Been So Long Since I've Posted But Yep, I'm Back Into The Goosebumps Fandom. I Actually Really Like How

Been so long since I've posted but yep, I'm back into the Goosebumps fandom. I actually really like how this one turned out!

M- May I give him a smooch? 😳👉👈 /hj

I would sit down with popcorn and a cup of hot chocolate to hear this headcanon/au of cpi herbert being regularly herberts cousin/sibling

SFHSHFHSHDS in that case, let me blab a bit about this au!

So CPI Herbert, whom I've nicknamed Henry, is Herbert's nephew in this au. In it he ends up finding Club Penguin Island (og version) while on a search for his dear uncle Herbert, whom Henry idolized since childhood. After lurking in the shadows for a while, observing the island and learning about Herbert's history on the island- especially Operation Hibernation- Henry quickly got VERY mad at the penguins. He refused to believe his uncle was anything but right, and that the penguins were cruel and unjust for force-hibernating him.

Henry ends up approaching Herbert and they have a reunion, after all those years seperated. In that reunion, Henry offers to help Herbert in taking over the island/enacting his revenge on the Elite Penguin Force, and Herbert agrees. Henry is family, after all.

Buuuuut Henry is a touch more unstable and ruthless than Herbert is, as well as very distrustful of Klutzy and any other allies of Herbert's. So as you can imagine, everything goes to hell for everyone involved.

I won't spoil the rest of it, but yeah! That's Henry! I'll also attach my (re)design for him.

No one:

Me: Here have this art I never posted

Drawing Herbert as human is a lot easier than drawing him in his canon form

Process:

THIS ^^^

Don't get me wrong, I myself have semi-wholesome hcs about Slappy but to completely make him an uwu soft baby ultimately destroys his character.

You can have a couple of cute headcanons while also keeping that child-enslaving Mr. Bean in character.

Currently deep into the goosebumps fandom at the moment so I felt like sharing a possibly scandalous take?? I'm having a wacky night tonight so I might take this down later, but anyways, scandalous take incoming;

I really don't like it when people mischaracterize Slappy as being really sweet and kind. ESPECIALLY when they get mad over him not always beint portrayed as such. I understand that everybody has different interpretations of the characters, but I've been actively hated on for writing Slappy for how he's portrayed in canon; a power-hungry, sadistic, cruel, overall nightmare to deal with. In general I see a lot of misconceptions about how Slappy acts because the goosebumps fandom tends to take ideas and run with them (Mary Ellen being an obsessed yandere, Mr. Wood and Wally being the same person, etc.), but one of the most confusing to me is the "Slappy is actually misunderstood" misconception. Like... guys. This man enslaves children. I just- idk I'm getting a little bored of the uwu Slappy content. I want some good ol' content of Slappy being a pos.

On the bright side, I have seen a lot of blogs sharing more close-to-canon content lately for this evil dummy! So I definitely am not saying it's the entire fandom that does this- just a surprising majority.

Anyway that's the post

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First off, your headcanons are amazing! They are really cool to read!

Second… Ok, I know you just posted it, but you hit me hard with the Origin Story Herbert headcanon, and I must ask if you have more of them for this starving soul? Thank you.

Let's expand then! Enjoy!

(Open to start reading!)

The Village

Off an obscure and small island in the North Pole icecaps lived a passionate and brilliant bear on a slow-growing village. The island's main profits were fish, snow hut building, and coal. A bland, boring, and cold island who's entire government was created hundreds of years ago and founded upon the believe of Mother Nature and the many Sky Gods.

Mother Nature and Her Sky Spirits

The rapidly heating of the air? The melting of the island caps? The erratic pattern of blizzards and storms? The impossible farming conditions of the North Pole? This was the work of Mother Nature and her Sky Spirits. She decided what happened to the weather and when it happened. Good weather was a blessing by the Sky Gods for the village's hard work. Vicious storms was the punishment the village would receive for rebellion against her and not following the culture norms. The entire village of polar bears spent all their lives predicting the weather to the best of their abilities. They were very accurate when they had the time to predict it! Just by looking at the sky they knew. But when the weather became more unpredictable...

Percival Herbert...

Percival Herbert was smart, a genius, you might say, compared to the boring-minded polar bears of his village. His father was the past Chief of the village. With his leadership, the village advanced twice as fast. Not everyone agreed with his decisions, though. One day, the stress of his job, the panic of the Fish Crisis, and the fighting amongst the village, led his old age to work against him... Mr. Bear inherited his father's genius, and spent his free time growing up learning about technology, building, gardening, and climate. Most of these books could NOT be found in the library. Mr. Bear did a lot of exploring, and found an abandoned lab with a computer setup. He goes there from time to time and works.

And His Igneous and Defiant Inventions

One of the first of his odd inventions was finding a new way to survive, by growing a garden! He created a basic greenhouse system to help keep plants alive. Lots of bears thought this was pretty useful, but an odd choice, as vegetables and fruit was not their primary diet. Caring for his personal garden changed his diet quite a bit, and started his vegetarian craze. He learned how to create general pieces of technology to help his close peers. They appreciated it, but felt awkward about the gifts and didn't use it. The village is so reliant on there own efforts that all of Percival Herbert's technological advancements felt almost like witchcraft and magic.

The Climate Crisis and The Last Solution

The weather became so unpredictable in Mr. Bear's last years in the North Pole that the village's predictions were wrong, multiple times. This sometimes had MAJOR costs to the village's structure. Mr. Bear could not stand to see his village destroyed and have them believe they were the cause behind the rath of Mother Nature. He started created tools to predict the weather (like wind vanes, thermometers, anemometers, barometers, etc). He even started sketching ideas to help miniplate the weather. These were his most useful inventions, but when he showcased these to the village Chief, and the Council heard his ideas and beliefs towards the weather, they feared against them. The idea to control and measure forces of gods was like sacrilege to them. He got the same treatment his father did: fear, anger, disappointment, betrayal, and to the point of mockery. (Imagine the Salem Witch Trials, and you got the vibe).

The Doom of Polar Bear Island and Abandonment

As the worst blizzard to ever occur started to approach the island, Percival Bear informed, warned, and pleaded the island to listen to his words. Every statement he made about this upcoming storm was met with resistance.

"The sky has been beautiful for days! Look out into the sea! No waves have appeared, how could this storm you speak of come?

"Why would you speak against the predictions of the Sky Watchers? They have been trained all their lives. You believe they are not qualified to speak the truth?"

"The Council would not like to hear these words of blasphemy you speak of. Only Mother Nature knows when the end of our island shall be. Not you."

Inevitably, the island was forced to watch as a swift but powerful blizzard appeared suddenly before them, and wiped out their village. In the aftermath of chaos and sadness, Herbert P. Bear was forced to abandon his island. He now believed they could not, and would never try, to understand someone like him...

What a similar fate he would meet.