Ok but, brainstorming here, danny as an avatar of the end but also the spiral and/or the extinction ? Like the end yeah sure obviously, but the spiral in that he looks vaguely wrong in BOTH forms. He looks like walking corpse as a human, pale and cold and somewhat decaying. As a ghost he's got too much blush to his cheeks, you can feel his bones and see him bleed and he doesn't look quite as transparent/translucent as the others do, he's too human. The extinction idk if I'd include or not but idk something about being one of the only of your specific species kinda hits in that area I think.
The only other characters I have a clear fear tie to would be his parents, while yes you could argue their also the end I think they fit so much better with primarily the hunt, for again probably obvious reasons. The end could tie into that, IF they have to come to the realization that they are tied in with what they've seen as their prey all along, which could be fun to handle. Oh, like parent like child as well, you could say their extinction purely bc they gave the ghosts access to the living and created danny which creates dan who kinda ends humanity π just brainstorming don't mind me.
I'm only like a week late, hopefully ya'll don't mind
A friend had me draw sal the other day, might draw him more often tbh
Just imagine, fresh out of the portal Danny who is either completely covered bc hazmat or he looks somewhat "monstrous" or like a demon bc he perceives himself as something unnatural as something to be afraid of as something almost unrecognizable (more fun if it's also a no one knows au).
Then as time goes on and he becomes more accepting of his ghost form, he becomes more like he was when he died, more human in appearance (of course with little bits and pieces of ghostly stuff, Id imagine he'd either always have *some* unchangeable features whether bc it comes with being part ghost or bc he may always perceive himself as somewhat less human is up to you).
Maybe something fun to mess with is him taking on things from those he feels closest to as well, like his nails naturally just become painted to match with whatever color sam has at that moment or something similar, nothing super big just noticeable if you're paying attention.
Idk I just love the idea of Danny's form always changing, maybe it keeps some parts the same no matter what but I think Danny deserves the chance to change over time even in ghost form.
Danny should get to have a changeable ghost form I think, like it changes with his self perception type of thing