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Counting Characters

BeakerSqueedom

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=O SHAZAM!
Your wish is my command!

*Gets back into her lamp*
*Types fic up...hopefully*
 

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Here I am ... as promised!

Wow ... you have a very fertile imagination, rivaling my favorite sick creep, Tim Burton. :big_grin:

Which is a good thing, by the way.

I was thinking how this reminded me a LOT of Burton ... especially because of #16 ... she IS supposed to be the Waiting Room Receptionist in Beetlejuice, right?

"If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have had my little accident...." (shows bloody wrists)
 

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Thanks Kelly. Yes, that's who #16's supposed to be. There are other Burton characters slated for appearances, mostly in Muppet form for example... Well, you'll have to wait to find out.

And thanks for the kind words Kelly, that plus a message from one of my idols earlier today mean a lot to me.
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Character Entry #18.
Name: Darkly Pallor.
Companion: Cryptal the Ferret.
Favorite I-Scream Flavor: Tutti Frutti Freeze.
Likes: Sorceror or wizarding fantasy literature and movies, concocting his own tricks to turn lead into gold.
Dislikes: Whenever his efforts to change one metal for another prove fruitless.
*Scaring Talent: Elemental Hexations.
Affiliation: Shadow Spooks.

Appearance:
Darkly Pallor prefers to skulk about in the shadows, allowing only close associates glimpses of his visage. In terms of height, he's almost as tall as Janice, though there's a bit more meat on this boogedy body. Grossly discolored yellow skin coarses throughout this entire haunter's self. He has a head of somewhat greasy slickened black hair, reaching down to just about the lower lobes of his ears. Though he has a rounded cylindrical head, his blackened mouth ends in a square-set jawline. He has gross yellow eyelids, two black pupiled eyes, and a reddened rim of bleeding puffiness just below his paultry peepers. He happens to have a slender vertical triangularly-pointed nose, and two rounded ears. Cylindrical arms and legs sprout from his thicker tubed torso, the limbs accounting for his four-digit hands and feet. He wears matching black T-shirt and pants, a few rips at the sleeves, tatters at the legcuffs, and holes on the outside sides of the pants' thighs. A leadened yellow grayed sleeveless vest is thrown over the shirt, whereas a belt of the same color cinches his zipper/button closed pants. Two unseen white socks and two yellow leadened walking boots are added for whenever he takes to strolling along the haunted grounds. Finally, he wears a navy blu cloak. His head is kept unseen thanks to the cloak's hood, drawn in ever tighter owing to a golden skull brooch dangling above his clothing's necklines. Wherever Pallor goes, so go two fiends of his. The first, he totes in his right arm, a bolt-horned speaking skull contained on the front cover of a magic ritualistic tome named the Loquatious Spellbook. The second is his cute yet creepy pet. Killed off and stuffed and revivified, Cryptal has her charms. This little ferret is flocked with white albinic fur and mummylike whitened bandages, wrapping her entire central body. Small ferretlike ears flop downwards while a tail has been stitched back on in it's proper place. She has two beady red waffle eyes, a diminutive rodent's nose, two bucktoothed fangs, four nimble legs ending in three-digit pawed feet, and a brilliant amethyst jewel vibrating mystically in tune with Cryptal herself—the sparkler studded into her chest's core.

Backstory:
Darkly Pallor's first appearance was backing the rest of his Shadow Spook gangmates. This darkened dozen sought to take over the world—typical for a band of baddies. How were they going to do it? Simple... Their kidnapping tactics were legendary... And their current base of operations, well, maybe it wasn't so well known. But that's perfect when plotting to conquer all the realms. Passing themselves off as costumed copies of the Homestar Runner cast, Pallor and his cronies awaited for Kermit and the Muppets to arrive in Free Country USA. Things didn't exactly go according to plan... Muppets and Free Countrians alike dealt the group a crippling blow. Rounded up in the back of the Electric Mayhem's bus, these evils were transported to the real world once the Muppets had returned to their familiar boarding house. Most of the Shadow Spooks found themselves now Muppetized, gawking at the transformation. Pallor was one who seemed to accept his new role, skulking back into his sheltered shadows. Frequenting the Muppets' establishments in town, this entity eventually encountered a kindred sol... The phantomly dragon who habited the recesses of the theater envived the cloaked figure to a cupper of green tea. After chatting away and finding a revived mummified ferret at his feet, Pallor sought out others who would accept him, perhaps provide a suitable doomicile to dwell in now that his place within the original oblivion organization was lost. Wandering so, the haunter found himself in Numbervania—whether by chance or because Deadly had steered him there, who could tell. Consulting the pages of his long-ago companion, the aforementioned spellbook, Pallor saw that destiny had smiled on him, if for only a skulking second.

Counting Scene:
The Dungeon Lounge once again opens up its barside counter for a second round of drinks. Darkly Pallor stands at the far right side, just next to the counter's long-stretching surface. He briefly reads through the pages in an attempt to find the recipe to his traditional teatime topper. The Loquatious Spellbook merely looks on with vacant contempt at his surroundings as its pages are flipped back and forth, hmphing lightly though inaudibly at Cryptal down below. The rodent busies herself gnawing on some discarded greened roasted peanut shells, her master brewing and boiling the potion for his own consumption behind the till. This trio is finally joined by a sleepy stormy sphere, black 18 printed onto its face, as the druidic practitioner gets added to the Counting Castle's cast of souls.

*Disclaimor: This marks the first of various fanfic characters created by some of the other talented imaginative minds belonging to members at Muppet Central's forums. The characters of Darkly Pallor, Cryptal and the Loquatious Spellbook were created for me by Maddie (ZootyCutie), but since Pallor first appeared in her second story titled Life is My Highway, she then gave me permission to bring him in as part of the Counting Castle's haunters.

PS: Hope you like Maddie.
 

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AWESOME! WOW!
I...need...Eddie's...creativeness...@_@
*And Zootie's*

Coffee: *Growls in jealousy*

Coffee, bad! DOWN!

Coffee: *Tilts head to the side* *Whimpers*

Stay...

Coffee: *Sits*

GOOD GIRL!

Coffee: *Realizes what she's doing* :confused: I'm not a dog, Claudia.

O_O Um...I created you, though.
You're my slave! =3

Coffee: Great. Just great.

=P YAY! Now be a good girl and read the nicey description.

Coffee: ...o_o *Reads*

Good. <3

Coffee: =3 Omg...Darkly is my one true love!

Wait...what? O_O

Coffee: Yesh.

No...no! NO! You'll ruin everything! My fic...EVERYTHING!

Coffee: *Snugs Darkly* <3

NOOOO!

XD
 

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I loved the description.
:confused: Awesommeee...

See, Eddie?
SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO?
What am I gonna tell Jareth?

"Oh...Coffee ran away with Darkly...find another person to kidnap!" :3

Coffee: So...Darkly...<3 Do you like weirdoes?
 

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Character Entry #19.
Name: Alice in Underland.
Favorite I-Scream Flavor: Vanilla Wafer Cream.
Likes: Exploring familiar haunts in town, tea parties, teasing the boys with looks of indifference from her deadpan countenance.
Dislikes: Being dismissed back to her gravely boring hole in the ground of a home.
*Scaring Talent: Underland Descent.
Affiliation: Wonderland Court.

Appearance:
Alice is very similar in height and skin tone to her friend "Black" Hartlie. This lass is also a teenage girl, just slightly shorter than the Count; bearing the same subtly white-grayed foamy skin that Hartlie has. The one true point where the two girls differ is in the shape of their heads, as Alice's resembles more a deadened skullheaded face. She has palid blonde hair streaming down to just beneath her shoulders, matched by the palid blonde eyelashes attached to darker white-grayed eyelids above her round orblike black-pupiled eyes. Her eyes seem to be surrounded by blackened eyeshadow rings, when in truth, they are merely sunk just the barest of an inch within their skulled sockets. A dusted pink round-ovaled nose juts forward from the center of her face. She has kissable lips, though because of her skulled head, her mouth gives the impression of being only a pair of highly photogenic jawbones. Two cute little rounded Muppetlike white-grayed ears are present on the sides of her head, partially covered by the strands of her hair. She has a teenage girl's body, as well as two cylindrical arms and two likewise legs, all ending in four-digit hands and feet. She wears a buttoned-up blackened blouse covering her upper body—though to tease, she sometimes unbuttons and lets the breeze buff her bosomed bod. Over this she wears aghostly whitened skirted apron, tied around and behind her waist thanks to its poofy bow. Yellowed poppies adorn the sides of the apron's straps, whereas three lateral-lying black diamonds grace the folds towards the bottom of the skirt. Her bare legs are left completely visible—at least from the point beneath her knees where the skirt ends—and she wears two white anklet stockings and two black slipper shoes, sealed by silvery squared buckles. Last, a black headband parts her hair in half, the band boldened by a cute hairbow tucked behind her left ear.

Backstory:
Wandering through Wonderland, Alice met all manner of friends and foes... But eventually she had to comeback to her family. She wasn't happy with her suburban surroundings, the fact she had no open outlet for her mind to careem out-of-control due to perremptory parental provisions laid down hard upon her. So to match her mood, she got gothic, and opened her mind to other erm, mature pleasures. This soon reflected itself in her home away from home, for which she was smuggly satisfied. Dismayed with the turn of events, the once idyllic innocent had to be hidden away for her own good. Blackness was her friend... So it made little matter that she would be holed up forever more. Though these plans seemed simple, Alice did manage to escape... And then her wonderful Wonderland turned dark and dreary. She would never go bak up the rabbit hole to her old haunts... She found a key with a batty 1 attached to it and chose to insert it into the nearest doorknob. This opened up the new vertically crawling corridor, upwards to the numbered neighbors who took her in as another of the creepy kids that litter their streets. Ushered into school by her ward, she made a friend for life in "Black" Hartlie. The two girls gossip and galavant in gothic glory... Sipping cold tea at their girls' only parties and making each other crack a crude smile upon bearing the bunt of horrid homework. Alice still has that deadpan look she perfected when shut away by her former folks, but now at least it has softened into a sweet skulled sort at the thought that she can claim to be a proud Numbervanian.

Counting Scene:
Outside the castle grounds, an elegant if not elongated tea table has been laidened with the assorted apparel fit for another unbirthday party. Alice saunters out, choosing to take her seat in one of the chairs at the head of the table. She politely takes a sip from her cup of warm bat's milk tea—an oddly fashioned teacup of palid porcelain, edged by short black batty wingflap segments all around—, then smiles as best as her skullhead face will allow, and invites others to gather at the table around her. Thundering above the te table, that distinct stormy sphere stamped with its black 19 shoots down a lone lightningbolt, mischievously matter-of-factly. Alice looks upwards, surprised to find herself a batty bauble just for her, adopting the cloud as the Underland urchin gets added to the Counting Castle's cast of souls.
 

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Alice sounds so awesome, Eddie.
How do you do it?
Honestly.

D: I want in on that creative voodoo....
 

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*Snubs Claudia. Is not easy okay. The choosing of the character is the hardest part. Then come all the little details for the descript basics. I'm letting the backstories flow from either the main quirk or scaring talent for each. Having fun with this so far... Plus it helps I have a good gothic-lovin' monster maker mind.

Um, to those reading... Could someone please provide a PM descript of Countess Dahling von Dahling from Sesame Street? You can find her in the article dubbed "The Countess" at Muppet Wiki. Oh, and her dog Masha too.

Thankees.
:batty:
 

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Hi... Quick question for those who've been reading this loyally. Should Countess Dahling's dress be a shade of ghostly blue? Or should it be crimson wine colored instead?
 
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