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I do not own Danny Phantom.

Hormones

Rigor Mortis

Mundane

People always thought that he only used his powers during fights.

A few months after his accident, he would have agreed.

But then he started thinking. And experimenting. And then he realized how damn useful they actually were in his day-to-day life.

Jazz hogging the shower because he slept a tiny bit too late? Invisibility and intangibility, slip through the walls into the bathroom before she got there. Hello, hot water! It even eliminated the early-morning shower-race that always made him feel like he was in a sitcom.

Intangibility was just so damn useful, if you knew how to use it. Wet from a shower, but running late? Intangibility to get dry quickly by letting the water fall off.

Too lazy to brush your teeth? Concentrate a bit and voila! Mouthful of all sorts of nasty, down the drain. He never knew how much gunk was floating around in a human mouth before.

Too much trouble to get a certain textbook from your bag? Intangibility.

Shaving too much trouble? With a lot of practice, intangibility can save you yet again!

Lots of little things, but they were damn convenient.

And clones! Oh, glorious clones… he loved them so.

… was that narcissism?

Anyway, clones to go to school when he was too tired (or lazy). Clones to help him study ('cause he got memories back if he reabsorbed them). Clones to fool his family into thinking he's in bed when he's out. Clones to flank his enemies, clones to act as messengers, clones to trip Dash when Danny was feeling a bit petty.

Needed a can of cold soda? Just a quick flash of ecto-energy. Stains look rather permanent? Little touch of intangibility. Frisbee or kite or cat stuck in a tree? Flying to the rescue.

It wasn't heroic or complicated or grandiose.

It was a rather mundane use of a freak-accident, but hell if it wasn't useful.

AN: Just a couple of random ideas about pedestrian uses for Danny's powers. There are likely legions more, but these give the gist of it, I'm sure.

Also, the shaving thing? I imagine it would be something like making only the hair intangible (or only your head) and moving away. Intangibility means no interacting with air or gravity. It means that the hair would just float there until Danny was too far away to maintain them and then they'd just fall to the ground. Of course, that would need a level of control that Danny doesn't possess yet.

I also believe that Danny's ecto-energy (blasts or constructs or whatever) is always cold. It's the stuff ghosts are made of and they're traditionally cold, so yeah.

I also know it was an unnecessary explanation, but things like that bug me.

As for the competition-thingy, the first one to PM me gets the next reward (chapter 14). Unfortunately, gothgirl01, you may not have another chapter. Have to keep things fair, after all.

Read, enjoy, review.

~GrinGrin

PS - seriously, go check out OrangeNuke and pay your respects for that piece of awesome-sauce.

Written: 10/12/2013

Posted: 11/12/2013