#kryptonite is rock candy ectoplasm

[daydreaming-bee]

If kryptonite is rock candy ectoplasm…

Does that mean Danny and Superman can’t be near each other? Especially if Danny is the ghost king, wouldn’t he basically radiate ectoplasm? In this case it would be like a huge aura of kryptonite to Superman?

Or would it not be a huge affect because the ectoplasm isn’t solid; like no one would even think that the reason Superman has been having these constant headaches were because of their new teammate. (Danny wouldn’t know he’s doing this either)

On another note sometimes people like to make the whole batfam liminal, in that case would spending too much time with Batman make him a little uncomfortable, even without knowing.

[chaoswarfare]

dp x dc prompt #42

When Danny joined the JL, they added the list of substances and weapons he was weak to to the system, with all of Batman’s contingency plans, just like every member of the league. They worked their way through testing other things that had the possibility of affecting Phantom, just to be safe, but there’s some things that nobody thinks to prepare for.

Danny is sent to deal with a large chunk of Kryptonite that crashed on earth and plowed straight through a city. He was closest and the fastest moving hero available.

When Phantom stopped responding on the comms, the heroes noticed immediately.

Nobody expected Kryptonite to drive ghosts absolutely mad.

[autisticamerican]

Sam's family is rich right and in cannon don't like her friends.

But there are a few points that point to the Fenton's being rich too.

So what if they are and really don't care.

Then one day there is talk around town from a gossip mail person that they saw a wedding invitation to Bruce Wayne and Salen Kyle's wedding.

The adult Masons are like oh it's nice to be invited to the event of the year. They make it clear to their daughter she cannot take her friends.

Only the invite goes to the Fenton's and Danny takes tucker to the wedding as Sam made it clear she doesn't like things like that.

[mossycobblestonewrites]

DC X DP PROMPT #16

Mr. Lancer is the brother of Lex Luthor. He never really had an eye for business, or invention, or innovation. He just wanted to be a teacher, spread the good word on literature. Which is the whole reason he had changed his name and moved to the middle of nowhere.

He does not appreciate his brother delivering a package in his door. Not delivering it personally, not even sending a physical person to do a drop off. Just a measly note.

'hold onto this for me - L.L.'

What has Lex ever done for him? Nothing, that's what. So Mr. Lancer does the sensible thing. He opens the box to investigate to find - hardened ectoplasm?

Mr. Lancer knows about Danny and co. Au where Kryptonite is just hardened Ecto and is basically rock candy. Lex sends his brother a shit ton of kryptonite for safe keeping thinking 'he lives in the middle of nowhere what's he gonna do with it?' he feeds it to Danny :)

[halfghostwriter]

There’s a special kind of ectoplasmic rock candy made in the ghost zone that looks remarkably similar to kryptonite, the main difference being that the rock candy is a bit transparent.

Of course, during the Casper High field trip to Metropolis, it doesn’t take long for a small mix-up to end in Danny losing all of his rock candy and finding out that he can bite through kryptonite (it tastes like rock. He was very disappointed).

[disillusioneddanny]

For your random fun one shot

There's a fruit out there called Synsepalum dulcificum(aka miracle berry) that messes with the taste receptors(sour things taste sweet etc). Ectoplasm has a similar effect(for the purpose of the prompt that is, idk if it actually does).

So danny (either as Danny or as phantom)does shots of ectoplasm and tries a bunch of other heroes' favorite foods(starfire's cooking, red robin's and or oracle's caffeine abomination, random leftovers in the fridge, etc) and live streams it for charity while answering fan sent questions.

But then one of the flashes knocks over his shot glass while running by and all the food becomes animated and there's an epic food fight in whichever cafeteria he's in

enjoy a taste of chaos >:))))

Danny’s taste was a little fucked, he would be the first to tell you. There was this thing with ectoplasm that made his taste receptors just a bit different anytime he drank some. And because of this, his favorite thing was grossing out his Titans team mates any chance he could. The team had just as much fun as he did and it was technically Impulse’s idea to do this new tik tok series to introduce himself to the world as the newest member of the Titans. 

So, here he was, sitting at the break room table in the tower with vials of ectoplasm and the most fucked up foods his team could think of sitting before him. 

There was a cake baked by Miss Martian that Superboy had winced at. A veggie lasagna made by Beast Boy that Nightwing eyed warily. A strange coffee and energy drink combination courtesy of Red Robin.  Some kind of casserole that Stafire had excitedly made, and a random assortment of the weirdest snacks that Impulse could find. The entire team was now watching in horror as Danny took a shot of ectoplasm and looked over the terrifying arrangement of food in front of him. 

“This feels like a fucked up mukbang,” Danny said with an amused smile. 

Red Robin snickered from behind his phone. “What are you going to try first, Phantom? Everyone in the live are making bets on what you’re going to eat first.”

“Are we sure this isn’t going to kill him?” Superboy asked worriedly. 

“I’m already dead,” Danny said with a shrug. His teammates all gave him that same look of horror they did any time Danny reminded them all of his mortality. He supposed it was easy for them to forget that Danny was a ghost when the only other ghost they really knew about was Deadman and they were two completely different types of ghosts. 

Not only that, but Danny still hadn’t mentioned to any of his teammates that he was only half dead. He had yet to reveal his secret identity to any of them. He had only been a member of the team for about a month and none of them had shared their identities with him so it was only fair that he didn’t share that part of himself with them yet either. 

“Oh right,” Nightwing said faintly, that look of horror still on his face. 

Danny just gave them a sharp, fanged smile and grabbed the first thing on his tray. A small rock of kryptonite. He supposed it made sense to eat that first considering Superboy was looking sicker and sicker the longer they sat there. 

“Are you sure it’s fine for you to ingest kryptonite?” Wondergirl asked, looking a little uneasy. 

“Of course, my body breaks it down just like it does human food. It’s all just turned into ectoplasm and energy,” Danny said before popping the rock in his mouth and crunching on it like it was just a piece of bright green rock candy. 

He crinkled his nose at the taste, it was almost like eating pure sugar, it kinda made his teeth hurt. The same way it did when he was a kid and got his first cavity. 

“Well?” Impulse asked, practically vibrating with excitement. “Is it everything I imagine kryptonite tastes like?”

Danny snorted. “It tastes like I’m eating pure sugar,” he said before drinking another vial of ectoplasm. 

“That’s so crash!” Impulse shouted, slinging his hands out in excitement as he did. The following events were like slow motion. 

Impulse’s hand knocked straight into the tray of ectoplasm vials that seemed to scatter across the table, hitting each fucked up and questionable piece of food or drink on the small table.

From there chaos just simply erupted. Danny braced himself as the pieces of food started to slowly but surely float off of the table, the coffee-energy drink began to take form and create a small fizzy, coffee scented blob ghost that careened straight towards Impulse’s face. 

The veggie lasagna quickly grew pinsharp fangs that it gnashed and chomped at Beast Boy, loud screeches coming from its body. 

“Oh no,” Danny said, his face pale beyond belief. 

“Ph-phantom?” Nightwing stammered, his eyes wide with horror as the casserole that Starfire made started to slowly but surely inch its way towards the eldest hero. 

“Red Robin, end the livestream,” Danny hissed as an ectoblast started to form in his hand, his other hand inched towards the thermos that he kept at his hip.  

“But-” Red Robin let out a screech as Impulse tackled him just before a random giant pretzel launched itself at the vigilante. 

“End the livestream!” Superboy screeched as he shot lasers at the hurtling ball of cabbage that had launched itself at the hero like a cannonball.

“I’m not ending the livestream! We just got so many more viewers joining!” Red Robin shouted back as he started fighting back the chips that were now being flung his way. 

“Brace yourselves!” Wondergirl yelled as jello slung itself around the room. Danny just let out a groan as he started shooting ectoblasts, doing his best to subdue the ecto infused food. 

He was never letting his team convince him into bringing out the ectoplasm again. This was the worst idea they had ever had.

[parad0xm0th]

Unrelated but I keep thinking of a scene where Danny sneaks into some ‘secure’ location to steal some kryptonite (the rock candy of ectoplasm aus my beloved) and when Superman or some shit pull up it’s goes something like

Unfortunate nearby hero: ok kid I need you to put that down it’s incredibly dangerous-

Danny (panicked) (only has so many brain cells): *shoves it in his mouth* twhe whabt

[tanglepelt]

Dc x dp idea 15

I love some good insane Fenton parents fics. Especially when they mistake hero’s for ghost. I

It’s typically one of the bats. But thinking about it. I feel like one of the supers are a better choice. They fly and shoot lasers.

So fentons move to metropolis to hunt down Superman. As much as i love kyrptonite rock candy it would also have to effect ghost in this. Maybe it’s solidified ectoplasm and is trying to steal the ectoplasma from ghost or something.

Danny avoids going home at all cost. He’s out at library’s and seems to attract trouble of the new  enemies (Danny’s rouges). More reason the Fenton parents think Superman is a ghost.

They new weapons the Fentons make include shooting shards of the kryptonite to handicap the ghost.

Through some means they catch Superman. Danny is just horrified.

Since he is half human i don’t feel it would effect him to awful human. Enough he doesn’t want to go home but not enough he can’t move unless he’s using any abilities.

Danny gets him out parents are investigated. Everyone thinks Danny was experimented on by his parents with alien dna.

[pikkuisesti-paskaa]

Ok so we all know the trope where kryptonite is crystallized ectoplasm and Danny eats it like its rock candy. But what if in return blood blossoms are some kind of a delicacy for kryptonians. Don’t ask the logistics how they were on both planets but they just are. So now we have Danny eating the rocks bothering Superman and Superman eating the flowers bothering Danny. Equal exchange and all that. 

[audaciousanonj]

Ok so we all know that kryptonite is crystallized ectoplasm, aka "ghost rock candy", right??

and we've seen the hc that Pit Rage = Hangry for ectoplasm

Anyway Red Hood eats kryptonite send tweet

[stars-burn]

DP x DC Prompt 8

I’m positive that I’m not the first to say it, but I am frequently seized with the idea of kryptonite being crystallized, pure ectoplasm. Just imagine one of our beloved ghosts snagging kryptonite and nomming on it like rock candy. ALSO if we continue the ‘lazarus pits are corrupted ectoplasm’ headcanon: imagine a member of Team Phantom snagging some of the ‘emergency kryptonite’ that Batman has and shoving it in Jason’s (or Damian’s, kid’s died enough) mouth like: Eat. You’ll feel better. You aren’t you when you’re hungry. (If you want, we can go ahead and assume this implies Krypton was part of the ghost zone, and kryptonite is harmful to Kryptonians because their bodies can’t handle that much pure ectoplasm at once. They’re like... you know how there’s the theory that Amity Park is liminal because of exposure to the Ghost Zone? Reverse the polarity  liminals, they’ve all been so long WITHOUT ectoplasm that their bodies just can’t handle the pure stuff anymore.) This makes life for half-Kryptonians even more complicated, actually.

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Space Like Ocean

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/CTWR8j3 by skripsy An alien had taken up residence outside of the Watchtower. Its first appearance immediately started a panic with most of the heroes that could survive in space converging on the station to see whether it was friend or foe. In the end, it did not seem either. In fact, it seemed fine with just basking and napping wrapped around parts of the Watchtower that made up the outside. It wasn’t the size of the Watchtower, but off and on it was a very near thing. Humanoid, yet distinctly inhuman. White wispy hair sat atop its head, pointed ears, and the only feature that could be made out of its face were two bright green glowing eyes. A color that sent Batman into a research frenzy. Its skin was void-dark. Almost looking as if a piece of space itself had separated from the cosmos and took and almost snake-like form. Or maybe an eel? The most notable thing about the creature were its injuries. Multiple lacerations covered it, leaking a green that never touched the Watchtower and seemed to evaporate not long after leaving its body. Any silent attempts to collect it for study and to figure out what it was were met with emotionless green eyes and a bare hint of fang. They backed off quickly. Words: 928, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 3 of Fanaroff's Danny Phantom Plot Bunnies and One-Shots Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Justice League - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Other Characters: Danny Fenton, Batman, Superman, John Constantine, Deadman, Zatanna Zatara, Bruce Wayne, Nightwing, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) Additional Tags: Ghost King Danny Fenton, danny is the ghost king, Eldritch Danny Fenton, Eldritch Ghost King, mer ghost, Mer Danny, eel mer danny, kryptonite is ghost catnip, kryptonite is ghost rock candy, kryptonite is ectoplasm, prompt, Plot Bunny, One Shot read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/CTWR8j3

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Space Like Ocean

by skripsy An alien had taken up residence outside of the Watchtower. Its first appearance immediately started a panic with most of the heroes that could survive in space converging on the station to see whether it was friend or foe. In the end, it did not seem either. In fact, it seemed fine with just basking and napping wrapped around parts of the Watchtower that made up the outside. It wasn’t the size of the Watchtower, but off and on it was a very near thing. Humanoid, yet distinctly inhuman. White wispy hair sat atop its head, pointed ears, and the only feature that could be made out of its face were two bright green glowing eyes. A color that sent Batman into a research frenzy. Its skin was void-dark. Almost looking as if a piece of space itself had separated from the cosmos and took and almost snake-like form. Or maybe an eel? The most notable thing about the creature were its injuries. Multiple lacerations covered it, leaking a green that never touched the Watchtower and seemed to evaporate not long after leaving its body. Any silent attempts to collect it for study and to figure out what it was were met with emotionless green eyes and a bare hint of fang. They backed off quickly. Words: 928, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 3 of Fanaroff's Danny Phantom Plot Bunnies and One-Shots Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Justice League - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Other Characters: Danny Fenton, Batman, Superman, John Constantine, Deadman, Zatanna Zatara, Bruce Wayne, Nightwing, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) Additional Tags: Ghost King Danny Fenton, danny is the ghost king, Eldritch Danny Fenton, Eldritch Ghost King, mer ghost, Mer Danny, eel mer danny, kryptonite is ghost catnip, kryptonite is ghost rock candy, kryptonite is ectoplasm, prompt, Plot Bunny, One Shot via https://ift.tt/CTWR8j3

[yourlocalcorviddad]

@theobliviousshipper in the tags mentioned someone finding out sooner.

Clark. 100% Clark does.

Midwestern raised boy 100% has helped neighbours and all with their random errands and cravings when growing up cause neighbouring farms usually needed helped if half of the main workers(cause most do the work themselves) were out of commission due to pregnancy.

And you bet Ma and Pa Kent taught him well.

But also, Bruce. He's Def going to notice and put two and two together. He'd definitely look into stuff to make sure his kids are healthy, and you know Alfred taught him well.

I also like the idea of trans Bruce and Talia just did the generic cloning version of child which is why he wasn't aware of Damian's existence. So he knows the signs for himself just in case. Always prepared.

So they both notice, and both go Dad Mode™

It was simple at first. Just occasionally catching Phantom rubbing at his hips, even when he'd not gotten into a fight.

Or the change in uniform. At first it wasn't thought much of. He'd had the same uniform for years apparently, one was entitled to a uniform change, though the tunic look, going a mix of medieval and futuristic at the same time was a surprise. It had less definition given to his form but also fit him. Clark had heard the younger hero talking with the YJL group about it.

Then, more so almost slipping under the radar because it was months later instead of weeks, he started eating... Not so much weird stuff, but weirder for him.

Things like lessening the energy drinks and coffee, but drinking more of his 'Thermos Goop' as he called it, and eating various coloured, what Clark at first thought was rock candy, rocks.

Including one memorable incident when, after a fight with Lex ended with them confiscating Kryptonite, the young adult was found eating it like it was candy. Which to ghosts, it apparently was. It still shook him to see Phantom putting barbeque sauce on it though.

Bruce noticed the odd...disappearances of things. One of his spare cloaks, and Clarks as well. Flash's old uniform shirt, damaged in a mission and not fixed yet. Diana's scarf she left once after a battle.

Little things here and there. No one saw him of course. And if something was mentioned missing and needed, it always showed back up, so it wasn't a problem, but Bruce still noticed.

This all spread over a year.

It ended up with a final;

"Oh hey, you're finally putting some weight on! Good, you were skinny as a rail when you first started here!"

From Supergirl that had Bruce-and eventually Clark, who noticed him doing so-writing the list of noticed irregularities down before they, with hesitance because it wasn't something to do lightly, approached Constantine-after initially asking Zantana first only to be told he knew more about the beings of the Infinite Realms-for information on ecto-biology, before they put two and two together.

And it was completely on accident.

"Well yeah, some of them are from living folks when they pass away with the right circumstance, but a good portion are born or created naturally. Takes years though, usually 4-5 earth years either way. Former-Living need enough ectoplasm around them when they die, and usually a strong conviction. Born either are embodiments of concepts like Time, Nature, Sleep, etc, or they're formed from cores from already Alive, only word for it in this case, Ecto-entities, and kinda carried like a pregnancy, only the cores form first and get absorbed into the parent until they're strong enough to be born. Heard it takes days for that too."

So if ghosts can revert into their core, what if Dani did when she was destabilizing?

What if cores needed a safe resting place with access to ectoplasm? And it's instinct for ghosts to protect and nurture cores. As they're very vulnerable.

Danny acting on instinct absorbs the core or cores??(other clones?) into his body. To keep them safe.

So he carries these cores around until they mature and are stable enough to take form.

However, this takes time, like years.

So I propose. Newest JL member Danny Phantom just suddenly gasping and keeling over in the middle of a meeting or fight??

JL members start panicking. Like wtf?? What's wrong with Phantom? An attack? Is he hurt?

Phantom just sits up and continues the meeting or fight like normal until it happens again and they're like " Are you hurt? Poisoned? What is it!"

Danny just shrugs and goes " It's fine, just contractions".

"Contractions?..."

"Yeah! They suck, but I'm glad they'll be here soon. It's been like 4 years".

Just the JL or whoever panicking and being super protective over there newest and youngest member, who, through a series of misunderstandings, thinks Phantoms been knocked up for 4 years by his arch nemesis.

[spidori]

@justwannabecat he's even got the Superman bodyplan for it!

...Hang on, I've got an idea...

Usual "are you a clone" trope, where they get just about every detail right, except they mistake Dan as a clone/twisted version of Supes!

This would be even better if we took another of the usual scripts, the idea that kryptonite is Ecto and therefore harmless/sustenance to ghosts, and flipped that too.

Like, it's rocks imbued with the death energy of a world of living beings all dying at once and angry, right? Sure, it makes perfect sense for that to be like candy, if the energy had filtered into the ghost zone; why didn't it filter into the ghost zone?

Well, krypton had some high level science, like high level to the point where the only people on earth who even kinda compare are the best of the best at a couple of high level labs. Like Lex corp. Or Cadmus. Or FentonWorks...

So for this twist, what if Krypton knew about Ecto science. They knew not to truly fuck with the zone a la GIW, but they had figured out how to capture and store ambient Ecto as a clean energy source, and converted much of the crust of the planet into a network of Ecto conducting crystals. For anyone familiar with the StarCraft lore, I'm thinking something like the pylon and psionic network running throughout all of Aiur; essentially a massive pseudomagic power grid.

Maybe that's even why Krypton done broked.

My brain spirals out a bit in expanding on this, so details under the cut. The short and sweet is that Krypton utilized Ecto to power stuff, but ignored a bunch of warning signs that they were using it irresponsibly. It led to their world shattering from a positive feedback loop on a very negative reaction, with all of the corrupted and dissonant energy produced imbued into the fragments of the system. Now positively ringing with such ectoplasmic dissonance, the shards of what will be called Kryptonite are as toxic to ectoplasmic entities as they are to Kryptonians.

World building to further justify and add details is under the cut.

All that emotional resonance and power would need to be handled carefully, and the leaders of Krypton got complacent and corrupt, and that had ripple effects. The wider populace started to get frustrated. Their frustrations were a larger and larger portion of the emotional energy being released. The leaders turned to the grid and used it to influence the emotions of the populace, something they'd done plenty of times before and expected to keep doing essentially forever without consequences. They tuned the system to push a little more for contented vibes, expecting the emotional state of the populace to follow as it had in the past; they, as usual, ignored the concerns of a couple of the eggheads about some odd dissonant waveforms in the system; the system kept the populace on line, that was what it was there for, if it was having issues then stop complaining and fix it, that's what eggheads like you are there for.

The buttons were pressed and switches flipped. The emotional resonance of the system was tuned a little more towards contentment and obedience and a little more away from frustration and pushing for change, a little more away from the feelings the populace were so stubbornly clinging to against the orders of their betters.

This time was expected to be the same as all the others; this time the difference was *just* enough to be different than all the others; this time the dissonance between the emotions the people felt and the emotions the network was trying to push were *just* enough that the ones being pushed were recognized as coming from an outside source by the minds it was attempting to influence. There were always a few people who were emotionally sensitive or resistant enough to the network that the effect was known and documented, but they'd always been able to be written off as just a (mysteriously growing) number of crazy conspiracy theorists claiming the government was beaming thoughts into people's brains, so the assumption was that this time would be no different; this time was different, this time the number of minds recognizing the external force reached critical mass.

With a critical mass of people reached, the idea started to gain acceptance as possible. Once the idea gained acceptance as possible, more people started to wonder about their own thoughts and feelings. Once a person began to wonder, their subconscious became more sensitive to deviations indicative of an external source. As people's subconsciouses became more discerning, more people breached the threshold of noticing. As more people noticed, the possibility gained more acceptance and the feedback looped.

The eggheads raised the alarm, of course. The emotional dissonance was rapidly growing dangerous to the system as a whole. They needed to shut it down and let emotions settle, then figure out the best way to go about powering it back up once the emotional energy had stabilized.

The people in charge wouldn't hear any of it, of course. That system is what keeps the lights on all over the planet! It's what powers our transports, and our peacekeepers, and drives the machines which manufacture everything our people have come to depend on to maintain the standards of living we bestowed upon them! Find a way to, and I quote "fix the problem without harming the economy!"

"But sir, the data clearly show the system is dumping enough CO2 *cough cough* I mean dissonant emotional energy *cough cough* to cause a feedback loop which will make Krypton at the very least uninhabitable for Kryptonians, if not effectively destroy the planet!"

"That system got us to the Pinnacle we stand upon today! I won't have you scientists in your ivory towers ripping that progress out from under people. People who don't deserve to lose their livelihoods just because you are too lazy to do the hard work it will take to come up with a better way to fix the problem! So nut up and find a way to make the system run clean enough. We're not turning it off."

And, well, the eggheads were right, of course. The feedback loop kept growing exponentially, and soon the emotional collectors were collecting essentially entirely discontent and anger, and the transmitters were pushing out the exact opposite, and the anharmonic amplification the scientists had warned about went supercritical.

The emotional energies of the entire populace, and those stored up and worn into the Ecto-network's circuits and power banks over untold generations- both given physicality Planetwide by the system- clashed against each other in a now unstoppable and growing reaction.

The scientists, realizing the situation was now beyond what they could even possibly hope to lessen, went home to be with their loved ones for a bit before the end. Some of them tried to tell the leaders, of course. But of course, few of them were willing to listen, most choosing instead to believe that this was just a case of unruly workers going on strike to try to gain leverage, and began planning how they'd spin the story to make the eggheads the villains who were trying to take away the planetary electrical system.

A few actually listened to the warnings of their experts, but still believed the warnings were exaggerated. After all, as politicians they were used to always exaggerating the consequences to adjust for how it was Kryptonian nature to be resistant to change, they assumed the scientists understood that and were doing the same.

One of the elites, one who had a science background himself and had been (the only one) actually reading and able to understand the data the scientists were presenting, actually truly believed them. He saw the scientists' final message for what it was, not a plea, an admission and acceptance of total defeat. He saw the predictions the data pointed towards, he saw the scientists leave their posts and go home, and he followed their example.

Jor-El went home, and decided to do *something* because he couldn't handle this unfamiliar feeling of being so completely powerless.

How could he be unable to change policy? He was a member of the elite, he was one of only twenty or so people who had access to the whole picture and the training to supposedly be able to communicate it to other members of the upper class. But communication is a two way thing, it doesn't matter the words you choose, they can always be twisted by the listener who has already decided what they are going to believe; that's the problem with debating with someone in bad faith, a problem Jor-El was all too familiar with.

How could he be unable to mitigate the problem even enough to delay calamity by a few extra minutes? He had all the scientific understanding to fully grasp the whole picture he was privy to; he had the understanding to grasp that the situation had well and truly passed the point of no return. Even if the system were shut off immediately and all the parts atomized- as if the other elites would allow that- the extreme dissonance had reached the point where the energies were self-sustaining. The reaction *would* keep rising and feeding on itself, the emotional energy made physical by coalescing around the mass of already physical energy, growing like a white dwarf star on the verge of the Chandrasekhar limit.

How could all his resources mean nothing in the face of all this? Even with all his wealth and technology, he couldn't do anything more than run away! And he wouldn't- couldn't- do that. The grid was already collapsing, making interplanetary mining drone launches fail beyond a certain liftoff-mass. He could see from the trend that within a few hours the only ships within the mass limit would be stasis pods carrying a single person, and then only if launched one at a time. It would take him until that window just to have such a pod built, and then only by utilizing favors and his family's manufacturers to their fullest. And then what, would he leave his wife and newborn child behind? Drift through the stars as some sort of sleeping nomad until he reached some destination world? His sanity wouldn't survive the first week once he woke up and was forced to face the loss, of that he was certain. Such a profound and total loss of the only culture and people one had ever known would drive even the most adaptable of Kryptonian children completely and violently mad... But maybe not an infant who had never developed enough to truly know what they had lost...

With his purpose latched onto like the drowning man he was, Jor-El Moved. He knew, in the grand scheme, saving his son would mean nothing. It would not delay the destruction of Krypton. The planet's culture would still be dead, it's husk+ at best- puppeted by one who had never truly experienced it. Whatever knowledge he put on the pod's data banks wouldn't hold a nightbulb to what was stored in Braniac; he was aware that the last act of one of the scientists had been to issue Braniac the command to "keep collecting data until Krypton is completely dead, then go into read-only mode to act as an archive. Share the lessons of our demise, so that maybe others can avoid our mistakes."

Jor-El knew it would be an ultimately meaningless acting the face of oblivion, but at least it gave him something to do to make himself feel better while the clock ticked down.

So he acted. Krypton shattered, as it is wont to do in DC canon, but not before Clark's pod was launched our way out of the Kryptonian Baby Cannon (my headcanon, my baby cannon).

But here's where my brain is finally done spinning and loops back to where this whole spiral originated from. When the dissonance reaction crossed that final threshold it shattered the planet, flinging pieces across the stars, including pieces of the Ecto utilization system itself. Pieces of crystal which had been used to harmonize and direct the potent emotional energy contained in ectoplasm for millennia, and which had been steeped in the same emotional dissonance which shattered Krypton physically and spiritually, which would come to be called Kryptonite.

Now, ghosts consume ectoplasm for sustenance, very little of which could be called "pure" ectoplasm. Almost all ectoplasm has some sort of emotional or thought frequencies imprinted upon it by circumstance. While these frequencies will fade over time if kept in isolation- even in the ghost zone, where required level of isolation is admittedly quite difficult- the time it takes to fade naturally is prohibitively long. Purified Ecto is a delicacy comparable to the finest of aged wines, available only to the supremely wealthy and powerful in the zone, or those in the living realm with access to a FentonWorks EctoPhantasticDistillery kit (with in built fudge maker and microwave).

The lack of completely pure Ecto isn't really an issue for any normal ghost not on the verge of D-stabilizing; any healthy ghost is capable of filtering out quite a bit of emotional resonances to utilize the purified Ecto-energy which results. Sure it produces a bit of concentrated Ecto-waste, ya'know, ghost poop, but hey, ghost sewers are a common thing in Phanon for a reason. Putting the waste in the specific places in the living realm is the ghostly equivalent of composting human sewage; the concentrated Ecto-waste can't diffuse in the living realm like it would in the Zone, and the concentrated emotional resonance contaminants naturally die out over time. And as a bonus, mixing so many strong emotional residues together in a soup of potential energy has the side effect of producing the Magical equivalent of micro nutrients like sonder, angrostalgia, or blin. All in all, this makes for a healthy ectoplasm-cycle for both the living and unliving realms.

So yeah, ghosts can eat minorly corrupted Ecto, which is the normal kind produced by emotional life forms, without any issue whatsoever. They can eat even pretty heavily corrupted Ecto like that found around battlefields, albeit with the ghostly equivalent to a stomach ache afterwards. Not Kryptonite though, that shit isn't "corrupted" Ecto, oh no, that shit is Poisoned.

Kryptonite contains the distilled residue of emotional dissonance strong enough to Literally destroy a planet. That stuff isn't concentrated anger, or pain and suffering, or really emotion period, it's concentrated essence of Ending in the most emotionally dissonant way yet discovered. Kryptonite is what remains of Krypton's End, it is absolutely enough to poison and End any normal ghost that tries to eat it. Hell, it's enough to End just about any Ancient that was stupid or desperate enough to try to eat it.

So there's my justification for how Kryptonite could be poisonous to any Ecto entities. Feel free to steal and tweak this however you like if you're writing a story where it makes more sense for Kryptonite to be poison instead of candy. All I ask is to shoot me a heads up when you post it, I love seeing the ideas my brain spirals spark!

And all of this spiralling out from the idea that the Justice League could mistake Dan for an alternate version or clone of Superman because of their similar body types... I'm gonna have to circle back and fill that one out later... The plot bunnies... They're BREEDING!!!

Dark Danny: I created you, [points at Danny and then back at him] and you created me.

Wonder Woman: Phantom why did you create that guy?

Danny, about to go feral as fuck: MOTHERFUCKER HE CREATED HIMSELF.

Which is true, he succeeded in the Nasty Burger explosion happening to Danny in the past, so he did create himself via timeline willy wonky.