Types of People: a Group of Small Town Ghost-hunters
The Medium: Has been talking to ghosts since childhood, big round glasses and long cardigan sweater sleeves that cover their hands, wispy hair, has trouble feeling connected to the physical world, speaks rarely and softly, highly empathetic, receives messages in dreams, nurses animals back to health, reads the energy of spaces through touch, often sick and suffers frequent headaches, an easy target for malicious spirits, sweet and spacey but also sort of creepy, all of the others in the gang work to protect them, the only person The Skeptic has a soft spot for.
The Chronicler: deep forest green sweaters over flannel collars, brown corduroys, terrible posture, sends stories off to pulp sci-fi and magazines but almost never gets published, hopes a true paranormal story will be their big break, dopey omnidirectional romantic that flirts awkwardly, clumsy, always knocking over vases/bookshelves, desperate for The Mad Scientist’s approval, annoys people by comparing stuff to fictional hauntings but their literary knowledge saves them in the end, makes puns at inopportune times, huge nerd, most likely to fall in love with a ghost.
The Local Detective: red scarves and black peacoats, always pushing hair out of their face, strong-willed, no-nonsense with eldest sibling energy, unspoken leader, knows intergenerational levels of town gossip and lore, has been friends with The Medium since basically infancy, believes in truth and justice, determined to find answers to questions that haunt their family, the first up the ladder into the spooky attic, superstitious, precise, spends a lot of time going through old newspaper clippings,lots of friends but has trouble getting close to people emotionally, gives a hell of a pep-talk.
The Skeptic: black lace up boots and tight leather jackets, angsty attitude and floppy hair, reluctantly along for the ride, probably somebody’s bored younger sibling or cousin, sarcastic and prickly, eye-roll city, tries to sabotage investigations to prove a point, will antagonize ghosts deliberately, loves to start arguments with Local Detective, tends to get trapped in secret rooms with The Liability, has a lot of unresolved issues they refuse to confront until forced to by paranormal circumstances, symbolic self-discovery, probably ends up breaking a curse that saves everybody.
The Liability: striped polo shits under fleece-lined denim jackets, never not wearing a hat, scuffed converse sneakers, incapable of taking things seriously or considering consequences, does dumb daredevil stunts to impress their crush, touches everything, gives all the ghosts goofy nicknames, best friends with the Chronicler- who they view as needing to get out more often, will totally just pick up a clearly cursed item and take it home, second most likely to get possessed after The Medium, intensely loyal despite all their bullshit, would sacrifice themselves to save the group.
The Mad Scientist: grey blazers and silver watches, spiral notebooks in shirt pockets, oxford shoes, aspires to revolutionize science by proving the existence of the paranormal, uncommonly and undeniably bright, biology and particle physics knowledge but also knack for practical gadgets, keeps bugs in jars, always carrying around beeping recording equipment, jazzed about things that should be horrifying, lingers too long in creepy locations because they’re busy collecting samples of something, pines hard for The Local Detective but lacks the confidence to articulate it.
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