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There's a lot of themes and things and stuff in paranatural and I've been kinda going kinda crazy about coach Oop.

He's in a death life cult, he's failing to help his son's friend's, he left the room and took a nap while the gym class played hitball. He's just overwhelmingly depressed about his life and he's got a spirit powered by joy.

He's a spectral, He knows where Isabell and Ed live, he must know they're also spectrals. He's not related to the consortium so he's been in Cl M Bayveiw for a while, just, watching the days go by. This does mean that he could have also met June at some point, which would be funny.

He was so close, he was so close to.turning his life around, he could have joined a different cult, that taught him to eventually feel better about himself maybe. He gave Crush a decent fight and Crush saw right through everything. He might have been the first person in a long time to see a real picture of Oop. But now he's double dead, and Oop didn't do anything. He can never bring himself to do anything.

Do you think he lies awake at night replaying that whole night over and over again? Wondering? Wishing? Pretending that he did something different? He could still join up, he could still act. But he doesn't, because all he can see in himself is a coward. Because he can play the strong silent Ape he can play the Hog and he can finally feel like he's working towards something meaningful, something that's gonna make a change and he'll be rewarded for his hard work or he'll be a martyr. But does he really believe any of it?

I'm not sure if I can or want to condense this into something compelling but one of the overarching themes of paranatural is the failure of the previous generation, its all about being haunted by spirits, ghosts, your mom, your mistakes and your regrets.

Coach Oop is just a normal guy and the like 8 pages of his tragedy are just so incredible that he went from "haha gym teacher" to "a man burdened by shame and regret hopelessly trudging on through his life who was given a shot at a new start, but just couldn't bring himself to take it. He was begging himself to make a choice to have courage. But he just couldn't do anything." He could and should be able to blame Cat, she stole his defeat from him. But he won't actually blame her, he'll blame himself.