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They were right. All of them. My parents, Valerie…all of them. I'm nothing special. Yeah, I'm the Halfa, but beyond that…I'm just a ghost. I'm evil, just like all the others.

I found this out during a discussion with Vlad. Not the powerful, billionaire, fruitloop. Oh no, I mean a broken, impoverished Vlad who lived in a cave and had a beard that went down to his knees. He described to me the union of my ghost half and his to create the evil version of myself that I had fought hours before. He told me that when his ghost half fused with mine, his evil side overcame me…that's a lie. My ghost half was evil to begin with. If it wasn't, then it wouldn't have tried to separate Masters from Plasmius as soon as it became an independent being. Vlad described to me the look in his eyes right before he strapped on those Ghost Gauntlets…there was pure evil in those eyes, even before Plasmius came into the picture. I have evil in me. I am a ghost, just like any other ghost.

So why doesn't the evil within me overtake me? Why do I continue to be the hero? Why doesn't my ghost form, as soon as it's accessed, immediately begin destroying the town?

I suppose there's that little detail I overlooked earlier in this soliloquy-I'm the Halfa. In addition to being a ghost, I'm also human. My ghost half is tempered by human emotions such as love and happiness.

So if that's the case, what am I? A ghost trying to fit in with humans? A creepy little boy with creepy little powers? Both? Neither? I don't know.

Perhaps I just got lucky during the accident in that I got ghost powers but not ghostly emotions that should have come along with them. I like to think that no, I got the evil intentions, but my human consciousness is strong enough to suppress them. But that's a load of bull.

Perhaps my mind has been warped by the accident, but my "unfinished business" as a ghost is to protect this town from other ghosts. Or perhaps I'm just overly possessive of my town and feel that the other ghosts can't come in on my territory. It's mine, understand? Mine, mine, MINE!

The human psyche is easy to understand in some ways, but impossible in others. The Ghostly psyche is the same way. Except perhaps that of the Box Ghost. But on the other hand, one could look into why he's obsessed with boxes, and search forever and never find the answer. My psyche is that of a human and that of a ghost. The problem is that I don't know how much of either and how the two interact. The answer lies in what exactly I am.

Am I a human that can access a ghost form and use ghostly attributes? A ghost that can access a human form? Both a ghost and a human at once? Partially a ghost and partially a human? If that's the case, how much of each? Lastly, neither a ghost nor a human, but something else entirely?

I don't know what I am. All I know is that my persona contains elements typical of ghosts and also elements typical of humans. I don't know how much of each or how they interact. And the psyche of each in its purest form is impossible to figure out, all the more so the psyche of each when each is present in unknown amounts and manifests itself in unknown ways and quantities.

So in conclusion, it is not physically possible to understand the inner workings of my mind. This soliloquy began with me believing that I was in fact evil. Now I'm not so sure. Heck, now I have no idea, and even more questions than when I began.

I'm in love with Sam. Vlad is a fruit loop. These are constants. They are perhaps the only two constants that exist in my life. Everything else, including me, is variable and volatile.

I'm so confused.