AU where Victor Trevor doesn't leave just yet after his father's death. He and Holmes drop out of school, get an apartment together and try to figure things out.
Holmes starts with detective work, solving small problems that people can't get the police to respond to. He makes a decent amount of money but swallows his pride every once in a while to ask Mycroft to help with rent (Mycroft tells him that he won't help forever, but Sherlock knows that he'll help as long as he's needed and as long as he takes pity on Victor).
Victor mostly stays home, trying his hardest to find something to engage him and trying to recover. He buys a lot of plants for the apartment, and most of them survive. He studies botany by himself for a bit. Holmes, noticing how he happily talks about it, makes sure to encourage it. Just to see Victor's eyes light up like they used to.
They spend evenings together when they can, curled up under blankets
(Another VT fanfic. This time for my foster AU, in which Spencer is a Smol and Ghost+Toast are his foster parents.)
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Triggers: Cursing; ask to tag anything else
It was a chilly autumn day, as a young boy inside of Briarville’s main foster care building was ushered by his caseworker into one of the several interview rooms.
The boy was only about 12, with pale skin and ginger hair, dyed yellow at the tips. He held himself timidly, slouched over and doing his best to stay far from touching anyone. He clutched an old GameBoy in his hands, sitting in one of the chairs inside the room with a small frown.
He’d been through this routine many times before; he’d learn that somebody got matched with him, they’d have their dumb interview, and the family would decide he wasn’t what they wanted. Or, worse, they’d take him, but they’d turn out to be major assholes. He still had horrid memories of his last home.
His caseworker left the room, leaving the young boy to play his game quietly, trying to stave off the dread he could feel creeping over him.
Out in the lobby-type area, two men sat; the older, a tall, black-haired, proper-looking man, seemed ecstatic, while the younger - a shorter, brown-haired man - seemed nervous. The two were obviously together, given their attitudes.
The caseworker gave the two a warm smile, letting them know that she was ready to take them back, leading them to the interview room that the young boy was sat in.
He didn’t say much as they entered, not at all seeming to notice that they’d entered at all.
Finally, the shorter man broke the silence.
“Uh.. hello..?” He spoke softly, a faint Southern accent over his words.
The boy took a moment to respond, pausing his game to look up at them, giving them a bit of a cold stare. “Hi.” He spoke bluntly, setting his console down and crossing his arms. He fell quiet, simply looking over the two as he waited for a response.
Eventually, the man spoke again. “Ah.. what’s your name, again? My name’s Johnny Ghost, and.. this,” he pauses, gesturing towards the tallerman, who waved slightly, “is my, uh, husband, Johnny.. Toast.”
The boy frowned, holding back a small scoff. “Wait, wait, wait. Both your nameth are Johnny?” He shook his head, a harsh lisp making itself evident as he spoke. “That’th weird ath fuck.”
He flinched a bit when the woman scolded him, leaning back in his chair. “...My name’th Thpencer,” he grumbled softly, looking down at his hands.
“It’s... nice to meet you, Spencer,” Ghost smiled at him weakly. “Uh.. how old are you?”
“Aren’t they thuppothed to give you a file???” Spencer huffed. “Doethn’t that thay how old I am?”
Now, it was Ghost’s turn to flinch, shrugging. “Well.. yeah, but, I mean.. wouldn’t you rather tell us yourself, kid?”
“Why would I do that?” Spencer frowns at them. “What’th the point? You’re jutht going to end up not wanting me! No point.. telling you anything!” He ranted lightly, only stopping when Toast spoke up.
“Er.. Spencer, would you mind if I sat next to you?” He tilted his head, gesturing at the empty seat next to the boy.
He stopped, looking a little surprised at the question before he nodded. “..Y—.. Yeah, thure..”
Toast smiled, standing and nudging past Ghost, giving Spencer a tender look as he sat next to him. “Do.. you want to tell us about you?” He spoke softly, his tone meant to indicate that Spencer didn’t have to.
Nonetheless, he nodded again. “I.. gueth tho..?” He shrugs, pausing. “...I’m twelve.”
“And.. how long have you been here, if you’re.. okay with telling us?”
Spencer fell quiet for a moment. “....Thince.. I wath five monthth old..” His voice went soft; obviously upset at this.
Toast looked up at his partner, giving Ghost a look of surprise. “What happened to put you..?” He looked back at Spencer, who was now fixated on fidgeting with his jacket strings.
“My parentth.. jutht abandoned me.. That’th all. They didn’t want me.” He scowled lightly, holding back a small sniffle. “Tho I’m thtuck here.”
Ghost frowned lightly himself, quietly upset as well as he leaned forward, tapping the GameBoy carefully. “Hey, uh.. what game you got in here, kid?”
Spencer lifted his head quickly, his eyes lighting up a bit. “Pokémon!! It’th Yellow!” He grinned brightly, sitting up a little straighter.
“Oh? How far are you?” Ghost smiled faintly, resting his arms on the table.
“I-I’m at Celadon City! I’m jutht having trouble with the gym..” He huffs, more a curiously frustrated noise than genuinely upset.
Ghost nods, scratching his arm lightly. “That’s Erika’s, right?” He smiled when Spencer gave a small agreement. “Well, she uses the grass-types. So you should get Fire, or Flying.. maybe Psychic. I used Charmeleon, uhh.. Venonat, Nidorino, Vulpix.. Abra and Slowpoke.” He pauses. “What do you have?”
Spencer leans forward, grabbing the handheld off the desk to look at his team. “Um.. Pikachu.. Weepinbell.. Poliwhirl.. and Meowth..” He looks up, smiling sheepishly as Ghost laughed softly.
“Aw, dude, that prolly isn’t gonna get you very far! C’mere, lemme see.”
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After the three talked for about an hour, Ghost and Toast stepped outside of the room, the caseworker going with them. Spencer kept himself still in his chair, a little anxious.
Though, the anxiety didn’t last long before the two came back in, both trying to hide smiles as Toast spoke.
“So, ah… Spencer?” He rubs the back of his neck. “How would you, uh, like to—“
He didn’t get to finish his sentence before Spencer shot up, grinning widely and nodding. “Yeth!!!!” He waved his hands excitedly, bouncing on his toes as he looked up at the two, both cracking up in laughter as they smiled back, Spencer wasting no time in darting to his room to gather his things.
This is all my personal takes and opinions, I guess also are canon in my “au”/spin off.
If there’s any you like from this you can take inspiration or adopt any of these if you like them I will not mind <3
But if you don’t like some of these (which is fine bc you don’t have to), please be kind, especially since some of these are based off/inspired by personal experiences as well as some of my Headmates experiences (that I got permission to use as headcanons 🙏🏻) I just hope people won’t find some of these upsetting? I don’t think they are upsetting but sometimes difference of opinions can be distressing so I understand 🫂
Anyways here goes:
Toast and Ghost have a queer platonic relationship (this one might be a hot take but also we need more rep like this Imo 🙏🏻)
The Level 25 demon from Spooker’s debut video is the one that turned Ghost into the Puppet. (And was probably the one who put those FNAF ghosts in Swift Taylor’s house lol)
Another lvl 25 demon one: I like to think it pulled “a Bipper” (Gravity Falls reference yes) and used Spooker’s body, that’s why you see Spooker as a “ghost” but then later on was normal/living again. Also why we see Spooker in the dimension where Housekeeper is trapped and later towards the end of the Puppet arc in the crypt where Ghost sees him. (Also watch the Haunted by Pennywise video 😭) I don’t think the demon lives in Spooker’s body like how people think demon!Jimmy does though.
Speaking of Jimmy, he’s a very traumatized alter (I’m a system in case anyone is concerned by that 😭🙏🏻 )
Ghost has some supernatural abilities? And is sensitive to dimensional shifts that happen (which happens a lot considering how unstable their world is) as well as understanding lower level paranormal entities, and sometimes visions of specific events (reference to Spooker’s debut video and “Johnny Ghost meets Freddy the dinosaur” video) and a few others that Jimmy also takes advantage of. Also dreams. He gets weird dreams sometimes.
Gavin Toast speaks in an American Accent sometimes, originally to separate himself from his twin.
I’ve already mentioned Ghost being intersex and demisexual I think but still adding it.
Dark Pit’s disappearance after joining P.I.E. In its early days has something to with Darth Calculus…
Ghost had a fear of umbrellas as a kid.
The Lvl 25 Demon and Stardust Sprinkleshine are a divorced couple/hsrs
Toast paid Josh to keep an eye on Ghost during his retirement arc (reference to my comic Heart Attack xD)
Timothy Casket and Chakalata Soup may have been business partners… before ending in disagreement.
Gavin maybe an Acalacam experiment that was only found out later by Darth Calculus (Gavin and Johnny T.’s father never learning that it actually sort of worked.)
Toast’s mother hates Ghost, except nowadays tries to hire people to kill him so he stops spending time with her son but ofc he keeps coming back like a damn revenant lmao
Spooker and Colon are boyfriends (sorry this is a ship but like they literally kissed in the 5 yr anniversary stream and I dreamt about it so I have to acknowledge it)
Spooker did used to have a crush on boyfailure Johnny Ghost though
The reason the VT world is so scuffed and has so many dimensions is bc they all live in the shattered remnants of a broken world.
My fan comic Supernatural Crossover, and Sherlock crossover on wattpad are technically canon to my spin off (except for the Gravity Falls one that one is retconned but fun fact Timothy Casket is in that one and I’m reusing the ideas from it for other things)
Timothy Casket totally wasn’t a serial killer and also totally didn’t get his kid(s) involved traumatizing them and changing the course of their lives forever.
Ghost has a twin brother but that’s mostly for Strive SMP shenanigans
Cardboard Friend is made up of many souls of children that possessed a cardboard toy creation made by Gregory…
There’s a cult out there somewhere with significant importance.
Johnny Ghost also has lead poisoning and some other issues bc of the old mansion’s condition (the one from the first Cardboard Friend video)
Johnny Ghost is also really pale because Cardboard Friend ate off his life force and sanity but got away probably in the Nick of time probably bc of some permanent effects?? (probably why that video made no fucking sense bc it was from Ghost/Gregory’s perspective)
It’s actually really traumatizing to separate twins from each other while they’re young. So if you take into consideration that Johnny Toast and Gavin were probably not allowed to interact and Ghost being separated from his twin too, that makes Ghost and Toast two twinless twins that trauma bonded to each other which is probably why they have a lot of separation issues.
Colon is a witchcraft practitioner (reference to “Moving didn’t go as Johnny planned” video)
I also used to believe Colon is a retired undercover cop or detective but also like ACAB and I barely remember why I came up with that so idk if I’ll keep it but I definitely need more Colon headcanons
Josh is also hired to babysit Woah for Spooker and Colon from time to time :3
Josh also makes really good pumpkin pie (since she was a pumpkin farmer) Ghost also really likes this pie.
Also Spooker is trans and pan while Colon is gay (these ones are special bc it was from a dream)
I’ll also add the universally accepted hc that Toast is bisexual (and demiromantic??)
Josh is also bi and polyamorous (maybe a demi girl but not sure yet)
Ghost is on the Spectrum, (most of pie probably is but the one I’m confident on is Ghost at least)
Sometimes paranormal entities can sort of fuse and/or mesh together to sometimes become stronger (but can separate… sometimes) *cough cough the paranormal tornado cough cough and CBF cough cough*
And lastly Ghost is 5’4, Toast is 6’6, Spooker is 5’7, and Colon is 6’1 (Gavin is the same height as J. Toast and Josh is either 5’3 or 5’5 I haven’t decided yet 😭)
Okay I’m gonna stop there for now but if I remember anything that’s important to me I’ll add them in like a reblog to this post.
Sorry it’s so long! Also had to keep some of these vague to avoid… spoilers ig?
If you’re curious about any of these tho feel free to ask and I can talk more about ‘em!! :3 <3
Maybe I’ll share some more Acachalla related headcanons but not today