I've been making these and reading them with the character's voices for the last 30 minutes.
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I recently finished watching Ghosts UK. I loved it! The ending was sad and actually, a lot of it was tear-inducing. (No joke, the Captain's backstory made Ghosts the only TV show to ever make me bawl, gah!)
Anyway, as an American, I felt the need to watch the CBS version of the show. I just started it, and I like it a lot too. I like how competent Jay is when compared with Mike. Overall, I like some characters more. I like Hetty more than Fanny, for example. I adore Sassappis. I like Thorfinn about as much as I like Robin. I do miss Kitty and the Captain, however. I also think Pete is not as fun as Pat was. I know that at some point there will be a puritan ghost. I hope she will fill the hole that was left in me when Mary left. (RIP²) All of that is still subject to change, though! I literally just started the first season. On that note-how on earth does a fifties dude who looks like he stepped out of The Outsiders get decapitated? How???
And! And and and!!! Thomas the poet's in-love-with-the-leading-lady aspect was given to Trevor??? No! I'm sorry, but as far as I'm aware, Hetty is the only obviously 19th century (besides maybe the cholera victims) ghost. That's such a missed opportunity! They could've had a poet from the American Romantic period who was like, deeply into adding to American Literature! He could have died from tuberculosis or from a gunshot wound? (Idk abt the legality of dueling at that point, but still murder to manifest as a macabre Edgar Allen Poe quality???) and then had many a discussion with the Revolutionary War Captain about the Americanization of English words and the evolution of a separate culture! Said "culture" that is prevalent in a show that is literally an Americanized version of a British show. How symbolic is that? It would have been awesome and have added a character from a part of American history that doesn't get explored enough.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. I may just draw this character that does not exist (to my knowledge.) :/
We’ll see if I flesh this out but rn I have a couple of ideas I’m rolling with for this as a modern setting AU. Feel free to add your own onto this, it’s all very disjointed and mostly just for fun. Sticking all of the info below the cut:
The Captain
Probably works for an accounting firm, middle management
Makes excel spreadsheets for fun
Takes his job/ the company waaaay too seriously
Framed picture of his cat on the desk
Desktop background is probably a tank
Fanny
Ex-husband owns the accounting firm, she ended up with stakes she didn’t want in the divorce settlement
Friends with The Captain, big ‘you can’t sit with us’ energy when they meet up for lunch
Has been learning to use a strange new app known as ‘Tinder’
Thomas
Perpetual intern, fetcher of coffee
✨Influencer✨ whose yet to break through
Makes those TikToks that are just winking into the camera
Sponsored by Audible
Poetry blog
“Buy my e-book on sale now”
Kitty
Interning while she finishes off university
Constantly compares ongoing events to a certain TV show
Can be found reading romance novels in the breakroom
Re-organised the folders on the Captain’s desk by colour once but never got in trouble for it despite how long it took to fix
Mary
Secretary by day but sells essential oils as a side hustle by night
Keeps accidentally joining pyramid schemes
Single mother with too many kids
Somewhere between sleep deprived delirium and sagely wisdom
Pat
Champion of the local youth group, embarrassing dad
Keeps insisting on ‘bring your kids to work day’
Middle management but not by choice, he’s just good at what he does
Can’t wait for the weekend, needs a holiday
Carol took the fuckin’ kids
Humphrey
HR, maybe the only one who’s both great at and actually enjoys his job. If they listened to him things might actually run smoothly
Wheelchair user coming through
Can and will get involved in any dispute that doesn’t work itself out in three days
Troubled marriage but they’re working it out
A catfish using a picture of him once matched with Fanny on Tinder, they will never speak of it again
Julian
Joint owner alongside Fanny’s ex-husband
Doesn’t remember entering into the arrangement at all but hey, how is he meant to remember everyone he shakes hands with at a party
Great for client retention, less so for staff retention, but the main group have learned to live with and (daresay) even like him
Needs to be babysat at the office Christmas party
Robin
Nobody knows if he actually works there or not
He’s dressed somewhere between security and punk rocker
If you need the key to any room in the building he probably has it
