#Professor Pericles

[insomniavv]

If I had a nickel for every time my favorite animated kids cartoon from childhood featured a toxic, codependent, situationship-to-bitter-ex’s NIGHTMARE between:

-Person A (an unsuspecting human with initially pure intentions who falls into madness and despair and hurts those they love as they realize they’ve been manipulated the entire time by someone they adore, and lose their entire life to their bad decisions.)

-and Creature B (a ruthless agent of chaos and master of manipulation, who also happens to be of extraterrestrial/otherworldly origin, and eventually resorts to physical and mental abuse to force Person A to aid them in triggering an apocalyptic, world ending event)

I would have two nickels. and also grow up to be gay.

[alphashley14]

Professor Pericles isn’t in the Sitting Room.

Just a liiiittle something I noticed that I would like to point out and discuss.

His “better half” wasn’t shown to be trapped there with the others. So did he never separate from his? Or did he never have one at all?

Makes you wonder just how affected Professor Pericles was by the curse, because also consider:

He recounts hearing the “soothing” screams of Krampus’ victims as a hatchling in his homeland of Germany. (The gif above is him talking about it) Which would have been before he had ever set a talon in Crystal Cove. Soooo…

Was he really corrupted by the curse like everyone else? Or was he a manipulative red flag waving psychopath at birth? And if that’s the case, then what does that say about the reset timeline? Is he reeeeally as innocent as he appears as Creationex Corp’s mascot? Or is he still a wolf in sheep’s clothing?

Just saying. This makes for EXCELLENT fanfic material. 👀

(Also PLEASE comment and reblog with your own thoughts! I want to talk about this because it gave me an idea for another fic!)

[skywillow28022]

More Mystery Incorporated sketch dumps I did, the second being from a while ago.

The Velma one is not meant to be shippy, it's because she wasn't expecting so much affection- considering that line she says to Fred in S2.

Personal fav.

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

having a lot of thoughts as usual about sdmi and its portrayal of the cycle of abuse, and how pericles, cassidy, and ricky's foils and parallels to each other there are all both fascinating and deeply tragic.

in particular today i'm thinking about how ricky is an abusive mentor toward marcie, and tries to be abusive toward velma and fails because she has a support system and hasn't been worn down yet, and velma being an example and continuing to extend marcie support and a hand out of her situation is what gives marcie the courage to leave even when it's dangerous to do so, and how pericles spends the series--present day and past--systematically isolating ricky and dismantling his support system one by one, and how everything cassidy stood for was refusing to continue the cycle with everything she had, and how she felt so so guilty and violated and betrayed when ricky manipulated her into it anyway, and how she was willing to die to make it right, and how marcie standing up to him to great effect with her new support system leaves him utterly stunned, and how after that he starts trying to stand up for himself against his abusive mentor and break the cycle, and how he tries to take up cassidy's convictions as his weapon to do it with because cassidy was crushed under the wheels of the cycle but marcie proved it was possible to break,

and how he couldn't do that with his own abuser because pericles has spent his life building a steel cage around him, and tightening and tightening and tightening it without him even realizing it until it was too late, and how fucking devastated he is when it's finally demonstrated him that the door to the cage is closed for good,

and how when he is made complicit in his abuser reaching through the generations to make sure cassidy died for nothing, and that this little girl who gave him hope by defeating his attempt to continue the cycle couldn't escape him after all, it breaks him.

fucking kill me, man. god.

[stinkykitty8]

You cant tell me these two havnt talked shit in german to each other

[starboysbrainrot]

the show : *portrays the og mystery inc as tragic and overly serious villains/anti-heroes with unhealed trauma*

also the og mystery inc as teens :

[bubscreations]

YELL AT THAT BIRD, E!!! 🗣

Close Ups:

Original Meme Of course:

MEGA BONUS [A Version of this I did back in 2020]:

[crybunny12]

Appreciation post for my comfort characters 🩷🩷 (I do not care that 2 of them are villains, I love them anyway. Also yes I know technically Starlight changes)

[sillydeafwitch]

have not posted enough Scooby art lately so have some og mystery inc

[crossoverheaven]

We live to serve our master but also we ARE our master, sort of?

BONUS:

[mashedbootatoes]

All the world around me is so ugly.

[alphashley14]

POV: Fred was doodling in class

[chimerazodiac]

[minty-the-marill]

I headcanon Dusknoir to sound like Pericles from Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated. Both betray people and they work for a destructive god. But Dusknoir is acting out of fear and Pericles wants to become god.

[casasupernovas]

im re-watching scooby doo mystery incorporated and can someone tell me why professor pericles talks to ricky like he's his lover?

[starboysbrainrot]

I’m rewatching sdmi (currently watching episode 24 of season 1) and decided to sketch a bit while doing it !

from left to right : mayor jones, Scooby, Fred, Judy’s locket, shaggy and Pericles from @sillydeafwitch ‘s au and Scooby again inspired by episode 2 of season 1 :)