#that's just my headcanon because this was pre-mystery inc

[nemmet]

thinking about what's new scooby doo fred in particular on this fine evening. he's the most 'just some guy' of all time. he likes sports but not the ones you would expect (ice hockey and wrestling). he lives with and COOKS FOR shaggy and scooby. he adores his van. he's easily embarrassed by his parents but cares so deeply about them and goes Dead Serious when they're in danger. he's such a big elvis fan that he went to a fantasy elvis camp. he almost died twice, and on both occasions scooby single-handedly saved his life. he's sad that he doesn't have a catchphrase. he refers to the rest of the gang as his family. he's easily distressed when others say his lines/come up with plans/drive the mystery machine because he's autistic and needs his routine. he panicked when fake-dating daphne as bait for a monster and ended up extensively rambling about his hayfever. he turned into a vampire that one time. he stood up and did a live trap demonstration in the middle of an interview because he cannot sit still for even five minutes. he has such a goofy way of expressing himself that velma and daphne refer to it as "fred speak" and need to translate it for others. he will throw his entire body at a monster if it causes his friends the slightest harm. he thinks he's above the laws of physics. he's never had ownership of the communal mystery inc braincell ever, in his life. and most importantly of all, HE CAN BENCH PRESS 220

[starboysbrainrot]

my thoughts and headcanons about the og mystery inc (which I can’t develop too much here without spoiling my own fic) :

(also feel free to disagree, these are just headcanons !)

Ricky probably had social anxiety as a kid/teenager, and only felt comfortable around mystery incorporated

Ricky can play many instruments but mainly piano, guitar and keytar

He was into ornithology as a kid

He’s also very good with coding, and mechanic

Cassidy surely fell first but Ricky fell WAY HARDER

Judy tried so hard to get them to actually go on a date, but Pericles would always find a way to screw everything up

they’re all neurodivergent.

I like to think that Brad and Rickie had that kind of strange bromance as teenagers

Judy and Mayor Nettles had a thing going on. I saw that once in a fanfic in maybe 2017 ? and that idea never left my brain (also the idea of having both Mayor Nettles and Sheriff Stone experiencing a romantic relationship with a parent of Fred’s is funny to me)

Brad disguised as Fred in “The Man in the mirror” should be call bred 🍞

Judy and Ricky were always very chill around each other

Cassidy and Brad however-

Man they were like cat and dog 😭 they cared a lot about each-other in the “sibling-always-picking-on-each-other” kind of way

I like (no) to think that a few seconds before their death in the pre-nibiru timeline, each one of them got a moment of realisation. the kind of realisation that makes you wonder how you got yourself lost at such an extreme point and makes you ask yourself what you’ve become.

Cassidy wanted to be a journalist and travel across the world

Brad and Judy never had another child after Fred because they just couldn’t imagine living a life as parents after loosing their child

Ricky saw Velma like a daughter at some point

Brad was very protective of his friends as a teenager

In the red room, Ricky’s the only one to appear as a teenager, because he lost his best version of himself the day he left the city after the fr est attacked them. His identity was therefore strongly linked to that, and he sort of lost himself by loosing his friends and leaving his family.

they are the definition of “maybe in another universe, we’re still all together”.

[letterflower]

*★☆;; general portrayal headcanons (russell)

[cocks gun] please consider playing end roll

also i rarely get to talk about him please allow me to talk about him for this post

alrighty, first order of business...

not much to say is notable in his portrayal since there’s only the game to get reference off of.

i guess that being said, by default, interactions with him will go as the following:

- dream/fantasy related characters: in-game

- anything else: pre-game

- “post-game”/other verses will gotta be planned beforehand

- if i ever run into any other russells, i am more than fine with switching to playing informant

as for “post-game” verse, it’d really depend. if he’s dead, then i’d portray him as a ghost/in purgatory. if he’s alive, then i’ll be under the assumption that one of the dreamsend inc employees had a heart and took custody of him away from his aunt to adopt him.

so yeah, there’s that, so if you want anything specific then let me know!

so uh, isn’t russell a serial killer? exactly how much in danger am i interacting with him?

i would say about 25% since i won’t usually rp post-game but i won’t usually try to have his triggers present in a thread. but of course, i won’t be making drastic actions without permission first. (it’s 40-50% without those limitations if anyone is curious since a majority of murders were done on impulse/at the heat of the moment)

ships in mind?

ehhh. not a whole lot because he’s fourteen and his entire circumstances make everything way more complicated.

i do like shipping him with informant, and i would be down for the usual ones that he’s shipped with in the fandom (gardenia, chris) but otherwise i just want to wish him to be happy ^q^

what headcanons do you wanna share with the class right now?

in general, russell is the kind of person to have a blank, dead-eyed expression all the time but then his mind is just playing this on loop.

not just loud screeching but i think he doesn’t like loud noises overall. he’ll probably smack you or go freeze/dissociate if you try to surprise him with a shout. continuous loud yelling is just much more directly related so it’d get a nastier reaction out of him.

where does he even Sleep in the apartment??? does he sleep in the couch or does the poor boy like, make a nest out of the towels in the bathroom and sleep there. AU where russell is a bit more of a well-adjusted individual just because he was able to get proper sleep, i bet he was Cranky 85% of the time and got most of his sleep at Chris’ apartment or Kantera’s place

speaking of kantera, i liked to imagine that russell would sometimes stay over at with kantera’s place when he was still around. (russell’s knowledge of japanese culture is a bit more in-depth than just a passing interest imo) he’d help him out around the shop in exchange for staying over like organizing or taking stock.

because of that, i’d like to think that russell has a tiny bit of knowledge of herbology, though he can’t remember the exact names of plants to save his life. he just recognizes a common plant used for helping with itching and go “oh yea, it does that”.

he doesn’t know japanese though. he probably knows some phrases but that’s about it and he’d probably butcher the pronunciation if he tried saying it himself.

chris and russell definitely went to rumored haunted places for shits and giggles. since russell is the kind of person to go “if it happens, it happens” if he got hit by a car, he’d have zero self-preservation and would be the go-to person to summon/provoke any spirits.

[Russell, in a monotone voice while he’s flossing] Goatman I’m dancing on your bridge, it’s my bridge now -

russell doesn’t really believe in the supernatural. well, it’s not like he’s against the idea of being wrong, he’s just the kind of person to try proving their existence by tempting mysterious forces to smite him like the previous point ^q^

he has the kind of aura where cats and dogs don’t really like him, even though he likes them and wants to pet them. he didn’t always have that kind of air to him, but it be like that

has very little standards in terms of food and will unabashedly eat almost anything because it’s not like his parents are making a whole lot of effort to make sure he doesn’t drop dead

i’d say he actually knows how to fish in real life! - i’d like to think that his grandmother lived in a port town so that’s how he came to learn while growing up. though i also think that his parents live in the city so he probably wouldn’t be able to fish much ;;

i haven’t played in a while, so i think i’ll wrap it up there.