Stinky Beetlejuice Sideblog

beetlejuice has flappy hands and bad motor skills because he’s autistic and you’re not allowed to argue

Seymour = Adam

Audrey = Barbara

Audrey 2 = Musical Beetlejuice

Mr. Mushnik = Charles Deetz

Adam thinking he’s helping out a poor washed up soul he took in off the streets, only for this (currently very weak) demon to reveal his true colors and promise the world to Adam, including Barbara herself…for a price.

Beej in this au doesn’t necessarily need to eat people, just their blood and/or souls. That’s really all he requires to gain more power and life, but I also feel like he wouldn’t necessarily be opposed to cannibalism either, either for disposing of evidence or just to gross out Adam.

The Dentist character isn’t firmly decided on in my head, but I can see Otho, for those who mentioned him.

The fame is less centered around Beej himself (unlike the musical), and more being in the background making it look like Adam can perform literal magic and miracles.

Beej’s “kids” that he threatens to unleash near the end are all the clones he’s made that are one step/soul away from being fully sentient from him, fully visible and solid, and ready to raise some hell.

I was originally thinking it would be the good ending (except full exorcism or banishment instead of some weird electrocution thing), but I’d be open to pitches for the bad ending and Beej destroying everything, or something in between.