Mar 9
Ghostspeak being a language that’s not wholly inherent to the ghost when they’re first formed. Similar to how an infant doesn’t come out of the womb capable of speaking in full sentences, ghosts also have to develop their ghostspeak as well.
They’re able to ‘coo’ and ‘babble’ and eventually figure out how to form the proper words as time goes on, and they learn faster around other ghosts who speak in ghostspeak around them. Until eventually they can hold their own in a conversation.
(The equivalent of cooing/babbling is emotional projection that slowly becomes interspersed with the intended projection of words as they get the hang of ghostspeak.)
#danny fenton is not the ghost king#danny fenton#danny phantom#dp headcanons#dp ghostspeak#danny phantom headcanons#dp#a bone to throw out for my folks who love the ‘new ghosts are babies’ headcanon#cooing would sound smth like a mess of emotions. ie: ‘joyjoyjoy-laugh’ and a mix between actual sound and emotional projection#additionally it helps regulate said emotional projection so that a ghost isn’t constantly projecting their feelings to everyone#because that can get annoying and distracting fast#fully-developed ghostspeak sounds like a combination of word projection and emotion projection.#wherein words take place where emotions cant fully articulate#‘possessionjealous-envy’ -> ‘jealousenvy-minemineMINE’#ghostspeak doesnt have much of a ‘sound’ to it. it feels more like a thought in your head#albeit to humans/the living it sounds like a bunch of musical nonsense#or it ‘adapts to the environment’ in the sense that a living’s mind will automatically adjust to make ghostspeak sound similar to its—#environment in order to process what its hearing better. so ghostspeak in the woods sounds like a bunch of wind and birdsong and leaves#with an uncanny feeling along with it.#and in a building it sounds like the settling of a foundation or the ac.#but it still always gives the heebie-jeebies to someone bc their brain knows its not supposed to be there#if that makes sense
