Author's Note: In my excitement to finally be productive in this site yesterday, I completely forgot to put the disclaimer. Thankfully, there was no prosecutor waving "copyright infringement!"outside my window ...yet.

Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom (I do follow Butch Hartman's instagram account though. Waiting...waiting...waiting...). Nickelodeon and Mr. Hartman owns the rights (and the authority to revive the show!)

So there.

Summary: An attempted insight on our favorite green blob beneath the metallic outfit. How Skulker was determined to be the Ghost Zone's greatest hunter.


Day 19: Fave Outfit

"What?! I'm not small! It's the world that's too big!"

Hiromu Arakawa

After he died, his memory of his previous life was scarce. He was floating in a new world - a world with energy-charged neon sky and rocky formations dotting the otherwise great and barren chasm of nothingness. His form felt less firm, as in it was in a state of confusion over a fluid or gaseous form. Somewhere within his consciousness, he knew that his form was solidifying into something suitable for his ordained purpose in this new world.

As he was floating in the greenish wilderness, something swam in his peripheral vision. And suddenly, he was overcome by the desire to hunt; to collect as much as he could; and to pursue that immediate prey who had kindly swum in his vicinity. So he took off.

But the universe decided to screw up with him one last time, even in his after-life. His final form was neither fit nor equipped to fulfill his desire, his obsession, because he found himself looking at the small green blob that was his body. His prey did not even notice it had been targeted, or that the aspiring hunter had stopped targeting it to examine his body, rather disbelievingly. Yet, there was a fire burning in his very core - something so strong that he was not sure he had experienced in his previous life - and it lit up his determination as the greenish glow around his body brightened.

Skulker, the future self-proclaimed Ghost Zone's greatest hunter, was nothing but determined and persistent. Those were the two traits crucial to every hunter.

The thing about obsession was that it enforced a single-mindedness quality for most ghosts. This could be either good or bad depending on how it happened. For Skulker, his obsession brought him to scour the depths of the Ghost Zone for a way - any way really that he could afford to compensate for his pitiful form. Nevertheless of how pitiful it was, his form had helped him innumerable times as he was regarded as not worthy being a threat. As such, the green blob flew through even the most dangerous corners of the Zone. His green body camouflaged his track across the sky.

Years passed by. It was hard to keep track in the Ghost Zone. Skulker had by then accumulated a collection of scrap metals, pieces of weaponry left over from the Pariah Dark's wars, and an uninhabited floating rock he would christen as his lair. Skulker worked tediously, assembling piece by piece of scrap metals and attaching the most lethal weapons in his collections (he was very lucky to have found the rocket launchers). When he was done, he could stare for his whole afterlife at his new creation, his hunting suit! The fruit of his labor! With meticulous details perhaps only rivaled by the mastery of Nicolai Technus himself!

Thus, Skulker was living the time of his afterlife doing the thing he enjoyed most: hunting. He hunted and hunted, building a fearsome reputation for himself. All kind of ecto-entities, in all shapes and forms (and how variable they were!), from ecto-pusses to ecto-bunnies, would eventually come to be in Skulker's possession for one time after another. Nothing was too slippery for the Ghost Zone's greatest hunter after all.

And as his reputation grew, the inhabitants of the Ghost Zone consequently forgot about the tiny green blob that had once floated aimlessly. Skulker may have the body of a blob, but that did not reflect the core contained within.

To think, that one of the Ghost Zone's strongest ghosts was actually a small green blob.

But hey, isn't Casper High's biggest loser actually moonlighting as the town hero?

That is also probably why when Skulker called Danny Phantom "whelp", he has never meant it as an insult. Because Skulker, out of everyone else, understands how appearance does not define one's ability.