do you have any thoughts overall about johnny cranky
I have so many thoughts about Johnny Cranky, the biggest one being that I wish we got to see him more to understand his deal.
My personal HC is that he was the Johnny Ghost clone thing that was created and awoken in the Gravity Falls videos, and he exists because the portal being messed with broke reality and fractured anyone nearby. Even though they look alike, Cranky has some of Ghostās memories and not much else, he is a completely different person and tries to dress himself so people will stop recognizing Ghost from his face. I like giving him computer glitches to imply that heās kind of not apart of the world, like heās an entity all of his own. I also think he should be allowed to have a glitchy voice, like one that has static in the back of his throat and def. has something else off about it. Johnny Cranky isnāt supernatural, but he sure is heck isnāt fully human and i think he knows it.
There is also a chance that Cranky, if he is where I think heās from, is like a weird mental fusion of Ghost and Casket, which would make him a bit moreā¦ Dangerous than I like to think he is. That would be someone who likes to kill for the heck of it with Ghostās need to be in charge of something, which might explain why he founded DIE. However, I donāt toy with this idea often, so weāre leaving this as it is.
I donāt know what made him not only side with the paranormal, but choose to form a team to take down every other member minus Spookerā¦ Maybe he wants to make an allyship with his family (the Soup family includes Chackalatta (idk how to spell his name) and Darth Calculus, so not killing Spooker is a good way to avoid getting those two on his butt, or maybe even swaying them to his side) alternatively, he sees through Ghostās memories that he treats Spooker like crap even though Spooker has always been a sweetheart to Ghost.
(I guess another thing thatās happening could be that Cranky isnāt just from a different universe, but a piece of the Housekeeper that slipped through when reality legit crashed and remembers Spooker from when he slipped into the Housekeeperās dimension to try to save Ghost and got stabbed for it. He just looks like Ghost because the Housekeeper can take the form of those he consumes and Ghost was in his dimension for awhile so whoās to say he didnāt leave anything. This would make him like a demon or proxy whoās acting out the will of whatās essentially the dark god of the series. I legit just came up with this so thereās not much else I can say about it.)
All in all my thoughts are that thereās a lot you can do with this man, and Iāve toyed with ideas that have him both in a sympathetic position and a antagonistic perspective. When heās sympathetic, it can be so sad, no matter how you spin his backstoryā¦ but when heās antagonisticā¦ I meanā¦ didnāt he recruit Jimmy Casket at some point?
With my interpretation that Cranky exists because two Ghosts from different universes were fractured and rebuilt to create an entirely new person, this also brings up the chance that he can possess the current Ghost, meaning he doesnāt have to replace him physically, he can just slip into his mind.
Idk, theyāre varied thoughts but thatās kinda where I take him when I work with him.
