Ghost Writer (is not associate with the ghost from the PBS show)
VOICE ACTOR: Will Arnett
AGE: Unknown, looks to at least be in his mid to late 20’s
EYES: Green
HAIR: Black and shaggy
STATUS: Bibliophile bohemian writer (well, he looks like he belongs in the cast of RENT)
LIKES: Books, writing, writing booksp
DISLIKES: People who pisses him off, especially stuffed shirts
PERSONALITY: Intelligent, vindictive, clever, sadistic, easily annoyed
POWER: Ability to forge anything into existence as well as make anyone do anything just by writing, they don’t show, but I assume he has standard ghost powers as well
STRENGTH: Has the ability to write anything, essentially bending goddamn reality! How many ghosts can do that?
WEAKNESS: He can only write if he has his keyboard, otherwise, he can’t do jack.
FIRST APPEARANCE: "The Fright Before Christmas"
GOAL: To write the ultimate erotic novel.
HISTORY: 
On his first and only major appearance, the lone Ghost Writer had just finished his Christmas novel until it was utterly destroyed by Danny while he was target practicing with hate-ridden Christmas toys. Filled with anger for having lost his only copy of the rhyming novel, Ghost Writer decides to brutally teach Danny a lesson by entrapping him in his own nightmarish Christmas poem.
Stuck until the lesson is learned, Danny struggles Ghost Writer's tyranny as he sent wave after wave of one disaster over another, causing the town folks to glare at him with disenchantment, including his own family and friends. He flees into the Ghost Zone where he tells all the ghosts to gang up on Ghost Writer for breaking the Ghost Zone Christmas Truce: that is, to never create hostility to one another--even half ghosts.
They storm his manor to deliver some much ass kicking. Ghost Writer counters by getting them to combat each other, right up until he cries in frustration that “nothing rhymes with orange”. The spell briefly lifted, Danny beats the shit out of Ghost Writer and is promptly arrested by Walker. Danny learns his lesson eventually as the poem would continue forever and ever and ever if he didn't and Ghost Writer, though currently in jail, at least managed to get his poem done.
He appears in the last episode to help Danny save the world from an asteroid.
PERSONALITY: With a gift for writing and a clever mind to match, Ghost Writer is a crafty ghostly specimen who seems to play the role of a hermit, living alone and unwilling to do any harm...until harm comes to him. In a fit of karmic reasoning, Ghost Writer remains a vindictive, aggressive foe who retains much chaos to the person who wronged him, whether he breaks any laws or not. Unfortunately for the victim, Ghost Writer, being a writer, holds clever thoughts and quick actions with the type of his keyboard. He is easily flustered and a massive devotee of anything he puts his mind to whether it be revenge or book writing.
OPINION: Damn. You should see the oodles of fanart this guy gets. Only in one episode (and a cameo later on) and he remains one of the more popular figure in the Danny Phantom fandom. Correction, the fangirls. This time, I don’t blame them as I agree alongside the raving chicks that Ghost Writer is one hot piece of ghost-flesh. His adorable scarf, that mischievous shark-like grin, his small, lanky, yet somehow adorable body that obviously holds no physical feats, the glasses, and the shaggy hair, he’s like a vindictive, writing variation of Mark from RENT fame (and I have quite the fondness for that guy, too). I hate to be shallow, but that’s truly the only reason why I like him so much.
His personality isn’t too fascinating for him, but I do have a vague interest in it. After all, he’s such a determined bastard. The real fascination is the very theories and thoughts on his status as Danny’s foe. He had no intention of harming him until his book was blasted. In a rare format, we get a non-villainous ghost, one who just wants to write. And I can’t help but wonder just what his past human life (if he have had any) would have been like and whether or not he’s a lonely hermit obsessive over books that he himself didn’t realize the Christmas truce was still going on. He must not get out much. Even though he pulled the trigger and answered Danny’s behavior with his sharp tongue and malicious torture, I can’t help but pity him once he’s jailed. Hmm, guess I do have a reason to like him besides good looks.
Must be the goatee. Yeah, definitely the goatee. It’s so...twisted.
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