The final chapter of “The Ghost King” is now up! The story is complete. The series has one more story left to tell, however…
Series Link: “The Captain and the King”
Chapter 3 Summary: After the big reveal, John and Danny share a meal. Life moves on.
“So tell me, how did you find Billy in the first place?”
Danny thoughtfully looked out into the courtyard, before turning back to face John. “I was on my way back to Sam’s place from classes, and I happened to see him transform in an alley. I was shocked, so I invisibly followed him home. When I saw that he was living alone in an abandoned apartment, it broke my heart. I watched him that night as he ate a pitiful bit of leftover food from somewhere, and carefully stashed the rest in a hidey-hole. Then he climbed on his bare mattress and covered up with a threadbare blanket to sleep. It reminded me so much of the days before my high school graduation, when I lived like that; I just couldn’t let it go. I couldn’t bear to see another child hero suffer like that. He just reminded me so much of myself.
After my parents found out that I had died, and that I was the ‘hero’ protecting the town from their mistakes, they kicked me out of the house. I lived on the streets for almost two months and didn’t tell anyone because I was so ashamed, and I was afraid my secret would get outed. I’m sure Billy feels the same.”
“Damn, kid. That sounds rough. Now I can see why you took to the boy. You said you were a child hero before your parents discovered your secret. If you don’t mind me asking, how long were you were a ghost before they noticed?”
Danny’s face clouded. “Three and a half years.”
“How did they miss that their kid was dead for three and a half years?!?”
“They cared more about their work than they cared about me and my sister. It was that way my whole life. My sister was the one who practically raised me. It doesn’t matter anymore…” Something told John that it did, but he wasn’t about to call out the Ghost King on personal matters.
“….Besides, I have the ability to pass as a human when I want to. It’s how I finished high school and got into college.”
“I thought you went to some kind of ghostly college.”
“No way, dude! Didn’t you read ‘Harry Potter’?? Dead teachers are the worst. They are soooo boring. That’s one of the few things the books got right.” A polite cough sounded from the side of the room. “Uh, ghostly mentors, on the other hand, are fantastic! It’s just…ghostly learning institutions that I don’t care for.” Danny’s hand went to the back of his neck and started rubbing it sheepishly. Now he looked more like the ghost that John had met in the park.
***Read the rest on A03***
Bats and Green Arrows
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we love Prince Charming 👏👏
Villain I'm Not by Three Days Grace is soooooooo these guys
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This is Charles. He wants to go on a journey around tumblr. could you show him around?
I used to be the lost boy running insane, I used to be the ghost boy looking for fame, I used to work so hard to get it, So hard to get it, || Ghost Boy - Jacob Tillberg ||
not me being wildly ambitious with song arts on the regular. also not me improving an older danny design and getting gender envy. oh and btw the animation syncs to the song >;3
|| wips for this piece | | other danny song art ||
Do you think the reason the sky is dark and land is ruined in the original timeline is because of nukes? Hear me out, I’m the original timeline the Team and Justice League DIDN’T win. So the governments of the world had to step in (once they figured out the reach is bad) and probably used nuclear weapons. Maybe they had the citizens of their countries hide in bunkers while that happened, so at least some people survived and would later become slaves.
What are your thoughts on this (sorry for the ramble)
Interesting thought… I think that’s certainly possible, I can definitely imagine it happening, though one thing I’d add is that I’m not sure if Neut is supposed to have played a part in causing at least some of the destruction we see. He was literally a walking nuclear weapon under the control of the Reach and pretty much the reason Bart's original timeline became what it did… the flash failed to stop him and he possibly never went off mode like he does in Bloodlines, therefore Neutron likely became a major threat for the heroes - causing way more destruction, maybe even taking out more of the heroes which would lead to the military definitely feeling the need to get involved and that's when you maybe get the using of the nukes. With them, the military would have hoped to take down neutron, but instead probably just destroyed the earth more, reduced the human population and quality of life due to all the consequences that come with nuclear weapons, and ultimatly failed to actually kill neutron, because like we see in bloodlines - he can just regenerate. It would be interesting to know how long neutron remained a bigbad before people discovered he was a weapon controlled by the reach - i can imagine it taking a while and when the truth finally does comes to light - it's too late - the damage has already been done, the reach are in control and humanity has pretty much lost everything… i don't know if that would actually fit with what we do know of barts timeline - which is not a lot - but that my current thinking based off of your thinking anon…
Also, another possibility with the nukes regarding the survival of the human population (if not in bunkers) is that they could have caused more people becoming meta-active and that could have helped those who couldn't escape the nuclear fallout survive… it could also give the reach more test subject to further their understanding and work with the meta gene for their diabolical reasons…
Anyway… those are some thoughts of mine - thanks for sharing yours anon, it definitely makes sense that nukes must have been involved in some way - if not, then i don't really know what could create such bleekness… whatever it is, it would be fascinating to know — GIVE US THE BART FLASHBACKS WE ALL WANT YJ!!!
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my danny phantom art... I'm totally hopping on this hype train
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god, i'm sad.
Dc x DP where people with superhearing casually talk to each other from super long distances. Just talking out loud to open air and the other person eavesdropping on them so they can respond in the same way.
The problem with this method is that anyone with superhearing can tune in on their conversation and add their own input if they wanted.
Which Danny does often.
Superman is trying so hard to find this guy who keeps butting into his conversations but Danny can just turn off his heartbeat and stay quiet so Superman doesn’t have anything to listen to to find his location.
Meanwhile Danny can keep track of where Superman is and how close he is to Danny because Superman can’t stop his heart from beating or from breathing.
OH. Oh you have something brilliant going on here my guy.
Superman has been able to locate the mystery voice to somewhere in rural Illinois but without his heartbeat he can't quite pinpoint him.
After hearing the kid's stories of what happens in his day-to-day life, He's desperate to find and help this kid.