For some years, I've been bemoaning that I've been too busy to write fanfic (among other excuses) but now I find that I am too busy to read fanfic. I've slowly been trying to catch up but I think I just keep falling farther behind. I finally got around to reading your latest installment. Reading it late made it a treat after an especially challenging day.

I also appreciate your shout out to Smiling Crow, which I also finally read. Excellent.

It was fun trying to figure out what was going on in this story, rather than just telling us the scenario up front. It helped put us in the point of view to appreciate the story better. I like the way you present some of the complex moral issues with the idea of cloning a new body.

This was really interesting. Honestly, I don't think I could call this a fanfic. There was nothing inherently "Danny Phantom" about it apart from the names. You could probably publish this somewhere because it's pretty good and thought-provoking! Great work.

Clone-Danny is actually cuter than Real-Danny? I didn't think it was possible...

I must say that this chapter really /really/ *really* caught my interest. Out of everything I've read on here, I have to say that this is on par with stuff I've read in Analog, Science fiction journals, and short story publishing, and other than hints about ghost powers, and the MCs names, I would have a hard time distinguishing it AS fanfiction.

Saying that, it was still good fanfiction, your characters felt like canon, they still had their core personality traits, and your writing was smooth.

Congratulations, you win the award for being the best one shot/ short story I've seen in YEARS on this site.

So, thank you, for writing a piece of fiction that I reread ten times in rapid succession just to try to catch the nuance of the words.

RFYS!

Pterodactyl

All the twists and second guessing aside, I really enjoyed this one. I like how you proposed the idea: what if Vlad got his half-ghost clone and became a nice responsible dad and a reasonably decent person? Ignoring that kidnapping Danny and making forced clones is a totally fruitloopy idea, Vlad's has a history of megalomania makes Danny's skepticism quite reasonable so it is a nice little twist when he seems to be after nothing more than domestic bliss.

Then when Danny tries asking ethical dilemma I couldn't help laughing at the clone's answers to the "Turing test" that involved saving everyone using his ghost powers. It really points out the differences between Danny and the clone. Danny understands the question as an evaluation of moral decisions while the clone naturally sees it as an matter of application of ghost powers.

Then after making us laugh you answer the questions seriously, as a questions of the willingness of self-sacrifice. Danny has been put the that ultimate test and not just hypothetically.

Ok like this could totally have a twist really easily, because like when Danny if among the close the least questions, Danny said that he had had to answer it, but he didn't say what he choose. So like the close just agreeing with his choice means that he could be actually not answering and just saying that to get on Danny's good side. I don't know if you purposely wrote it this way or not, but like...

Danielle has always seemed to be treated like a problem that was brushed under the rug. I like how you point out that it is not, in fact, such a simple matter.

Although I am happy to see Sam and Tucker's warm welcome and Valerie's ready acceptance of not only Dani but her half-ghost status, it is also not such a simple matter.

Her decision to take off and that everyone one seems Okay with it does not sit quite well until you add in that Vlad Masters was still after her. Now combined with the reasons you give it makes a lot more sense.

Very sweet, very nice, great success! :3 I don't particularly like Danielle, so I'm glad you've had her go off on her own to become her own person with her own life. As a clone, that's probably what she needs more than anything. She shouldn't have to be Danny's satellite.

At first I wasn't sure what was going on. I didn't realize that all the stories were going to involve clones. The idea of clones and how to handle them was something I shied away from but you tackled in head on in the most delightful way. You also addressed the issue of why hasn't anyone figured out the connection between Danny and Phantom yet. This is the most ingenious solution!

I also am enamored with the dialogue.

With two of them working, I would hope that it would ease their schedule a bit but Danny seems more tired than ever and just because one clone learns something in class that doesn't mean it will automatically be learned by the other. Still I enjoy thinking about the idea, especially now as my schedule is busier than ever and I will be thinking how nice it would be to split the work with a clone...

I wasn't expecting any twists, so...yeah, unexpected! :b

"We literally all know it's you, Fenton." Hahahaha, that killed me.

Now what happen to the third Danny clone and Danielle

Is it Phantom Alone?
Well, I liked this story, but I gotta admit... peanuts sound good...

Sorry I've not been able to review earlier. This is another example of your amazing writing. In the series the other clones did not survive but this brings of the gnarly question of what if they did. We are always thinking about how his parents will react when they find out who he is. The literally multiplies the shock to the point where the ghost powers are almost beside the point. Wow!

I also think about Sputnik at this time of year.

Well, I could see this getting very confusing very quickly. XD But I am most intrigued.

The last clause: "Danny grabbed his sleeve and pulled it back." Who is the referent for "his"? The Danny that's facing him in the doorway? Or his own sleeve?

This is a beautiful thing so far. Liking the concepts being explored here.
Good job.