number of deaths in Boatem meetings + the number of deaths in WRA meetings...they have a combined meeting Exactly One Time before Pix says that if they ever die that many times at once again he's holding candle making classes at swordpoint for the whole group
- Wormman and Poultryman get brought back just so they can be a superhero trio with the Codfather
- Lizzie and Cub become the next villain duo through sheer force of pun alone (they try to teach the axolotls to dig through the mole tunnels but they don't seem to want to cooperate)
- Ren and Sausage hit it off immediately because of course they do (also Bubbles loves the big friendly dog man, he smells like sticks and gives good scritches)
- Most importantly of all, Joel, Sausage, and Zedaph come together to host the greatest game show Hermempirecrafts has ever seen: Is That Blood Sheep Looking At Me!
That's all the ideas I have for now! I lied about no edits, I'm actually probably going to quarantine this in drafts for a couple days after the finale so the irreverent tone doesn't get me Seven Million Unhappy Replies for posting during the grieving period, but I'm personally really liking the break from all the seriousness to just fling wild ideas at the wall and see what makes the most good brain juice. :] I'll probably come up with more later!
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