#i hate that there isn't a special name for the book 1 crew

[imagibunny]

fine, fine. i'll bite. tell me about your zombies bunny.

i got this earlier and my brain was telling me ur tone was off

BUT!! i'm just gonna assume you meant this in good faith and that i'm not being annoying about my ocs, my brain is just being a lil bitch <3

general: - relatively speaking yvette's been a walker the longest, at 4 and a half years. cole's up next at 3 years, then cici and mimzie at 2 years, and vince has been a walker the shortest, only being 6 months. - cole and mimzie knew each other before they became zombies! mimz did ghost tours for cole's mom sometimes when she wasn't feeling well and they clashed a bit on how to handle it. - they all have "official" jobs; - mimz works at her mom's boutique - cole is a history teacher at the local middle school - vince is an it guy - cici works at her family's restaurant - yvette works at a nightclub - on a scale of 1-10 on who it'd be more dangerous to fight, yvette and mimz are both a solid 9.5, cici is a 7, vince is a 5, and cole is a 2 (this also account for the fact of how easy it'd be to make em go into zombie rage mode) - cole, mimz, and vince are the only ones who were born and raised in louisiana. cici is from new york originally, and yvette mentioned off hand once that it's from alberta canada. - all have a "sixth sense" for finding decomps. vince describes it as spiders running up his spine which is fair tbh. - most of em stick to raw meat to keep em calm, with brains used as a special occasion type of deal. all have their favorites of how to hide em but the crowd pleaser is cici's ghost pepper brain poppers.

mimzie - actually doesn't mind her full name (miriam) but has a bunch of nicknames; mimz, mimzie, riri, zee, mimi (she says as long as you don't call her late for dinner she's fine) - uses she/it pronouns and describes herself as "a girl, but take it back now y'all-" - has 3 pets; - an orange cat named skittles - a rat named stuie - a leopard gecko named romeo - the youngest of 5 and is the only girl, and is well aware of the fact this has granted her "dad's special girl" privileges. her brothers are aware of this too, and often come to her if they need something but dad said no to em. - is the closest with her brother tyler! loves her brothers all the same but you form a special bond with the sibling who helped you catch a rat snake cause you were convinced you'd die if it bit you. - has killed her fair share of decomps in the past 2 years. it's not normally bad, but the one big scare happened around halloween and was roughed up enough she had to stay home on bedrest for a couple weeks. - cannot sit still!! has to be moving or doing something constantly. usually fidgeting with a bracelet, pen, or anything she can get her hands on. - singing wise she mostly does covers and popular songs people know, and even then she just does local venues due to the whole zombie thing. still popular enough to need her crew. - she has a manager! in a way. her name's juniper, aka junie and she's been miriam's best friend since they were toddlers and junie dumped glitter on miriam's head cause she wanted to play fairies. - isn't a huge fan of labels and just says she's queer and is down for whatever. but due to how the last relationship ended, not exactly big on romance rn.

vince - only child syndrome!! and damn he acts like it sometimes!! has gotten an earful from everyone at least once if he doesn't watch his tone. - did not take the fact he's a zombie Well. like. at all. locked himself in his room for literal days and was on the verge of becoming a decomp when the others found out about him. - because he was infected by a decomp, he actively hates getting close to em. if he runs into one out on the street, he calls someone else and books it the other direction. - despite his cowardly nature he's not afraid to fight if he needs to, though this doesn't happen often and is most likely trying to keep mimzie from fighting someone. - he Kinda knew the dixie family before he met miriam officially, as he was in school with her brother tyler (a couple grades ahead but they were in clubs together) - much like miriam, he doesn't really have a preference attraction wise? when asked about it all he said was "who cares?" - despite being one of the walkers to dye his hair his natural color, he once did lose a bet and had to dye his hair green for a week. he didn't entirely hate this, considering he has green streaks in his hair - quite literally was forced into working for miriam! at first it was purely to keep an eye on him and make sure he didn't run off and expose everyone, but she pays him fair enough and they get along so it's not like he entirely hates it (will gripe about it when she brings it up however) - he and yvette are the same height (5'7 - 170 cm)

cici - despite their VIOLENTLY differing personalities, is super close with yvette and usually is the one yvette actually Talks to - her mom's from cuba and her dad is a new york native! - speaking of, she hasn't seen her dad since she was 15 (her parents had been divorced way before that however) but they still talk and send each other postcards - doesn't mind her step dad, he makes her mom happy and that's all she cares about! gets along better with her half sister though. - woman liker club!! jokes aside cici is a lesbian and is open about it - was the one who reached out to others that showed zombie symptoms and offered a place to talk. - fully believes that dealing with this stuff alone is suffocating and very much treats the rest of the walkers like family - has a dog named harriet! - lives in a guest house in her parents' backyard, purely because she'd rather stick around (and avoid abysmal rent prices but that's a bonus) - was a bit of a stuck up bitch before getting infected! absolutely abysmal to talk to and hang out with, but after the fight that caused her to get scratched, she saw it as a second chance and is actively working towards on improving and reinventing herself. - sometimes slips into old behavior, and regrets it immensely afterwards. - notoriously has a secret stash of tea in her house, and i do actually mean secret stash of tea. her mom and stepdad always used to sneak some from her so she resorted to hiding it. - is the 2nd tallest after cole at 5'9 - 175cm

yvette - is pretty secretive and quiet, so no one knows much about it. all anyone knows is that it uses it/it's pronouns, it's name, and where it's from. - isn't a huge fan of talking, but since it's normally around cici it lets her do the talking for both of em - was found on the brink of becoming a decomp like vince was, the difference here is yvette was found in a back alley in new orleans rather then being locked up in a room - unknown where it's staying, all yvette has mentioned is it has family in the city and crashes on their couch. - isn't super close with anyone outside of cici, but gets along with vince just fine and it and cole had a silent understanding. meanwhile it has gotten into numerous fights with mimz and it has escalated once or twice - literally did not talk until someone mentioned it might be russian. first time anyone heard yvette speak and it was "i'm from canada." - aro/ace homie fr! wouldn't say romance repulsed but it firmly refuses the idea of itself in a romantic situation with anyone - the only one of the group to know walkers from outside. refuses to give away their ids based on the fact it doesn't like them and believes it's friends would be better off not knowing - CANNOT HANDLE SPICE FOR THE LIFE OF IT. cici makes a tamer version of the brain popper for it to eat just out of the fact the last time it ate the regular ones, yvette was out of commission for 3 days

cole - same as yvette as he doesn't talk about himself often, but he does actively communicate with everyone else - the most anyone knows about his private life is that he's married with a kid and he'd like to keep it that way (despite vince and cici's varied attempts to figure out more) - has a past in private security. how he went from that to being a history teacher is anyones guess - was (and still is) a huge skeptic about supernatural stuff, which caused him to butt heads with his mom who runs ghost tours around the city. despite his zombie status he still doesn't believe in the oogie boogies that go bump in the night and it frustrates mimz to no end - despite arguing from time to time, he does love his mom. but he is closer with his dad out of the two of em, while his younger brother is closer with their mom - is the least likely to rage out and go full zombie mode. granted he has a decomp kill history like everyone else, but unlike everyone else he doesn't need to be full zombie to do so if you get the jist - man has AWFUL sleeping habits. is known for staying up for days at a time just because he forgot to sleep and is not above staying awake out of spite. - he's a bit silly goofy!! has gotten into petty fights with other walkers just for the hell of it, and once played a game with vine and yvette to see who could push mimz buttons the most (vince won, he ate her mom's leftovers she brought home) - bi man and damn proud of it!! - his husband is well aware of his zombie-ness and doesn't mind in the slightest. it's caused some turmoil a couple times sure, but that's a given. otherwise they're happily married - he has one thing above everyone else and it's the fact he's infected someone unknowingly. he doesn't know who they are but he has this weird feeling that it'll come back to bite him in the ass one day

[crownedmango]

Hi, guess who's got a Ghostbusters OC?

Uh so here's an info dump on him, have fun.

He'll get a proper ref eventually I swear-

Name: Avery Hays

Age: 34

Height: 6'0"

Weight: ~160 lbs.

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Homosexual

Status: Poly relationship [Egon Spengler and Ray Stantz]

Occupation: Full-Fledged Ghostbuster

Avery Hays has doctorates in Archaeology and Parapsychology. He studies any haunted artifacts the team finds while out on the job and writes as much information as he can about the item's origins, what it does, and how to contain it. Avery also allows himself to be possessed by ghosts in order to have better communication and understanding with them, he can control most of what's going on during possession, but that doesn't mean it doesn't always take a turn for the worse. Avery's father dabbled in witchcraft and taught Avery quite a bit about it when he was a child.

Avery's jumpsuit is the same as the rest of the teams, his proton pack however is more adjusted to one similar to the pack the Rookie wears in the video game. [in the RGB universe his jumpsuit is red with blue accents and his proton pack is the same as everyone elses]. His casual wear is usually a leather jacket and red shirt, a spiked choker, and torn skinny jeans with boots. His formal wear is a baby blue button up he tucks into a nice pair of black dress pants, boots included. His face usually has bandaids and patches covering cuts, scrapes and breaks due to his line of work.

Avery joined the team during the start of it's formation. He had been staying at the Sedgwick hotel due to reports and rumors of haunted items that resided there, while studying there, the "Slimer incident" occurred and he couldn't help but get too excited over the sight of a successfully captured entity. A few days later Avery had walked into the building for an interview and was hired on.

Avery goes on jobs just as much as the rest of the crew. He tends to be front and center when in a ghost fight, and will take the most damage from it, hence the scars and burns across his torso and arms. Avery is the type to run ahead into danger, and take risks, leading the charge into ghost infested territories and excitingly shooting them down, however it is noted that in high importance/dangerous situations Avery is more willing to sit back and plan things out.

When Avery isn't catching ghosts or doing research, he's gossiping with Janine, Fighting with Peter, or helping the others with their work. He's best described to be a "rebellious teenager" with a "chaotic grunge" aesthetic, so his hobbies consist of the usual: setting fires in parking lots, stealing shopping carts and pushing friends down hills in them, going out to smoke sessions, going into abandoned places and trespassing, and being a general disaster... Y'know, that kinda deal.

Avery loves his friends/co-workers to bits, and has a different way of showing it to each of them. Egon and Ray are the loves of his life, and he'll always buy them things like candy and toys when he can, Egon he'll spend time watching silently as he works or go mushroom collecting with, and Ray he'll talk with about whatever special interests they've recently gotten into. Peter and him fight and get snarky with each other a lot, but they don't hate each other, and Avery will get him some sort of alcohol as a gift (though he denies it everytime). Winston is his favorite person to talk literature with, they'll trade and lend each other books, and Avery, despite not being too into sports, is always willing to go with Winston to a baseball game. Janine he'll constantly gossip with, and always bring her some coffee and/or lunch whenever he can. Louis is someone he doesn't interact with a lot (mostly because Louis gets really nervous/scared around him) but he'll always try and assist him when he can. Rookie is someone he instantly tried to take under his wing when they first applied, and would check in on him whenever he could to make sure they were okay.

Avery loves driving the Ecto-1, yet the others tend to make sure they get in the front seat before him due to his tendency to drive a bit too fast and recklessly. Lives off energy drinks and cigarettes. A sucker for anything sweet and salty. He loves the mood slime, it's color for one reason, the other- well, we won't get into that. He heavily dislikes smaller ghosts, they always lead them on a wild goose chase. His biggest pet peeve is being touched by people he doesn't know or like. Artifacts getting damaged ticks him off to no end (if it needs to be destroyed for safety reasons that's fine).

Avery's strong link to the spirit world due to his constant possessions leads him to take on an abnormal form related to it. His teeth become sharper, his eyes go blank and have a strong glow around them, his nails grow long and sharp, he gains a spirit's inhumane strength and levitation. Avery cannot control himself during this, and may over exert his mortal body as well as hurt anyone in his way during this state. A simple process to tell what's affecting Avery during this state is to look at the color of the glow around his abnormal eyes: If green it's a normal crossover of the spirit world taking over, if pink he's been covered in negative mood slime, if red he's gotten too aggravated and an aggressive spirit link is active, and if blue he's gone into a depressive state and a mournful spirit link is active. The only way of getting Avery out of this state without just letting the connection break over-time is to shoot at him with a modified proton stream, which will cause his body harm... Where do you think the burn on his shoulder came from?