Ello! The name's Amy (OC)! I'm a ventriloquist and a puppeteer. I used to do some puppeteering work for Mortimer's Handeemen among other shows! Feel free to ask me anything. No worries, sweeties, I don't bite!
The name's Amyrose Krubber, but y'all can call me Amy !
I'm @phantom-of-the-ruckus main OC and the great-aunt of my dear ol' sister's granddaughter Sarabeth Olivia Jenkins!
Now, I have come down here just to have some fun, but I have to make sure we all play nicely here so here are my rules for this blog.
I am very strict with this type of content, sweet pies and I won't hesitate to take action if needed (or avoid certain people due to the creator being triggered)
Absolutely no cannon x cannon ships in here. My Owey bear established that the Handeemen and friends are a big family (That includes our dear old Scouty) Sorry babes, but I won't respond to any ship content or blogs that imply shippin' in here. I will delete the ask and move on. If you are commin' with bad intentions or drama, y'all be block and I mean this very seriously.
Please be respectful and mindful towards others. Any type of discrimination will not be tolerated. Pro-shipper/pro-shitter GTFO and Anti-anti's as well. No homophobia or transfophobia. (The creator is bi) and my character is established as an Ally + my older sister Rosemery is Pan and Sarabeth is ace
Absolutely no NSFW stuff or any of that crap in here!
Understand that as a puppeteer and ventriloquist I have a very tighty schedule and may not be able to answer or respond to everything. Please respect that as well ^^
Have fun and don't mind being silly. It is always good to see life with curious eyes
Note: I wanted to draw Priscilla first, but I owed this redesign for quite a while and it was time to give poor Amy an update. Priscilla will be next (hopefully)
TW: for mentions of death, abuse, and murder
Full name: Amyrose Jeanette Kruber
Nicknames: Ms. Kruber, Amy, AJ Kruber (just by Jake)
Age: 40-50s, two years younger than Owen
Active Status: Deceased (cannon), Alive (Hello Sisterhood)
Date of Birth: November 27, of most likely 1945-1950
Time of death: Around season 2 of the show (when the puppets were alive)
Cause of death: Strangulation (Murdered by Mortimer and Riley; death placed as suicide)
Love interest: Owen Gubberson (Unintended rejection in Cannon), Jake Bowen (Cannon Divergent universe)
Family: Owen Gubberson (Husband in Hello Sister Universe and other AUs), Amelia Kruber (Mother †), Earl Kruber (Father †), Rosemary Kruber (Sister †), Rebecca Kruber (Niece), Hannah Jenkins (Niece), Sarabeth "Beth" Jenkins (Grand-Niece), Mathew Jenkins (Nephew-in-law †), Anthony Pierson (Grand-Nephew-in-law), Exliza Dollison (Adopted daughter/ Shared universe with @dolly-royal), Priscilla Gubberson (sister-in-law), Arthur Gubberson (father-in-law. Hello Sisterhood and other universes) the handeemen and Scout (adoptive step-children just in Hello Sisterhood)
Friends: HQ crew, Handeemen (just in hello sisterhood and others AUs), Owen Gubberson, Jake Bowen, Matilda Screecher, Rachel letterer, Joel, Priscilla Gubberson, Samuel Burlington, the Burlington family
Enemies: The handeemen (cannon divergent and technically in cannon), Rachel Breadstone (Not friends not enemies), Victor Pierson (cannon divergence)
Job: Ventriloquist at Burlington's Co and Entertainment, puppeteer, co-director of the Handeemen Studios (Hello Sisterhood)
Amy was born in Texas and moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 3. She was the second daughter of Amelia and Earl Kruber, and the youngest sister of Rosemary Kruber. She had a rough life in Tennessee after her father started to drink and become abusive towards her and her family. Amy has a scar in her back after her father threw a glass bottle when she was 5 years of age. Eventually, Amelia reported her Earl for domestic Abuse and he was sent to rehab when Amy was 14 years old. However, Amelia remained married to Earl.
Around this time, Rosemary took her to see a ventriloquist in town for her birthday. Amy became fascinated and decided to pursue a career of becoming a ventriloquist. She eventually left home at the age of 18 to live with her cousins in San Diego, California (just two years after Earl returned, but the abuse did end) where she further her education in the arts, and became a puppeteer for children shows, and adult audiences. At the age of 28 she started to puppeteer for puppet shows, and became affiliated temporarily with the Jim Henson company to puppeteer for 10 years until she became affiliated with the Burlington entertainment company and had a show on her own in one of their entertainment places. This was her job for the rest of her life and career.
She met Owen Gubberson when he came into a bar she was hosting a show. She recognized him from the convention and Mortimer's Handeemen pilot. They talked a bit and became friends ever since after talking endlessly about puppets. Both eventually developed feelings for the other.
Amy helped Owen with his company and show through covering for puppeteers and give him some advice in the show business. However, she made clear that she had no intentions in joining the Handeemen Studios, but would gladly referrer to Owen for future investors and producers. They also had a couple of fights regarding Owen's micromanaging, but Amy didn't involve herself too much on his business
After the success of the first season, the studios had a small party (Mortimer was alive around this point). Amy took Owen for a dance, and they were having a good time. Eventually a slow song hit, and Amy decided to build some courage and tell Owen that she loved him. Owen being in shock because Amy liked him back but also having, so social skills at all stays quite unable to tell her "I love you too" which Amy takes as a rejection from his part. Owen did try to reach out to her the next day but she interrupted him and told him they were better off as friends as she jokes "It is better than just me hangin' like a doll, ya know"
She started to develop feelings for Jake Bowen (same with him) after the two started to become close, but she decided not to move forward as she still loved Owen. They never mentioned their feelings.
As the months began to pass, strange events involving the puppets occurred, and many problems with Rachel, Amy and Owen's relationship slowly went downhill. After the book was revealed. Amy had a small confrontation about Owen and what was going on. Owen desperately tried to tell her that Mortimer was alive and brought the others as well, and in vain tries to make Mortimer talk to Amy which she angrily says "Mortimer is just a puppet!" before leaving just as Mortimer mocks Owen about playing dead.
That same night, Amy starts to have regrets and sends Owen an apology via a phone message before she receives a call from Owen (which was actually Mortimer) about meeting in the studio to talk and help him with his office. Just as Amy enters she is captured by the puppets and is hanged at the main stage carrying a fake suicide note. She died as she saw Owen rushing to save her This is also at the same time Mortimer hints to Owen about a small surprise and Jake coming to the studio to pick some stuff but getting distracted by a scream. Owen rips the rope and embraces as he apologizes and laments about not saying he loved her too. Jake arrives and has a small fight with Owen asking about what happened. The police arrive and declared that Amy committed suicide.
During the press, Owen tries to talk with Rosemary about what happened as it was rumored Owen murdered Amy, but Rose cuts him off and tells him that she doesn't want to hear anything about him or "his stupid puppet company" as she blames him for Amy's death. This would lead to Rosemary sheltering her daughters (Rebecca and Hannah) and her grandchildren (Sarabeth and her cousins. Rose is Beth's grandmother) from the anything related to the Handeemen and puppets in general.
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In Hello Sisterhood, the history is mostly the same except the puppets were brought much later due to Owen wanting to save his show from low ratings. The spell turned them Human, but this was after season 1. During the party where Amy confessed to Owen, he had the courage to tell her he loves her back and the two become a couple. After the whole good puppets brought to life, Amy and Owen decide to work together and merge their job thus becoming the directors of what is the studio in Hello Sisterhood.
The lore in the fanfic is different due to being written before the midnight show.
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Some small trivia about Amy
She was my first OC created and was intended to be Owen's love interested and a parallel to the main puppet duo in a former idea (this was in 2021) about the backstory of the puppets.
Sarabeth was always intended to be her grandniece, but the whole taboo with Owen's company was not implemented yet.
An inside joke I have with Amber is that Amy is like the Kenny of my universe, she constantly gets killed.
In other AUs she features in, she's Owen's wife, and Hello Sisterhood is probably the only AU where she's Owen's girlfriend but soon to be his wife.
In the academy AU part 1, Amy will take a role inspired by Host as she will help Scout around as "The Mourning Widow" but is a separate AU.
There is a chance she might be mentioned in "Once Upon a Midnight Dreary" as Dr. Gubberson's dead dove/former love in the Poe Fashion
Amy has a bast collection of sweaters she likes to wear. During summer, she has squared pattern blouses she hears. She likes to cover her scars, but she just wears those clothes because she just loves them.
Her favorite films are Dirty Dancing and Grease.
Favorite Musical is a Day in the Park with George and into the woods.
Also, she got Owen to dress as a flower to her bumblebee costume. Everyone said the flower looked rather withered due to Owen's frown
I recently finished the first portion of the long unrelated post for HP! I went through a bit of a depressive episode this year, so I was quite unmotivated to work (hence why I haven't answered asks from RP blog)
I am doing much better now (focusing more into finishing a Midnight dreary), and I am eager to finish the post later in the year of the months as IRL did got me busy and I was away.
Happy New Year Amy and Family. How was your guys New Years.
OOC/ Phantom: it took me a bit to respond due to IRL keeping me pretty busy, sorry for the wait.///
Happy new years, Darlin'!
Our New years have been pretty good. We had a nice family with my niece and her friends. Jake played relaxin' music to keep Rosco calm during the fireworks. We played charades, UNO, and that Simon says thingy game.
It was a fun night, and well I'll admit I got a drink or too, but there wasn't any drunken fights or bad comments. Owen doesn't tend to last longer than two bottles, but he did alright
"Outside the lab rat getting drunk in that godawful sweater of my beloved good boy and dancing wearing only that and his underwear !"
Thanks for reminding me, Riles...
"I DID NOT MEAN TO DO THAT!"
"He did try to sing some spice girl songs. He doesn't even like their music or know the lyrics"
*facepalms* Can we not talk about Owen being drunk, Scout?
"It was better than the Christmas he got drunk, long before the puppets were alive, dressed up as Santa and started to complain about his life while pretended to be Santa Claus"
Jacobs!
"I guess that's worse than seeing him cry on Amy's lap when she told him she wasn't single last Christmas."
OUR NEW YEARS WAS FINE OUTSIDE MY SOON-TO-BE HUSBAND NOT BEING ABLE TO HANDLE HIS DRINKS. THANK YOU!
"We had a nice barbecue! :)"
Thank you for being nice about this, Daisy
Well, yes, Owy perhaps did some embarrassing' stuff while drunk, but we have been working on his tendencies to over drink during the holidays. I am sure his hangover was a lesson not to chug an entire bottle again.
"Well, that described my year"
*Sighs* Anyways, our new years was fine and we got a couple laughs out it. Of course the hole drunk Owen happened, but at least he had a a good time.
So I was wondering if you took Nick to the art gallery where did you take Mortimer and Riley?
OOC/Phantom: Sorry, I got an overwhelming week at work, so I was not in the energy to answer asks (Annon from the fic request, yours will take a bit.)
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Oh, hello again, darling!
*Sipping tea while fixing Scout's Cindy Lou's costume*
I'm a taddy little busy working on the studio's Christmas charity event. Scouty got stuck in a tree from the Whoville's props and accidentally ripped a sleeve. I'm currently fixin' it while also making some final adjustments as Owy... *sighs* got into another fight with Jake over the music.
*Turns to Mortimer and Riley*
Morty, Riles, do you guys mind taking over this ask while I finish Scout's costume? We're on a tight schedule
"Ah at last, someone finally asks Mortimer Handee in this little ask blog!"
"We'll be pleased to take your ask, ho- I mean guest!"
"Do you want to start or should I?"
"Well I certainly prefer that you go first."
"Ladies, first."
"Thank you. Mortimer."
*Clears throat*
"I took some liberties to investigate over places in the studio once the la- Owen and his partner told us that we would have an opportunity to go out. This was obvious to condition us to behave well under rules and circumstances that they find pleasing. So, I took my best to behave the best way as I was very much interest to visit this thing called a Planetarium."
"Riley and I had a lot of discussions over our plans for the manner."
"So, that was exactly the first place they took me. I have to admit that the experience was beyond my expectations and I...I adored every single moment of it. I suppose that I was feeling like a little kid on a candy store. Beats me, I am still trying to figure out the weird phrases hosts and the lab rat- Owen use..."
"Anyways, I suppose that it is my turn."
"Take it away, sir."
"Thank you, darling. So Father told me he would take me to a certain park he loved to visit. According to him, there were some magicians and wannabe puppeteers practicing around every Sunday. I was quite curious about that since I was looking into bettering my magic act in the show. I must admit that the experience was not disappointing, and I got to see some interesting characters and performers around."
"Thank you very much for asking ho- Guest!"
"And we wish you a happy holiday, and a Happy Christmas if you celebrate it"
OOC: I nearly forgot about this, but I am doing a small holiday special for the rest of December. Feel free to ask any Hello Sisterhood or any holiday asks Amy or any of the characters.
Response would be quite shorter than usual for time sake as I often get busy. I would love to answer any questions or doubts you have, and I wish you some happy holidays!
Sone guy pretends to like Riley but breaks her heart and humiliates her. Scout and Nick find out and go all “ this guy is so dead “ protective sibling mode
(OOC/Phantom: OMG!!!! I am so sorry for taking forever to respond this, I had no idea how to approach it and I didn't have the time until now to answer this, Annon. Hope you enjoy this)
(This will be narrated by MrsWatermelon993/ phantom herself/themselves. The following segment is a joke, but phantom did sorta remember Charles, but no implication at all, you're good Annon!)
Phantom/MrsWatermelon: ummm wait... why does this sound like Charles is involved somehow?
Tumblr: Phantom, I think you might be over thinking
Phantom: This oddly sounds like I accidentally led to believe Charles is not a good guy
Tumblr: No sponsoring "Hello Sisterhood in this!"
Phantom: This is just me clarifying that yes, Riley would have a sort of heartbreak later in the story but it's mostly a misunderstanding and Charles being a people pleaser's idiot. He will face consequences, but he and Riley will talk maturely about this
Mr. Watermelon: And you will update the story when?
Phantom: When I am ready to keep finishing these chapters. Mental health is important
Mr. W: oh, thank you for the clarification. I was just curious, but please take care of your mental health.
Phantom: Will do!
Tumblr: ejem, narration!
Phantom: Oh! Yeah! Yeah!
"She hasn't come out of her lab..." Mortimer Handee muttered. Rosco whimpered as he lowered his head. "Let's give her some time, children."
After Riley returned to the studio from her visit to the host world, she was in much lower spirits than her usual snarky self. Mortimer did try to approach her about this but she shrug him off, saying that this was something he shouldn't be worrying about and things. No matter how much he or Daisy tried, they couldn't get an answer from their annoying sister.
The leader of the handeemen decided to let Riley at peace until she was ready to return and explain herself.
Nick Nack and Scout, however, knew there was a small change that would happen. Something terrible happened to their sister, and they decided upon themselves to find out. Rosco decided to join them too because he was curious to see what happened to his dear mommy.
"Where can we even start?" Nick tapped his foot impetiently. "How do we think like that proud idiot of a sister we have?"
"Umm if Scooby Doo taught me something, it's look for clues!" Scout beamed.
"Were exactly do we look for clues?" Nick asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Fuck...I didn't think that through..." Scout muttered.
Thankfully, or hell to their convenience, Amy's grandniece, Sarabeth (Betth), was visiting the studio again to help her aunt with some shooting and editing. Scout, who was good friends with Beth and decided to ask her for advice since Beth was studying journalism at her college.
"Hey, twinkle-toes!" Scout cried. The young woman turned her head and smiled at the young puppet girl.
"Hey, Butterscotch!" Beth smiled. "Wadd ya need?"
"You're a journalist, right?" Scout asked her best friend and adoptive family member.
"Umm well I do write for the newspapers for my college editor, so I guess that counts." Beth said with a tiny chuckle. "need a private investigator, or something?"
"Are you gonna ask help from the girlfriend of the loony Box Peritas guy?" Nick huffed in disapproval.
It was no secret we did not like Beth and Anthony's investigation group. The feeling was mutual, except from Brendan who Nick seemed to like as a good friend.
"It's called Vox Veritas FYI..." Beth pursed her lips as she crossed her arms.
"Nick, you stay quiet, I'll do the talking" Scout hissed before smiling at Beth. "Beth-bet, ummm it's about finding out what happened to our sister. She's not acting as her usual cranky self and we're...you know..."
"worried about her?" Beth asked with some understanding."
"Yeah..." Scout said. "Would...would you help us find out what happened?"
"You can count on me, Butterscotch!" Beth beamed. "Now, give me as much information as you know about when did she start to change and what do you know.
So, the siblings told the young woman about Riley returning one day from the park looking rather sadder than usual. She was going to do some investigation work about plants, so Rosco had to stay. According to Nick, Riley looked rather dreamy about going to the park.
Thinking this behavior was a clue, Beth asked if there was something special about going to the part. Nick said that he heard Mortimer and Riley talk about some Justin guy who Riley met during her visit to the botanic part. According to her, they were just friends and he agreed to help her out with her investigation.
"Ummm guys, do you think Riley might like this Justin guy?" Beth asked as she wrote in her journal. "Like she started to blush or ask differently every time she talked about him?"
"Well, hours before she went out to the park before that fateful day, she was doing that finger thingy." Scout explained.
"Finger thingy?" Beth asked.
"Every time she really likes something or is nervous she starts playing with her fin....oh shit-" Nick said as he stopped halfway realizing their answer was in front of them. "My idiot sister was totally into that guy! I guess that she was talking to him a lot in that thing called MySpace. I don't get why she needs more space?"
"Wait...you guys have MySpace?!" Beth asked with some surprised.
"We are advanced individuals."Scout said.
"Well, do you guys know her account name?" Beth asked.
"ProfessorRosco1987" Nick said.
"Her password is the goodest boy with a number combination" Scout commented. "She changes the numbers every time we figure the combination."
"Well, I would only need the account number, I'll look into that Justin guy!" Beth said.
So the trio entered into the site and started to look for the Justin guy. Beth eventually tracked his account which was "Prettytiger." After getting some information, Beth let out a big growl. It appeared she knew who this guy was from her previous university after she recognized him from a picture. Turns out he was the playboy from those movies (the ones that Daisy love to watch) where he flirted with girls just to get something out of them.
"That son of a bitch!" Nick growled.
"Riley did not deserve this. As annoying as she is, nobody deserves to be used like this..." Scout growled. "We need vendetta"
"But how? We don't know where this doofus lives!" Nick said. "And Riley won't tell us a thing."
"Children, children." Beth smirked as she opened her flip phone. "You're the cousins of the co-founder of Vox Veritas. I can ask the Oracle to give us some dough on the guy..."
"Why would we need dough?" Nick asked confused.
"What's an oracle?" Scout asked. Beth facepalmed.
"Do you guys know my best friend Kimberly Wong?" Both siblings nodded. "Well she helps us get information for our investigations, I can ask her to give me some info about Justin so you guys can teach him a lesson."
"And the dough thing?" Nick asked.
"It was figurative speech, I wanted to sound epic but...never mind. Beth sighed.
After talking with Kim, Beth gave the siblings the address and Justin's schedule to know when he was or wasn't home. She asked them is they needed help with their revenge plan, but they kindly refused as they prepared a little something else which would take upon a bit of time and some puppet magic to get back at him.
"You can do one thing for us, though." Scout said as she asked Beth to write an article exposing Justin and released it when Scout told her to.
So, they both waited until it was dark and snuck into the Justin's dorm with a small sock rat in their hands. Scout opened the window and let the sock puppet inside after asking him to bite Justin's toes. Nick Nack took some spray paint and drew some nasty drawings calling Justin a rat and a manipulator. Then Scout proceed to break his windows with rocks because she didn't think that was enough and then everyone ran off away when Justin awoke.
The article as publish and everything seemed to go down well, right?
"YOU DID WHAT?!" Until well, Amy and Owen found out about it and started to yell about all the things they they did wrong
Thankfully, Justin was exposed, and his credibility went down the drain.
Scout and Nick were happy that their plan was a success but They got grounded for two months, but the smile on their sister's face was worth it to endure it.
Wait so how did you guys enroll Scout into a school? Is like a puppet school (If that exists.)
Or is it like a human school-
I'm genuinely curious.
*sipping tea* well, hello again, dearie! Owey and I were having tea, but we would love to answer your lovely ask.
"Well, how do we even begin? Umm, we can start with the school not being our first option!"
Oh yeah, it was totally not our first option because ummm well Scout is a puppet and there are no puppet schools as far as we could tell....I...I think
"So we did try homeschooling our daughter!"
"Guess how that turned around?"
"Well your lessons were boring and tedious"
Girls, we are not going to start this fight again, would we?
"For context, Amy and I were quite busy with the repairs of the studio to actually homeschool Scout, so we asked the handeemen if they could help us."
Turns out that our little Scouty was umm too much to handle for some puppets
"Called the handeemen"
Scout!
So we did consider a tutor, yet we did not know how to explain the whole sock puppets, the automatons, and-
"Living puppets who came out to life thanks by an evil spell boo who may or may not be given by Beth's stupid boyfriend's father: Victor Pierson!" (Phantom could not resist, sorry)
Scout, no need for mentioning Cameos or make fourth wall breaks
"What's a fourth wall break?"
"Writing stuff, but we are not changing the subject!"
Umm where were we?
"The we can't get me a tutor because well how can we take the time to explain the whole former evil puppets thing!"
Thank you, Scouty.
"So, without many choices left, Amy and I took some time to discuss this deeply and we agreed that we needed to get Scout to school...somehow."
So we decided to work on a plan and perhaps use a little bit of magic to help us convince them.
"If you were wondering why didn't we use it on a tutor"
The spell doesn't last long enough and it drains our energy once we try to use it many times."
"Not to mention...we have the risk of making them forget about...well pretty much everything."
We used some make up and tell them that Scout had a peculiar condition. Of course that they were some minor inconveniences, but thanks to Mortimer we were able to get her in-
"A prison for students"
"You have a couple of years before your graduation, it's not bad, Scout"
"You don't get to do algebra every week..."
Maybe start your homework, then complain
"Sighs...alright! alright!"
Anyways, we hope this answer your lovely question, @thewothlessdragon
What was it like to see Nick nack go to his first art gallery for the first time. I bet he loved it.
(Phantom: I'm getting to all the asks today, I was busy due to IRL stuff taking over. Sorry for the delay)
Hi, Annon! Well that is a lovely question but I am sure someone would love to take it.
"Alas! It is my time to shine and answer this question our beloved Annon has in mind!!"
Thank you, Nick. I'll be at my office fixin' the automatons voice boxes if ya need me.
"Will do, will do!"
*Amy leaves*
"Ejem! I am honored to be chosen to answer this question and would love to tell you the tale, my dearest Annon"
"Just go ahead with it, Nicholas, would ya? We have shooting to do!"
"I...I was just getting into that, Mortimer..."
"Then start to tell it already!"
"Mortimer, leave Nick alone, would you?"
"Fine..."
"Thank you....father....
*clears throat*
"Umm well, it all started once Father and his soon-to-be-wife took back their studio. As dear Amy explained in other asks, we were working together to bring back the studio and turn things around as per se."
"Amy promised us we would eventually see the host world with good behavior and such but....emmm *mutters* Perhaps a certain handeemen told us not to trust her..."
"I head that!"
"I-I WASN'T TALKING ABOUT YOU! "
*Sweating*
"Just continue the story dear, we're getting to the interesting part"
"Thank you...Daisy"
"Well, I...I started to have doubts about what Mort- that certain Handeemen told us, but well as Amy told you we started to grow closer to her...and...and I finally met someone who applauded to my performances and helped me write jokes. Of course that I had my doubts and reservations about this woman with my father..."
*little smile*
"But...but she and father were very kind to us and helped father convince the puppeteers to help us fix the studio, and we're getting our show back thanks to everyone's efforts, so I started to think perhaps not all hosts were all bad, and I started to like her more after she gave me an art kit for Christmas"
"Get to the point!"
"I am going to, Riley!"
"Ejem, where was I? Oh, yes. Amy and I started to grow closer and I started to consider the idea of going out to the host place for the first time. Riley had her turn, then Mortimer, Scout now visits it often, and Kathy had her chance...so I started to grow my motivation to ask Father and mo-Amy if I could visit the host word too."
"Oooh here is when it gets good!"
"Ummm so.....I was discouraged to ask her because...well I am the artistic fool who....messes things up... like Mortimer told me... Then father remembered this thing hosts call ummm a Bird date?"
"Birthday, dear."
"Umm, thank you. Father told me each one of us had a Bor- a creation day. It turned out my creation day arrived. I was unsure about what did it mean and they kindly explain it, then I was asked what did I wish to get for my creation day. Of course that I blurted out that I wanted to go out but....but then I regretted it and tried to apologize..."
"Then Father and Amy cut him off and decided to take him to the art gallery"
"Thanks Daisy..."
"No need to thank me dear!"
"That was sarca-"
"MOVING ON! Ummm so Father and Amy took me to this magical place called an art Gallery. We saw the works of numerous artist. We saw real art come to life and we took a lot of pictures and we got some autographs. I was the best creation day I've experienced...and.....and I got to understand what a real family feels for once..."
Hi Amy. It’s been a while. How are you and your puppet family and Owen doing. Staying warm. Cause it’s cold winter season lol
"Dashing through the snow-"
"No! No! Deck the Halls is better!"
"Can we refrain from singing carols..."
"C'mon where's your holiday spirits, Morty?
"Quiet done because mine is sick of the caroling!"
"Come on, sing it with me! JINGLE BELLS! JINGLE BELLS! JI-"
"BATMAN SMELLS! THE JOKER GOT AWAY!"
"...."
"That got her to stop"
"Scout, why you always have to sing this every time we try to sing Jin- the song about the bells jingling"
"It's a fun reference!"
"Sigh, we can never get into the laughing part..."
"Oh we have an Annon!"
"Great! *reads* oh it's for Mo- Amy!!"
*silence*
"Ummmm where's Amy?"
*Silence*
"Where's father? Where's Amy?"
*chuckles*
"Ptsss..."
Riley, dear, don't laugh.
"Wait that's Riley laughing"
"And that's Amy's voice"
"Oh she must be in the dressing room with her, I guess father is around too."
"Ho ho ho...umm no, I don't think this is the right tone of the laugh"
"BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHA"
RILEY ANNE RUCKUS!
*puppets peak*
*Owen is dressed as the Grinch and Rosco is dressed as Max while Riley laughs uncontrollably*
"Oh no....not this again..."
"Ooh the charity event!"
"This has to be one of your stupidest but most brilliant ideas, Owen!"
Riley, if you keep making fun of your father we'll drag you to be a Who for the even-Oh, hi children! Scouty, there you are! We have been looking for our Cindy Lou everywhere
"OH NO, NO, NO! I'M NOT DRESSING UP AS STUPID CINDY LOU AGAIN!"
"Scouty, you know the lines perfectly + Kookie is sick with the flue to take on the role in this charity event"
Plus mama fixed the wig!
"Fine. After the stupid elf in the shelf is watching me."
"Don't you say that because you're embarrassed that you enjoy-"
"MOM YOU HAVE AN ASK!"
Oh! Hi Annon!
"I see that we have visitors daring to enter the Grinch's lair!"
Great job, sweetie.
"Thank you, my dear Martha *wink*"
*blushes* Owy, not in front of the kids.
Ejem! Hello, dearie!
Sorry for takin' a bit to respond. Owen, our team, and I have been quite busy organizing our Holiday charity event + helping Nick Nack work on his stage play for "A Christmas Carol"
So far we have been preparing ourselves when the snow arrives and the studio gets chilly like a Popsicle in a freezer.
"And I'm waiting for the school to close due to all the snow!"
"And you get twice as homework!"
"Let me have this, sister..."
Well, Daisy and Annie have been working their best putting our Christmas decorations. I got Owy and I some Rudolph and Clarice's onesies for our Christmas slumber party. Last year We were Mr. and Mrs. Klaus, this time we settled for a Rankin/Bass classic.
"And Mrs. Kruber kneaded us new sweaters to wear"
"And Riley got Rosco one of those Christmas light necklace!"
"And Nick and Daisy won't stop singing those carols!"
"Well, they're part of the Christmas chorus along with the other puppeteer kids."
"Now you broke character."
Riley, you are quite close of getting to dress as Who!
"Anyways, I heard Amy and Father were planning on singing a nice duet for the Studio's Christmas celebration again!"
Oh, right!
"*Gulps* Don't bring that up"
Oh, but you two sounded so wonderful, last year!"
"Daisy, Read. The. Room."
Scout, dress rehearsals. Now.
"Let me grab the camera!"
"At least we agree in something for once, Nick"
*sighs* Well, we gotta go. Thank you so much for your ask, Annon and happy holidays!
Hi Amy and Owen. I don’t know if anyone has asked you this yet. But how is about doing. How’s school for her. Is she a little mischievous 😏
OOC/Phantom: Hey, Annon, sorry for the delay I had to mentally take a break due to mental health problems and going away last week to visit my mom for the holidays.
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Hiya Annon!
"Well, Hello there!"
"..."
Ummm Scouty, do you mind sayin' hello?
"Hello...I guess..."
*Sighs* Someone is a bit upset that her thanksgiving vacation ended...
"Why do we have to wait so long to get our winter vacations in December?!"
That's how the school system works here, dear. Maybe you get ahead into doing your homework before Mrs. Ellengrades gets upset again.
"For the last time, I did not mean to bring that sock puppet rat!"
"I...I don't even want to know how that thing followed you to school..."
Ummm, well to answer your lovely question, Annon, Scouty has been doing quite well
"For the most part"
Right. Ummm of course that the start was an itty-bitty rough
"It was more than an "itty-bity" rough! She got detention in her first day for telling her teacher to fu-"
OWEN!
*clears throat* After Scout's first detention and explaining the whole she's a rather special kind of constructed kid, we got a second chance!
"A week's suspension."
....To explain to our dear Scouty that cursing in middle school is...is not something that you should do.
"Then two weeks after we got a call about Scout to bring a sock puppet. It turned out that one of them accidentally got into their bodyguard senses and attempted to retrieve our daughter back"
Mortimer erased their memory and we told Scout that it wasn't her fault but that for now we're keeping the puppet's past as a secret
"And then we had no problem again after Scout learned the hard way to be more careful....until she forgot that she had cheese inside her backpack and then a sock puppet rat entered..."
Twice.
"Yes. Twice"
"IT-WAS-AN-ACCIDENT!"
"THE SECOND TIME WAS BECAUSE TOBY WILLIAMS INSULTED YOUR PIGTAILS. IT'S NOT MY FAULT THAT MY LITTLE SISTER CAN'T HANDLE HER CRUSH"
"HE DESERVE IT THIS IS NOT YOUR ASK, RILEY AND I DON'T HAVE A CRUSH ON HIM!"
Should you or I handle this fight?
"I'll go, dove, you stay here and answer some asks"
Well, if you were wonderin' about Toby Williams, he's actually part of the boys scouts team. He and Scout got into a very nasty bad start when Scout misinterpreted the game tag and well...tackled the poor and then they started to fight.
I had a little chat with Helen (his mom) and we became good friends. Now we're workin' on gettin' these two rascals to get along
However...Daisy assures me these two fight because they like each other. Like in the sense of a puppy crush something just innocent.
Hiya! Since the puppets seem to enjoy Christmas and Thanksgiving, how do they feel when it comes to Halloween?
Hi this is Owen Gubberson, Sadly Amy cannot answer this particular question, and well the subject of asked is in fact quite delicate, so I chose to canc-
Owy, what are ya doing? I was getting some-
Shi- Hi Amy!
Owy, is that a guest asking a question?
Yes...
Oh, great! Wait-Were you 'bout to say you're cancellin' a question?
....
Owen, are you tryin' to cancel out a question?!
...
Owen....
....
Owen Joseph Gubberson Wells, I swear if you don't answer this instant-
IT'S ABOUT HALLOWEEN!
Halloween?
*Noises* DID YOU JUST SAY HALLOWEEN?! "
"LET ME ANSWER, I GOT SO MANY FACTS!"
"I MADE THE BEST PUMPKIN CARVINGS!"
"I HELPED ORGANIZE THE FIRST PARTY, AND I AM THE LEADER OF THE HANDEEMEN"
"I pranked my teachers on my first Halloween"
Scout, that was not nice, you know?
"I baked cookies :)"
NO! WE ARE NOT ANSWERING THIS!
"He's just bitter from that time my aunt got him to dress as a flower to match her bumblebee costume, @theworthlessdragon"
THAT IS NOT THE CASE, SARABETH!
"If that's so, Uncle Owen, then let your kids answer"
Beth's got a point, dear
NO! WE ARE NOT ANSWERING THIS
"Awww :("
"Why not, Father?"
"TYPICAL OF THE LAB RAT!"
"But Halloween is our excuse to go out without pretending to be inanimate objects!"
"C'mon, Gubberson! Where's your Halloween spirit?"
Halloween is over Scout! We DON'T have to answer this :)
"He. Is. Bitter."
Shut it Beth!
*Rolls eyes* Y'all fight in the back while I respond to this question!
Sorry about that, my dear. This has been a constant fight Owy and I have regarding lettin' the kids enjoy Halloween.
As far as you can see, the Handeemen are very enthusiastic about Halloween and the fact that they can go out and pretend to be a costume. They're also the whole "Hide the sugary stuff from Scouty" but let's get to the best and most positive aspects.
Like I said before, the Holidays were a way to help us grew closer with the puppets. Halloween was no exception.
We did have to clarify that umm using their former resources as decorations perhaps could not be the best idea.
Or legal, but that's a concept we're trying to teach them.
We often try to dress up the kids for Halloween using costumes we find for their size, or sometimes Mama helps me make them.
"We once got a family costume idea to go as characters from horror, classic, and Halloween movies Anthony and I dressed up as Jason from Friday the 13th and Carry. My aunt Amy even got dressed as Tiffany Valentine and got Uncle Owy to dress up as Chucky!"
It was certainly a fun memory, Beth.
Scout was not really onboard with the idea but we conviced them to go as Danny from Hocus Pocus.
"Riley went as Freddy Krueger"
Nick decided to go as the sad looking goth guy from that Tim Burton film. What was it again? He had scissors for hands.
What was the name again, Beth?
"Edward Scissorhands. He used rubber scissors"
Oh, right!
"Daisy decided to go as one of the witches from Hocus Pocus so Scout wouldn't feel left alone. I think we went as Winifred."
The Sock puppets and automatons were Zombies
"And Mortimer stole the show referencing the villain from that Alex Hitchcock movie: Rear Window"
Got a flashlight and everything.
But that was years later. Their first Halloween they just went as their normal selves and adores seeing every decoration. They asked us when the next Halloween was and agreed that perhaps we can get into an agreement to decorate the studio every Halloween.
Hope that answers your question!
-Amy
OCC/Phantom: I made a reference in one of Beth's dialogues. Hope y'all can catch it ;)
Has anyone ( like maybe former staff) ever threatened to expose the fact your kids were puppets to blackmail. I mean, I’m sure there are people crazy enough to do that. Or even kidnap the kids ( though I’m sure they would give scout back immediately if they tried lol)
Hiya, Annon!
That's a very good question and I do have a couple humorous stories to share with my answer to your dear question. It does sure bring back some fun memories
"Dealing with Rachel was not a fun memory"
Owey, we talked about breathin' in and out. Rachel has a short temperament with things.
Anyways! The answer regardin' former staff members did happen. I think they were some former puppeteers who wanted to get back at Owey and the puppets for all the shenanigans that occurred over a couple of years.
They tried to reach out to Rachel about this, and she was as mad as a wet hen!
Pitchin' a hissy fit she told them livin' evil puppets were not a thing and that maybe they should have considered maybe workin' with Owey for a long time may...have affected their brains
A very unwelcomed and crude comment, but Owey and I couldn't help but smile at the sass
"Or the look in their faces!"
"Gotta agree with Gubberson in this. It was surprisingly a close call."
Thank you Owey and Jake-y pops
They did try to threaten us with the police but...let's all be real here. Who would believe real puppets came to life-
"You know Vox Veritas is a thing, right? I mean Anthony and I do believe in the supernatural stuff and-
Beth, darlin' I'm talkin' about the others.
"Oh, sorry. Do continue"
Thank you
Like I was sayin' there was no way the police would believe them, so we are safe for now.
Now regarding the kidnapping?
Thankfully nothing like that happened
"Because they would find Scout to be an annoying little goblin that they'll return her or send it to China!"
NICHOLAS!
"He's not wrong for once."
RILEY!
"Now, now, can we all be nice to our little sister?"
Thank you, Daisy...
Anyways.
The "closest" thing to that subject, was that time we accidentally lost Scout while visitin' the Jim Henson studios for a possible crossover.
Mr. Burlington love the idea of our show extendin' to new horizons, but that's another story for another day
Now, Scouty decided to wander off and we nearly left without her until I realize there were four members and not five.
Thankfully Gonzo was kind enough to help us find her
She was having cookies with the Cookie Monster.
I suppose puppets bond with other puppets *snorts*
Have any if the handeemen every had break downs? Such as panic attacks and etc?
OOC/Phantom: since this is a serious topic, I'll leave some articles in a comment for y'all)
Hiya, dearie!
Well, that is a very serious question, but the answer is yes. The Handeemen have times of havin' a break-down and sometimes panic attacks.
The most prominent has been Nick throughout the other Handeemen. Riley does occasionally have panic attacks, but she manages to pull herself together at the best of times.
The first time we found out Nick suffered from panic attacks was durin' a nice day in the park. Now, we were all havin' a good time in a private place when Nick suddenly seemed to be disturbed by some sort metal plate gettin' hit.
It...it sounded like a hit and Nick started to grow nervous. His hands were tremblin' as his breath started to shortenin'. Jake and I immediately knew somethin' was up, we try to ask him what was wrong but he kept mutterin' about some punishment and something not being his fault.
Nick began crying and curlin' up. Jake took him away from the park and wash his face with cold water and reassure him he was safe.
We held him close until he calmed down and did not touch the subject until we returned home.
Jake kindly explained to him that what he had appeared to be a panic attack (we presume is linked to some PTSD, we'll still look for a way to give him professional help about it)
Now for Riley, it was a sudden moment. Rosco got sick and there has been some discussion about what has been happenin' to him, and the possibility that it could be somethin' serious that it could threaten his life
Riley started to panic and look rather nervous. To my surprised, she immediately left the room as she went from fresh air and focused on holding an ice cube (OOC: Someone who suffers from panic attacks to the point of having medicine for it, said finding a safe way to translate how you're feeling in a physical manner does help. It did help me that one time) and she talked with Daisy about her latest experiment
Afterwards, she asked about the subject and got a more clear answer that Rosco was having a stomach ache after accidentally tryin' to eat Cookie again..
The closest thing Daisy ever has to one was cryin' about accidentally using her Danger mode against Scouty. Poor dear broke cryin'
Mortimer seems to have a better grip of his emotions and is well aware how he feels. Owen has been workin' with him so he doesn't tend to use brute force as a coopin' mechanism.
They have some rough times, but we're workin' together as a family to overcome the challenges
I'm trying to get through all my asks but I also gotta study for my test, so they'll be slow.
Thank you so much for approaching me with this question. I decided to answer it as an Out Of Character type of thing since this is referring to my story "Hello Sisterhood"
So the blog AU was originally meant to be as a fun way for people who read Hello sisterhood to interact with me through my OC: Amyrose"Amy" Kruber, but like at that time the fandom was not as active as it is now.
I recently reopened it just for having fun RP as my character, but I decided it to make this a whole AU of its own just for fun based on the type of questions you guys ask me.
With that contentex, I'll answer your question, annon!
So in hello sisterhood, the spell ended up turning the puppets into humans (I think it was mentioned, but I do plan to have chapters focused on the lore)
In the askblog AU, the Handeemen are still puppets but Scout is like a weird human puppet hybrid because something changed in the magic. She uses make up to hide her more puppet-like aspects.
Thanks for asking me, I did think about this a lot lol.
You guys can also ask me about Hello Sisterhood, but just mentioned in your asks, you can also ask me in my personal blog @phantom-of-the-ruckus if you are curious about anything
No worries, Hello Sisterhood will be coming back maybe a little later (I'm unsure about my other works tho) as I'm closing my semester for my university.
I'm just curious.. How do the puppets get fevers or the flu? I mean they are yknow wood?
Hiya, Annon.
Umm I can't exactly answer that question since I have no idea how does that actually work as well.
Thankfully, Riles volunteer to ask...or rather demanded that she gets that ask.
All in the name of science, I suppose
Take it from here, Riles.
"Hello, Annon Host! This is Riley Anne Ruckus speaking.
I've heard that you are wondering how us puppets are able to get sick and get things like fevers and such when we do not have the same genetics compounds as hosts are. Allow me to explain how is that possible
And to throw this out of the way....
No. This is not related to any form of termites or any host vermin. That is considered highly offensive for wooden puppets like myself and my dear handeemen"
Umm Riley, hon. I don't think they thought termites would cause fever. That is not probable...
"I am clarifying for the hosts who have that doubt, Amy!"
Sorry, please do go on
"As I was saying, puppets are not genetically composed of the same genetic materials as hosts do with their meat and bones things. Us puppets are created with the materials we evolve. This is a private theory that I am working on to prove puppet evolution, but I'll love to share this portion of it which is related to your ask, host Annon, as long as you're not as skeptical as my lab ra-"
Riley!
"Father... Ejem. According to my theory of evolution, us puppets undergo through a process that is essential to our survival. Mortimer and I are working in figuring out how does exactly that process work since it's related to our link of hosts and puppet magic.
The closest thing that I can see to narrow it down to your host brain would be what's breathing is to hosts.
Just like hosts, puppets are vulnerable to the basic needs of a living organism. I believe that we have developed a system that is similar to the one of a host that allow us to have process for those needs.
Long before the lab- Father and Amy arrived to the studio, I was doing surgery on puppets to test variables and get to the bottom of how we function. Results were inconclusive as the experiment failed, and we cannot further our research because apparently doing puppet surgery is a "Big No No, Riley." so that aspect of my theory is still in progress."
She's still a bit bitter about that, annon.
"LIKE I was saying....
Puppets and hosts have a similar system inside us that allow us to make processes related to our needs of survivals. Sadly, because nature is a cruel mistress as part of our evolution, just like any living organism we are able to get sick or transfer bacteria and certain types of viruses that tend to affect hosts as well.
We are immune to certain viruses and illness for quite obvious reasons (and our genetics being differently), but we share the same vulnerability to a particular extent. Thankfully, puppet have a rather advance defense system that allows to kill the viruses quickly and makes us feel better.
That was a fascinating discovery when I used Nick Nack as my testing lab rat to investigate about the flue by challenging him to a cold resistant game"
YOU WHAT?!
"It did take a couple of trials to get the sufficient data, but I am proud to say that it was a worthy sacrifice of using the clown for my research"
Riley that's not a nice thing to do!
At least it proved my point. Mortimer was onboard with this and he helped me take notes!"
Sigh....I...I'm goin' to talk to Owen 'about this...
"Anyways, that was a tiny victory for my long going research.
Thank you for asking, annon host, and I do hope you were blown away by science."
-Riley Anne Ruckus
OOC/Phantom: This is actually something that I was curious to try for this ask blog. Of course that Amy will still be responding, but I thought maybe one of the characters will join her to respond to asks.
Hi Amy. Since it’s close to the holidays. What was the handeemens thoughts about their first thanksgiving and Christmas with you guys. I mean, I know there was a thanksgiving episode ( from your story) but I wonder what it was like for them to get to celebrate it for real.
(MrsW: awww thank you for the reference)
Oh, hi again Eclipse!
Hope you'll have a wonderful holiday, and thank you for the ask!
Well, of course that "Mortimer's Handeemen" had a lot of good and great holiday specials, but I am glad that you decided to ask us about our first big holidays as a Handee family.
Just to mention, the holidays were a key to grow closure with the puppets and acted as an encouragement to lower down their guns for once, if you know what I am saying.
Well, to my surprise, Owy wasn't exactly the person who had the best experience with holidays...considering his awful relationship with his parents, specially his dad. He did mention that he used to have a small gift exchange with his younger sister Priscilla before she moved to study law.
Then he spent the rest of his holidays alone until we met. I encouraged him to give it a try and get used to spendin' some quality time with the people who adores.
I'm giving this context since our first Thanksgiving and Christmas as a family was actually what he considered his real first holidays together.
Now, let's get to my favorite rascals!
For thanksgivin'
The concept of thanksgiving was a bit complicated to explain to the puppets. At first, they thought it was a whole day dedicated to just give thanks for everything for an entire day. Riley was the first to go into research and was kind enough to tell the others about the concept in a nice presentation.
That didn't stop Nick from makin' a "thankful" pun to her dismay
Daisy was the most eager to use my mama's recipe book as she offered to help me make the dinner to thanksgivin' while Owy stayed with the rest of the puppets decorating the table and telling them that this was also his first big dinner with a family on his own.
Mortimer was surprisingly in a good mood, and so was Riley as she eagerly talked with Rosco that if felt since havin' a sense of peace and belongin' like the old good times.
I'm afraid to know what she meant by that, but it was disheartenin'
Anyways, Scouty help me carry the food to the table and we had a nice turkey. We decided to break the ice by saying something that we're thankful for.
Apparently the sock puppets were glad not to eat rats for once....yikes
The automatons were glad to get to see a giant turkey to eat. They were charmed by the pictures Riley show them during the presentation.
Scout was thankful for the food.
Nick was thankful that he got to sit next to my Owy
Daisy was thankful for trying new recipes
Riley said she was thankful for researching more about the host world and, according to her, their "unnecessary but cute customs".
Mortimer muttered that he was thankful for making a peaceful deal with his father
I said that I was thankful for a bright new start for everyone, but my favorite thing that I heard from everyone was from my Owey-bear,
He just said that he was thankful for not being alone again.
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Now, for Christmas.
Let me tell you that Owy and the puppets were as happy as little kids durin' the time to open their presents...for an exception to our dear puppet atheist Riley, who at first rolled her eyes and called it a "Consumerist host thingy"
Owey was eager about the idea of just being a kid again and enjoy the childhood he never had....let's say that he had to stay at home for 'bout to weeks due to catching a cold after playing with the snow (Phantom: I'll say he acted like Flint during the snowball fight lol)
Nick found a liking to Christmas carols and *sigh* Maria Carey's covers....
"We hid the CDs for the good of our eardrums. We could not bear any second of hearing the stupid "All I want from Christmas is you" for the 10th in a day"
Thanks...Scouty....
Anyways, Daisy and the other puppets were exited to decorate the studio with Christmas decorations and *snorts* decided to make a puppet tree with puppet related things as decorations. Rosco was a great help.
Mortimer, he was rather quiet but I found out that he spent most of his free time watchin' or readin' "A Christmas Carol", he tended to rewind the tapes to Mr. Scrooge having a nice dinner with the Crachits.
Maybe he was thinkin' of Owy, who knows.
Now, our little Grinch-y Ruckus did get to like Christmas after Owy and I gave her some books by Dr. C.W Lewis, a friend and colleague of Dr. Tolkien.
She had to hide her excitement when she realized Daisy and Nick were smirkin' at her knowin' she was provin' her point.
She pretended to huff and said that "Perhaps this host thing you call Christmas is tolerable to an extent"
The next year she dressed Rosco as a reindeer, who I am sure the Christmas spirit got her as well.
