A ghost’s trauma tends to stick around in one form or another, and reminders are never pleasant.
TL;DR:
Regardless of her physical appearance, current health, and stability, Dani/Ellie’s shadow always appears to be slightly dripping or melting, and more so in ghost form. It’s not overly obvious in human form, and people who notice tend to dismiss it as a trick of the eye.
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Ellie can’t escape her shadow. It catches the corner of her eye when she’s least expecting it, and her smile wavers. The dripping edges, that half melted arm… Dani looks away. She was never meant to survive.
Danny asks if she’s alright when she doesn’t respond as he’s telling her about his latest scuffle with Skulker, and Dani pastes on a grin, laughing and giving some inane excuse. Of course she’s alright. She’s fine, just fine.
Danielle Dani Ellie it’s Ellie, she’s her own person isn’t she? cracks a joke about the sequel being better than the original, and she’s more than just a failed copy, right? She doesn’t even have her own name.
Danny smiles and laughs, but if his eyes are concerned as he meets hers, carefully avoiding looking at her shadow, neither of them says anything.
He’s just a kid, he doesn’t know how to handle any of this, let alone raise the clone/cousin/sister/daughter he never asked for, and she won’t make him.
She leaves again, and she enjoys traveling, really, she does, but… does she really want to do it alone?
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Ellie eventually gains confidence in herself, both as her own person, and as Danny’s clone. Just like any kid taking after their parent, sharing his DNA doesn’t change the fact that she’s still her own unique person.
Eventually even the clone jokes are less of a nervous traumatic response and more because she finds them genuinely funny. (Her sense of humor and coping mechanisms definitely take after Danny. Death jokes anyone?)
One day, the dripping, melting form of her shadow will no longer haunt her, but for now… she’s taking it one day at a time.
Little Baby Man Danny I decided to draw at 1am instead of sleeping
If a witch is someone who practices witchcraft while a wizard gains magic by studying (rather than being magic genders), then a witch can also be a wizard if they studied and/or went to school for it.
Which is why I postulate that Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was created specifically to allow witches to gain the benefits of wizardry through standardized schooling rather than having to study it themselves with less resources, safety precautions, and experienced teachers.
It was only later on in time, when separate schools for male and female were common among non-magicals and combined schools were specified, that someone or other assumed the name meant the school was for both genders (as both attended) and accidentally started a fad of referring to female witches as witches and male witches as wizards as the other students found their misconception amusing.
This became a commonplace habit, and eventually pervaded the entirety of British witch/wizard culture to the point we see it at in Harry Potter.
At a gala:
Some Old Lady, pinching Tim’s cheeks: “Aren’t you the sweetest?”
Tim: “No ma’am, I am a horrible little gremlin child.”
Old Lady: “Oh my.”
What is the purpose of a mouth if not to scream?
One Halloween, Danny dresses up as a carton of half-n-half for his costume. Literally everyone in town is baffled by this except Sam and Tucker, who only increase the confusion when they react by laughing super hard. Sam is hunched over and holding her stomach and the only thing keeping Tucker from falling to the ground is the fact that he’s leaning on Sam. Danny just has the widest grin on his face as he shoots the two of them finger guns.
Is anyone else just constantly delighted by descriptions of or references to John Constantine as a sad trench coat man?
Cross country road trip with (a very reluctant) John Constantine.
Constantine didn’t want to pick up a hitchhiker, but they were very persistent, and he could tell something was up with either them or the situation, his ‘occult senses’ were tingling.
Bonus points if it’s Danny or Dani/Ellie that hitches a ride!
Ain’t no party like a speedster party, ‘cause a speedster party is fast.
For Halloween, Selina and Bruce would absolutely dress up as Morticia and Gomez Addams and commit to the bit so hard the batkids are still gagging.