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excentricanthropologist · 7 months ago

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Ghost Worldbuilding—The Mysteries of the Malumary (Part 1)

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A few months ago I made a post where I came up with a name for a Satanic version of the Rosary: the Malumary. I grew up Catholic (albeit not in a particularly devout environment), and while I no longer follow that faith, I still find myself intrigued by the aesthetics and rituals of the Rosary, which was why I was inspired to come up with a Satanic version for the Ghost fandom. After I came up with the name I found myself thinking more about what praying the Malumary might look like, and I began thinking about what the Mysteries of the Malumary might look like...

Before I go into more detail, a disclaimer: I am not a Satanist, a Christian, or a theologist, and I don't have nearly enough knowledge about any faith for this to be taken seriously. This is merely me having fun with what we in the Ghost fandom affectionately call "Scooby-Doo Satanism", and is meant purely for the purpose of worldbuilding within the context of Ghost fanworks. With that understood, allow me to begin...

I'm assuming most people don't know what the Mysteries of the Rosary are, so allow me to summarize: The Mysteries of the Rosary are meditations that focus on significant events in the life of Jesus (and to a lesser extent, the Virgin Mary). There are twenty Mysteries total, divided into four sets of five, with each set unified by a particular era/motif. Each time you pray the Rosary you are meant to pick one of the four sets and contemplate on the five Mysteries within that set as you pray, focusing on one Mystery for each "decade" (set of ten beads). Each Mystery also has an associated "fruit", or spiritual goal (e.g. humility, purity, etc.), but I'm saving that for future posts.

I'm not going to go into a ton of detail about the Rosary's Mysteries, but I think taking a quick look at them can help with understanding the concept a little better. In chronological order, the Mysteries of the Rosary (and the associated eras/motifs for each set) are:

The Joyful Mysteries (Jesus's birth and early life)

The Annunciation

The Visitation

The Birth of Jesus

The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple

The Finding of Jesus in the Temple

The Luminous Mysteries (Moments that revealed Jesus's divinity)

The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan

The Wedding at Cana

Jesus's Proclamation of the Kingdom of God

The Transfiguration

The Institution of the Eucharist

The Sorrowful Mysteries (The Passion and death of Jesus)

The Agony in the Garden

The Scourging at the Pillar

The Crowning with Thorn

The Carrying of the Cross

The Crucifixion and Death of our Lord

The Glorious Mysteries (Jesus's resurrection and the glory of God)

The Resurrection

The Ascension

The Descent of the Holy Spirit

The Assumption of Mary

The Coronation of the Virgin

If you're unfamiliar with any of these events, don't worry about it. All you need to understand is how the Mysteries are structured and that their purpose is to encourage followers to meditate on the life of Jesus.

For the Malumary, I knew I wanted the Mysteries to follow the same structure as those of the Rosary, but focused on the life of Lucifer instead of Jesus. I also wanted to include a feminine presence, since some of the Rosary's Mysteries focus on Mary, and the Rosary in general is very much associated with her. The most prominent "evil" feminine figure that gets associated with Lucifer tends to be Lilith, so I decided to incorporate her into some of the Mysteries.

Just like with the Rosary, I've grouped the Mysteries for the Malumary into four themed sets of five. They're not quite as chronological as the Rosary's, but this is to be expected since I'm cobbling them together from many different sources of inspiration (the Bible and other Abrahamic texts, medieval and modern literature, folklore, pop culture, my own imagination, etc.), and some of them are events that haven't happened yet but are prophesized. I'll be delving into each set of Mysteries more deeply in future posts, but here is a brief description of the Mysteries as an introduction:

The Furious Mysteries (Lucifer's transformation into Satan)

The Pride of Lucifer—Lucifer's refusal to bow to God and acknowledge humans as God's favorite creation.

The Rebellion—Lucifer amasses an army of angels and together they rebel against God.

The War in Heaven—Lucifer and God's armies duke it out in Heaven.

The Fall—Lucifer and his followers lose the War and are cast out of Heaven.

The Birth of Satan—Lucifer becomes Satan and creates his own kingdom in Hell.

The Nefarious Mysteries (Moments when Satan tempted someone)

The Serpent in the Garden—Satan tempts Eve with the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and as a result she and Adam are banished from the Garden of Eden.

The Wrath of Cain—Satan ignites envy and rage in the heart of Cain, leading him to commit the first murder against his brother Abel.

The Trial of Job—Satan and God make a bet to test the faith of God's favorite human Job.

The Temptation of Christ—Satan tempts Jesus in the desert.

The Bargain with Faust—Satan makes a deal with Faust for his soul.

The Lascivious Mysteries (Moments when Satan harvested those crops and fields that others have plowed 😏)

The Departure of Lilith—Lilith refuses to submit to Adam and departs from the Garden of Eden.

The Consummation—Lilith turns to Satan and becomes his first human disciple; the two of them consummate this relationship with the first sexual act.

The Witches' Sabbath—This Mystery is meant to represent all witches/followers of Satan who gained power by devoting themselves to him.

The Unholy Annunciation—Beelzebub appears to the Prime Mover and announces to her that she will bear the Antichrist.

The Conception of the Antichrist—Satan and the Prime Mover conceive the Antichrist.

The Calamitous Mysteries (The end of the world and Satan's victory over God)

The Birth of the Antichrist—The Antichrist is born, which heralds the beginning of the end.

The Seven Seals—The Seven Seals open, releasing the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and other abominations.

The Whore of Babylon—Lilith rises as the Whore of Babylon and assembles the abominations.

Armageddon—The final battle for Heaven and Earth.

The Triumph Over Heaven—Satan and his followers finally triumph over God and Satan becomes the ruler of the Earth.

I'm so happy to FINALLY have this written out; it's been so much fun to put together and I can't wait to delve even further. I'll be writing more posts in the near future that go deeper into detail for each set of Mysteries, so keep an eye out for those if you're interested (the green link at the top of this post will take you to my worldbuilding tag). Also! Please feel free to use any or all of this in your own fanworks if you'd like. Keep it as is, tweak it to your heart's content, or use it as inspiration for your own headcanons. At the very least I hope this was an interesting read. 😊

Thanks for reading!

- Sister Serena

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witchpuppies · 2 years ago

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(via GIPHY) Shaggy Rogers (Scooby Doo Where Are You)

#giphy #cartoon #scooby doo #hanna barbera #shaggy rogers #70s cartoons #hanna barbera cartoons #norville shaggy rogers #scoobyedits #scooby doo where are you #my gifs #source: giphy

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dailylooneys · 4 days ago

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Rare Warner Bros. Animation pitches from the Seven Arts era!

Source: https://wile-e2005.livejournal.com/267115.html

"Currently there's a batch of very rare (and very EXPENSIVE) animation cels made by Warner Bros. Animation during the infamous Warner Bros.- Seven Arts era of 1967-69 (in a way, it now feels like a precursor to the current Warner Bros. Discovery mess) that are all pitches for potential new projects from the cartoon studio! Fellow animation enthusiast on Facebook, Anthony White, has saved copies of the images and has given me permission to re-post these images. I am posting this to commemorate today being the 20th anniversary of the premiere of "What's New, Scooby-Doo?", a show from the same company 35 years later that I've often compared to the Seven Arts cartoons (but are a lot more realistic).

These were bought by someone else at the William Hendricks Estate Sale a few years back (Hendricks was executive producer at Warner Bros. Animation during that time), and according to Jerry Beck, sold for hundreds of dollars. But now you can all see what they look like, as we take a look at What Could Have Been during that turbulent era… or what we're glad didn't happen due to Kinney National buying Warner Bros.- Seven Arts, kicking Seven Arts out of the picture and closing WB Animation (until they reopened in 1980). Don't expect a lot from your favorite Looney Tunes pals, as during this time Warner Bros.- Seven Arts didn't really want to use their classic cartoon stars in new material, since they already had a good-sized library of shorts to rerun on television, and they wanted to try and work on fresh new ideas and characters (and veteran director Robert McKimson sure wasn't happy about that).

Either this was going to be a series of Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts aimed at more mature audiences (in the vein of their "Norman Normal" Cartoon Special), or it was going to be a primetime animated series. Warner Bros. Animation was already planning such a series, an adaptation of the "Li'l Abner" comics, but that got scrapped due to the studio's closure. Doesn't look like it would interest children, which might be a reason why it was never made.

The studio had already done quite a few cartoon shorts based on Robin Hood (most famously 1958's "Robin Hood Daffy"), and so I can't imagine them doing a whole series of Looney Tunes shorts based on the stories. Ultimately, Disney would do it better with their 1973 animated feature with an all-anthro animal cast.

"Time Flies" sounds like an unusual name for a series; I'm guessing that would've been the name for the cartoon that introduced these characters, feeling a lot like a knockoff of Mr. Peabody and Sherman. Maybe this was scrapped and re-worked into the infamous 1968 Daffy vs. Speedy cartoon "See Ya Later Gladiator" (the time machine sure looks similar, especially the "ALERT" indicator).

This sounds like it was going to be a TV series (but Hanna-Barbera had already beaten them to the punch with "The Arabian Knights"), or a series of theatrical shorts, with each one telling a comic adaptation of one of the "Arabian Nights" stories.

This series is the first of several pitches to use a pun-based title, where the titular "modern" man Connecticut Yankee ends up back in the days of King Arthur, and his contemporary inventions and trends either fascinate or scare King Arthur and his men, like in this cel where they are freaked out among seeing Yankee light up a cigar (with a HUGE flame coming from the lighter!) Of course back then, smoking was still considered acceptable practice in the Warner Bros. cartoons, but here it could also be a reference to when King James of England thought smoking tobacco was evil and attempted to ban it, but with no success.

I can see why this one wouldn't have gotten off the ground. Warner Bros. Animation and several other cartoon studios have already done these kind of shorts way back in the 1930s, and they decided they didn't need more of the same.

Lo here was previously introduced in the rarely-seen 1968 Merlin the Magic Mouse Looney Tunes short, "Hocus Pocus Pow-Wow." I suspect he was also going to star in his own series of shorts, alongside his family life and the rest of the Native American tribe. I guess it's a good thing Lo didn't get his own series, as even by the late 1960s Native American stereotypes like these were getting under hot water. (But that didn't stop Warner Bros. Animation from visiting the concept one more time with the Cool Cat short "Injun Trouble!")

This obviously wasn't going to be a Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies short, but a Christmas Special in the vein of "Norman Normal" being a Cartoon Special. I can't really see this working as a six-minute short, with the jarring shift from a serious story of the Three Wise Men to a comical Santa Claus tale. Perhaps it would've been a two-reeler featurette, with the two halves running at eleven minutes or something and getting their own introduction. In that way, it possibly would've been neat to see, especially Warner Bros. Animation attempting realistic detailed art and animation like they would starting with their DC Comics shows beginning in the 1990s. And I wonder who they'd hire to sing?

This one obviously looks like it was going to be a TV series; this concept just doesn't work with Looney Tunes. Warner Bros. now already had the rights to the "Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero" animated series produced by Joe Oriolo and several Japanese companies, distributed by Seven Arts Television, and I guess they wanted to make their own in-house action adventure cartoon series. Had this happened, it would've been the studio's first of its' kind, predating "Batman: The Animated Series" by 25 years or less! It does feel a lot like the kind of action cartoons Filmation and Hanna-Barbera were producing at the time, and I suspect this would've been a Saturday morning program, but I'm guessing the parental complaints about violent action cartoons on Saturday mornings at the end of the 1960s put a halt to this, if it wasn't the studio's closure.

There have already been a bunch of cartoons about child geniuses, so Warner Bros. Animation tries to throw a curveball here by making it a girl. She already looks very different from the standard art style of the Warner- Seven Arts era, let alone the Looney Tunes franchise as a whole! It feels more like something UPA or Paramount Cartoon Studios could've done. I wonder who would've done Jeanie's voice; for the two "Bunny and Claude" shorts Pat Woodell of "Petticoat Junction" voiced Bunny, and Larry Storch did a few incidental female voices as well. I don't know if the studio would've been able to get June Foray at the time...

During this time, Warner Bros. Animation had played around with the circus concept in the Cool Cat short "3 Ring Wing Ding", and so I suspect they wanted to do a whole series of shorts about a goofy circus. Get a load of all the alternate titles; I suspect each one would've been a different cartoon short's title had this become a series.

This one particularly reminds me of "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" in that it takes a classic property (in this case, the "Gulliver's Travels" story) and updates it to be more modern. They also tried the same thing in 2003 with a series of new Looney Tunes shorts intended for theatrical release, placing familiar classic characters into newer scenarios and with modern inventions and trends. (Like that Cartoon Network "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" promo said: "Same dog, new tricks!")

Take the 1968 Hanna-Barbera primetime TV series "The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," get rid of Becky Thatcher, add Merlin the Magic Mouse and Second Banana, and you've got this! I suspect it would've been a theatrical featurette, as the plot does sound more lengthy than your average Looney Tunes cartoon short; plus the blurb does mention it's a "special." (Despite the cel being all cartoon drawings, it would've been a combination of live-action and animation, with the live-action Sawyer and Finn exploring the world with the animated Merlin and Second Banana, again like Hanna-Barbera's TV show.) I suspect among learning Hanna-Barbera was planning such a premise for a primetime TV show, Warner Bros. Animation scrapped this.

Hobo cartoons were pretty much out of fashion by the 1960s. Of course, it didn't help that the studio's main writer, Cal Howard, had largely worked with the studio in the late 1930s-early 1940s before this era, so I guess he was pretty out of touch.

It sounds like this could've been in the vein of Tex Avery's "World of Tomorrow" cartoons of the late 1940s and early 1950s, and other similar "future" cartoons showing what life would be like then. This probably would've actually made for a fun one-shot cartoon like that. Of course, 2000 has come and gone, and we've yet to have such a vehicle to commute us to the moon and back! (NASA is still working on their plans to build a moon colony, though!)

Warner Bros. Animation would later revisit this concept in their "Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation" direct-to-video movie, only with an antagonistic toad as the captain. This might've been interesting to see, though. Note how many of these pitches star human characters; I guess Warner Bros. Animation knew they already had enough "funny animal" cartoons and characters, and wanted to go a different direction, sort of like how UPA preferred having human cartoon stars in the 1950s (though animals sometimes appeared in them).

OK, if this one got made, I probably would've loved this as a kid, since I was into trains since such a young age. Even if it sounds a lot like "Porky's Railroad", it seems like a fun concept (plus, the Zip-Along Special is described as being like a passenger train, compared to Porky's train pulling freight). I could also see this crossing over with "Hobo Bo" as well.

Now here's something that did indeed get made into a finished cartoon; titled of the same name and released as a Looney Tunes short on September 14, 1968 (hey, that was 54 years ago today!) But the characters' designs were changed a little and they were renamed Ace (the American pilot) and Fritz (the German baron). Maybe it was because the Warner Bros. Animation crew learned of DePatie-Freleng developing the similar Roland and Rattfink, and retooled this to be somewhat similar before Roland and Rattfink's first cartoon (which is also a World War One airplane dogfight cartoon like this, "Hawks and Doves") got released. Not surprisingly, it didn't get far past one cartoon.

First off, the name is virtually identical to a 1952 Robert McKimson-directed Looney Tunes cartoon starring Daffy Duck as a private detective. And then Hanna-Barbera reused the name in 1959 for a cat detective appearing in "The Quick Draw McGraw" show. Additionally, this clearly appears to be based on "Get Smart," being a comedic spy series starring a bumbling agent. Given that approach, this could've been somewhat interesting to see. WBA layout artist Jamie Diaz also drew a model sheet depicting Snooper, Debra and 'The Eye'.

As the description mentions, Spooky was introduced in the 1968 Cool Cat cartoon "Big Game Haunt", which I feel was the beatnik tiger's weakest cartoon short. He's pretty much an obvious knockoff of Casper the Friendly Ghost, and I suspect if this got made into a full series (where Spooky would've had a human friend named Buddy, no relation to the bland 1930s Looney Tunes star), Harvey Comics could've sued Warner Bros.- Seven Arts for copyright infringement, especially since Casper had a friend named Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost.

But Spooky's design would be modified somewhat and re-used for the three ghosts appearing in the 1987 Daffy Duck short "The Duxorcist" (later integrated into the following year's compilation movie "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters").

This doesn't sound too original, as we've already had enough caveman cartoons where they live a "modern" life, and I don't just mean "The Flintstones!" (Warner Bros. Animation had already produced such a short in 1959 and released in early 1960, Robert McKimson's "Wild Wild World".) But the concept of Rock inventing modern devices and calling them strange names sounds pretty amusing. (Kind of reminds me of Dr. Nobel Price from "Sesame Street," the way he "invents" things that already exist bit gives them strange names, like calling a record player a "groovy table," a pair of socks "foot snugglies," a piano a "tinkly table," a microphone a "talky stick," and even "inventing" a robot double of Kermit the Frog named "Sherman the Hoppity-Hop!")

Another attempt at "modernizing" something classic, in this case, taking the Old West but adding modern vehicles and having characters speak what is called "now talk." This probably would've been more of a "Weird West!"

Forgiving the corny pun in the title, this doesn't sound that promising, as it's another attempt from the studio at trying to be relevant. And then over 35 years later, Warner Bros. Animation would actually get Don Ho to sing in "Aloha, Scooby-Doo!" (And that turned out to be quite a bore.)

Now THIS one also got made into a finished cartoon, as I talked about earlier this year. But here, the boy is named "Lonzo," while in the actual cartoon no name is given (I suspect he was just called "Zee" for that.) And again, this ended up not getting very far after only one cartoon short, even if it was one of the better ones of the era.

Near the end of this infamous run, Warner Bros. Animation had even actually written some cartoon shorts that were to star Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops, but the studio's closure in 1969 brought an end to them. At least this would've been an adaptation of an existing property rather than a knock-off.

Another really out-of-fashion pitch based off something that Warner and other cartoon studios parodied back in the 1930s. Of course, Jay Ward Productions had much better luck parodying those old-timey mellodramas in the 1960s with "Dudley Do-Right", and so that's what probably enticed Warner Bros. Animation to try it here. Hanna-Barbera would also take their own spin on it, with the "Wacky Races" spinoff "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop," and that seemed to be executed much better than how this would've turned out. I also can't really see a three-part serial working as a six-minute short; maybe this was going to be a Saturday morning cartoon as well?

Really, there was going to be a Speedy Gonzales/Daffy Duck cartoon where they meet a leprechaun in Ireland? Maybe the WBA crew realized that wasn't going to work, and they instead re-tooled it into 1969's "Shamrock and Roll" starring Merlin the Magic Mouse and Second Banana, with a more rascally prankster leprechaun named O'Reilly with a fondness for watches and clocks.

Another attempt at a new human cartoon star. In this case, he's like UPA's Mister Magoo, but rather than nearsightedness, he suffers dementia, which is no better. No doubt they were trying to cash in on the success of Disney's "Absent-Minded Professor" movies.

Of course, THIS needs no introduction. It eventually became my favorite of the Warner Bros.- Seven Arts cartoons: "Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too" in 1969! And look: Quick Brown Fox is actually brown here, compared to being orange in the finished cartoon. Jack Rabbit would be renamed Rapid Rabbit, recolored brown (and looking more like the Nesquik bunny as a result), and made to act like a weird cross between Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner, rather than just like Bugs as seen here. (I wonder if Robert McKimson came up with this to annoy the Warner Bros.- Seven Arts executives for not letting him use the famous classic Looney Tunes characters?) And as I said, a series of cartoons featuring this duo was planned, but only one ended up being made due to the studio closing that year.

#looney tunes #merrie melodies #warner bros. seven arts #1960s #lost media

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fluentmoviequoter · 1 year ago

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Scooby-sidious

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Fic-tober Masterlist

Summary: You and Dalton watch Scooby-Doo and find yourselves in the episode, offering to help solve the mystery.

Warnings: spoilers for Scooby-Doo, Where are You? episode "Spooky Space Kook" (1x15), fluff, slight jealousy, brief mentions of the events of The Red Door (2023). 2.6k+ words

A/N: This is inspired by my love of Scooby-Doo, and the Supernatural crossover episode "Scoobynatural" (13x16)! I hope you enjoy and please let me know what you think! Happy Halloweekend! :)

You’ve been begging Dalton to watch Scooby-Doo with you for weeks. It’s a Halloween must, but he keeps telling you he’ll do it later.

“It’s Scoob-tober, Dalton!” you exclaim as you collapse onto the bed.

He stares at you before shaking his head and dropping his shoulders. “Fine. Which episode are we watching?” he asks as he sits beside you, tossing an arm over your shoulders.

You squeal excitedly and grab the remote before leaning against his chest and answering, “Spooky Space Kook, A Night of Fright is No Delight, or Mine Your Own Business. Those episodes have the best villains, but you have to pick.”

Dalton looks down at you with furrowed brows as he asks, “Umm, Space Kook?”

“Excellent choice,” you say, nodding as you find the episode and press play.

As you settle into Dalton’s side, your head resting above his heart, he’s glad you convinced him. Even if he watches you instead of Scooby-Doo.

Just after the Space Kook lands the first time, red sparks light across the screen.

You lean forward as Dalton says, “Please tell me you see those too.”

Before you can answer, the TV turns off, and you fall to the ground.

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You hit the ground with a painful thud and turn to check on Dalton, shocked to see him in cartoon form before a cartoon background.

“Dalton, you’re a cartoon,” you say nervously, standing and wiping the dirt from your pants.

“You’re a cartoon,” Dalton parrots as he points at you.

“What just happened?”

“We were watching the show and then those sparks showed up,” Dalton answers.

“The red sparks. Do you think this is a Further thing?”

“No, we closed the door.”

A car sputters somewhere behind you, and you stop speaking, turning to follow Dalton’s hand as he points to a farmhouse in the distance.

You gasp as you see the source of the sputtering noise, hitting Dalton’s shoulder as you squeal, “That’s the Mystery Machine! We’re not just cartoons, we’re in Scooby-Doo!”

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You and Dalton approach the farmhouse from the same direction as Mystery Inc., listening to their conversation as you wait beside a tree, invisible to Scooby and the gang.

“Like, nobody home,” Shaggy says after their knock goes unanswered.

You point to the side of the porch just before the farmer appears with a shotgun and bellows, “Get off of my property! I’m sick of you reporters pestering me night and day! Now, get!”

Dalton pushes you slightly behind him as you watch the ordeal from the yard.

“Reporters? We’re not reporters,” Fred responds.

“No, uh-huh,” Scooby agrees.

“We just want to buy some gasoline,” Daphne says.

“Gas, huh? I don’t believe you. Now, get on out of here, the lot of you!” the farmer yells. “You two in the yard, too!”

Dalton steps back, pushing you with him. Your eyes are still on the gang as Fred glances over to see who the farmer is talking to. His eyes catch yours, and he smiles before turning to the farmer as Velma speaks.

“Excuse me, sir, but why would reporters want to bother you?” she asks.

“They’ve been running me ragged ever since it showed up.”

“It? What’s it?” Fred adds.

“A ghostly craft from another world moving across the sky like an evil spirit.”

Dalton tenses, and you raise your hand to press between his shoulder blades. It’s your silent way of reminding him that you’re with him and he’s not alone.

“Evil spirit?” Scooby repeats before swallowing harshly.

“You mean, like a haunted flying saucer?” Daphne questions.

“Right, but that’s not all. Something’s been creeping ‘round here ever since it showed up.”

“Then it must’ve just crept by,” Velma announces, “Look over there!”

She points to the footprints, which go right behind you and Dalton. Dalton looks at the tracks and then back to you.

“We need to get out of here,” Dalton whispers harshly.

“Footprints,” Fred says.

“Zoinks!” Shaggy exclaims.

Your eyes widen, and you tap Dalton’s back excitedly at the firsthand experience of hearing Shaggy say, ‘Zoinks.’

“I’ve never seen footprints like those before,” Daphne says.

“Neither have I,” Dalton agrees.

“They’re boots dipped in phosphorous,” you tell him.

Dalton turns to look at you with raised brows, and you shrug and say, “What? I love this episode.”

“I see ‘em all the time,” the farmer informs.

“They sure are strange-shaped tracks,” Velma says, leaning over to inspect them.

“Let’s us make tracks the other way,” Shaggy implores.

“He gets it; let’s listen to Shaggy,” Dalton mutters to himself.

“I’m with you!” Scooby agrees.

“Hold it!” Fred demands as the footprints fade. “They’re gone!”

“Hmm,” Velma begins, “Ghostly flying objects, strange tracks that glow in the dark…”

“And something creepy creeping around in the night,” Daphne finishes.

Dalton cocks his head as he watches Scooby get his tail bitten by a chicken before jumping toward Shaggy. Scooby overshoots his goal and lands in Dalton’s arm as he exclaims, “He rot me! He rot me! Oh, help, he rot me!”

Shaggy walks over to Scooby and Dalton, and he says, “Aw, you big chicken. It was only a chicken. Get down.”

Shaggy pushes Scooby from Dalton’s arms, and Dalton sighs with relief. Scooby chuckles as he hits the ground, and you kneel to pat his head as you listen to Fred.

“Well, those footprints weren’t made by a chicken. It looks like we’ve found ourselves a mystery,” he announces.

“Um, excuse me,” you call as you stand, laying your hand on Scooby’s head. “I’m a huge fan of Mystery Inc., and this is Dalton. We have some experiences with creatures like this. Any chance we could help solve this one?”

“Sure!” Fred agrees. “Sounds swell.”

You silently cheer and stick your hand into your pocket, surprised to see a Scooby Snack in your hand when you pull it out.

“Scooby,” you whisper, passing it to him as you and Dalton walk to the Mystery Machine.

“Mmm, rank rou,” Scooby says as he licks his lips.

Fred says your name, and when you look up, he smiles and asks, “Want to sit in the front with me?”

Dalton’s jaw clenches beside you as he waits for you to answer.

“I can sit in the back with Dalton and Scooby,” you respond. “But thanks!”

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“Sure was nice of the farmer to give us some gas,” Daphne says as Fred drives down the road.

“Yeah, now we can go look for that ghost craft,” Fred agrees before a high-pitched pulsing cuts him off.

“Well, we don’t have to look any further. There it is,” Velma points out.

“Zoinks! What a creepy-looking crate,” Shaggy yells.

“We’re in luck. It landed behind that hill,” Fred says, turning to follow it.

“Yeah, we’re in luck, and, like, it’s all bad,” Shaggy adds.

Dalton looks at you over Scooby’s head and nods his agreement.

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“It looked like it landed somewhere around here,” Velma says as everyone exits the van.

“What is this place, anyway?” Daphne asks.

“Looks like an abandoned airfield. Hasn’t been used in years,” Dalton answers.

Fred agrees with Dalton before smiling at you, causing Dalton to step closer to you.

“I’m for abandoning it, too. It’s, like, got the creeps!” Shaggy adds.

“Uh-oh!” Daphne calls. “Do you guys see what I see?”

“It’s those spooky glowing tracks again,” Shaggy says.

“Oh, no!” Scooby exclaims, jumping behind Shaggy’s legs.

“It’s our first clue, let’s follow them,” Fred says before walking alongside the footprints.

“Let’s don’t and say we did,” Shaggy suggests.

“But the gate’s locked. How will we get in?” Daphne points out.

The gate opens on its own, and Dalton turns to roll his eyes at you before flinching and smiling when you elbow him in the ribs.

“This is awesome,” you whisper as you step closer to him when Scooby jumps between you and Shaggy.

“Ghosts!” Scooby yells.

“You mean wind. The gate wasn’t locked. Come on!” Fred says.

➣➣➣➣➣

Fred calls you over and asks you to help him follow the tracks. Dalton stays right beside you as everyone heads toward a shed. The prints vanish into the shed, and Scooby jumps up to look in the window, surprised to see himself.

“What’s in there?” someone asks.

“Scooby!” Scooby answers.

Fred steps closer to you as you look into the window beside Scooby.

“It’s his reflection,” you say as you stand up.

“Window’s dirty,” Scooby adds.

As you step away from the window, you hear a humming sound from the other side of the door. Daphne asks what the sound is, and Fred expresses his confusion about how to get inside.

“May I?” Dalton asks before kicking the door and opening it.

“Wow!” Daphne expresses, grabbing Dalton’s bicep as she walks by, “You’re so strong, Dalton!”

Dalton looks at you, and you smile before asking, “We’re even?”

“Not even close,” he whispers as you walk in front of him.

You stop when you reach the generator, and Dalton’s hands land on your waist as he waits behind you.

“It’s the generator,” you announce, pointing to the device.

“Why would an abandoned airfield need a generator?” Daphne asks.

“And, like, why is it on?” Shaggy adds.

You turn your head at a strange sound and see the spaceship land in the field. Dalton turns to and alerts the gang.

“Let’s split up, gang, and find this space creature!” Fred commands. He invites you to come with him and Velma, but Dalton’s hand on your lower back feels like a better invitation.

“I think Dalton and I should go alone, we can cover more ground that way,” you suggest.

Fred agrees, and everyone goes their separate ways to find the Space Kook.

➣➣➣➣➣

“Do you know what’s happening right now?” you ask Dalton as you walk toward the radio tower.

“Fred is developing more of a crush on you?” Dalton suggests.

You bump your shoulder against him and laugh. “No, Fred just got stuck in a hoist, Scooby and Shaggy got caught up in sheets and think the other is a ghost.”

“You really do love this show.”

“Yeah. We do you think I tried so hard to get you to watch it with me?”

Dalton stops, wrapping his fingers around your wrist to make you stop.

“I’m sorry if you thought I didn’t want to watch it with you. I- just- I was trying not to spend time with you because I didn’t want to have to walk away if you didn’t feel the same way.”

You twist your hand to hold Dalton’s and step closer as you brush some of his hair out of his eyes.

“I do feel the same way, if it’s the way that makes you want to spend time with me.”

Dalton raises his hand to your neck, pulling you against his chest and tilting your chin toward his.

“I really want to kiss you,” he whispers.

“While I’m a cartoon?”

“You’re a very pretty cartoon.”

You shake your head and hear Scooby yell. Smiling at Dalton, you keep your hand in his and gesture with your head to where the gang is meeting.

“You still missed the entire episode,” you point out as you turn the last corner and see Scooby and Mystery Inc.

“We can watch it as many times as you want when we get back,” Dalton says.

“Will you actually watch it or just try to kiss me?”

Dalton simply looks at you as you join the group. Mystery Inc. expresses that no one found any clues.

“It seems to me that this ghost is using this airfield for something else besides haunting,” Velma says.

“Gas,” Scooby announces, pointing to the exhaust pipe of an old Jeep with flat tires.

Dalton looks under the car with Fred, telling the girls about the extra set of usable wheels. As they stand, the car drives away, and an entire army of Space Kooks appears. Scooby and Shaggy retreat to the radio tower as Fred, Velma, and Daphne run the other way.

Shaggy uses the radio speakers to call the gang to the tower, expressing that he found something, but you remain still.

“Should we go?” Dalton asks.

You shake your head and answer, “Space Kook beats them there and Shag and Scoob parachute down. We’ll wait for the sheriff.”

Dalton wraps an arm around your shoulders, content to wait with you. When Scooby returns, you give him more Scooby Snacks and kneel to pet him.

“How did you know to come, Sheriff?” Velma asks.

“I called. I saw your van was still here and got worried,” the farmer answers as he approaches.

Space Kook appears behind you, and when he sees the sheriff, he runs into a building labeled ‘Research Lab.’ Fred is waiting by a panel and presses a button after Space Kook runs by, turning on the wind tunnel. As the wind picks up, the helmet comes off, and the phosphorous on his boots illuminates.

“Well, I don’t believe it,” the farmer exclaims. “It’s Henry Bascomb, my next door neighbor.”

“But what about those weird noises and the flying thing?” Daphne asks.

“C’mon, I’ll show you!” Shaggy announces before leading them to the radio tower.

“It was a very clever plan. Here’s our ghost craft,” Fred says before turning on a projector.

“But what about those odd voices?” Daphne asks.

“It was just a speeded-up soundtrack…” Fred begins.

“Played over the loudspeaker,” Shaggy finishes.

“But we did see a whole bunch of those creepies over by the motor pool,” Daphne points out.

“Stuffed dummies, if I had to bet,” Dalton suggests.

“And I’d bet that crazy jeep was run by remote control!” Shaggy agrees.

“The last remaining puzzle in my mind is ‘why?’” Fred says.

“I can answer that. This Bascomb fella got wind that the Air Force was planning to open the field again and would be needing more land for jets,” the sheriff explains.

“Aha! So that’s it! He wanted to scare us off so he could pick up the land cheap,” the farmer concludes.

“And I’d have done it, too, if you kids hadn’t come along,” Bascomb yells.

“Weren’t you kids scared like the rest of us?” the farmer asks.

“Oh, no. Solving mysteries is our hobby. It takes a lot to scare us,” Shaggy answers.

Fred turns on the Space Kook laugh soundtrack, causing Scooby to jump into Shaggy’s arms and Shaggy to jump into Dalton’s.

➣➣➣➣➣

“So, where are you going now? We’re on the hunt for another mystery if you’d like to come,” Fred offers as Daphne talks to Dalton.

You look at Dalton and smile. “We have to get home. Thank you so much, Fred, this was a dream come true. Working with you was everything I dreamed of.”

“No problem,” he says, hugging you. “It would be an honor to have you back sometime.”

You smile, and he climbs into the Mystery Machine, followed by Velma and Daphne, who wave at you while Dalton returns to your side. Scooby stops before you, and you kneel, petting him as you feed him Scooby Snacks.

“Can I have a hug, Scooby?” you ask, smiling as he indulges you and lets you hug him.

“Like, thanks for everything,” Shaggy says before opening the door for Scooby. “See ya around!”

You watch the Mystery Machine drive away and turn back to Dalton. He pulls you into a hug and brushes his hand over your hair.

“Thank you,” you whisper against his chest.

“Of course. Now let’s get home so I can kiss real you.”

“Scooby Dooby Doooooo,” you howl.

When your voice fades, you look expectantly at Dalton. He sighs before copying you, and everything fades to black.

➣➣➣➣➣

You open your eyes and find yourself on the couch, wrapped in Dalton’s arms again.

“Start the episode over,” Dalton says, slipping his hands onto your cheeks.

“We’re not going to watch it, are we?” you ask as you press play again.

“Does Scooby-Doo like Scooby Snacks?” Dalton responds, smiling against your lips as he kisses you.

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