#netherworld ensemble

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I’m that weirdo that thinks miss Argentina and toaster lady are cute together, and greatly desires content of these ghost wives.

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YAAAAY CHAPTER 39 AND 40!!!! It’s sad :)

Now I gotta figure out the next bit, I’m pretty much rewriting 41 aha, we’ll see how things go ^^

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What hairstyles do the netherworld characters have ??

Here’s a quick sketch of the group. Man a lot of the NCP department wear some kind of hat or helmet

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fave headcanon for each character??

YE!!! I have a good few for each different version of Beetlejuice, haha, but I’ll just go crazy about the musical for now. I’m about to go crazy I’m so sorry

So I actually really love this idea that Charles used to be a theatre kid. He just has big theatre kid energy, you know? So dramatic, such a baratone voice. But he took up the more lucrative real estate job when he and Emily got married because he wanted to be have stable income for his new family. He loved to play pretend with Lydia when she was little, really let his inner actor out in their games. There are a few home videos Emily took of them that he’d rather no one else saw, huehue

I like to think Barbara grew up on a farm, doing hard work and getting real strong and all of her hobbies involve getting hands on with stuff still, like pottery and gardening. (You can’t take the farm out of the farm girl) she’s super buff and can carry just about anyone, which surprises a lot of people. She also knows a lot about taking care of plants and animals from it.

I think Adam didn’t grow up with a dad. He didn’t even know who his dad was. It was just him and his mom his whole life and he grew up insecure about it. He doesn’t like to talk about it, all the kids he knew growing up would make fun of him for it. It’s also part of why he’s so scared of being a dad himself. But helping raise Lydia quenches that fear real fast.

Delia used to be grunge and knows how to play bass. Somewhere she has a hidden album of photos from the time she joined a grunge band as backup vocals as well as bass, and she doesn’t want anyone to see because she’s been made to feel embarrassed of it by her old ex-friends. One day Lydia found the photos and begged Delia to teach her how to play. This was also the time Delia realized she was pansexual when she developed a crush on the female drummer.

Lydia now has a fear of the people she loves getting sick. (Same with Charles actually haha) Watching her mom get so sick left Lydia reeling and she never wants to see someone she loves get that way ever again. If Charles, or Delia, or heck even Beej ever get ill, she gets uncharacteristically worried, and watches them like a hawk and makes sure they don’t push themselves. She is also little lesbian, but wonders occasionally if she might be aromantic.

Beej is never in danger of getting eaten by sandworms. One of the few perks of his status as a born dead is that he smells different to sandworms, so they don’t see him as prey like they do ghosts. Because of that he actually is able to hang out with them a lot and is pretty fond of the beasties. Sandy is the first Sandworm he’s ever ridden though, and he likes her a lot, she’s the nicest Sandworm he’s ever met.

Big Sandy acts like a protective mama Sandworm but she is not actually a mom. She does have a bunch of nieces and nephews that she adores, one especially feisty niece called Lil Sally who is smol for a Sandworm but super ready to kick ass and eat ghosts ;3 But Sandy doesn’t have any biological kids. She has however adopted Beej and the Maitlands and the Deetz

Skye the Girl Scout has the biggest puppy crush on Lydia. Lydia takes Skye as her apprentice, like Beej took Lydia as his, and she and Skye can raise absolute hell should they ever decide to. Lydia knows Skye has a crush on her, and it’s cute, but Lydia sees the Girl Scout as a little sister. She’ll definitely chaperone any date Skye has though, the queers gotta stick together, you know?

Miss Argentina and Toaster Lady are wives, and you can’t change my mind. Ever.

Otho disappeared during the events of the musical, and no one knows what happened to him. Did he actually die?? Did he just get sent somewhere else and he hasn’t contacted them again? Beetlejuice never says what the truth is, and at this point, people are too scared to ask.

Maxie Dean fired Charles after the disaster dinner. He died of unknown circumstances a few months later. Maxine Dean mysteriously disappeared before police could question her about it.

I’ll stop here but y’all can keep asking me shit haha. Hell send in your own headcanons! I’d love to hear it 🖤

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Can we have some more charactet headcannons from the musical??? I loved them

Vddfhbvf, thank🖤🖤🖤 hmm, let’s see if I have any....

I love the idea of Delia actually pursing a career in mental health after realizing that Otho was lying to her. After the musical, she goes back to college and is studies hard to become a counselor or therapist, and eventually when she does become one her office is just covered in crystals and new age posters. People are always uncertain about her at first but then they get to work and they realize Delia actually knows her shit and can be pretty down to earth at times when her ‘one with the universe’ attitude isn’t needed for a session.

Charles is just as weird as Emily was, he just hides it behind a normal facade because he has a job with normal people. If he were ever free to let himself go, he’d be reciting Hamlet in a graveyard so he could get the proper authentic experience of the scene. He is also pretty socially awkward, but has learned how to hide it pretty well. It was a miracle that he managed to woo Delia, it’s a good thing her bubbly personality brings him out of his shell a little.

Adam and Barbara are high school sweethearts. Their friends were the ones to push them together, because they’d been too shy to ask the other out. Barbara is the more outspoken of the two, Adam is a bit more quiet at times, but they both are pretty quiet around strangers (anxiety does that to you) when they’re alone, they both feel free to let loose and act as weird as they want around each other. They both make each other feel braver, so when together they act a bit more like themselves around strangers.

Lydia loves going thrift shopping. She loves finding old books, keepsakes, and mathoms, all worn around the edges and carrying signs of their previous owner with them. Thrift shops also carry the widest arrange of clothes which is perfect for a goth girl like her. She has a new haul almost every week from thrift shops, and her room is decorated with a lot of weird old stuff that all are equally cursed.

Beetlejuice surprisingly loves animals. They don’t yell at him like people do. Unfortunately animals don’t love him as much. Animals get spooked pretty bad by ghosts, and Beej is no exception. He longs for the day he’ll find a dog that will let him pet it. The only animals that don’t seem scared by him are insects. So he loves to let them crawl around on his hands and just watch them vibe for hours. He knows a lot about insects and actually has a good few as companions. So if he were to ever stay with the Deetz and Maitlands again, they’d have to pretty quickly establish the rule that he can’t let his bugs free roam the house, he has to keep them in a cage. Beej doesn’t appreciate this rule, he doesn’t like trapping his bugs. The compromise is a couple hours where he can let the bugs hang out freely on his person.

Since miss Argentina and Delia are both played by Leslie kritzer, I have this fun idea that maybe they’re distantly related, like maybe Argentina is a great aunt or something. So when Lyds and charles went to the netherworld they were both like ‘this woman is oddly familiar’ when they saw Argentina lmao.

The Jockey and Exploded Guy are best friends since meeting in the Netherworld, and I have nothing to back me up on that other than I think it’d be neat. (Also maybe I think they’re both non-binary maybe)

I think Juno could have a job in an even more powerful position in the netherworld, but she just likes her current job too much to try for a better one. She enjoys seeing all the freaked out newly deads too much to leave

Okie that’s all I have for now. But it’s fun!! Feel free to send more asks, y’all, I don’t bite :D

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-slaps chapter- We’re onto some big meaty chapter edits here, folks, highly recommend you check them out. Also HIGHLY recommend you check out next week’s, I’m proud of that one.

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It’s Thursday!! I just got through editing a real bitch of a chapter and fell back a lil on editing, so I gotta get back to it. For now, chapters 31 and 32 have been updated!

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Hello, there’s a lot of buildup happening, isn’t there?