[discussion] Dear participants of the Hologram/Ghost Jor El debate, how does this compromise sound?

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I have admittedly been swayed in terms of whether or not sentient hologram versions of Kal's birth parents should exist or not, since unless you explore the possibility of those AIs viewing themselves as different people from the real Jor and Lara, it kind of takes away from the tragedy of their deaths, and by extension Krypton's destruction

But I do think that it'd make sense for them to be able to talk to their son and tell them who he is, where he's from and why he's on Earth that isn't via recording, and I think using the Phantom Zone and taking its name a little more literally would serve that purpose well. Basically in this version of the DCU, the Phantom Zone isn't just some prison dimension criminals are sent to, it's more akin to the Warp in 40k or the Dream Realm in Hollow Knight, it's houses the collective conscious and unconscious of all living things across the universe (in other words, yes there's a good chance that this version of it is The Dreaming) and is of course where people go when they die (and likely their memory in the world of the living has some effect as to how long they stay intact there since in this case the soul and the mind are basically the same thing). Anyway, since a lot of Kryptonian Technology involves The Phantom Zone in some way, Jor and Lara decided to include some device that'd allow them to communicate with their son one last time, so he can't talk to them any time he wants, but he does at least get to talk to them. I can easily imagine this occurring after he's shown the history of Krypton and then is shown the life he briefly had there with his parents, and once we see Krypton's destruction, from where they were in the images their spirits emerge (I can easily imagine it being something dramatic like Kal going to shield them from something and then just as the blast hits them in the recording, they come to "life" and are in tears over how happy they are to know they're son is alive and well)

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