neverstudied | HMD/OPT OUT/PERMISSIONS

⇓in character⇓

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Fine with him, usually! He's a pretty tactile person himself and tends to skirt the lines of other people's personal spaces, especially when he knows them well.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Please. Please kick his ass. He deserves it. Knock him out. But he will fight back, and it may not be pretty. Dude was raised by carnies. Additionally, he's got a notoriously hair-trigger temper, and is quick to turn to physical violence himself.

ROMANCE/FLIRTING: ICly, he flirts with people frequently and would absolutely not pass up an opportunity to flirt with a stranger. However, I'm not always 100% comfortable playing out much in the way of flirting or particularly romance with people I don't already know well. If you're worried something's too much, let me know.

SEXUAL CONTENT: The above, but firmer. I'm absolutely not comfortable playing out sexual content, at least not with people I don't know. Implications, jokes, etc are usually fine.

PSYCHIC ABILITIES: He can predict when a phone is about to ring and may be able to have completely useless precognitive dreams.

MAGIC/POWERS: N/A

MEDICAL INFORMATION: He's fine, just a little stupid.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS OR TRIGGERS: He can be too dense to notice when he's being an asshole sometimes- usually not with outright offensive things but sometimes with making flirtatious/sexual innuendo or jokes, gallows humor/morbid jokes about life threatening situations, etc. Please let me know if it's ever too much when it does occur.

⇓out of character⇓

BACKTAGGING: Fine with me, though depending on how old the thread is my motivation for it may have dropped. On a related note, tbh I'm weird about threads sometimes and drop them with very little provocation, especially when I have a lot going on at once. If you suspect I've dropped something you want to continue, lmk and we can work it out.

FOURTH WALLING: I would probably not play Muppets, Ghostbusters, and Scooby Doo characters if I wasn't ok with fourth walling.

THREADHOPPING: Clear it with me ahead of time.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS/TRIGGERS: Nazism, violent antisemitism, rape, and underage sex + child sexual abuse are the biggest ones. Am fine with these being brought up in a past context, IE a character talking about past experiences.

ANYTHING ELSE: So like. If you've only seen the Ghostbusters movie, you may remember Dr. Peter Venkman as kind of a shitty person. And you're right! He flirts with college students when he's a professor; he propositions and semi-jokingly professes his love for a long-suffering Dana shortly after meeting her, refuses to take no for an answer, and has to be forcibly shoved out of her apartment by her. He also at least briefly considers sleeping with a possessed woman.

Ah, 80s.

Luckily, Real Ghostbusters was a kids show. Which means everything got toned down to a more manageable level. While RGB Venkman is still a dick, still a conman, and still flirts with people regularly, he doesn't go too far. Also, the wonderful gift given to us by the Real Ghostbusters episode "Take Two" means that the 1984 Ghostbusters movie exists in his universe, it's based on his and his teammates' actual experiences, but with multiple changes they weren't able to edit or have any influence on. Meaning that absolutely no one can stop me from taking huge chunks of Venkman's characterization in the live-action movies(and the movie novelizations) and throwing that into the garbage when it comes to RGB Venkman, citing in-universe executive meddling, extensive script edits, actors taking creative liberties, etc; while also taking any little details I like and keeping that as canon.

Needless to say, Venkman was still born and raised at a carnival but he's not a complete creep with women.

Additionally, even IF you ignore that episode, it's canon to the IDW comics that Real Ghostbusters is a completely parallel universe from the prime Ghostbusters- IE, the Ghostbusters of the 1984 film. And that the Venkmans hate each other.

THAT SAID! Given the origins of the character I completely get why someone might be uncomfortable w/ him, so please let me know here if you'd rather out out of threading w/ him, for this reason or any others. You can also contact me on plurk [glitchbirds], or my discord if you have it.

Also, if you have any other concerns with how I play him, please let me know here! Comments are screened.