[Dictated]

[schrodingersghost]

[It had been a rough month for Danny. Actually make that a rough couple of years. A rough life.

Just... the last month had reached new depths of misery for him. It wasn't enough that the castle had made keeping his secret identity nearly impossible by taking away his ability to lie. It wasn't enough that he'd been trapped here for months going stir crazy with no ghosts to fight.

No, on top of all that he just had to gain all these new nightmares courtesy of the Event Horizon. He had to deal with memories of actually being tortured. Not just the nightmares he'd always had of being dissected.  This was worse, because it had come so close to happening for real.  And some part of his mind had thought his parents would approve of it.

How did you deal with something like that?

Danny had tried. Oh, he had tried. He'd stopped sleeping. He'd picked fights and blasted trees with ice and ecto energy until he couldn't stand up any more. But nothing helped.

And after a few weeks of this?  Danny just couldn't bring himself to care any more. He was exhausted, and he was so tired of being angry all the time.  He was tired of being scared. He was tired of people telling him that he had nothing to worry about.

He just wanted all of it to be over.

And so he finally grabs his journal and dictates a rambling and only slightly coherent challenge, the sort of announcement that could only be made while under the influence of sleep deprivation and complete emotional exhaustion.]

You know what? I don't care any more. All the people going on about how nice and understanding everyone in this castle is about people with freakish powers? Fine. You win. The castle and its stupid no lies curse and its thing against secret identities wins.

And when someone shows up to drag me off for lots and lots and painful experiments, maybe I won't even say I told you so.

I'll just say it right now.  I'm a ghost!  Happy?  I'll say it again. Ghost, ghost, ghost, ghost, GHOST! And I'm human. And no I don't know how it works, so don't even ask.

[And with that he trails off into mutterings too soft for the journal to pick up.]

Comments

Dictated

[wizard_redfive]

[Dairine is somewhat confused by this outburst.]

Uh... that's nice, I guess? Didn't you say as much last time?

[abittooandrogynous]

I've never heard of a ghost that is not a form of monster.

[ Oddly enough, he's more genuinely curious, and maybe a bit of that excited enthusiasm that comes from people who like non-human things. ]

[waterproofed]

If anybody comes after you for painful experiments, I'll kick their butts all the way to the Dead Zone.

[whistles_the_blues]

[And you Danny, get a sigh from Blues.]

[originalcopy]

whoop-de-fuckin-do... you want a pat on the head or something?

Dictated

[the_effect_she_has]

Whoever told you this castle is nice?

[A pause, as she considered everything he said, then added quietly.] And it's okay to be a ghost.

[mal_addict]

...

Do we feel better after that outburst?

[eat_me_beat_me]

If you're done being a drama queen we should hang out sometime.

[i.e. Dude she knows, she doesn't care, and she'd fight anyone who gave you shit.]

[honeytoes]

How does that even work?

[You know he would drag you off for experiments...but since he doesn't have the facility equipment or the manpower he'll settle for curious questioning.]

[patching_up]

W-what? A ghost? ... you mean you're d... d-d...

Dead?! No, that's... no, that can't be true...

[5, you're completely getting the wrong idea about this.]

[lord_wizard]

Are you saying you are the ghost of a human or something else, I am not sure I understand....

[filtered to this kid]

[madetosin]

[Soft chuckling]

...feel better?

[hard_talker]

Your Oscar's comin' as soon as I can wish it up. Which category do you wanna win: Captain Obvious or Best Dramatic Performance?

[toobravehearted]

[He has the journal open while he's busy in the lab, listening to comings and goings to have background noise that isn't just the hum of the TARDIS, until...]

Sounds like you've been holding that in for awhile.

[clovertails]

[A kid like Yotsuba can't really pick up on angst or anything so she'll just.... be annoying hahaha]

You're a GHOST?!