#ghost poasts

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i have THINGS in the drafts but im just too lazy to tag and queue them. hows everyone. are you all feeling the phantombright spirit this afternoon

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au in which the phantom ate the moon rock instead of launching it into space

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[7:16 PM] ghost poaster: theyre having a sleepover and talking abt feelings [7:16 PM] cryptid mod: put the legy up [7:16 PM] ghost poaster: the phantom is not taking this very seriously

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okay hear me out, about me overthinking the phantom overthinking fursonas

the phantom gets close to bobby fulbright to learn about his mannerisms, lifestyle, personal preferences and habits, so they pose as whoever and befriend him, right? bobby is easy to befriend anyway so it doesnt really matter what kind of character they play for this, so they start out with a kind of generic and mild mannered persona and then eventually tune it more to fulbright so they get along even better

anyway, at some point, fulbright designs the phantom a fursona, because bobby is a giant furry, probably a fursuiter even, and he’s like “if you have a fursona too i can draw our fursonas together!!” and he’s pushed them to make one before but they just keep saying they can’t draw and arent creative (an excuse, they can draw perfectly fine, but they just wouldn’t know how to design some sort of animal-person based on themselves), so bobby takes things into his own hands and makes them one himself

and while this is good (it is a token of friendship after all, which is what they were going for), the phantom is kind of messed up about it. they don’t have a self or original personality or anything like that, and every identity they take on is just a role they’re given and forced to carry out for work... and here some guy just gives them one (with giant pawhands), for fun and friendship and based on what he thinks they are like! and a lot of it they can refute to themselves, like, “i made it yellow because you like yellow” (they don’t really), but other traits were put in “because it feels right” (”you can change it if you like”) and they have no way of deciding whether thats because of the role they’re playing or if bobby has somehow seen through them and knows more about them than they do. they find themselves thinking about their self and comparing it to the fursona. identifying real parts of themselves in the process. its weird and uncomfortable and furries should not have this much power!!!

and over time the phantom starts thinking of the fursona as their real self (i mean, what else do they have?), applying traits of themselves onto the character, and using the character as a reference for their self and being. bonding with bobby over their fursonas is a way they can have a real friendship but still project it away from themselves (as it all happens on paper)... they become extremely invested with it and even pretend to learn how to draw from scratch in order to do this with bobby

after the events of dual destinies, when everyone’s trying to figure out who the phantom really is and what they’ve been involved with, they eventually hint blackquill to their “true identity”, hidden under one of the kitchen drawers in bobby fulbright’s apartment... out comes a giant folder of furry art, mainly drawn by bobby, of their fursonas hanging out and drinking smoothies together

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there's a short comic with fulbright and his fish called "area man feeds fish; thinks about justice" what you asked for maybe a part one thing but fulbright definitely has a fish and the phantom definitely takes ridiculously good care of it after fulbright is gone like upgrades it from a bowl to a three foot tank all for itself with ugly rainbow pebbles and everything.

i have seen that one, actually! ill queue it to this blog once i have an opportunity

if you select a wrong option somewhere (iirc while pressing them at the space center), fakebright tells a story about having a fish called love. its probably not a true story, but it would have some pretty funny implications if it was. either fulbright had fish that fakebright adopted and took care of later, or the phantom, after assuming fulbrights identity, decided to get pet fish

either way, we dont get a lot of realbright stuff from canon, so id like to think fulbright really does own a fish (and likely does not know much about fish care if it managed to eat all his other fish). the phantom probably knows even less about fish care than realbright so it would be very likely actually that theyd study up and be a much better fish parent than the original (although id like to think neither of them would keep a fish in a bowl)

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someone draw bobby fulbright taking care of his fat goldfish and talking to her about his day and how much he loves her and about what hes gonna cook for dinner like she can even hear what hes saying and the phantom begrudgingly taking care of her later on and venting to her and talking about fulbright precisely because shes a fish and has no ears so it doesnt matter what they say to her anyway

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i apologize that there's a lot more phantom centered content on this blog than fulbright centered stuff... i love fulbright more than anyone in the whole world but 99% of fulbright content is either blackbright or just like, just solo pictures of fulbright smiling which are nice but not very, you know, specific, considering plot! i wish there was more art and content about fulbright as his own person (like really specifically fulbright, in a way you can distinguish him from the phantom), what he was like before he died, etc in which he is treated as a little more than just a (tragic) love interest for blackquill

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a mistake,