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She's cute, but not necessary which is probably why I don't care too much for her. Plus, I really can't understand how she came into being, and I'm one of those people that has a need to understand everything.

Refreshing innocence and naïve nature? That's how I think of Danny. I like how they're a lot alike. They didn't really interact all that much, so I can't say what I think of their relationship. It didn't seem too different from how he relates to Sam or Tucker, though.

I suppose I could assume she's just a younger, female Danny. It was interesting how she instinctively didn't like Dash, but then that makes me wonder if she's also instinctively attracted to girls.

Danny's a little too trusting of people himself. Trust is what landed him his ghost powers in the first place, after all. Honestly, I think Danny's the most innocent character in the show, taking age into proportion, of course.

The only difference between the two is their physical and mental ages. Danny was probably just like Danielle at age 12. Danielle will probably be just like Danny when she's "14."

But...I wonder how Danielle will turn out without parents to raise her?

On a more random note, Danielle in her human form kind of looks like Melody from The Little Mermaid II.

Why, because then you'd be sort of pairing Danny and Jazz together with a daughter who's actually Danny's clone? Yeah, I guess that'd be messed up. Great, now I really wish I could draw so I can draw DP characters as Disney characters. I guess I'll just have to pay someone to draw it for me. Again.

Trust is a big part of curiosity. It's one thing to be curious about what's inside a sealed box. It's another to trust that whatever's inside this box won't hurt you if open it. If you trust that it's a harmless gift, you'll open it. If you suspect it's a bomb or a virus that'll kill you if you breathe it in, you won't open it. Danny stupidly decided to trust that going inside this ghost portal he knew nothing about wouldn't hurt him.

I'm not saying they're like each other now. They're two years apart. I'll bet Danny used to have a lot of confidence in himself when he was 12, like Danielle does now, and when that confidence started to slip as it always done when one becomes a teenager and enters the dreaded "identity versus role confusion" stage, he started to become more cautious of people who could potentially hurt him. Of course, that's not always the case. I was shocked when he so easily trusted Dash and Paulina in Reality Trip. That could've been a huge trap (I was reminded of The Princess Diaries). And now that his secret is out to everybody, there'll be a lot more people who'll try to use and trick him.

Besides, he seriously thinks he's going to be astronaut. What's more innocent than that?

Back to Danielle, she's still a "pre-teen." She appears to be in the stage below Danny's, "industry versus inferiority." She has active curiosity and is overly sure of of how she relates to others, and that's why she ends up putting too much trust into people. She wants recognition and praise for what she does ("and you're welcome"). She always tried to impress Vlad when she was on his side before, even asking him directly if she did well. Danny's past this stage while Danielle is still going through it, and that's why they're currently different. She does show some characteristics of the next stage, but not enough to actually place her there.

Not to say one can't be in a stage that isn't exactly part of his age group. Vlad's still in the young adult stage of "intimacy versus isolation" when he should be with Jack and Maddie in "generativity versus stagnation."

I guess it just depends on where she wants to be. If she wants to live in the human world, then she'll definitely need adult help so that she can learn more about how the world works. She'll definitely need to learn things about stuff like banking, economics, politics, English, and, of course, sex education, though I wonder how she'll deal with sex education knowing that that's not how she was created. Then, if she wants a career, she'll definitely have to go to school.

She's very adorable, though. Danielle's someone I would like to have for a sister, though that'd be a problem because I already have a sister named Dani (though her real name is Danelle, not Danielle).

Sorry for all the psychosocial stuff I threw in. It just seemed like the best way to describe what I was thinking. I'm not a psychology nut, I swear! sweatdrop Oh, no! Now I'm using a defense mechanism!

I said I'm not a pyschology nut! scream I don't think the nurture aspect will play much of a part in her personality. She's already kind of old. She'll learn differently, but if she really is a clone of Danny, she would still almost exactly like him except different.

I wasn't saying that Paulina and Dash weren't genuine. I'm just saying that Danny should've been a bit more wary rather than just "Wow, you're going to help me? How nice of you!" considering his history with them. Sort of like how he probably wouldn't have trusted Valerie even though he knew she really liked him as Fenton.

As for people who will try to get close to Danny because of his fame, that's not exactly why I would worry for him. Despite all of the good he's done, there will definitely be people who hate him, and now that everyone knows who he is and where he lives...then again, it's a cartoon universe.

Eh, I was kidding. I just get kind of edgy about it since my friends are convinced that I should become a psychiatrist, and I have to keep telling them to dream on.

It's not really so much a matter of "growing up." It's more of a matter of how you learn things. What I mean is that Danielle, if she really is a clone, was already created with Danny's learning skills and capabilities, and so she should respond to and absorb information in the same way Danny would. She'll be a different person because she'll be faced with different situations, but her personality would still mirror Danny's because she started life at a more advanced age already "programmed" with specific genetic information. Of course, since this is a cartoon universe containing a lot of unrealistic logic, this could be argued. After all, if she really was Danny's clone, she'd be his age and, well, male.

We don't know if she automatically accepted her powers as who she is. We weren't there when she was created. She most likely did because she probably wasn't told that they weren't normal and common to everyone, but we can't say for sure. She'll definitely be a unique and separate person, but she'll always have Danny's genetic information regardless. She'll still take in events and situations in the same way Danny does.

It does really come down to nature versus nurture in the end, but since they obviously both play a big part in our lives, we won't know anything about Danielle unless Nick decides to continue the series with her as a bigger character or if she gets her own series.

A devious side? Er...I definitely can see what you mean, especially since Danny has one as well, but I haven't really paid much attention to that about her, I guess. Do you have an example?

My posts keep turning out way longer than I want them to...oh, look. I just added another paragraph. Well, more gold for me, then.

What do you want to be, then? Just out of curiosity.

Oh, yeah! Now I remember. Good stuff in that episode, yup. She's such a kid.

Do you actually want to script and write the story of a game, or would you just animate and design it? Or do those jobs go together? I guess I'm just thinking of how an animated movie gets made. sweatdrop I don't know if it's a similar process or not.

Have you started your book yet?