NINI i just had the greatest idea ever. You see how in the postmortem shane was making fun of Ryan abt wanting to smooch a ghost and mentioned Casper??? Omg, idk why but my mind went whoosh and remembered that crazy 99’s Casper film where the girl falls in love with Casper and it’s sad ig??? I don’t remember the ending that well besides the fact the dance together. Anyway!!! What abt a Casper au with the boys, the ghost being shane of course odyodyddujccuccoc thoughts???
Aww, man. Funny enough, that was one of my favorite movies growing up. Probably because I highkey had a crush on Christina Richie, but fnjnfwisni I remember it flondy and this part! This part you mention was my favorite.
So yeah, imagine like– Shane used to live in the apartment Ryan just moved in. And he is kind of playfull guest and at first, Ryan is not so fond of him. He eventually gets used to Shane being a little shit and also, Shane gets used to Ryan being there and acting like if he actually wants to communicate with him.
The more Ryan believes in him, the more Ryan can see.
It starts to be a shape, slowly becomes a more translucent thingy until Ryan can make up his face and know where to talk to when they are having some sort of conversation, until one day, Shane can finally talk to him and so, his ghostie roommate becomes kind of his best friend.
But Shane has stronger feelings than he thought he could. It makes him… so fucking sad. And so Ryan starts to date, sometimes he brings his dates home and Shane has to leave the apartment because he can’t take it.
There are times he actually went as far as to make jokes on the people Ryan is seeing or brings for a fun night, and it’s not until Ryan gets mad at him that he understands he can’t act like this, it’s cringy as fuck and so unfair to Ryan, so he just keeps leaving the apartment and realizes he is not like the other ghosts.
Most of them are either invisible or even just little lights. And one night, he finally meets a ghost like him, Kelsey, who tells him another ghost who has since passed onto the other world, told her that as long as someone loves him in this world and he still has something to do/to finish, he’ll get more visible or real. She has her girlfriend Sara who is still mouring her and she’s still searching for what is she supposed to be doing to finally pass the light.
Seeing that the person who has made him ‘real’ is Ryan, Shane stays with him and understands that, even if he can’t love him That Way, Ryan does cares for him and it’s his love that keeps him in this state while he tries to understand what is he supposed to do himself.
On Halloween night, as Shane and Kelsey are watching Ryan and Sara on the building’s party, they are visited by the angel that guards their region. They tell them it’s time for Kelsey to go and gives her one last chance to see her girlfriend and say goodbye, since Sara never got to say goodbye to her when her accident happened.
Shane sees as she gets to be physical one last time and watches with the angel as the girls say goodbye. He wonders when will he have that chance, he would love to touch Ryan. That night, when he gets into the apartment to see if Ryan is home, he hears him talking to the Día de Muertos altar he put up for the next two days.
He is telling his grandma about Shane. About what he had learned of Shane when he was alive and how he thought he was getting crazy when he first met him. He is dressing up for a party as he is speaking and hasn’t noticed Shane is floating right there. But he tells his grandma that he thinks he is in love with Shane, and it makes him feel ridiculous, because he knwos he can’t be in love with a ghost.
Suddenly, Shane falls. He actually falls into the carpet in the living room, making a noise and feeling pain for the first time in months since he died. When Ryan gets to the living room, he sees them on the floor and they just look at each other in silence because– Shane is physical now. He is an actual person again.
“You have until midnight”, he hears the voice of the angel in his head. He has a few hours, Shane confirms when he sees his watch actually works again.
Ryan is still staring, but he has walked over to where Shane is standing and pokes him with a finger, murmuring “Holy fuck, I have lost it…”
“Uh, no? Ah… the angel that… picks up the souls said I had until midnight to–”
But Ryan is kissing him, like no more questions asked, he is being kissed by this gorgeous man he has been living with for months now, and who he absolutely loves and can’t be with in this life. He has been given a gift here, though.
Shane suspects it means he will be saying goodbye at midnight, but if he can have this night, then he wants to take it and enjoy it before he has to go to the other side. And as it seems, Ryan believes the same and takes him hand before going for a hug.
None of them know what will happen at midnight, but these four hours are everything Shane could wish for.
