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twilightthefoxicorn · 19 days ago

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Talevember 2024 Day Two: P.I.E.

For yesterday’s today’s prompt, I wanted to talk about the history of P.I.E.! As this’ll be quite long, I’ll be putting it under the cut (I tend to ramble sometimes). Also, heads up: this post will briefly mention death/lost of loved ones and a house fire and related injuries, so proceed with caution.

P.I.E. is the brainchild of a very young Johnny Ghost and Johnny Toast. As kids, the two shared a love of the paranormal, and they enjoyed reading, watching, and listening to anything they could find regarding the paranormal; they decided they wanted to open up their very own paranormal investigation company when they were adults, much to the dismay of the adults around them. Around the ages of 7/9, the two started conducting their own “paranormal investigations,” which in practice usually consisted of them going into the woods at night and almost dying to vampires. Ghost’s mom was not a fan of these nightly wood searches (they often returned looking worse for wear), so the two had to switch things up and explore places around town. As they grew older, they began conducting more thorough searches, and were even allowed back into the woods, so the two were excited.

Until the Toast twins moved back to the UK for secondary school. Ghost and Toast were devastated. Not only were they not going to be able to see each other for who knows how long, but they couldn’t conduct paranormal investigations together :( It was definitely hard on both of them at first, but they would call each other almost every day and update each other on any paranormal findings/new information they had discovered. Flash forward to Ghost’s high school years, and he befriends John Boast, Johnny Roast, and William Barricade. While Ghost had met Barricade when they were kids and lost touch, all 4 were interested in the paranormal (Boast was really into the extraterrestrial) and quickly became friends. They all started hanging out and conducting paranormal investigations together, and whenever Toast would visit all 5 of them would!

Around Ghost’s junior year, he met Dark Pit. While everyone else saw Pit as literally just a normal person, Ghost knew better. Pit was an angel—like, from the Great Beyond. After Ghost unsubtly asked the question, Pit told him that, yes, he was an angel, and that their connection to the Great Beyond had somehow gotten severed, leaving him stuck on Earth. Ghost promised he wouldn’t tell anyone (and he didn’t exactly, but he did tell Toast he had met an angel), and the two became friends. Ghost would teach Pit things about life on Earth, and Pit would tell Ghost about what things were like in the Great Beyond. Eventually Pit started hanging out with Ghost’s ghost-hunting friends (as Pit liked to call them), and he started going on paranormal investigations with them every now and then. After all, Pit was an angel, and he was fully equipped to kill a demon if they needed to protect his new friends. Goodness knows these teenagers shouldn’t be messing with demons… Pit did eventually tell everyone he was an angel, and everyone nerded out that they were friends with an angel and no one else was (which Pit corrected, saying that angels did indeed befriend humans, just that it wasn’t that common).

After Toast completed his degree at Uni, he and his recently-married wife Mary moved to North Carolina, USA. (Side tangent: Mary’ and Toast’s wedding was a bit of a hot mess due to Gavin-related shenanigans, but everyone ultimately had a great time. Karaoke that night was legendary, you just had to be there.) After talking with everyone over some pizza, P.I.E. was officially born! It was a night to remember, that’s for sure; everyone’s dedication to the paranormal was finally paying off!

At its founding, P.I.E. focused solely on researching the paranormal, investigating places of interest so they could document their findings. During this time Toast worked on his book on the paranormal, although he didn’t publish it until a year or two after the OG P.I.E. team disbanded. Various members would go to places rumored to be haunted and record their findings in whatever way they could. Boast and Ghost liked to film their trips, while Barricade and Toast would write frequent notes. Roast wasn’t good at documenting things, but he had a memory of steel, so it didn’t really matter. Regardless, P.I.E. was slowly making a name for themselves through their research and documentation of the paranormal. Things were looking good!

Until a series of tragedies tore P.I.E. apart. Roast passing away, Boast dying on a demon case, Pit going missing and presumed dead, Mary’s death… It was a very difficult time for everyone involved. Everyone’s loss was greatly felt, and P.I.E. went on hiatus for a few months so everyone could process what had happened. During this hiatus, Barricade decided he would be stepping away from P.I.E. Ghost and Toast didn’t blame him or feel hurt by his decision to leave at all; they knew things weren’t the same without their late friends, and Barricade needed a fresh start.

It was bittersweet when P.I.E. went to being just Ghost and Toast. The two had grown up going on paranormal investigations together, but after doing so with their friends for years… It felt odd with it just being the two of them. Since P.I.E. was a 2-person organization now, they decided to start doing case work. Sure, they still wanted to do research, but that doesn’t pay the bills, and boy did they need to pay the bills. Due to their months-long hiatus, P.I.E. had lost their research funding and needed to find any legal ways to fund their work. The first few cases were somewhat awkward, as the two still didn’t really know how to go about searching for paranormal entities within people’s homes, but they eventually found their groove. One of their first clients, who has remained a frequent client to this day, was the Acachalla’s, and Ghost and Toast quickly learned that some entities are very good at holding grudges, wouldn’t you know?

Speaking of grudges, the original P.I.E. HQ literally went up in flames due to a certain god blaming Ghost for his banishment to a pocket dimension. All of their belongings, all of their hard work, all of their case files and documents, all of their memories—gone, ruined. Ghost managed to snag some sentimental items, burning his arm in the process, so at least something was able to be salvaged. The two were devastated, and it took some time for them to get back on their feet. When P.I.E. came back, they came back more confident than before.

It was difficult at times with just Ghost and Toast doing everything. Ghost often stayed up late into the night completing paperwork and subsequent filing, while Toast tried to keep equipment running with the tight finances they had. Sure they were a business, but they tried to keep their prices low; lives were potentially on the line, so they tried to keep prices semi-affordable. While doable, at this pace they were going to be stressed and overworked forever.

Then along came Fred “Spooker” Soup. Toast was unavailable for a case, so Ghost had put up an ad to see if he could get some help. He sure did get something, that’s for sure. Ghost did not get along with Spooker at all, and the case was a bit of a disaster, but hey, at least no one died—yeah, Spooker got himself killed by that Level 25 demon. And came back as a ghost. But then went back to being human so everything’s fine—don’t worry about it!!! Anyway, Spooker was now who P.I.E. would call whenever they needed an extra person to assist on cases, and Ghost and Toast got the bright idea that maybe they should hire employees to help out with stuff?

And thus, P.I.E. was no longer a 2-person body. After talking to his grandmother, Toast got the funds so P.I.E. could get a new HQ, as well as to hire some employees to help things run better. And run more smoothly they did! P.I.E. went from doing maybe 4 case maximum a day to having a record of 24 cases in a day (everybody shudders when they think of that mess of a day, but at least lots of money was made). Since more cases=more money, they were able to expand even further, eventually hiring Spooker part-time since they called them in so often. Eventually Chris (who expressed interest in helping out with cases in the future) was hired part-time, too, so P.I.E. now had 4 paranormal investigators!

And thus, P.I.E. is what we know of it today. While they mainly work cases in the surrounding areas of Little Butts, North Carolina, they can be found conducting investigations all over the world.

Some little headcanon bonuses because why not?

The fact that P.I.E. as an acronym is also a word for food was purely coincidental. Ghost used to hate it when people pointed it out, but Boast got him to eventually like it.

As they’re closed on Sundays, the first Sunday of every month Ghost and Toast throw a pizza party for all the staff. They usually put on movies or play multiplayer video games, so usually everyone attends.

While they primarily do case work, P.I.E. does contract work for the US government. As the government knows Ghost and Toast come back from the dead, the two get called to work cases that are likely to get them killed. Yay, expendability! At least it pays well…

While not well known in general due to the media covering things up about the paranormal, P.I.E. is well known to those who are interested in the paranormal. Ghost and Toadt try to attend international paranormal investigation conventions when they can, and they’re surprised about the amount of people that recognize them.

While Ghost, Toast, Spooker, and Colon are the only ones in P.I.E. to actually do case work, there is a strict rule Ghost has imposed regarding demon investigations. If Spooker/Colon are on a case and they think demonic activity may be afoot, they are to leave immediately and call Ghost/Toast so one of them can come work the case instead.

To try to make staff meetings less boring, Ghost started to implement themed meetings, where people could dress up to the theme and they’d talk about the theme before getting to the actual meeting stuff. Everyone gets to vote on the theme, too, so there’s ample time to get outfits/info together. A lot of funny images have come out of these themed meetings, and it’s one of the only times people have ever seen Ghost not wearing his hoodie.

While money is ideal, P.I.E. will accept other means of payment. One time Toast was on a case for himself and came back to the office with 20 homemade pies as payment. Nobody was mad, and Toast actually buys pies from that client to this day. (She makes really good pumpkin pies, but Toast loves her blueberry pies, too.)

Most of P.I.E.’s employees are employed on an as-needed basis. For example, their medic isn’t just chilling at HQ all day, but only whenever they call him in. It helps save people’s time and money that way.

Halloween is a weird subject at P.I.E. They throw a staff Halloween party the Sunday before Halloween, and everyone has so much fun. But on the other hand, actual Halloween is a hot mess due to the sheer influx of calls (many of which are prank calls). So P.I.E. both loves and hates the holiday, and can anyone blame them?

Most of the cases P.I.E. work involve ghosts or poltergeists, but they get a lot of vampire cases surprisingly.

Since business has picked up, Ghost and Toast can conduct research again, just on their own dime. They haven’t published nearly as much as they did in the past, but they’re steadily getting to do some really cool projects.

Besides demons, one of P.I.E.’s least-favorite entity types for a case is fairies. Those tricksters are a pain to deal with, especially if you accidentally stumble into the Fae Realm…

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vt-wiki-redux · 3 months ago

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According to multiple pages on the VT wiki, Johnny Roast and Ronnie / Johnny Boast are both original members of Paranormal Investigators Extraordinaire.

However, I have yet to see a source on this claim and I have yet to find the video in which this is stated.

If anyone has the source, it would be greatly appreciated if you could provide it for us. Thank you

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overthinkingtaleblr · 2 years ago

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My Toilet Toucher Headcanon Masterlist

Well to keep it short and sweet, I actually think that the TT isn’t actually from that far into the future from where Billy is now— I think he’s more accurately from the recent past… To be less short and sweet—

It got really long so, everything’s below the cut! Minus some pictures, have some.

General Powers / History HCs

(I mention canon in this but I do consider canon to be nebulous, so just consider it the building blocks of my arguments so nothing sounds like it’s coming out of nowhere <3)

I actually think that the TT isn’t actually from that far into the future from where Billy is now— I think he’s more accurately from the recent past. This is largely because of a few reasons, not least of which being that the Toilet Toucher is also Ghost’s uncle Ernie, meaning Ghost had to either see pictures of or meet him in the past. This is further backed up by the TT saying that Johnny Roast was his favorite member of PIE— a member of PIE in its early days, and one who had long since been uninvolved since the TT suddenly arrived on the scene. In fact, by the time the TT first appeared, there’s a chance that Roast had been perma-dead for years, depending on how you interpret canon. I think he found a way to travel through time using a similar power to the one he uses to travel through space (cough, touching the toilets… also possibly butts? Yeah I dunno how canon that second one is.) and I think both are just further expansions of powers Billy already has. We possibly see Billy use this power at the end of the ~Sally’s First Day Of High School~ video or whatever it’s called…

Basically, Billy is working for Darth Calculus, who tells him to wipe Sally’s memory and have the pair of them move into the Acachalla family to study their behavior so DC could figure out how actual families are supposed to work or something, an event that happens entirely off-screen but from what we can hear, something goes wrong and Billy is the one who’s memory is erased. However, while I know for a fact that the memory-wiping thing is a device, the pair are also immediately teleported away. This may have been through a portal, but I can’t remember if they state the method of transportation, so there’s a chance however Billy and Sally left that place was through the same method as the TT’s time and space travel… things. This actually isn’t the first time we hear DC being directly associated with portals, but now that I think about it, it is only really for a period of time around when Billy might’ve been working for him, so maybe the TT can do long-distance space travel with portals?

There was a time where I thought the TT came from the Billion-Year-War timeline, up until he started appearing in videos after the war was prevented, largely because Billy is completely gone and unmentioned after the war starts, despite being present when it first begins. He shows up at the end of the finale, meaning he was on the island with Sally, Papa, and (Action) Charlie (the Last Hope for Humanity During the Billion Year War Who Will Save Us All from Ourselves… Keller (<- HC surname)) when it all started. Because no one was coming back at all during the BYW, that does imply that Billy is straight-up gone in this universe, and the lack of TT, who can also do respawns, does imply that he either disappeared in a way that prevented the TT from coming back, or the TT just bailed… or was captured…? I do think traveling through large periods of time and space can affect his memory really badly and make him forget things, including his own identity and powers, but I also think that he hasn’t done any major space/time traveling since remembering who he is, so he’d be recovering his memories over time.

While I like the idea that the TT was a result of BYW, I don’t think it’s the best use of his character. It’s not antithetical to any kind of canon, since BYW Toast is still around after the war ends and that means time travel in VT doesn’t delete people in paradoxes, but I think we can do more with it. The Toilet Toucher does not appear during the Billion Year War arc at all, he is not present even for flashbacks when we have people from the 13th dimension making cameos. If that really was the world-ending event that sent him back in time, we’re missing out by not having him present trying to stop the alien threat or reacting to it in some way. Whatever made him choose to leave the Acachallas, whether it was an accident, intentional, or some third unrelated option— I want it to be something that he can not only point out but react to. I think this can range from DC trying to get Billy back in a number of ways causing him to panic and run away (whether it be an attempted hostile takeover, the family being pursued and Billy realizing they’re only after him and deciding to leave so they’ll be safe, DC going directly to Papa claiming that Billy was only ever a spy for him— making papa feel betrayed and push Billy away, or a good old-fashioned trick— there’s a lot one can do with this.), to some kind of hostile invasion making him go back to try to fix things but going Too far back and forgetting what he was there to do (Prince Fang, perhaps?), or it legit just being an accident where he was just trying to replicate the powers he sees the TT use and screwed up. There’s a lot that could be done here.

… I think I have an idea as to how his powers work, and I hope it’s less complicated than I originally assumed it would be. From how I see it, the respawns and the space/time travel function on the same principles. Space and time are actually pretty similar to each other— as time is theorized to be the forth dimension, and space consists of the other three. It seems that Billy’s powers allow him to manipulate a person’s standing in these four dimensions… or specifically his own. I think that the way that TT is able to move through space is not the toilets themselves, but the plumbing, using the toilet as a door. Similarly, I think that bringing people back from the dead is just. Pulling someone away from a door. People have argued to think of wormholes as folding space and punching a hole through it, but who’s to say you can’t consider it like a door in a wall? In Billy’s case, the door is already there, he just needs to open it… and in the case of coming back from the dead, that might be him forcefully keeping the door open for everybody… or closed? Who knows in this case. Either way, Billy can more manipulate time than he can space, but I still consider it space/time manipulation. He just needs an ending to do it. It does make me question how much of a ghost he is, though. He might just be legit immortal—

Anyways, despite his… issues with the Acachallas (he is a ‘ghost’ that haunts them specifically but i can’t remember if he has any spite toward them), I don’t even think he needs to have some kind of actual problem with them. I don’t think he remembered he was Billy for awhile after meeting the family and Maddie, so there’s a chance he picked up resentment toward the Acachallas from the other ghosts in the area. It could also help to explain why he was less and less hostile toward them as time went on, he gained more memories and realized he didn’t hate them. This might also have to do with his time being Ernie Ghost, since I do think he parted with the OG PIE on bad terms (how else would the man have gotten locked in a solitary confinement pocket dimension?)— even if he doesn’t have any negative feelings toward the Acachallas, another family he was apart of betrayed or hurt him and it’s put him on edge while his memories are blurry.

I think he does have all the same powers that Billy has now, meaning he does have the ability to bring people back from the dead, he just frequently chooses not to use it because he’s kind of a cynical old man. Also he knows how to control his powers where Billy does not. Billy’s just here to have a good time and I love him for it.

Ok more normal things now.

General Headcanons

Friendships - Billy is incredibly extroverted and charismatic, making friends everywhere he goes and melting cold hearts… and I think that isn’t a trait he outgrew. TT doesn’t have any group that he specifically works with, but I also don’t think he has many enemies outside of ones he had a prior history with like PIE and the Acachallas. He’s mostly just drifting around for now, trying to get his bearings in the modern day, but he’ll accept company where he can find it and values friendship where he can find it. (He ran for president in a video once. Idk why he did that.) Because of his being labeled as a ghost, he has interacted with and befriended a good number of ghosts… not including Maxwell Acachalla. Even though neither of them can put their finger on it, both of them feel there’s something uncannily familiar about the other. He spends a lot of time just wandering around and seeing what he gets into next.

Health - He’s genuinely surprised when he realizes he’s still not a ghost of any kind, especially after having people who are supposed to know ghosts call him a ghost to his face. He doesn’t really have to take great care of himself because of his own powers, but he’s starting to go out of his way to take care of himself more because he’s realized that life is generally more enjoyable if you feel good while experiencing it. He wants to find himself and enjoy himself while he does it, whether that ends up being through committing mass crimes or finally settling down again. Yeah— respawns don’t make you immortal, they just make it harder to stay dead, and even with them it doesn’t make general pain, exhaustion, etc suddenly go away forever.

Lifestyle - It would take some convincing to get him to settle down. He was dubbed the Toilet Toucher while in prison soon after escaping borderline solitary confinement in a pocket dimension. I can’t imagine he’s someone who feels comfortable staying in one place for too long, and with the means to instantly travel into almost any building in the general area from a public bathroom, why would he ever need to get his own house, or even a car for that matter? He’s all but set. I think he’s trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, and will overtime gravitate toward helping people who are sick and hurt. Even though he did use to live at this time, he experiences culture shock every time he takes part in a conversation with a normal person… He has an easier time talking to ghosts. He’s trying to figure out where he was before he time-traveled himself into prison, considering he wears a lab jacket everywhere but has no recollection of what science he could have studied to earn him it. He’s considered traveling, but he doesn’t tend to stay in far-away places for too long because he gets homesick.

Memory - I think the TT is a recovering amnesiac from three separate (major) occasions. From most to least recent; I think he lost his memory some time before he first appeared in the videos, chronologically some time between when Ghost accidentally released him from his solitary confinement pocket dimension and when he first appeared in a prison with no memories from before then. It’s very likely that there’s lost time between these two spaces where he did another bit of time travel, but whether he was traveling forward or backward or what could’ve happened between when he was freed and when he returned.. I’m not sure. Before that, I think he lost his memories after traveling backward in time from the Acachallas, which is why he had his name changed to Ernie. Finally, I mentioned this earlier, but he lost his memories right before joining the Acachallas. It wasn’t as severe as the other two times, as he at least remembered his first name, but he didn’t care enough to think about it anyways. Which. Valid. As a result of this, a lot of his memories are blurred together and he has a bit of a hard time remembering who did what when and why, sometimes even making it difficult for him to remember whose side he’s on sometimes. Memories from before he was an Acachalla need to be drilled back into his head, while memories from when he was apart of Early PIE are the easiest for him to recall and tend to blur with older memories as a result. Being able to witness his time as an Acachalla is doing wonders at giving him back memories from this period of his life.

How I use TT in relation to other Characters

This is mostly going to be focusing on character relationships held by the TT, but also important relationships held by Ernie Ghost in the creation of the TT. I think that Billy’s relationships are wholly his own to consider, unless stated otherwise, and don’t need to add on to this. However, Ghost practically states that whoever he knew as his uncle (Ernie) was the TT, either he was in some middle ground where he was approaching that period of his life, or he started being the TT at the same time he was Ghost’s uncle so,,, even with the memory loss, it’s instrumental to consider imo.

- Cardboard Friend -

This is only one of many ideas I have for the origins of CBF, but the one most relevant to this would be that the creation of CBF was the first step into making Ernie Ghost into the TT. The way I see it, Billy has the power to bring inanimate things to life— whether that just be him bringing inanimate objects to life on his own or him being able to sense restless souls tied to inanimate objects and bring them out. I think he may be able to bring things to life with more awareness than the ones we’ve seen, but I think it depends on who/what they’re brought to life for.

~ Watermelon Friend was created by Billy when he was a child, and though it was manipulative and terrifying in the end, it did come off like an imaginary friend until the danger was realized. If memory serves, this is largely because no one could hear melon friend outside of Billy. It is also worth noting Melon Friend was likely related to DC in some way, but moving on…

~ Penguin Friend was made when Billy was older and in a house full of siblings and conflict (not in a bad way ofc), and Penguin Friend is very familiar to Maddie-Friend in that it was stringently loyal to Billy and could get somewhat aggressive with anything that got in the way of that. I think that Penguin Friend is the biggest example of this theory, its originals are the most unknown and its reactions are the most familiar.

~ Maddie Friend doesn’t count I’ll explain later.

Cardboard Friend would be another one of these made for Gregory to have as an imaginary friend at a time when he was distressed in some way while Ernie was meant to be babysitting him. Likely during a move between houses, thus the Cardboard… and maybe even the kidnapping. In creating CBF, Ernie put Gregory in danger and possibly got T.Casket killed. During this time, OG PIE is growing more and more untrusting of the paranormal, and a fault in the old systems of early PIE makes every paranormal entity classified as a ghost of some kind, even if they’re just someone with powers. After witnessing a lot of pain and suffering from ghosts in general, and the leftover trauma Ghost got from his time with CBF, whoever is in charge of OG PIE makes the executive decision that Ernie is either a weak link or an instigator of some kind and needs to be removed from the equation for the safety of others… Because he created CBF.

Whether this is the idea of a surviving T.Casket who feels the creation of CBF was an active attack, or the idea of a disheartened JGS who only sees what harm Ernie caused to his newly adopted child and not that it might have been an accident… I dunno yet. because of all this, CBF could see TT as a father or uncle figure, depending on how married it is to the idea that Gregory is his brother. If CBF finds out Ghost considers Ernie an uncle (since Ernie didn’t have any familial relation to T.Casket in my canon stuff, Ghost wouldn’t start calling Ernie his uncle until after getting adopted), it might change its song from siblings to cousins.

- Darth Calculus -

I don’t think TT has any reason to remember DC unless DC reaches out to him first, and even so in doing that it’ll give him a massive headache to try to recall. That’s three bouts of amnesia worth of buried memories to try to work through in order to really recall who this man is, and who’s to say that he’ll even like DC once he remembers? Billy liked him when he was little, but he’s had a lifetime’s worth of experiences between then and now, experiences that could include learning that DC basically kidnapped him after killing his birth family way back before he was taken in by him, something he was never aware of.

Considering Billy’s powers, I could see DC risking the possible hatred to try to get the TT on his side for his power, but it’s anyone’s guess as to whether that would go well. I do think that without the shared history, DC would probably be able to convince TT to his side for various reasons… not least of which being him being generally annoyed by PIE before knowing what their deal is, but also DC could offer him a job and stuff. I can’t imagine he kept it for very long, but it’s a job.

- Johnny Ghost -

The TT isn’t sure how to feel about Johnny Ghost, specifically because he’s so much like his adopted father, but also so much like the kid he remembers being his nephew. It’s complicated. Long story short: his feelings toward Ghost is muddled with family issues. More about those family issues below…

- Johnny Ghost (Senior) -

JGS and Ernie used to be borderline inseparable, brothers against the world, but things started going downhill when T.Casket died. They originally joined PIE with open minds and curiosity toward the supernatural, but differing experiences has led to the pair growing differing conclusions toward the paranormal. Ernie was frequently given special attention by ghosts who recognized him as also being supernatural and came to appreciate them as people, JGS kept losing friend after friend to the paranormal, culminating in not one but THREE different kids of varying ages getting severely hurt or DYING (gregory, kat, goober in that order— maybe even Ronnie Boast if JGS lived to see it or Toast if he was open about why he was in the states) because they were seemingly targeted by a paranormal entity. Chakalata being one of those paranormal entities was a breaking point for JGS (he was like the first ghost to actually communicate with them, and the first one T.Casket actually considered a friend), and when he found out Ernie created one of the other ones, even if it was an accident… the realization caused irreversible damage to their relationship. And thus; Ernie got banished for the “safety of everybody”.

That’s just one of many ways Ernie could’ve gotten banished, and this actually contradicts another hc I like about how JGS died… but I’ll figure out how I can make them both work someday! I think his issues with this incident can explain why he’s bitter toward characters he otherwise should consider family, since his last memory of a family member is a borderline betrayal.

- Maddie-Friend -

Maddie is curious about TT like a cat being introduced to a large fern for the first time, and the TT isn’t sure how to feel about her. Since there’s no order on what memories he can get back first, he both remembers playing and training with her when they were both kids under DC, but also his first time meeting her in a movie theater after moving in with the Acachallas. The two just need a couple heart-to-hearts to work everything out. Maddie wants to ask him if he ever recovered his first memories, but that’s kind of a hard question to ask an amnesiac. He thinks of her fondly, though, like a much younger sister he hasn’t seen in awhile. He thinks her antics chasing him around are pretty funny, though he does get uncomfortable when she turns violent.

- Maxwell Acachalla -

(All my own HCs) Maxwell and TT are kinda awkward around each other just because. They both kind of remind each other of things they don’t want to think about.

Billy impulsively brought Maxwell back from the dead, one of the only times he ever tried doing it on purpose, accidentally forcing Maxwell to be stuck as a ghost. He finds the reasoning dumb in hindsight, and he feels bad that he killed Spencer to do, it too (that part was less impulse, more that Spencer was really frustrating at the time and Billy needed a sacrifice. He didn’t think it’d matter since… ~back from the dead~ and all that, but Spencer was taken by surprise and holds grudges). Maxwell’s existence is kind of a reminder of all of that, like an uncomfortable trigger for his memory.

Maxwell and Billy look a lot alike when Billy is living with the Acachallas, and Billy was definitely the kid Papa felt the most kinship toward early on (possibly because Billy looked like his dead cousin coughcoUgHcOUGH—). So, Maxwell grew to recognize the similarities between himself and Billy, not just visually but as people… and TT is a prime example of who Maxwell could be if he had gotten to really life his life. Especially if the two ever interact without family or paranormal problems as a buffer… This is part of the reason why I like hc’ing Maxwell as being about 16-17 when he died tbh. Ig im big into ~Drama~ ^^;

However, the two are still technically family, so being frequently paired together has managed to get them to a point where they can actually interact with each other without feeling uncomfortable.

- Papa Acachalla -

(All my own HCs) The TT incredibly unsettled Papa and has a spotlight in his nightmares. Not because of anything specifically that the TT has done, but solely because the TT is proof that Papa fucks this one up too. He was originally uncomfortable with growing close with Billy because of what happened to Maxwell. Similarly to Billy, Maxwell looked up to Papa and saw him as a role model to follow, and in doing so it got him killed, and now Maxwell hates him and wants him dead. Papa was originally on edge about Billy, but was slowly beginning to think this one might be different the more the Acachalla family became… well, a family. However, unlike Maxwell— who died young— Billy lives a long, long time… and still comes back around to hating Papa. It’s like a cruel twist of fate, and even the idea that somehow he managed to screw this one over too made Papa pull away from the entire family again for awhile after the TT admitted to Billy they were the same person. TT isn’t sure how he feels about Papa. Something in the back of his head is convinced that Papa did or will do something wrong at some point, but he can’t put his finger on what or when, or how important it all really is. He tries not to think about it. So… he matches the energy of the people around him, and just chooses to be aggressive rather than figure out what’s actually going on.

Rapid Fire

I really want him to keep the wings, but I’m not sure how I want to take the aesthetic yet. I usually take Billy in the direction of angel imagery, so for the TT i can either stick with angel imagery, move up to ARCHangel imagery or something more “biblically accurate”— or I could move waaaay down to FALLEN angel imagery.

He was taken into the Ghost family after being found soon after traveling through time for likely the first time, completely disoriented and with no memories. They took him in, and they started seeing him as family. Whether this is because he married in or because he was adopted in, I have yet to decide, but I think both are interesting in their own right.

Something about him being a Smigglebug (which I see as some kind of magic family) is important in some way, and likely has something to do with some part of his powers. However, since Sue is also a Smigglebug (even if from another universe), whatever this is for Billy it should be for Sue as well.

Additionally, the TT does not know what a Smigglebug is, nor that he is one of them. He’d just assume you’re talking nonsense.

He has accidentally committed tax evasion. He also doesn’t know it yet because he kind of forgot how that whole system works, especially in the modern day.

I think waffles are a bit of a comfort food for him before he starts to recover his memory because it’s vaguely familiar.

Might be related in some way to Dark Pit (founding member of early PIE)/Agent Angel (one-off character I latched onto for no reason), considered making Ernie Ghost his dad and saying Ghost and DP/AA are cousins, but that means saying that the TT settled down and had a FAMILY for a little while and I dunno how I feel about that.

With this in mind, Roast is the TT’s favorite PIE member because Roast was actually friends with DP. Long story short, DP and Roast were the oldest members of the team by a couple years, so they mostly just acted as overseers for the chaos, so Ernie came to respect that in what is possibly his son’s friend.

Alt is that Ernie liked Roast’s more… ruthless ideas on how to handle ghosts, I’m not sure yet but it does worry me.

He is a genuinely good leader. He listens to people when they express discontent and he listens to people and learns about them. The downside is that he isn’t much of a team player, and this mostly winds up being used against people.

Depending on how open he is about being related to Johnny Ghost, he’s likely been approached by the DIE team before. Either that or they’re trying to approach him, I imagine he’s incredibly hard to track down and find.

Songs and Why

- Hymn to a Scarecrow by Tally Hall

It’s a soft song that feels like it hits home the general vibe I feel about the TT’s character, I sometimes picture it as Maddie-Friend observing her friend from the future and trying to figure out who he is now.

- Community Gardens by The Scary Jokes

The TT is considered to be a monster of some kind, and I think this is the kind of energy he’d have while trying to acknowledge it… while trying to give Billy advice on how not to end up like him.

- Godspeed by Shayfer James?

I think it needs to be considered in a specific way but yeah, I could see it. Man is allowed to set some boundaries, as a treat.

- Falling Up by Will Wood?

It’s four am and i think i just popped a blood vessel in my eye I can’t explain this rn nor can i remember my reasoning jghfdshfgkds

#The Toilet Toucher #The TT #Toilet Toucher #Ernest Ghost #Ernie Ghost #Taleblr #Taleblr Headcanons #Taleblr PIE #Billy Acachalla #OG PIE Team #Billy Smigglebug

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overthinkingtaleblr · 2 years ago

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Finally here!

It got really long so, everything’s below the cut!

General Powers / History HCs

(I mention canon in this but I do consider canon to be nebulous, so just consider it the building blocks of my arguments so nothing sounds like it’s coming out of nowhere <3)

Ok more normal things now.

General Headcanons

How I use TT in relation to other Characters

- Cardboard Friend -

~ Maddie Friend doesn’t count I’ll explain later.

- Darth Calculus -

- Johnny Ghost -

- Johnny Ghost (Senior) -

- Maddie-Friend -

- Maxwell Acachalla -

(All my own HCs) Maxwell and TT are kinda awkward around each other just because. They both kind of remind each other of things they don’t want to think about.

However, the two are still technically family, so being frequently paired together has managed to get them to a point where they can actually interact with each other without feeling uncomfortable.

- Papa Acachalla -

Rapid Fire

Additionally, the TT does not know what a Smigglebug is, nor that he is one of them. He’d just assume you’re talking nonsense.

He has accidentally committed tax evasion. He also doesn’t know it yet because he kind of forgot how that whole system works, especially in the modern day.

I think waffles are a bit of a comfort food for him before he starts to recover his memory because it’s vaguely familiar.

Alt is that Ernie liked Roast’s more… ruthless ideas on how to handle ghosts, I’m not sure yet but it does worry me.

Songs and Why

- Hymn to a Scarecrow by Tally Hall

- Community Gardens by The Scary Jokes

- Godspeed by Shayfer James?

I think it needs to be considered in a specific way but yeah, I could see it. Man is allowed to set some boundaries, as a treat.

- Falling Up by Will Wood?

It’s four am and i think i just popped a blood vessel in my eye I can’t explain this rn nor can i remember my reasoning jghfdshfgkds

@overthinkingtaleblr i want your whole stock of bullshit TT headcanons

#taleblr #taleblr headcanons #venturiantale pie #the toilet toucher #billy acachalla #ernie ghost #og pie team #billy smigglebug

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plushmon · 5 years ago

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I absolutely hate how Johnny Ghost and Johnny Roast's player models are the gmod models of Simon Henriksson and David Leatherhoff.

#venturaintale #vt #vt johnny ghost #johnny ghost #johnny roast #vt johnny roast #my art

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mrwilliamcharley · 6 years ago

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Build-Outs Of Summer: Kestrel Coffee Roasters In Burlington, VE

If there had been a really good coffee shop in the office building where I used to work, I may have never left the corporate world to come back to coffee. Well, that’s not true; office jobs are a slow death. But having good coffee at my every beck and call would perhaps have made me forget my soul was leaving my body at an uncomfortable rate. In Burlington, Vermont, Kestrel Coffee Roasters is helping weary office workers fight the good fight with the opening of their brand new space in 1,200 employee office park.

Their full-time cafe is still in the works, but for the time being, Kestrel has being the white collar crowd caffeinated via a pop-up shop shop in the lobby of their future home. But soon enough, they will have a space all to themselves. Better get those timesheets approved early, that way you can spend a few extra but very necessary moments at the all new Kestrel Coffee Roasters in Burlington, Vermont.

As told to Sprudge by Charlotte Steverson.

For those who aren’t familiar, will you tell us about your company?

Kestrel Coffee Roasters just opened this year as a roaster, wholesaler, and retailer in South Burlington, Vermont.

Co-Owners Charlotte and Johnny Steverson each have years of experience in the coffee and hospitality industries. Johnny, a licensed Q Grader, has been roasting for over five years. Charlotte is an experienced event planner and has accompanied Johnny on various cuppings, events, and classes.

Kestrels are the smallest of the falcons; they are small but mighty, which is the trait we love most about Kestrel Coffee Roasters.

Can you tell us a bit about the new space?

We are located inside a six-acre building at a large office complex called “Tech Park.” There are about 15 businesses and over 1,200 employees as well as walking trails (with the well-known “Whales Tails” sculpture) and a gorgeous view of the Green Mountains.

The entrance to our space will be right off a large atrium with skylights and communal seating. Our roaster (Loring S15) will be featured near the cafe behind a glass wall. We’ll bring in fun colors and a mix of wood and metal finishes to create a warm, welcoming vibe.

In the meantime, we have been open since July 2 in the form of a coffee kiosk located in a high traffic hallway of the same building. We also have our roaster temporarily set up. It’s been really amazing to get to know our neighbors and customers before the cafe even opens!

What’s your approach to coffee?

People have come to know us for sourcing really excellent coffees. It’s easy to talk at length about water temperature, extraction rates, and grind size, but at the end of the day it’s about drinking a great cup of coffee made by someone who cares.

Our job is to get that across to our customers.

Any machines, coffees, special equipment lined up?

Our roaster is a Loring S15 Falcon. As far as brewing and grinding goes: La Marzocco Linea two-group, FETCO XTS, Mahlkönig EK-43 and Peak grinders… and great people!

What’s your hopeful target opening date/month?

December 2018/January 2019.

Are you working with craftspeople, architects, and/or creatives that you’d like to mention?

Our branding and design firm (Solidarity of Unbridled Labour, Burlington, VT) was unbelievably creative and, among other things, came up with an incredible color palette that we can’t wait to showcase in the final space.

The architects (Scott + Partners, Essex, VT) have understood our vision from the start, and we’re just putting the finishing touches on the plans so construction can begin in September.

The counter/bar for our kiosk was designed and built by Construct Custom VT out of Montpelier, VT. Benjamin was so excited about this project and we couldn’t be happier with the result!

Finally, our landlord and contractor, ReArch. They have been an amazing partner, and we are so excited to be joining the Tech Park community.

Thank you!

Thanks for giving us the opportunity to share our story!

Kestrel Coffee Roasters is located at 30 Community Drive, South Burlington. Visit their official website and follow them on Facebook and Instagram.

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#venturiantale #taleblr #venturiantale au #johnny ghost #vt katrina #vt dark pit #johnny boast #johnny toast #johnny roast #jimmy casket #goose beans boast #art #my art #comic

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chaocardboard · 3 months ago

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Pg3 - remember to click for quality!!

#venturiantale #taleblr #venturiantale au #johnny ghost #jimmy casket #johnny boast #johnny ghost pie #johnny toast #johnny roast #vt katrina #goose beans boast #the death of pie prime

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Taleblr Characters as LPS Pets Part 1 (P.I.E.)

As inspired by @evilmagician430, here’s a list of what LPS animal I think various Taleblr characters would be!

As there are over 3,000+ pets, it’s kinda hard to narrow down which ones suit the characters, so I’ve included several. I’ll try to explain why I chose the ones I did, but some of them were purely just off of vibes so some may not have much of an explanation, oof.

Also, as everyone has a different take on the characters, I encourage anyone interested to share which pets you think the characters would be (I’m sure we’ll all have different answers lol). It’d be cool to see all the different pets everyone thinks suites the characters :3

Due to the sheer amount of characters within the Taleblr universe, I am most likely forgetting several characters. Sorry in advance, as my memory isn't the best ;-;

As there is a limit to 30 images per post, I've had to divide this post into several posts. I've kept them organized, though, and this one is for P.I.E. characters (in honor of P.I.E. Day). The Acachallas will be in the next post!

All of the images used are either from the LPS Collector's Wiki, or from ToySisters.com. The images with the blue backgrounds are from Toy Sisters, along with the 2nd image in Mary's section, and the images with the white background are from the wiki.

List of characters with their respective LPS animal under the cut!

P.I.E. Characters

Johnny Ghost

So LPS #1953 fits Ghost the best, imo. The color palette suites him, and for whatever reason when I look at this pet I just think, “Yeah, that’s literally Ghost.” So there’s that. It's literally Ghost as a cat, idk what else to say. Looks like it is not a physical contact type of pet.

Purely off of vibes, but LPS #1142 could potentially work. Idk, just reminds me of Ghost for whatever reason (I think cause I saw a horse like this irl and it reminded me of Ghost). Looks like it'd bite you if you're pushing its buttons too much, so maybe best not to get on its bad list.

Jimmy Casket

As Jimmy is associated with blood and vampires, I think LPS #1470 is a good match! Besides, bats are pretty cool! I didn’t really see any other pets that I thought would work, though, so it’s just this one for Jimmy. An absolute gremlin. Would probably fly up high and dive-bomb unsuspecting pets.

Gregory Casket

When I think of Gregory, I think of dinosaurs and space. Unfortunately there aren't any dino LPS pets (unless you're counting the birds), but I did find two pets I think would work. LPS #661 works imo because it seems like a younger pet, and it gives energetic younger sibling energy. Wholesome little guy, must be protected.

I could also see LPS #1154 fitting Gregory. I tend to associate greens, blues, and oranges with him, and this gecko has all three. I headcanon that Gregory loves reptiles and amphibians, so I could definitely see him being one in the LPS world. Give it some paper and crayons, and it'll think you're great.

Johnny Toast

When I think of an animal that fits Toast, I’ve always associated him with border collies and huskies for whatever reason, so I think LPS #210 would work well for him! It looks like a dapper gentledog, too, so that’s a plus. Would make the best pancakes, too, I think.

LPS #785 fits, and I think the color palette works as well (there are some other LPS with the same mold that are dark blue, and those could work as well! One of them is LPS #1217).

Gavin Toast

I’ll be honest, I didn’t really see any LPS pets that just screamed Gavin to me, but I think LPS #523 could work! Looks like the type of pet to try to act aloof and mysterious, but secretly just doesn’t want others to get involved.

LPS #55 could also work, as that cat looks like it’d try to con me (that look says it all…). I think of Gavin when I see tuxedo cats anyway, so I guess that's another reason why I think this pet could work.

Jinny Toast

Johnny and Gavin’s sister Jinny is a slightly hard one, as I can not for the life of me remember if we’ve ever seen her in a video (she’s been mentioned a few times, though). So purely going off of headcanon, I think LPS #1209 works well for her! I associate purples with her for whatever reason, so this pet’s colors fit her to me. Seems like a pet with tons of ambition, who isn't afraid to speak what's on its mind.

LPS #815 suites her as well! Something about the dark gray mixed with the little bits of the light blue here and there gives me Jinny vibes.

Mary Toast

It was hard to narrow down what pet I think best suites Mary, as I found several. That being said, I think that LPS #347 works best. It looks like a confident, fun-loving pet, and its coloring matches what I headcanon her hair and eye colors to be :3

I could also see her being LPS #69 from the newest line. I just think it gives Mary vibes, idk. Sorry for the picture being so small; couldn't find one that was bigger :(

Fred Spooker

I have always associated Spooker with cats, so that’s why I think LPS #1521 is a perfect match! While the pet itself doesn’t automatically have the pink beanie, it did come with its set! As with the cat for Ghost, this pet just screams Spooker to me.

I could also see LPS #511 working for them, as I think the color palette and markings fit Spooker’s aesthetic!

While rather basic, I think LPS #2034 would also match, as I think of yellow tabbies regarding Spooker :3

Chris “Colon” Ghostie

There were a few pets (albeit repetitive) that I thought could work for Colon, but I ultimately landed with LPS #1602. This bear just makes me think of Colon a lot, and it seems like it’d be a cool pet to be around! Probably very logical as well (Chris is the most logical one of P.I.E. after all).

LPS #366 could work as well, mainly due to the color palette (I heavily associate purples, blues, and greens with Colon). Seems like a chill pet to be around. Would definitely want to hang out with it. Could have some interesting conversations with it, I'm sure.

Woah

Maybe because she is a ghost and floats around wherever she goes, bit I tend to think of birds representing Woah. Due to this association with birds, along with Woah's color palette, I think that LPS #1650 is a good match! This pet also gives me Woah vibes, idk. It seems polite but shy. (While not pictured, LPS #372 is a pet from the same mold that I think could fit Woah, too. It has brighter colors than LPS #1650, but it's still pink, blue, and purple.)

I could also see LPS #1660 fitting. It looks like a sweet younger sister who likes to be with others, but also gives me shy vibes. Definitely suits Woah, imo.

Johnny Boast

I don't exactly have a lot to say about Boast, oof. But for whatever reason, I think that LPS #1191 fits Boast a lot. It seems like the type of pet that's somewhat reserved but once you get to know it, it's got quite the sense of humor. A good vibes pet for sure. Would definitely want to be friends with this pet.

I could also see LPS #650 working for Boast. Idk, when I look at it it reminds me of him a lot, so there's that. I think it's the colors, but I'm not quite sure. This pet seems loyal and calm, which are attributes I see Boast having.

Johnny Roast

I didn't really know how to choose a pet for Roast, so I decided to choose his based off of vibes. With that, LPS #753 gives me major Roast vibes to the point that this is a case where this pet is literally just him. Can't really explain it, but yeah. Probably a prankster, and was definitely the class clown when he was in high school.

Dark Pit

Since there isn't a lot to go off of with Dark Pit when it comes to canon, I'm relying on my own take of the character for choosing what pet I think works for him. I usually associate blacks, purple, yellows, and blues with them, and that definitely influenced what pet I chose. That said, I think that LPS #2708 would work well for his angelic form. I wanted to stick to a pet that could fly, then I remembered that there was a LPS fairy line. This pet looks like a sparkle dog, and sparkle dogs are cool; Dark Pit is cool, so they get to a sparkle dog.

For his human form, or in this case animal form, I think that LPS #1748 is a good fit. This pet gives me vibes that it would be the type to constantly observe/watch other pets, which would fit along with an angel watching over humans (animals in this case). Like, you're at a party and this pet is just in the corner sipping punch and observing everyone. Mysterious. Totally not trying to see how it should interact with the others.

William Barricade

If I'm remembering things correctly, wasn't it stated that William Barricade used to be a member of the OG P.I.E. (like, when Boast, Roast, Pit, etc. were around)? I just remember that he was part of P.I.E. in the past, but he quit (not on bad terms or anything, though). Anyway, I think that LPS #61 suits him a lot. Idk why, but I feel like he'd definitely be a German shepherd if he was an animal. I don't really have much to say about him, sorry ;-;

Katrina

As there is very little info about Katrina in canon, my picks for what LPS pet she would be are probably going to be different than what's expected? (Idk what the general consensus surrounding her is, oof.) That being said, I think that LPS #2135 works well for Katrina, as its color palette makes me think of her and the pet gives me similar vibes to who Katrina is (at least according to my headcanons). This pet seems friendly, but it also looks like someone that I wouldn't want to be on bad terms with, you know? Seems really smart, but maybe a bit too kind to people for its own good, putting others before itself.

I also think that LPS #879 would be a good match, as it gives me vibes that it would be a friendly pet who has a good sense of humor, and also likes learning new things. Also, for whatever reason, I associate sheep with Katrina? I genuinely don't know why I do, but for as long as I've known of her I have.

Jenny Ghost

Idk what all to say about Jenny Ghost, but I honestly can't remember much about her? I know her and Jenny Toast showed up in 2 or 3 videos, but I can only vaguely remember 1 :( Anyway, I associate grays, pinks, and purples with her, as well as cats, so I think that LPS #1921 fits her well. Coincidentally this pet is from the same mold as the pet I chose for Johnny Ghost. This pet gives me sassy girlboss vibes, lol. Could probably have some of the most thought-provoking conversations followed by the most mind-baffling ones with this pet.

Jenny Toast

Like I mentioned for Jenny Ghost, I unfortunately don't really know a lot about Jenny Toast :( That being said, she seems like such a cool, fun person to interact with. They would probably try to get me involved in some wacky shenanigans, and I for one would probably be down to join. Anyway, I think that LPS #1676 fits Jenny Toast well! I associate her with purples, blues, and blacks, as well with dogs and rabbits. This pet also just gives me Jenny vibes. It seems very polite but also like a bit of a troublemaker. Very fitting of Jenny Toast, if you ask me. (This may be me misremembering, but wasn't Jenny slightly a prankster in the videos they were featured in?)

I can't upload the image of this next pet due to the 30 image limit on posts, but I think that the LPS Kohl's Rabbit could also work for Jenny! It's a white bunny with light blue accents, and it reminds me of Jenny Toast a lot for whatever reason.

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