#aid him in his survival in maybe one circumstance bc that could be stupid and fun but also

[albatris]

what my characters have inside their heads instead of brains

thanks @rhikasa for the tag!! this one looks like fun :D

Rules: State what some or every single one of your characters have in their heads besides a brain.

for ATDAO -

Noa: a meticulously curated and organised cupboard full of old records except instead of actual records it's just her 87 hyperspecific niche spotify playlists

Shara: an elaborate conspiracy board covered in newspaper cutouts and photographs connected with red string. images of cryptids. LOTS of flowers

Tris: some weeds and a generally chaotic collection of mugs scattered all over the place and taking up all his bench space. some of these mugs contain coffee that he forgot about and is now cold

Kai: trinkets, antiques, odd bits and bobs you might pick up in the bargain bin at a mildly haunted thrift store

Jacob: constant elevator music 24/7. seasons 1 through 20 of Midsomer Murders, complete with trivia and fun facts

Becca: snack wrappers, random sticky note memos of to-do lists and important dates, all the pens she’s misplaced over the years

Alice: murder.............. and homemade ice tea

for Undertow -

Aster: it's just a roomba buzzing around and every time it bumps into a wall she experiences A Fantastic Idea (read: Impulsive Terrible Idea)

Kit: a really sick magic sword with crows engraved on the hilt and some love letters from his wife

Nolan: I'm not going to pretend for a fucking second that I understand a single thing that's happening inside Nolan's head at any given moment

Meg: blueprints for zany machines and inventions, stained with dirt and oil. exhaust fumes. some tacky thrift store sofas covered in dog hair

Baker: recipe books with notes scribbled in the margins, herbal tea, pressed flowers

I'm bailing on Cards and Ferris 'cause they............. barely exist as fully formed characters yet....... and I struggled to come up with anything interesting for them lmao

I'm tagging @tracle0 @elliot-orion @firesidefantasy @goose-books if you wanna join! no pressure though ✌🏼

[majormeilani]

theory and analysis

okay so this is all just something that i came up with along with the help of a friend (@moosensweaters) and maybe a few other things i've come across. 

of course this is all just observations that we made and none of it may be actually true so don't freak out but-- it's a theory and analysis that involves some elements of the show that may or may not be spoilery so??? read at your own risk or watch the show first before reading. (it also makes more sense if you do!!)

 it pertains to the slight mystery of some of the strange occurrences and is an attempt to explain why they happen. also buckle in because this shit is long as fuck 

@moosensweaters could elaborate on some of the things i missed too bc i certainly didn’t catch every detail!!!

 now i know that A LOT of the show is based around the use of visual gags and circumstances that an adult cartoon would have and it's not really plot heavy in any way but hear me out. 

 now, jasper is likely dead but the matter of circumstance that it happened is.... unusual? 

but first we have to delve into who exactly jasper is. 

so in the first episode that we see jasper (s1e5), he appears as any other kid:

but throughout the episode, even though it's likely because of the fact that they are trying to find the "ghosts and monsters" jasper seems..... uneasy and afraid?

esp in the lab and when they find the things in the.... torture chamber?   

and at the end of the episode he... fades away like a ghost?

and keep in mind he was on spooky island; a place not many people head to except with the intent of whatever......... gross stuff quartermaster is doing. but the thing about him is he looks unscathed and youthful. 

which implies he did die there. 

jasper also talks with outdated slang and mentions toys and products you don't hear or see much about nowadays. his clothes are also worn in a dated style. when he first talks to the trio and tries to join them in solving a "mystery" he references "a gang of mystery solvers like the harlem globetrotters," who are a basketball team who appeared on scooby doo once in an episode in the 70s.

another small thing to point out is his shoes. he mentions that they "light up the night" which is later called back in s2ep2. the shoes in question are la gear light up shoes, which were a product sold around the early 90s and are also sports shoes. a minor thing to inference is that he may be affiliated with sports in some way as his chosen camp. these shoes, according to wikipedia, were used to locate lost or stranded people as well. but that's a minute detail. 

oh another thing is that the creators did not give him a shadow as a ghost but one when he was living!!!

but back to jasper's shoes.

now something many have noticed is how jasper's shoes change from in david's story and from the rest of the time that he's shown in other episodes. 

 shoes in spooky island ep:

 shoes in jasper dies at the end:

shoes in night of the living ill: 

so what a friend and i have come to assume is that jasper might have thrown his shoes off a cliff of some sort or disposed of them in anger after his disqualification from the order because of them. the pair that he is shown wearing in the episodes, aside from jasper dies at the end, are likely his old pair of shoes before he got his la gear light ups, which could have been sent to him via mail from his parents. (s2ep2 the kids apparently can get mail sent to the camp so that's probably why). i think that the WERE new shoes because in jasper dies at the end, he mentions his shoes to be "fresh kicks," implying that he had a previous pair. and he may have died while wearing the other pair of shoes.

so in david's story in the episode "jasper dies at the end," (loosely based on the story "john dies at the end" which in itself is a fairly.... confusing story) jasper is shown at the end of the episode to have survived both the fall from the cliff and a bear attack. which is strange for many reasons but not impossible. but if that didn't kill him what did? 

the basic plot in that episode: campbell is holding the order of the sparrow ceremony and jasper is awarded the title of the best camper and the staff is passed to him. quartermaster tells campbell how to complete the ceremony is to go on a trek without the use of technology and return with a stick from a tree on a high up mountain. from here we see that younger david breaks in as a fairly rebellious kid saying that the whole trek sounds like a stupid idea. and from then on, one of the counselors points out that david should join them on the trek so he can feel more used to the nature. and thus the events of the trek bring them up the mountain and in an attempt to retrieve the stick jasper falls to what would be his fate. 

also look at what happens when jasper falls:

david seems concerned for jasper. but campbell? merely a "hmm?" and an unconcerned, apathetic reaction. like the possibility of death is an everyday sight for him. 

and who rushes to jasper's aid? david

NOT CAMPBELL

who only comes over when jasper has already fallen off the cliff

and proceeds to pull a knife on david 

another small detail to note is how the children (the trio, max, nikki, neil) don't seem to recall anyone named jasper (WHO THEY MET PRIOR TO THE STORY), either meaning in the moment that he (jasper) introduced himself they weren't listening or david didn't say jasper's name in his story. 

but what's really interesting about david's story up to that point is why would it include the possible idea of a kid dying? why did campbell later stab and kill those bears in the cave? why would jasper outright say "i'm definitively not dead?" and more importantly why would david include a detail of campbell pulling a knife on him after jasper fell?

what i'm thinking is: david possibly confused two of his memories when trying to cope with the death of his friend or tried to repress the memory with a "happy" memory he shared with jasper. 

now, i don't think that jasper died from a bear attack nor a fall from a cliff but i'm certain that campbell had something to do with it. 

when you consider campbell's character he's a scumbag and works well as an antagonist, esp pertaining to the season 2 finale. 

campbell doesn't have a problem harming anyone or anything and doesn't care much for others. he's selfish and greedy and manipulative so i have no doubts that he would kill a child.

 and here in lies the case of jasper's death:

campbell likely murdered him and david witnessed it.

considering all the shit that campbell does off-screen and the addition of the strange bloodied bag quartermaster was dragging in s1ep2 and the torture chamber as i mentioned before it makes the most sense. what we think really happened is either jasper or david got curious about spooky island and lead the other over to the island to explore it.

they brought along their pogs and jasper wore his old pair of shoes either to keep the la gear shoes clean or because they were the only shoes he had left. i have a feeling that this exploration took place after the events of jasper dies at the end and david may have been the lead in taking them there. probably wanting to learn more about his idol. 

through their exploration, they may have stumbled upon one or many of campbell's secrets that he was trying to keep hidden and campbell found the two of them there and tried to kill jasper in an attempt to keep his secret hidden and threatened david's life into having him swear to never tell anyone or he would kill him. and thus, david likely will do anything to make campbell happy and cover up any of his lies and scams out of fear of him trying to kill him.

i mean, david seems afraid of campbell being disappointed in him as he wants him to be proud of him and loves when he gets praise from him-- so it's almost as though he idolizes him in fear? or even that he has tried to use his optimistic outlook on life on campbell and made it up in his mind that campbell is good or meant well. maybe campbell even manipulated david into thinking jasper deserved what he got. 

maybe it's part of the reason he "loves" the camp so much despite how terrible and underdeveloped the camp is. 

also something worth noting is this small scene from night of the living ill: 

which means.........

he died on spooky island. in campbell's mansion.

but we're not done here 

 though this is has less to do with jasper and more to do with campbell another part of the theory is that the correlation of the events in

cult camp and campbell's absence throughout the fact.

okay so in the beginning of the episode, gwen bursts in the counselor's cabin to alert david that she posted an ad in the newspaper, intent on trying to get another person to help out around the camp. she mentions that she "found a stash of cash campbell hid in the quartermaster's store behind a box of grenades." now, campbell could be forgetful or trying to hide some of his cash elsewhere as a back up OR he could have hidden it in hopes that gwen would find it. he probably is well aware that gwen hates it there and would do anything to leave, and thus may have left it for her to find.  

now immediately after gwen nabs david by his bandanna, there's a knock at the door that reveals the infamous daniel. now, daniel's character is really just an off-color david with different attire. yet? despite the other character's pointing it out, david does not see the resemblance between him and daniel and won't believe the kids when they say something is wrong. the page in the newspaper that flips to show daniel is a dangerous person also leads gwen to flee from the camp to save her own life.

now, how does daniel end up looking so similar to david? that might be because campbell likely came in contact with daniel and was intent on trying to kill off everyone there through the use of david's obliviousness and may have hired him to do just that. the motivation i'm not particular on but i think he may have been trying to rid of his scam summer camp as a means to pretend like "what? a summer camp under my name! i have no such thing!" because..... campbell is the kind of guy to do such a thing.

campbell probably had daniel attempt to resemble david as much as possible to try and lower any of david's suspicions and to follow along with the sing off just to keep david from thinking anymore of it. however, even though daniel had a plan to use brainwashing and poison to kill everyone, he ends up failing and poisoning himself with his own concoction out of likely arrogance. i'm not sure.... why he did but he may have gotten so caught up in wanting to be the best that he failed.

daniel's dialogue also sounds unnatural at times, as if he were given a script of some kind to study to play the part: 

 "Smell that fresh mountain air! Gosh, now that's the kind of nature you don't just find in any ol' neck of the woods!" 

 "My name is Daniel. Your camp counselor applicant. I hope it's not too late to submit my resume." 

 "Well, sadly, my old camp was recently shut down. And even since I've been searching night and day for a new group of eager young kiddos I can help to educate and reach their full potential!"

not to mention he imitates, moves the same way and even says this line at the same time david does:

"Aw, Gwen, are you sure?" 

almost as though campbell had a part in sending daniel there. and after daniel fails at trying to kill the camp, jen comes in right after. which means, jen was campbell's plan b if daniel failed since campbell was likely overseeing the whole event play out and had to continue on with her. and of course, jen plays into the things that make gwen who she is and the similarities blind her to the fact that jen is also an equally dangerous person. which, only campbell and david would probably know those thing about her enough to use them against her and david would never use them against her and that leaves campbell as a candidate for sending her there. plus, campbell always seems to have "plan b's" when it comes to anything. 

this lead the friend of mine to think that campbell may be a cultist or something. 

i personally think that campbell is just a awful person with connections and ties to the wrong kind of people. 

he's probably power and money hungry and could not care less about who he hurts to get what he wants. 

and i'm almost worried for the well-being of david and the others because the last we see of campbell he leaves with this statement:

............ but then again it is just a comedy cartoon-  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

feel free to share what ya’ll think too!!!!