#Maxwell Acachalla

[cia-mia-00]

MAXWELL ACACHALLAH!

Just realized every design that I drew before this one was made with eye comfort mode on lmao they're so blue

Not Maxwell tho 💪💪

Here's the text/headcannons:

Grew up poor in the debt of his father's gambling addiction

Started doing petty crime to support him & his mother, but soon became affiliated with a dangerous gang of outlaws

Was wanted dead or alive

Died during a botched bank robbery with Papa Acachallah when the bank teller lured him to the vault & beat him down with a crowbar, then shot him for good measure

His body was given to the authorities in extange for a bounty

He is extremely bitter & vengeful & blames Acachallah for not saving him

Maxwell has spent centuries stewing in his hatred and is resentful towards basically everyone and has the power to cause significant harm on his own. Despite this, he is likely to go along with someone else's plan if it benefits him, or hurts others.

[incorrect-vt-quotes]

Toast: Maxwell, I'm afraid you've gone mad with power. Maxwell: Of course I have, y'ever tried going mad without power? It's boring, no one listens to you.

[overthinkingtaleblr]

Yeah, I honestly don't expect better X3. Most the ghost knowledge was formed on the spot and I can't fault that. (Aka I'm foaming at the mouth because I can't fix canon- he's not a poltergeist by any stretch of the definition, he's too corporal and single spirited-)- Poltertoast

Thank you for the further information, i love learning about this stuff!

A funny consequence of this is that, at least in my story, it revokes Maxwell of another solid thing he could be, which sucks bc he’s just as confused as PIE as to what the heck is going on with him. At some point i think they gave up and he stuck with the last labels he was given (including vengeful spirit until he got lectured by an actual vengeful spirit as to why he was Not a vengeful spirit At All)

Maxwell breaking into his file at PIE HQ trying to figure out what he has become like:

[skitzoghosttt]

HELLO VENTURIANTALE FANDOM

[obsidiancreates]

Fucking hell WHAT is Maxwell's backstory, of everything I remember WHY DID I FORGET THIS

[redghost2]

We're back with some more Mr. Casket

We've seen these guys before (Unless you haven't seen the other post with these 6)

From top left is Jimmy's Remorse

Top right is Hell's Investigators

Middle left is Hell's Forest

Middle right is P.I.E Reloaded

Bottom left is The Main Universe (My P.I.E Universe)

Bottom right is The OG/Original Universe

[maddiefriendlovesbilly]

My only explanation for this is that you should definitely read A Small Slice of Ethereal P.I.E. And its sequel Of Wandering Souls and Those Left Behind on ao3 or wattpad by enderamethyst (self promo)

[midnightthelynxbat]

Been playing Baldur's Gate recently and may or may not have made Maxwell and Fang in it- I love how Maxwell turned out- I love him so much-

Ignore how off they may look- it's been a while since I've drawn humans- That, and the colors might look weird but that's because I had to give my phone a purple tint and any time I turn it off, my screen turns green. I slammed it onto a metal shute during a hissy fit/panic attack at work, and instead of slamming it so the military grade case hit first, I slammed it screen first.

How Maxwell looks in the game for reference

If people want, I can show Fang. I don't like how Fang turned out, but he's still there.

[steampunksilver]

Gay asf to purposefully go to McDonald’s and hold up the line to flirt with your husband of fifteen years

This drawing took me two months to finish and I’m not sure I even like it 🤨

[evilmagician430]

concept art/character design for an acachalla centric horror story i've been brainstorming since last school year ^_^ still havent finalized any of these designs, i feel like they need a little more tweaking...

WARNING: blood, body horror, the mangled corpse of a dead animal, guns, crowbars, medical equipment and general medical imagery, and all around just weird and gross stuff

ADDITIONAL WARNING: really fucking long

story and images under the cut:

i imagine the premise is that sue, at the police station, gets a call from the acachallas like in canon. she decides to go to their house to help, alone because her coworkers are all busy/hate her (theyve been in the force long enough to go corrupt while sue still tries to do whats right)

when she goes in she discovers that the acachallas have been dead for like 10 years and their bodies are barely even intact. she also notices that their house is trashed, not only does it seem completely reclaimed by nature, covered in fungus and insects and blood, but a lot of their furniture and appliances are missing. their rooms look like theyre missing all that wouldve signaled the character of whomever inhabited it, and she thinks, well, maybe the house was looted after they died, but that doesn't explain who called...

then she accidentally steps in a pile of fungus. which wasnt there before. she turns around and a man, fully formed, has sprouted out of the ground. he is made almost entirely out of mushrooms and he has 2 shotguns for arms. he tells her to leave his house. she starts to run but then another figure stops her. a very tall woman who speaks in the same voice that called the police department. her form is indiscernible in the dark, but soon sue comes to realize this woman is not human.

she's not even alive.

sue meets the others and, sure enough, they all seem to be amalgamations of various household objects, both inorganic and organic matter, forming crude fascimiles of who they once were. there are 5 bodies and 5 of them, so they must be possessed by the immortal spirits of the acachallas...!

of course, it turns out they never needed help. it was merely a trap to lure sue home.

they accept her and care for her far more than her biological family or "friends" at work ever did. but being with them takes a toll on sue's body. eventually she dies and they build a new body for her. she wakes up as a beautiful monster. she wakes up as herself.

you're going to notice none of these drawings are of sue- that's because she's still just a regular human in this. by the end she might become a horrifying monster like the rest of them, but i havent designed her.

i took inspiration from a variety of sources, but i can only remember some of them off the top of my head:

undertale (lorewise the whole thing about monsters dust being spread on their favorite object so they can live in it, also photoshop flowey designwise was a huge inspiration)

deltarune (largely just the enemy designs)

dont hug me i'm scared (the teacher's designs, general vibes, also lamp's explanation of what happens when someone dies in episode 2 of the tv show)

tipping point (literally just stylistically. i need to learn digital collage to properly portray these designs)

tokusatsu (the costumes for the gorma in gosei sentai dairanger are like. really good. i enjoy their designs severely)

communications era ghost and pals mvs (the collage stuff speaks to my soul)

and thats all i can remember rn. now heres the first pictures i drew of each member of the family (on my world history notes) and the most recent draft of their designs (in mspaint) this is basically all of the drawings of them.

beginning with spencer, he's the smallest of the family at only 4 feet tall. he is made out of his computer and manga collection basically. on each of these i left a lot of notes in the pictures breaking down what each part of the body is made out of. i wanted to incorporate figurines and action figures into his design too but i decided to keep it more focused. but all these designs are still subject to change. a teacher walked by as i was drawing him and said she liked how it was "very industrial but feminine" or something like that.

sally! im not entirely sure what that first sketch is but as you can tell i wanted her to be wearing a doll mask from the start. i gave her this big poofy princess dress to conceal where godzilla connects to the shelves that act as her legs because it looked very strange and did not look like the shelves were her legs. the dress turns into curtains which are draped over her shelves. she was very hard to design but very fun. also i just chose random dolls and stuff i know g3 draculaura and kylie and pnp sasha are like recent dolls that wouldnt exist yet. its a mockup ok

next we got billy who is built out of his own medical supplies. i wanted to make his body one of those IV drip stands, although that means both him and spencer have very similar lower halves, with the wheels. hes the only one who doesnt really wear any clothes because billy doesnt really have an iconic outfit; the only thing i remember he wears is obviously his medic outfit but thats like. a whole outfit. i dont understand the layers of it so i can just put part of it on this thing. maybe i shouldve just given him scrubs. or what i think billy would wear that represents him

gertrude having a dead cat as her hair is a reference to a really specific one-off joke i read about on the wiki but dont actually remember from any of the videos. i think hair is a very important part of self expression so they would want to recreate their hairstyles with whatever they could find. it was hard as hell getting that cat into a shape that made literally any sense but i think i figured it out. her outfit is a combination of what she normally wore and her old costume as the crowbar, which i was inspired to design my version of as well (will post that drawing later). i think its very interesting how gertrude seems to exist to trap and keep safe or detain/kill various dangerous beings. shes like a shepherd but also an executioner.

papa acachalla doesnt have a draft cause this was literally the first time i tried drawing him in this story because i was stuck on trying to imagine what hed be made out of and how he would look like. then i remembered fungus comes in all shapes and forms and also works as a metaphor for his connection with his family and his roots. also his arms are guns LOL! i wanted to make him more catholic but i couldnt come up with how while still having him look like papa acachalla. maybe adding that priest collar cause i think father grigori has it anyways but its hard to draw stuff around his neck area.

[cia-mia-00]

Working on my Maxwell design and I thought he got shot or something but he was BEAT TO DEATH WITH A CROWBAR?? I'd be vengeful too fr

[incorrect-vt-quotes]

Ghost: How are we supposed to put a tracker the size of a penny on Maxwell without him noticing? Colon: Hey, Maxwell, I bet you 5 bucks that you can't swallow this penny. Maxwell: [Takes and swallows tracker] Pay up, loser. Ghost: ...

[overthinkingtaleblr]

I've come to the conclusion that Maxwell is probably not a Ghost! Stay with me for a moment. So basically considering the summoning and the fact that he can't be placed back plus Billies powers, I think that Maxwell was resurrected. But due to the sacrifice, he was brought back wrong, powerful, and pissed.

Maybe even possessing his own reanimated body. Anyway now I can rest/exaggerated- Poltertoast

I LOVE that, thank you so much for your sacrifice! Brought Back Wrong Technically-Not-A-Ghost Maxwell is amazing and i love him so much already.

Doodle Feat.Gavin toast!

[poltertoast]

Acachalla family Sexuality/ identity headcannonz

Papa- Bisexual cis (you can argue with it if you want but to me Papa has definitely had at least 1 boyfriend in the past.)

Gertrude- Cishet massive ally

Sally- Nonbinary, Pan (They/Them)

Billy- Aroace Cis

Sue- Transfem Aro pan (She/They)

Spencer- Transmasc Gay Ace (He/Him)

Extended family

Mama- Ally

Maxwell- Queer

[taleblrlorekeeper]

Cardboard Friend Arc [v2]

Technially a reuplaod/rephrasing of this post but with the notes instead of a summary as we're testing out a new style to these.

What is covered: The plotline of Cardboard Friend's return, not his backstory or intro episode.

Videos: Prop Hunt 18 _ Haunted by Cardboard Friend [with a few gaps]

Important notes beforehand:

These notes are from 2022 and haven't been updated so there are parts missing, quotes not quoted correctly, and lots of missing timestamps.

We use system terms (ex: switching, front, ect) when talking about Ghost, Jimmy, and Gregory as that's just the easiest thing for us to do.

[Divider by @/saradika-graphics]

Prop Hunt 18

“Holy connection batman, the ghost is Cardboard Friend!”

First video where it was stated that Gregory had a connection to Ghost and Casket. That being said, Jimmy and Johnny’s connections were heavily shown already in videos like Creepypasta College.

“You’re looking good. I mean not- not you’re looking good, I mean you look good in the way you are doing what you’re doing.”

[A/N: For some reason this wasn't properly quoted w/ timestamp and character but I'm guessing it was Ghost because *motions*]

Johnny Toasts drinks on the job, but I knew that already.

Ghost tried to call CF Gregory to which they yelled at him stating Gregory was their friend. CF probably doesn’t know the connection between Ghosts and Caskets.

Correction: CF knew about the connection, just did not comment on it.

CF attempts(?) to curse Ghost because they lost.

Max Acachalla: “Gregory, has probably been dead for a long time now.”

CF: “Isn’t Gregory (now) Johnny Ghost?”

Max: “I’m sure he has other forms(?)”

Likely due to CF’s abilities, others fully believe Gregory is dead.

Sidenote: The last line was nearly impossible to hear so I don’t know if he actually said that.

Other Spirits that Appear: Toilet Toucher, Maxwell Acachalla

L4D Slender

Original beginning of the Rake marrying SBJ thing.

Eevee Playermodel

Papa’s Age: 42 years old (7:08)

Papa called in Jimmy to take care of TT rather than calling P.I.E. He also called him “an old friend”.

“Sally doesn’t have an uncle, I’ve killed all the uncles.”

This can mean that Gregory.Gregory, the only one known to possess the knowledge of how/why respawning happens, might actually be dead.

Murder 11

Casket, right before murdering someone, whispers that his real name is Gregory. (14:00)

“My name is Greggory”

“I have secrets, and lies, but my lies are my secrets.”

HbCF

After some time of not appearing in any videos, CF pops up one last time to torment Johnny Ghost.

Ghost was originally from somewhere in New Jersey.

Continuation of the Rake’s wedding one-off.

Though stated in his debut video as being a weird man in a cardboard suit, Ghost states that CF is a level 4 or higher entity.

The original CF case is written down inside Toast’s ghost hunting book, but no known name is stated.

[Old A/N: I’m sticking with the theory that CF is Johnny’s dead brother who is a restless spirit, but my headcanon is a bit more elaborate than that. [PS: No I don't fucking know what this means, they never wrote anything down for this, I just have no memory there at ALL.]]

Ghost has no memory of CF, obviously, but he does remember seeing what they can do before.

He’s in the closet v.v

CF’s reaction to Jimmy trying to steal front feels more like frustration than fear. More “Why aren’t you listening to me” and less “Oh god the person who killed me.”

Amnesia v.v

What the fuck did he do in Italy?

RIP, we never know the outcome v.v

JG: “That man is my father.” [12:40]

[feathered-moths-ablaze]

The Scugs are made! Oh boy, that took a long time. I'm really proud of how both the colors and Linear turned out.

From bottom left to top right there's P.I.E, the Acachallas (+ Sue and Maxwell) and any miscellaneous characters

Saint Sue came from @overthinkingtaleblr