[The following has been transcribed from a single audio recording. No editing has or appears to have been done to the tape.]
"State your name for the record please."
"Seriously Jazz, a cassette tape? What is this, the Dark Ages?"
"What? No! Darn it Danny you promised you'd help me with this!"
"Yeah, yeah, I know. And I am! But we have a computer right here."
There is a short silence here and it is unclear what non-verbal cues were given.
"Alright alright! We'll use your stupid cave man tools! Let's just get this over with."
She sighs, "Well thanks" the sound of a chair creaking indicates that someone [most likely Jazz] has readjusted her position in her chair. "Now, from the beginning. Please State your name for the record."
"Danny."
Hissed though gritted teeth, "Your full name."
He sighs, "well I guess that depends on who you're doing an interview with. Is it with your boring little brother or is it going to be with the ever popular Phantom?"
"Hmm, well which one are you? Who do you identify with most?"
"I... um... Both? Can it be both? Do I have to choose?"
"I don't know, do you?"
"I-I don't know. I asked you first!"
"Hey, hey, calm down. I'm not trying to upset you. Just introduce yourself with your full name and we can get back to that."
He sighs again but this time more calmly. "I'm Daniel Fenton or Danny Phantom. I prefer Danny."
"There see? Step one over. Now, if you don't mind, why was that so upsetting for you Danny?"
"Do I have to?"
"Well no, but I'd like it if you did. I'm just trying to help."
"Well I guess... It just reminded me of my first fight with Spectra."
"Oh! I'm sorry! Did you wanna talk about it more? Or move on to something else?"
"... Anything else really."
"Hm, well do you mind if we talk about your powers? I've always been kind of curious."
"Oh! Um, sure? What do you wanna know?'
"Well, I guess we can start with the basics. What is your transformation like? You know, when you- oh what do you call it? 'Becoming Ghostly?' or something like that?"
Danny lets out a short chuckle, "It's 'Going Ghost', Jazz. Man, you'd make the worst ghost ever! 'I'm becoming ghostly wahooo~!' So spooky." With that he busts up laughing.
There's a few minutes of just Danny laughing until finally Jazz tries to regain control of the situation.
"Alright, Alright, it wasn't that funny!"
"Yeah it was." He chuckles, slightly winded from all of his merriment.
"Seriously Danny I'm going to run out of tape!"
"Ok, ok I'm done." Danny takes a deep breath and the last of his chuckling laughs end. "What was the question again?"
"Oh my gosh Danny, I asked what it's like to 'Go Ghost' as you put it. How does that feel?"
"Like literally?"
"Yeah."
"Chilly? No really! It is! It's colder, I mean it feel s colder when I'm changing. But after I'm in ghost mode I don't even notice it anymore. Like when you jump into a cool pool in summer and that first splash is super cold but then you just get used to it? It's like that. But on the inside."
"Really? That's fascinating, is there more?"
"yeah I guess, it's also kinda hallow feeling? But not empty! Like I know those words mean the same thing but not in this sense."
"Uh-hu, go on."
"And, I know this isn't going to make any sense at all, but it's the only thing that fits." Danny takes a moment to compose himself then says, "It feels bright? Like if you could- Oh I don't know, hold starlight? Kinda like that. Maybe it's just the ecto-energy and I'm over complicating things... Did any of that make any sense at all?"
"Wow, I didn't realize that would be such a complicated answer... perhaps trying to translate a physical feeling that derives from a parallel dimension is more complicated than I previously hypothesized."
"In English?"
"Yes Danny, it made sense."
"Well at least one of us gets it."
[End of tape.]
