Heroes Don't Always Get Remembered ImperfectIsPerfect
Disclaimer:I don't own Danny Phantom any more than Scott Cawthon does.
Heroes always get remembered. I grew up hearing that phrase, from Jazz when I was younger, and then from Sam and Tucker. Fact is, they don't. Simply because time goes on, and things fade away with time.
People say some things are forever, but that's not true. Nothing is infinite, well, almost nothing. I thought that I would die eventually, or that if I didn't I'd always be remembered for what I did. I wasn't. The human world forgot me long ago, millennia at least, probably closer to a few billion years. The ghost zone remembered a little longer, its only been three millennia at most since they forgot me.
People think that immortality would be so great, it's not. You have to watch everyone you care about die, and you can never join them. Even ghosts can move on eventually, but me? No, I'm stuck in between. My human half can't die, and my ghost half can't move on. I've seen more people die and more worlds burn than you could imagine. I'm trillions of years old, but you'd never guess, I still look 20-something. Not even Clockwork remembers me, well, he still knows about me, but he's forgotten that he used to be my guardian.
I was a hero, I had the perfect life, well, almost perfect, but then Clockwork told me about my curse. Sam, Tucker and Jazz are the best friends I could ever ask for, even though they went behind my back and got themselves killed, brutally and intensionally, I might add, they did it so I wouldn't be lonely. But even they had to move on, it's only been a few centuries, but the pain is still there. Another price for immortality? Time seems to move differently for me, sure it continues on normally, but it feels different. Days become seconds, centuries become years, you get the idea, and because of that, emotional scars take longer to heal.
I don't stay on earth anymore, I stay in a place in the ghost zone that is completely unknown and unexplored, not even the most powerful or curious ghosts go there, I stay in Phantoms Keep. No, not Pariahs Keep, Phantoms Keep is my lair, it's hidden far away from everything else in the ghost zone.
I don't even have any other halfa's to keep me company, Dani destabilized years ago, almost a century, and Vlad's ghost half was to weak to keep him alive.
So no, heroes don't always get remembered, but at least they aren't around to be forgotten.
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I was listening to "Emperors New Clothes" by "Panic! At The Disco" and the line "Heroes always get remembered, but you know legends never die" got me thinking about Danny Phantom, (because I am a total phanatic) and I decided to give the whole "Danny's immortal" thing a go, because it's really not the gift everyone seems to think it is, the companion piece to this fic is "Legends Never Die"