pc: dan gamer aka brimstone aka daniel fountain

[sacredpath]

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week 1; monday

[sacredpath]

[let's be at the halloween market but also she's wearing this. what a dan. she winces when she sees him.]

Oh. Good evening... Brimstone. You're a child, are you enjoying this?

[foreverphantom]

[ he unfortunately has fairy wings on his back. they clash horrendously with his hot topic outfit of the day. he glares at her. ]

First of all, I'm not a child.

[sacredpath]

A grown man.

[looks at his fairy wings.]

Well, alright, then. It's fine, I assumed you hated it anyway.

[foreverphantom]

I don't, actually.

[sacredpath]

Oh. We've found a place to your taste, then?

[foreverphantom]

I didn't say I liked it, either.

...but it is nicer than the other places. And the place that's most familiar.

[sacredpath]

Is it? I've only ever seen sort of... bone decorations like this in a temple to a very nasty god.

[foreverphantom]

[ huffs a sardonic laugh ] Sounds like my kind of place.

But no. There are a lot of skeleton ghosts in the Ghost Zone. Can't float two feet without spotting one.

[sacredpath]

It seems very sad to be a skeleton ghost. It should be one or the other, you know? Either you are a spirit or you are the physical remains left behind. Unless, I suppose, you're describing a spirit animating those remains...?

[undead...]

What is the "Ghost Zone".

[foreverphantom]

It's what it sounds like. A zone where ghosts reside. It's the source of their energy and power, and most form there and create their own homes there. It's like the connective tissue unseen by the living world.

And skeleton ghosts there are all over. I never bothered to find out for myself whether they're actual animated skeletons, or if the skeletons are just projections of what the ghosts think they should look like.

[sacredpath]

And you've spent a lot of time in the Ghost Zone?

[foreverphantom]

Considering that I used to be a ghost, yes.

[sacredpath]

Don't say that to me like I was supposed to know that. I haven't been paying attention to your life story.

[foreverphantom]

I know, that's why I said it. [ he just sounds like an asshole at all times ]

[sacredpath]

Fine, fine, alright. You used to be a ghost, and then you became not a ghost? How?

[foreverphantom]

I got shoved into a human body. It was the only way to keep me anchored to the timeline instead of glitching out of existence.

[sacredpath]

Funny how that happens. Just a random person's body?

[foreverphantom]

No. It's... [ sighs ] ...it's a clone of who I used to be.

[sacredpath]

[well she doesn't really know what a clone is but ok]

How complicated. I suppose that's why you don't have a name of your own? Charlie said you preferred Brimstone.

[foreverphantom]

Brimstone is just the name she came up with for me.

But...it's better than any other option I've heard so far.

[sacredpath]

It's not the best, but neither is Shadowheart, so I can't judge.

[foreverphantom]

...is Shadowheart not your name either?

[sacredpath]

It is my name, but it's a name I was given when I joined the Sharrans. I don't remember the old one, but I'm sure it was much more ordinary.