HELLO I love ur casper art (and art in general) sm??? do u have any headcanons about casper himself?
Hi hi hi!! First of all thank you so much, that means a lot to me I'm glad you like it <33 and absolutely YES I have thoughts...
SO starting with backstory stuff (This is a lot of text but I will try to condense) in my mind, J.T inherited Whipstaff where he got married and lived with his wife, all good happy stuff for the first couple of years. Fatso, Stinkie and Stretch are all busy working but swing by for birthdays and holidays etc, all is good with the McFaddens.
Stretch is around the most, as he and J.T are business partners but ALSO because he's also got some lingering feelings for J.T's wife from when they knew each other in childhood, so he makes excuses to visit when he can (tut tut).
J.T was never a family man (taking very much after his own father who was not winning any dad of the year awards), and married more out of convenience than anything BUT when he noticed something going on between his wife and Stretch he decided to have Casper as a way of being like, hey man that's my wife know where you stand, and just has a baby about it (I DON'T KNOW IF I'M EXPLAINING THIS WELL LOL but know that Casper wasn't born out of love, but of J.T trying to one up his brother)
Stretch and J.T's relationship, which had always been delicate, really started to deteriorate.
Stretch watched Casper grow up at a distance, and then mrs wife died and that's where everything really started to fall apart.
J.T becomes more taken by his work and leaves Whipstaff for increasingly long periods of time, leaving Casper in the care of staff (and when he's about, Stretch.)
Stretch gives J.T an out of the business, noticing how much he's been neglecting his son but J.T is like NAW I don't want to do that and doubles down, going greedy mode.
Stretch found himself stepping in at Whipstaff more and more, and began to neglect his own portion of the buisness. (Could do a separate thing for the McFadden business, it’s all shady stuff,) Initially he was reluctant to be around Casper and really hated him, feeling mixtures of anger and sadness whenever he looked at him. But eventually he came around, his values shifted and he found something that was more important to him than his career. (#family wow so inspiring) but like yeah he was basically Casper's dad because J.T was negligent.
At first Stretch found Casper difficult to deal with, as he was clingy, energetic, and had traces of separation anxiety from J.T's absence, made worse by the fact that Stretch was terrible with children (Stinkie and Fatso helped him out) It wasn't easy, but they eventually fond a good balance.
AS A GHOST I like the version of Casper that's more like, dry. I don't wanna say sassy because that sounds a bit much, but he's spirited (har-har) for sure. He's a little bit jaded, but still just a kid who wants friends. He's forgotten most stuff about his life but some details persist, like his obsession with trains or him constantly seeking approval from his uncles.
