hello hello ! you can call me red and i’m super pumped to be here playing your resident over - eager cryptozoologist . i’m rewatching loch ness & chill out and wow can i just say shannon blake really dealt with too much ( people were rude straight to her face , shaggy and scooby wouldn’t eat the food she spent so much time making , a museum director threw a caber through a window of her home and then acted like it was fine ??? and then destroys her dock ??? ) . so yeah , shannon blake deserved better and white 40+ ? male academics are the true monsters of the scoobyverse and while that’s the energy we have going into this intro it really has nothing to do with my boy but ... yeah , here we go ! !
okay so first and foremost , despite all the times the strange happenings in coolsville have been proven to be just hoaxes orchestrated by people , del is a believer . he’ll swear up and down he saw the ohio grassman on a family camping trip when he was nine and that’s really where it all started . no one believed him , and it became a sore spot for del . he’s been trying to prove cryptids are real since .
he’s taken on the personal mantle of protector of the cryptozoological . when things begin to go wrong he usually thinks it’s because of something humans are doing to disturb them ( see : him thinking that the reason nessie was freaking out was because she was being disturbed by the games ) . this is the other reason he wants to prove they’re real , so people will respect them .
strong hippie energy . says he wants to vibe with nessie and honestly he’s valid for it . has for sure said the same thing about bessie . would vibe with any cryptid to good music which is something he also knows a good deal about . his brain is a sponge for useless factoids and is the kind of guy who reads the liner notes . has a pretty substantial record collection .
traveled a bunch as a young adult , basically going legend tripping exclusively . traveled over the us in a van tracking down sighting spots and the like . honestly , if he had been born ten years later he could have had one of those #vanlife youtube channels . because of this though he’s surprising good with mechanical stuff ! he’s good at fixing things when they inevitably break .
pretty easy going ! he doesn’t get worked up about a large number of things besides the protecting of cryptids . just kind of goes with the flow and tries to be helpful .
currently works as a news cameraman for hbtv but it’s half just so he can be on scene when things happen . is real close to being fired for he’s been known to derail a program because he’s ranting from behind the camera and decides to film something specific he thinks is important .
interesting fashion choices . iconic purple lens lennon glasses . cargo pants . lots of questionable graphic t shirts . rope and leather bracelets .
he’s almost positive that all these disappearances are an upset cryptid and so he’s on board to solve the mystery as far as solving it means figuring out how they pissed the ohio frog man out . . . yeah that’s the theory he’s running with currently .
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{ paulo avelino, cis male, he/him } ZOINKS !!! is that { ERIC STAUFFER } snooping around coolsville? they’re { THIRTY } and they’re a { GAME ENIGNEER }. words going around that they’re { ENTHUSIATIC } and { OUTGOING }. but i wouldn’t cross them cause they can also be { NAIVE} and { UNFOCUSED }! i’ve heard they’re wanting to { SOLVE } that new mystery that has cropped up! coolsville wouldn’t be as cool without them! { min, 24, she/her, est }
My name is Min, t rhymes with Sin but the only sin I commit is puns
Grew up in Coolsville, thought it was cool
Really really loved the mystery gang and all theyre adventures almost to a weird admiration- he posted all their articles on his bedroom wall because they were just that cool to him
Part of him really wanted to know why the gang dissappited even blaming himself to a degree but a push from his mother convinced him to do other pursuits
He moved out to Silicon Valley, tried to make his game at his university based on the mystery gang but was ultimately folded out by his own paer
Eric just put his mysery games on a hiatus, decided to us pesue his dege and work on other projects (even that one dating sim game he put a pen name because even he knew it was a disaster
Saw an ad in the paper for a gaming engineer adjunct at Coolsville University and thought at least it was a paycheck
Heard bout the people disappearing and while it was tragic, he hopes that that mystery gang he once admired would work the magic
Connections
Friends from Coolsillve
Maybe a roomate/neighbor
Love Interests
People who are fan of his games
Gaming friends
And anything else
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hey im allie and below is a little bit about elodie dusk!
{ elizabeth gillies, cis female, she/her } ZOINKS !!! is that { ELODIE ‘DUSK’ THORTON } snooping around coolsville? they’re { THIRTY } and they’re a { MUSIC TEACHER/DRUMMER OF HEX GIRLS }. words going around that they’re { AMBITIOUS } and { LOYAL }. but i wouldn’t cross them cause they can also be { GUARDED } and { IMPATIENT }! i’ve heard they’re wanting to { AVOID } that new mystery that has cropped up! coolsville wouldn’t be as cool without them!
elodie had always been surrounded by music. from an early age, elodie took on multiple different instruments (drums being her favorite) as well as vocal lessons. her father was a musician and her mother was into theater, so both theater and music had a heavy influence on the young girl.
in high school, elodie was approached by one of her friends about putting a little band together. that small band then became what’s known today as the hex girls. elodie took on the stage name/nickname of dusk.
slowly but surely, the hex girls became more and more popular as the three finished high school and went on to their college age years.
elodie decided she would also pursue a degree in music as more or less of a back up plan with all sorts of creepy things popping up along the way. dusk wasn’t for it and was planning on leaving the band if more strange thinks kept occurring to them.
later on, elodie decided it was probably best to settle down as much as she could. now, when she isn’t with the hex girls, she’s teaching music and really enjoying it. she’ll honestly answer to either elodie or dusk, but i feel like now especially she just goes by elodie.
connections ideas:
childhood friends
neighbors
musicians she may know
students? or maybe your kid is one of her students?
ride or die
any kind of exes (the good, the bad, the angsty??)
fwb
maybe a roommate? (i feel like she lives in a house, but that doesn’t mean she cant rent out a room or something)
good influence
bad influence
maybe something with feelings?? hidden or not (idk insert shrugging emoji)
literally anything!
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{ manny montana, cis male, he/him } ZOINKS !!! is that { BEN RAVENCROFT } snooping around coolsville? they’re { THIRTY-SIX } and they’re a { WRITER & MANAGER OF BINDERS BOOKS }. words going around that they’re { CREATIVE } and { RESOURCEFUL}. but i wouldn’t cross them cause they can also be { RESENTFUL } and { OPPORTUNISTIC }! i’ve heard they’re wanting to { SOLVE } that new mystery that has cropped up! coolsville wouldn’t be as cool without them!
BASICS
NAME / Ben Ravencroft
APPEARANCE / Manny Montana
AGE / 36
PRONOUNS / he & him
OCCUPATION / horror writer & manager of a local bookshop, Binders Books
SEXUALITY / bisexual
HEIGHT / 6′ 1″
PERSONALITY
MBTI / coming
MORAL ALIGNMENT / chaotic evil
POSITIVE TRAITS / creative & imaginative & passionate & driven
NEGATIVE TRAITS / resentful & opportunistic & deceitful & egotistical
FUN STUFF
SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLE / @ben.ravencroft
PINTEREST BOARD / https://pin.it/2bz4zG4
BIO POINTS
tw: death & violence
- Ben grew up in a town, he moved in with his grandma when he was 13 after his parents died. He has lived in this town more than he hasn’t lived in it. When he arrived, he was an angry and confused young boy. He would have done anything for his grandma who took him in and raised him. But outside of them? He was argumentative and fought his classmates. He didn’t have a great reputation or many friends.
- The one thing he always loved was reading mystery novels. He loved books and reading but always favored the mystery genre.
- Ben did go to university just on his grandma’s urging and pleading. He studied English which shocked no one that knew him or knew anything of him.
- He was in his sophomore year when his grandma passed. He left university, sad and angry once again. He had been left everything and to deal with feelings besides fighting— that was when he started to write.
- He doesn’t have the greatest reputation in town which he knows but doesn’t care all that much. Unless he needs something from someone or wants to present himself in a different way….for his favor. More about his reputation will be worked on as I form past connections and enemy connections for him so please give me reasons!!
- Ben is the last of his family and lives in a big old house all by himself which many view as both odd and fitting. As a horror writer, it makes sense he’d want to live in this big, old, empty, and drafty all by himself
- Ben is a successful horror writer but does use a pseudonym to at least have an air of mystery around him. It is pretty well known secret to those in town but outside Coolsville, Ben Ravencroft is almost a no-body which he both loves and hates. He was the recognition but he also doesn’t want perceptions of him to affect sales.
PLOTS WANTED
- fans / those who know of his stories and might frequent the book shop to talk about his books and the horror genre in general
- exes / serious relationships, flings, or one night stands
- enemies / people he has lied to or lied about in a big way. This is far more than a little white lie
- friends / he might have 1 or 2 friends he is close to but he is also smart enough to keep some things private
- neighbors / people who grew up knowing Ben and his family
- romantic interests / Ben is bisexual and is looking for current flings/fwb, one night stands, or a relationship even. He can be charming if he wants
- drinking buddy / someone to drink with and might only ever hang out at the bar or if a beer or a bottle of whiskey is involved
A BIT ABOUT ME
B / hi, I’m b and currently residing in the EST time zone. I’m usually on more during the late afternoon and night BUT you can always catch me on discord since that app is more reliable than the tumblr app. So yeah— like and I’ll slide into your DMs or slide into mine!
trigger / eye gore, close up photos of eyes, & graphic descriptions of eyes
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{ ellen wong, cis female, she/her } ZOINKS !!! is that { VELMA DINKLEY } snooping around coolsville? they’re { THIRTY-ONE } and they’re a { HISTORIAN/ARCHIVIST AT THE COOLSVILLE MUSEUM }. words going around that they’re { HIGHLY INTELLIGENT } and { OBSERVANT }. but i wouldn’t cross them cause they can also be { SKEPTICAL } and { SARCASTIC }! i’ve heard they’re wanting to { SOLVE } that new mystery that has cropped up! coolsville wouldn’t be as cool without them!
hi, friends! before i talk a little about velma, i’ll let you in on who i am. my name is leila (or guppy, you can call me either), i’m eighteen years old, and i live in the mountain standard timezone in the united states of america. i really like tiktok (even though i know it steals the shit out of my data), i just graduated and i’m about to be a history major, and my dream is to be a cat-lady with a cute girlfriend. thanks for listening, let’s get on with the show. i’m gonna try writing without pre-plotting as a lil experiment but i’ll be replying to everyone’s opens!
❪ ⋅ ◆ ⋆ — WHAT’S NEW SCOOBY DOO?┊❛ all about velma ❜ ❫
- velma, of course, is a former member of mystery inc and she is actually proud of that fact. even though she’s stubborn, it would only take her a few drinks to admit that she’d like to get the gang back together.
- she has a younger half-sister, madelyn, and her mother and stepfather are both the light of her life. family is super important to velma and she still goes to dinners every sunday with them.
- as a teenager, velma was a girl genius. she spent most of her time with her head buried in a book and always researching obscure information. it makes sense that she’s working at a museum now where research is the main component of her job.
- girl genius here split off from the gang to go to school, she ended up at princeton for her degree in history. she graduated summa cum laude (the highest distinction).
- during college her glasses got dropped one too many times and she’s traded them in for contacts, it’s a new look but she vibes with it. her classic orange sweater is still in play, though.
- overall, she’s still really passionate about mysteries and solving them. everyday at work she has to pass by the displays that show the villains her and the gang already hunted down and it inspires her to keep going.
- with new teenagers turning up missing, velma is definitely interested in hunting whoever the culprit is down.
- she is an optimist while also being totally skeptical. while some of the townspeople are always blaming things on “supernatural” occurrences, velma is absolutely set in the idea that there will always be a scientific explanation. she also believes that there will always be a way to solve a case.
- might take her a while to warm up to new people. she definitely is a little bit iffy when it comes to opening herself up now. after making such close friends with the mystery inc crew than losing that, she just feels awkward.
- big fan of mystery novels and books in general, her computer always has 10000 tabs open and when she accidentally closes one she cries a lil bit, her favorite color is orange, and her idea of a good time is searching for a perpetrator in a graveyard.
- she will bombard you with fun facts because that’s just who she is.
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{ lana condor, cisfemale, she/her } ZOINKS !!! is that { XUAN MAI } snooping around coolsville? they’re { TWENTY TWO } and they’re a { INTERN AT HBTV }. words going around that they’re { ASTUTE } and { OPTIMISTIC }. but i wouldn’t cross them cause they can also be { RESENTFUL } and { CARELESS }! i’ve heard they’re wanting to { SOLVE } that new mystery that has cropped up! coolsville wouldn’t be as cool without them!
tw: cancer
hey hey !! im tor, and this is my lil bab xuan !! you can find her whole bio here, but here’s a quick rundown of her !! if you’d like to plot, give this a LIKE -- there’s a few connection ideas at the end !!
she’s adopted, and raised by cam, coolsville’s favorite newscaster at HBTV. she works at HBTV as an intern and sometimes provides some ‘ young insight ’ to certain stories.
growing up as the daughter of coolsville's favorite newscaster, xuan was always the happy go lucky girl in school. she's very optimistic in any situation, and working with her mother has given her an astute intellegence -- she can pick up on things some people miss, but she also isn't the brightest bulb when it comes to school or what people would consider smart. however, she has a tendency to be resentful if anyone says something mean or demeaning to her, as well as careless when chasing down a story.
she used to solve mysteries when she was younger, but it faded when she was in high school in favor of social status and parties. she didn’t care much for school, grades slipping and everyone seeing her as a preppy dumb girl. this stayed with her until her mother had a cancer scare, pushing her to realize she couldn’t live off her mother’s small town fame her whole life.
now, she’s doing everything she can to get away from that image.
she has quite a following outside of coolsville on tiktok, though it’s nothing completely viral.
these disappearances have reignited her spark for mysteries and has started trying to solve it on her own.
and here’s some connection ideas for her !!
friends from school : someone she would see at parties often or even someone she had classes with. maybe an old tutor, in a desperate attempt to get her to pass her classes ??
people who are also investigating she can maybe team up with
exes? someone she would’ve gone to school with and dated for a short time. ( maybe a sexual awakening ?? ) ( obvs close in age pls )
people who recognize her because of her mom or her own work, either from the station or her tiktok ??
im a lil tired rn so i cant think of much but yeah !! im excited to rp with yall !!
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{ winston duke, cis male, he/him } ZOINKS !!! is that { WILLIAM “BILL” MCLEMORE } snooping around coolsville? they’re { THIRTY-THREE } and they’re a { COMPUTER TEACHER AT COOLSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL }. words going around that they’re { INVENTIVE } and { PERSONABLE }. but i wouldn’t cross them cause they can also be { ENVIOUS } and { KNOWN TO HOLD A GRUDGE }! i’ve heard they’re wanting to { AVOID } that new mystery that has cropped up! coolsville wouldn’t be as cool without them!
*reminder that i’m not pre-plotting just going right into writing! i will be responding to starters tomorrow and i would love to post a starter to help get things rolling!
hi, everyone! this is my second muse, bill/will/william (we’ll talk about his name and stigma in a second). he’s based on a canon character you might remember from scooby doo and the cyber chase, and he was the villain in that video. let’s get on with my adaptation of him for this group:
- so, will is not a coolsville native. he only moved there for college and was getting a computer science degree.
- huge nerd for video games, movies, coding, and anything that has to do with technology. tells everyone to use duckduckgo and to get a vpn that isn’t free lol.
- he’s been that way since he was a child, and being an only child he was used to having the limelight and being celebrated for his inventive ideas surrounding computers.
- when he got to college he realized he wasn’t the only brilliant boy in the world, and the jealousy hit hard. mainly he was jealous of his best friend and fellow intern on a college video game project (this might be eric, might not be - depends on how either @ericstauffer wants to play it or otherwise!)
- he got kicked out of coolsville university’s program because of his hacking/cheating scandal when he put a virus into his friend’s game to make his own game appear better.
- finished his education at ohio state university, decided to pursue not only computer science but double-majored in education too.
- liked coolsville so much that he moved back and now he is trying to live a quiet, less exciting life as a teacher. mainly teaches ap computer science, typing, and graphic design electives.
- he goes by will or william now with people who didn’t know him before the scandal. he chose that because bill mclemore is infamously known from his little incident as the phantom virus creator.
- not the biggest fan of mysteries or mystery incorporated because of his experiences. honestly still a little envious and likely to act up if he wants to get his way.
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{tommy martinez, cis male, he/him } ZOINKS !!! is that { NORVILLE “SHAGGY” ROGERS } snooping around coolsville? they’re { THIRTY } and they’re a { MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER }. words going around that they’re { RESOURCEFUL } and { WARM }. but i wouldn’t cross them cause they can also be { FOOLISH } and { STUBBORN }! i’ve heard they’re wanting to { SOLVE } that new mystery that has cropped up! coolsville wouldn’t be as cool without them!
who would have thought the terrified foodie would end up pursuing a college degree and become one of the greatest history teacher’s coolsville middle ever had?
if he was honest, shaggy loved solving mysteries with the gang. no matter how terrified he got, there was always adrenaline to follow and for some reason, he loved that feeling.
as the group dismembered, shaggy found himself wondering what the hell he was going to do. so, he pursued a history degree at first and then ended up getting his teaching license. he honestly surprised his parents with that.
now, he’s enjoying what he does but secretly hoping the gang will get together to solve the cases that keep popping up.
loves people, def the cool history teacher thats more of a friend than a teacher, still a foodie, bi as hell, still has scoob, spends most of his weekends watching true crime docs
connection ideas:
teacher friends?? (co workers)
friends
exes
neighbors
childhood neighbors, friends, the whole lot
like siblings kinda friendship
ride or die (!!!!)
maybe smthin romantic??
people he met while with the gang
his sister
bad influence??
tbh open to a roommate (he rents out his guest room or smthin)
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{ demet özdemir, cis female, pronouns } ZOINKS !!! is that { JESSICA OSMAN-BAŞAK } snooping around coolsville? they’re { TWENTY-NINE } and they’re a { HIGH SCHOOL ART TEACHER & SUMMER CAMP COUNSELOR }. words going around that they’re { ATHLETIC } and { PASSIONATE }. but i wouldn’t cross them cause they can also be { DISTRACTED } and { JEALOUS }! i’ve heard they’re wanting to { AVOID } that new mystery that has cropped up! coolsville wouldn’t be as cool without them!
BASICS
NAME / Jessican Osman-Başak
APPEARANCE / Demet Özdemir
AGE / 29
PRONOUNS / she & her
OCCUPATION / high school art teacher & summer camp counselor
SEXUALITY / bisexual
HEIGHT / 5′ 7″
PERSONALITY
MBTI / coming
MORAL ALIGNMENT / chaotic good
POSITIVE TRAITS / athletic & passionate
NEGATIVE TRAITS / distracted & jealous
FUN STUFF
SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLE / @summercamp.jess
PINTEREST BOARD / coming
BIO POINTS
- Born and raised in Coolsville!
- Jessica is first generation and is fluent in Turkish.
- She is very adventurous, active, and athletic! Jessica is down for anything! She will go water skiing one day and snowboarding the next! She likes to have fun.
- Jessica had been going to summer camp every summer since she was seven years old and it was her favorite part of every summer! So it came to no surprise that she moved towards camp counselor. It was something she continued to do during her summers whilst at college and still to this day! She loves camp and loved how much fun she had- so she wants to make sure others have the same experience.
- Because of her experience in camp and love of arts & crafts, she went to college to become a teacher. She at first thought maybe she wanted to be a history teacher but then realized that she liked history because she grew up making tons of projects for his history classes. It was art that she enjoyed! So she pursued a career as an art teacher and was thrilled that she got a job at Coolsville High as the art teacher.
- Since she is working at the high school, it is hard right now with everyone misses and there is a total atmosphere change in the school and in town. Of course she wants it to be solved but she doesn’t want to solve it herself- it is scary.
PLOTS WANTED
- friends / Jessica is quite talkative and friendly so it is quite easy for her to make friends with strangers and having lasting friendships. She is the person who would be there for you but also the one suggesting something fun and new to do!
- exes / i really want like a camp love plot which could be a first love and maybe only lasted during the summers or it started during a summer and they continued dating. but i am also down for more exs, old one-night stands, and ended fwb, or whatever!
- current romantic interest / long lost love, new love, or anything dramatic really
- coworkers / People who work at the high school too or as a summer camp counselor
- former classmates / People she went to high school or college with
- former camp friends/counselors / Being a townie and a camp attendee since she was 7 so she would have many camp friends and counselors. They could still be friends, maybe fell out, or maybe they were just camp friends and ignored each other during the school year. Maybe they were camp loves. You know what happens at band camp ;) the secret life of the american teenager reference
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