things in undertale that are, hauntologically, ghosts: a flower imbued with the powdered essense of a child, rewakened into animation and awareness by the injection of liquid willpower. the framing and mechanics of a narrative, letting slip things it knows the protagonist shouldn’t, its memories surfacing upon every in-game death. the souls of dead children, wavering voiceless colors, who they were in life only revealed from the items they left behind. a man shattered across time and space, and the wandering mouthpieces of his story (fellow lost ones? or mere tendrils of himself?) that noone else can see.
things in undertale that aren’t ghosts: the subspecies of monster that look like bedsheet lumps and posses objects that everyone calls “ghosts“. skeletons.












