For the prompts: Magnetism.
Oh, I’m not sure if this is really my headcanon or if this is a phandom-wide thing... I tend to forget where things come from. :) All I know for sure is it’s a headcanon that I’ve had for years and years and years.
Albert Einstein has this equation - e=mc2. Really basically, energy is matter moving really fast and energy slowed way down is matter. Energy is both a wave and a particle.
I’ve always imagined ectoplasm as sort of an in-between of e=mc2 - something halfway between matter and energy. Some sort of physical manifestation of a wave, although the exact details change depending on what I need the story to do. :)
Electromagnetic waves can be affected by magnets. Ectoplasm has a similar reaction to magnets, being a sort-of-wave-energy. (ectosignatures are a wave pattern). Ghost shields are powerful, localized magnetic fields, much like the one that protects the Earth from the worst of the sun’s deadly energy.
Anywho, back to magnets. Guess where you can find some of the most powerful magnets in your house? The microwave.
I’ve headcanoned for years that Danny is an excellent cook - the best in the Fenton household, and perhaps in the neighborhood - but he cannot stand the microwave since the accident. His reaction to it changes depending on the story (from pain to a jittery shock to just an unpleasant feeling), but it’s always the same in the end: repulsed by the device.
And he doesn’t admit it, because he likes being ‘normal’, and knows it’s related to his ghost side.
He ends up getting a lot of flack from his sister and friends that he does everything ‘the long way’ instead of just use the microwave. Danny insists making hot chocolate is better when you slowly boil the milk on the stove instead of nuke it for thirty seconds. He gets into long arguments about why frozen meals taste better after 45 minutes in a toaster oven instead of three minutes in the microwave.
I dunno, it’s a little silly. But it’s one of my random long-standing headcanons that I sort of cling to. That, and the ketchup thing. :)
