It's like, in the original goofy cartoon, Fred was the mystery-obsessed badass leader, Daphne was the hot one (and later the rich one) with the people skills, Velma was the nerdy smart one The joke was Shaggy and Scooby had no obvious skills and brought nothing to the team
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I was thinking about it and I realized how you could make that archetype work, easily Taking the jokes and making them gritty realities -- Shaggy always stumbles on the monster by accident, Shaggy's a big eater who's always stoned, Shaggy's always shaking and screaming in terror
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Shaggy is cursed He's the capital-S Survivor The countryside is racked with mysterious disappearances and deaths that have never been proven to be real monsters Shaggy is the only person who's ever seen the monsters firsthand and, for some reason, lived to tell the tale
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He has no useful skills, he's an ordinary dude who very much wants to live an ordinary life, but he has no choice in the matter Whatever darkness out there is *furious* that he slipped out of its grasp and is hunting him to finish the job He's a monster magnet
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So his only choice is to turn to the wackjob ghost hunters at Mystery Inc. for protection And if they want to actually have a decent chance of finding and facing the monsters they have to keep him around Meanwhile he's racked with PTSD and constantly self-medicating
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The more I think about it the more I think this idea is compelling, you could even file the serial numbers off and use it for something other than a Scooby-Doo parody He's basically an angstier male version of Mina's role in the party from Stoker's Dracula
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(It's surprising how un-angsty the original Mina actually is, given what her job in the story is supposed to be -- the modern adaptations read a lot of the gothic angst and romance back into it)
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The idea of dark gritty Shaggy just has this very strong attraction to me Like you have to change so little about what happens in the cartoon, just twist the focus knob a little bit, and it's suddenly horrifying
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Shaggy startling awake from a nightmare and having a panic attack and clutching his dog to his chest shaking and crying for ten minutes
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Fred wondering why Shaggy hasn't shown up for the meeting and finding him passed out on the kitchen floor surrounded by crumbs and empty cans and fast food packets, his dog nosing around in the scraps
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Fred and Velma getting into an earnest discussion of local ghost lore and Shaggy getting twitchy and nervous and loudly interrupting the conversation all "I'm fucking starving, can we order some food"
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