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amysgiantbees · 1 month

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Things I'd like to see in Dead Boy Detectives Season 2

Tragic Mick and Monty form an Animals with Complicated Feelings About Being Human at Some Point support group. Maybe the Cat King is there too.

Monty takes on Tragic Mick's "curse" and get's to be human again and Mick get's to be a walrus or at least get's to not be human anymore and is a crow. Monty could even take over his store!

Monty and the Cat King dealing with loneliness together. The Cat King has all the loneliness of being an immortal that Edwin's making him unpack (in particular he hangs out with cats all day like fuck they have even shorter life spans than people god he must have lost a lot of loved ones) and Monty deals with loosing his owner/master/mother/weird aunt figure who's probably been his whole world for better and worse up until he got turned human.

Whoever Monty is hanging out with I want to see him far too earnestly doing their star charts.

Boys and Crystal solving just fun random MOTW cases

The Night Nurse and Jenny tearing their hair out trying to keep the teens in check.

Night Nurse in particular having an aneurism every time the boys refuse to fill out a form, brake a rule, or run off without her.

Although alternatively Edwin getting VERY into the forms and learning how Hell and the afterlife works, and instead pestering her about it.

Jenny focusing more on Crystal - and Niko when she comes back.

Jenny learning she can care a bit more. The Night Nurse learning to relax and care a little less.

Jenny getting a good date. Loving her ship with Death but also I like the idea of them meeting a Cat Queen and her little comment about everyone in town being spinsters with cats comes round to instead be this ancient being who is a cat.

Crystal researching her ancestors and finding out more about them.

Crystal dealing with the demon in her brain hopefully before he does something irreparable to her tree.

Maybe they end up interrogating David about the "something worse" Edwin was sold to.

Crystal learning about her powers!

Crystal trying to repair some of her old friendships. Make amends to a couple of people.

Niko reforming the dandelion sprites and learning to lead/work with them. Helping them all find a way to feed without murdering people.

Nico dealing with needing attention to eat and live despite her coping mechanism when she's sad or scared specifically being avoiding people and hiding from others.

Niko figuring out her dandelion god powers. Doing god like things like blessing people who love, care for, and harvest dandelions. Granting wishes when dandelions are blown!

Niko marriage counseling Kingham & Litty (the dandelion sprites).

Either Crystal and Charles giving being together another shot now that David has been "dealt" with for the time being or Charles figuring out that maybe he's attracted to Edwin too. Or both!

I love that since Edwin is "living" through the modern day he can explore his sexuality finally. In a similar vein a lot of people also see him as autistic, and autism awareness has certainly come a long way from the Edwardian period and now could be a good time for his character to explore this too. Charles in turn could help him by talking about their shared neurodivergent experience as I firmly believe he has ADHD.

Charles opening up more about his parents.

Learning Edwin's family backstory

Cat King having Desire as a sort of absentee parental figure so literally the whole gang can have parental issues. Night Nurse I assume does not have parents so get's to be the mentally stable one in this regard and (try to) help everyone through it.

Niko checking in on her mum. Seeing how she's coping.

Edwin and Crystal bonding over doing magic and getting closer as friends. He maybe even initiates a hug!

Edwin getting to initiate a kiss with someone

Scooby Do episode! (I vote Charles is Daphney, Edwin is Velma, Niko is Shaggy and Cyrstal is Fred, maybe the Cat King or Monty is Scoob).

Despair shows up again.

Maybe now that the boys don't need to run from death they reverse it and actively try to seek her out and talk to her.

Crystal seeing her little ghost friend Emma from the first episode again.

Edwin reading Niko's yaoi. It could even be really funny and bittersweet where when they still think she's dead he's reading it and getting emotional and saying to himself "she really did love love" or "I wish I could read this with her" or something emotional like that and then he flicks to the next page and it's something explicit and he suddenly shuts the book and is like "Enough of that for now" XD

Either Edwin and the Cat King get together. Or become friends. Or Thomas makes friends or something with some other kind of immortal so he's not so lonely. I'm leaning towards them being friends because he would have no issues being the friend that explains what hand jobs and molly is to Edwin. Also since he presents himself in a very ambiguously gendered way I feel like he could get him to talk about why he likes disguising himself as a woman so much. Whether than be introducing him to concepts like gender queerness or drag. It's just honestly both Charles and Edwin are pretty repressed and I think now that the Cat King has started to grow he could continue to really push them in a less intense, healthier way.

Monty and Edwin staying friends. Monty and Charles actually getting to properly vibe.

Jenny figuring out now that the shop is dead if butchering is truly what she wants. Since she did it because she inherited the shop she can really explore her wants without any feeling of obligation to her dad. I love that she's a butcher but I just think it'd be interesting to explore her passion for it without so much baggage.

#dead boy detectives spoilers #dead boy detective agency #dead boy detectives #dbd #the sandman universe #myanalysis

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siriusly-the-best-bi · 1 year

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Uk what fuck it. You want reboot scooby doo? Let me give my two cents.

Fred and Velma go to the gym together. They work out to be prepared when they inevitably end up with arms full of friends. Velma always ends up being the brunt of a lot of weight and once Fred offers, having gone to the gym since highschool working to stay in shape to carry a certain scaredy stoner and his Huge great dane, she begrudgingly accepts and it ends up being a really good experience they get to share together.

Shaggy doesn’t work out, couldn’t even fathom the thought, but he still somehow always has the strength to grab Velma of Daphne and carry them away from the danger. Maybe clinging to Scooby for dear life is all the workout he needs. Instead, while Velma and Fred are at the gym, he shares a joint with Daphne and they play dress up, planning all the outfits shaggy pulls out for his grand schemes to mislead the villains they come across. They giggle and twirl and relish in a silliness they can only understand with each other, before eventually picking up and preparing some food for the others to be ready when they return.

Velma reads out loud to Shaggy. He get’s anxious and more often than not can work himself into a panic with overthinking. He especially enjoys her reading to him while high. The articles she reads to him become captivating as he relaxes and can ask questions about the material that ordinarily he’d be too insecure to ask. Velma loves this time they spend together and gets excited about being able to passionately explain her current hyper fixations to him knowing that he’s enjoying himself just as much as she is.

Velma and Daphne spend a great deal of time learning new skills together. It started one night when Daphne was able to pick a lock with her bobby pin to save the gang from being stuck in a crappy jail cell all night in some rundown fake western town. Velma had admitted that despite the cliche she’d always been curious and Daphne jumped at the opportunity to teach her something new. Now every month they choose one activity, be it a language or an instrument or even something as silly as a dance, and they learn one of those things together. It turns out they study well together, with Velma being good at absorbing and learning material off the bat, she’s better able to explain it and learn it with Daphne, who’s more of a visual and ‘Doer’ kinda learner. Velma learns that sometimes having a basic understanding of something isn’t enough to give you that skill, and Daphne learns that having a basic understanding of certain skills can make them easier to carry out.

Daphne and Fred like to banter and wrestle instead of falling in to the stereotypes laid out for them. It starts when Daphne tackles Fred out of the way during a battle with another masked freak. He’s impressed by her strength and starts to instigate more physical teasing with her. They become the rough housers of their little group and while Velma and Shaggy have No Interest in something so physical, it doesn’t stop them from taking sides to cheer their friends on, or simply look on fondly from the back of the van.

Fred and Shaggy like to cuddle. That’s their thing. Shaggy spent almost his whole life tall and lanky and with little to no friends besides Scooby. Even if someone Did stick around enough to cuddle, they almost always made Shaggy be the one doing all the comforting, something about him being too tall and bony to be comfortable enough to hold. When Shaggy confesses that fact jokingly while sprawled out in the back of the van, he thought the gang wasn’t listening to his ramblings as usual when they’re on the road for so long, but that night as they can afford the luxury of a small motel, Fred pulls him tight to his chest on the small old bed they share and strongly secures his arms across Shaggy’s waist, claiming that the boy just so happens to be the perfect size for cuddling. Ever since that night Shaggy and Fred have no issues as each other’s comfort person.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the Scooby Gang that exists in my head and I’m sure everyone else has just as wonderful and heart warming headcanons as well. It’s not hard to make a new and improved media, just try literally Anything Else than whatever the fuck Velma is trying to achieve.

#bi.f.shit #this got away from me tbh #but im so serious #how can u take a media so simple and loving and trash it #my god its just upsetting to me #i just think scooby doo is neat #scooby doo #shaggy rogers #fred jones #daphne blake #velma dinkley #velma hbo bashing

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darkpoisonouslove · 3 years

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Scooby-Doo & Zombie Island Review

This refers to both movies dealing with the zombie island. Lemme recap my experience with the first one because I don’t really have all that much to say about it and then we can move on to the MVP. Some mild and not so mild spoilers ahead so be warned. Also, as you’ll be able to tell from the review, I was still watching when I started writing it and my opinions at the beginning and at the end of it are differing.

I watched Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island when I was little and it scared the living hell out of me. Not because of the zombies. Who even cares about zombies anymore? But those cat creatures? Damn, that was the actual worst. And that assessment... still holds up... to an extent. The werecats are still terrifying, still the scariest part of the movie but was I as freaked out as the first time? Definitely not. Tbh there were pretty cool visuals but other than that the movie felt like it dragged a lot. There wasn’t that much of a mystery built through so many clues. It felt like they were just throwing in bits of info to piece together later so that they can tell their story but the actual case that they were supposed to solve? Felt pretty weak. And I have to say that that seems understandable. It is the first Scooby-Doo movie which means the first time they had to build a longer mystery and the first time we had real villains. It’s only natural that there will be a process of trial and error. Overall, it doesn’t really feel like mystery solving is really the focus of the movie. It feels a little scattered and like it doesn’t know exactly how to fill their runtime.

Now to move on to Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island. The beginning is a little weird and what is up with Fred selling the Mystery Machine (at least we get an emotional arc from Fred about it)? Not to mention that the dialogue is a little stilted at some points and there are some delivery and script choices that don’t land well but there is a lot of brilliant in it! I love the iterations of the characters here! The mystery is built so well through the little clues (just as it should be). And the comedy is really good. I laughed out loud so many times!

Shaggy and Scooby are what they always are but with an added twist I will talk about a little later on because we need the set-up first. I know that Fred, Daphne and Velma have promised a break from mysteries before but this is the one time that they are really sticking to that promise. They are going to great lengths to keep their promise to their friends and I love the dedication. They are ignoring their own instincts and urges to solve mysteries and even deliberately explaining the obviously clue-shaped stuff away in order to be good friends and it is heartwarming! I am so sold on this friendship, I can’t even tell you. Not to mention that there is the added bonus of them being left with empty lives when you take away the mysteries and being unable to small talk to each other but they still know each other pretty well. Velma understanding Scooby and Shaggy’s panicked babbling and that group hug when Scoob and Shag finally lifted the no mysteries clause were absolutely adorable moments of genuine friendship!

And that brings me back to Shaggy and Scooby who are here put in the place of the ones having to incite the mystery solving process while the others are explaining away the obviously suspicious activity around them. That was an interesting take on the characters that I don’t think I’ve seen in other Scooby-Doo pieces and was handled really well in a way that makes sense.

The other great thing about this movie is the detail work. The mystery is clearly set up with a bonus thrown in the way. You get a smaller fake mystery in the way that is pretty obvious but also hiding the grand picture. There are several clues left unexplained after the fake mystery is moved out of the way and those are the scariest ones such as the creature Scooby saw and the tires being slashed. Also, the fact that the people with familiar sounding names turned out to be actors is now lulling them in a false sense of security that contrasts with the real danger still lurking to bring out the horror that awaits them. And of course, there is the cat alter that clearly wasn’t part of the movie settings, the cold and therefore dead and real zombies Shaggy and Scooby saw (further thrown off by the fact that there were supposed to be fake zombies there but they ended up being real) and the cat pendant that the movie director is wearing which is straight out of the first movie. An intriguing way to set up a sequel. So they should have saved the personnel quitting for when the werecats showed up as opposed to the actual cats, plus, the whole deal with abandoning the mystery is messing with the tension but... why did they have to get cartoony all of a sudden? I know it’s Scooby Doo but they were handling everything seriously and successfully so far. It was a little bit of a letdown.

There are issues with the pacing throughout the climax of the story which is about the last place you want to have issues with your pacing and I feel like cutting the chase sequence would have served the movie so much better. I know it is a Scooby Doo staple but it is causing some of those issues I mentioned and they would have benefited from placing it before that while they were being chased by the actors so that they could maintain the sense of tension and danger during the parts with actual monsters. The resolution was lackluster at best, confusing at worst. They mention a forth cat and then there isn’t one. The big mystery isn’t connected to the fake mystery and is barely connected to the original mystery either (the pendant was just a coincidence which was about the most frustrating thing of all). And the emotional storyline fell through the cracks as well. It was clear that they were going to come back to solving mysteries but the movie set up a message about them learning who they are outside of that as well and then it went nowhere. They could have tried getting to learn more about themselves and each other while still keeping up with the mysteries and maybe even figuring out that they have a path in acting which could segue into the sheriff offering them to sign up and complete a training program for becoming undercover detectives and work officially for the police after they graduate from that. It would have tied all of the movie segments together much better.

I was so hyped at the beginning of this movie because it was going so well. It had the heart and the brains and then the third act took all of that and launched it into the sun. This is how the potential for a spectacular movie dies and leaves you with a hot mess on your hands instead. I really wanted to talk about this movie because I though that it would be really good and I was super excited about what it was accomplishing in the first part but they couldn’t find it in themselves to carry that momentum all the way to the finish line which is disappointing and sad. I really wish I could have been more positive about this because I really wanted to and I was hoping it would get where it was going but alas... Not the best Scooby Doo movie even though it had headed there at the speed of light at first.

#scooby doo #scooby doo on zombie island #scooby doo return to zombie island #velma dinkley #daphne blake #fred jones #shaggy rogers #movie review #review #movies

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scooby-art-by-tyne · 3 years

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My notes about the article:

"REPORT: ‘VELMA’ Character Descriptions Hint at HBO Max’s Reinterpretation of the Scooby Gang'

By Joseph Aberl on murphys multiverse

My notes about said article where i talk about opinions of the information just released.

"It looks like Shaggy is the editor-in-chief of Poortown High’s newspaper. He’ll be on the spectrum and has a hard time handling social norms especially when he is Velma’s only real friend. It looks like there’s a family secret, which he’ll need to solve with her help. So, we’ll see what pushes him towards the type of character we know him as in the series."

Super awesome that we get some cannon autistic characters, and not just like us making up headcannon about characters like fred being autistic because the way he acts is similar. Being nerodivergent myself and have a tough time with social norms im very excited👍👍👍👍. Seems like this show will be less mystery and dive more into the gang themselves tho altho there is the family secret they will be dealing with. Which i dont mind to a certain extent, hopefully they dont make the show too cheesy

"Daphne is the adopted daughter of two female police officers, who still faces daily challenges of being abandoned. There’s a curious emphasis of her red hair and she’s quite ruthless in trying to become the popular kid in their school."

Lesbian representation 👍👍👍👍 as a pan guy i love that. Personally im not a huge fan of the police but im sure them being cops wont be a huge part of the show as the show will mostly be themed around velma.

Its nice that she isn't already the popular kid like in other scooby show where her main personality trip is automatically 'the popular pretty girl' and its cool that we get to see her work up her way to being popular.

"Some characteristics remain for Fred Jones, who’ll be a “gym rat, riddled with daddy issues.” It seems that he’ll also face the trouble of never having gone puberty and is trying to hide it from Daphne, who he is dating in the series. All it takes is a false imprisonment to get the gears in motion and he learns to value Velma."

The gym rat thing may be upseting to some people as ive noticed there are a lot of tumblr users who picture him more as a theatre kid than a sports kid. The daddy issues is already somthing established in the past, with mystery Incorporated, as he was raised by a dad that wasnt even his own and kidnapped him from the original parents. I feel like daphne would notice if fred had gone threw puberty very easily because its usally pretty easy to tell. Fred and daphne offically dating which is sweet, because all threw out the past series' they liked to tease us with the "are they dating? or are they not?" Thing where they would kiss occasionally but it was never offical.

Overall excited to see what they do with this show. No news about what ive been hearing people want on tumblr (like fred saying "fuck" or velma being a lesbian) but we might get it, we might not. We will have to wait and find out

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jkl-fff · 5 years

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Scooby-Doo "Gritty" Reboot Idea (part 2)

“Gritty” because it’d acknowledge some dark realities (like physical and emotional abuse especially of children, drugs and drug addiction, sex work, violence and death) and would deal with some darker lore. But all while still having goofy and slapstick overtones (a la Season 2 of “Gravity Falls”).

General Plot (with some Lore)

For Season One, they get caught up in investigating some local paranormal reports (maybe Daphne’s home to begin with a la Northwest Mansion Noire? she asks Velma for her expertise, who asks Fred for his help and muscle, who needs to borrow Scooby– for reasons … cat-themed ghost?—who Shaggy reluctantly brings) that all appear to be connected. This causes them to start working together *and* to start hanging out, becoming friends … while also dealing with teenage angst and high school drama. Not every reported event is a scam or a sham; some is actually caused by genuine supernatural/occult events. And most of what is supernatural is caused by two spirits in confrontation with each other, both trying to find “the Blaze”.

It’s eventually discovered Shaggy’s parents didn’t die in an accident; they were collateral damage in an attack by an Old God that was trying to destroy the Blaze. The Blaze, however, hid itself by fusing with 12-year-old Shaggy’s soul … which kept him/them alive through the attack and *could* grant him the Blaze’s great powers (one of the manifestations of that is how he is a Medium capable of seeing and communicating with spirits at all times, not just when they manifest; another of which is his therapy art, which turns out is Seer/Prophetic showing past, present, or future). But this also means Shaggy has a powerful enemy in the spirit world he hasn’t even known about. Also, some of what he suffers psychologically isn’t just his trauma, but the Blaze’s own memories/emotions.

The spirits who cause all the Season One trouble are respectively a servant of the Old God … and one connected to the Blaze (a friend? an ally? a servant? a servant of a friend/ally?). They had both managed to track the Blaze/Shaggy to that town after years and years of searching. The second ultimately fuses with Scooby to protect Shaggy/the Blaze. As a result, Scooby can now speak *and* has some of his own supernatural abilities. Also some memories and warnings— knowledge—to impart … but it all gets muddled in Scooby’s mind, so he can’t make much sense of it anymore. But at least he’s still unquestioningly loyal to Shaggy … Or is he?

Season Two follows them after leaving town to keep Shaggy and Scooby safe (gotta keep moving to avoid the Old God and their minions), ostensibly for a summer road trip to celebrate graduating from high school. This has them following reports of paranormal activity across North American in search of answers … and because it’s fun; they just really like solving these mysteries together.

Part of the group’s overall journey is seeking answers to who Shaggy’s and Scooby’s spirits really are, who the Old God really is, and how they can defeat it so as to protect their friends (also, eventually, having to stop an apocalypse … as one does). Another part of it is a found family narrative, with them all mutually falling in love with each other in one, big polyamorous quartet (with a talking pet dog), realizing they can make their own happiness and don’t need people who can’t appreciate them.

Some Character Arcs:

At some point in Season One, Fred’s father finds out about him “dressing like a girl and doing other gross, fag shit”, and disowns him. This makes Fred technically homeless for a bit, living out of his van, but his friends (and especially Shaggy’s aunts) give him a safe place to stay while he finishes his last year of high school. Fred will, after that, grapple with simultaneous rage at his father (never wanting to see him again, never wanting to forgive him) *and* a longing for things to go back to the way they were (because he still loves and misses his father). Very complicated, bitter feelings … He’ll eventually decide that, maybe in the future he might reach out, but for now he doesn’t owe his father shit, this is all his father’s fault, and he doesn’t need him because he’s got his friends.

Throughout the whole series, Shaggy is grappling with the question of who he really is now: Shaggy, the Blaze, both, neither? Is he still human? Is he a monster? Some sort of demi-god? Also, his relationship with Scooby has fundamentally changed, and they have to renegotiate that now that Scooby is, likewise, more than just a dog. For the record, though, Scooby is very much having a similar difficulty. How does he move forward knowing that both aspects of his identity (Scooby and the spirit) have been irreparably transformed by blending together as they have? How does he be himself when there isn’t a pure self anymore?

At some point in Season Two, Daphne has a crisis of christian faith after experiencing a lot of stuff that blatantly contradicts what she’s been taught in Sunday School and by her parents. It never fully gets resolved, but she grows thanks to realizing that she doesn’t have all the answers, that society and morality are constructs but her newer definitions of Good are still worth fighting for. In Season Three, her parents will threaten to pull her allowance if she doesn’t come home and be a well-behaved girl, but she’ll call their bluff by threatening to reveal a lot of the family’s dirty secrets if they do. Standing up for herself and her friends and keeping the income flowing through a little extortion (yay!). Although after that, they’ll look to make Mystery Inc. more of a self-sustaining business (just in case), which will be a major milestone.

At some point in Season Two, Velma’s need for approval from authority figures will nearly lead to her being taken advantage of in a bad way (sexual?). However, she’ll escape (in part on her own skills— cleverness and brujeria—in part by getting help from her friends), learning that she isn’t as helpless as she’s sometimes felt, that she can indeed take care of herself … But also learning that getting help from the people who care about her doesn’t mean she’s helpless (communal living means giving what she can give to others *AND* receiving what she needs from others, too– different but equally valuable contributions); plus, it’s just a smart strategy. Also she learns the opinions of some people are just plain worthless. In Season Three, her research into brujeria will probably start getting her into trouble as she begins to put too much trust in both academic sources and patron spirits (kinda the same issue appearing in a different form, really, which will make her feel like an idiot for a bit). From that, though, she’ll learn to think critically not just about authority figures (people), but also about “authoritative” sources of information (made by people).

Some Character Dynamics:

Fred and Daphne bond over burgeoning identities of genderfluidity, with her helping him to develop a flashier appearance in general (including helping him try drag a couple times) and him helping her to learn some of those combat sports she’s always wanted to try. They also bond over how much it sucked to have domineering parents who loved the idea of a perfect child more than their actual child. Both learn together to be more open emotionally, more confident in who they really are (not defined by their parents’ expectations for them).

Velma and Shaggy bond over being closet geeks for Pokémon and other similar stuff like Sci-Fi movie series (which, with typical teenage cynicism, is regarded as cringey by most of their peers); turns out, they both secretly write fanfic, and can beta read for each other. They also bond over being nerds who finally have someone to whom they can infodump about their interests, someone who actually listens patiently without making them feel self-conscious and weird—without triggering anxiety. Both learn together to be more confident in who they really are, too, and to care less about what others think of them.

Shaggy and Daphne bond over terrible puns and dank memes. They are both just the worst when it comes to those. Besides, they both find them to be surprisingly effective ways of expressing their complex emotions, be they positive or negative. It also helps both of them to be more emotionally open (a thing they all learn together, frankly).

Fred and Shaggy bond over what it’s like to miss a parent (Fred’s mom, Shaggy’s parents) and how hard it is to put into words. Sorrow and melancholy because they’re gone, anger and resentment because they left them behind, guilt because of these other feelings … also guilt that it somehow should’ve been them— that those left behind (Fred’s dad, Shaggy’s aunt) somehow blame them. This lets Fred learn that showing emotions isn’t “weak” while teaching Shaggy that he’s not alone in how he feels.

Daphne and Velma bond over interests in history (also frustrations at how whitewashed and man-washed the narratives of it have been). Turns out, they’re absolute nerds for various points/periods of World history in general and North American history specifically (all of which will turn out to be relevant to individual episodes), and they can collaborate about how those points connect and influence each other and their cases.

Velma and Fred bond over being working class and poor, and how weird it is to suddenly have two people who are pretty wealthy (for all intents and purposes) taking care of their financial needs. It feels like a relief, on the one hand, but also makes them feel insecure on the other. Like they don’t deserve it and are being a burden, like they need to find ways to pay the others back so as to square the debt and remain “independent”. Together, they learn, however, that worth isn’t determined by money— they learn that it’s okay to let someone else take care of bills (during this whole communal living thing) and that they contribute in different but equally worthwhile ways (communal living, again) … Yet also how to communicate this tricky issue (and how it relates, rightly or wrongly, to their self-esteem) amongst all four of them.

Fred learns a lot about women and PofC issues and grows from it. At first, he’s disbelieving and defensive (“not all men” sorta guy), but he learns to listen and ask respectful questions (“I don’t understand. Don’t all lives matter? So why’s the movement just *Black* lives matter?”), to think about what he’s learned (“Privilege means … there’s something that doesn’t make my social life difficult, but does for others. Like skin color, no one treats me bad for mine but they do to PofC. Or like class, Daphne doesn’t have to worry about money, but I do. Right?”), and to integrate it into his own behavior (“Wait, am I mansplaining? Sorry, I’ll stop.”). He’s kinda innocently naïf and ignorant about these, but learns and become more sensitive.

Same for Daphne vis-à-vis socio-economic class and religion. She takes money for granted, thus doesn’t understand why it’s such an obstacle or a motivator for most people (“It’s only $50, what’s the big deal?” or “Why not simply buy the land? Why go to all this trouble to scare people away?”). And much of her life was Jesus-this and Jesus-that, so she’s never really understood that other religions and philosophies are actually a real thing until being with the others (Shaggy is Buddhist, Fred is atheist, and Velma’s grandmother did folk brujeria while her father is Jewish).

They all learn a lot about queer issues and identities in general (especially from Shaggy), which allows them to develop their own in a healthy way (Fred and Daphne as genderfluid and bi/pan, Velma and Shaggy as demi and bi/pan … all of them as poly). With a bunch of kinks and fetishes along the way, maybe.

Shaggy learns a lot about the supernatural. He was *never* interested in the subject (in fact, he always kinda hated it because it terrified him … perhaps instinctively because the Blaze was within him), but the others were fascinated by it. So exposition on these matters is made to him for the audience’s sake.

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jkl-fff · 5 years

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Scooby-Doo “Gritty” Reboot Idea (part 1)

THE CHARACTERS:

Daphne African-American redhead, freckled, tall, slender, conventionally gorgeous.

She’s the only child from a wealthy family … but one that is, unfortunately, very christian-conservative and obsessed with their reputation as respectable; she’s always been pressured to conform to traditionally “feminine” and “christian” standards of behavior and appearance. As a result, she has flawless fashion sense and makeup skills, is an excellent dancer, singer, and pianist, and can navigate high society with ease … But also as a consequence, her “unfeminine” or “unchristian” inclinations (being assertive, liking combat sports, a fascination with the macabre, and not being 100% straight in both her sexuality and her identity) have been disparaged and discouraged, making her reticent about her true feelings and interests—she closes herself off from others and doesn’t share those parts of herself easily.

Her initial associations to the others were limited, since their families didn’t walk in the same social circles at all. However, she and Velma have some AP classes together, and often talk about paranormal and occult things.

Velma Latina-American, near-sighted, wavy haired, petite, chubby, cute as a particularly cute button.

Her parents are both lower income, always working to provide for her and her 5 siblings (she’s #3), so she’s grown up with a homelife that’s very loud, cramped, and … well, not *negligent* per se, because her parents do the best they can with the time they aren’t working … but let’s just say it’s a homelife without a lot of parental presence (they never have a lot of free time, plus she’s the middle child). Teachers became a kind of surrogate parent figure for her, which reinforces a pre-existing tendency to retreat into a world of books and school activities in order to have some personal space. On the plus side, this means she’s extremely intelligent and independent, and already a fantastic researcher. However, on the negative side, she’s an extreme perfectionist and somewhat desperate for approval from others, especially from authority figures (which leads to anxiety). Being shy, she doesn’t have the best social skills, and thus doesn’t have a lot of friends … thus hasn’t realized yet she’s bi/pan, and also demi.

Besides knowing Daphne from AP classes, she knows Fred because their dads work together and would drag the family to work-family functions. They both showed up to one with a book about supernatural stuff to read off in a quiet corner somewhere, and hit it off; they hang out every time they go to one of those functions, but aren’t in any of the same classes.

Fred European-American, blond and sorta-plain-sorta-cute, strong and burly, not particularly tall or thin.

Fred is the only son of a low-income widower, so he’s had to assist his father’s mechanical work from a young age. As a result, he’s now a pretty good mechanic in his own right. They’re close, but his father’s very much a “my way or highway” person; plus, since his father has some close-minded ideas about gender, Fred’s been pressured into stereotypical “masculinity” from a young age (camping, hunting, sports like football/baseball then wrestling and boxing when it was clear his physique was better suited to those, never showing “weak” feelings, etc.) with “girly” stuff that interested Fred (like fashion and acting, magic, the supernatural … and bi/pan attraction) being belittled to the point that he’s developed some self-loathing for even wanting to engage with them. He keeps doing so in secret, of course, he just also feels ashamed of it.

Besides knowing Velma, he’s lived on the same street as Shaggy and been in some of the same classes since they were 12 or so. They aren’t exactly friends, but they do more-or-less know each other.

Shaggy Asian-American, a lanky beanpole with a runner’s physique, handsome in an angular/bony way people either really like or don’t.

Because his parents died when he was 12, he’s being raised by his aunt and her “roommate” (lesbians in a smallish town gotta keep it on the DL). Both are extremely loving and supportive, which is good because the incident that killed his parents left him with some major issues: PTSD, panic attacks, depression and the like. They bought him a therapy dog, which has helped a lot in treating the more acute symptoms. They’ve taught him to try to talk about it, but sometimes the overwhelming pain of it makes him go mute; when he tries to express it artistically like they encourage him to do, the stuff he produces sometimes scares the heck out of him (he hates it, thus he hates the paranormal). His preferred coping methods are cooking then eating, or running; both have developed, actually, with him becoming an amazing cook … and being first in regional competitions for cross country and hurdles. While he’s not public about being attracted to boys as well as girls (because, again, smallish town), he has told his aunts, who are extremely loving and supportive about that, too (because they rock).

He sorta knows Fred because they’ve been neighbors and gone to the same school for years. His best friend is Scooby, his therapy dog.

Scooby A loveable but clumsy lummox of a Great Dane mix.

Shaggy’s therapy dog, he has an uncanny sense for when his boy needs him; on occasion, he has jumped the house’s fence and loped to the nearby school when his boy had a sudden panic attack. However, the aunts joke that the mixed part of his breed is with a Scaredy Cat, because he startles almost as easily as his boy does, is wary around strangers … and doesn’t seem to realize how huge he is (he will frequently try to climb into people’s laps, like a cat).

He is utterly devoted to Shaggy (and vice versa), but is otherwise just an ordinary dog … Or is he?

Their Roles in Mystery Inc.

Daphne: the Financier (pays for hotels and food) and later the Fighter (gets good at kicking ass), good at schmoozing witnesses, sometimes feels insecure like she only really contributes money

Velma: the Brains (researches, documents cases) and later the Bruja (experiments with magic and develops some skill), mostly an optimistic ray of sunshine, sometimes feels insecure like she’s always helpless

Fred: the Mechanic (owns the van and takes care of it) and the Muscle (stronk boi), good at pep talks, sometimes feels insecure like he only really contributes is their vehicle

Shaggy (with Scooby): the Medium (interact deeply with the spirit world, albeit unwillingly) and the Muse (the heart of the group—everyone luvs and proteccs), good at cooking and comedy, usually feels insecure all the time like he’s just useless in general and a coward

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