Fanfic / Danny Phantom: Visited

Visited is the 14th story in Stranded. Danny and Star tell Dani about the time they were visited by Star's maternal grandparents.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Three examples here:
  • Vlad originally acted nice to Alicia in order to have an ally to help convince Maddie to leave Jack for him. Earning her admiration worked too well, as now she's fallen in love with him, much to his horror as he is very much unattracted to her.
  • Donovan Loadman is once again this to Star, who would rather date Tucker or Sidney Poindexter.
  • Downplayed with Vivian, who only flirted with Danny as ploy for Donovan but became slightly impressed with him.
• Accidental Misnaming:
  • While visiting the Strongs, Beatrice calls Georgia "Jacqueline" and Danny "Donald", not caring what their names are.
  • When Star arrives at the Fentons', Alicia calls her "Suzy". She also calls Donovan "Donald" while defusing Johnathan and Stella's argument.
  • At the country club, Danny calls Vivian "Vicky" since he can't remember her name.
• Act of True Love: Danny is willing to put up with Stella’s “gentleman” lessons if it impresses Beatrice enough to save his relationship with Star.
• Aesop Amnesia: Danny points out that Vlad has a serious problem of never learning from his mistakes since he came up with the not-so-brilliant plan of using a ghost bat to attack the country club while forgetting that all his previous plans involving ghost animals ended with them turning on him, especially Virgato. The fact that Vlad loses control of the ghost bat and doesn’t have his powers to fight it off thanks to his own flawed prototype ecto-neutralizer only further proves Danny’s point that he doesn’t think his schemes through.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg:
  • Donovan and his snobby friends' pleading to Reginald not to get them in trouble falls on death ears.
  • Beatrice is reduced to begging an angry Danny Phantom to leave her alone and her attempts at bribing him only make him angrier.
• All for Nothing: Beatrice's plan to force Star into an Arranged Marriage with a boy from an Old Money family not only fails, but gains her several enemies in the form of Team Phantom, the Fentons, and even her own family who have grown tired of putting up with her garbage.
• Anti-Nepotism: Reginald plans to force Donovan to shape up by cutting him off and taking away his car so he'll have to get a job and buy his own. He also plans to kick his son out of the house when he turns 18.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Beatrice and Donovan refuse to believe in ghosts, although Donovan changes his mind when he’s hit by a giant bat monster that attacks the country club, but Beatrice is still stubbornly in denial. It takes pissing off Danny Phantom to make her do a 180.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • Beatrice becomes this to Star by the end because Star despises her grandmother the most for all the trouble Beatrice caused her and her loved ones to the point she hates the most, even more than Colette.
  • Donovan Loadman views Star and Danny as this to him because he blames them for getting him disinherited by his family for his own despicable behavior and vows revenge. The feeling is completely one-sided because the couple finds Toadman too annoying and pathetic to even be worth their time regardless of how much they utterly despise him, especially since he’s even less threatening than the Box Ghost with or without his family’s fortune.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: Beatrice Traville and Donovan Loadman are elitist assholes who test even their families' patience with their antics. In the end, Stella gets restraining orders against both of them while Reginald cuts his son off as punishment for harming Star.
• Arranged Marriage: Beatrice plans to arrange one between Star and Donovan once they're of age and even intends to take her granddaughter to New York just so she won't see Danny again.
• Asshole Victim:
  • Danny punches out four of Donovan Loadman's teeth as revenge for giving Star a Forceful Kiss and hitting her for rejecting him. His father joins in by getting Toadman and his snobby friends disinherited for harassing Star and Danny.
  • During the ghost bat’s attack on the country club, some debris falls from the ceiling and knocks out Colette and Jean-Luc. Star doesn’t hide how much she’s enjoying this.
  • The ghost bat backhands Donovan and drops Beatrice into a lake. Even Vlad takes joy in their misfortune.
  • Danny uses his powers to scare Beatrice into leaving Amity Park and Star alone forever.
  • By the end of the story, everyone is celebrating having Donovan and Beatrice out of their lives with restraining orders.
• Authority in Name Only: Beatrice’s husband Richard is the real head of the family, and he plans to remind everyone of this after “Visited” since he’s finally outgrown being a Henpecked Husband after realizing that Beatrice’s out of control behavior is ruining their descendants' lives.
• Bat Out of Hell: Vlad sends a large ghost bat to attack Danny at the dinner party.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: During a fight with Danny, Donovan says he hopes Danny knows a good lawyer. Danny knows Star's dad, who has no problem suing the boy Danny protected his daughter from.
• "Begone" Bribe: Twice by Beatrice, both of which failed.
  • She once tried to bribe Mr. Strong into leaving Stella back when Star was eight years old.
  • Towards the end, Beatrice offers a rampaging Danny Phantom $5 million, a new house, and a new car if he leaves her alone and breaks up with Star. It only makes him angrier.
• Belated Child Discipline: At the end, Donovan, Theodore, and Vivian are disinherited by their families as punishment for harassing Star and Danny as well as being forced to get jobs to learn responsibility.
• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • Where Star’s safety is concerned, Richard will even stand up to his domineering wife for his granddaughter’s sake.
  • Reginald Loadman is a Nice Guy but has no tolerance for any bratty behavior from his son or his friends since he gets them all disinherited as punishment for harassing Star and Danny.
  • Danny was more than willing to be civil with Beatrice, but she was nothing but awful to him. When she threatens to arrange to separate Danny from his parents if it means keeping him away from Star, he's had enough. Enough to go ghost and use his powers to terrify her into leaving Star alone and never come back to Amity Park.
• Big "SHUT UP!": When her mother tries to scold her for firing a weapon against the ghost bat in the country club, Stella just yells at her to "SHUT UP!".
• Blunt "Yes": Christopher flatly says, "yes" when Stella asks if "everyone on Johnathan's side of the family" calls Beatrice "old bat".
• Boisterous Weakling:
  • Donovan talks big but he’s easily beaten up by our favorite couple, then him and his spoiled friends are disinherited by their families.
  • Beatrice loves throwing her weight around by intimidating people with her wealth and status but her threats and bribes fall on deaf ears with the ghost bat and Danny Phantom, who don’t care and attack her anyway.
• Born in the Wrong Century: Team Phantom and Johnathan accuse Beatrice and Donovan of acting like it's the Dark Ages since they think it's fine to force a teenage girl like Star into relationships she doesn't want.
• Break the Haughty:
  • Donovan gets beaten up by Star and Danny, backhanded by the ghost bat, then him and his snobby friends, Theodore and Vivian, are cut off by their families. Finally while planning revenge, the trio is humiliated further by getting covered in muddy water.
  • After being traumatized by Danny, Beatrice is little more than a timid shut-in who dreads ghosts and invoking his wrath further.
• Bribe Backfire: Again, by Beatrice twice:
  • At the country club, she actually tries to save herself from the ghost bat by offering to pay it to eat Danny instead. It falls on deaf ears and the ghost bat still attacks her.
  • She frantically offers an enraged Danny Phantom any sum of luxuries he wants if he leaves her alone and dumps Star. Predictably, it just motivates him to keep scaring her.
• Brought Down to Normal: Using a prototype ecto-neutralizer, Vlad blocks Danny's powers for up to 3 days. A malfunction causes the device to block Vlad's powers as well.
• Brutal Honesty:
  • Johnathan, Chris, Valerie, and Eleanor are very open about their hatred of Beatrice. Even Star has nothing nice to say about her grandma and outright calls her an elitist snob.
  • Star makes it clear Donovan wouldn't have a chance with her even if Danny was out of the picture since she'd sooner hook up with the latter's best friend Tucker.
  • Stella and Reginald bluntly inform Donovan he deserved to have his teeth knocked out for harassing Star.
  • Richard eventually admits to Stella that he hates Jean-Luc and Colette for being awful people and wishes she never met them because he vastly prefers Johnathan.
  • Star and Danny make it clear to Beatrice that her pathetic sob story doesn’t excuse any of her horrible actions or justify the terrible person she’s chosen to become.
• Bullying a Dragon: Donovan Loadman and Beatrice Traville think they can intimidate Danny. While both are oblivious to his secret, Donovan should have known better after the beating Danny gave him for hitting Star, but still thought he could his wealth to browbeat him until Reginald stopped him. Beatrice, on the other hand, was terrified into leaving Amity Park by Danny Phantom.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: At this point, ghost attacks happen often enough for Danny to consider them "almost like a Monday" in people's lives.
• Calling the Old Woman Out: After the ghost bat fight, Stella finally reaches the end of her rope with her mother's behavior and furiously chews Beatrice out over her classism, terrible parenting, lack of genuine care and concern for anyone, including Star, and how nothing her daughter has ever done will be enough for her.
• Can't Take Criticism: Beatrice never wants to hear when she’s wrong or if her ideas are bad, as Johnathan personally knows since he remembers the violent tantrum she threw where she flung a vase at him when he informed her how terrible her screenplay of her life was.
• Cat Fight: Colette picks a fight with Vivian at the country club because she was flirting with Danny.
• Character Development: Stella outgrows her fear of Beatrice and forces her mother to stay out of her and Star's lives forever.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Colette is this to Danny as always, to the point she gets into a Cat Fight with Vivian at the country club after seeing her flirt with Danny.
• Conspicuous Trenchcoat: At the ticket booth in the baseball stadium, Stella meets up with Star and Danny while wearing a trench coat, hat, and sunglasses to talk to them about Beatrice’s plans without worrying about her mother finding her.
• Contrived Coincidence: Danny's aunt showing up for a visit around the time Star's grandparents show up.
• Control Freak:
  • Beatrice is an even worse one than Vlad and Colette. She emotionally abused Stella for years to make her daughter incapable of disobeying her and wants to mold Star into her idea of a Proper Lady by trying to force her granddaughter into an Arranged Marriage with Donovan Loadman just because he's from an Old Money family, even planning to take Star back with her to New York for training in high society.
  • Donovan Loadman is revealed to be one as he expects Star to be his Trophy Wife and even stoops to attempts at violence against her for defying him.
• The Corrupter: Stella accepts that Beatrice is a horrible influence and uses a restraining order to get rid of her mother so she can’t raise Star with the same disastrous parenting that she used on Stella.
• Cowardly Lion:
  • Stella is too scared of her overbearing mother Beatrice to stand up to her but still refuses to go along with her unreasonable demands like setting up an Arranged Marriage between Star and Donovan Loadman or letting her take Star back New York just to groom her into Beatrice's idea of a “proper lady”. At first, Stella tries to save Star and Danny’s relationship by turning Danny into an upper-class gentleman that impresses Beatrice enough to approve of him. The “cowardly” part is subverted in the end when Stella finally reaches her limit with Beatrice’s callous attitude after realizing she doesn’t care about Star when she orders her granddaughter to go out with Donovan and shows no concern for Star after the Loadman brat hits her. Stella slaps Beatrice twice, calls her out on not deserving to be a parent or grandparent, and gets a restraining order against her to permanently kick her out of Star’s life.
  • Richard knows Beatrice’s plan to arrange a marriage between Star and Donovan is a bad idea from the start but is too timid to stop her until he finally changes his mind after seeing the Loadman brat harass his granddaughter. Richard not only supports Stella getting restraining orders against Beatrice and Donovan, but promises that he’ll stop tolerating his wife’s domineering behavior and will be much more firm with her from now on.
• Daddy's Girl:
  • Star doesn't want to move to New York with her grandparents and away from her dad.
  • Stella is much closer with Richard than Beatrice (for obvious reasons) and considers him her only parent by the end of the story.
• Dark Secret: Beatrice had Richard promise not to tell anyone that she came from a noble family that went bankrupt and had to be bailed out by him. He eventually breaks that promise by revealing to everyone how he got married to her.
• Dirty Coward:
  • Donovan runs for his life upon realizing the ghost bat is real, all while asking it to eat everyone else instead of him.
  • Theodore and Vivian flee in terror from the ghost bat as well to save themselves. Star finds Donovan's snobby friends equally pathetic, outright declaring the three of them can’t fight their way out of a paper bag without paying someone to do it for them.
  • Beatrice tries to save herself from the ghost bat first by running for her life, willing to leave her family behind, then tells it to take Danny instead of her and Star, proclaiming him to be useless for anything else and even offering to pay the ghost, but this all falls on deaf ears as the ghost bat attacks her anyway.
• Disinherited Child: Donovan, Vivian, and Theodore become this at the end of the story courtesy of their families as punishment for harassing Star and Danny.
• The Dog Bites Back:
  • At the end of the story, Team Phantom, Star's parents, and the Fentons have had enough of Beatrice and force her to leave town forever with a restraining order. Danny and Star take it further by visiting her one last time and threatening to make her life a nightmare if she ever interferes in their lives again.
  • After spending the whole story tolerating Donovan Loadman and Beatrice Traville's elitist attitudes, Danny knocks out four of the former’s teeth for trying to forcefully kiss Star then hitting her for rejecting him, and uses his ghost powers to traumatize the latter into staying away from Amity Park forever.
  • Star gets sick of Donovan and Beatrice treating her like a trophy to give away for the whole fic and gets retraining orders against both of them.
  • After putting up with Beatrice’s abuse for years, Johnathan and Stella get back at her by getting a restraining order to permanently kick her out of Star’s life.
• Double-Meaning Title: Danny and Star are visiting Dani and telling her about a time Star's grandparents visited her. Danny's aunt Alicia shows up for a visit around the same time.
• Doting Grandparent: In contrast to Beatrice, Richard is nothing but loving and protective towards Star and supports her relationship with Danny.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Donovan is only working with Beatrice so he can finally have Star as his ideal Trophy Wife, even if it means forcing her to marry him.
• Empty Shell: Danny Phanttom scares Beatrice so thoroughly she becomes a frightened recluse who lives in fear at the thought of him returning to torment her further.
• Entitled to Have You:
  • Donovan once again displays this mentality regarding Star as he doesn't care that she hates him and is already in a relationship with Danny because as far as he's concerned, they belong together regardless of her opinion on the matter since they're both from esteemed families. It only gets worse when he admits he doesn't actually love Star and hits her for refusing a kiss from him.
  • Colette still has this attitude toward Danny as she explicitly calls him hers during her Cat Fight with Vivian at the country club despite his protests to the contrary.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Downplayed since Vlad’s feelings for Maddie are hardly sincere, but he can’t stand anyone insulting her so he laughs when the Ghost Bat attacks Donovan Loadman and Beatrice Traville for doing that.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Even Vlad can't stand someone as awful as Beatrice.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Even back when she was an A-Lister, Valerie disliked Beatrice Traville the one time she met her.
  • Even if Stella didn't approve of Star's boyfriends, she still respected her daughter's choices and didn't interfere in her relationships. She is thus utterly taken aback that Beatrice has no problem trying to force Star into a relationship with a suitor who meets her standards, regardless of Star’s feelings on the matter.
  • While Alicia would prefer Star to marry Danny so she'd have a rich relative, she's still mature enough to respect Star’s decision and won’t force her to do anything.
  • Sam acknowledges that while her parents aren't the most tolerable people, they would never go as far as Beatrice by dictating Sam's entire life and setting her up to marry someone they know she hates.
  • While Jack would gladly welcome Vlad into the family, he doesn't want it to be by marrying someone as unpleasant as Alicia, and even calls to warn Vlad about her.
  • While Danny enjoys seeing Vlad miserable, he doesn't want to end up related to him by marrying his aunt Alicia and helps Vlad hide from her.
  • Even Eleanor hates Beatrice and makes it clear she can't wait until the old harpy passes away.
  • Regardless of her personal feelings for Star, Sam finds the concept of Arranged Marriages too archaic for a modern girl like her to stomach and is disgusted that Beatrice Traville would try to force her granddaughter into one with a guy she hates like Donovan Loadman while wanting Star to dump Danny.
  • Danny prefers not to use violence when dealing with jerks, but makes an exception for Donovan by punching out four of his teeth when the latter crosses the line by trying to forcefully kiss Star and then hitting her when she rejects him.
  • Richard may be a Henpecked Husband to Beatrice but even his domineering wife can't stop him from protecting his granddaughter, as he refuses to let Donovan get away with mistreating Star or Beatrice force her into marrying him. He also does have limits with his wife's nasty attitude as when Beatrice insults him as an "old goat", Richard reminds her that he knows her secret origins from a bankrupt noble family that she doesn’t want anyone to know about. He eventually makes good on this by revealing it to his family, Team Phantom and their loved ones when they ask why he married an old harpy like Beatrice.
  • Danny might have Chronic Hero Syndrome but he does have limits to how much he can tolerate, since he refuses to actively save Beatrice from the Ghost Bat at the country club because he hates her too much after the horrible way he treated him during her entire visit.
  • Reginald Loadman is a Nice Guy who spoils his son but has no patience for any bratty behavior from him or his friends, and doesn't hesitate to get them disinherited as punishment for harassing Star and Danny.
  • Stella may be an Extreme Doormat to Beatrice but where Star's safety is concerned, she won't let anyone, even her abusive mother, get away with hurting her daughter.
  • While Richard is civil with Jean-Luc and Colette, he makes it clear he hates them to the point he wishes Stella never met them. He considers Pierre to be the only good thing to ever come from his daughter's marriage to the French Jerk.
  • Richard also admits that Johnathan was the only one of Stella’s boyfriends that he actually liked because he never gave in to Beatrice and refused to be intimidated by her, showing that even back then, he disapproved of his wife's deplorable behavior.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • Donovan and his snobby friends actually believe they can ruin Star and Danny's relationship by getting Vivian to seduce him so they can catch it on camera and show it to Star. Danny, however, instantly rejects her and gets away from Vivian first chance he gets because he's loyal to Star (and smart enough to figure out the plot).
  • Donovan thinks he can buy Star's affections by gifting her a 10K necklace. She just slaps it out of his hand and reiterates her warning for him to stay away from her.
  • Donovan didn't expect his father Reginald to be disgusted by his horrible treatment of Star and Danny to the point he'd disinherit Donovan, then have the same thing done to his friends for helping him.
  • Beatrice thinks money is a solution for anything that inconveniences her and that she can just pay Danny into breaking up with Star, but it only ticks him off.
  • Beatrice is actually surprised that Star sides with Danny over her after he uses his powers to terrorize her, completely ignoring that she gave them every reason to completely hate her guts after spending the whole story treating the couple and their loved ones like dirt, trying to ruin their relationship by forcefully setting Star up with her most hated Abhorrent Admirer, and planning to take Star to New York against her wishes.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • In order to spite Danny, Vlad invites the Fentons to an event partially sponsored by Donovan's father.
  • Vlad openly admits to Danny that he enjoyed watching him make a fool of himself while failing to get Beatrice's approval over Donovan, and sent the ghost bat to the country club because messing with Danny's life is his "hobby".
  • Along with Donovan, Vivian swears revenge on Star and Danny, especially the latter, since she blames them for getting cut off and is mad at Danny for rejecting her.
  • Star and Danny make it clear to Beatrice that she’s beyond vile for threatening to ruin the lives of their loved ones out of petty spite just to get her away.
• Eviler than Thou: Beatrice tends to evoke this.
  • Sam considers Beatrice an even worse Control Freak than her parents.
  • Even Vlad can’t stand a bitter old cow like Beatrice.
  • By the end of the story, Star has come to hate Beatrice even more than Colette, which is really saying something.
• Extreme Doormat: Johnathan complains that Stella turns into this whenever her mother is around, to the point of never sticking up for him in the face of her blatant abuse. Stella admits that while she doesn't agree with Beatrice, she can’t disagree with her either because she was raised to never disobey her mother.
• Extremely Protective Child:
  • Star is a grandchild version as she threatens to leave Beatrice penniless with help from her dad's connections if she ever tries to divorce Richard to get all his money.
  • Stella is also this as she defends her father when Beatrice insults him and reminds her mother that, unlike her, Richard is not banned from Star’s life and can come back to Amity Park at any time.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: After Johnathan gives his warning that it's Stella's last chance and he'll terminate her visitation rights if she helps her mother take Star, he storms out. He comes back, since he kicked the door down, to ask about it before Stella says she'll send the bill. He makes his warning again, but he's used up his anger so it just comes off as awkward rather than hurtful.
• Fake Aristocrat: As part of her plan to impress Beatrice by having Danny act like an upperclass gentleman, Stella tells him to pretend as if he comes from an obscenely rich family.
• Female Misogynist: Beatrice doesn’t care in the slightest about Star’s feelings or opinions and outright orders her to date Donovan because all that matters to the old bat is her granddaughter becoming a Trophy Wife with a rich husband. Stella later calls her mother out on also making her daughter think that is all she (or any wealthy woman, in Beatrice's opinion) is good for. Beatrice also deems it uncouth for women to engage in combat, attempting to scold Stella for shooting the ghost bats attacking the country club.
• Former Teen Rebel: Stella admits that in her youth, she had done somethings behind Beatrice's back.
• Framing Device: Danny and Star are telling Dani about the most recent time Star's grandparents visited her.
• Full-Name Ultimatum: Stella Veronique Patricia Marie Traville-Bevier receives one from her mother for grabbing and firing a weapon inside the country club.
• Gold Digger:
  • Donovan Loadman admits he doesn't love Star and just wants her for her beauty and wealth, not that it makes him any less repulsive to her.
  • Beatrice is revealed to be this as she informs Danny she's willing to leave Richard and take all his money if he opposes her. Star gets back at her for this by making it clear that if her grandparents do divorce, Beatrice won't get a single dime from Richard because Star will use her dad's connections to hire great divorce attorneys for her grandpa.
• Gone Horribly Right: Vlad acted nice towards Alicia as a means of using her to convince Maddie leave Jack for him, despite that he found her unattractive and unappealing to be around. Unfortunately, the end result was her falling for him and now he's got an obsessive hillbilly woman wanting to get her hands on him.
• Good Is Not Dumb:
  • Danny doesn't fall for Vivian's Honey Trap ploy since he only has eyes for Star and suspects she's only talking to him because Donovan put her up to it. He doesn't waste any time running away from Vivian while she's distracted by her Cat Fight with Colette.
  • Despite his initial ignorance of his son's plans, Reginald Loadman correctly deduces that Theodore and Vivian were helping Donovan meddle in Star and Danny's relationship so he goes through his son's phone to confirm it, then tells their families about it so they'll punish the Spoiled Brats.
• Good Is Not Nice: Alicia does have a good heart buried under her prickly personality.
• Good Is Not Soft:
  • Danny gives up on restraining himself after Donovan crosses the line by physically assaulting Star so he punches Donovan's teeth out.
  • Reginald Loadman is willing to disinherit and even kick out Donovan as punishment for his deplorable actions against Star and Danny.
  • After being pushed too far, Danny uses his ghost powers to traumatize Beatrice so she'll leave Amity Park forever and stay away from Star.
  • While ultimately a good person, Alicia can be forceful when it comes to getting what she wants.
• Good Is Old-Fashioned: Richard refuses to divorce Beatrice despite knowing how horrible she is partly because he values the sanctity of marriage, although he promises to be more firm with her and will make sure she stays away from Star.
• Grew a Spine: Richard and Stella spent the whole story being Extreme Doormats to Beatrice but refuse to let her force Star into an Arranged Marriage with an abusive brat like Donovan.
• Gruesome Grandparent: Beatrice is even more controlling and emotionally abusive with Star than she ever was with her own children as she has no problem forcing her into an Arranged Marriage with her most repulsive suitor, Donovan Loadman, just because he comes from Old Money and is fine with separating her granddaughter from her parents, friends, and boyfriend by dragging her to New York so she can mold Star into her idea of a Proper Lady.
• Hate at First Sight: Johnathan hates Donovan Loadman immediately upon meeting him after seeing that he's a pushy jerk who can't take no for an answer when he tries to grab Star's hand by force after she refuses to let him kiss it as a greeting.
• He Cleans Up Nicely: Colette and Vivian certainly think so of Danny when he shows up at the country club in a suit and with his hair combed. Vivian didn't even recognize him until Donovan confirmed his identity to her.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Alicia doesn’t always do a good job of showing it but she does genuinely love her family and cares about Vlad for more than just for his wealth and looks.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: When Vlad uses a device to block Danny's powers, a malfunction causes it to block his own as well.
• Honey Trap: Subverted. Donovan pays Vivian $1000 to flirt with and seduce Danny at the country club so they can record it as proof of him cheating on Star to break them up. However, it fails since Danny doesn't like Vivian at all, is only interested in Star, and is smart enough to figure out that it was ploy early on, plus Colette ruins the plan by picking a fight with Vivian, which lets Danny escape unnoticed.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Beatrice Traville refuses to acknowledge that a violent, entitled, Spoiled Brat like Donovan Loadman is a very poor choice as a partner for Star since all that matters to her is that he meets her elitist standards.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: By the end of the story, Star has gotten restraining orders against Donovan and Beatrice just to make them leave her alone, Donovan and his snobby friends have been cut off by their families as punishment for harassing Star and Danny, and Beatrice has been turned into a traumatized Empty Shell too scared to leave her own house after pushing Danny too far so he uses his ghost powers to scare her into permanently staying out of Amity Park.
• Humiliation Conga: Donovan, his friends, and Beatrice get theirs at the end.
  • Star beats Donovan up after he tries to give her a Forceful Kiss, has her parents issue a restraining order against him, and he's cut off by his father, who refuses to enable his behavior any longer.
  • Donovan, Theodore and Vivian are disinherited, with their families ordering them to shape up and get jobs if they want any money. Vivian is further enraged when Chip Nightshade, a movie star she was supposed to go out with, dumps her over a text after learning she was cut off and she loses her internet access because her parents stopped paying her phone bill. As a final humiliation while the trio is planning revenge against Star and Danny, they're splashed with muddy water from a passing truck.
  • Beatrice is left dirty and soaking wet after the ghost bat drops her into a lake during its attack. Afterwards, Stella shakes off her mother's control over her by publicly slapping and dressing down Beatrice, and she is forced out of her daughter and granddaughter's lives forever through a restraining order. Any chance of regaining her grip on her family fails when a confrontation with a furious Danny Phantom leaves her meek and traumatized, and Star threatens to have her dad use his connections with divorce lawyers to leave Beatrice penniless if she does divorce Richard.
• Hypocrite:
  • Johnathan is quick to point out how Beatrice is nothing but awful to her family despite her insistence on wanting to redeem their name with a marriage into another prestigious family, showing she only cares for the reputation than the actual people.
  • Beatrice whines about Star being unreasonable for refusing to go along with her insane plan to force the latter into an Arranged Marriage with her hated wannabe suitor, Donovan Loadman, and return to New York to learn how to be a “proper lady”. Yet Beatrice stubbornly refuses to listen to Star’s opinion or care about her feelings on the matter as her granddaughter makes it crystal clear she has no intention of leaving Danny or moving away from her loved ones.
• I Hate Past Me:
  • Star realizes to her shame that her old self was just as snobby and dismissive of Danny for his status as the elitist Donovan Loadman.
  • Stella similarly regrets how she previously looked down on Danny and opposed his friendship with Star for the same reasons as Beatrice, having since realized how much of a caring boyfriend he is to her daughter.
• I Have No Son!:
  • By the end of the fic, Beatrice gets disowned by both her daughter and granddaughter for being an elitist snob and an emotionally abusive parent/grandparent, especially trying to force her granddaughter to break up with her boyfriend and pair her up with a boy of Beatrice's own choosing. Donovan Loadman, the boy Beatrice picked, not only turns out to be a violent Spoiled Brat who admits to not even loving Star, he hits her after she refuses to kiss him. Instead of taking her granddaughter's side, Beatrice sided with Donovan and also tried to pin the blame on Danny after he tried to defend Star. Combined with her ungrateful attitude after Danny saved Star from a ghost attack and his parents helped protect the club, Stella (who spent the entire story unable to stand up to her mother and believing she had good intentions deep down despite her horrible behavior) reached her breaking point and SLAPPED her mother across the face multiple times, and gave her an epic "Reason You Suck" Speech calling Beatrice out for her actions. Stella declares that Beatrice doesn't deserve to be a grandmother, she is done listening to her, and promises to cut her mother out of their lives, even using a restraining order to do so.
  • Donovan's father Reginald punishes him for his deplorable actions toward Star and Danny by disinheriting him and promising to throw Donovan out of the house at age 18 to force him to grow up. Reginald also informs the families of his son's friends, Theodore and Vivian, that they were helping Donovan harass Star and Danny, causing them to also be cut off as punishment.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: During Stella and Jonathan's argument and explanation about Beatrice at the Fentons', Star pretty much just grabs the carton of orange juice and drinks it as if she was in a bar.
• If I Had a Nickel...: Stella makes this kind of comment on the number of times a monster animal ghost has interrupted a country club dinner.
• Impoverished Patrician: This is what Beatrice feared being. While her family had a "good name" and were even descendants of a count, they began to run low on money during her teen years and she was eventually married off to the Traville family in order to save them from bankruptcy.
• In Love with Looks: Donovan admits he doesn’t love Star and is only interested in her because she's a beautiful girl from a rich and esteemed family who would make the perfect Trophy Wife for him. Not that it makes him any less annoying or repulsive to Star.
• Innocently Insensitive: Stella worries her mother will not accept Danny as Star's boyfriend due to being not as athletic, wealthy or well-liked. She tells him no offense.
  Danny: Some taken...
• Insane Troll Logic:
  • Donovan and Beatrice actually think the former will have a chance with Star if they break her and Danny up. They ignore that even if this happened, Star would just find another guy to date because she doesn't want anything to do with Donovan. Star bluntly points this out to Donovan, even willing to choose Tucker over him.
  • Donovan and Beatrice think Danny is behind the ghost bat’s attack on the country club just because his parents are ghost hunters.
• Insistent Terminology: Stella initially insists that her mother isn't trying to set up an Arranged Marriage between Star and Donovan but it's more of a "highly encouraged relationship". Not that Team Phantom or Johnathan care since it doesn't make Beatrice any less despicable for trying to force her granddaughter to be with a guy she hates more than anything.
• Insult Backfire:
  • Colette takes it as a compliment when Danny points out that her and Beatrice are so similar they might as well be family, only for Star to clarify that it was meant as an insult.
  • Beatrice derides that Danny is just like Johnathan. Star, however, takes it as a compliment and remarks that it's the nicest thing Beatrice has ever said about either of them.
• Insult to Rocks:
  • Beatrice believes that calling Jack and Maddie nut jobs is "too insulting to insane asylum patients".
  • Johnathan could compare Beatrice "to the prince of darkness" and "feel more regret for insulting him than her".
• Irony:
  • Richard has proven to be a much kinder and more amiable than his wife, Beatrice, who is a stuck-up elitist and horrible person in general. Despite being something of a Henpecked Husband and usually knuckling under his domineering wife, Richard was truly DISGUSTED with her behavior, such as her verbal abuse towards both Danny (their granddaughter's boyfriend) and Johnathan (their ex-son-in-law), as well as being neglectful to Star and Stella's feelings. The last straw is Beatrice trying to force Star to marry Donovan Loadman, a boy she truly hated and who had no qualms with hitting her or trying to force a kiss on her when denied. Richard truly loses it when Beatrice sides with Donovan over their granddaughter and finally stands up to his wife, calling her and Donovan out on their awful behavior. However, despite seeing his wife's awful behavior with his own eyes, Richard admits to his daughter, granddaughter, and Danny that he still loves Beatrice deep down and decides not to divorce her; he wants to work on their marriage and hopefully make his wife into a better person, despite the protests from those around him. Richard does promise that he is done letting Beatrice order him around and plans to be firmer with her from now on. He also explains that, aside from his still lingering feelings for Beatrice, he does not believe in divorce and partly blames himself for allowing her to get so out of control. His descendants reluctantly accept this, even though they are not happy with it.
    • The irony is that he tells this to his daughter Stella, who had marital problems with her first husband Johnathan and, despite loving him in the beginning, chose to leave him and run off with another man because she thought that their relationship couldn't be saved. Despite having every reason to leave Beatrice for her horrendous treatment of others, including their family, Richard chooses to stay with her because he believes that he can redeem her.
    • It's implied (and viewed by pretty much everyone) that Richard is just wasting his time and should divorce his wife, as he would be better off without her. However, it is also hinted that had Stella chosen to try and work on her marriage instead of running away from her problems, she would still be happily together with Johnathan. Especially since Stella has recently shown to still have some feelings for her ex deep down, which she is in denial about.
  • Richard reveals to Stella that, unlike his wife, he actually liked Johnathan and hates Jean-Luc and Colette, much to his daughter's shock. Richard admits that Johnathan was the only man his daughter was involved with whom he actually approved of, partially because he never submitted to Beatrice. Unlike his wife, Richard isn't prejudiced towards folks from non-rich backgrounds and always thought that Johnathan was a good man, not understanding why his daughter left him for a womanizer like Jean-Luc. He even admits that if it had been up to him, Stella would've never left Johnathan in the first place. Richard clearly despises Jean-Luc and Colette for their arrogance and horrendous treatment of others, confessing that they are two of the few people that he truly hates being around. He only tolerates them out of respect for Stella, though genuinely loves his grandson, Pierre.
    • Despite his personal belief that Stella's marriage to Jean-Luc and gaining Colette as a stepdaughter are the worst mistakes of her life, Richard accepts that his daughter is an adult and will support her decisions. There is a double irony here because Richard says this after choosing to stay married to his wife, despite the fact that she is every bit as bad, if not worse, than the Bevier father and daughter. Richard feels partially responsible for Beatrice's attitude because he was very lenient with her and still believes that she can better herself, despite how unlikely that seems to be.
    • Also, Richard never tried to interfere in his daughter's life or mistreated his second son-in-law, implying that he tries to stay out of Jean-Luc and Colette's ways or at least acts civil with them. This shows how much of a contrast he is to his wife, as Richard at least treats Jean-Luc with some basic courtesy, while Beatrice never bothered to hide her contempt for Johnathan and mistreated him every chance she got no matter what he did to try to impress her.
• Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"?: In Chapter 20, Valerie reacts to a question by asking, "Can a ghost fly?"
• It's All About Me:
  • Donovan accuses Danny of bringing the ghost bat to the country club just to spite him.
  • All that matters to Beatrice is what she wants and her granddaughter Star’s safety and feelings are of no concern to her.
• Ivy League for Everyone:
  • Mr. Strong earned his law degree at Yale, but Beatrice was unimpressed.
  • Reginald Loadman and his father attended Harvard, and Donovan brags that he'll go there as well.

J-Y

• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Alicia gives some surprisingly sound advice to Stella during her and Johnathan's argument by pointing out that nobody has the right to force Star to date anyone, especially someone she hates and has no interest in, and as her mother, Stella needs to respect that.
  • Johnathan mocks Stella for acting more like a servant to Beatrice than a daughter because she just lets her mother walk all over her. At the end, Stella is forced to admit he was right all these years about Beatrice being an inherently horrible person and cuts her mother out of her life to get her family away from her toxic influence.
  • Johnathan is correct that Stella's plan to try to get Beatrice to like Danny by turning him into a gentleman to impress her is doomed to failure because she will never approve of Star dating someone who's not from a rich family.
  • While she doesn't really care and is only saying it for snobby reasons, Vivian is correct when she points out to Donovan that he's wasting his time chasing after Star.
  • While not jerks, Johnathan and Star have every right to be furious with Beatrice for trying to forcefully pair Star with her most obnoxious Abhorrent Admirer Donovan Loadman since Star is already dating Danny and has made it crystal clear she wants nothing to do with Loadman even if she were single. They’re also right to disapprove of her plan to drag Star back to New York so she can mold Star into her own warped idea of a “proper lady” since Star would be completely miserable being far away from her loved ones and Beatrice is obviously planning on subjecting her to the same disastrous parenting that turned Stella into the ditzy, Stepford Smiler socialite she is today. By the end of the story, Star’s parents get restraining orders to completely kick Beatrice and Donovan out of their daughter’s life when they refuse to respect her wishes and even prove to be a danger to her wellbeing.
  • When Reginald Loadman initially tries to plead with Star’s parents to settle the mess with Donovan out of court, they immediately refuse because his son crossed several legal and ethical lines, as well as proved to be a danger to their daughter by repeatedly harassing her. Reginald has no choice but to accept their answer and comply with their demand that Donovan stay far away from Star like the restraining order says.
  • Sam understandably blames Reginald Loadman’s lackluster parenting for his son’s rotten behavior since his overindulgence of Donovan only fueled the latter's bratty nature and Reginald’s own ignorance is why he was unaware for so long about how much of a misogynistic creep his son was turning into.
• Kick the Dog: Beatrice is fine with dragging Star to New York to live with her so she'll never see Johnathan and Danny ever again. She would also rather force Star into an abusive relationship than admit she made a mistake by choosing Donovan.
• Kiss Diss: Donovan attempts a Forceful Kiss on Star, but she moves her mouth of the way in time so it's on her cheek. She's still disgusted by it.
• Knight Templar: As far as Beatrice is concerned, everything she does is okay as long as her family stays wealthy, including trying to force her granddaughter Star into an abusive future marriage with the despicable Spoiled Brat Donovan Loadman just because he's a Blue Blood and ruining the lives of her loved ones for getting in the way.
• Lack of Empathy: Beatrice cares not for Star's claims, which were proven true, that Donovan hit her and tried to kiss her without consent, and only cares for her apologizing for hitting him. This is the last straw for Stella as it finally convinces her to kick the old harpy out of her life for good.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Donovan, Theodore, and Vivian went so far with their belief their wealth allows them to treat others (mainly lower-class citizens) the way they want that Donovan's father Reginald cuts him off and calls the other spoiled brats' parents so they'll do the same.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Alicia is not a pleasant person and can be difficult to get along with but she's far from a sociopath like Beatrice Traville and possesses redeeming qualities, such as her genuine love for her family and belief that a person should consent to being in a relationship instead of being forced to.
• Like a Son to Me: Or more accurately, grandson, but Richard considers Danny family after witnessing his good character when Danny protected his granddaughter Star from her violently possessive Abhorrent Admirer, Donovan Loadman, and the ghost bat at the country club. He's fine with Danny calling him “Grandpa” even if he doesn’t marry Star.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Reginald Loadman is a humble, hardworking Nice Guy while his son Donovan is an elitist snob.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Reginald didn’t know Donovan made a deal with Beatrice to set up an Arranged Marriage between himself and Star, and believed they were at the country club just to discuss a business deal. Naturally, he's enraged when he learns about it and further punishes his son for going behind his back.
  • Like her sister and brother-in-law, Alicia doesn’t know that Danny and Vlad are half-ghosts.
• Malicious Misnaming: Team Phantom decide to call Donovan “Toadman” from now on since it fits his repulsive personality.
• Marriage of Convenience: Beatrice tries to force Star into one with Donovan Loadman since they both come from Old Money families, while not caring that Star completely despises him or how much of a violent jerk Donovan is to her.
• Mirror Character: Alicia and Beatrice appear as different as night and day, with Alicia being a middle-aged woman from the countryside in Arkansas while Beatrice is a wealthy older woman from New York. The only things they have in common is that they have a strained relationship with their in-laws, can be pushy and unreasonable, and look down on a particular group (men for Alicia and the middle-class for Beatrice). The key difference between them is that despite her flaws, Alicia has some redeeming traits and soft spots, while Beatrice shows none.
  • Alicia may have a strained relationship with her brother-in-law, but she never did anything too extreme towards Jack (aside from criticizing him and telling Maddie that she is better off without him). She also has never mistreated her niece and nephew, and her dislike of men does not extend to Danny. However, Beatrice has mistreated and abused Johnathan for years during his marriage to Stella. She was also very controlling and critical with her husband, children, and grandchildren, constantly ordering them around and being demanding with them.
  • Alicia may dislike men in general because of her mistreatment by her former husband (who also had an overbearing mother that always criticized Alice, and he never stuck up for her), but that didn't stop her from sympathizing with Johnathan when she learned that he was also mistreated by his former mother-in-law, showing that despite her prejudices, she knows that men can still be hurt by women and be in the right. Beatrice has a deep prejudice and hatred towards the middle-class and she refuses to see any of them in the right, even when they protect her family or genuinely make an effort to help.
  • Both Alicia and Beatrice want to pair Star with a boy of their choice for their own reasons (Alicia wishes for Star to be with her nephew in hopes of one day having a rich relative, while Beatrice wishes for Star to be with Donovan solely because he is from a wealthy, Blue Blood family). Unlike Beatrice, Alicia has the decency to ask Star which boy she wants to be with and respect her choice on the matter. Beatrice does not respect her granddaughter's choices and pushes her to be with a boy she hates and does not care for; that boy tried to force a kiss on Star and hit her when she refused him, yet Beatrice still didn't relent.
  • Finally, despite Alicia's strained relationship with her brother-in-law and her own personality faults, she does show consideration and care for her own relatives, and is welcomed by her family at the end of the story. Meanwhile Beatrice destroyed her relationships with both her daughter and granddaughter by the end of the story and is expelled from their lives.
• Money Is Not Power:
  • Being Old Money doesn't stop Star’s parents from getting restraining orders against Beatrice and Donovan, especially since Star’s parents are wealthy and well-connected enough themselves to make sure the two can’t buy or threaten their way out of trouble.
  • Danny and the ghost bat show Beatrice you can’t buy your way out of trouble when dealing with a pissed off ghost.
• Moral Myopia: As far as Donovan is concerned, giving Star a Forceful Kiss and hitting her for rejecting him is fine because he's entitled to her. Danny attacking him in retaliation, however, is an unforgivable slight; he genuinely can't seem to understand why Danny did it.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: A depowered Danny tells Star he must distract the ghost bat to keep innocent people and her grandmother from getting hurt.
• Never My Fault: At the end of the fanfic, Donovan, Theodore, and Vivian refuse to accept responsibility for their horrible actions and blame the main couple for getting disinherited, plotting revenge. Not that Star or Danny are worried since those losers are even less of a threat than the Box Ghost without their fortunes.
• Nice Guy:
  • Reginald Loadman is a kind and generous man, the exact opposite of his son. He has no problem disinheriting Donovan as punishment for his inexcusable actions toward Star and Danny, then personally apologizes to Star's parents.
  • Unlike his Rich Bitch wife Beatrice, Richard is nothing but cordial to others regardless of their social status and is grateful to Danny for protecting his granddaughter Star from Donovan and ghost bat. He’s fine with Danny calling him “grandpa” even if he doesn’t marry Star since Richard already considers him family.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • One of Colette's failed attempts to humiliate Star unwittingly foils one of Vlad's plans.
  • Beatrice's horrible actions throughout the story finally convince Stella to kick her mother out of her life for good with a restraining order.
  • Donovan’s harassment of Star and Danny makes his dad realize what a brat he is and punish him for it by disinheriting him.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: It infuriates Vivian that she can’t get Danny to look at her like most boys do because of her beauty.
• Not Good with Rejection: Let's just say, Spoiled Brats like Donovan and Vivian do not like being denied by someone they're interested in.
• No Sympathy:
  • Stella and Reginald Loadman flat-out tell Donovan he deserved to be punched by Danny for hurting Star.
  • Sam doesn’t pity Reginald for the mess he’s in due to his son’s deplorable actions toward Star since it was his lousy parenting that turned Donovan into a Spoiled Brat by overindulging him and letting him run wild.
  • Star and Danny make it clear to Beatrice they don't care about her pathetic backstory where she had to marry Richard to help her family escape from poverty because her horrible actions and attitude in general are just THAT unforgivable, especially since she tried to inflict a similar fate on her family members just for her own benefit.
• "Not So Different" Remark:
  • Star is ashamed that she was once spoiled, stuck-up, and cruel towards people of lower status like Donovan.
  • Stella shamefully admits to her father Richard that she was just as dismissive and snobby towards Danny as Beatrice during their first meeting.
• Oblivious to Hatred:
  • Alicia does not pick up that Vlad is completely repulsed by her.
  • Jean-Luc and Colette don't know that Richard Traville utterly hates them and has for all these years.
• Obnoxious In-Laws:
  • Johnathan, despite that he's no longer married to Stella, despises her mother. He goes as far as to compare Beatrice to the devil.
  • Jack would rather stay in the Fenton Stockade than spend time with his sister-in-law.
  • Alicia's experience with her former mother-in-law is partly why her marriage ended.
  • Richard mentions the family of his daughter-in-law (his son Liam's wife) is no better than Jean-Luc and Colette, which is why he doesn't like visiting them.
• Offended by an Inferior's Success: Donovan absolutely can't stand the fact that Star would choose a middle-class guy like Danny over him.
• Only in It for the Money: Vivian doesn't care about Donovan's obsession with Star and only agrees to help him try to ruin her relationship with Danny for the promise of $1000.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Even Vlad is worried about Danny when he refuses to save Beatrice from the ghost bat despite his Chronic Hero Syndrome. It's downplayed as Danny points out Vlad still doesn't care enough to actually do anything about it.
  • Stella, who would practically bow and scrape to please her mother, shocks everyone when she finally stands up to Beatrice and unleashes a long, vicious, well-deserved tongue-lashing on her.
• Ordered Apology: A rare dark and deconstructed example. Beatrice orders Star to apologize to Donovan for hitting him as revenge for trying to give her a Forceful Kiss and agree to go out with him, not because Beatrice cares about Donovan or if Star did anything wrong but because all that matters to her is wedding her granddaughter off to a wealthy suitor, regardless of how much of a violent brat Toadman is. This causes Star to reach her Rage Breaking Point with her grandmother’s uncaring, Control Freak attitude and give her a "Reason You Suck" Speech where Star makes it clear for the umpteenth time that she has no intention of going along with Beatrice’s insane plan (which she never even consulted Star about) to force her into an Arranged Marriage as a Proper Lady Trophy Wife with anyone, especially not the Loadman brat, no matter how much her grandmother yells or threatens her.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Johnathan doesn't hesitate to use his legal power and connections to keep Donovan and Beatrice away from Star once given the opportunity.
  • Richard is a grandfather version of this towards Star, as he even stands up to his domineering wife when her actions go too far.
• Paper Tiger:
  • Donovan is just a pompous windbag who relies on his family’s wealth so he is completely useless to stop the ghost bat or his own father from disowning him while also getting his stuck-up friends in trouble with their families for harassing Star and Danny.
  • Beatrice loves to talk a big game because she thinks her wealth and status make her untouchable but pit her against someone who can’t be bought or bullied into submission, like the ghost bat and Danny Phantom, and she’s nothing more than an annoyance that’s easy to intimidate and push around.
• Parent-Preferred Suitor:
  • Beatrice makes it clear she prefers having Jean-Luc Bevier as a son-in-law since he comes from Old Money.
  • While Star's parents hated Donovan to begin with, by the end of the story they completely despise the Loadman brat as much as she does after seeing how he mistreated her and are more than happy to force him out of their daughter's life with a restraining order. Stella and Johnathan firmly believe that Danny is the best boyfriend Star could ever have after he defended her from Donovan and are fine with him marrying her someday, especially since it would infuriate Beatrice to no end.
  • Richard admits to Stella that he's always hated Jean-Luc and liked Johnathan a lot more for her since he's a better man.
• Pass the Popcorn: After Donovan and Beatrice insulted Maddie, Vlad's so happy at their suffering by the ghost bat's hands he wishes he "had popcorn and a lawn chair".
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Danny's so enraged by Beatrice's attitude when she not only continually insists on forcing Star to marry Donovan but vows she'll ruin the Fentons' lives, he goes ghost in front of her and basically traumatizes her into leaving him, his family, and Star alone.
• Percussive Therapy:
  • Danny takes a break from the dinner to blast trees outside due to his mounting frustrations over dealing with Beatrice and Donovan.
  • Similarly, Stella fires at the ghost bats as an outlet for her building resentment towards her mother.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Danny's aunt, Alicia, has a big one. She was shown to dislike men and support Danny's relationship with Star because his girlfriend is rich. But when she heard of Johnathan's former mother-in-law wanting to pair his daughter with someone he never met, who Star clearly hates, Alicia sympathizes with the both of them. She admits to also having had an overbearing mother-in-law who her former husband refused to stand up to, but tries not to be too hard on Stella because it's not her business. Alicia also insists that Star get a choice on who she dates, despite wanting her to be with her nephew, making sure to ask her if she wanted to date Donovan or Danny. When Star tells her that she'd never date Donovan and loves Danny, Alice says they should respect her choice. This shows that for all her flaws, Alicia knows Star deserves the freedom to choose whom she wants to be with.
  • Sam instantly agrees to come to the country club dinner to support Danny and Star against Beatrice, which Star appreciates.
  • Unlike Beatrice, Richard thanks Danny for protecting Star from the ghost bat and Donovan. He gives the couple his blessing to the point he considers Danny family and is fine with the boy calling him "grandpa" even if he doesn't marry Star.
  • Stella goes out of her way to protect Star and Danny’s relationship by defending Danny to Beatrice and trying to get her mother's approval by turning Danny into a gentleman. Also, when Beatrice refuses to call off her plans no matter how much of a violent brat Donovan Loadman is or how Star feels, Stella finally musters up the nerve to get a restraining order and permanently remove her mother’s negative influence from her family’s life.
  • While Stella makes it clear Beatrice is banned forever from Amity Park, she is still fine with Richard visiting her in the future.
  • Even Reginald Loadman is disgusted by his son’s harassment of a Star to the point he disinherits Donovan and personally apologizes to Star’s parents for his actions.
  • When Danny gets into a fight with Donovan at the country club, Richard takes the Fenton boy’s side by telling everyone the truth about witnessing Donovan assaulting Star while ignoring Beatrice’s demands to shut up, thus showing he loves his granddaughter more than he fears his domineering bitch of a wife. After the ordeal with the ghost bat is over, he firmly opposes Beatrice’s idea to marry off Star to Donovan by defending Danny since he’s proven to be a much better man for risking his life to protect Star while the Dirty Coward Loadman brat just ran away and hid.
  • Stella proves that she ultimately loves Star more than she fears her domineering, emotionally abusive mother Beatrice since she not only refuses to let the latter force Star to marry Donovan, but gets restraining orders against both of them to protect her daughter.
  • Richard supports Stella’s decision to get restraining orders against Beatrice and Donovan for Star’s safety. He also promises to stop tolerating his wife's horrible behavior anymore and be much stricter with her after seeing all the damage she was causing.
  • Richard admits to Stella he hates the Beviers with a burning passion but has a soft spot for her innocent infant son Pierre. Although he makes it clear he still wishes that Stella never met Jean-Luc.
• Playing the Victim Card: Donovan has the gall to act like he's the real victim when Danny punches his teeth out because he attacked Star.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Danny convinces Plasmius to stop the ghost bat’s rampage by pointing out he doesn’t have his ghost powers to make it obey him and the country club will be shut down because of repeated attacks so he won’t have a place to go to on his days off. Vlad reluctantly agrees and tries to talk the ghost bat into standing down, but fails because he can’t morph and the ghost bat doesn’t recognize his human form, so it doesn’t listen to him.
• Preppy Name: Star's grandparents are Richard Jacob Hockley Traville III and Beatrice Margaux Gloria Richelieu-Traville.
• Privilege Makes You Evil: Beatrice and Donovan come from Old Money and are the most detestable people in the story.
• Properly Paranoid:
  • Star is worried that nothing will go well when her grandmother visits Amity Park. Her fears are proven correct when Beatrice reveals she’s going to arrange Star to marry Donovan and forcibly take her back to New York for etiquette training and to ensure Star never sees Danny or Johnathan again.
  • At the country club, Danny correctly suspects that Vivian is only talking to him because Donovan put her up to it, and quickly gets away from her the first chance he gets when Colette distracts Vivian by picking a fight.
  • Reginald suspects Vivian and Theodore were up to no good at the country club and goes through his son's phone to confirm that they were involved in Donovan's schemes.
• Proud Beauty: Vivian knows she’s pretty and is almost as vain as Colette so she’s surprised that Danny has no interest in her when she flirts with him as part of Donovan’s plan to break up him and Star. She also doesn’t appreciate Colette insulting her hair.
• Rage Breaking Point:
  • An enraged Danny knocks out four of Donovan's teeth after seeing him try to give Star a Forceful Kiss, then hit her for retaliating.
  • When Beatrice insults the Fentons even after they saved the country club and doesn't care about Donovan hurting Star, Stella finally loses it and slaps her mother before chewing her out. This was honestly years in the making.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Donovan expects Star to be his obedient little trophy and hits her when she rebuffs his expensive gift and a kiss.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: Beatrice is even more spoiled and immature than Colette since she's an elderly woman who throws violent tamper tantrums when her demands aren’t met and resorts to extremely heinous methods over petty slights.
• Reasonable Authority Figure:
  • Richard absolutely refuses to let Beatrice force Star into a Marriage of Convenience with Donovan Loadman after seeing the brat abuse her. He gives Danny his full support after recognizing him as the much better man when he protected Star.
  • Reginald disinherits Donovan as punishment for mistreating Star. He also personally apologizes to Star's parents for his son's inappropriate behavior and promises to keep Donovan away from her.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Both Stella and Star give one to Beatrice at the end of the story calling her out for her horrible actions and how her unacceptable behavior makes her unfit to be a mother or grandmother.
• Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: Danny decides to prioritize saving Star from the bat over her grandmother, especially after Beatrice wanted the ghost to take him instead of her or Star. He also doesn't bother helping Beatrice out when she falls into a lake after Star confirms her grandmother can swim.
• Relationship Sabotage: Subverted. Beatrice and Donovan try to do this to Star and Danny with help from Theodore and Vivian, but fail for a number of reasons: Colette’s interference, vastly underestimating the strength of the couple's bond, and being nowhere near as smart as they think they are.
• The Reveal: Sam's grandmother is a Golden Guild member but keeps it hidden from her son because he'd pester her into inviting him and he doesn't understand the guild is a charity institution, not a snob fest.
• Revenge Myopia: In the end, Donovan swears revenge on Star and Danny for hitting him and getting him disinherited by his father Reginald, but ignores that he brought it all on himself through his own despicable actions because of his entitlement and stubborn refusal to leave the couple alone despite all their warnings, which made his dad finally wise up about his son's rotten behavior and punish him for it.
• Rich Bitch: Beatrice is an even worse example of this than Stella ever was. She makes it clear where Stella gets it from.
• Rule of Three: Vlad says his prototype ecto-neutralizer blocks a ghost's powers for up to 3 days.
• Sanity Slippage: Beatrice wasn’t a paragon of stability to begin with but she completely flips out when Star gets a restraining order against her (as evident by the tantrum she throws in her hotel room). She plots to ruin the lives of her granddaughter's loved ones just to get her way, even if it means divorcing Richard if he protests. After being traumatized by Danny, she becomes a timid shut-in too scared to leave her house.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules!:
  • Star slaps away the ruby necklace that Donovan tries to bribe her with out of disgust that he’d try to buy someone else’s girlfriend with such a shallow and empty gift.
  • Years ago, Beatrice tried to bribe Johnathan into leaving Stella but he refused out of love for his wife and hated Beatrice too much to give her the satisfaction of winning.
  • Beatrice also tries to bribe an angry Danny Phantom into staying away from her and Star. He’s not the least bit interested since he genuinely loves Star and refuses to let Beatrice buy her way out of her comeuppance.
• Shipper with an Agenda: Beatrice doesn’t care if Star is in a happy relationship with Danny or that she hates Donovan Loadman because all that matters to her is setting her granddaughter up with a wealthy future husband.
• Shipping Torpedo: Beatrice is against Star dating a middle-class boy like Danny and would rather force her to be with a Blue Blood. She was also against Stella's marriage to Johnathan for similar reasons, to the point she tried to bribe him into leaving Stella and celebrated when they got divorced.
• Shout-Out:
  • When Donovan offers the 1947 Chã Cheval Blanc, Danny recognizes it as "that wine everyone's heard of from that movie with the cooking rat".
  • Stella comments that, if she had a nickel for every time she and her family had a dinner at the country club where she tried to help Star and Danny's relationship but it went south before a monster animal ghost attacked and they needed Danny's parents to rescue them, she'd have two nickels. She admits it's not much but it's still weird that it happened twice. It's similar to Heinz Doofenshmirtz' comment on being doomed by a puppet.
  • After the ghost bat is defeated, Jack says it's "thanks to your friendly neighborhood ghost hunters".
• Skeptic No Longer: Donovan Loadman, Beatrice Traville, and Alicia don’t believe in ghosts until they witness a giant ghost bat attacking the country club. Though Beatrice also requires being threatened and traumatized by Danny Phantom to accept it.
• Skewed Priorities:
  • When Stella grabs a weapon to fight the ghost bat, her mother is more concerned that she's setting a bad example for Star by being unladylike.
  • After the battle is over, Beatrice is far more concerned about her appearance due to the ghost bat dropping her in the lake than her own family’s wellbeing, much to everyone’s disgust.
• Smarter Than You Look:
  • Reginald Loadman comes across as naive for initially being oblivious to his son's awful personality. However, he correctly suspects that Vivian and Theodore were helping Donovan try to ruin Danny and Star's relationship, which he confirms by going through his son's phone. He uses this to punish the spoiled brats by having their families disinherit them like how he did with Donovan.
  • Richard seems naive because of his refusal to accept Beatrice is an irredeemable bitch but even he hates Colette and Jean-Luc for being obnoxious snobs, and considers meeting them to be Stella’s biggest mistake.
• Smug Snake:
  • Donovan and Beatrice smugly think they can make Star marry the former by ruining her relationship with Danny, not even bothering to consider that Star and Danny’s love is too strong or that Star will just date a guy who’s not Donovan even if she does break up with Danny, as she angrily points out to them.
  • Vlad arrogantly believes he can intimidate the ghost bat into submission but forgets that his malfunctioning prototype ecto-neutralizer canceled his powers for 3 days. Predictably, he can’t control the ghost bat and it continues trashing the country club.
• Sour Supporter: Johnathan, Star, and Danny aren’t really convinced that Stella’s plan to get Beatrice to approve of Danny by turning him into an upper-class gentleman to impress her mother is going to work given how impossible she is to please but go along with it anyway because they don’t have any better ideas.
• Spoiled Sweet: Richard Traville and Reginald Loadman are pleasant and easygoing people despite coming from wealthy families.
• Stupid Evil: Donovan and Beatrice's repugnant actions throughout the story prove to not only be futile, but completely backfire as their plan to marry off Star to Donovan fails, with their families finally realizing what horrible people they are and punishing them for it.
• Take a Third Option: Stella attempts to do this by teaching Danny how to act like an upper-class gentleman to appease Beatrice, since she's too afraid to outright refuse her mother but doesn't want Star to be forced to marry Donovan. Subverted in the end when she takes Star's side, defends Danny, and tells Beatrice off after being forced to accept her mother will never change.
• Tantrum Throwing:
  • Johnathan reveals that while he was married to Stella, Beatrice once threw a vase at him that almost hit his head when he criticized a screenplay about her life.
  • After her phone call with Stella ends with the latter refusing to lift the restraining order Star got against Beatrice and making it clear her mother is permanently kicked out of their lives, Beatrice rampages through her hotel room.
  • Vivian reacts to her parents cutting her off by screaming curses and smashes her phone on the ground after Chip rejects her.
• Tautological Templar: As far as Beatrice is concerned, everything she does is justified as long as her family remains rich. Star and Danny just see this as a self-serving excuse for her to get away with being a total bitch.
• Tempting Fate:
  • Right after one of Vlad's petty schemes fails and he says things couldn't get worse, Alicia finds him.
  • Right after Danny thinks at least there's only one ghost bat, it duplicates itself.
• Tender Tomboyishness, Foul Femininity:
  • Inverted and downplayed with Alicia and Maddie. Alicia is considerably less pleasant and feminine than her beautiful, Nice Girl sister Maddie, who's still an Action Girl, but she does have a Hidden Heart of Gold that she mainly shows to her family.
  • Alicia is this when compared to Beatrice Traville anyway. Alicia is a tough, outgoing wilderness woman with a Hidden Heart of Gold who sincerely cares about her family and is mature enough to value the consent of others while Beatrice is a sociopathic Rich Bitch who only treats others as tools for her own benefit, including trying to force her granddaughter Star into an unwanted Arranged Marriage with her most repulsive Abhorrent Admirer, the obnoxious and violent Donovan Loadman, just because he meets her elitist standards by being a Blue Blood.
• This Is Gonna Suck:
  • Star has never looked forward to Beatrice's visits because they always turn out unpleasant thanks to her overbearing and critical attitude. It's no different in this fanfic as Star has nothing nice to say about her grandmother to Danny and outright describes her as an elitist snob. Her fears are proven correct when Beatrice wants to push her into being with Donovan Loadman, a boy she hates more than anything.
  • Jack is NOT looking forward to Alicia’s visit since they’ve never gotten along, and neither are his kids because they don’t like seeing the two of them fight.
• Threat Backfire: Beatrice's spiteful claim to have child services take Danny away from his family only results in him revealing his ghost powers to her, then using them to terrify her into staying away from Amity Park and out of Star's life forever.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: Star and Danny are just as skeptical as Johnathan of Stella’s plan to get Beatrice to approve of Danny by turning him into a gentleman, but go along with it anyway because they don’t have any better ideas.
• The Tooth Hurts: Donovan pays the price for physically abusing Star by losing four of his teeth, courtesy of Danny’s ghost-charged fist.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Twice in Stella’s case. She has not only been taking shooting lessons that help her fend off the ghost bats, but she gets over her fear of her domineering mother Beatrice and completely kicks her out of her life with a restraining order.
  • Richard stops being a Henpecked Husband in the end by firmly refusing to let Beatrice force Star to marry her violent Abhorrent Admirer Donovan Loadman and makes sure that from now on that he won’t put up with her Control Freak attitude anymore because he promises to be much firmer with her.
• The Unapologetic: At the country club, Sam shoots goo from the Fenton RV into Beatrice’s mouth to shut her up when she’s complaining. Sam just gives an “oops”.
• Undying Loyalty: Star and Danny have this to each other as the former refuses to date anyone else and the latter is willing to go to any length to help and look out for his girlfriend.
• Useless Bystander Parent: Stella and Star don’t bother asking Richard to get Beatrice to call off her Arranged Marriage plan between Star and Donovan since they know how much of a pushover he is with his wife. Deconstructed as Richard admits in the end that his submissiveness toward his wife has caused nothing but disaster for his family since he wasn't able to stop all the damage she was causing them. He strives to fix it by no longer putting up with Beatrice’s awful attitude and spending more quality time with his daughter Stella so she has a positive parental figure in her life that he couldn’t give her growing up because he was always too busy running his company.
• Versus Title: Chapter 19 is titled "Danny vs The Bat".
• Villain Has a Point: Vlad correctly describes Beatrice as a "bitter old cow" and Donovan as a "rich idiot".
• Villainous Rescue: Colette unknowingly provides Danny a chance to escape from Vivian at the country club when they're distracted during their Cat Fight.
• Villain Respect: Colette admits to Danny and Star that she admires Beatrice for always finding a way to get what she wants.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Gender-Inverted. Donovan learns the hard way that Danny is this after he punches out four of Donovan's teeth for hurting Star.
• What Does She See in Him?: Richard admits to Stella he doesn’t understand why she ever married a pompous, womanizing slimeball like Jean-Luc Bevier.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Johnathan, Star, and Danny call Stella out on initially not helping the situation by refusing to stand up to her domineering mother Beatrice in Star’s defense in regards to the old bat's insane plan to force her granddaughter into an Arranged Marriage with her most repugnant Abhorrent Admirer, Donovan Loadman, and drag her back to New York so Beatrice can mold Star into her version of the ideal lady.
• Women Prefer Strong Men: Star realizes Donovan is even more pathetic than she thought when he runs away from the ghost bat while screaming at it to eat everyone but him.
• You Are Grounded!: One of Reginald’s punishments for Donovan in the end.

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