This is just a little section I decided to put in describing my general beliefs when it comes to writing Danny Phantom fics. You'll find these used throughout all the fanfics I write, whether they're explicitly stated or not. You of course don't have to believe them, but just know that I do and will therefore use them in my fics.

And let it also be known that these are constantly being updated as I figure more things out or remember more of them, or even realize more of them, as it happens constantly.

Danny's powers are genetically based. His DNA has been rearranged to where his DNA strand is a mix of human and ghost DNA, the most prevalent being associated with the form he's currently in.

Danny bleeds both red and green at all times, just in his human form it's mostly red and in his ghost form it's mostly green.

Danny cannot pass through a ghost shield in human form due to the lingering ghostly DNA and ectoplasm in his blood. (I know he does it in the tv show a lot, but it just makes more sense this way. Plus, all the other inventions work around him as a human, so why shouldn't this one?)

When a ghost, Danny does not need to breathe, eat, drink, or sleep and therefore cannot feel hungry or thirsty and only feels tired after using too much energy (if he went ghost and just sat in his bed without using any powers he would never feel tired nor need to sleep). He is also impervious to any forms of radiation and extreme temperatures. When a human, however, he is no longer impervious and requires the four necessities.

Danny's temperature is always a little below normal even as a human due to his half dead status.

Ghost hunting is passed through the Fenton line from generation to generation. As such they have created a code of conduct for all aspiring Fenton Ghost Hunters to abide by. They take this code quite seriously, never doubting it's truth (unless of course you're Jack or Maddie and you find out your son's a ghost). Among such beliefs are that ghosts are evil and that it is a ghost hunter's duty to hunt and capture all ghosts, no matter who they once were. More about this to come in the first entry of LDPP.

Jack has a brother named Jerry who didn't want to be a ghost hunter and was thus kicked out of the family. He's now a professor of archeology in Egypt and doing quite well.

Although I may not mention it and it may not be an important part of the story, I will always use DannyXSam pairing. I'm not usually one for putting romance into a story unless there's a good reason, but I guess it's good to know that it'll always be there in the background.

In response to my beliefs on Danny and Valerie's relationship (since this is going to be very important in Tortured Revenge): Valerie has a crush on Danny and still really likes him, but knows it's impossible to date him (as expressed in Flirting with Disaster) but Danny, while having a crush on her once before, is now over it and just sees her as a very good friend. As such he doesn't want to lose her friendship with her not because he has a crush on her but because he doesn't want to lose one of the few friends he has.

In referece to Jazz (which will be important later): I know there are about a million possibilities for her future occupation, however, I've always seen her as a true psychologist. I know they say she wants to be a brain surgeon and they've hinted that she'll become a ghost hunter, but I really see her leaving that to her brother and making it more or a hobby than an actual profession. I also see her as becoming a psychologist in the end, but flipping between that and a brain surgeon for most of her high school career.

And about Dan. This is important now, since I've just revealed him as the main bad guy in ASU. And this may be a completely general belief, but it's still going up anyways. At this moment, Danny is not destined to turn into Dan. As long as he doesn't split his human half from his ghost half, he won't turn evil. Dan, however, still exists since as they say in TUE, he exists outside of time now, so he exists, but that doesn't necessarily mean he'll turn into him. Now, I'm not saying he'll never turn evil and his life's all sunshine and stuff, but as long as he stays in one piece, he's fine (which may or may not happen in ASU!) Also an important tidbit of information, if Danny happens to, oh for the sake of argument let's say develop the power to make things explode and telekinesis, the only way Dan would be able to acquire such abilities is if Danny was going to turn into him, since then that would affect Dan's past and would thus affect him, even if he does exist outside of time because the past is what created him, and thus it'll change him. So then the important thing is, does Dan have Danny's new powers in ASU or not?...

I've decided that Amity is in Oregon. There are two pretty good reasons for why I believe this. 1) In "Fanning the Flames" they're preparing to take the Northwestern 9 Testing, indicating that they live somewhere in the Northwest. 2) I used that information and looked up on the computer and the only Amity in the Northwest is in Oregon near Portland (at least, I think it was near Portland, but it was in Oregon). Therefore, in my opinion, Amity is in Oregon and will be located there for all my stories.

Ghost powers are a dominant genetic trait. Since ghosts are more powerful than humans, it would make sense that their genes are more powerful than human genes as well, thus they would be a dominant trait. So, due to this fact, his children have a fifty percent chance of becoming half ghost. But the purity of the ghost powers would decrease as the lineage was passed on, due to repeated blending with more human DNA. So, in five hundred years, a Fenton descendant with ghost powers will still have a fifty percent chance of having a child with ghost powers, but they may only have one percent of Danny's full power capacity.

The Ghost Portal can never be turned off. If the portal could be turned off, Danny would never let it remain on, seeing as how it is the source of all the ghost attacks and thus his constant problems. Therefore, the portal cannot be turned off. It's stabilized and will remain that way. So, sorry to disappoint Mary Sue's everywhere, but the Fenton Ghost Portal will never make another half ghost because it'll never be turned off. It is forever a portal to the Ghost Zone and entering it will always take you to the Ghost Zone and not turn you into a half ghost. Unless there's a power outage...then all the above is null and void...


Hope you enjoyed this I totally love thinking about all these things, so expect them to go up a lot, as well as a lot of them turning into LDPP's (Lessons in Danny Phantom Philosophy).

Anywho, hope you find these as interesting as I do!