#Kidferatu

[spongebob-connoisseur]

So speaking of Kidferatu, I made joke headcanons about him being an emo kid but tbh I think it works well, especially with the 2nd half of kamp koral.

Mostly because kidferatu is a literal carbon copy of his dad which is kinda boring. Making him an emo kid differentiates him from his dad and carries the long standing tradition of emo kids obsessed with vampires lmao

Here's a Kidferatu redesign

Now he's an Emo Kidferatu hehehehe

He listens to My Chemical Romance and reads a reverse version of Twilight. His dad doesn't understand how it's like to be a teenage boy underwater😔 the only one who understands him is the MCR poster of Gerard Way in his bedroom. His mom nanny keeps embarrassing him in front of his friends.

This is mostly a joke with @froskii

[marine-indie-gal]

I imagine that before Nosferatu sent his own Son to Summer Camp, being a Single Parent that you raised only one single child might've been incredibly exhausted for him. Which is why Slappy is always there for his Master, especially when you have a Butler as your Child's Nanny.

Slappy Laszlo and Kidferatu (c) Stephen Hillenburg and Nickelodeon Nosferatu "Count Orlok" (c) Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

[angelamontoo]

How would the other Peter Parodies react to little Vladimer?

Good question! I think the other parodies would be split 20-80 between fearing Vladimer and doting on him as a beloved nephew/little cousin respectively

(I always wanted to draw boo getting sucked up with a vacuum and Vladimir seemed like a good contender for someone who'd do that to him lol)

Babysitting Vlad makes Yetch regret putting "good with kids" on his resume

I feel like JP would be especially fond of Vlad, seeing a lot of his younger self in him as a fellow spoilt, sadistic, Lorre-adjacent creature. Here they are playing in the pool with Vlads brother, Kidferatu and JPs Frenemy, Vinnie, who I'm HCing being related to Nosferatu, Vlad and Kid

I hope I did Little Vladimir Justice! It's always an honour, but somewhat intimidating to draw someone else's oc for the first time and hopefully you're happy with how I portrayed him

[kingcrane8]

Gusty Star (Dora The Explorer) as Kidferatu (Spongebob Squarepants)

[spongebob-connoisseur]

You know, something that I always had a thought in mind;

You know how Slappy is supposedly Kidferatu's Nanny? What if somewhere down the line that Slappy comes to visit his Master's Son during Camp days where he usually just cooks or at least makes sure that Kidferatu is at least always okay (even if it may embarrass his friends) at the Trawler Cabin?

I suppose that maybe Slappy is always there for both of his Two Masters because even though Nosferatu did sent his own child there, maybe he somewhat sent Slappy as a spy there?

Tbh this is more or less what I had in mind for a kamp koral episode with Slappy. I would like something like that to happen. Slappy seems very caring and doting, I'm sure he would happily check up on how Kidferatu is doing and dote on him (embarrassing him in front of his friends in the process)

Kidferatu seems pretty adverse to the food they serve at kamp koral so I can see Slappy bringing some of his Transylvanian cooking to give to Kid.

But here is another idea, I recently finished watching the 2nd half of kamp koral. Kidferatu gets offed often. You think maybe once or twice accidentally getting hit with sunlight but actually no. He does it on purpose! He even has a tanning bed for recreational suicide. Of course he can be ressurrected but the fact that he does it sooo often is kinda hilarious. Don't want to participate in camp activities? Just self delete! Lmaoooo

But this does remind me of a tweet from someone on the SB crew when Squidferatu came out

At the time I didn't get what he meant by "who knows how many times Slappy has had to resurrect him (kidferatu)". Now I do know the context cuz Kidferatu commits self delete by sunlight often.

I imagine Slappy getting called often to Kamp Koral to ressurect Kidferatu. He knows the ritual how to do it (I like to imagine it's like the movie Dracula Prince of Darkness where he has to use a blood sacrifice to ressurect a vampire from the ashes)

Kidferatu does it so frequently that Slappy has to come around to the kamp often. Slappy doesn't mind but the self delete by sunlight probably gives him a mini heart attack every time because he's responsible for Kid and though he's a nanny, he behaves more like a surrogate mother who often is a little too protective of his children lmao. That and also the fact that its hard to come by a good blood sacrifice victim. If we're going by the episode The Perfect Camper, Slappy would have had to ressurect kidferatu several times during the span of 2 days. He probably doesn't mind but it is likely tiring. I imagine the other Trawler kids are well acquainted with him at this point. They often greet him like "hi Kidferatu's mom nanny!"

Slappy probably gives Kidferatu a little lecture about this. He isn't harsh by any means. Its more like a gentle reminder to be more careful which kidferatu really doesn't abide by. I can see kid purposely walking into the sunlight again just to scare Slappy, he thinks it's funny. Slappy is too good natured to ever get mad at him too.

I REAAALLY want Slappy to show up in Kamp Koral. Mainly because I want to see CGI slappy. I think it would look so cute and squish. But I also would like to see him being different from how he's usually portrayed, he's often really weird or silly but it would be fun to see him being a caring parental figure to the emo vampire child. I imagine Nosferatu being more strict with Kid while Slappy is more gentle and gives him more leeway. Idk why the idea of slappy being more maternal seems soooo cute. I just like seeing creepy characters being one happy family ok?

Also the spooky family man is a trope amongst Peter Lorre parodies (a famous example is literally Gomez Addams) so it fits really well with Slappy.

[spongebob-connoisseur]

This is more or less how I picture John Lennon in my head

[spongebob-connoisseur]

It’s amazing how much Nosferatu became an integral part of SpongeBob lore. Especially since he was just a gag character for the ending of the night shift episode. He even appeared as a character in the CGI Camp series as a younger version of himself. Why the recent interest?

I've grown to LOVE Nosferatu! Outside of the fact that he's a blorbo by association to Slappy. Slappy supremacy 🙏

I just think he's neat.

I remember some thing on twitter where SB fans were complaining about the show reusing old characters like Nosferatu and Granny Prunes but honestly SB fans on twitter are kinda annoying to begin with and will complain about anything. I couldn't care less, gimme more German expressionist characters <3 <3

Jokes aside. Idk I've grown really fond of Nosey. He's just a silly guy. Outside of flickering the light switch on and off, he has a funny life. His ship never made it to Wismar and he ended up stuck underwater. Now he has a dorky fish butler and a son and he lives a relatively mundane life. He's the nightshift manager at the Krusty krab, hes a single dad, he writes screenplays sometimes, he promoted products. He auditions. He even did an interview once.

Its weird but funny. The first vampire in cinema and the first (unofficial) adaptation of dracula is just some guy chilling with fishes and living his life. He seems pretty content with things and I like that. He's what I aspire to be <3 ((NOT BALD))

As for the show, spongebob the show is trying to build continuity. Idk why but it's been since the beginning of the post secondary movie era and the tidal zone shenanigans. Its more likely to reference locations and old characters every so often. Some people complain that its trying to milk nostalgia but honestly I think they're just trying to make the world more connected and cohesive. people complain when the show does literally anything, they complain about old characters being used but they also hate the new characters so it really doesn't matter.

I personally love the direction the show is currently in. Its fun, I like how they expand on some characters and they all have their own little thing going on. I also like Nosferatu specifically because of how absurd it is to have a German expressionist movie character existing in a childrens show. People say it ruins his original gag because it was supposed to be random but Nosferatu being a regular character on it's own is random. This dude was spreading his plague to Wisborg, now he pulls pranks underwater by flickering the lights. He has a morally decent fish Dr. Caligari as his primary care physician. It's funny.

Also you mentioned there's a kid version of Nosferatu in Kamp Koral. That's not a child nosferatu. That is The child OF Nosferatu. I wonder who conceived Kidferatu? Idk but its funny that Nosey is a single dad working to support his kid. In Squidferatu you can see a framed picture of his son in the background :D (I really want to see Slappy being a good nanny to Kidferatu. Please please PLEASE)

I love the episode Graveyard Shift and I love his reappearance in The Night Patty. I always liked this weird guy but I only became invested once he got associated with Slappy. I think once the synopsis of Slappy Daze dropped and it revealed Slappy being nosferatu's butler was when I became obsessed and watched every nosferatu/dracula adaptation (don't ask, I comb through things fast. Also I liked vampire media years before this but this took an existing interested and pushed it to obsession lol)

Also watching the 1979 adaption of Nosferatu in particular gave me brain worms. I was like "....he kinda bad tho" I'm trying hard not to say I've begun to simp for him but I am 👉👈 I'm mildly disgusted with myself but its also like. I kinda like him more than what I should. I sorta want to slap myself for such a weird thing because REALLY look at him. But I can't help but like it. Ughhhhh. I wanna grab his big nose. I like to imagine it'll honk like a clown's nose.

It doesn't help that he's so silly in Spongebob like that's not helping at all😭

Obviously I prefer Slappy because he's my murder bby but I also think Nosferatu could get it as well.

So yeah. In other news, I preordered the super7 nosferatu figurine. I cant wait to get it. But idk the NECA nosferatu figurine looks better. It was also cheaper. Idk its too late now to change anything. I am still quite happy. I want to make that Nosferatu a proud supportive dad to my Draculaura doll :)

[spongebob-connoisseur]

Like to slap his bald head. Reblog to slap his bald head.

[spongebob-connoisseur]

Merry Crisis :)

[spongebob-connoisseur]

[spongebob-connoisseur]

The Trawler cabin kids are so cute. I'd die for them.

[spongebob-connoisseur]

The real crime is that Kidferatu doesn't have a swoopy emo boy haircut. He'd definitely be a sad emo teenage vampire. My immortal type beat.

I just KNOW he's blasting MCR from his bedroom much to his fathers dismay. Who bought him that CD? Slapzo of course! He fully supports it all because music is music to him. Probably even bought the wig for kid as well.

[spongebob-connoisseur]

ok this has been bugging me a lot so

What if Kidferatu acted like Robbie from Gravity Falls?

That's what I was thinking! Except Kidferatu is much nicer. And bald.

I think it would be so funny if Kidferatu turned out some edgy emo kid and constantly clashes with his dad because he's a vampire from the surface who ended up underwater in 1922 and lived in isolation and Kidferatu grew up amongst other creepy sea creatures in the 2000s. There's going to be cultural and generational clashes between them. I think it'll be funny.

Nosferatu definitely carries the values of the old world and time period he's from (not like racist or anything but kinda stuffy). And Kid wants to get along with other creepy sea creatures his age. They don't really get along super well sometimes. Other times they're too alike, beyond what they'd like to admit. Only Slappy sees it and finds it adorable.

Meanwhile Slappy is the super supportive mom who doesn't get it but will go past Nosferatu's rules to get Kidferatu what he wants like CDs and concert tickets and fashion. He is making dinner and he hears kid blasting emo music from his bedroom. It fills his heart with joy <3

Imagine kid being like "ugh you don't get me MOM" and the whole thing goes through one ear and out the other for Slappy. He's just proud of this bby vampire for standing up for himself and his feelings <3 he's so proud <3

[spongebob-connoisseur]

You know what? Kidferatu is my son now. Bald headed monochrome child who thinks he's too good for walking <3

[spongebob-connoisseur]

Patrick killed Kidferatu :(

[spongebob-connoisseur]

Caillou remake but with Kidferatu instead