I caved and made a pipis kid for the Restart au
He’s a teleprompter and Closed Captions!
Meet Teca!
I thought it would be interesting that since in this au Spamton never really started off as a traditional addison, that the kid would stray away from that part of him. Spamton starts his career slowly, but successfully. Knowing which stocks would rise at what times. This time, not from supernatural outside forces.
I like to think Spamton spent a LOT of time reminiscing/thinking back on his addisoon and raise to fame era. Like he knows what he did. Doesn't grasp how it worked, but he knows the actions.
He starts his role as Tenna's buisness partner and car salesman much earlier. people go "ok so like what the fuck how do you know the stock market so well" and instead of saying what he used to say of "Let's just say a little angel told me ;)" or some white lie like that, he says "experience. and a lot. of. memorization."
Now something both him and Tenna share is the need for a script
TV show hosts
well
they're TV show hosts.
and car salesmen have that line hook and sinker flexible script that always pull people into buying
We also never see the other side of the stage, with all the filming equipment etc
And now Tenna OBVIOUSLY goes off script, but he has one none the less
And a common piece of advice when talking to a car salesman is "pay attention to what they say". Keep track of it
Best way to stay on script? teleprompter, text in a big black box
Best way to understand and follow what the salesman is saying? Closed Captioning, text in a big black box
there's also the fluff factor of how in this au Spamton still has his spam speech so like imagine his lil kid putting up translated CCs as they sit on his shoulder
I also like the idea of Tenna doing his usual "I'll go off script big time cause it's funny improv moment Wee hee!" but will like correct himself mid bit at like a dejected "is my job useless now...?" lookin kid
Inspos (aka the only photos of 90s teleprompters I could find)
Oh and he can get real dark
