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The people of Amity Park are grateful for a few things. It comes around every once in a while what they are grateful for. They are thankful that no government agents have caused irreversible damage to their wonderful town. The GiW is a danger to everyone, what with their blasters and guns and threats of painful interrogation. They wouldn’t go through with the interrogation; not after the first time, they took in a middle schoolboy. The boy got home safe, and one of those GiW agents was found hanging by his feet on a flagpole. No one let him down for a few hours.
They are thankful for the Fenton parents and their useful inventions. They used to be less than grateful for the recklessly driving father and the almost condescending mother, but now they see them as they truly are. Scientists, and good ones at that. They are thankful again for the fact that they have gotten over their bias against the souls of the dead, which made them even better scientists and members of Amity Park’s community.
They are thankful for the PSA’s that help keep the town safe!
The teachers of Casper High are thankful for the mayor’s continued financial support from damages. They’re thankful that he continues to help them be ready for emergencies, talking about the youth being the future. They know that he’s not doing it out of the good of his heart, he has an agenda, but they’re not going to complain when it’s benefitting them.
The police force there is thankful that they have not seen danger in a long time, they have not faced mortality in the same way that other police might. They are thankful that they are not as horribly corrupt. They are thankful that they have not had to bury murder victims or druggies, the worst crime is a kid skipping school, and that can be set right easily with little interference.
Amity Park, not just the people but the things and the very earth itself that the town resides on, is thankful for Phantom. For the little kid who is giving his afterlife to protect. They know that it must be entwined with his nature, but what are they to judge when some humans are evil and some are good. It can be the same for ghosts.
Humans are grateful to be protected from what lurks in the dark, and the ghosts that should and shriek and cause property damage.
The dead are grateful for Phantom keeping them from the clutches of humans that wish to dissect them, to take what makes a ghost and obliterate it like the judge, jury, and executioner.
The things that have never been people and never will be are thankful to Phantom for giving them conversation in hushed dulcet tones of the long gone. They are thankful for the men and women dressed in white coats that wander into the fields and are left there by Phantom. For they are not his people, and therefore not his jurisdiction- he can look away for just a moment. No one will miss Agent K.
(The GiW is thankful that Phantom does not kill, but they are wary to follow him.)
The children of Amity Park are thankful for the three nice teenagers who talk them through ghost attacks or walk them home after club activities or play with them at the park.
They are thankful for Tucker Foley who outfits bracelets with GPS connected to parents’ phones for the little middle schoolers after a tragedy struck. He helped the parents with electronic reassurances of kindness.
They are thankful for Sam Manson bringing vegan snacks for their kids when they get antsy about the mystery meat in the school lunch, for her vicious protection against the world. They are thankful such a determined fighter is on their side.
The town of Amity Park is thankful that the cults stay on the edge of town.
(People in Amity are thankful that their sanity is intact, that they haven’t devolved. Because they are all teetering dangerously on the edge of blasphemous, they are all on that razor’s edge of being the next person giving in to the cult’s because some days it is hard to not look upon the town’s hero and not think Deity.)
Amity Parker’s are secretly thankful that none of the cults have honed in on the Fenton’s. They’ve kept their worshipful gaze on Phantom, on the obvious otherworldly being to give their lives to worship. They have kept their eyes on the clear King of Amity Park, their protector, and horrifying favorite entity.
They are thankful the cults do not zone in on the elder sister, her mind quick as a whip and her eyes cutting and knowing. Jasmine has made a name for herself inside and outside of Amity. The Ivy League’s are chomping at the bit to get to know her, to whisk her away to their large castle-like schools where ‘she could thrive.’ Inside her town, she has started a psychiatrist’s office for both the living and the dead, has written and written and written as if she was made to put words to paper and turn those words into revolutionary textbooks.
They are thankful that the cults have not taken notice of a younger brother with black hair and a certain charm to him..The kids love Danny Fenton, when he talks to them about their interests, and tell them stories that sound plausible but are logically false, should be wrong yet ring true. They are thankful when he pushes him on the swings and gives them bandaids when they fall off their bikes. He’s the one who brings a flashlight to a search party and finds the kid missing no matter what, when is on the trail there is no child left behind. He’s the one who can pick up six kids at a time even though it shouldn’t be possible, and twirl them around.
He has also made a name for himself, but it stays shrouded in Amity Park because he is not meant to leave Amity, not like Jazz used to be. Phantom may be the protector, but Danny Fenton is the heart of the town, and you’d have to be stupid not to know this. That is why the people of Casper High pretend that they do not like him.
(They have a funny little feeling that he knows they do not dislike him and is thankful for the protection in turn.)
The people of Amity Park are thankful for the earth they live on, the way even though it is imbued with radiation and grave dirt, it brings them plentiful food, beautiful flowers, and luscious rolling fields. It gave them sanctuary from other places.
They are thankful they have a place with others like them, because should an Amity Parker move to another place it’d be like putting a fish in the desert.
And last of all, the town is thankful especially to each other, because the community is one of the most important things! Everyone knows everyone, they’ve all been through the same issues and have seen the same things. They protect their own.