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i'll be away from any computer for a small while still but i have a reply for everything, i just have to transcribe them and queue them! sorry for the wait! in the meantime i keep thinking of peppino and man. i should write all those lore posts i have in mind.

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welcome to another episode of "ghost takes obscure muses and roleplays them way too seriously"! today, i present to you: 𝐏𝐄𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐎 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐆𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐈 from 𝐏𝐈𝐙𝐙𝐀 𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑, in all his anxious glory! presented in many verses and adaptable to everyone and everything ( unfortunately for him ). follows from ghostories. <3

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how long has it been since the last time i completed a blog?? what. uhh blog is now 100% ready! i can't believe it. written bio and verses, and made my very first interest checker. e-enjoy!! now pause and then i'll see if. if i can replicate on another blog. or maybe i'll just allow myself to write for a bit.

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alternative universes.

𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐏 once a soldier for the city of krat, peppino had to be hospitalized for the grave trauma suffered. the alchemists took care of him - or so they claimed to do -, until one day ( he says ) they allowed him to leave the structure. peppino took a job in a pizzeria, that eventually became his own, and that he never ever left, even for just a walk. at least, until the frenzy started. when mad puppets attacked his pizzeria, he had to flee to hotel krat, with the aid of someone everyone thought was human but he could see clearly he was a puppet as well. just as he closed himself in his shop, he now closed himself in the hotel's kitchen, cooking for the guests and tending to never get out. no one can see that weird entity behind him born from his excessive ergo and the alchemists' games, but he prefers not to risk it.

𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐁'𝐒 𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐄a small hermit crab from the city, peppino learnt ( more or less ) how to make pizza by looking at the weird squares that kept falling from the surface, depicting a round thing that seemed to be absolutely delicious. other fishes seemed to like it, and he opened a small place to cook it for everyone; and it went well, until pollution became too strong, and other food started to replace the good ingredients he preferred to use. prices became too high, and so he decided to try and look for them himself - that's when he went in places where the gunk was a lot, and he inadvertently got contaminated. he realized immediately, turning back as soon as he could to rush home, avoiding to lose his mind completely; but it's there, inside of him, and he can feel it taking over sometimes.

𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐔𝐍𝐄 ( placeholder, i'm still at chapter 2 so i will say more when i finish the rest )

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bio.

peppino ( short for giuseppe, but he very much prefers his nickname to his real name ) is a deeply anxious italian man, constantly on the verge of a panic attack. he never talks about what happened to him to bring him to such a state, seemingly preferring to avoid to remember - all he wants is to run his pizzeria and make the best pizza possible for his clients and friends, the only thing that seems to really give him the calm he so desperately needs.

the opening of the pizza tower so close to him threatened to take it all away, leaving him in debts ( because, he thought, it wasn't taking his costumers, but more scaring them away from the area entirely ) and with no idea of what to do - until its owner doubled down, warning that he would have made his pizzeria blow up.

peppino, always on that edge of the panic ravine, suddenly fell in it. he rushed to the tower - intending to simply talk it out with the owner, and ending in a nightmare instead, broadcasted for fun. the idea of an agreement crumbled quickly, and with it, eventually, the tower itself. everything went back to normal after that. ... more or less.

main headcanons rapid fire.

peppino suffers of anxiety disorder, has frequent panic attacks, and c-ptsd. he had all of these before, but the pizza tower misadventure intensified them greatly.

the tower left him with an intense fear of being constantly watched. there are times when he can't even get out of the kitchen, as it feels like the only safe place to him.

peppino's mental state is a constant shift between sudden and strong anxiety, and extreme exhaustion. he rarely smiles.

his and gustavo's place is on the second floor of the restaurant.

pepperman, the vigilante and fake peppino work in the restaurant with him after the tower, none of them paid - pepperman says he doesn't need the "dirty italian money" as his own art is the real payment, the vigilante works for free as amends, and fake peppino doesn't understand what money is.

their presence doesn't exactly make his happy, and more often than not is the cause of sudden thoughts that bring him anxiety - but his mental health deteriorated so much during the pizza tower misadventure that he finds himself often feeling physically drained, too. extra hands are always useful in those cases.

the noise came to peppino's pizzeria just to insult him. peppino threw him head first in the trashcan outside the place, and you can still find him there. no one understands why he won't simply leave.

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[said with increasing amount of distress] i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this

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« Wh—?! I-I...—!! » ... did not, he is about to say, but he stops suddenly with a gasp, little claws holding the pizza cutter trembling evidently. Did he? All he can remember is that they were walking together - well... almost? Both don't seem to really enjoy the company of the other, so they were more following the same road? - and then... then he remembers Kril hitting him, not the other way around.

Still, he notices now to be holding the pizza cutter in an attacking stance. All of his body tense - not out of fear, he can say. His heart is beating fast and painfully and in a way he learnt to associate with battle. With... battles he's not feeling in control.

Oh, shucks. I-is it happening again? Oh no. Oh no oh no not again not again please no not again-

« I-I'm s-sor— » he begins, just to be suddenly interrupted by his stomach twisting as he throws up black goo. It's not much - way less than other times, at least - but he's quick to wipe it away, as if attempting to not make the other notice it. As if. He draws back, but the claw can't let the pizza cutter go, and he can't tell why. « I-I'm sorry I'm sorry really, I-I di-didn't want, I-I swear I didn't want...! »

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« y-you're mad. bonkers, o-off your head!! »

"M-Me?!

You're the one who attacked first!"

He often used self defense as ( more than warranted ) excuse to attack everything that moves a little too fast towards him, especially ifthey were holding onto some weapon... but this time it's true! He almost got sawed in half by a giant weird circled weapon!! Hitting him in the face with a magical projection if the Duchess' claw was totally justified!

If anything, the fact that the other actually stopped attacking to complain is... positive? It's kind of positive. Gunked crabs who could still talk did it mostly to insult him while swinging their claws at him.

"If you don't want to fight I'm okay with not fighting! But I'm-" a gulp as he tries to sound way more confident than he actually is ( more than absolute zero ) "--I-I'm not putting down the fork first! So!! There!!!"

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Gustavo almost jumps out of his shoes when the door of the pizzeria opens, something quite uncommon, really - between the two, he's always been the calmest. It's enough to get Peppino's attention immediately from the kitchen, and when he looks out from the door... well. Seeing a giant gorilla certainly wasn't in the list of things he expected today. But at the same time, after an entire misadventure in a tower with talking cheese slime, ghost pillars and a lot of worse things, Peppino can't really feel scared by him. Only... tired. Very, very tired.

Yeah, sure. Giant gorilla. He can accept that.

« It's okay, Gustavo. Leave him, I'll serve. » he tells, coming out of the kitchen. Gustavo worryingly starts to say something, but Peppino stops him with a single gesture of the hand. « It's okay. Don't worry. In the end, it doesn't even matter, really. » They trade places, the other taking his place in cooking, and him finally talking directly to the... mh, unusual costumer. « ... yeah, mh. Good day, sir. Take a seat. »

@martyslittleusedblog — 🎤 (for any muse(s) you like on either abevyofmuses or muggsyandfriends, and whichever works for whatever the shuffle gives you, maybe?)

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Can't be sincerely dark without being called edgy, can't be sincerely emotional without being called melodramatic, can't be sincerely silly without being called stupid. They're gonna hate every emotion you put in your art no matter what so make it anyway and be as sincere as you can be

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headcanon questions — @infernalpursuit inquired:

[ 💤 ] ㅤhow do they sleep ? curled up, sprawled, holding onto something ?

eventually during the night, when deep into sleep, peppino sleeps sprawled and ( if sleeping very well ) he also drools a little; but until he can get to that point, to fall asleep in the first place he needs to be holding something, typically his own pillow, and is all curled up around it. he stays in this pose a long while even when actually sleeping, and very slowly relaxes; but if he makes a nightmare, you will see holding onto the pillow even stronger.

[ 🦇 ] ㅤ what is a fear they never talk about ?

between the thousand he doesn't talk about to not worry who's around him? MMHH. honestly, probably one that the tower left in him: the fear that someone is watching him constantly. it comes and goes, but sometimes it's strong enough to give him an anxiety attack or even not make him go out of the pizzeria, if he can avoid it. he knows that talking about it might help him, but he's stuck in a loop of thinking that if he doesn't say anything, he will just move on and everything will go away. talking would mean reliving all of it another time, and you can't ask him that. please. he just wants to make pizza again.

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I've met today with @slightly-gay-pogohammer and we spent time playing Another Crab's Treasure and thinking of a version of Peppino in it (because I told you, I'm obsessed, what happened to me help) and then I grabbed my sketchbook and turned Peppino into a hermit crab. I love the result, can I say? :3c

He learned to make pizza (with the ingredients he could find around) by looking at pictures of what came in the city and opened a pizzeria there, but when non-contaminated food started to run low he didn't want to use trash, and went around looking for some that were still good - and might have gotten a little poisoned in the meantime. When he noticed he stopped going out, but sometimes he feels like he's losing himself a little...

He uses a pizza cutter as a weapon and his shell is a cup (the one that makes you faster for a limited amount of time), and he's very very fun to draw. <3

Bonus angst, because it wouldn't be me if I didn't add some in an alternative universe of mine:

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Of all the obsessions I thought I could take in the latest year, Pizza Tower wasn't on the list. And yet, here I am. <3 Expect to see him here again and again, it seems I can draw only him and a few original characters of mine lately sjfkghl

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rules. ( i don't require a password, but please do throw an eye at them! )

i. mun & activity. hello! i go by ghost, 29 years old, any pronouns. i'm italian, and english is my second language, hence you might see mistakes or weird phrases in my turns! i can get pretty busy and lately i worked to take the habit of staying as little as possible at the computer, which means that sometimes i can't get to it for days or even weeks. because of this, this blog, as all my blogs are, is permanent low activity! it might take a while for me to reply, but eventually always will! this blog is a sideblog of ghostories!

ii. adult content and tagging system. mature themes might be present often in my turns. because of this, this blog is 18+. everytime a trigger appears in my turns, i will tag it with the name of the trigger, followed by "//" - for example, blood //. if i forget or don't think about tagging something, never hesitate to tell me!

iii. shipping, suggestive and smut. i tend to ship only with people i know, and write suggestive rarely and with the ones i trust the most. do not force a ship on me, because it's the right way to not get me to write it to begin with. as for smut, it makes me extremely uncomfortable, so i will avoid it altogether.

iv. starting threads and prompts lists. anything works for me to start a thread - prompts from lists or original ones, or plotting, anything! i just really enjoy writing, and love receiving things that give me new excuses to write even more. send anything anytime you like! i do my best to send often prompts as well, but i might always be a little late for prompts lists or for particular events for the aforementioned low activity. if you want to reblog a prompt list i reblogged, please go to the source and don’t reblog directly from me, unless the source itself is broken.

v. dropping threads. if you don’t feel inspired anymore for a thread of ours, don’t be afraid to drop it! no need to tell me, and i promise i won’t get mad, it’s alright! due to my constant low activity, i know inspiration can simply disappear after a while. don’t be afraid to drop it and move on - we can always start something new!

vi. mun's drawings. i like to draw little things that might involve my muses as much as my writing partners’, and sometimes i like to post them. if the drawing is posted on the rp blog and i specify that only certain people can reblog, please do not reblog them unless you have permission. if i post them here instead than my art blog, it is because i’d rather keep them in a smaller circle.

vii. muses' thoughts. mun =/= muse! while i relate to peppino in a lot of ways, what he does or thinks is not necessarily what i would do or think.

viii. fixing and rewriting turns. if you can’t understand something i wrote, don’t be afraid to ask me for clarifications! as aforementioned, english is my second language: while i do my best, mistakes might not be that uncommon in my turns. furthermore, i might misunderstand your turn as well - if it happens, or if more in general i need to change anything in my turn for any reason ( be it also that i might have written you into a corner or you don’t know how to continue! ), don’t hesitate to tell me! i have no problems at all in fixing my turns, or even rewrite them entirely if necessary!

ix. turns length. i tend to write A LOT, especially when i’m very inspired by a thread. please remember, you don’t need to match my length in your reply! don’t feel pressured to write more than you wish, write as much as you want.

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✎ㅤ. . .ㅤ𝑯𝑬𝑨𝑫𝑪𝑨𝑵𝑶𝑵 𝑸𝑼𝑬𝑺𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺.

₊˚⊹ ㅤa collection of character analysis/headcanon questions to learn more about your character and your partners'! writing/headcanon prompts requested by anonymous. feel free to edit these as you see fit.

[ 🖐️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat do their hands feel like: soft, calloused, trembling ? [ ☂️ ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they crave touch or fear it ? [ 🎐 ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they have a sound, like a song or voice, that they associate with peace ? [ 🕊️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhen did they feel the safest ? [ 💤 ]ㅤ.ㅤhow do they sleep ? curled up, sprawled, holding onto something ? [ 🦇 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat is a fear they never talk about ? [ 🔒 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat is a secret they’ve sworn never to tell ? [ 🪢 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhen was the last time they broke a promise ? [ 🫳 ]ㅤ.ㅤwho do they feel they owe, but never paid back ? [ 💼 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat do they always carry with them ? [ 🧨 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat’s the quickest way to set them off, even if they hide it well ? [ ⛓️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat does guilt feel like to them ? [ 💢 ]ㅤ.ㅤwho have they never forgiven and never will ? [ 🩸 ]ㅤ.ㅤis there something or someone that, if lost, would break them ? [ 🌧️ ]ㅤ.ㅤis there a pain they refuse to heal from ? [ 🪞 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhen have they looked at their reflection and hated what they saw ? [ 📿 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat superstition or ritual do they cling to ? [ 🌊 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhen was the last time they cried ? [ 🐾 ]ㅤ.ㅤdo animals like them instinctively ? [ 🪶 ]ㅤ.ㅤhow do they laugh ? [ 🫀 ]ㅤ.ㅤwho taught them what love is ? did it hurt ? [ 💭 ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they believe they’re worthy of being loved ? [ 🎀 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat is their main love language ? [ 🔦 ]ㅤ.ㅤwho do they search for ? [ 📜 ]ㅤ.ㅤis there a story they love sharing with others ? [ 🌒 ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they have a dream or goal they have given up on ? [ 🕯️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat memory do they replay when they’re alone ? [ 🌪️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat’s the one choice they regret (not) making ? [ 🧩 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat’s a truth about themselves they refuse to admit ? [ 🍻 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat kind of drunk are they ? [ ✉️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat kind of letter would they write but never send ? [ 🗡️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat is a scar that they have but never talk about ? [ 🕸️ ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they have a favourite lie they like to hear ? [ 🪦 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat would they want on their gravestone but never admit aloud ? [ 🎱 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat kind of future do they crave, and who’s in it ? [ 🌀 ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they have a recurring dream or nightmare ? [ 🍃 ]ㅤ.ㅤdo they feel like they belong ? [ ⚓ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat does “home” mean to them ? [ 🧭 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhere would they go if they could disappear tomorrow ?

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Road to El Dorado  {Sentence Starters}

“I don’t like this.”

“Get back, mortal!”

“You fight like my sister!”

“The horse is a surprise.”

“Hey, how’d you get those?”

“Stars! Can’t do it. Not today.”

“I’m not sure I can trust you…”

“You lied to me? How dare you!”

“You drank sea water, didn’t you?”

“Stop! This is not a proper tribute!”

“No, no, no, not with the face. Stop.”

“This could be our destiny! Our fate!”

“Regrets? You mean besides dying?”

“Well, maybe I DON’T need you anymore!”

“Great. Sensational. That’s your plan, is it?”

“Well, it was nice working with you, partner.”

“I’m not really asking you to trust me, am I?”

“The stars are not in position for this tribute!”

“Did you ever imagine it would end like this?” 

“Pff! What makes you think we need your help?”

“Oh, then I suppose you’ll be wanting these back?”

“I know what you are, and I know what you are not.”

“So how’s the, uh… how’s the escape plan coming?”

“I will give you the honor of a quick and painless death.”

“If I believed in fate, I wouldn’t be playing with loaded dice.”

“Look, change of plans. We have to grab what we can and go.”

“My plan was that we should lie low! But your plan was to run off!”

“On one side, gold. On the other side… painful, agonizing failure!”

“Our greatest adventure is over before it began, and no one will even remember us.”

“You know that little voice people have that tells them to quit when they’re ahead? You don’t have one!”

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what does it say about me that i'm taking peppino as a muse partially because i see myself a lot in this poor anxious italian man, by the way?