phantom silksong
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I like to think the Wraiths and Silkflies of the Mist are "conducted" by Phantom and their organ, similar to how Lace was able to conduct the Silkflies and control them with her humming. Anyway, Phantom basically sends the wraiths to scavenge silk for them so that they can re-weave themself. "Scavenging" can be anything from finding dregs of the Citadel or even killing haunted bugs to retrieve their silk. When the wraiths have served their purpose or are weakening, Phantom binds them.
I also have seen a few designs of Lace and/or Phantom with metal gold parts (like GMS or cogwork bugs) floating around and that's just insanely cool to me. I get they're canonically made entirely of silk but I like to think that their skeletons are essentially just gold, wires, cords and maybe Lace's mask is a chipped piece of GMS' shell so that GMS can re-weave her from a distance. As for Phantom, falling apart and decaying has caused their more robotic internals to start showing. They are not doing well :(
Uhh what else
Oh yeah. Phantom sings to the Wraiths, writes their own music and maybe even stories for plays/musicals that GMS and the Conductors would never approve of. I like to imagine that they maybe met Trobbio at one point and decided to be dramatic together. Trobbio's got explosions, Phantom has steam and mist to disorient intruders.
