Muppet Headcanons!
Electric Mayhem edition! Part 1!
So my personal headcanon is that the band members have some pretty rough backstories and are now living their best lives together as found family.
Dr. Teeth is a hybrid of a Whatnot Muppet & a Spider Muppet. Muppet hybridization, while not illegal, is still somewhat stigmatized and his parents opted not to keep him. He has two extra sets of (unfortunately uncontrollable) arms that he keeps restrained & hidden, and his gold tooth encapsulates a venomous pincer. He was placed into foster care at about a month old and was shuffled from home to home (with varying degrees of quality), until he ran away to New Orleans as a teenager and was taken on as an apprentice by an elderly Whatnot woman who ran a supposed fortune telling shop. She’s a profit-obsessed grifter with a flair for the dramatic, but she’s also secretly quite warmhearted and encouraged him to pursue his dreams of stardom, giving him her hard-earned funds (and a couple of fake ID)s, to seek his destiny.
Right after he was born, Floyd's mother left him with her former lover then went mysteriously missing a few weeks later. Floyd searched for answers all throughout his boyhood, and though he never found his mother he did find out the identity of his biological father (a Whatnot man who was hardened by a long career in the military). Floyd left his adoptive family, lied about his age, and joined the military as an act of rebellion and a vain attempt to somehow connect with his biological father. He was admittedly skilled at wilderness survival, but still decidedly unaccustomed to combat zones. He came back eventually, promoted, paranoid, and with a replacement leg (Muppet biology is interesting), that causes a distinct limp. He reconciled with his adoptive parents, but ultimately he left his father’s rustic eco-conscious desert dwelling (a shack with a pile of junk behind it and a hellforged garden out front) to start a new life for himself in the city.
Janice is a transgender woman who was disowned by her parents after coming out. She still seeks to have contact with them, but they reject her each time. Many of her spiritual practices began from her trying to make contact with them through extrasensory means or to heal from their actions. Her biological Whatnot father died when she was very young and her step-father is a human man. She’s pretty sure she can communicate with the ghost of her bio-dad through scrabble tiles though, so there’s that. Dr Teeth and Janice met when a bar offered a “sing for your supper” night where performers could play or sing a few songs in exchange for a small meal. His charisma and genuine empathy won her over and as they continued to bump into one another at gigs over a period of months they formed a friendship and ultimately decided to start traveling together.
Stay tuned for part 2!