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Ghost cores and corespeak

Now, we all know cores, they're the physical manifestation of the soul, the everything to a ghost. Here's a few new things I have thoughts on:

Cores become denser the older a ghost was before formation, thicker layers to represent a more clear cut sense of self, while younger ghosts are more fluid and easily change their shape after formation. Of course there is a drop off point, after a certain Living age, the sense of self dulls and loses definition, leading to these ghosts being more like looking through cloudy glass, that's the best way to describe it.

Corespeak is all emotions, thoughts, feelings, and concepts, and the actual sounds are tied into how a ghost, were they originally of the Living, died. It is, of course, incredibly taboo to point sounds out that you can recognize when they are tied to said ghosts death, you simply do not hear them, you do not recognize the sounds of Death. A Neverborn or Spirit are different in their corespeak, these sounds are tied into their nature as a Being of ye Infinite Realms, the element their core has taken on, or their place in the overarching monarchy of the Infinite Realms.

Now, of course there are elemental cores, but there are also conceptual cores, for beings such as Clockwork, Nocturn, and Undergrowth, Time, Sleep, and Nature respectively, although an argument can be made for Undergrowth to have a Life core instead, I do take suggestions and criticism, debating is an excellent way to grow your thoughts.

Auras

Now, we've seen the glow a ghost has, this can be a way to judge overall health at a glance, the stronger a ghost is, the brighter and steadier the glow. When a ghost begins to feel weak, their glow will dim, when they feel sick their glow with waver, when both are happening it is time to take them to a medical facility, of which there are many should you know where to go.

Bonds

Ghosts bond through friendly fighting, verbal altercations, and mutual aid to said ghosts haunts. These bonds can range anywhere from friendship to romantic to even parental, depending on the type of aid, level of combat, verbal wit being displayed, or some combination of the three.

Haunts

The Infinite Realms

The space between dimensions, where time doesn't exactly flow the same, where natural rips in the fabric of space-time happen at semi-regular intervals and can drop you any where, any when, and in any dimension. The Realms are semi-sentient, able to make changes to the Realms through the Crown and Ring and the one who is hosting the relics.

The Crown and Ring

These relics are what give the Infinite Realms their conduit, they are what chooses the next ruler of the Realms, the next hand and mouthpiece of their creator. Without these objects, the Realms would fall apart, unable to have the Core of the Realms dictate what to do, how to form, what to form, and when to form. Without the Ruler, be they King or Queen, the Realms would fall apart and take the whole of existence with it.

Deathdays

Ectoplasm

There are several types of ectoplasm; unbonded, bonded, elemental, pure, and diluted. Pure ectoplasm is what can be found in the Infinite Realms, diluted ectoplasm is found in the Living Realm, elemental ectoplasm is found in the forms of beings that have elemental cores, bonded ectoplasm is what can be found on the bodies of non-elemental cored ghosts, and unbonded ectoplasm is any free floating ectoplasm that has not formed into a core, or the body of a being of the Infinite Realms.

Ancients

The Crown and Ring of the Infinite Realms change depending on the current King or Queen of the Realms, Danny has the Crown of Void and Ring of Fear. The Crown resembles a solid piece of black iron until active, whereupon it takes on the form of a nebula suspended between the points. The Ring has changed drastically, the band becoming the color of freshly fallen snow, and the gemstone becoming that of an arctic glacier.

The Crown and Ring function as secondary and tertiary filters for the Realms own Core, with the King or Queens core acting as the primary.

It takes quite some time for the new King or Queen to become accustomed to the full regalia of their station, of which there are four pieces, the Crown, the Ring, the Cloak, and the Armor.

Danny, Sam, and Tucker are immortal after Danny's Accident, all that energy being released straight from the Infinite Realms didn't only effect Danny, the portal was shaped partially like a funnel after all, or if you invert a funnel you get a horn. All of that energy was blasted out into the room, but Danny got the most concentrated blast, being inside the thing.

Sam and Tucker have their own powers, they just come in later and much slower, to the point that they don't even realize they have any powers until it's pointed out. They aren't halfas though, just extremely liminal, maybe just on the living side by a few percentage points, but enough to matter. They all have glowing eyes once their powers come in.

The Ghost Portal is, essentially, Danny's Grave, which is highly important to a Ghost. He's fiercely protective of it as evident by how much he fights back the other Ghosts that come through, they're basically flying through his tomb.

Danny is stupid light, even in human form, because literally half of his entire makeup isn't human anymore, he's the perfect balance between energy and matter.

The Portal is mildly radioactive, which is why the Fenton Lab is covered in metal paneling, those are lead panels to keep it from leaking into the house or ground.

Ectoplasm is a fantastic cleaning supply, as long as you're cleaning things that will not come in contact with food, because then it becomes a fantastic reanimation supply.

The Fenton's are banned from filing taxes by the IRS, the paperwork just isn't worth it, so they are the only "civilian" family completely tax exempt.

The Fenton's never really have to work again, the entire town of Amity never has to worry about power issues either, because the Ghost Portal is tied into the power grid and supplying the next three towns near Amity with enough power that it's actually a positive supply to the grid.

Ectoplasm is a *fantastically* clean energy source, as in it is so clean there is *negative* radiation in the area around the plants that use it as the power source. It literally works so cleanly that it takes away even the background radiation, for a short time while it's actively being used.

Ectoplasm is fairly unstable, but not volatile thankfully. If it destabilizes? It just vanishes and you have to get a new supply, no Chernobyl's with this.

Thanks to how clean the energy is, ecto-plants are typically set up near places that produce radiation in abundance, such as coal power plants (yes really), Chernobyl, other nuclear disaster sites, etc.

Ecto-plants are staffed almost exclusively by liminals or ghosts, to minimize the risk of creating new liminals or ghosts.

Danny doesn't fly so much as have control over whether or not gravity is in effect for him and anyone/thing he's in contact with, as well as changing the way it effects. The real difference here is that others who do fly have to have propulsion first, whereas Danny is creating his own.

Danny is a massive power house, but he doesn't use all of it because of his Obsession with Protection, he has powers that would absolutely end fights in seconds, but they would cause a lot more damage which is why he usually goes in to fight hand hand.

Maddie absolutely trained Danny somewhat in self defense, and Jack helped train him in the engineering side of things.

Danny is basically a walking power plant, thanks to his status as King and a halfa. Given the right connection, material, and treatment, he could power basically anything that can run on ectoplasm.

The thermos that holds Dan is in a constant state of damage and rewinding, Clockwork keeping a very close eye on it until the right time comes along for him to be released.

Danny has nerve damage in his left arm, he can only really feel pressure in the palm, it gets slightly better up towards his shoulder.

Danny has electrical burn scars on his arm that go all the way to the bone but don't do anything that actually damage it, due to being partly ectoplasmic energy as well.

Dash and the other bullies don't know how serious the accident was, only that Danny wasn't seen in town for a couple days after it's said to have happened.

Danny can choose to change his outfit as Phantom whenever he wants, it just takes a bit of energy which is why he doesn't.

they're both stubborn, but danny uses his stubbornness to fight for what he thinks is right while vlad knows what he's doing is wrong but refuses to think of his actions as anything other than justified.

they're both want to be safe, but danny makes himself safe by hiding who he is while vlad makes himself safe by being stronger than anything that could hurt him.

they both care very deeply about what other people think of them, but danny wants to shape himself into what other people want while vlad wants to force other people to think the way he wants them to think

they're both kind of self centered, but danny is self centered in that he sometimes can't see past his own problems and faults to look at the bigger picture, while vlad is more attention seeking and actively refuses to acknowledge the feelings and desires of other people.

rocky: yes we'd still love you if you were a worm

rocky: no we're not mad at you

rocky: yes we love you

grace: 🥹

what they are very put off by is the social behavior. they’re mostly lone predators who will pair-bond with a mate or a small group to raise young, but not any more than that, so the concept of humans hanging out in groups that are hundreds strong is very odd

it’s not even that the desires for companionship and touch are weird. many species have domesticated some of their planets’ wildlife for the same reasons humans got dogs and horses, so they’re familiar with friendliness as a trait, but they’re used to it in animals that are, for fear of sounding rude, kinda dumb