There are dozens of known ghosts in the Ghost Zone, and hundreds to thousands more never seen. For now, though, let's focus on one that's fairly new. His name is Phantom, Danny Phantom, and I doubt you would recognize him from who he was before, that is to say, Danny Fenton.
Danny Fenton was a fairly average teenager from a fairly odd family. His parents, Jack and Maddie Fenton, were the town nutters and obsessed with ghosts and even has their own laboratory dedicated to paranormal research. Jasmine, or Jazz, was no stranger to this fact- though she distanced herself so much from it in an attempt to lead a normal career into psychology that you could only recognise her as a Fenton child when next to their parents.
Danny however… He was unpopular at, a small underachiever even with his smarts, and had often dropped marks in tests because he was too distracted thinking about video games and when he would next see his friends. To be honest, that's what killed him. Sam Manson and Tucker Foley were his best friends, and he'd invited them round while his parents and sister were out of the house.
Of course, the friends had wanted to see the long forbidden lab! Who wouldn't, after a year or more of wondering what was down there? Danny was hesitant, to his credit, but he let them see downstairs. When they were in the lab he was already pretty wound up and tense, but Sam asked him to check out the latest invention. A ghost portal.
It wasn't a blur in reality at that time, not a large indescribable swirl of green light, but instead a empty, cold steel octagon. Nothing special. It didn't even work, so Danny was prompted to investigate inside for a photo. He did, then he tripped, and his hand met a button, a big red button, a big red button with ON written on it in bold white.
Now, you probably think you know the story by now, he gets electrocuted and comes out as a near photo negative ghost of himself, then changes back into a human. Not this time.
Danny Fenton, in this tale at least, does not change, he is still half ghost, he still protects everyone, but perhaps we're looking at the wrong side of the equation. Danny Phantom is the one who changes, though he is also the same in so many ways. He's still a brave, white haired super hero with a hazmat suit, but that is altered. His hair never goes down and sticks in the position it was killed in no matter the weather, his hazmat suit is singed around the right hand and a strange discoloration like it was faintly bleached runs over it.
You see, the thing that changes isn't how he acts. It's how much of death is visible- that is to say how much the ghosts look like they are dead.
A.N
So… yeah. This is a plot bunny of doom for anyone who wants to pick it up (just PM me first!) and I'll probably continue it some time... in the future.
Have a good season and enjoy the world outside as well,
BCoH