The idea for this RP takes place in a custom universe with an original story where a group of teens in New York City begin hunting various paranormal threats. My character will be the son of a custom version of Egon Spengler, who became obsessed with the paranormal and was eventually kicked out by his wife. She refused to let my character have any further contact with his father because she thought he was crazy and getting worse, and he lived the next ten years without him. Now, at age seventeen, my character discovers his father has died in an apparent car crash while frantically driving upstate, and had lived just a few miles away all this time, in an old firehouse in Manhattan. He goes there with his mother to clean the place out so it can be sold and discovers a hidden lab in the basement.

From here, my character sees his father's research and the schematics and prototypes for various paranormal-related equipment. He becomes fascinated by them, and brings his friends (your characters) the next day after school to check out the lab. They end up getting dragged into the mystery of why Egon was in such a hurry to get upstate, what his destination was, and why he spent all these years trying to prepare for some kind of upcoming supernatural event. Eventually, apparitions begin appearing with increasing frequency, just as Egon's journals said they would, and the teens decide to use Egon's tech to become "Ghostbusters."

One way that this RP will deviate from normal Ghostbusters is that once our characters have been exposed to the paranormal energies of the ghosts long enough, they begin to develop supernatural powers themselves. Feel free to throw some ideas around for how you want shape your individual abilities. My character will be able to condense paranormal vapors into a glowing neon green ectoplasm and use it in various liquid and solid forms, sort of like a fusion of waterbending and earthbending. Visually, his abilities would look like green slime whips, green water waves, green crystal spikes and chunks, etc. As he grows and learns, eventually he'll be able to manifest gas and plasma forms instead of just liquid and solid, as well as more complex structures.

Please share your ideas XD.

I know nothing about ghostbusters, and only knowledge of ghost hunting is Danny Phantom. xD

I have seen the original cartoon back in the early 90's, as well the nineties extreme ghostbusters, which was surprisingly good and not extreme in the wrong ways.

I have seen the original cartoon back in the early 90's, as well the nineties extreme ghostbusters, which was surprisingly good and not extreme in the wrong ways.

There was even older ones, plus the original movie, then the second cartoon XD.

And here's a few clips of them first starting out, for anyone who hasn't seen the old 1984 movie:




And their return in the newest movie:

I'm booked up or might've joined, but just wanted to say, cool idea, man.
We used to watch these movies a lot and they're still a good time - the new one was good too which can't be said about a lot of remakes.
I remember nothing of the cartoon except that I'm sure my bro and I did watch it; played a video game or two, as well.

I'm booked up or might've joined, but just wanted to say, cool idea, man.
We used to watch these movies a lot and they're still a good time - the new one was good too which can't be said about a lot of remakes.
I remember nothing of the cartoon except that I'm sure my bro and I did watch it; played a video game or two, as well.

Thanks dude!

Also, I think I'm just gonna repurpose Trevor Spengler. He is Egon's grandson in the movie, but I'll just rework him as Egon's son instead and say Egon didn't have kids until much later in life. Also, since Janine kind of had a crush on Egon in the movies and cartoon, I'm gonna have her be Trevor's mother. In this RP's continuity, they started dating in the 80s, she was kind of a hippie, and totally loved all his paranormal talk. They traveled and went on adventures and stuff for over 20 years before finally settling down and having Trevor. Now with a child to care for, Janine began to get annoyed at Egon's continued obsession with the paranormal, and also feeling like he had strung her along all these years with talk of some great paranormal event that never came to pass.

Eventually things devolved into a shouting match when Trevor was seven years old where Janine basically said, "None of this was ever real, was it? It was all just BULLSHIT to manipulate me so I'd indulge in your fantasies! I put my life on hold for you! For twenty fucking years! Now we are married, own a home, trying to raise a child... And you're still out there chasing non-existent ghosts... You... You need help, Egon. I... I can't do this anymore... I want a divorce, and I want you to stay away from Trevor and I... I don't want you poisoning his mind with these delusions like you did mine..."

I'll be using Finn as the faceclaim as well, here's a video of him fixing up the Ecto-1:



And them chasing Muncher: