*whispers* ghost speak

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaa one of my favourite headcanons excellent choice anon.

Okay so. One thing I’ve always found interesting about ghost speak is that Danny doesn’t learn it *from* anywhere. It’s instinctively built in, like any one of his powers. And that has fantastic implications. Because it means on a certain core level, see what I did there, this isn’t quite a language at all, in that it’s not passed on memetically. There’s evidence that to a degree certain aspects of language are similarly ingrained in humans, but this is a whole other level. Where does the necessary information *come* from? How is it stored? How fast does it evolve, and can it even?

I have a theory that ectoplasm likes to resonate with itself. That’s what an ectosignature is: the signal that keeps a certain amount of ectoplasm cohesive and whole and shaped. The ghost zone is entirely made of ectoplasm. What if being cut from this cloth is how the language is embedded? What if you could say the GZ is one huge alien entity, a hive mind? What if every ghost is, while still being their own individual, a manifestation of some aspect of it’s personality? What if the halfas represent the portals in this amalgam? What if their copies of the language are corrupted because they ‘grew up’ outside of this environment? For example, ‘tones’ produced by varying core energy; what if they’re deaf to them? What if they’re the GZ experimenting with individuality due to this intermittent broken signal? What if whenever Danny goes into the GZ it gets slightly more reestablished and he feels a strange sense of connection, and he isn’t sure he likes it? What if halfas are in fact nascent entities of this primordial nature, budding off from the whole to form new hive minds? What if they’re how the GZ learns about the human world and the reason ghosts keep attacking is because that’s also a manifestation of it’s curiosity? What if ghost speak is basically the equivalent of a firing neuron, an exchange?

I kind of went a little off topic here but man. Ghost speak. So cool.