Maternal Instinct (pairing)

The mother/son pairing of Maddie and Danny Fenton is a loving one. When Danny was younger, he and Maddie were close but as he grew older, they drifted apart. However they reconnected in "Maternal Instinct." Though Danny loves her, he never reveals to her that he is the ghost boy that she and Jack are hunting. She is fiercely protective of him and accepts his ghost half in Reality Trip and permanently knows his secret in "Planet Phantom."
==History==
Danny’s relationship with his mother was loving but somewhat strained, though not to the extent of the one he had with his father. As a toddler, Danny and Maddie were very close, but they grew apart as Danny got older, due to his parents’ growing obsession with hunting ghosts. Though not as bad as his dad, Danny is quite often embarrassed by his mother’s erratic obsession with ghosts, causing him to distance himself from her overtime. He also does not completely trust his mother, as he feared that if she and his dad learned the truth about his powers, they would “rip him apart molecule by molecule”.
Maddie also despises Danny Phantom, being unaware that he is her beloved son. This has led her trying to kill him quite often and having to fight each other on some occasions. Despite his fear and embarrassment of her, Danny does still love his mother very much and doesn’t want anything bad to happen to her. Another reason he did not reveal his identity to her was out of fear that she and Jack would reject him for being half ghost, showing that he wants to maintain the love between them. In contrast to his fears, Maddie and Jack accepted their son after he revealed he was the half-ghost Danny Phantom, loving him regardless. In the 10 years following Danny acquiring his powers, Maddie aids her son in his ghost fighting missions as a member of Team Phantom.
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