If Danny didn't want his "painful human emotions" to drag him down, and "he" was free to rip the ghost out of Vlad, does that mean Danny originally intended to become a full ghost at all times?
I always thought Danny wanted to remove his ghost half and live as a human. But now I'm wondering... did he want to leave his human half behind and live as a ghost?
It's hard to tell because Danny Fenton and Danny Phantom both seem to have their own brains and personalities when split, so who is carrying the original **Danny**?
But Vlad said Danny was free to rip the ghost out of Vlad, so he talks to Danny as though the ghost half was the true Danny.
And Danny asks what happened to his human self, not "what happened to me?"
I realize it is just semantics since Danny by this point is used to seeing the evil Phantom from the future as himself, so he's going to say things like, "I spent 10 years destroying the world," or "I killed my human half," but still.