Due To Popular Demand, Here Are Some Of My Personal Ghostbusters Headcanons! Using The Prompts That I

Due to popular demand, here are some of my personal Ghostbusters headcanons! Using the prompts that I had from my original posts lol. Most of these talk about Ray and Peter, but I’ll eventually talk about the other guys too :)

just a reminder that these are MY OWN personal headcanons, and if you don’t like them then you’re free to ignore them and move on. If you use my headcanons, please credit me! Also, if I get anything wrong about mental health here, please let me know so I can fix it! I’m still in progress of getting an official diagnosis for myself, so if I get the symptoms of depression and anxiety wrong, tell me! I do not want to accidentally stereotype, and/or misinterpret mental health.

Family-

Peter’s family is of confusing origin. His father, Jim Venkman (yes I’m using the canon name, but perhaps one of Peter’s relatives was named Charlie, and thats why Peter has the middle name Charles) was born in America by parents of mostly unknown origin, and his mother is Italian. (I gave her the name Beatrice, with her former last name being Lorenzo. If you use it please credit me) She moved to the Americas and eventually met Jim. The two inevitably fell in love and had a kid, Peter. Unfortunately Beatrice died when he was young, causing Jim to be distant, throwing himself into work. It is unknown whether or not Peter has any other relatives out there- in some of my writing it’s implied he has a sister, and maybe another relative..? But that’s for another time- but his family situation definitely influenced the way his personality is, being dodgy with personal questions and being a bit of a little shit to mask the loneliness that still lingers in his heart from being ignored so much. I’d imagine Ray not talking about his family or childhood memories too much, but when he does, it’s usually standard stuff. Roasting marshmallows at summer camp, learning to ride a bike, the typical happy childhood. This leads most to assume that he had a pretty good childhood. The truth is, the memories he share aren’t really painting the full picture. He was happy as a young kid, yes. But it’s mostly because he was simply blind to the truth when he was little. In my headcanon, his mother wasn’t the greatest person in the world. Perhaps even cheated on his father. The family was lower income, [I’d imagine the only reason Ray got into Columbia university was pure chance, a science fair or some other scholarship that got him off the ground and to a better school but idk yet.] and his mother just used it irresponsibly. Was it gambling? Was it alcohol? Nobody knows. But he had no clue. To his child self, he didn’t seem to understand why his mom constantly ignored him and his [possible] siblings. His father, like Peter’s, worked a lot to pick up the pieces and inevitably divorced his wife- and for good reason. Now as an adult, he’s trying to make up for the years of love lost, which is why he’s so close and affectionate with a lot of his friends. He wants to give them what he was missing, even if he constantly denies it.

Curse-

This is more of a metaphorical sense, but in a planned comic there IS an actual curse that sticks around in the Venkman family, which causes problems. (If you wanna know, please ask :D)

The Venkman family has an issue with keeping the ones they love around, whether that be romantic or platonic. Somehow people keep disappearing and/or leaving them, and it usually results in putting up walls and ignoring the ones who really do love them, out of fear of being hurt. The Stantz family usually has a pattern of mental health issues being passed down. Ray’s mother was most likely depressed, leading to her ignoring him a ton. (This isn’t saying that her depression is the thing that made her a horrible person. What made her a horrible person was the cheating, lying, and misuse of money that was meant to go into feeding her family. Her mental health isn’t what made her horrible. It was her actions. She used her depression as more of a shield to shift the blame.) Ray most likely has depression and/or anxiety too- implied in some of his dialogue in the starting cutscene of spirits unleashed. (The dialogue saying that some days he couldn’t find the motivation to get out of bed in the morning, wondering why it was worth it to try.) He most likely feared becoming a parent, worrying that his own mental health will be tanked and he’ll ignore the poor child, just like his mother did with him. He puts on a happy face for the public and his friends, always acting energetic and happy, but the scars still linger, which is possibly why he smoked a lot. Stress relief.

Parallels-

You probably caught on already, but both Peter and Ray have HEAVY parallels here. They were both Mama’s boys growing up. Both were quite young when their mother figures disappeared on them- figuratively or literally- and their fathers were distant. Their personalities came from defense mechanisms, trying to either make up for the years lost or protect themselves from further heartbreak and harm. They stick with their friends because they don’t know where else to go, because there’s always a lingering fear of judgement. The fear of commitment, the uncertainty of having a kid but being super protective of any child in danger, like Oscar.

The two bonded over this. It’s how they first met. They sought each other out. It’s also how they probably met Egon too. Another man damaged by his childhood, just attempting to be normal in this world.

And of course, when their mental health finally starts getting better- when things are looking brighter for all of them…

Egon leaves.

(Bro this is incredibly depressing wtffffff- please feel free to add on and/or analyze my yapping, and I hope y’all enjoyed my first official personal headcanon post!!)

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63 reasons why Fidds wants to kick Ford’s ass

1. The sass

2. Fucking triangles everywhere Stanford WHY

3. Why must you always be such a pretentious asshole

4. Legwarmers are fab as hell fuck you

5. GO! TO! BED!

6. You talk too much shit for a man who’s never in his life seen a boob

7. Coffee isn’t breakfast

8. YOU STOLE MY HAIR STRIPE THING

9. You fucking ignored my warnings

10. Your roast game is so weak that you had to write down your potential roasts in fear of me roasting you harder in return

11. You have flannel pajamas and won’t teach me how to make my own

12. I’ll pluck this banjo all damn night you can’t stop me

13. Adopted a violent alien as a child

14. Almost mistook that shapeshifter for me and costed us all our work.

15. I’m supposedly your best friend but you didn’t trust me enough to give as much of a hint as to where the hell you got the idea to built a portal to hell in your basement

16. All those precarious stacks of books in our old college dorm room

17. Just make up with your brother already your cold uncaring facade isn’t fooling anyone

18. Why is it that you can outright order me to destroy my inventions but i can’t even inquire as to the safety of yours

19. 4 years in college together as roommates and not once did you ask me out of a date.

20. …And then you’re all salty when i marry someone else

21. You think my southern farm boy habits are gross but when was the last time you showered

22. You said Tate had great eyes, you didn’t pull his bangs back once during your visit

23. You dissed me for being from a hog farm but at least my upbringing was honest

24. Oh, I see how it is, I couldn’t have a pig in the house but your 12 year old niece can

25. You didn’t deactivate the portal before calling your brother over

26. Where the FUCK did my smez dispenser go

27. You got yourself a work out regime but didn’t share it with me

28. Leave my goddamn cubik’s cubes alone

29. You waited until after I made you bacon for breakfast to tell me you were Jewish

30. You won’t just shut up and accept forgiveness

31. You suck at being big spoon

32. Your dab game is WEAK

33. Stop correcting my grammar you know I’m just as smart as you if not more so and it has nothing to do with my word choice

34. You called my banjoing annoying yet you keep on playing the piano at 4-a-fucking-m in the morning

35. Using bigger words doesn’t make you smarter

36. Licorice jelly beans are trash and you know it

37. Molasses is a perfectly reasonable popsicle flavor

38. If I find ONE MORE GOSH DARN SKELETON ON THE PORCH I SWEAR TO GOD

39. What was the one thing I told you not to do tonight? Raise the dead… And what did you do? Raise the dead!!

40. You value the advice of a literal demon over mine

41. For a supposed genius you’re oblivious as hell

42. You think looking at a framed picture of Tesla is the same at looking at your family

43. You talked shit about laptops but fucking what’s the best selling piece of tech?

44. If you needed my help on this project so bad then why are you ignoring literally all of my contributions

45. I survived 30 years without shoes I don’t need em you can’t make me

46. Why I’m God’s name are you wearing a sweater IN SUMMER

47. What is that belt strap across your chest even for? Do you think it makes you look cool? It doesn’t

48. Maybe don’t go poking every button in a literal alien spaceship

49. Learn some god damn basic lab safety please

50. Why did you put that weird symbol into the side of the portal console?

51. Ok so bigfoot is real but palm reading is bogus? Where do you draw the line

52. You threw away that weird squash I gave you that was a HEARTFELT TOKEN OF FRIENDSHIP

53. You never let me have a dog

54. You never introduced me to your mother

55. After 30 years of hell you’re still hot somehow and it’s not fair

56. KISS ME YOU FOOL

57. You couldn’t keep your damn mouth shut and hold your brothers hand for 3 seconds to stop the literal apocalypse

58. You almost always made sure I’d skip leg day

59. WITCHCRAFT

60. You said I was being too kind to the plaidypus

61. Just admit you don’t know how to play chess

62. You can’t expect people to trust you if you don’t trust them

63. YOU STILL HAVEN’T KISSED ME

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thehoodedsweater

4 months ago

VAMPIRES MY BELOVEDDDD

Gotta feed ya guys

teheheh vampires

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thehoodedsweater

5 months ago

So today I was walking with @maybemang0 and he suggested making a Ghostbusters themed Mouthwashing AU…

Time to put my favorite characters in situations. One week into a new fanbase and a friend and I are thinking of making an AU. Get out of my head.

[Adding clarification!!! Mango and I don’t wanna assign any character to the role of Jimmy because he’s a terrible person!! He’s horrible and we don’t want to endorse those actions or associate a character with him!!]

(tagging @justarandombirb cause IK you like Mouthwashing too)

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thehoodedsweater

7 months ago

I need that sweater omggg

CHAT ITS OFFICAL

IM GOING TO UNIVERSAL HOLLYWOOD FOR CHRISTMAAASSSS!!!!

It's a new family tradition to save up for the year to do something huge for christmas!