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Eddie loves costumes that require or are helped by being done by a group. Couples costumes, friend group costumes... And when he has his own little ones, family costumes! David, meanwhile, doesn’t care much for making a spectacle of himself more than he already is at his massive height. So he goes for a bear kigurumi every time. But that won’t stop him from gushing over the cute little costumes he has his wee ones in. :3 I’m just statin’ facts

I like to think that Eddie’s costumes don’t necessarily chase the pop culture zeitgeist but are more about his personal fixations; mythological characters, obscure film characters, pun projects (for example, he has his wife don a flower crown and peasant dress and carry a bottle of wine and drape a towel over her arm to be a “Midsommelier”), and the like!

Plus, it’s way more fun to have his partner or friends in on the joke! One year, Eddie went as Mr. Rogers and all his friends as assorted citizens of the titular Neighborhood, another he took it upon himself to make costumes so that four of them could go as The Talking Heads (he wanted to be David Byrne so badly); another year, once in a relationship, he procured costumes for himself and his girlfriend to go as Vinz Clortho (Lewis Tully) and Zuul (Dana Barrett) from the original Ghostbusters, elated to have an opportunity to run around unhinged and recite his favorite lines, like “During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!”

His girlfriend mostly just enjoyed the swishy orange dress.

Once he and the missus get together and get married and have their children, Eddie goes above and beyond for Halloween, insistent that even if he and his wife don’t dress up (which would never happen, obviously), they have to dress up the babies. It’s just too cute to pass up the chance at!

In a surprisingly dark move, Eddie sews a hoodied onesie for the baby so that they appear to be wearing the same little suit and burlap sack as Sam from Trick ‘r Treat (Eddie tries to justify it with Sam not being inherently evil and mostly just a pretty cute little kid out for trick or treat when his wife complains that dressing their baby up as a demonic Halloween spirit might be distasteful), and it’s surprisingly well-made and warm, keeping baby nice and cozy as Momma and Dada go about their autumnal activities. (Eddie decided that to match baby, they all had to go as various horror movie ‘monsters’/fright-makers; the missus was the Bride of Frankenstein, and Eddie wanted to go as the Babadook before his wife talked him down to the more normal-passing Norman Bates, concerned that the amount of makeup necessary to pull off a Babadook look would upset the baby too much.)

For Eddie, Halloween is such a fun time-- rife with history and mysticism, spiritual oddness and social kookiness, and aesthetic wonderment alike run rampant during those weeks leading up to the All Hallow’s Eve-- and he just can’t let go of the chance to indulge in some once-a-year merriment, especially when it can involve his friends and loved ones (and his peculiar interests).

For David, however, Halloween is more down to earth. David is deeply discomforted by scary stories, gory decorations, slasher movies, jump scares, etc; the spookery of the season and its axis around death makes him more than a little uneasy, at times, so he prefers a more “Great Pumpkin” kind of Halloween than a, say, “Friday The 13th” Halloween.

He likes to decorate the house with sweetly carved jack o’lanterns (recently having discovered that there are plastic and foam pumpkins he can carve and keep throughout the years and that carve like his more familiar medium of wood, David tends to prefer the synthetic gourds for house decor and organic ones for the outdoors), putting up string lights and smiling sheet ghosts.

He’s the Local Dad that will sit on his porch all night in a warm, comfy costume-- David, ever the pragmatist, decided many years ago that he either goes as Paul Bunyan (for warmer Halloweens) or a teddy bear (using the bear kigurumi for colder evenings), and never falters to employ those costumes-- and hand out candy, smiling at every trick-or-treater without fail.

His favorite trick-or-treaters are always the babies; he knows they can’t eat candy, but watching parents walk up to the house with a wee little bundle in their arms, peeking out of a princess dress or pumpkin suit, well, it just melts his heart every single time, and he will often stick out a finger and try to boop the baby on the toes to say a wordless “hello”!

But the very, beary best costumed kiddos are always his own.

David’s little ones get to go as anything they like, so long as the costume isn’t excessively horrifying or unsafe (i.e. nothing sharp, nothing that would let them catch a chill, nothing gory), and David’s children often pick more unusual costumes, so that never seems to be an issue for them.

One year, one of his sons desperately wanted to be a chicken (reasons unclear); another, his daughter wanted to be Santa (”For Halloween, sweetie?” “Yes, please.”); many times, David has dressed the wee-est baby up as Babe, the blue ox that accompanies Paul Bunyan in many of his tales.

David also likes to see what his wife chooses to dress up as; she likes to pick comfortable costumes, as well, since she is usually the parent that walks with the little ones to take them trick-or-treating (as she is the parent most comfortable talking to strangers). Her costumes are usually built around a sensible pair of walking shoes and a warm jacket, and David always finds them adorable. He was especially fond of the year when she was a few months pregnant and went as Winnie the Pooh, citing the baby bump as her “rumbly tumbly”.

Each boy has their own Halloween traditions and comfort zones, but I like to think both of them have an equally wonderful time on the holiday, in their own special ways!

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Apparently, I have a thing for Jon Bernthal covered in tattoos and I’m not at all embarrassed by this.

I mean:

What is not to love?!?!

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His girlfriend mostly just enjoyed the swishy orange dress.

But the very, beary best costumed kiddos are always his own.

Each boy has their own Halloween traditions and comfort zones, but I like to think both of them have an equally wonderful time on the holiday, in their own special ways!

#the mute #mr. mccarthy #anonymous #messages

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