Bit of a parenthesis on Boos first as Phantom is by all means half Boo. Boos are ghostly creatures with a bit of a mystery on their origin. It's not known if they are dead creatures who came back as a ghost or a species of creatures on their own. What is known is their anatomy. Or lack of, as they are exclusively composed by ectoplasm, a gooey substance that can be made transparent and intangible at will by the Boo. With this, Boos can phase through objects, become invisible or pretend to be a small item by keeping said item inside their bodies and making their ectoplasm invisible. Boos don't need to eat, sleep or breathe. They are very basic ghostly creatures.
Phantom isn't a dead Rabbid came back as a ghost. Since he was created via merging with a Boo Balloon, he's as much of a ghost as a Boo is a dead creature, so he's in a bit of a grey zone. Even the ectoplasm he's made of is the same that composes Boos' bodies. He usually keeps his upper body completely visible and tangible, while leaving his belly transparent, but he's capable of turning either entirely tangible or entirely transparent (he just doesn't turn invisible a lot because he likes having attention).
Phantom doesn't have internal organs: instead the ectoplasm he's composed of acts as some of a living's being internal organs, although only for basic functions: food will be digested and dissolved into the mass (only stuff that is eaten will be digested, not things placed in his belly), his breath is given by the ectoplasm forming a bubble of air in his torso (even if he doesn't have to breathe, but it's used for singing) and a "heartbeat" is needed to keep the ectoplasm in movement and functioning. External organs (ears, eyes, nose, etc.) work like a normal Rabbid's ones. Due to Rabbids' reproductive organs being half internal ad half external in all sexes, Phantom is sterile as testicles are internal (hormones are produced in the ectoplasm).
He can survive without eating or resting as he takes energy from the attention he recieves, but he can't go forever without sustenance. He will get weak if he doesn't eat or rest like any other Rabbid, but as long as he has energy from his public, he can go on for a very long time. He will eat and sleep like a normal Rabbid to always look his best.
Phantom's belly acts like a cetacean's melon. Cetaceans use sounds as echolocation, producing sounds from inside the blowhole, focusing it in a uniform sound wave (thanks to the fat in the melon and their skull shape) that travels in the water and then recieving the sound through their jaw bones. Phantom, insead of using the sound as echolocation (as he doesn't have the means to recieve the soundwaves back and process them), he only channels them into a focused blast to attack. The sound blasts he uses in battle are produced by the grammophone, the sound then bounces off the instrument's horn and travels through the belly's fatty ectoplasm, focusing it in a powerful blast that can be very harmful in close proximity. When firing the blast, Phantom alignes it's trajectory with his mouth, making it look like he's singing it, rather than firing it from his midsection. His actual voice is not that powerful to generate such a sound (still it's not advised to have him yell in your ear, he's still an opera singer, lol).
When it's transparent, his belly is not entirely tangible and things can pass through it with little resistance. If you were to put your hand in it, you would only feel a slight resistance of the cold, gooey ectoplasm. The grammophone (or any small object or being placed inside) floats in the ectoplasm and cannot fall out unless manually taken out. Objects can be inserted or extracted from Phantom's belly only when in the transparent state. Hovever they can only be carefully placed in, they can't be tossed in as they will just go through him. Heavier items tend to float lower than lighter ones and can encumber Phantom's movements if too many heavy things are inside him. Everything inside the ectoplasm becomes "intangible" (as Phantom can phase through things without having them fall out, but they can be affected by outside effects, such as hits that will make them move accordingly) and can be made turn invisible (all at once).
The ectoplasm is sensitive to light, so when flashed with a strong light source, it automatically turns invisible. When Phantom is under the spotlights for so long, he gets accustomed to being invisible by default and the sensitivity of the ectoplasm rises, so when he suddenly doesn't have the spoitlight on, his belly automatically turns tangible. He will regain the ability to return invisible at will after some time.
When the belly is visible, it's tangible and acts as completely solid with fur and all, bar the tail that stays intangible and cold. In this state, at the touch it feels the same temperature of the rest of Phantom's body.
The grammophome is a very dear object to Phantom as it functions as a second set of vocal cords. It amplifies his voice and can also play the music of the disc inserted into it. Music discs can be changed as a normal grammophone and this only affects the music, never Phantom's voice. It can be removed from his body, but Phantom rarely does so after the accident at the Galactovision Song Contest. In that occasion the instrument broke due to stress (and Bea's scratch) and Phantom had to replace it with a new one as well as getting tons of continuous practice to "tune" it to his voice. His "actual" voice got damaged too, but that can be healed like in a regular non-ghostly Rabbid. If he happens to lose his voice now that he has the grammophone back, he will use it to "voice" himself.
When manifasting legs, his belly reconfigures to have legs, so he has to shrink in size due to some of the ectoplasm being used to form the limbs. In this form he still can float and phase through walls as well as turn invisible. He isn't very skilled at walking as he often fails to look where he puts his feet, being so used to not having to, but tripping once in a while is worth it when he can show off fancy pants and shoes.
Phantom can emit a bluish smoke from his body. This is usually seen when he turns invisible/teleports to make for a more dramatic appearence/exit. He can also kind of manipulate it, usually by puffing it out of his mouth to create effects.
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