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campy-mccampface · 3 months ago

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On the Fly Headcanons #3

—Nurse Leslie only became a nurse because it’s a tradition in his family to enter the medical field. His real passions are cars and writing. He and Slinkman bond over the former.

—Patsy dyes her hair pink; she’s a natural blonde.

—Even though Lumpus and Jane marry, they still live separately as before during summers while they’re still working. A lot of the campers keep forgetting they’re married (my reasoning is the show kind of did too🤭) and that reeeeeally makes Lumpus mad lol.

—Lumpus’ parents are still alive, even though they’re pushing 100. They’re frail but have all their marbles. Lumpus… stopped thinking about them once he was 60ish. When he received a phone call from his mother asking why they weren’t invited to his wedding, Lumpus thought it was a prank call and almost hung up. And that’s how he reconnects with them.

—No-neck’s real name is Jacques. He started going by No-neck because the campers kept mispronouncing it.

—Pothole McPucker died, …like, the same summer he and Jane almost married. (Bozo.)

—Manfred the ex-Navy turtle is still alive.

—Edward’s mom, Susan, bakes a mean lasagna and this is his favorite food. (Cue Ping Pong calling him Garfield.)

—Mort the pelican is Camp Kidney’s archery champion.

—Gordon the bear is petrified of caves. (It’s the stalactites.)

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campy-mccampface · 4 days ago

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Whats your main headcanons on scoutmaster lumpus?

get hosed bozos lol

Let’s see:

—Lumpus in 2007 was (at least) 63, so I headcanon he was born in July of 1944. Don’t feel like that means he’s dying soon in the present day, though. This is a cartoon.

—The “C.” in “Algonquin C. Lumpus” stands for “Crawford.” His family is from Crawford County, Wisconsin. It was his father’s idea. Lumpus doesn’t like it (and he sure doesn’t like his father in my HC) so he always just says its initial.

—Lumpus neeever wanted to be a Scoutmaster. His father, a former Scoutmaster and actually the last Scoutmaster at Camp Kidney before him, made him become one. Lumpus seems to love boats and fishing, so I think his dream job would’ve been a sailor or a fisherman. At camp, he’s thus only allowed a taste of each. (Becoming a Scoutmaster seems also to require graduating from the Tomato Scouts, which Lumpus did and hated, and I feel really helped mess him up.)

—Being a Scoutmaster seems to have been the only job he’s ever had, which makes the “cut out for the real world” jokes in “Handy Helper” even funnier. He’s spent his entire life at camp, at Camp Kidney, one way or another, and the minute he tries to step out he’s crushed. A living purgatory. Scoutmaster Sisyphus.

—In the flashback to (roughly) 2000 in “Slugfest,” Lumpus is actually shown to be cordial and competent. This I think was no mere retcon: Lumpus was doing well when left to his own devices, but Slinkman’s arrival enables him to become his current lazy, grouchy, sociopathic self. (Slinkman knows.) This character shift is probably my favorite headcanon for him out of all of mine. I made a fanfiction about it which you can find on AO3, called “Summer of ‘00.” A younger version of Edward’s brother Philip is there too.

—Talking of the Platypus Brothers, Scoutmaster Lumpus haaaated them during their own times at camp. (“O Brother, Who Art Thou” straight up is noncanon to me, okay? It’s a completely different ballgame than what I see happened.) They were the biggest troublemakers he ever dealt with. That appears in “Summer of ‘00” too. And that’s part of the reason he gives Edward virtually no acknowledgement and always gets his name/species wrong. “Pollywog,” indeed.

—Lumpus and Jane met in, I wanna say 1994, when she first took over at Acorn Flats from the last Denmother. Lumpus didn’t care for her much at first and bought into the Beans-Squirrels rivalry, a la his coldness towards her in “Gone Fishing (sort of).” Jane in the same episode, for her part, seems to have treated him as a nice neighbor she has no idea dislikes her, so I’ll say that was her dynamic to him too. (Jane’s just incredibly friendly and personable in general. It’s very rare you see her openly dislike someone.) By the beginning of the show’s events in Summer 2005, they’re both feeling older and worrying about being alone, and Lumpus’ usual crush on her kicks in. Jane is oblivious and takes more time to psyche herself into liking him too. (“Wedding Bell Blues” is also not canon to me. Geesh.)

—Lumpus and Jane marry in the Summer of 2008, but don’t live together until a few years later.

—In my HC, a “class” of scouts runs for five years, ages 10 to 15. So, our usual troop of Lazlo and the gang attend camp from 2005-10 and then leave. At first Lumpus was jubilant that the Troop of 2005-10 left, but he then goes through twoish years of being a shutin. (And that’s very unfair to Slinkman and Jane, but when has Algonquin C. Lumpus cared about fairness?) When he comes back out ahead of his retirement, he briefly falls back in love with the concept of camp. Then, once retired, he realizes he’s been in a state of retirement already, being lazy, and nothing changed. You can read about this in my fic on AO3, “Bean There, Done That.”

—Jane, who I see as younger than Lumpus, retires too at some point and joins him to live in the Scoutmaster’s Cabin full-time. (Lumpus has no money to live elsewhere and the Bean Scouts of America Organization pitied him.) Slinkman, the current Scoutmaster, is also there. Once living together day by day, their marriage becomes a genuine one rather than a loneliness crutch. (And Lumpus learns that being with Jane means accepting her random singing, obsession with poodles, and her habit of being on the phone in the bathtub. You can read about that in my AO3 fic, “Call Center.��)

—Then, Lazlo returns (“NOOOoooOOOOO!” screams Lumpus as he falls to his knees.) He’s now Scoutmaster Slinkman’s assistant! He’ll be living in the cabin attic year-round, and he brought his geeky bird nerd husband Dave with him! And they’re insufferably in love, feeding each other at the table and using pet names! And Jane acts like they’re her beloved boys! And Slinkman won’t cook his breakfast for him anymore! IT’S AWFULLLL! THE FUTURE IS AWFULLLL! (And that’s my “Refried Beans” AU in a nutshell. Lumpus is not a fan. But I’m the writer and I love torturing him.)

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