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I always kinda wondered in the DP fandom why everyone speculated about Ember's back story and drew fanart of her as a human getting dumped or whatever because of her song lyrics, but no one ever really thought about Youngblood's backstory?

The character sheet on TV Tropes had this listed under his character regarding Fridge Horror: "While being a ghost in this universe doesn't necessarily mean you were ever human, him being a ghostly child might have some disturbing implications."

That kinda got me thinking, what was Youngblood like before he was a ghost? (Although Butch Hartman did try to avoid bringing up that ghosts could be dead people in order not to mess with his Christian values or something, he did have Poindexter who clearly was a student at Amity Park decades before Danny was. And dead.)

I always pictured Youngblood as kind of a neglected child with an over-active imagination. Since he was supposed to have the mentality of a nine or ten year old or something in the show (never specified), I figured when he was a human child he always wanted to play pretend, hence why he always is in a different costume in the three episodes he features in during the show (pirate, cowboy, astronaut). I can picture his parents as sort of indifferent and not very creative, ignoring him and not wanting to waste their time playing dress-up with their son. Maybe one day they left him home alone and there was some sort of accident (a fire or something?) that lead to his death. Then after he died, he resented adults for ignoring him and not letting his creativity shine, and also for neglecting him which lead to his death, so he devoted his ghostly life to remaining youthful forever and using different costumes and personalities to mess with adults.

...But that's probably just me overthinking things as usual. xD Since I kinda like the idea, though, I wanted to try doodling Youngblood both as a ghost (pirate form, because that was the coolest costume he had in the show and Pirate Radio is one of my favorite episodes) and as a human kid. I also really just like Youngblood a lot xD (Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate~)

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I always kinda wondered in the DP fandom why everyone speculated about Ember's back story and drew fanart of her as a human getting dumped or whatever because of her song lyrics, but no one ever really thought about Youngblood's backstory?

The character sheet on TV Tropes had this listed under his character regarding Fridge Horror: "While being a ghost in this universe doesn't necessarily mean you were ever human, him being a ghostly child might have some disturbing implications."

That kinda got me thinking, what was Youngblood like before he was a ghost? (Although Butch Hartman did try to avoid bringing up that ghosts could be dead people in order not to mess with his Christian values or something, he did have Poindexter who clearly was a student at Amity Park decades before Danny was. And dead.)

I always pictured Youngblood as kind of a neglected child with an over-active imagination. Since he was supposed to have the mentality of a nine or ten year old or something in the show (never specified), I figured when he was a human child he always wanted to play pretend, hence why he always is in a different costume in the three episodes he features in during the show (pirate, cowboy, astronaut). I can picture his parents as sort of indifferent and not very creative, ignoring him and not wanting to waste their time playing dress-up with their son. Maybe one day they left him home alone and there was some sort of accident (a fire or something?) that lead to his death. Then after he died, he resented adults for ignoring him and not letting his creativity shine, and also for neglecting him which lead to his death, so he devoted his ghostly life to remaining youthful forever and using different costumes and personalities to mess with adults.

...But that's probably just me overthinking things as usual. xD Since I kinda like the idea, though, I wanted to try doodling Youngblood both as a ghost (pirate form, because that was the coolest costume he had in the show and Pirate Radio is one of my favorite episodes) and as a human kid. I also really just like Youngblood a lot xD (Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate~)