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The Ultimate Enemy feels like it was setting up this idea that Clockwork would have become a mentor figure for Danny, and I would have killed to see this come to fruition. It would have been a great place to take Danny's character moving forward. Clockwork is yet another one of those characters that should have been more relevant in the series, yet he wasn't.
Other ghosts being all “Clockwork is extremely dangerous and powerful! Some of us don’t think he’s real, but regardless, we must avoid him at all costs!”
And Danny’s like “No?? He’s super chill, watch.” and tackles him at the speed of Mach 10. Clockwork just sighs like a tired dad and pats him on the head.
I keep thinking about Clockwork appearing in Amity Park in some horrific eldritch form with clocks or something to symbolize his power over time, and Danny (as Phantom) goes up to him all happy and smiling. Amity Park, at least the ghost hunters, are collectively like “Holy sh!t, is that his dad?! Have we been hunting this guy’s kid?!” and are already dreading the consequences of what would happen if they shot Phantom in front of whatever that thing is.
And yes, he was there to pick him up so he could take him to the ghost zone for some lessons on whatever.
Bonus points if Danny also goes space eldritch when he goes up to him, but is still much smaller than Clockwork.
Restored/Abandoned
Ancients had followings once.
Massive, sprawling networks ever in their service. They cared little for things in the long run, but that is not to say they didn’t acknowledge their followers power, their devotion, their borderline obsession.
Some watched over their believers, sometime to keep them from harm, sometimes just to know them. Some picked favorites and kept them close, even in death. Some granted desires at a whim, showering gifts upon those they deemed worthy. Some spoke to their believers, in person, or through that offered connection.
But Ancients had duties. They had realms and domains that could keep them blind to the worlds for a time that would only seem reasonable to something so long-lived.
And in that time, devotion would fade. Proof would die, and believers along with it. Their followings would splinter, their stories would grow warped, until not even their name was consistent.
They would cease to be known.
And while this did not effect them so massively, it was a shame.
It was a loss.
Now that you know of orders lost, I need you to think of a boy.
I need you to think of Danny Fenton, of Phantom, of a child who had people close to deities as role models, a strange sense of humor, and just enough spare time on his hands.
Think of a boy that would correct the broken versions of Pandora’s myth, of a boy that would hear of Father Time and rave about a clock tower of the most intricate build, a boy who would set down grudges and tell of dreams more wild than even Amity’s waking world.
And remember, this was Amity Park. This was a place mundanely haunted, a place known for it’s mystique. So, people heard, and they considered it. A few even believed it.
Cults already existed in Amity Park. It was not hard for more to form when it was Phantom egging on their conspiracy.
And the Ancients heard, and they might have ignored. But, that child was theirs as far ghosts cared, and he had given them believers.
So, much in the way a parent might stick a hideous crayon drawing up on their fridge, Pandora and Clockwork reached out to their new followings.
And like a curious sibling, Nocturne was just entertained enough to humor Danny.
Pandora gave protection for every offering delivered, talked into the minds of her zealots, and appeared to them as she pleased.
Clockwork chose prophets, gave prophecies and future sight without any comprehensible reason.
Nocturne spirited away resting minds, hiding them away in a deeper sleep, with more powerful, happier dreams.
And as simply as that, Amity knew Ancients, and they would not forget for a long time yet.
I sketched these when @precarious-hermit was conceptualizing Peepaw Clockwork in VC. Now that he’s been properly introduced in her fic, I release these into the world
Peepaw Clockwork cannot be contained
I love seeing Danny Phantom showing up and being like ‘don’t ask too many questions but John Constantine I own your soul. All of it. Lmao sucks to suck bitch’, and he’s usually all Ghost King Full Regalia as he does it, at least in front of the Justice League, but consider—
He just shows up as Danny Fenton.
“yeah I got bored and collected the pieces like Pokémon. Gotta catch ‘em all” says the 5’2 teen who looks like a stiff breeze could trip him. He denies being a sorcerer, or a magician, concedes he’s maybe psychic but mostly he’s just…. The kid of two mad scientists—who have a basement lab where they opened a portal to what he SAYS is not hell but no one is frankly CONVINCED, by the way—and he hasn’t decided what to do with Constantine yet besides getting Danny into some r rated horror movies, but figures he should tell the dude probably.
“What’d you even trade for some of his soul contracts?”
“Don’t worry about it”
They worry about it
How to chew off an ankle monitor
DPxDC
Danny didn’t mean to cause a mess so catastrophic that Clockwork saw it acceptable to put him on house arrest. So what if he almost caused the apocalypse again at least no one died. Now he was stuck with a ghost ankle monitor because that is a thing apparently. Clockwork got him doing “community work” which is just him bossing him around the multiverse.
Oh no a spoon will cause a dimension  to collapse because of some fucked up butterfly effect, let’s send Danny to beat up a spoon. If Danny’s being honest if a dimension can be destroyed by a spoon of all things then it was meant to be. Danny would advise it to simply be better.
You wouldn’t believe the crazy universes he has been sent to. For some reason a lot of them have heroes though. Maybe Clockwork is trying to make this a life lesson. Or well after life- maybe half life? All Danny is really learning is how to chew through an ankle monitor. Oh how proud Jazz must be. How proud Dani must be! But to be honest Dani has probably been arrested way more than Danny.
And now he has been sent to another universe to collect taxes. Clockwork called it a much needed favor to be called on but Danny swears he was told to give this guy the same speech the IRS gives when they try to make his parents pay taxes. Sorry, correction, when they used to try to make them pay taxes. Jack and Maddie Fenton has officially scared off the IRS.
With a clip board, his new ankle monitor newly attached, and his will to live diminishing by the second Danny is ready to collect. What he wasn’t expecting was being punched as soon as he went through the portal. He flew back hitting a wall and with his dramatic flair he somehow ended up upside down with his legs in the air. He was surprised and due to this surprise he has yet to move from his spot.
He heard people yelling around him.
“Holy shit! Kon why did you do that!?”
“I didn’t mean to! He just showed up out of nowhere.”
“Is that a fucking ankle monitor?”
Looking around to get a better look at where he teleported to he saw he ended up in a training room of some kind. He was surrounded by teenagers and a few adults. All of who looked at him with some level of suspicion.
He made eye contact with his target, still upside down, he pointed at the man in a trench coat. “You!”
He raised an eyebrow, “me?” Danny was surprised by the British accent.
“You got some favors you owe and I’m here to collect.” Floating off the ground he turned right side up before letting his feet hit earth.
“Damn it the one time I let Batman convince me to do a magic demonstration for the brats.” He trailed off rubbing his eyes like he was fighting off a headache.
“Yeah yeah boohoo for you, is listen man the master of time himself wants to meet with you. For what I have no clue so don’t even ask. But I can tell you don’t want to do I got a deal for you.”
“What’s the deal?” He asked with heavy suspicion.
Danny lifted the leg with the ankle monitor on it and shook it a bit.
“You get this thing off me and I let you be.”
Danny was banned from bitting it off.
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I think Danny with an ankle monitor is hilarious
Idk, if I was Danny and I just found out that I was ghost king, the first thing I would do is install ghost therapy. Like I know the ghosts are compelled to fulfill their obsessions but there gotta be healthier and less destructive ways to do it.
Like Skulker for example, he could become a detective and hunt for missing persons instead of, you know, trying to skin a child. Or Ember could make a fucking Spotify or something idk.
The second thing I would do is make Clockwork do the worm.