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Name: Lawrence Beetlejuice Shoggoth
Age: Dirt
Gender: Male
Species: Poltergeist/Demon
Fandom: Beetlejuice Broadway Musical

Personality: The ghost With the Most...emotional distress. Beeltejuice is a chaotic neutral with all the trustworthiness of a used car salesmen and a penchant for eating insects. He carries three kids standing on each other's shoulders worth of emotional baggage, poorly disguised in a trench coat of humor.

Other: Beetlejuice can travel back and forth between the living world and the Netherworld. However, in the living world he can't stray too far from his trusty human sidekick, Lydia. He is also invisible to living humans unless summoned. Only Lydia can summon him, by saying his name three times consecutively. He can be un-summoned the same way, or by straying too far from Lydia.

He has a wide and poorly defined set of powers. Think the genie from Aladdin, but dead. His powers mostly exist in his ghostly plane, meaning he can't particularly effect the living world unless summoned.

History: His mother was a cruel, alcoholic demon who happens to hate him. He became the delinquent that he is today because of her. Unfortunately for him, she was also a big wig in the Netherworld. This has led to his named being smeared through the mud, mocked, and generally being made a joke of. As one can imagine, he's not particularly fond of being in the Netherworld.

He escaped the constant torment he faced there by spending most of his time in the living world, tormenting and taking his frustration out on humans. Beeltejuice wasn't a very nice demon. Luckily for everyone, he couldn't seem to get humans to actually see him, thus his full wrath was never truly experienced.

This was all changed when he found a special human child who could, for whatever reason, see and interact with him. He began to devise a devious plan to get this kid to say his name, summon him, and then wreak absolute chaos. However, something about this tiny human spoke to a softer side of the malevolent demon. She was small, alone in the world, tormented, just like he was in his own home world. To make matters worse, when she did summon him, he couldn't go very far without her being close by to keep him tethered to the living plane. Basically, he was stuck with this kid.

Being introduced to Lydia changed Beetlejuice over time. He grew a close bond with the human girl, like a guardian angel. Only not an angel and kinda' evil. Unfortunately, despite their best efforts, their little secret got out. The government caught wind of the demon with the ability to bend reality as we know it, and decided that they had to capture the girl to control him.

Beetlejuice and Lydia were transported to Hawkins, Indiana, where they've been kept under wraps for several years. The officials in charge of them use them to spy on other countries, commit political assassinations, and wage war where ever be. Beetlejuice is kept within Lydia's holding cell by a ring of salt, which he can't cross. He can still escape to the Netherworld, but only does so on occasion because 1) He hates that place and 2) That leaves Lydia alone. Should he try and otherwise escape or harm his favorite human's captors, Lydia receives the punishment.

For now, he's stuck being a good little pet demon.

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Name: Ashley "Ash" Azazel Ignatius
Age: Dirt
Gender: Nonbinary or as they put it, "Yes."
Species: Fire Demon

Personality: Ash is a demon who loves being entertained, be it watching poor souls being tortured or the like. Something that curves their interest. They loathe being bored to the point of causing havoc and chaos just to watch the little human insects scramble around to fix it all while having a cigarette.

Other: Being a demon, they're able to travel between the Netherworld and the living plane as well as teleport wherever the hell they want to. They've mastered their pyrokinetic abilities from lighting a cigarette with just a finger to engulfing themselves in flames. Unlike Beetlejuice, they have no need to be summoned and can disguise themselves to blend in with the foolish humans who are none the wiser. Their powers are close to Beetlejuice's but they choose to use little violence if possible. Not that they're a pacifist, they just don't want to ruin the suit. They also give anyone they find interesting endearment nicknames.

History: Ash left the Netherworld after finding everything there just dull, especially after the disappearance of their close friend, Beetlejuice. Wanting something more to their undead life, they gave themselves a human appearance and started living on Earth, learning how humans ticked. Finding a muse now, they stayed for centuries watching humans squirm under pressure. They were just getting bored again when approached with joining a government organization that wanted to study the paranormal, specifically a little girl who was able to summon a reality bending demon.

Interested, they agreed to join under contract that no one else knew of their true self, keeping it in the dark as they watched over the little girl and Beetlejuice. Naturally they were surprised that he was attached to such a weak little thing but knew not to question or test it, knowing how strong the bond between human and demon was once said demon chose their human. While the testing of the girl and Beetlejuice's abilities have been intriguing, it's turned dull over the years. And who doesn't love a little chaos?

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Name: Lydia "Lyds"
Age: 13 despite looking 11
Gender: Female
Species: Human

Personality: Lydia is a silent, reclusive child who blankly stares at others she doesn't trust or is just plain refusing to respond to others due to how she was treated. She's kind to Beetlejuice, seeing him as her protective, if demonic, old brother and despite being human is protective of him. She's slow to trust outsiders and despises the government officials who use her ability to summon Beetlejuice for their own gain with little regard for her.

History: Lydia had been a little odd as a child when her parents noticed her seemingly talking to no one until they found out she was very clairvoyant and communicating to ghosts. They were supportive but unfortunately met an untimely death, leaving Lydia truly alone and feeling invisible once in the orphanage. It wasn't until Beetlejuice came into her life that things changed to happier times, keeping his existence a secret as she privately talked to him. Somehow the two were found out and Lydia was taken away to a secret lab facility where both her and Beetlejuice were trapped, only allowed out to carry out missions that mostly involved the demon. She only tagged along to summon him and upon seeing a few deaths grew numb and emotionally detached to it to the point of tuning out the screams of death with a blank expression. All she really wants is freedom, a loving family, and to make those who kept her caged suffer.

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Name: Nathan "Nate" Matthews
Age: 13
Gender: Male

Personality: Thinks he's hot shit, but is actually a huge dweeb. Likes video games, D&D, and old school comic books. He's a good kid overall, but definitely does things to appear 'edgy'. Would probably try smoking once and throw up.

History: He's lived in the incredibly boring town of Hawkins, Indiana all his life. It's incredibly dull and boring and oh God please something interesting happen around here.

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Name: Zachary "Zach" Thompson
Age: 13
Gender: Male

Personality: Zach is a bluffing smack talker and he knows it. In reality, he's just as much a dweeb as his best friend, Nate. Definitely one who'd try to steal a comic or candy from a store or pull a prank on someone just for laughs.

History: Much like Nate, he's lived in Hawkins since birth and hates the boring day to day record skip. He just wants a bit of excitement in life.

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Name: Ignacia "Iggy" Ramone
Age: 16
Gender: Female

Personality: Iggy isn't afraid to take charge. Even in a room full of people older than herself, she still demands respect. She can be on the reckless side, isn't afraid to get her hands dirty, and can be downright vicious if she's been wronged.

Other: Iggy has and has mastered her power of pyrokinesis.

Appearance: Iggy is tall and thin. She has a pale complexion and dark hair, worn in a short mohawk.

History: She was born to a single mother, who also happened to be a practicing witch. When her mother died an untimely death, Iggy was left with no family to care for her. In this time of need, young and alone, she was found by Ash. Iggy and Ash left the abusive foster home Iggy was living in, and became vagabonds. They settled in Indianapolis, where they've gathered a gang of like-minded friends. One might even call it a family.

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Name: Abaddon
Age: Dirt
Gender: Male
Species: Shadow/Mimic Demon

Personality: Cold, cunning, manipulative, and ruthless, Abaddon isn't afraid to get his hands dirty or let others do his dirty work for him. Whatever gets the job done faster.

Other: Being a Shadow/Mimic Demon, Abaddon is capable of shifting into anyone or thing he has seen and heard making him a dangerous opponent when fighting as he will choose to become a loved one or something that will destroy whoever he's against.

History: Not wanting to lose his opportunity, Abaddon followed Beetlejuice to the Living World and eventually found out about Lydia. Shifting into the only demon who showed true compassion towards him, Abaddon told the government about the girl and demon which imprisoned them for years before their escape. Now he hunts for them in attempt to cover his manipulation.

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Name: Nina Hathers
Age: 23
Gender: Female

Personality: She's aloof, suspicious of new comers, and slow to trust. But, once she's warmed up to you, she's clearly the 'mom' of the group.

History: She was found by the gang after running away from a crazy, abusive boyfriend. Nina was homeless, had no money, and was just barely getting by. Iggy ran across her one day and offered her a place to stay. She's been family ever since.

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Name: Ricky "Riff Raff" Garner
Age: 31
Gender: Male

Personality: Being the oldest of the group certainly does not make him to the most "grown up". Ricky lacks a good sense of judgement, and perhaps good sense in general. He's playful, reckless, and a bit of a trouble maker.

History: Riff Raff was involved in 'real gangs', as he puts it. This is what earned him the nickname. He was found by Iggy and Nina after he'd been shot and left for dead when a drug deal went south. They took him back to their hide out on the condition that he cleaned up his act and promised to behave himself. He has, for the most part, kept that promise. He's been clean ever since joining the family, and he only gets in trouble with the cops once every few months, usually when he decides to hook up with his crazy on again, off again girlfriend.

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Name: Maxine "Max" Summers
Age: 20
Gender: Female

Personality: Max is a bit of a goofball, always poking fun at those she calls family as her way of love but won't hesitate beating the shit out of someone.

History: Max grew up with her mechanic father learning how to tinker with machines before his death. She left her aunt's house after being force to be more feminine and told how much of a deadbeat her father was. She soon found Iggy and hasn't left the gang since.



Name: Malcom
Age: 17
Gender: Male

Personality: Kind, protective, the peace keeper of the group

History: Malcolm grew up in the bad side of the city and tried leaving when local gangs tried recruiting him eventually meeting Iggy.

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Name: Elizabeth "Liz" Myers
Age: 17
Gender: Female

Personality: Liz is the sassy, snarky, rough around the edges one of the group. Sure, she's blind, curses like a sailor, and is able to hold her own in a fight, but she is sweet once you know her.

History: Blind since birth, Liz had a tough life having to learn everything by herself. She eventually left home and found Iggy, never having to worry about being mocked or ridiculed for her condition...although the others jokingly call her Toph.