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friendly neighborhood tree looking for a chiropractor <3

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Fredy, holding a sprained wrist: I punched somebody.

Daphne: Fredy, you should never punch anybody!

Fredy: I know, violence isn't the answer-

Velma: I mean, violence is always AN answer.

Daphne: I meant you, specifically, shouldn't punch people.

Shaggy: You don't have the wrists for it.

Daphne: Stick to hammer strikes or heel palm strikes.

Velma: Or drone strikes.

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Daphne is, by far, the most athletic of them. She grew up with a lot of money to try a lot of different things. Taekwando, rock climbing, distance swimming, horse back riding, ect. Girl has abs of steel.

Shaggy could run for days. And he's fast enough to keep pace with someone on a bike for awhile, especially if the Adrenalin is pumping.

Shaggy doesn't have much sense of smell and no sense of taste. That explains the bologna peanut butter sandwiches.

Shaggy knows the laws. Wherever they're going he brushes up on the local legislature. He knows where they can go and where they need to go sneakily because trespassing. He knows what constitutes as slander. He knows the Good Samaritan law and the county's tolerance for vigilantism.

Freddy's strong from working with heavy tools but doesn't really have defined muscles.

Freddy has little scars on his hands from working with heavy machinery and little intricate projects that might kind of explode a little sometimes. Hey, making traps that can hold ancient forces of evil but not kill a real person in case they're in disguise is a lot harder than it seems!

Velma cares nothing for the laws of men. No fire wall, no barbed wire fence, no police tape is going to stop her insatiable curiosity.

Velma once toppled a corrupt politician with nothing but her smart phone and the free wifi at her local library. She was eleven.

Velma's not color blind like Freddy, she just has bad taste.

Velma fully believes in both Bigfoot and Aliens and she will prove the existence of both before she dies or so help her she'll come back as a ghost and posses somebody-

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I almost called this thing Scooby-Doodles, but then I decided not to subject you all to my puns right off that bat. I have to ease you in . Slowly.

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Scooby-doo is not a hard concept.

1. Four teenagers.

2. They are friends that deeply care for each other.

3. They solve mysteries.

4. THERE’S A TALKING DOG.

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regular ascot-loving-mystery-solving family

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a scooby doo series set in community college where the gang is in a criminology class and end up in a huge debate on the first day of class that leads to them starting a podcast talking about local urban legends, only to realize things aren’t quite adding up and they go to investigate for ~journalistic authenticity~ and end up solving a real-life crime disguised as supernatural occurrences. this happens every week and they’re frequently featured on the school newspaper. they only have twenty listeners

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Shaggy and Scooby have already run away. Cause they have all the common sense in the gang.

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Daphne takes all her client notes with glitter pens.

Shaggy will eat whenever he has the opportunity. He grew up with food insecurity so now he has a deep appreciation for even bad or weird foods.

The gang argues about whether or not bigfoot is real at least once a week. Velma usually wins.

Sometimes the monsters are real.

Freddy is color blind. That's why the mystery machine is the way it is.

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Thinking about how I would write an adult Scooby-Doo series, because I think it can be done.

The first thing I’d do is make the characters actually be adults.  Still young, but adults, in the mid to late 20s range.  Mystery Inc. is a private detective type business that they run together.  In this universe, the supernatural/ghosts/etc are real, but not necessarily common, so when they take on a case, the culprit might be a person disguised as a monster, or it might actually be a real ghost.  The stakes can be higher; sometimes a bad guy is legitimately trying to kill them.  Sometimes the mystery they’re trying to solve is a murder.  Sometimes they actually get hurt on their cases.

Fred: the core of Fred’s character should be that he’s incredibly kind.  Like, give a stranger the shirt off his back kind.  The “Fred can’t talk to potential clients because he might take a case for free and we need to eat” kind.  He’s an honest and good person and sometimes gets himself into trouble because he assumes other people are too.  While he’s not very good at reading people or noticing ulterior motives, he’s brilliant when it comes to mechanical or engineering type stuff, so he’s the one who keeps the mystery machine running, builds their gadgets, and of course, designs the traps.

Daphne: she comes from old money, and her parents absolutely despise her life choices, to the point where they haven’t officially disowned her, but they have basically cut her off, so she doesn’t actually have access to any family money.  Growing up wealthy has granted her a variety of skills, including speaking multiple languages, horseback riding, and fencing.  She’s very into fashion and jewelry (even if she can’t afford it anymore) and has extensive knowledge of both that can occasionally provide a vital clue in a case. And even though her parents have cut her off, Daphne still has a wide network of contacts she can ask for favors sometimes, because she’s personable, and people tend to like her.  Daphne is also very emotionally intelligent, and is usually the one who can spot when someone is lying to them.

Side note - I ship Fred and Daphne, so I think I would start them off as an established couple for this universe.  Dating, engaged, married, I don’t care.  They are stupidly in love, ride or die for each other.  There’s no will they, won’t they, no worries about cheating.  They are in a healthy, happy, loving relationship, and no one (not even Daphne’s disapproving parents) are going to mess that up for them.

Velma: she is the forensics nerd who sometimes gets super excited about the wrong thing at the wrong time (”He was mummified in seconds? That’s so cool!” “Velma!  His wife is standing right there!” “Oh.  Sorry.”).  She’s not purposely insensitive, she just gets laser focused on her work and forgets to filter herself sometimes.  She’s also the one who can get so fixated on solving whatever mystery they’re working on, she’s willing to bend or maybe break laws.  Is breaking and entering really so bad?  Not if it gets them answers.

Shaggy: he is still the comic relief, but he’s the comic relief by being the only person in the group that actually has common sense.  He manages the business’s finances, he’s the only one who knows how to cook, and the others tease him for being a coward sometimes, but Shaggy maintains that if a ghost with an axe is coming for you, running is the only sensible option.  He should also have a range of random knowledge that sounds useless, but sometimes saves the day (ex ventriloquism, origami, the history of spoons, etc).

Scooby: as this is a universe where supernatural creatures exist, Scooby is an ancient eldritch type being that took a shine to Shaggy when he was a kid, and took the form of a talking dog to befriend and hang out with him.  Aside from the talking dog bit and not aging, he never uses his powers in a way that anyone notices.  The audience is not told upfront that Scooby is an ancient eldritch being; it should slowly be hinted at throughout the series so the audience put it together, but the characters never realize it.  Scooby genuinely considers Shaggy to be his best friend, and cares about the rest of the gang too.