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no one was allowed to get custom t shirts after that

If Dabi had been in his right mind last night, he probably would have patched the girl he now knows as ‘Toga' up as best as he could be bothered, dropped her off at one of those homeless shelters —preferably one in the Red districts where they were underground and more tolerant— and then slouched off into the night, hopefully to never see nor hear about her ever again. Instead Dabi is sat on a warm, ratty couch, swaddled in blankets, bracketed by two insane children doing crafts —using Sharpies to scribble thunder-clouds onto the back of Chaser’s hoodie at Toga’s request—, feeling like he’s in the rec-center of some kind of home for the self-preservationally challenged. And the worst part is… its kind of… not terrible.

- Serendipitous Encounters Chapter Four: "Dabi’s guide to being a good Samaritan"

After a couple of beers anything is possible...

yes

Consider for a moment: A slow-burn identity reveal “no one knows” AU with an emphasis on ghosts being taken seriously as an actual, world-changing threat.

Ghosts are treated as an exceedingly dangerous, but unavoidable force of nature. They can come and go without warning, through naturally occurring spontaneous portals. They're territorial, driven only by obsession and hunger for the living. Particularly powerful ghosts are on par with natural disasters.

Life goes on because there's simply no other option. All major buildings have varying levels of ghost shields, some stronger than others. Just about everyone has some form of personal shield, weapon, or general deterrent. For the most part, humanity takes this apocalypse in stride, barely keeping it all together because there's just enough safety to keep them all sane.

Which is why the rumors of Phantom being able to fully mimic a human body incites panic in Amity.

Phantom was already a nightmare as it was–one of the most powerful and intelligent ghosts on record. His territorial fights with other ghosts for haunting (hunting) grounds in Amity have made global news several times already. Powerful ghosts could appear more human–but to think he was transforming down to a cellular level? Hiding among them? Bypassing ghost shields and alarms? Picking them off one by one?

The focus is mostly with Lancer's class, and how the school deals with this new threat on top of everything else. Everyone is a suspect, no one is safe, and Danny Fenton in particular gets slowly more and more exhausted, apathetic, and… unnerving.

The stress, the lack of sleep, the fighting, no one to turn to, not even his best friends or family–it takes a toll on him. Starving himself doesn't help, but he refuses to do more than take small bites from the ambient life energy and emotion of the living around him. Nothing that won't actually do lasting harm. He begins to slip up more and more, which Sam and Tucker begin to notice but haven't quite connected the dots yet.

But, well. What else can Danny do when Pariah Dark comes knocking on Amity’s doorstep, and his whole class is in the line of fire?