Danny Phantom Orchid Mantis AU prompt
(Picture of a real orchid mantis at the end!)
Ok so. What if Sam couldn’t do it?
She’s been agonizing for months about how she killed her best friend, and her only comfort was that it couldn’t be undone.
Everything was horrible and different and now it was all falling apart, sure, but look at him, he’s so happy and healthy and the bags under his eyes are only from stargazing, I can’t fucking take this from him, he’d never get out of this house out of this town I need to FIX IT
And jumps into the portal.
She calls herself Orchid Mantis, or just Orchid. Her parent aren’t neglectful enough to not find out what happened to her, and she lets them think she’s a full ghost.
Her funeral is nice. At least everyone wore black.
The Fentons, of course, go straight to prison.
The Foley’s and Mansons had been telling law enforcement for years that something was wrong in that house, but nothing was done for no reason more complicated than the system doesn’t work.
At least her parents agreed with her there.
They were seeing a lot more things her way now. Desperate to have her haunt their home, apologizing and apologizing well. Death brings a kind of clarity, she guesses.
She says ghosts need to live in the Zone at least part time she really just can’t live in that fucking house anymore, But she does want to visit.
Danny is mad. He doesn’t know what would have happened to him. That’s ok. He shouldn’t ever know.
Jazz is confused, but she isn’t stupid. Sam is dead, and even if Sam had jumped into the portal herself like Danny told her (and of course she believes him, she just knows she doesn’t have the full story), it would have still been her parent’s fault for putting it in their home in the first place.
Sam had once overheard Jazz telling her parents the basement needed a lock.
Sam had overheard Jazz telling her parents the basement needed a lock many times.
Tucker is just broken. Danny is locking himself in the guest room, Jazz is the only one he lets in, and she says he’s processing.
Tucker and Sam go on walks together, still play some two player co-ops, and he’s finally smiling again.. but Danny’s absence leaves a horrible cavity.
Sam tries to visit the house once or twice, but understands that Danny needs time. She doesn’t know if he’ll ever forgive her, and she doesn’t need him to.
She can live without him as long as he’s alive.
Her core is Light based, and she throws pink rings of ultraviolet ectoplasmic energy, healing any plant it touches, but slowly cooking any meat.
Even if she used it on “empty” landscapes, she would kill all the creatures that do manage to live there year. Bugs and all.
I don’t have much for how she’s living in her human form, but I’m imagining underground caves that are closed to the public.
Also here’s a real orchid mantis!