do you have any thoughts overall about johnny cranky
I have so many thoughts about Johnny Cranky, the biggest one being that I wish we got to see him more to understand his deal.
My personal HC is that he was the Johnny Ghost clone thing that was created and awoken in the Gravity Falls videos, and he exists because the portal being messed with broke reality and fractured anyone nearby. Even though they look alike, Cranky has some of Ghost’s memories and not much else, he is a completely different person and tries to dress himself so people will stop recognizing Ghost from his face. I like giving him computer glitches to imply that he’s kind of not apart of the world, like he’s an entity all of his own. I also think he should be allowed to have a glitchy voice, like one that has static in the back of his throat and def. has something else off about it. Johnny Cranky isn’t supernatural, but he sure is heck isn’t fully human and i think he knows it.
There is also a chance that Cranky, if he is where I think he’s from, is like a weird mental fusion of Ghost and Casket, which would make him a bit more… Dangerous than I like to think he is. That would be someone who likes to kill for the heck of it with Ghost’s need to be in charge of something, which might explain why he founded DIE. However, I don’t toy with this idea often, so we’re leaving this as it is.
I don’t know what made him not only side with the paranormal, but choose to form a team to take down every other member minus Spooker… Maybe he wants to make an allyship with his family (the Soup family includes Chackalatta (idk how to spell his name) and Darth Calculus, so not killing Spooker is a good way to avoid getting those two on his butt, or maybe even swaying them to his side) alternatively, he sees through Ghost’s memories that he treats Spooker like crap even though Spooker has always been a sweetheart to Ghost.
(I guess another thing that’s happening could be that Cranky isn’t just from a different universe, but a piece of the Housekeeper that slipped through when reality legit crashed and remembers Spooker from when he slipped into the Housekeeper’s dimension to try to save Ghost and got stabbed for it. He just looks like Ghost because the Housekeeper can take the form of those he consumes and Ghost was in his dimension for awhile so who’s to say he didn’t leave anything. This would make him like a demon or proxy who’s acting out the will of what’s essentially the dark god of the series. I legit just came up with this so there’s not much else I can say about it.)
All in all my thoughts are that there’s a lot you can do with this man, and I’ve toyed with ideas that have him both in a sympathetic position and a antagonistic perspective. When he’s sympathetic, it can be so sad, no matter how you spin his backstory… but when he’s antagonistic… I mean… didn’t he recruit Jimmy Casket at some point?
With my interpretation that Cranky exists because two Ghosts from different universes were fractured and rebuilt to create an entirely new person, this also brings up the chance that he can possess the current Ghost, meaning he doesn’t have to replace him physically, he can just slip into his mind.
Idk, they’re varied thoughts but that’s kinda where I take him when I work with him.
