Two Kinds
is a Danny Phantom and Miraculous Ladybug crossover fanfiction written by Animation Adventures.
It's an Alternate Universe fic in which numerous key characters from Miraculous live in Amity Park alongside the Danny Phantom cast rather than in Paris; as such, we get to see the characters from both works interact with each other (e.g., the main Alpha Bitch of the former is now part of the popular kids clique from the latter). And when both ghosts and akumatized villains start wreaking havoc, it's up to the trio of Ladybug, Chat Noir, and Phantom to stop them.
Not to be confused with the webcomic TwoKinds.
This fanfic contains examples of:
- Abusive Parents: While Gabriel Agreste is of the neglectful and controlling variety just like in canon,
the author writes Adrien's mother Emilie to be in compliance with her husband's more controlling side because they believe that Gabriel wouldn't have been able to get away with being so heavy handed with Adrien unless he had his wife's permission to do so. - Adaptational Nice Guy: Kim. In the canonical first season of his show, he was a Lovable Jock, but his Jerk Jock moments were more prominent. In this fic, he's kinder as his jerky moments are either downplayed or removed. He apologizes to Ivan for mocking him about his crush on Mylene and getting him akumatized and stands up for Max when he's getting bullied by Dash and Kwan.
- Aesop Amnesia: Averted, the author notes that in canon Danny never really gave up on trying to be popular in canon, and states that, after "One Kind of Popular Crowd" he has learnt his lesson.
- Alpha Bitch: Many characters in the A-listers seem to fall under this, with Chloé and Paulina as prominent examples.
- Arch-Enemy:
- While Hawkmoth is the archnemesis of all three of our heroes, he would be more of Ladybug and Chat Noir's enemy since his focus is akumatizing people for the sole purpose of taking their miraculous.
- Vlad is this towards Danny and his father, Jack Fenton. Danny because is rightfully angry that Vlad tried to kill his father multiple times. Vlad's animosity towards Jack is a result of the ghost hunter destroying his life for a period of time when they were still back in college as well as marrying the love of his life.
- Valerie hates Phantom and by extension all ghosts after he and Cujo accidentally destroyed her father's old workplace, costing Damian Gray his job and forcing them to move to a small apartment so that Valerie could still attend Casper High.
- Wes Weston has noticed that ghost trouble seems to follow Danny everywhere he goes. He declares that he is going to be watching Danny and that he’ll prove to everyone that the freshman is some sort of bad luck ghost magnet with the intent of ensuring that no one will want anything to do with him after he's through with him.
- Childhood Friends: While Adrien and Chloé are childhood friends just like in canon, Adrien is also friends with Sam though they had grown distant over the years due to the former's parents believing that Sam would be a bad influence on their son and in turn forbade him from interacting with her.
- Even Evil Has Standards: While he's not above taking advantage of it, even Hawk Moth is a little surprised and concerned by all the negativity surrounding Casper High following Spectra's arrival.
- Everyone Has Standards: Kwan and Paulina are shocked at Chloé using her status as the mayor's daughter just to get Alya suspended for looking at Paulina's locker. Paulina, especially, simply wanted Alya to get detention.
- Everyone Went to School Together: Gabriel Agreste apparently went to the same college as the Fenton parents and Vlad, though he's doesn't appear to have known either of them back then and refuses to go to the reunion Vlad hosts.
- Fair-Weather Friend: Valerie finds out the hard way that her friendship with the other A-listers is this. Once her father was fired and he lost his company and had to start at the bottom again, the others kicked her out of the group completely. When Adrien calls her to ask how she's doing after everything that's happened, Valerie understands why he left the group.
- Footnote Fever: Each chapter has numbered footnotes regarding various points regarding the AU.
- Fusion Fic: Combines the worlds of Danny Phantom and Ladybug, with the Ladybug characters now living in Amity Park instead of Paris.
- Gilligan Cut: When Master Fu worries about who will deal with ghosts in Amity, since the powers of the Miraculous aren't as effective on beings like them, the story cuts to Danny.
- Halloween Episode: "One Kind of Haunted House", dealing with both the Fright Knight and Horrificator, takes place on Halloween and comes out just a few days before Halloween 2022.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Wes' animosity towards Danny is because he wants nothing to do with all the ghost related activity that has become the norm in Amity. He blames Danny for all the ghost related chaos, seeing him as a trouble magnet and vows to prove to everyone that Danny is this with the intent that no one will want anything to do with him after he’s through.
- Jerkass:
- The A-listers. Not only do they treat everyone outside of their inner circle, especially those they label as losers and nerds, horribly but once you no longer fit their criteria of being an A-lister they will have no issue of kicking you out and want nothing to do with you as Valerie found out the hardway. The attitudes and treatment of other people is why Adrien leaves them but also because they seem to care more about status and reputation rather than who he is as a person.
- Wes is a basketball player and a vital part of the team. He tries to use his status as a basketball player to try and get out of being assigned detention when Lancer catches him and Danny fighting in the hallway. However, Wes stands out when he uses his observation of Danny being caught up in every single ghost related event to prove that the halfa is a trouble magnet and ensure that no one will want anything to do with him afterwards, already making Danny's hard enough double life even harder. Wes wants to prove that Danny is a trouble magnet for ghosts with the intent of ruining his life. Even worse, Danny is the younger brother of one of the girls that his older brother hangs out with at lunch.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Upon seeing what the school cafeteria did with Sam's vegetarian menu suggestions, and Chloé pointing out that high school cafeteria food has a reputation for being awful, Adrien considers that his father might have had a point with having the family chef making his lunches.
- Jerk Jock: Most of the jocks who go to Casper High and have made an appearance in the story are this. A lot of them are in the football team.
- Dash and Kwan pick on the other students with full knowledge that they are likely to get away with it due to their status as football players.
- In the chapter where Tucker temporarily becomes a halfa, the Jocks took out their loss of the game on the Mascot by stringing him upside down and then beating him with baseball bats like a pinata.
- Wes has become this in light of declaring to Danny's face that he is going to prove that the latter is a trouble magnet for ghosts and that once he proves it, he will ensure that everyone will want nothing to do with Danny ever again. And before that, when Lancer threatened to give him and Danny detention for fighting in the hallways, he tried to squirm out of the punishment by using his position as a basketball player.
- Kick the Dog: Valerie's former friends within the A-listers abandon her once her father's business goes sideways and they're forced to completely downgrade and sell everything.
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- Dash in this continuity does not get out of detention during the Lunch Lady episode due to the fact that Alya caught his antics on camera.
- The A-listers suffer this after kicking Valerie out of their group. When Valerie was forced to sell her concert tickets when she and her dad were forced to downsize, Sam was the one who bought the tickets from her. Cut to the end of the chapter when the A-listers discover who bought the tickets from Valerie and their utter misery at the fact that they were sitting next to people who they labeled as losers.
- Lonely at the Top: The reason why Adrien eventually leaves the A-listers. While he qualified for being part of the popular kids group, Adrien finds that most people only care about his fame and wealth. In the end, after a heart to heart talk with Danny who has become disillusioned with what it's actually like to be an A-lister, Adrien chooses to leave the A-listers and hang out with Nino and the others.
- Loophole Abuse: Adrien's father can forbid a birthday party at his house, but he can't do anything if his friends throw him one at school.
- Lovable Jock: Kim proves to be one when he stands up for Max against Dash, Kwan, and a third jock that are trying to determine how to bully his friend.
- Misplaced Retribution:
- While Phantom and Cujo fighting at Damian Gray's workplace was what caused Valerie's father to lose his business, forcing the two of them to downsize their lifestyle in general, Danny points out that her father's boss completely overreacted to the situation. While ghosts and Akuma wrecking havoc are well-acknowledged at this point, technology that is effective against them aren't as widespread. Damian Gray essentially lost his job and reputation over something he had no control over; had his boss been more understanding, Valerie wouldn't have dealt with losing everything in her life.
- Every time Dash fails a quiz or a test, he often takes his frustration and anger out on someone else. Danny is often the one on the receiving end of Dash’s frustrations.
- Wes has this towards Danny. While Danny is involved in everything ghost related, Wes seems to think he's at fault for it happening in the first place rather than him being the one who actually prevents things from getting worse. The basketball player then declares that he will prove that Danny is a is a ghost trouble magnet and that once he's through, no one will ever want anything to do with him ever again.
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Kwamis like Tikki and Plagg have an ability to sense ghosts similar to Danny's Ghost Sense.
- Mythology Gag: As a nod to where the Miraculous cast canonically live, in chapter 6 Marinette considers moving to Paris if she asked Adrien out and it went badly.
- Nice Guy: Despite the fact that Adrien is a shoe-in for the most popular clique in school, the A-listers, Adrien is a lot nicer compared to the other jocks and rich kids in it. In the end though he chooses his friends over hanging out with the more popular kids.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The Lunch Lady showing up at the meat vs veggies protest prevents Hawk Moth from making an Akuma there.
- No Sympathy: The A-listers are not at all sympathetic to Valerie's plight. The only thing they seem to care about is the fact that because her father lost his job and his company, she can no longer be considered a member of their clique.
- Pet the Dog: Adrien, a former A-lister who left because the only thing everyone in the group cared about was his status rather than who he was as a person, calls Valerie and lends her a sympathetic ear after witnessing her old friends abandon her. She takes him up on his offer and in turn starts to understand why he left.
- Secret Secret-Keeper:
- Marinette keeps the fact that she saw Danny turn into his ghost form when fighting the Lunch Lady secret... for about five minutes, since he transforms back into his human form as in canon where she can see it. Still, she doesn't let on what she saw before that.
- Jazz discovers Danny's secret much earlier than she does in canon.
- Setting Update: On the Danny Phantom side of the story certain parts of the plot are tweaked to fit the late 2010s setting of Miraculous over the original early 2000s setting.
- Two notable examples emerge in "One Kind of Science project", the adaption of "One of a kind"; evolving technology meant that scientists were able to figure out Sampson's true gender some time before the episode, instead of Danny noticing when he bent down to pick up the thermos, and, due to the more accepting stance on LGBT in the modern world, Sam's blackmail material is switched from a photo of Tucker and Danny hugging in their sleep to threatening to tell Danny's parent's about the test.
- Take That!: In "One Kind of Haunted House", Wes's room at the haunted house includes a jab at the Disney executives for cutting The Owl House short, especially since they only realized how popular it was way too late to extend the third season.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: A villainous example; Penelope Spectra increasing the negative emotions that the students are feeling ends up causing an increase in akumatized villains around Casper High.
- Weirdness Magnet: Wes accuses Danny of being this whenever it comes to ghost activity. Though Danny tries to explain that it's only natural because his parents are ghost hunters, the other student immediately dismisses it saying that his parents weren't always at the locations that ghosts showed up in but Danny was. He storms off afterwards and declares that Danny is a trouble magnet who attracts ghosts wherever he goes with the intent to ensure that no one will want anything to do with Danny ever again after he proves it.
- Wham Episode: Valerie is the first Danny Phantom character to become akumatized by Hawkmoth in the face of her life going downhill after her dad loses his job and they are forced to uproot everything in their lives as a result.
- World-Healing Wave: Ladybug's "Miraculous Ladybug" power can fix the damage from ghost fights, though it's hinted that it might not always be as effective as with Akuma. Chapter 6 later confirms that the Miraculouses have to have had an active part in the fight, otherwise it doesn't work on ghost fight damage.
- Would Hurt a Child: Spectra and her accomplice Bertrand were going to kill Jazz during the Spirit Week pep rally for the sole purpose of eliminating the one positive thinking student left in Casper High. This would kill two birds with one stone: On top of getting rid of Jazz, they were also going to use her violent death by bombing as a catalyst to finish off their plan to bring complete despair to the student body so that they could absorb the resulting negative emotions and maintain their eternal youth. Not only were they going to kill a student, but they fully intended to use her death to traumatize the rest of the students in attendance for their own selfish motives.
