[video] warning: ...minor gore? body horror? uhhh i feel like i should warn for SOMETHING here.

[gogoghostpowers]

So, um. I--[sigh] I don't think there's a good way to say this. Uhh. I...kind of got part of my arm eaten?

[He cringes as he pulls up his left arm into the video for demonstration. The forearm is all bandaged up, thankfully, but it looks unnaturally slim, a little caved in, and misshapen. It looks a bit better than it actually is, though, due to the added bulk of the bandages, which are actually starting to visibly stain bright green a little.]

It wasn't a monster or anything that did it, though, which is part of why I'm bringing it up. It, uh...It was Shiro, actually. He just kinda...jumped me and bit into my arm and ripped part of it off. So I guess this is mostly just a warning to be careful--I don't know if he might do it again to anyone else but uh. Just in case.

[he drops the arm out of camera view and looks down. He scratches the back of his neck with his uninjured arm before looking back up at the camera again.]

Also...I guess I'm dead now. So. There's that too.

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[icy_heavens]

[... There is so much wrong with all this, he doesn't even know where to start.]

The being dead thing. Was this before or after? [That seems like a good place.]

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[gogoghostpowers]

I...think it was before. I don't think I died when Shiro, uh--went after me. But I also don't think I died before then either, so I'm...actually not all that sure.

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[icy_heavens]

How can you not be sure when you died? [That seems like the kind of thing you'd notice, man.]

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[gogoghostpowers]

I don't know, I don't remember anything happening that could've caused it! I'd think I was still alive if a doctor hadn't told me I'm actually dead!

[That came out louder than it should've, and he sounds like he's on the verge of tears. Coming to terms with your own deadness is hard. Death is hard and he's crying to a middle schooler, this is the worst.]

Permavoice (Like I should've said from the start. Stupid subject lines.)

[icy_heavens]

[Don't cry at him, Danny. He doesn't know what to do with crying people! Awkward.

[Which leads to quiet musing that he probably should have kept in his head because it's still audible.] The going intangible . . . would make perfect sense with being a ghost. Has to be a ghost if he's not decaying like Anthony. Could've been dead all this time . . .

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[gogoghostpowers]

[Danny is not so much bothered by being called a ghost--people have been comparing him to one for a while now, but he's been dying it (haha) just because it seemed too morbid. But the other part...]

D-dead all this time?! When could I have--

Maybe...maybe it's been since my blood turned to this weird green stuff instead. Oh, god...

[icy_heavens]

[... Oops. Stupid thinking out loud. Well, whatever. Just go with it.] I guess ghosts having different coloured blood makes about as much sense as anything else.

[gogoghostpowers]

A ghost...wouldn't--wouldn't a ghost be like, a wispy thing in a white bedsheet that goes "boo" late at night, or something? Heh, I--I don't think they're supposed to have blood!

[icy_heavens]

Ghosts aren't like that. [Yes, this is said with a certain amount of authority.] Never thought about them actually having blood, but the bedsheet thing is just dumb and inaccurate.

[gogoghostpowers]

[...he didn't expect a legitimate response about ghosts.]

Do you have, like...actual experience with ghosts?

[icy_heavens]

[Doofus. You had to know there'd be a possibility that somebody on here would have actual ghost knowledge.]

Near as I can tell, "other me" was part of a military that dealt with ghosts.

[gogoghostpowers]

[Hey, how was he supposed to know?? Although in hindsight he really should've expected something like this.]

A military that fights ghosts? Was there like--a ghost country, or something?

[icy_heavens]

I dunno. But I was a captain, I have ghost knowledge, and I can fight. Just seems like the most logical conclusion.

... And I don't think you're the type of ghost I would have fought. [See, there are different types of ghosts, Danny.]

[gogoghostpowers]

There are types of ghosts now?

[icy_heavens]

Why wouldn't there be types? [Look, his Echoes make this sound perfectly logical, okay?]

[gogoghostpowers]

I don't know, I-I just assumed all ghosts were the same!

[THAT'S RACIST, DANNY]

[icy_heavens]

Well they're not.

[gogoghostpowers]

...Well. What kind of ghosts are there?

[icy_heavens]

At least two types, anyway. There's Pluses, which I'm pretty sure are just what most people naturally become after they die. They still look human and everything and don't mean any harm. You seem more like that kind to me.

Then there's Hollows, which are big and look monstrous, and they're dangerous to other souls.

[gogoghostpowers]

Huh. Doesn't sound familiar to me. Although I do sound more like a Plus than a Hollow. Even though I don't think white hair and glowing counts as looking "human."

Is there like--anything that determines whether you turn into a Plus or a Hollow?

[scramasax]

[High lightly-bumbled offering of: -- I don't eat brains - !

[Not sure that's a comparable refutation of expectations but it's an impulsive attempt!]

[gogoghostpowers]

...good point. I guess the stereotypes don't really make much sense here, do they.